At the bottom of the dungeon of Xiaoyu Palace, Qin Ziang didn't expect that the last person he saw was Jing Ruchen.
His meridians were destroyed by Xie Shiyi, and he was now a useless person. When he saw the elegant and dignified Jing Ruchen, he suddenly burst into laughter.
A strange smile appeared on the face covered with blood and mud, and the white teeth were like a shark at the bottom of the sea.
"What? Jing Ruchen, are you here to laugh at me?"
Jing Ruchen waved his hand, and the guard next to him went down.
She looked down at Qin Ziang and asked, "Qin Ziang, the letter that was first passed to me was from you, right? It was about you becoming the master of Xiaoyu Palace in the near future."
Qin Ziang flew into a rage when she mentioned this. He got up from the ground and grabbed the prison cage with both hands. He ignored the ice that was as cold as bone marrow and panted word by word: "It's me! But Xie Ying, Xie Ying... He has already planted people in the Immortal Alliance, just waiting for me to come to him! Hahahaha, I thought he really abandoned Shang Chongtian for a demon species! But why?! Didn't his ruthless way be shattered? "
Jing Ruchen ignored his crazy nonsense and just stood in front of him, her pure white skirt blooming like a flower in a dark room.
"Qin Ziang, these days, the Immortal Alliance is conducting a thorough investigation of the human world and Zijin Continent."
Qin Ziang was stunned for a moment.
Jing Ruchen said: "The nightmares in the world have been reduced to ashes and smoke, the demon species have disappeared, and many things have no need to exist. This includes the immortal platform and the □□ temple in the human world, and also the 480 temples you founded in Zijinzhou."
Qin Ziang didn't say anything. In the quiet dungeon, the only sound was his heavy breathing.
Jing Ruchen suddenly smiled and said, "Come to think of it, my sister is a loyal 'believer' of your Qin family."
"She said that the head of your Qin family advocates 'benevolence and education', believing that human nature is good and no one is born a demon. She believes that even demons that are parasitized by nightmares have the possibility of turning to good and should have a glimmer of hope."
"She said that those demons were so innocent that they didn't even know what they had done wrong. They also had their own wives, children, parents, and their own lives. Why should they die?"
Jing Ruchen sneered softly, his tone cold: "What a high-sounding statement you make."
"You are against the Immortal Alliance and the Forgetful Sect, but... Qin Ziang, what are you researching in the 480 temples?"
"The Qin family, what a benevolent and kind education!"
Jing Ruchen's tone suddenly turned cold, and his eyes revealed deep disgust and murderous intent.
The truth about the four hundred and eighty temples is only revealed to a few powerful figures in the nine sects.
But those numb men and women, the scarlet pools of blood, and bottle after bottle of dead fetuses were all as sickening as the endless mist and rain over the temple.
Jing Ruchen said: "You set up a secret room in the human world to control the barrier city; you created 480 temples in Zijinzhou; you sold nightmare pills in Nanzezhou, and even colluded with the mayor of Meicheng to attack the Nine Sects. Qin Ziang, you deserve what you have today!"
Qin Ziang suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood foam, his eyes were red and full of madness.
"Jing Ruchen, why do you have to speak so righteously? Today's matter is just a matter of winners and losers. Even without me, there will be someone else who will take the initiative to defeat Nightmare."
Jing Ruchen said indifferently: "No, Qin Ziang. From now on, there will be no nightmares in the world, and there will no longer be Xiaoyu Palace."
She leaned down and said, "You and Jing Ruyu have tried your best to take the position of the Lord of Xiaoyu Palace, but you don't know that this position never confers power."
Qin Ziang was stunned, his pupils dilated: "You? What did you say?"
Jing Ruchen smiled sarcastically.
I thought of Xu Ruqing's meaningful words in Jing Ruyu's Diary.
Jing Ruchen said: "Qin Ziang, if you sit on it, you will not become the master of the world, you will only become a corpse."
Qin Ziang was breathing heavily.
Jing Ruchen said: "Do you know who the Lord of Meicheng is?"
Qin Ziang was stunned: "Who?"
Jing Ruchen's eyes were full of mockery: "How dare you treat him as your confidant and as your servant? You are really crazy. I tell you, his real name is Lan Xize."
"What?!" Qin Ziang's face turned pale and he was terrified, spitting out blood again.
