Chapter 498: Chapter 354: Can I kill Minister Wang now?
“Ah?”
Wang Hou took a moment to react, saying, “What did I say?”
Supreme Sage Taixu glanced at the ruined Heavenly Reward Palace.
Only then did Wang Hou laugh, “Master Taixu, don’t worry. After the Martial Arts Conference is over, I’ll send a message to Celestial Master Zhang. At the latest, by tomorrow, the renovation funds for your Dai Temple will be transferred to the temple’s public account.”
“We don’t have a public account at Dai Temple.”
Supreme Sage Taixu didn’t blush or skip a beat, saying, “Just transfer it directly to my card then.”
The matter of the collapsed Heavenly Reward Palace and the cracked statue of Emperor Dongyue finally comes to an end.
Supreme Sage Taixu called his disciple, saying, “Contact the construction team… Yes, the same one as last time. They’ll do the construction, and we’ll buy the materials ourselves. You’ll go down the mountain personally and supervise the whole process. This is for building the palace and the statue for the Great Emperor; we can’t afford to make any mistakes!”
Supreme Sage Taixu’s Second disciple accepted the order and respectfully retired.
He then called a group of disciples and said, “What are you waiting for? Hurry up and start cleaning up the ruins… Don’t tell me I should spend money to hire people to do this?”
The disciples of the Dai Temple, having such a leader, naturally were all “hardworking and dedicated.”+ So, one by one, the disciples started cleaning up the mess left by Heavenly Reward Palace’s collapse, using Daoist skills and summoning Minor Demons, employing the “Five-Ghosts Transportation” Daoist technique to clean up the debris.
“Five-Ghosts Transportation” is derived from one of the “72 Earth-Devil Skills,” which is a relatively “common” Daoist technique practiced in many Daoist sects.
However, if it is said to be the best, it belonged to the former “Lu Shan Sect.”
Soon.
A large pile of miscellaneous items was removed.
Xu Yang asked someone to keep Emperor Dongyue’s statue.
Master Taixu was puzzled, saying, “Celestial Master Xu, the statue of the Great Emperor is already in pieces, what use is it to keep it?”
Xu Yang laughed, “This statue of the Great Emperor, which has been worshipped and sacrificed in your temple for so many years, is naturally not an ordinary object. Moreover, recasting a statue is too much trouble and can’t be done quickly in a short time… It’s more straightforward to directly piece together the broken statue.”
After clearing the ground of debris.
Xu Yang displayed his divine power, and in an instant, a misty earth-tone radiance surrounded the statue. The originally shattered statue was gradually restored from the inside out and completely reconnected, without any traces of it being broken before.
This is the use of the “Earth Element Path.”
Seeing this scene, Master Taixu was surprised, “Although my Dai Temple disciples rarely go down the mountain, we have heard of Celestial Master Xu’s reputation. We know about the legends of Celestial Master Xu… Celestial Master Xu, at the beginning of this Daoist Law Conference, stepped into the Dao Realm on the Louguan Terrace with thunder, and is also proficient in the Earth Element Path?”
Xu Yang repaired the statue while smiling, “No one has ruled that I can only cultivate one path… So while I am cultivating the rules of the Thunderbolt, I also have a little knowledge of Earth Element Path, Fire Element Path, and Water Element Path… There, it’s done! The statue is complete!”
Everyone looked over and saw that the once-shattered statue had been completely restored and was standing again…
Wait, it was not entirely restored!
The golden half of the statue’s head had already been taken away by Master Taixu.
Supreme Sage Taixu called Meng Mingshan over and ordered him to retrieve the golden head, while Xu Yang laughed, “No need, since there’s half a head missing, I’ll just put in a little effort to help my uncle Dongyue carve a new one.”
Supreme Sage Taixu was surprised, “You can carve?”
Xu Yang: “Just a little, just a little…”
“……”
Supreme Sage Taixu had an expression as if he’d seen a ghost.
If these words were spoken by a centuries-old Daoist priest, he wouldn’t find it exaggerated… After all, the longer you live, the more you know. But how old is Xu Yang?
His accomplishments in the Daoist Arts are already shocking!+
It’s that hard to achieve even if he’d been practicing since he was in his mother’s womb.
Furthermore, he practiced martial arts and Body Refining, and had deep attainments in the Daoist Talisman… And now he can do these flashy things as well?
Nevertheless, it was a good thing.
Firstly, the half-golden head now belonged to him.
