Chapter 249 Mocking this ridiculous world

"What?"

Qing Yuan was stunned when she heard Xue Kui's incoherent words. She almost thought that she was too tired and had heard it wrong.

"I said, Qing Yuan! I found my master!"

Xue Kui's voice was filled with uncontrollable excitement. This woman who had lived for more than three thousand years was now as excited as an eight or nine-year-old girl.

"Look, look at this!"

As she spoke, she hurriedly spread out the thick Pepsi roll on the table, then took a piece of clean rice paper and carefully placed it aside.

I saw her carefully marking the places and directions that she had previously checked off the Pepsi scroll onto this piece of rice paper.

Qing Yuan stood aside, full of confusion, completely unable to understand what Xue Kui was doing.

"Do you remember that deduction I did earlier?"

Xue Kui raised his head, looked at Qing Yuan with burning eyes, and asked.

“At that time, those Ascending Realm Sect Masters who came out of the Forbidden Bone Land kept silent and announced they would go into seclusion upon their return. Even their Daoist aspirations showed signs of wavering.

At that time, I speculated that they must have encountered something beyond common sense and incomprehensible in the forbidden area.

He might even be plotting something in secret."

“Now, look at these places.”

As he spoke, Xue Kui pointed to the locations he had just marked on the rice paper and explained, "According to the records in the Hundred Affairs Volume over the past two years, large-scale beast riots have broken out in these places. They happen to be the sects where those sect masters are located."

"And here, look at these."

Finally, when Xue Kui connected these scattered marks one by one with lines, Qing Yuan's eyes gradually widened.

At this moment, Qing Yuan vaguely understood what Xue Kui wanted to express.

Although the sects corresponding to these locations are far apart from each other and seem to have no connection, they are scattered around the Wandao Sect, echoing each other from afar, and finally outlining a huge spirit gathering formation!

The center of this magic circle is——

Wandaozong!

"This..." Qing Yuan raised her head in a daze and looked at the Blood Demon in front of her, unable to say anything else for a moment.

Xue Kui's expression was heavy, and his tone was solemn: "If my deduction is correct, they are using their own sect as a medium to try to awaken some kind of existence!"

She paused briefly, her gaze growing deeper as she continued, "Qing Yuan, I've asked you before—are all those cultivators who disappeared into the Forbidden Land of Bones truly dead? If they truly wanted to awaken something, relying solely on natural resources and treasures wouldn't be enough."

"So... you suspect that those powerful people who disappeared in the secret realm were actually..." Qing Yuan unconsciously clenched his hands, his voice trembling slightly.

"Um."

Xue Kui responded in a low voice, then turned his head and looked far away in the direction of the main peak of Wandao Sect.

"My master has always been cautious in her actions, and her cultivation has even reached the Immortal Realm. Even if something unexpected happened in the Forbidden Bone Land, she would definitely be able to escape, unless she was betrayed."

…

Deep in the main peak of Wandao Sect.

Sect leader Ding Jingyi slowly walked into a hidden cave.

The entrance of the cave is deep and the passage winds down all the way to the interior of the main peak.

He stepped on the stone steps one by one, and the sound of his footsteps echoed faintly in the empty cave, appearing particularly clear.

The entire main peak has been completely hollowed out.

At the end of the passage, there were dozens of complicated magic arrays arranged in order. In the center of each magic array, a cultivator was firmly imprisoned with black iron chains.

Their limbs were tied up and "soul-driving needles" were inserted into vital acupoints all over their bodies.

Not only was his spiritual power completely blocked and unable to be mobilized at all, he couldn't even take his own life.

The source of their lives and their lifelong cultivation were being continuously drained away like a stream.

"Thank you all for your hard work over the past three thousand years."

Ding Jingyi stood in front of the formation and bowed slightly to the ten imprisoned monks.

"Ding Jingyi! You will be punished by heaven for doing such evil things!" The former head of Luosha Hall suddenly raised his head, his eyes like knives, fixed on Ding Jingyi's face.

"Stop now, it's not too late to turn back!" The leader of Jianfeng Peak coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood, his eyes were murderous, but his voice could not hide his weakness.

However, Ding Jingyi seemed to be deaf to these reprimands and warnings.

He just paced calmly and finally stopped in front of a woman.

She lowered her head, her long hair was disheveled, and her face was as pale as paper.

But even so, the woman's stunning beauty could not be concealed.

"Rushi, do you have anything to say?"

Ding Jingyi looked at the woman and spoke in a low voice.

The woman named Zhou Rushi slowly raised her head.

Her expression was unusually calm, showing no sadness or joy.

Only those eyes revealed some sympathy for Ding Jingyi, and even a hint of sadness.

"What else is there to say? I'm just disappointed that people like you could exist in this world."

Although her voice was soft, every word was clear:

"The ancestors of the human and demon races went through so much hardship and paid such a high price to achieve today's prosperity, and yet you want to destroy it with your own hands!"

"No, you're wrong. We're not trying to destroy anything." Ding Jingyi shook his head slowly, his gaze growing deeper. "I'm simply pursuing the true meaning of the avenue, walking a path no one else has walked!"

He suddenly turned around and looked towards the deepest part of the cave, his tone gradually revealing an uncontrollable madness:

"Once upon a time, we all thought that the Ascension Realm was the end of cultivation. We once thought that since the end of the ancient times, no one would be able to embark on the true path of the Great Dao. But there is always a way out!"

His voice became increasingly high-pitched.

"I saw it with my own eyes: the radiance emanating from the heavens, the supreme power governing the laws of the Great Dao! That is what it means to be one with the heavens, that is what it means to be truly immortal!"

"And I—Ding Jingyi!"

He opened his arms as if to embrace some invisible existence.

"In a year, I will become a god-like being! The entire world will prostrate at my feet! I will truly enter immortality!"

The moment he finished speaking, Ding Jingyi suddenly activated the magic circle that imprisoned ten cultivators.

Bone-wracking pain instantly swept over everyone, as if countless knives were slicing their flesh and blood piece by piece.

Their life source and spiritual power were drawn out, turning into colorful "streams" that eventually flowed into a sculpture in the center of the cave.

The sculpture depicts a woman in a long skirt that trails on the ground, with long hair loose, holding a spear in her hand and staring ahead.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion—

The moment Zhou Rushi looked at the sculpture, a very faint smile quietly appeared at the corner of her mouth.

The smile was vague, as if silently mocking this ridiculous world.

(End of this chapter)