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The sealed box had long since been blown to smithereens.

Seeing the Da Xingzi appear, the Grand Elder of Le Shen Temple raised his Celestial Master Sword and charged.

Unfortunately, he had already expended a great deal of Inner Strength casting the Soul-Locking Array.

The Void Body Da Xingzi merely waved its hand, sending the Le Shen Temple’s Grand Elder flying.

The Emperor, the Crown Prince, Gu Ziye, and the others had never seen a demon before. All they saw was the Grand Elder of Le Shen Temple charge forward on his own, only to be inexplicably knocked away.

Gu Ziye couldn’t comprehend what was happening. She clung to Lu Yuan’s arm and asked, "Yuan~ Why can’t I see anything? What’s going on?"

This Void Body Da Xingzi was fundamentally invisible to anyone without some level of Daoist skill.

Previously, when encountering Void Body Practitioners, he had to rub his eyes with camphor leaves and use a spell. Not anymore. Lu Yuan had since refined Appearance Talismans.

Lu Yuan pulled a stack of talismans from his robes, pinched one out, and stuck it to Yue’Er’s chest.

Gu Ziye blinked, and suddenly she saw a male version of Zhenzi. It looked like a hanged ghost, lifeless and terrifying.

Gu Ziye let out a terrified shriek and dove straight into Lu Yuan’s arms, burying her head in his chest and covering her eyes, not daring to look again.

No matter how brave Gu Ziye was, she was still a pampered, eighteen-year-old princess. When had she ever seen something like this?

Forget Gu Ziye; even Lu Yuan, right after he first transmigrated, had felt his skin crawl at the sight of these things. He would get goosebumps all over and go out of his way to avoid them.

Now that Lu Yuan had seen them more often, he was no longer so psychologically repulsed.

Lu Yuan held Gu Ziye, gave an awkward smile to the Emperor and Crown Prince who were staring at him, and patted Yue’Er’s back. "You scaredy-cat. It’s okay, your husband’s here!"

"Ahem... Prince Consort, about those talismans... aren’t you going to give us a few?" Crown Prince Gu Biao spoke up.

"Oh, right. Here they are." With his left arm holding Yue’Er, Lu Yuan passed the talismans to the Crown Prince with his right.

Crown Prince Gu Biao distributed the talismans to his father the Emperor and the others around them. Only then could everyone see the Void Body Da Xingzi on the Training Ground.

In response to the Grand Elder being knocked back, several Grand Celestial Masters from Le Shen Temple rushed forward together, catching him as he flew through the air. "Grand Elder!"

PFFT—

The Grand Elder of Le Shen Temple wiped the blood trickling from the corner of his mouth and said, "Help me up!"

The Le Shen Temple Grand Elder said to the Grand Celestial Masters beside him, "You go first. Buy me some time."

Upon hearing this, the Grand Celestial Masters charged forward without the slightest hesitation to buy time for the Grand Elder to regulate his breathing.

The Le Shen Temple’s Grand Elder sat cross-legged, placed his hands on his knees, and circulated all his Inner Strength throughout his body to repair his injuries.

The Grand Elder was using a Daoist Skill for restorative meditation that could accelerate his recovery.

’If someone tried to teach me that Daoist Skill, I wouldn’t even want to learn it. It’s so useless. Especially in a fight, you can’t use it at all, can you?’

Standing outside the Training Ground, Lu Yuan felt anxious watching this. ’What time is it to be sitting there meditating and recuperating?’

If his fellow disciples weren’t desperately holding the line at the front, he would have been swatted to death by the Da Xingzi’s claws long ago.

Lu Yuan said to the Emperor, "His Majesty the Emperor, please allow me to give a Healing Pill to the Grand Elder."

"Oh? You didn’t eat the one We bestowed upon you?" the Emperor asked doubtfully.

’Bestowed? I think I’m the one who gave it to you, and then you gave it back to me,’ Lu Yuan thought to himself.

Lu Yuan had eaten it long ago. The Healing Pills he had now were all ones he refined later.

Lu Yuan replied, "Yes, Your Majesty. This medicine is extremely precious. I couldn’t bear to use it when I was injured last time. But the situation is urgent now, so I must give it to the Grand Elder."

"Go on, then. You’re a generous one, kid," the Emperor said with a smile. ’It seems neither my daughter nor I misjudged him. This kid is decent.’

After receiving the Emperor’s permission, Lu Yuan patted Gu Ziye’s shoulder with a smile, then vaulted onto the Training Ground and landed beside the Grand Elder of Le Shen Temple.

"Grand Elder, eat this. It will help you recover from your injuries." Lu Yuan took out a Healing Pill and held it out in his palm. He kept it brief; there was no time for explanations.

