Zi Xuan's Works Shu Mountain Five Platforms Sect Master Shu Mountain Five Platforms Sect Master Volume 1 Chapter 001 Altar · Divine Infant Sword

  "Crack-crack—Boom!" A deafening thunderclap exploded right next to the ear, causing the internal organs to jump in unison, and the three souls and seven spirits almost escaped from the orifices.

  Yue Qing woke up from his coma, feeling like his head was about to split in two, with both temples throbbing like drums and his brain boiling over. Countless unfamiliar memories flooded into his mind. Practicing swordplay on a high mountain, entering and exiting the blue sky, secretly cultivating in an ancient cave... Those people he had never seen before, those things he had never experienced, flashed through his mind like a movie.

  "You're a wicked Taoist, and now you've met with retribution!" A clear and melodious female voice rang out in front of him.

  Yue Qing strained to open his eyes wide, focusing his vision, and saw not far away three platforms standing like ancient Taoist priests performing rituals. The middle one was slightly higher, with two precious swords placed on top, without any support, suspended in mid-air about a foot above the platform. Blood beads kept dripping from the sword tips, as if they had just been used to kill some creature. Underneath the two swords was a broken half of a jade bottle, from which black smoke was bubbling out.

  On both sides of the main altar, there were two slightly shorter auxiliary altars. On top of them were inserted all sorts of banners with strange symbols and talismans. On each altar stood a wooden stake as thick as an arm, and on each stake was tied a boy of three or four years old. They wore red bellybands, and their chests and backs were pasted full of yellow paper money symbols. On top of these symbols were drawn crimson talismans with cinnabar, the scene made one's scalp feel numb just by looking at it.

  On the left side of the altar stood a twelve or thirteen year old girl, very short in stature, wearing an ancient palace-style red shirt. In her hand was a continuously flashing golden light that seemed to be staring at him with disdain. She had a lovely appearance and a clear and pleasant voice: "After the death of our ancestor, Taizhen Hunyuan, your Five Tai Sect collapsed and scattered like fallen trees and fleeing monkeys. You are one of the lucky ones who managed to survive until today! As cultivators, we should follow the will of heaven and spare your life. However, you are a wicked and cruel person, using such a young child to refine an evil sword. Today, I must cut you down with my sword, lest you harm others in the future!" After finishing speaking, she pointed one of her small white hands at Yue Qing, and the golden light shot towards him like lightning.

  Yu Qing sensed the danger and his heart skipped a beat, the two treasured swords on the central altar quivered simultaneously with a shrill hum, transforming into two silver lights that shot out at an angle to intercept the golden light.

  Yue Qing felt that these two treasured swords were like his own arms, and as soon as he thought about it, they would respond to his mind. He wanted them to go wherever he wanted, and they would immediately fly over. Whether he wanted to chop or stab, they would do so with precision, and whether he wanted to slash or slice, they would do so effortlessly.

  The memories that flooded my mind were vast and enormous, hundreds of times more than my past memories. There were even events from several hundred years ago, big or small, all clearly presented as if they had truly happened to me.

  Through these memories, he knew that his name was Yueqin Bin and that he lived in a world where gods walked everywhere. He was originally a famous sword immortal of the Wudang Sect, but fifty years ago, his master Taizhen Hunyuan Zushi lost to Emei Sect in a sword duel and was besieged by three immortals and two elders led by Qi Xuanming, causing his primordial spirit to be injured by an invisible sword. After sitting in meditation until his physical body died, the Wudang Sect split into four or five factions, and he also went to Mount Heng in southern China to close himself off from the world, rarely coming out to travel.

  Suddenly, memories of over three hundred years emerged. From his childhood, how he was forced to beg and wander due to war, how he was brought to the mountain by Taiyi Hunyuan Zushi, how he practiced Taoist magic with his fellow disciples in Huangji Palace... Those unbelievable magical sword techniques were all deeply etched in his mind, even giving him a false impression that these things had originally been his personal experiences. It seemed as though those Taoist magic had been cultivated bit by bit for over three hundred years. With a thought, the five elements converged in his left hand's Laogong acupoint, and with a wave of his hand, a Five Elements Divine Thunderbolt was unleashed, blasting an auxiliary altar into dust! It all seemed to come from instinct!

  That girl flew in the air, her body wrapped in golden sword light, transformed into a three-meter-long golden rainbow, carrying an unstoppable momentum, slanting down and entwining with Yue Qing's two silver sword lights, constantly producing crackling explosions, bursting out large pieces of gold and silver fireworks, scattering and falling around like festive firework sparks.

