The Heavens: A Qing, the Yue Girl at the beginning

At this moment, the magic dragon in the lake seemed to sense the appearance of the strange visitor, and emerged from the deep water. Its round body was three feet long, covered with thick green, green, and red armor, and four palm-like claws popped out from the four sides. It has palms, claw-like but not claw-like feet, large webbed feet, and a long pointed tail that waves powerfully behind it.

Its head is extremely huge, with two small horns like antelopes on the top. Each green hair on its head is as thick as an arm, hanging down on both sides. Its green eyes are as big as lanterns, its nostrils are flat and raised, its mouth is tightly closed, and its mouth is full of growth. The short, needle-like beard looks very similar to the legendary dragon;

But according to Zhao Qing, it looks like a mutated and enlarged version of the mermaid just now. It also has green hair and green flames burning in its eyes. Its strength is more than ten times that of the mermaid monster, and its spirituality is also much higher. Maybe It is the source of the mermaids in the lake, or it may have other connections.

As if knowing that Zhao Qing's strength is far beyond his own, the spiritual dragon did not show hostility like the mermaid, but took the initiative to let out a low and gentle whistle, as if crying and complaining, the sound was ups and downs, very pleasant to the ear, as if Showing its welcome.

"The relief sculpture of the "Illustration of the God of War" secretly hidden in this hall can be said to be the supreme sacred scripture of Taoism. It shows the God of War riding a dragon to the nine heavens, transforming into a fireball in the sky, and then gradually splitting to form billions of stars and an endless universe..."

"The spiritual path contained in it has long exceeded what is recorded in all worldly classics. It can be traced back to the origin of the birth and death of thousands of universes, thus breaking the shackles of the boundless void on this universe and entering the chaotic world that breeds infinite universes. ocean."

"However, first transcending the ordinary space and entering the world of the void, and then transcending the void and leaving this lonely and isolated island universe, the difficulties and obstacles can be imagined. If you practice this skill but still have evil thoughts in your heart, the achievements will be He is no longer the God of War who breaks through the nine heavens, but the dragon he steps down and rides on."

"Like this demon dragon, who can be called the overlord of the lake, he was a peerless genius who created the prototype of the demonic path in ancient times. However, because he did not cultivate a tenacious Taoist heart that will last forever, he uncontrollably turned into a dragon shape while practicing supreme magical skills. Alien beast transformation.”

"In the end, he lost everything he had ever owned, and even his memory gradually faded due to reincarnation every four to five hundred years, forgetting everything except the Temple of War and the underground lake."

Separated by thousands of stone steps and water, the voice of Demon Cangzhu seemed to have erased the difference between distance and distance. It sounded with the same tone and tone in every corner of the place. It was as if thousands of people were speaking at the same time, gradually revealing the relevant information. The secret of "The Illustration of the God of War".

According to him, both the demonic dragon in the lake, which is even more powerful than the Grand Master, and the dozens of mermaid monsters in total, are all the result of a mistake in practicing the "Illustrated Book of the God of War" and "going crazy". Although He gained great strength and a long life, but he also transformed from a human body into a monster, and it is difficult to return to the original state.

"In other words, there are two results of practicing the "Illustrated Book of the God of War". The former cultivates Taoism and becomes the 'God of War', and the latter cultivates demons and becomes an 'alien beast'? Well, I don't know what the desert island universe and the sea of ​​chaos are like. exist?"

Zhao Qing had already learned a thing or two about the general image of the demon Cangzhu from "Random Thoughts on the Demonic Way", and soon identified his identity based on his advanced cultivation. At the same time, he also knew the original identity of the demon dragon and other strange beasts. There is some suspicion, and it is speculated that it should be Chi You and his relatives who are said to be descendants of Emperor Yan.

Although the current two sects of the Demon Sect, the Six Paths, were established at the hands of the Evil Emperor Xie Tiao, and the ten volumes of the "Tian Mo Ce" as the basis for their establishment came from the earlier Heavenly Demon Cang Gu, the martial arts and thoughts of the Demon Sect are different. The original origin is generally believed to be Chi You who once competed with the Yellow Emperor. It has a long history that can be traced back to ancient times.

