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Chapter 864 Kaiyun's Past
Wang Ping, who was hiding under the starry sky, did not show up at the first time, because in his impression, Kaiyun had too many thoughts and was so thick-skinned that even Rong Yang had to admit defeat.

Yu Lian was still lying on Wang Ping's shoulder. After Kai Yun admitted defeat, she said unhappily, "What's wrong with this old monk? He was the one who wanted to hit me, and he was the one who stopped after two hits."

Wang Ping was also feeling a little unsatisfied. It was very difficult to find an opponent who could defeat him with all his strength. The tricks he had just used were not even a warm-up for him and Kaiyun. The vines that seemed to be spread all over the starry sky might be able to seal thousands of third-level cultivators and some ordinary fourth-level cultivators, but as long as Kaiyun used the golden spirit in his body, they would shatter in an instant.

He also wanted to see the strength of the golden spirit in Kaiyun's body to verify his current combat effectiveness, but he didn't expect Kaiyun to admit defeat directly. After admitting defeat, Kaiyun waited quietly, with no intention of continuing the fight.

"Tell me, if I use the 'Sky Eye' to observe Kaiyun now, will I be able to see his past?"

Wang Ping's heart moved and he asked Yu Lian in a low voice.

Yu Lian also became interested after hearing this, but then she thought carefully and said, "Theoretically, there shouldn't be any problems. Kaiyun's cause and effect are very normal, and there's nothing particularly strange about his soul consciousness."

While Yu Lian was answering him, Wang Ping first deduced the danger of the matter. After confirming that there was almost no danger, he entered a state of "self-control", then pinched his fingers to open the "Heavenly Eye" between his eyebrows and looked at Kaiyun.

At first there was no reaction, but then a flood of information and unfamiliar images flooded into his mind, and Wang Ping concentrated all his attention to sort out the information.

Kaiyun was born in a human tribe on an island. He began to receive combat training at the age of ten, and at the age of twelve, he was taken by adults in the tribe to watch the battle with the water monster soldiers.

When he was fifteen, he got married and had children, and then fought against the water monster soldiers who seemed to be endless. When he was twenty, his tribe was destroyed, and his wife and children died tragically under the blades of the monster soldiers. He even saw his own children being eaten alive by the monster soldiers. Wang Ping could feel his despair and hatred at that time.

The demon soldiers transformed the island where they had lived for generations into a stronghold, and built a huge water dungeon in the center of the stronghold. Kaiyun was imprisoned in the water dungeon made of thorn vines. The demon soldiers would capture some people every day as rations, and the captives like Kaiyun ate the bones left over from the "rations" by the demon soldiers, and they would just throw the bones into the water, regardless of whether the captives ate them or not.

Those bones with minced meat soon attracted a lot of rats and ants, making the originally relatively clean dungeon increasingly dirty. As time went on, the prisoners' excrement, rats, maggots and flies increased in number. The water in the dungeon turned black, and the demon soldiers sometimes threw in some poisonous snakes for fun.

Kaiyun looked at those happy demon soldiers and had no desire to live in his heart. However, the hatred that was penetrating deeper and deeper into his bones suddenly made him wake up. The strong desire to survive forced him to eat on the third day. Although he knew that he would not live long like this, he had to live even if there was a slight chance.

He was lucky. When he was about to be succumbed to the disease, a white dragon descended from the sky with auspicious clouds and killed the demon soldiers who occupied the island.

Even though the white dragon saved Keyun and used magic to heal his illness and injuries, Keyun was not grateful to the dragon. Instead, he felt intense hatred for the dragon because their tribe worshipped the dragon day and night, but the dragon did not help them at the critical moment.

He thought it was a betrayal!
After doing all this, Bailong left without caring about how Keyun and others would survive. This deepened Keyun's hatred. Fortunately, a Taoist priest came to the island to preach the next day.

Kering was also chosen by the Taoist priest to start his spiritual practice.

However, when he had just reached the Qi training stage, the Taoist priest died in a battle. The first decision he made was to escape and hide his relationship with the Taoist priest.

Kaiyun practiced with difficulty until he reached the foundation-building stage, and his life was about to come to an end.

At that time, there was no Xuanmen and Tianmen. The best way for human cultivators to practice was Taiyin, Yuqing and Xingshen. The second best way was to refine the blood of the demon clan and obtain the blood power of the demon clan to make a fake pill.

However, these secret methods of cultivation were not accessible to Kering at that time.

