There was a biting cold wind in Xuzi and Taoist Zhenyan were both surprised. For a moment, they didn't know why Ren Qi ended up here. He looked like a ghost returning from hell. Ren Qi had one foot on the broken chessboard and the other on the stone table. He held a sword in one hand and pointed it at the two men. "Playing chess?" He picked it up lightly, and a chess box fell to the ground, with flags scattered all over the ground and crackling sounds continuing. "How did you do it?" Ling Xuzi asked. Ren Qi narrowed his eyes, "Is it difficult to get here?" "It's difficult, as difficult as ascending to heaven." "But I'm here now, not only to ascend to the sky, but also to poke a hole in it." Ling Xuzi smiled, "You are just a warrior, but you are so arrogant. How dare you speak arrogantly to Qi Refiners like me."
Ren Qi's eyes flashed with cold light, "Isn't it common for so-called immortal masters and wise men to die at the hands of warriors?" "Ren Qi." Taoist Zhenyan said in a deep voice: "My senior brother is asking you how you broke the Qiankun Demon-Slaying Sword. As far as I know, you don't know any magic at all." "Need a spell?" Ren Qi suddenly remembered the talisman paper Liu Banxian gave him in his pocket. Perhaps the words "safe travel" on it were the reason that helped him come here. He couldn't help but smile. He just thought it was funny, but in the eyes of the two men, this smile was cold and murderous. Taoist Zhenyan was still puzzled. But Ren Qi knew very well that the reason why he could come here smoothly was because he didn't know magic and was not a Taoist. If he were a Taoist priest, he might have died before. "A sword is just a sword." Ren Qi's smile turned cold. "As long as it's a sword, it will be dodged, blocked, or even broken. If you use a sword to cut others, they will also cut you. This is fair." "fair?" Ling Xuzi couldn't help but laugh. "Commander Ren, it's really hard to believe what you said. After all, you were famous for killing countless people. Those people were really pitiful in front of you. They were unarmed, but you slaughtered them wantonly." As he said this, he pointed his finger without warning, and ripples invisible to Ren Qi appeared in the space. Five Prisons Parade! Ren Qi's smile stopped, his eyes became blurred and dull in an instant, and his wrists relaxed. Taoist Zhenyan stood up and shook his head, saying, "To challenge an immortal with a mortal body, isn't that just wishful thinking?" Ling Xuzi was also quite disdainful, "He thinks his swordsmanship is truly invincible, but he doesn't know that martial arts are just tricks of inferior people, and only immortal arts and Taoist magic are the righteous way of heaven and earth."
The Five Hells Parade is said to be a kind of bewitching technique, but it was developed by Xiandu and passed down from generation to generation. It is not comparable to ordinary illusions. To cast this spell, there is no need to recite incantations, perform footsteps, or even make hand gestures. Just a light tap of the finger like this can make the person fall into the spell. It is extremely concealed. Anyone who is hit by this spell will have his soul wandered to the five hells in an instant. Even a Taoist who has achieved success in his practice would often have to meditate for a few days to relieve the shock after traveling through the Five Hells, let alone someone who falls into hell without any preparation. People who are hit by this trick will often die in the blink of an eye, or their souls will leave them and only their bodies will remain. "He is too arrogant after all. It's a pity for the world's best swordsman." Taoist Zhenyan stretched out his hand and lightly touched the tip of Ren Qi's sword, and he felt the sharpness and murderous aura of the fastest sword in the world. Then, his fingers turned red and blood dripped. Ling Xuzi smiled, "Your heart is unstable." Taoist Zhenyan was horrified, "It's not me..." "Well?" Ling Xuzi looked up and saw that Ren Qi had returned to normal at some point, his eyes still filled with coldness as before. "You gave us a lot of surprises." Ling Xuzi said with a smile. "Isn't it a shock?" Ren Qi thrust his sword forward, forcing Ling Xuzi and Taoist Zhenyan to retreat. However, after realizing that Ren Qi's sword was just a joke on them, the two of them couldn't help but tense their hands. "very good." Ren Qi was very satisfied with the expressions of the two people. He raised his sword and jumped lightly off the platform. "The Five Hells are certainly cruel things, but I have seen worse hells, whether created by me, others, or you." "You already know?" Ling Xuzi frowned, "When? Did she confess to you, or did she reveal some flaws?" "What if I say I am enlightened?" Ren Qi replied. "Enlightenment?" Ling Xuzi subconsciously pinched his hands to calculate, and in the blink of an eye even his hands froze. "Spiritual consciousness, have you entered the realm of spiritual consciousness?" Taoist Zhenyan was also stunned when he heard the voice. In the realm of spiritual consciousness, apart from those old monsters who are unknown where they are hiding, Ren Qi is probably the first person to step into the realm of spiritual consciousness and have a name and surname in the past fifty years. The three great secret treasures above the ninth level of the entrance are synaesthesia, spiritual consciousness, and incarnation.
