The small flower buds bloom little by little.
Each petal was curled with silver light, and starlight flowed along the extended curve of the lotus, illuminating this secluded and dark world at the bottom of the lake like a fairyland on earth.
Pei Jing could feel Ling Chen's sword trembling, a familiar feeling seemed to awaken it. The fat caterpillar landed on the back of Pei Jing's hand, two small transparent tentacles swaying, waiting for a certain moment.
Finally, the lotus bloomed completely.
The bell in Pei Jing's hand was attracted by a force and left his hand, floating towards the lotus. Then it stopped at a point. In the still lake, the starlight and silver light slowly condensed into a pair of hands, with skin as white as cream, delicate and gently holding the bell.
Then, thousands of strands of light outlined her black hair, eyebrows, eyes, and dress from top to bottom.
The goddess of ancient Yingzhou opened her eyes at the bottom of the deathly silent lake.
Her eyes were of different colors, one blue and one green. Her moon-white dress was soft, her black hair was scattered in the air, her eyes seemed to sigh and pity, staring at the bell and then slowly grasping it in her palm.
Pei Jing stood in awe and said, "Senior."
This person should be the most powerful person he has come into contact with so far. As for other ancient powers, Yunxiao Sword Master only has a trace of divine consciousness, and Queen Mother of the West has reincarnated several times. Only the woman in front of him. Woke up at the bottom of the deepest lake in the Soul Chasing Palace, still in the appearance of the ancient gods tens of millions of years ago. There are silver lotus patterns in the corners of her eyes, which adds a sense of coldness to her temperament.
Holding the bell, her eyes fell on his hand. She was in a trance and said, "The sword is in your hand."
The voice was also ethereal, clear and cold.
Pei Jing didn't know what to say.
The goddess of Yingzhou asked: "Are you a descendant of Yunxiao?"
Pei Jing: “Yes, senior.” The bug on the back of his hand had been lying there motionless since the goddess woke up.
The goddess of Yingzhou got the answer and glanced around with strange eyes.
She woke up from a dream thousands of years later. Her eyes darkened, and she turned back to walk forward, her dress trailing lightly, her steps graceful.
Pei Jing didn't know what she wanted to do, but he saw her walk in, and then lightly pointed her finger at the little bug on the back of his hand.
The caterpillar, which had always been well-behaved, stretched out its curled-up antennae, looking very intimate.
Rub it against her fingertips.
The goddess of Yingzhou lowered her head and said softly, "At the beginning, I transformed into my original body, the floating world blue lotus, and released my true essence to seal the realm of the demons. I didn't expect that I would wake up one day." She teased the insect: "Your clan has been with me for thousands of years, but I didn't expect that in the end, it would be you who brought people to find me."
The caterpillar moved its antennae.
The goddess of Yingzhou asked: "Did it bring you here?"
Pei Jing was too embarrassed to say that he was threatening. He just coughed and said, "Yes. I entered the Soul Chasing Palace because of a friend's request to find the Floating World Blue Lotus. I felt strange when I saw the lotus in this pond, and this insect seemed to have a special relationship with this lake. I put it in the bottom of the lake, and it brought me here."
Upon hearing this, the goddess of Yingzhou smiled gently and said, "My original body, the green lotus, was born in the Xirang. This green insect clan has lived in the Xirang for a long time. It recognized my breath, but it has been so long that it should have no memory of it. Perhaps it was the influence of the sword in your body that allowed it to find me."
Pei Jing raised his eyebrows: "Xirang worm?"
The goddess of Yingzhou paused, then thought: "Yes. Xiran is hard to find now, and it is difficult for it to survive. Where did you find it?"
Pei Jing realized something was wrong and said, "Senior, the place where you are sleeping has become a demon palace. As soon as I entered the palace, someone took out this bug and told me that I had to eat it before I could enter."
The goddess of Yingzhou sighed and said, "After the war of gods for tens of millions of years, the Xirang worms are almost extinct. What you ate should be their prosthesis. The prosthesis is their eggs, which look like ordinary worms, but are dead. Only when you practice shedding your shell with extremely abundant spiritual power can you be considered alive."
Pei Jing probably knew what the Soul Chasing Palace wanted to do. They wanted to use the Dantian of a living person to raise the Xirang worm. The so-called technique was probably just to make the cultivator's Dantian a better container. He thought he could keep the fat green worm alive because he had broken the Nascent Soul. But after the Yingzhou Goddess said this, Pei Jing's eyes fell on Lingchen Sword. Perhaps it was the power of the "Sword of Death".
