When Shen Xinghai returned, he was almost unconscious. According to Zhu Erchong, he flew back to the sect on a sword, but before he entered the mountain gate, he fell into the woods and his life or death was unknown. Bao Pilong happened to be patrolling outside the mountain gate at that time, so he carried him back.
"He was seriously injured, so we didn't dare to move him. We placed him in a yard outside the gate."
Wen Yun quickly understood what Zhu Erchong meant by the serious injuries.
The moment she pushed open the door, a strong smell of blood rushed to her nose. She lowered her head and saw a pool of blood under her feet. The source was the person lying on the bed.
There was no intact part of Shen Xinghai's body, which was covered with wounds of varying sizes that looked like they were torn by wild beasts. The originally elegant white swordsman's shirt had long been stained red, and the bloodstains closest to his chest had dried and wet again, and now had turned dark brown. His face was also horrible, with blood oozing out of all his orifices. His entire body looked like he had crawled out of a sea of blood, without a trace of life, and the rise and fall of his chest became increasingly weaker.
After all, he was a Jindan-stage cultivator, and could be the leader of a small sect. What on earth had happened to him that caused him to suffer such a tragic fate
Zhu Erchong was worried: "Has the bleeding not stopped yet?"
Bao Pilong was guarding Shen Xinghai, desperately sprinkling hemostatic powder on the latter's wound. Sword cultivators were often injured, and this was the life-saving medicine he had spent a lot of money to keep. Apart from the sword, this was the only valuable thing.
But this precious medicine was of no use now. Blood was still gushing out of Shen Xinghai's wound. Bao Pilong tremblingly split the small porcelain bottle with his palm, but found that all the medicine was used up.
His eyes were red as he shouted, "Where's the doctor? Didn't we ask someone to invite him? Why hasn't he arrived yet?"
"There are medical practitioners who came to the banquet, but they drank too much spiritual wine and got drunk!" Zhu Erchong wiped his tears with his sleeves and gritted his teeth and said, "I'm going to Qingshan City to kidnap a few medical practitioners!"
Wen Yun clenched the dragon bone wand in his hand, pulled Bao Pilong up, and said in a deep voice: "I'll do it, you go out and wait first."
The moment she spoke, the golden power in her dantian surged to the top of the magic wand. She murmured advanced healing magic. The moment she finished chanting, golden spots of light sprinkled on Shen Xinghai's body like rain and mist.
This is an advanced healing technique that can only be mastered by bishops of the Holy See of Light. Wen Yun even saw the bishop use this magic to save a reindeer with half of its head chopped off.
However, the hideous wound on Shen Xinghai's chest did not seem to have healed, but the bleeding rate slowed down a little.
Wen Yun gritted his teeth, and desperately urged the golden energy in his dantian to use an advanced healing technique again!
After three consecutive casts of the healing spell, he was able to hang on to his last breath and did not die. The bleeding from the wounds on his body also stopped, but because his injuries were so severe, it would take time for him to recover.
only…
Advanced healing techniques can do more than just stop bleeding, and with Shen Xinghai's level of cultivation, he should have woken up by now.
The sky outside the window was obscured by gloomy dark clouds at some point and became dim. A cold wind with the smell of grass, wood and mud blew in through the window, and faint sounds of lightning and thunder could be heard from the clouds.
Wen Yun, who had used three high-level magic spells in succession, leaned against the wall. The cold wind brought her back to her senses. She stared at Shen Xinghai, who had his eyes closed on the bed, and her eyes were finally attracted by the jade ring on his thumb.
There was an extremely faint and clear spiritual energy lingering on the ring, which had been covered up before because of the excessive blood in Shen Xinghai's body. Now that the bleeding had stopped, it was discovered that something was wrong.
Pure and spiritual energy is used to drive away evil spirits. From this point of view, the reason why Shen Xinghai did not wake up is most likely that his soul was injured.
Wen Yun stood up, holding onto the handrail at hand. He pressed his slightly tired forehead and was about to investigate carefully when he saw Shen Xinghai's eyes suddenly open. The next moment, his hand reached for the scabbard at his waist, and a fierce murderous intent was revealed wantonly!
