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Chapter 933 Unexpected Development

Since Xuanqing's consciousness is completely open to Wang Ping at this moment, when his consciousness comes into contact with the countless timelines existing in the Xuanqing Jindan Universe, he can instantly see what happens in those timelines.

Wang Ping subconsciously looked for his own timeline, and then he saw the vast river of time. In this river of time there were countless pasts and futures. As Wang Ping's thoughts progressed, content related to him suddenly emerged in the river of time.

He saw that in the long river of time, he had only a few opportunities to cultivate to the entry level in hundreds of thousands of destiny lines, and there was not a single exception to break through to the second level. In most of the other timelines, he stopped at the foundation-building stage.

For a moment, Wang Ping felt that he was a stranger in the long river of time, or rather, he was the destiny that "Wang Ping" was supposed to have, and it was his appearance that broke his original destiny.

"What do you see?"

Tiangong's voice rang in Wang Ping's ears.

Wang Ping turned his head to look at Tian Gong. Without waiting for his answer, Tian Gong continued, "The Jade Purity Sect's Golden Elixir World is illusory yet real. I fought with them several times before I switched to Xuan Men. They used an illusory timeline to drag me into the illusion and almost broke my Dao heart."

"You don't have to care about the timelines you see. They are just regular records based on past destinies. Monk Yuqing uses these records to disrupt reality and try to rewrite the fate of others."

"They also regard themselves as orthodox and believe that it is their duty given by the saints to try to correct the fate of others with the observed timelines. However, those timelines only record countless possibilities. You don't have to be too obsessed with them."

What he said should be about the struggle between Yuqing Sect and the demon clan before the rise of Xuanmen.

After Tiangong finished speaking, his eyes fell on Xuanqing and he asked, "Does your consciousness have anything to do with the chaotic timeline in the Jindan world? Why were they born?"

Colorful mysterious light emanated from around Xuanqing's soul, and his right hand maintained a spell, causing confinement arrays to continuously appear around him, imprisoning part of his thoughts.

Hearing Tiangong's question, Xuanqing's cold eyes flashed with a trace of confusion, as if he wanted to say something, but when he came to his mouth, he turned into: "I don't know either!"

Wang Ping, Tian Gong and Lie Yang were all startled, and at the same time they all understood that Xuan Qing's memory was confused again at this moment.

Yu Lian said in Wang Ping's spiritual sea: "I can't see any flaws in his soul. It's really amazing that he has two consciousnesses in one soul, but he didn't go crazy because of it."

Wang Ping has been observing Xuan Qing's soul since it appeared. Yu Lian was right. Xuan Qing's soul was not damaged at all, and the spiritual veins in his body were flawless. It could not only absorb the spiritual energy of the inspiration world, but also control the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

Lieyang said: "Then we will see for ourselves. Now let go of your consciousness. Changqing and Tiangong's spirits will communicate with your consciousness. I will protect you."

He then took out a confinement array that he had prepared in advance from his storage bag, opened it next to Xuanqing's immortal body, and said to Xuanqing, "I'll be in charge of the confinement array, is that ok?"

Upon hearing this, Xuan Qing looked towards Lieyang, the confusion in his eyes disappeared, and he bowed and said, "Thank you, fellow Daoist." After that, he landed on the core of the confinement array without hesitation, and then released his consciousness.

Wang Ping looked at Xuanqing and Lieyang calmly. During the several exchanges just now, Xuanqing had shown his trust in Lieyang. This kind of trust is rare in the cultivation world, let alone between cultivators of the fifth realm.

"Let's start too."

Tian Gong reminded Wang Ping: "Try to read his consciousness as completely as possible. There is no need to rush. We have enough time. Only when you have his complete consciousness can you use it to define him."

His reminder seemed to have ulterior motives, as if he was telling Wang Ping that as long as he mastered this awareness, he could use this awareness to deal with Xuan Qing if he fell out with him in the future.

At this moment, Wang Ping suddenly felt that he was really kind compared to these old seniors. These thoughts had never occurred to him deep in his heart.

He just nodded and made no other promises.

Naturally, Yu Lian couldn't help but complain about Tian Gong in the spiritual sea, and then she and Wang Ping explored into Xuan Qing's consciousness.

The first thing Wang Ping sensed was a calm, and then countless memories emerged. Then Wang Ping saw a past that was similar to Kaiyun's before, a tragic and painful childhood, but his childhood was spent under the strict system of the Yuqing Sect. Although he was not threatened by the demon clan, he had to practice hard every day, otherwise he would be pulled to the front line to fight the demon clan as cannon fodder.

