Above Destiny

Chapter 240 Poison and Medicine

Thousands of feet in the sky, the wind is howling.

There were faint vibrations and roars coming from the earth. Death and destruction seemed so far away. But the life-and-death fights and struggles in the sky seemed to be within reach.

Looking up, the sky is dark, as if the gods are reigning, but the gods are fighting among themselves.

Looking down, the world is vast and dusty, and everything is as small as an ant, but the ants are roaring or wailing in the endless fight.

In heaven and on earth, in this turbulent world, everything is filled with struggle.

Like a chessboard.

But what kind of invisible hand is manipulating all this?
Who is there higher up in the sky?

Could it be that this is also the so-called destiny?

Ji Jue raised his head and looked at the broken boundary membrane in front of Jianyuan, and even the roaring huge engine, but he couldn't help feeling confused.

Jian Yuan suddenly turned around, with flames rising in his green eyes, examining:

"You seem nervous?"

"Yes."

Ji Jue lowered his eyes and silently pressed the handle of the wheelchair, "How can I not be nervous in this situation?"

Jianyuan glanced at his wheelchair, as if he could see the sharp blade hidden in it, and reminded him: "Now is not the best opportunity."

"I know, that's why I'm nervous."

Ji Jue smiled slightly, not disguising it, and looked behind him: "What is this?"

“It’s just a remnant of the past glory, nothing more.”

Jian Yuan reached out his hand, stroked the hot engine, and said with emotion: “Lu Changsheng asked me to help him in return - the remains of the last generation of Juzi are said to be here.

Later generations have been searching for it for so many years, but to no avail."

Ji Jue laughed mockingly: "You can't make something like this?"

"Even if we can do it, what can we do?"

Jian Yuan shook his head. "What's valuable about it is not its body, but its mission. Behind it, there was once a track that connected the entire world..."

For a moment, Ji Jue wanted to pounce on the engine, cross the close distance, and awaken the struggling soul in the cage.

But he couldn't move.

Reason restrained his body, forcing him to sit in the wheelchair, motionless.

When he glanced around, he found that the president had disappeared without a trace, and his heart became heavier - the dog was really a dog, and the dog leader was really a dog, and he was still a leader.

It has both of the two most annoying things in the world. Why would I still be so stupid as to count on it?

Kanemoto is right in front of us, the engine is right in front of us, and we only have one chance.

He must wait.

But in the brief silence, he heard Jian Yuan's mocking voice: "Isn't that why you came here?"

Dead silence.

He froze in place, unable to move.

“In the past, Mohists were just a general term.

Most of them came from the Eternal Empire. For example, when the last generation of Juzi risked his life to stand in front of the emperor, who could have thought that the emperor's hand would draw a sword against him? "

Jian Yuan looked back at Ji Jue. He held the armrest tightly with both hands and taunted him: "Since you have the power of non-aggression and the inheritance of the sages, how could you not know anything about this?"

Ji Jue did not remain silent, but just shook his head indifferently:

"What if I really don't know anything?"

Jian Yuan didn't say anything.

Just look at him.

Is this Ji Jue's attempt to be mysterious? Or is this just a joke?
He doesn't even care.

"It doesn't matter whether you know it or not."

He sincerely didn't take the so-called Juzi legacy seriously. "The past is gone and can't be retrieved, let alone relied on. If you really want to create a new era, how can you pin your hopes on the afterglow of the past?"

Jian Yuan raised his hand and pointed to the sky: "Today, I will let you see - with my Jian Yuan's creation, can I recreate the glory of the past?"

At that moment, an infinite amount of dark light rushed out from the workshop, rushed up to the sky, and sprinkled on the earth, like a giant pillar that penetrated the sky and the earth, running through the axis of heaven and earth.

Just like the center of the world.

The so-called, the position of Tianyuan!

The membrane completely collapsed, crumbled, and melted like snow, and from within it, the roar of the engine running at high speed was like thunder, resounding through the heavens and the earth.

Amid the thunder, Ji Jue subconsciously wanted to get up, but then his vision became dark.

Can't move!

Neck, heart, arms, legs, right eye, lungs...

All the punishments that Jianyuan had once imposed, those cold and dark runes suddenly started to move at this moment, as if they were living things, changing on their own. When they were connected to each other, they changed drastically in an instant, turning into a lock that pierced through his flesh and soul, locking him up completely and shackled him!

Then he saw Jianyuan raised his hands.

From that tattered and broken body, a complex and lush matrix like the roots of a giant tree extended out, transformed from the air, and turned into a complex spiritual structure.

