Fried Salted Fish
Chapter 87 Zhao Xuanlang
“It’s just that the resurrected people are no longer subjects of the Ming Dynasty!”
Tian Fengyu watched Ji Xiang walk towards him. The distance between them was now less than twenty steps, but he was not flustered at all. Instead, he tried to recruit him:
“You are not a little Daoist of Wudang Mountain, and perhaps originally had nothing to do with this Ming Dynasty!”
“Whether you use possession, or soul-borrowing, these are all minor Daoist techniques, difficult to reach the hall of elegance! Listen to my advice, why don’t you come to my side? I will help you reshape your physical body, return your original primordial spirit cultivation, and even allow you to go further!”
Ji Xiang coldly said, “The Daoist school also has righteous methods for reshaping the physical body, so there is no need for your evil arts. You are now just a marked target, waiting to die, yet you have the gall to recruit me here?”
“Cultivating nature without cultivating life makes it difficult for countless yin spirits to enter sainthood!”
The process of *bingjie* (disassembly by weapon) is irreversible. The moment Tian Fengyu’s primordial spirit leaves his body, Ji Xiang will use the divine power of Shattering the Void to shatter his primordial spirit!
It’s a pity that his physical strength is insufficient, and the ascending realm divine powers he uses are weakened. With the nominal strength of a Golden Core, Shattering the Void is probably not enough to kill this primordial spirit, but it will definitely cause him damage, after all, he is only in a fragmented state.
Moreover, Ji Xiang now wants to know the origin and end of all this. It is better to show weakness, talk to the other party, figure out the truth, and then carry out the killing!
Tian Fengyu chuckled and stared at Ji Xiang:
“Are you waiting for me to die after *bingjie*, for my primordial spirit to leave my body?”
“Alright, since I can’t run away anyway, why not listen to me! Evil arts? This is not an evil art! This is also a righteous method, but this kind of righteous method has not yet been completely recorded in the human world.”
“Have you ever heard of the *Wanshou Daozang* (Myriad Longevity Daoist Canon)?”
Ji Xiang found it familiar and remembered, “This Daoist Canon was lost a long time ago.”
Tian Fengyu smiled, chewing the black blood in his mouth. More and more black blood flowed from his body:
“It was indeed lost during the Jingkang years, but we are still alive, so this Daoist Canon has also been completed, underground.”
Ji Xiang asked, “Your paper soldiers wear Song Dynasty armor, and what you are talking about now, the *Wanshou Daozang*, is also a Song Dynasty thing, you… what are you?”
Tian Fengyu smiled, “I was originally just a small immortal official in the Wanshou Palace, but the Holy Ancestor favored me, and the Jade Emperor issued an edict to refine me into the Holy Ancestor’s incarnation. From then on, the former immortal official no longer exists. Now, my surname is Zhao!”
“Since you want to know, I’ll tell you!”
Tian Fengyu sensed that his yin-world body was getting closer and was about to appear in the yang world. At this time, in order to delay a little longer, he threw out a major piece of news to attract Ji Xiang’s attention:
“After a person dies, the netherworld receives them, the seven *po* souls are things without wisdom, so they naturally disperse, and the three *hun* souls are taken away. Some can be reincarnated, and some return to the spirituality of heaven and earth. To put it bluntly, a person’s life and death are just the gathering and dispersing of qi.”
“But, we are different. We maintained our form and spirit when we died, and lived in a very distant and deep place. You can say we are lingering on, but we had long expected this day. After all, the Jin Dynasty was strong, and the Mongols were also strong.”
“The earliest one to think of this was Emperor Zhenzong, and the emperors of the following dynasties were all incompetent, until the era of Emperor Gaozong…”
“We knew that while alive, we might not be able to defend the Great Song Jiangshan, so we placed our hopes on the Jin people dying out, or the Mongols dying out. When they are all dead, we will be resurrected from the ground and regain control of this land.”
“If we can’t defeat them, we can wait. If we can’t wait while alive, then we’ll wait after death. Now is the right time. The Ming Dynasty is also at the end of its years, and the lifespan of your dynasty is coming to an end… In fact, it should have been like this.”
Tian Fengyu said here, his tone becoming strange, “But not long ago, the dynasty’s fate seemed to have begun to continue again. Although I don’t know where the problem is, it doesn’t matter…”
Ji Xiang asked, “Is the Fire Lord one of your people?”
Tian Fengyu shook his head, “She can’t be completely considered one of us. She doesn’t even know we exist. She thinks all her adventures in the Li Shanhe (Inner World) were blessings bestowed by heaven. In fact, we gave them to her proactively.”
