Chapter 1 Dark Night

The night was dark and moonless, old crows cawed, and the wind howled through the grass and trees.

"Someone's there?"

A group of monks entered Jiao Yuan Temple, and they saw a flickering light in the only remaining intact monk's room at the far end.

Faintly, the sound of朗朗 reading could be heard.

Several young monks looked at each other, even more vigilant, because they didn't sense any human presence. Whatever was reading couldn't be human.

If the young monks could sense it, De Xing certainly could.

He frowned slightly and suddenly waved his sleeve.

Bang!

A burst of air suddenly exploded in the ruins, stirring up the surrounding dust and fallen leaves like a tornado, rising into the sky like a wind dragon, pulling up the dust and sand within a radius of twenty zhang and crashing towards the monk's room with the light.

"Since when do guests destroy houses upon arrival?"

At this moment, the sound of reading suddenly disappeared, and an old voice slowly sounded.

At the same time, a furry red claw emerged from the air and shattered the wind dragon with a bang.

Bang!

For a time, the air surged and mud and dust scattered, and the rising dust shrouded the entire temple ruins.

Crack~

As the aftermath spread, the house shook, and as the dust fell, the barely intact gate cracked open.

All the monks had received the talisman and had excellent eyesight. They saw at a glance that a bonfire was burning in the house, and beside the bonfire were several small red foxes standing upright and holding ancient scriptures.

The moment the gate shattered, a group of little foxes squeaked and scattered in all directions.

Red foxes reading in a desolate temple in the middle of the night?

"Cough cough!"

An old man in a gray-white robe coughed lightly as he walked out of the broken gate, cupping his hands and saying:

"Master is skilled, I am ashamed to be inferior."

The old man was wearing a gray-white robe, with a thin and kind face, and a pair of brown eyes that were deep and unfathomable.

A demon that had taken human form!

Several young monks were shocked, and then realized that something was wrong. The old man had not transformed into a human form, but had used demonic magic, but the demonic magic was so profound that they could not see through it.

But there were also flaws, and that flaw was the tail wagging behind him.

However, even so, the old fox's cultivation was already extremely profound.

Squeak, squeak, squeak~

At this time, a group of little foxes in the house jumped up and down and ran out. They were startled when they saw the group of monks glaring at them, and they hid behind Fox Dao Ren.

Fox Dao Ren's expression changed slightly. He stretched out a hand, his sleeve opened wide, as if it contained infinite space, and took all seven or eight little foxes into it.

De Xing narrowed his eyes slightly. This was not something an old fox in the mountains could do.

De Xing scanned the Buddhist scriptures scattered in the room and looked at the old fox with a smile:

"May I ask what the layman's name is, and how many years have you been cultivating here?"

"This old fox in the mountains has no name. Master can call me Fox Dao Ren, or old fox, it doesn't matter. As for how long I have been cultivating, I have been living in this side room since Jiao Yuan Temple was dilapidated. It must have been a hundred years."

Fox Dao Ren answered slowly, and then asked:

"Master's move seems simple, but it contains the Buddhist subduing demon seal. I suppose you are a high-ranking cultivator from the Rulai (Tathagata) Courtyard, which has been gaining fame recently."

"This poor monk is De Xing from the Rulai Courtyard. I only have some skills in subduing demons. Layman's move contains the universe, which is truly remarkable."

De Xing put his hands together, his smile even more pronounced:

"May I ask which great demon the layman is a disciple of?"

"This old fox in the mountains, where would I have a master?"

Fox Dao Ren still spoke slowly, unhurriedly: "Hundreds of years of cultivation are not as good as Master's decades of cultivation. It would be a joke to say it."

He said this from the bottom of his heart.

All beings find cultivation difficult, the only exception being humans. Humans are very weak, extremely weak. Animals are able to walk within a few days of birth, and some animals can walk freely at birth.

Humans are pregnant for longer, and are so weak at birth that they can't even lift their heads, and can barely walk until more than a year later.

But it is precisely these humans who have become the orthodoxy of heaven and earth.

Even with the existence of Huang Tian Shi Li, such an ancient and unparalleled great demon, they could not overshadow the glory of the human race.

How could he not envy them?

If he didn't envy them, why would he collect human writing and read the scriptures carefully?

"Since the layman has lived here for so long, does he know that there is a wood spirit in the nearby mountains?"

De Xing asked again.

"Is Master asking about Mu Lao Lao (Old Mother Tree)? I also saw that strike from afar that night..."

Fox Dao Ren was wary.

He was also in this Jiao Yuan Temple that night. He had seen that strike from afar shatter the mountains and rivers. This kind of method was a superior method even among the human race.

"That's right! That wood spirit runs rampant in the mountains and harms all living beings, so we must suppress it."

De Xing's eyes were deep:

"Does the layman know the whereabouts of this fiend?"

Fox Dao Ren nodded but did not answer, instead asking: "What is the relationship between the Rulai Courtyard and the Heavenly Will Sect?"

"We are all on the same path."

De Xing's expression did not change.

Fox Dao Ren asked again: "If one day a member of the Heavenly Will Sect falls into trouble and is hunted down by a great demon, and asks Master for help, would Master tell him?"

De Xing's expression changed slightly, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared: "Naturally, I would not."

Fox Dao Ren replied faintly:

"Master would not, and naturally I would not either."

Boom!

As soon as Fox Dao Ren finished speaking, the temple suddenly shook, and a vast cloud of smoke, accompanied by suddenly appearing golden lights, soared into the sky:

"An old demon who wants to be human after reading a few books?"