Secondly, the Dai Temple would no longer have to spend money to hire someone to make a statue of the Great Emperor… In summary, he made a killing!
As soon as he thought of this, Supreme Sage Taixu laughed and said, “I didn’t expect Celestial Master Xu to be such a learned and talented person at a young age… By the way, does our Dai Temple need to prepare some tools and such?”
“No need.”
Xu Yang looked into the distance and said, “Mount Tai may lack many things, but it never lacks rocks. I’ll go pick one up later.”
Supreme Sage Taixu asked, “What about carving tools?”
“As for those of us who cultivate, how can our carving skills be limited to ordinary tools?”
“……”
Since Xu Yang had agreed to recreate the “Emperor Dongyue Statue,” Supreme Sage Taixu was naturally pleased.
As the Heavenly Reward Palace had to be rebuilt, there were many things he had to do himself. After giving some instructions, the old Daoist priest asked Wang Hou for a document and left Dai Temple.
At this moment, it was already afternoon.
Outside, the Martial Arts Conference was also coming to an end.
On the stage, two Entering Dao Realm practitioners from Maoshan and Dragon Tiger Mountain were fighting, and for a moment, their magical powers were stirring, and Daoist talismans were flying around. The various Daoist techniques dazzled the audience, causing the martial artists below the stage to cheer together.
Below the stage.
The sect leader of Maoshan and Celestial Master Zhang from Dragon Tiger Mountain sat together, sipping tea and conversing with laughter, occasionally commenting on the fights on the stage.
This is called comparing notes and discussing the Dao, stopping at the pointing out of faults.
If you want to put it more colloquially, it’s a “performance match.”
“Amazing, amazing!”
Supreme Sage Taixu squeezed in between the two, watching the two fighters on stage, and couldn’t help but praise them effusively.
Headmaster Morris and Celestial Master Zhang naturally knew Supreme Sage Taixu’s character and smiled, “We have not yet congratulated Master Taixu on stepping into the Spirit Refining Realm… From now on, our Da Xia Daoist sect will have one more expert who has cultivated a primordial spirit.”
“My little accomplishments are not worth mentioning in front of the two of you.”
Supreme Sage Taixu took his seat and chatted for a while, subtly bringing up the matter of his Dao Palace being dilapidated due to age.
As the chairman of the Da Xia Daoist Association and the current Celestial Master of Dragon Tiger Mountain, Zhang Jiyu needed to sign off on the disbursement of funds for the renovation of Dao Palaces of various Daoist sects. Once he signed, the finance department would supply the funds.
He understood Supreme Sage Taixu’s intention and said that if they wanted to approve the funds, they would need Wang Hou’s consent.
Master Taixu took out the approval document silently and said, “Celestial Master Zhang, Minister Wang has already agreed. Now we just need your signature.”
The martial arts conference didn’t end until the sun went down.
Master Taixu, Headmaster Morris, and Celestial Master Zhang, among others, took the stage to give speeches, agreeing that the martial arts conference would be held once every three years and saying some more formalities (nonsense) before it ended.
The various heroes of the martial world gradually dispersed.
But they left the Dai Temple square in a mess, with a variety of melon seed shells and snack trash littered everywhere.
At this time, those “vendors” put down their carts and took off their outer coats, revealing their Daoist robes underneath, and began to clean up.
While they were cleaning up, the media came forward for interviews and close-ups.
Some martial artists who hadn’t left yet saw this scene and their eyes bulged out. They grabbed the collar of a Dai Temple disciple and angrily said, “F**k…you Dai Temple disciples, you’re shameless?”
“8000 dollars!”
“I casually bought a few bottles of water today, and it cost me 8000 dollars just to eat a bowl of cold noodles and a bowl of cold bean noodles on the summit of Mount Tai.”
“F**k your mother, refund the money!”
Facing the angry martial artist, the Dai Temple disciple calmly said, “We sell our stuff at clearly marked prices. This is like Zhuge Liang fighting Zhang Fei, one’s willing to fight the other’s willing to endure it… ”
That martial artist was cursing again!
The Dai Temple disciple said indifferently, “Our Dai Temple has a long history and profound foundation. Our sect leader is a Daoist Refining Deity who has cultivated a Daoist primordial spirit. Although we have few disciples, each of them is skilled in the Dao… Sir, this is the summit of Mount Tai, you don’t want to be carried down, do you?”
“…..”
The martial artist could only let go and leave reluctantly.
