Moving Mountain White Spirit

  Yang Li had been cultivating for many years, and although the situation was unfavorable, he didn't panic. He quickly took out the five heavenly thunderbolts of the first heaven that he had collected three years ago. These thunder pearls were all carefully refined by him, and with a movement of his heart, three thunder pearls flew out and were thrown into the cave. The thunder pearls were only the size of soybeans, but they responded to his mind, and when they reached the cave, they exploded simultaneously with his thoughts, producing a deafening roar like thunder, causing the earth to shake violently for an instant. A large amount of pure fire essence burst out from inside, burning the mountain rocks into fragments, turning them all into ash. The entrance to the cave collapsed by half in an instant.

  Yang Li's second double hook combined with the jade pendant, rapidly flying upwards, relying on the ancient immortal's treasured artifact that repels all evil, forcibly piercing through the cloud layer, rising to mid-air.

  The cloud and mist quickly shrank, as if it was going to be withdrawn into the cave. Yue Qing stretched out his hand and pointed, releasing the Taiyi Five Smoke Nets. The faint smoke and fog instantly spread out over a hundred miles, covering an area even larger than that of the cloud and mist. Moreover, it rose upwards, enveloping the snake demon's five-colored cloud and mist, which rapidly flew up to the Ninth Heaven.

  As the treasured thing he had been raising for many years was about to be lost, the snake demon finally couldn't hold back. A shocking and earth-shaking roar burst out from the bottom of the valley. It was a gigantic snake over ten zhang in length and as thick as a water vat, its entire body covered with white scales that shone like flowing golden light. It rose into the air, opened its bloody great mouth, and savagely bit towards Yang Li.

  Yang Li pointed his hand in the sky and the twin hooks swooped down, just as the giant snake turned around, it was cut into two segments at the waist.

  Two segments of snake bodies fell from the air, rolled on the mountain top, and transformed into two white-clothed girls with golden hairpins. Each held a precious sword in their hands and charged at Yang Li twice. Although Yang Li was surprised in his heart, he remained calm and composed, driving the Double Hooks to fight the two girls together. The hooks and swords intersected, the girls' swordsmanship was mediocre, but the quality of their four flying swords was far inferior to the Double Hooks. After a short battle, they were shattered, and the girls simultaneously opened their mouths, each spitting out an internal elixir.

  The snake demon had actually cultivated two internal elixirs, one of which was water-based and could gather clouds and mist. The cloud in the sky was controlled by this internal elixir. The other was fire-based, and she used it to break through the lower layers, drilling into the earth's lungs and absorbing the yin fire from the earth to condense a kind of extremely toxic flame. She spat out the flame, which turned into a large cluster of fiercely burning poisonous fire. From within the flames, several fire dragons flew out and pounced on Yang Li.

  Yang Li's Double Hooks were suddenly absorbed by two Inner Elixirs, and he couldn't move them. Seeing the Fire Dragon approaching, he secretly said "not good" and hastily released the two Water Thunderbolts, planning to use water to overcome fire. However, the Water was a Yin Water, and the snake demon's poisonous fire was also a Yin Fire. When they met, they silently and quietly eliminated each other. Nevertheless, the toxic gas in the fire became even more intense, and Yang Li didn't guard against it, so he was hit by the toxic gas and immediately felt a chill, his head spinning and eyes dizzying as he fell from the sky. Fortunately, his foundation was deep, and at the critical moment, he secretly used the Taiyi Mysterious Skill to recall the Double Hooks, merging them into one place, and they flew crookedly towards Yue Qing. Before they could land, they suddenly plummeted downwards with a loud crash. Tao Zhong happened to be practicing the Five Elements True Qi that day, his footsteps light and agile, and he leapt up several dozen feet to catch Yang Li as he fell.

  Yue Qing carefully examined Yang Li's condition, who had been poisoned by a cold toxin. His body was burning with fever, his skin was bright red, and his internal organs were chilled to the bone. He handed two Yin-Yang pellets to Tao Jun: "Don't worry, give them to your senior brother, he'll be fine in an instant."

  As they spoke, countless fire dragons flew down from the mountain and pounced on them. Yue Qing raised his Xuanguang ruler and released five glowing light circles that floated in mid-air, absorbing all the fire dragons within them. With a few turns of the light circles' energy, they vanished into thin air. He then sent the light circles flying again, encasing the snake demon's two inner elixirs and pulling them back with force. The snake demon let out a sharp cry, refusing to give up its life-essential items, and desperately spat out demonic energy, causing colorful misty flames to erupt from the surface of the inner elixirs in an attempt to burst the light circles. However, Yue Qing's cultivation was profound, and his Xuanguang ruler was no ordinary object, so the light circles tightly encased the inner elixirs and quickly fell into Yue Qing's hands.

  The snake demon let out a furious roar, the two girls came together and merged into one, then cast a spell, and actually lifted up half of Yunling Mountain, raised it tens of feet high, and was about to smash it down on Yue Qing. Yue Qing raised his hand and shot out mixed yuan true energy, which merged into the mountain rocks and soil, making them instantly heavy, in just half a moment, they became a hundred times heavier than before. The snake demon's magic was not enough, causing the mountain to fall back to the ground, and at this stalemate, her two inner elixirs and the fire cloud transformed from the Taixu poison flame in the air had all been taken away by Yue Qing using the Xuan Guang ruler and Wu Yan Luo.

