Chapter 78 Three ways try the Fairy Immortal Trap Even though the three fairies, transmuted from Lao Tzu's vital force, had physical form, they could not injury Grand Master of Sky. To overcome the Immortal-Slaying Trap, they needed four people with very potent magic arts, so Celestial Primogenitor of Kunlun Mountain and Lao Tzu called upon Buddha Candi and Taoist Jieyin from the west. In addition, Primogenitor, wrote spells on his four eldest disciples' palms and instructed them that in the next day's battle, if they were to see flames, they should hastily hold the four magic swords and take them away from the trap. The four Archpriests applied magic arts to protect themselves when they entered the trap. Each of them attacked from one direction. The magic swords of Grand Master of Sky could not damage the four Archpriests. Thus he was besieged and struck several times. After the four swords had been taken away by Primogenitor's four disciples, Grand Master of Sky knew the trap was broken through. He then fled out of it and headed for his temple to perform another powerful magic weapon. When Xu Gai, the chief officer of the Pass Jiepai, sent a messenger to King Zhou urging for help, King Zhou became apprehensive. But Daji convinced King Zhou that the generals at the borders were making up fake reports in order to gain more financial support from the court. She impelled King Zhou to cut off the head of the messenger. Jizi, a relative of King Zhou, went to caution him, but the king would not listen to him. Under this situation Xu Gai intended to surrender, but his deputy generals firmly requested to persist in they fight. Then Thunder-quaker killed one of the two deputy generals.
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