He seemed to have seen something extremely terrifying. Qin Ziang's fingers tightly grasped the railings, banging against them, his expression twisted and crazy, and he suddenly raised his voice: "Lan Xize?! How could he be Lan Xize! That madman Lan Xize died a long time ago?! Died in Shangling Palace, that madman set fire to himself, and died without a complete body! How could he be Lan Xize?"
The secrets of the three great families in Zijinzhou are rarely spread to the outside world. Even Jing Ruchen, the head of a clan, only has a vague understanding of the secrets of the Weisheng clan. If it weren't for Yan Qing and Xie Shiyi, perhaps no one would be able to guess the truth.
Nanzezhou was not familiar with this name, but everyone in Zijinzhou knew "Lanxi Ze". The young genius who had seized power with unstoppable force. The young slave boy born in southern Xinjiang, like a colorful venomous snake, hovered over the aristocratic family.
There was some pity in Jing Ruchen's eyes.
"Lan Xize is a madman, but who among the three great families in Zijinzhou is not a madman?"
As the truth of the 480 temples came to light, more secrets of Zijinzhou were revealed. It was also a holy place for cultivating immortals with beautiful scenery, but the people with outstanding talents in Zijinzhou only appeared in the three major families.
Why
Because they are nobles of Zijinzhou, their supplements include not only "Nightmare" but also "Spiritual Root Diet"!
In Zijin Continent, common people are not even worthy of possessing spiritual roots. In the world of cultivation where the strong are respected, the existence of aristocrats means exploitation in itself.
Jing Ruchen said indifferently: "For the sake of power, you will do anything. It turns out that there was the Temple of Rebirth long before the Four Hundred and Eighty Temple. Fortunately, a young girl set fire to it."
She lowered her head.
"You were surprised when you knew he was Lan Xize? Then you would go crazy if you knew his other identity."
Jing Ruchen smiled gently, her gentle and dignified eyes and brows revealed a cold and murderous intent that was no less than that of Jing Ruyu back then.
She said softly, "Qin Ziang, Lan Xize has another name, and you and I both know it well."
"His name is... Xu Ruqing."
"puff!!"
In the damp and cold hall, Qin Ziang pressed his head heavily against the railing and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Jing Ruchen watched him crying and laughing like crazy, and waited for a long time. He became really impatient, and with a flash of white light at his fingertips, he grabbed his hair through the air.
The pressure from the Spirit Transformation Stage was as cold as ice, and Qin Ziang's eyes were bloodshot, and it was now hard to tell whether he was a madman or a normal person.
Jing Ruchen: "I came to see you, not to laugh at you. Qin Ziang, I just want to ask one thing."
"You have studied nightmares for so long, have you really figured it out?"
"Is it the nightmare that controls people, or is it people who control the nightmare?"
Qin Ziang was being strangled by the neck, but he gave Jing Ruchen a sarcastic smile.
"You already have the answer to this question in your mind, don't you?"
"Jing Ruchen, you still want to prove your sister's innocence? It's really ridiculous. I don't even dare to trust Jing Ruyu, that snake. How dare you still have hope for her?"
Jing Ruchen closed his eyes and said nothing more.
After a hundred years of spring, there is heavy snow on earth.
The Sealing Ceremony was held as scheduled. This might be the time when the nine sect leaders were most united.
All the nightmare-detecting artifacts in the forbidden area were obediently offered up, and the final formation was set up on the snow.
Led by a thousand lamps.
Jinling Sword, Glazed Spectrum, Picture of the Supreme Good as Water, Starry Sky Lotus, Clothes of Hundred Herbs, Kirin Bone, Heart-Protecting Bell, Bodhi Seed.
The bodies of gods and demons returned to heaven and earth along with the Wangchuan Cauldron, bringing the era of gods and demons ten thousand years ago to a complete end.
But at the end of the ceremony, something unexpected happened.
When Yan Qing woke up holding the Nan Dou token, the mirage in the temple had almost dissipated. His mind was blank and his five senses were dull. He lowered his head and stared blankly at the palm of his hand.
The memories of Xi Chaoyun and Xie Shiyi in the last reincarnation have been lingering in his mind.
The red thread between the fingers was twisted into a knot, and the end of the thread, dripping with blood, curved around and fell on the Nan Dou token, as if it was the beginning and end of all this.
"Xie Shiyi..."
Yan Qing's face was pale, his lips moved slightly, and he uttered the name softly. Then, in this world of ice and snow, he looked up as if awakened, stood up against the wall, and walked out anxiously.
