Being knocked down by the Heavenly Dao while ascending

At that time, the Mei family regarded Mei Shanxue as the god of the Mei family.
After this great defeat, the faith of countless Mei family disciples collapsed and they lost psychologically. In addition, when Xue Qingyu took action, he was no longer burdened by the thousands of people in the academy. It was precisely because of his habit of controlling thousands of people over the years that the Mei family was completely defeated.

When the children of Mei family were doubting their lives, that was when Xue Qingyu took advantage of the situation. He controlled the Mei family and made them fight each other. The ones who slaughtered the Mei family were not people from Yongshan Academy, but the Mei family themselves.

Pei Mingyan asked anxiously: "What's your name?"

The man said, "Mei Xucheng."

Pei Mingyan condensed a beam of light in his palm and shot it into Mei Xucheng's sea of ​​consciousness. "This light can protect your sanity. Let the wound heal after such a long time."
He took out a crystal bead and said, "If you are willing, you can enter now. I will take this sea and take you away."

He handed the beads to Mei Xucheng.

Mei Xucheng held the bead tightly and suddenly jumped into the water. When he came out, the water drops slid down his forehead, passed by the corners of his eyes, crossed the corners of his mouth, fell from his lower jaw, and dripped into the sea water.

"Thank you, young master... for taking me away." Mei Xucheng curved his lips and put away the beads. "But I can't leave. Once I disappear, he will immediately start to plot against the Mei family. I have to stay here to make him feel at ease."

Pei Mingyan naturally wanted to persuade him, but in this situation, he couldn't afford to waste time. "Protect yourself. I have something urgent to do."

As soon as he finished speaking, the bamboo raft disappeared, and Pei Mingyan also disappeared.

Only Mei Xucheng was still in the water. He spread out his palms, and the beads emitted a faint blue light, which seemed to be faintly pink.
He pressed the thing tightly against his chest, tears streaming down his face, "Mei family, can I... still go back?"
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Pei Mingyan rushed out and was about to go to Xiaokong, but an idea flashed through his mind and he didn't even notice it. He changed direction and went straight to his own courtyard.

The courtyard was cold and silent, as if nothing had changed, and the floating talisman in the bowl disappeared.
The jade pendant was flashing a light pink light, indicating that the talisman had taken effect.
Just now, Xue Qingyu's soul tried to come through the jade pendant without permission, but was stopped by the talisman.

He turned off the engine, took the jade pendant in his hand, and called Xue Qingyu on a whim.
Xue Qingyu really came, and his soul was in a damaged state. As soon as he entered his sea of ​​consciousness, he spat out a mouthful of "blood" - that was the soul's breath, a sign of serious soul injury. If he spit out a few more times, this man would be the first to die.

"Hurry! Go save Uncle Yu and Murong! It will be too late if you are late."
Xue Qingyu lay on the "ground" with his hands covering his chest. With every breath, holes appeared in his body, and streams of soul energy leaked out, floating in his sea of ​​consciousness like smoke and fog.

Pei Mingyan was shocked to find that Xue Qingyu had the same idea as him.

If what Mei Xucheng said is true, once the Mei family mark is lost, Murong will be the key to finding this person.
This is the reason why Murong must die. It is not the situation he originally thought of at all.

"Where are they now?" Pei Mingyan hung the jade pendant back around his waist.

"The bamboo grove is northeast."

"Didn't you say you were going to Songwuyuan to look for someone? Why did you go there?"
As Pei Mingyan spoke, he seemed to move a pagoda in his sea of ​​consciousness.

The pagoda emitted a bright light, and Xue Qingyu's soul, which was about to be torn apart, recovered.

"I didn't lie to you." Xue Qingyu said, "Ever since Uncle Yu started talking about the evil Gu, the master's consciousness has been oppressing my consciousness. I struggled hard, and I hesitated for a moment when I opened my mouth, but no one noticed... From then on, I no longer had control over my body. Where Uncle Yu and the other man went was guided by 'me'."

