Chapter 112: Red Robe

When the receptionist at Guest-Return Inn napped, he had a few bizarre dreams, but he couldn’t even imagine that a prestigious red-robed daoist would appear in front of him.

Since the Emperor came into power, he had been promoting the Daoist Sect greatly. About 12 years later, almost every citizen of Great Sui accepted Daoism.

Because of this background, the red-robed daoists who were prestigious in the Daoist Sect were seen by others as immortals.

When Spiritual Master Xiao of Pure Joy Mountain entered the city, this receptionist went to see him by stepping on a stool on the side of the street. Therefore, he still had a vague recollection of who this red-robed daoist was; this man was Spiritual Master Xiao’s second disciple, Phoenix-Chirp Daoist, who was in charge of punishment in the Daoist Sect.

“Go back to your room.”

After saying he was here to a room on the second floor, Phoenix-Chirp Daoist waved his hand and told this receptionist to leave.

The receptionist was stunned by Phoenix-Chirp Daoist’s appearance, so he couldn’t react in time and looked confused.

Phoenix-Chirp Daoist was too lazy to talk to him, so he lightly waved his wide sleeve, and the receptionist was pushed out of the door by a gentle force.

While doing that, Phoenix-Chirp Daoist continued to stare at that room on the second floor.

Creak!

The door of that room was pushed open from within, and a beautiful woman in faint-green slowly walked out. Her hair was fluttering behind her head, and even the pickiest person couldn’t find a shortcoming on her. Her facial features were perfect!

Her eyes were bright, her teeth were pearl-white, and her slightly thick lips were sexy. The most eye-catching feature on her was her bright eyes; they were extremely charming.

She walked out of her room and held onto the railing on the second floor while looking at Phoenix-Chirp Daoist on the first floor. After a slight frown, she suddenly started to giggle.

“It seems that there are true masters in the Daoist Sect,” she said as she flipped her hair, looking charming and alluring.

“Earlier, there was a little fat daoist looking for me. If I weren’t busy, I would have fought him to see if the so-called Big Qi Cycle and Small Qi Cycle of the Daoist Sect are truly unrivaled. However, that fat daoist is an idiot. After I changed my looks, he couldn’t recognize me anymore. I walked past him once on the street, and he blushed after seeing me,” the women said with a faint smile.

“Even though poppy flowers are beautiful, they are poisonous. Although you are beautiful, you are an evildoer.” Phoenix-Chirp Daoist snorted and said, “You can fool others, but you can’t fool me.”

“Yeah.” The woman still looked charming, but her voice suddenly became masculine. “I heard from long ago that there is a red-robed daoist named Phoenix-Chirp Daoist in the Daoist Sect, and his most powerful ability is the innate godly sight; he is able to see through all the illusions and fakeries in the world. I didn’t believe it, but now it seems like I underestimated the Daoist Sect. You… must be that Phoenix-Chirp Daoist.”

She… was actually Monk Chenya!

After he dressed up as a woman, he became this charming!

Phoenix-Chirp Daoist looked at Chenya and said coldly, “I’m a bit surprised. Don’t you people of the Buddhist Sect look down on women? How come you are dressed as a woman in order to escape our detection? If Great Wheel Wisdom King learns about this, will he die of rage?”

“Body is nothing compared to the mind. Great Wheel Wisdom King could transform into all forms with a thought.” Chenya smiled and pointed at the rooms in the inn. “What? Are you planning to battle here? Aren’t you afraid of injuring the innocent citizens of Great Sui? Doesn’t Spiritual Master Xiao of Pure Joy Mountain always say that you daoists are the protectors of the citizens of Great Sui?”

“I wouldn’t injure others while arresting you.” Phoenix-Chirp Daoist looked at Chenya in disdain and took a step forward.

While he moved, a slit suddenly appeared on his forehead, and a streak of dark-red light suddenly shot out of the slit. This scene was terrifying!

The size of that slit was comparable to a human eye, so it looked like a third eye grew out on his forehead, even though it was vertical.

