Chapter 83 (1)
As if seeing his determined expression, Rong Jing, who was wearing a black robe, finally reached out his hand and took the light-colored half-opened lotus.
His fingers were the color of clear snow, with a faint pink hue at the fingertips, like a lotus with a light pink hue only at the top of the bud, pure and beautiful.
Xie Xuanqing inexplicably wanted to reach out and touch it for a moment, wanting to see if the touch of the other person's fingertips was as soft as the lotus.
But before he could reach out his hand as he wished, he felt another sharp pain deep in his consciousness, as if something could no longer bear it and was clamoring to break free from the shackles of his body.
Xie Xuanqing clung to the bay window with his fists tightly, his light grey home clothes were soaked with cold sweat, the wet fabric stuck to his skin, outlining his extremely beautiful and smooth body lines.
But no one could see such a beautiful scene. Xie Xuanqing only felt hot and painful all over, and his soul almost left his body with the strange spell ringing in his ears.
"Sir... Rong Jing." Xie Xuan whispered Rong Jing's name softly, as if just this could alleviate the extreme pain coming from his body and even from the depths of his consciousness.
A drop of sweat dripped from his forehead, wetting his thick black eyebrows.
More and more unfamiliar images appeared in his mind. He saw many images of his husband wearing a black robe like in the previous images, and also saw many images of him interacting with the young man who looked very similar to him.
Rather, he seemed to be seeing these scenes from the young man's perspective, or...memorizing them.
Xie Xuanqing was not a stupid man. Even though his condition was not good at the moment, he could not tell at first. But after watching it later, he could roughly guess what these pictures represented.
This is his memory—
In other words, all his memories from his previous life.
Another scene flashed by. As the night deepened, the quaint bluestone streets were decorated with colorful lanterns that were either delicate or grand.
People in brown clothes walked on the street with happy faces.
The revolving lantern turned gently, and the orange light spread out like flowing water.
During the Lantern Festival, the moon is bright, the frost and candlelight complement each other, and beauties and talented men meet. After years of war, the people finally have a happy and peaceful festival night.
"...You did a good job." Rong Jing's usually indifferent voice came to his ears. He turned around and saw his national teacher standing quietly on the drum tower, his eyes taking in all the people.
The streets were filled with flickering candlelight, lighting up his eyes as bright as the Milky Way.
Xie Chong couldn't help but move closer. The sandalwood scent on his body and the faint icy scent coming from Rong Jing's body blended together, which was strangely ambiguous.
"If the Imperial Master hadn't intervened, even I wouldn't have been able to change the world to this point." Xie Xuan heard his own voice, or Xie Chong's voice, with a barely perceptible intimacy in his tone, "So, I should thank the Imperial Master for changing everything to this point."
Rong Jing turned his head, and the bright candlelight in his eyes flickered for an instant, making his eyebrows and eyes look even more delicate and extraordinary.
"You are much more talkative now." He stared at Xie Chong for a while and suddenly said.
Xie Chong smiled slightly: "These are all my sincere words, please don't wrongly accuse me, Imperial Master."
They have known each other for nearly five years, so the relationship between them is naturally not as unfamiliar as it was at the beginning. Even though Xie Chong has ascended the throne, he has never regarded himself as an emperor in front of Rong Jing, but still addresses him as you and me.
It was also because of his attitude that Rong Jing did not alienate him, but obeyed his request and stayed in the imperial capital.
However, if he had known what would happen later, Xie Chong would rather Rong Jing return to the mountains, even if they would hardly see each other again in this life, rather than let Rong Jing be hated by others and plotted against by heaven for his death.
Memories are messy and complex.
Xie Xuanqing sometimes saw Xie Chong standing alone on a tall building, gazing at the deserted Observatory; sometimes he saw the two of them shaking off their guards and visiting the old city in disguise.
"After we go out, you can't call me Your Majesty anymore, Imperial Master. Just call me Xuan Qing."
