Zhao Ning heard a voice murmuring.
It was an extremely distant sound.
"Are you enlightened?"
Another voice said indifferently.
"Not enlightened."
Chapter 278
The misty words of the conversation disappeared without a trace.
Zhao Ning in this situation at this time is Zhao Ning but not Zhao Ning. She is experiencing a paradoxical past.
The process of recruiting Qi into the body was not very smooth when she first learned about it. It only took a year to introduce Qi into her body. By the time she found the bottleneck of the first level of Qi training, it was already three years later.
After walking out of the mountains three years later, Zhao Ning did not meet the "immortal master" again, but she miraculously obtained the news about the land of Yue Ming. She went all the way east from Nanjing Kingdom, crossing rivers and climbing mountains when she encountered them. Until he was guided to the place where Tai Ke sat and transformed.
In the strange big tree space, Zhao Ning's longing for the world of cultivating immortals was instantly extinguished by the sinister smile of Dry Bones. With nowhere to escape, Tai Ke's remnant soul easily penetrated into Zhao Ning's sea of consciousness.
The sea of consciousness was shrouded in gray fog and empty. The pure white soul fled desperately in the sea of consciousness, but the laughter of Tai Ke's remaining soul seemed to come from all directions, until at a certain moment, the pure white soul stopped, and she turned around to look back. Seeing the remnant soul of Tai Ke, he opened the long bow where the silver mist gathered.
He sneered and said, "It's your chance to be taken over by me. Accept it."
The silver arrow flew out from the bow, approaching inch by inch, but the pure white soul was surrounded by fine fluorescence, which was the light of the soul's collapse.
Even if she dies, she will never let Tai Ke become Zhao Ning.
"No! How dare you explode your soul!"
The silver arrow approached three feet, but was frozen at three feet. In an instant, the impact of soul collapse caused the entire sea of consciousness to fall apart. The pure white soul disappeared, and Tai Ke's remaining soul also collapsed.
In the empty space of the big tree, Zhao Ning's body scattered a little bit of starlight, gradually filling the entire space. Suddenly, the sky outside suddenly became stormy, with bursts of thunder, and a bolt of lightning struck the big tree.
The space of the big tree was strongly shaken, and the space began to shrink. Starlight merged into the big tree, and some subtle changes began to brew.
Summer thunderstorms come fiercely and go quickly, but they only take away the light of the day. When the sky is dark, the night stars are scattered in the land of Yue Ming, and the dense tree crowns catch the starlight. In a moment, the big trees Then it disappeared, but there was movement in the swamp where it grew, and a small, embarrassed figure crawled out of the swamp.
Wiping away the mud on his face bit by bit, revealing a pair of eyes as bright and clear as stars, it was Zhao Ning.
The broken soul was reborn by luck with the help of Thunder Soul Wood.
She spread her hands, and a branch appeared dotted with a green leaf. Thunder Soul Wood is Zhao Ning, and Zhao Ning is also Thunder Soul Wood.
Rebirth did not change Zhao Ning's pursuit of "immortal". Tai Ke's real memory told Zhao Ning the direction of the world of cultivation, which was on the other side of the forest behind Yue Ming's Land, which was called Kunxu.
Most of the time, the main body has become Thunder Soul Wood, and the bottleneck of the first level of Qi training has been broken. The subsequent cultivation has improved a little, but because of the danger of the Spirit Mist Forest, Zhao Ning is more cautious when crossing here.
Three years later, Zhao Ning came to the edge of the spiritual mist forest near the realm of cultivation amid several dangers. She met another cultivator, but before she had time to be happy, she turned to face the man's blood-red murderous eyes. , the next moment, the cultivator attacked directly.
After escaping the first person's attack, they encountered more crazy cultivators, some still looking like humans, and some already looking like monsters.
Zhao Ning didn't understand what was wrong with these cultivators, but he saw more and more blood and cruelty.
Until one day, Zhao Ning met a group of silver-armored cultivators. They all wore unified identity tokens around their waists, with two characters "Qingxiao" engraved on the front.
One of the people in the silver armor team yelled at Zhao Ning, "If you're not possessed by a demon, you went to hide in Guiyuan City. Why are you still coming to the Lingwu Forest?"
Zhao Ning asked, "How to get there?"
The man hurriedly pointed to the southeast and followed the team into the blood mist.
After leaving the Lingwu Forest, I saw a magnificent but lonely city. It was quiet all around and there was no one on the road.
As they approached Guiyuan City, they saw several imposing silver-armored cultivators stationed on the city tower. As soon as Zhao Ning approached the gate, a man appeared instantly, stopped in front of Zhao Ning, and asked with a wary expression, "Where are you coming from?! "
"I'm from Nanjing Kingdom."
Before he finished speaking, the person in front of him shouted, "Mortal?! You came from Lingwu Forest!" As he spoke, the sword in his hand was pointed at Zhao Ning's heart.
