Yuanjing died in a zombie siege during the apocalypse. To gain a chance at rebirth and rewrite his life,
Yuanjing agreed when the demon—oh, no, the system—offered him the opportunity.
...Chapter 749
Although Shao Kang struggled hard and knew that something was wrong with his condition and that he had to wake up as soon as possible, the more he struggled, the deeper he fell, and watched himself fall into a bottomless abyss. The past was intertwined with the betrayal experienced by the city lord's daughter before his eyes. Sometimes he was Mu Shao Kang, who was deeply in love with Qing Yu Xianjun, and sometimes he was Cai Duanyi, who fell in love with the city lord's daughter at first sight.
In the end, Shao Kang split himself into two characters. He was Mu Shao Kang and Cai Duanyi. After deceiving the Immortal Lord Qing Yu, he ruthlessly tore her body open, took out the Qing Ying Pearl from her body, and laughed triumphantly. He then won the love of the city lord's daughter and asked the city lord to marry her to him. He took advantage of the city lord's mansion when it was least prepared and went on a killing spree to get everything he wanted.
"Are you very proud? You deceived their hearts and then stabbed them back, betrayed them and abandoned them all the time. Are you very proud?"
"Of course I am proud. Is love more important than my own cultivation and status? If I want to blame someone, I should blame myself for being too narrow-minded. I indulge in love all day long. Is there anything more important than my own strength? I just want to teach them a lesson. Never believe what a man says."
"They died because of their own stupidity. Haha, it's so funny. Even without me, there are other men who would have cheated them out of everything."
"If a man does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth. Anyone who stands in my way will be killed without mercy!"
"Hmm..." Mu Shaokang and Cai Duanyi looked down at their bodies. There was a big hole in their abdomens. He looked up in disbelief. There was a woman standing in front of him. The faces of Qingyu Immortal Lord and the city lord's daughter overlapped on this woman. "This..."
"Duan (Mu) Lang, I love you so much, Duan (Mu) Lang please stay with me. My vision is narrow, as long as I can keep Duan (Mu) Lang here, it will be enough. Hehe, you can't escape from my palm."
Mu Shaokang and Cai Duanyi heard a woman's giggling sound in their ears. He struggled hard. He didn't want to stay here. There was a more important mission waiting for him outside. It was like this in the illusion and it was the same for Shao Kang outside. His body twitched violently and his reaction was particularly intense, which amazed Yuan Jing and the others.
"What on earth did you go through to struggle like this? I didn't expect my bad words to come true." Although Qin Zichuan said this, there was still a gloating smile in his eyes.
Yuan Jing also said happily: "I guess it's about right. There's a lot of resentment in this city right now. Now it depends on how long Shao Kang can hold out. If he can hold out until dawn, maybe he can make it through."
"Resentment? Why don't I feel it?" Qin Zichuan looked left and right but felt nothing.
Yue Chenchu glanced at him and said, "Don't you understand what's going on in this city?"
"What's going on?" Qin Zichuan pondered over this and came up with a terrifying guess, "Could it be that this city keeps repeating itself like this? Is there really a very powerful vengeful spirit controlling everything? Is everything that happened back then repeating over and over again? So everything here is not real? Is it all an illusion? Are the people we come into contact with also illusions?"
As he spoke, he couldn't help but hug his arms, trying to shrink himself, which made Sanxiao and Yuan Jing laugh. Could this guy be afraid of ghosts? Is he a cultivator from the immortal world? Yes, he is a Daluo Jinxian, what has he cultivated to this point?
Yuan Jing ignored Qin Zichuan and exchanged a glance with Yue Chenchu. In their opinion, this was indeed a small world bound to the Yuxu Mirror, just like the world they had experienced. However, this world was constantly repeating and circulating. The resentful souls were powerful, and with the help of the Yuxu Mirror, this illusion was extremely realistic. Even Yuan Jing and the others had no way of telling the truth from the false, and could only make analysis and judgment based on their feelings.
"Brother Yue, do you think Shao Kahn can break free?"
Yue Chenchu glanced at Shao Kang who was trapped in the illusion and said, "Let's see when the illusion ends. If it ends at dawn, then he still has a chance of survival, after all, he has such a treasure on him."
Yuan Jing nodded and said regretfully: "Yeah, I thought so too. What a pity, I still want to see him sink into the illusion forever."
