Chapter 56: The Ten Heian Warriors Died for Their Friends
Ji Lingche originally thought that the person coming would be Yin Su, because the magic spell on the coffin was clearly——
The wind was blowing coldly and it was so creepy.
I saw the man opposite me wearing a black robe and a pure black mask with a terrifying shape. His face was completely covered, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.
But that person carried an indescribable evil aura, and what flowed through his body was not spiritual power, but a turbid and mixed evil pressure.
This is a fallen demon.
"Fu Yannian?" Ji Lingche asked in surprise, then narrowed his eyes and sneered, "He didn't die even after jumping into the Zhuxian Formation. He's truly amazing."
The man raised his hand and took off the mask on his face. It was a ruined face, covered with deep and shallow sword wounds. It was obvious that it had been a long time since then. The scars had turned black and scabbed. Despite this, it was still possible to see that this man had originally had an extremely handsome appearance, with sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes, and his eyes were as bright as ink, but he was also murderous and almost creepy.
The man did not speak for a long time. At this moment, the whole palace suddenly lit up for a moment. A flash of lightning streaked across the night sky, spreading like a twisted branch, illuminating the sky and the earth. Then thunder roared, and after a few thunders, only the sound of heavy rain could be heard outside.
The rain was so heavy that it looked like smoke was coming out of the ground.
The person opposite said after a long while: "You can still recognize me. You have good eyesight and memory."
His voice was hoarse, as if he hadn't spoken to anyone in years.
Ji Lingche looked at this guy who had come back from the dead, and his heart couldn't help but feel cold. He just sneered and said, "I was wondering why you disappeared for so long, as if you were really dead. It turns out you were hiding here."
"What's going on in the imperial mausoleum? It really makes me curious."
Fu Yannian said gravely, "Xiaoxian Guanlan, I have been searching for you for so long."
After he finished speaking, he slowly paced and approached Ji Lingche. The evil pressure made her take a few steps back. She felt that the man opposite was like a huge black python, who had fallen into the devil and still had animal nature. He was extremely dangerous.
Ji Lingche felt a little dizzy and shook his head violently before coming to his senses. He realized that every word uttered by this man was filled with a bewitching curse.
She raised the corner of her mouth: "Looking for me to die?"
Before she could finish her words, she suddenly leaped to the side. With a buzzing sound, the ground where she was just now began to crack, and then it began to turn black. The black color continued to expand, as if it was corroded by something.
Ji Lingche laughed and said, "Irritable, crazy, and paranoid."
"You are a person with an extreme mind and a shallow fate in immortality, yet you have a hateful and excellent foundation. You are truly a perfect seedling for becoming a demon."
Fu Yannian raised the corners of his mouth slightly, said nothing, and just stared at her coldly, as if he was staring at doomed prey.
Ji Lingche sneered: "Look at your behavior."
Fu Yannian was truly a genius. He was very popular back then. In terms of young success, he was no less successful than Qu Wuji.
Although he came from a small sect, his sword shook the nine provinces and he became the leader of the Immortal Alliance at an early age.
It's just that this person's character is too extreme and weird. The more he practices, the more inner demons he has. In the end, he is devoured by his inner demons and begins to become neither human nor ghost.
He could have covered up some things and pretended that everything was peaceful, but as luck would have it, during the autumn competition, his inner demons flared up and he went mad uncontrollably, injuring several people before he was barely subdued.
The Immortal Alliance said that this man's consciousness had been taken away by his inner demons and there was no possibility of recovery. Keeping him would only bring endless troubles. They sentenced him to death on the spot and were about to summon heavenly thunder to kill him, but he broke free from his restraints and jumped down from the Zhuxian Formation on the Golden Platform.
The thunder tribulation brought about by the Thunder Punishment is the last tribulation for a cultivator who has reached the Great Perfection to ascend to enlightenment. If it hits an ordinary cultivator, he will definitely die. However, if he jumps from the Zhuxian Formation, it is not necessarily the case. There is still a possibility of survival.
Therefore, cultivators with profound cultivation are executed by thunder punishment rather than formations.
However, after this person jumped down, he never appeared again. For decades, everyone thought that he had died in the Zhuxian magic formation long ago, and his body was nowhere to be found.
Speaking of Fu Yannian, Ji Lingche had no connection with him, but almost everyone in the world believed that the two had a close relationship. Some even said that it was Ji Lingche who caused Fu Yannian to become a demon.
Ji Lingche said: ...
Fu Yannian is such an extreme person that even Ji Lingche thinks he is simply mentally ill.
People like this should be plowing the fields, not brandishing swords or guns, let alone holding swords.
He was obsessed with cultivation to the point of being almost crazy, and was very arrogant. He vowed to be the best in the world. When he was young, he went around looking for people to ask for sword skills. He wanted to compete with any of the best of his generation, but he was vicious and would deliberately injure people seriously before leaving.
When Ji Lingche was young, she didn't care about her cultivation at all, and she didn't have any lofty ambitions to achieve enlightenment and ascend to heaven. At that time, the demons had not yet made any unusual movements, and her master never paid any attention to her.
