Chapter 99 Chapter 99 The Heart Demon Knife has Mu Yang's aura...
The Heart Demon Sword had Mu Yang's aura, so Li Yian could easily break through the thick fog and walk from the top of the mountain to the bottom.
She saw that the entire mountain was surrounded by students from the Theology Society, including An Si. Li Yian felt relieved when she saw An Si, her tense heartstrings relaxed, and she quickly walked forward, carrying Mu Yin on her back.
"Master Priest!"
An Si seemed to have already understood what had happened. Without asking any questions, he hurriedly took Mu Yin off Li Yian's back, laid him flat on the ground, and quickly diagnosed him.
Li Yian squatted beside him, wiping the sweat from Mu Yin's forehead. "I gave him a soul-restoring pill while he was unconscious, but his health is still not good."
An Si's hand was on Mu Yin's pulse, his brows furrowed, "There is a very powerful evil power forcibly sealed in his body. Just like when Cheng Qiu used his body to seal Youtian." His heart felt like something was tugging at him. He had always suspected that Mu Yin might have ulterior motives, but he never thought that Mu Yin would follow Cheng Qiu's example and use his body as a container for sealing.
That kind of pain would not be enough even if you were cut into pieces.
He should have known that Mu Yin admired Cheng Qiu so much, how could he go against Cheng Qiu's wishes and associate with evil?
An Si withdrew his hand and turned back to say something, but before he could open his mouth, a pair of hands hurriedly handed him a medicine box. The person holding the medicine box was none other than A Quan.
A Quan put down the medicine box and took a few steps back. As if he couldn't bear to see Mu Yin's bruised face, he turned around and grabbed his hair frantically.
He couldn't believe that he was so full of energy not long ago, and threatened him coldly, "Put your broken sword away, if you don't want to die." But now he looked like this.
He thought Mu Yin would cause all his companions to sacrifice their lives, but he didn't know that those companions who got lost in the mountains all survived and stayed at the foot of the mountain with the high priest to discuss strategies for attacking the mountain.
In other words, if he hadn't responsibly instructed the dozen or so students to follow them, perhaps those ten or so students wouldn't have been eaten by the onlookers. It would have been better to just follow Mu Yin's careless behavior and let all the students get lost in the thick fog.
How much he hated Mu Yin before, how much he hated himself now.
All this was told to them by Li Xuan who brought them down the mountain. This was an agreement made between Mu Yang and Mu Yin. Mu Yin could not reveal any clues because the spectators were always by his side.
Li Xuan, who was usually indifferent, spoke to comfort him when he saw him going crazy and wanting to go back and die with the audience again and again, "Those students who died were also part of the plan. Don't be sad."
Although it was comforting, was it really comforting? Were these lives being sacrificed merely a plan? Did the cold-blooded Li Xuan even understand human nature? When did even Mu Yang become so cold-blooded?
A Quan's eyes were red and he wiped away his tears silently.
After An Si finished giving Mu Yin an acupuncture, he saw A Quan's sad expression, and then looked around at the sad faces of the students. He couldn't help but sigh, knowing that they still couldn't get over the dozen or so companions who had sacrificed their lives.
"I told you that sacrifices must always be made for the sake of the people." An Si's voice was gentle but powerful.
Li Yian was slightly startled, then looked up at An Si. The face covered by the silver mask seemed to overlap with Mu Yang's. She had heard Mu Yang say this not long ago.
In front of An Si were a variety of complicated divination instruments, and among them was the Heavenly Eye Bronze Mirror that Mu Yang had made. His face was solemn. Even though there was still no definite evidence, he seemed to have grasped the intention conveyed by Mu Yang.
"Pure spiritual energy is the key to both awakening and destroying the golden python. Mu Yang has set a trap inside the golden python."
When these words were spoken, Li Yian and others looked up in surprise.
An Si has been fighting against evil for nearly a hundred years, and no one knows evil better than An Si. Even though he was unable to confirm the identity of the spectator at the beginning, and was unclear about the origin of the golden python, after so many things, he was vaguely approaching the truth of the matter.
