Return to the Ruins (VIII)

A large patch of blood was scratched on the nine-tailed fox's neck. The tall fox body was shaking, and the karmic fire burning around it also weakened a lot.

There were hundreds of thousands of people here. Even if he was going through a tribulation, he couldn't handle so many people by himself, and he couldn't hurt their lives. The nine-tailed fox once again took the sharp blade and knocked hundreds of people away, leaving them seriously injured. Then he rushed to the next battle. The machete chopped him, but he didn't dodge. His real body was so huge that there was nowhere to hide.

The red peacock in the distance was surrounded, and Su Xuan rushed to save him. The nine-tailed fox ran quickly on the battlefield, jumped out of the encirclement and came in front of Liu Lixue, taking the fatal knife for him.

Liu Lixue is only at the Yuanying stage, and it is not easy for her to hold on for so long.

He lay on the ground, the wound on his neck was only an inch away from severing an artery, blood spurted out from the wound and his lips and teeth, his vision was already blurry, and he was about to face the knife of death, but the knife hit him instead -

On a nine-tailed fox.

The nine-tailed fox's true body had hard flesh and blood, so the blow was not enough to kill him, but it was enough to cut Liu Lixue in half.

“My Lord…”

Su Xuan threw him onto his back. Liu Lixue was still dazedly thinking that he could actually let Su Xuan carry him once before he died. The true body of a certain fox would never let anyone touch it. But the fur of the nine-tailed fox was covered in blood. Liu Lixue was a medical practitioner and knew how badly he was injured.

He said with difficulty: "My Lord... I can't live anymore, let me go..."

Su Xuan rushed forward and knocked the monks unconscious, shouting: "When did you become so pessimistic? He is not dead yet!"

"Take all the pills in your Qiankun bag! I'll keep you alive until Daidai comes back!"

Liu Lixue gasped for breath, spitting blood continuously, and opened the Qiankun bag with trembling hands.

His mind was heavy, knowing that Su Xuan was also seriously injured. In fact, they could only delay time and could not resist the Four Realms at all.

But he listened to Su Xuan, took out the life-saving pill, chewed it up and swallowed it with blood.

Su Xuan was hit on the leg by a sword cultivator who had reached the full state of transformation. The fox groaned and almost fell down. The cultivators around him seized the opportunity and rushed forward in a group.

However, many people descended from the sky in front of the nine-tailed fox, which was as big as a small mountain. They were well-trained and quickly blocked the attack.

Su Xuan narrowed his foxy eyes slightly, "Fu Chen?"

The man who summoned Fu Chen was a general of the Xingque Palace, and he had a large number of soldiers under his command.

He was also the one who led the troops to fight against Tian Yuxue just now.

He knelt on one knee: "Lord, it is our fault! We are foolish!"

The Xingque Palace controlled 70% of the demon world's military forces. The gates of the demon world were wide open, and demon soldiers kept rushing out with weapons in hand to stop the monks who were rushing towards Guixu like crazy, openly confronting the other three worlds.

Nearly a thousand demon cultivators gathered around the nine-tailed fox, blocking all the weapons aimed at Su Xuan.

Su Xuan said coldly: "I said I am no longer the Demon King. Do you know that if Xingque Palace protects me today, it will have to fight against the other three realms?"

Fu Chen still lowered his head, "I know!"

"I resigned from the position of Demon King in order to clear the demon world and not to implicate you!"

"But you are right!" Fu Chen shouted loudly. He raised his head and looked directly into the beastly pupils of the nine-tailed fox. "You don't like war or killing. Your subordinates all know that. Your Madam is kind-hearted. Your subordinates have met her. The people in the demon world like your Madam very much!"

Su Xuan saw three people hanging in the air. Tian Yuxue was grabbed by Ji Cang by the wrist and looked very frightened.

Ji Cang looked at him with a cold expression, his eyes devoid of emotion.

Tan Huai clasped his hands together and nodded at him.

Su Xuan understood.

Fu Chen stood up, and the armor on his body reflected the light.

"Sir, we trust you. Please lead the Xingque Palace and help Madam!"

Tie the future of the demon world to an unknown outcome. If successful, you will live.

If it fails, all the rebels will be struck to death by the heavenly punishment, and the demon world will be besieged by the other three worlds.

