After nightfall, the temperature in the Ten Thousand Demons Cave dropped sharply. There was no water source or vegetation here, and the bare rocks and soil were exposed. When the sun was out, it was hot, and once the sun went down, the temperature dropped quickly, with a huge temperature difference between day and night.
There was a magic circle in the house of this small courtyard, but it didn't have much effect. After Nie Yinzhi fell asleep, Gu Jiang slowly opened his eyes. His eyes were clear, and there was no sleepiness in his pupils. He turned his head to look at the person curled up in the quilt, and his body shadow also melted from the bed.
After a while, a snow-white rabbit with black fur on the tip of its ears was left on the pillow. The rabbit twitched its nose and jumped to Nie Yinzhi's side. It found a place at the base of her neck and lay close to her with its eyes closed.
On the other side, Gu Jiang left the courtyard of Rongjin City and appeared on the huge terrace of the Central Xuan Tower in just one breath.
Feng Hanzhu felt the void ripple. He turned around and bowed to the person leaning on the recliner, "Master."
Gu Jiang nodded to indicate that he didn't need to bow. He raised his hand to stop him from asking about the demonic energy and asked casually, "If the Demon Seal is broken and you get out of here, what are your plans?" Feng Hanzhu
was stunned by his question. He looked up and saw his eyes that seemed to see through everything. He didn't dare to hide anything and answered honestly, "Of course, I will march south to fight against the righteous path and take back everything that belongs to me." He looked
up at the Demon Seal. The demonic energy dissipated and turned into spiritual energy. As one waxed and waned, the other waxed and waned. The lack of spiritual energy in the world suppressed the cultivation of those righteous immortals. Unless the demon cultivators just stayed under the Demon Seal and waited to be consumed to death.
Otherwise, once you get out of here, good and evil will definitely go to war, repeating the great war between good and evil ten years ago.
The winner will be the king and the loser will be the bandit. If the demon cultivator is defeated, he will be locked up in the Ten Thousand Demons Cave and be killed by the Demon Seal. If the demon cultivator wins, he can also eat the righteous cultivators to strengthen himself.
Feng Hanying said sarcastically: "The rules of heaven are such that good and evil cannot coexist."
"Cannot coexist." Gu Jiang repeated these four words on the tip of her tongue and smiled slightly, "You know, the so-called rules of heaven can be broken."
His words were very soft, and they dispersed into the surroundings like smoke. A thunderbolt from the Ten Thousand Demons Cave hit the mysterious tower directly, passed over the demon seal and fell into the mysterious tower terrace. It contained more than one thunder pillar. Its power was almost as powerful as a catastrophe. The glaring lightning instantly flooded the terrace.
Feng Hanying was forced back into the Xuan Pagoda Hall by the vast sky. The demonic energy barrier condensed by the blood moon shadow around her body was like paper, split open by the wandering arc light.
He was only affected by the end of the lightning, and his whole body was almost burnt by it. Even his face, which was always as white as jade, was torn open by the lightning. The blinding red flowed down from the corner of his eye, staining half of his face with blood.
Feng Hanxuan suddenly realized that he could not use the Blood Moon Shadow, or he would be dragged into it!
He quickly formed seals with his fingers and suddenly retracted his magic energy. Several defensive magic weapons flew out from his sleeves, and set up a lot of barriers around him. The light of the defensive magic weapons spread out layer by layer.
The arc of light that spread into the hall was retracted, only wrapping the people on the terrace.
In the small courtyard of Rongjin City, Nie Yinzhi was startled by the thunder and turned over in a daze. She was about to wake up. A palm-sized snow rabbit squatted beside her face and licked her forehead lightly.
Nie Yin's eyelashes trembled violently, as if she was struggling to wake up, but she eventually fell into a deeper sleep uncontrollably.
The breeze lifted the gauze, and the candles in the house flickered, bringing peace and tranquility.
Such a large-scale thunderstorm startled all the demon cultivators in the four cities, not only those in the Ten Thousand Demons Cave, but also the righteous cultivators guarding outside the Demon Sealing Seal. Countless communication talismans were shot towards the Wuliang Sect.
Feng Han was behind the defensive formation, staring at the serpentine lightning on the terrace, thinking about what Gu Jiang had just said, "The rules of heaven can be broken." This is like saying that thunder roars in winter and snows in summer, and the sun can rise in the west and set in the east. Since the rules of heaven can be broken, they are no longer authoritative.
He thought badly, how could Gu Jiang casually say such a secret that could not be revealed? Couldn't he hint it in a more tactful way, or make solid preparations in advance?
The vast lightning lasted for a long time without fading. All the murderous intent and might were concentrated on one person, as if they were afraid that they would not be able to kill the person inside if they were to share a little bit of it.
The lightning almost covered the entire Xuan Tower, but it did not damage the Xuan Tower at all. Feng Hanxu's eyes, which were too deep and without divine light, were illuminated by it. His face was numb, and he suspected that Gu Jiang might be killed by the thunder on the spot.
So, the old man came to his tower in the middle of the night just to die in front of him?
Feng Hanxuan couldn't help but take a look at the five large food boxes in Zhenweizhai. For the sake of these snacks, if Gu Jiang died, he could protect Nie Yinzhi well and let her live for another ten years. Ten years later, he would send her to reunite with her master.
At the moment when he was distracted, a pair of slender hands suddenly stretched out from the bright and dazzling lightning on the terrace. The veins on the back of the hands were bulging, and the fingertips were entangled with snake-shaped thunderbolts, tearing the lightning column apart.
The invisible power roared from the Xuan Tower, and a thunder hurricane swept out from the Xuan Tower. The stirred yellow sand instantly submerged the entire Ten Thousand Demons Cave. The Demon Sealing Inscription above kept flashing, and the lightning suddenly weakened, and in less than a moment, it dissipated.