The Le Shen Temple Grand Elder recognized this elixir. He had witnessed its effects during the martial tournament for the Prince Consort’s selection on this very Training Ground.

"Thank you, Elder!" The Le Shen Temple Grand Elder took the elixir and swallowed it directly.

A dozen or so seconds later, his injuries had recovered. He spoke to Lu Yuan again, "Elder, you should get down from here. This place is dangerous, not something you can withstand."

Just as the two were talking, the last Grand Celestial Master from the Celestial Dynasty Palace was struck down beside them. He shot them a resentful look, thinking, ’What time is it to be chatting!’

Soon, a few Jinyi Guards carried the fallen Grand Celestial Master away.

Lu Yuan nodded to the Grand Elder, then leaped off the Training Ground and returned to the Emperor’s side.

Although the Le Shen Temple Grand Elder’s injuries were healed, his Inner Strength had not yet recovered.

If he charged in again now, he would likely just get beaten and covered in wounds all over again.

Moreover, it was now clear that while the other Grand Celestial Masters’ Daoist Skills could inflict some damage on the Da Xingzi, it would heal itself within a certain period.

To destroy this demon before it could heal, they had to end the fight quickly.

"It seems I have no choice but to use this move to save Le Shen Temple’s reputation," the Grand Elder of Le Shen Temple muttered to himself.

The Le Shen Temple Grand Elder stood up, placed his right hand over his left, extended his index and middle fingers toward the sky, and began to chant, "The heavy fragrance answers the cosmos, burning incense pierces the celestial gates..."

The Grand Elder of Le Shen Temple chanted for over half a minute, his eyes glowing red.

Seeing this, the Emperor remarked to those beside him, "Has he gone blood-simple?"

Hearing this, Lu Yuan almost burst out laughing.

’Experts in different fields truly are worlds apart. He’s obviously performing an Inviting God possession, and from the looks of it, he’s summoning no ordinary spirit.’

The Grand Elder of Le Shen Temple stomped the ground three times, shattering the bluestone tiles, and roared:

"I beseech the Patriarch, the Southern Red Emperor Danling True Lord of the Three Qi Celestial Monarch, to possess my body and vanquish this demon!"

Suddenly, the Grand Elder’s aura surged. He drew the duster tucked at his waist and draped it over his left arm.

Wisps of red light radiated from his body. Possessed by the patriarch, the Le Shen Temple’s Grand Elder became confident and haughty.

The last Grand Celestial Master locked in combat with the Da Xingzi was sent flying. The Le Shen Temple’s Grand Elder simply raised a hand and effortlessly caught the airborne master.

"Vile beast! Still daring to throw a tantrum!" The Grand Elder’s deep voice was so soul-piercing it froze the Da Xingzi in place for a second.

Seeing this, a faint smile finally appeared on Emperor Gu Yuanzhang’s face. He thought, ’We’ve spent so much money fattening up all these people. Wasn’t it precisely for a day like today?’

If this Royal Daoist Temple couldn’t even handle a small matter like this, how could they have the audacity to accept so much incense money from the Court every year?

The Da Xingzi possessed intelligence. Seeing the old man’s sudden explosion of power, it lost its earlier playful demeanor.

The fact that each of the Grand Celestial Masters had lasted so long against it was partly because the Da Xingzi had been toying with them.

The Grand Elder of Le Shen Temple didn’t waste any words. The time he could maintain the patriarch’s possession was limited. He had to end this quickly, or the consequences would be dire.

The Grand Elder smoothed his duster, and a few broken hairs appeared in his palm. He flicked them out.

Dusters are mostly made from horse tail hair.

The seemingly soft strands of hair shot forward like bullets from a gun.

The Da Xingzi rapidly waved its right hand in the air to block the inconspicuous strands of hair.

A few seconds later, the Da Xingzi looked down at its palm. It hadn’t caught any hairs; instead, there were several small holes in it.

The holes weren’t large, but the tiny wounds glowed with red light, hindering the repair of its injuries—that is, the coalescence of its soul in that spot.

Seeing that the patriarch’s power was more than a match for the demon, the Le Shen Temple’s Grand Elder was overjoyed and charged forward, duster in hand.

WHOOSH—

The Da Xingzi opened its cavernous mouth and exhaled a blast of yin energy, which carried the stench of rot and decay.

The Grand Elder flicked his duster to ward off the gust of sinister wind.

But how could a sinister wind like this be completely blocked? The Grand Elder inhaled a mouthful, and his stomach churned uncomfortably.

BLEGH—YUE—

He even threw up last night’s dinner.

Wiping the filth from his mouth, the Le Shen Temple’s Grand Elder roared, "Your breath stinks, you know that?!"