Chapter 370 Strange Fire or Qingyang
The young man walked down the stone steps of the Ghost Path Holy Hall step by step. None of the saints floating above stopped him. They were all waiting to see the reaction of Saint Changgen. It wasn't until Mei Liangyu was almost out of the Holy Hall's territory that they were certain that Saint Changgen was indeed trapped in the sea of fire.
The aura, like sea fire, excited the saints of the Water Boat, so when Mei Liangyu walked out of the Ghost Path Sanctuary, they all landed to stop him.
The young man stopped in the woods, his expression indifferent, seemingly unsurprised.
Three renowned masters and sages landed simultaneously, surrounding Mei Liangyu.
Lu Lan and Xuan Jing flanked him, while Sun Heng stood in front, smiling at the young man: "Congratulations on getting rid of Elder Chang."
Mei Liangyu looked up, her gaze sweeping over Liang Zhen and Zhang Guanyi. When the two looked over, she silently indicated that she didn't need their help. Then she looked back at Sun Heng: "Are you also going to stop me from leaving Taiyi?"
“If you leave Taiyi and return to Yan, you might bring yourself even more trouble,” Sun Heng advised. “I suggest you come to Shuizhou for a while first. That way, even if you want to go back to Yan to seek revenge, you will have more leverage.”
“You seem to have forgotten that my father died on the water boat. I haven’t even caused you any trouble yet, and you’re already dreaming.” Mei Liangyu strode towards Sun Heng, leaning slightly closer to the white-haired old man before him. “If you want to know the secret of the strange fire from me, just like I said before, you’ll have to exchange it for the other five countries.”
“You know this is an impossible deal.” Sun Heng’s attitude was not as firm as before. After a moment’s hesitation, he said, “How about we exchange a portion of the Nangong family for a part of it?”
"The Nangong family?" Mei Liangyu asked doubtfully, but her eyes were cold. "Does the Nangong family think they can exchange information about the Strange Flame and the Return to the Void from me?"
Is there also Guixu?
Sun Heng's gaze turned cold: "Do you really know where Guixu is?"
“Dean Sun, I am not like my father.” Mei Liangyu looked down at Sun Heng, her voice low and dangerous. “He cares about the lives of the people because he still has a family, but I have nothing now and don’t care about the lives of the people.”
"When the prophecy comes true, all beings will be equal and will be burned at the stake. As far as I'm concerned, those who deserve to die will die, which actually saves me a lot of trouble."
The young man bowed slightly before the old man, his posture like that of a respectful student to a teacher, yet his slightly raised eyebrows were full of arrogance and unbridled arrogance, waiting for the moment when everything in the world would be burned.
For a moment, Sun Heng thought the young man in front of him had gone mad.
As Mei Liangyu straightened up to leave, Sun Heng whispered, "Qingyang."
"how?"
Mei Liangyu was silent for a moment, then suddenly laughed and said, "Guess, will the dream bestowed by heaven be realized first, or will Qingyang perish first?"
Sun Heng said, "Neither of these are easy tasks."
“Then let’s ask Dean Changsun to do some divination to see which one is easier to achieve.” Mei Liangyu looked in Changsun Zi’s direction. “I’m afraid of trouble, so I just want to choose the easiest one to do.”
He was too fickle, as if he was deliberately trying to make things difficult for me.
Lu Lan, with a chubby but kind face, said to Mei Liangyu, "Boy."
The moment he opened his mouth, the Saint-level Five Elements pressure was released on him alone, but Mei Liangyu was unaffected.
Sun Heng raised his hand to signal Lu Lan not to panic, then turned to look at Changsun Zi: "Dean Changsun, would you please perform a divination for us?"
Changsun Zi used her wind manipulation technique to reach the edge of the grass not far from the group, revealing only her eyes as she looked at Mei Liangyu and the others.
Mei Liangyu turned around and looked at the remaining sages behind him, and said loudly, "Shui Zhou asks Dean Changsun to help with divination to see whether the prophecy of the Heavenly Dream will come first, or whether Qingyang will perish first!"
Wu Huaiwei's eye twitched slightly as she listened. What was this kid up to? Did he really believe that a strange fire could destroy the world?
Zhuge Ling listened without expression, but her gaze fell on Changsun Zi.
Leng Rouyin frowned and remained silent. Yu Sheng and Old Zhu watched quietly. Wan Guiyue coughed until her face turned pale. Li Qiuwen reminded her whether she should go back to rest first.
