Gu Ci has been practicing Taoism for over a hundred years, and has been trapped in the late stage of transcendence for nearly twenty years.
Today, in Suzaku City, his stagnant state has loosened, and the cause of this loosening has been confirmed by him.
It was Mu Qing.
Mu Qing showed Gu Ci a path he had never imagined before, and by analogy, his understanding became deeper and deeper.
Therefore, even though Gu Ci had already thought about it and wanted to make a quick decision and strike first, Gu Ci still couldn't bear to see the opportunity for a breakthrough.
"Boy, I'm waiting for your sword!"
Gu Ci said loudly, he stretched out a palm, and three flying shuttles were whirling around his hand, dragging out traces of uncertain light and dark.
At this time, he was fully focused and had a rare sense of solemnity.
Mu Qing raised his eyes and looked at Gu Ci. Following his subtle movement, the air currents whistling in all directions of the heaven and earth suddenly stopped, and then boiled completely in the next moment.
Countless air currents with hard-to-find trajectories intertwined and hovered above Mu Qing's head, forming a gray vortex.
The vortex began to spin, getting faster and faster, and waves of obscure aura began to spread out from the center of the whirlpool, falling towards Mu Qing's head.
Gu Ci looked at the scene in shock. This kind of aura was no longer unfamiliar to him, but he could now confirm that this aura did not belong to any previous way of living in the world.
Is this Mu Qing's own way?
Is he crazy? How dare you?
It seems to have been done...
Gu Ci's thoughts were spinning, and he heard the whistling sound of the whirlpool in his ears, and continuous thunder sounded in the sea of consciousness.
"Buzz——"
The breath falling from the vortex enveloped Mu Qing's body, and waves of trembling sounds echoed around him like bells.
Mu Qing's eyes contained the brightest white lightning, and the wings on his back further solidified, but the lines that appeared were not feathers but shapes similar to fish scales.
Mu Qing grabbed the Demon Suppressing Sword and gently turned the sword.
The vortex above his head roared and expanded again, like a gray cloud spanning the sky and the earth.
At this moment, all the cultivators in Suzaku City felt something strange. The spiritual energy and various powers floating between heaven and earth began to gather in the same place.
This process is extremely fast. These forces merge into the gray clouds, collide with each other, devour each other, and separate from time to time.
The movement in the gray cloud seemed to affect Mu Qing. The lines on his face tightened closer and closer, and his sword eyebrows couldn't stop trembling. He gritted his teeth, squeezed out a cry from his throat, and raised the sword in his hand.
In Gu Ci's eyes not far away, the aura surrounding Mu Qing began to gather on his sword, and then entered his arm from his sword.
The sky-blocking whirlpool above him was like steam on boiling water, suddenly boiling, with the roar of wind and the explosion of thunder. After listening to it for a long time, it seemed that there were also continuous whistles of swords and endless fireworks. in the shouts.
This is a scene that is extremely shocking and difficult to describe in words.
When the pictures you see and the sounds you hear are intertwined, there is an inherent aura that makes people afraid to disturb them.
"Boom——"
An explosion sounded in Gu Ci's sea of consciousness. At the same time, the vortex above Mu Qing's head stopped spinning. Under Gu Ci's already confused gaze, it became a mess. In the next moment, it circled around and stabilized again. Come down.
At this moment, the vortex disappeared, and two majestic air currents intertwined and rotated like yin and yang fish.
One of the air currents was so black that it seemed to be able to swallow even the sight of it. Gu Ci subconsciously used his spiritual consciousness to sense it, but as soon as his spiritual consciousness came close, it was burned away.
Gu Ci groaned in pain, and his sea of consciousness was also affected, igniting a trace of dark flame, which scared him and put it out quickly.
Opposite the black air flow was a white air flow. This time, Gu Ci did not rush to use his spiritual sense to detect it, but as soon as his eyes touched it, a continuous scream suddenly sounded in his ears, and he only felt a sword light filling it. Covering the entire field of vision, the murderous intention is awe-inspiring.
The more Gu Ci looked, the more shocked he became, and his eyes became brighter and brighter.
The manifestation diagram of the avenue above Mu Qing's head, which resembles the circling yin and yang, actually contains the two avenues that he has initially understood at this moment. In addition, it also contains various abilities that he has shown. These abilities Separated from the two opposing air currents, it appears to be a perfect balance.
Gu Ci subconsciously remembered what his elders had said when he first started practicing cultivation: Under the way of heaven, all living beings are nothing but ants and slaves.
