The old man with empty eyes gave a seemingly kind reminder.
After a moment, Pang Jian's consciousness returned to its place.
The old man, who looked like a beggar, was still sitting quietly in the same place, but his body exuded a sense of death.
His soul was gone, and the previously weak vitality in his flesh and blood had disappeared. He was clearly dead.
Or rather, he had died a long time ago.
He was one of the people who committed suicide in Hongdu City when the catastrophe broke out because he saw no hope.
There are dozens of people like him who committed suicide in different areas of the city.
Someone sank his spiritual will into his dead brain, constructed a piece of empty and void place from it, drew Pang Jian's consciousness into it, and gave him some advice using secret techniques.
Then, the man withdrew his spiritual consciousness and left.
To entrust one's will to a corpse and weave an alternative and strange place is obviously an extraordinary magical power.
Who is that person
An evil cultivator who wants to ascend to true god, or as he said, secretly looking for evil cultivators
How does he know that he is in control of the Source Demon Sword, and how does he know his identity
Looking at the corpse of the old beggar in front of him, Pang Jian carefully extended his spiritual perception again and soon noticed another person who had committed suicide.
“Whoosh!”
He arrived in front of the female corpse, lowered his head to look at her closed eyes, and asked tentatively: "Senior..."
The 28-year-old girl was cold and gloomy, with no blood or soul power.
He has reached the Innate Realm at such a young age, which is considered quite talented among the independent cultivators in the Second Realm.
For some unknown reason, when the external evil demons invaded the Hongdu Broken Land, before they actually set foot into Hongdu City, she could not bear it and took the initiative to extinguish her own life.
"Those who hide in Hongdu City will also wander in the sea of consciousness of different people. Some of those who committed suicide were aware of his existence, knowing that he wanted to control them but unable to resist, so they simply shattered their souls and died."
"I examined the body to look for clues."
The female corpse lowered her head, her blue lips did not move, but a voice kept coming from her body: "Boy, don't try to find me again. I only took the risk to remind you because Li Zhaotian and I have a past."
"I will give you one final response. This disaster of the Hongdu Shattered Land cannot be stopped by you."
"Just save your own life."
The body stopped moving.
Next, Pang Jian, who was still confused, looked for other corpses to ask, wanting to know who the other party was and where his real body was.
As the person said, he no longer responded.
"He is an old friend of Master, so he should be a great cultivator in the Immortal Realm. He is able to transfer his will to the corpse and create an empty and void alien place in the dead mind of the corpse. I am afraid his realm is higher than Shang Xiuchun's."
"Late Immortal Realm? Or peak?"
"If he is not an evil cultivator, he might also be able to stop this before the true god is successfully created."
"… "
A series of thoughts flashed through his mind like lightning as he was thinking about how to ruin the evil cultivator in Hongdu City.
A dazzling sword light flashed from the west of the Hongdu Broken Land.
This sword light cut through the turbid sea of blood called "Blood Prison", broke through the Blood Prison Sect's numerous bans, and suddenly emerged high in the sky above the broken land of Hongdu.
"Lü Qinghe!"
He stopped holding the sword, and the sound was like a loud bell.
All those who were active in Hongdu Shattered Land, whether they were extremely evil independent cultivators or people hiding in Hongdu City, heard his shouting clearly.
Looking closely, I also found a person hanging high in the air, shining brightly in the dark night sky.
"Jiang Ran!"
"The great elder of the Sword Tower, Jiang Ran!"
"Tianmen Sword!"
Those who longed for a super-powerful person to appear and resolve the disaster of the Hongdu Shattered Land gathered their strength and looked up at the sky, gradually magnifying the dazzling figure under the night sky.
They saw the image of Jiang Ran and the Tianmen Sword wielded by Jiang Ran.
The mountain owned by the Great Elder Jiang Ran in the Sword Tower is called Tianmen Peak, and his sword is also called Tianmen Sword.
His ideal was to use the sword in his hand to create a magical gate to heaven, so that all beings in purgatory could pass through the gate and step out of this world that had been sealed for countless years.
This is the supreme sword art that he pursues and the foundation for him to become a god.
However, his path to godhood failed.
The path to becoming a god collapsed, his realm regressed instead of improving, and Jiang Ran's spirit to open the gate of heaven for all living beings in purgatory was also annihilated because of his failure to become a god.
After many years, he picked up the broken divine road again, and bit by bit regained the sharpness to open the gate of heaven for all the beings in purgatory, and once again possessed the power of the peak of the immortal realm.
"Where is Lu Qinghe?"
Jiang Ran's sword intent flourished.
A magnificent and gorgeous portal, refined with sword light, was hovering in the void behind him.
The dark ruins of Hongdu were illuminated by this dazzling portal.
All the evil demons under the broken earth felt a chill in their hearts under the shining sword light.
“Swoosh! Swoosh!”
Beams of dazzling sword lights flew out from the gorgeous portal behind Jiang Ran and shot towards various areas of the broken land.
The Blood Prison Sect, the Black Wood Sect, and the ghost cultivators were in the process of encircling and suppressing the righteous cultivators when they were all targeted by the sword lights from the sky, and many of the evil cultivators were killed instantly.
The evil cultivators illuminated by the sword light of the sky gate were forced to hide in the mountains and forests, hide in caves, and jump into lakes and rivers.
In this way, he could avoid the sword-light gate and Jiang Ran's gaze.
