As soon as the developer came out, the nature of the whole battle changed instantly.
The battle between humans and demons instantly shifted to the animal world.
The white-browed black tiger and the one-eared red-headed wolf were both extremely large in size, and when they pounced on each other, the path was not wide enough for them to maneuver, and they soon expanded the battlefield to the bamboo forests on both sides.
The two beasts each possessed demonic powers. Wherever they passed, bamboos either fell down in large numbers or were uprooted.
In a short while, a large section of the huge bamboo forest collapsed.
The evil wind was howling, forcing Zhu Changyang to squint his eyes slightly and step back a little.
Looking from afar, one could see the vast black sky and the undulating bamboo forest like waves. Above the bamboo shadows, two giant beasts were fighting each other, making terrible roars.
Of course, the roar came from the developer. The sniper kept making "hum hum hum" sounds like a pig, which made Zhu Changyang feel nervous and funny at the same time, which was very complicated.
Zhu Changyang watched for a while and couldn't help but wonder: "Wasn't the developer very aggressive when he attacked us? Why are we so weak now?"
A red-headed wolf couldn't be brought down after fighting for a long time, and was gradually losing the upper hand.
Yin Kanwei glanced at him slowly and coughed softly: "Maybe it's because it was just struck by lightning."
Zhu Changyang: "Oh yes, I almost forgot."
The leopard sniper is a great monster whose power should not be underestimated. Thousands of years ago, its cultivation was comparable to that of a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage. Moreover, this ferocious beast is naturally endowed with powerful combat power and can defeat cultivators of a higher level.
However, this is only Gu Peng's memory after all, built with the remaining cultivation before his death. This leopard sniper actually died many years ago, so its demonic power is far less than its real state back then.
But the developer was not much better off, having just been struck by lightning and his hair was still singed.
The two weathered monsters fought fiercely, but it was obvious that the sniper was superior.
Relying on the black clothes, the developer rushed into the bamboo forest in the night and hid his figure behind the dense branches and leaves.
The red-headed monster was extremely sharp. It smelled the developer's hiding place with just a move of its nose, and pounced over with the squeal of a pig.
The attack was in vain, and at the same time, the developer suddenly jumped out from behind another clump of bamboo nearby.
It turned out that the developer deliberately left the evil spirit in the dense forest, but hid himself in another place, catching the leopard sniper off guard.
The developer was extremely agile. He opened his mouth and bit the neck of the sniper, and was about to win.
Unexpectedly, the leopard's head was hard and thick, and it screamed like a pig in an instant, and all its demonic power gathered at the place where it was bitten.
The developer's bite force was amazing. With this full force, the beast's skin was torn and blood spurted out. But then it was shaken by the surging demonic power and bounced out, falling to the ground with a "wow".
The leopard sniper was really amazing. Even though the skin and flesh on his neck were bitten off, he was still agile. He somersaulted on the spot, let out a thunderous pig squeal, and pounced on the developer again.
The developer's old injury had not yet healed, and his strength had already been greatly reduced. He was infused with the power of the sniper monster, and fell to the ground in a daze, unable to dodge in time.
Just as the sniper was about to pounce, a cold light flashed from the side, and the sword intent became stronger.
The long sword just now was wrapped in a powerful sword energy, breaking through the thick evil spirit it had created and chopped down with unstoppable force.
The sword tip hit the monster's extremely hard cervical vertebrae, making a loud "clang" sound.
The sniper raised its head and let out a long scream towards the bright moon in the sky, but it was of no avail.
The bite from the developer had actually severed his meridians, greatly weakening his demonic power, but the sniper was naturally extremely strong and managed to hold on.
After this sword was slashed down, the sniper was no longer able to resist.
Under the moonlight, the red head of the giant wolf-like body was cut off and fell down.
The wolf's body then fell to the ground, raising a cloud of dust, and finally became motionless.
When the developer saw that the leopard was killed, he immediately whimpered and turned back into the appearance of a black cat. He jumped to Zhu Changyang's feet, hugged his calves with his front paws, and nudged him with his head while meowing, looking very pitiful.
"Okay, stop pretending. We all know what you really look like." Zhu Changyang said disdainfully. However, he still squatted down, picked up the cat, and scratched its chin. "But you did a good job this time. I'll give you a credit."