"In fact, it's better to call me Xuan Qing. This name was given to me by the Imperial Master himself, and now I should be called by the Imperial Master."
His words were unreasonable. But after several years of getting along, Xie Chong had already figured out the temperament of his own national teacher. At this moment, he lowered his eyebrows and looked a little pitiful.
Xie Xuanqing: "..."
Waves of severe pain came from the depths of his soul. When Xie Xuanqing recalled this memory, he couldn't help but distract himself and think about it for a moment -
Why did the expression he showed in his previous life seem somewhat familiar: "..."
No wonder his husband would feel soft-hearted when he saw his expression... Was he soft-hearted because of himself, or because of Xie Chong in his previous life?
Even though he knew that Xie Chong was himself, Xie Xuanqing couldn't help but have a moment of doubt and...jealousy.
The sound of scriptures in his ears became louder and louder, Xie Xuanqing's lips turned pale, and the next second he saw a pale golden light of the formation light up, gently protecting him inside.
As if carrying the aura of Rong Jing himself, Xie Xuanqing rubbed his cheek lightly against the golden light, and couldn't help but reveal a smile on his lips.
He closed his eyes slightly, and the pain like a burning fire in his body became more and more intense, as if it was going to stir out every memory hidden in his soul. It was rough but extremely effective.
As his memories gradually recovered, Xie Xuanqing vaguely felt as if he had become Xie Chong back then, and felt what the other party felt at every moment -
This seems normal, after all, they... are the same soul.
Countless strange yet familiar emotions surged into his heart. Xie Xuanqing quietly felt these emotions hidden deep within his soul and let out a soft "hiss".
After countless joys, whether implicit or obvious, faded away, the emotions remaining in the deepest part of the soul finally surfaced.
Lonely and painful, helpless as if the soul is torn apart.
It is said that becoming an emperor is lonely at the top, but Xie Chong never had this feeling when he had the imperial teacher by his side.
But when the national teacher passed away, he felt a deep loneliness from the bottom of his soul.
Everyone praised Emperor Zhao as a wise and enlightened emperor, a rare emperor in history. It was a pity that he was dull by nature and had no harem, which led to him having no children. It was a pity.
However, Xie Chong himself knew that although he ascended the throne with the recommendation of the Xie family, what really made him determined to overthrow the old dynasty was when the silver-haired young man came to his door and said to him indifferently, "The Tenth Emperor is a good candidate."
He knew the myriad scenes that Rong Jing had seen after he came down the mountain, and he also knew what the other party meant by "candidate".
He was like the moon in the sky and the snow on the mountain. Xie Chong wanted to keep him by his side the first time he saw him.
For this reason, he acquiesced in Xie's secret plan to overthrow the old dynasty, and even participated in the battle himself.
It was hard to describe the feeling. He wanted to see a real smile on Rong Jing's usually cold face. For this, he could encourage himself to learn the art of being an emperor and alleviate the suffering of the people in the world.
Jiaoyue did stay by his side, but he began to want more.
I wanted to do it step by step, but it is difficult to go against the laws of nature.
He had clearly planned to offset Rong Jing's divine punishment with his own merits, but in the end he still had to watch Rong Jing's soul dissipate in the sky full of lightning.
He had not yet had the chance to see the mountains and rivers of the Zhao Dynasty with the Imperial Master, nor had he had the chance to build their ideal world together with the Imperial Master...
After the extreme heartache, there is confusion.
Emperor Zhao, who was praised as the wisest emperor throughout history and who was predicted by countless heavenly masters to be in charge of the country for a thousand years, went crazy.
He searched everywhere for spiritual objects and finally found a green wood that could nourish the soul. He then read through all the classics left by Rong Jing and directly made a deal with the Heavenly Dao using the Tenth Generation Emperor's Destiny during the sacrifice to heaven.
He made the people worship Rong Jing's name, and he tried countless methods.