Yan Qing walked barefoot on the snow, his steps so fast that his red clothes fluttered in the wind. Although he was clearly in a state of panic, he tried his best to calm himself down.
He couldn't panic, couldn't get confused, and couldn't give the demon god the slightest opportunity to take advantage of him. The demon god remained silent for a long time, and was also shocked by everything he saw in the mirage.
This is the Xiaoyu Palace, the place of heavenly order. Xie Shiyi died here after changing his fate in his previous life. The sacred wood thorn hairpin and the Nandou token, in the misty sea, pulled out all the truth of the previous life and displayed it in front of them very clearly.
The demon took a long time to calm down before finding his voice. He murmured strangely, "Mad man, Xie Shiyi, is really a mad man."
Did Yan Qing stay in the snow mirage for too long? He was blinded for a moment when he first arrived at the secret passage.
He closed his eyes for a moment, then held onto the wall and groped his way out step by step according to the one thousand and nine steps he remembered.
After a brief moment of shock, the demon god began to get anxious: "What's going on now! If Xie Shiyi didn't use the Nandou token, how did you travel back? And didn't Xie Shiyi die? Why did time go back?!"
The darkness amplified the demon's voice and also amplified all the emotions deep in Yan Qing's heart.
Confusion, sadness, regret, waves of burning in my heart.
He thought of the rain in the cemetery, and the quiet world when the gods and the land of the fallen gods separated. So why was he so proud in the first place
Look back, just one look, even just one glance.
My breath melted the upside-down ice spikes, and cold liquid dripped onto my eyelashes.
Yan Qing finally realized it later. It turned out that when he was carrying Xie Shiyi on his back at the bottom of the Cangwang Sea, the young man had his face pressed against his neck. Was he really crying? Ah.
Yan Qing suddenly laughed briefly.
The devil suddenly asked in surprise: "Yan Qing, you... "Why are you crying? The four words were swallowed back into his throat.
Yan Qing wiped the cold liquid off his face and answered His previous question: "Have you never thought that all this is arranged by heaven?"
The demon god was stunned for a moment, then immediately became furious and said, "Why? My birth and my continuation were all caused by those people. It was the evil in their hearts that caused all this. If Heaven really wants order and peace, it's better to kill all the people in the world!"
Yan Qing put down his hand and said calmly.
"You're wrong. You should have died ten thousand years ago. Good and evil have always been equal in this world. The Nine Heavens Gods and Buddhas paid for their mistakes with their lives. You were born from their evil thoughts. After they died, you should not have existed. It was Wangchuan that gave you the opportunity to linger for ten thousand years."
"After Wangchuan was involved, this is no longer a matter of human cause and effect."
When the road turned into a narrow gap, Yan Qing felt a deep chill. He did not move forward, as he knew that there should be a pool of black water inside that would never flow.
Xie Shiyi sacrificed the demon god, causing the wind and snow in the entire Xiaoyu Palace to stop, and loud thunder roared, destroying countless mountains.
Unexpectedly, it awakened him? Unsuccessful.
Yan Qing murmured, "Gods and Buddhas shouldn't have sealed the Wangchuan River. If they hadn't sealed the Wangchuan River, perhaps you would have been discovered and executed by the Heavenly Dao a long time ago."
Why did time go back
Because Wangchuan woke up.
The Heavenly Dao has also awakened
"When I sleep, I sometimes dream."
"What did you dream about?"
"I dreamed of a black hole. The black hole was full of black water. It was very cold."
"Then what."
"Nothing happened afterwards. It was too cold there, damn cold. We bats need to hibernate, you know. But I remember being woken up by a loud noise. At first I thought it was thunder. It wasn't until I staggered around and bumped my head that I realized there was a thief stealing my house."
"Damn thief!"
"But I'm just a bat that needs to hibernate. It's freezing cold, what can I do? I can only continue to sleep, and when the weather gets warmer, I wake up and get out of the cave. I'm really a bat born and raised in Liuxianzhou. I'm not kidding you."
Lan Xize once tried to find the Wangchuan Ding in the Xiaoyu Palace, but ended up with his body torn to pieces.
Xie Shiyi had planned everything all his life, but unexpectedly, by some mistake, he awakened Wangchuan who was sleeping at the bottom of the black water before he died.
Wangchuan's awakening also made Tiandao realize that the devil did not belong to the six elements and was an unnecessary evil in this world.
The nine gods and Buddhas have fallen, and there is no corresponding good, and evil no longer has any need to exist.
