Chapter 202: Ning Caiyong's Sword (Three-in-One)
"Mom, it's too dangerous ahead. Let's not get any closer to the battlefield."
Gu Lianxian looked at the column of blood in front of her with a serious expression and stopped Ning Caiyong.
During this time in the desert sea, she and Xu Zhenguan were responsible for protecting Ning Caiyong's safety and searching for Gu Fangchen's whereabouts. In this chaotic lawless area, they received great training.
Especially since she initially thought Xu Zhenguan was Gu Fangchen's follower, but later, Xu Zhenguan broke through to the sixth level in just a few days in this desert sea, and he would break through on the battlefield at any time, and got various inexplicable opportunities, and rose all the way to the peak of the sixth level!
It's outrageous!
Gu Lianxian compared herself to him. Because her Dao heart had been damaged before, her cultivation had only recently returned to the peak of the sixth level.
He always thought that he was a rare genius, but it was okay with Gu Fangchen, but how come a wooden follower like him could improve his cultivation so quickly like riding a rocket?
Gu Lianxian felt unbalanced.
Fortunately, she recently felt that she might have a premonition of breaking through to the fifth rank, and she worked hard to be promoted before Xu Zhenguan.
Otherwise, wouldn't I be worse than Gu Fangchen's follower?
However, the reason why she had a premonition of a breakthrough was something she couldn't reveal to outsiders...
Originally, Gu Lianxian's biggest problem was that she grew up in a greenhouse. She had a false courage but could not develop the loyal heart of Hunyuan Ruyi.
But after being tricked by Gu Fangchen, she has been able to rebuild herself from the ashes and gain self-awareness from other perspectives.
Wu Dan, in essence, means having sufficient understanding and confidence in one's own abilities.
This gave me an extremely strong sense of confidence.
This is actually the "unity of knowledge and action."
This has nothing to do with the actual actions of the warriors. For example, Gu Yuye, although he is the "King of Endurance", ends up either running away or on the way to escape, but his understanding of himself is extremely clear, so his heart of Taoism will never waver.
He was very clear about what he should do and what he was doing.
Moreover, his escape was often to accumulate strength and make a comeback.
Therefore, Gu Yuye's heart of Taoism will not be shattered.
Gu Lianxian was devastated because her understanding of herself was completely different from what actually happened, which shattered her worldview.
Later, Gu Lianxian rebuilt her Dao heart on the night she was forced to bark at Gu Fangchen...
She discovered that if she found herself as Gu Lianxian, she would be filled with disappointment in herself and would be unable to continue practicing.
However, if she thinks of herself as a puppy owned by someone, she will feel extremely safe and secure.
Everything the puppy does is because of the owner's orders, and there is no need to think about anything else.
And she can make a very good puppy.
There is no need to use your brain, no need to think about what you should choose... just follow the owner's orders and bite whoever she tells her to bite, that's all.
Gu Lianxian was immersed in such imagination, originally just wanting to escape reality, but the next day, she found that her cultivation had miraculously recovered!
This time... things are out of control.
Afterwards, when she imagined this again, she mostly thought of herself as Gu Fangchen's dog. Sometimes the person in her mind would suddenly become that cold voice in the darkness, whose face she still didn't know. Sometimes, it would even become the "not" Taoist priest...
Of course, in the latter two situations, Gu Lianxian would feel fear or ashamed.
But it is undeniable that this has made her a little addicted - anyway, Gu Fangchen doesn't know that she is practicing like this, so she is the only one who feels a little ashamed.
Now, she is even about to be promoted to Grandmaster in this way.
It was also for this reason that Gu Lianxian could increasingly feel the terrifying aura emanating from the bloody battlefield in the distance.
With their level of cultivation, they might be killed by the aftermath if they get close!
What's more, Ning Caiyong has not yet cultivated himself, and if he is not careful, an accident may happen.
The siege by the Demon Cult alone would definitely not be this serious!
Gu Fangchen didn't know what he had done to cause such a big commotion...
As she was thinking this, she saw a huge and terrifying evil creature of flesh and blood descending like a mountain in the blood light rising into the sky.
The followers of the Demon Cult who gathered in that area were quickly turned into blood food, and the area was filled with resentment and evil spirits, which was even worse than the fake dragon vein in Jiangnan at that time.
Ning Caiyong stood there, gazing at the center of the battlefield, which was already a scene of devastation. His brows furrowed tightly, and his hand touched his heart.
"I don't know why, but I always feel a little uneasy..."
Gu Lianxian turned her head and looked at her mother, who was extremely beautiful. She curled her lips and said:
"Mom, don't worry. Master... Gu Fangchen always manages to escape danger. Besides, he was the one who summoned that evil spirit. It's others who should be panicking."
She had actually already guessed who this so-called "others" were.
