Fu Changling's call was transmitted through the sound of water and fell into Qin Yan's ears.
The call was very faint, as if it came from a very far away place. Qin Yan felt that it seemed somewhat familiar, but he couldn't remember it at all.
Who is...
Qin Yan slowly opened his eyes and saw a young man standing under the water column, reaching out his hand towards him.
"Senior Brother..." Fu Changling choked out a sob. He saw the completely unfamiliar emotion in Qin Yan's eyes, and his tone couldn't help but tremble a little. "I am Changling, Fu Changling."
Qin Yan quietly looked at Fu Changling in the water. He opened his mouth and called out his name in a stiff voice: "Fu... Chang..."
Before he could finish his words, Fu Changling felt an extremely powerful spiritual power suddenly pouring into the room, instantly forcing his soul back. Fu Changling opened his eyes and saw snow flying all over the sky above Qiankun City again.
Inside the Wuque Palace, Qin Yan uttered the last word "Ling" and fell asleep again.
After Qin Yan fell asleep, Jiang Yebai appeared in the room. Shangguan Mingyan and Mingxiu, the demon envoy who had emerged from the prison, followed Jiang Yebai. The three of them approached Qin Yan. Mingxiu immediately stepped forward and scanned the water column with his spiritual sense. He frowned, "Fu Changling woke him up once."
"What will happen?" Shangguan Mingyan frowned. Mingxiu hesitated for a moment and said slowly, "He might remember something about Fu Changling. Demon Lord," Mingxiu said, looking up at Jiang Yebai and still admonishing, "Why are you making it so complicated and trying to change your feelings? Wouldn't it be better to just let him forget everything?"
"If that's the case," Jiang Yebai said slowly, looking at Qin Yan in the water column, "I'm afraid his path to cultivation is coming to an end. Cultivation is all about understanding the mind. He has no memories, so he has to start all over again."
"If he changes his feelings," Shangguan Mingyan said with a complicated expression, "doesn't he need to start over?"
"He originally practiced the ruthless way," Jiang Yebai looked at Qin Yan, "It's okay."
Jiang Yebai turned around and looked at Ming Yan: "Where is Fu Changling now? Have you found him?"
“No.”
Shangguan Mingyan said respectfully, "We're still searching. We only know he should be in a place called Qiankun City, but the exact location of Qiankun City is still being investigated. It should be built in a natural hidden place."
"Let's look for Mingxiu first," Jiang Yebai turned to look at Mingxiu, who was concentrating on examining Qin Yan, and said in a calm voice, "When will Yanming wake up?"
"Ten days later," Ming Xiu replied, "He should be able to wake up."
"Then let's set it for fifteen days later."
Jiang Yebai closed his eyes and said, "Give orders to capture the people from all the major sects and bring them to Wuqi Palace. Fifteen days from now, during the ceremony to crown the Sui Yan Demon Lord, these people from the sects will be used as sacrifices to help Yan Ming advance."
"Demon Lord," Shangguan Mingyan raised his head abruptly upon hearing this, frowning and saying, "What Daoist Master Yan Ming has learned is Yunze's most orthodox mental method, the mental method of the Karma Prison..."
"You can learn." Jiang Yebai said firmly. He opened his eyes and turned to look at Shangguan Mingyan. "You must remember, I am from the Yeyu Prison, he is from the Yeyu Prison, and you are also from the Yeyu Prison."
Shangguan Mingyan's entire body trembled. After a moment, he lowered his head and replied in a hoarse voice, "Yes, I will remember this."
After receiving Shangguan Mingyan's response, Jiang Yebai did not reply. After a long while, he said tiredly, "Let's go."
While Jiang Yebai was talking with Shangguan Mingyan and others, the servants of Wuque Palace began to clean up the corpses of the Fu family.
The moment they touched the corpse of the Fu family disciple, the body of the Fu family member instantly turned into gold particles and dissipated into the air.
Those golden particles floated all the way with the wind and slowly came to Qiankun City. Fu Changling stood on the high tower and felt an invisible will of heaven lingering in the wind and slowly merging into his body.
Fu Yushu sat in the room, watching the extinguished Fu family soul lamp. After a long time, he hugged the sword and closed his eyes.
Su Wenji walked up the tower step by step and came to Fu Changling's side. Fu Changling closed his eyes and meditated. Su Wenji smiled and said, "Your revenge has been avenged. Fu Minglan and his disciples broke into the Wuque Palace alone and died."
"I know."
"Daojun," Su Wenji placed his hands on the green bamboo staff, "are you still going to save A Yan?"
