Chapter 266: This is what players are here for! (Two-in-one)
The inner demon tribulation does not mean that it will disappear directly after the fourth level.
On the contrary, the fourth level is just the beginning of the inner demon calamity.
From then on, the practitioners will truly embark on the great path, and the inner demons will be lurking at all times. Once something happens that is inconsistent between knowledge and action, they will emerge like a ghost and entangle the spiritual consciousness.
Even for those who have attained enlightenment, it is the same.
Only the "True Immortal" can truly forge an indestructible heart of Taoism with the furnace of heaven and earth. There will be no more worries and hesitations in the heart, and naturally there will be no more inner demons.
Gu Fangchen was thinking.
He was thinking that if he had not intervened, there would be only one way for Shi Qingguang to break free from his inner demons and wake up from this wonderful illusion.
She needed to realize that this was a false world, so she had to remind herself of everything she had experienced.
Therefore, she had to destroy everything again with her own hands.
In other words, in this flawless illusion of Baidi City, which has never undergone any drastic changes, she has to act as the executioner in her memory.
Killing his loved ones one by one, spilling the river with phoenix blood, knocking down the Wutong tree, and setting the entire Baidi City on fire...
Tear this dream apart completely.
She will wake up naturally.
Gu Fangchen lowered his head and saw the little girl lying on his knees. Her fair profile was chubby and innocent, with a slightly flushed sleeping face. She looked cute and adorable, vaguely resembling the world's number one swordsman who later called him "stupid master."
But there is still a big gap between her and the awe-inspiring ancestor in a green dress.
He could sit back and watch, letting Shi Qingguang break the deadlock on her own. Watching her go through all this could perhaps be considered a rebirth.
But if I can directly change the cause of everything, why not?
If nothing had happened, Shi Qingguang would still be the most beloved daughter of the city lord of Baidi City. With her talent and resources, it would be a natural thing for her to achieve enlightenment.
These days, Gu Fangchen has toured Baidi City thoroughly and knows everything he should and shouldn't know.
The two most precious things in Baidi City are the descending phoenix and the sword seed hidden in the paulownia tree.
If Li Kan had taken action back then, it would have been for these two things.
Since the Wutong tree has withered, the phoenix should not be able to descend.
So Li Kan turned his attention to the Dao seeds, and then that tragedy happened.
But the Tao seed was finally taken away by Shi Qingguang, which perhaps saved her life.
Gu Fangchen's eyes were serious.
Then, the reason why Li Kan acted so quickly was probably because he was sure that the path of "sword" was in Shi Qingguang.
Shi Qingguang was most likely an orphan from Baidi City, so they sent three "enlightened people" directly over, eager to kill Shi Qingguang in the southwest.
Letting Shi Qingguang stay in Baidi City will not change her life trajectory much.
She is only nine years old at the moment, and it has only been five years since the illusion array was opened. Even if there is a butterfly effect, it will not be too much.
"But... there's already a paradox here."
Gu Fangchen touched his chin:
"If Baidi City had not leaked its coordinates and had not been massacred, then at this moment, Shi Qingguang would most likely not have gone to the southwest to develop Jiange, nor would he have met Zhang Yi and fallen into this illusion."
"So, as long as I successfully use the illusion array [Turning Fake into Reality], everything that happens afterwards will change."
"Whoever gave me this illusion, I'm afraid it's time to change the person..."
When it comes to the cause and effect of time and space, a small action may trigger a series of effects like dominoes.
This is also the reason why Gu Fangchen does not use this ability easily.
He knows the bug of this ability.
But precisely because of this, he was even more cautious. If he accidentally caused time and space to become tangled, it would not be a small problem...it might even cause the universe to restart.
Gu Fangchen thought for a moment, gently put Shi Qingguang aside, and then disappeared silently from the spot, appearing at the highest point of Baidi City.
On the highest branch of the paulownia tree, the young man in white robe stood quietly, reaching out to touch the huge phoenix that was sleeping gracefully.
“Complex…”
The phoenix shook its wings, opened its eyes, turned its head to look at him, was stunned for a moment, and then went back to sleep.
It seemed as if she knew him and was not afraid that he would do anything bad, and she looked very relieved.
This phoenix is extremely old and therefore very weak. It came to Baidi City not just to rest for a while, but probably to truly achieve nirvana here.
Ancient spiritual beasts like it are everywhere in the "Honglu World", but they have all entered old age.
