Hong Jun, the ghost king, and Yu Zaoyun hid behind a collapsed wall and looked out. Hong Jun held a thousand machine chain in his hand, and saw Yuan Kun walking down the altar with his back turned to everyone.
"Did they find out?" Hong Jun asked Yu Zaoyun.
Yu Zaoyun was very puzzled, shook his head slowly, and replied: "It seems not, but you were too confused when you started."
Hong Jun looked in the direction where the exorcists were evacuating, hesitated for a moment, and Yu Zaoyun said, "Chasing them?"
Hong Jun's mind is full of scenes of Li Jinglong's desperate blow, what is this guy thinking? How could you be so restless
Hong Jun turned back to check on the ghost king, and said, "The ghost king's injury is serious, let's go first!"
Yu Zaoyun then turned into a human being, and Hong Jun was alone with him, supporting the ghost king, and left in a hurry.
Luoyang Exorcism Division.
"Are you crazy?!" Mo Zhigen said angrily.
Li Jinglong's face and body were covered with blood, and he sat wearily on the collapsed steps in front of the Exorcist, gasping for breath, with doubts and twinkles in his eyes.
Qiu Yongsi said: "You can't save people, don't put your life on it, Chang Shi, you have to reflect."
"I see." Li Jinglong closed his eyes and said.
"According to Fox King's plan." Artest said, "At this time, it's useless to be anxious."
Li Jinglong leaned against the pillar, raised his hand to press the center of his brow, and said slowly: "General Guo Ziyi is on his way to Luoyang, I'm afraid I won't be able to persuade them with a letter, and it's best to get rid of them before then."
The wound on Lu Xu's arm was caused by a short cut by the shuriken when he fought Yuan Kun. At the moment Mo Zhigen is bandaging him.
"Isn't it just a test?" Lu Xu said, "How did it become a real hands-on?"
"Ask him." Mo Zhigen said helplessly.
Li Jinglong said: "Do you remember how he found us?"
The crowd had been hiding very well, but according to Yuzaoyun's information, they avoided Asuka's surveillance and came around the Yanqing Hall without a sound. Qingxiong obviously didn't know they were here and was interrogating Hongjun. But at the moment before Li Jinglong made a move, Yuan Kun still saw their sneak attack through mana, came to the altar, and pointed out Li Jinglong's hiding place.
"He saw it." Li Jinglong frowned deeply, and said in a deep voice, "Yuan Kun has been staring at us."
In front of the Earth Vein Array, the place where the magic weapon was originally stored was empty, Qingxiong looked at the scene in front of him, and couldn't believe his eyes.
"Where did something change?" Qingxiong trembled.
"This is impossible." Yuan Kun pressed his forehead with three fingers, leaned on a wooden stick in one hand, and panted, "Li Jinglong will die today! How did he escape?"
Qingxiong turned around suddenly, stared at Yuan Kun, and asked again: "Where is the magic weapon?"
"I can only see the future, not the past." Yuan Kun said slowly, "Under the surface, there must be something wrong."
"How did you tell me back then?" Qingxiong lost his composure for a moment and became nervous.
Yuan Kun said: "Hongjun's existence is a trap. You tell him that the trial will be on the third day of March, that is, two days later. Fox King will summon Li Jinglong for him, and Li Jinglong decides to do it in advance. Taking advantage of the second time, you When Hongjun is being interrogated, Li Jinglong will do his best to save him..."
"Activate the magic circle at this time, and get rid of Li Jinglong in one fell swoop." Qingxiong said in a deep voice, "What did you see?"
"I saw his death." Yuan Kun said, "I saw Li Jinglong died in front of the altar. The dead ghost king and the nine-tailed fox king came to wait for the opportunity to steal the flying knife, and were burned to death by the earth vein magic circle."
"But no!" Qingxiong said almost violently, "Where did Hanba go?!"
Yuan Kun replied: "This is indeed the future I saw, and it has been changed again. Impossible! Why?"
Qingxiong said in a deep voice: "I don't care why I changed it! Tell me, what should I do next?"
Ever since Yuan Kun was sniped by Li Jinglong in the Holy Mountain of Wind and Snow, his strength has been extremely weak, he staggered, and he was almost unable to stand. He said in a deep voice: "It will take a while to activate the spell. What do you want to see if you can peek at the way of heaven again?"
Qingxiong examines Yuan Kun, at this moment Yuan Kun throws the question back to him, with Yuan Kun's mana at this time, there is still one last chance, let him choose what he sees.
Qingxiong didn't answer, turned around and walked out of the underground magic circle.
Luoyang, inside a large private house.
"They're in the ruins of the Exorcist Division." Yuzaoyun whispered, "In the past?"