Finally, I collected a faint, familiar soul that was about to disintegrate again.
——Even if he was troubled by the laws of nature, he succeeded after all.
Another wave of pain came, golden light overlapped and flowed in front of his eyes. Xie Xuan curled the corners of his lips lightly and called "Sir" softly again, then slowly closed his eyes.
The statue recited the "Soul Summoning Spell" again in the secret realm, but until the thunder struck from the sky, Xie Chong's soul was still nowhere to be seen.
When the head of the Lan family and even the head of the Huang family saw the thunderclouds gathering above the secret realm, they hid in the back. The statue saw their actions and the sudden change in the plan they had made earlier, so it couldn't help but sneer: "Do you think that if you hide in the back, the heaven will spare you when it sends down the punishment?"
As someone who has calculated against the will of heaven, the statue knows best the scene when heaven brings down divine punishment.
The vast black clouds are overwhelming, lightning is everywhere, and there are more than a hundred thunderbolts coming down!
If there is no one of high virtue or innocent creatures around to help resist, when all these thunderbolts fall on the same person, it is enough to shatter all of that person's past and present souls.
Only a hypocrite like Rong Jing would leave the imperial capital and face the thunder punishment alone in the mountains when he realizes that he is about to be hit by a heavenly calamity.
Oh……
Seeing that it could not summon Xie Chong's soul, the statue only thought for a moment and guessed that Rong Jing must have discovered something from the soul fragment he had captured before, and thus set up protection for Xie Xuanqing.
The two of them really got along well with each other, and even after reincarnation, they were still entangled with each other.
The statue might have thought before that if it had stayed with Xie Chong instead of Rong Jing, the result would be very different. But now that it was done, the statue withdrew its thoughts and stopped thinking about it, only focusing its attention on the thunderclouds in the sky.
The lightning flashed down like a snake or python and landed directly into the secret realm of the Lan family.
The head of the Lan family had originally wanted to leave while the statue was locked by the Heavenly Dao, but after hearing what the statue had just said, he did not dare to act rashly for a moment.
Although they always claim to have a clear conscience...
But thinking back to what the Lan family had done, the head of the Lan family, facing the endless thunderclouds above his head, could not say the word "guiltless".
"Hurry up and open all the other formations!"
The statue had already guessed the Lan family patriarch's plan, and after a sneer, it shouted directly.
The Lan family has been operating in Southern Province for many years, and this secret realm was passed down from the Lan family’s ancestors. Naturally, it contains many of the Lan family’s final means.
However, they had just exhausted their spiritual power to set up the Heaven-Slaying Formation. If they were to set up the formation again now, it would be easy to drain their spiritual power directly and damage their foundation.
But the thunder was right in front of them, and although the statue blocked most of the attack, the small part that fell on them still brought them extremely intense pain.
Even if their cultivation was damaged, as long as they were still alive, the Life-changing Formation could be activated again, and they could return to the peak by absorbing vitality. But if they died under the thunder, then there would be nothing left!
Thinking of this, the head of the Lan family gritted his teeth and said, "Set up the formation!"
Lan Qinghong had almost exhausted all of his spiritual power when he helped him activate the Heaven-Slaying Formation. Now, facing the thunder from the sky, he still had to try his best to transfer his spiritual power to the head of the Lan family.
The head of the Huang family also had a sullen face, with his palms facing behind the head of the Lan family, struggling to support him in opening the formation.
Fortunately, this formation is simpler than the Zhutian Formation, and the spiritual power required to activate it is not as huge as that of the Zhutian Formation.
At the moment when the head of the Lan family felt that he was about to be sucked dry, the formation runes finally lit up, and a large protective formation stood before him.
Boundless lightning struck the formation, and was then knocked down by the statue in one fell swoop, breaking through the lightning that was blocked by the formation.
Seeing this, Lan Qinghong finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Reaching out to support the head of the Lan family, Lan Qinghong asked in a low voice: "Father, are you okay?"