Suddenly, it penetrated into the engine and took control of everything.

Just like a key fitting into a lock.

Perfect fit.

click!
At that moment, a clear sound resounded throughout the heaven and earth.

The noise and clatter of the engines disappeared, and all the resistance was suppressed, erased, and never to be seen again. Instead, countless steel vibrations overlapped to create a magnificent hymn!
The city of Quanzhou was shaken.

Then, the sky collapsed.

A purple-black crack opened silently, running across the entire Quan City. Then, another one appeared, crisscrossing each other like a blood-stained cross.

The wounds of the world.

Behind the scars was a huge monster composed of endless darkness and strange light. It only showed a tiny corner, but it seemed to completely swallow up the entire world.

At that moment, Ji Jue finally saw it.

The so-called, [Whirlpool]!
Burning or freezing, collapsing or breaking, overturning or annihilation... just looking at it, countless fantasies or past history will emerge before your eyes.

As far as your reach goes, there is only endless darkness.

It was like falling into an abyss with no bottom...

When the light from the engine shot out in all directions, it fell into the Spring City and connected to the huge monsters buried everywhere.

It caused huge alchemical creations to overload and burn until they were red, spreading countless streams of light in all directions. After breaking through Tianyuan's blockade, it followed an invisible track and flew towards the facilities that had long been set up throughout Haizhou...

In an instant, it spread everywhere!
That is... the sky track recreated by Jianyuan!

It is unknown how many years and time were spent in preparation for this, but the cult skillfully moved between city-states, burying dormant alchemical creations and setting up secret rituals in cities, in the wilderness, and in ruins.

Waiting for the promised day to arrive.

At this moment, with just a flick of the finger, invisible streams of light appeared like a net, completely covering the entire Haizhou. It was not enough, and it even extended to all directions of the Endless Sea...

In the darkness of Quan City, among the many living sacrifices and corpses as offerings, an old monk with his upper body naked slowly raised his eyes. The stitches on the scriptures on his lips broke one by one. He opened his mouth and chanted scriptures that had long been contaminated by evil, with lightning flashing in his eyes.

His words and voice could not be heard, only a massive flow of spiritual essence.

And at the moment when the seven-day chanting came to an end, countless words seemed to overlap and rise into the sky.

After being thrown into the crisscross wounds.

Then, from the praises formed by the interweaving of endless evil thoughts, evil views, evil news, and evil ideas, the vortex shook and burst into a roar.

Just like the sound of a bell.

It was dark and ferocious, and it spread along the track created by Jianyuan, resounding throughout Haizhou.

Calling...

Then, the whole world came to a standstill and everything was silent.

Wherever the bell sounded, everyone froze in place.

In cities, in the wilderness, in ruins or fields, in former battlefields and burial grounds, in the soil, among corpses, in graves, in the so-called sanctuaries of underground churches, and even in people's bodies, wisps of pitch-blackness rise like fog.

The pain of Tianyuan's shackles, the resentment of Bailu's tyranny, the thirst for advancement, the greed of scheming, the pain of disputes, the death of disasters, the delusion of indulging in illusions...

For a long time, the evils that had been dormant in the land and souls surged like a tide, responding to the call.

And then……

——The evil from all over the world is coming here!

At that moment, above the sky, in the dark rainbow light that was on the verge of collapse under the strangulation of the fierce light, a sigh and a chuckle were heard.

"Mr. Tao, I won this round."

As Lu Changsheng spoke, the earth shook and endless darkness gushed out!

The sins are as deep as the sea, and the evils are as numerous as the tides.

When all the evils of Haizhou over the past hundreds of years gathered in one place, they turned into a dark waterfall that enveloped the entire Quancheng!
Covering everything, descending inch by inch!

The mighty and fierce light did not slow down at all, and in an instant it blocked the front of the dark sky waterfall, firmly supporting the evil of the entire Haizhou, just like it once supported the entire Quancheng!
Without hesitation.

At this moment, everyone in Quan City couldn't help but tremble when they looked up at the sky.

If the waterfall came down and erupted along with the Spring City... Haizhou is so big, how many places could survive?
.
It seemed as if the world would be destroyed in the next moment.

The end has come.

The sky collapsed, the earth shook, and everything was falling apart.

Just like what happened in this city decades ago...

The wails buried under the nine earths, the cries covered by the ruins, the corpses that no one has collected, and the lingering souls, all seem to have come back to life at this moment.

Under the unprecedented evil erosion, the afterimages of the past reappeared before his eyes, and then quickly dissipated, just like a fleeting glimpse of light, passing by.

Right in front of Ji Jue.