Gu Fangchen deliberately came to Shuobei, and his real purpose must be not only to deal with the Demon Cult, but also to find Gu Yuye's true form.
Ning Caiyong had already told them about the soldier puppet's death in place of others, and they would not let outsiders think that Gu Yuye was really dead.
However, Gu Lianxian felt a little doubtful at this moment.
As much as she trusted Gu Yuye in the past, she became more disappointed with him after the pursuit. Therefore, she understood her father's character even more clearly.
Gu Yuye's character is extremely selfish and vicious. Even his so-called "love at first sight" with Ning Caiyong was a calculation.
Since there is no emotion, there is no trust.
Then, given his suspicious nature, he should not have told Ning Caiyong about the "soldier puppet" matter.
Since Ning Caiyong knew about this, it meant that Jiange might know about it.
Gu Yuye would never risk revealing his true colors by telling this to his bedmate...
This means that Ning Caiyong might have discovered this himself.
But Ning Caiyong has no cultivation, so how could he discover such a hidden thing?
So Gu Lianxian thought again, maybe she was overthinking it...
Ning Caiyong lowered his eyelashes, shook his head, and murmured softly:
"Gu Yuye made his fortune in this desert sea, and the process behind it was quite strange... Now that his real body has returned here, I'm worried he might have a trick up his sleeve."
Gu Lianxian had also heard about this matter.
She used to be a loyal supporter of Gu Yuye and knew everything about him, including the history of his rise to fame.
However, no outsider knows what exactly happened in this desert.
Gu Lianxian didn't know how to comfort her mother.
Since childhood, Ning Caiyong has always been overly concerned about anything related to Gu Fangchen. Perhaps this time, he is just too worried?
As she was thinking about this, she suddenly saw the huge monster on the battlefield suddenly disappear.
Gu Lianxian was stunned at first, and then she found that the terrifying aura appeared again on the other side.
At this moment, they were on a high ground formed by the Gobi Desert, and they could see everything in all directions. They were also very clear about the changes in the situation.
Gu Lianxian quickly looked to the other side, and then witnessed Gu Yuye killing the Xuanhuang Army who had followed him for so many years, but was intercepted by Gu Fangchen.
She had been a little nervous just now, but she finally relaxed and said quickly:
"Mom, look, I told you, this guy must have made every possible preparation. Didn't he anticipate this back-up plan as well?"
Gu Lianxian no longer had the contempt and disdain she once had for Gu Fangchen, and even jealousy no longer arose.
Gu Fangchen's cultivation level increased too quickly, and the enemies he faced were completely of a different level.
But after she finished saying this, she couldn't help but be stunned.
Because the person who is about to be killed by Gu Fangchen is her biological father!
However, in her heart, she only thought about how powerful Gu Fangchen was... She didn't even feel a trace of pity or worry.
Unconsciously, Gu Yuye's position in her heart was not even as high as that scary guy who had never appeared.
——That scary guy hadn't appeared for so long that Gu Lianxian even subconsciously wondered what he had been doing and why he hadn't come yet...
But now Gu Lianxian doesn't want to think about Gu Yuye at all.
Whenever she thought of Gu Yuye, she would recall the experience of being hunted down and feel a suffocating feeling.
However, compared to the time when I was just rescued, it is still much better.
At that time, in every night's nightmare, apart from the pitch blackness, there was also the helplessness of drowning.
No matter what the emotion was, Gu Lianxian really had no feelings for Gu Yuye now.
“Swish—boom!”
In the distance, countless flags fluttered in the wind, forming a long sword that suddenly chopped down towards Gu Yuye!
The knife that Gu Yuye made with his own hands finally fell on his head.
At this moment, because Gu Yuye had fled for a distance to the periphery, his body, which was chopped and exploded, was only a thousand feet away from them.
"I should have killed you—"
Gu Yuye's unwilling roar came to an abrupt end, and his head exploded with a "bang".
The headless body paused in mid-air, shook a bit, and then fell straight down like a rag.
Ning Caiyong looked at the one-sided situation, but his frown did not relax.
On the contrary, at this moment, she felt her eyebrows twitch violently, and extreme uneasiness surged in her heart.
Seeing Gu Fangchen flying towards Gu Yuye's body and raising the fluttering flag in her hand again, her pupils constricted, and a sword light that split the sky and the earth was reflected in her eyes.
She shouted subconsciously:
"Chen'er! Be careful!"
Gu Lianxian subconsciously turned her head and stretched out her hand to stop her mother from doing something stupid.
But then, her movements froze and her expression became dull.
Because in their eyes, the Princess of Zhenbei, who had no cultivation at all, suddenly turned cold and grabbed the small wooden sword pendant around her neck and pulled it.
The wooden sword shattered in an instant, turned into a long rainbow, and flew towards the sword light!
…
Gu Fangchen was just about to step forward to finish off the enemy when his pupils suddenly constricted and he felt a palpitation in his heart.
