The smoke and clouds were far away, and the white layers were rising up to an endless level. The young man's clothes were fluttering, and the hand holding the sword slightly exerted force.
The wind blew the hair past his ears, his figure was tall and straight, and every curve of his waist and shoulders was full of vitality.
Just standing there, he looked like green pines, bright moon, or an unsheathed sword.
The girl who was three steps away from him smiled softly and said, "Pei Yuzhi, I've always wanted to talk to you."
Pei Jing was even more wary of her and only asked, "Are you Tiandao?"
The girl's fingers seemed to move when she heard this, and she pushed away a little of the mist, and said softly: "Heaven's Way, what is Heaven's Way, Heaven's Law, Heaven's Will? How can a will have a will? But everyone in the world calls me that, so that's it."
Pei Jing's eyes darkened, and the murderous aura on his body suddenly became intense.
Tian Dao obviously noticed it, and smiled softly: "You want to kill me?"
Pei Jing said nothing.
I thought to myself: If I have the ability to kill you one day, I will definitely kill you.
Tian Dao said softly: "Why? This should be the first time we meet."
The sword in his hand was icy cold, and the girl in front of him felt too gentle, as if he was returning to the beginning, back to his mother's arms, carefree, obsessed with relaxation, and would become dazed if he was not careful.
What kept reminding and stopping him was the floating world blue lotus hidden in his body. The petals were cold and white, pulling him out of the influence of Tao.
Pei Jing frowned but still said nothing.
Tiandao smiled and said, "Isn't there a rule in the Yunxiao Sect that says you can't kill innocent people?"
Pei Jing didn't know where this place was. The white fog blocked the way and he could only see the stairs under his feet. But he knew that the person who appeared in front of him was definitely not the real body of the Heavenly Dao, but might be a wisp of soul in ten million. Not daring to act rashly, Pei Jing said calmly, "But you are unkind for the Dao."
"Being unkind for the sake of morality?"
Tiandao said this softly, still gentle, and his smile seemed a little helpless: "Pei Yuzhi, I still want to talk to you."
Pei Jing wanted to say, there is nothing much to talk about with you.
But she pursed her lips and chose not to resist.
Perhaps he also wanted to know something from her.
Her dress was layered with gauze, and as she waved her sleeves and her jade-carved fingertips, she made the path ahead of the stone steps clear. She was in a ball of pure white light, and Pei Jing could only see her skirt and fingers. The girl's temperament formed by the natural way was not cold, holy, gloomy, or arrogant. She was neither bright nor dark, but simple and honest, like towering mountains and rivers.
The girl's voice was gentle: "Three thousand worlds, ten thousand rules. You come from another world, the most special existence I have ever seen. I have always wanted to know what your original world was like. Do you have your family and loved ones there?"
She walked forward.
Pei Jing paused, his eyes darkened, and then he followed forward.
Climbing up the steps in the snow, the air is deep and fresh.
Tiandao called out: "Pei Yuzhi... Pei Jing?"
Pei Jing.
Hearing these two words, Pei Jing was a little dazed. After all, for him, "Pei Jing" was the real name that never changed in the two worlds. Names are really a wonderful bond, involving past and future lives, all the love and hate in the past. What was the original world like? I have been away for too long, so long that I almost forgot my hometown.
However, his heart grew colder and colder.
Pei Jing said: "You don't need to confuse me, I have no worries in the modern world."
Tian Dao asked: "Your parents?"
Pei Jing was silent for a long time, a little absent-minded, before he said: "They died in the field they loved and were proud of." When he was sixteen years old.
Tian Dao asked again: "Are you really not worried at all? My friend, my mentor, you are such a sentimental person after all."
After she finished her words, she paused, her smile tinged with compassion and coldness.
Pei Jing said: "I don't know how you define human emotions. If it is based on the length of time, the twenty years in modern times are too insignificant. After all, I have lived in this world for nearly five hundred years."
Tiandao walked beside him, listened to him, and then said softly: "But shouldn't the first memory have the deepest impact on a person? Pei Yuzhi, if I ask you to return to modern society now, would you be willing?"
Pei Jing smiled, smiling calmly and fearlessly in front of the Heavenly Dao: "You are in a hurry to send me away, are you afraid that I will kill you?"
The Heavenly Dao had no emotional fluctuations. With a flick of his finger, the clouds and mists dissipated, revealing the high blue sky, and the green mountains and rivers that stretched for thousands of miles. Pei Jing then realized that the ladder he was walking on was in the air, very high up. He could seem to see the entire continent when he looked down.
Tian Dao said: "I'm not afraid of you, I just don't want things to go into a vicious cycle again. Do you know how you were dragged into this world?"
Pei Jing became a little interested and tilted his head to look at her.
There was a stream of light on the girl's flawless fingertips, a silver glow that lasted for thousands of years: "In the beginning, I used the sword of death as the axis, gathered the evil energy of all things, and created the Heavenly Demon. In the war of the gods, the ladder to heaven was cut off, the whole world was in chaos, the energy broke through the constraints of the rules, distorted and even involved the time and space you were in. So I brought you here."
Pei Jing recalled the golden thunder, purple lightning, and vast sky light that he saw through the glass window before he traveled through time.
So, that was the war of the gods.
Tian Dao said: "However, I still don't know why you came here. Maybe there is an opportunity that I don't know about."
Opportunity. When Pei Jingxin mentioned it, he had a deep premonition that the opportunity mentioned by Tiandao might be related to the book.
