Big Devil: Starting from refining flying zombies

Chapter 336 The thread of mortal world
One day later, on the bustling streets of Beijing, a tall carriage slowly stopped under the slightly envious eyes of passers-by.

"Thank you so much, Mr. Yan, for your help this time."

Liang Xiao jumped down from the carriage, then straightened his gown, turned around and gave a salute.

Along the way, he also had some interactions with this family who was kind enough to help him.

I found out that the old man in brocade robes had a surname of Yan, and he seemed to hold a high official position.

But Liang Xiao himself is just a white man.

There is a huge identity gap between the two parties.

Even though the official lady named Yan Yu'er and the old lady in the carriage seemed to have a good impression of themselves.

Liang Xiao was also in a normal mood and regarded these good things that ordinary people were eager to do as if they were nothing.

He didn't have any ambition to climb up to the dragon and follow the phoenix because of this, and he took the initiative to say goodbye as soon as the carriage arrived in the capital.

"Helping others and doing good deeds is just the foundation of morality. It's nothing."

The old man in brocade robes looked at Liang Xiao calmly and calmly, then he wanted to look away, lowered the curtain again and let the carriage leave.

As a result, the old man's clothes seemed to have been gently pulled several times by someone.

From Liang Xiao's perspective, he couldn't see what was happening in the carriage.

He just saw the old man in brocade robe blowing his beard and glaring on his face. He seemed to turn his head and reprimanded him for "nonsense" in a low voice.

Then the sound of Miss Yu'er's grievances and sobs could be heard faintly in the carriage compartment.

The old lady seemed very distressed by this.

He didn't stand by Old Man Yan either. He scolded the old man and lost his temper for a while.

Liang Xiao looked on the spot with some embarrassment.

He seemed to have seen the old lady's finger poking Old Yan's forehead. This scene was really not pretty.

So Liang Xiao had no choice but to shift his gaze in a subtle way.

He turned to look at the taciturn coachman Lao Yu.

While staring at each other, I was thinking about running away now, otherwise it would be too embarrassing.

Just when Liang Xiao moved and prepared to run away, Old Man Yan raised his hand and called out to him.

Liang Xiao saw a headache and helplessness on Old Yan's face, and even his meticulously tended gray hair was a little messy.

I think this is the credit of the old lady.

Old Man Yan coughed twice.

Then he looked at Liang Xiao and said in a deep voice: "Young man, when you enter Beijing this time, you must prepare yourself for the exam and do not slack off."

"The students have memorized Mr. Yan's teachings."

Liang Xiao was a little surprised. It turned out that the reason for calling him was to say this.

However, this old man Yan is an elder. When he sees his junior students making progress, it is also in line with etiquette to give them timely advice and encouragement.

"Ah."

Old Yan gently stroked his beard, paused, and suddenly said: "A scholar must have the integrity and ambition of a scholar."

"Speaking of which, if you can pass the imperial examination and get a Jinshi, you will be lucky enough to become an official in the court."

"We should relieve the worries and problems of the present Holy One and seek the welfare of the people of Ming Dynasty."

"Set up the small self and become the big self. Only in this way can you leave your name in history. Do you understand this truth and can you do this?"

Liang Xiao looked at Old Man Yan strangely.

It felt like the old man said this a bit inexplicably, as if he was sure to pass the exam.

Just when Liang Xiao listened to Old Man Yan's admonishment and then stood on the roadside watching the carriage prepare to leave.

The curtain on the side of the carriage was opened by Yan Yu'er. At this moment, her pretty face was blushing, and her eyes were moving.

"Brother Liang, I guess you haven't prepared much money, so I'll give this to you!"

Liang Xiao hasn't reacted yet.

Then he saw Yan Yu'er extending her slender hand toward him.

Then without hesitation, he took off a gorgeous jade bracelet from Hao Bai's wrist and handed it to Liang Xiao's hand.

She didn't leave Liang Xiao any chance to refuse.

Liang Xiao looked up and saw Yan Yu'er's well-proportioned eyebrows and eyes, filled with an indescribable tenderness and charm.

This is an extremely bold thing for a woman to do.

She covered her mouth and smiled softly, then followed the sound of the carriage wheels and gradually disappeared.

Liang Xiao held the jade bracelet with a slightly warm fragrance in his hand, and his mind was finally touched.

I don't know if it's an illusion.

The capital, which was originally a little strange and emptiness to Liang Xiao, instantly made him feel the smoke and familiarity.

Even the breeze blowing from the end of the road seemed refreshing and pleasant, gently stirring the hair.

It washed away a lot of dust and dust along the way for Liang Xiao.

For a moment, he was in a trance.

It even feels like heaven and earth are working together, and there is a sense of boundless joy as good luck reaches the sky and dragons travel all over the world.

And there was this unexplained feeling in my heart.

Five days later, when Liang Xiao entered the capital examination room and met the examiner who was patrolling the examination, he finally reached a peak.

