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Looking at the ice block stretching for dozens of miles in front of them, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers frozen inside, seemingly still alive, the six couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.
"This was actually caused by me?"
At this moment, Lu Tao felt somewhat conflicted.
He hadn't thought too much before he took action; he only wanted to turn the tide of the unfavorable situation in order to protect himself and the disciples of the Immortal Sect.
He attacked without any hesitation or psychological burden, using the ice pearl that had been upgraded to a fifth-grade superior quality.
even.
Even after freezing hundreds of thousands of troops, he remained remarkably calm, surprisingly without much of a ripple in his mind.
Perhaps it was because the freezing was only for a moment, and they weren't killed one by one; or perhaps there weren't any particularly bloody scenes or large numbers of severed limbs during the freezing, so the psychological impact on him wasn't as strong.
But now.
When he stood before the ice once more, before the hundreds of thousands of soldiers frozen in ice, looking at those lifelike figures, Lu Tao's heart was filled with immense turmoil.
The hundreds of thousands of soldiers are not hundreds of thousands of ants, but hundreds of thousands of lives.
This reminded Lu Tao of Qi Gan's words, "That's the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Do you want to be a butcher?"
Do you want to be a butcher?
Do you want to be a butcher?
Do you want to be a butcher?
These questions, like a raging storm, kept echoing in Lu Tao's mind, torturing his soul and assaulting his spirit.
Again and again, without end.
Lu Tao finally understood why so many people in the martial arts world wanted to go out and hone their minds and spirits.
It is precisely because those who are mentally unstable and lack willpower are prone to going astray and becoming possessed by demons.
Lu Tao's current situation is similar to that of those people.
He was pale and trembling, seemingly unable to escape his own thoughts.
He felt as if a mountain was pressing down on him, making it hard to breathe. An immense fear spread through his mind, threatening to devour him.
In a daze, Lu Tao seemed to see Wang Jinshan, Jiang Xiong, Jiang Rongrong, the woman in colorful clothes, Han Chengren, Man Yutao, and others who had died at his hands, all turning into vengeful ghosts and rushing towards him, as if they wanted to tear him to pieces.
He then saw those who had died in Mufeng City from his songs, their faces filled with resentment, charging towards him with ferocious intent, wanting to tear him to pieces.
He also saw hundreds of thousands of people, frozen in ice, suddenly break free of the freezing power, roaring and charging at him with bloodlust, wanting to tear him apart.
Everywhere you looked, there were countless enemies, each with a face filled with resentment, hatred, and cruelty.
The expressions were so clear, so clear that every face seemed to be right in front of me.
Fear, terror, guilt, and all sorts of negative emotions were like giant beasts opening their bloody maws, biting at Lu Tao, wanting to devour him completely.
Lu Tao closed his eyes tightly and began to silently recite in his mind.
"Whoever takes my life, kill!"
"Those who disrupt my sect shall be killed!"
Those who disrupt my country shall be killed!
"I will fearlessly kill to protect myself!"
"I have no fear of killing for the sake of my sect!"
"I have no shame in killing for my country and my people!"
...
As Lu Tao chanted the mantra again and again, it was as if some great power appeared, and the phantoms in his mind inexplicably began to collapse and dissipate.
Yang Feng, Shen Guangxi, Jiang Rongrong, the woman in colorful clothes, Han Chengyun, Man Yutao, Cai Xuan, and others seemed to be enveloped in endless light, with wisps of black smoke rising from their bodies and turning into nothingness.
Those rebels who died under the song seemed to hear "Serve the Country with Utmost Loyalty" once again. They, who were originally resentful and fierce, seemed to become the most devout believers, kneeling on the ground, murmuring, and slowly dissipating.
When the hundreds of thousands of frozen soldiers rushed towards Lu Tao, they were like moths to a flame. They were reduced to fragments and dust halfway through their journey. They faced Lu Tao as if they were facing a god.
Everything, in the end, turns into nothingness and disappears completely.
Lu Tao gradually calmed down, his complexion returned to its rosy hue, and his body became as steady as a rock.
After a full hundred times.
Lu Tao felt relaxed all over, and his mind was completely clear.