Wan Guiyue shook her head, covered her face with her sleeve, and said softly, "I'm curious too."
"I also want to know which one goes first!" Zhang Guanyi stood up from the white crane's back and shouted down to Sun Heng and the others.
Kuang Chu said disdainfully, "Why don't you just do the divination yourself?"
Zhang Guanyi said seriously, "For divination, it's best to consult a master of divination techniques."
Kuang Chu: "Oh, so you Taoist disciples have actually admitted defeat in the art of divination."
Liang Zhen didn't even glance at him: "That word should be 'willing to admit defeat'."
Kuang Chu was embarrassed and annoyed: "...What's it to you how I pronounce it!"
Liang Zhen ignored him, but Zhang Guanyi looked at Kuang Chu with disapproval, about to lecture this young man who was about the same age as his junior brother, when he heard Zou Qian's indifferent voice say:
"Forcing her to do the divination won't yield accurate results. What if she doesn't want to in the first place, but..."
Before she could finish speaking, Changsun Zi had already taken out the Divine Wood Token and made a hand seal.
Zou Qian was stunned: "You really help with divination? Then you can also help me with divination, and find out who cast the mantra on me."
Changsun Zi said, "I am not willing to perform divination for you."
Zou Qian immediately turned to Mei Liangyu and asked, "So how did you regain your memory? Let me try it too."
Mei Liangyu stared at Changsun Zi's divine wooden talisman without even blinking: "My method is useless against the Pearl Heart Mantra."
Zou Qian looked disappointed and turned to look at Wu Huaiwei.
Wu Huaiwei was speechless and gestured for him to shut up and stop embarrassing himself.
Zou Qian ignored him and sighed before continuing, "You want to use the strange fire to destroy the world, and everyone must want to know that. But we have a sage from Qingyang here. Is it not appropriate to divine whether Qingyang will perish in front of him?"
“Yeah, right.” Kuang Chu chimed in sarcastically, “If I were a saint in Qingyang, I would have hung this kid up and beaten him up long ago.”
“Dean Wan is not in good health and may not be able to teach him a lesson. It would be better if Dean Li could do it instead.” Zou Qian said, scratching his neck. “If Dean Li is too reluctant, Old Zhu can also take charge. Young people are so arrogant and should be taught a lesson.”
The three—Wan Guiyue (a Legalist), Li Qiuwen (a Taoist), and Zhu Lao (a Logician)—all looked at Zou Qian at the same time.
Mei Liangyu, who had been staring at Changsun Zi, looked thoughtful after hearing Zou Qian's words and gently turned her eyes to look at the man scratching his neck.
Zou Qian appeared to be lecturing Mei Liangyu, but in doing so, he pointed out all the saints of Qingyang.
Wu Huaiwei snorted and said that Zou Qian was meddling in other people's business.
Zou Qian shrugged indifferently.
"The young man you mentioned is not only arrogant, but he also just defied his master by attacking him." Old Zhu frowned and said slowly, "Disciplining him is something we should leave to Elder Chang."
Li Qiuwen laughed and said, "Actually, I'm also very curious about divination. Why don't we see Dean Changsun's divination results first?"
These words drew people's attention back to Changsun Zi.
The astrolabe unfolded beneath Changsun Zi's feet, with golden incantations constantly flashing on the black divine wood talisman.
A force separated Changsun Zi from everyone else. The stars on the ground watched her, the Milky Way turned, and the evolution of all things in the world developed rapidly in her eyes.
Those present trusted Changsun Zi's divination abilities; her divinations only had two outcomes: unpredictable or absolutely correct.
A flame and a blazing sun materialized in the star chart, with the Divine Wood Oracle standing between them. As Changsun Zi's hands moved faster and faster, the oracle text flashed by even faster.
Changsun Zi doesn't often divine about the world, whether it's related to herself or others. She maintains a safe distance. When she asks a question in her heart, she can already judge whether the "divination" can be done.
Under the silent gaze of everyone, the star chart shone brightly, and the characters and incantations flashing on the black face of the divination slip faintly turned red.
At the moment the sacred wooden talisman burned, a young girl far away in the capital of Qingyang fell asleep on the table, her brows furrowed.
Zhong Lique suddenly found himself standing under a huge tree, its black branches and roots hanging to the ground, the veins of the falling leaves like burning lines of fire, gradually illuminating the entire tree.
A scorching gale suddenly swept in, causing Zhong Lique to raise his hand to shield his face. His fingers burned with pain. The flames from the burning leaf veins and tree roots grew brighter and brighter, and at one moment they boiled and exploded, with a huge black fire rushing towards him.