Right in front of him, Gu Yuye's tattered headless corpse suddenly froze in mid-air. In the blood mist formed by the explosion of his head, a completely unfamiliar face vaguely appeared.
That face showed a strange sneer.
Gu Yuye's corpse suddenly raised his hands, as if calling out to something, and emitted a strange, overlapping sound that sounded like tens of millions of people roaring together:
"rise!!!!"
At the same time, a huge crack appeared in the ground below.
From it, one can glimpse the bronze coffin locked with countless chains, and the densely packed soldier puppets underneath.
“Ding ding ding…”
The chains trembled violently and broke one after another. The lid of the coffin was pushed open by an invisible force with a teeth-grinding sound.
The soldier puppets trembled, as if uttering angry cries, and tried their best to suppress the coffin, but to no avail.
Because the formation they formed had been broken because Gu Yuye took away three of them and made them into puppets!
In just a moment, all the chains broke.
All the eternal lamps were extinguished.
“Crack! Crack! Crack…”
The soldier puppets underneath finally couldn't hold on any longer and all cracked apart, losing their original living aura.
On the wall next to it, sections of ancient text that had been covered by wind and sand also appeared.
Gu Yuye would never know until his death that this so-called "Military God" had actually turned into a demon long ago and was sealed here.
Back then, the "Military Immortal" used the evil military formation method to destroy all lives and devoured all the soldiers under his command, forming a body of ten thousand souls, intending to realize the concept of "I am the ten thousand army".
Later they were defeated by a joint force and suppressed here.
These soldier puppets were made in the shape of those soldiers who died tragically, and were used to suppress the formation of the "Soldier Immortal" who had long since turned into a demon!
But because Gu Yuye accidentally entered this place and destroyed the seal, it gave the "Soldier Immortal" an opportunity. He bewitched Gu Yuye to take the soldier puppet away and wait for the opportunity to revive.
Time passed, and it was not until today that the "Military Genius" Li Kan was finally able to possess another body and be reborn!
The first thing he did after his rebirth was to kill the tiny ant in front of him!
“Boom!”
The huge crack on the ground suddenly bulged and split into two sides.
A terrifying sword light was drawn out from the ground, running across the entire earth, attacking Gu Fangchen from bottom to top.
The sword that Li Kan gave to Gu Yuye was just a tool to stimulate the latter's emotions and speed up the possession of his body.
This sword is the real sword of the "God of War"!
The hairs on Gu Fangchen's back stood up instantly, and a chill ran up his spine, making his scalp numb and even unable to move his body.
At this moment, he even had the feeling as if he was facing Gu Yuye when he just traveled through time!
The opponent's strength has reached the point where it can crush him.
Even the Grandmother who was chasing him at that time had never experienced such a terrifying feeling!
This also means that the unknown guy in front of him who suddenly took over Gu Yuye's body, or in other words, the "Military Immortal" who disappeared in the game, his cultivation level is very likely to be the first-grade Eternal Realm!
The fifth first-grade item that has never appeared in the entire game!
"Fuck! Is the first-grade cabbage?!"
Gu Fangchen was stunned and couldn't help but swear.
"Before I traveled through time, the first rank was theoretically only two and a half, and it was still secretive."
"When I traveled through time, first there was a half-step first-rank ancestor, and now there's a 'military immortal' who has never appeared in the game. Are you first-rank people playing hide-and-seek? I started looking, and they all showed up one after another?!"
The only one who could possess Gu Yuye's body at this moment was the "Military Immortal" in the disappeared [Military Immortal's Tomb].
Gu Fangchen actually had some guesses about the outcome of Gu Yuye's death.
But he never expected that this guy who just became a background figure in the game was actually a top-ranked one!
However, there is no point in thinking about anything else at this moment.
He must find a way to protect himself!
Gu Fangchen calmed down, and his mind raced as he immediately wanted to activate the [Yanwang Tie] again.
Because Gu Yuye has died, he has now recovered. If he tries again, he will be able to return to Jiuyou.
However, at this moment, the ground shook and cracked, shattering the Blood God Altar below. Ruoye, who had been summoned, was instantly forcibly sent back.
The moment a great evil spirit of his level was sent back to the Netherworld, it affected the spatial stability of the passages on both sides, causing a brief congestion.
In other words, the server is busy and stuck!
At this moment, the surging sword light was already very close, about to fall on Gu Fangchen.
Gu Fangchen's pupils constricted, and he instantly realized that this was the first calamity he would face after being promoted to the fourth rank - the calamity of war!
External demons are calamities sent down by heaven and earth to prevent practitioners from further acquiring the "Tao".
Since it comes from heaven and earth, coincidences like Final Destination will happen.
Although Gu Fangchen didn't have any "Tao", the program was written like this...