Since Phoenix-Chirp Daoist took a step forward, Chenya naturally focused on his footwork. However, after this split-second of distraction, he instantly realized that Phoenix-Chirp Daoist obtained the advantage. Chenya only looked at the vertical eye on Phoenix-Chirp Daoist’s forehead after looking at his feet.

At this second, Chenya found that he lost all mobility; he couldn’t even move a finger. His heart lurched a little, and he grew fearful for the first time since he entered Great Sui.

“Your abilities are average,” Phoenix-Chirp Daoist snorted and walked up the stairs.

Chenya didn’t know what method Phoenix-Chirp Daoist used, but no one in the inn walked out of their rooms.

From the room next door, Chenya heard vague snoring noises. As a result, the building was extremely quiet, and the noises that Phoenix-Chirp Daoist made as he walked up the stairs were clear.

There were 18 steps, and Phoenix-Chirp Daoist wasn’t fast.

When Phoenix-Chirp Daoist got to the second floor, Chenya was already sweating profusely.

However, when Phoenix-Chirp Daoist was about to get to Chenya. A crisp cracking noise sounded.

Phoenix-Chirp Daoist frowned and leaped forward like an eagle before striking toward Chenya’s forehead.

Boom!

A huge hole appeared in the corridor of the second floor, and chipped wooden pieces flew in all directions.

After the dust settled, Chenya was nowhere to be seen.

…

“Illusional Bind… The secret techniques of the Daoist Sect sure are fascinating.”

At the door of Guest-Return Inn, Chenya looked at the red-robed daoist on the second floor and sighed.

Although that strike didn’t land on him, his face was extremely pale as if he had no blood in his body. However, this added to his charm, making him seem weak and making others want to protect him.

Drip.

Soon, a small puddle of blood appeared by his feet, and his left pinky finger was missing.

“Too bad that you haven’t mastered the Illusional Bind. You can only control those with high cultivation strength for a moment, and you need to sneak-attack. Even though you can control others’ bodies, you can’t control the circulation of qi in their bodies. If you weren’t arrogant and took your time to go to the second floor, I might not be able to react and transform my qi into a blade before cutting off one of my fingers. With the pain, I broke through your bind.”

“It is still the same; you can’t get away,” Phoenix-Chirp Daoist replied calmly. Although it seemed like he didn’t do anything, he disappeared on the second floor. In the next second, he was already at the door of the inn.

Monk Chenya smiled and dashed away. At the same time, he flicked his right middle finger, and a streak of qi pierced toward the receptionist of the inn who stood by the door in a daze.

Tink! Phoenix-Chirp Daoist blocked that streak of qi with his palm, and the receptionist who still didn’t know what happened had no idea that he walked on the verge of death.

Because of this short delay, Chenya already disappeared into the night. Phoenix-Chirp Daoist snorted and swung his sleeves in a huff.

Then, he flew into the air vertically like a cannonball and disappeared as well.

The receptionist rubbed his eyes forcefully and still couldn’t believe what he just saw.

After a long while, his mind was still messy, but he knew two things for sure. First, he knew that “woman” was extremely beautiful, and he felt dizzy after looking at her for a while. Second, he felt like that red-robed daoist was truly an immortal. Otherwise, how could he swing his sleeves and dashed into the sky?

While walking back into the inn, he suddenly stepped into thin-air and fell.

Startled, he quickly crawled back up and saw two pits in the stone path before the inn. He thought back and realized that the red-robed daoist must have shattered the stone tiles when he swung his sleeves.

Until now, he finally realized something else and screamed.

Then, he dashed into the inn and saw the railings on the second floor all falling, sending dust into the air.

Chenya had never thought that he would be in such a disheveled situation.

Since he had to cut off one of his fingers to break away from the Illusional Bind that the red-robed daoist used, Chenya who had been conceited felt a sense of uncontrollable shame. However, while the sense of shame intensified in his mind, he suddenly started to laugh while dashing away.

