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

What flows in the trench is no longer ordinary water, but a viscous, heavy, black liquid - the real netherworld water. It flows silently, emitting an aura of extreme cold and deathly silence that is a hundred times stronger than that in the cold abyss waterway.

There are only two kinds of living creatures in the water: one is the giant Hades fish, which is larger and looks like a ghost that has been sleeping for ten thousand years. The other is the dark purple algae that emits a faint light, like stars dotted on the endless night sky, swaying with the waves in the dark water.

The cliffs on both sides of the trench and the bottom of the trench are even more breathtaking! Countless huge and breathtaking bone fossils are half-hidden and half-exposed!

There are giant spines that meander like mountains, each section larger than a house; there are skulls of giant beasts that are as ferocious as mountain peaks, with empty eye sockets that seem to lead to another netherworld; there are huge wing bones that are like the keels of ancient battleships, inserted diagonally into the dark rock wall...

Most of these fossils are a deep dark gold or black like ink jade. It is obvious that they were all powerful prehistoric species when they were alive, and many of them were comparable to the eighth realm of cultivation. Unfortunately, time flies, and their flesh and blood have long been assimilated with the rocks under the erosion of the long years and the true water of the underworld.

Only the hardest bones and shells remain, telling of the horror and desolation of the ancient times.

In the center of this dead and vast wasteland, at the deepest part of the ocean trench, surrounded by countless giant fossils—

A huge monster stands quietly.

It was a huge statue that was a hundred feet tall! Its entire body was made of a deep, introverted, dark black crystal that seemed to be able to swallow all light. The crystal was not smooth, but covered with naturally formed, twisted and complicated lines on its surface, like solidified black lightning, or the physical manifestation of the laws of the avenue.

The most shocking thing is not the colossus itself, but the hazy and huge shadow floating behind the colossus!

The phantom took on a terrifying form with a thousand hands and arms, each of which was in a completely different posture, some forming seals, some holding illusory weapons, and some twisted into strange runes. The thousand-armed demon shadow danced and whistled silently, emitting a chaotic, ancient demonic nature that seemed to have originated from the beginning of the world!
This demonic shadow was not fixed, but slowly flowed, expanded and contracted around the giant statue like a living thing. Every slight fluctuation caused the surrounding Netherworld True Water to twist and avoid it.

A relatively smooth black crystal is inlaid between the giant's eyebrows.

Inside the crystal, a figure sitting cross-legged can be vaguely seen.

The figure's entire body was like a sculpture of the finest black jade, crystal clear, yet bottomless, as if even the gaze would be sucked in. His face was blurry, shrouded in a layer of flowing black halo, and one could only barely make out that he was a man with long hair and a tall figure.

The strange thing is that inside this completely crystallized, lifeless body, there are streams of vital energy as bright as the stars and as hot as the sun slowly flowing and circulating!
These starlight energies outlined complex meridian patterns in his black jade-like body, with brightness and depth forming an extremely strange contrast. Life? Death? The boundary was completely blurred in this person. He seemed to have been sleeping for billions of years, and it seemed that he had just died in the eternal moment.

What is even more frightening is that countless fine, living black and golden rays of light are flowing through the surface, interior, and even the surrounding void of this giant statue!
The former is as deep as a black hole that swallows everything, while the latter is as brilliant as the eternally burning sun!
They formed an extremely complex three-dimensional rune array, like the blood vessels and nerves of a colossus, or like some kind of supreme magic array that was still in operation and analyzed the great principles of heaven and earth!

The black line is dead and devouring; the gold line is hot and creative.

Two completely opposite forces intertwine, collide, and flow endlessly here, emitting suffocating mysterious fluctuations.

The ancestor of witches, Jiang Yan!
That supreme ancestor of the Yin Qi ghost lineage! He actually died here? Or, in other words, he chose this way to transform himself into the eternal "core" of this Beiming Xuanyuan?
He had devoted all his efforts to the legendary secret treasure of immortality of the You Dynasty, and might even have touched the door, but he was ultimately unable to open it...

This lonely tombstone bears witness to the desolation of an era.

Zhao Qing glanced at the slowly flowing threads of starlight inside the colossus, and clearly sensed that every grain of dust under the ice dome was engraved with the law of exclusion emanating from this place. If anyone who did not practice Yin Qi techniques set foot in this place, it would be like a candle thrown into the abyss, and they would be strangled to death in an instant.

This is undoubtedly a method used by the Witch Ancestor to prevent the mysteries of his own Taoism from being seen by outsiders, "aliens".

But the irony is that all his disciples were unworthy, and no one could learn his true skills and inherit his legacy. After the death of this invincible master, the sect fell apart, and the disciples fought against each other. The most powerful techniques of the twelve sects were lost in the infighting, which is a pity.

Fortunately, today, hundreds of years later, I have stepped into this secret realm by coincidence or design, and finally have some hope of inheriting the other party's lifelong insights and continuing his Dharma lineage.

