The candlelight in the Buddhist temple flickered on and off, and the rickety old man turned around from his futon.
Even though he was mentally prepared in advance, Gu Jianlin still felt a chill when he saw his appearance.
Because Taiqing's body has been completely deformed. Under the shabby monk's robes are intertwined golden tree roots, which have completely replaced his bone structure. There is no flesh, muscle, fascia, tissue or organs on his body. Only the heart is burning. With clusters of vermilion flames, one can imagine how seriously He was eroded.
Especially his head, which was only a rotten wood-like skull, covered in charred blackness caused by red fire.
How ironic.
"The inheritor of order has been eroded like this."
Gu Jianlin raised the Qilin's Wedge and pointed it at him from a distance: "You are indeed not as good as my grandmother."
Taiqing knelt on the ground and said in a calm voice: "I have been fighting with her for most of my life. Of course I know that I am not as good as her. In those years, she was just giving in to me. It was easy for her to win the throne. It's just that she is naturally compassionate and can't bear to cause a bloody storm like Wu Zhao did."
"She asked you to endure it, even if she was charged with murder, so as to keep your name behind you."
Gu Jianlin said coldly: "But you planned this change and made her be betrayed by the world."
Taiqing raised his head, a cluster of vermilion flames ignited in the dark eye holes, and his gentle voice suddenly turned into the roar of an evil spirit: "So what, this world is mine after all, she took it from my hands." Let's go! We have been married for more than four hundred years, of course I know what she really thinks! She looks down on me, she has never respected me from the bottom of her heart! I even know that my achievements in Zhuzhao Law were actually her secret guidance I finished it..."
"I am grateful to her, and even more grateful to God for giving me such a wonderful wife."
His voice suddenly became low, and he said faintly: "But I don't want to accept that I am so incompetent. I just want to beat her once. No matter what field, as long as I can beat her just a little bit..."
The old man was so humble when he said this.
But so eager.
With a trace of crying, she suppressed the deepest madness in her heart.
Gu Jianlin looked pitifully and said indifferently: "You are possessed by a demon."
Taiqing smiled miserably and said: "Yes, I can become a Buddha or a demon with one thought. My biggest advantage in this life is paranoia, and my biggest shortcoming is also paranoia. It is precisely because of this paranoia that I have fallen to such a point that I have become a person with a unified will." Puppet, took over the Priory. At that time, I thought I had surpassed my wife, but unfortunately I made a mistake. I underestimated Qing and Chi, and I should not have let them out of my sight."
Gu Jianlin said indifferently: "Why did you send them to the depths of the universe?"
"We need to get the Law of the Shadow."
Taiqing replied calmly: "But I never thought about letting them come back alive."
Gu Jianlin nodded slightly: "So you train teachers and uncles just to let them go to the depths of the universe to find clues to the Lotus of Nether Ying and reproduce the ancient Law of Nether Ying. After all, the Law of Zhuzhao and the Law of Nether Ying One is indispensable. Qing and Chi should have been lost in the depths of the universe, but they just came back."
Taiqing said softly: "Because Qing and Chi not only went to the ancestral star, but also went to Qilin's home star."
There were waves in Gu Jianlin's eyes.
"Qing and Chi experienced something in Lord Qilin's home planet, and they are completely out of my control."
Taiqing sighed: "Otherwise, I wouldn't have to go to great lengths to kill them."
Gu Jianlin laughed and said, "You are so pathetic."
"Maybe, in your eyes, if I didn't do this, I wouldn't die. But I have never regretted my choice. It was precisely because of this paranoia that I accidentally came into contact with a huge conspiracy."
He paused: "Before I was contaminated by the unified will, I had the opportunity to ask her for help."
Gu Jianlin was surprised.
This sentence means that Taiqing was voluntarily polluted by the unified will of Zhuzhao Sacred Tree.
"For hundreds of millions of years, the Zhuzhao Sacred Tree has been so secretive, like a butterfly traveling through the dark side of history without leaving any traces. But when this butterfly grows stronger, there will always be someone. I heard about it. I just want to use my initiative to cater to find the source of the conspiracy."
Taiqing said hoarsely: "The facts are just as I thought. Based on my abnormality, Taihua led Qing and Chi step by step closer to the truth of the conspiracy. This is the result based on my sacrifice. Unfortunately, She couldn't do it in the end. It made me feel relieved to think that there are things that people like her can't do."