She wanders around every day, enjoying the sights and sounds of nature, and having fun playing with cats and dogs.
But somehow, this person heard of Ji Lingche's reputation and learned that Xiaoyao Sect had an extraordinary genius who not only mastered the art of illusion to perfection, but was also said to be able to cut through the nine states with a sword.
Fu Yannian sneered in his heart. The cultivators in the world can only practice one technique. Since he is an evil cultivator, how can he be a sword cultivator?
What a big mouth!
When Fu Yannian came to cause trouble for her, Ji Lingche had just obtained a slingshot and was busy going to the back mountain to shoot birds. She didn't want to pay any attention to him and didn't even draw her sword. She just said something perfunctory, but who knew that this man would actually use a killing move!
Ji Lingche thought to himself, it has been a long time since I have seen such pure stupidity...
After one move, she realized that this man was indeed extremely powerful, unscrupulous and ruthless. She was actually hit by a sword.
Ji Lingche has a bad temper and is very arrogant, how could he really lose to this idiot?
She decided to go all out and dragged the guy into the Gou Ling illusion, then escaped and walked away. She thought that the guy had broken the illusion and left in disgrace, but when she went to see him again three days later, he was still trapped in there, and his condition was not good.
She dispelled the illusion and found that he was already showing signs of becoming possessed and was almost being taken over by his inner demons.
Ji Lingche sneered, thinking, isn't this just his own fault?
I didn't want to care about him, but I also felt a little bit sorry for his talent. I just felt that it would be a pity for a person like him to die like this when he could only barely defeat me.
She dragged the man and threw him back to his master's sect, but unfortunately he was seen by others. His fellow disciples were horrified and ran around telling each other that the eldest brother was injured by an evil cultivator!
Sacrificing Lingche:...
The next thing I heard about Fu Yannian was that he fell into the devil's trap during the Immortal Trial Tournament not long after, and then jumped into the Immortal Execution Formation...
Ji Lingche just said, "You are asking for trouble. What does it have to do with me?"
The inner demon was not born from her illusion, but he was already trapped by the inner demon, which was stimulated and magnified in the illusion, making him unable to suppress it and finally being swallowed up.
Ji Lingche stared at the man in front of him and chuckled, "A defeated general."
She curled her lips coldly and spoke very slowly and clearly, with a mixture of contempt and sarcasm: "I really didn't expect you to surrender to the demon. Tsk tsk, if I had known back then, I should have let you die from your inner demons."
But Fu Yannian did not go crazy as she expected, but just continued to stare at her sinisterly.
Suddenly, he stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers. Ji Lingche's eyes moved, and he saw that the black ground suddenly became as soft as mud, constantly squirming. A sharp claw suddenly stretched out from the ground, and then a head without facial features was revealed, scratching the ground and trying to crawl out -
Before it could crawl out, a boot suddenly stepped on the demon's head, and pressed the demon back into the ground like stepping on mud!
Ji Lingche twisted her feet on the ground, and heard the demon howling under her feet, and then it became silent.
A layer of white frost spread from under her feet, like a thin layer of ice, quickly sealing the opened entrance.
Ji Lingche sneered, "You've really become quite capable!"
She didn't show it on her face, but she was horrified in her heart. This person could actually open an entrance to the Abyss of Eternal Abyss at any time and anywhere.
It seems that this person's relationship with demons is definitely deeper than Chu Heng's...
Fu Yannian was a man of few words and cruel nature. Now he had turned into this ghostly appearance, even more gloomy and bloodthirsty. He had no intention of reminiscing about the past. No matter how Ji Lingche tried to provoke him, he said nothing and snapped his fingers again.
Countless black pits appeared on the ground, so densely packed that there was no place to step. In an instant, the black pits began to wriggle. Ji Lingche moved as fast as lightning, and a beam of light arrow flew towards Fu Yannian's heart, forcing him to take a few steps back.
Taking advantage of this gap, Ji Lingche waved her hand, and with a loud bang, all the doors and windows of the palace opened. She spread out her palms, and the sound of raindrops on the window grilles suddenly stopped for a moment. This moment was infinitely stretched, as if the whole world was silent.
The next moment, Ji Lingche clenched his palms suddenly, and there was a sound of a sharp blade breaking through the air. The heavy rain outside the window rolled in like cold blades, and in an instant it almost pierced the palace into a sieve!
Amid the sounds of breaking wood and stone, the entire palace was pierced by countless sharp blades, and rain arrows pierced through everything in the room indiscriminately. None of the demons that had just appeared were spared. Amidst the wails, they were stabbed and bleeding profusely, their limbs were broken, and finally turned into pools of pus and blood.
Fu Yannian had never seen such a scene before. He hesitated for only a moment before a long sword pointed at his back. A voice behind him said coldly, "Hand over the golden elixir that guards the tower."
