Chapter 188: Merging the Body with the Sword (Three-in-One)
Cao Tianzhou had been isolated from the world for three whole years. As a pure warrior, he had been practicing hard. If he had not suddenly encountered a disaster, he would not even be able to tell how many aristocratic families there were.
Such a person naturally does not know Gu Fangchen.
But at this moment, he was almost at the end of his life. Even if Gu Fangchen didn't come, he could only hold on for about another half a year at most.
Moreover, he might not be able to survive during these six months.
The evil spirits in the Demon-Suppressing Prison no longer dared to provoke him, but all his thoughts were now focused on the sword that was fueled by hatred in his heart.
Over the years, he has been able to survive by devouring the flesh and blood of those evil spirits. In fact, his body has long been lifeless and replaced by the resentment of these evil spirits.
Almost like a walking corpse.
It's no different from being dead. Even he himself doesn't know if he can survive the next period of time.
The appearance of Gu Fangchen was a relief for him...
Cao Tianzhou raised his head, his skull-like face shrouded in the skylight, only his eyes, which were gleaming with a sharp light like a blade, dark blue and indeed green, more terrifying than the evil spirits in the underworld.
The sword intent in these eyes has reached its limit and truly reached the realm of "Tao".
Cao Tianzhou of the "Sword Sect" has reached the peak of the fourth level in cultivation.
After being imprisoned in the Demon-Suppressing Prison for so many years, although his physical body could not break through, the hatred in his heart became the best whetstone, honing him into a third-grade sword intent.
A knife is a cruel weapon, and its essence is to kill people. Hatred is the best intention of a knife.
All ways of killing and destruction are based on the word "hate".
Only when hatred reaches its extreme can one create the most terrifying momentum and realm.
From this perspective, the same is true for the Wudan realm.
Only when your hatred rises to the point where you are sure you can kill the other person, can you feel confident.
As soon as Gu Fangchen saw these eyes, he felt a real shock in his heart.
He couldn't help but think of what Lao Ding said when he taught him martial arts.
"The first thing I teach you is the essence of martial arts."
"The essence of martial arts is never to let go, but to pick up. Not only to pick up, but to hold everything tightly in the palm of your hand."
"If I had to sum up the idea that dominates you, it would be 'hate'."
"A person with a calm mind cannot cultivate the Dao of Martial Arts. If your mind is not stirred, how can your Qi and blood surge, and how can you kill an enemy with a single punch? Therefore, most martial artists have eccentric temperaments, some are arrogant, some are crazy, and some are foolish. Those who appear righteous and righteous are definitely more perverted than anyone else."
The words are rough but the truth is there. Gu Fangchen thinks this makes a lot of sense.
Gu Yuye also practices martial arts. He usually behaves like a Confucian general, gentle and elegant. In fact, he is indeed one of the most perverted characters in the entire "Mirror in the Dust".
Then Ding Xingfeng explained what "hate" means.
"Hate isn't just about hating life itself. When you're fighting someone, every move you make is filled with hatred."
"When I raise my hand, it means 'I hate the earth for not having a ring'. I hate why the earth doesn't have a ring that I can grab and uproot the entire earth."
"When you lower your hand, it's 'hate the sky for not having a handle'. You hate that the sky doesn't have a handle so you can pull the vast sky down. No matter what gods and Buddhas are in there, they will all fall with it!"
At this moment, when he saw Cao Tianzhou's eyes, Gu Fangchen finally had a vague understanding of the essence of martial arts that Ding Xingfeng had mentioned.
He used to look at martial arts from a player's perspective, and all he saw were individual skills.
Using skills is nothing more than clicking the mouse, so naturally there is no possibility of generating any emotions.
Therefore, he became a blockhead in Ding Xingfeng's eyes.
If Gu Fangchen were to practice fighting and countering moves, he would definitely be a professional and could explain every move in detail.
But if he were to do it himself, he would only get the form but not the meaning.
