Embers of Sword

Chapter 99: Inner Demon, Xie Xuanyi (Part )

Dantian is the place where the cave heaven is evolved.

When a sword cultivator reaches the third stage, "Controlling Qi", he will begin to smelt his natal flying sword... and the next stage, "Dongtian", is to place the natal flying sword into the Dantian and open up a brand new world.

The word "Dongtian" comes from this.

"Boom."

The sound of wind and thunder on a rainy night swept into the cave.

As the sword energy clanged, Xie Xuanyi slowly closed his eyes.

"Buzz!"

The serious illness floated to the center of Xie Xuanyi's eyebrows, and a cold light illuminated the entire cave. Thousands and tens of thousands of sword shadows appeared in the quiet formation.

The sword intent of serious illness entered Xie Xuanyi's body bit by bit.

Because of the Fountain of Immortality.

The area where Xie Xuanyi's dantian was located became unusually wide.

The dantian of an ordinary cultivator in the Qi Controlling Realm is probably only one-tenth of his.

Logically speaking.

With such an empty Dantian, it would be much easier to condense the cave heaven.

But the opposite is true.

In just a dozen breaths, Xie Xuanyi's face turned pale.

The reason why the sword body of Chen Yan cracked was because the remaining Dao rules of the [Dao Pen] were too powerful.

These days, Xie Xuanyi used his natal flying sword to kill evil creatures and refine evil spirits, which was considered to have "wiped" the edge of the sword.

But in the cracks of the flying sword, there are still traces of the great principles of Beihailing...

The sword intent swept into the dantian.

The great principles of Beihailing suddenly spread out!
Xie Xuanyi groaned in pain, but did not stop introducing the sword intent... He knew very well that the biggest difficulty in reshaping the Sword Qi Cave Heaven lies in this.

I want to help [Chronic Illness] get rid of the cracks.

It is necessary to destroy the remaining principles of Beihailing.

Other cultivators create sword energy caves to familiarize themselves with their natal objects and establish connections bit by bit.

And myself...

This step has already been taken.

What he needs to do is to work with [Chen Yan] to eliminate the remaining Dao rules of [Dao Bi]!

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The road is long and endless.

Practitioners seek immortality.

On the road to immortality, the biggest enemy is not others, but yourself.

No one is perfect, since no one is saint.
Refining Qi, building foundation, controlling Qi, cave heaven, Yin Shen... These five realms become more and more difficult as you advance. Many people will face a huge problem halfway through their cultivation.

Heart demon.

Cultivation is not just a fight against heaven, it is also a fight against yourself.

Fighting with yourself is fighting with your inner demons.

Of course, there are also a very small number of "geniuses" and "evil spirits" who have been smooth sailing since the beginning of their practice and have no so-called inner demons until they "die".

There are very few people like this.

Xie Xuanyi in the previous life was one of them.

He was born in Dasui Sword Palace and was invincible in all four realms. He achieved Yin God when he was over 20 years old and even became the leader in swordsmanship.

How could such a person have inner demons?

What kind of person or thing could leave him with such a demon?

But this life is different.

【Chronic Illness】The sword's power penetrated into his dantian, and Xie Xuanyi felt an endless chill.

He closed his eyes, and the wind, rain, and thunder in the cave disappeared.

At this moment, he seemed to be back in the coffin.

Precisely.

It was as if I had returned to the moment when I fell into the North Sea.

When he opened his eyes again, Xie Xuanyi was standing on a dead silent lake.

He searched the souls of many people.

I have also seen the hearts of many people.

But this place is quite different from the hearts of those people.

This was the lake of his own heart, pale and as if frozen, with almost no ripples and no sound.

This is more like the heart lake of a person who has been dead for many years.

Xie Xuanyi stood quietly, looking at the [Chronic Illness] ten feet away, which had many cracks and was struggling constantly, but was trapped by countless laws.

"Because the Dao of the [Dao Pen] entered my body..."

"So I was pulled into the spiritual realm?"

Xie Xuanyi looked at the scene in front of him in silence.

"Or..."

"I forcibly condensed the sword energy cave heaven and aroused the inner demon?"

The whole world was dead silent.

Until the second figure appeared.

Ripples slowly spread across the calm mirror-like lake of my heart, and out of the darkness a young, thin, pale figure slowly walked out.

The young man came to the sick man.

Stand still.

Looked at Xie Xuanyi.

As the wind blew, two almost identical young figures were reflected in the heart lake.

Same black clothes and black hair.

The same handsome features.

But what is different is that Xie Xuanyi is now "younger" than he was back then, and the murderous intent between his eyebrows is much weaker.

Heart demon.

I saw the familiar "myself" slowly walking out from the other side of the lake in my heart.

Xie Xuanyi couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

This is not unexpected.

After waking up in Yuzhu Town, Xie Xuanyi's mind would always echo with the scene of falling into the North Sea - during the trip to Qingzhou, he put on a mask to hide his whereabouts.

Out of guilt, he saved Jiang Huang but did not tell the truth.

In Beihai Mausoleum, he refused Chu Man's request to see his true face before her death.

These fragments, these fragments that only occupy a tiny moment in the lake of heart, always pass by the eyes when one enters a state of meditation.

From that moment on.

Xie Xuanyi knew that he already had an "inner demon" in this life.

The thing he least wanted to face.

It is probably the dead "self".

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Two almost identical Xie Xuanyi stood on this dead and silent lake of heart.

No one opened their mouths, no one spoke.

A gentle breeze blew.

If Xie Xuanyi hadn't noticed that his soul had begun to crack... then this silence might have lasted even longer.

From the moment the sword intent of Chen Yan entered Dantian.

