Heroes of the Fantasy World

Chapter 639: The Battlefield

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Perhaps it was an illusion, but every time Su Qing returned to Jinyang, he always had a sense of nostalgia as if he had always belonged here.

Walking freely on the street, the dense crowds seem to be the "new bamboo shoots" that came to the earth with the spring rain. There are always new faces passing by, and there are always new stories that have not yet happened.

The broad streets are grand and majestic, able to carry the dreams of the world; the blooming white peonies are scattered on the roadside flower shops, but it is still difficult to suppress the fragrance of desire emanating from the crowd; high-ranking officials can be seen everywhere, they sit in exquisite carriages and walk in the middle of the road, never walking with ordinary people.

This is Jinyang, the "Dragon City", and the city of dreams.

Even though nearly ten years have passed, Su Qing still remembers clearly that he once joined the Taiping Dao here just for the purpose of "becoming an immortal" and "reaching the moon".

"Hehe." Thinking back to this incident, Su Qing couldn't help but laugh.

Suddenly, there was a smell of blood in his mouth.

"Cough cough. Ugh!" Su Qing was pushed into a side alley by the crowd like a sea of ​​people before he knew it. "Blood?! Is my body going to collapse?"

The root of his illness still haunts Su Qing. However, he is still grateful for this experience. If he had not joined the Taiping Dao, it would not be easy to find a cultivator among the vast sea of ​​people.

As for Dao Wuyi, Su Qing had heard of him in his early years, because Dao Wuyi was practicing a special "longevity method" called "Fighting the Sleep Demon", which means not sleeping in the popular sense.

According to Taoist legend, once a person enters a sleeping state, his mind will not be able to concentrate on cultivation, and the "three corpses" in the body will begin to stir.

The so-called three corpses are also called three corpses and nine insects. The nine insects refer to common parasites such as roundworms, while the three corpses are more abstract. They live in the head, abdomen, and feet respectively. Every Gengshen day, they will secretly fly back to the heavenly palace to complain to the "God of Life". If the host has done something bad, the God of Life will deduct the host's life span according to the specific crime.

"Major crimes will result in the loss of discipline, minor crimes will result in the loss of life."

Su Qing recalled the passage about the Three Corpse Worms in the scriptures compiled by the Taiping Dao.

"In order to kill the three corpse worms, or restrict their movements, and ultimately achieve the effect of longevity, Taoists developed something called 'sleeping skills'. Initially, the goal was to reduce sleep and improve the efficiency of cultivation. After years of development, some more extreme practitioners have set the goal of not sleeping at all, attempting to consume the three corpse worms to death in their bodies."

Dao Wuyi is the most extreme practitioner among them.

——Is it really possible to stay awake for ten consecutive years?

Su Qing agreed to help Yuchi Zhen. Besides because of Bai Feng and Murong Yan, he also wanted to know the truth about "Ten Years of Not Sleeping".

"If one can reach this level, Sima Tu will have to admit defeat." Su Qing muttered, using the earth wall to fly up and landed easily on the roof: "If nothing unexpected happens, Dao Wuyi is Sima Tu's best successor. If we get rid of him now, Sima Tu will definitely be so angry that he won't be able to eat anymore."

The dojo of Yu Quanzi of the Taiping Dao is right next to Yangchun Gate. In the "Seven Sons of the Big Dipper" of the Taiping Dao, each of them has his own dojo, and they are scattered in different places, such as Yaoguangzi, Hua Ruyi, who is known as the Thousand-Faced Fox, and Yuhengzi Aoyin, both of them have their own dojo in Tongque Three Terraces.

Yu Quanzi was usually the person most trusted by Sima Tu, so Yu Quanzi's private temple was set up in Jinyang.

Su Qing hid on the roof, praying in his heart that Dao Wuyi would not hide in the Taiping Dao headquarters in the palace and not come out. He knew that his mission was not to kill people, so he hid very deeply, and would never stick his head out to see anything that he could know with his ears.

Curiosity is curiosity, but business is more important. No matter how willful Su Qing is, he knows how to keep a sense of propriety.

Su Qing was sure that even if Wuyi was obsessed with cultivating immortality, he would definitely eat, so he kept watching where the person delivering food was going. He stayed there for three days and three nights, and finally someone brought food and drink to the dojo.

The chivalrous thief had a lithe figure, not showing any signs of old age or illness. He followed the boy who delivered meals all the way to a remote house. He chose a location, secretly lifted the roof tiles, and took a closer look. Sure enough, there was a cultivator meditating.

"Master, it's time to eat."

"Put it there"

Dao Wuyi fell into an extremely strange state. He was clearly awake, but his eyeballs were not on the same level. It could be said that he was in a state of confusion, with one eye looking up and the other looking down. He gave people the intuitive feeling that he was not so awake.

He was barely breathing and looked like he would die at any moment, but his disciples did not care.

"It would be strange if a person can be energetic if he only eats once every three days." Su Qing laughed secretly, but Dao Wuyi suddenly started to eat voraciously. He did not chew the food at all, but swallowed it directly like a snake. As long as it could be put into his mouth, he could swallow it easily.

In a short while, all the food they brought was eaten up. Su Qing estimated that the food there might be just enough for one person to eat for three days.

After resting with his eyes half closed, Dao Wuyi called an outsider and asked, "Has there been any unusual movement in the city recently?"

"Master, there is news that Bai Feng and Murong Yan are back."

Dao Wuyi raised his eyebrows, and his shriveled limbs began to tremble as his facial muscles trembled. He smiled awkwardly and said, "I will definitely catch the witch before anyone else, and then personally present her to the Heavenly Master."

"Master, may all your wishes come true, with great blessings from heaven."

Dao Wuyi continued to instruct: "More people must be deployed to guard the surroundings of the palace recently. No strangers must be allowed to approach. I want to ensure that all people within a ten-mile radius are members of the Taiping Dao."

"Master, I am confused. Didn't Master Tianshi say that it is good for the palace to have guards? The Taiping Daoists should take saving the world as their responsibility, and assigning more people to preach is what we should do?"

Dao Wuyi angrily rebuked: "Master Tianshi does not want to meddle in worldly affairs, and is only concerned with the great cause of becoming an immortal. How could he know the dangers of the world?! The current situation in the north is a life-and-death trap set up to assassinate Master Tianshi. As long as I am still in Jinyang, the Taiping Daoists will swear to defend Master Tianshi to the death!"

"Yes, disciple, I obey!"

Su Qing was surprised by Dao Wuyi's outstanding vision and thought: "This man saw through our plan at a glance. We can't keep him here for long! It's a pity that I can't kill him now."

——Keep an eye on him, find his weakness, and expose his true face.

Another voice in his heart warned Su Qing.

Not long after the Taiping Dao disciples left, Dao Wuyi fell silent in his seat. Su Qing thought he was thinking, but unexpectedly, in just a moment, Dao Wuyi muttered a few shocking words.

"Is this... a dream?"

Su Qing was extremely surprised: "He was clearly talking in his sleep with his eyes open."

The content of the dream talk was very fragmentary, and Su Qing could only write it all down and then sort it out when he went back, but he was very sure that the words mentioned what happened to Luo Pengfei back then.