"Demon seed?" Jing Ruyu looked at Xie Shiyi with a mocking look in her eyes, as if she had heard something funny. She said coldly, "Xie Ying, you are indeed a lunatic. Over the years, you have killed many innocent people in the name of 'eliminating demons'. If you want to kill me, why do you have to beat around the bush and label me a demon seed? I have reached the level of a spirit being, do you need to tell me whether I am a demon seed or not?!"
The more she spoke, the angrier she became, and the red in her eyes seemed to be about to burst out.
Xie Shiyi didn't say anything. He just raised his head and looked upwards quietly.
The pure white flames grew more and more violent, surrounding the entire Bone Hall. Sparks fell like meteors, and the beams, stone pillars, and bone walls were all crumbling.
Jing Ruyu took a step forward, his expression dark and crazy: "Don't look anymore, all the exits of Tinglan Secret Realm have been burned by the Red Spirit Sky Fire, you can't escape even if you have wings." Jing Ruyu smiled smugly and said, "Xie Ying, I have known you for so many years, I can give you a chance to say your last words, do you want to say something:"
The corners of Xie Shiyi's lips curled up slightly, his eyes full of coldness.
He didn't like to talk, nor did he like to talk about all the grudges and schemes. He even had no interest in talking to anyone except Yan Qing.
Sitting high in the Jade Palace for so many years, countless people were anxiously guessing his every thought and every move. But after guessing over and over again, they never got an answer.
A soul tablet appeared in Xie Shiyi's hand hidden under his red sleeve. There was a small hole on the soul tablet, and a drop of blood condensed on the hole.
His eyelashes drooped, his fingers absentmindedly groping for the patterns on it, and then he coldly and cruelly scratched the soul tablet.
A white mark suddenly appeared on the reddish-brown agate.
Jing Ruchen, who was crawling on the ground, suddenly frowned. Jing Ruyu's smile froze instantly.
A sharp pain ran through her body and painful tormented her soul.
Jing Ruyu's face turned pale. She suddenly raised her head and looked at the soul tablet between Xie Shiyi's fingers. Her eyes were red with anger: "Soul tablet?! When did you take Jing Ruchen's blood?"
Xie Shiyi didn't answer her, but said calmly: "The owner of Tinglan Secret Realm is Baisi, but the person who created it is not him."
Jing Ruchen's blood could open the Six Paths Tower. He believed in Jing Ruyu's life, and could also open another exit.
After all, this ancient secret realm located in Fuhuamen was created by Mirror Man.
Jing Ruyu stopped smiling, her expression was cold, and her pupils were filled with murderous intent. This time she finally stopped talking nonsense, and a strong green wind rose in her palm, hitting Xie Shiyi directly.
Xie Shiyi's red clothes were stained with blood. He held the Soul Plate in his hand and this time showed no mercy, crushing it into pieces.
The pain of having the soul crushed is intense, like ten thousand swords piercing and stirring in the mind.
Jing Ruyu groaned, and at this moment she actually laughed out loud. She was not angry or shocked, but desperate and ironic. She had always been cautious and careful all her life, and would never put herself in danger without absolute certainty.
Who could have thought that the greatest danger came from her closest relatives.
Her mother set up a huge trap for her.
Twin mirrors reverse fate.
"Xie Ying... you are indeed a murderous madman..."
Jing Ruyu staggered, blood oozing from the corner of her mouth. She covered her chest and half-knelt on the ground.
She and Jing Ruchen have now exchanged fates, but the Soul Plate locks Jing Ruchen's soul, not her body.
If Xie Shiyi crushed the Soul Plate, she would die first for Jing Ruchen, and then Jing Ruchen would also die because his soul disappeared.
Wait, that's not right.
Jing Ruyu suddenly thought of something, her scattered pupils gradually condensed, and her whole body became cold.
In fact, it is very difficult to kill a cultivator in the God Transformation Stage.