The head of the Lan family shook his head and then gave him a look.
Lan Qinghong understood everything and led the head of the Lan family to retreat. Looking at the statue fighting against the thunder punishment sent down by heaven, he felt a little regretful for a moment.
Although the statue had said before that in order to accomplish its purpose it would definitely attract the pursuit of Heaven, the current scene was still somewhat horrifying.
It’s not that the Lan family had never caused thunder in the sky before. One of their ancestor had a contracted ghost that broke free and brought harm to many people. For this, he was punished by thunder from heaven.
But even the extremely terrifying thunder tribulation according to the ancestral teachings seemed like child's play at this moment.
As if it had guessed what they were thinking, the statue emitted a ghostly aura, which attracted two ghost servants to block a beam of lightning. It then sneered and said, "Do you think this is the ultimate of Heaven's Way?"
"Compared to the heavenly punishment that Rong Guoshi experienced, the current heavenly way is nothing more than a bluffing lapdog."
It mocked the Way of Heaven wantonly, but its consciousness was tense and it was trying hard to find the trace of the Way of Heaven.
No matter how weak the Heavenly Dao is at this moment, once it has repaired its cracks, it will still be very easy to deal with such an evil ghost without a physical form.
It would be better to take this opportunity to hit it hard again. By the time it has truly recovered its strength, it will have already condensed its body and jumped out of the Three Realms.
At that time, what can even the law of nature do to it?
However, Tiandao, who had always been impulsive, became cautious at this time. Seeing that the formation was about to be broken up by the thunder, and several silver lightning bolts fell on the statue, his mood could not help but become even gloomier.
The head of the Lan family and others looked at the dark clouds that continued to gather in the distance, and they couldn't help but become nervous.
Could it be that after all the careful preparations made by the Lan family, they are going to be destroyed today?
Thinking of this result, the head of the Lan family couldn't help but feel more hatred towards the statue.
If it hadn't been for its instigation, although their Lan family could only rank alongside two other families in Southern Province, they were not in danger of extinction. How could they have ended up in the situation they are in today!
The formation was crumbling. The statue was confronting the Heavenly Punishment while mocking the head of the Lan Family, "What? Do you regret it? When your Lan Family enjoyed the vitality taken away by the Life-Exchange Formation, you didn't have this attitude."
Although it looked a little embarrassed, it seemed to be very calm in its words. The head of the Lan family could not figure out its strength. His expression changed for a moment, then he lowered his head and said, "Your Excellency's words are unfair to our Lan family. We, the Lan family, are grateful for being able to practice with you, so how could we regret it because of a mere heavenly punishment?"
After they survive this thunder catastrophe and the way of heaven is no longer able to continue, it will be time for their Lan family to expand and develop.
The statue snorted after hearing his words of loyalty, but did not say whether it believed it or not. It just said, "Everyone, step back."
When the head of the Lan family heard what it said, he quickly pulled Lan Qinghong back.
The head of the Huang family and others also acted extremely quickly.
Then, the statue that had been sitting on the platform suddenly moved.
It was clearly still a wooden body, with a layer of human skin-like luster mottled across it.
It was not noticeable when it was hidden among the shrines, but when it appeared under the lightning, its extremely strange image frightened everyone in an instant.
The statue also knows that its current appearance is neither fish nor fowl, but in order to perfectly integrate vitality and luck into a physical body, the power of will required is extremely strong.
Even though the Lan and Huang families intended to collect power for it when they set up the life-exchanging array, it was still too little, too little.
The most direct method is to directly seize the wishes that Xie Chong had collected back then, which were the wishes that the people had spontaneously and devoutly given.
That is the most suitable existence in the world for condensing the physical body.
It’s a pity that Xie Chong’s soul is still trapped in his body... If I had known earlier, I should have forcibly brought him to the secret realm to deal with him.
