"The sky in Linnan collapsed suddenly, and the demonic wind came from the black hole. The common people, men, women, and children, instantly turned into peach petals when they touched it. Xianmen cultivators who were less than sixteen years old also turned into peach petals and disappeared without a trace..."
"Three moments after the demonic wind raged, the black hole suddenly closed without healing. At this time, thousands of civilians had disappeared out of thin air, and the nearby Immortal Sect also lost 28 young disciples."
"This time there are heavy casualties and people are panicking. The whole world looks forward to Xianmeng Punishment Shugong's help."
The place where the dome of the sky collapsed was only a hundred miles away from Yejinmen. When the incident happened, Jianzong Yu Chi Rui brought people to help immediately, and after the cave was cleared, he assisted the local Xianmen to deal with the aftermath. Therefore, all the disciples have only returned one after another with their swords.
The long momentum of Yujian's flight was constantly streaking across the sky, and Ye Jinmen was different from the usual grand and solemn scene, and there was a bit of noise everywhere. Ying Kai walked across the long veranda and waved his hand silently. The student behind him who bowed his head and reported to him gave a deep salute and stepped back respectfully.
"It's just the beginning," Ying Kai said softly, standing still and looking up at the sky.
Behind him, Yu Chi Rui also stood by the railing and asked, "What do you mean?"
Ying Kai didn't answer and asked: "Do you remember that after Liu Xuzhi woke up, he intermittently recited the few words about the opening of the glacier abyss, and mentioned words such as 'illusion' and 'this world'?"
In this regard, Yu Chi Rui's thinking is the same as that of ordinary people: "People who are dying, just talk nonsense!"
Ying Kai shook his head: "Du Kaixun's words should be true, and the collapse of the sky is proof."
Judging from Yu Chi Rui's expressionless face, he probably didn't understand.
Ying Kai sighed: "If the world we are in is really a great illusion, and the illusion started 16 years ago, then all the children born in the past 16 years were not dragged in by the realm master from this world. The real person, but the product of the illusion based on the reproduction law of mortals."
"The realm master's spiritual power is about to be exhausted, and the heaven and earth will naturally begin to collapse, so the illusion first takes back these dummies." Ying Kai pointed up to the sky: "So when these children turn into peach blossoms and fly into the cave, they are actually changing again. It's just to return the spiritual power to delay the process of the collapse of the illusion."
Yuchi Rui opened his mouth slightly in surprise, and suddenly reacted: "But the commoners, men, women, and children, are all turned into peach blossoms?"
"Yes." Ying Kai said calmly, "So there is only a more terrifying answer to explain this situation: there are not many real people in this world."
"The only people who have been dragged into the illusion from the present world are the monks of the major immortals, probably in excess of 10,000. The rest of the tens of millions of people are all illusions."
There was a long silence around, and after a while Yuchi Rui said, "Ying Kai, are you crazy?"
Ying Kai turned around and frowned, "I look like crazy?"
"… "
"Can you think of it? The sky you see every day is fake, the ground is fake, and the people are fake." Ying Kai's fingernails behind his back cut into his palms tightly, but his usual self-restraint is still there, handsome and gentle The face didn't change much, only the voice was two-pointed: "The friendship in this world... I'm afraid it's fake."
Yu Chi Rui's head was buzzing: "Who did this?!"
In fact, the answer was about to come out, but Yu Chi Rui was unwilling to write, and neither did Ying Kai.
But the difference is that as the leader of the alliance, Ying Kai couldn't escape. After a long silence, he finally said sternly: "I know the strongest illusion in this world, except Gong Wei... There is no one else."
Yu Chi Rui turned around and left, and Ying Kai snatched him back with one hand: "Where are you going!"
"Go to Gong Wei, he is now—"
"No, I just came back from Cangyang Sect. Shuang Ce built a forbidden hall and locked him up."
Yu Chi Rui blurted out: "Why is this?!"
Ying Kai hesitated in his pure and amazed stare, but now is not the time to be euphemistic and devious, so he can only say: "Shuangce treats Gong Wei... with a lot of friendship."
