Villain Master, my disciples all want to backstab me

Closer to home.

Because the ancestor Shentu himself did not show up in the bloody battle.

Therefore, Bai Yuan did not get entangled with those puppets for too long. Instead, he left the battlefield after the first wave of battle. He then searched for the breath of ancestor Shentu all the way and followed him. Finally, he found this strongest person in the realm of heaven and man in the sunrise at the easternmost part of the continent.

Then, the two celestial beings, one new and one old, broke out in an unprecedented peak showdown!

There may never be another one like him!

In that battle, the four poles were destroyed, the nine states were torn apart, the sky could not cover everything, and the earth could not support everything...

Translated into human terms, this fight between the two men directly penetrated the continental shelf.

The originally unified continent was forcibly torn into several pieces by the clash between Bai Yuan and the Shentu ancestors. One section drifted eastward along the sea, and over thousands of years, gradually became a paradise for the demon race, which is now known as the "Eastern Desolate Demon Realm." The remaining main part formed the present-day "Central Continent."

As for the islands and reefs that were affected, sunk, or appeared during this process...

Then they are scattered and it is impossible to count them.

Even the [Netherworld Sea of ​​Bitterness] that stretches between Central Continent and Eastern Wasteland was formed after the two men fought.

When the battle was at its most intense.

The entire terrain of the Eastern Region of Central Continent was being rewritten repeatedly at a speed visible to the naked eye. Countless mountains were instantly razed to the ground, countless lakes evaporated, the sky collapsed, rain and fire filled the sky, and the sea changed dramatically in just a matter of seconds!

The entire East China Sea once experienced a tsunami of over 10,000 meters, which almost submerged half of Central China.

It was the ancestor of the Ji family who walked out of the secret realm at the critical moment and joined forces with the Tan Tai family, who had just cultivated to the level of a celestial being, and the ancestor of the Xiao family, to jointly prop up the barrier to protect the earth. This barely stabilized the situation and prevented this confrontation from causing a larger-scale disaster, such as the entire human species.

However, the legend of a "world-destroying flood" inevitably emerged, and was then passed down orally from generation to generation, and has survived to this day.

Under normal circumstances.

This battle should have ended with the defeat of Patriarch Shentu.

but……

But the reality is not so.

Even the ancestor Shentu still has the upper hand!

no way.

After hundreds of years of accumulation, this guy's strength has become a bit too strong. Even Bai Yuan, who has absorbed the power of thousands of ghosts, plus the combined strength of the three ancestors, is still no match for him.

finally.

Bai Yuan died again.

Before she died, she ignited all her essence and used her life's cultivation to severely injure the ancestor Shentu. Then she sacrificed her own body, drew a line on the ground as a prison, and sealed the latter in a cave in the forbidden land of the wilderness. This gave the Ji family and the ancestors of the other two families a chance to escape.

therefore.

The descendants of the Ji and Xiao families later called that cave—

"Burial Cave of Immortals"!!

Originally, Bai Yuan should have been really dead this time.

After all, her soul was burned and her body was thrown into the "Immortal Burial Cave". Logically, she was dead.

However, as a player who acts prudently, Bai Yuan adheres to the habit of keeping a hand in reserve. Before "100,000 flags and slaying Shen Tu", he left a back-up plan -

Specifically.

She used her insights from hundreds of years of practicing the [Ghost Way], combined with her cultivation that had already entered the Heavenly Man Realm, to build a dead city in the deepest part of the Yellow Springs, where no living person is allowed to enter, and named it "Cangwu".

then.

Bai Yuan used his original "soul separation technique" to separate a strand of his true spirit from his body and placed it in the dead city.

and so.

Even after Bai Yuan's body fell, this wisp of true spirit remained immortal and burned quietly for nearly a thousand years. After a long period of time, it finally gave birth to a second life!

In this life, Bai Yuan practiced neither the [Ghost Way] nor the [Merciless Way], but instead switched to the third way of Taoism, which he had already comprehended in his first life but ultimately failed to grasp.

【Time Road】!!

after that.

Bai Yuan II stepped out of the underworld and returned to the human world, starting his revenge against the Shentu family.

at the same time.