This form was obtained through the talent of [Night Watchman].
And now, Gu Fangchen felt the existence of "intention" for the first time...
However, this feeling only lingers in my heart, but it is still like clouds and fog, as if there is still something separating it.
Cao Tianzhou threw the knife in his hand upwards and said calmly in an extremely hoarse voice:
"Dugu Yue, kill him and I'll give you my sword."
“Bang!”
Gu Fangchen caught the knife and his eyes lit up.
Although it looks unattractive and covered with rust, it seems like it will break at any time.
But this knife is also a good artifact in the game.
The name of this knife is [Murderous Knife].
After Cao Tianzhou fulfills his wish, his own sword intent will be attached to the sword, producing two effects.
The first effect is very simple, which is a special attack against humanoid creatures, increasing the attack power by 250%. If it is only in the backpack, it will increase by 50%.
However, when carrying it, you have to pass the will judgment, and you have to pass it continuously. Once the will drops below a certain value, you will lose your mind and start indiscriminate attacks.
More like a "magic knife".
But since more than 90% of the bosses in "Mirror in the Dust" are humanoid, the significance of this knife is very important.
Especially the fact that it can be used even if you put it in your backpack even if you don’t use it directly, it’s such a good deal!
Getting it for free is making a lot of money!
The second effect is even more practical, which is blood-sucking, and it will also be effective as long as you carry it with you.
Each time you attack, you will recover 3% of the damage caused by yourself.
If you add some skills that can increase attack speed, it will be amazing.
As long as you recover enough blood, you can kill the enemy by scraping!
The boss fights in "Mirror in the Dust" are generally quite difficult, so any margin for error is essential. Sometimes there's no time to take health potions, and if you're just a little off, you have to start over again, which can drive you crazy...
Two effects, one to increase damage, the other to restore health, both are magical skills.
However, this branch quest is hidden quite deeply. There is only one sentence about Cao Tianzhou's anecdotes in the entire game, and Dugu Yue hid it so well that it was not dug out until very late.
The person who dug out this branch line happened to be Gu Fangchen himself.
Gu Fangchen took two steps back, and the little dragon above him fell vertically to the ground with a "chi" sound, and was crushed into its original form by the formation of the Demon Suppression Prison.
It transformed back into the appearance of that ancient sword made of wood and stone.
The thousand-year-old righteous energy condensed by the preaching stele in the Wenwu Tower is enough to compete with the sword refined by the dragon vein.
After all, a quasi-first-grade official is not a true first-grade official.
Lu Mingyuan above was not really a weakling either, but he used most of his spiritual power to activate and bless the formation.
Otherwise, with his peak second-grade cultivation, he would be able to serve as the acting dean, so he wouldn't be so incompetent...
As a result, he was unwilling to let go of the sword in his hand and wanted to fight the Grandmaster head-on. He was beaten like a grandson and had no power to resist, and his defense was directly broken.
Gu Fangchen put the [Murderous Knife] into the Cave Heaven Ring, caught the sword, and then was forced to half-kneel on the ground by the pressure that came from the sky.
"puff!"
He spat out a mouthful of blood, his face turned pale, he took a deep breath, forced himself to sit cross-legged, and used his spiritual power to barely resist.
But how could a fifth-grade cultivator like him resist the full might of this Demon-Suppressing Prison?
Even the [Seventy-two Peaks Towering Sword] knelt down, let alone him.
Gu Fangchen raised his eyes and saw Xu Fu concentrating on casting a spell, with sweat on his face.
The Starry Sky Water Mirror was operating at full power, and rays of light streamed out, protecting Xu Fu.
Obviously, it is not an easy task to fight against the "Six Star Gods".
The Imperial Master, who was remotely possessed by Xuexiang, was also unable to take care of himself and had no way to take care of little Karami.
“Click…click…click…”
Above, the beautiful woman in green dress turned her head and looked at Gu Fangchen again, and the sword in her hand instantly fell on the formation.
