Chapter 43

Tang Chi, an elder of the Forgotten Truth Temple, was dumbfounded.

He looked down at his left foot and laughed in anger.

Earlier, Xie Zhao was detained, and he received a message that elders of the Forgotten Truth Temple had to come.

Now that several elders of the Forgotten Truth Temple had come, the other party turned against them just because he stepped into the fortress with his left foot?

What is this if not a deliberate attempt to pick a fight?

So are the people of the Forgotten Truth Temple here to entertain you?

This damn Chang’an Fortress never meant to negotiate from the beginning!

They are just becoming enemies with the Forgotten Truth Temple on purpose!

“Since we are not welcomed here, we can only take our leave.”

Tang Chi calmed his anger and told his junior brothers and disciple-nephews to leave together.

Since they knew that the other party was not sincere in reconciliation and was finding fault on purpose, there was no need for them to stay.

It was only right that they went back to report to the abbot, discuss the matter at length, and gather their fellow sect members over.

They wanted to leave, but the people of Chang’an Fortress refused to let them do so.

The martial artists of the Heavenly Punishment Hall in the fortress quickly gathered and surrounded these Forgotten Truth Temple members.

“You are asking for trouble.” Tang Chi snorted, and a colorful light suddenly wandered in his eyes.

The colorful light spread out like the rosy clouds.

Those who came in contact with the colorful light were stunned. They stood still as though they had been transformed into clay sculptures.

It was the True Nightmare Spell, one of the Forgotten Truth Temple’s forgotten teachings.

In the hands of Tang Chi, it was much stronger than Xie Zhao’s earlier display.

Even Chen Jiezhi, who was at the sixth realm of the Martial Dao, the Marshal realm, did not dare to approach, let alone the others.

“A Daoist cultivator at the Meditation realm has cultivated an external golden core…” Chen Jiezhi frowned, and his palms blocked the incoming light while his body drifted backward.

The other party’s Dharma spells could not suppress him, but it would be difficult for him to stop the other party from leaving.

Tang Chi, an elder of the Forgotten Truth Temple, was at the sixth realm, the Meditation realm.

A Daoist cultivator of this realm had their body’s golden core refined into an external golden core, which was intended to protect the physical body.

At the same time, the soul was more condensed. Combined with the external golden core, it could show its true features through objects and was not afraid to travel far in the sunlight.

When a Daoist cultivator’s soul was out of their body, it was more conducive to casting spells and fighting with people. They would usually conceal their physical body and only fight with their soul.

With the protection of the external golden core, the soul was no longer weak. Even if the enemy broke the golden core, the soul could still retrieve the physical body and escape safely.

Right now, only Tang Chi’s soul, which had transformed into a body through the condensation of clouds, had arrived in Chang’an Fortress.

He had hidden his physical body in the dense forest outside the fortress.

He was guarding against Chang’an Fortress being hostile and attacking him.

However, the old Daoist priest did not expect that the other party’s excuse for being hostile was so absurd and arrogant…

After forcing Chen Jiezhi back with the True Nightmare Spell and suppressing the others, Tang Chi’s body shifted and transformed into a mist.

His soul controlled the mist to spread out to cover himself and his fellow sect members, and they hurried away from Chang’an Fortress.

In the fortress, an old man in blood-red appeared beside Mister Black Cloud.

“It seems the people under you can’t keep them behind.” The old bloody shadow demon chuckled, gloating over the misfortune.

Mister Black Cloud looked as calm as ever and stood up. “There are still too few people for the job, so I will have to take action personally to relieve His Majesty’s worries.”

The old bloody shadow demon rolled its eyes.

It wanted to take this opportunity to see how strong this opponent was.

But it suddenly recalled that when Du Kun attacked the fortress last time, Mister Black Cloud watched it make a fool out of itself and was reprimanded by His Majesty.

Chang’an Fortress belongs to His Majesty, not this guy in front of me.

It would now help to seize people instead of watching the fun, in contrast to what Black Cloud had done last time. By doing so, his Majesty would naturally know that it was more dutiful than Black Cloud.

The key was on His Majesty’s side.

Only when His Majesty made a judgment in his heart would a real winner be decided between the two of them.

At this thought, the old bloody shadow demon laughed. “In the end, it’s still up to me.”

Its body leaped up, transformed into a bloody light, and flew outside the fortress.

At the top of Chang’an Fortress, Chen Jiezhi took a deep breath, interlocked his palms, and created two tornadoes.

The power of the Great Wind Cloud Palm turned into fiery tornadoes that immediately blew away the mist and surrounded Tang Chi and the others.

At the same time, Chen Jiezhi yelled, waking up the people that the True Nightmare Spell was suppressing.

He instructed the crowd, “I’ll deal with them. You go outside the fortress to find the old Daoist priest’s body.”

The people immediately agreed and dispersed to look for him.

Tang Chi did not bother with Chen Jiezhi. When he performed the Mist Locking Drifting Cloud spell, the large mist seemed to condense into a solid mass.

The mist acted like a shield, helping Tang Chi block Chen Jiezhi’s Great Wind Cloud Palm.

Chen Jiezhi was about to strike again when a bloody light suddenly flew out of the fortress.

The old bloody shadow demon let out queer laughter, and a blood sea enveloped the air outside the fortress.

A seventh-realm demon… Tang Chi was suddenly shocked.

The old bloody shadow demon had received the Phoenix Blood Book imparted by Zhang Dongyun, and its old wounds had healed quickly, allowing it to recover its old cultivation realm gradually. It was completely different from when it fought Du Kun.

Although its realm was the same, thanks to the Phoenix Blood Book, it was much stronger than it was before it was injured.

In the blood sea, a phoenix’s cry sounded.

Foul wind and blood rain fell from the sky.

The blood rain eroded the barrier created by Tang Chi’s mist, and in just a few moments, holes emerged in it.

His soul was out of his body to cast Dharma spells, and it was more powerful than usual. But at this moment, he was still unable to resist the old demon’s blood rain.

On another side, even though they were in the same camp, Chen Jiezhi and the Chen clan were equally frightened when they saw this.

“Jiezhi, come back.” Chen Jiezhi heard Mister Black Cloud’s voice at this moment.

He looked at where the old bloody shadow demon and Tang Chi were but returned to the fortress when he heard Mister Black Cloud’s command.

Wu Qiong and other members of the Thunderclap Sect, who were now following Mister Black Cloud, were in a state of shock.

They were from Tongzhou, which was also in Longbei County.

The Forgotten Truth Temple was also an enormous mountain above their heads.

At this moment, seeing Mister Black Cloud turn against the other party, the people of Thunderclap Sect were uneasy.

“Senior, this…” Wu Qiong asked.

Mister Black Cloud ignored him and instead turned to look at another Thunderclap Sect member.

“Chang’an has turquoise crystals, and the Forgotten Truth Temple has invaded now.” He looked at the middle-aged man. “As a member of the Secret Cabinet, which of these two pieces of information do you think is more worthy of being reported?”