……

Just when Zhao Qing's mind was deeply shocked by this immortal body and the Thousand-Handed Demon Shadow, and he began to realize something and almost forgot his own pain and the threat of pursuers - the mutation regenerated!
An extremely subtle "click" sound, yet sharp enough to pierce the soul, suddenly rang out in the dead silent space.

The source of the sound was none other than the black gold emperor's coffin that the dwarf master had been protecting tightly during the violent impact, but now had an obvious crack!

No more black fog overflowed from the gap. Instead, a ray of indescribable strange light shone through, as if containing the mystery of endless time and space.

Then, right above the giant black crystal statue, under the thick dark blue ice dome, the space cracked silently like a broken mirror!
The crack was not pitch black, but rather like a strange mirror suspended in the air, with its edges constantly twisting and fluctuating. The mirror surface was extremely smooth, but it could not reflect any scene below, only a constantly rotating, deep vortex of the starry sky.

A divine thought, gentle, clear, and with a kind of detached calmness, ignored the barriers of space and matter, and flowed directly into the depths of Zhao Qing's sea of ​​consciousness like a trickle of water.

Every syllable of the language used by this divine thought was like thunder, exploding in her soul! It was definitely not the language of any dynasty or tribe in this world!

That is... modern Mandarin with standard pronunciation!

"Don't be alarmed, traveler in a foreign land."

His mind paused slightly, as if observing her reaction. Then, even more earth-shattering words exploded in her mind: "It is not easy to cross the barriers of time and space, break free from the thread of fate, and meet a fellow traveler again in this world. I, Si You, am just like you, an outlier who is outside the rules of this world!" This mysterious figure continued in a more familiar tone, even with a hint of "meeting an old friend in a foreign land": "To put it simply, we are all...travelers."

Zhao Qing appropriately acted out a surprised expression with his pupils trembling, but he had already expected it in his heart:

As expected, Emperor You is a typical time traveler. As an existence who was once very close to the ninth realm and created the Nine Deaths Silkworm Divine Art, even though he has died once, he still has the ability to come back again.

Recognizing himself as a "time traveler" does not mean that he has the ability to retrieve memories. After all, she built fighter jets that fly in the sky, and their characteristics can be said to be quite obvious.

"I guess you already have some ideas in your mind? Have you recognized my identity back then?"

The starry sky vortex in the mirror seemed to speed up slightly, and the divine thought continued to flow with a barely perceptible sigh as if it had experienced endless time, and frankly admitted:
"Yes, I am the Supreme God Emperor who founded the You Dynasty, the tyrant who was described in history books as a massacre of the common people and was eventually overthrown by the rebels of the Thirty-Three States, and the first ruler to unify the world."

"More than seven hundred years ago, although this emperor's country was destroyed and his people perished because of the betrayal of the crown prince and the disclosure of the secrets of his skills, he did not die completely. His true spirit still remained, wandering in the depths of the starry sky. He then realized the secret of immortality, and after going through hundreds of calamities, he integrated the eternal law, the life-controlling law, and the myriad changes into one. He then achieved the nine realms of immortality, transcending the barriers of heaven and earth. From then on, he has been indestructible for all calamities, and has lived as long as the stars, the sun, and the moon, with infinite magical powers."

"Yes, success is longevity, and failure is longevity."

A hint of helplessness was revealed in his mind: "The power of the Nine Realms is so vast and majestic that it cannot be carried by this fragile human world. If it is forced to descend, not only will the laws of this world collapse, billions of lives will be destroyed, and my own Dao fruit will also be in danger of being overturned. This is the rule of the Great Dao, and it cannot be reversed by force."

In the mirror, a golden light that was so bright that it was indescribable suddenly lit up in the center of the vortex, as if it contained the birth and extinction of a universe! The voice paused, with a kind of alms-like temptation, but also contained unquestionable majesty:
"My friend, you are both strangers, and you have extraordinary talents. This is truly a match made in heaven. If you are willing to temporarily let go of your body, mind, and consciousness defenses, and serve as my carrier and vessel, you can help my will to descend upon this world for a short period of time and complete some unfinished business..."

"After the task is accomplished, I will reward you generously for your meritorious service! Glory and wealth are within your reach, but they are just trivial matters in the mortal world. I can personally teach you the true way of immortality and lead you to explore the secrets of the Nine Realms of Immortality and the Ten Realms of Eternity! From now on, you will jump out of the Three Realms, no longer be in the Five Elements, and share the true immortality with me!"

"The so-called Eight Realms of Enlightenment in this world are, in my eyes, just the beginning of the Great Dao! With your potential, you should have the opportunity to challenge the stars!"

Every promise was weighty, every word carried an enchanting power, and contained enough weight to drive the most powerful practitioners in the world crazy.

The path to immortality! Immortality! The pinnacle of the starry sky! This is the threshold that countless talented people and generations of dynasty leaders in this world have tried their best but could not reach! At this moment, it was promised so easily, like a fruit within easy reach, and placed in front of Zhao Qing.

