I happened to ride the Qing Emperor out of Penglai, and saw swords and halberds all over Jiugai.
No one knows me now, so I don’t want to bury myself just to save myself.
——"Shaoxing Taoist Meeting" Lu Dongbin
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Bai Fu and Li Xuexuan used their ability to transmit sounds into secrets, condensing their voices into a line and discussing the next step.
The purpose of the two coming here was to find out the culprit who assassinated Li Xuexuan, but they unexpectedly ran into the matter of digging up the dragon veins of the Xuan Sect.
Everyone's speeches just now were filled with blood and tears, and were shocking. Every piece of them accused Li Longji of being arrogant and extravagant, which brought disaster to the world.
But they were also at a loss as to whether Bai Li and the others should take care of this matter.
Li Xuexuan asked: "Senior Brother Fu, what should we do next?"
Bai Fu said: "No matter how wrong the Holy One is, he is the Son of Heaven after all. Things like dragon veins are mysterious and mysterious, and we don't know whether they are true or false. But if this causes chaos in the world, it will be the people who suffer in the end. In my opinion, we should stop it.
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The two reached an agreement and were about to take action. Suddenly a strong wind blew up on Canglong Ridge, dark clouds gathered, the sky turned from dark to dark, and day turned into night in an instant.
Immediately afterwards, black clouds enveloped the peaks of Huashan Mountain, and the clouds rolled like waves, spinning into countless vortexes. The peaks of Huashan Mountain were like isolated islands in the sea, looming.
Then, a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, the thunder was like a thunderbolt, and the rumbling sound was deafening. Unusually, although there was lightning and thunder, there was no heavy rain.
Just when the caravan was looking for a place to hide from the rain, a huge black dragon jumped out from the sea of clouds, baring its teeth and claws. The black dragon shuttled among the peaks of Huashan Mountain, patrolling the mountains.
Suddenly he turned around, swung his dragon's tail, and went straight towards the caravan with lightning speed.
The black dragon hovered above the heads of the caravan, and its huge dragon head slowly reached in front of everyone. The dragon's eyes were red, and its fangs and claws were sharp.
Everyone was frightened and trembling. They dropped their tools and prepared to flee.
Mr. Gao shouted: "Don't be afraid, this must be an illusion!"
He muttered something, and sprinkled a yellow talisman with his left hand. He raised the mahogany sword in his right hand, shouted, and stabbed into the sky.
This action angered the black dragon, and it swung its tail and swooped down from the dark clouds.
Mr. Gao trembled with fright, threw away his sword, and fell to the ground. The strong man next to him pounced, hugged him and rolled several times to avoid the black dragon's attack.
With a "swish" sound, the black dragon passed over Mr. Gao's head. With a wave of his claws, three or four people were swept into the abyss under Canglong Ridge.
He opened his mouth wide and bit a person into two pieces, swallowing his upper body into his mouth, leaving his lower body lying on the ground, twitching, and blood dripping all over the ground.
The dragon's tail swung and swept four or five people off the cliff. Only the sound of screams could be heard from near to far, echoing in the valley.
The people in the caravan were so frightened that they ran away, shouting: "The Dragon God has appeared! He's killing people, run away!" They rolled and crawled and fled down the peak.
In less than a stick of incense, only Bai Li and the two were left on Canglong Ridge.
Bai Fu said: "It has both form and spirit, as well as form and reality. It should be a very powerful illusion. If it weren't for the flaw in the texture of the dragon scales, even I would have almost believed it."
Li Xuexuan asked: "How can we see it?"
Bai Fudao said: "Wu Daozi painted a lifelike dragon on the wall of Daci'en Temple. In order to express his awe for the dragon god, Wu Daozi deliberately painted the scales on the dragon's right front paw backwards to show the difference from the real dragon.
The caster used the dragon on the mural as a prototype to construct this black dragon, but inadvertently exposed this flaw.