Of course, judging from the fact that Chi You practiced the wrong magical skills and turned into a demon dragon that lost his memory, the martial arts in this world are not necessarily more ancient and powerful. As a descendant of the demon sect, Cang Chu absorbed the essence of hundreds of schools of thought, and obtained the true transmission of Taoism, creating the first The method of transitioning from demons to Taoism has actually led to higher achievements.

In addition, every four to five hundred years, the magic dragon will enter a special reincarnation and need to re-accumulate its memory. This also explains why Bei, the world's first civil engineering master, entered the palace 500 years earlier than Chuanying in "Shattered Void". The reason why Shengtian, whose martial arts was average, was able to explore at will without being attacked by the dragon.

There is a high probability that at that time, the demon dragon was in the stage of "reincarnation" and could not move normally, so it did not harm Bei Shengtian, who was probably not even an innate person. However, when Chuan Ying entered the palace, he was still just a newly born chick. In his tender state, he actually made friends with him after a fight.

Thinking of this, Zhao Qing also sensed that the current demon dragon was not too old mentally. After flipping and flying on the lake for a while to show its vitality and joy, he took the initiative to sneak into the bottom of the lake and explore some plants in the lake. The fruit is held in the mouth.

When the ice boat sailed to the edge of the isolated island where the Temple of War was located, the magic dragon happened to emerge from the water again and placed it at the bottom of the stone steps next to the lake, as if offering a welcome gift.

Although the dragon's bloody mouth with a lot of green hair was not very clean, it was its kind intention after all, so Zhao Qing picked up a few of the rare and exotic fruits and put them into her hand-made out of the bag.

"Everything begins, and there will be an end. The universe, which seems to be boundless but is actually limited, is no exception. In the sea of ​​chaos that is difficult to describe in words, there are countless island universes scattered, and they are just vast chaos. Insignificant dots in the ocean.”

"The island universe is born one by one and destroyed one by one. It comes from nothing and returns from nothing. It seems that there is no reason and no purpose. It is just the endless birth and death. Time is in front of you and me. It also extends infinitely behind, both in an instant and without beginning or end.”

"In the face of this great existence that transcends time, space, and the universe, no matter whether you and I have outstanding cultivation skills or the weakest microscopic bacteria and insects, they are just worthless dust. It is possible to peek out from the exit of the universe and glimpse chaos.”

Accompanied by the "crackling" sound of the lake water hitting the stone steps, the demon Cangxu slowly walked down the thousand stone steps, sighing in his mouth, faintly revealing a deep and almost desperate sadness, the war behind him The temple is full of things and stands high above, which can't help but make people feel suspicious.

The lowest steps of the stone steps are immersed in the lake. A large stone turtle that is more than eight feet long and eight feet high is lying at the lowest point of the stone steps. It seems that it is just about to leave the water and land. Its hind feet are still immersed in the water, and it raises its head towards the tower above. The main entrance's shape is powerful and ingenious. It looks almost real from a distance, but its texture and scales are even more meticulous when viewed up close.

Jumping from the ice boat to the shore, Zhao Qing was thinking about the meaning of Cang Xu's words, and he was thoughtful in his heart. At the same time, he gathered layers of clouds and mist at his feet. He floated above the stone turtle and looked at the turtle carefully. Intricate symbol graphics on the back.

I saw that these patterns not only include the version of Hetu Luoshu that has been circulated to the outside world, but are also much more complex, far more advanced than the current Yili magic number, and are most likely left by the masters who established the Temple of War;
In her opinion, on the surface it is a schematic diagram recording the operating rules of the Temple of War, allowing visitors to know what kind of institutional changes there are in this area, but it is also an information system that can change endlessly, and can decipher almost infinite mysteries and moral principles. .

Looking further, this mysterious information system that can be described in abnormal language seems to be demonstrating the way of extracting higher-order pure energy through the mutual transformation of yin and yang, and it has wide adaptability and practicality. Of earth-shattering value.

Of course, compared with the "God of War Catalog" that Cang Chu said could break the void twice and transcend the current universe, it is obviously still far behind.

To be honest, the secret of the Temple of War could involve the sea of ​​chaos that gave birth to the billion-island universe. Such a high-end world view was indeed somewhat beyond her expectation.

Just as Zhao Qing was carefully deducing the stone turtle pattern and vaguely gaining a deeper understanding of the number of heaven and earth, a middle-aged man wearing Confucian clothes and a brocade robe suddenly appeared at the entrance of the palace behind Tianmo Cangqi.

