Li Zhixia opened her eyes.
There were some bright red bloodshot eyes in his eyes, but it was normal for a person who had been seriously injured and was rolling on the floor howling in pain just now to have some bloodshot eyes.
Apart from these normal bloodshot eyes, there were no other abnormalities in Li Zhixia's eyes.
The rich "black" that originally occupied his eyes was completely gone.
Li Zhixia sat up from the floor.
His expression was a little dazed, and he seemed a little sluggish, and he didn't even turn around to look at the surroundings at this time.
Shu Guan quickly knelt on one knee in front of Li Zhixia.
He first carefully observed Li Zhixia's eyesight, and after confirming that Li Zhixia should have completely recovered her consciousness, he called out softly.
"Master, this time..."
Li Zhixia suddenly raised her hand and interrupted him.
"I know very well what happened, and I remember very clearly what I did."
Li Zhixia said this to Shu Guan, his expression was a little tired and a little sad.
Shu Guan was silent for a moment, swallowing all the words he was planning to say.
However, there is not much surprise that the master remembers what happened during his own obsession.
Li Zhixia's "obsession" was not a normal obsession.
Otherwise, how could he have been able to switch freely between the two identities of being a master of Shanxi Guanzi who abides by heaven's rules on the surface and secretly killing mortals without any scruples, without being discovered by anyone.
"Old Qi, I have worked hard for you this time, and I want to thank you very much."
Then Li Zhixia's originally dazed eyes fell on Shu Guan, and some sparkle finally returned to her eyes.
"Master has something to do, and the disciple will accept his service. Master, why do you have to say thank you?"
Shu Guan said quickly, and then asked with concern.
"Master, how is your health now?"
Li Zhixia's bad condition just now was not only due to her obsession, but also because she was seriously injured in the battle with Master Miki and Master Su Jie.
In particular, the two magic weapons, the Haoran Sword and the Diamond Subduing Demonic Pestle, left many nearly fatal wounds on Li Zhixia's body.
"It doesn't matter. Since my teacher has regained consciousness, these injuries are not serious."
Li Zhixia smiled and said.
When Li Zhixia laughed, Shu Guan's heart skipped a beat.
Because the normal Li Zhixia is a person who rarely smiles, no matter how happy things happen.
For example, during the two years that Shu Guan was at Shan Ji Guan, he never saw Li Zhixia smiling more than five times.
So at this moment, Li Zhixia suddenly smiled, which made Shu Guan feel a little frightened.
It wasn't until he saw that there was no evil feeling in Li Zhixia's smile that he finally felt relieved.
Then the pavilion became quiet for a short while.
Shu Guan wanted to speak several times but stopped, but he didn't know how to speak.
Li Zhixia smiled again, and then looked at the wooden top in Shu Guan's hand.
So Shu Guan also looked down.
I saw that the "black silk thread" that was originally wrapped like a spindle on the wooden top had all disappeared.
It's just that there are many black thin lines on the wooden top, like natural wood grains.
Shu Guan felt a strange and inexplicable feeling in his heart.
Those "black threads" seemed to be swallowed up by the wooden top, and then became part of itself.
"Can I show it to my master?"
Li Zhixia asked.
Shuguan quickly handed over the wooden top.
Li Zhixia took the wooden top, her fingers gently slid between the black lines on the wooden top, and she looked at it carefully for a while, thoughtfully.
Not long after, Li Zhixia raised her head again and looked at Shu Guan again.
...How should I explain this top to the master?
At this moment, Shu Guan was thinking about this question.
Then Li Zhixia didn't ask him about the wooden top. She just looked at Shu Guan thoughtfully and then started to speak.
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"My teacher should have been possessed by this thing in that cave..."
Li Zhixia stroked the black lines on the wooden top and said slowly.
Shu Guan knew that the cave Li Zhixia was talking about was on the cliff of Taoyuan Valley, the cave that he had found extremely mysterious when he was a child in this life.
At that time, a group of them came out of the Qixia Temple Underground Palace and were attacked by fossil monsters that suddenly resurrected in the cave. In order to protect everyone and leave safely, Li Zhixia stayed alone in the cave to intercept the fossil monsters. Later, she had to abandon the Lieyang Pearl before leaving. Escape from the cave.