Although the examiner was wearing an unfamiliar red official uniform, he was walking like a dragon and a tiger, and he was so majestic that no one dared to look at him.

But Liang Xiao still recognized him at a glance.

The examiner turned out to be the old man Yan who rode in the carriage with him earlier.

And listen to what other people in the exam room are saying.

This old man is not only a minister of the Ministry of Rites.

The head wife of the family is the biological sister of the current empress. The family is powerful and has a great background. She is a relative of the emperor.

If we think of what Old Yan said to Liang Xiao a few days ago.

No matter how stupid you are, you can guess that in this imperial examination, as long as the essay is acceptable, you will basically be on the list!

What's more, after Liang Xiao got the test questions, he only felt that his mind was quick, his writing was as fast as flying, and he wrote with vigour.

The test paper that originally took three days to answer took only less than two days and was completed without any detail.

And wait until the imperial examination is over and the results will be released a few days later.

Liang Xiao was still lying down and sleeping in the inn.

He had already heard the beating of gongs and drums in the street, and someone was rushing towards him to deliver the good news to him with excitement.

"Congratulations to Mr. Liang, congratulations to Mr. Liang!!"

"Your beautiful articles are the best, no one can compare with you. Now you have leaped over the dragon gate and been hand-picked as the number one scholar in the new subject!!"

Liang Xiao was a little surprised when he heard the news, as if he didn't expect things to go so smoothly.

However, his daze was regarded as normal by everyone.

It is impossible for anyone to remain calm when such a huge happy event falls on anyone.

Even when the rankings are released every year, some people will go crazy with joy.

Not long after, a ball of joy rose up in Liang Xiao's heart, gradually making his hands and feet tremble uncontrollably.

But when he looked at the other people singing and dancing around him.

Suddenly, I felt a very strange feeling, one of extreme calmness and detachment.

"No. [-] scholar? What does the No. [-] scholar mean? A mortal's life is like a bird in a canary. Sooner or later, it will just be the withered bones in the grave."

Such an idea came to Liang Xiao's mind inexplicably.

Then his Niwan Palace shone brightly.

I just felt my consciousness lighten, as if I was pulled out of this body and floating in the air of the inn.

He looked at the scholar named "Liang Xiao" who looked exactly like him in the inn.

The ecstasy on the scholar's face gradually became pure, and he began to actively interact with other people who reported the good news and asked for rewards.

Not long after, the court's welcoming team arrived.

A guard of honor greeted the procession and the gongs and drums were beating loudly. The scholars put on bright red robes and rode on tall horses to celebrate.

That very familiar face had a very happy and unhappy expression.

This made Liang Xiao feel a little strange.It was clear that his consciousness had recovered and withdrawn, but the scholar did not disappear.

The scene in front of him seemed to happen to a stranger, and Liang Xiao could clearly feel it.

It's just that there seems to be a sadly thick barrier in the middle.

Being the top pick in high school is of course a moment of great glory for ordinary people.

But in Liang Xiao's opinion, he just felt that it was extremely boring, almost like a clumsy stage play.

Liang Xiao's invisible consciousness rose higher and higher.

He instinctively rose from the roof of the inn to the sky above the capital, playing among the clouds.

At this moment, the entire towering capital city was under his eyes.

The criss-crossing streets in the capital are filled with merchants and pedestrians, ships docked at the docks, porters and foremen.

In the Xuanhe Imperial City, which is surrounded by high blue walls, there are cautious palace servants, concubines living in various gorgeous palaces, and even an old emperor who handles government affairs in the palace.

No place, no secret can escape Liang Xiao's perception.

But the interesting part is.

The movements of these people in the capital were stagnant, like mosquitoes stuck in amber crystals.

Only when the scholar riding the horse steps on the street, the surrounding scene will start to become lively again.

And time... seems to be gradually speeding up.

Liang Xiao's invisible consciousness saw the sun and moon begin to rotate in the sky.

It was like there was an invisible big hand turning the wheel of time majestically, and I didn't even bother to pretend in front of him.

The scholar also reunited with Yan Yu'er at the garden party after becoming the top student in high school.

At this high-end banquet held for new scholars.

There will also be many princes and nobles participating, and they will take advantage of this season to choose a son-in-law who will ride a dragon.

The scholar found an opportunity to be alone with Yan Yu'er, and then took out the jade bracelet that he had carefully preserved.

In the eyes of old man Yan, the chief examiner of the imperial examination, who looked a little unhappy.

The scholar put the jade bracelet on Yan Yu'er's white wrist. The girl's shy and moving expression dimmed all the flowers in the garden.

"After the names on the gold medal list, will it be the wedding night..."

"This is really a happy event."

"Although this is all just a dream."

"My will has been revived, and the dimension-reducing impact of the divine wisdom on the calamity of inner demons is still too amazing."

"As time goes by, my will will naturally break through the constraints, and the inner demons and illusions can't do anything to me."