"The source of all evil is the spectator. She cannot appear in the sunlight. She needs to forge a physical body for her to inhabit—the golden python." An Si said in a deep voice, "Water is yin, and it has the same origin as her. She captured a large number of water spirits and fed them with resentment to refine the golden body. However, when it was almost completed, it was discovered by a fisherman, who informed our Theological Society, forcing the golden body to appear in the world ahead of time.
Perhaps she wanted to take advantage of the situation and let Mu Yin lead the students with abundant spiritual energy to be devoured by her, so as to awaken the golden python.
Her golden body was shattered by Mu Yang, but the impact might not be that great, because the golden python formed by water and resentment has infinite regenerative power, just like a broken knife drawing water, even if the water is cut off for a moment, the water will still merge together in the next second.
After absorbing the spiritual energy of more than a dozen students, she was able to awaken the golden python. However, her golden body was destroyed before and her body was weak, so she could not parasitize it yet, otherwise she would be trapped in a weak body and be slaughtered by others.
What's more, Mu Yin took away part of the golden python's power, so the current golden python is incomplete to her.
But what she didn't know was that yin and yang counteract each other. The spiritual energy was yang, and when it collided with her extremely yin resentment, it could indeed give life to the golden python. However, under certain conditions, that spiritual energy would become a weapon that would kill her.
An Si's tone was heavy, "And this is Mu Yang's plan, to annihilate her in one fell swoop when she is at her weakest. What we have to do now is to destroy the golden python before anything changes, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous."
The moment these words were spoken, everyone was in an uproar. Li Yian was overwhelmed with emotions, a complex thought lingering in her heart, like a huge stone blocking her way. She looked at the Heart Demon Knife in her hand. How could Mu Yang give her such an important weapon so casually? If Mu Yang lost the Heart Demon Knife, how would he deal with the onlookers?
No matter what time it is, Mu Yang is always so willful.
The original owner realized that Li Yian wanted to return the Heart Demon Blade to Mu Yang and couldn't help but shout, "You idiot, since he can't control the Heart Demon Blade and gave it to you, just accept it! This is the most powerful weapon in the world!"
The shouting gave Li Yian a headache. She ignored the original owner's shouting and looked towards the top of the mountain, as if she could see Mu Yang, who was always smiling, and Li Xuan, who had a cold face and was holding a sword.
Since she couldn't protect everyone, sacrificing a few was unavoidable. To prevent anyone from being dragged into this incident, she would charge forward and fight with all her might. Her companions were still waiting for her on the mountain.
Li Yian stood up suddenly, bowed slightly and nodded to the High Priest whom she had always respected the most. She handed Cheng Qiu's soul to him, "Mu Yang said that Cheng Qiu would save Mu Yin, so he asked Cheng Qiu to stay with Mu Yin. And I am going to help Mu Yang and the others now. If we can't come back, then let this barrier never be broken, and seal the evil here forever."
She lowered her eyes to glance at Mu Yin one last time and was about to turn and leave when An Si scolded her, "Li Yian!"
An Si's voice was filled with anger. It was the first time that Li Yian heard the high priest call him by his full name, and he couldn't help but turn around.
An Si's face was blazing with anger. "As you grow up and become strong, you always want to fight alone, to bear everything alone. You are arrogant and conceited, and always think you can change the world on your own. Look back at your companions. Every one of them is eager to go up and shed blood and sweat together. Don't think we are too weak. We are companions, companions who fight the enemy together, and live and die together. You ask us to be deserters, which is simply an insult to us!"
An Si's tone was very serious, and the students behind him all looked angry. "Li Yian, take us up with you. We want to avenge those dozen comrades!"
Li Yian was at a loss what to do due to the deafening sound of requests.
An Si said, "I have informed all students from other places to rush here. Countless immortals will also rush here. This is not just a war between the three of you, but a war between all living things in the world. Eradicating evil is the common goal of all of us humans."
"Li Yian!" Qi Yang's rough voice came from a distance.
Li Yian looked up suddenly and saw Qi Yang waving his hands and running towards them, swearing and cursing. "I've traveled two days and two nights to get back. I heard you're planning to abandon us again?"
