Embers of Sword

Chapter 274 He, She

The ceiling collapsed, the white paper was like snow, and the burning clouds spread in all directions.

Strands of green light gathered in the girl's palm.

Finally, they merge into one swimming fish.

"God Fruit..."

Xie Xuanyi's eyes were somewhat complicated.

This swimming fish was exactly what he saw when he caught a glimpse of it in the snow-capped mountains that year. It was surrounded by a strong aura in the void and emitted a faint fragrance.

But if you look closely, you will find.

Inside this energy.

It does not really give birth to a "god", but is composed of strands of green and brilliant Taoist principles!

This is a divine fruit condensed by the Ruyi Dao, which is different from the fruits that sprout naturally from heaven and earth... The Ruyi Dao can create many things in this world. The great way of Emperor Qi is born from the human heart and goes towards the sea of heart. It can be as desired and as people wish.

It’s a pity that everything condensed by the Tao is ultimately man-made.

This fruit has no chance of growing into a big one.

It is even more impossible to give birth to consciousness and attain enlightenment on one's own.

However, if Xie Xuanyi had taken it back then, he could have made up for his regrets, created a divine fetus, and opened up a second path.

Xie Xuanyi did not accept the divine fruit condensed by the Qingchan Dao.

He raised his head and asked softly, "I don't need this fruit anymore. Can I turn it back into the Ruyi Dao Rule?"

This question made Qingli slightly stunned.

He frowned and looked at the young man in front of him.

"Of course you can."

Qingli said slowly: "Do you have any other wishes?"

Thousands of years of reincarnation, thousands of years of fierce fighting.

Qingli's divine sea had actually suffered a lot of damage... His first reaction to the request of the young man in front of him was that the young man had changed his mind and wanted something else, or perhaps had a greater desire.

"I have a delusion."

Xie Xuanyi looked at the woman who was enveloped by countless holy lights.

Thousands of brilliant lights descend here.

The Great Avenue of Heaven and Earth rang a bell, and the passage between the secret realm of Dayue Kingdom and the outside of the snow mountain was completely opened at this moment, and the iron laws of the great avenue of the outside world also descended here... This time, Xie Xuanyi saw it very clearly. These great avenues were burning the woman's green shirt like the scorching sun, and on her Dharma body, bursts of green smoke were burned!
She is not allowed to stay in this world for long.

His previous guess was correct.

Qingli...is being ostracized by this world!
"Go ahead, I only have half an incense stick of time left."

Although time is short, Qingli remains calm.

She looked at the young man with a hint of pity.

Of course she could see it.

This "young man" has a lot of luck, and his soul cultivation is quite solid. He is only a hair's breadth away from becoming a Yang God. Whether it is his bones or his aptitude, they are all top-notch... He is considered an extremely good seedling. After thousands of years of reincarnation, she has lived different lives. Although the little mute girl's life is very short, she has a precious memory.

The little mute girl has a good relationship with Xie Xuanyi.

She wouldn't mind giving some pointers in her final moments.

The road to cultivation is long.

It would be a pity if we allowed the "Ruyi Dao Ze" to give rise to false thoughts and went astray.

"senior."

Xie Xuanyi paused for a moment. He didn't rush to make a request, but instead asked first, "Are you... not from this era?"

Qingli was a little surprised.

She smiled and said, "The world is long and arduous, and thousands of years have passed. I am about to return, so I naturally do not belong to this era."

"What I want to talk about is... the era of Emperor Qi a thousand years ago..."

Xie Xuanyi pointed to the Dayue Palace below him, which was exposed on the surface due to the great battle.

The originally magnificent palace almost completely collapsed.

Only the sacrificial platform in the center remains intact.

This is the "Ascension Platform" built by Emperor Qi with the whole country's strength, also known as the "Dragon Slaying Platform"!
Nine million lives suffered because of it.

Since entering the big moon.

Xie Xuanyi always felt that something was wrong.

The whole country destroyed the dragon.

A thousand years ago, the vitality was exhausted, the dragons and phoenixes disappeared, and the world ushered in its last "golden age".

Emperor Qi who wanted to ascend to heaven...

Where on earth was this "real dragon" captured from?
The battle between the two celestial beings was a shocking scene.

But no matter how fierce the battle was... it would not lead to the entire Dayue Kingdom being sunk beneath the snowy mountains and never seeing the light of day again.

The black evil that enveloped the Dayue Kingdom was obviously controlled by someone intentionally.

As the war came to an end, the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth descended.

The confusion in Xie Xuanyi's heart was gradually resolved, and he had a bold guess in his mind.

Qingli does not belong to the era of Emperor Qi at all.

She came from a more distant past.

This is why Qingli has been reincarnated for thousands of years and has always been searching for his past...

The creatures of the Dayue Kingdom who were sacrificed by Emperor Qi were rootless duckweed.

Green carp, even more so.

