The Forbidden Path to Immortality - Chapter 36

Chapter 1 Shocking Secret

New Year’s Eve was just two days away. The sporadic sound of firecrackers in the streets reminded people of the approaching Lunar New Year. Heaven was kind enough to send a blanket of snow, blanketing the entire capital. The temperature rose slightly, and when the snow cleared, the streets were a slushy mess.

Li Xun, clad in a jade-colored Taoist robe, rode through the streets. Compared to the shambling pedestrians, he was spotless. The splattered snow and mud didn’t stain him at all. Even his horse was spotless, leaving his companions stunned.

“Could this be the Daoist technique of warding off dust?”

Young Marquis Liu Tai, with some discerning eyes, guessed it right away, based on the legends. A look of envy and awe crossed his face. He shook his head and sighed, “Mortals like us simply can’t compare to Master Li’s magical powers!”

The others, observing the spots on their bodies, shared this sentiment.

Li Xun smiled faintly. He had come out on a whim, simply to relax outside the city. He’d only “accidentally” run into these dandy boys along the way and been invited along.

By this point, Li Xun had a deep understanding of the situation in the capital. He knew that this group of wealthy young men, led by Liu Tai, actually represented the high-ranking officials of their fathers’ generation.

Amidst the increasingly chaotic court, after rumors spread about Li Xun’s identity, they inevitably sided with Prince Fu.

Perhaps only Emperor Longqing, immersed in cultivation in the palace, was unaware of all this. Comparing the two, while nothing major had happened, the outcome seemed safe from speculation.

But Li Xun didn’t care what these people were thinking; he’d been feeling a bit iffy these past few days.

Logically, with his external enemies gone and his daily pleasures from Concubine Qin and Gu Pin’er improving his cultivation, he should be feeling elated. But for some reason, there were always some vague clues in his mind that he couldn’t figure out, making him feel inexplicably irritated, which led to his current escape.

If these dandy boys understood, it would be fine, but if they were truly ignorant and disturbed his interest, he would definitely teach them a lesson.

This group was almost the same group that had gone to Guantaopo last time, only missing Li Cong; they marched down the street in a large procession, attracting the attention of passers-by, but no one paid any attention.

However, Liu Tai suddenly said something, a look of wonder on his face. He said, “Master Li, speaking of the art of dispelling dust… look at that carriage up ahead, does it have any similar meaning?”

Li Xun looked up and saw a carriage with a green canopy coming towards them. The black horse pulling the carriage was extremely majestic. And just as Liu Tai had said, from the carriage to the horses, everything was spotlessly clean. “

Besides this, it seems…” Li Xun suddenly felt that this carriage was a little strange and a little familiar. He frowned and pondered until the carriage was about to pass by. He suddenly woke up.

“Why is there no driver on the carriage? How does this horse know the way?” “

He reined in his horse suddenly, turned sideways, and when he looked over again, he was surprised again: “I have seen this carriage before, this is not that little girl…”

He thought of the girl who leaned out of the window that day, her stunning appearance, innocent demeanor, and interest in the “Phoenix Feather Needle”, all of which left a very deep impression on him.

But at that time, he had something on his mind, so he didn’t think about it carefully. Now that he saw her again, this strange feeling became much clearer.

As if sensing what he was thinking, the curtain of the carriage that had passed by was lifted, and a familiar face peeked out, looking back with a curious expression. Maybe she saw something interesting, and a slight smile appeared at the corner of her lips.

6 Tai and others exclaimed in surprise, and Li Xun’s heart was also moved, but he was not moved by the girl’s beauty, but by that smile.

The girl’s expression seemed to be able to speak, and in that smile, there was such a feeling: we meet!”

Li Xun also smiled and nodded slightly in greeting.

After seeing his action, the girl’s bright eyes suddenly lit up. She winked at him playfully and then retracted her eyes.

The carriage continued to move forward, but Li Xun reined in his horse.

“Could she also be from the Tongxuan Realm?” This thought suddenly flashed through Li Xun’s mind. There was no basis for it, it was just an intuition, but once it appeared in his mind, it had an irresistible impact.

He took a deep breath and suddenly became alert.

At this moment, he suddenly saw that the carriage that had already gone away turned around nimbly. The majestic black horse seemed to understand human nature. It turned around and pulled the carriage back slowly.

