Chapter 412
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Chapter 412: The Death of the Taoist Lord
Qingming Medicine Valley.
The huge mountain blocking the sun didn’t collapse the entire Medicinal Valley. Instead, it stopped floating in mid-air after Qiao Shuangxin died, and gradually disappeared.
Sunlight passed through the faint shadow of the mountain, shining again in the valley.
The countless Spiritual Farmers in the valley looked up in confusion, only seeing the faint sunlight passing through the shadow and the leader of Xuantian Sect standing in the air.
"Is this… the end?"
The Spiritual Farmers looked up in bewilderment.
The sudden disaster came unexpectedly and ended abruptly.
Who could have imagined that the mountain, capable of destroying the entire Medicinal Valley, would stop and fade away several meters above the ground?
What they saw was beyond the understanding of the Spiritual Farmers, but many still looked back at the collapsed small rocky hill.
The rocky hill was not tall, just a few tens of meters high, and now it had collapsed under the pressure.
Upon closer inspection, one could make out a messy lump of blood stains and flesh on the cracked ground, its shape indiscernible.
"After all, he is now the leader of the Nine Heavenly Immortal Gates sect…" Lingling Taoist Priest said with a hint of disappointment.
For a brief moment, he felt a bit lucky towards Qiao Shuangxin.
However, it was clear that there were no miracles like sudden explosions or bursts of power. The martial arts myth of the mortal world was crushed by the small world, not even leaving a complete body behind.
Qiao Canxue didn’t speak. She slightly opened her left eye, gazing towards the bloody spot in the collapsed rocky mountain, but saw nothing.
Ever since she had a look at Qiao Shui in Zhong Province, her eyes had been having some issues.
Just like how people can’t stare directly at the sun, she had tried to open her eyes while Qiao Shuangxin was alive, but they wouldn’t budge until now.
Qiao Canxue shifted her gaze, looking at the towering figure of the Xuantian Sect’s leader.
However, in her sight, the Xuantian Sect’s leader was not the slightly pale middle-aged Taoist, but a middle-aged farmer with a straw hat and a hoe on his shoulder.
The middle-aged farmer had a strong and sturdy body, with dark and rough skin, looking no different from the common farmers in the fields. The only exceptional feature was his deep and spirited eyes, nothing else stood out.
At a very young age, she noticed something peculiar about her eyes.
The scenes that appeared in her eyes were actually moments from the past, not the present visible to ordinary eyes.
In her eyes, the fields could appear as wastelands or ancient oceans from millennia ago, the sights were not consistent and often changed.
The Soul Changing Taoist Lord’s appearance in her eyes might actually be his distant past as a mortal, perhaps tracing back thousands of years…
"Thanks to the sect leader’s timely intervention, they saved us."
At this moment in Qingming Valley, cultivators started coming out one after another, seeing the true form of Xuantian Sect’s leader, someone immediately spoke up.
These cultivators had low cultivation levels, mostly at the Qi Refining Stage or Foundation Building Stage, with just a few scattered golden core cultivators who hadn’t managed to escape in time.
In the plotting of the Xuantian Sect’s leader, these cultivators were considered disposable pawns along with Qiao Shuangxin.
But Qiao Mu’s actions obviously caught the leader of the Xuantian Sect by surprise.
He not only died, but died on the highest little stone hill in the valley, becoming the first and only spirit under the Qingming Cave Small World.
As for these cultivators who were treated as expendable, although their cultivation level was not high, some of them were clever enough to have an idea of what was happening at this moment.
"With the invasion of external enemies, Qingming Medicine Valley suffered a great disaster, almost being destroyed, thankfully the sect leader arrived in time!"
"What senior brother said is absolutely right, thankfully the sect leader has come!"
Regardless of what they were thinking, they all spoke up at the same time.
As for the countless Spiritual Farmers all over the mountain, many of them were still unclear about the truth and had not yet seen the Xuantian Sect’s leader who was about to reveal himself.
However, these Spiritual Farmers were all believers of the Xuantian Sect’s immortals, so at this moment, they naturally believed the "celestial beings" in the valley. As a result, large groups of Spiritual Farmers knelt down and bowed, the sound of their heads knocking together almost becoming a continuous rhythm.
From high above, the sight of all these followers bowing in unison across the mountains and valleys was indeed magnificent.
"Bless us, Taoist Lord."
"Taoist Lord’s blessings are vast."
Prayers, bowing sounds, and footsteps gathered together, creating a noisy scene.
"What are you standing here foolishly for? Hurry, let’s go."
Lingling Taoist Priest quickly realized the situation and promptly pulled her two disciples along.
"Ah, I should have advised Qiao Shuangxin properly earlier. This is one of the Nine Heavenly Immortal Gates after all, even if it’s not as glorious as before, a living camel is still bigger than a dead horse."
"With the esteemed Soul Changing Taoist Lord presiding, how can we…"
She tried to pull Qiao Canxue, but couldn’t move her an inch.
At that moment, Qiao Canxue, who had one eye wide open in shock, suddenly felt her eyes sour and heavy.
At first, she struggled to keep her eyes open, but soon a bitter tear rolled down from her eye, feeling like a sharp pain in both her eyelids and her brain, making her head buzz.
Unable to hold on any longer, her eyelids finally closed.
Just in the few breaths that she strained to open and close her eyes.
For some reason, everything around her suddenly became quiet.
