Chapter 40: The Giant Python Soars Through the Air

  The current situation is now very clear, it seems that Master Lingfeng has already anticipated my arrival today and set up an array in this tomb to restrain my Taoist skills, making me have a cultivation but unable to display it, can only use the Buddhist Golden Cannon's Borrowing Qi Technique at the critical moment, borrowing his hands to perform my own spiritual energy cultivation.

  I quickly recited the finger gestures and incantations of the Borrowing Qi Technique to him, and this guy actually memorized the long-coveted technique and incantation on the spot.

  "Yin and yang are one breath, the great way is natural, replace heaven and guard the way, borrow your true origin, the supreme great way is urgent like a law, right? Old Wonton." Jingang Cannon recited it with his eyes closed and turned to ask me, without missing a single word!

  "Remember, the Borrowing Qi Technique is one of the most treacherous techniques among our sect's Thirteen Qi Techniques. As the saying goes, 'borrowing must be repaid', but no one can control when and how much to repay. One thing is for sure, it won't be repaid to me. So, don't use it unless absolutely necessary. Also, I think Ling Feng Dao Ren will also know this technique, which is the Solid Qi Technique." As I spoke, I curled my left thumb and closed the other four fingers to form the hand seal of the Solid Qi Technique.

  "With this, I'm no longer afraid of him sucking us dry!" Jin Gang pao felt a huge weight lifted off his shoulders, and a smile spread across his face.

  "Ling Feng Dao Ren is my senior brother from my past life, his cultivation is profound and unfathomable. If he really uses the Borrowed Breath Technique, it's uncertain whether we can even hold our ground!"

  "Ah, so what you said before was true? ...... " I told Jin Gang Cannon about my past life a long time ago, but he always thought I was just fooling around with him.

  I nodded solemnly.

  "Never mind, let's just take a look first. Since your senior brother is the Guardian of that country, he shouldn't be as poor as you are. Let's see if there's anything good to take." Jin Gang Pao said and rushed into the tomb chamber. At this time, he probably didn't think about calling the police anymore.

  "There won't be anything good, Master Brother doesn't love money," I said as I followed him.

  Ling Feng Daoren, as the first disciple of San Sheng Zhenren, may not be able to drive out spirits and demons like his master, but he can barely summon them. At this point, gold, silver, pearls, and jade are nothing but dirt to him. If it weren't for his stubbornness and love of fame, he would have likely followed his master's example and ascended as a celestial being long ago.

  I and Jin Gang Pao walked around the main tomb chamber, the spacious chamber was obviously excavated in a hurry, the stone wall was not smooth, and the axe marks were very clear. Far less than the tomb passage is so delicate. It should be that Ling Feng Zhenren's injury became more severe in the later period, and under the helplessness, he ordered the soldiers to speed up the excavation. The entire chamber except for a few thick stone pillars was empty, not even a coffin, let alone other burial objects.

  "I told you there's nothing," I said with a smile as I lit a cigarette. Except for the few ancient coins found in the corner of the wall, the Golden Cannon had yielded nothing.

  "Lao Yu, how come this senior brother of yours is even poorer than you? He must have been starving back then!" Jin Gang Pao was greatly disappointed and grumbled a sentence before pulling out his water bottle and gulping down the water. Suddenly, he let out a loud cry "It's up there! Cough... cough..." Jin Gang Pao spoke hastily and ended up choking on the water, coughing violently.

  As I heard this, I lifted my head and looked up, only to see that under the towering tombstone, a huge yellow python was actually hovering in mid-air!!!

  "It's the Five Elements Devouring Sun, be prepared!" I shouted out the troop's password in excitement, and together with Jingang Cannon, grasped our weapons and retreated back to the stone gate beside the tomb chamber, staring tensely at the Five Elements Devouring Sun python suspended in mid-air above the tomb chamber.

  The last time Feng Dao saw the Wutu Yangwan was outside Jiangling City, where it was biting and rolling among the Western Wei enemy army, helping its master to kill the enemy. Its fierce and heroic appearance was like a golden dragon descending from heaven, causing 50,000 enemy soldiers to lose their courage and flee in terror. If not for the fact that the Western Wei kingdom also had a true person of the Tao assisting them, who used magic to suppress it at a critical moment, it is likely that this Wutu Yangwan alone would have been enough to resolve the crisis threatening Jiangling.

  After a thousand years, the Wutu Yangwang at this time has lost its spiritual and dynamic posture of the past, and is now suspended motionless in mid-air.

  That's not right, the Wu Tu Xun Yang snake from back then was indeed domineering and overbearing, but its own cultivation was only at the light blue spiritual energy level, which was even inferior to the Three Yin Water Separation. The light blue level of cultivation is still far from being able to float in mid-air.

  "Old cow, look at its breath!" I muttered to myself, still unable to see anything, and whispered to Jin Gang Cannon.

  Jīn gāng pào wén yán niē jué shàng wàng "shēn lán sè, děng děng, bù duì, dàn zǐ sè, bù duì, hái shì shēn lán sè ......."