Because as the number of cultivators increases, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth is decreasing, and the number of these huge spiritual beasts, which were already small, is also rapidly decreasing.
There was only the last phoenix, dragon...
Soon, the phoenix will be reborn, but the spiritual energy to support its regeneration is not enough, so it will dissipate in the cycle of reincarnation, and the real dragon will die in the area of the Dragon Soul Sea.
Gu Fangchen smiled and patted it, then turned his head to overlook the entire bustling Baidi City. He admired the warm and ordinary human life for a while and felt very satisfied.
There are 40,000 people in the entire Baidi City.
From today on, live.
That's what players are here for!
He can be an unforgivable thug or a savior of the world, and everything depends on the three words "I am happy".
Gu Fangchen stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers at the whole world in front of him.
“Snap—”
【Make fake become real】.
Everything in front of Gu Fangchen's eyes collapsed like a sand castle and dissipated into the darkness. The brightly lit scenes retreated rapidly and finally disappeared at a certain point.
Everything returned to calm.
The illusion array that Gu Fangchen was in collapsed, and the illusion created for him dissipated. He naturally left the illusion and left the real Baidi City.
He was only involved at that point in time.
Then, he returned to the original time.
In other words... the time when he met the Grandmaster was about to change from a few months of master-disciple relationship to a few encounters as if he had met a male ghost in childhood.
Gu Fangchen looked at the scene in front of him, was suddenly stunned, then dazed for a moment, and wanted to laugh.
turn out to be……
It is you who made the Grandmother forget the name and the person Gu Fangchen.
No wonder the later ancestors didn’t recognize him!
Gu Fangchen had also been puzzled before. Logically speaking, even if the cultivation and memory were suppressed, the Grandmother should have only regressed a little bit. Why didn't she remember anything at all?
With her happy and fulfilling childhood, how could she remember the stranger who sneaked into her home like an illusion?
…
"rustle……"
The rubbing sound of the sycamore leaves, along with the cool night wind, blew on the girl's cheeks.
Her long eyelashes trembled, and she woke up in a daze. She sat up and looked around blankly, but did not find her "ghost friend".
Shi Qingguang stood up, walked outside and looked around in confusion.
But apart from the peaceful and tranquil Baidi City, she could no longer find any trace of the existence of this "ghost friend".
"Look! Nirvana! The phoenix is reborn!"
Suddenly there were screams and shouts from below.
Upon hearing this, Shi Qingguang suddenly raised his head and saw the phoenix let out a mournful cry, and its graceful long neck drooped down, turning into golden feathers that floated in the air.
As the golden feathers fell from the sky, a golden thread hung from the void and landed in front of Shi Qingguang.
The girl held her breath and reached out her hand blankly to catch it. A golden light flashed, and it turned into a long sword in her palm.
Behind her came the surprised voice of the Lord of Baidi City:
"This is... the Dao Seed of the Sword!"
The city lord came forward, touched her head, and sighed with relief:
"Qing'er, this Dao seed appeared once when you were born, and now it has finally come to you. You are a natural-born seed of the Dao of Sword."
Shi Qingguang seemed to understand and grasped the sword.
…
Although he missed the happy time he had spent with Grandma Zushi, Gu Fangchen just felt a little regretful.
After all, it was he who stole other people's things first, so wasn't the "cooperation" afterwards quite pleasant?
At this moment, Shi Qingguang was just "clever disciple" Shi Qingguang to Gu Fangchen.
It is not the same concept as Zushi Nai.
He didn't want to see Shi Qingguang grow up in the pain of having his entire family slaughtered, so he just followed his heart and turned that fantasy into reality.
As for Shi Qingguang's original revenge, let him take it.
Anyway, he was going to kill that old bastard Li Kan anyway, so it doesn't matter if he kills him sooner or later...
Gu Fangchen was thinking this when he suddenly heard a voice of disbelief and shock.
"Puff! How is it possible... My illusion array, this person is clearly not even an 'enlightened person', how could it be broken so quickly?!"
Gu Fangchen came back to his senses, and the dark barriers in front of him receded like the tide, while some memories emerged like the tide.
He looked in the direction of the voice and saw a monk who looked like a middle-aged man carrying a coffin. He was attacked by the formation and was spitting blood. His face was pale and he looked very embarrassed.
This person is none other than Zhang Yi, the "Sleeping Lord of Heaven".
Gu Fangchen ignored him, looked around, and found that the place was almost the same as before he left.