There is no country to return to, no home to return to.

"Xie Xuanyi, do you want to know what happened back then?"

Looking at the young man in front of her, Qingli just smiled lightly. She raised her head and looked at the sun in the sky. The black evil dissipated, the snow flakes flew, and the road was as blue as the sky, wanting to burn her to ashes.

If you can’t become a true immortal, you can’t be free.

Qingli's clothes burned under the scorching sun.

She stretched out a snow-white palm and scooped lightly in the void. The void rippled. The Dayue Kingdom had been sinking for a thousand years. The black evil spirit wrapped around it and turned into the sky, suppressing this ancient country for a thousand years. At this moment, Emperor Qi died, and the black evil spirit disappeared and returned to the void.

Qingli took off a wisp of evil spirit and spread out his palm in front of Xie Xuanyi.

Xie Xuanyi took it without hesitation.

The thousand-year-old scene of the broken Dayue Kingdom began to spread from the "Black Evil".

……

……

Who is the longest watcher in the long river of history?
Maybe it's a leaf, a stone, a drop of water...

But in any case, it couldn't be a human.

People will die.

But rocks won't.

The "watcher" of Dayue Kingdom for the past thousand years is the black evil that shrouds the sky.

Xie Xuanyi took the evil spirit handed over by Qingli and entered an extremely realistic dream.

He seemed to have come to the sky above the snow-capped mountains a thousand years ago and turned into a wisp of free wind. At that time, the Dayue Kingdom had not yet fallen and collapsed. It was located deep in the snow-capped mountains in the north, surrounded by mountains and had beautiful scenery. Because the rulers of all dynasties were proficient in formations, this ancient country had always been secluded from the world and had almost no contact with the outside world.

The Great Moon Kingdom should have always been like this.

Until the appearance of Emperor Qi, the peace of this ancient country was broken.

Emperor Qi has great talent and strategy, amazing abilities, and extraordinary skills. At a young age, he has achieved the realm of Yang God!

It is a blessing for Dayue Kingdom to have such a ruler.

When Emperor Qi was young, he fought wars in the east and the west, leading the iron cavalry of the Great Yue Kingdom. In an era of exhausted vitality, he established a great reputation. The territory occupied by the Great Yue Kingdom was originally coveted by the demon clan... Because of the existence of Emperor Qi, these great demon clans retreated and dared not offend.

Ruyi Daozhi is the highest level of Dao.

The Kingdom of Dayue was originally poor, but because of Emperor Qi's "Great Way", this poor country once ushered in a rare period of prosperity.

Unfortunately.

Emperor Qi is too smart and too powerful.

The realm of Yangshen, countless top geniuses need to spend their entire lives to reach the top of this realm.

It took Emperor Qi less than a hundred years to stand on the top of the mountain. The higher you stand, the farther you can see.

The bigger the ambition, the crazier it becomes.

After reaching the top, Emperor Qi made some changes to the ancient formation of Dayue Kingdom.

However, the changes made by Emperor Qi... were not to open the shackles that bound the Dayue Kingdom and allow the Dayue Iron Cavalry to completely go out into the world.

On the contrary.

He completely locked down the formation, preventing everyone in Dayue Kingdom from leaving.

Because of the "Ruyi Dao Ze", the resources within Dayue do not have to rely on the outside world. After Emperor Qi locked the formation, he began his own plan... The first thing he wanted to do was to sink Dayue into the ground!
The reason for doing this is simple.

His life was full of ups and downs, and he had accomplished almost everything he wanted to do.

Now, only one remains.

That means achieving the feat of becoming an immortal in the wrong era!
The first step of this feat is to lock the formation, and then incorporate the Great Moon Kingdom into his own Ruyi Cave Heaven...

then.

Replace the Way of Heaven with the Way of Ruyi!

Eventually, by means of "stealing the sky and replacing the day", one can achieve all the conditions required to ascend to immortality. When one's own path can contend with the Way of Heaven, one can then see the light of day again, shine with the sun and the moon, and live as long as the heaven and earth!

But if he wants to ascend to heaven, relying solely on the lives of the nine million creatures under his command is not enough!

At the very least, a "pure-blooded dragon" is needed, preferably a "real dragon"!
This is actually a very ridiculous thing.

The year Emperor Qi was born, the vitality of the world had begun to dry up.

Dragonborn are extremely rare, and pure-blooded dragonborn are even rarer... As for real dragons, that is nonsense. If one can tame a real dragon, why bother ascending to immortality?
According to legend, when a true dragon is born, even if it is just born, it has the strength of the "Yang God" realm because of its bloodline.

As he grows older, as long as he survives the samsara calamity, he can rival the true immortals.

Trapped Emperor Qi.

In fact, it is the step of finding the "real dragon".

But... this didn't bother him.

Emperor Qi was indeed a rare talent. He thought of the "Ruyi Avenue" he had practiced... and formulated an extremely crazy plan.

