Chapter 258: Casting the Sky (2)
When Shi Xuanying's soul was about to be shredded, she suddenly felt a clear and ethereal air rushing past, soothing the pain. She knew that the opportunity she had been waiting for had come!
She quickly made hand gestures, and a red line appeared on her fingertips. Her thoughts followed the red line and her soul instantly occupied her already shattered mind palace.
The red blood flag hanging in the divine palace was crumbling. Shi Xuanying's soul covered it, devouring the remaining breath of the heavenly rules and forcibly integrating it into her own soul.
……
Liu Shuji felt the barrier under the sword shattering, and the evil power touched a mysterious attraction and actively merged with it. His cultivation level increased steadily. He let down his guard slightly and felt ecstasy in his heart.
However, the next moment, a fir forest grew out of nowhere all around, and wherever the white light went, the evil power was completely dissolved, and it was too late to withdraw!
Liu Shuji's eyes were bloodshot.
It was only at this point that he realized he had fallen into a trap, but he could only watch himself being swallowed up.
The cedar forest supports the sky and the earth.
Guan Xiang rushed out of his lord's mansion and ran towards a mountain not far away where a white fir forest grew.
"mother!"
When Guan Xiang saw the white figure standing on the stone pestle, his eyes burst into joy.
Yan Cui turned around, his eyes swept across Guan Xiang, and saw that everything behind him shrank into a line of light, like a scroll slowly closing.
"Mom, I thought you..." Guan Xiang grabbed his sleeve, and finally couldn't hold back his tears.
Yan Cui lowered his eyes and looked at the fear, relief and attachment in the child's eyes. His heart seemed to be tightly grasped by a hand. The emotion that belonged to another person but was extremely familiar was so strong that it almost overwhelmed his consciousness.
A ray of light is approaching in the sky, and the fir dust is shrinking rapidly. The "outsiders" who do not belong to the painting will eventually be left where they are.
Dongfang Zhentian and Jiang Chuixing were already between illusion and reality, and seemed to be very close to Yan Cui. They saw the struggle on his face through the light curtain and couldn't help but be shocked.
"Jianzi!" Dongfang Zhentian shouted, "Push him away!"
Yan Cui pursed her lips, raised her hand and touched Guan Xiang's brow, watching him slowly loosen his hand. Her tearful little face was filled with confusion, and was slowly covered by the light, and her figure became transparent.
He opened his mouth and seemed to shout "Mom", then disappeared.
Yan Cui covered his heart. The pain here... was different from any previous injury. It was not as sharp, but it could not be ignored.
……
The sound of gurgling water came to my ears.
When they regained consciousness, they felt cold all over. They looked around and found themselves floating in a pool of water. There was a cedar forest surrounding them that towered into the sky. This was the entrance to the cedar forest set up on the first floor.
wow-
Dongfang Zhentian noticed that the person next to him raised his hand and grabbed his sleeve: "What do you want to do?!"
Bai Xuexing's palm flashed with white light, and he cut off the sleeve of his robe. The hand holding the Buddhist beads made a gesture and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"Uncle Master!"
Dongfang Zhentian was about to chase after him, but when he heard Jiang Chuixing calling anxiously from behind, he immediately stopped and turned around to look.
A full moon hung on the treetops, and the light sprinkled star-like dots in the pool. Shi Xuanying floated on the water, her face as white as fresh snow, without a trace of blood. Her thick bangs were wet by the water, and scattered in disarray, revealing her smooth forehead. Her long black eyelashes like crow feathers cast a small shadow under her eyes, and her whole body was like a bubble that would burst at the slightest poke.
She is actually a beauty made of glass!
Dongfang Zhentian knew that he shouldn't think about anything else at this moment, but he couldn't help but care, because Shi Xuanying's aura was too strong when she was awake, and it was really hard to notice that her appearance and temperament were completely opposite!
Yan Cui stretched out his hands and tried to pick up Master Xuanying.
Jiang Chuixing suddenly raised his eyes, his gaze fierce and warning.
"Go up first." Yan Cui was naturally not scared by him, and lifted up Shi Xuanying without any pause. "There are many people who entered Shanchenjie from Tiantong Gate. There are more than ten people in the nearby forest. Bai Xuexing knows too much, and he may turn against us and bring people to kill us. It's not safe to stay here."
Jiang Chuixing's gaze softened slightly, but he still pushed Yan Cui away and picked up Shi Xuanying himself: "What you said makes sense, but he is my uncle."
"I don't know what we are fighting for!" Dongfang Zhentian threw out the token, which turned into a flying boat and directly lifted up several people.
Jiang Chuixing was stunned for a moment, then he put the person on the floor of the cabin and used a spell to dry his clothes. Yan Cui was silent for a moment, then he took out a couch from his storage bag and said, "Put the person on the couch."
"Thank you." Jiang Chuixing did not resist this time. He moved the person to the couch neatly and took Shi Xuanying's pulse.