Just when he was about to find a demon tribe to fight and end his miserable life, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth suddenly surged, and a colorful light streaked across the clouds, causing different changes in the qi sea in his body.

On the third day after the colorful light disappeared, he was found by a great humanitarian monk named Tianqing. Tianqing told Kaiyun that the changes in his body were due to the nourishment of the five elements of spiritual energy in heaven and earth, which gave birth to a natural golden spiritual vein.

What happened next was a natural progression. He became a disciple again, and it was after this time that he received the Taoist name "Kering".

After Kaiyun entered the country, his master Tianqing summoned two other Golden Spirit monks, took Tiangong Immortal Venerable as the founder, and established the Golden Spirit Sect, which was the predecessor of Vajra Temple.

In the third year after the establishment of the Jinling Sect, the conflict between human cultivators and the demon race intensified.

Tianqing failed in his attempt to reach the third realm, but left Kaiyun with the secret method to advance to the second realm and a warning. He warned Kaiyun not to rush to advance to the third realm because that would definitely lead to failure.

Kaiyun took note of his master's warning and used battles with the demons to collect blood, flesh and spirituality. He was soon promoted to the second realm and became one of the managers of the Golden Spirit Sect. For the next three hundred years, he used his power to collect longevity drugs in the world, and at the same time continued to hunt demons to extract their flesh and blood for cultivation.

With the help of longevity drugs, he survived for more than 900 years. Finally one day, someone was promoted to the third realm. This person was named Kaiyu, who was considered Kaiyun’s senior brother. The Jinling Sect held a grand ceremony for him.

When Kaiyun entered into meditation, he discovered that the golden spirit aura had become more stable than before, so he began to plan his advancement to the third realm. When his life was about to end, he successfully advanced to the third realm with the help of his senior brother Kaiyu.

At this time, the fight between the demons and the human monks had developed into an all-out war, and they only lacked one person to lead them in launching the final offensive against the demons.

At this time, Kaiyun joined a gathering organization, which included demons and human monks. The purpose of their gathering together was to survive this war.

At the beginning, Kaiyun was disgusted with working with the demons, but as time went by, he seemed to have forgotten his hatred and was left with only the pursuit of advanced cultivation.

For the next thousand years, Kaiyun was surrounded by war and killing. There was no order in the cultivation world at that time, and conflicts often broke out between Xuanmen and Tianmen over some rare treasures.

When Kaiyun had perfected the third realm, he still adopted the previous method, collecting enough spirituality to strengthen his soul while quietly waiting for the opportunity to be promoted.

At this point in time, every hundred years he would receive news that someone had failed to advance to the fourth realm.

Finally, one day, it was his senior brother Kaiyu who was the first to be promoted to the fourth realm, and Kaiyun was very envious of his senior brother's high-spirited look.

In the days that followed, there were constant reports of people in Xuanmen being promoted to the fourth realm, but there were even more reports of failures, especially within the Jinling Sect. There were so many failures that even Kaiyun didn't dare to try easily, but he was extremely eager to be promoted.

At this time, the battle between the Xuanmen and the demon clan became more and more intense, and sometimes there were even fights between cultivators of the four realms.

One day, he got the news at a party that the demon tribe was setting traps to besiege the fourth-level cultivators in Xuanmen, and the demon tribe offered a sky-high price to reward the fourth-level cultivators of Xuanmen. At the end of the party, a member of the demon tribe took the initiative to find Kaiyun and told him that the flesh of the fourth-level cultivators could greatly increase his success rate in advancing to the fourth level.

Kaiyun naturally knew what this demon clan member was thinking, but he did not make any promises.

But not long after that, another person in the Jinling Sect was successfully promoted. At the same time, his senior brother Kaiyu told Kaiyun that there was only one spot left in the four realms, and the others had all become true spirits.

Kaiyun tried several times but didn't have the courage. Finally, he broke through the moral constraints in his heart and prepared to attack the newly promoted fourth-level cultivator. However, the other party had been in seclusion, and there were constant reports from within the sect that someone was preparing to be promoted to the fourth level.

So, after meditating for half a month, he betrayed Kaiyu, and the reward he wanted was Kaiyu's body.

After betraying Kaiyu, he secluded himself for several years before suppressing his inner demons. After coming out, he heard the news that Kaiyu was besieged and killed by several great monsters, and he received his reward at a subsequent party.

Kaiyun Zhenzhen successfully advanced to the fourth realm with the help of the golden spirit in this flesh body. Soon after his promotion, he received an invitation from Tiangong Xianzun to go to outer space to meet Tiangong Xianzun.