However, Wen Yun's reaction was much faster than his. She tapped his forehead with her bare hand and shouted, "Fake, get out of here!"
As expected, Shen Xinghai's soul was invaded by someone, and the one who just woke up was obviously another person's soul, which was why he wanted to kill Wen Yun.
Wen Yun became alert. Although she had just beaten the opponent back with her extremely strong mental power, she had not yet wiped him out. If she wanted to save Shen Xinghai, she had to kill the opponent. So she carefully condensed her mental power into an invisible thread and probed into Shen Xinghai's sea of consciousness bit by bit.
The moment she entered Shen Xinghai's sea of consciousness, an extremely long and thick black snake tail attacked her fiercely. Wen Yun quickly dodged, and her heart sank after seeing the other party's appearance clearly.
The appearance of this black snake was too familiar; it was the black python that was previously controlled by Mo You!
Where did Shen Xinghai go? Why was he targeted by this scary guy Mo You again
This giant python was also transformed from a wisp of spiritual power. Because Wen Yun deliberately concealed its breath, it did not notice her coming. The flick of its tail just now was only to attack Shen Xinghai's soul.
Shen Xinghai's soul was a ball of fiery red light, but now it had dimmed as if transparent, and could only dodge every attack of the giant python in a panic. It seemed that the two had fought countless times, and the red light was about to be swallowed by the black python.
No wonder Shen Xinghai didn’t respond when I contacted him before. It turns out that he has long been unable to control his consciousness
You have to know that his opponent was Mo You, who had comprehended the laws of the soul. I don't know if it was the ring that allowed Shen Xinghai to retain a trace of willpower, so that he was able to return to the sect. If it were someone else, even if he was in the Nascent Soul stage, he would have become Mo You's puppet!
No one in the world dared to show off his spiritual power in front of Mo You, except Wen Yun; unfortunately, Shen Xinghai's luck was against the sky, and he happened to wait for Wen Yun!
The battle between the soul and spirit is extremely dangerous. This is Shen Xinghai's sea of consciousness. If he is hurt, he may never wake up in this life.
Wen Yun has been paying attention to the movements of the snake. It is just a fragment of the soul and has no independent consciousness. It only knows how to attack and devour Shen Xinghai's soul numbly. It is not difficult to capture it, but one has to be careful not to hurt Shen Xinghai.
She condensed her mental power into an extremely fine force, and then used her terrifyingly fine control to weave it into a tight net. When she aimed at the black python and attacked the light spot again, she suddenly swung the cage down on the thing's head!
The moment the black python was bound, Wen Yun's mental power suddenly tightened. Before the black python in the net could struggle for a moment, it was crushed into a ball of black mist and disappeared in Shen Xinghai's sea of consciousness.
After erasing Mo You's soul, Wen Yun transformed into a human form and walked towards the dying light.
Shen Xinghai's consciousness was on the verge of disappearing. He seemed to be aware of Wen Yun's arrival and transformed back into human form with great difficulty.
He lay there motionless, his body covered with wounds of varying sizes from the bites of the giant python, bright red blood stains hanging on his thick black eyelashes, but his eyes gradually became dim and empty, and it took a long time for them to focus.
"I must be dreaming." He forced a smile and tried to look up at Wen Yun: "Only then can I see you coming to save me again."
He didn't know that this was his spiritual sea of consciousness, he just thought it was an illusion, and he had been fighting with the black python with all his might for his life. He didn't know how long he had been fighting, so long that no part of his body was intact, it was all bitten to pieces.
Fortunately, he did not admit defeat in this dream, so that Junior Sister Wen in the dream would not look down on him.
Wen Yun was saddened by this. She asked in a trembling voice, "Brother Shen, have you met Mo You? Is it him who made you like this?"
Hearing this name, Shen Xinghai tried to cheer himself up, holding Wen Yun's clothes, and said word by word: "Junior Sister Wen, I followed and saw... I don't know when a new magic boat came to the outer sea. It was full of people, all of them were people from the four continents. The magic boat carried them to the depths of the outer sea..."