Qin Zichuan interrupted and said, "Then let's kill him?"
Yue Chenchu said unhappily, "Do you still want to leave this place? Shao Kang is very likely being targeted by the biggest vengeful spirit in the city. If you kill him, will the vengeful spirit let you go?"
Qin Zichuan quickly slapped his mouth, surrendered and stopped talking.
Yuan Jing laughed: "We can wait until the city gate opens and Shao Kang leaves the city before we take action."
"What about the Shao family?" Qin Zichuan's words came out uncontrollably again.
Yue Chenchu raised an eyebrow: "With Sanwei here, do you think our identities are still a secret from the Shao family? Who knows, the next person we might run into is Shao Lu."
Qin Zichuan wanted to dig a hole and bury himself, while the three children laughed.
So a few people sat there together waiting for dawn. In the whole city, besides them, there were a dozen monks huddled together. It was impossible to guess what had happened in the city. The city that was so bustling during the day was dead silent at night. Apart from them, there were no living people to be seen. They could only huddle together for warmth and hope that all this would end one day.
The morning sun slowly came out, and the sunlight shone on the ground again. The dead silent city seemed to come alive again like a huge creature. Qin Zichuan and the three children who witnessed it all stared with their eyes wide open, not even blinking, for fear of missing a single step. The corpses on the ground disappeared, the blood that was sprayed everywhere vanished without a trace, the men in black that appeared at night also disappeared, and the residents of the city began to get up and go out.
It's as if someone picked up a paintbrush and painted a little bit of color on this black and white drawing, making the picture more and more vivid.
The city gates opened, and the dozen or so monks who had been hiding at night ran out of the city in a panic. Everything they saw was too weird, and they dared not stay in the city any longer. They just wanted to get as far away from it as possible.
Some of the foreign monks who fainted and fell into illusions at night were completely devastated and unable to wake up. As a result, their bodies disappeared just like the men in black, and all traces of their existence seemed to have been completely wiped out by a hand. Some of them finally struggled to wake up and stumbled out of the city. The cultivation level of these people declined to varying degrees, the difference was that some people's cultivation level dropped severely, while others' dropped less.
As expected, Shao Kang struggled to wake up at the last moment. He was gasping for breath, and he had lost weight visibly, almost becoming a skeleton. There was crazy horror in his eyes, and he ran out of the city desperately. No one knew how many times he had died in the illusion, in various different ways. If it weren't for the treasure protecting him, he would have collapsed and gone mad long ago.
Damn it, why is this happening? What right does the evil spirit have to judge him? He is just a dead man, and he should disappear into thin air when he dies!
If one day he could take control of the Yuxu Secret Realm, he would destroy everything here completely without leaving any trace.
Yuan Jing took the lead and flew out: "Let's go, let's follow Shao Kang and see if he can leave smoothly."
"Can he get out?" Qin Zichuan asked curiously.
"I'm a little confused. He's clearly trapped deeper in the illusion than the others. I think he's been targeted by resentful spirits because of his past. And don't forget that he also took a treasure from the city lord's mansion. It's still with him. Can he really take it away like this? Compared to doing it myself, I actually hope that he will be trapped in this city forever, sinking into the illusion over and over again."
"... Cruel enough! But also satisfying enough!" It is hard to sympathize with such a scumbag ending up like this. As a man himself, Qin Zichuan really couldn't say a word to defend Shao Kang, this scumbag.
"By the way, did I tell you about the feud between Shao Lu and me?"
Qin Zichuan said in surprise: "Are you going to tell me? I've wanted to know for a long time." He only knew that the grudge was made in the lower world. Not only did Shao Lu want to deal with Yuan Jing and the others, but Yuan Jing and Yue Chenchu also seemed unwilling to let Shao Lu go, and they didn't want to let him go even after they came to the fairyland.
Yuan Jing smiled and told the story of their time in the lower world, especially his relationship with Shao Lu, aka Zuo Wenlu. Qin Zichuan was dumbfounded. He had never thought that Yuan Jing and Shao Lu's reincarnation were once father and son. Mother, please bring some thunder to strike him.
Later, the relationship between the two sides generally became a story of either you kill me or I kill you. This story did not end after ascending to the immortal world, but would continue until one side was completely dead.
"Damn it, how come these two brothers act so similarly? In the final analysis, they are both extremely selfish and cold-blooded."