Ants naturally refer to ordinary people who are not even good at cultivation, and slaves refer to them.
At that time, he had just started practicing cultivation and felt that all the power in the world was for his own use, so he naturally disdained such remarks.
But today, he has already accepted this kind of remarks, and even when teaching his younger generations, he often brings out the disdainful remarks at the beginning.
Because the so-called "heaven and earth are for my use" is just everyone's wishful thinking.
The way of heaven is unkind and it is a cruel reality to use all things as a target.
Moreover, what is even more urgent, and even critical to the foundation of the ten families, is that there is a limit to both spiritual stone resources and spiritual energy in the world, and every path of cultivation that can be called a great road has already been walked by someone. At the front, those people occupy the few positions, and those who come late can only linger in the same place.
Taishi Continent has gone through a long period of time, and the ten families that have stood for thousands of years, when their cultivation resources were still sufficient, would not have thought that as the years progressed, the strength of the family not only failed to grow, but was instead limited by the existence and existence of their predecessors. The depletion of resources has led to irreversible setbacks.
If you want to enter the ranks of immortals, you must let the immortals come down. This is an extremely dangerous view, but it has gradually become a consensus at the level of the ten families.
Because of the existence of this consensus, people like Gu Ci, who cannot even break through the mortal realm, have long lost their original ambition to reach the top, and feel extremely numb that no one in this world can break through the shackles of heaven.
It's just that in the reincarnation of heaven and earth, one becomes a willing and even a slave one after another.
But now, the example of Mu Qing's helplessness was placed in front of Gu Ci again.
It seemed to tell him clearly that at this time, there was still a way to truly use the power of heaven and earth for oneself without entering into barriers.
So much so that his Taoist heart, after trembling violently, gave birth to great hope.
When Gu Ciyou fell into a rare touch, Mu Qing in the air did not stop growing.
He raised his head to the sky and shouted loudly, just to let out the heavy depression before. The two breaths that circled above his head were attracted and fell down quickly.
The black aura directly attached to the Demon Suppressing Sword. When it circled around the sword, the outline became clearer, like a lifelike black dragon. The white aura surrounded Mu Qing's arm, and the outline became clearer. After solidification, it is also a bright and dazzling white dragon.
At this moment, Mu Qing was completely immersed in the situation where the different forces in the world were like arms. Even he didn't know why his finally complete manifestation of the great avenue would be two dragons, one black and one white.
But this is no longer important.
"I only have one sword."
In the air, after the vortex dissipated, the skylight fell on Mu Qing again.
The purple halo traveling under his skin converged on his eyebrows, forming a yin and yang pattern.
But when this change was completed, the aura on Mu Qing's body no longer fluctuated, but condensed together, condensing a Taoist aura that belonged exclusively to Mu Qing.
A series of loud noises sounded in Gu Ci's body, and light golden blood surrounded him. The power in his body reached its peak in an instant, and he already had the aura of an extraordinary peak.
"Come!"
Gu Ci shouted loudly.
The wings behind Mu Qing collapsed with a "bang", and dots of green light spread. Mu Qing's figure disappeared from the place, and when it reappeared, it was already in front of Gu Ci.
Gu Ci's pupils shrank. Even though he had expected it, it was still too fast.
It was so fast that the end of his "come" hadn't even ended yet, his mouth was still open, and Mu Qing had already thrust out the sword.
A bit of black light burst out between the two people. The skylight was shattered in an instant and then collapsed into the black light. The figures of Mu Qing and Gu Ci disappeared in the twisted light. When a ray of white crossed the black light, At that time, the skylight returned to normal.
Mu Qing's figure appeared again, but Gu Ci's figure was no longer in front of him.
"boom--"
Only then did the sword whistle resound throughout the world, and the ripples of the intertwined black and white sword energy made Mu Qing's clothes fly, making him look like a god who separated chaos with a sword.
He lowered his head, and a brilliant white thunder light pierced the space and fell to the ground.
A huge pit appeared in the middle of the scorched earth on the ground. When the smoke and dust faded a little, a figure could be seen covering his arms and half-kneeling in the center of the pit.
It's Gu Ci.
At this moment, his upper body clothes had already turned into powder, revealing his bronze upper body. A dark wound spread from his right shoulder to his left lower body. Under the charred flesh and blood, cracked bones could even be seen. .
The lightning that had just fallen was now raging in this wound, intertwined with the blood that was coming up.
"Puff——"
Following the gentle rise and fall of his chest, Gu Ci finally couldn't help but spurt out a large mouthful of blood.
