Chapter 152: Head-on confrontation
Chapter 152: Head-to-head confrontation
Generally speaking, any cultivator who has some Taoist practices and is good at the art of calculation will have a certain ability to sense and predict things related to him or her. However, it is limited by the level of the Taoist practices, proficiency in the art of calculation, and the closeness with oneself, etc. It’s just more or less things that can be inferred from other factors.
This was the reason why Yunlong's clone of Yun Canghai was able to deduce from the celestial phase, Jianzhen's face and other related conditions before he traveled eastward to Japan that Jianzhen would travel eastward to Japan in the future. At that time, if Yunlong wanted to predict major events, he still needed to rely on the "Tian Yan Jia" for assistance; but that was to predict future major world events, so he had to be cautious; after many years, Yunlong's Taoism has deepened day by day, and he no longer relies on outsiders for some small calculations. Things.
It was like this today. Yunlong suddenly experienced fluctuations in his mind and surges of blood and energy while flying. This meant that something related to him was about to happen, so he was restless and had surges of energy and blood. This was what practitioners called "whims." In this case, it is most suitable to calculate one's own blessings and misfortunes, so Yunlong immediately calculated it once.
The result of this calculation was very unexpected: Yunlong had killed a group of demon cultivators from the Northern Demon Cult many years ago, leaving only Huang Hao alone. He appreciated his pursuit of the Tao and gave some guidance. As a result, I was inspired and realized from it, and finally realized my own way, established the way of the dragon, and opened up the world of Dragon Ball. It can be said that this is half of the reason why Yunlong can achieve today's achievements.
But in addition to this good thing, there is also a hidden danger. His behavior of "contempting" the Northern Demon Cult is resented by the master of these demon cultivators and the great elder of the Northern Demon Cult - Chang Yunqiu. . Chang Yunqiu has used various means to find the identity and description of the murderer, but has been unsuccessful due to various reasons such as no one providing clues to the murderer and insufficient materials to use the "Return of Light". Huang Hao was favored by Yun Long for his guidance, and he was the leader of the Northern Demon Cult. He himself had conflicts with the Great Elder, so he was happy to see him suffer, so he naturally did not tell him what happened. Therefore, even if Chang Yunqiu had superb cultivation, he would not be able to use it in this matter.
The materials needed for Chang Yunqiu to use "Return to Light" used to only lack the "Flowing Cloud Stone", a specialty of Shiwanda Mountain. However, because it was not the time limit for him to guard Shiwanda Mountain that year, he was in charge of the first line and secretly blocked it, so he never had it. Ability to collect. However, what the Demon Cult practice emphasizes is to obey one's desires, cultivate inner demons, and stimulate the rapid improvement of cultivation; no matter whether one is good or evil, the main thing is to follow one's wishes. Moreover, the higher the cultivation level, the more attention must be paid to the cultivation of the state of mind, otherwise it will seriously suppress the desire and cause the inner demon to backfire.
Chang Yunqiu's cultivation has reached the late stage of refining the gods and returning to the void. If he can go further, he can achieve the realm of the demon (celestial immortal). However, it has been stuck at this bottleneck for many years with no progress. Now that there is such an unsatisfactory thing, the already depressed mood is even more depressed. In the long run, you may lose your enterprising spirit, make your cultivation stagnant, and never make progress. This is why Chang Yunqiu is obsessed with finding the murderer - it is not only about his face but also about his cultivation.
Things always turn around. Last year, it was finally time for the manpower of the Instructor Department to garrison the Hundred Thousand Mountains to be rotated. The personnel of the Great Elder Department were the personnel to be rotated this time. Chang Yunqiu and his forces launched a large-scale search for "Liuyun Stone" in Shiwan Mountain. Such a large-scale action even aroused the vigilance of the "Ten Thousand Demons Alliance" and almost thought that they were going to provoke another war for the control of the Shiwan Mountain. Fortunately, Chang Yunqiu's party finally found enough "liuyun stones" after more than half a year of searching, so no greater conflict was caused.