  It's also unclear whether Yueqin Bin originally didn't have enough magical power to defeat the girl, or if Yueqing had just crossed over and hadn't fully merged with the original owner's memories and habits, so he couldn't grasp these Taoist sword techniques. The two silver lights were quickly suppressed by the golden light, and after a brief struggle, the golden light strongly pushed the two silver lights to fly in front of and behind Yueqing, swirling and slashing around him.

  Every time the sword light approached, Yue Qing was illuminated by the cold light, his face chilled, and his body hair stood on end. Cold sweat dripped down, and once it brushed against his cheek, even a strand of hair from his temple was cut off. Several times it almost landed on his body, splitting him in two, but fortunately, the Silver Sword's divine spirit intervened at the critical moment, blocking the golden light each time.

  The girl fought easily, laughing like a silver bell: "Evil path, your retribution has arrived! Don't you quickly accept death!" She clenched her fist, twisting the golden sword into a twisted shape, suddenly exploding, bringing with it a large piece of golden starlight that blasted open the defensive light circle formed by two intersecting silver swords, and the sharp sword edge shot towards Yue Qing's chest like lightning.

  Yue Qing subconsciously adjusted the Five Elements True Qi, his hands formed a seal to protect his chest, and between his thumbs and little fingers that stretched out, a colorful light appeared, with yellow, green, red, and blue lights surging non-stop. The golden sword was stuck in the middle, but it was actually stopped.

  The girl's eyes showed a hint of surprise: "Indeed, you are a famous disciple under the seat of the Hunyuan Patriarch, and you have some skills!" Zhang Kai opened his seemingly cute cherry mouth and spat out a true energy. The golden sword immediately became like a chicken blood, frantically spinning and charging forward.

  Yue Qing only felt that his chest was being pressed by a thousand pounds of weight, unable to breathe, and his vision was turning black. But he knew that at this moment, he couldn't relax for even half a second, or else the golden sword would pierce through his chest.

  The instinct to survive forced him to suppress the annoyance in his chest, desperately mobilizing the five elements of true energy inside his body, and operating them between his hands to form a Taoist five-element seal, but the sword still pushed him back, and his feet plowed two deep grooves on the wet ground.

  "Bang!" Yue Qing's back slammed into a tree trunk, his body shook violently, stars danced before his eyes, and his internal organs almost churned out of his mouth.

  He couldn't retreat anymore. The girl burst out laughing and shot another stream of true energy from her mouth, causing the sword to spin rapidly like a high-speed drill.

  Yu Qing's five-colored light energy between his two hands had already thinned to a mere layer, the sword tip was less than an inch away from his chest, and the overflowing air current had shredded the clothes in front of his chest into powder, revealing a cold and serene chest.

  Yue Qing knew that no matter what, he couldn't defeat this girl today, and a wave of despair surged up in his chest.

  I thought I had just pulled a child who was about to be crushed by the wheels of a car, but then I was hit and sent flying by a passing truck. Dazed and confused, I ran into this strange world, and before I could even catch my breath, I was almost killed again. It seems that being a good person is not possible, and doing good deeds is absolutely not allowed. From now on, if I encounter something like this again...

  Before he could even finish his thought, several cyan lights suddenly fell from the clouds in the sky, accompanied by a very gentle female voice: "Brother Yue, don't be alarmed, sister is here to lend you a helping hand!" Seven sword lights, like a green dragon stirring up the sea, four of which blocked the sword lights of the girl from before, while the remaining three launched a sneak attack on her back.

  The girl let out a soft cry and didn't have time to kill Yue Qing. She turned her golden sword into a ring of light, protecting herself.

  Those seven green lights seemed like a huge monster hand, surrounding the girl. The seven fingers suddenly closed in, about to strangle her into several pieces.

  The girl suddenly released a mouthful of true energy, and the golden light ring burst open rapidly, colliding with seven green lights in one place. A series of rapid metallic collisions were heard, and a large piece of golden and green light burst forth.

  "The girl shouted: 'Xu Fei Niang! After the death of Taiyi Hunyuan Zushi, you claimed to have changed your evil ways and retired to Mount Huang. Everyone thought you had reformed, but today you're actually consorting with those old demonic sect members again!'"

  A young and beautiful Taoist nun floated down from the clouds, her seven sword lights engaging in a fierce battle with the girl. She laughed lightly and said: "Jiang Xuejun, I heard that your karma was too heavy back then, you were forced to disband your troops and didn't want to be reborn, under your master's help, you cultivated into an earth immortal using your primordial infant, always closed up in the Dongting Lake, never interfering with the entanglements of the world. Today, you've come all the way here from afar, aren't you afraid that your primordial infant will suffer some damage, and all your hard work will be undone?"