After hearing this, Fu Changling turned around and looked at Su Wenji.
"Since you are here, you must have a way to stop me."
"How can I stop Daojun?" Su Wenji laughed, "I just want Daojun to think about it."
As he spoke, Su Wenji raised his head, as if he could see something, and suddenly asked, "Does Daojun know why you and A Yan came to this world?"
"You really know everything."
"When I was eight years old, I obtained the Eye of Destiny and saw Yunze's end. Not only did I see the end, I also received an order. That order was given to myself by my future self."
"He said, 'You carry the merits of both worlds, so you can transcend the limitations of this world and allow me to summon you.' At eight years old, I didn't actually understand what my future self was saying. I could only tell my father everything I saw, heard, and knew."
"That night, my father did not sleep all night, and then the Su family made a decision."
"The Su family decided to follow what I saw and activate the summoning circle to call you back. But summoning two dead people across two realms requires too much of a price to pay."
"What's the price?"
Fu Changling turned to look at him. Su Wenji was looking into the distance. After a long moment, he smiled and said, "I just remember that day. My mother and the three generations of Su family disciples were all in the formation."
"Then they fell one by one, and their blood soaked through my clothes. I couldn't see, but I felt something wet on the edge of my clothes. Then I crawled over to find my mother, but when I touched her clothes, she was no longer able to speak."
"I hugged her and cried the whole time. I asked my father why, and he told me it was to allow more people to survive."
"The struggle between the two worlds has long ceased to be about right and wrong. It's just that everyone is desperately trying to survive. Daojun," Su Wenji raised his eyes and looked at Fu Changling, "It's not that I don't want to save Qin Yan, but you must know that from the time you came to this world to the time I stand here, we have been stepping on corpses all the way. I cannot let down those who sacrificed their lives, and Daojun, do you want to let them down?"
Fu Changling remained silent. He stared at Su Wenji, who rarely lost his smile. "A world like Yunze where only you and Qin Yan are alive, or where you two are already dead, is that the world Daojun wants?"
"Actually, I don't understand."
Fu Changling's voice was filled with confusion: "Why did it come to this?"
Su Wenji listened to Fu Changling's words and laughed: "Who knows?"
"How did Karma Prison come about?"
Fu Changling spoke coldly. Su Wenji paused for a moment and then slowly said, "Three thousand years ago, due to differences in their mental methods, the immortals and demons fought each other. After Ye Lan defeated the Demon Lord, he divided the world into two. The immortals were born in Yunze, and the demons were driven to the Hell of Karma."
"To protect his people, the Demon Lord voluntarily allowed himself to be sealed away and fall into a deep sleep. He made a pact with Ye Lan that Ye Yu would use his spiritual energy to help Yun Ze recover. He left four of his energy channels sealed, allowing Yun Ze to draw spiritual energy for two hundred years. After two hundred years, the four channels would be closed, and the two worlds would be separated from each other."
"However, a hundred years later, Ye Lan passed away. He gave the mantra for sealing the Qi channels to his disciple Gu Hongzi, and asked Gu Hongzi to close the Qi channels after a hundred years."
"Gu Hongzi is fine."
Fu Changling reacted instantly, and Su Wenji chuckled, "A hundred years later, Yunze's spiritual energy revived, ushering in a golden age of cultivation. Gu Hongzi saw that everything was flourishing, and for Yunze's sake, he and the high-level cultivators of that time decided to conceal the matter of the Qi channels and not close the four Qi channels."
"Three thousand years is enough time for a person to reincarnate several times, and it's also enough time for deliberately hidden history to be completely forgotten."
"Over time, everyone even forgot that there is a place called Karma Hell."
"So, Yunze's spiritual energy has been depleted for a long time." Fu Changling murmured, and Su Wenji sighed, "Probably."
"But what can we do?"
Su Wenji raised his hand to catch the falling snowflakes, which melted in his palm. "In the eyes of Heaven, all living beings are ants. There's no such thing as good or evil. As long as we can survive, that's already a great virtue."
Fu Changling was still dazed, and Su Wenji gently held his palm: "So, Daojun, have you made a decision?"
Fu Changling did not speak. What he saw before his eyes was the last image of Fu Minglan, the image of the Fu family disciples lying on the long steps of the Wuqiu Palace and turning into golden particles, and the image of Yunze's last ten years, with the grass and trees withering and the ground covered with bones.
Su Wenji stood in front of him with a smile on his face. He couldn't help but think of Su Wenji in his previous life, who was full of aura, his body like a green pine covered with snow, and his smile like the bright moon and the fresh breeze.