Su Xuan looked up at the sky in the distance, and the twin marriage contract told him that Sandi was still alive.

There have been thousands of thunders, but the twin marriage contract has become stronger and stronger.

She seems to be getting stronger.

He believed in her, and the demon world also believed in her.

The nine-tailed fox said in a deep voice: "Okay."

He mobilized the karmic fire around him to intensify it, and the sound spread to the entire battlefield.

"Demon Realm Xingque Palace, follow me and defend the barrier to the death!"

The three realms all looked towards Su Xuan.

The nine-tailed fox disappeared, Su Xuan turned into a human, and handed the seriously injured Liu Lixue to Fu Chen.

He leaped into the void, his black robe torn and stained with blood, his silver hair tied up only by a silver hairpin, and his hair tumbled in the burning fire.

The firelight shone on his face. The Nine-tailed Fox Clan was famous in all four realms for its outstanding appearance, and now it was even more eye-catching hiding in the Karma Fire Array.

Standing beside him were Tan Huai, Ji Cang, and a girl dressed in snow-white. At this moment, Ying Heng, Shen Ci Yu, and Fu You also broke through the siege and leaped into the void.

These people are known to all three realms.

There are seven people with awakened heavenly spiritual roots, six of them are here, and there is also an ancient monster.

They openly betrayed the Way of Heaven and fought against the Three Realms. What they wanted to protect was——

He is a sinner who is going to destroy the wonderland of Guixu.

The three realms were stunned, and at this moment, a bolt of thunder suddenly struck from the distant sky.

Mountains collapsed and the earth cracked, and the waves in the East China Sea rose up thousands of feet high.

They heard the voice of nothingness, which spread throughout the entire world of cultivation.

[Mayfly, dare to shake the tree? 】

The sky is vast and distant, and ancient sounds are carried to every place by the wind.

Civilians walked out into the streets and into the heavy rain.

Millions of people looked into the void.

It is raining in all four worlds at this moment.

[I want you to die, do you dare to resist? ]

[Sandei, you must die, all of you must die! ]

I don't know what happened, but He seemed very angry.

Thunder from the sky struck heavily, and thunder continued to strike the ground and the four realms.

Thunder roared from the immortal world, demon world, devil world, and underworld. Civilians fled in all directions, and those who were struck by lightning turned into flying smoke in the blink of an eye.

Someone mumbled, "The Way of Heaven... is killing people?"

He had already torn his face apart. He had been so angry that he had lost his mind after so many thunders had failed to kill Sandi.

On the battlefield, thousands of people knelt on the ground.

“He’s killing us…He’s killing us…”

"He will destroy the four realms... He will destroy the four realms..."

"It's all true...it's all true..."

Su Xuan frowned, and suddenly shouted: "Xingque Palace, return to the demon world to protect the civilians! Open the demon world's protective barrier and defend it to the death!"

Most of the cultivators from the four realms were here, floating in the sky, standing on the ground, and within a radius of dozens of miles were all cultivators, but many civilians lost their protection at that time.

The demon soldiers of Xingque Palace quickly came back to their senses and responded in unison: "Yes, Lord!"

The demon soldiers reacted quickly, dividing into hundreds of teams and teleporting in all directions to different cities to form defensive formations.

Fu Chen carried the unconscious Liu Lixue on his back and left. When he was about to enter the city gate, he turned back to look at his master.

Blood was dripping from his body, and he stood tall and slender in the void. Even though he was seriously injured, he seemed as calm as ever and had never panicked.

He has always stood in front of the demon world, and it has been like this for the past hundred years.

Fu Chen turned around and shouted, "Close the city gates, open the barrier, and protect the civilians!"

Things happened too suddenly, the Heavenly Dao split the four realms without distinction, and all those who had been blindly loyal to the Heavenly Dao for thousands of years were stunned.

Ji Cang teleported in front of a demon general and slapped him awake: "What are you still standing there for? Go back to the demon world!"

The demon cultivator suddenly raised his eyes, and his master shouted loudly: "Everyone, get back to the demon world! Protect the civilians! Don't you see that the thunder is striking the four realms!"

The demon cultivators didn't care that Ji Cang had already resigned from the position of Demon Lord. After hearing his words, they reacted and quickly got up.