These students from other places had been communicating with An Si over thousands of miles away. After learning about the development of the situation, they were so angry that they almost gritted their teeth.
He suddenly pounced on Li Yian and strangled Li Yian's neck tightly, "Damn it, I haven't seen you for a while, and you're getting more and more like a jerk!"
He weighed nearly 200 pounds and pounced on her, hanging around her neck and strangling her so that she couldn't breathe. She kicked Qi Yang hard several times before kicking him away.
Facing Qi Yang's angry stare, An Si's displeasure, the gazes of the students, the dense crowds of companions running towards him from behind, and the various immortals flapping their wings in the sky.
Li Yian felt hot in his chest and choked up a little, and finally could only nod.
Dark clouds gathered overhead and lightning streaked across the sky.
In a dark illusion, a silver-haired youth in white and a black-haired youth in purple hovered high in the sky. Below them were piled the remains of black pythons, an endless expanse of wreckage, a purgatory on earth. The illusion was deathly silent, and another round of slaughter had concluded.
But in the next second, the black pythons emerged from their cocoons, their broken limbs reconnected and they leaped into the air with a roar.
The spectators laughed wildly, "Don't you realize it yet? Resentment is eternal, and you will never be able to kill it. I can play with you for a hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years, but how long can you last?"
Li Xuan's arm was deeply cut, and streams of blood flowed down. The bloody smell made the black python below even more ferocious and ferocious. In this miasma-filled illusion, his wounds could not stop bleeding, and his handsome face had turned as pale as paper.
He panted slightly and turned his head to look at Mu Yang, "Is Li Yian okay? Why hasn't he come yet?"
They kept fighting, and in the dark illusion, they could not feel the passage of time, but the strength in his body had been severely lost. According to his estimation of his physical limit, at least three days and nights had passed.
Mu Yang's eyes opposite him flickered redly, as if killing made him excited and helped him find himself again.
He seemed to never get tired. With a swing of the giant white knife, he cut off the heads of all the giant pythons that jumped up and chopped them into pieces.
Mu Yang replied, "I have sealed off the illusion, she won't come."
Li Xuan was stunned, with a bad feeling in his heart. Then he saw Mu Yang smile at the audience in the air, his eyes filled with cold hatred. "No matter if it takes ten thousand years, a million years, lifetimes, or eternity, I will play with you. I said, I will tear you into pieces again and again."
The cold tone was tinged with a terrifying deathly aura. Tens of thousands of years ago, the god of disaster, Lightning, was born with the mission of killing. Killing was the meaning of his life.
No matter how long the battle lasts, he will never tire, and harvesting lives nourishes his strength.
The spectators were originally arrogant and proud, but when they heard Mu Yang's words and looked at his expression at the moment, they found that his face was exactly the same as Feng Yao's who had smashed her body into pieces tens of thousands of years ago.
Her heart was in turmoil, and she suddenly stood up from the golden python's head, angrily saying: "How ridiculous! Without the Heart Demon Sword, and without merging with Li Xuan, you are just a broken, unarmed wretch, how can you be my opponent?" She waved her sleeves violently, and more black pythons rushed forward.
But Mu Yang chopped them off with his sword. "Without a physical body, you will never be able to live under the sun. You can only hide in the dark illusion and struggle to survive. How dare you say such arrogant words?"
The spectator was hit in the sore spot and was so angry that he couldn't suppress his anger. He drove the golden python to swing its poisonous stinger and hit Mu Yang fiercely.
Mu Yang, who was in the way, had to be killed! She needed more spiritual energy to recover her strength. Once she absorbed Li Xuan's abundant spiritual energy, she would be able to break the illusion and appear under the sun.
She is the supreme being in the world!
But even though she attacked with all her might, the golden python's tail was once again chopped off by the giant knife and shattered into black smoke.
Seeing this, the audience was furious. Her body gradually merged into the giant golden python under her feet. In an instant, the giant python grew several times larger, bursting out dazzling golden light, and flying out countless fine poisonous needles.