Li Xun and others were all staring blankly.

When the carriage approached, it stopped. Then, the beautiful girl poked her head out again and smiled at Li Xun: I see! “

Xun hadn’t figured out what was going on before he saw a figure flash before him, and a petite figure fell into his arms, fragrant with fragrance.

He was completely stunned, and then he heard the girl’s crisp call: “Gee!”

The **’s horse neighed long and hard, and actually started to trot, then faster and faster, and finally even galloped on the street. No matter how Li Xun tried to control it, it couldn’t stop.

The girl on his chest giggled, and in the laughter, the horse ran even more happily!

Li Xun saw at this time that the girl was wearing a lake green dress, and she looked energetic, lively and cute; but in this cold winter weather, she was not wearing a fox fur hat, and she didn’t feel the slightest bit of fear of the cold. This alone was enough to prove some of his guesses.

“Horse, run! Run farther before Aunt Qing changes her mind. “

The girl murmured a prayer. It seemed that she was talking to the horse, but Li Xun felt that she was talking to him… In fact, what he really didn’t understand was how this girl could be so bold as to throw herself into the arms of a man she had only met once and ride on the same horse?

Moreover, the girl’s physical fitness was already amazing!

He just opened his mouth to ask, but just as he opened his mouth, the girl’s hair floating in the wind gently rubbed his nose. He groaned miserably, quickly turned his head, and sneezed, and all the words he wanted to say were immediately blown away.

In a trance, he heard the girl laugh softly.

In just a moment, the horse ran to the city gate. When the soldiers guarding the gate saw that it was the “little national teacher”, how dare they stop it? The two of them and the horse soon set foot on the snow-covered plain outside the city.

Until this time, Li Xun smiled bitterly and asked: Where are we going?”

“Call me Wuyou!” The girl turned around and smiled brightly.

“Wuyou?” This name really suits her! Li Xun couldn’t help but laugh at her carefree smile.

Then he heard Wuyou say, “Where are we going? There’s nothing much to do here. There used to be a route, but it’s been wiped out.”

What’s going on? He felt very strange. He was a man of some ability, not a slave to be ordered around. Why was he so at a loss when he met this girl?

Eh? What was he about to ask? Just when he was thinking about it,

he felt a headache, but the girl gave a sound, and the horse slowly stopped obediently.

Li Xun was about to ask when the girl leaped off the horse with a nimble, silent landing. She beckoned Li Xun with her finger, “Get off! The horse is tired!”

Li Xun shook his head, but he couldn’t refuse the girl’s request, so he jumped off the horse. At the same time, he had already sorted out his words in his mind. As soon as he landed, he smiled and said, “Wuyou, aren’t you afraid that the elders will worry if you come out to play with me?”

“Worried? Worried that I might eat you?” Wuyou looked at him with pure eyes, her face full of innocence. “I won’t eat people. Aunt Qing said it’s dirty…”

It seems that there was something wrong with the elders’ education… Li Xun laughed dryly twice, then said, “What I mean is, don’t you think I would eat people?”

“Would you?” Wuyou opened his eyes wide, his face full of curiosity. “I thought people didn’t eat their own kind…”

Xun was stunned.

Before he could come to his senses, Wuyou concluded his reaction: “See, you won’t eat people! Of course, even if you eat people, it’s okay… But don’t try it, Aunt Qing will be angry… Aunt Qing’s angry look is very scary!”

Li Xun smiled bitterly and leaned over, sighing: “Wuyou, what I mean is, we didn’t know each other before, and you don’t know if I am a good person, how dare you be with me? How could your Aunt Qing agree?”

That’s what I mean!” Wuyou looked as if he had suddenly realized something, and then laughed, “Why not? She said that she is more confident in you. You have no skills, are timid, and are very afraid of my mother. It is best for her to follow you!”

“Your mother? “Li Xun immediately listed all the women he had met in his life, and he had a vague idea in his mind, but he still didn’t want to believe it, so he had to stiffen his body and asked cautiously: “Your mother is…”

right? She met you some time ago!” Wuyou looked very surprised, “My mother also told me about you, saying that my dead father taught a very cowardly apprentice…”

It was like a bolt from the blue hitting Li Xun’s head. While his whole body was stiff, the world in his eyes was distorted, and the smiling girl in front of him suddenly became blurred.