“Including the Taiyin Calamity Fire, we also refined it and sent it to her. It’s a pity that she didn’t know how to use such a powerful thing and was killed by the Heavenly Officials of the Forbidden City. Really, when I heard about this from you, I wanted to laugh.”
“Women can’t accomplish great things, indeed! But fortunately, she at least used the Taiyin Calamity Fire and burned a big hole in the national prestige of your Shuntian Prefecture, so that our forms and spirits can come to the world with the help of the formation in the East岳Temple. Because there was a gap in the national prestige, there were loopholes to exploit when it was running.”
Ji Xiang nodded, “So that’s how it is. Alright, now you can go and die.”
Tian Fengyu laughed, “*Bingjie* is supposed to be about dying! Since you want to compete with my primordial spirit, how could I not satisfy you! Did you think I didn’t know you were trying to get information out of me? But I deliberately told you!”
“Because I am also waiting. If I don’t arouse your curiosity, I’m afraid I won’t be able to escape from your hands!”
As soon as Tian Fengyu finished speaking, a Great Power Divine Talisman was already stuck on his body without him knowing when!
Ji Xiang circulated his mana, and the Great Power Divine Talisman instantly burst into a monstrous light!
Boom! Bones, organs, essence, blood, meridians, everything with a tangible form, was all shattered by the Great Power Divine Talisman in an instant!
Black mist condensed and soared into the sky. A semi-illusory primordial spirit was particularly eye-catching in the black mist!
“Haha, I’ve escaped!”
“Want to leave? It’s not that easy!”
Ji Xiang made his move, using the great divine power of the ascending realm!
The Great Dao began, and he grasped the air! When the power of Shattering the Void appeared around the primordial spirit, Tian Fengyu couldn’t laugh anymore!
“You… this is!”
He felt his form and spirit being fixed by a terrifying force, and then his fragmented primordial spirit actually began to disintegrate!
This is the divine power of the ascending realm, Shattering the Void!
Tian Fengyu was shocked, “You are not a Primordial Spirit level expert occupying a mortal body, you, you are a person from the ascending realm!”
“You are not a cultivator from the Outer World!”
Ji Xiang thought for a while and felt that what he said was correct.
Coming from the Great Floating Li Earth, he was indeed not a cultivator from the Outer World!
The primordial spirit was shattered and mostly collapsed. Ji Xiang didn’t kill Tian Fengyu with one move, which was also within Ji Xiang’s expectations. After all, it was a bit difficult for a Golden Core to kill a Primordial Spirit with one move.
The Golden Core cannot kill the Primordial Spirit in one second, it is still because of insufficient cultivation.
The ascending divine power is also a weakened version. If it were a true ascending divine power, this grasp would immediately destroy even a Primordial Spirit expert’s form and spirit!
“Let me see what you really are.”
Ji Xiang used his divine power again. If one move couldn’t kill him, then he’d use two or three!
“Hehe… hahaha!”
Tian Fengyu’s primordial spirit was grasped by the second divine power, but instead of being frightened, he laughed. His primordial spirit began to shatter and could not maintain its complete form, but at this time, the ground shook, and the “flesh body” that had been drained of black blood suddenly changed its appearance!
The clothes and accessories all changed, the height and appearance also changed, and even the head that was originally separated from the body had now grown back!
Buzz! This body stood up straight from the ground!
Ji Xiang watched all this and used the third great divine power of Shattering the Void. Tian Fengyu’s shattered primordial spirit was completely crushed into dust!
The Northern Di Tianpeng Ruler no longer needed to point forward, because this flesh body suddenly opened its eyes!
The Inner Vision Divine Tablet gave guidance on the current situation!
[Thirty-six Transformations of Tiangang—Resurrection: Able to revive the dead and grow flesh on bones, allowing the decayed body to be reborn and replaced, allowing things that have already died and dissipated, including the primordial spirit, to return to a state of having form and body!]
“Hehe, your skills are truly amazing. I was really blind to let a banished immortal from the ascending realm come before me! If I hadn’t cast a spell in advance to restore the primordial spirit from the void realm with supreme magic, even if I hadn’t died just now, I wouldn’t have been able to come to the world in the form of a primordial spirit!”
“Good, a master of the ascending realm, I have never killed a person in the ascending realm in my life!”
The person in front of him wore a Tongtian Crown with twenty-four beams, plus a golden Boshan, and a black *gunfu* robe woven with cloud dragon red and gold stripes, with the appearance of an emperor!
The Inner Vision Divine Tablet gave his name!
[Siming Zhenjun (Lord of Fate): Song Shengzu Zhao Xuanlang (Incarnation)!]