This person is tall and straight, handsome and good-looking, with a bit of gray on his temples, and a somewhat cool face. Zhao Qing is pretending to be Shi Qingxuan below, but his eyes are as cold as ice and snow, seeming to contain no human emotions. There is an uneasy feeling. The strange temperament of speech.As soon as he walked out of the solemn and solemn palace, he noticed Zhao Qing's appearance when he looked down the steps. His cold expression softened, and there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

Shi Zhixuan?It seems that the Jingyan Palace outside has been open for a while, so that this person entered the War Temple earlier than me, and seemed to have received Cang Cu's guidance?

Feeling the gaze staring at him from above, Zhao Qing immediately recognized this peerless prodigy of the previous generation who was hiding in XZ due to the purge of the Demon Sect and disappeared without a trace after the East and West Turks were wiped out, and he thought secretly in his heart. , how to deal with each other properly.

She also recognized Shi Zhixuan's identity and knew that he was a wanted criminal with a heavy bounty in Anguo. Fu Cailin next to her immediately took a step forward. His sword suddenly unsheathed, and he faced her tit for tat a hundred feet away. He was obviously interested in Shi Zhixuan. I was secretly frightened by the mental strength that exceeded the old news and seemed to overwhelm me.

Shi Zhixuan can be allowed to study the legendary "Illustration of the God of War" in this place. It cannot be ruled out that he has some kind of relationship with another mysterious senior master. If they join forces to attack, will our side be victorious? What about your confidence?

From a distance, he saw Shi Zhixuan, who seemed to be a little excited, running down the stairs from a high place. He quickly overtook the demon Cang Can, who was just walking normally, and rushed straight towards his group. Fu Cailin felt a little irritated in his heart for no reason. I really wanted to remind Zhao Qing to stop being immersed in the stone turtle pattern.

Drawing his sword and guarding Shi Gui's side, he silently deduced the mystery of Huan Mo's movement from the opponent's footwork, trying to see through Shi Zhixuan's possible moves. Yi Jian drew countless deep and certain patterns as if he were writing wildly in the air. Indescribably beautiful lines;

When Shi Zhixuan finally came within ten feet, the tip of the sword suddenly appeared in the sky above the lake. Every point seemed to be attacking him, and every point seemed to remain motionless forever, just like the stars in the sky. There is a sense of permanence in the midst of change.

Just when Fu Shi and Fu Shi were about to fight each other, Zhao Qing suddenly raised his head and looked at each other with a tacit understanding with the indifferent Cang Quai. In the next moment, the world suddenly changed.

Fu Cailin found himself on the top of a wooden building. The outside world changed from the dimness of the underground lake to a starry sky and sparse lights around it.

Upon closer inspection, it can be seen that this place should be a large Buddhist temple in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the shape of the city outlined by lights in the distance at night is consistent with the Luoyang City of the Han Dynasty, which makes people speculate:

Have you traveled through hundreds of years of time and space and arrived at the White Horse Temple, the ancestral home of Buddhism, which was built in the 11th year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty?

Standing on the top of a pagoda in the temple, Fu Cailin did not put away his sword-playing offensive, just because he saw a young man who looked somewhat similar to Shi Zhixuan rushing towards him from another pagoda opposite. At the same time, I noticed that my skill cultivation has become an attribute of both Buddhism and Taoism, and the flow of true energy is no longer the direction of the "Nine Mysteries".

The moment he realized that he had become another person, the memory of the owner of this body replayed in his mind, and he knew that the person opposite was pursuing his junior sister who was respected as "Tao Sect No. Because of the irresolvable conflict between good and evil, he has to start a fierce duel with himself.

Suddenly, Fu Cailin had a clear feeling in his heart, knowing that the energetic young man in front of him, who looked to be only in his twenties, should be the image transformed by Shi Zhixuan, the person who met Di Ni when he first met him last year. Evil Emperor Xie Tiao;
And the current strange identity of "himself" is theoretically the "Heavenly Monk", a great Buddhist monk who later founded the Jing Nian Zen Monastery. He was originally as good at swordsmanship as Dini, but because of the historical defeat to Xie Tiaozhi in this battle, Because of the hand, I will abandon the sword in the future and cut off worldly emotions.