Zhongli Que saw the burning earth, stars shattered and falling from the high sky, leaving long trails of fire, tall buildings collapsing, and people wailing in the flames, only to turn to ashes in an instant.
Sparks and ashes filled the world. Zhongli Que heard the whispers of evil spirits in his ear. Before his eyes, mountains collapsed and the earth split open. Even the huge waves that crashed down could not suppress the fire that burst from the seabed.
She saw the divinely granted dream from hundreds of years ago.
Zhong Lique saw five figures in the raging fire that was burning the entire Xuan Gu Continent. Their backs were to him, so he couldn't see their faces. They were the only living beings in a world where strange fire devoured everything and was constantly turning into ashes.
Overwhelmed by fear, the girl's eyes filled with tears, which were instantly evaporated by the flames.
At the same time, all the saints of the Xuan Gu Continent witnessed this scene.
The dream bestowed upon them once more descended upon them, allowing them to glimpse what this continent would look like in the future.
The black flames will devour this land, and everything will turn to ashes.
As Mei Liangyu said:
All beings are equal.
The burning sacred wood talisman merged with the cluster of flames, but not long after, the blazing sun in the astrolabe also vanished.
Changsun Zi reached out and caught the falling divine wood divination stick, gently wiping away a small patch of black embers from the surface with her fingertips.
The saints who glimpsed the dream bestowed by heaven remained silent, seemingly still immersed in the scene of everything being burned, life being ravaged, and heaven and earth collapsing.
Only Mei Liangyu stared at Changsun Zi and asked, "How is it?"
“The strange fire came first,” Changsun Zi replied calmly, “and Qingyang came later.”
The prophecy will eventually come true.
The scene in the dream bestowed by heaven seems to be just around the corner. The moment the strange fire burns the earth will also be the day Qingyang perishes.
While everyone else looked solemn and serious, Mei Liangyu looked back at Sun Heng. His dark, cold eyes reflected the old man's stunned face. His smile didn't reach his eyes, and his polite demeanor was insane.
"It's your turn to choose."
Mei Liangyu said to Sun Heng, "To eliminate the strange fire, we must eliminate Qingyang."
Sun Heng snapped out of his daze of the disastrous vision of the dream bestowed upon him, his expression extremely serious and dignified: "I hope you are a man of your word."
He told Mei Liangyu, "Otherwise, your life will end before these two things happen."
Faced with Sun Heng's threat, Mei Liangyu smiled.
The more people fear prophecy, the more desperately they try to change it.
Sun Heng scrutinized the young man, and after a moment, he slowly stepped aside. Mei Liangyu stepped forward and left with him.
Liang Zhen watched this scene in silence, while Zhang Guanyi asked in a low voice, "What do you think he's planning to do?"
“Young people always have their own ideas,” Liang Zhen said.
Wu Huaiwei looked back at the Ghost Path Sanctuary engulfed in flames; the collapsing scene was just as the Dream of Heaven had foretold.
She used to take them for granted, but now she has a sense of impending crisis.
they.
Destroyers carrying strange flames.
Zhuge Ling landed unsteadily in front of Changsun Zi, her eyes filled with killing intent: "Since you can perform divination, you can also divine the identities of the world destroyers. Tell me, who are they, and where are they?"
Changsun Zi put away the sacred wood talisman: "I can't do what you're saying."
Zhuge Ling suddenly drew his sword and pointed it at her, his body radiating a protective aura, the sword whistling sharply.
Changsun Zi lowered her eyes to look at the sharp sword held to her throat, but made no move.
Zhuge Ling shouted sternly, "Changsun Zi, I want you to divine the whereabouts of the World Destroyer!"
As her sword energy erupted, two figures landed and attacked, repelling her.
The Legalist Yu Sheng stood at the forefront with a cold expression. Zou Qian glanced at Changsun Zi behind her, but the latter had already turned and left.
Zou Qian chased after him.
When they were alone, far from the sanctuary, Zou Qian asked the person walking ahead, "Did you deliberately release the Heavenly Dream during your divination just now?"
Changsun Zi stopped in her tracks.
Zou Qian then asked, "Did you cooperate with Mei Liangyu on purpose?"
"No comment." Changsun Zi continued walking forward.
Zou Qian followed behind: "Just do my divination once, and I'll pretend I don't know anything."
Changsun Zi ignored him, letting him pester her relentlessly without giving him any response.
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