Shen Xinghai noticed the blood on the outer sea that day and decided to take the magic boat to find out what was going on. He never expected that after the magic boat entered the fog in the outer sea again, he actually saw another magic boat!
It's just that the magic ship seemed to be sailing from the Four Continents to the Demon Realm, and the people on the ship, both in their dress and their aura, all looked like people from the Four Continents.
At first, Shen Xinghai thought that the evil cultivators had abducted the people of the four continents again, but after careful observation, he found that the people on the boat looked relaxed, and it didn't look like anyone was holding them hostage. More importantly, there were several masters in the God Transformation stage among them!
Shen Xinghai vaguely sensed that something was wrong. He was worried about being discovered by the people on the boat, so he simply put away the magic boat, stepped on the rotten wood, and followed the big boat quietly under the cover of the fog.
The magic boat seemed to be guided by someone, avoiding countless reefs and undercurrents, heading straight towards the center of the fog, and finally stopped on an island.
It was unknown when a magnificent palace was built on the island. The people on the boat seemed to have known of its existence for a long time. Regardless of their level of cultivation, they all ran towards the palace in ecstasy.
Because they were too far away, the words and faces of those people were not clear. Shen Xinghai could only vaguely hear them shouting words like "new home" and "finally reunited", and realized that this group of people seemed to be from the same big family.
Then, hiding in the dark, he saw the most terrifying scene.
A giant python with a pitch-black body swam out of the palace. Its blood-red mouth opened mercilessly and swallowed all the people on the island.
The laughter and joyful chatter almost instantly turned into loud screams, and everyone was fleeing on the island. However, no one was spared, and even the strong ones in the Spirit Transformation Stage died suddenly at the snake's mouth.
After that, a group of black-clothed demon cultivators quietly walked out of the palace, leading hundreds of demon cultivators from unknown tribes like livestock in their hands. This group of people all looked confused and walked into the giant python's mouth like puppets.
When Shen Xinghai realized something was wrong and wanted to escape, it was too late.
The giant python spotted him and rushed towards him with its bloody mouth wide open.
"If I hadn't often stepped on this rotten wood to go fishing before and was very accustomed to the fog in the outer sea... I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to escape the pursuit of the black python." After Shen Xinghai finished talking about this experience, his voice became softer and softer.
"That black python is Mo You."
Shen Xinghai was not surprised to hear this answer. He forced a smile and said, "I heard from those men in black that Mo You seems to have unified the Demon Realm. It is amazing that I can escape from the Demon Realm Lord..."
"Oh, right, I seemed to have heard Mo You say something at that time... The law is complete, and ascension is just around the corner? Junior Sister Wen, what is the law?"
Wen Yun was stunned and a chill rose in his heart.
Could it be that Mo You has gone crazy and is practicing the laws of the soul by devouring souls alive
"Laws are the original power of the universe. It is said that only gods can master them, and mortals cannot touch them..."
Before Wen Yun finished explaining, she saw Shen Xinghai's head tilted, his eyes closed and he fainted. She panicked and went to check, only to find that Shen Xinghai had just fallen asleep and was not dead.
She felt a little relieved, but at the same time she couldn't help feeling a little emotional.
He was able to go to the open sea alone in the Jindan stage, follow a group of masters in the Shenhua stage alone without being discovered, and finally find the enemy's lair and run back with a breath left... Even Wen Yun didn't dare to guarantee that he could do it.
You are worthy of being the son of destiny, Shen Xinghai!
Wen Yun cast several healing spells on the unconscious Shen Xinghai. When he came out, he saw Zhu Erchong and Bao Pilong hugging each other and crying bitterly.
"Junior Brother Shen is gone just like that. Thinking about the past, I am in so much pain that I wish I could die."
"It's all my fault. If I had gone to pick him up, he wouldn't have been killed on the way."
"Blame me. As a senior brother, I failed to protect my junior brother. I am a loser!"
It looks like these two have let go of their previous grudge.
Wen Yun said calmly: "He is not dead, stop cursing and go in to guard him."
After that, regardless of how the two reacted, he quickly walked towards Ye Shubai and said solemnly: "I'm afraid something has happened in the outer sea. Mo You may have gone crazy. He started to eat people to cultivate the law of the soul..."
