Taiping Inn

Because it was late at night and the war was raging, few people noticed the strange phenomenon when the two immortals fought.

The national teacher lightly tapped the snake staff in his hand, and two huge snake shadows that covered the sky and the sun intersected head to tail, forming a closed circle. The world was suddenly filled with a depressing atmosphere, making people feel as if they were trapped in a swamp and couldn't breathe.

In this closed loop, time will repeat itself, just like a person walking along a circle and never getting out. If this closed loop cannot be broken, then the person trapped in it will sink forever, repeating the same thing over and over again.

Tan Taiyun, who was in the circle formed by the two snakes, moved unhindered. He moved forward in the void with tiny steps, leaving a series of qi ripples behind him, and then punched the phantom formed by the two snakes.

The highest realm of the human immortal is to break the void. Although Tan Taiyun's punch did not break the void, it was only one step away. After the punch was thrown, the void vibrated and produced waves of visible distortion. The perfect closed loop formed by the two snakes was no longer perfect. It was forcibly twisted into a gap that did not exist in the world, which was equivalent to forcibly opening a "Yin Yang Gate" by means of a warrior.

Tan Taiyun passed through this gap and approached the national teacher.

The national teacher paused again with the snake staff in his hand. The mouth of the skull face at the head of the staff kept opening and closing. Countless meaningless murmurs suddenly sounded between heaven and earth, which seemed to be monks chanting scriptures, or the devil's mumbling.

At the same time, between the national teacher and Tan Taiyun, a three-meter-long Dharma image appeared. The body was blue-black, with three eyes on the face, a mane on the neck, a five-faced skull crown on the head, a skull rosary around the neck, a skull bowl full of human blood in the left hand, and a moon-shaped knife in the right hand.

After this statue appeared, there was no more light in the night sky. It was dark and thick, almost tangible, making people feel as if they were in sticky water, unable to move, and feeling suffocated.

The statue opened its three eyes wide, and countless eyes appeared in the darkness in an instant, staring at Tan Taiyun, and at the same time splashing the blood in the bowl, and suddenly a deep sense of extinction appeared in the darkness, annihilating all sounds and colors.

Under the heavy darkness, Tan Taiyun changed his fist into a palm and chopped it down with the force of a hand knife.

The hand knife crossed the space, tore through the darkness, cut through those shadowy eyes, and finally fell on the huge dark statue, slashing a deep crack on the statue of Mahakala, and then the crack quickly spread, like a constantly woven spider web, spreading to the entire statue.

Tan Taiyun stepped on the body of the statue, climbing step by step, and in a few steps he had reached the top of the statue. Then he slapped down with his palm, connecting all the cracks on the Dharma image into one piece, and shattered it with a bang. "Tai Su Xuan Gong" is not visible on the outside, but hidden inside, so when Tan Tai Yun took action, he was completely different from the national teacher. He was extremely restrained, but he was not inferior in power.

Tai Yi, Tai Chu, Tai Shi, Tai Su, and Tai Chi are the five innate Tai, and later evolved into the five earthly immortals. They are only available to people in the Taoist sect and cannot be understood by people in the realm of longevity. The national teacher is not a Taoist, so he naturally does not know the five earthly immortals. However, Shamanism has stood in the world for many years, so it naturally has corresponding mysterious means. Just when Tan Tai Yun took action to break the dark Dharma image, the national teacher raised the blood-red stone in his hand.

Countless blood-red lights burst out from the blood-red stone, converging into an extremely huge halo, and the red light shone in all directions, and then became bigger and bigger, as if a majestic and vast red sun that was indescribable appeared above the royal court.

At this moment, all the Golden Tent members who were fighting stopped what they were doing and looked up at the sun that suddenly illuminated the night sky.

These lights seemed bright and upright, but in fact they were extremely sinister. Tan Taiyun was illuminated by the blood-red light, and his originally dormant blood suddenly became active and full of vitality. Then the blood in his body began to circulate on its own, and its speed became faster and faster, causing a touch of blood red on Tan Taiyun's face. Later, the blood boiled, the veins bulged, and bulges appeared under the skin one after another, as if all the blood was about to leave the body and be absorbed into the blood-red stone.

Tan Taiyun was startled and didn't bother to attack the national teacher. She first calmed down the increasingly restless Qi and blood in her body. Fortunately, after she practiced the "Tai Su Xuan Gong", her body was perfect and leak-free. The so-called leak-free means that there is no flaw or leak in the body. Whether it is the essence and blood in the body or the Qi, there will be no leakage. This is also the reason why Tan Taiyun's body has been bulging but no Qi and blood have been sucked away.

