The Great Wei Music Bureau

Chapter 315: Opening Rashomon

In the last chapter, we just finished talking about the duel between the Sitting Deer Arhat and Lu Sheng. So what was Li Dacai doing when they were fighting? How did he survive his tribulation? Let's read on.

After Li Yi handed the Immortal Wood Ding to Butler Zhou, he rushed into the West Mountain crater again. Wasn't the three-legged golden crow nailed there by his spirit feather arrow? However, the crow was not dead yet, in other words, Li Yi's heavenly tribulation was not over yet.

Li Yi, who had returned to Wu Ji's side, was using the Red Lotus Karma Fire to put out the flames of the Golden Crow. Although it was effective, the progress was very slow. Li Yi's consciousness came to the spiritual platform, but he couldn't find the spider anywhere. When he was wondering in the Dharma crown of the Acala Dharma Image, six spiders climbed onto Li Yi's shoulders.

"Are you looking for me?"

Li Yi looked down and was almost scared to death. He slapped the six spiders away. Fortunately, the six spiders stuck to the crown with spider silk and did not fall. When Li Yi realized that it was the six spiders who wanted to talk to him and apologize, they had already wrapped themselves into a spider silk ball and hid in the corner.

He squatted beside the spider silk ball with an embarrassed look on his face, and said gently: "Spider, I was wrong. I don't know how you turned into a little spider! I thought another spider came!"

"Don't lie to me! How could other spiders get into your spirit platform! You just don't care about me at all! You don't even know that I've become so small! You don't care about me at all! I will never talk to you again!"

"Well, fine. I was planning to catch that Golden Crow and give it to you as a tonic, but since you ignore me, forget it. I'll send him to reunite with his brothers."

"Hey, Li Yi! Don't leave!" The six spiders jumped out of the spider silk ball with a whoosh, and lay on top of Li Yi's head and asked, "Are you really going to melt the soul of the Golden Crow?"

"Otherwise, he made you shrink to the size of a palm, so I have to ask him to compensate you."

"That's fine! Then just integrate it in and put it online so I can enjoy it slowly!"

"Of course you can, but first you have to help me find a way to put out the fire on him, otherwise I won't be able to merge his soul with his."

Liu Zhu looked at Wu Ji, who was dying, and said unhappily, "How can I do such a thing? You figure it out yourself! I won't talk to you again until you integrate him in! Humph!"

At this moment, Tao Xuan Zhenren landed beside Li Yi, who immediately bowed and said, "Greetings, Uncle Master."

Tao Xuan nodded, looked at Wu Ji and asked, "Why don't you kill this evil beast? Don't you want to survive the tribulation?"

Li Yi waved his hand and said, "That's not the case. I'm just worried that my uncle just helped me stop the Golden Crow. If I can easily overcome the calamity because of this, I'm afraid that my uncle will be retaliated. I heard Yi Ling talk about my uncle's past, so..."

Tao Xuan flicked his whisk and said unhappily, "You are just overthinking. If you take action, you will be attacked. The first person to suffer the attack should be Empress Tai'an. If it weren't for the scale armor that the Empress gave you, you would have died long ago."

Li Yi said awkwardly, "That being said, the Heaven will definitely not punish Lady Tai'an. But I'm afraid there will be problems with Master. If you make any mistakes while helping me to overcome the calamity, how can I explain to Yi Ling?"

Taoist Master Tao Xuan rolled his eyes at Li Yi and said, "If you don't take action now, I will!" As he said that, he swung the whisk in his hand towards Jinwu. The whisk's tail stretched out like countless steel wires and inserted into Jinwu's body.

At this moment, the black fireball thrown by Lu Sheng flew over. Tao Xuan immediately dropped the Golden Crow and turned to resist the black flames. When he lowered his head again, the Golden Crow had disappeared! The two looked at each other and went their separate ways to look for Wu Ji.

Let's switch our attention to Xiao Ziyi and see what happens in her battle with Halder.

The flash flood caused by the Golden Crow naturally affected them. The flash flood and rolling stones were obviously more advantageous to Xiao Ziyi. Not only could she use the water force to restrain Hadir's fire-based skills, but she could also use the rolling stones to create more trouble for Hadir.

But Xiao Ziyi and Hadil were seen leaping and fighting each other among the rolling stones washed down by the torrent. Xiao Ziyi used her telekinesis to control the water flow to block the fireballs thrown by Hadil's double hooks, and also used her mind to continuously transform stones into stone swords to launch attacks.