He took out a flashlight from his pocket, turned it on, and shone it forward. He saw a wolf corpse on the ground and a red head with one ear left not far away. Blood was all over the ground and it looked like it was dead.
Zhu Changyang blinked: "Is the sniper dead now?"
It’s not that he didn’t want to kill Leopard Snipe, but the matter was resolved too quickly, making him feel a little unreal.
This sniper slaughtered the entire Sixiang City back then. In his expectation, this battle should be more intense.
Although the fight just now was somewhat dangerous, it was always under Jun Shu's control, and it didn't even reach the point where they needed to go all out.
Jun Shu retracted the rusty sword and thought: "The power of this leopard is not consistent with the rumors."
Although Sixiang City is not a big city, judging from the scene in the city, it was very prosperous in the past. Such a city must have a city protection array. Even if there are no monks in the city, the guards must have certain capabilities.
To massacre an entire city in such a short period of time, so that people from other places, not even Gu Peng, could not arrive in time to rescue them, his cultivation must have been extraordinary.
Although this sniper is ferocious, its strength is still a long way off.
Yin Kanwei said: "This is just an illusion after all. It is normal for the illusion to be different from reality."
"Not normal." Jun Shu shook his head. "If saving Su Ti is Gu Peng's unresolved knot, then Hu Zhu must be the most powerful being in the entire illusion."
The illusion is a reappearance of Gu Peng’s memories before his death. Everything in the illusion naturally confirms what he saw and heard back then.
Among them, the causes of his mental block will definitely be magnified.
Gu Peng Yizhi was so powerful that he could trap them in an illusion. As Yin Kanwei was a demon cultivator, his cultivation was suppressed to the point of being only one tenth of what it was.
In other words, the power of this illusion is enough to suppress them.
The snipers should be the strongest in the illusion, but their strength does not bring them much pressure, which is obviously unreasonable.
Jun Shu glanced at the wolf corpse on the ground, "Besides, it doesn't have a demon pill."
Normally, a demon of this level should have formed a demon pill long ago.
"Speaking of which, there is something that I have always found strange." Zhu Changyang looked at the bridal sedan with a heavy gaze, "Hasn't Sixiang City already met the requirements of the Huzhu? Why did the Huzhu still want to massacre the city?"
In the story told by Yin Kanwei, when Gu Peng rushed back to his hometown, Sixiang City had been massacred and Su Ti had been abducted.
Therefore, Zhu Changyang naturally thought that it must be because Sixiang City refused to obey the orders of Huzhu and refused to hand over the people, which angered Huzhu and led to the massacre of the city.
But from everything they had seen since entering the city, it was clear that the citizens were extremely afraid of the Leopard Sniper, and the city lord was extremely flattering, and did not dare to delay for a moment before sending Su Ti over.
If that’s the case, why did the sniper still want to massacre the city
Jun Shu and Yin Kanwei followed his gaze and looked towards the sedan chair, their expressions darkened.
They suddenly noticed that the bride had been silent since she got into the bridal sedan.
At first, they could say that they were too restrained by etiquette or too afraid to speak. But then the sedan suddenly took off, and then there was a fierce fight with the beast. If it were an ordinary person, even if they didn't scream in fear, they would have been curious to ask a few questions.
But Suti did not make any movement from beginning to end.
Just now, when the leopard's head was chopped off, the sedan chair hanging in the air also fell to the ground, but until now, there is still no sound from the sedan chair.
If they had not seen Su Ti get into the bridal sedan with their own eyes, they would almost suspect that it was an empty sedan.
Zhu Changyang began to doubt, and he bent down and approached the sedan chair, and said softly: "Su Ti, come out, everything is fine now."
The sedan was silent, and no one responded.
Seeing this, Jun Shu impatiently stepped forward, stretched out his hand, and directly pushed open the curtain of the sedan chair.
Zhu Changyang shone the flashlight inside and saw a slim young girl with a red veil sitting upright with her hands folded on her knees inside the sedan chair.
It's not like there's no one there, but it doesn't look like he's dizzy either.
Zhu Changyang was even more surprised and shouted, "Su Ti, are you okay?"
The girl was still motionless. Jun suddenly pointed with two fingers, and the red veil was lifted up without wind, revealing the girl's true face.
It turned out to be a skeleton!