Yu Chi Rui frowned: "No way. I think that the collapse of the dome of the sky has something to do with Xu Shuangce. I'm sure he was behind the scenes to coerce and induce that kid Gong Wei, otherwise why would he lock people up! "
Ying Kai was at a loss for words. After thinking about it, he said, "These two people have already formed a friendship."
Yu Chi Rui looked suspicious: "Tie the hair and tie the crown? Didn't you manage the ceremony of ending our hair and tying the crown?"
The air was quiet for a while, and the two looked at each other.
Ying Kai finally could only say: "...they have double cultivation."
Yu Chi Rui's eyes widened, and shock was written in his eyes.
For a long time, he couldn't believe it: "Xu Shuangce is such a generous and kind-hearted person! How much spiritual power did he give to Gong Wei?!"
Ying Kai looked at the sword sect he was pulling with one hand and didn't know what to say for a while.
At this time, there was a commotion in the distance, and the two of them looked at the sound. They saw several young disciples swarming together outside the archway.
Ying Kai frowned, flew more than ten feet in the air, landed and stepped forward.
Those disciples hurriedly saluted the Alliance Leader and Jianzong. In the open space behind them, there was a Jindan cultivator, curled up in the corner under the arch, his eyes were scattered and his whole body was trembling, his face was terrified, as if he was immersed in an extremely terrifying illusion. .
Yu Chi Rui recognized him at a glance and asked suspiciously, "Really Jing Hui?"
This person is a great monk under Ye Jinmen. The young disciple on the side was at a loss, and when he saw the owner, it was like seeing a savior: "Uncle Shi took us to Linnan to rescue the local Xianmen, and was almost blown away by the demon wind blowing from the back of the Tiandong. We dragged him back, but At that time, the person was already in a coma! We immediately escorted the uncle back, but before I could tell the Lord Jianzong, the uncle suddenly woke up... and it became like this... "
"Leader?" In the chaos, the real Jinghui suddenly saw Ying Kai, trembling and uttering two words.
Immediately after that, he suddenly found the driftwood like a drowning and struggling person, and rushed over to grab Ying Kai tightly, but his line of sight seemed to penetrate directly through Ying Kai, and he saw a more terrifying and bloody scene in the void: "—No, it's not good, the leader! That killing god is coming up! He is going to kill Shengxiantai!! We can't stop him at all, no one in this world can stop him..."
Everyone looked at each other in dismay, Yuchi said suspiciously, "...The Killing God has ascended to Ascension Stage?"
However, Ying Kai seemed to realize something from the other party's incoherent words, and confirmed to his disciples in a serious tone: "Did the wind blowing from the back of the Tiandong become like this?"
"Yes!"
Ying Kai immediately turned to Yu Chi Rui: "Sixteen years ago, when I ascended to Xiantai, the real Jinghui from your family was there?"
When the great masters attended the Shengxiantai ceremony, they usually brought their own disciples with high morality and profound cultivation. Yuchi Rui nodded: "Yes. What?"
Ying Kai's face couldn't help looking awkward, as if he had thought of some extremely bad guesses in his heart.
"He's here... He's here!" At this moment, the real Jinghui raised his head suddenly, his eyes staring straight into the air, as if he really saw a blood-covered killing god who was climbing up the stairs, and even his pupils were terrified. And trembling violently: "Never let him come over, stop! Stop!!"
With a clanging sound of the sword, he drew his sword amid the exclamations of the crowd, and slashed down with all his strength!
Boom!
Ying Kai made a decisive move, Ding Shanhai blocked the sword edge of Jing Hui's slashing with a sheath, and slapped his Tianling cover again.
The real Jinghui didn't even have time to hum, so he collapsed and fainted.
Ying Kai waved his hand to signal everyone to back away, and then used his spiritual power to force blood from his fingertips, and quickly drew an extremely complicated and obscure talisman—the soul-entry talisman—on Jing Hui's forehead. Immediately, he separated from the body and plunged into the body of Jing Hui.