The national teacher closed his five fingers, put his palm together with the blood-red stone in it into his sleeve, and the red sun shining on the world disappeared. Then the national teacher fell to the altar behind the golden tent.

Tan Taiyun then fell from the air, standing on the ground with both feet, and posing a starting posture of the "Taizu Thirty-two Postures Fist".

This set of "Taizu Fist" is not about the moves, but the true meaning of the fist.

Shaking the arm to hit the sky, stomping the ground to shake the nine states.

Among the five immortals of Taoism, the one who is best at using fists is the human immortal. The reason why Tan Tai Yun was able to enter the realm of immortality at such a young age was certainly not because he followed the routine path to becoming an earthly immortal.

Among the five immortals, the path to earthly immortals is a broad road, just like the official path of imperial examinations in the temple. If the highest realm of heavenly immortals is regarded as being appointed as prime minister, then one cannot reach the realm of heavenly immortals without the path of earthly immortals, which is equivalent to one not being able to enter the Hanlin Academy without being a Jinshi, and not being able to enter the cabinet without being a Hanlin. However, the path of imperial examinations is destined to be slow in promotion. When one has just entered the official career, it is not as good as being an official by grace, nor as good as being a military officer. Therefore, Li Daoxu, Zhang Jingxiu, Xu Wugui and others were already old when they were promoted to the realm of longevity. Tan Taiyun was forced by the situation and could not take every step carefully. He had to take shortcuts and practice both earthly immortals and human immortals. It is like a civil official changing to a military officer, and then changing back to a civil official after being promoted. In this way, he can still be promoted to the minister of the six ministries, but he has to stop there and has no chance to be a prime minister in the cabinet. In other words, Tan Taiyun can step into the realm of longevity, but it is difficult for him to reach the legendary realm of heavenly immortals.

Although the path of human immortals is not as smooth as the path of earthly immortals and heavenly immortals, if we do not talk about how to ascend to heaven in the future, and only talk about the fighting power in the human world, it is even slightly stronger. Why? In the final analysis, it is nothing more than the word "physique".

If you look at it from the perspective of longevity, the physique is indeed dispensable. It is best to have it, but not having it does not hinder the pursuit of the great way. The path of ghost immortals of pure alchemists is to completely abandon the physique, but from the perspective of fighting with others, the physique is the most important foundation. Many people despise the cultivation of the physique and regard it as a foolish and stupid way. However, it is this foolish way that makes the path of human immortals surpass the path of ghost immortals and rank fourth among the five immortals.

Tan Taiyun did not use her own Qi, but relied on her own physical Qi and blood. The joints of her body exploded, the periosteum was like beating a heavy drum, the sound echoed endlessly, the spine twisted and twisted, and the sound of crackling was endless, as if there was a wicked dragon hiding behind her and rolling. Then, Tan Taiyun exuded blood and Qi that was almost real all over her body, and a punch brought out a whistling storm, containing all kinds of strength and vibration. She punched as if ten thousand people punched together, one person stepped as if ten thousand people stepped together, one person's momentum was like thousands of troops, and the fist covered the entire yard, directly approaching the national teacher on the altar.

The next moment, a fist as delicate as a white jade carving roared in, instantly occupying all the sights of the national teacher, and the vast fist intention covered all directions.

The national teacher was not afraid at all, just waved his sleeves, and suddenly an invisible "curtain" huge enough to cover the entire altar appeared in front of him, completely separating him from Tan Taiyun. Tan Taiyun's punch landed heavily on this "curtain". Although the punch was heavy, the curtain fluttered and did not exert any force. It was a soft way to overcome hardness, completely dissolving her punch.

At Tan Taiyun's level, hardness and softness are just a thought away. The hundred-tempered steel turned into a finger, the punch turned into a palm, the hard force turned into a soft force, and the bright force turned into a dark force. Wherever the palm passed, ripples appeared, and the "curtain" twisted.

Then Tan Taiyun made a move to lift the door curtain, and then took a step out and walked into the range of the altar.

The national master stood above the altar, and Tan Taiyun stood below the altar. There were ninety-one steps between them, and they looked at each other from a distance.

The national master finally said: "Please stop, Saint, otherwise you will step into the air and there will be no recovery."