The Word of Heaven

Chapter 216: Old Ghosts Troubled and New Ghosts Crying

Therefore, we should be compassionate and turn back before we are wrong.

The Chiyin Sect Leader's expression was extremely ugly.

She knew very well that she didn't have much time left, and if she couldn't make a decision, the result would be nothing.

Just as Gu Zhuo said, the Chiyin Sect is the result of her hard work over the past few decades, and it is also the basis for her survival in the future.

If the Chiyin Sect collapses, no matter how big the human world is, where can she go in the future?

Do I really have to convert to Zen Buddhism in a certain temple, become a so-called Dharma protector, and never have any freedom for the rest of my life?

Wouldn't that be like her jumping from the deep pit dug by Yingxu into another pit?

Or kill Gu Zhuo and let everything stay in the present that she is familiar with?
In a very short period of time, the leader of the Chiyin Sect's thoughts turned in a thousand circles, thinking of countless possible futures.

As for Gu Zhuo's own wishes, she didn't care.

The reason is very clear.

There is an insurmountable chasm between the two sides' realms.

She simply couldn't imagine a situation where she had no control over Gu Zhuo's life or death.

This judgment is of course reasonable. Any practitioner will make such a judgment, and it will remain the same even if she repeats it thousands of times.

Until Gu Zhuo's voice sounded.

"I don't really understand."

He said with regret: "I really don't think my request is excessive, because you certainly don't know the true face of the so-called God, and it is impossible for you to give a real answer. But you put yourself in this difficult situation and are still unwilling to tell a lie to try to deceive me."

The leader of the Chiyin Sect said expressionlessly: "Because I just want you to live in eternal pain with confusion and doubt."

Gu Zhuo said: "Living in the same pain as you have been in for decades."

The corners of Chi Yin Sect Leader's lips curled up slightly, revealing a sneer, and he said mockingly: "I remember you told me before that you would be merciful?"

The next moment, she suddenly roared in anger: "The people who harmed me are still not dead yet, why do you want me to turn back? Why can you get even a little benefit from me? Wishful thinking!"

At the end of the sentence, the tail sound has broken.

The sound was like rolling thunder, shaking the ears of everyone within a ten-mile radius around the mountain.

Whether human or wild man, everyone can hear the strong hatred in these words, which cannot be buried even by the wind and snow of the wilderness for thousands of years.

The top of the Chiyin Peak was also shaking because of this, and countless dust fell.

Gu Zhuo sighed, thinking that his eldest disciple was really capable of causing trouble. No wonder Emperor Bai did not hesitate to use his great magical powers to put him to death.

"It looks like that's all we can do today."

He looked at the shaking stone tower, shook his head and said, "I should go now."

The leader of the Chiyin Sect was slightly stunned when he heard this. He was too lazy to even laugh. He just felt that he was hearing an absurd, bizarre and ignorant joke.

The Chiyin Sect's mountain gate formation has not yet been destroyed, and the stone tower that serves as the center of the formation is still standing. With Gu Zhuo not even at the level of returning to oneness, how could he leave this world that is almost like a Taoist temple?
In a sense, this is true, but it is not the reality.

Because in the next moment, the giant insect transformed by Yu Yang ignored its own serious injuries, let the blood spurt out of its body, and desperately smashed itself towards the Chiyin Peak.

The huge body squeezed and condensed the air, forming a powerful wave-like impact, causing the mountain to begin to vibrate prematurely.

Affected by this, the glow of the sunset began to flicker and change again.

The expression of the Chiyin Sect Leader changed slightly.

She was not surprised by Yu Yang's move, but she was surprised why the other party's movements were so smooth, like a soldier following orders?
Her thoughts flashed through her mind in a flash, and she had already gathered all the unnecessary emotions in her mind and took action directly.

Different from the female cultivator in the wedding dress, she has reached the state of enlightenment and her methods are extremely mysterious, no longer limited by material objects.

The red clouds dispersed into silk, condensed into bundles, woven into gauze, and looked like laces.