The picture that the "Sky Eye" could see came to an abrupt end at this moment, and behind it was nothingness and chaos. This should be because Kaiyun learned to cover up his own cause and effect after being promoted to the fourth realm, and covered up his past and future.

Wang Ping digested the information Kering brought him as quickly as possible.

First of all, it is most noteworthy that the Five Xuanmen Sects did not officially appear when humanity rose six thousand years ago. They appeared at least two thousand years before the rise of humanity, or even longer.

According to the time records of the Taoist Palace, the rise of human cultivators began after the victory in the all-out war with the demon clan, that is, hundreds of years before the fall of the Demon King. At that time, there were already many human cultivators in the fourth realm.

Wang Ping learned from Kaiyun's past that when Kaiyun was practicing, there was not even a third level cultivator in the Human Dao Xuan Sect.

This may explain the unreasonableness of the Taoist Palace's records. In the Taoist Palace's records, the third and fourth realm cultivators of the Human Dao Xuanmen seemed to have appeared out of thin air.

Another point is that, judging from the experience before Kaiyun Sijing, there is very little contact between the five sects of Xuanmen, at least this is the case between the lower-level cultivators. When they meet, they will be hostile to each other, and sometimes even bloody conflicts will break out.

What made Wang Ping even more puzzled was that the Five Realms True Lords of the Five Sects of Xuanmen seemed to have really appeared out of thin air. They used their great magical powers to change the basic rules of this world and secretly passed down their Taoist traditions.

What concerned Wang Ping the most was that the party that Ke Yun attended seemed to be the same party that Quan Wen had dragged him into. However, from the attitudes of Quan Wen and Bu Qiong, he could tell that Ke Yun was no longer at the party.

Wang Ping planned to ask about this matter directly at the next impromptu gathering, and he thought that other members of the party would not refuse to answer his question.

"What do you see?"

Yu Lian felt Wang Ping's emotional fluctuations and knew what Wang Ping had seen, so she asked curiously.

Wang Ping had no reservations towards Yu Lian. He connected to Yu Lian's soul and directly pushed the images he saw to Yu Lian.

Yu Lian took a few breaths to digest the time, then whispered: "His life is really wonderful, but it is also accompanied by great luck. However, his great luck is far from yours."

Wang Ping nodded. What Kaiyun had experienced must have made him extremely determined, but he would not be too conservative, and would not care about face and external things. When the hatred in his heart was erased by long-term killing, there was only one thing he wanted, and that was a higher level of cultivation.

Thinking of this, Wang Ping couldn't help but secretly observe Kai Yun, who was squinting his eyes to rest.

Yu Lian said to Wang Ping at this time: "What are your plans? Actually, there is no need for us to overcomplicate things. Let's talk to him, right? I have a feeling that he might come here this time because of Ao Yi's matter."

Wang Ping had the same hunch.

Then, he revealed his figure and appeared a hundred feet in front of Kaiyun.

Kaiyun saw Wang Ping and took the initiative to disperse the mysterious light around him. He bowed to Wang Ping with one hand and said directly: "Daoyou should have known about the birth of the master of Linshui Mansion. His purpose is very clear."

"Seeking the fifth realm?"

Yulian asked.

Kaiyun nodded: "Originally, I planned to do my best to seize the fourth level quota of Hushan Kingdom, but half a month ago, I received a message from Master Tiangong. He asked us to do our best to prevent Ao Yi from advancing to the fifth level. This is the first time I have received his message since the fire burned Zhongzhou that year. And from his message, I can hear that if Ao Yi encounters no obstacles in his advancement, there is a great chance of success!"

"So this time, I was just pretending to do something about Hushan Country for Linshui Prefecture to see. Otherwise, you wouldn't have won so easily."

Yu Lian asked in confusion: "Is it really that troublesome? Can't we just communicate directly?"

Kaiyun smiled and said, "This is the predetermined future. Since it has been decided, why should we change it?" He looked at Wang Ping and said, "Are you right, Fellow Daoist Changqing?"

Wang Ping didn't want to dwell on this question, because it was a very complicated one, and even if he talked about it for decades, there might not be any results. He cupped his hands and asked, "You want us to stop Ao Yi together?"

After asking, before Kaiyun could answer, he continued, "I see fear of Ao Yi in your eyes, but if he has such a powerful force, why does he hide himself now that he has come out? Can any of us still pose a threat to him?"

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