Peng Jue moved his body and his eyes fell on Zhao Ning. He was first surprised and then overjoyed.
"I thought that boy Shang Xia could achieve the golden elixir so quickly. It turns out it's not him, but an old friend."
"Master Peng Jian, long time no see." She paused, "I just don't know whether I should call Master Peng Jian or Master Yan Peng."
Peng Jue waved his hand, "I have been traveling around nine states for more than a thousand years. Whether it is Peng Jue or Yan Peng, they are all me. As for my real name..."
He hesitated for a moment, then said, "I know I can't use it anymore."
Zhao Ning didn't ask why he said this, "Why is Master Peng Jian trapped in this?"
Peng Jue did not answer immediately. He glanced across the broken corpses and spat, "I knew he had bad intentions. He used me as the core of the formation to cover up this place. It's a great plan."
He waved his sleeves, and a ray of divine light flew out, turning all the corpses into ashes in an instant.
He said to Zhao Ning, "Come with me."
The two figures flashed past and returned to the formation space. Without the core of the formation made by Peng Jian Yuanying, this place was just empty.
But as the seals spread out from Peng Jiao's body, the space of the formation was torn apart, and Zhao Ning saw what was hidden under the formation.
It was a magical fairy grass with bright green branches and leaves, like feathers and yarn. The aura gathered around it, suddenly making everything lose its luster.
"This is..." Zhao Ning was surprised, "Kongming Immortal Grass."
"Yes." Peng Jue stepped closer to the fairy grass, "Kongming fairy grass is also called cutting off cause and effect. In life, there are endless causes and effects, some are fate, some are evil. If you cut off a section of cause and effect, the people and things related to it will No more contact from now on.”
Peng Jue suddenly turned to look at Zhao Ning, "Instead of calling it such a name, it's better to call it Forgetting Grass."
Zhao Ning recalled the woman Shang Xia mentioned, so was it Peng Jue's love affair?
Zhao Ning did not ask who the Kongming Immortal Grass was for. In fact, the answer was already clear. It must not be Peng Jue himself. If he wanted to use the Kongming Immortal Grass to cut off cause and effect and break through to the gods, then he would not do this at this moment. practice.
"Master Peng Jian is using his own original power to nourish the Sky Immortal Grass." Zhao Ning said.
"Yes." Peng Jue shook his head, "It's what I should do."
He stretched out his hand, and the spiritual light shone on the Kongming Immortal Grass, gradually wrapping it until all the aura of the Kongming Immortal Grass was absorbed, and he quickly put it away.
"I came here for the Kongming Immortal Grass, but someone took advantage of me." Peng Jue said, "Do you know the faces of gods and ghosts?"
But she didn't want Zhao Ning to hear these three words again in such a short time. Zhao Ning said bluntly, "I came to Yangzhou precisely to find the ghost face and the person behind the ghost face."
Peng Jue evoked a smile, but the smile did not reach his eyes. He said, "I think you also know that the ghost face is a thing left by the Venerable Xian Yao who has been here for thousands of years. More than a hundred years ago, I met a person in the Bianzhou cultivation world. That man wore a mask that looked like a ghost and a god, and he pointed out the opportunity for me to become a god. But I followed the instructions and understood when the opportunity was, and it was no longer important to transform into a god. "
He twitched the corners of his lips, turned around and fled outwards, with Zhao Ning following behind him.
The two of them walked in the night sky, the divine light covering their figures. Peng Jue was silent for a long time before slowly speaking.
"Since you got the washing stone from Shang Xia, you probably already know what I asked him to do."
Zhao Ning did not hide anything, "Is it for that woman?"
"Yes. She is the opportunity for me to become a god." He stopped and looked in a certain direction. Zhao Ning knew that far, far away in this direction was Binhaiyuan, where the woman never stopped dancing. Peng Jue Said, "I, Peng Jue, have lived for eighteen hundred years, and I have not failed Jiuzhou, nor anyone, but her."
"I was born into a cultivator family in the Chengxuan Cultivation World. When we were building our foundation, the family arranged for me to marry a girl from another family. A thousand years later, I was promoted to Yuanying. My wife had not yet become Yuanying, and the life-extending elixir no longer had any effect. When she was dying, she asked for an afterlife. After a thousand years of love, I agreed to her..."
Peng Jue collected his wife's spirit and used secret methods to join her in a wealthy and wealthy family. The spirit's spirit awakened the memories of her previous life, at least until the time of foundation building. Peng Jue originally wanted to wait until his wife was reincarnated as an adult and turn into a wandering Taoist priest to attract her. After entering the Taoism, he didn't expect to pass by the mortal world by chance a few years later, but saw that his wife was reincarnated and suffered a lot in the mortal family, so he stayed and helped her secretly.