The goddess of Yingzhou had just woken up at the bottom of the lake and didn't know what had happened, but she was born into the God Clan and had not yet entered the cycle of reincarnation. She had a sense of the natural world and said calmly, "If someone wants to cultivate the Xirang worm, it's probably related to my original body."
Pei Jing: "Where is the master's body? I will help you get it back."
The goddess of Yingzhou looked dazed, looking up at the dark river: "The place where I woke up is where the floating world blue lotus is. But someone separated my soul from my body and set a curse here, sealing my five senses and imprisoning me. I can't get out now, and I don't know where my body is."
Pei Jing: "Are the people who set the curse from the demon clan?"
The goddess of Yingzhou frowned, her blue and green eyes were filled with coldness: "They, are they worthy?"
Pei Jing looked at her.
This goddess, who had a gentle face and looked like a blue lotus, turned the topic to Zhujian and said softly, "This sword should be the one that Yunxiao Sword Master gave you to awaken. At the beginning, when both the gods and the demons were defeated, it was he who carried the sword into the Nine Netherworlds, exploded his true essence, killed the Lord of the Heavenly Demon, and saved the ladder from collapsing."
"The sword was taken from the heart of the Lord of the Heavenly Demons, and it is the source of his power. This sword was created at the beginning of the chaos, and it has been missing since the beginning of the separation of heaven and earth. No one expected that it would end up with such a bloody scene."
The goddess of Yingzhou looked at his confused expression and said slowly: "Do you know why it is named Zhu? Because it existed before the world was formed, before the rules were established, it can kill everything in this world. The Lord of the Demons could use it to cut off the ladder to heaven, and now you can use it too—"
Her eyes were as beautiful as a lost tower in the mist, but her voice seemed to come from ancient times, from the beginning of time. It was cold and murderous.
"Heavenly Punishment Way."
As the four words fell, the water seemed to freeze. Heaven Punishment?! Pei Jingren was stunned. Heaven Punishment, what kind of development is this? This matter that sounds like it concerns the fate of the people in the world, shouldn't Ji Wuyou do it
The goddess of Yingzhou saw his shock, but she shook her head slightly and asked another question: "Now, have you never resonated with the sword of death?"
Pei Jing nodded after realizing it belatedly: "I can sense some of the joy and anger."
But the resonance of spiritual consciousness has never existed.
Especially after it awakens.
The goddess of Yingzhou smiled, "This is enough. The sword of the slayer only recognizes one master. It was placed in the body of the demon for thousands of years by the Heavenly Dao, and was watered with blood and sweat. In this life, it should have belonged to the son of the demon. But it fell into your hands, and you can even sense its mood. This shows that you are someone it recognizes, and even have a bond with you."
Pei Jing didn’t even know how powerful he was.
Wait, the Sword of Death was supposed to be Ji Wuyou's sword? !
The goddess of Yingzhou said: "The sword is extremely strict in choosing its master. Perhaps it is waiting for you to attain enlightenment."
Pei Jing looked down gently, looking at the Lingchen Sword that had accompanied him for hundreds of years, thinking about Sword Master's words, and replied softly: "It is waiting for me to break Wuhen."
The goddess of Yingzhou was slightly surprised, her eyes were slightly complicated, but she smiled again: "No hatred, that's right, the sword of the sword of death is the most sincere sword in the world, not even a trace of evil thoughts can be held. Do you have hatred in your heart?"
Pei Jing was stunned: "I don't think I have it."
The goddess of Yingzhou said: "Hate, maybe resentment, maybe regret. But this is your mind method, I won't ask too much. What's your name?"
Pei Jing: "Junior Pei Yuzhi."
The goddess of Yingzhou smiled gently: "Yuzhi, I just told you so much, do you understand what I mean?"
Pei Jing: "..." He only remembered the Heaven Punishment Dao now. But these four words were strange and absurd. The goddess of Yingzhou asked again: "Before you met me, you should have met another master of the fairy mountain."
She was talking about Penglai.
The Lord of Penglai, Queen Mother of the West.
Pei Jing: "Yes, I did. But she..."
The goddess of Yingzhou said naturally: "But she has gone mad, right?"
Pei Jing was stunned and nodded.
The goddess of Yingzhou smiled, and the lotus under her eyes lit up, looking like a tear from a distance.
"She shouldn't have entered the cycle of reincarnation. If she had, how could the heavens let her go?"
Pei Jing hesitated for a long time and asked, "Senior, is the Heavenly Dao you are talking about the same Heavenly Dao I believe in?"