The two followed the flood to the west bank of Tianchi Lake. Just when Hadir thought he could relax for a while, Tao Xuan rushed into the West Mountain with a water column, causing the water to rise again. Hadir finally waited until the flood receded, but saw the Sitting Deer Arhat flying away with her master Lu Sheng.

Now Hadir lost her backbone and just wanted to escape to the underworld. So she stopped fighting with Xiao Ziyi and went straight to Tianchi, but Hadir's first two attempts were washed back by the water flow controlled by Xiao Ziyi's telekinesis.

Hadir glared at Xiao Ziyi and shouted, "You little bastard, I wanted to let you go, but why did you insist on making things difficult for me?"

"Don't you feel it? That's right, you are an evil cultivator, how can the heavens give you guidance? I might as well tell you that you and I are each other's calamity. Today, either you die or I live!"

"Since we're going to fight to the death, I'll help you!" After saying that, Hadir first threw out all the remaining flying knives in his scabbard to form a knife formation, and then brandished the double hooks to launch a charge.

Xiao Ziyi immediately used the Peach Blossom Sword Technique to counter the sword array, and used the Dragon Scale Sword to fight against Hadir's double hooks. As long as Hadir fought with all his strength, Xiao Ziyi would have a hard time gaining an advantage. Because of the impact of the mountain torrent, Hadir was forced to stop interfering with Xiao Ziyi's stinking lungs, so she used the Soul-stealing Hook again to affect Xiao Ziyi's seven emotions and seven souls.

But this time, Xiao Ziyi remembered what Li Yi told her, that her soul was not strong enough to resist Halder's Soul-stealing Hook, but she could mobilize the dragon energy to fight against it. Halder could restrain Xiao Ziyi's telekinesis before, but now the dragon energy can restrain the Soul-stealing Hook.

The same situation happened to Li Yi. Originally, Sadik's illusion could restrain Li Yi's Buddhism, but later Li Yi defeated Sadik with illusion instead. This was because the life and death calamity was affected by other interferences and changed, but Li Xiao and the others did not realize this.

For Xiao Ziyi, the current problem is that the dragon energy in her body is not complete, so it cannot protect her whole body. This requires her to quickly mobilize the dragon energy to the attack position of the soul-stealing hook. When they were practicing dual cultivation on Huangquan Road, Li Yi taught Xiao Ziyi how to mobilize the dragon energy. With the help of the Dragon Scale Sword, she can barely use the dragon energy in actual combat.

What was unexpected was that after fighting for more than ten rounds, Xiao Ziyi was actually familiar with the mobilization of dragon energy. Not only was she able to resist the attacks, but she also continuously launched attacks from behind Hadir with the coordination of her telekinesis and qi base, and was successful frequently.

Hadir immediately used the Spirit Transformation Spell, which was the spell used to restrain Xiao Ziyi's mental power before. He created a spiritual force field around his body to interfere with other things that entered it. But if the opponent's attack was also spiritual power, then this spiritual force field would be useless. This was why Hadir was unable to restrain Xiao Ziyi's mental power now.

However, although it cannot restrain telekinesis, it can play a certain role in perception. Coupled with the warrior's crisis warning and Hadir's rich combat experience, it is enough to prevent Xiao Ziyi's sneak attack from behind.

After another dozen or so rounds, both of them were exhausted and injured. They had entered the stage of testing willpower. It depended on who could hold on to the end.

At this moment, the soul restriction on Hadir's neck disappeared, and she instantly realized that Lu Sheng was dead! If she couldn't escape to Huangquan for refuge, she would have no choice but to die.

The inner turmoil was immediately reflected in the battle. Xiao Ziyi seized the opportunity and pierced Hadir's waist with a sword. The latter endured the severe pain and kicked Xiao Ziyi away, covering his wound and ran towards Tianchi.

Xiao Ziyi injected the dragon energy and the remaining energy and spiritual power into the Dragon Scale Sword, and threw the sword out with telekinesis. A golden dragon condensed around the Dragon Scale Sword, and pierced through Hadir's chest along with the sword, nailing her to the west bank of Tianchi.

The cold lake water soaked Halder's fiery red dress, her blood spread in the lake, her pupils dilated, her mouth slightly opened, and she closed her eyes with an unwilling look on her face.