The noisy prayers that had filled her ears and the entire valley just moments ago, strangely quieted down in the brief moment of a couple of breaths.
"What happened?"
Qiao Canxue immediately felt a question arise in her heart.
If she were an ordinary person, she would naturally be confused.
But now, as a golden core cultivator, her mental sharpness was many times more reliable than an ordinary person’s naked eye.
At that moment, when she scanned her surroundings, she noticed a familiar yet unfamiliar presence beyond the valley where the Xuantian Sect’s leader had been before.
"Where is that Cave Heaven Small World…?" a voice said.
"Now you’re going to tell me, right? Hmm?!"
When this voice spoke, it carried a hint of undisguised weariness.
But soon, more emotions emerged from within, seeming to mix relief and pent-up anger, and so on.
Qiao Canxue had a thought and focused her senses on the location of the voice, trying to distinguish it carefully.
Gradually, she "saw" the scene in front of her.
The Xuantian Sect’s leader, standing on a cloud, was currently being held in the palm of a giant about twenty to thirty meters tall, with a body like a small mountain.
This giant had a wooden expression, hair as white as frost, and a face vaguely similar to the previous Qiao Shuangxin, but with a completely different aura. His eyes were like a deep, calm pool, only reflecting exhaustion and weariness akin to a bottomless abyss.
In his hand, the leader of Xuantian Sect only had a head left outside.
Blood was flowing out from between his fingers, making a sour cracking sound.
Two thousand five hundred years… Qiao Mu’s emotions surged like tidal waves.
For these two thousand five hundred years, he had been pondering how to deal with the ancient immortal legacy of Qingming Cave Small World left by Xuantian Sect.
And after hesitating for hundreds of years in Long Life Dream, in the end, he discovered that the Xuantian Sect’s leader had secretly taken control of that small world.
Even though he was almost five thousand years old, he had no perfect solution for Qingming Cave Small World, but resurrecting once, all the problems disappeared, which he had never imagined…
"How dare you…"
The leader of Xuantian Sect was trembling all over.
Half in anger, half in shock.
Even though there were rumors about a Qiao family member having the ability to teleport once in a lifetime, as the Soul Changing Taoist Lord, he still had the confidence of a generation sect leader, even if his spirit was damaged.
Whether it’s shrinking to an inch or any earth-moving technique, perhaps no one in the whole Jiu Province could escape his spiritual sense quietly approaching him.
Who knew, this Qiao family member really did appear out of nowhere, like jumping out of a crack in the stone, completely untraceable one moment, and then suddenly appearing the next moment in a very abrupt manner….
As for the other half of the surprise…
The Qingming Cave Small World is not in this realm.
Even as the Soul Changing Taoist Lord and the sect leader of Xuantian Sect, wanting to bring Qingming Cave into the real world from the void would still require days of preparation in advance.
It’s like lifting a solid iron ball from the depths of the sea with great effort, needing a lot of energy to prepare in advance to wait for the moment when the iron ball surfaces.
But as soon as he let go, this solid iron ball quickly fell back below the sea surface, making it impossible to try bringing out Qingming Cave at that moment—
"Young man, catching me off guard…. I am the Immortal Sect Leader, the tricks up my sleeve are beyond your imagination—-" The Xuantian Sect’s leader stared wide-eyed, sternly rebuked, his magical power surging, silently casting a spell, faint flames glowing.
Too late———
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A powerful True strength surged out like a wild wolf, completely engulfing the leader of Xuantian Sect between the fingers.
With a crisp sound, a purple light leaked from Qiao Mu’s fingers, the sound of the destruction of Xuantian Sect’s leader’s protective robe.
The Nascent Soul puppet in the sea of consciousness did not have time to escape, and crumbled bit by bit in the vast True strength.
Qiao Mu clenched the leader of Xuantian Sect’s corpse and started to fall from the clouds.
The surrounding people had not yet recovered from the recent brief upheaval.
The Spiritual Farmers who were still kneeling and praying all over the mountains had not yet stood up from the ground when they saw their praying Taoist Lord being crushed bare-handed, his body falling from the sky alongside Qiao Mu.
Then with a loud crash, they landed on the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Lingling Taoist Priest was speechless for a moment, carefully examining the corpse in Qiao Mu’s hands over and over with her eyes and mind.
Unconsciously, she muttered to herself:
"That is the leader of the Nine Heavenly Immortal Gates sect, a cultivator of the Soul Changing Stage, revered as the Taoist Lord!"
"Even if injured, in today’s Jiu Province, he is still a dignified Taoist Lord. Such a figure should not be… should not be killed by an ordinary person… should not be killed by a martial artist…"
Lingling Taoist Priest’s emotions overwhelmed her.
Even though she was actually supporting the Qiao family member’s side and was a mortal enemy of the Xuantian Sect, at this moment she felt a sense of inexplicable sorrow.
At the moment when the Xuantian Sect’s leader’s protective robe shattered and he perished.
Whether it was Lingling Taoist Priest, the Xuantian Sect cultivators in the valley, or the Spirit Farmers kneeling all over the mountains.
They all heard that light cracking sound.
With the passing of Xuantian Sect’s leader.
Something invisible in their hearts quietly shattered.
In the past forty years, or perhaps in the even longer era when the immortal cultivators stayed away from worldly desires, firmly rooted in their hearts, a certain understanding…
At this moment, shattered with a bang.