It seems that the master was infected by this black foreign matter at that time.
"At the beginning, my master didn't notice anything unusual. The only thing that seemed a little strange was that since he came back from that valley, his cultivation, which had been growing very slowly, suddenly improved by leaps and bounds."
"My teacher is very clear about the foundation of his talent. He should reach the peak of Fetal Movement Realm in this life, and there is basically no possibility of breaking through to Nascent Soul Realm."
"But since returning from the cave, my cultivation has begun to improve rapidly again. After each exercise, I can clearly feel that my cultivation has become a little deeper."
"In addition to not having a breakthrough in the Dao realm, my master's spiritual power at that time was already close to the Nascent Soul realm."
"For a practitioner whose natural potential has already been exhausted, this is something incredible."
"I guess this is also the reason why Master Miki asked me if there were any problems in my practice."
"It's a pity that my master was already controlled by these foreign objects at that time, so I didn't tell Master Miki the truth."
"control?"
"...Well, it would be more appropriate to say that it was bewitchment. Two months after returning from Taoyuan Valley, my teacher discovered that there were these foreign objects in his body."
"That's when I looked in the mirror and saw a black foreign object coming out of my eyes, and I finally knew something was wrong with me."
"I was very frightened at the time and tried every means to get these things out of my body. Unfortunately, I couldn't do it even though I tried many methods."
"That's when these foreign objects started talking to me in my head."
"say?"
Shu Guan's body trembled slightly.
He also heard the screams of those "black threads" in his head just now.
It's just that besides having strong emotions, the meaning of those cries is completely unclear.
It seems that only after being completely possessed by these foreign objects can you understand what they are saying.
"Those foreign objects kept whispering in my mind. When I was sleeping, when I was practicing, when I was eating, when I was walking, there was no pause for a moment."
"They told me they would never harm me, they were just helping me, helping me become stronger and live more freely."
"At the beginning, my teacher was almost driven crazy by those voices, and then gradually he began to be unable to tell whether those voices were really being spoken to by someone, or whether they were his hallucinations, or whether they were actually his innermost thoughts. .”
"Because during that time, in addition to the rapid growth of my cultivation, I felt as if my state of mind had returned to my teenage years. I was indeed so free and passionate."
"And with this long-lost passion and impulse, Master finally couldn't help but take action."
"The one that killed Jorge."
"After seeing the shooting incident in the concession on the news that day, Weishi decided to kill him without even thinking about it."
"At that moment, I didn't seem to worry about the rules of heaven at all."
"It wasn't until I killed Jorge and returned to the temple that I felt a little uneasy, and then the voices of those foreign objects began to ring in my mind again."
"They asked me a question: after killing someone, do you regret it later?"
When she said this, Li Zhixia paused slightly, a strange look flashed across her face, and then continued:
"My teacher's answer at that time was that I have no regrets."
"On the contrary, in decades, it has never been as satisfying as that act."
"So not long after, I took action for the second time. This time I took action to kill Zhou Bancheng. The reason was that when I went to visit the legacy of your Senior Brother Zhai, I heard from her an incident that happened between her neighbors. .”
"That's what happened when Zhou Bancheng forcibly insulted the judge's wife and then broke the judge's legs."
"On the way back to watch, when I entered the grocery store, I naturally went in and bought a few pieces of paper, and then went to kill Zhou Bancheng in the evening."
"After the second shot, I didn't even have the uneasiness I had before. I just felt like it was good."
"As for the third attack, it was different from the previous two attacks which were impromptu. Tan Yankai was the person that I had wanted to kill for many years. When those ten thousand soldiers were tricked to death by him sixteen years ago, I had wanted to kill him. , not to mention that Tianci also died because of him, and Senior Brother Qi became obsessed with him. Unfortunately, due to the limitations of heaven's rules, he always wanted to kill but couldn't do it. "
"However, after killing Zhou Bancheng, I was no longer prepared to be restricted by heaven's rules, but I still waited for a while, until April 14th before taking action, because this day is the death anniversary of your senior brother Zhai. .”
"As a master, I am ashamed of my disciples. Over the years, I have watched the person who killed my disciples rise and prosper in the world, and I am proud of myself. However, I cannot avenge him. I can only choose the anniversary of his death to kill the person who killed him. Man, maybe you can comfort your God-given spirit a little.”
