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Facing the suddenly gloomy Yin Tianzi, Li Re smiled and spoke again!

"You are wrong. You are just like her, and you are extremely wrong again!"

"I never thought from the beginning to the end that you were the instigator of this disaster - I said you were the mastermind behind the scenes, but you are also the driving force behind it!"

He started decrypting again.

In other words - starting to touch the secrets of this world again!

'Emperor Yin' who released the pressure frowned slightly and felt that this scene was very familiar. It was like the way Li Re talked in front of him at the end of the Yinshan assessment. After many days, he seemed to be still so unscrupulous - or it should be said that he became even more unscrupulous!

Then the old man's long beard began to flutter again without wind.

Just like the first time.

He was also suddenly very interested in to what extent Li Re could uncover the truth.

What can he discover from all the details?

So Li Re started talking again in a natural tone, as if nothing could stop him: "You let the underworld invade the center, let the underworld enter the world of the living, intentionally spread the barbarians, and accelerate the generation of calamity. Although such actions seem to be intended to destroy this place, in fact - you want to save the world!"

"Protect--!?"

Master Frost and Snow in the Yin-Yang Road couldn't help but raise his head.

'Shaoyin Siming' who stepped aside couldn't help but look at Li Re's face full of shock at being guessed right!

Emperor Yin just looked at Li Re, frowned and did not answer.

He looked at Li Re and continued, "In the final analysis, this so-called calamity itself is an inherent flaw of this mountain and sea world. It stems from the underlying logic of this world. By analogy, the so-called barbarians and monsters can actually be said to be the foundation that supports the existence of this world!"

"I had this feeling before - I felt that the so-called calamity energy was actually bred from the 'source' of the barbarians, and was a 'breath tool' for hunting creatures in the Mountain and Sea Realm - and the barbarians were the tentacles that stretched out from the source to directly feed."

"But now it seems that this feeling is not right... or rather, not accurate! Because since the 'killing calamity' is a flaw that exists in the mountain and sea worlds themselves, then the disaster that erupts every certain number of years does not seem to be external, but more like an internal self-cycle -"

"Yes, I guess that the source of the barbarians is actually a tree similar to the 'bone tree', and the mountain and sea worlds are supported by this tree. From the underworld at the bottom, the central core and the four seas and eight wastelands in the middle, to the fairyland at the upper level, isn't it also like the trunk, branches and crown of a tree?"

"It's just that such a tree itself has defects. It needs to hunt the creatures that live in its body and absorb its nutrients to grow every once in a while, so that the absorbed energy can return to itself to maintain its existence. Therefore, it is actually emitting calamity energy all the time. This calamity energy is mixed in all matter and accumulates over time. Under this principle, as long as you enter this world and absorb the energy of this world, you will also be contaminated by the calamity energy, and either commit suicide or kill others. This defect is just like the collapse and disorder of the bottom-level logic of things. Unless the bottom-level logic is directly rewritten, there is no way to completely eliminate this defect."

"And what you want to do is exactly this kind of thing - 'Yin Tianzi'!"

"The barbaric species are connected to each other and are attracted to each other. When a barbarian species is large enough, all other barbarian bone trees that are weaker than it within its influence will become its vassals, become its 'barbarian buds', and be dominated by it - and what you have to do is to turn the central world into nutrients and cultivate a 'barbarian species' that is large enough, large enough to turn the source into a vassal!"

"At that time, as long as you implant this huge Savage Seed into yourself, you can also use it to control the Savage Seed Bone Tree at the source, rewrite its defects, and change the 'logic' of its operation!"

"Yes, what your granddaughter said to me just now, that she tried to use the central nervous system to share the pressure and thus become possessed by the devil, was not wrong. What was wrong was that the person who did it was not her, but you—"

"You've been preparing for this for a long time."

"Wait till I show up."

"Only with my appearance can you have the opportunity to reshape the world after rewriting it and restore its vitality completely!"

Yes.

This extraordinary disaster, which was more massive than any previous one, was just a move in the hands of the 'Emperor Yin' in front of Li Re!

He wanted to use this to completely kill the monster.

But he will only take action if Li Re returns to Shanhai again.

because...

