Xiaoqing's eyebrows shot up, and she raised her thin, delicate neck, glaring at Li Changzhou with her eyes in obvious displeasure.
She seriously suspected that this man might actually like her; otherwise, why would he keep picking on her?
"Fine then," the serene and composed face of Yang Qinglan showed a hint of disdain, "what do you gentlemen plan to do next?"
"Yeah, what's the next move?" If there were sunflower seeds, Li Qianxia would have already been cracking them leisurely.
When this guy wasn't fighting, he was completely the mood maker—other than being eye candy and giving Li Changzhou some peace of mind, he was utterly useless.
Li Changzhou looked towards Xiaoqing.
"What now!" Xiaoqing glared back at him.
"What's that turtle's name?"
"Spiritual Turtle."
"Why did you borrow money from Spiritual Turtle?" Li Changzhou asked her.
"Haven't I told you, turtles are easy to bully." Although her tone was aggressive, Xiaoqing cooperated and answered all questions.
"No, because he's your friend, he's my brother."
"What?"
"Let's go," Li Changzhou said, "we're going to avenge your friend, avenge my brother."
"Huh?" Xiaoqing was puzzled, "Avenge?"
"Great idea!" Yang Qinglan smiled and clapped her hands, her previous dissatisfaction transformed into appreciation, "That's more like it. It's okay to reject my suggestions, but you need to come up with an alternative. Don't just dismiss me with something like 'a man of honor can be in dire straits'."
The four people and two snakes left the yard, heading straight to the turtle's yard.
Quite naturally, they did not find their 'friend' and 'brother' who had already passed away, and then—
"My friend, have you seen my brother Spiritual Turtle?"
"Spiritual Turtle? Who's that? Haven't seen them."
"Fellow Daoist, have you seen my brother Spiritual Turtle?"
"Spiritual Turtle? Never heard of them, what about them?"
"Alas." Li Changzhou sighed, "My brother went missing after listening to the Bodhisattva's teachings; I don't know where he went. With formidable enemies lurking outside, I fear he might have… met with some accident."
"That won't do, let me help you look for him!"
"Thank you so much."
In less than half an hour, the entire Mount Putuo was searching for Spiritual Turtle.
The kind of people and monsters who could be here, what was their character like? Each one of them was a total paragon of virtue, with flowers blooming above their heads and mineral springs flowing beneath their feet.
Besides, Li Changzhou had been chosen by The Bodhisattva Guanyin as someone who could become an Earth Immortal. Helping to find someone could forge good karma—why wouldn't they do it?
"There's another thing," Qing Lan analyzed, "everyone just practiced the promotion technique and is bursting with ambition to accrue incredible merit."
"Subduing Tiger Arhat!" the Dragon Girl exclaimed, her heart finally eased.
Li Changzhou's right hand subtly spread its fingers, ready for the thin-as-cicada-wing Emerald Bee Sword to slip into his palm at any moment.
The expressions of Qing Lan, Li Qianxia, and Yang Qinglan shifted from one of amusement to a slightly more serious demeanor.
The situation seemed not be unfolding as they had envisioned.
"Evernight City Lord, since our parting at Zhenjiang, do you still remember this poor monk?" the large face's lips moved.
"The Evernight City Lord?!" The crowd looked towards Li Changzhou.
"Weren't there people from Evernight City among those who attacked Mount Putuo?"
These Buddhist disciples had one flaw; whatever the Bodhisattva Arhats said, they believed.
"So you mean, the Spiritual Turtle kid might have been killed by him, and he's playing the thief shouting 'catch the thief'? "
"How utterly vicious!"
Li Changzhou knew things were going south; in front of the Arhats, even if the Spiritual Turtle kid had indeed been killed, there was no way to reason with these Buddhist followers.
The Subduing Tiger Arhat's enormous face changed, transforming into the head of a White Tiger.
The White Tiger was immensely huge, almost filling the entire sky above the Guanyin Temple, its whiskers flying, each one as distinct as a giant tree, especially the few white whiskers on the tiger's face, each comparable to a massive log.
Roar!