Many thoughts flashed through the statue's mind, and finally it regained its consciousness. Its slightly illusory body half floated in the air, confronting the thunder in the sky.
The reason why it felt so upset towards Rong Jing was because it believed that its strength was not much inferior to Rong Jing's.
If it hadn't been involved in the conspiracy back then, Rong Jing might have been able to survive such a huge catastrophe.
Since Rong Jing can do it, why can't it do it now!
The dark robe fluttered in the lightning. The statue raised his hand, and a dark long whip appeared in his hand.
Lightning flashed and the black whip was like a giant python, shuttling between the thunderclouds and devouring them.
However, the Way of Heaven is the Way of Heaven after all. Even though its strength is not bad, it gradually fell into a disadvantage in front of the Way of Heaven.
The statue gritted its teeth and raised its hand to continue setting up the formation.
However, it is now the body of a fierce ghost, and the spiritual power it can mobilize has long been transformed into ghost power. When facing Gang Zheng's fierce heavenly thunder, it is naturally weaker.
The formations were broken one after another. The statue thought of Rong Jing's appearance when he was resisting the heavenly punishment. His expression was gloomy, but he was still madly squeezing his ghost power to break the heavenly calamity.
If Rong Jing could do it back then, it can do it now too!
As if overwhelmed by its momentum, the dark clouds in the sky seemed to have actually faded a little.
As lightning flashed, a ray of sunlight seemed to appear on the horizon.
Seeing this, the statue was even more moved.
Black ghostly energy permeated its entire body, resisting the final heavy blow from Heaven.
"snort!"
The last ray of lightning was also the one that took the longest time to accumulate power as a heavenly punishment.
When it struck down with a loud bang, the lightning as thick as a water tank almost illuminated the entire secret realm.
The statue barely withstood the blow, but its foundation was also injured, and its physical body, which had been absorbed and refined by the Lan and Huang families, was almost reduced to its original form!
There was a charred stain on the wooden statue. The statue took a few steps back, watching the dark clouds in the sky dissipate, with the corners of its mouth raised stiffly.
But the next moment, its smile froze.
"You... actually came out." The head of the Lan family and others looked in the direction of the voice, and saw Rong Jing and others bypassing the maze they had set up before and appeared in front of them.
No wonder, no wonder the Heavenly Dao would be so cautious in retaining its power...
The statue had a gloomy expression, but its eyes were staring at Rong Jing uncontrollably.
The other party still had that cold look on his face, and even that overly beautiful face began to look annoying.
The statue didn't know what it felt at the moment. It thought it hated Rong Jing and wished that his soul would be shattered in the heavenly punishment of that year, or that he would die in the Heaven Punishing Formation.
But when Rong Jing appeared in front of it alive at this moment, it suddenly felt a trace of nostalgia in its heart.
"Long time no see, Master Rong." The statue exhaled softly, and said with a gloomy wooden face.
The young man with long silver-white hair naturally heard the voice, raised his eyes slightly, and asked, "Who are you?"
statue:"……"
"You don't remember me?!" it asked incredulously, its expression even more ferocious than when it faced the punishment from Heaven just now, "You don't remember me?!"
Rong Jing raised his eyebrows slightly, vaguely sensing a sense of familiarity in that extremely strange, wooden, handsome face.
However, this familiarity did not leave a deep impression in his heart. Coupled with what the statue had done, Rong Jing frowned but did not answer it.
But the statue's expression was even crazier: "Hahahahaha! As expected of you, the almighty Master Rong. It turns out that nothing in this world is worthy of your eyes, right?!"
It remembered why it was so jealous of Rong Jing. Besides the fact that the other party's strength was obviously similar to its own, in the end, whether it was the people of the world or the historical heritage, Rong Jing was the only ancestor of metaphysics recognized by them. It was also because of Rong Jing's attitude.
It seemed that the other party had never considered its existence, even though its strength was so powerful. But in Rong Jing's eyes, there was still only Xie Chong and the so-called people of the world.