In a trance, the person standing in front of him had turned into the peerless beauty who rode on a thousand-mile red cloud and controlled the demonic fire of the three realms – the Heavenly Demon Phoenix!

“Heavenly Demon Phoenix! Lin Wuyou!”

Li Xun fell on the bed, muttering these two names. He didn’t know how he returned to the National Master’s Mansion. He only vaguely remembered that it seemed that his words and deeds had angered the little ancestor, and she drove him back with a big grumble.

Perhaps this experience was not unpleasant, and was even a little funny, but Li Xun was absolutely unwilling to go through it again!

“How could this happen? Why did she come here?”

Li Xun held his head, trying to figure out why Lin Wuyou suddenly came here. But what frightened him was that although Lin Wuyou looked like a girl with no scheming, every word she said seemed to have a hidden meaning, and if you savored it carefully, you would find that there was a deeper meaning in it.

“This is a big problem!” With this realization, Li Xun could no longer lie down. He turned over and sat up, roughly tidied up his clothes, and prepared to go to the palace to tell Yin Sanren about this matter – the daughter of the Sky Demon Phoenix came to Songjing, which might be a hundred times more troublesome than He Mulan and others!

He had something on his mind, so his hands and feet were not very flexible. He accidentally touched the table beside the table and almost knocked over the jade bowl on it, so he hurried to hold it.

And at the moment when his palm and fingers touched, his mind moved again: “Oh, there is also sound-transmitting sand! This treasure is the best to use on Lin Wuyou, why not ask Yin Sanren for some more!”

At the same time, he also remembered another thing: one seemed to be still stuck on Gu Pin’er’s boots… What day is it today?”

He estimated the day, it was the tenth day, and seeing that its effect was about to expire, it would be useless even if he took it back…

Wait! He looked at the jade bowl in his hand, stroking it gently with his fingers, feeling the smooth touch on it, and a bold idea quickly expanded in his mind.

Yin Sanren’s unintentional words were like a ghost, hanging in his heart: “If I don’t pay attention in advance, I won’t notice it…”

“Can’t notice it? “Li Xun’s hands trembled for a moment, but soon stabilized.

Then, he silently recited a spell. He stuttered at the beginning, but became more fluent as he went on. At the same time, he made various seals with his hands and hit the jade bowl.

A variety of sounds began to float out of the bowl. After gradually filtering, only the sound that Li Xun needed remained, which was a burst of fine breathing.

As soon as he heard the beginning, Li Xun understood what was going on over there. He twitched his mouth, and the tension in his heart gradually disappeared. He began to distinguish who the panting sounds belonged to – it should be Yin Sanren and Gu Pin’er, the ending tones of both of them were slightly sharp. The words were not as gentle and graceful as Concubine Qin’s.

Time passed by minute by minute, and there was no sign of Yin Sanren appearing.

Li Xun was no longer nervous, but he began to feel a little disappointed. Hearing such boring things was not what he wanted, and it was not worth the risk. He shook his head and was about to put away the magic formula when a low laugh suddenly came from the other side – the laugh was deep and powerful, even with the clanging of metal. As soon as it entered his ears, Li Xun’s face changed immediately!

It was Xue Sanren! How could Xue Sanren, who had not appeared for a long time, suddenly appear there?

He only heard him say, “It’s been a few days since we last saw you. Lady Yin is in high spirits!”

Yin Sanren’s voice was a little breathy, and Li Xun could even imagine her current state, but her words were still very clear and concise: “Aren’t you coming?”

Li Xun’s heart was blocked when he heard this.

Xue Sanren laughed dumbly, “Don’t say that to me. Wei Bufan is not Gu Zhixuan. No matter how wild he is, he wouldn’t dare to show off to Lady Yin in bed!” “

Yin Sanren also laughed, but his laughter was mixed with a few soft and beautiful moans. This time, Li Xun couldn’t tell who was making the sound.

Just at this moment, a female voice said softly: “Uncle Wei, please have some tea!”

Li Xun was stunned. From the tone of voice, it seemed that it was a disciple of Yin Sanren. Although he heard it under interference, it still gave him a very familiar feeling.

Xue Sanren over there said, and then praised: “Niece Wanru’s cultivation has become more and more refined. It is not much worse than that of Yin Meiren in the past! Even if I know your background, I can’t tell the real from the fake at a glance!”

