Chapter 1039: Senior Brother and Junior Brother Meet
The moment those words left his mouth, Ye Zijin cursed at himself inwardly. Ever since he condensed his Yin-Yang Golden Core, he had been stuck with this wretched habit. Even when he subsequently shattered his golden core to form a nascent soul, transformed it into a primordial soul, and fused the primordial soul with his body, it didn’t help.
Of course, my personality also plays a part, but only a small one.
As he often made startling statements, he had attracted no small amount of envy, with no small number of people hunting him down. Fortunately, he was a fast runner. That was how he had survived until now.
He had come to the Buddhist Kingdom for training and experience. Setting aside other skills, my ability to flee has visibly improved. Even Shifu, an Intermediate Fusion cultivator, can’t run faster than me.
But the problem is, when facing a Transcendent Tribulation cultivator, is running fast even of any use?
No, no, I can’t think that way. Since the other party is a senior and expert, surely he won’t hold it against a junior like myself... will he?
“Senior?” Ye Zijin called out tentatively.
“What is it?” Master Minghuai looked up. His expression betrayed nothing unusual.
Ye Zijin breathed a sigh of relief. As expected of a senior and expert. His temperament is nothing like that of those elders.
Master Minghuai rose calmly and picked up his broom.
Crack.
Master Minghuai couldn’t control the strength of his grip, snapping the broom he had used for over a thousand years.
Seeing this, Ye Zijin bolted. If I don’t run now, it’ll be too late!
Watching Ye Zijin’s fleeing figure, Master Minghuai took two deep breaths.
As an almighty Transcendent Tribulation great cultivator, it is beneath me to fuss over such a trivial matter with a junior.
As an almighty Transcendent Tribulation great cultivator, it is beneath me to fuss over such a trivial matter with a junior...
“Ye Zijin, don’t you run!” Master Minghuai bellowed at the top of his lungs.
Instantly, seven or eight powerful figures flew out from Xitian Temple, all of them at the Fusion Stage.
“Where’s Ye Zijin?”
“Over there! After him!”
Hearing news of Ye Zijin, the group of elders rushed out. Some even abandoned their seclusion. The commotion was far greater than when they had “invited” Lu Yang to visit Xitian Temple as a guest on New Year’s Eve.
The entire Xitian Temple was illuminated as bright as day, shrouded in the auras of Fusion cultivators. Master Minghuai was mindful of his status. After hollering once, he didn’t take further action.
Master Mingyu, the abbot, was reviewing the chess game he had lost. “So I made the wrong move here. I was too eager to win and played hastily. It seems Junior Brother Minghuai was right—my mental state still needs tempering.”
Then he heard his junior brother’s shout. A peculiar expression spread across his visage. I don’t recall ever seeing Junior Brother Minghuai so exasperated.
Ye Zijin’s escape skills were top-notch, far beyond what Lu Yang could match.
“Ye Zijin, let’s see how far you can run!” Elder Kongchan roared, hurling a golden bell. Its toll reverberated through the air, carrying the power to immobilize.
But Ye Zijin was like a slippery loach, casting techniques that stirred ripples in space, preventing the area from being frozen.
“Suppress!” Elder Kongxing executed the Devil-Suppressing Seal, which had sealed countless great devils. Six months ago, when the Meng Family had come to the Buddhist Kingdom in search of the Heartless Creed, one of the creed’s elders had been suppressed by this terrifying seal.
“Heaven-Opening Seal!” Ye Zijin had comprehended this move from the Taciturn Daoist Priest’s “Sword Opens Heaven’s Gate.”
The two seals collided in midair and canceled each other out perfectly, without any residual force spilling over.
“Dragon-Subduing Tiger-Vanquishing Scripture!” Behind Elder Kongli, the dharma manifestations of two arhats appeared, one subduing a dragon and the other vanquishing a tiger. They lashed out at Ye Zijin as if swatting a mouse, but he traversed space and burrowed underground, never getting hit.