Zhao Ning paused for a moment, "I came from over there, and an expert wearing silver armor like you guided me here."
After saying this, the person in front of him relaxed slightly and lowered his sword a little, "Have you met Master Uncle Ji's team? Since I asked you to come back, you should not be possessed yet."
He sheathed his sword and turned his hand to conjure up a Bagua bronze mirror, "But the possessed cultivators are very cunning these days. You have to accept our test before you can enter Guiyuan City."
Zhao Ning nodded, the Bagua bronze mirror reflected Zhao Ning, and the shadow in the mirror glowed with light blue brilliance.
The person in front of him finally breathed a sigh of relief, and after confirming that Zhao Ning was not possessed by a demon, he directly waved his hand to let Zhao Ning enter Guiyuan City.
Many people gathered in Guiyuan City, but it did not feel like a busy city. Instead, it exuded unspeakable sadness and depression.
The strange and weird immortal cultivation materials on the roadside were no longer attractive. Zhao Ning walked and looked at them, and listened to the occasional angry and frightened accusations from passers-by, still about the possessed cultivators.
Walking to the central square, dozens of people gathered depressed, and an old man sat on the steps of the ring.
"If everyone had paid more attention to those with evil intentions, our Guiyuan City would not be in the situation it is today, like a refugee city." Someone in the crowd complained.
"So what if you pay attention, that is the extremely evil method of seven emotions and six desires. It is a demonic technique passed down from the extremely evil palace in ancient times. It will attract the devil!" the old man spat.
"It's all Danling Valley's fault. It was hidden for three or four years."
"Shhh, please keep your voice down. There are disciples from Danling Valley in this city. The matters between their sects should be settled between their sects."
"Tch, let's deal with it. The four major sects are still colluding and none of them have come forward."
The voice gradually became chaotic.
Zhao Ning was also sitting in the crowd. After entering this place for the first time, she gradually understood the situation at the moment. An evil technique was recently circulated in the Kunxu cultivation world. The technique caused many cultivators to become demons. All those who became demons were bloodthirsty and killed. Dehumanization first appeared among the casual cultivators in the Lingwu Forest, but no one took it to heart. After three or four years, the number of possessed cultivators has greatly increased, and they have become a scourge for ordinary cultivators. There is always the danger of being possessed by a demon or dying, so he can only temporarily avoid Guiyuan City.
This incident finally alarmed the large sects of Kunxu, and the cultivators who became possessed by the demon were all driven into the Spirit Mist Forest to await their elimination. At the same time, the cause of this incident was also revealed - Danling Valley suddenly drove away two disciples.
With the intervention of the sects, the demonic chaos in Lingwu Forest ended soon after. Probably in order to appease the cultivators in Kunxu, several major sects have activated the Immortal Recruitment Order.
By chance, Zhao Ning chose the Qingxiao Sect because of the nature of the Thunder Soul Wood and the pure Zhao Ning spiritual roots, which attracted much attention in the Immortal Recruitment Order. However, due to the harsh environment in which the Thunder Soul Wood was born, the spirit body was extremely impurities. Duo Wanru's Lingqiao acupoint was damaged, which resulted in more regrets. After careful consideration, the Qingxiao Sect still refused to give up Zhao Ning's pure spiritual roots, so it made an exception and allowed Zhao Ning to enter the Qingxiao Sect.
On the first day after entering the sect, Zhao Ning and all the new disciples stood in the square of the preaching hall. On the high platform, the man who was called the leader of Qingxiao Sect was the person Zhao Ning met in Lingwu Forest at that time. He changed his silver armor. , wearing a white robe, holding a folding fan, smiling gracefully, but with an air of impropriety.
He told all new disciples, "You are new to Qingxiao Sect. I only have one thing to tell you. The road of cultivation is difficult and long. It is human nature to do whatever it takes to achieve breakthroughs and immortality. However, Qingxiao Sect is both pure and righteous. If someone Therefore, to kill fellow sect members and cause chaos in the sect, I, Ji Xiu, have no choice but to kill!"
The seventy-seven forty-nine steps paved with auspicious clouds set off the Qingxiao Tower at the highest place. The crowd gathered in the crowd and looked up at the high platform, their eyes flashing slowly.
The life of the Qingxiao Sect was not smooth. While trying to fill in the knowledge about the world of cultivation as much as possible, Zhao Ning kept looking for a way to solve the Lingqiao acupoint. In the process, she saw a big fight at the exchange meeting and secretly After the market, the gangsters were fighting against the gangsters, and the major forces in the sect were incompatible with each other... and so on, Zhao Ning realized that the word "kill" on Ji Shou's high platform was actually the last fig leaf for the sect's rules.
A year later, Zhao Ning met a jade doctor by chance in Guiyuan City. This jade doctor kept talking about "ten thousand years ago", but he really had a way to solve the impurities in the spirit body, but the materials needed were rare. Extremely.