The condensation of the sword energy cave sky has quietly begun.

The cave-heaven realm is usually reached in one go, and there is no such thing as "repeated breakthroughs".

If a cultivator fails to condense a cave heaven... then it will be ten or a hundred times more difficult to try again.

There is no cost for failing to break through once.

But if the second failure occurs, the Dantian may be shattered. Not only will the person trying to break through be unable to condense the cave heaven, he may also fall from the "Qi Controlling Realm" and may even be worse than a "Qi Refiner" and become an ordinary mortal.

At this moment, Xie Xuanyi knew.

As for “myself” in the outside world, I’m afraid the situation is not very good.

The sword spirit entered the body, and the cave world was not yet opened.

The body is already feeling uncomfortable. If I cannot overcome my inner demons in time, then this cave opening will most likely end in failure!
So Xie Xuanyi looked at himself ten feet away and asked seriously: "Sorry, this is the first time I see the inner demon... What should I do next?"

The inner demon is the biggest enemy.

When you encounter your inner demon, the natural thing to do is... kill it!

"Whoosh!"

Before Xie Xuanyi could finish his words, the inner demon Xie Xuanyi took action first. He suddenly went from being extremely quiet to extremely active, and suddenly stretched out his hand to grasp the sword hanging in front of him. He wiped it with two fingers, and a rumbling thunder sound was heard.

A ray of sword energy surged out, splitting the dead heart lake in half.

Xie Xuanyi pressed it down with one hand.

"Boom!"

That wisp of sword energy and the entire heart lake were directly smoothed out, and the rumbling thunder seemed to have never appeared!
The inner demon Xie Xuanyi raised his hand and threw.

hum!
The broken flying sword entangled by the Tao rules suddenly flew out and arrived in front of Xie Xuanyi in an instant.

Xie Xuanyi clasped his hands together and pressed the sword tip into his palms.

Countless dark sword intentions burst out from the sword!

In just a moment, it vibrated dozens of times in the palm of the hand!
Xie Xuanyi looked extremely solemn.

This was his first encounter with his inner demon.

It was also the first time that he understood the meaning of the words: a practitioner’s greatest enemy is himself.

Standing in front of me now...

It was during my first life when I was about to step into the cave heaven realm!
The sword intent that surged out from the body of the Chenyan sword at this moment was paranoid and eccentric, carrying a strong murderous intent, which filled the entire body in almost an instant.

At that time, I used extremely heavy force.

Once the sword is drawn, blood will be shed!

"His..."

After fighting for a few moments, Xie Xuanyi's hands were covered in blood, but after the flying sword drank the blood, it did not become more crazy, but became quiet instead.

He relied on his powerful spirit to erase the murderous intent from the flying sword!
Then inject your will into the flying sword!
The inner demon Xie Xuanyi is not the master of the serious illness.

He is!
The next moment, the thin and sharp figure in black came close to him, and Xie Xuanyi was forced to let go of the flying sword and fight with him. When he was seventeen or eighteen years old, he wanted to practice both sword arts, so he not only tempered his soul, but also his body. At that time, he was in the Lotus Peak, often in seclusion for several months, not only practicing the sword art, but also comprehending the "fist and foot killing" technique left by the predecessors of the Sword Palace!
"Clang clang clang!"

Above the lake of my heart, there burst out the ear-piercing sound of metal clashing.

The two black robes collided with each other, and the two seemingly frail bodies unexpectedly burst out with terrifying destructive power like a dragon and an elephant.

In an instant, the entire heart lake was hit and water columns exploded one after another.

The two were evenly matched.

If it weren’t for this encounter with his inner demon, Xie Xuanyi would have no idea that he was so strong back then.

He originally thought that with the nourishment of the "Immortal Fountain", his "physique", which was close to the Golden Body Realm, was much stronger than it was in the past.

But now he found out that he was wrong.

Back then, my whole body was filled with unstoppable killing intent, and every move I made was aimed at taking someone's life...

This fierce momentum makes up for the lack of physical strength!

If it was the inner demon Xie Xuanyi who participated in the battle at Beihailing...

Perhaps the four evil cultivators from Southern Xinjiang will die faster and more miserably!
"Boom!"

When true masters fight, victory or defeat is decided in a matter of seconds. Only two people with extremely similar strength will fight for hours.

And this battle.

It lasted for a whole night in the Heart Lake World!
The thick fog was shattered, and the dead heart lake was cut into countless broken mirrors by countless sword intentions!
The situation of both figures was very bad.

The inner demon Xie Xuanyi, full of murderous intent, launched attacks again and again with his fierce offensive without regard for his life... But unfortunately he was too young and was at a disadvantage in almost every fight. After fighting for a whole night, his body was covered with scars.

Although Xie Xuanyi had the upper hand.

But his situation was even worse.

The extremely sharp sword intent was wandering around in the body. Since the cave had not been opened up, it had nowhere to go, so the pain in the soul became more and more intense.

At the end of the fight, it was impossible to tell who was better in the fist fight.

Finally, the two divine thoughts kept fighting for the disease, and the flying sword changed hands several times.

finally.

Xie Xuanyi endured the severe pain in his soul and completely seized control of the flying sword. The great Dao principles wrapped around the seriously ill flying sword were completely wiped out. The sword came out from within reach, piercing through the young and high-spirited "self" of that year, and penetrated into the center of his eyebrows, ending the life of the inner demon.

"Boom" sound.

Xie Xuanyi knelt on one knee on the heart lake.

He watched his inner demon fall into the lake, continue to fall, and finally disappear.

Just like watching myself falling into the North Sea that year.

(End of this chapter)