That is what is called, when the time comes, heaven and earth will work together!
Gu Fangchen twitched the corners of his mouth.
He is only a fourth-grade cultivator. How much does the world want him to die that they actually sent a first-grade cultivator to help him pass the tribulation?
However, at this point, he only has one solution left, and that is the "Wheel of Karma in the Sea of Calamity" in his soul!
Although the "Wheel of Karma of the Sea" was forcibly bound to his soul and could not be taken out or used.
But the moment his soul is shattered, the "Wheel of Karma in the Sea of Calamity" will be released.
At this time, the karma in it can be temporarily used by him to block the sword light in front of him.
However, this alone is not enough to withstand a first-level attack.
Therefore, the next thing to watch is [Blood Substitute Boy]!
Gu Yuye’s blood had just been collected. At this moment, the other party took over Gu Yuye’s body and actually became Gu Yuye.
The blood replacement technique can still be activated!
The strength of the first rank may be able to avoid the curse of karma, but don’t forget that the “Wheel of Karma” on Gu Fangchen’s body has huge karma.
It is enough to support the blood replacement technique and is effective against a first-grade cultivator.
But from now on, whether or not he can kill the other party depends on luck...
"boom--"
The sword light drowned everything.
After a brief moment of thought, Gu Fangchen watched his body shatter into pieces. The blood-colored flower that bloomed from the "heart poison" was also looming on his floating soul, which was very strange.
He was concentrating solemnly, waiting for his soul to shatter and release the "Wheel of Karma in the Sea of Calamity".
But then he saw a rainbow light flying over and blocking his way.
This rainbow light is as ethereal as a veil, but it contains infinite sharp sword intent, which can almost cut through everything in the world.
But it just floated past Gu Fangchen lightly.
The sword light that shot up into the sky was split into two, breaking into two pieces and disappearing into the sky!
…
Ten thousand miles away.
Donglong County, Jiange.
Ning Songjun sat on the top of the mountain facing the direction of Tianmen Mountain, drinking by himself, with a look of melancholy on his face.
Xu Yuexiu was helping to pour the wine. She noticed that Master Jiansheng looked a little sad, so she couldn't help but ask:
"Master, I heard that the princess went to Shuobei. I don't know if my brother and the King of Zhenbei are going to fight to the death. Why don't you try to dissuade them or send someone to protect them?"
"It's so dangerous to go there. The princess hasn't cultivated yet..."
Because Xu Yuexiu obtained the sword intent of the ancestor in the forbidden area and was an insider of the Sword Saint's cheating incident, Ning Songjun accepted her as a registered disciple.
Commonly known as - admitted.
Of course, the former reason is important, definitely not the latter!
Now, although it is well known that the Prince of Zhenbei and the Princess have broken up, Gu Fangchen has not returned to receive the imperial edict, and does not know how to address Ning Caiyong, so she temporarily calls her the Princess.
In the past, the princess lived a stable life in the Zhenbei Palace, so Jiange didn't have to worry about anything.
But now, he was getting deeper into danger every day, and the Pavilion Master and Sword Saint Master hadn't offered any advice...
Xu Yuexiu was very confused.
Ning Songjun put down his wine glass, sighed, glanced at his registered disciple, and said:
"Do you know how many people I killed during the civil unrest in Jiange?"
Xu Yuexiu shrank her neck. She knew the severity of the civil strife back then and thought Ning Songjun wanted her to stay out of other people's business. She hesitated and said,
"I remember the casualties seemed to be... more than 1,200?"
Ning Songjun shook his head:
"You're wrong. I only killed one person, Xue Qi."
Xu Yuexiu was stunned for a moment, and said in confusion:
"This, this is impossible... The brutality of the civil unrest in Jiange back then was a fact that everyone witnessed."
Ning Songjun laughed at himself:
"Those who actually saw that sword strike are already dead. The others just saw some corpses and blamed me for it."
"If I had killed all these people back then, how could I still be criticized for being indecisive and letting the people of the Seven Sects go, leading to the disaster today?"
The Sword Master at that time was actually just a little brat who always hid behind his elder sister and didn't even dare to kill anyone.
When it was Ning Caiyong's birthday when she was a child, Ning Songjun secretly went down the mountain to buy a gift to give her a surprise, but because he was in a hurry, he was caught and questioned by Ning Caiyong.
He couldn't even lie, so he could only hand over the gift dejectedly.
Extremely honest.
How could such a person suddenly change his temperament and massacre more than 1,200 people in the sect and bloodbath Cui Weishan because of internal strife?
The first person he actually killed was named Xue Qi. From then on, he learned how to kill people and how to use a sword.
Xu Yuexiu heard Ning Songjun slowly say:
"The true sword master... has never been me."
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ps: 8,000 is too difficult... 6,000 words orz, and I still owe 6 more
(End of this chapter)
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