After briefly explaining what happened, Ye Shubai realized that it was a serious matter and that they could not handle it with just the strength of the two of them, so he quickly ran back to the Tenth Peak.
Coincidentally, the leaders of the other two clans are both on the Tenth Peak today.
The ancestor of the Wan family was currently playing with Xiaohong using a cat toy with a ruby on the top. Master Duyuan clasped his hands together and watched the scene with a loving smile on his face.
Seeing the two of them coming back, the Wan family ancestor quickly tried to hide the stick behind his back, his face flushed as he said, "I was just teasing..."
However, Xiaohong had already run away with the cat-teasing stick in her mouth, making the old man so angry that his eyebrows twitched.
Wen Yun had no time to comfort this friend of different ages at this time, and hurriedly said: "It happens that both of you are here, listen to me, something big happened in the outer sea."
She explained what had happened in a few words, but after she finished speaking, Master Duyuan's face suddenly changed.
Wen Yun was quick to notice and looked over: "Master Du Yuan, do you know about this?"
"Very good, very good." Master Duyuan put his hands together, his long white eyebrows drooped, and his eyes showed compassion: "To be honest, the Xie family had an accident before, and they came to the gate of Tianyin Temple to ask us to take in their escaped family members..."
When the Xie family was divided up by several factions including Chuixue Island, all the direct descendants fled and no one could find their whereabouts. It turned out that they had received help from Tianyin Temple!
"However, half a month ago, the donor Xie Xun from the Xie family came to our Tianyin Temple again, saying that he had found a new place to settle down, and then he took all the Xie family members away. If it is true as donor Shen said, the leader among them is Xie Xun, and there are five people in the Spiritual Transformation Stage, then I am afraid that the people on the ship with four continents are indeed members of the Xie family."
Hearing this, Ye Shubai's eyes were filled with frost and snow, and he stood aside with his sword on his back, silent.
The Wan Family Patriarch was horrified and said, "Could it be that Mo You took over Xie Xun's body and tricked the Xie family into dying so that he could perfect his magic skills?"
"I'm afraid not." Wen Yun analyzed the situation quickly in his mind, and pursed his lips tightly: "Senior Brother Shen said that everyone who went to the island was eaten, and Xie Xun was no exception. If it was really Mo You who took over his body, then who is Black Python? How could he die?"
It seems that Xie Xun was willing to take the Xie family to the open sea, because the Xie family no longer had a place to stay in the four continents.
However, they didn't expect that Mo You was relying on devouring souls to cultivate his soul law, and what was waiting for the Xie family was inescapable death.
"He has become the master of the demon world, why is he still practicing such a vicious magic? Is he planning to attack our four continents like his ancestors did?"
Wen Yun said coldly: "Mo You is an ambitious person. He has already extended his hands to the four continents. It is only a matter of time before he attacks. However, his ambition this time is not as simple as unifying the cultivation world."
Ye Shubai slowly raised his head, his eyes met Wen Yun's, and he calmly revealed Mo You's true purpose: "He wants to ascend to become an immortal."
Wen Yun snorted coldly: "Does he think that he can become an immortal by cultivating the law to perfection?"
The memories of the two people flashed by almost at the same time, starting from the fog in the Xuantian Secret Realm, to the various anomalies in the Demon Realm, as well as the various traces left by Senior Su Yuan, and this inexplicable dragon bone.
Whether or not one comprehends the laws of heaven and earth is not the key to true immortality, because she did not sense the breath of laws on that "immortal bone".
The various factions in the four continents are now so scattered. In addition to the factions of the old villains in the past who brought disaster upon themselves, another important reason is Mo You's planning and arrangements, which is enough to show how deep his scheming is.
Judging from Mo You's previous methods, he is definitely not the kind of person who would do useless work.
"Perhaps he has found some secret method. For example, if he cultivates the law to a great degree, an immortal will descend from the immortal road and ascend to the heavenly realm." Wen Yun looked at Ye Shubai and said something that only he could understand: "But when I was trying to control the law, I didn't see an immortal leading me. Instead, I failed."
The consequence of her failure was that she died in the wizarding world without even any ashes left.