Heaven's way makes time go back to spring and the spring of a hundred years ago.
This year, Xie Shiyi came out of seclusion.
This year I was not able to leave the cave.
This year, Yan Qing woke up quietly in front of the ancestral hall.
Yan Qing said softly: "I said, if the order of Xiaoyu Palace really exists, how could it allow the immortal evil god to exist forever in the world."
He raised his head and touched his emerald green eye, and said in a hoarse voice: "The jealous die of jealousy, the arrogant die of arrogance, and the greedy die of greed. Demon, in fact, you also die from the evil of your origin."
"You want to get rid of the shackles of the Heavenly Dao, you want to get rid of the Xiaoyu Palace... so you set your sights on me, but you didn't expect that the one who found me before you was the Wangchuan Ding."
He had seen countless rare and exotic animals in the world, but he had never understood at first why such an ugly bat that accidentally fell into his arms could form a soul contract with him with just a drop of blood.
It turns out that it’s all cause and effect.
The demon god fell silent again, and laughed with extreme hatred and anger: "I didn't expect it! You are willing to use your body as a cage to seal me forever!"
"Is there anything that is hard to understand?"
Yan Qing looked up at an unknown place, and said in a low and hoarse voice: "Who in this world is not using their body as a cage to restrain the nightmare in their heart? Ten thousand years ago, the Nine Heavens Gods and Buddhas and you were an accident."
Yan Qing walked in the dark for too long. When he just came out of the cave, the white light from the sky and earth made his eyes dizzy for a moment.
It seems that today is the day when Xie Shiyi seals the Wangchuan River. By sealing the Wangchuan River, he will also seal all unnecessary evil thoughts and restore peace to the world.
Yan Qing had never been to Xiaoyu Palace and was not familiar with it, but as soon as he came out, he saw an old friend in the snow. Jing Ruchen.
Yan Qing was a little surprised. His current appearance was very evil and strange, with black hair, red clothes, and blood-green eyes. But Jing Ruchen seemed to be waiting for him. The young leader of the Fuhua Sect was gentle and calm, with crane feathers fluttering on his pure white robe. He smiled slightly when he looked over, and his eyes were as clear as water.
"Yan Qing."
Yan Qing heard that everyone in the Upper Heaven always called him "Yan Qing Yan Qing". Only Xie Shiyi called him by his real name, just like he was the only one who called Xie Shiyi.
He was still a little uncomfortable to hear Jing Ruchen calling him by his name. But his desire to see Xie Shiyi had overcome everything, and Yan Qing said hoarsely, "Take me to find him."
Jing Ruchen said: "I am waiting for you here just for this matter."
She seemed to see that Yan Qing was extremely weak, so she raised her hand slightly, and the wind and snow around them slightly dissipated, and a warmth came closer with the air.
Jing Ruchen thought for a moment and said, "Xie Ying is in Xiaoyu Palace now. In fact, the Sealing Ceremony has come to an end, but something went wrong."
Yan Qing: "Mistake?"
Jing Ruchen said, "Yes, Xie Ying dealt with the Lords of the Hundred Cities in the Demon Realm, the Qin Family, and the Four Hundred and Eighty Temples. But at the end of sealing the Wangchuan River, something unexpected happened. It turned out that some nightmares were not collected. These nightmares are all in the body of the little disciple of the Hehuan Sect named Bai Xiaoxiao."
Yan Qing's fingers moved slightly.
Jing Ruchen continued, "Xie Ying is sitting in the Xiaoyu Palace and can't get away. Bai Xiaoxiao has four people in the Spiritualization Stage in his body. He refused to be killed and escaped while seriously injuring several people. Now everyone is looking for him."
Yan Qing looked at her: "But you? Are you waiting for me here?"
Jing Ruchen smiled and said, "Yes. No matter how powerful Bai Xiaoxiao is, she can't reach the Heaven. I'm not in a hurry. I passed by here and thought you might come out today, so I stopped. It seems I was right."
Yan Qing pursed his lips. When his face was expressionless, the charming and evil look in his eyes turned into a deep coldness and hostility, making him look very difficult to approach.
Jing Ruchen didn't seem to care about this. She said, "Yan Qing, the snow stopped here when Xie Ying came out of retreat. The snow in Xiaoyu Palace is the result of the order of heaven. What does the snow stopping represent? I think you and I know it well."
Yan Qing was absent-minded for a while.