How arrogant, how...hateful.
After solving the Zhutian Formation, Rong Jing originally planned to let Master Long Tian and the others stay there to protect ordinary people, while he came here to look for traces of the statue and the Lan family and others.
But after hearing his plan, Master Long Tianshi and others simply shook their heads and rejected his request.
The Lan family and even the statue were undoubtedly extremely dangerous. Although the Heaven-Slaying Formation had been broken, they might not have no other means.
Rong Jing is indeed very strong, but that doesn’t mean they can feel at ease watching Rong Jing face danger alone.
The other Heavenly Masters had the same idea. In addition, the ordinary people did not dare to stay where they were, so they followed them.
When they saw the statue, they were frightened by its strange appearance. After hearing the statue's emotional words, Long Tianshi and the others came to their senses and subconsciously looked up at Rong Jing who was not far ahead.
...Master Rong, is this what they think it means?
Although all the previous events were not without signs, such as Rong Jing's extremely high level of cultivation, and his understanding and attainments in many ways of cultivation.
The lost formations and talismans were readily available in his hands. Spiritual energy transformed objects and the void became talismans...
He was an existence that surpassed all the Heavenly Masters of this era. It wasn't that no one had doubted his identity, and had doubted where his cultivation came from.
But no one would ever dare to imagine that the Rong Jing in front of them was actually the National Master Rong Jing who dared to challenge the Way of Heaven and changed the dragon veins of the world hundreds of years ago!
But when they gradually brought this speculation into the picture, all the previous weirdness seemed to be explained.
Why does Rong Jing have so many lost talismans and formations?
Because he was the one who created these talismans and formations.
Why is his cultivation so high at such a young age?
Master Rong Guo was born with spiritual powers. The spiritual energy in his hands was as obedient as if it were something he himself had created. Add to that his extraordinary comprehension, how could his cultivation not be high?
The more they thought about it, the more they felt that this statement was true. They stared at Rong Jing's back, nervously waiting for his answer.
However, Rong Jing, who was being stared at by so many pairs of eyes, did not turn around to answer their questions.
His amber eyes gently raised to look at the statue in mid-air, until the mockery on the other's face gradually faded, he spoke: "Yuan Xiu."
Yuan Xiu is the real name of the evil spirit living in the statue.
It had been a long time since he heard anyone call him like this, and the smile on Yuan Xiu's face finally disappeared completely.
It stared at Rong Jing with a gloomy look, and after a few seconds it said, "So you still remember?"
Rong Jing didn't lie to it, and just said: "Yeah, I just remembered."
For Yuan Xiu, too much time had passed, but for Rong Jing, it didn’t seem like that long.
He slept in the soul-nourishing green tree for who knows how many years until Xie Chong's arrangement began to work. When he opened his eyes, he came to the present era.
Rong Jing's impression of Yuan Xiu also became clearer as he recalled.
The opponent's strength was indeed not inferior to his, but Yuan Xiu was too conceited, and he unconsciously looked down on ordinary Heavenly Masters and even ordinary people. Rong Jing had fought with it at that time, but he had forgotten what the outcome was.
For Rong Jing back then, there was really no need to remember these things too clearly.
Yuan Xiu uttered a light "huh", also not surprised by his answer.
"I really still hate you." It said, "The Heaven favors you, Xie Chong loves you, and even the people of the world are willing to pray for your resurrection... I am clearly as powerful as you, but I can only be suppressed by your brilliance. How can I accept this?"
Its words vaguely revealed a clue as to why he was reborn in this era. Rong Jing's brows moved slightly, but he said: "Xie Chong and I are close friends."
Besides, when did Heaven favor him?
At that time, he was just using the Zhoutian Gua to calculate some things, and the Heavenly Dao came out in a hurry to stop him, fearing that he would want to overturn his arrangements again.