His eyes became extremely clear, and all the anger and frustration disappeared.

“Dust! This is the dust in my mind! I have been trying to find that speck of dust in my mind but failed. In order to lure out this speck of dust that is affecting my buddhist heart, I even killed a few innocent people on the way. I thought that by placing a speck of dust in my mind and taking it out, I would be able to perfect my buddhist heart, but I was wrong. I only got murderous for a second, and this emotion disappeared afterward, along with the speck of dust that I tried to capture,” Chenya thought to himself as he fled, “That red-robed daoist first scared me and then angered me. This is the speck of dust in my mind! Fear and rage! Kill him! I would be able to wipe away this speck of dust by killing him!”

With this thought, Chenya suddenly gave up the idea of escaping. He suddenly froze in mid-air and landed straight down.

A shadow that was dragged out by the moonlight appeared on an empty street. Monk Chenya who was planning to flee stood on the street quietly, waiting for that powerful red-robed daoist to appear.

Chenya’s expression was calm, and his eyes showed no emotions.

Now, he wasn’t fearful nor angry. Now, he saw that red-robed daoist as the speck of dust.

…

Seeing his opponent who had fled standing in the middle of the street, Phoenix-Chirp Daoist also landed from the sky.

Bam! Crack! Crack! Crack!

A loud noise was followed by many faint cracking noises. It was hard to tell how many green stone tiles were broken.

Chenya squinted his eyes and praised in his mind, “This daoist’s movements are so heavy! Such powerful internal forces!”

Phoenix-Chirp Daoist wasn’t moving around so fast by using a great light-body skill; he was purely using his powerful internal forces! At the door of the inn, he swung his sleeves and shattered the green stone tiles and creating two pits. When he landed, he broke the surface of the street!

Repulsion! This red-robed daoist was using the great repulsive force generated by his powerful internal forces against different objects!

“You aren’t going to escape anymore?” Phoenix-Chirp Daoist asked.

“Going forward and moving backward are all within the buddhist principles, and there are reasons behind them. Why was that fleeing?” Chenya said with a smile.

Phoenix-Chirp Daoist’s expression stayed the same, and he asked another question calmly, “You are probably the person who has been selling fake questions. Tell me what you are planning to do.”

“Since you can guess it was me, why can’t you guess my intention?” Chenya replied as he formed a hand seal with his fingers; it looked like he was picking a flower.

“It doesn’t matter what your intention is. It is time for all this to end.” After saying that, Phoenix-Chirp Daoist took a deep breath and swung his sleeves backward.

A series of ear-piercing explosions sounded, and a series of visible air currents rippled behind his body.

Phoenix-Chirp Daoist was incredibly fast! Words couldn’t even describe it!

Chenya only had time to change his hand seal once before Phoenix-Chirp Daoist who seemed like a raging fire appeared in front of him.

Under the moonlight, the fluttering red robe couldn’t be more dominating!

Bam!

A huge amount of repulsive force struck the seal that Chenya placed in front of his chest for protection.

The seal only lasted a few seconds before it was shattered by the repulsive force.

Then, this insane amount of repulsive force struck Chenya’s chest, and he got sent flying for more than a dozen meters before smashing into a wall.

Many pieces of tough green bricks were shattered, and Chenya was almost inlaid into the wall.

While dust flew everywhere, Chenya puked out a mouthful of thick blood. His eyes seemed unfocused, and his mind even blanked out momentarily.

He got out of the wall with difficulty and wiped away the blood on his lips.

“Such a strong repulsive force. You actually… surpassed…”

Before Chenya could finish, the fire floated in front of him again.

Phoenix-Chirp Daoist appeared in front of Chenya as if he walked out of another dimension, and he slowly pressed onto Chenya’s chest.

“Your eyes are great since you quickly saw through my cultivation strength. Too bad, too bad,” Phoenix-Chirp Daoist said.

Then, a tsunami-like repulsive force suddenly appeared in his hand, and Chenya’s body got sent flying like a cannonball, spilling blood along the way.