Five Immortals Gate

Li Yan walked at the end of the crowd. He quietly released his spiritual sense and felt the surroundings. After a moment, he withdrew his spiritual sense without changing his expression. When he came here just now, he had already felt that there seemed to be something different around him. After a sweep of his spiritual sense, he found the fluctuations of the formation prohibition here, which had surrounded them.

Li Yan's spiritual sense was far beyond that of the late foundation-building cultivators, reaching about 700 miles. But before Li Yan came, he knew that there was a middle-stage Jindan ancestor in Xuanqing Temple. He did not dare to act recklessly. He always held the mind of being cautious and never released his spiritual sense to scan the entire Xuanqing Temple. Now he was worried and had to release his spiritual sense to investigate at close range.

Li Yan finally stepped into the courtyard. He first scanned the courtyard and found that this courtyard was more than half smaller than the first courtyard they had stayed in before, with only three houses. When he passed by the gates of the four courtyards in the middle just now, Li Yan had seen this through the distance between the gates.

At this moment, there were four people dressed as Taoist priests standing in the courtyard. One of them was about forty years old, of medium build, with thick eyebrows and square face. His face was as red as a date, and he looked very majestic. At this moment, he was looking at the people who were coming with Li Yan. He said lightly, "My humble name is Gong Chuiluo. Outsiders also call me Gong Daoren, the head of Xuanqing Temple. Today, the Taoist temple does not want any sudden disasters. I have to trouble you Taoist friends. Fortunately, there are acquaintances among you, so it is easier to talk." When he said this, his eyes swept over the monk Lin surnamed Blood Hand Flying Scythe, the head of Qinggu Sect Yue, and the fat man in red robes. When these people saw Gong Daoren's eyes sweeping over them, they nodded one after another.

Finally, Gong Daoren's eyes stayed on the two black-robed people and the hunchbacked old man, "There are a few Taoist friends here, but I am not familiar with them. I am bound to offend you. Please forgive me for this." After he said this, the two black-robed people remained silent, but the cloaks on their heads rose and fell slightly, as if nodding.

The hunchbacked old man seemed to have not heard anything, and his expression was a little dull. Seeing this, Gong Daoren was not surprised. He would check all the people present in a while. As for Li Yan and the other Qi Condensation cultivators in his eyes, he just glanced at them one by one and did not ask any questions.

The three people behind Gong Daoren were also staring at Li Yan and his group. Li Yan did not know these three people, but they were Luo Sanpang, Song Bo and Qin Chengyi, who were among the four people who came back from the market this morning.

Li Yan counted silently in his heart. Among the four people in the courtyard, there were three foundation-building cultivators and one Qi Condensation cultivator. However, the Qi Condensation cultivator had reached the tenth level of Qi Condensation and was only a little bit away from foundation-building. Together with the four Taoist priests and Taoist nuns who followed, there were a total of seven foundation-building cultivators in this Taoist temple. For a second-rate sect, it was already very strong. Especially this Taoist Gong, his aura is extremely steady, giving people a feeling of smooth and satisfactory aura. Li Yan had only seen this feeling in his senior brother Li Wuyi and Baili Yuan Lele. Although this person's aura is restrained, it is impossible to see his cultivation without a detailed exploration of his spiritual sense, but Li Yan has guessed that this person is not far from the realm of false elixir.

Taoist Gong saw that everyone had entered the courtyard, he raised his hand and pointed to a side room with an open door behind him and said, "I think Junior Brother Liu had an accident there, but I still want to tell you about it first to explain the reason."

Then he turned around and said to a fat man among the three people standing behind him, "Junior Brother Luo, tell me what happened here." ??

Luo Sanpang had been standing at the back, feeling uneasy. After hearing the middle-aged Taoist priest’s words, his fat body trembled, he took a deep breath, and then took a step forward. “This morning, Third Master… Oh, no, it was me, Senior Brother Liu, Junior Brother Song, and Junior Brother Qin who came back from the market and went to pay respects to the headmaster. Later, because of yesterday’s incident, we violated the sect rules, and finally the headmaster ordered the four of us to be on duty for half a month, and the spiritual stone salary for the next month will be halved. Since the Taoist temple covers a large area, even if one person leads a patrol for a day, it is still a rush. Therefore, the four of us privately divided into groups afterwards, so that one person is on duty for half a day, and three… Oh, I was in a group with Senior Brother Liu, because we have been jointly in charge of the back hall ‘Taoism Scripture Hall’ for many years, and we have some tacit understanding with each other, so we became a team. Junior Brother Song and Junior Brother Qin were in a group on duty. According to the order of the headmaster, Senior Brother Liu and I will start to be on duty after noon today. I came to find Senior Brother Liu at noon. We went to the front hall together to gather the disciples, and then took over the patrol from Senior Brother Kong.