The golden light shone through the mirror and lingered around her, bringing a warm and comfortable feeling as if she had returned to her mother's womb. Deep in her soul, she even felt an instinctive throbbing of longing for acceptance. Temptation, a temptation so huge that it could instantly evaporate any rationality!
However, in the midst of this overwhelming temptation that was enough to make any Qi Tian practitioner in the seventh realm or even the eighth realm lose their minds and surrender, Zhao Qing's courage and mind, which had been tempered by countless lives and deaths and had long been as clear as glass, suddenly became cold, calm, and insightful!
As we all know, when fellow villagers meet, they shoot each other in the back!
The words of this fellow countryman who called himself Emperor You were full of inducements and traps. She didn't believe a single word of it!
Seriously, what's the difference between this and the Qin Shi Huang scam? They both say that the emperor is alive and needs help, haha.

However, "Qin Shi Huang" wanted money, and the text message could be completely ignored, but Emperor You wanted to "take over the body" and his life and property, and he was asking for it in person, which implied a threat.

In the Sword Dynasty world, there has never been a faction of law that focuses on the cultivation of the primordial spirit, so there is no concept of possession of another's body. In other words, the term "possession of another's body" is generally considered to be a fabricated and fictitious word and is regarded as nonsense.

But in Zhao Qing's cognition, the ability of "consciousness assimilation" of the Ninth Realm Immortals, which most people have never heard of, is probably even more bizarre, overbearing, and difficult to resist than "soul possession"!

This is also the reason why she clearly knew the existence of the "elixir of immortality" in Tianliang Zushan, and knew that it must contain the mystery of the nine realms of immortality, but she had not touched it for a long time, being cautious and worried about contamination.

If Zhao Qing's guess is correct, Emperor You will most likely retreat in order to advance, and change his demand that is almost like "taking over the body" into a seemingly peaceful transaction, but in fact it still hides the same crisis, which is in line with Lu Xun's method of reconciliation and compromise of "removing the roof" first and then "opening the window".

The other party first puts forward the most stringent conditions. Once it is rejected, it will be easier for people to accept a relatively "relaxed" plan.

Her thoughts were running wildly in a flash, deducing and confirming:
Some time ago, the comet that fell on the back of the moon with an ominous aura was most likely the "true body" of Emperor You. Perhaps he had just broken through to the ninth level, but he was definitely not a strong man at this level, and his condition was not good.

However, the Nine Realms are still the Nine Realms after all. Even if one has just entered the Ninth Realm and has suffered severe damage to his vitality, the essence of life is far beyond the ordinary Eight Realms, and it is completely superior to all Seven Realms!
This can be seen from this strange light mirror, which is a space channel connecting hundreds of thousands of miles.

However, according to the description of the Eight Realms' use of the power of the void in known classics such as the Lingxu Sutra, this type of space channel should be difficult to open up in one direction. It is necessary to have support at both ends to establish an "anchor point", for example, using some kind of Qi resonance secret method that is more subtle and grand than the Mandala Pure Land!
The foundation of this resonance is probably the fossil remains in this Beiming Xuanyuan, the Nine Nether Yin Qi, and the black gold emperor coffin! It has great restrictions and cannot be used at will.

At present, it seems that it is difficult for the Nine Realms of Immortality to descend directly to the surface of the planet. This is not a lie of the Emperor You. It does require some carriers, or clones, to act normally.

Everything is connected!
Heba Xuangao and others set up an ambush in the hot sea. Their fundamental goal was not to kill her body god, but to force her into the deepest part of the North Ming Xuanyuan at all costs! This was most likely instructed by this "Emperor of the Underworld"!

Perhaps, she is the candidate for the "container" chosen by Emperor You!
Everything Heba Xuan Gao did was to fulfill his master's orders and send her to this specific "operating table"!

But why did he choose me? Couldn't he choose one of the descendants of the You Dynasty? Even if he was afraid of sacrifice and refused to go, the two brothers who were chasing me seemed to be kept in the dark and could be easily tricked.

So, the problem should be due to the difference in growth potential? The cultivation foundation laid by ordinary people cannot satisfy the Emperor You?

But at his level, with such vision and insight, even if his foundation is not very solid, is it really impossible to make up for it? What is the purpose of looking for a suitable carrier?
Zhao Qing had a myriad of thoughts in his mind. As his thoughts moved slightly, the remains of the Witch Ancestor Jiang Yan in the center of the eyebrows of the giant black crystal statue suddenly flashed through his mind. As a half-step ninth-level existence who had also touched the threshold of immortality, this guy stayed in the North Ming Xuanyuan to attain enlightenment, and the huge, living "field" formed around him!
Could it be that the "door" was blocked by someone?

She sensed the simulated Netherworld Yin energy in her body, and when she let it go, she felt the suction of the vortex centered on Jiang Yan. Considering that the power of the Nether Emperor was very similar to it, she already had a definite answer.

...(End of chapter)