With a light tap of his fingertips, cracks appeared on the formation, and it made a sound of being unable to bear the heavy burden.
But in the blink of an eye.
Gu Fangchen's skin had all burst, blood was flowing out, and he turned into a bloody man.
What followed was the disintegration of flesh and blood.
At this moment, the entire Demon-Suppressing Prison formation is both a cage that is meant to crush and kill him, and a defensive formation that is meant to protect him.
Compared to being stabbed to death by the Grandmother's sword, the Demon-Suppressing Prison can be considered a great achievement.
Afterwards, the [Seventy-Two Peaks Towering Sword] on the ground, because it was the main suppression target of the formation, directly "cracked" and broke into countless pieces.
The mountains and rivers took shape, like a mist, floating out from it, surrounding Gu Fangchen, and making a low dragon roar.
As if wailing and crying.
"Hahahahahahahaha——Gu Fangchen, prepare to die!"
Above, Lu Mingyuan saw this scene and finally burst into laughter, with a somewhat ferocious look on his blood-covered face.
The original demeanor of the Confucian masters has completely disappeared.
At this moment, if he could just see Gu Fangchen die on the spot, he would probably be a hundred times happier than when he passed the imperial examination when he was young.
But Gu Fangchen did not panic and fall into despair as he had imagined.
Instead, he opened his eyes, which were almost drowned in blood, grinned at him, and made a hand gesture -
"Practicing magic"!
On Gu Fangchen's body, above the flesh that was about to collapse, golden threads were faintly visible, and one hundred and eight demon-suppressing nails emerged from it. Blood threads like a demon's nest spread, completely covering his seemingly normal body.
The time at this moment is just within the range of [Daytime], which can trigger the effect of [Wait for Time to Fly].
[Day: Your Qi and blood are vigorous, and your physical strength has greatly increased.]
The sun in the chest, like a furnace, gradually boils and becomes brighter and hotter as the body is constantly damaged and repaired, becoming like a real sun.
But this is not enough!
His physical strength was too low, and his brief balance was quickly broken, and he continued to disintegrate...
Gu Fangchen opened his eyes again, and had already entered the state of his soul leaving his body and controlling the puppet.
But at this moment, his soul was also being crushed by the formation, and the pain was increasing instead of decreasing. His soul was flickering and peeling off piece by piece, revealing the hidden golden wheel, and even the causal line that bound it was about to be beaten out.
However, his expression remained unchanged, and he narrowed his eyes and said:
"Prajna Lianyue, if you don't help me, no one in this world will know the whereabouts of the 'Lotus Treasure in the Womb'."
No one responded.
Gu Fangchen was not in a hurry and waited for about ten more seconds.
Behind him, a huge pale Dharma image emerged. This Dharma image kept changing, and it looked different from any different angle or person.
There are a total of twenty-one appearances, which are the twenty incarnations of Tara.
That Dharmadhatu had twenty-one faces, twenty-one forms, and twenty-one voices, all merging into one, emitting a roar like the sound of heavenly thunder:
"Gu Fangchen, do you really think I can't do anything to you? You've offended me, and you still expect me to save you?"
She sneered:
"What if I'm just going to watch you die? If you change your mind and beg me now, you might still have a chance to survive."
Gu Fangchen shrugged:
"You can also just watch them die without helping. I'm not forcing you. I was just shouting to see if anyone would respond."
"Who knew you would come out on your own..."
"you!"
Princess Prajna was so angry that her Dharma image was about to turn green, but after gritting her teeth for a long time, she really couldn't bear to watch Gu Fangchen die like this.
Although what Gu Fangchen said was irritating, he really had a hold on her.
If he died, her plan would be in vain.
Otherwise, what would she be doing here?
But...it's nice to see him in this miserable state.
"Humph, since you're so stubborn, I'll just watch and see how long you can hold out."
Princess Prajna snorted coldly, as if she had made up her mind to just watch from the sidelines.