As long as the soul is immortal, given enough time, the body can be reshaped and recreated, and the Nascent Soul can be re-formed and retrained.
If one wanted to kill a Divine Transformation cultivator, the only way was to scatter his soul. If his soul was scattered, even within the twelve hours of life and death, Jing Ruchen would also be affected.
Jing Ruyu supported herself on the ground with her jade fingers, her black hair hanging down, her eyes blank, she had seen the end of her fate a hundred years later. This time she did not look at Xie Shiyi, but came back to her senses and looked at Jing Ruchen who had been knocked unconscious by her.
Jing Ruchen lay on the ground, her eyelashes drooping obediently, her white skirt was like an endless stream of flowers on Yasha Peak. The white spiritual energy that extinguished the red spirit fire for her when the mirror shattered had not dissipated yet. They circled around Jing Ruchen intimately, seeping into her skin, her veins, her blood, and her soul bit by bit.
They... are corroding Jing Ruchen's soul!
Jing Ruyu's fingers trembled violently and she laughed like crazy.
She just now realized the coldest thing. For a moment, she felt as if she was in a world of ice and snow. Her limbs and teeth were trembling, tears welled up in her eyes, and her heart and soul ached.
—The scattered spiritual power spread from under his body, and the pressure of the deity directly crushed the dantian of all the disciples, forcing them to kneel down and spit out blood.
Jing Ruyu seemed to be crazy, and said softly: "Jing Lanze, why do you hate me?"
She said, how could Jing Lan Ze be so stupid to think that she would let Jing Ruchen go after twelve hours.
It turned out that Jing Lanze's initial thought was not to let Jing Ruchen survive, but how to let her die. Even without Xie Ying, they would still be in the same situation of being torn apart.
In the end, Jing Lan Ze's goal was for them to die together.
Jing Ruyu murmured, "Are you sure that I will kill Jing Ruchen in the future, so you set up such a poisonous formation? The twin curse has no solution and can only end with death." Jing Ruyu's eyes were red enough to drip blood: "Because Jing Ruchen is now a cripple and will definitely die, so you want me to die with her?!"
She laughed: "Hahahaha Jing Lan Ze! Is the one I'm talking about your daughter?!"
"You went to such great lengths to kill me?!"
Xie Shiyi looked down at her, his gaze as cold as it was every time he met her in Xiaoyu Palace.
Just when he was about to exert force with his fingers and was about to completely shatter the Soul Plate.
Yan Qing suddenly stopped him and gently held his hand.
Xie Shiyi was stunned, turned around, and the icy blue light in the depths of his pupils turned dark.
Yan Qing frowned and said, "Xie Shiyi, if the Soul Plate is broken, Jing Ruchen will also die."
Xie Shiyi was always very patient with Yan Qing. He said calmly, "If I don't crush the Soul Plate, Jing Ruchen will die." He was not afraid to show his cold side in front of Yan Qing. He only said, "The twin mirrors have never been a talisman. They are just a curse. The moment the mirrors are broken. In order to completely kill Jing Ruyu, Jing Ruchen must be killed."
Yan Qing was slightly stunned, but now he has finally realized his own nature. He stopped Fei Yu because he saw the mirror surface moving when it was broken. He thought the twin mirror was a talisman that would protect Jing Ruchen. Unexpectedly, the twin mirror was a killing weapon from the beginning to the end, a killing weapon against Jing Ruchen.
… What did the previous leader of Fuhua Sect see before he died that made him set up such a trap
Yan Qing said softly: "There will always be a way."
Xie Shiyi looked at him quietly for a while, then took the Soul Plate back.
Yan Qing said to him, "You are heartbroken now, and you can't gather any spiritual power at all. Let me deal with Jing Ruyu."
Xie Shiyi: “Okay.”
Jing Ruyu raised her head and watched Xie Shiyi take the Soul Plate back. She did not show any joy at all and just laughed coldly.