  "What the heck is going on with this color?" I cursed, what a load of nonsense he's spouting.

  "Lao Yu, I really can't tell, its aura is constantly changing between blue and purple." Jīn Gāng pào scattered the spell incantation, rubbing his bright red eyes.

  "Deep blue, light purple, no good, hit it quickly!" I suddenly thought of something and shouted loudly.

  The color of the spiritual energy directly reflects the depth of the subject's cultivation. If it is deep blue, it means that it still remains at the top of the beast shape and can only rely on its own instincts to act. But once it breaks through this threshold and presents a purple gas, it can borrow the power of heaven and earth, and basically belongs to the semi-immortal body.

  However, the Purple Qi has always been the final hurdle for a cultivator's spiritual body. When I and Eldest Senior Brother broke through the Purple Qi Mystic Barrier back then, there were three Saintly True Persons standing guard beside us, using their magic to resist the Heavenly Tribulation. But now, our First Master had long since ascended, and Eldest Senior Brother also suffered the same heavenly punishment back then, it's impossible for him to have survived till now to protect him. This Five Elements Yang Python actually thought it could hide under the strong yang energy of the formation to avoid the Heavenly Tribulation and break through the Purple Qi Mystic Barrier. I reckon this is a critical moment, no wonder it didn't make a move against us two all along.

  "What's wrong with you?!" I came back to my senses and saw that Jin Gang Pao was still standing there stupidly.

  "What's the point of fighting?" Jin Gang Cannon sighed.

  "Whatever you have!" I raised my voice in a state of anxiety.

  "Damn it, you dare to throw it, I'll throw you up!" I grabbed the right hand of the Golden Gun with one hand, and this guy actually wanted to throw my Jiu Yang Fu Chen up.

  "This 'copper spear' guy isn't ruthless enough at critical moments, I have to take charge myself."

  "What's a bronze spear?"

  "It's those ancient corpses that threw down the hooked weapons, forget it, I'll do it" I stepped forward a few steps, grabbed several copper halberds and threw them upwards with force. Because of the distance of over ten meters, the angle was not easy to find, so I missed.

  "I'll throw it accurately, I'm coming!" The cannon finally found its use this time, and it's probably easier to hit such a big target than hitting crows.

  Jin Gang Cannon swept the dust seal to me, and from my hand grabbed a copper spear directly threw out one, not biased, right in the middle of the target, but the copper spear did not pierce into the body of the Wutu Yang snake, being blocked by thick scales.

  "I'm going to die" Golden Gun saw one move was ineffective, scolded and started using hard qigong again, another spear, thrown onto the python's body made a "clang" sound, still fell down.

  I kept picking, and the cannon kept throwing, until both of us were panting with exhaustion. The five earth dragons above only occasionally shrunk their massive bodies, and didn't suffer any actual harm.

  "It's done, Old Yu, it has become an iron cloth shirt, no sword or spear can penetrate!" Jin Gang patted the long handle of his cannon with his hand, wiping away the sweat beads on his forehead.

  "Your hard qigong is also a kind of iron cloth shirt, otherwise I'll poke you to see!" I'm also tired and my legs are soft, but hearing Jin Gang Pao's absurd analysis, I couldn't help but refute him.

  "Has it rusted over the years?" King Kong Cannon grasped the blade of the copper spear "Damn, it's shiny."

  "TMD, what's going on?" Jin Gang shouted as he threw the last copper spear in his hand "Haha, Old Yu, it's inserted..."

  I raised my head in surprise, and indeed, the Golden Cannon's spear had pierced through the scales of the Wutu Yangwan Snake, hanging on its body, causing it to tremble violently.

  "Come on!" I saw there was a chance and went out to fetch several more bronze spears.

  Who would have thought that the several bronze spears fired in succession by the Gatling gun had no effect, and were still blocked by the scales.

  "Old Cow, how did you throw that just now?" I asked in surprise, stopping my movements.

  "I'm just like that"

  "No, I'm asking what you did before throwing it?"

  "I just took a look at the gun head and said a bright sentence, then threw it away." Jin Gang Pao can't tell the difference between guns, spears, and halberds, and collectively refers to them as guns.

  "What's before that?" As soon as the words came out, I suddenly realized "You wiped your sweat and touched the blade of the copper spear! Sweat, water, he's afraid of water, quickly splash it with water."

  At that time in Jiangling, it was the Taoist priest invited by the Western Wei who used the technique of summoning rain to bring down the red pine seeds and pour down the unmarked water for the galloping horses. At that time, it was in its prime, so it needed to be subdued with rain. Now it is at a critical juncture of the collision, although its momentum is strong, but its body is weak, so ordinary water can cause harm to it.

  "Lao Yu, it's all because of you. I told you to water the plants, but you insisted on giving them a drink. Now look, not a single drop is left." Jin Gang Pa held the kettle and cried with a sad face.

  "It's okay with drinks" I urged him anxiously

  But it turns out the drink doesn't work!