The reason why it is called a secret treasure is that as long as you obtain one of them, you can unlock many potentials in the human body. It is said that by unlocking the three great secret treasures, one can enter the realm of heaven. And now, Ren Qi has entered the spiritual consciousness realm, which means that the two of them are in great trouble. "When did it start?" Ling Xuzi asked. "I said," Ren Qi said seriously, "I heard clearly what the Northern Spear Saint Bai Xiu said to me that day." Ling Xuzi frowned, feeling that the things they were talking about were totally unrelated. However, Ren Qi ignored him and continued, "He didn't tell me to die, nor did he curse me. He just told me: I leave it to you." Ren Qi advanced in the Qiankun Demon-Slaying Sword, experienced great sorrow and grief, and was refined by endless anger. He finally broke through a layer of paper in the spiritual realm and entered a whole new realm. Also in this process, he seemed to see the cause and effect of all the timelines, from his deeds in Yujing, to the process of his family being beheaded, to Yin Xiu, Liu Banxian and others, and Zhao Qian's long-hidden "conspiracy". "give it to you?" Taoist Zhenyan broke the silence and repeated Ren Qi's words, but he didn't understand why. "Yes, leave it to me." Ren Qi waved the shuriken and said, "He is saying that the future of the martial arts world is in my hands." "Don't you think it's funny?" Ling Xuzi sneered in his sharpest voice: "The future of the martial arts world is handed over to an executioner like you? Who would be convinced? And who would acknowledge you?" Taoist Zhenyan also said: "The Northern Spear Saint Bai Xiu is dead, and the White Lotus Left and Right Wise Kings are missing. How can there be any martial arts legends in the world? The martial arts world is finished." "It doesn't matter. I will be the martial arts legend." Ren Qi smiled, "Let me define it, I will admit it. I, Ren Qi, will suppress this martial arts world for the next thirty years and become a mountain that others hate but have to look up to. It doesn’t matter if you are dissatisfied or resent me, just come and challenge me.” Somehow, when Ling Xuzi and Zhenyan Taoist looked at Ren Qi, they felt that he had already become a saint and a god at this moment. As if they heard the sound of something breaking inside their bodies, the two Qigong practitioners who thought they were independent and detached from the world and nature lowered their heads. "Xiandu has maintained the order of the Taoist tradition for thousands of years. Although we seem to be the manipulators behind the scenes, without this invisible hand, the Taoist tradition would not have continued to this day. Whether it was the Heavenly Masters of all generations exorcising demons or the Taoists descending the mountains to search for dragons, we facilitated many of these things.” Ren Qi asked, "Are you saying that I should let you go? Otherwise, I would be committing a heinous crime that goes against the will of the world?" "Have you not done enough outrageous things?" Ling Xuzi did not intend to stop Ren Qi with this, he just said calmly: "The Taoist's death at the hands of a warrior is not considered a failure." "I know, you call this Bingjie. Whether it's one's own Bingjie or being hacked to death by others, to me, it's just a way of dying. It has nothing to do with winning or losing." Ren Qi handed the sword over a little, his tone calm. "So I am the seventh one, and I ask all the immortal masters to die."