She had thought that Xie Ying was her greatest enemy in the Tinglan Secret Realm, but she had never expected that the one who would judge her in the end was her mother who had died 10 years ago. The twin curses were devouring Jing Ruchen's soul, and within 12 hours, they were destined to die together.
Jing Ruyu said softly: "Xie Ying, do you think you can escape?"
She was now completely mad, thinking of nothing but killing people at the end of her life. She vented all her hatred, anger, and jealousy on the innocent people in the hall. She would skin them alive, tear their bones, make them suffer, and collapse in pain and despair with her.
Jing Ruyu looked at Yan Qing with a mocking look.
Xie Ying, who was so unscrupulous, actually liked such a kind-hearted boy? But kindness was also good, and it helped him a lot.
Jing Ruyu supported herself on the ground with her hands and slowly stood up. The violent green wind under her feet blew again and again, sweeping over the White Bone Hall. Because of her divine power, the Red Spirit Sky Fire did not dare to approach.
The azure wind, the pure white fire, this unprecedented grand blend of spiritual energy, formed a chilling murderous intent.
"Go." Her red lips opened.
Yan Qing also said coldly: "Not successful."
Buzhi didn't care about the grudges around him, it was entangled with Huai Mingzi's nightmare. When Yan Qing threw it over, it was terrified and cried for its parents, thinking that it would die together with this thing.
Unexpectedly, when I pounced on this black thing, I found that it was not that scary.
It originally wanted to swallow this thing in one gulp, just like it did in the Rejuvenation Sect dungeon.
Who would have thought that it could move, run, and slide.
It can only use its teeth, wings and claws to fight, biting here and there.
Suddenly, he heard Yan Qing calling him. Buzhi was stunned for a moment, and raised his head from Huai Mingzi's nightmare, with confusion in his red eyes. "What are you doing? I haven't finished eating yet, why are you calling me? Ouch—don't move!" He flapped his bony wings and wrestled with the nightmare again.
The soul thread between Yan Qing's fingers turned and tied up Bu Zhi and Yan together.
"What are you doing! Let me go!" Fuzhi screamed and the next second, the world was spinning around him and he was dragged by Yan Qing and attacked Jing Ruyu directly.
Frustrated: “Wow!!”
It was so scared that it covered its eyes with its wings, and the hair on its head stood up. The first to approach Jing Ruyu was Huai Mingzi's nightmare. The nightmare of the Spiritualization Stage was not something that ordinary people could deal with. A ball of twisted black liquid rushed towards Jing Ruyu.
Her jade-like eyes flickered, and she stretched out her hand, and grasped it with her five fingers. In a flash, Huai Mingzi's nightmare spread up along her palm, wrapped around her skin, and controlled her hands so that she couldn't move.
Jing Ruyu was stunned. At the Spirit Transformation Stage, there were very few things that could touch her, let alone restrain her.
Yan Qing took advantage of this moment, stepped down from the wind, and approached in an instant. The soul of his fingertips pierced into Jing Ruyu's brow without hesitation. The moment the soul thread pierced into her brow, Jing Ruyu suddenly raised her head. The pearl hairpin on her hair fell off, and her black hair fell like a waterfall, fluttering in the wind and fire. Her skin was as white as snow, her lips were as white as blood, and her hair brushed across her eyebrows. She seemed to be the girl in the cloud boat with a flowery skirt at the fairy banquet of the year.
Yan Qing said: "Mirror like jade, why do people say that you have bad intentions? What exactly did you do? Only you know, right?"
Jing Ruyu's body was stiff. This was the first time she looked at Yan Qing, the young man that Xie Ying brought back from the Rejuvenation Sect.
The pair of peach blossom eyes looked at her calmly and coldly, and Jing Ruyu actually sensed a danger.
She felt absurd and inexplicably angry: "What did I do? Are you qualified to ask about this?"
Yan Qing ignored her contempt and said softly: "You used Zi Xiao and killed Zi Xiao. This is one of your evil intentions."