Blood slowly flowed down from the broken faces and fell into the invisible soil. In the rising flames, the wailing figures disappeared one by one.

It was as if there was a cry, but amid the trampling, no one cared.

The child, who had fallen to the ground, struggled in vain, looked around blankly, and shouted, but all she saw was a ruin. Until a staggering and slender figure rushed over, fell down, and got up again, and moved forward with his hands and feet, and hugged her tightly.

So hard.

She lowered her head and spoke softly, smiling and seemed to say something, but it was not clear.

Only tears fell slowly from that pale face.

Across the smile.

Reflecting the last remaining light.

Ji Jue subconsciously stretched out his hand, wanting to touch it, but the phantom quickly dissipated.

They are long dead.

Died many years ago.

Forgotten, ignored, buried...

In the dead silence, he looked around absentmindedly and asked hoarsely: "...What will happen to Haizhou?"

Jian Yuan thought for a moment and said, "It should be half polluted."

"What about Yacheng?"

"If you're lucky, you'll be able to avoid it. After all, the distance is so far."

Kanemoto replied nonchalantly, "But even if that's the case, what does it have to do with you?"

Ji Jue raised his eyes and glared, wanting to speak, but saw his smile.

Such a mockery.

"Do you really care as much as you think? Or, have you really retained something?"

The profound master raised his eyes arrogantly and looked down: "It is not created by attack, but is given by heaven. All things are created by ten fingers. They are omnipotent and have everything.

But the flaw is you, because you stretch your hand into nothingness, so you can’t grasp anything—all you see, all you choose, is desolation.”

He said, “This is the essence of who you are.”

"At this point, Master, do you still hope to shake me with your stalemate?"

Ji Jue asked coldly, "Words are powerless, why not try your old trick again and see if I will bow to you?!"

Jianyuan's eyebrows slowly raised.

Doubt, realization, and even indelible ridicule.

I couldn't help grinning and laughing.

Bend forward and lean back.

“I see, I see! Ha, hahahaha, hahahaha… hahahahahaha!!!”

"There's something I forgot to tell you..." Jian Yuan almost laughed until tears came out, and said intermittently: "Perhaps you have misunderstood, but the candlelight ceremony you experienced before was not a secret ceremony pointing to the stagnation of decay."

He paused, his smile becoming more sinister:

“On the contrary, it is the essence of the Way of Embers that has been passed down for thousands of years!
Even as the host, I have a hard time knowing what you actually see, because what it reflects is the future you want to see and the world you want to create.

It guides you along the path you want to take...

But what do you see?"

He asked mockingly:
"——Destruction or death?!"

Ji Jue remained unmoved, staring coldly, "Before this, weren't you the one who indoctrinated me with the theory of stagnation and corruption?"

"How can the achievements of just three days be compared with the life you have been living till now? How can it be compared with the teachings that Ye Xian has given you day after day?"

Jian Yuan took a step forward, looked down at him, and asked word by word: "How much of this is my guidance? How much is your true desire? And how much is your essence?

Isn’t what you see exactly yourself without all the makeup and disguise? ! "

Just like that, in Ji Jue's silence and dullness, he admired the hesitation and anger hidden behind that indifferent expression, and his smile became even more intense, as if he was watching a sharp blade being gradually tempered in a furnace.

“I’ve said it before, a craftsman never makes a mistake with his materials.

From the first moment I saw you, I knew what kind of monster you were—"

Jian Yuan bent down and looked at Ji Jue, his green eyes surging with light, piercing through all disguises: "I have never seen such a twisted soul, and I have never seen such a contradictory structure.

Your heart is empty. You sneer at all high-sounding things. You use something that does not exist as a support, like a prisoner, confining yourself in a circle on the ground.

I can see.

You are like the legendary Sisyphus, repeating the same cycle day after day, rushing forward desperately, but not knowing where to go and not daring to stop.

Until one day, I am completely different from myself...

That is why you are in so much pain and want to die so badly!"

"No wonder so many great evildoers love you so much!
Compared with a guy like you who is chasing after nothingness, what is a crazy guy like me?"

Jian Yuan stretched out his hand and pointed at Ji Jue's heart: "The arrogance of stagnation, the nothingness of the abyss, the madness of the slaughter, the desolation of the whirlpool, the distortion of the tower, the hunger of the wolf, are all here...

You don't care about your own life. Even if you seem to struggle so hard, one day you won't care about anyone else's life, because that's who you are. You will eventually become a monster!"

Ji Jue was silent.

There was no answer, as if frozen.