On the way, I met Junior Brother Qin again. Because of what happened yesterday, I simply dragged him along. It was also good to explain to him on the way that the violation of the sect rules yesterday was not entirely due to Junior Brother Song and me, so as to avoid him and Senior Brother Shi from being punished and quarreling. While talking, we came to Senior Brother Liu together. I sent a voice message to enter, but there was no response several times. I don’t know what Senior Brother Liu is doing in the house. We usually open the formation protection in our respective courtyards to prevent others from disturbing our own practice, so I couldn’t enter. At that time, I thought Senior Brother Liu wanted to be lazy, so I pretended not to hear it. I blamed him for breaking the promise in my heart, thinking that I would lead the disciples to patrol in the afternoon. In the evening, no matter what, Third Master... Oh, I have to settle accounts with him, and then I said hello to Junior Brother Qin, and wanted to go to the front hall alone. "Speaking of this, he turned his head to look at the young Taoist priest in the Condensation Stage beside him, and the person he was looking at was Qin Chengyi.

Qin Chengyi saw Luo Sanpang's eyes sweeping over him, and he knew what he meant, and nodded quickly, "Brother Luo's words are true. We did meet on the road, and while we were talking, we came to the outside of the courtyard here. Brother Luo sent a message several times, but Brother Liu did not respond."

After hearing Qin Chengyi's words, Luo Sanpang couldn't help but feel relieved, and continued, "Just when Junior Brother Qin and I were about to leave, unexpectedly, Senior Brother Liu's extremely weak voice came out at this time: "Master...Master...Junior Brother ,Save...save me', I was shocked when I heard these words. I don't know what happened, but at this moment, the formation restriction shrouded in Senior Brother Liu's courtyard fluctuated, and I saw that the formation was about to be removed. , but after only fluctuating for a few times, there was no sound again, which only weakened the protective formation by a few points. When Junior Brother Qin and I saw this, we couldn't help but transmit sounds one after another, but there was no sound coming from inside.

Junior Brother Qin and I felt uneasy, and after a brief discussion, we thought that there was something wrong with Senior Brother Liu's cultivation. Otherwise, he would have lost the power to remove the formation protection just now, and there would be no time to notify the head senior brother of this matter, so I As soon as the two of them gritted their teeth, they used their magic at the same time to directly blast away. Fortunately, the previous restriction of the protective formation had been weakened a lot. After the two of us jointly attacked several times, we also directly blasted away the protective formation.

As soon as the formation was opened, the two of us rushed in directly. However, when we rushed into the courtyard, we saw the door of Senior Brother Liu's training room open. We suddenly felt that something was strange. After entering cautiously, we saw Brother Liu

With a ferocious expression, he was lying on his back on the ground, already dead. I hurriedly cast a spell to summon the soul, but Senior Brother Liu's soul had dispersed and could not be gathered together at all.

Seeing this, I shouted loudly and went out, because the sound of bombarding the protective formation in Senior Brother Liu's courtyard had already alerted others. Senior Brother, you guys, the leader, arrived here very quickly. "Having said this, Luo Sanpang looked at Taoist Gong.

The soul-calling technique he mentioned is a method commonly used by immortal cultivators. It can be used by monks above the foundation level. After a person dies, his soul will leave the body and enter reincarnation, and be reincarnated again. But if the person dies, Due to the existence of grievances, the wronged soul will still stay near the deceased for a long time and refuse to leave, but mortals cannot see it. The soul of the monk is more powerful and solid. After practicing to build the foundation, if the physical body is seriously damaged, the soul of the deceased will not be able to leave. A monk can already use his soul to seize other people's bodies for rebirth. However, the conditions for taking a body are harsh and require physical body, soul fluctuation, etc. to fit in one by one. A monk can only seize a body once in his life, otherwise the monk will only have an old and rotten body. Then go and seize the house, wouldn't it be possible to live forever?

"Well, what Junior Brother Luo said, I also asked Junior Brother Qin separately before. There is not much difference in the process described by the two. However, I would like to invite all fellow Taoists to come into the house and take a look before talking about it. Junior Brother Liu was just killed. I shouldn't have made you wait to watch, but it's a matter of human life. I used soul-calling techniques before, but Junior Brother Liu's soul had already been dispersed and couldn't be condensed at all. It must have been taken away by the murderer, or simply scattered. I don’t know what really happened, and I will inevitably ask you for advice later, so that fellow Taoists will not go out and say that my Taoist temple is only a one-sided statement without knowing it, so I ask all fellow Taoists to seek truth from the facts.”

Speaking of this, a monstrous aura suddenly surged out from the Taoist Palace, and the pressure of the fake elixir realm came overwhelmingly. Just when everyone felt that it was difficult to breathe, even the monk named Lin with the Blood-Handed Flying Scythe changed his face. Although he is not afraid of the Taoist Gong, he is outside. With his several secret techniques, although he cannot defeat the Taoist Gong, he can escape. But now he is on their territory, and Xuan Qingguan's formation is so difficult. It is entangled, but it is extremely difficult to escape.