As for Xu Yang.
He was sitting cross-legged in the meditation room arranged for him by Master Taixu, familiarizing himself with his own cultivation and realm. In front of him, there was a system panel that only Xu Yang could see.
[Age]: 22 years old
[Daoist Arts]: Divine Ascension Scripture
[Skills]: Fire Manipulation Skill (divine power), Water Manipulation Skill (divine power), Wulei Rules(divine power), Paper Cutting Skill(divine power), Earth Escape Skill(divine power), Dream Creation Skill, Land Spirit Skill(divine power).
[Martial Arts]: Land Flight Skill (Great Success), Soul Searching, Disguise Art, Eight Forms of Famous Sword Skills(Great Success), Great River Sword Manual(Seventh Level)
[Divine Abilities]: Rain Invocation, Flame Spewing, Mountain Shaking, Turning Stone into Gold, Communicating with the Netherworld, Interrupting Flow, Summoning Clouds, Great Power, FuShui, FuShui, Wind Borrowing… (Too many, omitting ellipsis.)
[Cultivation]: Spirit Refining Realm Late Stage
[Magical Treasures]: Supreme Purification Seal (immortal artifact), Jiao-slaying Sword (immortal artifact), giant iron hammer
[Merit Points]: 880,000.
[Storage Space]: 100 cubic yards.
“Daoist Refining Deity, Martial Arts Celestial Phenomenon …”
For a moment, Xu Yang was filled with emotion and sighed, “I didn’t expect that I would achieve so much after just over three months of cultivation… With my divine powers and two immortal artifacts… ”
“My strength should be no weaker than a Daoist True Monarch and a Land Immortal.”
After making a rough comparison.
Xu Yang thought that if he were to fight again with Patriarch Ma, it wouldn’t be difficult to defeat him with his own abilities alone.
As for whether he could kill him…
That would depend on how fast Patriarch Ma could run!
“But no matter how fast he runs, he can’t be faster than a Daoist flying sword… After refining the strands of divine power from Emperor Dongyue, my soul has grown a lot stronger, and now my primordial spirit controls the sword, increasing its power… It should be no problem to kill a Land Immortal or two.”
Xu Yang suddenly thought…
If he were to go all-out with his current strength, could he kill Wang Hou?
“It might be a bit difficult,” he said.
“Minister Wang carries the national fortune of Da Xia. In ancient times, he would be considered a figure on par with a human emperor. He definitely should not be treated like an ordinary Land Immortal…”
With a casual flip,
Xu Yang took out the jade talisman that Lord Cui had given him. He sent his divine sense into it and began to study the 36 Malevolent-Deity Skills and the three yet-to-be-achieved 72 Earth Devil Skills.
Before he knew it, the night had passed.
When the first rays of sunlight in the morning fell on Dai Temple, Xu Yang walked out of the room on time.
“Celestial Master Xu,”
Meng Mingshan greeted him, saying, “Master has prepared breakfast and invites you to join him.”
Xu Yang came to Master Taixu’s Dao Palace and found that the so-called breakfast… consisted of small steamed buns, large fried dough sticks, and tofu pudding, along with a few Shandong green onions.
After breakfast, Wang Hou asked, “Xu Yang, when do you plan to carve the head of Emperor Dongyue?”
Xu Yang said, “Let’s go now.”
Wang Hou smiled, “In that case, I must see it for myself.”
“Okay,”
Xu Yang laughed, “Minister Wang, Grandpa, Master Taixu… why don’t you all come? Although I know carving, I’ve never actually carved anything before. If there’s anything lacking, please advise me.”
He summoned a auspicious cloud and stepped on it.
Wang Hou: “…..”
Master Taixu: “…..”
Both of them looked at Xu Zhiyuan and whispered, “Xu City God, has Xu Yang really learned carving?”
Xu Zhiyuan hesitated for a few seconds, and said, “He hadn’t learned it when I was alive. I don’t know if he’s dealt with that kind of thing after I died.”
“What?”
Master Taixu was shocked and quickly flew out to catch up with Xu Yang’s auspicious cloud, saying, “Celestial Master Xu… Let’s make a deal… Why don’t I find someone to carve the head of the Emperor’s divine statue?”
“Celestial Master Xu, don’t get me wrong. I’m not doubting your craftsmanship. I just think that as a Celestial Master, it’s beneath your dignity to do this dirty and tiring work!”
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PS: There will be more before 12 o’clock!