"And you should already know what happens next."
Li Zhixia finally finished speaking.
Most things were not much different from what Shu Guan had guessed earlier.
After a moment of silence, Shu Guan asked:
"Master, did you secretly send away the owner of Jiuliang Grocery Store?"
This incident puzzled him for a long time, why he had just gone to Jiuliang Grocery Store. The owner of Jiuliang Grocery Store had disappeared for a long time, and the "Swallow" seemed to know his every move.
For this reason, he also doubted whether there was a traitor in the temple. Of course, at that time, he also thought this was the most unlikely possibility.
Unexpectedly, this most unlikely possibility turned out to be the truth, but this "traitor" was actually his master who he had never suspected at all.
"Yes, I sent him off just for my teacher."
Li Zhixia smiled bitterly and said:
"As for my identity as Yanzi, I always thought it was perfectly hidden, but I never thought that buying a few random pieces of paper on the street would become a flaw that would reveal my identity."
"Lao Qi, when you deduced Jiuliang Grocery Store just from a piece of paper, you really shocked my teacher."
"Originally, the best way is to send the grocery store owner away before you do, so that you don't have the chance to meet."
"It's a pity that in order to send someone away, I have to make some arrangements first. At that time, Lao Qi, you had already gone to Jiuliang Grocery Store, so you had no time to send the store owner away at night."
"Furthermore, my master personally used the Thousand Miles Divine Walking Talisman to send him to Xiangcheng. No one followed him along the way. Unexpectedly, he was still found."
"How did Master Miki and the others find the shop owner?"
Shu Guan also asked casually in confusion.
He arrived at Tan Yankai's home at the last moment, but he had never witnessed what happened before that.
Shu Guan's question made Li Zhixia frown suddenly, and his eyes showed memories.
"...Master Miki seemed to have mentioned something at that time, saying that a few days ago, someone told him...the whereabouts of the shop owner..."
Li Zhixia's speaking speed is getting slower and slower.
At that time, he was surrounded by people from temples and temples, and he was also in a state of "possession". He didn't care at all about what Master Miki said.
But now that I think about it, there is a lot of mystery in this sentence.
Shu Guan also had a strange look on his face.
Someone told Master Miki?
who is it?
How could that person know the whereabouts of the owner of Jiura Grocery Store, and the time when he told Master Miki the news was so coincidental, just a few days before the master took action for the third time.
The problem is that the person specifically told Master Miki the information about the location of the owner of Jiura Grocery Store. This behavior itself revealed that he should know the true identity of "Swallow".
The thing itself is incredible.
Besides the master himself, who else might know that he is "Swallow"?
Li Zhixia must have thought of this, and her expression also became serious.
Unfortunately, it is impossible for them to go to Master Miki now and ask who told him the location of the owner of Jiura Grocery Store.
Then Li Zhi seemed to remember something again. He finally looked around for the first time, and then asked Shu Guan a question.
"Why hasn't Master Miki found us yet?"
Master Miki has clairvoyance. Even if he couldn't see himself who was possessed by a foreign object not long ago, he should still be able to see Lao Qi.
That's why Li Zhixia asked this question.
Shu Guan quickly explained that the Dingshi Zhong could help the two of them shield themselves from the detection of Master Miki's clairvoyance.
Li Zhixia suddenly raised her head and glanced at the ancient bronze bell that had returned to the beam.
"This bronze bell was originally given to the Great China Dynasty by the Heavenly Court. Lu Zu once left a message saying that if a major event happens in Jingcheng, then this Peaceful World-Defending Bell promises to help our Seven Immortals Alliance. "
"It's just that in the past four thousand years, except for what happened to Master Qixia five hundred years ago, no major events that can be called first-class have happened in Jingcheng, and that time, there was nothing unusual about the Taiping World Ding Bell. , but my teacher has never known what kind of magical power this Tai Ping Shi Ding Zhong has."
After finishing speaking, Li Zhixia looked at Shu Guan meaningfully again and handed the wooden top back to Shu Guan.
He did not ask what the wooden top was.
They didn't ask Shuguan why he knew Taiping Dingshi Zhong could help them hide their tracks.
Just as Li Zhixia never asked Shu Guan why he was strong enough to rescue him alone from the siege of Master Miki, Su Jie and the four magic weapons.