“Uncle Wei praised Wanru very much! The woman responded softly, her voice still soft and melodious, though she showed no sign of joy.

Li Xun could hear her more clearly this time. He opened his mouth wide, but something seemed to block his throat, preventing him from breathing.

Xue Sanren continued, “Wanru, have you been with my unworthy disciple for a few days? What do you think?”

“Wanru” didn’t reply immediately, but Li Xun was completely stunned. A single thought swirled through his mind—how could it be her?

He made a few meaningless noises in his throat, his brain completely frozen, unable to think. He could only let the voice echo clearly in his ears, etched into his heart.

“As for Li Xun…” Wanru paused, then continued, “The thing that impressed me most about Li Xun is that he is extremely self-aware.”

Sanren seemed to be surprised by this answer and was stunned for a moment. Then he asked with great interest, “What do you mean?”

Wanru’s tone was still gentle and pleasant, without any obvious change. She said, “Many people in this world know others, but few know themselves. Li Xun is one of the very few who can recognize his own strengths and not do anything beyond his means.

“Wanru thought that with the means of the two masters, they would be able to control him at their fingertips. However, after all, their prestige is great and their favor is small. It is normal for him to have other thoughts in his mind. What is rare is that he can suppress these thoughts in his heart and work hard for the two masters. He knows when to advance and retreat, so he can be considered wise.

“Secondly, Master and Uncle Master have given him extremely wonderful techniques, but he has been able to practice step by step. He has not abused the art of collecting and replenishing, nor has he been distracted by the incompleteness of the Blood God Son. It is wise to practice steadily and steadily!

“Also, when it comes to women, although he was a little obsessed when he first had s*x, he was able to be self-disciplined and strict in just a few days…”

Upon hearing this, Xue Sanren laughed: “I believe the first two, but this one is wrong! These past few nights, you four have been sleeping in one bed, and even a man of iron would be turned into water! What self-discipline is there?”

He said it very bluntly, but Wanru’s mood was not affected at all. She just said quietly: “Uncle Master should not know. He was indeed a little absurd these days, but from beginning to end, his sperm gate was still stable, and there was no looseness that could hurt his body.

“Although it was because Master didn’t want to bully the younger generation, and Wanru had to conceal her identity and couldn’t resort to drastic measures, he was the only one who managed to maintain his essence from beginning to end under these circumstances. All these years, Wanru had only seen him!”

Xue Sanren’s smile died down.

Wanru continued, “We’ve used power, profit, and beauty to achieve our objectives, but this man remains cautious and careful, proving he has his own opinions and remains unshaken by these events. It’s fair to say he’s self-aware!”

Xue Sanren fell silent. The room was filled with increasingly rapid moans and gasps, culminating in a long, drawn-out cry. Gu Pin’er’s panting was tinged with exhaustion, and finally faded, evidently slumped over with exhaustion.

Amidst the rustling of clothing, Yin Sanren finally spoke. Perhaps due to her recent enjoyment, her voice held a rare languid quality.

“Wei Bufan, you’ve found a good disciple! His scheming and willpower are both top-notch. The Blood Demon lineage will be glorious in another hundred years. By then, we two lonely master and disciple will have to rely on you to survive!”

Xue Sanren snorted coldly, “Wei Bufan is used to being alone, so he doesn’t need to find a disciple to show off! But you, Yin Meiren, are surprised today. Why do you care so much about a little kid? This is not your style!”

“Of course he is worthy of attention!” Yin Sanren smiled softly, “It took him less than a month to cultivate himself to the point of not having any evil thoughts. It’s because he has a good foundation and a suitable personality, but have you never thought about other reasons?”

“Other reasons?” Xue Sanren pondered for a moment.

Before he could figure it out, Yin Sanren smiled and said, “Wanru was right just now, and I’ll add one more thing. He maintains a stable Jingguan. Willpower is one reason, but body is another key.”

“Body?” Xue Sanren asked suspiciously, “What’s so special about his body?”

Yin Sanren slowly uttered a few words: “A solitary evil born from nature, his soul and body are one.”

Li Xun, who was more than ten miles away, shuddered violently. In response, Xue Sanren also took a long breath of cold air: “Original Embryo Dao Body!”