The tiger's roar was like thunder, shaking the earth and the mountains.
Everyone's minds buzzed with a ringing, "Ah!" Numerous people around Li Changzhou covered their ears, with blood already seeping through their fingers.
Bai Suzhen gave a muffled grunt, and Xiaoqing, even less able to bear it, collapsed to the ground.
In the midst of the tiger's roar, the clothes of Li Changzhou's group whipped violently, as they also found it a bit difficult to breathe.
"Roar!" Another tiger roar echoed, and a burst of white light shot from the "King" mark on the White Tiger's forehead, bearing down on Li Changzhou.
Li Changzhou flipped his wrist, and the Emerald Bee Sword was in his hand, his mana surging throughout his body, lighting up the sword with magma-like colors.
These colors, following the length of the sword, turned into a dozen meters of red Sword Qi.
The white light collided with the red light, causing both waves of light to fluctuate and interweave with each other like a rainbow!
Hum!
A golden staff soared into the clouds, with the copper rings on its body clanging wildly, heading straight down on top of Li Changzhou's head.
Yun Xiao smiled slightly, raising her hand in a slap.
Boom!
The staff transformed into a meteor and vanished straight into the sky; Yun Xiao clenched her delicate hand, feeling a bit of pain.
"Which Arhat is this?" she asked with a laugh, her voice captivating.
The people, dizzied by the blast of air, even thought to themselves: What a beautiful voice, even more pleasant than a Bodhisattva's.
"To exorcise demons is to spread the Dharma, to cut down evil is to become a Buddha!"
With a thud, the distant staff, unexpectedly back in the hand of a monk, was held by the Demon Suppression Arhat.
"Amitabha Buddha," A Floating Tower grew from small to large, spinning in the sky, swooping down on Li Changzhou.
Li Changzhou cast his eyes upward, and before he could act, Yang Qinglan struck with the Ruyi in her hand.
The trees of Mount Putuo burst into growth, crazily entwining around the iron tower like serpents.
From within the Lotus Pond, lotus blossoms transformed into human shapes, each grasping a lotus root as a weapon, charging towards the three Arhats in the sky.
"Humph!" The Demon Suppression Arhat slammed his staff onto the ground.
Boom! The wave of Buddha's power swept across, shattering the Lotus Demons into a shower of petals with green lotus roots scattering amongst them.
The Floating Tower broke free from the snakelike trees and plummeted down like a missile.
Li Qianxia took a step forward, her steel spear dragon-like in hand.
Thud!
She stepped back, and the Unmoving Arhat above, catching the Floating Tower, staggered as well, uttering a Buddha's chant.
Li Changzhou swung the Emerald Bee Sword, and the red sword light fiercely grew another dozen meters.
With a hiss, the red light pierced through the white light, leaving a cut on the White Tiger's forehead.
Roar! The White Tiger twisted its head in a painful roar, sparks erupting from the wound on its forehead like a stream of magma, the "King" character turned into "Jade."
"Let's go," Li Changzhou sheathed his sword.
After all, this was someone else's Daoist arena.
Just then, a pale white jade hand reached down, their complexions changed at once, as they all felt somewhat paralyzed.
Under that hand, they experienced an overpowering sense of powerlessness and inevitability of capture, one they hadn't felt in a long while.
Guanyin!
With the Emerald Bee Sword drawn once again, Li Changzhou unleashed the Five-Colored True Light, pushing against that sky-reaching hand.
It was like flimsy paper against solid metal when the Five-Colored True Light shattered inch by inch.
Spurt!
As blood was spat out, he stepped backward, and behind him, a vortex rapidly expanded, swallowing the four of them whole, without even time to take the green and the white snakes with them.
[Triggered Side Mission: Mighty and Unyielding]
[Mission Content: Lead the Sea Alliance to a frontal assault on Mount Putuo]
[Remark: Just because you are a Bodhisattva, you think you can knock me down with one palm? Wishful thinking! I will not be satisfied until I have dealt with you, taken down your mountain peak. Why else would I read books and practice law? Before my Emerald Bee Sword, everyone is equal!]