Fu Yannian laughed, his voice hoarse, like iron rubbing against the ground: "What a bullshit golden elixir, I don't have it——"
Before he finished speaking, Ji Lingche felt a chill on her back and could not help but dodge. The sword wind that had pointed at Fu Yannian's heart disappeared. He turned around and slapped Ji Lingche's heart. Ji Lingche felt the cold sword light behind her and the fierce palm wind in front of her, trapping her in the middle. She had no choice but to dodge to the side, rolled on the ground, stood up, and said in surprise: "Xiaolu, you——"
Chen Lumou was seen standing beside Fu Yannian with a soft sword in his hand, with his eyes lowered, not looking at her, and without any explanation.
Ji Lingche's heart grew colder little by little. He felt no resentment, but only a sense of disappointment and powerlessness that he had expected.
She often lived in cunning, but she thought she would not be betrayed again this time. She had doubted Su Mingmie, but she had never doubted this little demon with a pair of round eyes.
She likes Xiaolu so much...
She now only felt her hands trembling slightly.
Ji Lingche sneered for a long time: "Okay, I was stupid. I was saying, how can someone hand you a pillow just because you're dozing off?"
It turned out that he had set a trap for her step by step, deliberately luring her to the imperial mausoleum and wanting to kill her there. It turned out that Chu Heng was also a part of the trap.
Xiaolu suddenly raised her head and said, "It's none of my business. I'm the one who betrayed you..."
Fu Yannian suddenly said, "Shut up, are you still standing there?"
Ji Lingche knew that he had fallen into a trap, but it was difficult to perform his tricks in the house, so he jumped out of the palace in an instant. The rain outside had subsided and started to drizzle. When he turned around, he saw a sword light following him like a shadow. The blue-white sword light cut through the rain curtain and was very dazzling in the night.
Ji Lingche didn't move and watched the sword coming at him.
When the sword was in front of him, he snapped his fingers and a petal of flower disappeared into the sword master's neck.
Chen Lumou's sword paused, and the tip of the sword trembled continuously in front of Ji Lingche. Then the soft sword lost its strength and the entire sword body collapsed. Chen Lumou looked at the person in front of him with soft eyes, but there was no hatred or unwillingness, only a hint of sadness, as if he had known his own ending long ago and went to death calmly.
She let out a long breath and fell heavily into the rain.
Ji Lingche looked at her and said, "Why?"
"Xiaolu, why are you doing this?"
Xiaolu fell into the puddle, her breath gradually weakening. She seemed to want to say something. Ji Lingche knew that she might stab her in the back, but he still slowly bent down to listen to what she said.
Chen Lumou smiled bleakly, his cold hand grasping Ji Lingche's arm, and said, "A gentleman will die for his friend..."
Ji Lingche didn't understand and didn't know who the confidant she was referring to was.
Who on earth could be worth her betraying her sister, abandoning the people, and sacrificing her life for?
Ji Lingche had an indifferent expression as he watched her lose her soul in front of him, but his heart ached slightly.
At this moment, her eyes suddenly moved, and she saw a green smoke rushing out of the palace and heading towards the imperial tomb.
Fu Yannian was no match for her in the rain, so he just left. It was obvious that he was taking advantage of her competitive spirit to lure her down from the imperial tomb.
She didn't know what was waiting for her, but this Fu Yannian was definitely inextricably linked to the demons. If she ignored it, there would be disaster. Moreover, the golden elixir was likely in this person...
She said in her sea of consciousness: "Qu Wuji!"
"Qu Wuji, guess who I just saw, and guess where I'm going?"
Her original intention was to give Qu Wuji some advice, to cheer him up and to lend her the sword at any time, but she called him many times but there was no response from his sea of consciousness.
Ji Lingche couldn't help but be a little surprised. She said, "...Qu Wuji, are you dead?"
She hurriedly raised her hand and touched the half of the jade pendant on her chest. The jade was so hot that it burned her hand. It was obvious that the soul was vibrating. She called out a few more times, but there was still no sound from the other end. She held the half of the jade pendant in her hand, fearing that it would shatter at the next moment.
Ji Lingche looked far away in the direction of the Demon-Suppressing Tower. At this moment, the sky turned white and seemed to be gradually getting brighter.
She slowly narrowed her eyes and took the jade pendant back.
She calmed herself down and thought to herself after a long time, I'm tired of seeing people being lured into a trap. Since you dare to invite me, how can I not go?
Then it turned into a white light and headed towards the imperial tomb.
…
After an unknown amount of time, a man slowly walked out of the rain.
The rain continued to patter, and the sky began to brighten dimly, but the sun was nowhere to be seen. Its faint light spread across the earth. An oil-paper umbrella tilted, covering the body of Shen Lumou, who lay exposed in the wild...
The man was not tall, wearing a dark green robe with sleeves. His face, which always had a smile on it, now looked cold. His face was painted with heavy colors, which complemented his usual smile. But he was not smiling at this moment. Strange colored powder floated on his face, like an incongruous mask.
The man spread out his hand, and a golden bead was floating in his hand, shining with a strange luster.
He raised the corners of his mouth and smiled faintly.
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