The Leopard Immortal's expression froze, as if he was at a loss for words. "Zhang Ling, have you seen these living souls? They are all people who died a violent death and cannot enter the netherworld. If you kill me, I will use my remaining merits to cleanse their resentment. Then you can go straight to the underworld and be reincarnated. In your next life, you will surely be born into a family of good deeds and have a bright future!"
Zhang Ling asked curiously, "With such a heavy killing spree as yours, how much merit can you possibly have left? Do you have other tricks up your sleeve or are you hiding something? There's just something I don't understand. Weren't these people harmed by your scheme? Why would you help them after harming them? I don't understand your desire for death!"
"But no matter what, and for the sake of these souls, I will definitely kill you."
"But I still hope you can tell me the truth. Don't let me swallow it whole and keep me in the dark. No matter what, I'm helping you to die this time. You must repay this favor."
Upon hearing this, the Leopard Immortal looked up at the sky, uttered the words "Heaven's will," and then revealed the truth: "Five thousand years ago, I was born in Yunmeng Lake, a descendant of the Cloud Leopard lineage. Born with bone structure, I was born dull and unfit for great service, so I was abandoned by my clan. Fortunately, a young master passing by took pity on me and begged his father to take me in and bring me back to the Heavenly Palace.
My young master took great care of me, feeding me with the spiritual dew of clouds and mist, the essence of the sun and the moon. We were inseparable and grew up together. He also asked various immortals to teach me how to dissolve the horizontal bone in my throat, read the immortal scriptures, practice good cultivation, and devote all their resources to cultivating me. I felt like I had been enlightened, and everything was clear to me.
For the next ten years, I transformed into a human form and devoted myself to cultivation. Later, I followed the young master around to fight demons, pacify monsters and exterminate evil spirits. Everything went smoothly along the way, and my cultivation reached the state of great perfection of a celestial immortal!
Who would have thought that one day I would fall into the trap of a demon, be beaten back to my original form, and temporarily lose my spiritual intelligence and cultivation. I was living in the mountains of the mortal world, and I met a hunter and was eaten by mistake.
The young master, regardless of past grudges, sought me out and brought me back to the Heavenly Palace. However, the iron laws of Heaven do not tolerate the slightest error. The Nine Heavens Ying Yuan Mansion wanted to capture me and execute me on the Immortal Execution Platform. However, the young master took pity on me and interceded on my behalf. He gave up his immortal position and merits to keep me safe, but I was stripped of my immortal status and banished from the Heavenly Palace.
"In the years that followed, the young master took me alone to do good deeds and help others, accumulating merit, hoping that one day he could cleanse my filth and allow me to return to heaven.
But that time when I accidentally ate the mortal food, I became obsessed with inner demons and it was difficult for me to make any progress in my cultivation. My young master was punished and dismissed because of me. He had already reached the third level of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, but in the end, because of me, he was unable to understand the mind and could not become an immortal.
I feel guilty and have tried countless ways to hope that the young master can successfully break the mirror. In the end, I plotted this situation, waiting for ten thousand years to select a person destined by heaven to patrol the mysterious world in the name of the God of Good and Evil, and use him to kill me, so as to fulfill the young master's wishes.
At this moment, the world is vast and silent.
Only the words of the Leopard Fairy were lingering in my ears.
Zhang Ling asked, "Why do you have to wait for the one destined by heaven to kill you?"
The Leopard Immortal said, "Because of my young master's temper, he would bear a grudge against anyone else and would definitely seek revenge in the future, until his death.
But you are different. You are touring with the will of Heaven. You can either forge ahead courageously and ascend to the rank of Great Immortal Official, rising to prominence and being undaunted, or you can fail and die a violent death. Regardless of the former or the latter, Heaven is watching and considering you. The young master cannot do anything to you, so he will not seek revenge on you, or you will be convicted and your future ruined."
Zhang Ling nodded and understood what the Leopard Immortal meant.
In fact, anyone can be sent to kill him, but doing so will surely lead to revenge by the son of the God of War, which will add to the sins of killing and disasters. When the Heavenly Court holds him accountable in the future, even if his father is the God of War, he will find it difficult to stay in the Heavenly Palace. At the very least, his originally brilliant immortal path will be tainted and remembered by all the gods.
From the current perspective, the son of Wu Qu Xingjun does not have any stains.
Zhang Ling continued, "You told the City God that you were responsible for the murder, and that your master opened a backdoor for you to provoke me? That was all a lie, a deception. You secretly sought death here. If that's the case, why did you go to the trouble of allowing a yellow rat to possess Ning Caijun and defile those mortals? Wouldn't it be better to just kill him? And why did you call that tree demon here?"
"Huang Shu accepted my guidance and was willing to follow me in pursuit of the path to immortality. Ning Caijun was just a stepping stone. Without him, there would be Wang Caijun and Zhao Caijun. Today's game is still set up.
And I taught the yellow rat to possess Ning Caijun and defile the mortal woman in order to increase the resentment of the living soul and make the blood disaster more serious. Otherwise, how could I have tricked you into coming here?
I taught the tree demon to eat people and take away their souls because I didn't want to waste too much merit. A gentleman is good at making use of things. You see, I have a strong aura of blood and disaster, and I have committed many sins of killing. In fact, I have only accidentally eaten one mortal in my life, but it is my responsibility to force the tree demon to eat people behind the scenes. It is only right for you to kill me."
Zhang Ling was silent. This Leopard Immortal had set up such a big plan just to seek death in order to make his master's thoughts clear and become an Immortal.
He looks for tree demons as white gloves to avoid killing people and exhausting his merits. He only captures the souls of the living without damaging their origins. After death, he disperses his merits to lead them to the afterlife. In the meantime, he asks yellow rats to defile women to increase resentment. It goes around and around, and it is all a game within a game.
In the end, he let Zhang Ling kill him with a sword, and he would repay the living soul with merit, completely completing the whole cycle, breaking all cause and effect karma, and preventing the son of Wu Qu Star Lord from being contaminated by the slightest cause and effect.
In this way, he would sacrifice his life for righteousness and repay the favor to the son of the God of War, helping him to understand his thoughts and become an immortal.
Zhang Ling pondered, his brows relaxed. "But if you die, your young master will be unable to let go of his obsession, unable to focus his mind, and will definitely seek revenge on me. Wouldn't all your painstaking efforts be in vain? You must know that he treats you as his own child. How can he just stand by and watch?"
The Leopard Immortal grinned and said, "I have a backup plan. If you can kill me and destroy my soul, I have something that will help you convince my young master and make his mind understand. He will not make things difficult for you!"
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