After obtaining enough materials and using the "Return of Light" technique, Chang Yunqiu finally obtained the appearance of the murderer from the black jade doll that entrusted a trace of his disciple's mind. Since the Battle of Kaifeng was widely spread, many major forces in China collected intelligence on You Longzi, one of the participants. After all, this is a peerless master who claims to be able to draw a tie with the Eastern Demon Sect. After contacting the Eastern Demon Sect, he then showed weakness. Those in power from the big forces were wary of You Longzi, and wanted to win over You Longzi, even if they couldn't win him over. He looked at his appearance to warn his disciples not to mess with him.
As one of the powerful figures in the Northern Demon Sect, Chang Yunqie naturally knew what You Longzi looked like. So he recognized at a glance that the murderer who killed his disciple was this powerful master from the Northern Han Dynasty. (At this time, the Northern Han Dynasty had not yet been renamed the Song Dynasty)
Chang Yunqiu is indeed a little afraid of this master, but now this murderer has become a thorn in his heart, which has greatly affected his cultivation progress. If he doesn't get rid of it, he may become an inner demon. In fact, if this matter had been discovered earlier, even within ten years of the incident, Chang Yunqiu could have used other means to express his depression and eliminate the hidden dangers. The essentials of spiritual practice of the demonic path are incompatible with the Buddhist path. The two sides have been enemies for countless years. If they were to fight to the death whenever they felt depressed, it would only hurt both sides and there would be no prosperity for the practice world today.
Therefore, to deal with such things, the devil has its own set of solutions to express the depression in the heart and eliminate the shadow so that it will not turn into the inner demon. However, this also has limitations, that is, the depressed heart cannot exceed ten years. After ten years, it will turn into inner demons and hide in the Taoist heart, becoming a hidden danger for practice.
Of course, if there is only one inner demon, it is not something to be afraid of. But most of the successful practitioners have hundreds of years of life, so how can there be only one unpleasant thing? Such inner demons accumulate more and more, and when they accumulate to a certain level, they will form into a more powerful inner demon tribulation, which will suddenly come to the practitioner when he is mentally unstable or going through a heavenly tribulation, confusing his sanity and destroying his cultivation. If he successfully destroys the practitioner's If the mind resists, it will take over the practitioner's body and turn into a complete demon.
Chang Yunqiu has accumulated a lot of inner demons after practicing for thousands of years, and they may break out at some point, so he is extremely careful about this matter. It's not that he doesn't know how powerful You Longzi is, but it's a matter of his own life and death that has become an unending situation and he can't just let him go. Therefore, after learning the information about the murderer, he immediately took a series of measures and mobilized all forces to try to attack You Longzi's foundation in the secular and cultivation world, thereby consuming the power of this destined enemy from the side. Among them, the reason why Bei Liao was able to resolve the civil strife so quickly and prepare the army to attack Bei Han was also the reason why he promoted it. Thanks to the fact that "Linglong Valley" has always been mysterious, its owner is not known to outsiders, otherwise he would be attacked and harassed unexpectedly.
Today happens to be the day that Chang Yunqiu returns from collecting elixirs from the depths of Shiwan Mountain. The flight route of Yunlong is exactly the only way for him to return. If they don't move away, the two will definitely meet.
After Yunlong roughly deduced the cause and effect of the matter, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Sure enough, the world is ending in chaos. He is another guy who is not easy to mess with." But then his face straightened, "Even if the Northern Demon Sect comes out in force, what will happen to me?" Afraid? Besides, it's just Chang Yunqiu, what can he do to me!" He didn't dodge, he just stopped flying and stood steadily in the clouds, waiting for Chang Yunqiu to approach. Several of his magic weapons are ready. If there is a conflict, he will take action with all his strength without leaving any consequences.
Chang Yunqiu's Taoism was far worse than Yunlong's. It was originally impossible to figure out Yunlong's situation, but Yunlong had decided to fight him, so he didn't bother to hide and let him probe. Even so, Chang Yunqiu only discovered some abnormalities when he was more than a hundred miles away from Yunlong. The flying speed immediately slowed down, and then a violent and overbearing spiritual thought swept over without any scruples, but it was Chang Yunqiu's test.
Yunlong saw that there was just a spiritual thought coming to explore, but he made no move, as if he didn't notice it. When the spiritual thought came ten feet away from him, he softly said "Humph!" and then a powerful, sacred, and majestic power came out from him. It hit this spiritual thought hard.