  Having lost the inner elixir, the snake demon was suddenly knocked down by a good many levels of cultivation. She finally realized that she couldn't mess with this young man who seemed so gentle and easy-going. With a shrill cry, she turned around and tried to re-enter the mountain cave. She too was cunning and knew that her opponent's cultivation far surpassed hers. Wanting to fly away and escape would only result in being caught up by the other party, so she wanted to flee back to her lair, reveal her true form, and burrow into the earth.

  However, Yue Qing let Yang Li bring her out, just to prevent him from entering the earth lung and escaping. Therefore, when moving the mountain earlier, the Hunyuan true energy was still left in the rocks and had not been retrieved. The snake demon crashed down with its head, but the originally fragile rock for her turned out to be as hard as gold! Even the original cave entrance was sealed off, and when she tried to fly away and escape, five-colored mist fell from all sides, enveloping her inside.

  As the situation seemed hopeless, with no way out and no escape, the snake demon hastily knelt on the ground to plead for mercy: "Immortal, please spare me! Since I gained spiritual intelligence and began my cultivation, I have never harmed humans. Please, immortal, take pity on me, a lowly creature who has endured a thousand years of bitter toil, and spare my life! I am willing to offer that internal elixir and the poisonous fire cloud as payment for my life."

  Yue Qing smiled and said: "I would have let you go, but my disciple said that after you've cultivated to a certain level, you'll definitely come out and harm people, so I'm taking precautions and getting rid of you now!"

  Tao Jun's face turned bright red as soon as he heard his master say this, and he was so embarrassed that he couldn't help it. The snake demon then turned to him and kowtowed, begging for mercy without stopping. Tao Jun said: "Master, what are you talking about? I was young and ignorant before..."

  "Then tell me, should we kill her or spare her?"

  Tao Jun hesitated, looking at the snake demon's pitiful appearance and claiming that it had never killed anyone before, he felt a pang of sympathy: "I want to ask Master to let you go, but I'm afraid that in the future, when you've cultivated your divine powers, you'll eat people and harm lives."

  The snake demon cried and begged: "I am willing to follow the immortal back to the mountain, sweep the holy land every day, guard the mountain gate, just beg the fairy to spare my life. We monsters cultivate with difficulty, thousands of years of hard work, will be destroyed in an instant. Please, fairy, have some compassion, I am grateful!"

  Tao Jun said to Yue Qing: "Since she has spoken like this, Master will spare her, right?"

  Yue Qing laughed and said: "You've made both good people and bad people!" He asked the snake demon, "What's your name?"

  The snake demon said: "Little beast has never had a name."

  Yue Qingdao said: "I was cultivating at the Taiyi Temple on Mount Wutai, and these two are my disciples. You have been cultivating for a thousand years, which is not easy, and you can also overcome yourself. If I were to harm you, it would go against heavenly principles. You don't need to be a slave or servant anymore. From now on, you will enter under my Wutai sect. My Wutai sect has separate transmissions for male and female disciples. After returning to the mountain, I will introduce you to my shifu's sister. As long as you can be loyal to the sect, respect your elders, diligently cultivate and practice, in the future you will become an immortal, ascend to heaven, and attain the true fruit. Are you willing?"

  The snake demon didn't expect such a good outcome and was overjoyed, with tears still on his face, he smiled and kowtowed to thank him.

  Yue Qing returned her two inner elixirs and the Poison Fire Cloud to her: "Since you don't have a name, I'll give you one. Your true form is a white snake, so let's use White as your surname. You cultivate in Yunling Mountain and enter the Immortal Gate, so let's call you White Spirit Immortal, how about that?"

  The snake demon was overjoyed: "From now on, my disciple will be called White Spirit Immortal!"

  Yue Qing called Yang Li over and let them meet again. Bai Ling Xian bowed to apologize to Yang Li, who naturally wouldn't hold a grudge since the other had become his junior sister. Following Yue Qing's instructions, he took out two Tianxia swords and gave them to Bai Ling Xian. Bai Ling Xian returned to her cave and brought out all the ginseng, lingzhi mushrooms, and various immortal medicines she had collected over the years to offer to Yue Qing. Yue Qing said: "The sect won't casually take your things; it's not easy for you to accumulate them over a thousand years, so just keep them yourself."

  Bai Lingxian felt even more grateful, took out one-third of the spiritual medicine and spiritual stone, and forcibly gave it to Yang Li and Tao Jun. Tao Jun had just entered the immortal gate and didn't have anything good on him, but Yang Li was very wealthy. He poured a small cup of Liu Yang's Huan Gu Jue Jing that Cui Haiguest had given him back then for Bai Lingxian. The medicine was most effective in changing tendons and bones, altering one's physical constitution, and its effect on heterodox cultivators was even greater. Bai Lingxian thanked him profusely and accepted it.