Xuanqing cultivated himself step by step to the third realm under the constraints of the Yuqing Sect's doctrine, and gained the qualification to be promoted to the fourth realm when Xuanmen rose to power, and finally merged with Lingshan's soul consciousness.

However, in this memory, Xuanqing had been imagining himself as Lingshan Zhenjun, who was above all the people in Yuqing Sect, and had the power of life and death, since he became conscious. This fantasy caused his memory to be distorted at times, making it difficult for him to distinguish between reality and fantasy, especially after he was promoted to the third realm.

After reaching the fifth realm, he would sometimes even become Lingshan Zhenjun. During this point in time, he would often use the golden elixir world in his body to interfere with his real self, trying to turn himself into the real Lingshan Zhenjun. This is also the reason for the existence of those chaotic timelines.

After Wang Ping read the memory, he stored it in an independent wood spirit sealing array to prevent himself from going crazy due to the consciousness in those memories. He then checked it several times before withdrawing from Xuan Qing's consciousness.

Tian Gong had finished long ago. He and Lie Yang seemed to be chatting about something. When Wang Ping regained consciousness, Lie Yang immediately asked about the situation. Wang Ping glanced at Tian Gong and naturally told him the truth.

"Although I don't know how Xuanqing did this, the fusion of the two memories is very clever. It's just that Lingshan's consciousness has always been unwilling to give in, otherwise he would have been able to dodge it perfectly." Tiangong looked at Lieyang while saying this.

Lieyang's situation is that the above is governing the below, which completely disrupts Zhenyang's main consciousness in order to enrich his humanity and repair his damaged spirit. The same thing does not happen as it does in Xuanqing.

Facing Tiangong's hint, Lieyang rarely pretended not to hear it, then waved his hand to remove the imprisonment array and sighed: "This seems to be more troublesome than cleaning it up directly. Do you have any ideas?"

Wang Ping looked at Xuan Qing who had returned to his normal human form, thought for a moment and said, "I can use my memories to define you, but the premise is that you don't resist, and in this process you need to clear away those unnecessary fantasies yourself."

Xuan Qing frowned and said, "I have tried many times before, and each time I would suddenly lose my memory for a short period of time."

Without waiting for Wang Ping to explain, Lieyang said, "Don't ignore the important part of Changqing's words. He will use the 'Heaven Stealing Talisman' to define your memory, so that you won't suffer from temporary amnesia."

Xuan Qing clasped his fists to express his gratitude to Wang Ping, and then continued, "Now I can maintain a stable state for a short period of time and not fall asleep, precisely because I don't fight against this part of consciousness. Once I fight against the Yin and Yang spirituality, I am afraid it will be unbalanced instantly, and my Yuqing Sect currently does not have enough fourth-level cultivators to stabilize the spirituality." Tian Gong showed some dissatisfaction when he heard this, and asked, "What do you want to do?"

Xuan Qing met Tian Gong's gaze and said, "With my current physical body, I can barely maintain the creation of two immortal bodies. With the addition of Yang De's immortal body, my Yuqing Sect can currently promote three people to the fourth realm. Their promotion can help me stabilize the balance of yin and yang."

As soon as he said this, Tiangong frowned slightly, and even Lieyang looked a little dissatisfied.

"You know that your request will upset a lot of balances. As long as we raise it in a meeting, Daoist Bai Yan will take the opportunity to increase the number of fourth-level cultivators. The small Zhongzhou star simply cannot accommodate so many fourth-level cultivators."

Tian Gong responded with a frown, but he did not explicitly refuse.

"Then we should develop into outer space. We can no longer stand still. It is precisely because the outer borders do not have as many rules as we do that they have been able to develop rapidly in recent years, and even openly reject us."

Xuanqing expressed his thoughts.

Wang Ping raised both hands to agree with this proposal, but looked at Lieyang calmly on the surface, confirming that this was not something that Lieyang and Xuanqing had discussed in advance.

Tiangong replied, "Speaking of the outer border, the promotion of three fourth-level monks will take at least nearly a thousand years. Yuanwu will not wait that long. After Yuanwu goes to the outer border, plus the opponents we cleared out last time, the outer border will become an ironclad entity. We will not have time to deal with your problem, let alone the matter of Diwen."

Xuan Qing said stubbornly: "Then take the initiative to attack while Yuan Wu is here and defeat them completely."

Tian Gong shook his head. "Your idea is unrealistic. Once we do this, the universe will become extremely chaotic, and alien life will surely take advantage of the situation and sneak in."