The goddess of Yingzhou had a complex and distant expression on her face: "Which heavenly way do you think it is?"
Pei Jing said: "Shouldn't the Way of Heaven be the law of nature and the order of heaven and earth? It is everywhere and nowhere."
The goddess of Yingzhou was silent for a long time, and murmured softly: "You are right. Perhaps this is no longer the way of heaven. When the rules have emotions, they are no longer rules."
Pei Jing held the sword tightly, with no idea in his mind. So far, he had never come into contact with the Way of Heaven. In fact, to comprehend the Way of Heaven was something that only the Spiritualization Stage could do.
The goddess of Yingzhou thought for a long time, smiled bitterly and said, "What a contradiction. You are the master of the sword, I want you to go to the way of heaven punishment, everyone wants you to go to the way of heaven punishment. I should tell you all the evils that the way of heaven has done, so that you hate it to death. But the sword wants you to have no hatred."
Pei Jing was at a loss. The evil done by Heaven... Does it count if someone is killed by lightning
She held up her sleeves, and beside Pei Jing, she lifted up the shadow of a lotus from under the bottomless lake.
"You will eventually understand the true nature of Heaven's Way."
"I'm just afraid that after you know the truth, you won't be able to kill her."
The goddess of Yingzhou said, "Come to the bottom of the lake to accompany me at night these days. I was born one step later than Zhu Jian, but we are both from the primordial era. Your Yunxiao Heart Technique is destined to be incomplete, and your swordsmanship will also be useless."
"I follow the will of Taichu. Come here and I will teach you Taichu swordsmanship."
Taichu Sword Technique. Pei Jing stood in the shadow of thousands of lotus flowers. He raised his hand blankly. The faint light beside him penetrated into his body bit by bit, and then exploded in his body with great sharpness and power. In an instant, his expression was distorted by the pain, and he couldn't help but curl up at the bottom of this deep dark lake.
The goddess of Yingzhou said: "Control them, sense them, and then kill them."
Perception. Pei Jing felt a splitting headache. The spiritual power he had accumulated over hundreds of years of practice seemed to be gray and full of impurities in front of these lotuses. The Nascent Soul was also extremely ugly in front of the absolute ancient brilliance of the Lord of the Floating World Blue Lotus. However, no matter how he perceived it, these lotuses were all phantoms, and even seemed to be traces left behind ten thousand years ago, and they were not in this world at all.
The goddess of Yingzhou said: "The sword of death can touch them. Now it depends on whether you can sense them."
Pei Jing had a splitting headache. He wanted to send out a trace of his spiritual consciousness, but was blocked by a suffocating feeling. His body was accommodating a completely different spiritual power, overturning the previous four hundred years of cultivation. It was like a new cleansing of the meridians and marrow.
But he simply couldn't bear it.
That night, he fainted under the pitying and lamenting gaze of the Yingzhou Goddess.
When Pei Jing woke up, it was just dawn. He was sleeping in a lotus pond and his clothes were already dry.
The fat caterpillar rolled around on his face. His lips were dry, his mouth was dry, his limbs were sore, and the dew on the lotus leaves rolled onto his face. Pei Jing wiped his face with his sleeves in frustration, and took off the fat caterpillar and stuffed it directly into his sleeves.
"Taichu Sword Technique, what kind of sword technique is that? Invisible and shadowless, relying entirely on one's heart?"
"And... why do we need to punish the Heavenly Punishment Dao?"
He still has a very vague concept of the Way of Heaven.
The last time I heard it was from the Queen Mother of the West, where she said she had inherited some of the power of Heaven.
In fact, now, he no longer regarded this as a world in a book. Except that Ji Wuyou was the protagonist and could not die, the development of things had turned upside down. He even looked down at Ling Chen, who was sleeping in his hand, with a purple light on the blade.
Zhujian, with its name, must be the most supreme thing in this book and this world. It originally belonged to the protagonist, but now it is in his hands. The plot... has completely changed.
Pei Jing murmured: "So, at this point, Ji Wuyou actually doesn't need to follow the plot anymore."
"Master said that the demon clan has begun to awaken."
"I am holding the sword in my hand now. I will kill all the demons and strangle the evil at the source. Ji Wuyou will live a worry-free life without having to awaken the demon bloodline. Isn't everything solved?"
He frowned and said in a low voice, "In other words, now that the Sword of Death has fallen into my hands, I will help Ji Wuyou complete what he was supposed to do. Doesn't this world now feel complete?"