“!!!” Zhu Changyang fell backwards, not caring about being civilized during the live broadcast, and shouted, “F*ck!”
He was completely unprepared, and the flashlight shone right on the skull's face, illuminating the white bones clearly for an instant.
The skeleton was white, covered with long black hair and wearing a phoenix crown decorated with pearls and jade. Its two dark eye sockets seemed bottomless and it just stared blankly ahead.
Gorgeous and weird.
Studio:
[What the hell! ! Streamer, please give me some mental preparation! ]
[I think Chang Yang himself is not mentally prepared...]
[I died suddenly on the spot, it turned out to be a ghost bride! ]
[Ahh, what on earth is going on? ? Is Suti already dead? No!! ]
No one expected that the person sitting in the sedan chair was actually a skeleton.
They had just clearly seen with their own eyes a living person getting into the bridal sedan.
The sudden scene was so shocking that Zhu Changyang was not mentally prepared at all. He came face to face with it at close range and almost fell backwards.
He quickly took a few steps back. Although he had improved his body, his mind had not yet fully adapted to the situation. He simply could not look at a skeleton as if nothing had happened.
Yin Kanwei remained calm. He reached into the sedan chair and grabbed the wrist of the skeleton. After examining it for a moment, he came to a conclusion and said, "It's a trick of the demon cultivator."
Moreover, the person who cast the sleight of hand had strong skills, so under normal circumstances, they might be able to detect it.
But in this illusion, everything was transformed by Gu Peng's cultivation and did not present a completely real aura. Their attention was always focused on Hu Zhu, so they did not realize that the person getting on the sedan was not a living person.
Zhu Changyang was puzzled: "Demon cultivator?"
In the old stories of the ancient city of Sixiang that Yin Kanwei had previously told us, there were no demonic cultivators. How come the demonic cultivators' skills suddenly appeared
Jun Shu turned sideways and looked back in the direction of Sixiang City, his eyes slightly cold: "There is another hidden story behind what happened back then."
Zhu Changyang's heart skipped a beat: "Go back quickly."
The three of them walked very quickly and immediately came out of the bamboo forest. They saw Sixiang City from afar and all of them showed a stern look on their faces.
When they left the city, the entire Sixiang City was dark and silent. Only one city gate was open to facilitate their bride's escort.
However, looking over the city wall, one could clearly see flames rising into the sky above the city, and vaguely hear screams of fear coming from within the city.
Zhu Changyang said anxiously: "Go into the city quickly."
The city gates were now closed, and the only way to enter the city was to climb over the wall. However, they had three people and a cat, but only one sword.
He glanced at his companions and was about to discuss a solution.
At this time, Yin Kanwei raised his hands, put them on his and Jun Shu's shoulders respectively, and said, "Follow me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Changyang felt that the scenery in the distance suddenly approached, as if a telescope had suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, and the city wall that was originally far away suddenly appeared in front of him.
He was startled and blinked subconsciously. When he looked again, the towering city wall had disappeared.
To be precise, the city wall fell behind him.
They were already standing inside the city wall, on the bluestone road that was the central axis of the city.
This is another famous space spell in the world of cultivation, a technique of shrinking the earth into an inch that requires extremely strong skills to perform.
However, Zhu Changyang had no intention of marveling at the magic of this technique at this moment.
The scorching heat wave hit me in the face, and all I saw was a sea of red fire.
The doors of all the closed shops, restaurants and houses seen in the evening were now open, and nearly half of the houses had been engulfed in flames.
At that time, the houses were basically made of earth and wood structures. Once a fire caught in one place, it would quickly spread to the entire area, causing crackling sounds everywhere.
The people in the city had no time to put out the fire. Everyone screamed and fled from their houses, rushing towards the city gate.
However, the city gate was tightly closed, and the wooden bolt on it could not be moved for some reason.
The tall and strong butcher and blacksmith immediately pushed the people in front of him away and raised their butcher knives, axes and hammers to break down the bolts.
But no matter how hard they tried, the bolt remained motionless. Instead, those who tried to break the bolt suddenly screamed, black blood flowed from all their orifices, and they fell dead on the spot.
The crowd burst into even more terrified screams and tried to dodge, but more people kept pouring in from all directions, making it impossible for the people in the front to retreat.
Soon the city gate was crowded with people.
