Chapter 37: Persuading Surrender

Just like when they came, as if they had passed through a layer of ever-changing water curtain, the gourd carrying the Taoist priests appeared on the plain outside the Wuyang Tomb. Unlike when they came, thick white fog rose from the plain at this time, and the sky above the plain was rolling with dark clouds and thunder.

At the moment the gourd appeared, a lightning bolt as thick as an arm broke through the sky and rushed towards the few people who had not yet reacted.

The lightning instantly broke through the protective aura of the gourd, and just when it was about to kill several people, the Taoist priest who had been prepared waved his hand, and a milky yellow light curtain appeared around the gourd, and it hit the lightning heavily together.

Boom!!!

After a loud bang, the milky yellow light curtain rippled lightly, and the lightning exhausted all its energy, leaving the last spark and disappeared in front of everyone.

Seeing that the lightning was blocked, Xue Qing and the others breathed a sigh of relief. The Taoist priest, however, looked a little solemn. He knew that the lightning just now was just a self-defense warning of the formation.

"Someone broke into the formation! Kill him!"

Sure enough, a roar came from the thick fog, and hundreds of lightning bolts as thick as before rushed towards the Taoist priests like a bright white river, shocking the faces of the few people who had just breathed a sigh of relief.

Just when they all felt that they were doomed, they saw that the water curtain formed by lightning was powerful, but in front of the milky yellow light curtain arranged by the Taoist priest, it was like a torrent hitting a reef. It seemed turbulent, and the light curtain was rolling, but it failed to break through and made no progress.

"Hey, not an ordinary cultivator?! Change the formation!"

With some surprised voices in the thick fog, the thunder light in the sky suddenly converged, and hundreds of lightning bolts instantly merged into a thick lightning bolt like a pillar of heaven, with a deafening roar, hitting the milky yellow light curtain.

Under the horrified gaze of several people, the milky yellow light curtain was hit and deeply sunken. With a "pop" sound, a big hole was poked in the light curtain, and a huge lightning pillar instantly passed through the hole and rushed towards several people.

Seeing this, the Taoist priest pinched his Taoist spell, opened his lips slightly, and shouted as he did to the lion general before.

"Get out!!!!!!!"

Unlike before, this time the sound waves from the Taoist priest's mouth condensed into a beam, and turned into a sound column as thick as lightning in front of him, causing ripples and hitting the lightning column. The lightning column paused slightly, and was blasted away by this seemingly gentle sound column. The scattered lightning turned into meteors and scattered around the gourd.

Looking at the lightning that passed not far away from them, thinking about the thrills in that moment, Xue Qing and others felt that their hearts were about to stop. Xue Qing was even more fortunate that she had met the Taoist priest, and her ancestors had a connection with the Taoist priest. Otherwise, even if they gathered everyone's strength to break through the formation three days later and passed the Lion General, they might not be able to pass the formation outside the door. At least Xue Qing felt that she couldn't do it.

Looking at the Taoist priest in front of them, Xue Qing and the others were full of relief.

The Taoist priest looked at his own results, but his face was full of dissatisfaction.

"The previous battle with Wumian consumed too much energy, and now I am not fully spiritual, and my combat power has regressed to such a level. In the past, when I roared, not to mention the thunder, even the sky would have a hole! Now, the tiger is bullied by the dog in the plain, alas~~!"

Listening to the Taoist priest muttering to himself, Li Chuyi rolled his eyes and cursed the Taoist priest for bragging in his heart. But thinking about the Taoist priest's only half of his soul left, and this half also sealed a thing as awesome as Black Wumian, Li Chuyi felt that what the Taoist priest said might be true.

"Who are you?!"

The voice in the thick fog suddenly asked, in a very serious tone.

"I am your father!"

The Taoist answered very seriously.

The voice in the thick fog was silent for a moment, then gnashed his teeth and shouted angrily: "You are looking for death! Tiangang Yulei Formation, Formation Three, Thunder and Fire Falling from the Sky!"

Before the voice fell, the black clouds in the sky were seen surging, and red gradually appeared in the white lightning, as if a fire had ignited the black clouds. The mixture of black, white and red made the thunderclouds look strangely beautiful.

But the people on the gourd were not in this mood. They could imagine the cruelty under this "beauty" with their butts.

The Taoist looked up at the sky, looked carefully for a long time, and then sneered: "As I expected, this formation has been arranged at most 30%, and this thunder and fire from the sky is the current limit."

The Taoist pinched the spell and shouted: "The sky and the earth are boundless, the universe is under the law! Look at how my earth-covering method can extinguish your firefly light!"

After speaking, the Taoist pointed to the ground and shouted "rise", and then saw that the solid ground under his feet was actually pulled up a layer, forming a big wall, like a shield blocking everyone in front of him.

Just when everyone was waiting for the thunder and fire in the sky to hit this "shield", they saw the Taoist seal change and pointed to the sky.