The unrecognizable corpse of the "Lord of Paradise" was lying on the ground covered in charred black and scarlet.
And around, there were many more practitioners, fighting with the "Paradise Hell" disciples under Yin Jin.
In the Southwest "Heaven's Mandate" Taoist seed dispute where Shi Qingguang did not participate, there were still "enlightened people" emerging.
But there are only "Lord of the Underworld" Yin Jin and "Lord of Sleeping Heaven" Zhang Yi.
Li Guisu did not participate.
Yin Jin first obtained the "Heaven's Destiny" seed, but his formation was exposed, which aroused the anger of the practitioners in the southwest. Under Zhang Yi's call, they attacked the formation's eye barrier together and broke the formation of the Blood God's sacrifice.
But Zhang Yi was not a good person either, he was also after the Tao Seed.
He used the practitioners from the southwest to break Yin Jin's barrier, and then expanded his own "dream" realm to snatch the "heavenly destiny" seed.
However, the two pawns, who were not even "enlightened ones" and whom he had not cared about originally, soon came to their senses.
One is Gu Fangchen.
The other one was De Yuanzi who came with him.
"Oh! Bah! Bah! Trying to trick an old Taoist priest with your first love, it's not that easy!"
De Yuanzi glared at Zhang Yi and spat at him several times.
"As for me, an old Taoist, my heart is as strong as iron. I have long since severed all worldly ties. How could I be deceived by such a false illusion?"
Gu Fangchen raised his eyebrows, quite surprised.
This old Taoist De Yuanzi clearly looked busy and full of lies, and seemed to be easily lost in the illusion and demons of his mind, but in fact he was not affected at all.
I don’t know what he saw in the illusion... but it probably wasn’t the so-called first love.
Gu Fangchen looked around and found that some were dead, some were injured, and the final circle had almost been cleared.
He raised his head and said lightly:
"This seed is not yours."
Zhang Yi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his expression fierce and ferocious:
"If you say it's not, then it's not. Who do you think you are? Come and get it if you can!"
He waved his hand, and the Avenue of Dreams reappeared, with countless dream illusions that seemed both real and illusory coming from all directions.
Gu Fangchen didn't even look at him and flew straight towards him.
Wherever he passed, all illusions disappeared.
“You, you…”
Zhang Yi was stunned at first, then seemed to realize something terrible, his face showed fear, and he quickly stepped back.
But it was obviously too late.
Gu Fangchen stretched out his hand and grabbed the "Sleeping Lord" in his hand.
Zhang Yi struggled and begged for mercy:
"I was drawn to this Dao because of my wife. I beg you, Senior, to have pity on my deep love and spare my life..."
Gu Fangchen paused, and Zhang Yi seemed to see hope, and continued to talk about his wife's goodness and his deep affection for her.
Because he saw that the young man in front of him was handsome, he must be a passionate man, which he thought would resonate with him.
"Oh……"
Gu Fangchen suddenly laughed.
With a thought, he took the coffin behind him and floated it in front of him.
Zhang Yi's eyes were bloodshot, and he said hurriedly:
"what are you up to?!"
Gu Fangchen reached out and stroked the coffin lid, then opened it, revealing the well-preserved body of a woman.
The woman was beautiful, and even with her eyes closed, she had a sad temperament.
Zhang Yi yelled, "Stop!"
Gu Fangchen ignored him and gently stroked the cheek of the woman in the coffin.
De Yuanzi couldn't stand it anymore and smacked his lips:
"Senior... well, although Zhang Yi has committed many evil deeds, his wife is innocent after all. Doing this is a bit too..."
He spoke politely, but in fact he was shocked.
This senior is too perverted!
Even the dead are spared!
"Innocent?"
Gu Fangchen sneered, covered the woman's cheek with his palm and pressed down.
"No--!!!"
Zhang Yi shouted in despair.
De Yuanzi, however, had a dull expression as he watched Gu Fangchen's hand lightly pass over the woman's face and press onto the wooden board at the bottom of the coffin.
The woman's figure twisted like green smoke, and finally the breath of "dream" was revealed.
Gu Fangchen withdrew his hand:
"It's nothing but a fleeting dream, a self-deception."
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ps: I originally thought of a knife... After thinking about it, I changed the way of writing it, deleted it and rewrote a paragraph. After all, I am a fan of happy endings, and a perfect ending is better than anything else.
I'll save the knife and other things for the next book ()
(End of this chapter)
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