He is now very clear... The snow in Xiaoyu Palace has stopped, which means the awakening of Wangchuan and also represents the awakening of the Heavenly Dao.
Jing Ruchen said, "So Xie Ying trapped the nine elders here in order to get each sect to produce its sacred objects, which are nine earth-level nightmare-peek artifacts. Do you think he got a glimpse of some secrets during his retreat? Did he get a glimpse of the truth about nightmares?"
He tilted his head and said bluntly, "You? What do you want to say? Just say it directly."
Jing Ruchen smiled and nodded: "Okay, then I won't beat around the bush."
She walked forward, silver light floating under her skirt, and slowly said: "Yan Qing, I am Jing Ruyu, we are twins. Although there is a curse between us, one rises and the other falls, but in a sense our thoughts are connected. After her death, I thought a lot about what nightmare is? From the initial illness, to the curse, to the evil thoughts of gods, and then to the evil thoughts of people."
"When evil thoughts accumulate too much, they will turn into nightmares in the depths of the sea of consciousness. Jing Ruyu has nightmares, but Zixiao also has nightmares. I know Jing Ruyu is not a good person, but what about Zixiao?"
"Zixiao has killed only evil people in his life. Even if they were used by Jing Ruyu during those years, he would find out everything before taking action. If people like him are all said to be controlled by nightmares, who can be sure that they will not be possessed by the devil one day, you, me, and millions of people?"
Yan Qing lowered his head and looked at the soul thread in his hand. After listening to Jing Ruchen's words, he said in a hoarse voice: "What do you want to ask?"
Jing Ruchen heard his question and was stunned for a second, then he smiled leisurely in the wind and snow.
She looked back at Yan Qing, but her eyes seemed to be covered with a vast mist: "Because everyone in this world told me that when a person is controlled by a nightmare, he or she has no reason and no emotions. But Jing Ruyu rushed over to me in the Tinglan Secret Realm. She took the Red Spirit Sky Fire and the collapsed sky wall for me. I know she owes me this, but I just don't understand, can a person controlled by a nightmare do such a thing?"
Jing Ruchen said: "I just want to know an answer. Her jealousy came so early, but when she was young, was every time she called me sister real?"
No emotion could be seen on her beautiful face. She smiled and said calmly, "Or, the answer I want to know is that it has always been people who control nightmares, not nightmares that control people, right?"
Yan Qing listened to it, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Yes."
Nightmares are born from one's own evil thoughts and are not caused by one's own actions.
It’s just that some people are willing to control, while some people are not willing to control.
Jing Ruchen got the answer she wanted and stopped talking. She smiled, her expression was hard to understand in the heavy snow. Maybe she understood or maybe she was relieved. She took Yan Qing to the main hall of Xiaoyu Palace, talked to him about Jing Ruchen, and then talked to him about Zixiao.
"You may not have thought that before Jing Ruyu became the leader of Fuhua Sect, she also had sympathy for Zixiao, but neither of them thought that the other was stupid and stubborn."
"Zixiao thinks Jing Ruyu will die for his evil deeds; Jing Ruyu thinks he is stupid for living for a bunch of dead people. But neither of them can wake the other up."
Mirror Ruchen said lightly.
"Zixiao was notorious for his viciousness when he was young. He hated evil and would rather kill the innocent than let them go. He killed all the disloyal, unjust and unkind people in the world. It was not until he was harmed by a villain and his entire family was killed by mistake that his personality changed drastically. The Shidui Knife is a divine weapon of the heavenly soldiers. When it gets angry, blood will flow three feet long. But in the hundreds of years after Zixiao's death, I never saw him get angry."
"He has been carrying monuments all his life."
Mirror Ruchen smiled.
"Maybe he is regretting it too. If he had been calmer when he pushed the door that rainy night, and had not let his anger burn his mind, wouldn't he have been able to see everything clearly?"
In fact, as early as the beginning, someone proved to them that the nightmare was not incurable, but no one cared about this past at that time. The green maple forest that Wangqing Sect saw was a long road leading to a hometown that could never be returned to. They only saw the Qin family conspiracy behind the Phoenix Demon Seed and the power entanglement caused by a mole on the tip of the nose.
Nightmare is born in the human body and belongs to oneself, so there is no need to even seek balance.
Good and evil, black and white, love and hate, gains and losses, are complementary to each other.
Don't be afraid.
After all, the consequence of forcibly stripping away the nightmare is this ten thousand years of sinful debt.