Chapter 335: Dragon Falls (1)
Taking one last look at the bustling Netherworld, Luo Xuanyi quickly severed the connection with the small world and stuffed her body back into the dead air for storage.
She held the token left by Luo Jiming in her hand and walked slowly out of the bamboo house. Suddenly, a large amount of death energy spewed out from the cracks in the ghost world in the sky, and she caught a breath at this moment.
"Huh?"
The young man walked out from under the tree in confusion, holding onto the trunk with one hand. "Strange, how come you suddenly sensed me?"
Luo Xuanyi was surprised, but she didn't show it. She glanced at Huan Bai and didn't catch any malice from him, but he did deliberately hide by the bamboo house.
"What's the matter?" She showed no hostility and even smiled politely.
Huan Bai didn't respond. He looked up at the starry sky, muttering to himself and nodding, "I said the stars were different. The light is shining here. Let's see, it's true."
He suddenly changed the subject and threw his head towards Luo Xuanyi: "Is Luo Jiming dead?"
Luo Xuanyi's smile remained unchanged. She stepped aside and gestured to Huan Bai, "If you want to know, seeing it with your own eyes is the best."
"I don't want to. You look like someone who would attack from behind." Huan Bai sighed, "Actually, I really don't want to get involved in Luo Jiming's affairs."
"If you kill him, I'll be free. But his presence suddenly disappeared, so he's not necessarily dead."
Huan Bai extended his hand towards Luo Xuanyi and said expectantly, "If you kill him, please hand over his body to me so that I can report to my superiors."
"Why don't you ask me why I killed him?"
Huan Bai patted his sleeves.
"What's there to ask? Either they're seeking revenge, or they're enforcing justice."
His adoptive parents both died because of the Luo family. According to the Taoist philosophy, whether to seek revenge or repay evil with virtue is a natural personal choice, and it should be based on one's heart. Huan Bai sincerely believed that Luo Jiming's death was a good thing.
If Luo Jiming was not still tasked with removing the remaining poison from the Dragon Falling Land, and was not the person sent here on behalf of the six major alliances, he would really want to turn around and leave.
Looking at Huan Bai, Luo Xuanyi spread out her hands with regret and said, "What a pity, he has been burned to ashes and dissipated by the wind."
"Um."
Huan Bai stepped out from under the tree, suddenly listening attentively. A gentle breeze blew by, and he sighed along with it.
"No, if you said it was poisoned and rotted in the ground, that would be more believable."
Luo Xuanyi readily agreed: "Then he will be poisoned and rot in the ground."
After hearing this, Huan Bai finally turned his gaze to Luo Xuanyi. In the dim light of the early morning, he smiled, revealing his left canine tooth.
"Are all strange cultivators as eloquent as you?"
"I'm the dumbest with my words. I'm sorry to have made you laugh."
The tips of tall grass brushed the hem of Luo Xuanyi's wide robe. The two looked at each other, both wearing unwavering smiles. Luo Xuanyi's back was to the rising light from the east, a faint shadow stretching diagonally across Huan Bai. Her eyes, however, shone silvery white in the shadows, a smile radiating from them with sincerity.
Huan Bai observed Luo Xuanyi and was secretly surprised.
Before coming, he had thought that the Gui Xiu would be the type of person who would attack at the slightest disagreement. After all, the six alliances had exaggerated their statements, including plans to massacre a city and kill hundreds of thousands of people.
However, compared with the actively cooperating Da Zi Zai Hall and Bu Li Academy, Ran Dao Temple was more passive towards the appearance of the strange cultivators.
It's more like indifference than negativity.
However, in the Taoist view, the existence of all things is natural. There is good and evil in the world, there is righteousness and there is evil. There is also a middle ground between good and evil, and it is impossible to completely wipe out one side.
No matter whether the righteous way is flourishing or the evil way is rising, what the Taoist temple has to do is to ensure the natural survival of all things.
If everything turns to its natural state, it's not due to personal influence, but rather to a deviation from the laws of nature. In this case, it's fine to go against nature; leaving everything else to nature and adjusting it from within is always a good idea.
Their Taoist views led to both the Six Alliances and the other two factions being hostile to the Ran Taoist Temple, but it was useless. The Ran Taoist Temple was even too lazy to set traps, and the medicinal herbal aromas spread throughout Wei Country were a natural barrier.
For the same reason, the Taoists at Ran Dao Temple were reluctant to leave Wei Country. After all, it didn't matter where you looked, and Wei Country was peaceful and undisturbed. You might not even find a single person hiding in the haystacks after a day out; life was truly carefree.
The various Taoist sects were now restless, and in the eyes of the Ran Dao Temple, this was a sign of a change in the Way of Heaven. Compared to the external ghost realm, the Way of Heaven that allowed the ghost realm to invade was more in need of correction. Therefore, whether or not to kill Luo Xuanyi, the treacherous cultivator, was actually of little consequence to the overall situation.
However, now that she is in front of me, it doesn't seem appropriate to just let her go.
Huan Bai nodded with determination.
"Here I come."
He suddenly spoke without a clear beginning or end. Luo Xuanyi saw him raise his hand slightly and quickly dodged to the side.