Yue Chenchu agreed with Qin Zichuan's words: "It is very similar, and the means are just as despicable and shameless. This Shao family is really interesting."
Being able to test a child with such a character as the future heir shows that the entire Shao family is not much better than this. Yue Chenchu also suggested: "You, the Tianji Pavilion, should conduct an in-depth investigation into the Shao family, and perhaps you can find something more interesting."
Qin Zichuan chewed it over and thought that this suggestion was very good. Perhaps he could ask the Tianji Pavilion to conduct an in-depth investigation into the Shao family.
Before the incident last night, Shao Kang was still able to be alert to being spied on. But in his current state, Yuan Jing and his companions were following him openly without him noticing. He had only one thought in his mind, which was to escape. He wanted to get as far away from this city as possible.
Finally they arrived at the city gate. Hope was right before their eyes. Shao Kang's eyes showed ecstasy, and infinite strength emerged from his body. He rushed out in one go.
When he laughed up to the sky to vent the gloom in his heart, he found that he was surrounded by people. The people who surrounded him pointed at him and said whether he was crazy or stupid. Shao Kang was about to get angry, but his face suddenly changed, showing horror. He looked around quickly, and then shouted in panic: "No——"
Yuan Jing and his group followed Shao Kang out of the city and found that they had all left the city, but Shao Kang had passed through a layer of transparent film, but he was still in the city. Several people watched this scene in surprise from a distance outside the city gate, and then saw Shao Kang laughing and then screaming in fear, and then he tried to leave the city again and again like crazy, but his goal was not achieved and he was trapped in the city.
"No, it's impossible. How could I not be able to get out? By the way, where are my men?" Shao Kang hurriedly called his men to come and meet up, but none of them showed up. He didn't know that, except for him, all the people from the Shao family who came in were trapped in the illusion and never woke up again.
"No - let me go, I want to get out!"
In the end, Shao Kang threw away all the treasures on his body, but still failed to realize his wish to leave.
"Could it be that Shao Kang really can't get out and is trapped in this city forever?" Qin Zichuan certainly didn't feel sympathy, he was just curious. It was obvious that they were entering and leaving the city normally, and so were other people in the city, but Shao Kang couldn't do it. Except for them, the people around them turned a blind eye to them like puppets. The city still looked very strange during the day.
Yuan Jing shook his head: "I don't know, but I know that after a few more reincarnations, Shao Kang will be useless. Let's go, no matter what his ending is, let's leave this place first and go to the next place to take a look. There is no need to waste time on him."
As for the resentful soul, Yuan Jing did not want to interfere. The resentful soul did not block all the vitality of the foreign cultivators, so they were not affected at all.
"That's right. We can't hold out if this happens a few more times. Even if we can get out, we're really useless. Let's go." Qin Zichuan was actually quite satisfied with the result. As for what treasures Shao Kang had, he had no interest in them at all. What would the point of getting the treasures be?
Looking at his current situation, no amount of treasures can make up for it, so practicing and cultivating the mind are more important than external things. Qin Zichuan suddenly realized it at this moment.
Seeing that Qin Zichuan's aura had improved, Yuan Jing and Yue Chenchu looked at each other. They didn't expect that the one who finally helped was Qin Zichuan. This guy was indeed lucky, and he was a person who could take it or leave it.
Even Yuan Jing himself realized this truth during his journey of trials and tribulations.
This time he did not take action personally. The powerful vengeful spirit in the city avenged the Immortal Lord Qingyu. He was just a bystander and watched the whole process for the Immortal Lord Qingyu. This way, he would be able to give an explanation to the Immortal Lord Qingyu in the future.
In a blink of an eye, they returned to the dead silence of the space channel, but this dead silence was different from the dead silence in the city last night. After last night, they felt that this place was quite nice.
"Brother Jing, let's go and take a look behind this door."
"good."
Ao Xiaojin happily pushed open another door, and the group flew in. The scene Qin Zichuan saw this time made him breathe a sigh of relief. Although he was not trapped in the city and had some insights, everything he saw in that place still overwhelmed him.
Qin Zichuan just breathed a sigh of relief when they just came in, and they were attacked by a group of birds. They quickly entered combat state, but they were not afraid of fighting and killing. At the same time, they also saw that other cultivators were either being chased by the ferocious beasts here or they were chasing the ferocious beasts.
Yuan Jing's nose twitched, there was something good here.