"Wonderful! Wonderful!"
Emperor Ziwei's head flew in the air, looking at Gu Xu's Dharma Body, he praised it repeatedly.
His headless body still stood firmly in place, the cut surface on his neck was as smooth as a mirror, there was no bleeding, and he did not fall down.
"I can't believe that after being promoted to the sixth realm, you could hold back the Dharma for so long! Even I almost neglected it!"
Gu Xu ignored him.
He controlled the Dharma Appearance and swung the knife towards Emperor Ziwei's head again, cutting it straight in half along the bridge of his nose like a watermelon.
Emperor Ziwei is still smiling.
His lips, which were broken into two parts, maintained a completely consistent arc. The eyes on both sides of his head looked at Gu Xu with the same playful look.
"Your Dharma contains the following laws of overcoming the superior and defeating the strong with the weak, right? The stronger your opponent's strength, the stronger your Dharma will become as well?
"No wonder you had to wait until the soul in my astrolabe returned to its original form before you took it out."
Gu Xu remained silent, swung his knife and struck again.
As early as in the East China Sea, he discovered a problem with the astrolabe instrument spirit——
In theory, the natal object should be connected with the owner's soul and share weal and woe.
But as the master of the astrolabe, Gu Xu had no way of knowing the thoughts of the astrolabe spirit. He couldn't have the same heart-to-heart relationship as Lu Shiyao's remnant soul and Jinghong's pen spirit. He could only communicate with them through words!
Of course, there are very few magic weapons that can breed weapon spirits in the wild world, and their attributes and forms are different. No one can tell clearly what a "normal" weapon spirit should look like.
Perhaps, this is just because the astrolabe has a relatively high level, which results in the weapon spirits born from it being special.
But Gu Xu still paid more attention to the astrolabe because of this.
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Of course, the clues that Emperor Ziwei had exposed before were far more than this.
For example, during the "Luoshui Conference", when Gu Xu met the Mangshan Ghost King in the royal palace, the Mangshan Ghost King once said to him: "Your body is extremely weak, but you can still hold such a strong body." True energy, and perfectly accommodates two souls." (1)
At that time, Gu Xu thought that the "two souls" mentioned by Mangshan Ghost King were referring to the remnant soul of the original owner of the body and his soul as a time traveler.
But later he realized that the extra soul was Emperor Ziwei hidden in his body.
For another example, the original owner of the body has always been a physically and mentally healthy young man with a normal life span.
It wasn't until he became Emperor Ziwei's experimental subject and was forcibly stuffed into the soul of a time traveler that he became a frail and sickly "unfortunate genius" due to the incompatibility of body and soul and the mismatch of fate.
However, the people around Gu Xu, such as his boss Chen Jisheng, his colleagues in the exorcism department, and the neighbors in Yishui County, all accepted the fact that he was frail and gifted without any doubt.
They seemed to have completely forgotten that the original owner of the body had once been lively and joyful, and had also forgotten his original mediocre cultivation qualifications.
There is no doubt that their cognition has been tampered with by Emperor Ziwei using magic.
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After a moment, Emperor Ziwei's chopped-to-meat head disappeared like smoke, and the rest of his headless body also disappeared.
But Emperor Ziwei was nowhere to be seen, which did not relax Gu Xu's mood.
Instead, his expression became more alert.
The aura of Emperor Ziwei is everywhere in the Nether World.
He knew that Emperor Ziwei would not give up his plan that had been planned for many years so easily. This old guy must still be hiding something behind his back.
"I'm here, kid!"
A loud voice was like thunder, rumbling across the dark sky and earth, causing the ground to tremble slightly.
At the moment when the sound sounded, Gu Xu's body and appearance were each grabbed by a huge hand and lifted into the air.
Gu Xu discovered that the remnant soul of Emperor Ziwei had turned into a giant condensed by starlight at some point, like a living mountain peak rising from the ground in the netherworld, with stars above his head and the earth beneath his feet.
Gu Xu, who was held in his hand, was as small and helpless as a caught insect.
Gu Xu couldn't help but feel chilled in his heart.
He clearly realized that Emperor Ziwei had inadvertently turned over and taken over his body.