This is to save the victims of the illusion, enter their souls, and explore what terrifying sights they have seen. However, a body is fragile in the end, even for a strong person like Kai, it is risky. Yu Chi Rui frowned, half squatted on the side and clenched the hilt of his sword, ready to forcefully rescue people if something went wrong.
Unexpectedly, he didn't want to blink, and then he saw Ying Kai's whole body shuddered, his eyes opened, and the one that was separated was forced to retreat.
"I can't see it." Ying Kai gasped, got up and shook his head and said, "His soul is not strong enough, his consciousness is too chaotic, I can't see what the illusion in his mind is at all... If Shuang Ce is there, maybe he can take a chance. He is much better than me in the aspect of soul-penetrating talisman."
Generally, when a person is at the top, he may humbly praise a certain aspect of a lower-ranking person who is better than himself, but he is likely to be taboo to admit that a strong person who is at the same height as himself can be better than himself in a certain aspect.
However, Ying Kai was frank and frank, even in front of a crowd. Yuchi Rui also got up and asked, "Then what should I do, get Xu Shuangce?"
Ying Kai's eyes fell on the unconscious Jing Hui, and after thinking for a moment, he shook his head: "Right now, everything in Linnan is messy. Since you are the owner of Yejinmen, you should stay and calm down."
"how about you?"
"I'm going back to the Immortal Alliance Punishment Shu Palace to ask for the seal of the alliance leader, and call Cangyang Sect Master Xu Shuangce to see him." Ying Kai looked at the cloudy sky above his head and gritted his teeth: "I must have a good talk with him."
·
Strange clouds cover the sky and the sun, faintly destroying the earth, and the mountains and rains are about to come and the wind will fill the city.
Fortunately, it was not far from Ye Jinmen back to Mount Dai, and the Dingshan Sea Divine Sword was extremely fast, so Ying Kai returned to Punishment Palace before dark. The collapse of the sky made the people of Xianmen panic all over the place. There were already more than ten patriarchs, big and small, waiting to be seen here. From the dark cabinet, a party leader seal made of platinum sapphire was taken out.
This seal is more than an inch in length and width. Although it is small, it has a lot of weight and is easily hidden from people. Ying Kai put it into the sleeve of his robe, and was about to turn around to go out, when his fingertips in his arms suddenly touched another heavy object.
It was the bronze wedge box that fell from Xu Shuangce's sleeve in front of the Cangyang Sect's Forbidden Palace.
squeak-
I don't know when the window lattice was blown open, the scrolls on the table were flipped, the wolf on the pen holder swayed slightly, and there seemed to be a faint bitterness and whistle in the cold wind, but it was a sharp whimper.
Who is crying
For some reason, Ying Kai felt a sudden irritability in his heart.
Without thinking, he stepped forward to close the window, trying to drive the endless crying out, but the moment the window sash was closed, a stronger wind was forced out, hitting his face, and the bitter taste suddenly became clear. stand up-
It was clearly the smell of something being burnt.
crackle!
crackle!
Sparks burst on the beams, people were crying, and the fire was raging in the city.
With a bang, the city wall collapsed, and the boundless karmic fire shot up into the sky, engulfing Ying Kai's limbs and bones!
A loud bang woke Ying Kai up. He suddenly came back to his senses and found himself standing by the closed window. He had already soaked his heavy clothes with cold sweat. On the ground, it made the sound.
"..." Ying Kai staggered back and leaned against the desk: "How could..."
Blood, screams, boundless karmic fire... Cries lingering in all directions.
On the golden boat that day, he used his primordial spirit to clear the way for everyone, entered the fantasy realm of the World Destruction War, and saw giant soldiers slaughtering all beings. After he came out, he began to dream of similar tragic scenes every now and then, and the nightmares had become more frequent recently, making him miserable once he fell asleep.
But why do scenes that you only see in dreams suddenly appear in the daytime
Ying Kai swallowed his dry saliva hard, not knowing why his heart was bipolar.