In just a moment, the entire top of the Chiyin Peak was shrouded in it, and the will of the Chiyin Sect Leader continued to gather towards Gu Zhuo, wanting to bind him into a cocoon and hang him up.

This is undoubtedly an extremely clever method. Chixia keeps rotating between reality and illusion. Any flaw revealed at this moment can become a fatal killing move in the next moment, making it impossible to judge.

Faced with such an attack, the normal approach is of course to ignore it, attack the opponent's vital points with the sword, use his life to break through the thousands of gauze, and do not engage in any entanglement with it.

Gu Zhuo was different, because he had a very deep understanding of the Chiyin Sect's martial arts, and it was not impossible for him to find the flaws in the rotation between reality and illusion.

The problem is that the leader of the Chiyin Sect is not completely ignorant of this and still left Gu Zhuo with this opportunity, which looks like a trap no matter how you look at it.

She stood in front of the stone tower with her hands behind her back, her expression calm, as if she was not the one who roared in anger before, and quietly waited for the next moment to come.

Gu Zhuo’s response was simple.

He didn't think about anything, he just did one thing.

——Draw the sword.

The moment the sword was unsheathed, time suddenly stopped.

The leader of the Chiyin Sect was trapped in it, his expression unable to change suddenly, and even moving his eyeballs became difficult.

Her gaze fell on the old sword in Gu Zhuo's hand with great difficulty, but she showed no shock, because time simply did not allow her to do things to this extent.

Her thoughts did not completely stop, so she had room to think. She believed that she would see Gu Zhuo taking this opportunity to turn around and leave, disappearing in the chaos.

This is the most reasonable inference, because the gap between their realms is real.

Therefore.

When Gu Zhuo held the sword forward and sent the bright sword light towards her forehead, surprise became a natural reaction.

Don’t hesitate to go back in time. In this instant, you have arrived in front of the stone tower, and that face that is neither male nor female is in front of you!
Time moves again.

"Wait a minute, how come it's in your hands?"

The leader of the Chiyin Sect screamed, and at the same time let out a deafening roar.

In addition, she quickly retreated, her red skirt turned into a red shadow, and she almost crashed into the stone tower that served as the core of the formation, and she became extremely embarrassed.

A sword mark appeared right between her two faces, with blood slowly flowing out of it. If the sword had moved forward an inch further, even if she didn't die on the spot, she would have been seriously injured.

At the same time, the thousands of layers of veil covering the courtyard at the top of Chiyin Peak did not dissipate suddenly, but instead its momentum soared, like a ball of blazing flame.

Gu Zhuo was in the sea of ​​fire, with no escape.

In fact, he had never thought of escaping in this way.

The Sansheng Tower appeared above his head, exuding an ancient atmosphere.

All the strange visions suddenly dissipated, and even the rays of light emerging from the stone tower dimmed a bit, allowing the shadow cast by the giant insect transformed by Yu Yang to fall, bringing the night that was supposed to be here.

The realm of the leader of the Chiyin Sect was extremely high, and her combat power was no less than that of the Great Priest of the Wilderness, and she was even better. Even if two treasures on the Supreme Object List that were close to being immortal weapons appeared in succession, there was still no chance to kill her.

But in the blink of an eye, her breathing calmed down, and the sword mark on her forehead began to heal slowly.

Gu Zhuo still stood there.

The leader of the Chi Yin sect looked at the sword in his hand and the tower beside him, and sneered and said, "You even used this method, but still couldn't kill me. Why are you just standing there and not running away?"

Gu Zhuo sighed and said honestly: "Because I get tired too."

The leader of the Chi Yin sect mocked and said, "So you are going to accept your fate now?"

Gu Zhuo said: "Not really."

As soon as the words fell, the shadow that brought about the night suddenly became thicker!

A horrible tearing sound rang in the ears of the two men.

It's not the collapse of the cliff, but the broken flesh!
The leader of the Chiyin Sect turned around suddenly, and saw a huge gap in the waist of the giant insect transformed by Yu Yang. It was an injury caused by the mountain gate formation - blood fell from the gap like a waterfall, but along with the blood came not internal organs, but countless flying insects!
The flying insects flapped their wings in blood, thousands and thousands of wings flapping at the same time, making an unimaginable harsh sound to the world.