Hong Jun was in the Exorcism Division last night, but today Li Jinglong led the exorcists there. Hong Jun helped the ghost king escape from Luoyang Palace, and chose this mansion to rest for a while.
Hong Jun pondered for a moment, and still decided not to meet with Li Jinglong. After all, no one knows whether Yuan Kun can predict what will happen in the future, but at least through Li Jinglong's temptation this time, he understands one thing—Yuan Kun can only See the "facts" that are about to happen, but not everyone's actions anytime, anywhere.
For example, he focused all his attention on the exorcists, ignoring the future of Hong Jun, Yu Zaoyun, and the King of Ghosts stealing the Flying Sword. The current situation is still beneficial to them. As long as they don't join Li Jinglong before the trial, Yuan Kun will not be able to find out that the current "Hong Jun" is Du Hanqing's impersonation.
And once Li Jinglong knows that the "Hongjun" trapped under Qingxiong's hands is a fake, maybe he can easily be seen in his future actions.
"So, Han Qing asked to meet Qingxiong today." Hong Jun asked Yu Zaoyun, "Is it all arranged by Jing Long?"
Yu Zaoyun said "hmm" and replied: "I kept the fact that you escaped last night and asked him to find a way for us."
Yu Zaoyun explained to Li Jinglong the night before in detail, only telling him that Hong Jun was imprisoned, and the chain of thousands of machines could not be broken, and asked Li Jinglong to help plan. So Li Jinglong designed a series of psychological activities for "Hongjun" from Qingxiong, and planned to take the opportunity to take the risk with Qiu Yongsi and others to rescue Hongjun.
"That is to say," Hong Jun said suddenly, "without Han Qing, today's situation would have become..."
Thinking of this, Hong Jun couldn't help feeling chills down his spine. If Du Hanqing hadn't pretended to be himself, he wouldn't have come out to act with the ghost king and Yu Zaoyun. His Li Jinglong is bound to die in front of himself under the altar.
"Could this be what Qingxiong said, the trap they set up?" Hong Jun murmured, "But why did everyone survive?"
"Because of you." The Ghost King said calmly beside him, "Didn't all of this already happen?"
Hong Jun shook his head and raised his hand. He was hazy, as if he had grasped an idea, but he couldn't say it clearly.
"Did Yuan Kun expect this scene?" Qiu Yongsi and Li Jinglong sat side by side in the courtyard.
Lu Xu said: "People who don't have enough brains have been listening to you talking about God Kun all day long. It's simply too tiring. I won't have the meeting."
Yuzhou said, "I don't understand either, it's too complicated."
Mo Zhigen sent the two of them to leave first, and the remaining four, Li Jinglong, Artai, Qiu Yongsi, and Mo Zhigen, were thinking in the ruins of the Exorcist Division. At this moment, a touch of white silently entered the courtyard, but Yuzaoyun came, squatting in the courtyard, watching Li Jinglong quietly.
"Fox King?"
"Fox King." Everyone greeted Yu Zaoyun.
Yuzao said, "I'm here to convey a word to you all."
Li Jinglong raised his eyebrows, signaling to Yuzaoyun to speak up if he had something to say, and everyone focused on it for a moment.
"Yuan Kun saw the scene of your surprise attack today." Yu Zaoyun said slowly.
"Definitely." Qiu Yongsi replied, "Otherwise there wouldn't be that altar and the magic circle where time suddenly stopped. This is the moment he and Qingxiong were waiting for."
Mo Zhigen: "But he didn't inform Qingxiong before, but chose to show the warning before we did it."
Qiu Yongsi said: "Because he wants to prevent the possibility of all variables, the more people who know the future, the easier it will be..."
Li Jinglong signaled everyone to be quiet, and listened to Yu Zaoyun.
Yu Zaoyun nodded and said: "We guess that he foresaw the conversation between Hongjun and Qingxiong today, and your sneak attack, but at the last moment, what he foresaw was definitely not your successful evacuation."
Li Jinglong said: "That's right! We are also discussing this matter! At the last moment, someone..."
"Hush." Yuzaoyun said suddenly.
Everyone suddenly looked at Li Jinglong, Li Jinglong raised his eyebrows slightly, and his facial expression became subtle.
Qiu Yongsi suddenly asked: "Have you got the flying knife?"
"I got it." Yuzaoyun said calmly, "Originally, the ghost king and I thought that we would die in the earth vein circle, and this is something we couldn't figure out."
Li Jinglong suddenly stopped talking, and there was a long silence in the courtyard.
Finally, Yuzaoyun said: "If we can't figure it out, maybe you can figure it out, so let's go."
With that said, Yu Zaoyun turned around and left the ruins of the Exorcist Division.
Everyone looked at each other, and Mo Zhigen asked, "What happened at the last moment?"