Gu Jiang waved his sleeves to wipe off the blood on his arm, and the dripping blood fell onto the black stone ground, and in an instant it turned into dark red demonic energy. He walked slowly to the black stone seat in the hall and sat down, waving to Feng Hanzhuo with some fatigue.
"Where was I talking about?" Gu Jiang asked.
Feng Hanzhuo: "..." Do you want to continue? ? ?
Gu Jiang also realized that the way of heaven was so stingy that he was afraid that it would interrupt their conversation again. He stretched out his hand and pulled Feng Hanzhuo into the lake with the shadow of the blood moon.
This is an independent space that is completely under his control. Even if a crack has been burned in the void now, it is still under his control.
Now there is a pavilion in the center of the dark red water surface, and its shape is exactly the same as the pavilion on the lotus pond on the back mountain of Zhedan Peak.
It was the first time Feng Hanzhu came here. Seeing this scene, he could not hide his astonishment. The dense demonic energy lingered around him. He could absorb the demonic energy of Blood Moon Shadow every time he took a breath. To put it another way, it was like a righteous cultivator who stepped into the center of the spiritual vein.
This lake was only visible on the surface. The outline of the mountains surrounded the lake and were covered by the demonic energy.
Feng Hanzhu used to think that Gu Jiang was like a spiritual mountain. That was just a metaphor. The relationship between him and Gu Jiang was indeed similar to that between a righteous cultivator and a spiritual mountain.
But when he knew that Gu Jiang did have the same demonic energy of Blood Moon Shadow as his spiritual vein, he was really shocked.
Feng Han began to breathe in and out unconsciously, and saw that his master had already laid down on the recliner in the pavilion.
Gu Jiang continued: "Before the Immortal Fall incident, there was no such thing as a demon cultivator in this world. The three thousand paths of the Great Dao all lead to the same destination. All of them must be in harmony with the Way of Heaven, and the unity of heaven and man, in order to achieve the right result."
Unity of heaven and man.
Merging with the heaven and earth, turning into everything in this world, becoming the foundation of the world, it can be called the unity of heaven and man, and eternal. No
matter how much spiritual energy a cultivator plunders, he must give it back in the end.
Spiritual energy is the existence of all things in the world. Even an ordinary grass needs spiritual energy to survive.
The difference between spiritual grass and ordinary weeds is the amount of spiritual energy. Just like one point of spiritual energy can produce a weed, and one hundred thousand points of spiritual energy can produce a spiritual grass.
Mortals are like these weeds, born in spring and die in autumn. The cultivators leave the mortal world, introduce spiritual energy to constantly temper themselves, and think that they are on a road against the sky. After going through hardships and dangers and reaching the end, they find that the next step of ascension is to fall into mud, which is no different from mortals.
Gu Jiang spoke slowly, as if he was telling an extremely boring story, "More than 2,700 years ago, Huai Yunshan, the head of the Fa Sect, became the first person to fall into the devil. He was the first person to break the rules of heaven."
If you don't ascend, you will fall into the devil, be oppressed by heaven and earth, and be rejected by all things. Even if you fall into the devil, you have to win the battle with heaven.
"Once the rules are broken, they are no longer indestructible. Less than five hundred years later, the heads of the three sects fell into evil one after another, and half of the cultivators in the four major sects abandoned their own hearts and chose to follow the heads."
"From then on, there was a distinction between good and evil, and they could not coexist." Gu Jiang stretched out his hand and held a handful of blood moon shadows in his hand. "The so-called demonic energy is nothing more than the spiritual energy that was stripped from the world when it won the battle with the sky."
Five demon ancestors meant that five spiritual veins were forcibly taken away from the world. It would be strange if the spiritual energy in this world did not decline.
Feng Hanxuan knew the truth about ascension. The world was unkind and treated all things as straw dogs. He never felt that the way of heaven was unfair. But he only found out today that the existence of demon cultivators actually broke the rules of heaven. The five kinds of demonic energy in the world were all separated from spiritual energy. It is not surprising that demonic energy can be transformed into spiritual energy.
He said cautiously: "Master, why did you risk being punished by heaven to tell me such a secret?"
"The more people know the secret of heaven, the more it becomes a universal concept. Few cultivators in the world know the truth of ascension." Gu Jiang looked at Feng Hanzhu, threw him out of the space of Blood Moon Shadow, and the two returned to the main hall of Xuanta.
Gu Jiang stood up from his seat, looked at him, and said amiably: "Whatever Nie Yinzhi wants to do, you just cooperate with her, don't talk nonsense."
After the figure of the master disappeared from the terrace, Feng Hanzhu sat in the hall thinking.
Few cultivators in the world know the truth about ascension, because those who know cannot pass it on, unless they risk being wiped out by the Heavenly Dao. How difficult it is to turn the Heavenly Secret into a universal concept.
The wound on his face was still bloody, and the wounds left by the thunder were extremely difficult to heal. Feng Hanzhu knew that he could not survive the lightning just now.
Gu Jiangdu had to hide in the lake of blood moon shadow in order to say those words to him without being forced by the thunder. It was absolutely impossible to expect him to spread the secrets of "the truth of ascension" and "the rules of the Heavenly Dao can be broken".
In short, he said so much, but in fact only the last sentence was useful, and Feng Hanzhu could do it.
- Listen to the words of the master's wife.
Feng Hanzhu: "..." Isn't he obedient enough?
Author's words:
If you want to read the first edition of 50 chapters, go read the long review of chapter 49. I really can't help it.
Winter thunder and summer rain and snow - Shang Xie
Heaven and earth are not kind, and treat all things as straw dogs - Tao Te Ching