The Great Wei Music Bureau

Chapter 156: Master Mo Zhai

Last time, we talked about how Li Yi combined his powerful soul power with Buddhism and finally defeated Jing'an, who had received the help of the Asura Dharma from the Asura King, and fulfilled his promise to Master Jingchan. So what was the situation of Yiling's battle? Let's take a look together.

While Li Yi and Jing'an were fighting fiercely, Yi Ling was already in a tough fight. Facing Qiu Xiong, she was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength, body movement and martial arts, and was completely played by the opponent. If it weren't for the fact that this old pervert was afraid of hitting Yi Ling's pretty face, the fight would have ended long ago. Yi Ling also calculated this point and said that she could hold this guy back.

Qiu Xiong played cat and mouse with Yi Ling for a while, and suddenly realized that Jing An had used all her strength. He shouted, "My little beauty, I can't play with you anymore. I know what you are planning, but if I don't bring that kid back, I won't be able to report to my superiors, so don't blame me for hitting him too hard next time!"

After saying that, Qiu Xiong threw out his halberd, and the five-colored five-edged halberd directly pierced into the ground, and then transformed into a soil evil beast to chase Yi Ling who was hiding underground. Not long after, the ground suddenly broke open, and the soil evil beast threw Yi Ling to the ground. The latter supported herself with two peach wood swords with difficulty, and she had many scratches on her body.

Qiu Xiong clicked his tongue and said, "Tsk tsk tsk tsk, my little beauty, why are you doing this? If you just listen to me, you can avoid all this physical pain!"

The Earth Demon Beast transformed into the form of the Five Demon Beasts, and the Earth Demon Beast's head and eyes glowed blue, dissolving Yi Ling's Earth Shrinking Technique. Qiu Xiong came to Yi Ling and said with a smile: "Okay, my little beauty, you should get some sleep first. I'll chat with you slowly after I take down that guy."

Qiu Xiong stretched out his hand towards Yi Ling, at that moment, a huge word "Zhen" fell from the sky. Qiu Xiong immediately dodged it, and the word "Zhen" hit the Five Evil Beasts and directly embedded it into the soil.

Qiu Xiong looked up at the sky and shouted, "Who dares to ruin my good deeds?"

A bearded man wearing a Confucian robe and holding a brush slowly landed on the ground. He looked to be in his forties. Yi Ling covered his shoulder and stood behind him. The middle-aged man stared at Qiu Xiong and asked, "Is there anything wrong?"

Yi Ling said unhappily: "You still care about my life or death!"

The middle-aged man shook his head and sighed, "It's been so many years, and you still can't let it go? I've told you so many times that I was busy at the time and couldn't bring you with me. Besides, Senior Brother Tao Xuan was so good to you!"

Yi Ling said coldly: "Humph, if it weren't for Master and my brothers being so kind to me, I would definitely hate you for the rest of my life!"

Qiu Xiong interrupted their conversation and said: "It seems that you are determined to do bad things, so I will kill you first!" After that, he stretched out his hand and grabbed, and the five evil beasts turned into five-colored five-bladed halberds and flew into his hand, and then attacked the middle-aged man.

This middle-aged man is none other than Mo Zhai Zhenren who saved Yi Ling that year. His surname is Wang and his given name is Youjun. He is one of the two great Confucian scholars in Southern Liang. We have mentioned the other one before, Cheng Jing, who made Tuoba Jun say "There are many good ministers in Jiangnan".

In addition to being a great scholar of heaven and earth, Wang Youjun has another identity. He is a descendant of the Tianshi Mansion of the Tianzong of Taoism. He was born into the Wang family of Langya. His ancestor was a Tianshi, so the Wang family is the heir of the Tianshi Dao.

When it came to Wang Youjun's generation, he combined Taoist magic with Confucian and Taoist magic to create his own method, focusing spiritual power on words written with talent as ink, and then using the words to mobilize the power of heaven and earth. This is the Mo Dou technique.

Because of his excellent calligraphy, Wang Youjun became the second most influential figure in Confucianism and Taoism in Southern Liang, second only to Zhu Zi Zhu Wentai, who was at the supernatural level. He was known as "the one who could reach the sky with calligraphy" and "the saint of calligraphy".

Seeing Qiu Xiong attacking, Wang Youjun calmly picked up the brush and gathered his energy to write the word "Ding" in the air, and then pushed the word towards the opponent with his left hand. Qiu Xiong immediately jumped sideways to avoid the word "Ding" flying towards him, but the word "Ding" directly dissipated halfway and turned into black mist that surrounded Qiu Xiong, who was infected by the black mist and could not move.