He became a lonely soul trapped in his body, unable to sense the outside world, and even lost the ability to control his true energy.
This was the most desperate situation he had ever encountered in his life.
When facing Kongxuan Sanren in Yishan, he could place his hope in the saints of Daqi.
On the day Luojing City was captured, Zhao Yan fought alongside him.
Even after he became a treasonous traitor, during the battle in Liangzhou City, there was still a snow girl who did not hesitate to burn her soul to protect him.
But now, he is alone, facing off against the once all-powerful Lord of the Upper Realm.
It seemed like he had a back-and-forth fight with Emperor Ziwei.
But in fact, the battle situation has always been under the control of the opponent. The opponent is like a cat that has caught a mouse, watching the prey flapping in its paws, pulling out trump cards one after another, but still unable to escape the fate of certain death.
"Do you know why I want to scatter the fragments of the astrolabe in every corner of the wilderness?"
"Do you know why I chose Kunlun as the end of my journey?"
Emperor Ziwei lifted Gu Xu in front of him and looked at him with a smile.
Gu Xu said nothing.
But he knew the answer in his heart.
The fragments of the astrolabe were not randomly scattered across the wilderness after Emperor Ziwei was defeated by Supreme Haotian.
But it was carefully planned by Emperor Ziwei.
As a powerful person who is well versed in time and space, cause and effect, and destiny, he has already clearly arranged his path after rebirth.
The fragments of the East China Sea are to plant the "cause" of yesterday.
The fragments of Beiming are to harvest today's "fruit".
Normally, when a practitioner jumps into the ruins, they will only travel through time and space once, and then return to the original time and space.
But Gu Xu actually traveled through time and space three times.
At that time, he thought it was just an accident and did not delve into the reason.
Now that he thought about it carefully and thought about the power held by Emperor Ziwei, he realized that something was strange.
Based on Emperor Ziwei's understanding of the Great Way of Heaven and Earth, it is not difficult to use the power of "Time" and "Cosmos" to interfere with "Guixu".
During his first time traveling, he returned to the ancient times and became the "God of Fire" in the eyes of the ancestors of the people in the north - this undoubtedly hindered the plan of Supreme Haotian to take all the incense in the wilderness into his own.
It also made it possible for Gu Xu to easily obtain the incense belonging to the "Vulcan God" and the support of the Yan Kingdom on his way north to find the "Xuanwu" fragments, just with his cultivation in the fourth realm.
During the second time traveling, he returned to the Guangshun period and successfully helped the young Chi Yangzi escape from the slavery of the Yaowang Sect.
Although Chiyangzi had gone crazy and died unfortunately, his student, the current Grand Master of Qi, was still brooding over his death and wanted to find out the truth.
If Gu Xu tells the Grand Master of Qi this experience of returning to the past together with the secret that "the wild world is a prison" in the future, he may be able to shake the Imperial Master's loyalty to Emperor Tianxing and make him join his own camp.
In addition, the wolf dog "Yuan Bao" who is worshiped by the northwest barbarians on the grassland, Luo Chuan, the head of the exorcism department who is the reincarnation of "Wenchang Xingjun", and the "Qing Ming" organization hiding in the shadows...
It is conceivable that after Emperor Ziwei borrows Gu Xu's body to be reborn, he will not only hold a large amount of incense, but also have power under his command that cannot be underestimated, enough to compete with the Qi court.
In addition, he once had an extremely profound understanding of the great avenue of heaven and earth.
As we all know, the higher the level of a practitioner, the more dependent his advancement is on "enlightenment."
Perhaps it won't be long before he returns to his peak, and "fighting back to the upper realm" and "seeking revenge from Supreme Haotian" will no longer be empty talk.
Emperor Ziwei has been dormant for many years, paving a bright and smooth road for his comeback.
And Gu Xu is an inconspicuous paving stone on this bright road.
As for why Emperor Ziwei chose Kunlun as the destination...
Gu Xu quickly had the answer in his mind.
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(1) Chapter 155 of Volume 2 "The Appearance of the Ghost King of Mang Mountain".
(End of chapter)
