Chapter 172: The Events of Knocking on the Gate Back Then
Suddenly, Xu Xing felt something in his heart.
It was the front-line battlefield; someone had activated the power of 【Yue Ying】!
【Yue Ying】 was his lifeblood sword; when someone activated its power, he, as the Sword Master, naturally felt it.
However, under normal circumstances, would there be a need to do this?
That could only be...
"Heaven, Xuan has made a move in the Starry Sky. What do you think is the reason?" Xu Xing said.
"..."
Heaven remained silent.
Xu Xing would naturally not lie to Him for no reason; it was meaningless.
In other words...
Xuan did indeed make a move in the Starry Sky!
So what kind of situation could force Xuan to make a move?
This point naturally goes without saying.
The plan had an accident.
"The Heavenly Dao is unpredictable. I am too deeply connected to the Cang Clan, so even though I am a manifestation of the descended Heaven's Will, I must still be controlled by the Heavenly Dao."
The Heaven's Will was extracted and sealed by the Human Immortal, so within the current Heavenly Dao rules, His existence as a Heaven's Will avatar was probably no different from the countless beings in the Tai Xuan Realm.
"Don't push everything onto the Heavenly Dao. The great defeat of the Cang Clan in ancient times, was that also caused by the Heavenly Dao?" Yuan Jun said slowly.
"..." Hearing this, Heaven was silent for a while again. "Xu Xing, Yuan Jun, for the sake of the Human Clan and yourselves, you two should seriously consider My proposal."
Just like Cang is indestructible and Xuan is immortal.
As long as the Heaven's Will is not worn away for a single day, He is likewise immortal.
And for the Human Clan to completely wear away all the Heaven's Will, it is by no means a matter of a single day, so He was not very worried.
Xu Xing: "..."
Talking to an idiot is just tiring.
He slightly raised his hand, and a crimson longsword had already appeared in his palm.
A red light like a waterfall instantly filled this small space, formed by gathered spirit and resembling a blessed land for immortals.
The colorful light in the eyes of the slender figure was directly suppressed by this red light.
'Heaven' turned back into 'Meng Xuan'.
Seeing this situation, Yuan Jun quietly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
Meng Xuan, whose original consciousness had recovered, had some confusion in her eyes, but after seeing the two people in front of her clearly, a trace of intense hatred couldn't help but flash in her eyes.
"Sword Ancestor—!"
But this intense hatred turned into confusion in an instant.
Hatred and confusion constantly shifted in her eyes, and her state became increasingly strange.
Under her skin, something began to constantly writhe, as if some terrifying existence was trapped within this exquisite and perfect skin, struggling to get out.
Under its constant struggles, her fair and firm skin was actually stretched open like rubber, and Meng Xuan's figure also began to strangely expand, like a balloon being inflated from within.
Xu Xing and Yuan Jun exchanged a glance and simultaneously retreated backward.
In the blink of an eye, her expanding figure collapsed the elegant waterside pavilion.
The collapsed remnants of the waterside pavilion turned into colorful lines of varying colors and thickness, scattering and disappearing.
Among the countless lines that rose and scattered, was a ferocious monster several meters tall, with countless sharp spikes on its body, seven purple tentacles, and three gigantic heads.
On its body were various colored patterns, some light, some dark, some large, some small.
Those scattered colorful lines were all contaminated into constantly twisting monsters, like insects, hissing from their mouths, forming an obscure yet incredibly alluring poem that made people intoxicated.
She was like an evil god; where was the grace she had before?
Her originally exquisite and perfect skin had now been stretched into a layer of translucent membrane, yet there was still no sign of it breaking.
Her scarlet eyes looked through the translucent membrane at the two people below, carrying a complex and difficult-to-understand meaning.
Before, most of the time it was the intertwining of Heaven's will and hers; this moment was the pure her.
"Sword Ancestor, Yuan Jun..."