The cool morning light fell on Pei Jing. He endured the pain, stood up, and then flew back on his sword.
He rested in the room and slept until the afternoon. When he tidied himself up and went out, he saw Qiao Mucai squatting at his door.
Pei Jing: “… ... ” When Qiao Mucai saw him leaving the house, his eyes lit up and he stood up. However, his legs were numb from squatting for so long, so he had to hold on to the door sill before he could stand up.
Pei Jing asked: "What do you want to talk to me about?"
Qiao Mucai said guiltily: "No, no, no, it's okay, I just saw that you didn't go out, and I was worried that something might happen to you."
Pei Jing didn't believe that he had such thoughts. He looked downstairs and guessed that Qiao Muchai was bullied downstairs. But now everyone is a mortal, and there are no bruises on Qiao Muchai's face. It is estimated that it was just verbal.
Pei Jing had to go to the bottom of the lake to practice swordplay at night. He planned to save some energy and avoid getting into trouble, so he didn't bother to take care of Young Master Qiao's fragile heart.
He said directly: "Start now, don't drink that stuff."
Qiao Mucai: "Ah? Won't you starve to death?"
Pei Jing took out a lotus flower that he had snatched from Fatty Chong and gave it to him, "Eat this."
Qiao Mucai was stunned. After a moment of being stunned, he almost jumped up with excitement, and then tears filled his eyes: "Brother Zhang, I am really good to me! Those people who don't understand are just talking nonsense, wuwuwu!"
Pei Jing gave him the things and sent him back to his room to practice meditation behind closed doors.
On the second night, Pei Jing felt much better. He was a man of strong will and was not afraid of pain and loneliness. At the bottom of the lake, where no one was, his meridians were being eaten away. In the boundless silence, there was the faint light of the lotus.
He began to get used to the pain.
This made the goddess of Yingzhou stunned for a moment, and she looked admiring.
"I haven't seen your understanding and character for a long time."
After Pei Jing experienced a round of lotuses entering his body to cleanse his meridians and marrow, he felt his blood was cold and cold sweats broke out. He could vaguely grasp the specific direction of those lotuses. The goddess of Yingzhou waved her sleeves and removed those things. Her moon-white dress swept over the flower tip, and she sat on the blooming silver lotus and said softly, "You should take a rest first. Let's talk."
She took out the silver bell from her sleeve, her eyes showing a trace of nostalgia: "You said you were asked by someone to come here to look for the Azure Lotus of the Floating World, but are you a descendant of Yingzhou?"
Pei Jing also sat cross-legged in the dark, stunned for a moment, and nodded: "Yes, she is the next master of Yingzhou Island."
The goddess of Yingzhou smiled and said, "I used to wear a bell, and this child took after me. What kind of person is she?"
In front of elder Yu Qinglian, Pei Jing had to speak positively of course. He paused and managed to squeeze out a few good words: "She is pretty, kind, and smart." That's enough. If Yu Qinglian heard this, he would be ridiculed for the rest of his life.
The goddess of Yingzhou said, "Tell me about what's happening outside."
Pei Jing nodded: "Yeah."
He didn't know when to start talking, so he began with the Heavenly Ranking and talked about some interesting things that happened in the last Questioning the Heavenly Test.
The goddess of Yingzhou smiled and said, "That's great. Five heroes of the world, if your ancestors knew your current glory, they would be pleased."
Pei Jing smiled. Because he was speaking from his own perspective, he told some interesting stories here and there. As he was talking, he came to the point where he failed in his retreat to form the Nascent Soul. At this time, Chu Junyu appeared. He couldn't help but curl his little finger, and he didn't know what he was feeling.
The goddess of Yingzhou held her chin to her hand, and her strange-colored eyes gently watched every expression of Pei Jing, as tenderly as if she was looking at her junior.
Pei Jing said: "Actually, I... came to Tianyan City to look for him."
The goddess of Yingzhou asked, "Chu Junyu?"
Pei Jing: “Yeah.”
The goddess of Yingzhou smiled again: "Your lover."
Pei Jing: “…”
I was so scared that I almost fell down.
He looked at the goddess opposite him with a look of shock and even annoyance.
The goddess of Yingzhou said with a smile: "You don't need to cultivate the way of ruthlessness. If you have a lover, there is nothing to be afraid of."
Her smile slowly faded again and she said, "You're a good kid. He should be a good guy too, as he's liked by you."
Pei Jing was really silent this time. What a fart!
The goddess of Yingzhou looked a little absent-minded, perhaps remembering something that happened long ago, but then she shook her head and the smile on the corner of her lips faded into the light.