"I apologize for doubting you. You gave me reasons. I don't have any other evidence to refute you yet. I can only believe you, so I apologize. I'm very sorry." Pei Mingyan said, "But... I still can't believe you. I saved you only because you can't die, not because I believe you. If my current speculation is correct, we have the same enemy and are allies. As long as you don't betray me, I will still provide you with a place to heal. Anyway, my cultivation is overflowing, and I'm worried that I have no place to vent."

Xue Qingyu nodded, "Thank you."

Pei Mingyan said "hmm" and stopped talking.

"actually……"

"Huh?" Pei Mingyan was puzzled.

"It's okay." Xue Qingyu shook his head, closed his eyes and began to regulate his breathing.

Pei Mingyan was puzzled and walked over there without saying a word.

Soon, the terrain became flat, and the flowers and plants all grew like giants, almost as tall as decades-old trees.
He stopped, took out a small milky white porcelain bottle, uncorked it, and sprinkled the contents on his body.

The flowers and plants that were clustered together and blocking the road seemed to encounter something and bent to the left and right to make a small passage.

Pei Mingyan said, "Hey, don't sleep anymore. Check where the person has gone."

Xue Qingyu said, "From here, head northwest to the 13,648th flower bush."

"..." Pei Mingyan nodded, "Okay, call me when you get there. Also, remember that this little thing is from you."

Xue Qingyu nodded.

Wherever Pei Mingyan walked, there were dots of fluorescent light on the ground and on the branches of flowers and plants on both sides.
The giant flowers and plants blocked the moonlight, and this fluorescence was the only light source, just like a firefly.

Pei Mingyan kept walking, sprinkling things on himself from time to time, until Xue Qingyu shouted, "This is it."

He stopped and looked at the carnivorous plant in front of him. The bud was almost half the size of him.
"Don't tell me you're going to get into this bud."

"No, go around to the back—"
Xue Qingyu suddenly stopped, "Catch the zither! Chop it open, quickly! Murong is in danger!"

A zither suddenly appeared in Pei Mingyan's palm. He held the zither in his arms and stroked the seven strings with his five fingers at the same time.
A burst of energy carrying Xue Qingyu's aura exploded the carnivorous plant, causing it to spit out colorful blood.

Pei Mingyan dodged and saw a faint staircase appear, leading straight into the air.
He held the zither in his arms and hurried over, saying to the person in the sea of ​​consciousness, "Thank you."

"Save someone quickly."

Pei Mingyan went up all the way, carefully dodging the spider-web-like, silvery threads that were everywhere.

Xue Qingyu said: "Spider silk can blend venom into the protective air shield. If you touch three of them, you will lose consciousness. Be careful. If it doesn't work, use the body of the zither to block it. This spider silk is useless to me."

"Are you stupid?" Pei Mingyan looked up, unable to bear to look straight at me. "I can use you to block it, so why not just make a little thing to block it?"

"..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Pei Mingyan's right hand ignited a flame, and the flame burned all the way up the steps, and the spider silk ignited as soon as it came into contact with the fire.
Soon there was nothing on the ground.

Pei Mingyan put on a bamboo hat, a cape, and gloves. "See, nothing works as well as the old method."

As soon as the words fell, the disappearing spider silk silver light spread throughout the air, hitting the piano again and again.

Xue Qingyu: “…”
"You have a nice magic weapon."

Pei Mingyan nodded, "Of course, it turns out that this treasure is prepared for ascension. After all, no one has ascended for hundreds of years, and no one knows what the process of ascension is. When I was about sixteen years old, I had achieved success in my cultivation, and I always felt that I would ascend. I thought that this ascension might be accompanied by thunder, and I am quite afraid of pain. After thinking about it, I felt that I should make something to prevent the thunder, so I made this."