"Reshaping the world, turning the wheel of Guixu, you deliberately let me steal Yinshan and master the power of Guixu, just to wait for such a day, so that I can appear in the central world with this power of Guixu!"

"Thinking about it this way, my previous inference can also be overturned - the reason why the Yinshan test can attract mythical creatures such as dragons and foxes is because there is a chance to obtain the power of Guixu in that test, right?"

The demon god's eyes behind him opened like a wheel. With the spiritual energy expanding to the limit, Li Re's thoughts were flowing, and every word and sentence was like opening a God's perspective - not only breaking delusion, but also connecting everything and seeing through everything! Such reasoning and inference seemed irrational, but under the illumination of the spiritual official's eyes, there was no need to reason!

Chapter 242: The truth from a thousand years ago, Jianmu's death

Of course, although it is the power of the psychic eye, it also requires the operation of Li Re's own thinking - the power of psychic energy is just to help him capture the fleeting clues in an instant, allowing him to be aware of many details that he cannot be aware of under normal circumstances. Whether he can connect them depends on Li Re's own thinking.

And his thinking is just as he said - wild and unconstrained, never restricted. Even things that he had deduced before, he could overturn them completely without any hindrance!

So after Li Re finished speaking, the city of Lijing, which was distorted and overlapped by the power of 'Shao Yin', fell into silence again. The bloody sky spread scarlet, and countless streams of light refracted from the mirrors in the city gathered together to form a huge mirror with mottled and spreading layers of microscopic shadows. Strong winds whistled in from outside the city gate. 'Shao Yin', who was standing by the road, looked at Li Re with a solemn face and finally understood why her grandfather valued this young man so much - even though she had already known about the ghost town before, at this moment she still realized that she had underestimated Li Re.

Frost and Snow Master on the Yin-Yang Road was in a state of shock for a long time.

What Li Re said.

The 'truth' being talked about.

It seemed that even she, the long-lived Sword Immortal, had never heard of it! Even the Heavenly Sword Sect, which had been stationed in the North for nearly a thousand years, had no record of it!

however.

Judging from the reaction of the 'Emperor Yin', Li Re's words seemed to be true!

Yes.

At this moment, Yin Tianzi listened to Li Re's story and his hair and beard moved slightly, as if he was moved by Li Re's words, and it seemed that he recalled the past...

Li Re stood on the windy city street, between the carved beams and painted buildings and the chaotic overlapping of reinforced concrete, looking confidently at the old man opposite him.

"Indeed, you are very smart."

Yin Tianzi said: "It seems that the divine eye brought by the 'ghost god' has made your already active mind even more sharp!"

"But what you said did remind me of an old friend - are you interested in listening to the story from a thousand years ago?"

Thousands of years ago——?

The era when Skywalker was still alive?

Master Shuangxue thought so subconsciously, and Shaoyin tilted her head with an expressionless face but a hint of curiosity flashed in her eyes. Emperor Yin had never told her about what happened a thousand years ago.

Li Re spread his hands and said, "If I say I don't want to hear it, will you not say it?"

"of course not!"

The old man smiled!

"Then why are you asking me?" Li Re rolled his eyes and thought to himself that it seemed that everything he had just said had not caused dissatisfaction from this top figure in the Mountain and Sea Realm - come to think of it, the things he had revealed might be a shocking secret to the younger generation of this world, but it was obviously not a secret to this old man who had obviously lived for a long time, not to mention that although he had told him one by one what he was going to do, up to now, he only knew about it but was powerless to interfere.

And the facts have proved that I don’t know enough.

and so--

"You talk, and I'll listen." Li Re said seriously!

The old man raised his eyebrows and smiled when he heard this. His brows drooped as his thoughts surged and he exhaled softly, "Thousands of years ago... you should have guessed what I'm going to say."

"The 'old friends' I'm talking about are actually the stories of the last generation of 'Skywalkers' in this world!"

Skywalker... Li Re's eyes flashed and he seemed to have thought of something.

The old man ignored his reaction and continued speaking.

