Longevity begins with slaying demons and eliminating demons

Chapter 477 yesterday's cause, today's fruit

"Wonderful! Wonderful!"

Emperor Ziwei's head flew in the air, looking at Gu Xu's dharma body, he repeatedly praised.

His headless body still stood firmly on the spot, the cut surface on his neck was as smooth as a mirror, without bleeding or falling down.

"I can't imagine that after you have been promoted to the sixth realm, you can hold back for such a long time without reading the law! Even I was almost negligent!"

Gu Xu ignored him.

He manipulated the Faxiang, swiped the knife and chopped off Emperor Ziwei's head again, like cutting a watermelon, cutting it in half straight along the bridge of the nose.

Emperor Ziwei was still smiling.

His lips, which were broken in two, maintained a perfectly consistent arc.The eyes on both sides of his head also looked at Gu Xu with the same playful look.

"Your dharma contains the following rules of overcoming the superior and defeating the strong with the weak, right? The stronger your opponent is, the stronger your dharma will become as well?
"No wonder you insisted on taking out the soul fragment in my astrolabe after it returned to the main body."

Gu Xu remained silent, swung his knife and slashed again.

As early as when he was in the East China Sea, he discovered that there was a problem with the spirit of the astrolabe——

In theory, the natal object should be connected with the soul of the owner and share weal and woe.

But as the owner of the astrolabe, Gu Xu can't know the thoughts of the astrolabe spirit, and he can't communicate with him like Lu Shiyao's remnant soul and Jinghong pen spirit, and can only communicate with him through words!
Of course, there are very few magic weapons that can give birth to weapon spirits in the wild world, and their attributes and forms are different. No one can clearly say what a "normal" weapon spirit should look like.

Perhaps, this is just because the astrolabe has a relatively high personality, so the weapon spirits born from it are relatively special.

But Gu Xu still pays more attention to the astrolabe because of this.

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Of course, the clues exposed by Emperor Ziwei are far more than this.

For example, during the "Luoshui Conference", when Gu Xu met the Mangshan Ghost King in the imperial chamber, the Mangshan Ghost King once said to him: "Your body is weak, but you can still pretend to be so thick. True energy, and perfectly accommodates two souls." (1)

At that time, Gu Xu thought that the "two souls" mentioned by Mangshan Ghost King referred to the remnant soul of the original owner of the body and his soul as a time traveler.

But then 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 teenager with healthy body and mind and a normal life expectancy.

It wasn't until he became Emperor Ziwei's experiment and was forcibly stuffed into the soul of a traverser that he became a weak and sickly "genius" because of 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 Exorcist Department, and the neighbors in Yishui County all accepted the fact that he was sickly and gifted without any doubt.

They seem to have completely forgotten that the original owner of the body used to be lively and frisky, and they also forgot his original mediocre cultivation aptitude.

There is no doubt that their cognition has been tampered with by Emperor Ziwei with magic.

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After a while, Emperor Ziwei's head that had been chopped into meat paste dissipated like smoke, and the rest of his headless body also disappeared.

But the disappearance of Emperor Ziwei did not make Gu Xu feel a little relaxed.

Instead, his expression became more vigilant.

The breath of Emperor Ziwei is everywhere in the nether world.

He knew that Emperor Ziwei would not give up his plan that he had planned for many years so easily.This old thing must still be hiding something.

"I'm here, boy!"

A loud voice was like thunder, reverberating rumblingly in this dark world, shaking the ground slightly.

At the moment when the sound sounded, Gu Xu's body and dharma form were grabbed by a huge hand and lifted into the air.

Gu Xu discovered that the remnant soul of Emperor Ziwei turned into a starlight condensed giant at some point, like a living mountain rising from the ground in the netherworld, with the galaxy above its head and the ground under its feet.

Gu Xu, who was pinched by him, was as small and helpless as a bug caught by someone.

Gu Xu couldn't help feeling chills in his heart.