"You colluded with Qin Yu and sacrificed the nine sect disciples of this hall for your own selfish desires. This is the second sin of your mind."
Yan Qing said softly: "You keep talking about benevolence, righteousness and morality, and keep talking about eliminating harm for fame. Mirror like jade, what did you do in Chu Xuanji Palace?"
Xuanji Palace, these three words are like a switch that opens up every part of her body.
Jing Ruyu calmed down. The green spiritual power in her palm slowly dispelled the evil nightmare, waiting for the opportunity to kill Yan Qing with one blow. She asked jokingly, "I was in the Nascent Soul stage this year, trapped in the Red Spirit Sky Fire of Xuanji Palace like a useless person. What can I do?"
Yan Qing smiled sarcastically and said, "Maybe Jing Ruchen doesn't know what you did. Just because you never thought of killing Jing Ruchen doesn't mean you never thought of harming her."
Yan Qing said softly: "My soul thread is now in your sea of consciousness, and I can also see some of your memories."
"Get out!" After hearing this, Jing Ruyu gritted her teeth and retreated repeatedly.
But the silk thread in Yan Qing's hand was churning in her sea of consciousness. She turned pale with pain, staggered a step, and half-knelt down.
Yan Qing walked forward, still wearing the robe of a disciple of the Wangqing Sect, which was blue and white, simple and elegant. His voice was icy cold as if he came from another world, and he asked word by word: "I saw you trapped in the corner of Xuanji Palace."
"There was fire all around, and you couldn't escape."
"Jing Ruchen was calling your name. The moment the fire started, she rushed over desperately to save you."
"Jing Ruchen was at the Void Stage at the time. She found you, reached out to you, and took you out. You walked to the entrance of the palace, and then Jing Ruchen said to you..."
—Ruyu, we are saved.
Jing Ruyu's fingers trembled as she yelled frantically, "Shut up!"
Yan Qing didn't say anything, his lips were tightly pursed and his eyes were indifferent. In fact, he knew from Zixiao's early memories that Jing Ruyu was used to playing tricks on people, but now that he had seen her face, he was still shocked by her acting skills.
Mirror like jade is good at winning people's sympathy, and even better at confusing right and wrong.
She can be pitiful, she can be crazy and paranoid, her words are full of lies. When she questioned Jing Ruchen with such despair and sadness just now, how much of her heart was there
Everyone thinks that there must be something hateful about a pitiful person.
So I am always willing to believe that there must be something pitiful about hateful people.
But... is it true
Jing Ruyu looked down at her shaking hands. She and Jing Ruchen were twins. They had eaten the same things, worn the same clothes, and lived in the same places since they were little. As a result, they had similar body shapes and hands when they grew up.
The hands were white and slender, with nails as shiny as pearls. She seemed to see again the hands of Jing Ruchen that were stretched out from the sea of fire one day, emitting light in the dark night and dispelling all the smoke, dust and fog.
Fire from the sky fell, and thick smoke filled the entire Xuanji Palace.
She huddled in a corner, panicked and trembling. At the most confused and darkest moment of her life, Jing Ruchen's stumbling white figure ignited hope in her eyes.
"Ruyu! Catch me!"
Tears welled up in her eyes and she rushed over: "Sister!"
Memories were like knives. The blood rushed to her throat, and she smiled softly and spat out a mouthful of blood.
"She took me to the gate of Xuanji Palace, and we can all go out..."
But what happens after they get out? One of them continues to enjoy unlimited glory as the daughter of heaven, while the other continues to let jealousy corrode his soul in the darkness
Everything was reduced to ashes in the sea of fire. Ironically, the journey that Jing Ruchen led her along was the most peaceful moment of her life. In a trance, she returned to the beginning of the universe. In the darkness, there was only her and her. They were inseparable in the mother's womb. Rumors never entered her ears, and jealousy never turned the barriers that separated people into chasms.
But she would eventually wake up from the dream, and the breeze and bright moon outside the Xuanji Palace brought her back to her senses from her fantasy of sisterly love.