Her voice was no longer as cold and indifferent as before, nor did it carry the intense hatred it had before.
Xu Xing and Yuan Jun looked at her, their eyes also slightly complex.
The path to immortality is perilous; if one fails to knock on the gate, the cultivator will inevitably suffer backlash.
And how severe the backlash is depends entirely on the state of mind of the one knocking on the gate at that time.
Like Senior Sister Ji, whose cultivation was greatly damaged, that was actually considered light; in severe cases, one might even directly perish.
But like Meng Xuan before their eyes, turning into a ferocious and terrifying strange monster, besides her own state of mind, there was also the reason of Gu causing trouble from within.
"Fellow Daoist Mengxuan..."
"I originally intended to lure it into a trap, but was instead controlled by it." Meng Xuan also didn't waste words, calmly narrating the various things she had experienced back then.
Back then, after failing to knock on the Immortal Gate, she suffered an intense backlash.
But just as she was waiting for her Dao to perish, Gu found her.
And explicitly stated that it wished to use her power from knocking on the Immortal Gate as a guide, using her as a vessel to welcome 'Heaven' back.
And as long as her original intention remained unchanged, after Heaven showed signs of recovery within her, she only needed to resolve to die, and she would have a chance to heavily injure 'Heaven'.
Thus, she agreed.
Gu Feng died by Heaven's hand, how could she not hate!
"Thinking about it now, it should have been when I failed to knock on the gate and lost control of my state of mind, Gu used the shadow of the past to confuse me, triggering the hatred towards Heaven in my heart."
Otherwise, she couldn't possibly have agreed to such an outrageous condition.
In short, from then on, everything fell towards an irreversible direction.
Her original intention was directly suppressed, completely unable to resist.
Heaven also used the power of her knocking on the Immortal Gate, nourishing itself with spirit, absorbing the essences of the other three Cave True, and began to gradually recover.
During this period, her original intention was constantly being eroded, and hatred towards the Sword Ancestor also gradually arose in her heart.
In the end, out of helplessness, she had to divide her original intention into two parts, but under Heaven's methods, the stronger inner part was suppressed.
The relatively weaker other part was attached to the skin, cold and ruthless, and harbored intense hatred towards the Sword Ancestor.
"...Sorry."
Xu Xing shook his head: "You are not to blame for this matter."
Even without Meng Xuan, Gu would have searched for other cultivators who failed to knock on the gate.
Among those who came from that era, who wouldn't harbor intense hatred towards the Cang Clan?
............
Starry Sky, front-line battlefield.
Xuan faced two Human Immortals alone; even though the two Human Immortals joined forces, they were still firmly suppressed by Him.
The five phantoms of the bronze mirror, alchemical cauldron, giant hammer, as well as the silk thread and ancient zither, contained His remaining power, as red light and purple energy constantly collided.
Countless traveling palaces, grand halls, and interstellar fortresses took this opportunity to begin retreating backward.
Xuan's expression was indifferent, and He did not pursue.
The other side of the Starlight, where the Cang Clan hid, was built in a place where the power of the Human Immortal could not reach.
Any further forward, even if the Human Immortal could not leave the Central Continent, their power could already reach.
No matter how confident He was, He would not be arrogant enough to face the combined attack of all the Human Clan True Immortals.
"Xuan!"
The white-haired Human Immortal feared no death; his hunched body had straightened, his white hair flying, attacking Him almost in a completely undefended posture.
His immortal body was shattered multiple times by Him, but he still constantly charged towards Him.
The black-shadowed Human Immortal, meanwhile, laughed 'hehehe', hiding behind the white-haired Human Immortal and occasionally launching a sneak attack.
It was time to leave.
Xuan thought in His heart.
With these two Immortals present, it was almost impossible for Him to send another essence to the Central Continent.
Just at the moment He had the intention to retreat!
Buzz!!!
The sound of a clear sword cry rang out, echoing in all directions!
The red light that collided with the purple energy completely retracted.
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