"Best friend... what a good best friend!" Rong Jing's tone was calm, but it inexplicably aroused the resentment in Yuan Xiu's heart, "So you best friends would sacrifice your merits and fate in exchange for a glimmer of hope given by the Heavenly Dao in order to revive your friends?"
In order to prevent Rong Jing from being affected after his resurrection, Xie Chong even ordered the historians and the public to delete these things after he had designed everything.
With such a relationship, do you have the nerve to call yourself close friends?
Although he already had a guess in his mind, Rong Jing couldn't help but shrink his pupils when he heard Yuan Xiu talk about Xie Chong's merits and fate.
Rong Jing pursed his thin lips and his expression became even colder.
"You don't know, do you? That's right. Xie Chong put a lot of thought into keeping you in the imperial capital. Unfortunately, all his plans have served me well."
"If he hadn't kept you, how could I have designed the heavens to punish you?"
It said with a low laugh, and its tone seemed to be leading Rong Jing to hate Xie Chong.
However, Rong Jing did not pay attention to the provocation in its words, and only nodded slightly: "I really didn't know that before, thank you for telling me."
Yuan Xiu: "..."
It was like punching cotton, and Yuan Xiu became even angrier.
Barely suppressing the anger in its heart, it asked, "How did you break my Heaven-Slaying Formation?"
The Heaven-Slaying Formation was a formation that it had carefully designed. Even the Heavenly Dao would suffer a loss in this boundless killing formation. However, although Rong Jing and the others looked a little embarrassed, they did not seem to be injured.
Even though this Heaven-Slaying Formation was much weaker than the one it had set up itself for various reasons, even if the person who set up the formation entered it, it would be difficult for him to get out so easily if he did not know the core of the formation.
Wait, the core of the formation...
It's impossible! It has clearly placed the core in a place where no one can find it. Apart from itself, even the head of the Lan family who set up the formation will never be able to find it!
However, Rong Jing's next answer directly crushed its self-consolation: "I found the core of the formation."
Yuan Xiu blurted out: "How is it possible!"
However, nothing is impossible.
At that time, Rong Jing had already vaguely felt the edge of a method to break the formation, and the appearance of Mr. Xu was the key to unlocking this mystery.
——The line of cause and effect.
Among the people who were trapped in the Zhutian Formation at that time, the one who had the most interactions with the Lan family, apart from the people in the special department, was Mr. Xu, who had previously questioned the head of the Lan family.
He forced the head of the Lan family to answer his questions, and in order to gain the trust of everyone, the head of the Lan family promised Mr. Xu on the spot that he would protect their personal safety in the secret realm.
The Heavenly Master is a person who practices cultivation, and the power of cause and effect exists when he speaks.
Since he had promised Mr. Xu to protect his personal safety, in the eyes of Heaven, a faint causal connection was established between them.
This causal relationship is not profound, but because of the identity of the Lan family's head as a heavenly master, it does exist.
When Mr. Xu was trapped in the Zhutian Formation, because the nature of the Zhutian Formation was a killing formation, countless murderous auras directly threatened Mr. Xu's life safety, and this cause and effect relationship naturally became apparent.
But ordinary Heavenly Masters would not deliberately pay attention to this kind of causal connection. It was just that Rong Jing had a direct confrontation with Lan Qinghong before, and there was some karmic relationship between the two. Although the Heaven-Slaying Formation came from Yuan Xiu, the person who actually arranged the formation was the Lan family.
Countless causes and effects were entangled together. Rong Jing directly extracted all the cause and effect lines related to the Lan family from Mr. Xu and others in special departments, and finally pointed to a certain direction in this formation.
This method of breaking the formation looks simple, but it consumes a lot of energy.
If it weren't for a top-notch celestial master like Rong Jing, who had extremely profound cultivation and knowledge, the moment the thread of cause and effect was extracted, he would probably be directly immersed in the huge force of cause and effect, and would find it difficult to escape.