"Ruyu, we are saved."
Jing Ruchen came back to his senses, with a smile in his eyes that seemed to contain tears.
The Xuanji Hall is magnificent, and the door plaques are made of gold and jade.
The flames licked Jing Ruchen's face and hair, and also licked the pillars and door behind her.
The moment Jing Ruyu raised her head, her pupils shrank slightly - she saw the plaque of Xuanji Palace behind Jing Ruchen falling down with flames.
In an instant, her heart was in her throat, and her body had already taken action before her brain. A beautiful smile blossomed on her face, and she rushed over: "Yes, sister, we are saved!"
She pretended to be excited, crying with joy at surviving a disaster, and hugged him, holding Jing Ruchen's arm tightly with her fingers, so hard that it seemed as if she was extremely scared.
She rushed to Jing Ruchen.
Because of the impact, Jing Ruchen staggered back a step and stood where the plaque fell.
She buried her head in her neck, trembling all over, as if she was crying and laughing. She didn't know why Jing Ruchen didn't push her away, just like she didn't know why Jing Ruchen took the last step forward.
All I know is that there was a loud "bang" and the door plaque fell down.
She had a blank expression on her face and let go of his hand. All the love, hate, greed, anger, ignorance and resentment in her life had come to an end.
Later, she woke up from a nightmare, horrified, and went crazy to rescue her sister from the rubble. When her mother arrived, she saw her hugging Jing Ruchen and crying... The tears were sincere, and the sadness was sincere.
The red spirit sky fire burned the Xuanji Palace to scorched earth, burying all evil things.
What she did, only she knew.
She has evil intentions... Yes, she has always had evil intentions.
With rain falling on the maple trees and candlelight floating on the ground, she told others about her past. Even she herself was not sure how much was true and how much was fake.
The voice is soft, sad and gentle.
"Not long ago, the Xuanji Hall of Fuhua Sect caught fire. My sister was trapped inside and was blinded and had her legs burned by the Red Spirit Heavenly Fire. Her elixir field was destroyed, and she could no longer practice."
"My sister felt that she was a useless person and unworthy of the position of the sect leader. She took the initiative to abdicate and let me take over."
"Senior, tell me, is this the unpredictable nature of life? Although I am jealous of my sister, I never thought that she would end up like this. Although everyone in the sect compares me to her, my sister has always been very good to me."
"The fire in Xuanji Palace was so big last night..."
"Fortunately, it's all over."
Fortunately, it's all over...
Yan Qing lowered his head and looked at Jing Ruyu. Jing Ruyu was kneeling on the ground, her black hair draped over her body. Her back was slender, and she was lost in bloody memories, like a dying butterfly.
Yan Qing didn't dare to read Jing Ruyu's memory. This woman was cunning and could be attacked if she wasn't careful. So he manipulated the soul thread, seized this last moment, closed his eyes and concentrated, and finally found a black nightmare in the deepest part of her sea of consciousness.
The moment she saw it, Yan Qing was stunned - this black nightmare almost took root in her sea of consciousness, coexisting with her entire body.
It's not like he hadn't dealt with highly skilled demons before, but nightmares were curses from demon gods, evil thoughts from gods, and external objects that didn't belong to humans, so they were often free.
But this time, Jing Ruyu's nightmare... was so solid, as if it had originally belonged to her.
Yan Qing gritted his teeth and pulled the black thing out by the roots, and the soul thread slowly pulled out.
Jing Ruyu raised her neck, and finally, the green spiritual power in her palm finally dispelled Huai Mingzi's nightmare. She came back to her senses, sneered, and after gaining the ability to move, the only thing she did was to stretch out her hand, her five fingers became the sharpest weapons, rolled with green spiritual power, and wanted to pierce through the clothes and flesh to dig out Yan Qing's heart and crush it.
Unexpectedly, her hand had not yet touched Yan Qing's clothes.
The soul thread was suddenly pulled out.