But he immediately denied himself and said, “Impossible! Before the forty-nine heavenly tribulations, how many people in this world had cultivated to the realm of ‘True One’? You can count them on your fingers: Ancient Taoist, the Seven Demons, and those immortal creatures in the sect.

“Even if you add some low-key ones, there are no more than twenty! In these hundred years, have you heard of anyone dying from the heavenly tribulation? “

Yin Sanren was speechless.

Xue Sanren said again: “I know that this kid has the appearance of a lonely evil, but if you say that he is ‘soul and body as one’, based on his progress in cultivation and his ability in bed, it is not enough!”

Yin Sanren said coldly: “Don’t you think he looks like someone?” “

Are you talking about Gu Zhixuan?” Xue Sanren’s tone was a little disapproving, “I discovered it ten years ago, but now this kid is less and less like him. Moreover, the most important thing is that I met him once seventy years ago! With his means, except for Tianjie and Zhong Yin, who can do anything to him?”

Yin Sanren did not answer immediately and fell into silence.

Li Xun then remembered to exhale the turbid air that had been held in his chest for a long time, but his body suddenly felt weak.

Soul and body as one, Yuantai Dao body? Yu Sanren?

These terms, both unfamiliar and familiar, enveloped him like layers of thick fog, leaving him completely disoriented. But a single, almost intuitive thought became clearer than ever: “Danger!”

Yin Sanren broke the silence. “I still stand by my judgment. Li Xun must undoubtedly be the ‘Original Embryo Dao Body.’ Furthermore, even if he isn’t the reincarnation of Gu Zhixuan, given the passage of time, it’s possible… After all, the Great Cycle of Reincarnation can theoretically last five thousand years!”

Seeing her insistence, Xue Sanren dared not deny it. Yin Sanren was one of the most learned cultivators in the world, few could match her. In certain circumstances, her judgment could even be considered “truth.”

“If, he really is the Yuantai Dao Body…” Footsteps could be heard from the other side, indicating that Xue Sanren was a little irritated. “If it’s the Yuantai Dao Body, damn it! Beauty Yin, what exactly are you planning?”

Yin Sanren said indifferently, “You mean…”

“Don’t play dumb! You know what I mean!” Xue Sanren cursed. “If it’s the Yuantai Dao Body, what else can we do? But there’s only one of this treasure, and we can’t just chop it up and use it! Just give me some ideas!”

Yin Sanren laughed, “Are you not going to use him as bait? You know, he’s extremely popular in the Mingxin Sword Sect. Are you willing to give up all the arrangements you’ve made over the past few decades?”

“It’s better to seek within than to seek outside, and it’s better to seek within oneself than to seek others! Everyone understands this truth!” Although Xue Sanren said this, his tone clearly showed some pain.

Li Xun was horrified. “Bait?”

Damn it, there was something fishy about Xue Sanren asking for the “Lingxi Jue”!

He was almost certain that Xue Sanren had other plans, and from the very beginning, he had been using him as a “discarded pawn”!

Although he cursed Xue Sanren a thousand times in his heart, Li Xun did not dare to miss a single word. He only heard Yin Sanren say, “That’s good. As for my plan… you should understand that if I really want to keep it for myself, I will never let you know. All I ask for is mutual trust!”

Xue Sanren just hummed softly, and it was hard to tell what he meant.

But from this point on, Li Xun’s originally clear voice was suddenly mixed with a lot of noise, and soon returned to silence. Li Xun jumped up suddenly and cast more than a dozen spells in a row, but to no avail.

He cursed fiercely and calculated the time. It was exactly the ten-day deadline.

“I’ve had enough!” Li Xun kicked the table away.

Then, the entire room was like a hurricane, and all the furnishings in the room were torn to pieces in an instant. When nothing was left intact, he staggered out the door, but tripped over the door sill and nearly fell. He held onto the door frame, and finally regained some consciousness.

“Now, I have no choice! But, if there comes a day, a day…”

He pursed his lips tightly, and the wooden door frame was also crushed by him.

“Come here!” With his call, the servants and maids who were scared out of their wits all swarmed over and knelt to listen to his lecture.

However, to their surprise, Li Xun’s tone was surprisingly gentle. “Clean up the inside… Oh, and give me that little bowl inside.”

A clever servant hurried in and brought out the little bowl. Li Xun took it and even said thank you, scaring the poor guy to the ground. However, Li Xun ignored him and walked out.