Gu Fangchen's expression remained unchanged. He made hand gestures again and said in a low voice:
"rise!"
The wood and stone fragments on the ground trembled and floated in the air.
"broken!"
The fragments instantly turned into countless powders, merged with the phantom of the surrounding mountains and rivers, and circled around Gu Fangchen.
Gu Fangchen took a deep breath and looked serious.
"collapse!"
This time, it was not the sword that broke, but his body that completely disintegrated under the enormous pressure, leaving only the two wheels of the sun and the moon in the center, and the body frame held down by 108 demon-suppressing nails.
If it were before, he would have been dead at this moment.
The soul and the body are not independent. Before the sixth level of the divine way, the soul is based on the body. If the body is dying, the soul will dissipate directly.
However, after entering the state of enlightenment, the connection between the soul and the body is not that strong.
It doesn’t matter if the physical body is on the verge of death for a moment.
As long as I can save him before his soul dissipates...
Only when one reaches the fifth level of freedom can one continue to exist for a long time after the death of the physical body. At the same time, if one learns the secret method of possession, one can seize the body of another and use it for one's own benefit.
But such a body also requires compatibility.
Once the fit is too poor, the body will gradually rot, and in the end you will have to keep replacing the body, which is very troublesome.
Gu Fangchen is not committing suicide at this moment.
He wanted to use the earth veins and the [Seventy-two Peaks Towering Sword] as sacrificial materials and directly integrate them into his puppet body!
Since you can't throw it away, just use it for yourself!
Using the extreme pain caused by the Demon-Suppressing Prison Array and the pressure on the body, he reshaped the puppet body of "Magic Refining", broke through the third level of "Magic Refining", and entered the fourth level!
But this pain... is really unbearable for a human!
If it is normal magic refining, what does the pain suffered by the puppet have to do with the main body?
But now, Gu Fangchen himself is both the master and the puppet, so he can only bear it himself.
"Congeal!"
Gu Fangchen gritted his teeth and growled.
After only holding on for a second, his body and soul began to disintegrate and become torn into a blur.
Prajna Lianyue originally sneered and was determined to make him suffer more, but in the blink of an eye, she found that Gu Fangchen was torturing himself.
She was startled and immediately reached out and pressed her hand on the back of Gu Fangchen's soul.
Gu Fangchen turned his head and grinned:
"Hehe...what did I say? Princess, you still have to beg me not to die."
This was exactly what he said to Prajna Lianyue when they first met.
Just kidding, from the moment Qing Jian came back, Gu Fangchen knew that Prajna Lianyue couldn't just disappear like that, and must be following him.
It's just that he's unwilling to show up in person because of face.
After all, once you show up, it means you have completely surrendered to him.
However, at the critical moment, Prajna Lianyue still had to take action...
The pain from the third level onwards of "Magic Refining" is no longer useful to a Xiyin waiter of Qing Jian's level, as the amount he can transfer is limited.
And when it comes to transferring pain efficiently in this world, who can compare with the Holy Lady of Tara?
Prajna Lianyue did not argue with him this time.
Her expression was dazed for a moment.
At this moment, Gu Fangchen turned his back to her and spoke to her, looking vaguely like the man in her dream...
In the past, Gu Fangchen's appearance had a bit of decadence and evilness due to the influence of his original body, but now, that evilness has almost completely disappeared.
At this moment, it's not just the eyebrows and eyes that are similar, but also the expression...
Prajna Lianyue came back to her senses and her face instantly turned cold.
What is she thinking?!
How could this guy be the one in her dream?
Five hundred years have passed and Garuda has turned into a handful of yellow earth. How could the person she couldn't find suddenly appear here?
The empty eyes of the Dharma image drooped their eyelashes, and countless hands appeared, like petals closing together, hugging Gu Fangchen.
The painful heavenly sound was so loud that it was all transferred to Prajna Lianyue.
Gu Fangchen also breathed a sigh of relief and began the next step of the ritual.