Tian Dao walked up and continued, "Being a Daoist is not benevolent—who told you this? Yun Xiao Sword Master, Yingzhou Goddess, Phoenix, Buddha? Or your Yun Xiao ancestor who is in the God Transformation Stage?"
Pei Jing said with clear eyes: "You created the Sky Demon Clan, which is already unkind."
Tiandao was stunned. Although her face and expression could not be seen clearly in the pure white, Pei Jing could still feel that she should be smiling. Her gaze was from a very high place, gentle and distant.
Pei Jing said: "You forced the gods to reincarnate, and made it difficult for humans to practice. Isn't what you did evil?"
The Heavenly Dao said, “Is this evil?”
Pei Jing added in his heart, you also let my lover bear a painful past. So, he felt the same way and hated her to the extreme.
Heaven's question was very light, like a whisper in one's ear. I walked up this ladder for an unknown amount of time, and the stars and the moon seemed to be right under my feet.
She said: "Pei Yuzhi, look down."
Pei Jing looked down and was deeply shocked. The continents were dotted with stars, the sea of stars was blue and boundless, and the mountains were undulating in arcs like the work of nature. At a glance, the sky was vast and the breeze was blowing. It seemed like he was standing on the top of the world. The forests, valleys, mountains, oceans, red soil, and deep white clouds formed a picture. It was painted with thick ink and colors, plants, insects, fish, and all living things.
This glance struck Pei Jing's heart, and he felt cold.
Tiandao said slowly: "I don't know when I gained will. Perhaps, it was the world asking me for help again, so I woke up. I opened my eyes and saw a flower withering in front of me, the land under my feet was shaking, and the rivers I saw were withering. I stood up and could feel the endless spiritual power disappearing and drying up."
"They all say that heaven is not benevolent. What is benevolence? Why should I be benevolent to them?"
When she said this, her gentle exterior shed a corner. Revealing her cold and stern side as a rule, she said: "You absorb the spiritual power of heaven and earth to practice, and turn it into your own, returning it to the Dantian. Have you ever thought that the spiritual power of gold, wood, water, fire and earth is the source of my power, and is also the root of the life of every plant and tree. The spiritual power that returns to the body of the cultivator will be dirty waste after you die. You become stronger by taking away my power, and then - then overwhelming."
She smiled: "But to me, how can mountains and seas not be living beings?"
Pei Jing held the Lingchen Sword tightly to steady his breathing and mind so as not to be led astray by this woman.
Tian Dao spoke every word, his eyes looking through the void with a deep and penetrating gaze. His voice was gentle and calm: "You have been depriving me of my power and destroying the world I protect. Why do you blame me for being unkind?"
Born to be enemies, there is nothing to say. Pei Jing said: "You can set up a heavenly calamity to kill those who go against the will of heaven, why did you create the Heavenly Demon Clan?"
Tiandao smiled and said, "Because you monks will not stop until you die, and will continue to fight." His tone turned cold, "I must put an end to it once and for all."
Pei Jing is now certain that this Heavenly Dao is crazy, or maybe not crazy, but she has another set of order and rules in her heart.
Tiandao tilted her head and asked, "Did your predecessors say that I was immoral and that I regarded sentient beings as ants?" She seemed to smile, "The so-called sentient beings are just referring to you cultivators, or more broadly, humans."
She smiled gently, and her dress woven from starry gauze and moon light fluttered in the clouds. In the pure white light and shadow, her graceful and ethereal figure was vaguely revealed.
"Ants, yes, I treat people as ants... But among the millions of living things in this world, humans are so insignificant."
The voice came from the highest sky, from the depths of this world. She didn't even release her pressure, but Pei Jing felt his chest was blocked, and the spiritual power in his dantian was violent. He could only hold the sword tightly to find a little clarity in it.
Tian Dao said: "If I don't kill all the cultivators in the world, one day your selfishness will exhaust the spiritual energy here. All living beings will die together."
The pure white light dissipated, and the girl stood on the high white jade steps. Her dress was simple and exquisite. She said extremely coldly: "So I created the Heavenly Demons, cut off the Heavenly Ladder, and blocked your way to ascend. I cultivated the Nine Nether Demon Realm and created the Heavenly Demon Clan. They grow by eating the cultivators and absorbing the power of their Dantian. I want this world to have no more cultivators, and no one will go against the Heaven anymore."
“… … .”
The air solidified.
Pei Jing was silent for a long time.
Tiandao took back the emotion that had accidentally been exposed and continued, "This will be a good ending. If no one cultivates immortality, the demons will not come out. I will seal them in the Netherworld and make them the dark side of the world. How wonderful! The spiritual power will not be exhausted, all living beings will be prosperous, and the world will be peaceful."
"But..." Tiandao paused, and she said: "Ten thousand years ago, I was wrong to underestimate the power of those gods. The war of gods ended in a loss for both sides, and no one gained anything. Fortunately, half of the ladder collapsed, and the gods, demons and Buddhas entered the reincarnation. Now there are only a few gods left in the world. I think my child..." She called the demon her own child, and said softly: "My child will awaken again, pick up the sword, and cut off the cause and effect that was not cut off ten thousand years ago. Everything is going according to plan. I watched him grow up and let him take back what he deserves. Things had already reached the last step. He was going to break the perfection of the god, ascend to the sky and cut off the ladder. However..."
"I was still wrong." She stretched out her hand, and her delicate white hand slowly pointed at Pei Jing. She smiled, with deep fatigue and helplessness, which was a compromise of extreme hatred and resentment.
"Ten thousand years later, I underestimated you!"
The voice of the Heavenly Dao is almost weeping blood.
Pei Jing was really stunned this time. What do you mean... underestimated him
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