This overwhelming pressure came and went quickly. The aura of the Taoist Gong was just released and retracted, as he wished, without any stagnation. But in just this moment, Li Yan and others were weighed down like a mountain. Those few The foundation-building monks were relatively well, but the remaining Qi-Condensing monks were already pale, trembling, and had a look of fear on their faces. Li Yan also looked pale, of course, this was intentional. But those Taoist priests, including Qin Chengyi, all had normal expressions. It was obvious that Taoist Gong's magic control was so wonderful just now that it only enveloped a dozen or so people in Li Yan and did not affect the people around him at all.

The room where the incident occurred was the training room on the right side of the three rooms. The doors and windows of the other two rooms were closed. After Li Yan and a dozen people entered the room, they saw that the furnishings in the room were extremely simple. There was only a futon on the ground. There is a wooden shelf placed on the wall, with some books and a dozen porcelain bottles of elixirs on it. A man wearing a Taoist robe of Xuanqing Temple is lying on his back. The Taoist priest is about twenty-seven or eight years old, with an eagle-shaped nose and a painful look on his face. He looked ferocious, holding a token in one hand, and clasping the ground with the other hand. His fingernails had sunk deeply into the bluestone ground. He stretched his legs and it turned out to be Senior Brother Liu among the four people who came back from the mountain gate in the early morning. .

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The people next to Li Yan already had solemn expressions on their faces as their spiritual consciousness shot towards the ground. Li Yan did not check immediately, but looked around the room. This room had two windows facing the courtyard, one on each side of the door. At this time, The two windows were both closed, and on the wall facing the door was a large double-railed window that was almost the same size as the two windows opposite it combined. It was also closed. Li Yan judged the position. There is no doubt that there should be a lotus pond outside the big window.

Finally, when Li Yan's eyes fell on the door, there were several cracks on the door, which had obviously been opened by someone using magic power.

Li Yan's eyes flickered for a few times before he turned his attention to the Taoist priest on the ground. The Taoist priest's robes were relatively neat and there were no signs of fighting.

Li Yan's spiritual consciousness directly probed the Taoist priest. After scanning it once, he became even more suspicious. There was really no trace left after the fight on the dead Taoist priest. His painful appearance seemed to have been poisoned, but there were no traces on his body. Seeing the slightest sign of poisoning, Li Yan couldn't help but scan the Taoist priest's body carefully again, and he was suddenly shocked. There were actually several very small cracks in the Taoist priest's heart. Without careful inspection, he thought they were in his heart. However, after careful observation with his spiritual consciousness, he found that there were still small cracks, and the inside of the heart had been shattered, leaving only an empty shell of the heart, and there were still faint fluctuations of spiritual power on the wounds of those small cracks.

"This was someone using magic power to directly shatter his heart. According to Naluo Sanpang, he actually cried out for help and tried to release the protective formation. This should have killed him with one blow. It seems that this Taoist priest also has some With my ability, I protected my heart and made my last call for help." Li Yan looked at the token in the Taoist priest's hand on the ground, which should have been used by the Taoist priest to open the courtyard's protective formation before he died.

Li Yan then quietly moved to the back of the crowd. He did not want to attract attention. The foundation-building monks had already looked at the Taoist Gong. They had also finished observing. Although the remaining Qi Condensing monks had surprises on their faces, they They didn't dare to speak, especially the middle-aged Ningqi couple who were traveling alone, with a submissive expression on their faces.

"Fellow Daoist Palace, your junior brother's heart was obviously shattered and he died. Are there any clues to find out?" The bloody-hand flying sickle dressed as a scholar was the first to speak. As soon as he spoke, the fat man in red robe and Head Yue also nodded slightly, which was exactly what they saw.

The two men in black robes also raised their heads and looked at the Taoist priest at this moment. After entering the room, they stood motionless at the corner of the door. They just glanced around with their spiritual consciousness. Then they raised their heads and saw the shadow of the cloak. Two pale faces were revealed, and they turned out to be twin brothers.

Li Yan stood behind the crowd, always acting timidly, and was closer to the middle-aged couple. Like them, the old man and the young master and servant did not seem to want to get involved. , quietly watching the conversation between several foundation-building monks and palace Taoists in front of them.

Although Li Yan seemed a little scared, he had quietly dispersed his spiritual consciousness. He was confident that even the Taoist priest would not be able to discover his spiritual consciousness. This kind of tranquility one moment would lead to murderous violence the next. There are many things among cultivators, so he must be on full alert. Just when the words of Blood Hand Flying Scythe fell, the young man in purple shirt among the masters and servants on the side of Li Yan's consciousness curled his lips, but immediately Calmness returned.