…
On the banks of the Jiangling River.
Amidst the rolling waves, the crowd screamed and exclaimed, and several pleasure boats had been sent to the shore by the monks.
The young ladies and wives of the aristocratic families were escorted to a safe place in a state of shock.
Evil spirits are rampant everywhere, fighting with the monks.
Fortunately, the Demon-Suppressing Prison formation was opened in time, and not too many evil spirits ran out from underneath, and the crowd quickly calmed down.
People are still discussing this strange dragon vein phenomenon.
"Could this dragon vein really be the birth of a child of destiny?"
"Why did the Wenwu Pagoda suddenly crack? Where did these evil spirits come from... It looks a bit like the Demon Suppression Prison... Could it be that the Demon Suppression Prison is actually underneath the Wenwu Pagoda?"
"Looking at the strange phenomenon in the sky, it must be the intervention of the great scholar. Nothing will happen!"
Suddenly, someone pointed towards the shore.
"Look, there's an army!"
"Ah! Could it be that the rebels want to take advantage of the chaos to cause trouble?"
"No, that's the flag of the Xuanhuang Army!"
The people of the Xuanhuang Army shouted:
"Everyone, don't panic! The rebels have been completely wiped out! They have all surrendered to the King of Zhenbei!"
Some people felt relieved when they heard this, thinking that all the anxiety they had been experiencing during this period was just a false alarm.
But another part of me suddenly felt a jump in my heart.
What does it mean to "become under the command of the King of Zhenbei"?
Given Emperor Yong'an's temperament, generally speaking, if the rebel army was defeated, they would have no way out but death.
He will not let go of anyone who covets the country's destiny.
However, now, the King of Zhenbei has taken the rebel army under his command. What does this mean?
But the Xuanhuang Army came with great force and soon formed up on both sides of the river with flags fluttering like dense clouds. In this atmosphere, anyone who wanted to question it could only keep their mouths shut.
Afterwards, King Gu Yuye of Zhenbei walked out from among the flags, wearing a suit of golden armor!
Everyone's pupils constricted and they were suddenly horrified.
This is a heinous act!
But when everyone looked closely, they found that the armor itself was still black, but it was covered with a layer of golden light, making it look golden.
It is obvious where this glow comes from.
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. Some looked up at the rosy glow in the sky, and now they really didn't dare to say a word...
Just when many aristocratic families were silent.
Dugu Xia, the head of the Dugu family, greeted him with a smile and bowed, saying:
"Congratulations, Your Highness, on your triumphant return!"
Gu Yuye smiled slightly and said lightly:
"It's just to protect this country, it's nothing."
Dugu Xia hurriedly said:
"No, now that the country is in ruins, how many people hope that the prince will turn the tide!"
He turned his head and looked at the heads of several Jiangnan families behind him and said:
"Do you all feel the same way?"
The meaning of Dugu Xia's question is self-evident!
The faces of the heads of the noble families changed, turning pale and purple. After hesitating for a moment, one of them stepped forward and bowed, saying:
"What Patriarch Dugu said is absolutely right. It is exactly what we think in our hearts!"
If one person takes the first step, the rest will naturally follow.
But one of the family heads quietly took out the communication stone, took two steps back, turned around and was about to escape.
Unfortunately, he was discovered by Gu Yuye after taking only two steps. He snorted coldly and pointed his finger directly, piercing him in mid-air!
"ah!"
The head of the family fell down and was silent.
The others trembled with fear and knelt down in unison towards Gu Yuye.
Only one person was still standing on the pleasure boat by the river, looking at Gu Yuye.
…
It didn't take Gu Yuye much time to reach the bank of Jiangling River.
Not only was he worried and wanted to watch Gu Fangchen die in front of him, he also wanted to do something else.
Gu Yuye raised his head and looked at the beautiful woman in front of him who was wearing a long ink-colored dress and a light red shawl, and extended his hand to her.
"Cai Yong, I will give you one last chance."
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