Below, Hongdu City.
Pang Jian looked at the tall old man with white hair and a youthful face, thinking about how he had come to Hongdu to die despite all the advice, and then he remembered the open and secret struggles between him and his master.
No one is perfect.
Jiang Ran lost the competition for the building owner and was indignant because his master appointed someone else as the building owner. He turned his dissatisfaction into an internal dispute within the sect.
In order to get back the position of the tower owner, he used the great way he desired in his heart to attack the true God, but after failing, he became depressed and retired in the sword tower.
He was obviously not open-minded enough and did not do his best to help the new owner of the building, Li Zhaotian, as his master had expected.
But what he did, his desire and struggle for the position of OP, can be considered aboveboard.
At this time when the human race was in danger, Zhou Wenhao, whom he taught, fought bravely in the Qiantian Continent and obeyed the orders of several elders who also put the interests of the Sword Tower first.
Today, upon learning that there were evil cultivators in the Hongdu Broken Land trying to aspire for the throne of the True God, he traveled here despite knowing the danger.
This is the demeanor of the Sword Tower disciples.
From top to bottom, all the disciples and elders who came from the Sword Tower were not afraid of death. They knew what to do and when.
Liu Junhong, Wang Ce, and Guanghe, although they are in the immortal realm, are far inferior to Jiang Ran, so it is useless for them to come.
Jiang Ran, who is at the peak of the Immortal Realm, came here with a sword, betting on the layout of the foreign gods and the strongest in the fifth realm, which has not yet been perfected.
He was only betting on a slim chance.
“Perhaps, there is hope to turn the situation around.”
Pang Jian's heart was beating fast.
Jiang Ran's arrival, the standing of the Sword Light Sky Gate, and the deterrence of the falling sword lights to the evil cultivators made him see some possibilities.
"Brother Jiang is still as charming as ever, which really makes Qinghe happy."
The Skeleton Saint Lu Qinghe smiled casually.
He soared into the sky from the northeast of the Broken Land, heading towards Jiang Ran, and said, "I have thought about it for a long time, and calculated it for a long time, but I still didn't expect that you would be the first person to set foot in the Broken Land."
"Knowing there is a tiger in the mountain, you still go there. Brother Jiang is so righteous!"
“Crunch! Crunch!”
As soon as he moved, the bone gate guarding the void to the north of the Shattered Land began to move slowly with a strange sound.
When the White Bone Gate moved, the ancient and evil White Bone City behind it was also affected.
"You old bastard! I didn't expect you to dare to descend upon the Broken Land of Hongdu!"
The woman from the Blood Prison Sect with heavy rouge on her face floated out from the west of the Broken Land.
She pulled with both hands, and the turbid sea of blood called "Blood Prison" recovered from its split state and was slowly pulled in front of her: "My three thousand disciples of the Blood Prison Sect were slaughtered by you, Lu Xiaolin, Cai Xin, Shi Bingyun, and the disciples of the Sword Tower!"
"The Blood Prison Sect and you, Jiang Ran, have an irreconcilable hatred!"
“Boom!”
Like a ball of blood, her fat body fell into the turbid sea of blood, splashing waves.
"Xie Tong?" Jiang Ran frowned, and after a serious recollection, he said, "When I killed your master, I only remember you took a look from a distance and then fled from the battlefield."
"It took you seven hundred years to reach the Immortal Realm. Now you don't plan to escape?"
With a sneer, Jiang Ran said, "Your master was like you now, and he also had the cultivation level of the middle stage of the Immortal Realm. He could block two or three of my swords, I wonder how many of my swords you can block."
The sword light quietly condensed and turned into a lightsaber that fell towards the turbid sea of blood.
The lightsaber is formed by countless tiny crystal sword lights, which contains hundreds of sword truths. It can be said to be all-encompassing, and is the epitome of many powerful sword techniques in the Sword Tower.
“Wow! Wow!”
The sword light fell into the blood soul, and the crystal sword light accurately found the hidden Xie Tong in this turbid sea of blood, and beheaded the contemporary leader of the Blood Prison Sect, causing him to howl in pain.
"You can't even block my sword. You are worse than your dead master. What can you do for the Blood Prison Sect?"
Jiang Ran's sword power exploded.
Thousands of glittering sword lights suddenly shone brightly in the turbid sea of blood called "Blood Prison", making the "Blood Prison" instantly riddled with holes, like a curtain with countless holes.
Xie Tong from the Blood Prison Sect, as well as dozens of other hidden members of the Blood Prison Sect, all fell to the ground along with the dilapidated "Blood Prison".
Jiang Ran shook his head in disappointment, grabbed all the crystal sword lights in the sky with his hand, threw them behind him, and they turned into the magnificent sword light gate again.
"Jiang Ran, still Jiang Ran."
The Bone Saint Lü Qinghe bowed and gave a few fake compliments, not caring about Xie Tong's life or death, and said, "When I was defeated by you, I was in the late Immortal Realm."
"Now, I have taken a small step forward and have reached the pinnacle."
"When you used your sword against Xie Tong, you were bullying the weak. When you used your sword against me, it was equal strength, it was a match made in heaven."
"go!"
Lu Qinghe bowed towards Jiang Ran with his hands clasped together in a posture of worship.
The bone door that moved behind him, along with the bone city behind it, crashed into the sword light gate above Jiang Ran's head when he was in a worship posture.
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(End of this chapter)