Liang Xiao's invisible consciousness was like a god holding the sky and the earth, shrouding the entire capital.

Even though the inner demons and illusions have done everything possible to delay the recovery of his conscious self.

The day finally came, and it happened so quickly.

But just when Liang Xiao was about to break through the shackles of this world and get rid of the first catastrophe of inner demons.

Suddenly, two scarlet threads stained with the aura of the world suddenly appeared on the scholar's body, rushing out from the ground.

Liang Xiao's divine will subconsciously raised his hand to block.

But he saw that the two scarlet silk threads had penetrated into the body like maggots on the tarsal bones.

"Tips for carving insects!"

Liang Xiao snorted disdainfully, and immediately grabbed the two scarlet threads with his backhand, preparing to tear them to pieces.

However, he seemed to feel something the next moment and stopped immediately.

Liang Xiao's eyes flashed strangely.

Follow the two scarlet threads and look at the ignorant scholar at the garden party.

He discovered that there were two fragments of silent consciousness tied to the end of the scarlet silk thread, both of which were part of his thoughts.

Liang Xiaoruo wanted to tear off these two scarlet threads.

Then you are not fighting against the inner demons and illusions, you are fighting against yourself, and this is not the most troublesome point.

"So that's it. There really is some way to the inner demon world."

"No wonder countless cultivators have failed at this level. I really underestimate you. It's like I'm fighting a cunning opponent who knows me very well."

"Before my consciousness recovers."

"It seems that a very small fragment of consciousness has been secretly separated by the inner demon fantasy."

"Calculated in this way, if there are 36 demonic realms of the heart, 36 consciousness fragments must have been divided for me."

"There are 36 consciousness fragments, but now only two appear."

"The rest should still be sleeping deep in the false memory of that mortal scholar Liang Xiao."

Liang Xiao's god-level wisdom was so overbearing. He figured out the cause and effect in an instant, and understood the strategy of the inner demon's illusion.

The inner demon fantasy world is known to Liang Xiao’s wisdom and will.

If he were allowed to pass through these 36 demonic illusions separately, he would have no chance of winning.

So he simply concentrated all his power on this layer of illusion.

But even so, the power of the inner demon illusion is still insufficient.

Even without using any radical means.

Liang Xiao's will to become a god is still about to revive at the end, and there is no way to stop him from breaking through the illusion.

So this time the inner demon fantasy world used a conspiracy to turn attack into defense.

He took the initiative to give Liang Xiao the choice of whether to break through the inner demon illusion.

In other words.

Liang Xiao can now directly tear off two scarlet threads, forcefully break through the illusion, and easily achieve Nascent Soul.

But the price is that the remaining 34 consciousness fragments will completely disappear with the disillusionment of the inner demon illusion.

Although these 34 consciousness fragments are less than one ten thousandth of Liang Xiao's total consciousness.

But if it lacks this one ten thousandth, Liang Xiao will not be able to make a perfect breakthrough, and there will be extremely slight defects deep in his consciousness.

This point has little relevance to ordinary cultivators, and they can't see any difference.

But for a talented cultivator like Liang Xiao who wants to pursue the supreme demonic path and has the ambition to become an immortal.

But it is unbearable.

When high-level cultivators are fighting for their skills.

It is often not just a collision of supernatural powers and spells, but also a collision of mind and wisdom.

Any imperfections in your thinking will be magnified infinitely.

If I have to give an example.

It is equivalent to the opponent being able to think of the ten thousand levels later during the game.

But you can only think of the nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine levels, and the consequences will undoubtedly be fatal.

The only way is to be born perfect, either perfect or incomplete, there is no gray area in between.

"The inscription on the gold medal list, the wedding ceremony flowers and candles, these are the most emotional events for mortals."

"Correspondingly, for people like me who want to transcend tribulations and transcend, there are many tribulations."

"The two scarlet threads that bind my will to become a god are actually mortal threads."

"They are the final manifestation of these two catastrophes."

"It seems that the Inner Demon Realm is preparing to play a bright card with me. If I want to achieve perfect consciousness and perfectly break through to the Nascent Soul Realm, I cannot choose to overturn the table in the middle."

"Instead, we have to wait for the other 34 consciousness fragments to be born in response to the disaster."

"I can't start struggling until 36 mortal threads are tied to my body, and I fall into passivity."

"And when the red dust threads are superimposed layer by layer, the effect is definitely not as simple as one plus one."

"It's hard to say that even with a god-level will, the outcome is unpredictable. At that time, it will either be a complete victory or a complete defeat. No wonder people say that the ultimate opponent of the inner demon calamity is myself!"

Liang Xiao squinted his eyes and was silent for a long time, lamenting that his inner demon was really cruel and despicable.

He originally thought that this breakthrough would be boring and just a formality.

I didn't expect that this inner demon illusion could be so cunning. Now that the plot has appeared, it has really begun to put pressure on Liang Xiao.

(End of this chapter)