The Shentu ancestor who was imprisoned in the "Burial Cave of Immortals" in the forbidden area of ​​the wilderness also made a new breakthrough.

- Exactly.

Theoretically, the lifespan of a Celestial Realm being isn't infinite; instead, over the course of time, they gradually age and pass away. Just like the brilliant ancestor of the Ji family, as well as the ancestors of the Tantai and Xiao families, all of them lived for around two thousand years before withering away, perishing, and turning into dust.

However, Shentu's ancestor was an exception.

I don’t know if it’s because his cultivation is too powerful, so that he transcends the gods and reaches the level of “living as long as the heavens”.

Or maybe it was because of the experience of being sealed by Bai Yuan I that his life span was extended in a disguised way.

In short.

Not only did this guy not die, but over the long years, he had mastered a set of "soul splitting" methods similar to Bai Yuan's, which allowed him to separate a strand of his soul. While his main body was still imprisoned, he returned to the human world by taking over the body of another person and continuing his activities.

The first person he possessed...

His name is Shentu Jue.

He is the fourth-generation great-grandson of Shentu ancestor.

It was also during that era that the most talented members of the Shentu tribe were considered to have the hope of becoming celestial beings like their ancestors.

but.

Ancestor Shentu had no intention of cherishing talent, and did not care about blood ties at all. He took advantage of the opportunity when this younger generation stepped into the wilderness to look for the "remains of the ancestors" and directly took over his body. Then he returned to the clan as his great-grandson and took over the clan's nest.

The next thing is simple -

Bai Yuan, who wanted to take revenge on the Shentu family, met "Shentu Jue" who was looking for her whereabouts just a few years later and fought again.

This time the beating was not as severe as the last time.

After all, neither Bai Yuan II nor Shen Tu Jue were in their peak state as they were in the Heavenly Realm in the past.

However, because "Shen Tu Jue" brought people with him, Bai Yuan had to be defeated regretfully. He returned to Cangwu County and fought for the resurrection match in the form of "true spirit" for hundreds of years, and then lived his third life!

after that.

Bai Yuan stepped out of the dead city again and again, sometimes with thousands of troops, sometimes alone. Through various means, he accumulated strength and improved his cultivation, preparing for the goal of killing the ancestor Shentu.

The ancestor of Shentu repeatedly possessed his own descendants, and occasionally possessed people from other races. He used all means to obtain resources from the outside world to develop and expand the Shentu family. At the same time, he mobilized the power of the entire clan to investigate and kill all those who might be the reincarnation of Bai Yuan.

"Maybe Bai Yuan's reincarnation" means...

During those three thousand years, almost all the cultivators who practiced the [Ghost Way] and the [Time Way], regardless of gender, age or status, were massacred by the Shentu family.

As a result, these two methods are almost extinct in the world.

Even if it appears occasionally later, they are just sporadic cases and are unlikely to become a big deal.

——This is the real reason why it is difficult to cultivate the [Way of Time] to the level of God Transformation.

Although the path of "Time" involves the laws of reincarnation and is difficult to master, over the millennia, countless geniuses have emerged, many of whom sought to challenge the higher challenges. However, without exception, they were all killed by the Shentu family before they could grow up. Afterwards, they were disguised as possessed to create the illusion that "Time" was difficult to master.

In a sense, the Shentu family's approach was not entirely wrong.

Because the [Way of Time] was founded by Bai Yuan II, there were indeed several people who practiced this way during that period who were related to her.

However, the Shentu family's perverse actions completely angered Bai Yuan.

The two sides are in a stalemate.

During the three thousand years, Bai Yuan lived from Bai Yuan II, to Bai Yuan III... and all the way to Bai Yuan XIV.

The young talents of the Shentu family would die suddenly from time to time, and in the end, only a few core members were left to be trained, while the rest of the family members were treated as consumables like the outsiders.

until……

A thousand years ago.

That year, Bai Yuan XV accidentally rescued a baby from the Ji family in southern Zhongzhou.

The baby's name is...

"Are you a child of the Ji family?"

On a misty rainy night.