"Yes, my Lord!"

Fu You also sent a message to all the ghost cultivators: "Are you staying here to wait for the thunder to strike the two cities in the underworld?"

The ghost cultivators immediately stopped: "Go back to the underworld, go back quickly!"

Shen Ciyu sent a message to the Sword Sect disciples: "Return to the Sword Sect and protect the people!"

The elders of the Immortal Alliance also responded. Yuan Lin no longer cared about the hatred and quickly sent a message: "Disciples of the Immortal Realm, return to your sects to protect the people! Open the protective barriers of each city!"

In a blink of an eye, the monks carried their knocked-out fellow disciples and teleported away to where they should go.

There were only seven of them left within a hundred miles, and thunder kept striking from the sky. The entire four realms were filled with thunder and lightning.

Qiu Chengxi had already retracted the barrier, waved his hand at them and asked loudly: "You will be struck by lightning if you stand so high!"

Even if they didn't stand so high, they would still be struck, because as soon as they finished speaking, the Heavenly Dao noticed that they were here, and more than a dozen lightning bolts fell simultaneously.

Ji Cang and Tan Huai quickly formed a protective shield, and Qiu Chengxi was so scared that he quickly shrank back inside.

He hesitated and said, "No way, are you really going to kill us?"

He didn't care much about life and death, but after witnessing the killing intent of the Heavenly Dao, he still felt a little...

scary.

And disappointment.

He is the Way of Heaven, and yet He wants to kill them. He is truly unworthy of being the Way of Heaven.

Su Xuan didn't say anything, and the nine-tailed fox disappeared in a flash.

Tian Yuxue wanted to chase after him, but Ji Cang held her back: "You're running again?! Do you think I'm dead?"

Tian Yuxue was so anxious that she slapped him on the face: "Are you sick? Dai Dai is in Donghai, I have to go help her!"

"You go help her? How many of these thunderbolts can you withstand?"

"Won't you be struck by lightning here?"

“…”

Ji Cang gritted his teeth but couldn't say anything.

You will be struck wherever you go.

They have betrayed Tiandao. If Sandy does not kill Tiandao today, Tiandao will strike them down tomorrow.

The only way to break the impasse is to help Sandi kill the sky.

Tan Huai shook his head and said, "Amitabha."

Then he teleported towards the East China Sea.

Fu You followed closely behind, and Ying Heng had already left.

Shen Ciyu whispered, "Demon Lord, Miss Tian is a girl, don't be too harsh."

Ji Cang didn't hold back when he hit her. Tian Yuxue was too white, and his elbow was red from being squeezed by him.

Shen Ciyu left after he finished speaking, still heading towards Guixu in the East China Sea.

Qiu Chengxi scratched his head. It seemed like he couldn't help because only those with awakened spiritual roots could enter. "Well... I have to go back to Chunqiu Building first. You guys should help my sister."

There were also civilians living near his Chunqiu Building.

Tian Yuxue escaped from the loneliness and desolation, "I'm leaving."

Now that she's gone, there's no use for him here.

Ji Cang was so angry that his teeth itched, but he knew that Xiaotian Yuxue was right, so he left with her.

***

Sandy could feel the surge of her own cultivation, and a faint tendency to transcend the tribulation.

She raised her eyes to the sky, and it seemed as if a pair of eyes were looking at her from behind the thunderclouds.

She spat out blood, coughed, and said again: "You want to kill me? Can you kill me?"

"You will only make me stronger, and you will be the only one to die!"

Lightning bolts struck her one after another, and with every word she spoke, the lightning bolts became heavier.

It was obvious that he wanted to kill her, but the aura around her became even stronger.

The waves of the East China Sea were surging and there were thunder and lightning everywhere.

Behind the forest on the shore, the girl in the pink skirt tightened her sleeves.

"How is it possible... Why is she getting stronger and stronger? She has already jumped over the middle stage of the tribulation..."

The young man in red behind her pursed his lips tightly, grabbed her hand and was about to leave: "Miss, we can't stay here. Sandy may not die today. We have to leave first!"

Shi Yao pushed him away and said almost madly: "Why can't she die! I want her spiritual roots, Bifang, look at the four sufferings on my body!"