The first one to bear the brunt was either Gu Zhuo or her who was forced to the edge of the cliff!

When the leader of the Chiyin Sect heard the voice, his mind was greatly shaken and his face turned pale.

Immediately afterwards, countless flying insects flooded towards her body like waves, causing even more real harm.

The leader of the Chiyin Sect was unable to roar in anger to resist the strange flapping sound of wings. Tens of thousands of flying insects swarmed towards her nostrils, ears and throat, leaving her no room to dodge.

Only then did Gu Zhuo retract his gaze, turn around and start to leave.

He seemed to be uninjured in this battle, but his injuries had never healed. The forceful use of Qie Man and San Sheng Tower before was equivalent to causing the hemostatic wound to burst, causing blood to seep out again.

He was very clear about his own situation. The reason why he dared to meet the leader of the Chiyin Sect tonight was, of course, because he knew of Yu Yang's existence and was sure that the other party was willing to fight for him.

This was also the fundamental reason why he said not long ago that he had a good character.

Unfortunately, Yu Yang was ultimately unable to resolve the issue, and couldn't even trap the Chi Yin Sect Leader for too long.

It’s not because there is a gap in the realms of the two sides, but because this is the gate of the Chiyin Sect after all.

Gu Zhuo raised his head slightly.

At this moment when the red clouds were dimming, the phantom fire summoned by the high priest was so dazzling that it burned the entire mountain in a dark green.

The elders of the Chiyin Sect are manipulating the formation and doing their best to fight against it and prevent the phantom fire from actually burning the sect.

At the foot of the mountain, the people of the wilderness were climbing up continuously, engaging in a bloody battle with the disciples of the Chiyin Sect, and the corpses were piling up higher and higher.

A sword light was rushing towards Gu Zhuo, but there was no intent to kill, because it was Zhe Xue.

Chu Jun was just behind the sword light.

There were new wounds on her body that were visible to the naked eye, and one could imagine how difficult it had been for her to come this far. However, there was no trace of dullness in her eyes, but rather they were even brighter.

Gu Zhuo looked towards Chu Jun.

Chu Jun returned the look.

Unfortunately, the two of them did not have the same thoughts. They looked at each other and could not see anything.

"How is this going?"

"I had a brief chat with her, but unfortunately we couldn't come to an agreement."

"Do you want to talk again?"

"Forget it for now."

"Then let's go."

“It’s not that easy.”

The conversation conducted through spiritual consciousness ended quickly and did not take up much time for Gu Zhuo and Chu Jun.

In fact, Chu Jun really wanted to continue the conversation because she vaguely realized that something was about to happen - that possibility was called separation.

Gu Zhuo did not refuse to chat.

From the past to now, he has never been a person who is stingy with words.

We stopped chatting at this time, of course, because something else came up.

boom!
Behind Gu Zhuo, a loud noise was heard from the top of Chiyin Peak, and the darkness formed by the sea of ​​insects shattered into pieces.

A ray of light burst out from it, dispelling the night again and reaching the clouds.

"Die to me!"

That androgynous voice screamed with endless anger. People subconsciously looked towards the source of the voice, only to see the clouds burned red by the red clouds, then surging into waves, and finally countless balls of fire fell!
This is undoubtedly the most powerful Taoist magic of the Chiyin Sect Leader.

The fireballs were like a meteor shower, smashing into everything within a radius of more than ten miles.

The giant insect that Yu Yang transformed into was huge and had lost its flexibility. How could it possibly avoid the flames that were flowing all over the sky?
In an instant, dozens of fireballs exploded on its body, emitting light and heat that was too bright to look at.

Several of the fireballs hit the gap in its abdomen and exploded violently inside its body, causing the blood that had not yet flowed out to instantly evaporate into thick mist, and the flying insects to turn into ashes.

As the wailing sound rang out, the severely injured giant insect was still alive, but its body could no longer be completely controlled by itself, like a rope hanging under the eaves, swaying in the wind.