In the next few years, Zhao Ning spent most of the time searching for materials in various secret realms.
In the fifth year, Zhao Ning walked out of the secret realm of the canyon alone and noticed something unusual. The air was filled with a strong smell of blood. For a moment, Zhao Ning recalled the blood mist in Lingwu Forest.
As expected, I met several possessed cultivators along the way. At first, they all looked nervous and ran for their lives in a panic. When they met Zhao Ning, they even reminded him, "Go quickly, leave Kunxu quickly."
But as soon as he finished speaking, his eyes became bloodshot. After a few breaths, the eyeballs exploded and became demonic. When he was defeated, his entire body turned into a pool of blood.
Zhao Ning didn't know what drove her to fly to Qingxiao Sect. Back then, the demonic chaos in Lingwu Forest didn't affect the sects, and all the major sects were pure lands, but now it's just the opposite.
At the gate of Qingxiao Sect, blood gushed out like a river along the road, and disciples kept running out of it. Some of them were not possessed by the devil, but they were quickly pounced on by the possessed disciples who caught up, and they turned into inhuman beings. Ghost or not monster.
Zhao Ning rescued a disciple, who managed to survive from the attack of the possessed disciple. He was doused with melted blood and collapsed on the ground, his face turned pale and he forgot to walk.
The long sword was dripping with blood. Zhao Ning raised his eyes to look at the highest mountain of the sect. The Yunxiao Hall on the top of the mountain was glowing with blood.
She lowered her eyes and walked upstream on the bloody water.
After walking a few feet, the rescued disciple finally woke up and shouted, "Senior sister! Don't go! They are all possessed by demons, they have all become demons! The Qingxiao Sect is over, and the entire Kunxu is over!"
Zhao Ning did not stop.
The disciple screamed loudly to stop him, "The demon planted the demon seeds four years ago during the demonic chaos in the Lingwu Forest. Four years later, the demon has invaded all the seas of consciousness. They have all become demons and have become demons." Became a monster."
Zhao Ning paused, turned her face slightly, and her peripheral vision fell on the disciple. Tears rolled down from the disciple's eyes, washing his pale face.
"There are people like you." People like you who are not possessed by demons and have a clear mind.
The disciple understood what was said, but he became even more sad. His tears dried up and he said, "We will eventually fall into the devil. Even if we have no delusions or greed, even if the devil does not borrow the devil to invade our sea of consciousness." , the demon species will still subtly change our nature."
"They are all demons! Demons!"
"The demon species has caused chaos in the entire Kunxu, and there are more and more cultivators with evil intentions and unscrupulous means. It seems that it has reached a certain critical point, and the entire Kunxu and the four major sects have erupted in demonic chaos."
"It must be that the demon seeds were hidden during the siege of the demonic chaos in Lingwu Forest."
"Hahaha, it's fate, it turns out this is fate!!! We can't change anything!!! Hahaha!!!"
His emotions became more and more agitated, and his pale face began to become congested with blood. He stood up unsteadily, and another possessed disciple rushed towards him from the woods. His laughter was filled with despair and collapse, and he did not run away this time. , but used his body to fight against the demonic disciples, and both died together.
Zhao Ning looked at it with no emotion on her face. For a long time, until she recovered, she glanced at Yunxiao Hall again, and continued with her original choice - to go to Yunxiao Peak.
Until they passed through mountains of blood and seas of corpses, and settled on the outside of the square.
Countless bloody corpses and unidentifiable limbs were scattered around the square, some of which could barely be identified through their clothing.
Zhao Ning's gaze paused at each corpse until it landed in the center of the square, where a complete corpse lay, a white robe bathed in blood, and its face was completely blurred.
Her movement paused. Zhao Ning knew that it was Master Ji Xiuji, the head of the Qingxiao Sect, but for some reason, she could no longer move forward.
As a result, the blood color around her became extremely dazzling, and the gurgling sound of the flowing blood penetrated her eardrums. She moved, but she also turned around on the spot, standing on a high place, looking over the entire Qingxiao Sect, shrouded in blood and the shadow of death. , the devilish energy surges into the sky.
The scream of the disciple just now echoed again.
"...This is fate! It's destined!!!"
Every word was like a heavy hammer hitting Zhao Ning's heart so hard that the possessed cultivator who suddenly stood up behind him was ignored by Zhao Ning.
Zhao Ning was knocked down.
When he closed his eyes, the illusory conversation appeared again.
"Ignorance is a fool's errand and a disaster. To understand, or not to understand."
"Not enlightened."
Chapter 279
Zhao Ning regained consciousness, his nose was filled with the rotten stench of blood, and mournful cries came from his ears, but there were colorful lights in his eyes.
She covered her eyes slightly and slowly opened her eyes, but what she saw was a magnificent palace hidden behind heavy auspicious clouds. The colorful light was the brilliance refracted by the palace's glass. In front of the palace gate, two powerful men surrounded by divine light looked down with their hands behind their hands.