Gu Jianlin murmured in a low voice: "You are really a madman."
Taiqing laughed dumbly, taking it as a compliment to him.
"If they lose, I still win."
He laughed and said: "Because Lord Suzaku is about to complete his unparalleled achievements of hundreds of millions of years and come to this world in the most perfect posture. By then, the fateful curse between humans and the ancient gods will also be completely ended!"
Only his laughter echoed in the silence.
There is arrogance in the madness, and ambition that spreads like wildfire.
Gu Jianlin was puzzled: "Why?"
The flame in Taiqing's eyes was erratic: "Do you think you are a human or a god?"
Gu Jianlin didn't even bother to answer such a question.
Taiqing said with a smile but not a smile: "You think you are a human being. Based on your practice of the third method, you are indeed blameless. But the problem is that Venerable Suzaku and Venerable Zhulong can also claim that they are humans. "
Gu Jianlin vaguely understood something. In the world's concept, the contradiction between humans and the ancient gods comes from the difference in race. If one day the ancient supreme descends to this world in the form of a human, he will even generously reveal the ancient secrets and the truth of the universe. Share it, then what reason is there for the war to continue?
This is the same as the Baize clan's approach, except that what they can do is very limited.
When Lord Suzaku takes complete control of the Zhuzhao Sacred Tree, he will be able to solve all the problems on this planet.
It seems very beautiful, humans and gods live in harmony, and the eternal true god comes to create a true utopia.
There is no war.
There is no smoke.
There is no conspiracy.
"Is the price just that little bit of self-esteem and freedom?"
Gu Jianlin's eyes were cold and he said softly: "Human beings kneel down and pray for God's blessings. In order to evolve and survive, they betrayed the beliefs of their predecessors. They gave up a happy life, abandoned their parents, partners and children, and sacrificed their blood, sweat and even their lives. , we are not asked to kneel down for others.”
Taiqing stared into his eyes and said word by word: "Even if our world will become better?"
Gu Jianlin thought of the murders committed by the ancestor of Gui Che before and what the Hermitage had done.
"Putting aside my grudges with Him, they cannot be trusted based on their actions alone."
He said coldly: "It turns out you are a capitulator."
The wedge of unicorn roared in the silence and rested on the old man's head.
Taiqing did not feel fear, but said calmly: "Actually, before I met you, I always felt that you were the one who should accept the arrival of the Suzaku clan. But I didn't expect that you are such an arrogant person. No wonder they would Choose you and firmly believe that you can walk on this road."
Gu Jianlin narrowed his eyes and looked at him deeply: "What did you say?"
Taiqing smiled slightly: "This is something Taihua found out."
Gu Jianlin's hand holding the Qilin Wedge trembled like an electric shock.
"My wife has never doted on someone so much in her life. Even when she was tortured to the most painful extent by the curse, she was still able to find out about you. This is a secret that she should take into the coffin. , but you should never have confided in my grave. Of course, judging from the current development, you will know sooner or later."
Taiqing was persuasive: "Did you receive a mysterious mask?"
Gu Jianlin's eyes finally changed, and long-awaited memories surfaced like bubbles.
Yes, that mysterious mask.
There is also a strange express delivery station and Lao Zhang disappears inexplicably.
"After you put on that mysterious mask, you gained the power of Lord Qilin."
Taiqing said deliberately: "That's the beginning of everything."
Gu Jianlin had seen the projection of a clay tablet of destiny, the process of Lord Qilin creating the black jade mask, and the mysterious man who could ignore the seal and break into the deepest part of the tomb.
This was obviously planned in advance.
"Skylarks were created, and so were you in fact."
Taiqing mocked and said: "The purpose of your existence in the beginning was to compete for the Zhuzhao Sacred Tree. No, more precisely, it was to deal with Lord Suzaku. Now you and his status are equal, and you still have Wu Color in your hand. This is the only thing that may pose a threat to Him. Including the Zhuzhao Sacred Tree in Qilin Immortal Palace, he has already tampered with it, and it will be a matter of time before it is taken away... Of course, where is the body of the Zhuzhao Sacred Tree? It’s not that important. What’s important is who is the person who can really control the power!”
"If you still have any doubts, why not take a look at the deepest part of Qilin Immortal Palace? Now that you have arrived in the Holy Realm, you already have the ability to see through the past and the future."