The little girl was extremely perceptive and soon discovered that there was some kind of power beyond cognition appearing around her. The little girl didn't know the gods and thought she was being sneaky. Peng Jue had no choice but to show up to comfort the little girl, and then he coaxed the little girl.
After that, he stayed with the little girl, watching her start to fight against those who bullied her, and even dared to take action directly. If she couldn't defeat her, she would run back to Peng Jue to complain, but she would never feel aggrieved again.
In this way, year after year, the little girl became happier every year, and year after year she looked forward to Peng Jue taking her to the legendary world of cultivation.
When the little girl turned eighteen, Peng Jue fulfilled his promise and took her to Kunxu. Peng Jue taught her how to practice, forged spiritual weapons and cut robes for her. The little girl liked the dance of Xianwu Pavilion, and he could forge one. Accompany her with the lingyinqin and watch her dance among the flowers.
Until one day, the little girl secretly kissed him while he was taking a nap after drinking. How could the Nascent Soul body get drunk easily? He suddenly opened his eyes, startling the little girl.
But the little girl still had the courage to say, "Xiao Yu, I am very pleased with you."
At that time, Peng Jue's mood was a little complicated. Before the Taoist couple was reincarnated, the relationship between him and the Taoist couple was not so close. Even since their marriage, they treated each other as if they were guests, but the word "Xin Yue" has never been mentioned.
He lowered his eyes and touched the little girl's head, "You are still young."
"Although I am only at the seventh level of Qi Refining, according to the lifespan of ordinary people, I am almost forty, and I am a grandmother!"
Peng Jue changed his words and said, "Wait until you arrive to build the foundation."
The little girl was very sad at the time, but she also began to practice hard in secret, hoping that she could build a foundation in the next moment.
But when it came to the completion of Qi training, the little girl began to feel depressed. When Peng Jian asked what was wrong, the little girl said, "I am always uneasy in my heart. Sometimes I always feel scared, and even... I even feel that I am almost not me anymore."
Peng Jue hesitated. He used magic to explore the little girl's soul, and suddenly found that her soul was not consistent with his Taoist companion.
He asked the little girl to let go of the sea of consciousness, and after exploring like this, he found that there was a soul sleeping deep in the sea of consciousness, and he used the power of the little girl's origin to reshape the origin of the soul.
"The body of two souls." Zhao Ning murmured.
"Yes." Peng Jue said, "I don't know if it was because the secret method was hidden at the beginning, or if there was a soul in the womb when I surrendered, resulting in a body with two souls, but I didn't realize it until then."
This is actually the true body of two souls mentioned in ancient books, and the soul boy is just a special case of the body of two souls.
"Later..." Peng Jiandu paused on the spot and closed his eyes, "She still found out."
The little girl complained desperately, "It turns out that the one you have taken care of, protected, and cherished for so many years has never been me, but the Taoist companion who has been with you for a thousand years! What about me, who am I?! It turns out that fate There is no such thing as a guardian immortal, it turns out that I am just a vessel for your Taoist companion to resurrect!"
"No...no." Peng Jue retorted with difficulty.
"No?! Then drive her out of my sea of consciousness. Quick, drive her out!" The little girl was running her spiritual power like crazy. She has not yet established the foundation, and her sea of consciousness is not yet clear. She doesn't even know where the other party is hiding. clear.
Peng Jian stopped her, and the little girl broke down and cried, and stopped practicing from then on.
But when it comes to the state of Qi Refining Great Perfection, foundation building is just waiting for an opportunity. Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, the foundation building breakthrough will come sooner or later.
Not surprisingly, after building the foundation, the one who returned was her former Taoist companion. She looked at Peng Jue and had no memory of the little girl. She only knew that her Taoist companion had helped her reincarnate successfully.
She greeted him politely and said, "Long time no see."
At this moment, Peng Jue really understood that the Taoist monk in front of him was different from the little girl.
The Taoist monk devoted himself to cultivation and valued his family. After reincarnation, he returned to his family and ran two families.
Five hundred years later, the Taoist couple died in the secret realm. When Peng Jue arrived, he was unable to recover.
Peng Jue knew that the Taoist couple and the little girl had disappeared from this world.
Since then, Peng Jiao has become a sloppy wandering weapon refiner.
Peng Jue sighed and walked forward with his hands behind his back.
"So the ghost-faced man told you that there is someone waiting for you in Binhaiyuan, and he has not disappeared...that little girl."
Peng Jian lowered his eyes and said, "Yes."
"She slept for five hundred years. Even if her spirit collapsed five hundred years later, her obsession kept her spirit alive and she stayed at that coastal source forever."
Zhao Ning looked back at the direction she left, "You went to Binhaiyuan and found her, but she no longer recognized you, and your heart was broken."