Just now the black dragon waved its left and right front paws, and the scales and armor were different, and that's when I noticed it."
Li Xuexuan said: "If it is an illusion, the person who casts it should have extremely high martial arts. When the dragon's tail sweeps, it is both hard and soft, and the innate aura is extremely domineering."
Bai Fu nodded in agreement and said: "The dragon's tail sweeps people down the mountain, it should be done by the long rope. The dragon's mouth bites people, I haven't guessed how it is done?"
Li Xuexuan muttered: "Based on this, the dragon's mouth biting people should be caused by the sword energy in the air. One sword cut the person in half. With my current skill, I can only have this power within one foot.
And this person can actually kill people in the air more than ten feet away. This internal power is shocking."
The two of them held their breath, hid in a hidden place, and watched the changes.
After a while of burning incense, the dark clouds slowly dispersed. On the top of Canglong Ridge, a man stood proudly with his hands behind his back. He had an immortal air, a majestic figure, and a face as white as jade. He was wearing an apricot Taoist robe and a white jade crown on his head.
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The man shouted to where Bai Li and the two were hiding, "Come out!"
Seeing that they had been discovered, the two men no longer hid, gripped their weapons tightly, and showed up.
The man was arrogant and said: "If I hadn't heard that you were planning to rescue me, I would have killed you on the spot today!"
Seeing that this man was rude in his words, Bai Fu didn't intend to have a close friendship. Bai Fu raised his hand and said, "Thank you, senior. I'll take my leave!"
The two of them had just taken a few steps when they heard the man shouting from behind: "The boys can go, but the girls stay with me!"
Bai and Li were stunned, and when they turned around to look, they saw this man's eyes glowing evilly.
It turned out that this man saw that Li Xuexuan was made of gold and jade, and that the ice and snow made her a perfect cauldron for yin and yang cultivation, so he had evil thoughts and forced them to stay together regardless of their status.
Before Li Xuexuan could get angry, Bai Fu raised his sword eyebrows and shouted angrily: "With your martial arts skills, you are also one of the few masters in the world, but you have done such a despicable thing. You are not ashamed!"
The man became angry with shame and said: "You yellow-toothed child, I wanted to let you live, but I didn't expect that there is a way to heaven but you don't take it, and there is no way to hell and you come here instead. Today the Taoist Master is here to take your life!"
After saying that, the Taoist robe flew over like a big bird from the top of the slope.
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As Li Linfu expected, Yang Guozhong immediately turned his gun and pointed it at him after he replaced Wang Fei.
Yang Guozhong made a big fuss out of Wang's case, accusing Li Linfu of secretly colluding with Wang's brothers, and also being involved with the Turkic rebel general Abu Si. Abu Si was a Turkic general who once surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, but later had a rift with An Lushan.
And rebelled again and returned to Mobei.
In order to completely bring down Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong also encouraged Chen Xilie and Ge Shuhan to come forward to testify. Of course, Xuanzong would not easily accept the accusations made by Yang Guozhong and others. But despite this, from this time on, Xuanzong gradually alienated Li Linfu.
Instead, he gave all his trust and favor to Yang Guozhong.
At this point, it was a foregone conclusion that Yang Guozhong would become the prime minister, and Li Linfu had become a thorn in his side that he wanted to get rid of. "Guo Zhonggui shocked the world, and he began to regard Lin Fu as his enemy..."
In this fierce political battle, Yang Guozhong is likely to have the last laugh.
Faced with such a bad situation, Li Linfu inevitably felt that he was in a dangerous situation. For the first time in his life, he felt fear.
For the first time in his life, this powerful prime minister, who was an extremely popular minister, had great influence on both the government and the opposition, and had dominated the imperial government for more than ten years, felt a strong fear...
But in the last years of Tianbao, with the strong rise of Yang Guozhong in the imperial political arena, the era of Li Linfu monopolizing the political agenda was gone forever...