"Go!"

The shield formed by the earth was like a big millstone, spinning and flying into the sky.

At this time, the black cloud mixed with red was finally brewing. With a dark sound, countless silver-white lightning mixed with blazing flames fell below like a waterfall.

Xue Qing saw the lightning mixed with fire and said in horror: "It's really a thunder and fire catastrophe!"

The Taoist sneered: "Fake! The quality is insufficient, but the quantity makes up for it. How can the real thunder and fire calamity be so free to spread out? Even if there is one, it is far more powerful than such a large area."

In Xue Qing's shocked eyes and the Taoist's sneer, the waterfall-like thunder and fire calamity hit the rotating earth shield, and the intersection of the two suddenly caused sand and stones to fly and thunder and fire to splash.

The thunder and fire continued to melt the soil on the earth shield. Seeing that the shield was getting thinner and thinner, while the thunder and fire in the sky had no end, Xue Qing's heart was getting tighter and tighter.

"Senior, can that earth wall block it?" Xue Qing couldn't help asking.

The Taoist looked at her strangely.

"Who said I was going to block it?"

Xue Qing looked at the Taoist priest in surprise, but the Taoist priest turned his head and ignored her. He looked at the stalemate in the sky with a focused look, and murmured a cold smile: "Grind it, the finer the better, I will let you know how powerful I am later! I will let you know that even if I am half disabled now, it will only take you a few minutes to kill you!"

As the earth wall in the sky became thinner and thinner, a voice in the thick fog suddenly spoke: "Now the situation is clear, if you continue, you will only be defeated. I cherish your talent, and my Dayan has always liked to recruit talents. I will give you a chance. Tell me your origins. If you surrender to my Dayan, I can recommend you to my emperor and accept you into my Dayan, and confer you a title of nobility."

"Really?" asked the Taoist priest.

"Of course, I am Qi Wuzhang, the Ninglan Marquis of Dayan Dynasty, and I always keep my word! I guarantee with my own reputation that as long as you surrender to Dayan today, I will do my best to recommend you to my emperor. With your ability, it is not impossible for you to be directly conferred a title of nobility like me!"

Xue Qing and others listened to the conversation between the two, their faces full of shock and complexity.

Xue Qing was very surprised. She didn't believe that the Taoist priest would surrender. According to the records of the Taoist priests by the Mu family, the Taoist priest should not be a spineless person who was persuaded to surrender by a few words.

The young disciples behind her were full of bitterness. They saw that the earth wall was getting thinner and thinner, and thought that the Taoist priest might really be defeated, so they looked for a way out. They didn't blame the Taoist priest, because if they were forced into this situation today, they might make the same choice as the Taoist priest.

Sure enough, the Taoist thought seriously for a long time and said, "Okay, as you said, I'll tell you who I am."

Just when everyone, including Ning Lanhou, thought that the Taoist really surrendered to Dayan and was about to reveal his identity, the Taoist suddenly turned his head and said to Li Chuyi, who was secretly yawning beside him, "Disciple, tell this Ning Lanhou who your master is."

Li Chuyi glanced at the Taoist and said helplessly, "Didn't I just say that my master is your father and I am your brother, why are you still asking, you stupid kid?"

The Taoist nodded and said, "Stinky boy, I finally found someone stupider than you."

Li Chuyi listened, glared at the Taoist, and turned his head away and ignored him.

Listening to Li Chuyi's answer, everyone present knew that Ning Lanhou had been fooled. Xue Qing instantly had an expression of "as expected", and the young people couldn't help laughing out loud after experiencing ups and downs.

Ning Lanhou remained silent in the fog, but his increasingly heavy breathing showed how angry he was.

After a long time, Ning Lanhou said, "Since you are looking for death, you can't blame me! Fellow Taoists, use all your strength to operate the formation and help me kill this beast!"

After that, the thunder and fire in the sky suddenly became more intense. The thin soil layer was like ice near a branding iron, and it quickly melted into flying ash and drifted in the air.

Seeing this scene, several young people couldn't laugh anymore. Xiaoyu, who was always optimistic, was terrified, and Xueqing was ready to die. Only Li Chuyi still looked unconvinced. He knew that the Taoist must have a back-up plan, otherwise the Taoist would not be a Taoist.

When the last layer of the earth wall turned into flying ash, there was no object in the sky to intercept the thunder and fire. The thunder and fire that were finally no longer blocked rushed towards the people on the gourd like a raging wave.

"Die!"

Ning Lanhou's happy voice followed.

Just when Xue Qing and the others were in despair, Li Chuyi whispered, "He's going to start showing off again."

Li Chuyi, who vaguely guessed what the Taoist was going to do, quickly covered his ears tightly.

Sure enough, the Taoist showed a strange sneer at the corner of his mouth.

"It's almost time to let you know how powerful your father is!"

After saying that, the spell changed and he shouted:

"Explode!!!"