At the moment when Yuan Kun cast the sky-defying spell, everyone was forcibly imprisoned by time. Mo Zhigen stared at the zenith and couldn't turn his head, while Lu Xu, Qiu Yongsi and others were all concentrated, and all their attention was on the back wall in the center of the altar. Jun, no one has ever seen what happened in the hurricane.
"Someone broke the cause and effect." Li Jinglong murmured, "Saved us and the two demon kings."
"Who is it?" Mo Zhigen frowned.
Li Jinglong said: "It doesn't matter who it is, the key is... I think... I understand! It's like Zhuang Zhou's dream butterfly technique... I went back to the past and changed the cause and effect of the six organs for the first time. This is the second time... I have to change that node. find out!"
"Did it succeed?" Artest said in a daze, "Anyway, we all survived."
"No." Li Jinglong said, "We didn't really survive. Now we are in a 'possibility', and we have to make a thorough decision before it becomes inevitable!"
Qiu Yongsi said: "What will happen if there is no thorough decision?"
"I don't know." Li Jinglong spread his hands and said, "Maybe we will still die."
"Wait..." Even Mo Zhigen started to lose his mind, and said, "What are you talking about?"
Artest said: "From the time Yuzaoyun appeared, I couldn't understand their words."
The original four exorcists were all first-class in their scheming, but at this time, the wisdom of Li Jinglong and Qiu Yongsi finally produced a higher difference. But this time Li Jinglong did not pretend to be mysterious, after all, the matter was of great importance. He took a branch, drew a circle on the soil, and wrote "Six Utensils".
"Yuan Kun once changed our fate on us." Li Jinglong explained, "He brought a heart lamp through Hong Jun and gave it to me, so that King Fudo Ming could no longer concentrate the six organs on me alone..."
Mo Zhigen sat down beside him, and said, "You said that. Yuan Kun first changed his fate, and finally used Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly Technique to send you back to the past."
Qiu Yongsi pondered: "We have also discussed this process before. It is not enough to just change the 'process'. After changing a series of fates, we need to go back to the beginning and establish this route."
"Cause and effect." Li Jinglong said, "In addition to cause, there is also effect." He explained to Artest: "You can think of it as that everyone's fate is a written book. If you want to change it, you can change it." I have to choose one of the paragraphs and rewrite it. After finishing writing, I have to turn to the front and put a seal on it. The process of Yuan Kun granting me the heart lamp is the rewriting itself, and Zhuang Zhou's dream of the butterfly brought me back to the past. The opening that established this fate is this..." As he spoke, he made a "stamp" gesture: "It's the action of stamping."
Artest roughly understood, and said, "But what does this have to do with the present?"
"The first change to Fate has been completed." Li Jinglong said, "Yuan Kun dispersed the six weapons through the first change, which caused Hong Jun to still be alive and weakened the power of the Exorcist. Now, he wants to take the opportunity to destroy us all, and in the process, someone used his own way to deal with his own body, and initiated a second change. The purpose is to let us survive and defeat Yuan Kun and Qingxiong .And now, we're in this second change."
"So, now we have to find the 'seal'." Qiu Yongsi said, "that is, what we call the 'node' can completely establish the changed cause and effect. Just like Hongjun survived, the node that separated from the devil is the node." Jing Long asked for the separation of the six organs in front of King Fudoming, and now we retreat completely, there is also a node of the incident."
Mo Zhigen and Artest roughly understood, Mo Zhigen said: "I think we have to ask the person who changed. Who is it?"
Li Jinglong shook his head and said: "If you can tell us, Yuzaoyun will definitely say it. If you don't say it, there must be a reason for it."
Qiu Yongsi said: "I think, judging from its eyes, maybe it hasn't figured it out."
Li Jinglong murmured: "It doesn't matter. We explained it to Yuzaoyun last night. It must conceal something in order to deceive Yuan Kun, who has insight into the future."
Artest said: "But even if you find the node in the past, how do you go back to that point in time to stamp it?"
"Hmm..." Li Jinglong murmured, "Yeah... only Yuan Kun can bring us back to the past from our dreams, it depends on him."
Qiu Yongsi said suddenly: "Jing Long, do you still remember? The past you returned to was not the real past."
"That's just a dream." Li Jinglong said seriously, "This dream can't affect others."
Exorcists have discussed this issue more than once. Yuan Kun's Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly Technique did not really change the timeline of the entire world, but only brought Li Jinglong back to himself many years ago. When he woke up, Hong Jun's parents were still dead. In a sense, he did not change the past that had happened.
It is not so much a "change", but rather a "establishment". Yuan Kun has already changed the cause and effect, and is waiting for the moment when Li Jinglong finally establishes the facts. The promise he made in front of Fudo Mingwang God Venerable became the source of all this, and this behavior can only be done by Li Jinglong himself.
"So." Li Jinglong murmured, "This node should still be on me."