"'Skywalker', who follows the order of heaven, travels through the realms to fill in the gaps and nourish 'Jianmu' - at that time, I was just an ordinary 'ghost cultivator', and was besieged by hundreds of tribes in the Eastern Wasteland. Although those hundreds of tribes were not immortal, they had their own internal cycles. They had always been great enemies with the 'Yinsi' at that time - and at that time, 'Skywalker' happened to be traveling to the Eastern Wasteland, and it was he who stepped forward to save me from the hundreds of tribes."

"After that, I followed him on his tour of this world. From him, I learned about the structure and order of this world, the distribution of the four seas and eight wildernesses, and the central yin and yang of the world. I also learned the foundation of the existence of this world - just as you said, it is a sacred tree called 'Jianmu' that grows from the lowest abyss of the world and supports several 'worlds'!"

"The Jianmu tree back then was the source of the 'barbarians' today. However, there was no killing a thousand years ago, and Jianmu was not yet called a 'demon'. The mountains and seas were peaceful back then."

"And if this story stopped here, it would actually be nothing more than a journey of an ignorant person and a 'mentor' he met by chance."

The old man paused and said helplessly: "If only I hadn't been unable to resist the temptation later..."

"In the final analysis, the current collapse of the mountain and sea worlds is partly due to me!"

"If I had not been unable to resist the olive branch extended by the underworld and participated in the Yinshan test a thousand years ago, the hundreds of tribes in the Eastern Wasteland would not have come to Skywalker to question him. If the hundreds of tribes in the Eastern Wasteland had not come to question him, Skywalker would not have been injured and unable to suppress the gluttonous instinct of Jianmu, and would have had to...feed the tree with his body in advance!"

The so-called peace and tranquility in the mountains and seas thousands of years ago was actually just a hoax!

The 'Jianmu' that supported the mountains and seas existed thousands of years ago, and that Jianmu was the same as the bone tree today, and they had the same defects - it's just that thousands of years ago, there were Skywalkers, and the main purpose of each Skywalker was to 'complement' the defects.

When they are in their prime, they have the ability to suppress Jianmu's instincts and prevent it from preying on creatures from all realms.

When they are about to die, they will throw themselves into Jianmu to completely eliminate its "hunger".

The peaceful world was only possible because of the sacrifices made by the Skywalkers generation after generation - even the 'Emperor Yin' at that time did not understand this until later.

Unfortunately, when he realized it, it was too late.

"Looking back now, I was really stupid back then. I was so stupid that I couldn't figure out why the hundreds of tribes in the East Wasteland would attack me the moment I landed. I was so stupid that I couldn't figure out why the underworld would reach out to me to recruit them... They were either afraid of my potential, or they valued my abilities."

"Only Skywalker is different."

"He saw that I was just a casual passerby. He just invited me to go with him and witness this world that they have protected for generations. He once said that he hoped I would bring the memories of the Mountain and Sea Realm to other worlds. He also hoped that I could tell him about the charm of other worlds... He has never left this world, but he always believes that there are other worlds!"

"At the time, I thought the Skywalkers were a group of innocent and pure guys."

"But such a person, in the end, still died because of me——"

"He could have lived another thousand years, could have had ample time to train the next generation of Skywalkers, could have continued to maintain the balance of this world, and kept the mountains and seas peaceful and harmonious, but everything became too late because of my stupidity..."

"So that's why the 'Skywalker' disappeared suddenly thousands of years ago. After that, Jianmu gradually went out of control because it lost the suppression of Skywalker - 'calamity energy' began to appear in the human world, and monsters began to invade the human world?" Li Re raised his eyebrows and looked at the old man in front of him.

Yin Tianzi's eyes narrowed slightly but what he revealed was neither regret nor hatred. His words were light and his old and low tone flowed slowly with his even breathing. But his words undoubtedly answered too many doubts that had always existed in the mountains and seas for the two people and one ghost present!

"Indeed."

Emperor Yin affirmed Li Re's words: "This mistake was caused by me, so I should end it. Before his death, Skywalker left behind three magical things: the book, the sword, and the mirror. The book is the Classic of Mountains and Seas, which records all things in the world. The sword is the Chixiao Sword that cuts off the dragon vein of the old dynasty. The mirror is the Impermanence Mirror, which connects yin and yang and reverses life and death."