The four sufferings saved her, but also tortured her.

She covered her face and broke down crying: "Bifang, kill her, kill her!"

Bifang held her shoulders and looked down at her: "Miss, I told you that I will be your last resort."

Shi Yao looked up at him blankly.

Bifang brushed away her hair that was messed up by the sea breeze and said, "Let's leave here first. Let's go."

He grabbed Shi Yao and was about to leave.

At the end of the woods, a man stood with his hands behind his back.

Seeing who was coming, Shi Yao pushed Bi Fang in front of her away.

"It's you! Why did you betray Heaven!" She pointed at the newcomer, "Heaven gave you everything!"

Bi Fang dragged Shi Yao behind him to protect her: "Miss, stop talking, let's go first."

Ah Song smiled and said, "You want to leave? Shi Yao, you should have died at the age of ten. You have been living on the four sufferings all these years. If Sandai is destroyed, the four sufferings will disappear, and the same will be true for the four sufferings in your body."

Bifang and Shiyao suddenly stopped.

They had never thought about this. Over the years, only by using their spiritual roots to absorb some of the four sufferings could Shi Yao feel better. They thought that as long as the four sufferings were eliminated, Shi Yao would be alive.

Ah Song said: "Heaven has not changed your fate, He just let you use the four sufferings..."

He smiled more happily and said, "It just extended your life for a while."

Shi Yao turned back and looked at him abruptly: "Impossible! He said that as long as I kill Sandy and get Sandy's spiritual root, my four sufferings will be absorbed. The heavenly spiritual root will absorb all my four sufferings!"

"It will absorb your four sufferings." Asong nodded: "Then you will die."

Shi Yao couldn't believe it and suddenly looked up at Sandy on the shore and the thunder in the void.

"Impossible... Impossible... He clearly said that I would live..."

Bifang hugged her tightly and gave Ah Song a fierce look: "Don't try to sow discord here!"

Asong did not refute and was even laughing.

Bifang wanted to take Shi Yao away by force.

But Shi Yao suddenly pushed him away. The four pains on her body covered her entire face and her neck was covered with black lines.

She ran out of the jungle, holding up her skirt, and was frightened to death.

"Miss!"

Shi Yao pointed at Lei Yun: "You lied to me!"

Tiandao ignored her and continued to strike Sandy.

Shi Yao placed all her hopes on God, but Asong told her that she had been deceived from the beginning to the end.

She couldn't believe it. She had been tortured by the four kinds of suffering over the years, and she regretted countless times why she wanted to seek heaven to prolong her life.

But after the regret, the hatred became even stronger.

She hated people who had a better destiny than her, hated Shen Ci Yu, hated Sang Dai, and hated everyone who lived a better life than her.

Bifang held her hand and was about to take her away, but Shi Yao slapped Bifang in the face.

"Get out!"

She had to get an explanation, so she took advantage of the fact that Bi Fang was distracted and ran faster and faster.

"You lied to me, you dared to lie to me, you dared to lie to me!"

"Who the hell are you, Heaven? Who are you?"

"Take away my four sufferings, take away my four sufferings!"

While Bifang was stunned, she ran into the range of the thunder tribulation.

The thunder that fell from all directions hit her heavily. It was a gift from heaven to her.

She dared to insult the Way of Heaven, and Heaven would strike her down.

“Miss!!”

Bi Fang flew forward and hugged her, and the lightning fell directly on him.

The young man groaned and spat out blood, his back was torn apart by the cracks.

The blood he spat out fell on Shi Yao's face, and the warm blood brought her back to consciousness.

Bifang grabbed her and quickly left the range of the thunder. Tiandao focused on dealing with Sang Dai and secretly activated the four sufferings in Shi Yao's body.

Bifang fell on the beach, mud flew up and fell on his back, mixing with blood and water to become mud.

Shi Yao raised her hands in a daze, her hands were covered in blood.

"Bi, Bifang..."

The poison of the four sufferings was churning in her, and her whole body was in unbearable pain. She knelt in front of Bifang and whimpered.

Bi Fang raised his hand with difficulty and saw her four sufferings.

He suddenly smiled: "Miss... I knew a long time ago... maybe we would end up like this..."