Xue Qingyu naturally guessed the result, but he still asked, "What happened next?"

"Later." Pei Mingyan curved his lips. "This ascension was different from what I thought. I don't know how others ascended, but when it was my turn, my soul and body separated... My soul went through the tribulation on its own. The magic weapons I prepared were of no use at all. I had to rely on my soul to withstand it. However, every time I failed to ascend, my belongings would be washed away by the spiritual power overflowing from my body, which was no less than tempering again and again. After three times, these treasures were so durable and strong that they could easily block poison."

"There are gains and losses, this is the normal state of life," said Xue Qingyu.

Pei Mingyan rolled his eyes at him, "You were quite anxious just now, what's going on? Are the guardians out of danger?"

"Yes." Xue Qingyu replied, "Pang Yuan left. The two of them were poisoned by the spider silk and are unconscious."

Pei Mingyan said nothing.
Did they suddenly let Murong go again? Could there be some other unexpected events?
Pei Mingyan lowered his eyes, it seemed it was time to leave the academy.
If the mark is the reason for the destruction of the Mei family, he must let the person behind it know that this thing is on him to keep the Mei family safe.

The gaps between the steps became larger and larger, as if there was a "next hundred floors". This was no problem for Pei Mingyan. He walked to the last step. The steps seemed to have been hit by a mechanism, and they were disrupted one by one. The east, south, west, north, up, down, left, and right were scattered irregularly with him as the center of the circle.
Pei Mingyan looked at the steps and soon found that there were two more steps. On one of them was a small person lying - it was the short "Murong" from last time. The little green snake was not seen.

"Murong is in the arms of the puppet." Xue Qingyu said.

Pei Mingyan frowned, "How can you still pry into my inner thoughts?"

"You paused in action and were in doubt. I knew it immediately."

Pei Mingyan flew to the ground and put the zither on his back. "If you have the time, why don't you take the zither back first? I only have two hands, one for each of us, so I won't be able to carry you."
After saying that, he picked up Uncle Yu with one hand, then flew down and picked up Murong, leaving only the howling creature at the bottom of the stairs.

He took the two of them to the main peak.

Xue Qingyu suddenly said, "It's better to leave the detoxification to the medicine manager."

Of course the other party knew that the medicine manager was his man, and he was trying to test whether the medicine manager was there.
Pei Mingyan gave him an awkward but polite smile, "May I ask, does your master know what you are thinking?"

Xue Qingyu paused, pretending not to understand, "Why do you ask this?"

"If your master knows, take your harp and stay away from me. If he doesn't know, it's good. We can still be allies."

"You know, I will only answer the second one."

"There's no need to trouble the medicine manager with such a small matter of detoxification, so late at night." Pei Mingyan melted a pill and injected it near the puppet's heart.

Something moved inside his clothes, and Pei Mingyan asked again, "Excuse me, where should I send Murong to be safe?"

"Send them to Uncle Yu's cabin. It's close to you and will be convenient for you to take care of them."

"Hehe." Pei Mingyan smiled and fed Uncle Yu a pill.

After settling the two people down, Pei Mingyan returned to the house, threw the jade pendant and the zither in the lobby, and went back to the house to take a shower.
Although a person who practices cultivation does not wear dust-stained clothes, he always feels that they are dirty psychologically, and he will feel uncomfortable if he does not wash them.

After taking a shower, Xue Qingyu sat on a bamboo chair, holding a book in his hand and touching the cover.
Besides the cover, there was also a letter on the table.

Pei Mingyan moved his hand and the letter flew into his hand. On the envelope was written: From my son Hengxi himself.
Heng Xi is Meishan Xue, which is also his current name.

Xue Qingyu seemed to come back to his senses suddenly and handed the book back to him. "Just now I was waiting for you here, and the book and the letter suddenly appeared on the table." He lowered his head and glanced at the book. "When I saw the title, I couldn't help but pick it up and look at the cover."