"He left the Classic of Mountains and Seas in the Ink Washing Pool in Lingnan, making it the treasure of the Ink School. He also left the Scarlet Sky Sword in the Tianshan Mountains in the north. The sword was later obtained by the Red Eyebrow Taoist, who founded the Tianjian Sect and used it to suppress the demonic disasters in the north for hundreds of years. He gave the last Impermanence Mirror to me—"

Li Re looked up at the mirror that appeared in the air and realized that this was the Impermanence Mirror mentioned by the old man. He also figured out the purpose of this mirror in an instant...

"You used this mirror to reverse the positions of the Central Realm and the Netherworld, allowing the Central Realm to be closer to 'Jianmu', leading to the current situation?" He responded knowingly.

He added: "And next, you will do as I said before - you will be inoculated with a demon, and at the cost of your life, you will rewrite the rules of Jianmu and make up for the flaws of the whole world!"

At the cost of life?

Shaoyin looked at the old man suddenly!

“Don’t show that expression—I’ve lived for a thousand years, which is almost enough. How can I not pay a price for planting such a big demon and then using its power? Moreover, from another perspective, I’m the only one in the Shanhai Realm who can afford such a price now!” Yin Tianzi laughed and didn’t care: “Besides, this matter started because of me, and I should end it completely. That’s why Skywalker left the Impermanence Mirror to me, right?!”

"After this incident, the Guixu power in Li Re's body will completely erupt - at that time, this power will sweep across the mountains and seas, and trace it back to the time before everything happened. Everyone will come back to life, and all those who died in this disaster will remain the same. He will also inherit my position as 'Yin Tianzi' - the worlds can gain such benefits by sacrificing only one old man, so why not do it?"

The old man was calm and free and easy, and he had really completed all the funeral arrangements!

So Shaoyin remained silent.

As a granddaughter, she really wanted to stop her grandfather from doing this, but as a subordinate, she had no right to interfere with the decision of the 'Son of Heaven'!

But soon, Yin Tianzi's carefree expression suddenly froze.

Because of one sentence.

A sentence...words uttered from Li Re's mouth!

"Is this also the task that Paradise gave you back then?"

Yin Tianzi's hair and beard jumped and he looked at Li Re suddenly with his pupils shrinking. The Qi cultivation accumulated over thousands of years seemed to be directly punctured by this sentence!

"You..." The old man's hair and beard fluttered in his gray robe, as if he was surprised!

"It is true." Li Re grinned and said: "Yin Tianzi, it turns out that he was also a 'player' of Paradise——"

"I found it very strange before, and I was wondering what the 'Adventer' your granddaughter called me was."

"And now I understand that the source of this word is actually you. The story you told started with your encounter with Skywalker. Normally, this is normal, but you then said that the reason why hundreds of races besieged you was because they were afraid of your potential, and the underworld valued you because of your ability. If you think about it carefully, the ability you refer to is actually a 'player', and it is the same as mine, a psychic player, right?"

"Because players are outsiders, they are not bound by this world, whether it is the calamity energy or the rules of this world itself. So the hundreds of races back then were afraid that you would break the internal cycle of their races and introduce true death into the East Desert. That's why the Underworld Ghost Mansion valued you and recruited you, in order to make death and reincarnation truly spread across the mountains and seas..."

"Of course, there is one more important point - that is, I was wanted when I first stepped into the Central Realm. I was very confused at the time. I entered this dungeon world not as a scholar taking an exam, so why was I still wanted?"

"Now that I think about it, this is the reason - because you were also a player, so the wanted order you issued was not targeting my plot identity, but directly targeting me as a 'player'!"

Emperor Yin was surprised and kept silent! Taiyin Siming and Master Shuangxue simply couldn't understand.

"I never thought that the top masters of the mountains and seas were once players of Paradise. This is a shocking truth..." Li Re continued with such emotion: "However, your plan really doesn't take me seriously, old senior!"

"You have designed it so that I can take over your position and become the new Yin Tianzi after your death... I'm not even dead yet, and you want to die?"

"Before that, do you need to confirm whether your plan can be implemented smoothly?"

"After all, now——"

"The fire has begun to burn!"

Yin Tianzi was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to sense something - his eyes trembled slightly, and he looked suddenly down at his feet!

He felt the heat and cold coming from below.