"No," he thought habitually.
"I am the leader of the alliance, and everyone in the world is staring at me. I can't show such an appearance for others to see."
He reluctantly suppressed the irritability and anger in his heart, and bent down to pick up the bronze box on the ground, but the square box inlaid with copper wedges fell apart like this. Ying Kai secretly blamed himself for not breaking other people's things. He wanted to pick up the box and put it together, but he saw a thin silk shaft exposed from the scattered copper wedges. He accidentally touched it with his fingertips, silently. Turned into blood without breath.
Ying Kai was shocked.
The next moment, the blood light rushed to his face, so fast that he was caught off guard, and it crashed directly into his brain!
The surrounding study scene quickly blurred, like a color block smeared by water. The whole world seemed to sink into deep water in an instant, and even the five senses and seven orifices were submerged.
What is this, illusion? !
Ying Kai struggled violently but to no avail. Just as he was suffocating, an invisible giant hand suddenly lifted him out of the water, and the stench, salty and gloomy wind rushed towards him—
The deafening roar sounded from all sides, and the line of sight was full of muddy yellow floods.
Before Ying Kai could realize what was going on in this illusion, he felt endless exhaustion and severe pain rising from his limbs, causing him to kneel down involuntarily.
A familiar voice came from behind: "Are you still alive?"
Ying Kai recognized the voice and turned around in astonishment.
The embarrassed Xu Shuangce was standing in the air with his sword in hand. His body was soaked and his face was pale. His robes and accessories were very different from usual. At first glance, it seemed like the clothes in ancient paintings from thousands of years ago.
"...Shuangce?!"
Xu Shuangce seems to be in his early twenties, his eyebrows and eyes are sharper than now, and he has a more youthful and reckless temperament, but his voice has become hoarse due to the exhaustion of spiritual power and exhaustion: "If you don't control the flood in the Taihu Lake area within an hour, Eight, seven or eight estuaries downstream must all burst their banks, and by then the entire water pressure will definitely be out of control.”
At this time, another gust of wind roared, and in the wind there was a faint sound of the heartbreaking cry of the people in the distance. Xu Shuangce held his forehead with one hand, and his eyes were vaguely impatient: "We're not dead yet, why are we crying?"
Whether it was the monstrous flood in front of him or Xu Shuangce's uncharacteristic remarks, Ying Kai was so shocked that he was speechless. But at this moment, he didn't have time to think about it - the embankment in front collapsed as the ground shook and the mountains shook, and the sky-high waves were surging like a thousand horses, covering all the vision in an instant!
"...Forget it," Xu Shuangce drew his sword out of the scabbard and exhaled heavily, "I'm afraid you and I will really die here today."
Ying Kai's face changed dramatically, and he didn't even have time to draw his sword. The huge flood covered the sky and blocked the sun, instantly engulfing all his senses to the top!
boom—
Rolling thunder resounded over Mount Dai, illuminating layers of strange clouds.
"Has the leader of the alliance come out yet?" "I've been alone in the study room for most of the night..." "All the masters of the sect are waiting for an audience. Is there anything wrong with the leader?"
…
Finally, a waiter in the palace of punishment came to the door of the study with tea, and knocked on the door carefully: "The leader? The leader?"
With a screeching sound, the study door opened.
The servant raised his eyes subconsciously, just as the thunder sounded from the window, and the figure of Ying Kai behind the table was instantly illuminated.
Ying Kai sat up straight, half of his body was submerged into the darkness, but half of his body was illuminated by lightning. He stared straight ahead, without the slightest expression on his face, looking like a lifeless statue, with only a faint glint of blood in his eyes.
The sudden panic grabbed the heart of the waiter, and the tea cup fell to the ground with a shake of his hand, bang!
"The leader forgives, the leader forgives! I'll—"
Ying Kai spit out a few hoarse words: "Go out."
The servant's movements froze for a moment, but he was still concerned, and couldn't help but murmured: "Meng... whether the leader of the alliance is unwell, do you want to ask Lord Yizong to come and see..."