With no extra thoughts to sort out this complicated relationship, Fu Cailin noticed that Xie Tiao, transformed by Shi Zhixuan, although he was more than ten years younger than himself, his cultivation level was not inferior, and the quality of the Qi he cultivated was also obvious. Victory, under normal circumstances, this battle is actually a win or lose.

In the blink of an eye, as Shi Zhixuan rushed towards him, he felt that the space he was in suddenly sank, as if he was stuck in an endless spider web, unable to fly away, as if he was trapped in an evil spirit that would never wake up. In the dream, the performance of the swordsmanship was greatly restricted both mentally and in reality.

I don't know what new technique Shi Zhixuan has mastered. Although he is fighting a sharp sword with his bare hands, the aura he releases is filled with the pressure of killing and injuring, and he can't help but have thousands of invisible sharp energy, gouging the opponent. The body-protecting Qi.

The sound of fist and sword clashing sounded like firecrackers in succession, dense and fast. Shi Zhixuan advanced and retreated freely in the strength of the sword light, imagining the blurred figures one after another. His fists and palms undulated like the tide, sometimes strong and sometimes weak, and when weak, the sword force was drawn. Da Sheng, when strong, forced the sword light to restrain, revealing a free and freehand feeling.

However, although it only took dozens of moves to clearly suppress Fu Cailin, who had a weaker foundation, every time Shi Zhixuan used the secret moves in the "Seven Illusions of Immortality", he would be forced to take over with ingenious means by the opponent who had inexplicably gained new inspiration. down, forcibly equalizing the situation at a disadvantage.

While they were performing their stunts as Heavenly Monk and Xie Tiao, in the sky above the entire Han Luoyang City, Zhao Qingan, who was tall and tall, was sitting on a chair as big as a mountain set up on the side of the sky. On the other side sat the demon Cang Can who was ten thousand feet tall;
Like two supreme gods who are transcendent from the world and cannot be detected by mortals in any way, they are quietly observing the scene on the White Horse Temple pagoda below. Her ancient-looking magic weapon is placed across the table in the middle, as if to compete with the other side. The sitting person cuts out the Chu River and Han boundaries.

There is no doubt that this is a spiritual confrontation involving extremely high and deep spiritual realms. With an unimaginable tacit understanding, Zhao Qing and Cang Chu sent the two designated Fu Cailin and Shi Zhixuan respectively into this world involving reincarnation. In the arena, they provide each other with subtle guidance;
It is not that they want to use an unprecedented method to determine their victory or defeat, but that the two want to have a deep understanding of each other's Taoism and martial arts principles, and through a duel similar to the magic of changing the sky and striking the earth, all aspects of express your own thoughts.

The current fist and sword fight between Tianseng and Xie Tiao is exactly what happened to Fu Cailin and Shi Zhixuan several lives ago. Under the spiritual guidance established in the special location of the Temple of War, it is replayed in the depths of their hearts. ;
However, unlike the two people who never had a formal intersection after this life, with the complete memories of the two people in later generations, and the continuous indirect spiritual intervention of Zhao Qing and Cang Chu on the side, the mystery of this strange reincarnation world The direction will obviously be very different from that in history.

From time to time, he remotely interfered with Fu Cailin's thoughts of changing moves, so that the sword moves he used went beyond the scope of his original swordsmanship and could withstand the various magic secrets used by Shi Zhixuan. Zhao Qing thought secretly in his heart, knowing that Akatsuki's straightforward one-man duel is by no means the main direction of competition in this spiritual battle.

In a long-term duel that lasts for at least five or six lives and hundreds of years, victory or defeat in the general sense is no longer important. Only the connection and development from the previous life to the next involves various factors such as knowledge inheritance and social environment. Only in this way can we influence changes in the situation over a very long period of time.

Because of this, although he had only met the Demon Cang Xu for the first time and had not spoken much, through pure mental induction, Zhao Qing already understood that there was a huge difference in the most fundamental concepts between them, and It’s not just the difference in martial arts schools;

It must be deduced in a special way to know which of the other's ideas is superior and which is inferior, and ultimately use this to determine the future development direction of mankind in this world, making it possible to survive in the face of doomsday catastrophe in the future.

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(End of this chapter)