My Arms Can Turn into Blades

Chapter 571 - 53: Knocking on the Door

"Stop it!!!!"

Zhang Xiufeng was truly panicked.

Although he had mentally prepared himself extensively before coming.

And he wasn’t someone who didn’t understand the situation, he certainly knew the current circumstance, that the so-called Ancestral Celestial Master was merely a title by now.

Unless, at this very moment, the Ancestral Celestial Master could resurrect and play a greater role than Chen Lusi, while helping Daoism regain its lineage, otherwise, compared to a long-dead Ancestral Celestial Master for nearly two thousand years, and an irreplaceable power of the current Celestial Strategy Mansion.

From Ji Xin to the lowest members of the Celestial Strategy Mansion, even a fool would know whom to choose.

This was the inevitable trend.

And it was also the wish of the living; it couldn’t be wished away with a mere symbolic statement of the Ancestral Celestial Master.

So after hearing Ji Xin’s words, he roughly understood the intention of the Celestial Strategy Mansion.

Although he was still skeptical about Chen Lusi replacing the role, he had mentally prepared himself to accept it.

Even though he felt it was ridiculous.

After all, that was his ancestor... Moreover, Daoism is itself a religion, and its foundation naturally comes with an aspect of reverence, and as the founder, the Ancestral Celestial Master naturally holds a sacred aura.

It’s akin to telling the Roman Catholic Church that their God’s second entity, the Holy Son, must be replaced with someone else...

They might very well go berserk on the spot.

In contrast.

Being capable of calming down and preparing to accept it, Zhang Xiufeng was already remarkable.

However.

No matter the mental preparedness, there are limits to one’s tolerance.

Zhang Xiufeng could accept that Chen Lusi reactivated the talisman, thus replacing them, leading to the shattering of his own Ancestral Master’s stone, since he too would benefit from it, and Chen Lusi didn’t have any malicious intent, as implied by Ji Xin. Chen Lusi wasn’t even aware of the price of reactivating the talisman.

Under such circumstances, coupled with Chen Lusi helping Zhang Xiufeng to regain his abilities as a Daoist.

The knot in Zhang Xiufeng’s heart would naturally lessen, even to the point of vanishing.

But his acceptance of Chen Lusi didn’t mean he could accept a random person tampering with his ancestor’s stone.

Once he recognized the stone atop the ’Artificial Celestial Gate’ in Kunlun was from the Ancestral Celestial Master of Dragon Tiger Mountain.

Zhang Xiufeng was filled with reverence for it.

Initially, when he learned that the stone was heavily impacted because he could use the talisman again, possibly losing its divine aura forever.

He felt deeply troubled.

Just upon reaching the mountain, he almost wanted to prostrate and kowtow in respect, to express his unfilial conduct.

Unexpectedly.

Just upon arriving.

He saw someone floating in front of the stone, seemingly attempting to take it.

He was, of course, anxious, almost driven mad! The only thought was... leave my Ancestral Master’s stone alone!

Chen Qing and the other two witnessed this scene, also widened their eyes, but before they could react, they were startled by Zhang Xiufeng’s loud shout.

Once they had recovered.

Zhang Xiufeng took a deep breath and suddenly leaped into the air... only to fall back with a thud.

Chen Qing and the others were stunned, hurriedly going to assist the fallen Zhang Xiufeng.

Meanwhile, in mid-air.

A little girl in a white dress seemed to have noticed the commotion below and slowly bowed her head to glance down, her delicate doll-like face emotionless, filled with an indescribable ethereal and sacred aura.

Below.

"Are you stupid? This is Kunlun Peak, were you just planning to fly up to the Celestial Gate? Aside from the gatekeeper, who else can do that?"

Chen Qing helped up the badly fallen Zhang Xiufeng, somewhat helplessly.

But Zhang Xiufeng ignored him, once he stood up, he immediately looked up at the top of the ’Artificial Celestial Gate’.

Then.

He was momentarily stunned.

Because the little girl in the white dress had vanished.

As if she had never existed.

And the full, round sapphire at the top of the towering Bronze Gate still had a lackluster flow, and on closer inspection, there were still fine, hair-like cracks constantly appearing, as though it had suffered irreversible damage, slowly disintegrating at this moment.

"Where is she?"

Zhang Xiufeng stared wide-eyed, feeling uncertain and suspicious.

Chen Qing looked up, equally surprised.

At the same time.

Zhang Yunzhong muttered: "...she just disappeared, at the same time when you fell."

"Disappeared directly!?"

Zhang Xiufeng immediately lowered his head, staring intently at Zhang Yunzhong: "Are you sure? Isn’t it more like she ran away... how dare the thief disturb my Ancestral Master!"

"No."

Zhang Yunzhong slowly bowed his head, looking at Celestial Master Zhang in front of him, said: "She couldn’t have run away, I didn’t look away just now, and this event itself is really unusual; this place isn’t a busy market, this is Kunlun Peak.

That little girl looked just about ten years old, right? Do you think a girl that age could make it up here? We all had to climb, and regular people couldn’t make it up here, as for empowerers... where in the country is there an empowerer of that age? Where is there an empowerer maintaining such an appearance? The Tang Language clan? If they had someone better than Tang Language, they wouldn’t have let the silly Tang Language join the Celestial Strategy Mansion.

So, it certainly isn’t something with a physical existence..."

"You mean... Kunlun anomaly?"

Chen Qing slightly furrowed his brow, realizing the severity of the issue: "Could it be a creature from above Kunlun?"

"I don’t know, nobody can guarantee it."

Zhang Yunzhong shook his head: "But didn’t the Celestial Strategy Mansion say that this Bronze Gate also carries the duty to transfer ’patrolling’ gods? So it’s not odd to have one or two gods unhappy with the gate, is it?"

"Hiss..."

The other three were taken aback upon hearing this.