When Master Long Tianshi and others recalled the extremely dangerous aura that was lingering on Rong Jing and even around him at that time, they couldn't help but turn pale.
Although their cultivation was not enough to allow them to glimpse the existence of those causal relationships, it was conceivable how many evil things the Lan family had done in the past and how huge the causes and consequences were. To find the most accurate causal line among these countless causes and effects that could directly point to the core of the formation, just thinking about such an action would make people despair.
However, after finding the most accurate line of cause and effect, the location of the core of the formation was indeed exposed.
Rong Jing did spend a lot of spiritual energy when he set up the Seven Star Moon Protection Formation, but he himself had a strong attraction and assimilation ability for spiritual energy. After slightly adjusting his state, he directly summoned the spiritual pen and wrote down countless exquisite and mysterious runes one by one.
He dared to challenge the will of heaven at a young age, not because of his courage alone, but because of his strength that could be called powerful.
Just like a slow-motion scene in a movie, the four ferocious beasts gradually disappeared, and between flashes of lightning, Rong Jing stood in front of the formation and just raised his hand slightly. The Heaven-Slaying Formation that had previously hindered them and given them infinite despair and fear was quietly broken.
Recalling the scene at that time, Master Long Tianshi and others are still overwhelmed with emotion.
With such strength, if he is said to be indeed Master Rong himself... it is indeed irrefutable.
Yuan Xiu also reacted after blurting out the rebuttal.
At that time, it was dealing with the thunder punishment sent down by Heaven, but ignored the situation on the side of the Heaven-Slaying Formation.
It could be said that it was arrogant, but it never thought that Rong Jing could so easily break the super killing formation that it had spent several years researching. Even when the formation was broken, the other party did not suffer any serious damage!
This is simply a naked statement that it is Yuan Xiu, and it is no match for Rong Jing——
It's not willing to give in!
A hint of ruthlessness appeared on Mu's face. The head of the Lan family sensed something and was about to turn around to avoid it when an extremely strong suction force came from above his head.
Yuan Xiu, who was originally confronting Rong Jing, suddenly attacked and grabbed Rong Jing's head with one hand, absorbing the remaining spiritual power and tremendous vitality in his body.
The body that had been struck by the thunder and almost completely turned back into wooden material suddenly had some of the luster of human skin. Yuan Xiu enjoyed the wonderful feeling after the vitality in his body was transformed into strength, and narrowed his eyes slightly.
An extremely powerful light golden spiritual power came over.
Yuan Xiu threw aside the head of the Lan family, who had shriveled up in an instant and was barely breathing, but he licked his fingertips and pounced on the head of the Huang family and others who were retreating rapidly.
Rong Jing's expression turned slightly cold when he saw this, but he directly took the long whip made of spiritual power and swung it with a flick of his wrist.
The overwhelming whip shadows instantly stopped Yuan Xiu's actions, and Master Long Tianshi and others also moved at this time.
They couldn't intervene in the fight between Rong Jing and Yuan Xiu, but the people from the Lan and Huang families...
Even though their strength had increased due to the vitality gathered in the secret realm in the past few years, the Lan family was a ghost-controlling family. In order to stop their steps just now, plus the number of people consumed when resisting the thunder tribulation, there were only three or two people in the field who could summon ghosts to fight;
Although the Huang family does not rely on the use of ghosts, the way they practice is extremely dependent on the foundation of spiritual power.
But it happened that they had activated several large formations in succession before, and almost all of their spiritual power had been exhausted on the head of the Lan family. At this time, he also did not have much power to resist!
Master Long Tianshi and others controlled the Lan and Huang families and then they breathed a sigh of relief.
If Yuan Xiu were allowed to absorb the remaining vitality and spiritual power in these people's bodies, it would probably be even more difficult to deal with them in the end.
The nutrients were taken away in an instant, but Yuan Xiu remained calm.
"Do you think... you are really safe like this?" It murmured in a low voice, and the ghost aura on its body became stronger.
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