Ye Shubai said calmly: "I am the same."
He also fell into a deep sleep for hundreds of years before he fully mastered the laws of life and death.
Both of them were people who touched the laws of heaven and earth, but died halfway through and were unable to achieve perfection.
"But after what happened with Senior Su Yuan, I feel that the so-called immortals and ascension are problematic." Wen Yun's eyes became colder and colder: "I don't want to try it again with my own life for the time being. Since Mo You is not afraid of death, I want to see what happens to him."
Go and see if there really is a god coldly controlling all the people in this world
Master Duyuan and the ancestor of the Wan family were completely confused. They had no idea what Ye Shubai and Wen Yun were talking about.
However, at this moment, the communication jade slip of the Wan family ancestor flashed a faint light.
After hearing the message from the other side, his face changed drastically, and he exclaimed in horror: "Fellow Daoist Yu who is guarding the border island has reported that the entire outer sea is now beginning to spread blood mist! How many people did this Mo You kill!"
How many people were killed
He didn't know either, he only knew that countless tribes in the demon world were devoured by him. They all thought he was going to attack the four continents, so they boarded the magic boat and happily entered the fog, and could never come back.
Mo You also inadvertently realized that directly devouring the soul was much faster than practicing slowly on his own. The only drawback was that while devouring the soul, he would also receive all of the other party's memories.
He was occasionally troubled by these complex and chaotic memories and fell into a state of confusion.
Every time this happens, another soul that has been entangled and merged with him by accident will take the opportunity to come out and try to seize the initiative.
Perhaps it was because Mo You was severely injured by Wen Yun's light punishment at that time, and he was unable to suppress the opponent's soul. After a fight, the two of them were completely integrated into one, and could no longer erase each other's existence.
The giant python's eyes opened in confusion. He opened his mouth and absentmindedly spat out a small jade pendant from between his teeth.
There was a word "Xun" engraved on the jade pendant. He felt it looked familiar. He vaguely remembered that he had another one, and the words on it seemed a little different...
It seems to be a word "search"
seek…
By the way, his name is not Mo You, it should be Xie Mi'an.
He is the young master of the Xie family in Xizhou and a sword genius who is famous in the world of cultivation.
He stared blankly at the piece of jade that came out of his mouth. The memories in his head surged up in a chaotic manner, and finally stopped at the scene of himself swallowing the man in one gulp.
The man opened his eyes wide, staring at him in disbelief, and seemed to shout "Mi'an"!
However, he did not hesitate and bit down mercilessly—
What is going on
That's right.
He seemed to have devoured Mo You's soul, while the other party's men seemed completely unaware.
So he disguised himself as Mo You and became the young master of the Black Snake Tribe. He took the opportunity to rescue his brother and told him that from then on no one would dare to bully the Xie family anymore.
He seemed to have told his brother that he had found the magic boat and could go find an unknown and fertile island in the open sea, bring his entire family to live on the island for a long time, and no longer have to worry about being hunted down.
Then…
Then died.
All dead.
The memory of this point became increasingly clear for some reason. The slight blockage when the fangs pierced Xie Xun's body and the last words he shouted, "Mi'an", were all replayed in front of my eyes over and over again.
He saw it.
He saw all the memories when Mo You was controlling the body!
"Mo You! How dare you kill my brother! You slaughtered my entire clan!"
Xie Mi'an curled up on the ground, with his snake head raised high in despair, and his huge tail swung and hit wildly, knocking countless stones and trees away.
After a while, the python regained its composure.
The pair of golden eyes stared straight ahead indifferently, and the cold voice muttered to itself, as if it was talking to the other half of its soul.
"How ridiculous! You are extremely lucky. You are with me and are about to ascend to heaven and find the way to immortality. Why do you still need a brother and relatives?"
"I have devoured even my own relatives, let alone yours?"
"If I hadn't devoured those old things and obtained their memories, I wouldn't have known that only by cultivating the laws of heaven and earth to the realm of great perfection can the immortals appear in the world!"
"Great perfection? How many more people do I need to devour to reach great perfection? Eh... what's my name? Oh, by the way, my name is Mo You, Mo You..."