The expanding shadows covered the sky, and the tall grass like giant trees pierced the place where Luo Xuanyi was standing. The drooping ears of grain fell towards Luo Xuanyi like meteorites.
“Boom! Boom!”
Luo Xuanyi flicked her sleeves to prevent herself from touching the Sui Li. She just used the death energy to turn it lightly, and the Sui Li immediately flew towards Huan Bai, bursting out with piercing spiritual power.
Huan Bai pointed his finger at the ground and a bunch of low wild flowers beside his feet suddenly expanded and rose up. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a giant flower tree, swallowing the flying grains into the tree.
"Inducing labor?"
Luo Xuanyi observed Huan Bai and analyzed calmly.
"Almost." Huan Bai nodded casually, and the flower tree and tall grass suddenly pulled out and hit Luo Xuanyi!
Luo Xuanyi wanted to retreat, but the endless sea of spiritual herbs around her swelled up into giant trees! The thin blades of grass transformed into vines that could be hugged by several people, entwining together and blocking Luo Xuanyi's way out.
The spiritual power surged towards her, Luo Xuanyi picked up the Humor Servant with her hand, and blew gently around.
"call."
The raging flames roared with an almost impatient sound as they rushed straight towards the sea of trees and vines. The dark blue flames quickly ignited all the vegetation, but the grass and trees did not decrease in the slightest.
The vines continued to grow as they burned, keeping their height almost constant.
Luo Xuanyi grabbed a burning vine and wrapped it around herself, dragging the attacking Huan Bai into the fire.
“Hey!”
Blue flames burned from the vines towards Huan Bai's limbs, but Luo Xuanyi let go of her hand.
The flames had just burned Huan Bai's skin on his limbs black, and the black color immediately receded. The blue flames seemed to retreat back to the vines, and the vines collapsed and rotted into soil, as if thousands of years had passed in an instant.
Luo Xuanyi's sleeves were also tattered, the fine linen breaking, the black color fading, rotting and falling to the ground as she moved. She swung her magic knife across, then slashed with her backhand, slicing the entire forest and Huan Bai into pieces.
"Zheng!"
Huan Bai leaped back, floating in the air. The bloodline on his waist flashed and then returned to normal, not even his clothes were damaged. However, Luo Xuanyi's knife was actually covered in blood.
"It's not a catalyst," Luo Xuanyi declared, as the sea around her collapsed into ash. Under the golden morning light, she raised her sword to the sky. "Your method is time."
"That's right."
Huan Bai looked down at Luo Xuanyi in amazement. The wind blew against him, barely registering a gentle breeze. "I clearly sped up time around you by three thousand years, so why haven't you shown any signs of decay?"
Just such a short contact can speed up the process by three thousand years?
And I'm afraid he can not only speed up time, but also go back in time, but the scope is limited.
"That doesn't seem like following the way of nature."
Luo Xuanyi said this calmly. She held her sword in front of her and secretly prepared eight battle flags.
Since he can look back before his death, then cut off his head and throw him into the Soul-Falling Formation when he is unable to think. When he comes out of the formation and there is chaos, he will not be able to look back and will surely die.
Luo Xuanyi calmly made a plan. If it didn't work, she could think of another way.
Huan Bai helplessly spread out his hands: "Wait."
"I didn't expect that strange cultivators don't have a lifespan, and time can't be reversed. Or does Taoism not apply to you?"
"Just try it again and you'll know." Luo Xuanyi answered calmly, and suddenly felt that all the hostility from Huan Bai had subsided.
"No."
A gust of wind gradually picked up, growing stronger and stronger, ruffling Luo Xuanyi's long hair. Huan Bai's figure drifted away in the wind, and he left with only a few words before riding away.
"If we keep fighting, we can't tell who's winning. Forget it."
You said forget it, so forget it.
Luo Xuanyi closed her eyes and spread the death energy. Instantly, her detection range expanded to a hundred miles. Within a hundred miles, the sound of the wind blowing, the chirping of insects and birds could be heard clearly, but the more she searched, the deeper the frown on her brow deepened.
No, there was no trace of Huan Bai anywhere.
It was as if he was just a speck of dust between heaven and earth, naturally drifting away with the wind.
Not to mention Huan Bai, there was no one else within a hundred miles.
"Ran Daoist Temple?"
Luo Xuanyi opened her eyes and felt that this seemingly loose faction was even more troublesome than the Great Freedom Hall and the six major alliances combined.
If all the monks in the Taoist temple were like Huan Bai, possessing the Taoist magic to manipulate time, then they would be impossible to kill.
Another piece of information about Luo Xuanyi was also leaked.
She had to quickly resolve the Six Desires and the so-called reincarnation issue. Luo Xuanyi made up her mind to act immediately. She couldn't waste any more time here, lest she run into any more trouble.
"Quack?"
Only then did Longyue timidly poke its head out of the soil. Luo Xuanyi had no time to comfort it, as Longyue immediately understood the situation and carried Luo Xuanyi back to the border of the Dragon Falling Land.
