Chapter 254: Xuanling and Key (Two in One)
As soon as Gu Fangchen finished speaking, a transmission channel appeared before his eyes.
In the passage, a blurry huge face emerged, it was "General Qianmo" Duan Qicang.
Compared to the guy's resentful look last time, this time Fashang seemed much more flattering. He performed the disciple etiquette to Gu Fangchen very seriously, and then said solemnly:
"Teacher, please go from here."
He made a gesture of invitation, and a white light flashed beside him, and a separate transmission channel between "longitude and latitude" was opened.
Perhaps it was after Gu Fangchen threatened Duan Qicang with the secret of his "bald head" that this guy finally behaved himself and fulfilled his promise made three hundred years ago, treating the person who broke the formation with the respect of a teacher and following his lead.
Gu Fangchen nodded, not daring to waste time, and slipped into the transmission channel.
After Gu Fangchen's figure disappeared, Duan Qicang's vague image breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead, and there was still shock in his eyes.
"Hiss—it's only been a short time... and he's already reached the second rank?!"
Duan Qicang couldn't help but be amazed.
Although he had known about Gu Fangchen's extraordinary abilities early on, if he wanted to become an enemy of Xie Qian, even with the help of so many second-grade masters, Duan Qicang still felt that he had little chance of winning.
After all, Gu Fangchen's cultivation level is there. In the eyes of a second-grade cultivator like him who has been practicing for hundreds of years, it is inevitable that he will measure it based on his own experience and subconsciously underestimate it.
But this time, it only took a few days - for those of them who had lived for hundreds of years, it was like a blink of an eye, and Gu Fangchen had been promoted from the fourth rank to the second rank.
This speed is faster than riding a rocket!
Moreover, this time, it was no longer a promotion that was impossible to trace like before. Every step Gu Fangchen took had a clear purpose.
Form alliances and make alliances, harvest the faith of the Three Kingdoms, and become a Taoist priest with incense.
This path couldn't be clearer; it's even an obvious solution.
However, no one else can replicate every step of this journey.
Let us ask ourselves, who else could have displayed those so-called “miracles” and gained the nationwide faith of three completely different countries without any error?
But Gu Fangchen did it as if it was a very ordinary matter, in an orderly manner and with ease.
It gives people the impression that being promoted to the second rank is a very easy thing...
However, Duan Qicang would not think so, because he is really a second-grade rank, and he knows how difficult it is to be promoted to the second-grade rank.
Therefore, when he showed his respect to Gu Fangchen as a disciple just now, he did not feel dissatisfied at all.
Duan Qicang's gaze fell on the gradually disappearing crack in the passage, and he murmured:
"I don't know why that old man 'The Foolish Lord' is looking for this guy."
He was only responsible for starting the transmission, and the coordinates of the opposite side were controlled by "Yuebai Gong". If he dared to spy, "Yuebai Gong" would poison him to death. Therefore, he did not know where this passage led to.
But for some reason, he had a premonition...
Gu Fangchen's meeting with "The Defeatable Lord" before such an important moment may determine the future direction of the entire world.
…
Gu Fangchen entered the passage, but in the blink of an eye, the scene in front of him changed instantly.
Scarlet petals slowly fell before her eyes, and an endless sea of scarlet flowers of the other shore spread forward, reaching the girl's snow-white and tender toes.
The jade feet are slender and well-proportioned, and looking up, one can see slender calves, and the drooping white skirt outlines an equally slender figure.
It was a white-haired girl with her head tilted and eyes closed. Her white hair was tied into two buns with red ropes. Her face had a dreamlike beauty, so beautiful that it seemed unreal, showing a perfection that was beyond the reach of humans.
In fact, she is not human.
If you look closer, you can see slight traces of connections on her ankles, wrists, and joints of her hands and feet, which are the signs that she is an artificial doll.
Countless golden threads extended from all parts of her body, like the strings controlling a puppet, extending into the void above and sinking into the sky.
At the same time, it also made her float in the air, maintaining a strange posture.
This white-haired girl Yanou is the most perfect creation that Xuanming regards as his daughter.
Xuanling.
Gu Fangchen took a deep breath, walked forward, and stopped about three meters away from the girl.
In the original game plot, the player fights against Xuanming, the boss, right here.