He smiled: "As you call it, profiling!"
Boom.
A cluster of vermilion flames ignited, and Taiqing's rickety body was completely engulfed.
He didn't whine.
There were no violent tremors or convulsions.
Just calmly accept the dissipation of consciousness.
Gu Jianlin always had the illusion that some words were not really what the old man in front of him wanted to say.
Instead, someone was talking to him through his body.
Taiqing burned itself, but the candles in the Buddhist temple were extinguished by the wind, the Buddha statues enshrined at the highest place became rusty, the laughter in the Zen courtyard gradually faded away, and everything that supported the dream was crumbling.
Gu Jianlin stared at this scene silently, not knowing whether to feel sad or hateful.
It is true that the old man in front of him is one of the sources of all tragedies. He is indeed hopelessly insane and almost paranoid, choosing the most cruel path at the crossroads of human history. But even if he hadn't fallen, someone else would have made the exact same choice in his place.
No one knows where the root of the problem lies.
Right and wrong, success and failure can only be evaluated by future generations.
"Let's do it."
In the vermilion flames, the old man's voice was hoarse: "Since Tang Ling is not here, it is up to you to clean up the house on her behalf, if you firmly believe that you are right."
Gu Jianlin raised the Qilin's Wedge, and the blade trembled slightly: "Do you have any last words?"
Taiqing was silent for a second.
"Let's talk about it when I see her."
The old man looked at the Buddha's light outside the Buddhist temple and watched the children's playful figures fading away. In a trance, he returned to the era of war and chaos four hundred years ago, reliving the peace and joy that he had forgotten.
It's like a long, distant dream.
Now I wake up from the dream.
It's time for people to leave.
Click!
Gu Jianlin chopped off the sword without hesitation, and the old man's head flew high.
This silent Buddhist temple finally collapsed. The huge Buddha statue collapsed and wax oil was poured all over the floor.
Taiqing's body was completely reduced to ashes, and the hot ashes were extinguished and cooled.
Just like his paranoia and madness.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Gu Jianlin turned around, the Qilin Wedge trembled slightly, and the dimensions of time and space shattered in front of him.
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With the collapse of time and space, Gu Jianlin returned to the dark tomb after a long absence.
According to common sense, after the taboo zone constructed by Taiqing's subconscious collapsed, he should have been transported to the corresponding location in reality, but he communicated with the Qilin Wedge at the last moment and returned to his world.
He was sitting in a golden coffin. The iron chains that originally bound him were broken inch by inch. The pale shroud was also wiped out. The majestic breath of the ancient gods surged in the void, but he could control himself and remain human. attitude.
The chain like a dragon's spine collapsed into dust, accompanied by a faint dragon roar.
Back then, every time he advanced to a higher level, one of the chains here would break.
Now that he has been promoted to the Sanctuary level, the seal that once made him despair can no longer trap him.
The connection between Qilin Immortal Palace and him has become increasingly close, and ancient and bizarre forbidden knowledge floods into his mind. He also knows what kind of alchemy matrix should be used to control the world, and he can clearly distinguish those ancient ruins in thousands of years. It looked like thousands of years ago, and you can even feel the traces of the war between the Zhulong and Qilin clans.
Snapped.
A crisp snap of fingers.
The door of the mausoleum is open, and a ray of sunlight pours in.
Grandma Shi once said that the ancient gods are a race of destiny.
The Ancient Supreme has the power to see through destiny.
And the master finally answered his doubts just now, what is his profile.
"The ability to see through fate?"
Gu Jianlin closed his eyes, feeling the traces left in the tomb, and his silent mind boiled.
Suddenly, he heard a voice.
"I haven't seen the sun for more than two thousand years, Your Majesty."
Someone said softly: "It's really scary. Even after being suppressed for more than two thousand years, your power is still so powerful. If you hadn't recovered the spiritual realm, I'm afraid no one would be able to set foot in this tomb. With this power, no one would be able to set foot in this tomb." In a short time, you will probably be able to kill all the Kuilong Ancestors on the first level."
This man's voice was so strange and erratic that he couldn't even distinguish between male and female.
"Fortunately, you still maintain your sanity."
He paused: "Otherwise I wouldn't be able to come in."
Gu Jianlin opened his eyes and saw a familiar old man standing in the sun.
The king of green, Sophora yin.
(End of chapter)