Peng Jue remained silent, "It's not that she doesn't recognize me, she remembers everything, she just hates me and is reluctant to enter reincarnation again."
This was the answer Peng Jue got after receiving the two broken pieces of the small wooden sword.
"Kongming Immortal Grass can repair the fragmentation of her soul, and it can also cut off your cause and effect in this life, so that there will no longer be the possibility of chance encounters in life after life." Zhao Ning whispered, "And Kongming Immortal Grass has five thousand years of life and five thousand years of maturity. , the little girl’s soul cannot wait for that day, so you will use your own Nascent Soul’s original power to cultivate the Kongming Immortal Grass.”
She looked at Peng Jue's back and said, "You have no chance of becoming a soul in this life."
"I said that I am only responsible for her. I will cut off this cause and effect for her." Peng Jue said firmly.
But, does that little girl really want to cut off this cause and effect? Zhao Ning murmured in his heart.
She didn't say anything more, it was not her place to interfere in the situation.
Zhao Ning then returned to the original question, "Did the Ghost-faced Man tell you that there is the Immortal Grass here?"
"Yes. After seeing her, I have been looking for ways to cut off the cause and effect. A year ago, when I came to Yunfang Xianyuan City, he appeared again." Peng Jue frowned, "However, I noticed that There’s something unusual about him.”
"——He has an extremely strong vitality."
"Angry?" This answer was unexpected, but also clear.
At this time, Zhao Ning and Peng Jue were already standing in the sky above Yunfang Fairy City. She asked, "Master Peng Jue, what do you think of the vitality of Yunfang Fairy City?"
"It's far beyond the ordinary Xianyuan City. It's like hundreds of children are being gestated."
Chapter 289
Zhao Ning and Zhao Ning have never been so connected, but now being spoken to by Peng Jue in this way seems to... point out something.
But Peng Jue himself just said casually, "This is Yunfang Xianyuan City. Eighty percent of the people in it are cultivators. There are also many male cultivators who have given birth to many children... It's ridiculous."
Peng Jue lowered his eyes and said, "Besides, the ghost-faced man is obviously a man. What kind of strange way can he use to increase his lifespan? I didn't think much about it until he took him there and saw the Kongming Immortal Grass, and all my thoughts came to a halt. On this thing, I just think that her...her pain can finally end."
"It's a pity that the Sky Immortal Grass is not mature yet." The other party said, "I don't know if that person can wait until it matures."
Peng Jue waved his hand, "It doesn't matter if you are immature in front of Yuanying."
He only had this Kongming Immortal Grass in his heart. After a series of false wishes from the Ghost-faced Man, after he left, Peng Jue used the original power of Nascent Soul to cultivate the Kongming Immortal Grass. At this time, Peng Jue was shocked to realize, The formation has been laid out unknowingly, and he has become the core of the formation. If it breaks down, the Kongming Immortal Grass will die along with it.
He was trapped in the formation, but fortunately he left a back-up in Yunfang Xianyuan City. When Shang Xia cultivated and became a real Jindan, he found this place and with a little help, he could bring his mature Kong Underworld Immortal Grass seeks an opportunity to leave.
Peng Jue didn't wait too long. When the Kongming Immortal Grass matured, Zhao Ning came.
"The demonic cultivators below are probably inseparable from the ghost-faced man." Peng Jue frowned, "But why didn't I feel any demonic energy in him? Moreover, I heard that the ghost-faced man created by Venerable Jing Yao Is it possible to suppress all demonic energy because of this?"
"No." Zhao Ning said, "What he took away was not the ghost face, but the ghost face."
Peng Juan suddenly looked at Zhao Ning, his brows furrowed even deeper, and then he smiled coldly, "I see, it seems that things are not going to be peaceful in Yangzhou. What a ghost-faced man he is."
Peng Jue obviously wanted to settle the score with the Ghost-faced Man, but Peng Jue had very few clues about this. “I heard that the previous head of the Tianyang Immortal Sect was also a person who liked to wear ghost-faced people, but it was said that he seemed to be killed by his enemies. It’s difficult to It couldn’t have fallen into the hands of others.”
"I was at the scene when Yue Lingfei died." Zhao Ning said calmly.
Peng Jue was even more surprised, "Do you have any grudges with Tianyang Immortal Sect?"
Zhao Ning said lightly, "No, at first I suspected that Yue Lingfei was the person behind the Kunxu Demonic Rebellion. Now it seems that I have found the wrong person."
Peng Jiao opened his eyes slightly, never expecting that there was such a deep connection, but at the same time he also realized what Zhao Ning meant by being wrong.
"You mean, that ghost-faced man is the one behind the scenes."
Zhao Ning didn't answer, but her slightly cold eyes told Peng Jue the answer.