Ever since Shu Guan walked out of the Patriarch's Pavilion wearing a gray Taoist robe and successfully channeled his energy overnight, Li Zhixia never asked anything about Shu Guan's unusual quirks.
He only guided Shu Guan in his practice, solved his doubts and taught him karma, but he never asked Shu Guan much about what he was doing.
In the Patriarch's Pavilion, the wordless heavenly book contained Lu Zu's divine eye.
Lu Zu had already seen Lao Qi and asked him to choose Yin-Yang Avenue, so naturally Lu Zu was secretly arranging everything about Lao Qi.
Shu Guan took the wooden top, looked at the black lines on the wooden top again, and couldn't help but ask:
"Master, what on earth are these?"
"Although my teacher has been possessed by them, I have never understood what they are."
Li Zhixia pondered for a moment and said:
"What I can know now as a teacher is that these things can indeed greatly enhance a practitioner's potential and allow you to improve your cultivation very quickly."
"In addition, they will not completely swallow up your consciousness, occupy your body, and control your behavior, but they can trigger your most true desires and thoughts that are suppressed deep in your heart, allowing you to act according to your truest desires. .”
"All decisions are made by yourself. Of course, in the process, they will keep tempting you to give up your original persistence...Only those who have experienced it will understand how frustrating that kind of temptation is. One can’t resist.”
"but……"
When Li Zhixia said this, she pondered again with some uncertainty, and then said:
"This is just my original thought. After being seriously injured last night, I felt that those foreign objects seemed to want to invade the deepest part of my soul and completely occupy my body."
"It's just that I don't know why they didn't do this before."
Shu Guan thought for a while and said:
"Perhaps it's because they can only take over a person's body when the person is extremely weak! In addition, these things look a little different from those in Taoyuan Valley."
The "black" in Taoyuan Valley is more like an invisible and qualityless "color" that is saturated wherever it passes.
However, the "black thread" just pulled out from Li Zhixia's body was more like a thick liquid.
Taiping Dingshi Zhong said that they are a kind of "qi".
Could it be that under different circumstances, this thing would change into different forms?
Moreover, he has his own intelligence and can confuse people's minds.
It's so weird and inexplicable.
"How could there be such a weird thing between heaven and earth? Why are there no records of such foreign objects in the ancient books in the Taoist Pavilion inside the temple, or even similar objects?"
"I still don't know, but I have some speculations now, that is, whether Patriarch Qixia's obsession was related to these foreign objects."
"Because Patriarch Qixia's obsessive behavior is just like the master's, he remains sane and others cannot notice the abnormality at all."
"And these things appeared in the underground palace of Patriarch Qixia, so they must have some connection with Patriarch Qixia."
"As for where these things come from, I'm wondering if they come from the depths of the Hundred Thousand Mountains in southern Xinjiang."
"Because three years before Patriarch Qixia was found to have gone crazy, he traveled to southern Xinjiang for a long time. After returning, he broke through the realm of Yuanying not long after and became a member of the Seven Immortals Alliance in Jingcheng at that time. The only Nascent Soul cultivator, you must know that breaking through the Nascent Soul realm five hundred years ago was also very difficult, and it was not something that could be achieved by a simple genius."
"So I think it may be that Patriarch Qixia was infected by these foreign objects when he went to southern Xinjiang."
"Among the hundreds of thousands of mountains in southern Xinjiang, there are many relics left by the first three Yuanhui eras. There are some dangerous places in them that even immortals dare not set foot on, and there are some unknown places in them. It’s a foreign object, but it’s not too strange.”
After Li Zhixia finished speaking about his speculation, the topic ended here for the time being.
Because according to their current understanding of this "black" foreign object, this is the limit of what they can speculate.
As for finding out what this "black" foreign object is and what other secrets it has, perhaps we can only go back to Taoyuan Valley to take a look, or we can go to the depths of Shiwan Mountain in southern Xinjiang to look for these "black" foreign objects. source.
Shu Guan thought so.
Of course, for now, he is not very interested in exploring the origins of these foreign objects and phenomena in the world.
Shuguan put the wooden top back into the sack, then smiled bitterly and asked Li Zhixia.
"Master, what should we do next? Run away?"