The magnificent Buddhist sound rang like a bronze bell.

De Xing took a step forward, pinched a hand seal in his palm, and shouted a Buddhist mantra:

"Suppress!"

The golden light burst out, spreading vast and mighty in the void, and in the midst of mutual outlining, it transformed into a vibrating incense burner.

Om~

The moment the incense burner appeared, an immense force of suppression filled the entire temple ruins.

The void suddenly became viscous, as if the invisible air was compressed into a liquid like mercury, and the Buddhist power rolled.

Fox Dao Ren couldn't help but sway, feeling that the incense burner above his head was getting bigger and bigger.

But he knew that it wasn't that the incense burner was getting bigger and bigger, but that he was getting smaller and smaller, and was about to be suppressed by the incense burner.

"Want to capture me?"

In the golden light and Buddhist power, hearing the chanting of Buddhist sounds in his ears, Fox Dao Ren suddenly sneered:

"Master, we will meet again!"

While his voice was still floating, Fox Dao Ren's figure suddenly faded slowly, as if a red-hot iron was gradually losing its temperature, disappearing visibly.

Boom!

The golden light converged, and the temple ruins within twenty zhang trembled, turning into dust and rising into the air, and then being suppressed by the invisible golden light.

"Search this mountain!"

De Xing was not surprised by the failed attack, he just gave a low shout and stepped out to chase:

"Trying to escape?"

The night was gusting, and he had already stepped out a hundred zhang. At the same time, his ten fingers pinched the demon-subduing seal, and he struck straight at the high sky:

"Om mani padme hum..."

Boom!

It was as if a golden bolt of lightning streaked across the sky, and suddenly it was hundreds of zhang, instantly illuminating the night sky.

Fox Dao Ren, who was running in the mountains, suddenly changed his expression. He rolled on the spot,窜out a hundred zhang, then stepped hard on the ground again, striding towards the high sky.

Rumble!

Almost at the moment he dodged, the mountain forest where he was located was slapped down by an invisible giant palm.

The mountains collapsed and the ground cracked, soil and sand rolled and flew, and large swaths of vegetation were knocked down to the ground.

Fox Dao Ren looked back and was immediately horrified. He saw that the mountain forest had sunk three chi, and within a hundred zhang, it had been flattened, and the激荡 dust had risen up like a mushroom cloud, spreading for more than a thousand zhang.

"What a great demon-subduing seal!"

Fox Dao Ren's heart was pounding wildly, and he had no intention of taking it head-on.

The Rulai Courtyard was not well-known at this time, but a long time ago it was the leader of Buddhism, holding the reins of the cultivation world, with solemn prestige. The Nine Great Hand Seals were all magical and unparalleled, and ordinary people could not withstand them at all.

This old monk De Xing had mastered the demon-subduing seal, and he was no match for him.

Fox Dao Ren moved vertically and horizontally in the mountains and forests. His movement was extremely fast, and he also had a secret method to hide his aura. With this method, he had escaped many disasters.

But at this time, the chanting of Buddhist sounds suddenly rang in his ears.

Then, the thunder sounded again in the night sky, and the vast Buddhist light was already surging down, outlining and vibrating the surrounding天地 essence, transforming into a hundred-zhang-sized handprint, which was about to pinch Fox Dao Ren in the palm of his hand!

This demon-subduing seal actually had the ability to exhaustively search the天地, and insight into all concealment methods!

He had never escaped at all!

"Big trouble!"

Fox Dao Ren's hairs stood on end, and his claws waved out crescent-shaped claw marks, but no matter how he tore apart layers of Buddhist light, more Buddhist light surged in the next moment.

Beside the mountain forest, in the void, the old monk De Xing walked in the air, and golden light rose from under his feet with each step.

He looked at Fox Dao Ren, who was struggling in the golden light, and said faintly:

"Three hundred years of cultivation is not easy, but it is too regrettable to be buried for the sake of a wood spirit!"

Just as this old fox had great confidence in his concealment and escape methods, De Xing also did not take a mere three-hundred-year-old demon seriously.

The reason why Huang Tian Shi Li was so famous was because they had all survived from ancient times to the present, and were nearly immortal and indestructible ten-thousand-year-old demons between heaven and earth.

In addition to these, how could some small demons who relied on themselves to吞吐 the日月 essence for three hundred years of cultivation be comparable to the secret methods passed down from generation to generation in their Rulai Courtyard?

"Bah!"

Fox Dao Ren snorted coldly, his demon energy erupting and colliding with the surrounding golden light and Buddhist power again and again.

De Xing's expression turned cold, and his palm squeezed slightly, and as the golden light roared, Fox Dao Ren spat out a mouthful of blood, and his bones made a 'crack' sound.

At this moment, Fox Dao Ren's composure completely disappeared, and with a burst of demon energy, he let out a stern cry:

"Mu Lao Lao! Aren't you coming out yet?"

Fox Dao Ren truly used all his strength in this stern cry, and the sound waves were so great that they almost tore through the void.

"What?!"

The old monk De Xing paused in his steps.

While he was slightly stunned, he heard a tragic laughter that was neither male nor female piercing through the clouds in the shaking mountains, rolling and scattering, filling the void.

While the sound waves were still echoing, the trees in the mountains swayed and trembled, and countless thick roots like long snakes broke out of the ground, pulling countless dense roots into the sky.

Together with countless grasses and vines above those mountain forests, they formed a hideous ghost and god hundreds of zhang tall, seemingly with hundreds of hands and thousands of arms!

"You don't go to the Western Heaven when there's a road, but you come to the Netherworld on your own!"