The sounds of hurried footsteps, shouts, screams and cries mixed together, reflecting the blazing flames all over the city, making it look like hell on earth.
Zhu Changyang watched the crowd running past him and soon realized that they had to run.
The broken houses were constantly being engulfed by raging flames, with wisps of evil spirits floating in the houses. If one ran a little slower, he would be captured by the evil spirits and would soon vomit blood and die.
Fallen bodies could be seen everywhere near the doors and in the corners, with blood splattered all over the ground.
At the end of the long street, a slender figure walked slowly towards them with the firelight behind her.
She was a very beautiful girl, with a pair of wavy eyes, two curved eyebrows, fair skin and beautiful appearance, just like a flower.
The girl was dressed in white, holding a white rabbit in her arms. She looked at Zhu Changyang from a distance, smiled, and said, "Gu Peng, you're back."
Zhu Changyang looked back at her and said sternly, "Su Ti."
"She is Su Ti? How could it be?" Yin Kanwei showed a look of surprise on his face, "Could it be that the people who massacred the city back then..."
He didn't finish his words, it was really too unbelievable.
The person who massacred all the people in Sixiang City was not the Leopard, but the weak girl who was offered to the Leopard and eventually died in the story.
Jun Shu's expression did not fluctuate too much, he just said calmly: "She is possessed by a demon."
In the reflection of the raging fire, Suti's eyes, as bright as autumn water, could be vaguely seen, slowly turning red, just like the rabbit in her hand.
Su Ti said: "Gu Peng, it has been several years since you went to Kunlun. I heard that your skills have become very advanced and you are already a well-known genius in the sword art. I am very happy for you."
The voice was slow and unhurried, forming a sharp contrast with the panicked crowd around it.
Zhu Changyang looked at the endless sea of fire, then looked at Su Ti, and felt a knot in his heart: "Why?"
Su Ti still had a smile on her face, but there was a hint of indifference in her smile. She stroked the rabbit's fur with her hand and said, "These people are ridiculous. They dare not resist Yu Huzhu, but they want to tie a weak woman to a sedan chair and send her to him in exchange for their own temporary peace."
"Look at how many 'real men' there are in this city who usually boast of being majestic and imposing. But at this moment, they all become cowards and incompetent. It's really ridiculous."
Su Ti raised his right hand, and a figure rose out of thin air at the end of the long street. The figure was short and fat, and it was the city lord that Zhu Changyang and the others had seen in the evening.
However, at this time, the city lord had disheveled hair, his gorgeous clothes were stained with blood, his head and face were filthy, and there were wisps of evil spirit wrapped around his neck. He was already dying and his life was hanging by a thread.
You could vaguely see his lips moving slightly, probably asking for help.
The city lord was suspended high in the air in an extremely tragic situation. This horrifying scene instantly made the whole city more frightened and the shouting became louder.
Su Ti smiled slightly, "The city lord is the most powerful. He came to my house in person and asked my parents to hand me over. My parents refused, so he had them all killed..."
"What did the city lord say at the time... 'For the safety of Sixiang City, what's the harm in sacrificing a daughter? Don't you want to fulfill even this little responsibility?' It's as if my parents are the city lords of this Sixiang City."
The tone was still light, neither fast nor slow.
Zhu Changyang couldn't help but feel sad.
It was no wonder that when the bride was being sent off, there were only the city lord and a group of people who had no relationship with Suti waiting in front of the bamboo house, but her parents were not there at all. It turned out that they were killed by the city lord.
He looked at the girl in mourning before him and didn't know what to say for a moment.
From the moment he sent the bride off, he felt that this matter was extremely unreasonable.
Not only this one incident, but throughout history, all acts of offering young girls to evil spirits or so-called gods in exchange for temporary peace are unreasonable.
I just didn't expect things to turn out like this.
After a while, Zhu Changyang sighed and said, "There are many innocent people in this city."
With evil spirits wreaking havoc, mortals are treated like grass, and many people have no choice at all.
Su Ti's smile remained unchanged: "I am innocent too."
She tilted her head slightly to the side, revealing a girl's unique and slightly innocent charm, but her eyes were bloodthirsty, staring straight at Zhu Changyang, "Gu Peng, you came back from thousands of miles away, for whom?"
Zhu Changyang's mind was in a mess. He had seen many natural disasters and man-made tragedies in TV dramas before, but after all, they were separated by a screen, so they always lacked a sense of reality.