The human heart is like water, and can be trusted as a ship of good fortune.

He would use the lives of nine million people, plus a sacrificial platform engraved with wishful thinking patterns, and with the power of his great aspirations, forcibly "detain" a real dragon cub to meet the last requirement for ascending to immortality: to kill the real dragon and thus replenish enough luck!

then……

This led to the brutal act of building a high platform at a cost of manpower and money.

From that moment on.

Emperor Qi embarked on a path of no return.

As the platform was completed and the ceremony began, this completely insane man climbed to the highest point of the Dragon Platform and used the Ruyi Dao to attract wind and thunder, eventually welcoming the arrival of the "real dragon".

The only variable.

It was that Emperor Qi underestimated the strength of the "true dragon".

Even though this real dragon was not yet an adult, the combat power it unleashed was far beyond his expectations. The entire country tried to kill it... but in the end, it ended in failure.

The Dayue Kingdom rose because of him and also fell because of him.

Success is due to the Tao, and failure is also due to the Tao.

……

……

The dark evil was like smoke, dissipating in curls.

Xie Xuanyi had a complicated expression and opened his eyes. Thanks to Qingli's divine ability, it only took him a dozen breaths to finish reading this long history.

"This is the story of the Great Moon Country."

Qingli smiled and said, "How is it?"

Xie Xuanyi sighed softly, immersed in this sad past, and murmured in a low voice: "So... my guess was right..."

Green carp does not belong to this era.

He was a "sacrifice" forcibly taken to Dayue Kingdom by Ruyi Avenue.

Therefore.

Even if we win this battle, Qingli will still go back.

Because He doesn't belong here.

If Dayue Kingdom sees the light of day again, her soul will be torn to pieces.

"You guessed it right."

Qingli nodded: "I come from... a very distant past."

No wonder.

The figure sitting on the throne of the Dayue Kingdom's palace exudes such a strong loneliness.

"..."

Xie Xuanyi looked at Lu Yuzhen.

The Taoist in white robe who was excluded by the True Dragon Dao Rules was now bored. He sat cross-legged on the white paper cloud cattail, holding his chin and waiting for the end of the conversation between the two... Although Taoist Master Lu was blocked outside by the rules and could not see anything inside, he seemed to have a sense of it at this moment. He smiled in the direction of Xie Xuanyi, nodded, and raised his eyebrows.

Xie Xuanyi frowned.

If I remember correctly, when I asked Lu Yuzhen about his life experience, he kept it a secret and said that after watching the dragon-slaying battle, I would be able to guess a little.

"I felt a similar aura from him."

Qingli also looked at Master Lu.

He said slowly: "This is a very strange person. He probably doesn't belong to this era."

From Beihailing to Dayue Kingdom.

Xie Xuanyi could feel that Lu Yuzhen seemed to have been walking in this world for many years.

Not of this era?
It seems that only this statement can explain why it took Paperman Dao only ten years to pacify and conquer Southern Xinjiang.

"time is limited."

Qingli returned to the topic, his clothes half disintegrated, and his true dragon body turned into a faint green smoke.

"Have you thought about how to use this Ruyi Dao Rule?"

"What are your delusions?"

She stretched out her hand, and the Ruyi fish imprisoned in her palm tried more than once to break free and return to heaven and earth, but was stopped time and time again by the True Dragon Dao.

"I once knew a descendant of Phoenix Blood who, in order to avoid the soul seal, split his soul into two."

Xie Xuanyi said softly: "The soul is sealed... only the main body is recognized..."

“It’s a bit of a hack, but it works.”

Qingli understood what Xie Xuanyi meant before he finished half of the sentence.

He looked at the black-shirted boy in front of him, sighed and said, "Do you want to use the power of the Ruyi Dao Principle to make a wish to let 'her' stay in this world?"

"Yes, this is my 'delusion'."

Xie Xuanyi raised his head, his expression firm, "Even if there is only a trace of soul left, at least it is not gone..."

He has seen too many scenes of the return of creatures from the Dayue Kingdom.

If this Ruyi Dao rule is used, the little mute girl can be saved...

Then it’s better not to have the divine fruit.

"The law of birth and death is the highest iron law of this world. It cannot be disobeyed or challenged."

Qingli shook his head.

He said helplessly: "If the Ruyi Dao can retain the deceased, then why would Emperor Qi pay such a painful price... and must try to ascend to heaven?"

Xie Xuanyi still didn't give up.

He took out the drop of immortal spring from between his eyebrows.

The mist condenses in the palm of your hand.

It forms a sharp contrast with the swimming fish.

Ruyi Daoze, although imprisoned by the real dragon, tried desperately to jump towards the Immortal Spring in Xie Xuanyi's palm...

Xie Xuanyi asked seriously, word by word.

"What if, add this?"

(End of this chapter)