This spiritual thought suddenly suffered this blow and almost collapsed like a lightning strike. He didn't care to explore the other party's situation and hurriedly gathered his spiritual thought into a ball and shrank back. After a moment, Chang Yunqiu's figure appeared in Yunlong's field of vision.
Chang Yunqiu was dressed in a black robe, with a gold belt around his waist. He was holding a white bone in his hand, holding an unknown animal skull on top of it. The bone had two horns on top, and the dark eye sockets of the skeleton were shining with faint purple flames. His jaw trembled slightly, as if he were a living creature. . He looked like a middle-aged man with pale hair and beard, and his face was sinister with a hint of paleness. His eyes were flashing with murderous intent and he glared at Yunlong, who had obviously been slightly injured in the collision just now. He is not like Yunlong, who can "waste" Chang Yunqiu's powerful recovery of spiritual thoughts with the help of Dragon Heart and the power of faith. Chang Yunqiu has consumed part of his spiritual thoughts and it is indeed not that easy to make up for it.
He glared at Yunlong and said, "I don't know why this fellow Taoist blocked the way back and suddenly hurt someone? Is it a deliberate provocation? If you don't make it clear today, I will never let go of you!" After saying this, he felt a strong feeling. Power radiates from the body and the bone staff in Yunlong's hand, which is firmly locked, also shines brightly with black light, as if Yunlong will strike with thunder as long as he doesn't give him a satisfactory answer.
Yunlong turned a blind eye to this power. In terms of power, the dragon power he just unleashed was considered to be the top power. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to hurt Chang Yunqiu's Void-Returning Spiritual Mind with one blow. He said lightly with a smile on his face: "Oh? Elder Chang planned to deal with me for many days and now we have met each other, so why can't we recognize him? Since we are already enemies, we naturally have to use various means to attack each other. Your demon sect should also be the most vulnerable to this. You should be good at it." After saying this, he pinched the sword technique in his left hand and a golden light flew out of his body and turned into a golden flying sword. It stopped at his feet and it was the flying sword "Taiping". Although he does things decently, he is not pedantic either. Of course, he needs to use more methods to deal with the enemy. Using up some of his strength in advance will save him some energy later in the battle.
"Enemy? No wonder you look familiar to me. You are wearing a purple robe and a golden sword of peace... You are You Longzi!" Chang Yunqiu was a little confused at first and then seemed to suddenly realize, pointing at Yunlong and saying, "You were the one who killed me. My disciple once again hid his head and showed his tail, and now he is doing such villainous things as sneak attacks. I am so disappointed in your reputation as a great master! I really don’t know how Old Ghost Yin was repelled by you." His body trembled slightly, and blazing black fire appeared all over his body, constantly changing. The shapes of various ghosts and monsters seem to be extremely angry.
"I didn't defeat Yin Changsheng, but he was punished by heaven and his soul was destroyed." Yunlong thought to himself, but it involved his unique skills and borrowing external forces, which didn't feel very honorable, so he didn't say anything about it. The "rumors" about the religion spread all over the world.
"Your disciple killed innocent people indiscriminately and broke the rules of the world of cultivation. And when I caught him, he deserved to be killed! If you didn't find out that it was me, then it's because you have no ability. What does it have to do with me? As for how Yin Changsheng was defeated by me. .." Yunlong paused for a moment. "Of course it's up to you to experience it for yourself. It's useless to talk more and take action! Your spell will be ready soon." After Yunlong shouted, he didn't see how he moved the "Taiping" flying sword. With a sudden movement, he rushed across the short distance between the two in the blink of an eye and slashed towards Chang Yunqiu's head.
"Sure enough, he is smart enough to be the one who defeated Old Ghost Yin." Seeing that Yunlong had seen through his trick of delaying time to prepare spells, Chang Yunqiu couldn't help but sighed secretly and launched an attack. "The demon flame has transformed into millions!" He put his hands together and pinched a strange seal and shouted. The blazing black flames on his body were shaken open with a "bang" and divided into countless groups of black flames, transforming into the ghosts and demons that had just appeared. These ghosts and monsters let out weird smiles and rushed towards Yunlong with their teeth and claws.