The meteor shower has not stopped yet and is still falling to the earth.

Outside Chiyin Peak, the snow covering the black soil began to melt into water, but turned into mist in the blink of an eye.

How could such a terrible and drastic change be buried?
The resonance between heaven and earth is spontaneous.

The wind is blowing.

The bone-chilling cold came with the wind, and I was immersed in the thick fog that was rising at the moment, like a fish in water.

The sky was full of streamers of fire, but the temperature was no longer rising but dropping. The fog spread at a speed visible to the naked eye, covering the area of ​​more than ten miles around the Chiyin Peak.

Frost silently appeared on the rocks, blood solidified into ice crystals, and corpses became ice sculptures... The fireballs that fell from the clouds hit the thick fog and quickly shrank until they became a flame, just like twinkling stars disappearing from people's eyes.

The picture is so beautiful, it’s like a fairyland.

However, both parties in the fog, whether they were the barbarians or the practitioners of the Chiyin Sect, revealed extremely strong expressions of fear at this moment.

This is cold fog.

Everyone knows that cold fog is one of the most terrifying climates in the depths of the wilderness and mountains. Staying in it for a long time will surely lead to death, and it will be the most painful kind of death.

Without any hesitation, as the high priest's voice sounded, the barbarians began to retreat as quickly as possible.

The disciples and elders of the Chiyin Sect naturally would not get entangled and returned to the mountain gate, using the large formation to resist the cold and terrifying aura hidden in the mist.

Yu Yang was seriously injured and couldn't leave at all.

It had already been severely injured by the Red Yin Fire, and its entire body was burned to an unbearable degree. Then the cold fog swept over, causing its body temperature to drop sharply in a very short time.

Having experienced the baptism of ice and fire in a very short period of time, it has now become a fragile object that can be easily broken.

That is why the high priest did not leave.

He stood on a mountain peak more than a hundred feet away, letting the green fire flowing from his eyes wrap around his body to resist the chill that came with the mist, and looked at the scene on the top of Chiyin Peak from afar.

There was no sadness in his eyes, no sorrow for his fellow human beings, only determination and fanaticism.

Just like the reason he stood here was not for anything else but to witness Gu Zhuo's death with his own eyes.

The red clouds were no longer as bright, and the clouds returned to being dim and calm.

The cold fog did not disappear because of this, but became even thicker.

At some point, the Chiyin Sect's mountain gate formation was frozen into a specific shape, which was a very thin red light.

Cracks gradually appeared on the red light, like porcelain.

There was dead silence between heaven and earth.

After a moment, panicked cries were heard. Those were the real fears of the practitioners of the Chiyin Sect.

The cold fog was like a sea, and the mountain gate of the Chiyin Sect was like a damaged giant ship that was about to sink. Those standing on the deck could only watch themselves die and could not do anything.

……

……

All this seems long, but in fact it takes less than half a minute.

Chu Jun didn't have time to do anything. He didn't even have the chance to walk to the edge of the cliff and jump. He could only watch helplessly as the cold fog came.

Gu Zhuo remained calm throughout.

"Think on the bright side."

He patted the girl's shoulder and said gently, "It's hard to say whether we are acting on behalf of heaven, but at least we have managed to divert the trouble away."

Perhaps because Gu Zhuo was still optimistic, Chu Jun's mood improved slightly.

Then she asked the most crucial question.

"Now how to do?"

"You will live."

Gu Zhuo's voice was calm and powerful.

Chu Jun looked at him and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't have time to open his mouth.

There were footsteps coming from above, sounding light and a bit staggering.

That is the leader of the Chiyin Sect.

She walked into their eyes, without even looking at Chu Jun, and said to Gu Zhuo indifferently: "I don't have to choose now."

If the cold fog does not dissipate, the Chiyin Sect’s sect is doomed to perish, the only difference is sooner or later.

Gu Zhuo took a step forward, stood in front of Chu Jun, and said, "I've already given you a chance."

The leader of the Chiyin sect laughed and said, "I also gave you a chance."

Gu Zhuo looked at her and suddenly asked, "How do you feel now?"

"feel good."