In the silence, he seemed to hear his own heartbeat, rising and falling in the intervals of the moaning, so low. The blood flowed in his veins, like the tide washing the coast, with an empty echo.

As a result, he didn't hear Jian Yuan's words clearly.

Maybe he was right. This was his true nature. This was the ugliness hidden beneath his smile. He was such a freak.

He couldn't escape anymore.

But none of that matters anymore.

His attention was drawn to something more important.

As if he had passed through Jianyuan's obstruction, he stared intently at the fleeting phantoms that appeared from the evil pollution, the last remnants of the dead.

Those strange and blurry faces.

Fighting and pushing, or retreating and fleeing.

Crying, cursing, calling or shouting, but no sound can be heard.

It's like struggling in vain in a quagmire, reaching out in vain, again and again, trying to grab something, but grabbing nothing.

Only when we hugged each other did tears fall.

It passed through his palm and fell to the ground, splashing a last ray of phantom light.

Ji Jue lowered his head and came to his senses, only to find that he had stretched out his hand again without knowing when.

The empty palm still has nothing.

So futile.

But he suddenly laughed.

Mocking grin.

Laughing at Jianyuan is also laughing at oneself.

"Do not."

He raised his head, showed his empty palm to the master in front of him, and told him:

"I care."

There was dead silence, and Jian Yuan didn't say anything.

She just looked down at him, her eyes gradually growing colder.

It was like watching a rotten wood that could never be carved, or a sharp blade in a furnace covered in rust and dust, dissolving into a distorted shape with its own contentment.

After all...

hopeless!
.
boom! ! !
Above the nine heavens, a waterfall gushed out, and the dark evil tide rolled down, gradually engulfing the thin and dim white light. Amid the roar, cracks appeared in the law of Tianyuan, one after another...

Riddled with holes.

Then, the dark rain fell, gradually submerging the entire ruined city.

Fell into Lu Changsheng's hands.

"Look, Mr. Tao, the filth of the world and the evil in people's hearts are like the ocean."

Under the dim rainbow light, Lu Changsheng lowered his eyes and stared at the drops of poisonous essence in his palm, and asked curiously: "Why are you, the most kind people, unwilling to take a look?"

Mr. Tao remained silent and remained speechless.

Only Lu Changsheng raised his head, bathing in the rain of evil. The rainbow light in the sky expanded, becoming deeper and more weird.

Thus, looking down at the world gradually shrouded by rain, he could no longer restrain himself from laughing out loud at the evil tides rising into the sky.

"I've always had a question."

The deep laughter spread from the sky, resounded throughout Quancheng, and echoed in everyone's ears: "Since this world was created by the Supreme Good, how did the evil things come into being?"

"Until I finally figured out another problem - it's not people who commit evil, but evil that creates people!
Only those who cannot survive, cannot figure things out, cannot find a way out, and cannot tolerate others will throw themselves into evil...

But are these people created by evil creatures?

Before that, weren’t they receiving your kindness and grace? !”

No one responded.

There are only wails like waves and wails like thunder, echoing endlessly.

The chief saint of the cult raised his voice and questioned: "When the disaster first occurred, it was the Federation that abandoned this place; when the distortion spread, it was the Security Bureau that chose to seal it off; and it was the world that you are accustomed to and proud of that caused everything to fall into such a state!"

Lu Changsheng raised his head, looked around, and spread his arms contemptuously, "Quancheng, distortion, sinking...

These are the things you don't want.

But since you don't want it, why can't you leave it to those you don't tolerate? !"

At that moment, the space between heaven and earth was so vast, yet suddenly dead silent.

From above the sky, even higher, rage and murderous intent descended like thunder, so cold.

“Haha. Haha. Haha.”

Lu Changsheng laughed hoarsely and violently, and finally asked: "If the highest good is the principle of this world, then evil should also be a part of the world!
Why can't you let me compete with you guys? "

boom! ! !
In an instant, as his breath rose, violent pressure descended from between heaven and earth, as if freezing everything together.

That was not human intervention, but the excommunication that was brought down at the moment when the iron law of supreme goodness was violated.

All evils rise up, and the light is bright and thundering.

Between the projection of the vortex and the present world, Lu Changsheng showed his soul without any concealment. With the mighty flow of spiritual essence, the evil and foolish celestial being was almost frantically extracting the infinite evil between heaven and earth, and even...

Go one step further!
"No need for Mr. Tao to worry anymore..."

"——I will bear all the evils of this world on my own!"

The rainbow light in the sky suddenly dissipated.

Lu Changsheng's body fell apart and grew in an alienated way. In a flash, it turned into an amorphous giant with a faint outline of a strange body. It bathed in the endless sky waterfall and shed its old shape.