The girl in red was holding a swaddling baby in her arms, with a pile of bloody corpses at her feet. In the distant mountains, there were swaying figures, ready to move, as if to kill them both on the spot.

Yet, even in this perilous situation, Bai Yuan remained calm. She even reached out a finger to the swaddled baby, teasing her while glancing at the jade pendant hanging from the swaddle. "'Lingyun', is that your name? It's pleasant to the ear, but it doesn't sound like someone with a long life."

"But that's okay."

"Since I'm here... then all of them will die."

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ps: emm, the "Burial Cave of Immortals" first appeared at the beginning of Chapter 88, and Ji Taimei mentioned it when she was speaking; the image of the "baby on a rainy night" appeared in the Wheel of Life and Death in Chapter 97, and it was one of the memory silhouettes that Bai Yuan saw in the Wheel of Life and Death. It can be regarded as a relatively long-standing foreshadowing.

Chapter 255 Ji Lingyun's "Tao"

this moment.

Ji Lingyun stood aside, looking at Bai Yuan's figure with long red hair and slightly closed eyes, and her mind unconsciously recalled her previous life.

That's right.

When she first met Bai Yuan, she was indeed just a naive baby.

But the scene when the two met could not be described as beautiful.

Ji Lingyun's life experience is a bit special.

As the brilliant and brilliant "Saintess of the Ji Family" from a thousand years ago, few people knew that she was not actually a pure Ji family member. Instead, she was only half Ji family blood, the other half coming from her mother, a wandering cultivator.

Although the Ji family did not attach too much importance to the leakage of blood, because Ji's mother's identity was a bit special and involved a notorious demonic sect at the time, Ji's father did not dare to tell the clan about it. Instead, he secretly found a place far away from the clan, secretly got married with Ji's mother, and then gave birth to Ji Lingyun.

Originally, this matter could be a big deal or a small one.

After all, the Ji family is not an old-fashioned family that sticks to the old ways. Now that the two of them have already gotten married and have given birth to Ji Lingyun, even if they return to the family, they will most likely be lenient and give her a symbolic punishment.

but……

The problem lies with the third party.

A group of "unidentified" monks learned of their whereabouts. Before Ji's parents set off, they led a large group of people to hunt them down.

This group of people is not only large in number and strong in strength, but they also have a good understanding of the Ji family's martial arts. It is obvious that they came prepared.

In order to protect his wife and daughter, Ji's father stepped forward to fight, but he was defeated by the enemy before he could gain much time.

Then, after fleeing for several days, Ji Lingyun and her daughter were surrounded in a forest thousands of miles away.

Under normal circumstances, Ji Mu might have been able to resist a bit. After all, her cultivation was actually quite high, almost at the fourth or fifth stage of the Nascent Soul Realm, and she had practiced the Blood Moon Demon Cult's supreme secret book, the Blood Yuan Heart Meteorite Art, making her a rare rival in her level.

However, she had just given birth to Ji Lingyun and was physically weak. Furthermore, she had to focus on protecting Ji Lingyun, so she could only exert 30% to 40% of her strength. Therefore, she was soon pierced through the heart by the powerful leader, and fell to the ground with her eyes wide open.

"...Humph, so they are the remnants of the Blood Moon Cult."

"I have some skills, but unfortunately not much."

"Forget it, the person is already dead anyway, so I'll just take him back and use him as a consumable for refining Gu."

The leader of the attackers kicked away the sword next to Ji Mu and gave cold orders to his subordinates beside him.

Of course, they didn't come here for any vendettas. Their primary target was the Ji family's bloodline.

After all, the descendants of the Ji family rarely go out, so it is not easy to catch a lone one on weekdays.

As for Ji Mu...

It's incidental.

From their perspective, this ordinary bloodline of humble origins was simply not worth extracting. Therefore, according to their usual habits, they usually treated this kind of woman as consumables for alchemy and weapon refining. Or, occasionally when they were in the mood, they would take her for a bit of entertainment, and then, when they were done, they would go back to refining alchemy and Gu...

But now that the person is dead, there is obviously no way to use him for entertainment, so the only option is the former solution.

"Is this child Ji Yunzhao's daughter?"

"The bloodline aura is quite strong."