Nevertheless, this was Xitian Temple’s home turf. Besieged, Ye Zijin had little hope of evading capture.
Faced with this desperate situation, Ye Zijin acted decisively. “Heaven-Opening Seal!”
Boom!
The Heaven-Opening Seal collapsed, and the explosion filled the air with thick smoke. When it dissipated, there were two Elder Kongxings.
“You are the fake. Devil-Sealing Seal!”
“You are the fake. Devil-Sealing Seal!”
Both executed identical Devil-Sealing Seals.
Elder Kongxing was enraged, unleashing a flurry of attacks, and the other Elder Kongxing responded in kind. Their moves were so identical that no one could tell them apart, leaving the elders unsure how to intervene.
“I refuse to believe you can chant scriptures too!” Elder Kongxing’s lips quivered as he rapidly recited the sutra.
The other “Kongxing” did the same.
“Junior Brother Kongxing, take out your Ruyi prayer beads!” Elder Kongchan yelled.
Elder Kongxing quickly brought out his Ruyi prayer beads.
The other Elder Kongxing’s expression shifted drastically. “Ye Zijin, you stole my prayer beads in the chaos just now!”
Elder Kongxing roared like a wrathful vajra guardian. “Nonsense! These are clearly my prayer beads. Ye Zijin, you still dare to make excuses? Senior and junior brothers, what are you waiting for?!”
The elders rushed forward at once, and “Elder Kongxing” seized the opportunity to slip away from behind.
“Damn, we’ve been tricked!”
Seeing “Elder Kongxing” flee with the Ruyi prayer beads, the elders finally realized they had captured the wrong person.
“Haha, you think you can catch me?” Ye Zijin revealed his true appearance. He tossed the Ruyi prayer beads in another direction for Elder Kongxing to retrieve, while he made his escape.
“Damn it! He got away again!” The elders fumed but were helpless.
Ye Zijin had some way to slip through their fingers every time, and it didn’t matter even if Xitian Temple was their home turf.
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“That was Second Senior Brother?” Inside the Qingfeng Sword’s small world, Lu Yang had heard Master Minghuai’s shout.
Having witnessed the exchange between the elders and his second senior brother, Lu Yang realized that the elders hadn’t been serious on New Year’s Eve.
Seeing Ye Zijin escape successfully, Lu Yang decided to go meet him.
It was true that Ye Zijin’s whereabouts were hard to track, but not even he could evade the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s immortal consciousness.
“You three stay put.” Lu Yang warned the Cyan Smoke Venerable Lord and the other two before leaving with the Everlasting Immortal Fairy.
After Lu Yang left, Mo Xiaochou grew restless. This is the perfect chance to escape. “Shall we escape together?”
The Cyan Smoke Venerable Lord shot Mo Xiaochou a sidelong glance. How could there be such a stupid person in this world? How exactly did he cultivate to the Divine Transfiguration Stage? “Surely you don’t think you have some method to escape from an immortal?”
The higher one’s cultivation, the more one understood how terrifying immortals were. They are supreme beings we can’t defy. The best way to deal with an immortal is to do exactly as told.
Considering Lu Yang’s relationship with that immortal, his words represent the immortal’s will. I don’t dare to disobey.
Mo Xiaochou finally realized the situation he was in and abandoned any thought of escape, waiting obediently in the small world.
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“Second Senior Brother?” Lu Yang moved stealthily through the night and found Ye Zijin hiding in the shadows.
“Who is it?!” Ye Zijin was startled. He grew tense and was on high alert. How did I get discovered when I’m hiding so well? Did a Transcendent Tribulation cultivator step in?
“It’s me, Lu Yang.” Lu Yang lowered his voice.
Only then did Ye Zijin make out Lu Yang’s features. He had only seen Lu Yang in portraits. I didn’t expect the real person to be even more handsome than in the painting.
“Little Junior Brother Lu Yang, is it really you?” Ye Zijin was equally delighted to be meeting his little junior brother for the first time.
“I’ve seen your portrait! It doesn’t do you justice!”