He clearly sensed that Emperor Ziwei had inadvertently turned his back on him and took over his body.

He became a solitary soul confined in a claustrophobic body, unable to perceive the outside world, and even lost the ability to manipulate his true energy.

This was the most desperate situation he had ever encountered in his life.

When facing Kongxuan Sanren in Yishan, he can place his hopes on the saints of Daqi.

On the day Luojing City was breached, Zhao Yan fought side by side with him.

Even after becoming a traitor, in the battle in Liangzhou City, there was still Xuenv who did not hesitate to burn her soul to protect him.

But now, he is alone, confronting the once powerful master of the upper realm.

It seemed that he was fighting back and forth 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 catches a mouse, watching the prey fluttering in its paws, drawing out one hole card after another, but still unable to escape the fate of death.

"Do you know why I scattered the fragments of the astrolabe all over the wilderness?"

"Do you know why I chose Kunlun as the destination of my journey?"

Emperor Ziwei carried Gu Xu in front of him, and looked at him with a smile.

Gu Xu didn't say anything.

But he knew the answer in his heart.

The fragments of the astrolabe were not randomly scattered all over the wilderness after Emperor Ziwei was defeated by Taishang Haotian.

It was carefully planned by Emperor Ziwei.

As a power who is well versed in time and space, cause and effect, and destiny, he has already clearly arranged his own path after taking home and rebirth.

The fragments of the East China Sea are to plant the "cause" of yesterday.

The fragments of Beiming are for harvesting today's "fruit".

Under normal circumstances, when a practitioner jumps into the ruins, he will only travel through time and space once, and then return to the original time and space.

However, Gu Xu has traveled through time and space three times.

At that time, he thought it was just an accident and didn't go into the reason.

Now that he thinks about it carefully, and then thinks about the power held by Emperor Ziwei, he realizes the strangeness of the matter.

Based on Emperor Ziwei's understanding of the Dao of Heaven and Earth, it is not difficult to use the power of "Time" and "Qiankun" to interfere with "Return to the Market".

The first time he traveled, he returned to ancient times and became the "God of Fire" in the eyes of the ancestors of the people in the northern border—this undoubtedly hindered Taishang Haotian's plan to take all the incense in the Great Wilderness World for himself.

It also made Gu Xu effortlessly obtain the incense belonging to the "God of Fire" and the support of the Great Yan Kingdom on the way to the north in order to find the fragments of "Xuanwu".

The second shuttle, he returned to the Guangshun period, and successfully helped the young Chiyangzi get rid of the slavery of the Yaowangzong.

Although Chiyangzi had gone mad and died unfortunately, his student, the current Grand Master of Qi, still brood over his death and wanted to find out the truth behind it.

If Gu Xu told Grand Master Da Qi about this experience of going back to the past together with the secret of "The Great Wilderness World is a Prison" in the future, it might be possible to shake the Master's loyalty to Emperor Tianxing and make him join his side.

In addition, the wolf dog "Yuanbao" worshiped by the Northwest barbarians on the grassland, Luochuan, the head of the exorcist department who is the reincarnation of "Wenchang Xingjun", and the "Qingming" organization hiding in the shadows...

It is conceivable that after Emperor Ziwei was reborn with Gu Xu's body, he would not only hold a large amount of incense, but also possess a force that should not be underestimated, enough to compete with the Daqi court.

In addition, he once had a very deep understanding of the Dao of Heaven and Earth.

As we all know, the higher the realm of a practitioner, the more his strength promotion depends on "enlightenment".

Perhaps it won't be long before he returns to the top, and "returning to the upper realm" and "revenge on Taishang Haotian" will no longer be empty talk.

Emperor Ziwei has been dormant for many years, and he has indeed paved a bright and smooth path 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 an answer in his mind.

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(1) Chapter 150, Volume [-], "The Appearance of the Mangshan Ghost King".

(End of this chapter)