Or, revealing its true appearance...

It was like a holy statue made of bones and blood, with four heads and three eyes, and purple, green, indigo and blue constantly flowing. It was completely different from the past, except for the mocking smile on that face, which remained the same as before.

In this way, we stand firm in the present world and reach out to the vortex.

Hold it tightly in the air.

At that moment, the huge vortex above the Spring City shook violently and rushed. Behind the vortex, it seemed as if some huge monster was dying and wailing, and it fell apart.

Then, the dark essence rushed out, fell, and merged into his body, making that body even more strange.

Sacred and terrifying.

At this moment, with his response, the two wounds in the sky that were originally beginning to heal gradually opened to the sides again!
After plundering the essence of several superior evils, he transformed himself into a superior evil!
Just like this, using itself as an anchor, it transformed the Quan City and took root in the present world!
From now on, Quancheng is the extension of the whirlpool in the real world, a sanctuary for the evil and foolish!

There is no need to hide in the shackles and whirlpool under the world like other evildoers in high positions...

He himself is the sin of existence in the world!
At this moment, in the silence of the world, Lu Changsheng raised his head, overlooking everything, and finally looked back at the blurry figure gradually emerging in the dim light behind him.

"Looks like I won."

Lu Changsheng asked solemnly: "Mr. Tao, do you want to regret it?"

If you want to eliminate the evil and save Quancheng...

This is your last chance!
Now, with the changes in the situation, the gambling game they had agreed on in the past can no longer constrain the current situation. Tao Cheng could just flip the table over and break the last tacit understanding... and then, completely escalate all the struggles!

At this moment, the seemingly precarious Quancheng has attracted countless eyes.

Even if Tao Cheng just walked away, once the outcome was decided, it would become the fuse of another brutal war.

From the darkness on all sides, the evil in the upper position, the living saints, celestial beings or evil creatures, empires or wastelands... I don’t know how many people can’t wait to place their bets.

Waiting for the decision.

At this moment, when the old figure appeared from the sky, he felt countless eyes cast on him.

There is no sign of the radiant appearance of such a noble and dignified person.

His eyes were cloudy and his hair was mottled with white.

Just like the old guy you see everywhere.

But the moment Tao Cheng appeared, Lu Changsheng became alert instantly, as if facing a formidable enemy.

"I never thought I would end up in such a situation, but it seems... not surprising."

Tao Cheng sighed: "When it comes to the human heart and evil, you are much better than me. With your courage and ambition to turn evil into good, so many years of preparation and waiting...

Now, once you start, the right time, the right place and the so-called "harmony of people" are all in your hands.

But I have nowhere to retreat."

He looked at Lu Changsheng: "Just considering the way you have integrated so many things today and stirred up the situation, you are almost like the evil Tianyuan. If the unfinished tower is formed, I am afraid it will also cast a shadow on you, right?"

Lu Changsheng shook his head, "Isn't this all thanks to Mr. Tao's personal teaching?"

"wrong."

Tao Cheng's smile gradually became strange, or perhaps it could be called mocking.

"I have never been able to teach you anything, Lu Changsheng."

He looked around at the dark world and said regretfully, "Otherwise, you would understand that although the world is chaotic, sometimes black and white are always clear... Even if you put on the most high-sounding hat and talk about the most deafening truth, it is still the same.

Evil is evil, devil is devil, and ugly is still ugly!"

"..."

Lu Changsheng was silent for a moment, then sighed with regret: "A gentleman can be killed but not humiliated. It is natural that Lord Tao does not want to associate with someone like me."

“Don’t be so pitiful, Lu Changsheng, the snakes and rats in the gutter that you are talking about are going to fight against incompetent people like us, and they are going to turn the world upside down and turn evil into good.

But the right path has always been there, but you have never walked away. When you act like a snake or a rat, you play tricks and disdain to understand the morality of living under the sun. Instead, you want to turn everything upside down and deny everything.

Aren't you the most arrogant person here? "

Mr. Tao raised his eyes and looked at him, and suddenly there was no anger in his eyes, only compassion.

It's like looking at a blind person who is basking in the sun but wants to deny the sunlight.

"So, you don't understand..."

He finally smiled with relief and closed his eyes.

This made Lu Changsheng's face change color.

Look carefully, Lu Changsheng, this is the first lesson I am going to teach you!
At that moment, Tao Cheng smiled and raised his hand.

Towards my neck...

Cut down.

——As the saying goes, sacrifice one’s life for righteousness!
(End of this chapter)