As Lu Tao regained his composure, he suddenly noticed some new items on another panel of the system and curiously scanned them.
[Heart Sutra (Unnamed): 10,000/1 (Upgradeable) (A very rudimentary Heart Sutra for tempering the mind; more accurately described as a self-hypnotic tool than a true Heart Sutra, it should not be taken lightly.)]
Lu Tao was stunned.
As Lu Tao read the system's text description, his initial curiosity gradually turned into shock.
The system clearly says that this should not be trusted, and even says that this Heart Sutra is very superficial and is a hypnotic substance.
Yet, without upgrading the Heart Sutra, he managed to expel his inner demons, guilt, and fear after reciting it a hundred times.
"Wait, did I hypnotize myself?"
Lu Tao was somewhat bewildered, wondering if he had been hypnotized by himself, and began to carefully sense his body and mind.
Then he discovered.
My body felt very relaxed, without any pressure, and my mind was also very resilient, without any feelings of guilt or fear.
"Holy crap, I'm actually a genius?"
Lu Tao was taken aback, his face filled with disbelief.
He always thought he was just an ordinary person, and that everything he had was thanks to the system.
I never imagined I had such a genius side.
This really surprised him.
Lu Tao asked himself somewhat narcissistically, "System, you wouldn't have bound yourself to me just because you value this ability of mine, would you?"
"..."
The system remained silent as always, ignoring Lu Tao's question.
"hey-hey!"
Lu Tao chuckled, not expecting the system to answer his question at all, so he wasn't disappointed.
Lu Tao opened his eyes with a relaxed expression.
He saw Kong Hao, General Wei, and the others looking at him with complex expressions—anxiety, worry, surprise, and shock…
"What's wrong?" Lu Tao blinked.
Kong Hao asked somewhat uncertainly, "Did you just experience a tribulation of inner demons?"
"Yes, it was really dangerous. I almost went mad from practicing qi cultivation."
The mention of going into qi deviation still evokes a sense of lingering fear in Lu Tao. His previous life had ended in death from a sudden outburst of anger, and going into qi deviation is countless times more dangerous than that.
Even with his perfectly formed divine sense, he was almost devoured by his inner demons just now, but fortunately he survived.
Danger?
Everyone couldn't help but twitch their lips. You exorcised your inner demon in less than 15 minutes, and you call that dangerous?
This is clearly relaxing, okay?
The tribulation of inner demons is not uncommon in the martial arts world. Whenever it occurs, those who suffer from it face a near-death experience.
even.
There is absolutely no outside help with the tribulations of one's inner demons; one can only overcome them by oneself.
Those who can overcome this obstacle will live and their martial arts spirit will reach new heights; but those who cannot will face only one fate: death.
and.
When one is going through the tribulation of inner demons, all the people one has killed or the things one has done that can cause negative emotions in the person being tribulated will surface in their mind and constantly impact their mind.
If one fails to withstand the pressure even slightly, these inner demons will swarm forth, shattering the mind and spirit of the person suffering the calamity.
This process was extremely long, a complete tug-of-war.
It often takes at least several days to overcome a mental tribulation, and sometimes even years.
But what about Lu Tao?
He overcame his inner demons in less than 15 minutes.
He actually felt it was dangerous?
wrong.
It was indeed dangerous.
Because Lu Tao has killed too many people. Regardless of other places, there are hundreds of thousands of people inside this block of ice alone. How could it not be dangerous when hundreds of thousands of soldiers have turned into inner demons?
It should be noted that Lu Tao is only at the Innate Realm.
so.
Lu Tao wasn't lying; his inner demon tribulation was indeed dangerous, yet he overcame it so easily.
This shows that...
Lu Tao's mind is like a demon's.
After everyone came to this conclusion, they all stared at Lu Tao in disbelief.
How could a mere boy not even twenty years old overcome such a dangerous inner demon tribulation? And so quickly at that?
What kind of monster is this?
This is even more shocking than his feat of killing hundreds of thousands of soldiers with ice beads.
He can rely on external objects to kill enemies, but he can overcome inner demons entirely on his own. How did he manage to do that?
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