As Lin Ji's words fell, the shadow on the avenue behind him suddenly trembled, and then turned into dots of starlight lingering around him, gradually turning into golden and black lines representing cause and effect, exuding a faint fluorescence.
His eyes have long turned into causal eyes.
Seeing this scene, Zhu She dived into the lake without even thinking about it.
Seeing this, Lin Ji did not stop it and allowed it to escape.
Although the white mist in front of them is still there, and although the lake seems real and imaginary with no bottom, the so-called red snake has disappeared deep into the lake.
But Lin Ji didn't need to find its true identity at all.
He grabbed it out of thin air, and a line of cause and effect that only he could see was held in his hand.
This is the cause and effect line of Zhu She's attack on him just now.
"Lin's path of cause and effect is best at dealing with people like you who hide their heads and show their tails." Lin Ji sneered slightly at the corner of his mouth. As his words fell, the green sword suddenly unsheathed and slashed towards the lake ahead.
In Lin Ji's eyes, this sword had already chopped the cause and effect in his hand into pieces, and followed the direction of the cause and effect, pointing directly at the red snake itself.
The sword light disappeared into the lake in an instant.
After a moment of tranquility, the lake shrouded in white mist suddenly became rippled, and the surrounding fog dispersed a lot, but it only dispersed, but it still existed.
"Huh?" Lin Ji frowned slightly. The result of this sword was somewhat different from what he imagined, that he directly injured the body of the red snake and forced it to appear.
It seemed like everything was lost in the sea, except for the slightest ripples on the lake, there was no follow-up.
At this moment, the voice of Master Gu Hong sounded from behind Lin Ji.
"That's an innate spirit. I'm afraid your karma will be difficult to deal with."
Lin Ji suddenly turned around, but turned a deaf ear to what Gu Hong said. Instead, he looked him up and down.
"Zhu Xiaoqi?"
Master Gu Hong was stunned.
"How do you know my real name?"
Lin Ji raised his eyebrows and asked coldly: "Where does my Seven Star Sword swordsmanship come from?"
Seeing Lin Ji's incomprehensible words and his strange attitude, Master Gu Hong suddenly realized something.
He shook his head and said: "You obtained the Tao map in the ancient ruins outside Xiangcheng, and exchanged it for the Seven Star Sword Art at Taiyi Sect."
Although this matter is not a secret, not many people know about it.
At least it shouldn't be something a spirit can know.
Lin Ji breathed a sigh of relief and retracted the sword edge.
"What did Master Cai mean when he said that the path of karma is not easy to deal with spirits?"
Master Gu Hong came to Lin Ji's side and glanced ahead at the strange lake shrouded in mist and hovering in mid-air.
"Although spirits and monsters are all born and raised by the earth, there is always the theory of nurture...For example, the spirits and monsters of plants and trees, although they are all kinds of strange, they mostly develop their spiritual wisdom at a certain age and survive the tribulation of transformation into spirits."
After a pause, Master Gu Hong narrowed his eyes slightly, and then said: "But some spirits are born as spirits, without father or mother, or even have an origin. These are innate spirits."
Upon hearing this, Lin Ji suddenly thought of the monkey that jumped out of the stone in his previous life.
Master Gu Hong continued: "In a sense, the innate spirits are the manifestation of the great road under the way of heaven and are necessary for the operation of the way of heaven. The existence of such roots is not restricted by cause and effect."
"Is there such a thing?" Lin Ji was slightly surprised.
Not bound by cause and effect, could it be that he is the legendary Great Freedom who has jumped out of the Three Realms and is no longer in the Five Elements?
Seeing Lin Ji's expression, Master Gu Hong immediately smiled and said: "That's it, it's not as scary as you think. They are not bound by cause and effect, and they are not punished by God. But similarly, if they don't have special opportunities, , it’s hard to make any progress in cultivation, and there won’t be any trouble if you kill them.”
Lin Ji suddenly realized.
This is much more reasonable.
There are gains and there are losses.
Not bound by cause and effect, no karma is entangled, and no merit is added to the body.
This invisibly limits their future.
"So how should I kill it?" Lin Ji asked again.
Master Gu Hong looked at the lake in front of him and said: "The natural monster has all kinds of strange methods. Do you think you know my real name, which was what it revealed just now?"
"Yes, it seems that someone has to answer its call, and then it will be pulled into the lake and drowned. Even a monk who has entered Taoism will not be able to survive if he does not have the means to restrain it. If Lin did not know the magic foot power, he would be able to get out of trouble. I'm afraid it won't end well at this point." Lin Ji said truthfully.
"It's difficult to understand, but it's not unexpected. There are always some unknowns in the world." Master Gu Hong chuckled, "If you can't think of a way, you will break through all the methods with one force."
"That's the truth." Lin Ji slapped his forehead.
Just now, he was only thinking about finding the true form of the Vermilion Snake, but he forgot that the seemingly real and imaginary lake in front of him was just an illusion of the Vermillion Snake's innate magical power, and the Vermilion Snake was only at the seventh level of cultivation when it was able to survive. .
Lin Ji performed the one-hand kneading technique that he hadn't seen for a long time, silently reciting it in his heart.
Rumble...
The originally clear sky became mostly dark in an instant, and a cloud of calamity pressed overwhelmingly over Jinling City.
Upon seeing this, Master Gu Hong stepped aside in a flash.
It happened that Nangong Limeng had also woken up.
"Is that Jian Tiansi's Thunder Sword Technique? It's rare for a Taoist monk to use this method. What kind of trouble did Fellow Daoist Lin get into?" Nangong Limeng asked curiously.
"It's a born spirit, it's a bit troublesome, but it doesn't matter." Master Gu Hong explained casually, "It's probably because you saw that both of you and I were busy adjusting our breaths and had no time to care about anything else, so you probably set your sights on us."
Hearing this, Nangong Limeng sneered.
"Oh, these innate spirits only have this ability. They want to devour other people's Tao Yun to strengthen themselves, but they don't think about what they are and whether they have such a big appetite!"
Master Gu Hong also nodded slightly, obviously not caring about this matter.
He looked at the roar of thunder in the distant sky, which sounded like the end of the world, but he asked again: "Nangong, how is your injury?"
"It doesn't matter, it's just some flesh wounds. After all, it is a ferocious beast at the peak of the Demon King. It is impossible to defeat it without paying some price."
Nangong Limeng looked at Master Gu Hong again.
"Brother Gu Hong, was it the Demon Lord who took action later?"
"Same as Xie, the ancient great demon, Qiong." Master Gu Hong said concisely and to the point, "The eighth realm of the demon race is the demon saint. These ancient giant demons seem to have had too many dealings with the human race, but they insist on being like the human race and calling themselves demons. Dear, interesting."
After saying that, Master Gu Hong saw that Nangong Limeng still seemed a little worried, and said: "Relax, if it dares to take action, the human race will be able to stop it. This time it has broken the rules by saving the ferocious beast, otherwise It won't willingly take a blow from me without fighting back. It's lucky that it didn't dare to fight back, otherwise everyone present today might have died."
"Hey." Nangong Limeng shook his head slightly and said nothing more.
Because in the distance in front of them, Lin Ji's figure had disappeared into the thunder clouds, appearing and disappearing with the thunder light.
The next moment, thunder and lightning connected the sky and the earth.