The leader of the Chi Yin Sect said, "If the decision is not made by you, you can complain as much as you want."

Gu Zhuo thought about it and said, "That's the truth."

The leader of the Chiyin sect shook his head and said, "The more important truth is that you will be tortured until the moment you die in my hands, and I will never die in front of you."

This is the fundamental reason why she was able to remain calm.

After entering the realm of enlightenment, practitioners can break free from the constraints of the earth and have the ability to roam the sky like the sea.

No matter how terrifying the cold fog is, it will never spread to the sky. Then she will not be trapped here and can leave at any time.

Gu Zhuo didn't say anything.

Behind him, footsteps were heard one after another, all coming from the disciples and elders of the Chiyin Sect.

Faced with the natural disaster that befell the wilderness and at this moment of life and death, no one paid any attention to the existence of Gu Zhuo and Chu Jun. Everyone was concerned about the same thing.

"Please help us, Master, and save us from suffering!"

"Master, can we survive?"

"What should the Master do now?"

Similar voices rang out one after another, coming from the mouths of powerful elders and also from the mouths of ordinary disciples.

He Tinghe, who had cut off one of Chu Jun's arms, was also among them. He was shouting and screaming in fear, crying and begging for the possibility of survival.

Everyone has worked hard to get to this point, who would be willing to die in this cold fog?
The body was corroded by the mist and turned into an ice sculpture, unable to move even a step and shattered at the slightest touch.

The soul will not die when the body is frozen. On the contrary, it will gain a longer time.

The problem is that the practitioner, who is frozen in every moment of time, has nothing to do except thinking.

Until many years later, the soul becomes extinguished and dies, or the body is shattered by external force and shattered along with it.

And during this process, all that could be seen in the eyes of every deceased person was paleness, endless paleness.

This is the loneliest way to die.

No one wants to die like this.

Listening to those anxious and fearful voices, the Chiyin Sect Leader did not speak.

I don’t know how long it took, but the whole world became quiet.

The piece of red colored glaze formed by the mountain gate formation began to show more cracks as the cold fog rose, and was on the verge of breaking.

More and more people felt their bodies starting to get colder, and they didn't know whether it was the fear that had come early, or if the cold wind really was seeping through the cracks and reaching the mountains.

"Don't be silent!"

The female cultivator in wedding dress rushed out of the crowd, pointed at Gu Zhuo and Chu Jun standing over there, and shouted, "I know you want him dead. I can kill him for you without staining your hands with blood. I will make his life worse than death!"

The leader of the Chiyin sect remained silent.

Chu Jun felt a little bewildered.

"You still don't understand?"

Gu Zhuo said: "Your leader never wants to see your existence."

When he said this, there was a hint of sadness in his voice, and he was very emotional.

There was dead silence.

Amid countless gazes, the Chi Yin Sect Leader smiled without any warning.

She laughed heartily, almost madly.

Both the monk's half and the nun's other half were smiling happily.

A soft sound.

That was the sound of the mountain gate formation about to be broken.

The stone tower located on the top of Chiyin Peak is covered with thick frost, with only the top of the tower retaining its original color.

"Yes."

The leader of the Chiyin sect looked at his followers, smiled softly, and said, "Every word he said is right. This is what I really think, because I don't want to be who I am now."

No one speaks.

All sounds disappeared.

Hundreds of practitioners of the Chiyin Sect stared at their leader in shock, as if they had been betrayed by the love of their life.

Chu Jun was reborn in confusion.

After the first conversation, she couldn't understand why she couldn't shake the other party's determination, and almost believed his words that he hoped all lovers in the world would get married... but she didn't expect that every word in his words was false.

The voice of the Chiyin Sect Leader sounded again.

"But you don't have to despair."

She smiled and said, "I will make a Chi Yin sect appear in the world again. Then I will tell your descendants the story of today, and in that story you will all be lovable."

At this moment, Gu Zhuo felt really puzzled and couldn't help but say something.

"Why do you have to say so much? Are you out of your mind, or do you just want someone to come and kill you to relieve your guilt?"

(End of this chapter)