Xiao Ziyi looked at Hadir's body, revealed a faint smile, looked up at the sky and said: "The fight is finally over, I wonder how Li Yi is doing." As soon as the words fell, a purple lightning struck the Dragon Scale Sword directly, but as the dragon energy returned, it quickly turned to Xiao Ziyi. Fortunately, she dodged it in time, otherwise she would have died.

However, before she could be surprised, the sky suddenly became overcast and turned dark green, and then countless blue-green souls appeared. These were the souls trapped by Lu Sheng's soul-binding formation. They had lost their way and could not enter the underworld. Hundreds of thousands of souls gathered around Tianchi, and the scene was no less than the Qingming ghost tide.

At this moment, Soul Trick suddenly jumped out of the water, shook its body, and transformed into thousands of clones to start hunting the undead. Seeing the black magic wolf pack, the undead became restless, they flew into the sky and hid from place to place, and the scene instantly became chaotic.

Li Yi came to Hun Zhao and asked, "Hun Zhao, what are you doing?"

"They are already dead, so why not use them to fill my mother's stomach? This is what my grandfather told me to do!"

"They should enter the six reincarnations!" Li Yi looked at Hun Zhao and saw that he had grown two more heads. He shouted, "They should not be eaten by the Queen, and they should not become your food!" After that, he took out the measuring ruler and turned it into a long stick, and swung it directly at Hun Zhao.

"Li Yi, are you crazy? I'm just helping Queen Tai'an!"

"What's the difference between you and Lu Sheng? Do you want to be the next Lu Sheng?"

"Look up at the sky! It was Heaven that released these undead souls. This is approved by Heaven! Are you going to go against Heaven?"

Li Yi was speechless. He silently looked at the undead floating under the dark green sky. Among these hundreds of thousands of undead, only a small number could fly into the sky and hide underground. Most of them were fleeing on the ground, avoiding the pursuit of the black magic wolf spirits.

Seeing the undead spirits fleeing in all directions, Tao Xuan flew over the Tianchi Lake, made a seal with his hands and shouted, "Xiu Yuan, help me set up a formation to trap the spirits. Don't let them escape!"

Seeing Li Yi standing there motionless, Tao Xuan sighed and said, "Ah, why are you being so stupid at this time! Set up the soul trap array!"

As the eight peach wood swords thrown by Tao Xuan fell in eight directions, the talismans on the peach wood swords lit up with blue light, and a hemispherical blue barrier was covered around the Tianchi Lake like a glass cover, leaving these hundreds of thousands of undead souls nowhere to escape.

Li Yi watched the Soul Trick's clone preying on the undead. He clenched his fists and was on the verge of exploding. At this moment, a tall figure appeared in front of him. It was Zhai Baishan's soul. Zhai Baishan was stunned when he saw Li Yi, but when he was stunned, the Soul Trick's spiritual clone pounced on him.

Seeing Zhai Baishan supporting the black wolf's neck with both hands and looking at him for help, Li Yi could no longer sit idly by. He swung his palm and smashed the black wolf's spirit into pieces.

Li Yi gathered his righteous spirit and bowed to the sky, saying, "God, although these people have died in vain, it would be too unfair to let them become food for Queen Tai'an. I beg you to show some leniency..."

The Sitting Deer Arhat suddenly came to his side, stretched out his hand and pressed on Li Yi's shoulder, shook his head and said: "Xiu Yuan, stop talking, life and death are determined by fate, these people are destined to be eaten by Queen Tai'an."

"Uncle Master, do you think so too?"

"Xiuyuan, you should think of it this way. They were eaten by Queen Tai'an and don't have to go through reincarnation again. This can be considered as escaping from the sea of ​​suffering."

Li Yi suddenly realized something. He recalled the sea of ​​flowers on the other shore by the Wangchuan River. There was no such thing as the Pure Land. He was surprised and said, "The Pure Land is just a scam? The so-called Pure Land was eaten by Empress Tai'an!"

"What are you talking about? How can Paradise be a scam?"

"Then why didn't I see paradise in the sea of ​​red spider lilies?"

Li Yi suddenly recalled the description of hell by Li Yi. There were no cells or torture instruments in hell. The souls stayed in small rooms. Their punishments were based on their own imagination. Li Yi suddenly realized that the so-called paradise was to let the souls live in their own fantasy world. There was naturally no suffering there because he was the master of that world!