Is Su Wenji's mother still alive in his previous life? How many people are left in the Su family in his previous life?
Fu Changling didn't know, but he knew clearly that Su Wenji was right about one thing.
Whether it was him, Qin Yan, or Jiang Yebai, the reason they could stand on the sea of suffering was because someone had built a floating boat with bones under their feet.
He wanted to be more willful and said that he was going to save Qin Yan, but the moment he opened his mouth, what he saw was Qin Yan's eyes opened in the water column.
Even though there was no sadness or joy in his eyes, one could still clearly sense the meaning in them.
His senior brother, his Qin Yan, would never allow him to disregard all living beings for his own selfish desires.
Fu Changling took a deep breath and finally turned around: "I will comprehend it as soon as possible. During this period, I will save as many people as I can."
The wind blew through Fu Changling's wide black sleeves embroidered with golden cloud patterns, and he returned to the center of the Enlightenment Tower formation.
Then he closed his eyes and tried to feel the direction of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
The so-called understanding of the way of heaven is essentially about touching the operating laws of this world. If you can figure out the operating rules of this world, you can break through and ascend, and use the way of heaven for your own benefit.
Jiang Yebai was still one step away from ascending to heaven, and even in his previous life's prime, he might not have been able to compete with him. The gates of the Karma Prison were now wide open. If Jiang Yebai found Qiankun City and attacked it with all his might, Yunze would not even be able to hold on to his last position.
Su Wenji was right. Now Yunze’s last hope lies only in him.
He is already in the Tribulation Crossing Stage. If he can comprehend the Way of Heaven and use it for his own benefit, he can reach the level that Ye Lan reached back then and once again drive the people in the Karma Prison back to Karma Prison.
Fu Changling closed his eyes, trying to feel every movement of the world. He reached out to the vast sky, exploring the trajectory of fate corresponding to the stars. He repeatedly felt, divined, and deduced.
At this time, Jiang Yebai's order had already been given, and the Wuqiu Palace began to capture cultivators everywhere. All cultivators above the Foundation Establishment stage were their prey.
The cultivators who are still wandering outside are all ordinary cultivators who have been abandoned. They have ordinary talents and have no future in the path of cultivation. The head monks have already entered Qiankun City for protection, and they have become fish in the sea and can be slaughtered at will.
Fortunately, Xie Yuqing led a team of people who volunteered to leave Qiankun City. He commanded from outside and led these ordinary cultivators to form a team and escape all the way.
Since Qiankun City refused to accept them, Xie Yuqing built his own city and vowed to resist to the death.
The demon cultivators of Wuque Palace had originally intended to organize an attack on Xie Yuqing's city, but when word reached Shangguan Mingyan, he stood on the Wuque Palace corridor, gazing into the distance. After a long moment, he said calmly, "Avoid Xie Yuqing."
Now Jiang Yebai is busy repairing his soul, and the actual person in charge of Wuque Palace is Shangguan Mingyan. After Shangguan Mingyan said this, no one dared to say anything.
So Xie Yuqing's city became the last refuge for ordinary cultivators.
Ten days later, a brilliant light shot up from the Wuque Palace into the sky, and then Jiang Yebai's voice was heard from afar.
"The laws of nature are in order, and the most important thing is the Bingxu year. My disciple Yan Ming is approaching his twenties. Tomorrow morning, we will hold a special ceremony to enfeoff envoys at the Wuqi Palace. We will sacrifice tens of thousands of lives of Yunze ants to help our disciples overcome the calamity. We specially invite Lord Huayang to come to the Wuqi Palace in person, prepare a bed and feast, and watch the grand ceremony."
Fu Changling suddenly opened his eyes, and Su Wenji, who was sitting cross-legged at the edge of the formation, also opened his eyes and calmly reminded Fu Changling: "Daojun, calm down."
Fu Changling pursed his lips and turned to look in the direction of Wuque Palace.
Su Wenji frowned and reminded, "Daojun, close your eyes."
Fu Changling forced himself to turn his head.
He forced himself to calm down and keep his head down.
The most important thing now is to comprehend the Way of Heaven as soon as possible. If he can comprehend the Way of Heaven, everything will be solved.
But he still couldn't calm down, his hands couldn't help but tremble. Seeing his expression, Su Wenji raised his hand and pressed it on the formation. The Heart Purification Technique emerged from the formation. Su Wenji said in a steady voice: "Daojun, their goal now is to force you out."
Fu Changling has not yet passed the tribulation. If he goes out, Jiang Yebai can kill him directly when he is still a seedling.