This is the spell "Firework Demons" that he secretly prepared just now. It combines the souls that have been sacrificed and the black flames of the demon world that he has practiced, turning them into ghosts and monsters to attack the enemy. Except for Buddha's light, which has magical powers to restrain demonic energy, the spells cast by ordinary cultivators cannot kill these souls that have been sacrificed and refined and have almost immortal bodies. They are often entangled and unable to escape, allowing him to deal with them calmly.
At the same time, a red hexagonal shield appeared on Chang Yunqiu's head and emitted a body-protecting light to cover his body, resisting the sudden attack of the "Taiping" sword.
Unfortunately, Chang Yunqiu had hit a brick wall this time, not to mention that Yunlong had already anticipated what he would do and launched an attack first, causing him to hastily cast the unprepared spell and only use 50% of its power. Just saying that Yunlong has several abilities that can restrain him. Don't forget that Yun Long's clone Yun Canghai has spent many years with Jian Zhen, a Buddhist holy monk, and has great experience in restraining this kind of magic.
When Yunlong saw that the "Taiping" flying sword could not hit a single blow, he did not hesitate to fight, but immediately turned it back and changed it to a sword technique "Thousand Dragons Strangulate!" Facing the swarm of fireworks and demons, Yunlong did not panic and spat out from his mouth first. A ball of blue-white electric light attached it to the flying sword, and then he kept pinching the sword technique in his hand and pointed forward, and used the flying sword stunt that he used against the Eastern Demon Cult that day when he defeated one against a thousand.
"Taiping" the flying sword let out a light cry and turned into thousands of golden dragons. But what was different from last time was that there was a faint blue-white electric light shining in the eyes of these golden dragons. As soon as Jin Longpu appeared, he let out an excited dragon roar and then rushed towards the opposite Demon Flame Demon to fight with it.
"Huh, it's useless. I'm not afraid to tell you that these living souls that I have sacrificed are all immortal. Their souls are so tough that it won't rain. The hundred-year-old ghost will be combined with the black flames of the demon world, and it can swallow the essence and burn everything! Except for the advanced ones. Except for the Buddhist light, the art of purification, the magical power of the water system, and the countless supreme flames in the world, there is no way to destroy you, so why don't you just...what? Impossible!" Chang Yunqiu saw that Yunlong actually transformed into a flying sword. When he used the art of form to deal with his specialty spells, he was still secretly laughing at Yu Longzi's superficial appearance and poor vision, so he fell into the trap. He was about to say a few sarcastic words to undermine the opponent's confidence when he saw an incredible scene and his tone was suddenly horrified. stand up.
It turns out that those demon flame demons are not as strong as the flying swords, so they were basically destroyed in one blow by the golden dragon transformed from the flying swords. However, after these demonic flames were scattered, the demonic flames were pushed away and then gathered together again to form an intact demonic flame demon. This is the immortal characteristic of the Demon Flame Demon, which will never die as long as its soul core is not destroyed or its power is exhausted. In order to practice this kind of magic, Chang Yunqiu once entered some small demonic spaces to collect pure demonic flames, and collected the souls of tens of thousands of humans, beasts, and even cultivators and monsters in the human world. It took him a full 150 years to practice it. Since then, Dacheng has used this skill to dominate the world, and few can match it. There have been many careless cultivators who were besieged by these demonic flame demons without paying attention, and were unable to escape. Under the continuous attacks, their mana was exhausted and they died of hatred.
Chang Yunqiu was so confident this time, but they thought that Yunlong had many ways to deal with it. Demon flame? Compared with Yamata no Orochi's destructive black flame, the power of this magic flame was simply a joke. Yunlong had a way to deal with it as soon as he saw it. I saw those golden dragons transformed from flying swords staring at the reassembled demon flame demons. Immediately, countless rays of blue-white electric light shot out from the dragon's eyes and turned into large thunder and lightning nets that enveloped the demon flame demon.
Once the bodies of those immortal flame demons touch the electric grid, they will let out bursts of heart-rending screams as if they have been fatally injured. The parts of the body that are in contact with the power grid will also disappear strangely, leaving only a puff of smoke to prove its former existence. Not spread out but disappear completely! It's like being purified.
(Sorry for being late.)