With a sneer.
She looked up and saw the black thing wrapped around the soul thread. Her whole body stiffened, her eyes narrowed, and she murmured in disbelief.
"Is this, my nightmare?"
If the nightmare is taken out, the demon will die instantly. But Jing Ruyu only spat out a mouthful of blood, her face pale, her almond eyes flickering, and she was deeply confused. First, it was the curse of the twin mirrors, and then the nightmare in her body. The successive blows made Jing Ruyu lose her soul.
Just when she thought that everything that happened today had come to an end.
Suddenly a voice came, destroying all her sanity.
"Mirror like jade."
There are only three people standing in the hall now, Xie Shiyi, Yan Qing, and Jing Ruchen.
Jing Ruyu slowly turned her head.
She found that Jing Ruchen had woken up at some point. She stood up from the corner. Her clear eyes, which had been flawless all day, were now so complicated that it was hard to tell what she was thinking. Jing Ruchen closed her eyes tiredly and then slowly opened them. Her face was gentle, and the corners of her lips were smiling sadly. She said softly, "Jing Ruyu, long time no see."
The sound echoed in the empty hall, like snow that had been falling for many years.
Yan Qing didn't say anything. He threw the hair in his hand to Bu Buzhi and turned back to Xie Shiyi.
Xie Shiyi said: "You can't save Jing Ruchen. This mirror will break sooner or later, it's just a matter of sooner or later."
"I know, let's give it a try." Yan Qing just looked at the twisted nightmare wrapped around her long black hair and said softly, "Do you think the previous leader of Fuhua Sect guessed that Jing Ruyu was a demon, so he set up such a curse?"
"Not killing Jing Ruchen means that Jing Ruyu still has a trace of conscience. If one day Jing Ruyu kills Jing Ruchen in order to improve her cultivation, it means that she has completely fallen into evil."
"The leader of the Fuhua Sect didn't want her to harm the people, so he set up this trap. When the mirror is broken, Jing Ruchen's soul will be shattered, and Jing Ruyu's soul will also be shattered."
No one can easily kill a person in the Spirit Transformation Stage, so they can only make moves on Jing Ruchen, who has a deep bond with Jing Ruyu.
Yan Qing suddenly felt tired, first Qin Changxi, then Huai Mingzi, and then Jing Ruyu. This time in the Tinglan Secret Realm, he was exhausted, but he had to hold on because Xie Shiyi was weaker than him.
"I'm sorry, I've dragged you down." Yan Qing suddenly felt deeply guilty and said softly.
Xie Shiyi raised his eyes to look at him and said calmly, "Well, have you thought about how to atone for your sins?"
Yan Qing felt guilty: "I haven't thought about it yet, but I will follow you wherever you go."
Xie Shiyi smiled lightly, looked forward again, and said calmly: "If I hadn't come, Qin Changxi might have just temporarily resurrected Huai Mingzi and used him as a weapon."
From the moment some disciples in the black market swallowed the pills with ill intentions, they were doomed, and they could even directly tell the sect that it was their fault. But now, Huai Mingzi is dead, and Jing Ruyu has entered the game.
The nine sects and three schools are in turmoil.
Qin Yu from Zijinzhou will definitely rush to Nanzezhou.
"Let's go." Xie Shiyi said softly.
Yan Qing: “What?!”
Xie Shiyi said calmly: "Aren't you curious about my next step?"
Yan Qing: "What???"
Xie Shiyi smiled playfully, recalling the conversation between the two on the 9,900th step when he first returned to Wangqing Sect from Nanshi.
"Follow you to 'rebel' from the sect."
He had never been able to find a way to get out of the Four Hundred and Eighty Temples, so he might as well take advantage of this opportunity.
On the other side, Jing Ruyu and Jing Ruchen were facing each other in the sea of fire. The pure incandescent fire burned the hall, flickering in and out. It seemed that the love, hate, and grudges had been resolved since the moment they were born together.