Seeing this, Yi Ling wanted to kill his enemy, but Wang Youjun stopped him and said, "Don't go over there. This one word alone won't stop him!"

As soon as he finished speaking, black evil spirit emanated from Qiu Xiong's body, and then he regained the ability to move. He stretched out his hand towards the lake, and hundreds of wandering ghosts were instantly sucked into his palm. Then the evil spirit burst out and turned into black smoke, which attached to his body and condensed into a layer of black armor.

Qiu Xiong raised the five-colored five-bladed halberd and said, "Humph, I've heard that Wang Youjun's calligraphy is very powerful, but it seems that he is just a name for nothing. With this evil spirit armor, even you can't stop me! Today, I will send you to hell!"

After saying that, he rushed towards the two of them. Wang Youjun pulled Yi Ling off the ground and Qiu Xiong rushed to where the two were and was about to jump up to chase them when a black word "thunder" suddenly lit up under his feet. He was still wondering when Wang Youjun wrote the word "thunder" when a ball of lightning exploded on the ground.

After the explosion, Qiu Xiong's evil spirit armor was badly damaged and he himself was slightly injured. He glared at Wang Youjun and said, "Is this the power of heaven and earth? The great scholar of heaven and earth is indeed amazing. You are lucky today, my little beauty!" After that, he jumped into the river.

Yi Ling shouted, "He's trying to escape by the river, stop him!"

Wang Youjun stroked his beard and smiled, "Don't worry, they dared to disrupt the cycle of heaven and earth, I will naturally not let them go, but I didn't expect this Ye Maoshan to have such strength."

Yi Ling said: "He is not an ordinary Ye Maoshan. Have you heard of Shura Palace? They awakened the incarnation of Shura King in Jin'an Temple!"

Wang Youjun frowned and said, "The incarnation of King Shura?"

Yi Ling nodded and said, "That's right. If it weren't for the Buddha's heir, the incarnation of King Shura would have already started a killing spree! If we can catch this guy, we will definitely be able to find out more about the conspiracy of Shura Palace!"

Wang Youjun nodded and said, "Okay, I'll capture him right away!" After that, he condensed his energy and turned it into a roll of yellow paper. He unfolded the paper in front of him with his left hand, picked up the brush in his right hand and wrote four words "Ink Dragon Locking Soul" on the paper, and then pushed the yellow paper towards the Yangtze River.

The yellow paper entered the water, and the ink spread out, dyeing the river water black. The black water accelerated its flow and transformed into a black dragon chasing Qiu Xiong. After a moment, the black dragon bit Qiu Xiong's throat, and its four claws held down his limbs tightly. Its body wrapped around him like a chain and brought him out of the water.

Wang Youjun picked up the brush and threw out ink. The ink turned into an iron chain that locked Qiu Xiong tightly. He turned around and pulled Qiu Xiong in front of him.

Yi Ling stretched out his hand, grabbed a peach wood sword and put it on Qiu Xiong's neck, and asked sternly: "Tell me what you do in Shura Palace!"

Qiu Xiong snorted coldly without answering. Yi Ling immediately used the peach wood sword to cut one of his tendons. Qiu Xiong gritted his teeth and said, "I have no chance of survival if I fall into your hands. Don't even think about getting any information from me!"

Yi Ling said coldly: "Humph, you want to die? It's not that easy. If you don't tell me the secret of Shura Palace, I will make you live a life worse than death!"

Qiu Xiong said with a wicked smile: "You can tell me if you want. As long as my beauty plays with me, I will tell you everything I know!"

Yi Ling was about to cut his other hand tendon, but Wang Youjun stopped her with his hand and said, "Forget it, he is a man of integrity. There is no point in torturing him. Let's just examine his soul directly."

Yi Ling said unhappily: "That's too easy for him. Besides, his soul power is stronger than mine, and I can't examine him."

Wang Youjun smiled and said, "It's okay! You come to protect me, and I will examine his soul myself." After that, he put away the brush and placed his right hand on Qiu Xiong's crown. A blue halo appeared on his palm. Qiu Xiong rolled his eyes and his whole body twitched.

Wang Youjun directly pulled out Qiu Xiong's soul, and the iron chains and black dragons wrapped around Qiu Xiong immediately dissipated. Then his eyes lit up with blue light and began to examine Qiu Xiong's soul.

After a moment, Wang Youjun suddenly widened his eyes, pressed Qiu Xiong's soul back into his body, then took out a brush and drew the Five Thunder Curse on Qiu Xiong's head, and then slapped it into his body with one hand.

Yi Ling asked in confusion: "Why did you cast the Five Thunder Curse on him?"