She said softly, "You need to comprehend the Taichu Sword Technique on your own. If you can kill all the Azure Lotus Souls in one breath at the bottom of the lake, you have already entered the realm of the beginner."
"Now, I start the next round."
Pei Jing held his breath and nodded solemnly: "Yes."
at the same time.
Inside the Soul-Chasing Palace.
The dragon pattern hovering on the tightly closed stone door oozes a little red from its eyes, like blood, spreading through every crack. Finally, with a rumble, the stone door opened wide, a fierce white light dazzled, and then the appearance inside the stone door was revealed—
Inside the door was a formation! The complex patterns were hideous and bloody, with thousands of demonic auras hovering above them, crushing everything in their path, as if they could crush a person to pieces.
The Soul Chaser looked at the scene in front of him and was so frightened that his soul flew away. He followed Chu Junyu closely, knelt down and trembled: "City Lord, I know nothing, I know nothing, I am only following the orders of the Third Elder. They want me to take people to raise insects, they want me to open the Soul Refining Tower, I know nothing."
Chu Junyu raised his hand, and his dark black sleeves slipped down, revealing his deathly pale hands.
There was a red light on his fingertips.
In an instant, all the demonic energy in the indoor formation surrendered, trembled, and lurked at the center of the formation.
Chu Junyu's face was half light and half shadow, showing no emotion.
Two days later, he opened the stone chamber.
Chu Junyu said: "It seems that the three elders of the Sky Demon Clan are not all useless. They actually opened the Nine Nether Gate."
The corners of his lips curled up in an arc that seemed like a smile: "How interesting, do you think you'll be safe if you hide in the Netherworld?"
He stretched out his hand.
The black-winged butterflies soared into the air, against the white light, like a magnificent rebirth. They rushed in, covering the center of the formation, and fought desperately with the demonic energy.
The man in black uttered his last words, but beneath his understatement was a bloody murderous intent.
"But I closed the city in order to massacre it."
Tianqian Peak. A light rain fell in the middle of the night, pattering on the flowers and plants. It is cold here all year round, and there are not many people. The wind blew into his sleeves and around his fingertips, and Ji Wuyou suddenly felt the bone-chilling cold. He walked to the window and looked out. There were 108 silent peaks in the misty sky. The weather was getting colder, and the chill came over him, and his heart was empty. The hunger that followed him like a shadow in his childhood was even heavier now.
He was very hungry, but he didn't dare to say it because he would be laughed at by the woman. The girl who came out of the mask had recognized him from the first sight and couldn't get rid of him no matter what. She spoke arrogantly and harshly, and her smile was always like watching a play, which made people hate her. But besides his hatred, there was a deeper fear.
Speak of the devil and he will appear.
The woman reappeared on his shoulder, but this time, she was an old woman.
She looked in a distant direction and said, "I feel like something has happened in Tianyan City."
Tianyan City. Ji Wuyou felt bitter and confused.
The old woman swung her fleshless legs, looking strange and terrifying, and slowly said, "Your master went to find his old lover, the one who hated you to the core. Do you think that after they communicated with each other, would your master hate what his lover hated and join forces to kill you?"
Ji Wuyou gritted his teeth, a fire flashed in his eyes, and his eyes were slightly red with anger: "Enough! When can you shut up!"
The old woman grinned: "Are you angry out of shame? It turns out that losers can also get angry."
Ji Wuyou's hands clenched and creaked: "When I'm not a waste, I'll kill you first."
The old woman's eyes were as clear as a pool of water, and her voice was as clear as a child's. She smiled and said, "Ji Wuyou, you are so pitiful, so pitiful and sad."
"Did you fail to break the golden elixir again?"
The word "golden elixir" came out of her mouth with a strong sense of sarcasm.
Ji Wuyou gritted his teeth.
The old woman said, "Go out and travel. It's time for you to go out. I've been entrusted with this task. I wish you to become stronger."
Ji Wuyou stared at her intently, blood oozing from his eyes.
The thousand-faced woman smiles with a thousand different looks and voices. Men and women, young and old, thousands of people have thousands of different voices.
She said, "You promised her that you would become stronger, have you forgotten?"
... ... Pure white light and shadow, that gentle figure, and the soft call.
"Wuyou, you have to become stronger."
The ugly old man said, "I will help you become stronger."
Turning around, it was a young girl smiling slightly, with bloodshot eyes.
It will also help you become a demon.
No, you are a devil, it’s just a matter of sooner or later.
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