He has never believed in the way of heaven, but Shi Yao is desperate and grasps at the last straw.

"I told you...I will be your last resort..."

Shi Yao cried because of the pain. The poison of the four sufferings was eating away her mind and she was now screaming in pain.

Bifang raised his hand with great difficulty and reached for his spine. He followed the flesh and blood that was shattered by the thunder and grabbed his spiritual root.

He gritted his teeth, endured the pain, and pulled it out with all his might.

Asong stood by with his arms crossed and watched, then he sneered after seeing what happened.

What's the use? The ancient beast's Xuan-level spiritual roots are several times better than ordinary Xuan-level spiritual roots, but they can only be suppressed for a few years. Even if Shi Yao can obtain his spiritual roots, she can only live a few more years.

Bi Fang pulled out his spiritual root in one breath, and with trembling hands held down Shi Yao, who was writhing in pain, and cut her wrists apart.

The four sufferings sensed the spiritual root, and the boiling four sufferings actively absorbed the spiritual root.

Shi Yao's pain eased a lot. She shook her eyelashes and looked at Bifang who was lying opposite her.

"Bifang..."

Bi Fang was speechless, and he gasped for breath as he said, "Miss, I... I killed many people... Lingyun City... hid the spiritual roots I found all these years... You got my spiritual roots, plus those spiritual roots... You can... You can live... live for hundreds of years..."

"The rest of the way... you have to walk it by yourself... you are smart, you will survive..."

"You'll survive... You'll survive..."

His pupils gradually faded until the last syllable fell.

"Bifang..."

Shi Yao stared blankly at his eyes which had not yet closed.

Asong sat down cross-legged, looked at the thunder tribulation in the distance, and said calmly: "He is dead."

Shi Yao raised her hand, and pain gushed out from the wound on her wrist, which was absorbed by Bifang's spiritual root.

Ah Song said, "Shi Yao, in fact, it was the Heaven that was wrong all along. You were blinded by jealousy and hatred. But if you look back, Sang Wenzhou, Madam Shi, Bifang, and the entire Sword Sect were actually very good to you."

Shi Yao held Bifang's hand in a daze. The sound of thunder and rolling waves brought her back to her senses.

"Do I...have a lot..."

"You have a lot of love." Asong put his arms behind his back and looked up at the sky. "You are very pitiful. The destiny set by heaven for you is to die at the age of ten. But Shi Yao, I know a person who is very kind and a better person than you, but she died at the age of five."

"Life can be short or long, and there are many people who have a worse life than you, just like me."

"I don't have a lot of love, just a lot of people hate me."

Because the four sufferings are inherently disgusting, many people dislike them the first time they see them.

Shi Yao's tears rolled down the corners of her eyes as she looked into Bi Fang's already dilated pupils, but these eyes would never look at her again.

“…Are they all nice to me?”

"very good."

But they all died indirectly because of her.

Shi Yao suddenly closed her eyes.

"That's enough."

That's enough.

This is enough of a terrible life.

When she was alive, she did not cherish them, she only used them.

Shi Yao said: "A Song."

Asong said: "Yeah."

"Just kill me."

"Not alive anymore?"

"I wouldn't have survived."

Relying on Bifang's spiritual roots and the spiritual roots of those innocent monks who died, he can only live for a hundred years.

During these hundred years, you will be tortured by the four sufferings and live alone.

She is scared.

She is afraid of being alone.

Asong raised his hand and held her wrist: "No regrets?"

"No regrets...I've lived enough."

Asong broke her heart.

He withdrew his hand.

Shi Yao took her last breath and looked into Bifang's eyes. He hadn't closed his eyes yet, so she raised her hand with great effort and closed his eyes.

The slender hands fell heavily to the ground.

Ah Song heard a murmur: "I'm sorry..."

He wouldn't think that this was Shi Yao apologizing to him.

The people she apologized to were Sang Wenzhou, Mrs. Shi, and Bifang.

He was a cultivator who was killed by Bifang in recent years and whose spiritual roots were taken out so that she could suppress the four sufferings.

Or maybe, Sandy?

Anyway, the person is dead, there is no point in dwelling on it.

How sad it is to be used by heaven.

How pitiful this world is that there is such a Heavenly Dao.