When Gu Fangchen saw this scene, he couldn't help but licking his lips, and he wanted to start taking out props to buff himself.
Even though Xuanming later became a friendly party, at the same time, because of the influence of the power of "Tianmen", the player can only conduct investigations at this location, and the information obtained is limited.
If the player approaches forcefully, he will die on the spot.
Gu Fangchen guessed that it should be the same as Sunaga's previous reaction. When she gets too close to some information that should not be known to others, she will start to go crazy.
What's more, from the player's perspective, it seems that they know nothing at all, so it is normal for them to die directly.
But Gu Fangchen is different.
"You're here."
Xuan Ming's voice sounded beside him.
When Gu Fangchen turned around, she saw the familiar handsome young man with gentle appearance and pale skin again.
Gua Gua Gong was still dressed in simple black clothes, his face still childish, except for his white hair and his expressionless, gloomy and cold demeanor, which revealed his identity as the Lord of the Way of Death.
Gu Fangchen resisted the urge to reply "I'm coming" and engage in Gu Long's classic dialogue.
He nodded and let out a long sigh:
"The rest of the arrangements have been made, only this ray of east wind is missing."
Xuan Ming turned his head and looked at the countless golden threads:
"From the moment she glimpsed the Heavenly Gate, she was imprisoned here forever. Those golden threads represent the cause and effect that I dare not touch again."
Ordinary causal lines are red, but these are golden, and the difference is obvious from the appearance.
And they all understood that this cause and effect came from the "Gate of Heaven" and if touched, it would be enough to drive people crazy and die.
Xuan Ming once saw a moment, and the price he paid was to be forever frozen in his youth and lose most of his cultivation. It took him who knows how many years to recover.
But for Gu Fangchen, these causal lines were what he felt were missing when he sat in front of the computer and faced the so-called true ending of "Six Dusts Return to Truth".
Originally, he had some uncertainty in his heart.
However, when he really stood in front of Xuan Ling, he knew that this was what he was looking for.
Gu Fangchen's eyes flickered.
Because he had seen these causal lines.
In the illusion given by Ning Caiyong, he saw these densely packed eyes appearing from the thousand-foot cracks in the void.
The gazes cast by these eyes turned into strands of golden silk threads, hanging down to the earth, like a curtain covering the sky.
It is exactly the same as the golden thread in front of you!
It is certain that Xuan Ling's deep sleep was not forced by external forces.
But it was an independent choice, just like Ying Baishou, Shi Qingguang and Heng Changdaozhu.
She closed herself off just to preserve these golden threads of cause and effect.
And these causal lines preserved by Xuan Ling are the keys and coordinates leading to the "Heavenly Gate"!
In the original game, after the player completes the conversation with Xuanming, he will also obtain a coordinate from him.
But that coordinate can only go back to the moment when Xuan Ling was born and triggered the opening of the "Heavenly Gate".
Players can increase the power of the "death" or "life" paths, destroy the balance between the two, and organize the opening of the "Heavenly Gate". In this way, the original cause and effect are changed, and Xuan Ling will be able to wake up.
However, has cause and effect really changed?
If that sealed history has turned into the eternal sky, always watching over the world.
What’s the point of simply changing the cause and effect at a certain moment?
When that gaze was cast, the "Tao" had already begun to invade.
It is the termite that devours the world and the flame that burns the world. Any spark will turn the world into firewood.
Therefore, the Xuan Ling that the player rescued and awakened is actually no longer the original Xuan Ling, but has been occupied by the "Tao" and turned into a "preacher".
Or maybe it is the "demon master" mentioned by "Master Hengchang".
"To reach the true ending, the hidden seventh ending, we must sever the causal thread from the sky!"
Gu Fangchen stepped forward, stretched out his hand, and grabbed the golden thread hanging from the void.
The first thing he felt was burning and stinging.
The golden thread instantly turned into flames, burning his palms. Then, it was as if a strong wind emerged from the void, blowing across Gu Fangchen's body, causing the flames to spread rapidly, enveloping Gu Fangchen in the blink of an eye.
"boom……"
Gu Fangchen turned directly into a fire man, a cluster of torches. He took a deep breath, cold sweat quickly appeared on his forehead, and he felt the pain that penetrated deep into his bones.