The table was torn apart in a loud noise, and Ying Kai's stern roar was exhausted: "Get out!!"
The chamberlain had never seen the always gentle Ying Kai so furious in his life, he couldn't believe his ears, he even rolled and climbed out of the threshold before he could even pick up the broken pieces of porcelain. When he was about to close the door for the last time, he saw Ying Kai fluttering his sleeves in the air, raising a black confined space - mustard seed pot.
Sumeru hides mustard seeds and holds the sun and moon in the pot. This mysterious magic weapon is used to confine the self.
Ying Kai seemed to be enduring the pain and anger, with blue veins from his neck to the back of his hands. He put the mustard seed pot over himself, and the whole person entered the confinement space and disappeared out of thin air from the messy study.
"... alliance, alliance leader..."
The maid sat down on his knees in shock, just as he was full of doubts, suddenly there was an earth-shattering sound from above his head—
Boom! !
He raised his head with a trembling, and the huge thunder pierced through the sky, and the ghostly night sky was instantly bright.
·
The sound of thunder pierced through the layers of bed mantles and became indistinct, like a faint wave on the distant sea.
"Xu Bai..."
The futon Nakamiya Wei moved and murmured slightly. Xu Shuangce hugged him tighter and whispered, "It's alright, go to sleep."
Gong Wei pressed his side cheeks against his neck, his flowing hair rubbed against Xu Shuangce's chin, and murmured, "Has the sky fallen?"
"It's just thunder."
Gong Wei nodded, seeming to be a little relieved: "The sky can't fall any more."
Xu Shuangce stopped patting him. In the darkness, he stared straight ahead. After a while, he finally asked, "You've been in the temple, how did you know the sky was falling?"
"I can feel it."
"… "
"Strange," Gong Wei opened his eyes suspiciously and frowned, "Why can I feel it?"
Xu Shuangce breathed out silently, but before Gong Wei noticed, he raised his hand to cover his eyes gently: "Don't think about that, just go to sleep."
There was lightning and thunder outside the window, and the whole world seemed to have turned into a roaring sea. Only this forbidden temple was drifting alone like a lonely boat. The bed was surrounded by a small, private and warm world, guarded by Xu Shuangce's strong arms, the sky was turned upside down and the earth was isolated, and no wind and rain could penetrate.
The layers of misty mist and the heavy shadows of assassination all disappeared with the torrential rain and turned into a blurred background.
"I seem to suddenly be able to sense a lot of movement in this world... Dark clouds are churning in the sky, cracks are spreading in the ground, and many mountains in the distance are about to collapse." Gong Wei lay motionless in Xu Shuangce's arms, and the sigh melted into the boundless as soon as he left his mouth. In the dark night: "I feel so uncomfortable, Xu Bai. Is this world about to be destroyed?"
There was a faint fragrance of peach blossoms in his hair, Xu Shuangce patted and stroked, until the cool hair was completely straightened, and then said: "No."
"why?"
Xu Shuangce said, "I will find a way to continue it."
What else can be found
Mountains and rivers will collapse, rivers will cease to flow, there is nothing immortal in this world, just like a dream that will wake up one day. Even if the last trace of spiritual power is exhausted and the last drop of hard work is drained, it will only delay the moment of waking up from the dream, and let the illusion of warmth indulge for a longer time.
Gong Wei's mind was awake for a while and then in a trance, unable to distinguish between reality and dream, as if he was sinking and floating in the gap between time and space, and asked softly after a while, "Xu Bai?"
"Um?"
"I feel like you're a little sad."
"… "
Xu Shuangce paused while stroking his hair.
"Don't be sad, I like you." Gong Wei raised his head, looked at his deep and clear jawline in the dark, and said, "Let's chat."
This time Xu Shuangce finally did not let him sleep again, and whispered: "What do you want to talk about?"
Gong Wei thought for a while, then smiled and asked, "Since when did you start liking me?"
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Yu Chi Rui: Xu Shuangce! I was wrong about you! You are a good person!
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