Xuan Qing said: "We don't need to do it ourselves. We have disciples and a large number of fourth-level cultivators. If it doesn't work, we can give our disciples a chance, train reliable people to cultivate to the perfection of the fourth level, and then give them some magic tools that can mobilize the five elements of the universe, and then they will be able to fight against the outer border. As long as we vigorously develop the ecological zone in outer space, the supplies in the outer border will not be enough for us to play with."

"Those star gods outside the border have experienced what happened last time, and are now in a period of weakness. Why don't we take advantage of Yuan Wu's still existence and order our disciples to attack and seize the ecological zone they have placed inside the galaxy? Anyway, there are two planetary warnings from the demon race on the outer defense line, so we can rest assured no matter what."

He paused, looked at Wang Ping and said, "With Changqing here, we can easily cut off the supply lines of the outer border after this battle. By the time we train a new batch of fourth-level cultivators, it will most likely be a thousand years later. By then, the outer border will definitely take the initiative to attack due to material problems. By then, we can use the newly trained fourth-level disciples and the demon tribe in the front, and we will slowly plan behind."

Tian Gong considered it carefully after hearing this.

Wang Ping also had a thoughtful expression. Although he thought this was a good idea and it could lay the foundation for what he would do in the future, he was of little influence now, so he remained silent as usual.

Lieyang was also thinking. He seemed to have something to say, but was waiting for Tiangong to speak first.

Yu Lian looked at the serious expressions of the four people and also showed a thoughtful look appropriately.

After a long while, Tian Gong looked at Xuan Qing and said, "Once this begins, too many things can happen. Even we cannot predict what the outcome will be."

Xuan Qing's face was filled with indifference when he heard this, and he replied: "Isn't the reason we exist to constantly correct this world and return its timeline to its normal track?"

He said this very seriously, and perhaps he really thought so, but the other three people, including Wang Ping, subconsciously despised him in their hearts.

Tian Gong seemed to have not heard Xuan Qing's words. He looked at Lie Yang and Wang Ping and asked, "What do you two think?"

Lieyang looked at Xuanqing seriously and said, "We can give it a try. It's only a thousand years anyway. With us watching them personally and Changqing's ability, they can only be independent at the border outside the region at most. We can take this opportunity to cut off their connection with the outside world."

Wang Ping pretended to think seriously, and under the gaze of the three people, he said cautiously: "Will Taoist Bai Yan and Long Jun agree?"

"Leave them alone for now, do you agree?"

Tian Gong asked again.

Wang Ping met Tiangong's eyes and said, "Now that we are at odds with the border outside the domain, we should indeed resolve their arrangements on Zhongzhou Star, and now is an opportunity. However, as you said, Master, there are too many changes here... But I tend to give it a try. Senior Yuanwu happened to recommend Zang Yi and Yue Xi, so why not leave it to them and the demon clan to do it?"

Tian Gong listened to Wang Ping's nonsense patiently. When he heard Wang Ping's real opinion, he nodded slightly and looked at Xuan Qing. "You can't materialize a new immortal body by yourself, right?"

Xuan Qing responded: "Yes, I need Daoist Fellow Chang Qing to help me define my state so that I can stay awake for a long time."

After hearing this, Tiangong looked at Lieyang next to him and said, "Let's try it first, so that the traitors outside the border will know who is in charge of this starry sky."

After that, he suggested to Lieyang, "I suggest that Changqing do this. I can provide ten flying boats, and my disciples will also fully assist." As he spoke, he looked at Wang Ping, "Be ready to come to Venus to find me at any time."

Wang Ping had long anticipated that this matter would fall on him, because he was the most suitable among all the True Lords at present, so he did not agree to it pretentiously.

When Wang Ping accepted the task, Yu Lian complained in the spiritual sea: "You are here to solve Xuan Qing's problem, right? How come the talks turned into a war on the border outside the domain?"

In essence, this matter is still about solving Xuanqing's problem, but because the preliminary preparations for solving his problem exceeded expectations, the current situation has developed.

Lieyang said at this time: "I will go and communicate with Bai Yan, he should not refuse."

Tian Gong nodded, "Bai Yan's temper has become colder and colder over the years. He should find something to do. I'll go with you. I haven't seen him since we teamed up to deal with Huishan last time, and I don't know what his condition is like."

He looked at Xuanqing as he spoke. The last time they tested each other at the border outside the domain, Xuanqing and Bai Yan acted together.

(End of this chapter)