There seemed to be no end to the round-robin battle. The giant python was destroyed, regenerated, and destroyed again, over and over again. The spectators were tireless, but Mu Yang was also tireless.
But the boring and monotonous killing made the spectator who liked chaos extremely disgusted. She originally wanted to wear down the two people in front of her, but she didn't expect that her patience would run out before they took a step.
Let it end like this, die under her poisonous needle!
Li Xuan's face changed drastically when he saw this. The almost invisible poison needle was hidden in the golden light. When the golden light shot towards him, it was impossible to avoid it. Especially since his body was about to reach its limit and he could not dodge it in time.
But Mu Yang had already teleported in front of him and blocked the attack for him.
"Mu Yang!"
The translucent cicada shadow spread out, absorbing countless poisonous needles. Mu Yang gently turned the white umbrella, and those poisonous needles broke away from the umbrella surface and turned into stars of silver light that stabbed towards the golden python.
Li Xuan, who had blocked attacks for Mu Yang countless times, was stunned when he saw Mu Yang standing in front of him.
Mu Yang, who was standing in front of Li Xuan, was facing the light, so Li Xuan couldn't see his expression. He heard Mu Yang's voice.
"You can leave now." Mu Yang said.
"What do you mean?" Li Xuan's face turned a little ugly.
Mu Yang looked away, "You can no longer protect me. Your human body won't last much longer."
As if insulted, Li Xuan's cold voice was tinged with anger. "I'm not a coward. Even if I die in battle, it would be an honor. What do you think I protected you for so long?!"
Just like Mu Yang, he has been burdened with a heavy responsibility since birth, and was born to protect the chosen one.
When the world falls into darkness and all things wither, that person will bring new life and light to the world.
Therefore, he kept fighting, he wanted to see with his own eyes that person save the corrupted world.
Li Xuan always thought that even if he died in battle before seeing the world usher in a new life, he would never regret it and would never retreat.
What Mu Yang said to him at this moment was an insult to him.
His voice grew angrier. "First you let Li Yian go, then you let me go. Do you want to face this alone? What exactly is your plan?"
Li Xuan's ominous premonition grew stronger and stronger.
Through the Cicada Shadow Escape, he could see the huge golden python opposite being burned by specks of silver light, twisting its body in pain and making a deafening roar.
"You transformed the poison needle into spiritual energy..." Li Xuan seemed to realize something.
Yin and Yang counteract each other. Did Mu Yang deliberately annoy the onlookers and then parasitize inside the golden python, then supply it with spiritual energy, hoping to cooperate internally and externally, let the clean spiritual energy burst out of its body, and make the golden python explode?
"Li Xuan." Mu Yang interrupted Li Xuan's guess, "I have always been very grateful to you. You and Yi An are my closest comrades, but there are some roads that I can only walk alone."
The specks of white light on the golden python's body suddenly merged into a large ball of light, submerging the golden python. The ball of light began to grow several times larger, making a shrill roar.
Li Xuan's face was stern. "Let's leave together. If the giant python explodes, even you may not be able to survive under such terrifying energy..."
"Get out of here!" Mu Yang suddenly pushed Li Xuan away, and the Cicada Shadow Escape isolated Li Xuan and pushed him far away.
Mu Yang gripped the long sword tightly in his hand, creating a huge gap in space, and a strong wind blew in from the gap.
A strange light shone through the gap in space, and Li Xuan couldn't tell where it was.
The golden python actually absorbed the surrounding white light into its body, emitting an even more dazzling golden light. The golden scales on its body quickly grew into sharp blades. The golden python had grown to an immeasurable size. The audience stood in the corners and laughed wildly.
"Yin and Yang counteract each other? Hahaha! Interesting! The golden python was forged from the soul of a wandering immortal, and wandering immortals were born by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. It is both Yin and Yang. No matter whether it is Yin or Yang, it is a great tonic for it! Even if Mu Yin takes away some of the Yin energy of my golden body, what does it matter? With abundant Yang energy, I will be the sun, and I will become the true god of the sun! I will immediately break through the illusion and rule the world! I am the only existence that rules the world!" The spectators sneered condescendingly, "Feng Yao, Feng Yao, thank you so much for helping me complete the last step of forging my golden body..."