Without him, Yunze would no longer have anyone who could compete with Jiang Yebai.
"I know."
Fu Changling spoke in a low, hoarse voice, allowing the Qingxin Jue to penetrate into his body and fight against the churning memories in his mind.
He remembered how Qin Yan looked when he stood in the Wuque Palace and acted as the Demon Lord Sui Yan.
He also remembered Qin Yan's expression as he laid bare his love roots in front of him.
In fact, he knew that the reason why Qin Yan chose to die was not only because he had no desire to live, but also because his sins were unforgivable.
How could someone like Qin Yan allow himself to become a demon cultivator?
Back then, he had no choice but to do it for Yunze, and he still blamed himself so much. If he killed someone else's life today in order to break through, no matter what the reason, Qin Yan would not tolerate it.
If he didn't go to Wuqiu Palace and save Qin Yan, no matter what happened in the future, Qin Yan would never be able to turn back.
He broke through at the cost of the lives of tens of thousands of cultivators. The way of heaven would not tolerate him, the way of immortals would not tolerate him, and even Qin Yan himself would probably not tolerate him.
Jiang Yebai gave up Qin Yan for the sake of prison.
And now, for Yunze, is he going to give up Qin Yan?
The moment he realized this, Fu Changling looked up blankly.
"I have to save him."
Fu Changling stood up and looked towards the Wuque Palace, muttering, "His master has already given him up, I can't give him up..."
Su Wenji didn't say anything. Fu Changling staggered and ran all the way towards the gate of the Wudao Tower. When he opened the gate of the Wudao Tower, a strong wind with a biting chill swept in, blowing his clothes fluttering.
Then he saw that outside the Qiankun Tower, all the cultivators were standing outside, those he knew and those he didn't. All the cultivators in the city were standing on the street, looking up at him on the high tower.
"You can go."
Su Wenji knelt in the distance, his expression unmoved: "The moment you walk out, they won't stay either."
As soon as he finished speaking, Fu Changling saw all the cultivators draw their swords and put them against his neck.
"The Su family has sacrificed so many lives and my hope of ascension just to get you and Qin Yan back."
Su Wenji said, supporting himself to stand up: "Yun Ze has spent so many cultivators' life's efforts to build Qiankun City and the Enlightenment Tower, just to let you understand the Heavenly Dao."
"The Fu family sacrificed their entire lives so that you could regain your full luck and become the one closest to the Way of Heaven."
"Now you can leave for Qin Yan," Su Wenji raised his hand and pointed outside the tower, "as long as you are willing to watch so many people die for you outside the door, you don't dream about this day every night, and you are willing to watch Yunze perish because of you, then you can leave."
"You're forcing me." Fu Changling clenched his fists. Su Wenji, hearing this, rarely lost his composure and shouted, "You're forcing us!"
"Who doesn't have relatives? Who doesn't have a lover? Who doesn't have someone who wants him to live? Qin Yan is your lover and my friend!"
"But this is not a reason for you and me to be willful."
Su Wenji stepped into the formation, and golden runes swirled around him. "You are Ye Lan's reincarnation. You are the destined one. You are the only one who can save Yunze from danger. Fu Changling, your life is not your own."
"If you go over there now and save Qin Yan, have you ever thought about whether he is willing to let you save him?"
"If you saved him and something happened to him, and Yunze was trapped, Fu Changling, do you think he would be willing to die, or live with Yunze on his back?"
Fu Changling stood there in a daze.
He was stunned for a long time, then slowly turned his head and looked towards the Wuque Palace.
"But..." Fu Changling choked up, his expression dazed, "But... I've already seen him die once..."
When the Demon Lord Sui Yan's hands were stained with blood and his body was covered with sins, there was no way back.
He had already seen Qin Yan walk this path once.
Su Wenji did not reply, his face showed pity.
Fu Changling stood there and looked up. Everyone he once knew was kneeling at the foot of the tower.
On one side is the so-called Yunze common people, and on the other side is Qin Yan who has been let down in two lives.
He didn't know the way ahead, nor where he was going.
At this moment, the entire Qiankun City was hit hard by someone. Everyone subconsciously turned around and saw the vermilion mountain gate collapse. Xie Yuqing stood in front of the mountain gate with a long sword in his hand.
"Fu Changling!"
Xie Yuqing raised his head and looked at Fu Changling who was standing high up. Fu Changling stared at Xie Yuqing blankly. Xie Yuqing's eyes were as hard as a sword, staring straight at him: "Aren't you leaving yet?!"
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