He raised his face and looked at Mu Qing in mid-air, narrowed his eyes slightly, and stood up slowly.
"This sword is very good."
Gu Ci's voice was very soft and his speaking speed was very slow, as if he was still thinking about it.
Mu Qing's eyes narrowed slightly and fell on Gu Ci's left arm.
A smooth cut was exposed to the air. From this cut down, it should be Gu Ci's forearm and left hand, but they were empty at the moment.
Gu Ci felt Mu Qing's gaze with an incomprehensible expression, as if the regret in his heart temporarily outweighed the pain in his body.
Even thinking about it now, it was still difficult for him to fully construct the attack of that sword.
In terms of aura, the aura on Mu Qing's body could only reach the threshold of being extraordinary. Although he was shocked by the great evolution shown by Mu Qing, he didn't think that he couldn't take Mu Qing's sword by activating Pangu's body with all his strength.
Unfortunately, the results always backfire.
Not only did he not have time to carefully explore the breath of this sword, but even his arm, which was as hard as a magic weapon, was cut off.
He only vaguely recalled that when the sword light touched his body, for a moment, he was dragged into a deep darkness. In that darkness, he seemed to have been thinking about it before. It is also difficult to have too much resistance in Tiandao.
But by the time he felt the warning signs in his heart, and when he finally reacted and wanted to stimulate the blood of the witch clan, Mu Qing had already chopped off his arm.
Gu Ci held his severed limb with his right hand and brought it close to the incision. As the light golden blood surged, the severed limb was reattached.
Mu Qing watched Gu Ci continue to raise his arm and did not continue to attack.
If you want to really hurt Gu Ci's body, you have to wait until he consumes the witch blood in his body, otherwise the powerful recovery power of Pangu's body will continue to take effect.
"What move is this? Does it have a name?" Gu Ci asked seriously.
Mu Qing's eyes moved slightly: "This sword... is called 'Destroy the Demon'."
Gu Ci raised his eyes slightly and said with a voice full of exclamation: "This is indeed a move you created yourself, so what is the avenue you are pursuing?"
Mu Qing pursed his lips and was speechless. Thinking of Gu Ci's willingness to wait for his sword before, he shook his head and said: "The avenue I am pursuing is nothing more than what I want to do most at this moment."
When Mu Qing faced Gu Ci before, although his murderous intention was revealed and almost solidified, he actually thought in his heart that he could not defeat Gu Ci no matter how hard he tried.
But after this sword attack, he swept away the cognitive barriers in his heart and became full of confidence.
Because he clearly remembered the experience of that sword strike just now.
When the black light bloomed, he created a field similar to the Dao realm. Although this field lasted very briefly, in that short period of time, he had the ability to use all kinds of power in the world for his own use. , the mentality that any force in the world can be forced by oneself.
The sword strike just now was not Lingxijian's last desperate effort. He had already passed the threshold of creating his own sword moves, and that sword strike was destined to happen again.
Mu Qing's words touched Gu Ci very much. He had never heard that the so-called "Tao" could be what he wanted to do at this time, but he soon understood that Mu Qing was pursuing a pure and clear mentality. .
When Gu Ci faced Mu Qing again now, he no longer had the mentality of looking down upon others just because he was in a higher realm.
He frowned and said: "You have directly ignored any kind of cultivation path that already exists in this world, but it is a real innate wood source body. Why do you still want to be such a disgusting person?"
Tired of heaven?
Mu Qing's heart moved slightly. When he first created the Heart of the Great Dao, Meng Zhang reminded him that with his unique physique, he could go very far by practicing the wood-attribute skills honestly, but once he started to take himself as the path, In the end, he will definitely be regarded as a thief by Tiandao.
It seems that the ten major families have a far deeper understanding of the spiritual world than those from other forces.
However, Mu Qing had finished adjusting his breath at this moment. He turned his eyes and looked into the distance.
Perhaps because the movement created by Mu Qing was too special, the battle between Gu Yan and Murong Yun slowed down a lot. It wasn't until his sight passed that the battle suddenly became intense.
Mu Qing knew very well that although he had the ability to injure Gu Ci, it did not mean that he could really fight a protracted battle with them.
Now he just wanted to delay Gu Ci as long as possible, and after the two women were safe, he would help Murong Yun leave together.
But Gu Ci quickly adjusted his strategy at this moment. He stomped on the ground and shot towards the battlefield between Gu Yan and Murong Yun.
Mu Qing's heart sank. Murong Yun took the initiative to take Gu Yuan away from him, even though he meant to help them leave first.
But he couldn't really walk away.