But for Gu Fangchen now, such pain is no longer enough to shake his heart.
The enlarged image of the Dharma behind him suddenly appeared, without any sadness or joy. He stretched out his palms and closed them, holding Gu Fangchen in his palms. All around him, lotus shadows bloomed in an instant, exuding fragrance, as if he had arrived in another realm.
The faith that originated from Navatuma also has the power of Tara.
The first magical power that Gu Fangchen Dharmadhatu possesses is the "Lotus Pure Realm".
The power of this magical power is the same as that of Tara, which is to transform pain into strength. It is also a domain skill. If there are other people around, they can also transfer the pain to Gu Fangchen himself, and after he refines it, he can improve his own cultivation.
The pain he suffers can also be transferred by the Dharma before his spiritual power is exhausted.
The burning of the golden thread is only for its own protection; what can kill people is the information contained in it.
But for Gu Fangchen, it was meaningless.
He snorted coldly:
"I will borrow your power to help me break through the fifth level of 'refining magic'!"
The degree of pain increases with each level of Gu Fangchen's "magic refining". The fourth level was already broken through by "planting heart poison", and the fifth level would naturally be even higher.
Originally, this was a difficult matter, because "poison in the heart" almost represented the greatest pain in the world, but this cause and effect from "Heaven's Gate" was precisely "the enemy from heaven"...
But that golden causal line is not an ordinary thing.
When Gu Fangchen started to "refine magic" under the protection of the Dharma image, the countless red causal lines on his body were forced to emerge.
The golden flame was like a cancer in the bone, and began to burn the red causal lines.
In the blink of an eye, a large area was burned.
It seems that he intends to directly erase Gu Fangchen's cause and effect!
…
Yi'er was fishing in a corner of the Haiguo Pier, shaking her little feet.
He suddenly raised his head, narrowed his eyes, looked a little surprised, and then laughed:
"I actually found the key to open the 'Gate of Heaven'... Interesting, really interesting. I was right. This is really interesting."
"Finally, there's some fun in this world!"
"However, if you're not careful, a glimpse of the 'Heaven's Gate' could actually kill you... Sigh, I don't have enough karma and I get burned to death. What should I do?"
She closed her eyes, but the corners of her mouth still had an interesting smile:
"Why not... let her choose for herself."
The next moment, Lu Fuyi opened his eyes blankly and looked at the fishing rod in his hand with a puzzled look.
"I, I'm..."
Memories flooded back like a tide, and Lu Fuyi's face changed again and again in an instant, from white to red and then to ashen blue.
She was distracted by that guy's confession, and when she woke up, she had already lost her virginity?!
Moreover, it was obvious that the guy was trying to coax Yi'er!
"asshole!"
Lu Fuyi gritted her teeth, feeling that she was possessed by a ghost and must have been deceived.
That guy spoke sweet words, but in the end, he still wanted everything!
And her original plan...
But then, she suddenly felt a burning pain as if coming from her soul, and her expression was slightly stunned.
"What did that guy do? Is his karma dissipating?"
The expression of the "Four-phase Tribulation Lord" changed instantly.
After her "Wheel of Karma of the Sea" magical power was stolen by Gu Fangchen, although she could no longer use it, she could still sense it.
He can even sense Gu Fangchen's own cause and effect.
However, at this moment, the huge causal force that had shocked her was also being burned and turned into ashes. In a short time, it might endanger Gu Fangchen herself!
There is a confrontation between the two, but Gu Fangchen is a human being after all. If the cause and effect are erased, he will no longer exist.
Unless... there is another causal force to resist it for him.
Lu Fuyi was silent for a while, clearly feeling that the cause and effect belonging to Gu Fangchen were being erased rapidly. She naturally decided to sit back and watch, but after just a few seconds, she felt empty and panicked.
She gritted her teeth:
"Asshole... I did this for Yi'er. If this unfaithful man died, Yi'er would be heartbroken."
"Anyway, Jiuyou has now been instigated by him, that's right...that's it."
Lu Fuyi raised his hand and made a gesture, activating the karma in the "Wheel of Karma in the Sea of Disaster".
But this time, it is not for his own use.
Instead, he used all the accumulated power of destruction to block Gu Fangchen.
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