And now, he has become the person on the screen, and those tragic scenes are being played out vividly in front of him.
This is an extremely strong shock to any modern person who grew up in peacetime.
Even though he knew that these were just memories and illusions, he still felt uncomfortable in his heart.
He thought he should have nothing to say. In fact, as Zhu Changyang himself, he really couldn't make any comments at this moment.
But after Suti asked this question, some strange fragments of memory suddenly flashed through his mind, and a strange emotion surged in his heart, making him involuntarily take a step forward.
He looked back at Suti, but his face showed no expression, nor did he directly answer her question. He just said calmly: "I will come wherever this happens."
"Of course you will come. You are a Taoist born with a predestined relationship with the immortals." Su Ti smiled, not surprised at all. "From the moment you decided to leave Sixiang City and go to Kunlun, I knew that you only cared about the Tao and the people. I, or anyone else, are nothing more than ants under the Tao and a grain of sand in the world in your eyes. You won't go to war for one person, but you will definitely save the people in the city, because this is the experience of a Taoist. But..."
She paused, still looking innocent, "In my opinion, there is no difference between you and me. What you really care about is not the so-called sentient beings in the world, but your way of ascension."
These words were very sharp, but Zhu Changyang felt calm in his heart and was not angry. It seemed that everything was as Suti said, and he had no way to hide or refute it.
At the same time, those old memories buried in the dust of history also emerged in his mind one by one.
Back then, Gu Peng left his hometown and went to Kunlun to learn skills. Within a few years, he had mastered the sword art, so he went down the mountain to practice.
On the way, he suddenly heard news from his hometown, saying that the big monster Leopard Snake was causing chaos in the area of Sixiang City and forcing the citizens to marry the beauties in the city to him. The monks invited by the citizens were no match for Leopard Snake and were probably forced to obey.
Gu Peng immediately changed his route and returned home. At that time, he didn't know that the woman that Hu Zhu wanted to forcefully marry was Su Ti. What he wanted to do was to capture and kill Hu Zhu and save the entire city of Si Xiang.
Unfortunately, the teleportation array was not as developed as it is today. When Gu Peng returned to Sixiang City, he was one step too late. The entire city had already been massacred.
Gu Peng initially thought that all this was done by the Leopard Snipe. Following the remaining scent, he found the Leopard Snipe and the abducted bride in the bamboo forest outside the city.
He easily defeated the leopard and lifted the curtain of the sedan chair in which the bride was sitting, only to see a white skeleton.
At that moment, he realized that everything he had seen since he returned to Sixiang City was a trick set up by the "captive" bride.
And the bride was none other than his childhood sweetheart, neighbor Suti.
It was true that the Huzhu was causing chaos, but long before Gu Peng arrived back, the Huzhu had already been killed by Su Ti, and the demon pill had been taken away and swallowed by Su Ti.
This is also the reason why Gu Peng did not find the demon pill after killing "猲渚".
And the one who actually massacred everyone in Sixiang City was Su Ti.
She hated the Leopards, and hated them even more for being afraid of death and killing her parents in order to offer her to the Leopard City Lord and everyone in the city who dared not resist.
At this point, the truth of that year and Gu Peng’s true mental barriers were all revealed.
Gu Peng and Su Ti each had their own destiny and their own way of doing things, and they both wanted to become immortals. Their so-called first love was nothing more than a far-fetched story fabricated by later generations.
Gu Peng’s mental obstacle was the people who failed to save the city back then.
Studio:
[This development? ? ? ? ? Caught me off guard!!!]
[No way, Gu Peng is an NPC in the Pujiang channel. With this level of cultivation and configuration, his demise was not caused by love? ? ? I don’t accept it! ]
[Is it the wrong plane? Gu Peng is actually the NPC next door, right? That doesn't make sense. If he is Diandian, Su Ti should be his harem.]
[The beautiful Suti is also pretty cool. These two actually don’t love each other and just want to kill each other. They are exactly the same... ]
[Eh, from this angle, they look pretty good together, don’t they?!]
[You can even knock this? ? It's Pujiang after all! ]
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Audience: There is actually a real Wuqing Immortal Master in this world. This must not be the world of cultivation developed by Pujiang! (Suddenly discovered the truth)
(End of this chapter)