Ascendant Fuluan struggled awkwardly, barely managing to parry.
Whether it was a guilty conscience or the Golden Armor Divine General stewing in the City of Wrongful Death for too long, was unclear.
In any case, Ascendant Fuluan was like a faithless woman who had strayed for years, and the Golden Armor Divine General was like the husband brimming with frustration. When the two met, it was indeed like fire meeting water.
In haste, Ascendant Fuluan formed a sword formation, attempting to force back the Golden Armor Divine General, yet the divine general did not dodge, determined to pierce through the thief before him with the Tai'e Sword, even at the cost of his golden body being damaged.
It's been two thousand years; why is the Qin Emperor's sword still pursuing him?
Ascendant Fuluan temporarily avoided confrontation and turned to call Xu Qing for help, but instead received a message saying that it was a family matter and it was inconvenient for Xu Qing to intervene.
Did you think this was just a couple's argument and that it's something to mediate?
Ascendant Fuluan was almost fuming, wanting to draw Xu Qing into the trouble, but before he could get close, Xu Qing had already stepped onto Pot Heaven, using his Concealment and Earth-shrinking Divine Techniques to escape elsewhere.
What was crucial was that Xu Qing didn't run far, just kept his distance and watched from afar, much like an aunt at a vegetable market enjoying the spectacle!
Ascendant Fuluan's vision darkened, and he finally understood how others felt when he fled at the last moment.
"Where do you think you're going! I will forfeit this body if I must and feast on your flesh, drink your blood!"
Ascendant Fuluan wanted to escape but found that behind the Golden Armor Divine General appeared a scroll of imperial edict.
The imperial edict was not just a piece of writing but an incense manifestation combining the imagery of water virtue, imperial majesty, strict laws, and the honor of ancestral emperors.
The imperial edict had no binding power over others, but it wielded absolute control over the living or ghostly beings from the Qin Dynasty.
The moment the edict appeared, Ascendant Fuluan felt locked in by an inescapable aura.
No matter where he went in the future, as long as the imperial edict existed, the Golden Armor Divine General could track his hiding place.
A debt of two thousand years couldn't be evaded after all.
Ascendant Fuluan's face was extremely grim, and Xu Qing was being utterly inconsiderate!
"Daoist Xu, why don't you hurry up and lend a hand!"
Xu Qing found it amusing in his heart.
Now he wanted to band together for warmth? Where was this spirit earlier?
Xu Qing, holding grudges, remembered how, during the confrontation with Ghost Law, Fuluan ran faster than anyone else!
Someone without principles like this should just be left to their own fate.
Xu Qing waved his hand and said, "No, no! As we agreed before, the opportunities we uncover will be shared half and half. Seeing that this Golden Man is an old acquaintance of yours, naturally I can't take your share. No need for modesty."
Who was being modest with you?
Ascendant Fuluan was fuming, realizing that Xu Qing was deliberately watching the fun and was not someone he could rely on.
Thirty miles away, Xu Qing kept a close watch on Ascendant Fuluan.
The Golden Armor Divine General was made from a clay figure using living men, cast with weapons from all over, technically still considered a corpse. Even now, though it had no physical body and only a ghostly spirit, Xu Qing could still use the Sutra of Salvation to exorcise it.
Thus, Xu Qing never regarded the Golden Man with concern, only focusing on Ascendant Fuluan.
This Immortal was so well-hidden that even the Demon Exorcism True Monarch, who had been in contact with him for years, didn't know Fuluan's true strength.
But now, the appearance of the Golden Armor Divine General presented Xu Qing with an excellent chance to gauge Fuluan's depth of cultivation.
When he saw Ascendant Fuluan wield the sword to transform into a dozen, using his mind to control seven swords, splitting them into thousands of flying swords, Xu Qing wasn't startled.
The Sword Control Technique could traverse a thousand miles in an instant, decapitating foes, indeed a highly practical combat technique, but Xu Qing mastered the Mysterious Lady Swordsmanship that pushed sword art to its extreme.
In front of the Nine Heavens Profound Lady Swordsmanship, the Sword Control Technique was nothing more than a beginner's trick.
Xu Qing continued to watch—Earth Escape Technique, Invisibility Technique, Rapid Movement Technique...
These were Taoist Seventy-Two Arts, and Ascendant Fuluan seemed to have mastered them all.
Then there were the Fire Dragon Technique, Demon Subjugation Spell, Palm Lightning, Taiyi Talisman... so varied and colorful, it was simply a walking Daoist magic encyclopedia.
Xu Qing relaxed slightly; while these spells and divine techniques were numerous, they were insignificant to him.
Even after two thousand years of cultivation, Ascendant Fuluan was no match for him, who mastered the strengths of myriad corpses.
Xu Qing could foresee that when the Cat Immortal Hall family reaches Fuluan's level of cultivation one day, even an ordinary chicken could beat Fuluan to the ground!
Such a beating wouldn't only be in terms of cultivation, but also in the number of divine techniques, magic, as well as moral conduct, a comprehensive suppression!
Xu Qing's Immortal Hall lacked neither magical formulas nor divine techniques, nor esteemed masters. Even regarding cultural literacy, they had the scholar Lu Xiu overseeing it personally, ensuring a well-rounded development in virtue, intellect, physique, and aesthetics.
What was Ascendant Fuluan using to compete?
But that depended on the comparison: outside, this Immortal was indeed a rarity.
"These Taoist magic techniques and divine abilities are not disorganized; it seems they follow a certain order..."
Xu Qing watched as Ascendant Fuluan, no longer hiding his strength and beginning to gain the upper hand, pondered deeply.
Divine techniques and magic with a systematic cultivation lineage only come from one source, and that is inheritance.
Either Ascendant Fuluan found an immortal inheritance left behind in the three immortal mountains of Yingzhou, Abbot, and Penglai, or he truly met an immortal and became his disciple.
"Even if the Ancestral Emperor gathered the nation's power, ultimately it was used to benefit others. There must be resentment inside, but would the Ancestral Emperor, with his nature, really plan for two thousand years just to capture Xu Sheng and execute him on the spot?"