Wang Youjun said angrily: "His name is Qiu Xiong, the head of the Ghost Blade Hall of Shura Palace. Do you know who his master is?"

Yi Ling shook his head, and Wang Youjun replied: "He is the most proud disciple of Huang Luxian, and that Huang Luxian is one of the founders of Shura Palace!"

Yi Ling was surprised and said, "Huangluxian is one of the founders. What else does Uncle Shi know?"

Wang Youjun replied: "The ultimate goal of the Shura Palace is to liberate the Shura clan from hell, so as to help the Demon Ancestor Luohou break through the seal of the Buddha Tathagata! If they really succeed, when the Buddha enters Nirvana and the Demon Ancestor is reborn, it will definitely bring about a catastrophe between heaven and earth!

You must immediately return to Qiyun Mountain to inform the head of the Earth Sect, Shi Ling Zhenren, and ask him to send people to wipe out the Shura Palace. I will also inform the head of the Heaven Sect, and ask Zhenren Qianyuan to make early preparations. This matter is of great importance and must not be taken lightly!"

Yi Ling nodded and said, "Yes, I know that the successor of Tathagata Buddha is here to deal with the incarnation of Shura King. It can be seen that Buddhism has been prepared for a long time."

Wang Youjun asked in confusion, "The heir of the Buddha Tathagata? If the Buddhist sect knew about this, why didn't they inform us?"

At this time, Li Yi came back, and Yi Ling immediately said, "He is a Buddhist. You can ask him about the situation of Buddhism."

Wang Youjun asked in confusion: "A Buddhist? Who is he?"

Yi Ling smiled and said, "Li Yi, the head of the Northern Wei Dynasty's Music Bureau, was the first person to practice both Confucianism and Buddhism."

Wang Youjun asked, "Li Xiuyuan, the most talented scholar in the Northern Wei Dynasty, I heard that he was here, but I didn't expect you to be with him?"

Yi Ling replied: "My master asked me to find him. It seems that he must be related to Shura Palace."

Li Yi looked at the upright Wang Youjun, then at the collapsed Qiu Xiong, and immediately bowed and said, "My name is Li Yi, sir. May I ask your name?"

Yi Ling replied: "This is the Master Mo Zhai I told you about before. You definitely don't know this name, but if I say he is the 'calligraphy saint' Wang Youjun who can 'reach the heavens with his writing', you will definitely know him!"

Li Yi's eyes widened and he immediately stepped forward and saluted, saying: "So you are the 'Saint of Calligraphy'. I have been copying your calligraphy since I was a child! If you can say so, you are my calligraphy teacher!" After saying that, Li Yi saluted Wang Youjun as a disciple.

Due to the deviation of the wheel of history, there is no Jin Dynasty in this era, and the "calligraphy saint" Wang Youjun in front of us is the "world's best running script" Wang Xizhi in the previous life.

In his previous life, Li Yi learned calligraphy in the Children's Palace when he was a child. When he learned running script, he copied the "Preface to the Sacred Teaching" compiled by Monk Huairen in Wang Xizhi's handwriting and his seventeen handwritten letters. Only when his skills had accumulated to a certain level could he copy the "Preface to the Lanting Pavilion".

However, Wang Youjun replaced Wang Xizhi here. He did not write so many letters. What he wrote most were Taoist scriptures. His calligraphy became so powerful because he studied Taoist scriptures, practiced Taoism, and realized the true meaning of Taoism.

According to Wang Youjun's explanation, the original intention of the first sage Cangjie to create characters was not to record events, but to communicate with heaven and earth. Recording events was just an additional function. His Mofu technique used this theory to combine Taoism with the righteousness of Confucianism and thus restore the original function of characters to a certain extent.

When Li Yi saluted Wang Youjun, Wang Youjun turned sideways and shook his head, saying, "I cannot accept your salute. Even though you have been copying my calligraphy since you were a child, I have never taught you, so you can only be considered self-taught."

Li Yi wanted to exchange a few more pleasantries, but the unconscious Qiu Xiong suddenly opened his eyes and saw that he was not tied up. He immediately attacked Yi Ling, hoping to use her as a hostage to find a chance to escape. But this time Li Yi was prepared. As soon as Qiu Xiong stretched out his unbroken hand to Yi Ling, Li Yi kicked him away, and he used the force to escape into the water.

Seeing that Wang Youjun and Yi Ling did not respond, Li Yi asked in confusion: "Do you want me to catch him back?"

Yi Ling joked, "Of course! We still need to get the secret of Shura Palace out of him! Why are you still standing there? Go now!"

Li Yi said "oh" and was about to jump into the water. Wang Youjun stretched out his hand to stop him and said with a smile: "This little girl is teasing you. He can't run away."