Luo Xuanyi took out the token and followed Luo Jiming's instructions exactly. She spoke the secret words to the forbidden door that appeared before her, and entered the forbidden area smoothly with Longyue.
As soon as he entered the place where dragons fell, Long Yue began to tremble all over.
It's raining blood here.
Amidst the dripping blood, a thick aura of death mingled with resentment, swollen and rampant, a scene of black and red. The moment the deathly aura, carrying a thousand-year-old poison, touched Longyue's skin, it let out a wail—a vibrant black smudge stained its skin, gradually transforming into a wailing ghost's face.
Luo Xuanyi acted decisively and cut off the piece of skin, pushing Long Yue out of the restriction.
Longyue was dizzy with pain, but she didn't dare stop. She rolled and crawled like a huge rock from a landslide, rolling out of the forbidden gate. When the door closed behind her, she struggled to turn over with lingering fear. She lowered her head to check her wound, but saw a person.
The man had short, shoulder-length black hair that looked like it had just grown in. His eyes were pure black, and his body was streaked with blood.
The deathly energy around it was like a churning sea of blood, reminding it of the place where the dragon fell just now.
Long Yue subconsciously took a step back.
"I didn't make it."
The Ghost Buddha clasped his hands and spoke softly, his gaze shifting from the place where the dragon fell to Longyue, and then to its bleeding forelimbs.
"If you don't mind, please let me bandage you."
The ghost Buddha smiled slightly, but his smile was incompatible with the terrifying aura around him.
From the shadows behind him emerged a young girl's innocent voice: "After all, we have to wait a long time. Why don't you let me interrogate this toad? It seems to be traveling with the strange cultivator."
Long Yue shuddered and subconsciously wanted to escape through the air, but suddenly a hand pulled it out gently and unquestionably in the torn space.
"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you."
A hissing sound echoed in the air, and the Ghost Buddha lowered his head and carefully wrapped the strip of cloth he had torn from his sleeve around Longyue's wound. He then whispered something to the wound, and a faint light flashed on the strip of cloth. He let go of his hand.
"My healing method is temporarily unavailable. Your wound carries the poison from the Dragonfall Land. This poison will spread when it encounters spiritual energy. It's best not to reveal it. I've set up an isolation spell for you."
"Sorry, please wait with us."
The ghost Buddha smiled apologetically at Longyue. As soon as he said this, the surrounding space suddenly froze. Longyue was completely exhausted and had no choice but to sit on the ground.
"Ah, I don't know what the strange cultivator is doing in the Dragon Falling Land." Gulan complained, glaring at the restriction. "It would be better if he went somewhere else! At least to a restriction that I can open!"
She jumped out of the shadow of the Ghost Buddha and began to circle around the Dragon Falling Place. After several hours, she came back angrily.
"I barely set up a teleportation array. No matter where the strange cultivator opens the forbidden gate, he will eventually return here."
After saying that, she subconsciously straightened her chest and waited for praise, but the Ghost Buddha just smiled. Long Yue racked her brains to think of how to inform Luo Xuanyi, but no one paid any attention to her.
"Well, Yuanlan is awesome."
Gulan said this, and she finally became happy.
"Brother is still the best!"
The ghost Buddha twirled his Buddhist beads, sitting cross-legged on the ground and watching Gulan talking to himself. There was always a compassionate smile on his face, without the slightest fluctuation.
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Luo Xuanyi, who was inside the restriction, felt as if she had returned to her own territory, freely moving among the mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
Two black whirlpools formed at her sides: one was a frantic vortex of death energy, the other a wailing, wailing, and resentful current. These two turbulent currents muddied everything around them, splattering blood and tumbling corpses across the ground. Luo Xuanyi digested the sensations while surveying her surroundings.
Jing Lai only said that he came to the Land of Dragon's Demise to find Mo Yi, but he didn't say where the Land of Dragon's Demise was. This place was originally the entire land of Dilingzhou. It was so difficult to find a person here.
Besides, Luo Xuanyi wasn't even sure if the other person was actually human. Without a concrete form, even searching with dead energy would be difficult.
Luo Xuanyi lowered her head and pulled her feet out of the corpse's ribs, bringing out a large piece of flesh and intestines dripping with blood. The freshness of the flesh made her feel puzzled.
She picked up a piece of intestine and played with it in her hand. The intestinal meat still retained its elasticity as it did in life, and the blood was also full of life.
She squatted down and turned the body over, revealing a blood-stained face. Luo Xuanyi wiped it casually with her sleeve, and the young and beautiful face beneath the blood was fully revealed before her.
There was no rotten part on the skin, and the nerves connected to the dug out eyeballs still felt pulled, and there were no maggots or decayed things crawling around the body.
It was as if this person had just died.
Luo Xuanyi stood up and looked around, only to realize that among such a large number of corpses that almost covered every visible place, there was not a trace of corruption.
Is it the special feature of the Dragon Falling Land, or something else?
Luo Xuanyi looked into the distance and suddenly saw a huge black shadow, like a mountain, which was particularly conspicuous among the corpses razed to the ground by the battle.
She paused and walked towards the shadow.
There are only two updates today, and there will be a big update tomorrow to finish writing a big plot in one go~
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