Her voice resounded throughout the illusion, and Li Xuan's face changed drastically. His bloody ten fingers split into longer ice blades, but he was imprisoned by the Cicada Shadow Escape and pushed away at a rapid speed.
"Snap!" The crisp sound of glass breaking was heard, and Li Xuan flew out of the dark illusion.
Li Xuan, who had some kind of telepathy with Mu Yang, finally knew Mu Yang's final plan.
It is not the conflict between yin and yang that prevents the audience from completing the creation of the golden body.
Instead, it lets the audience fall into hell with their bodies that are pure yang from the inside out, and explode in endless resentment!
And Mu Yang will be alone in hell, fighting with countless grievances forever and ever, until the end of the world.
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Li Yian raised the Heart Demon Knife and slashed at the void again and again, but he could never find the dark illusion.
She slashed at the thick fog at the bottom of the mountain with the Heart Demon Knife, and in an instant, a wide crack appeared in the fog.
Amidst roars, she led group after group of people to the top of the mountain.
But she could not sense the existence of the dark illusion, as if it was sealed by a powerful barrier.
Li Yian asked the original owner in her body in a panic, but the original owner didn't know why, and kept urging Li Yian to give her the Heart Demon Knife.
"Since you can't use the Heart Demon Sword, how about letting me have it?" The original owner persuaded her repeatedly. From the moment Li Yian got the Heart Demon Sword, the original owner had been tempting her to possess the Heart Demon Sword, but Li Yian insisted that it was Mu Yang's thing and refused to give up her principles.
The original owner could no longer bear it and changed the subject, "I know the Heart Demon Blade better than you do. I will use it to find the Dark Illusion."
Li Yian was about to retort when his head suddenly buzzed, and a strong sense of foreboding gripped his heart. The original owner also sensed something, "The audience seems to have disappeared."
At the same time, with a loud sound like glass breaking in the air, Li Xuan appeared in mid-air, covered in blood and with a dazed expression.
Thick black gas spread out from the cracks in the air, the sound of glass breaking continued to ring, crackling, and the black gas filled the entire mountain.
Countless black pythons fell from the sky, surging their bodies.
"It's evil!" Qi Yang roared, "Be careful! Let's fight!"
The people who rushed in held up the Demon Subduing Ring. The light emitted by the ring was so strong that it illuminated the dim mountain and the black python had nowhere to hide.
Swords and knives were raised, and roars echoed across the mountains. In the air, flying immortals purified the black air.
The greatest war between humanity and evil has begun.
However, Li Xuan, who used to be the first to protect everyone, stood on a huge rock in a daze, looking at his hands that had regained their human fingers, muttering to himself, "It's ridiculous, as a guardian, I am being protected by others..."
Li Yian, holding the Heart Demon Knife, killed the enemy while searching for Mu Yang. She cut a path and headed straight for Li Xuan.
She hurriedly took out the Resurrection Pill and threw it to Li Xuan, "Where's Mu Yang? Where are the spectators?"
Li Xuan, who used to be so proud and arrogant, lowered his eyes in frustration and said, "I failed to protect Mu Yang." He did not accept the resurrection pill she threw to him. He silently looked at the place where Mu Yang disappeared, his hands clenched into fists, and blood dripped along his finger bones.
Li Yian felt as if something in his profile picture had collapsed.
An Si stepped forward under the protection of the crowd and asked Li Xuan something, but Li Yian's mind was confused and he couldn't hear the specific things clearly. He could only vaguely grasp the words "falling into hell and fighting for eternity".
The original owner in Li Yian's body heard it clearly, and her pale face revealed complex emotions. She suddenly laughed softly, and two lines of blood and tears flowed out of her eyes as she laughed.
Her two mortal enemies of tens of thousands of years had actually fallen into hell together. Was this a good thing?
But why can't she be happy?
"If it's death, it should be killed by me... Why..." the ghost muttered to himself.
She looked down at her pale hands. There was rich and abundant spiritual energy in the palms of her hands. It was the spiritual energy that Mu Yang had sent to her to help her escape from the illusion.