He felt a chill to his touch, without a trace of vibration. He stood stiffly beside the couch, feeling the coldness on his fingertips spreading to his body.
A cultivator's body not necessarily being dead when it loses vitality, but in reality, Master Xuanying is only a Qi-training strength, not much different from that of an ordinary person.
"I feel that the sect leader will not abolish death." Dongfang Zhentian said.
Jiang Chuixing said stiffly: "Did you agree on the spirit?"
"Spirit!" Dongfang Zhentian said firmly.
Jiang Chuixing secretly decided that after his uncle woke up, he would never call Dongfang Zhentian by his nickname again.
"Master has not woken up yet, probably because he swallowed the remnant of the Heavenly Dao in the cedar dust mustard." Yan Cui opened his mouth and threw down a thunder.
The two turned around blankly.
Dongfang Zhentian shook his head, as if he had drunk some fake wine: "I am not stupid, am I? Can't you understand what I am saying?"
No matter how powerful a person's soul is, it is impossible for him to devour the power of heaven. This is the consensus of everyone.
A cultivator who goes against the will of heaven and challenges the way of heaven is already at risk of death, let alone other things? But Master Xuanying skipped this stage and directly started "Swallowing the Heaven"?!
In Jiang Chuixing's mind, his uncle Tuntian was absolutely reasonable. He was not surprised at all and just wanted to know the result: "How did Jianzi know?"
"The remnant of Tiandao and the obsession of Chenhe are entangled. If you want to eliminate Shanchenjie, you must kill Tiandao while removing Chenhe. So I guess when she found out that Liu Shuji was practicing the Heaven-Destroying Technique, she not only did not stop him, but helped him instead, in order to use the evil power to kill Tiandao in the end."
Dongfang Zhentian came back to his senses and was shocked when he heard this: "But the Crimson Blood Flag was placed in the Sect Master's own Divine Palace. When she kills Tiandao, the Divine Palace will definitely be shattered!"
"This is her brilliance." Yan Cui couldn't figure out why she put such a dangerous thing in her Purple Palace at first, but when Xiao Hongfan sacrificed himself, he suddenly understood, "She probably just used her Purple Palace as a cage to trap the Red Blood Flag at the beginning, and then as she gradually understood the situation in the Dust Mustard, she came up with a complete plan..."
Shi Xuanying fully demonstrated the spirit of "you can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a lamb". She sacrificed her own divine palace as bait and took the initiative to allow the Heavenly Dao to merge. When the evil force was used to kill the Heavenly Dao, she, as the original owner of the divine palace, could take the opportunity to devour it.
When she completely devoured the Heavenly Dao, in the midst of the dust and mustard, she was the Heaven! The Heaven was her!
"I understand!" Dongfang Zhentian understood immediately, "The key to getting rid of Shan Chenjie is to destroy one and then establish another!"
The so-called "destroying" means using Liu Shuji's "Heaven-Destroying Technique" to kill Tiandao, and "establishing" means leading Xiao Hongfan to abandon his knot and voluntarily sacrifice himself to support the heaven and the earth.
Shi Xuanying stole a bit of the power of rules and became Shan Chenjie's new "Heavenly Way". The cedar forest that supported the sky was actually supporting her divine residence.
Xiao Hongfan's sacrifice was actually to repair her divine palace which was destroyed by evil forces.
This forms a closed loop.
Everyone in the Dust Mustard is a chess piece and must sacrifice for it. Only she stole a trace of the power of rules while breaking the Dust Mustard, and perhaps even obtained the entire Sugi Dust Mustard.
Dongfang Zhentian took a deep breath and said, "This is too dangerous. What if Liu Shuji doesn't fall for it? What if Xiao Hongfan is unwilling to sacrifice himself?"
"I have thought so too." Yan Cui said.
He even thought that if Xiao Hongfan did not offer to sacrifice herself voluntarily, he would have no choice but to drag her to sacrifice herself together.
He still thought so at the last moment when Chen Jie disappeared, but just when he understood Shi Xuanying's calculations, he realized that she was not just gambling on luck.
Because, devouring is mutual!
Yan Cui explained: "When Tian Dao first occupied Master's Purple Mansion, she allowed part of her soul to be assimilated and integrated."
"That is to say, her consciousness was also entangled with the Scarlet Blood Flag at that time, and was able to influence the development of Dust Mustard to a certain extent."
There was no need for Yan Cui to say more, Dongfang Zhentian already understood.
Xiao Hongfan suddenly remembered the secret art of guarding the spirit at the last moment, which might have been a "suggestion" from Master Xuanying.
Everything is under her control. There is an element of gambling, but not much.
"Wow!" Dongfang Zhentian exclaimed, "The Sect Master is so smart when he does things. I didn't expect him to be so smart!"
"I know my uncle is extremely smart, but she hasn't woken up yet." No matter how thrilling it was, it was over. It was not important to Jiang Chuixing at all. He only wanted to know one thing, "Since Jianzi has seen through everything, do you know how to make her recover?"