Pei Mingyan sat down on the other side of the chair, opened the letter and started reading, "If you want to read it, then read it. It's probably the story of the Negative Spirit Tribe in folk legends."

Xue Qingyu touched the raised gilded characters and put the book back on the table. "No need. I have the history of my clan in my heart. But when I suddenly saw the words 'Fu Ling', I couldn't help but lose control."

Pei Mingyan quickly finished reading the letter. "Okay, now let's talk about what happened today. Why did 'he' control you?"

Xue Qingyu shook his head, "If what Uncle Yu said is true... I have confirmed this with Aunt Tang, and it was indeed what she heard. If Pang Yuan did not deliberately set up the trap, then who did they want to kill with a borrowed knife? Is it really you, Young Master Mei? Or is it someone else? What about the borrowed knife? Which knife did they borrow? If it is Qianshui's knife, is it too inadequate to use it to kill Young Master Mei?"

"Qianshui... I think he's a little strange, but I can't explain it." Pei Mingyan replied, "At that time, I deliberately misled Manager Pang and made him think that Qianshui was Mei... I, the person he wanted to kill, should not be me. So, I am the knife. But who does he want to kill with me?"

Xue Qingyu frowned, "We are still missing some clues."

"What?" Pei Mingyan didn't follow his train of thought for a moment.

"It is certain that Uncle Yu and Aunt Tang will be killed." Xue Qingyu said, "The 'master' knows that I have turned against him and is trying to kill me step by step."

Pei Mingyan put aside his previous doubts and asked, "Has your master achieved his goal and no longer needs you?"

"I don't know." Xue Qingyu said, "It's just that the master has been trying to kill me more and more recently. If I hadn't met you, I would have disappeared long ago. Maybe... the master is afraid that I will retaliate against him. Now that I've met you, the danger I pose to him has exceeded the benefit, so... he wants to kill me."

Pei Mingyan said nothing.
This is indeed a very likely guess. In the book, the villain's greatest achievement is to destroy the Mei family which has stood for a thousand years.
Now Xue's fighting ability is not as good as his, and there is no use in keeping him. It is reasonable for the "master" to kill him.

This might be the reason why Mei Xucheng has survived to this day. It was because of his several ascensions that the man dared not take risks.
We have to thank him for his unremitting practice over the years, otherwise even if we knew the truth now, we would still be controlled by others.

Pei Mingyan said: "I went to see Mr. Wu."

Xue Qingyu's eyes were fixed on him instantly. "Mr. Wu? What did he say?"

"They said your master was good at disguise and that he was once a member of the Mei family."

"Mei family?"

Pei Mingyan nodded, "It's the Mei family."

"You didn't take him away?"

"Leave?" Pei Mingyan looked at Xue Qingyu in confusion.

Xue Qingyu nodded, "I once suspected that he was the master, so I observed him a lot. Unfortunately, he is not."

"How do you know for sure?"

"The master is too ambitious to stay in a corner like this for more than ten or twenty years."

Pei Mingyan looked a little disappointed. "Since your body is with your master, why can't you find him?"

Xue Qingyu replied: "The real Qingyuqin has remained in the same place for more than ten years."

"Where?"

Xue Qingyu shook his head, "From now on, go east."

"To the east?" Pei Mingyan was puzzled. "To the east is the Mei family, and further away is the Xuantian Gate."
He paused, Xuantian Sect. The sect the male protagonist belongs to.

"I've been banned from saying the rest." Xue Qingyu looked ashamed, "I'm sorry."

Pei Mingyan waved his hand indifferently, "It's okay. By the way, Mr. Wu said that your master left something at the Mei family. That thing can help us find him."

Xue Qingyu was surprised for a moment, "You mean the Mei family?"

"Ah."

Xue Qingyu suddenly smiled, "I understand."

"What do you unserstand?"

"Kill with a borrowed knife."

(End of this chapter)