Her life was filled with pain and suffering. Her parents were murdered by an evil spirit on a snowy night, leaving her lying bloodied under a plum tree as a young girl, only to be adopted by the Mu family's head father and head mother. She was desperately in need of love, timid and withdrawn, and always unlovable. She envied Mu Yang for always receiving everyone's love, including her first love, Li Xuan, who always stayed with Mu Yang. She was seduced by You Tian into committing evil, one wrong step after another, until she committed a monstrous crime and met an unfortunate end.
But in the past ten thousand years, when she thought back carefully, the happiest memory was actually the memory of being in the Mu Mansion. The young Mu Yang handed her a string of candied haws, smiling, "Sister, if you eat candy, the wound will not hurt."
The ghost raised his head and exhaled lightly. He was about to say something to Li Yian, but he felt Li Yian gritting his teeth and tears rolling down his face.
She, who never cries easily, was now in tears, covering her face with her hands, sobbing and unable to speak.
Scenes from the past crowded into her mind, including everything she and Mu Yang had experienced, and everything Mu Yang had done silently for her.
He was holding the osmanthus wine with a shy smile, he was reading a book while looking around for her, he was holding the life lock with tears in his eyes, he was crawling on the ground covered in blood, and he was still the one who let her beat and kill him...
He had clearly promised her that he would wait for her to come back, and that she, Li Xuan, and he would fight together, no matter if it meant life or death.
He faced everything alone.
"Li Yian, what are you doing!" Li Yian suddenly ran forward at a very fast speed, and the ghost wanted to call her in a panic.
But Li Yian turned a deaf ear to him and tried his best to kill the black python that blocked his way. In a few seconds, he ran to the big rock on the top of the mountain, looked up at the dark clouds above and the lightning that flashed from time to time.
Li Yian raised the Heart Demon Knife in her hand and slashed at the sky again and again with all her might. She knew how Mu Yang had ripped through space and pulled out the other world.
She was a martial arts fanatic, and whenever she saw a powerful move, she couldn't help but take a few more glances. Since Mu Yang's knife was related to lightning, she would get closer to the lightning.
"Li Yian." When the ghost kept trying to stop Li Yian, he heard that familiar cold voice, and at the same time, that cold hand grabbed Li Yian's wrist.
Li Yian thought Li Xuan wanted to stop her, so she struggled to break free from Li Xuan's restraints without even turning back. However, she heard Li Xuan's calm and restrained voice, "Do you still remember our agreement? The three of us will fight together, just like before."
His words calmed the frantic Li Yian. The cold hands placed themselves on the back of her hand for a moment, then snatched the Heart Demon Blade from her.
Li Yian looked up at the person standing beside her. His handsome profile was stained with undried blood, and a few strands of messy hair hung down. He lowered his eyes to look at the Heart Demon Knife. The black knife vibrated slightly in his hand, and then slowly faded, turning into a pure white knife. It then quickly stretched and grew larger, and a few lightning bolts popped out of the blade with a buzzing sound.
Yes, Li Xuan is the embodiment of Mu Yang’s power, and the Heart Demon Sword is Li Xuan’s weapon.
Li Xuan turned his head to look at her and saw that her eyes were red and the tears were still there. The way she cried was just like the ordinary girls he saw in the college of literature. No, she was even more dazzling than the ordinary girls.
It was the first time that he saw the resolute and strong Li Yian showing such a vulnerable expression.
His slender fingers gently touched her face, wiping away the tears on her cheek. He lowered his eyes to look at the tears on his fingertips, without saying a word, but with a dazed look on his face.
Li Xuan quickly lowered his hand, letting it hang by his thigh, his fist slightly half-clenched. His handsome face had regained its usual calm. With his other hand, he raised the Heart Demon Blade and swung it with force. An explosion echoed, and lightning danced through the air, tearing a rift in space and time, which only grew wider.
The strange light twisted in the semicircular tunnel of different time and space, and a strong wind blew out of the tunnel, carrying with it the roars and grins of terrifying monsters.
"Let's go, Li Yian, let's go find Mu Yang."
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