"It's a request we can't refuse." Ling Xuzi smiled, "The destiny has changed. No matter how we deduced and calculated before, the result is still completely different. Perhaps this is the unpredictable part of the way of heaven. We are mortals after all, and we think we have grasped destiny, but in fact destiny is mysterious and obscure. What we grasp is just the illusion we think it is at that moment, just like a beautiful dream, which will turn into bubbles and disappear without a trace if we are not careful. " Ren Qi also sighed, "Everyone thinks they can conquer nature, but in the end, they are just deceived by dreams. But if people don’t dream, how can they survive in this cruel world?” Taoist Zhenyan also calmed down at this time, feeling much more relaxed. "I didn't expect that Commander Ren, who is feared by most of the martial arts world, would have to rely on some kind of fantasy to survive like us." "Do you think there's any difference between me and you?" Ren Qi was in a happier mood than usual, but it was not because he defeated Xiandu or because he had advanced. He just felt a sense of peace from the bottom of his heart. "Of course you are different from us." Ling Xuzi smiled calmly, "Because you want to leave here, unlike us who are just staying here." "Isn't this what you calculated?" The three of them laughed together. Then Ren Qi put away his sword and planned to leave. It was obvious that Ling Xuzi and Taoist Zhenyan had already made some kind of decision and there was no need for Ren Qi to take any action. "please wait a while." Ling Xuzi called him and said, "If possible, please tell those two Taoists a message." "Oh?" Although they knew that the immortals were targeting Yin Xiu and Ma Xiaoyu, this was the first time they mentioned these two people. Ling Xuzi counted with his fingers and said seriously: "Yin Xiu will find the Black Emperor's Son, because he has collected the other three-color Dragon Emperor's Sons, and the female Taoist priest of the Ma family who exorcised demons is also firmly on his side, so it is a foregone conclusion that he will collect the five-color Dragon Emperor's Sons. However, gathering all five colored dragon emperors is only the first step." "first step?" Although Ren Qi was not interested, every time he heard about this plan from Yin Xiu and others, he thought that the plan would be completed once all the five-colored dragon emperors were gathered. Even Yin Xiu and the others don’t know what kind of changes will happen to Kyushu in the future and how its fortune will change. Why should a mere military man like me care about these? But after hearing that this was just the "first step", Ren Qi couldn't help but feel confused. Ling Xuzi did not keep the secret, he continued: "The five-colored dragon emperor's son is a condition, but the key is in Yujing." "Yujing?" Ren Qi thought of the magnificent imperial capital that was full of gold and sin. He thought again of all the grudges and secrets that had happened in the Forbidden City, the blood and swords and guns hidden behind the mysterious curtain of the Forbidden City, and Ren Qi had been a member of the group behind that curtain.
It is these masters of the inner court who allow this huge but declining and dying empire to maintain its superficial glory and extinguish the sparks of resistance one by one. But as Ren Qi said before, those experiences were part of his past and there was no need to regret or be proud of them. So now when talking about Yujing, Ren Qi only felt a familiar feeling flashing through his heart. "Yes, it is Yujing." Ling Xuzi nodded, "Yujing is the end point of the dragon vein. The dragon veins of the Nine Provinces will eventually converge at that place. If the king is not in the position, the lights will naturally not flicker." "You mean, what's important is not the throne, but the king who makes it shine?" "That's right. If the king is not there, it is just an exquisitely carved decoration. Only when the king is on the throne can that place be called a palace." "I understand." Ren Qi understood, "So the next step is to take them to Yujing, but what should we do after we get to Yujing?" "You will know it when the time comes." Taoist Zhenyan smiled and said, "We are not gods either, so we are not sure." "Then I understand. As long as we go to Yujing, all the secrets and truths will emerge, right? Including the method to seize the world?" "Conquer the world?" Ling Xuzi laughed, "Didn't that Taoist priest intend to take over the world?" "I didn't say it was him." "But it's not you, is it?" Taoist Zhenyan also saw his thoughts, "You are a swordsman, not a king. At most, you can stand in front of the steps, but you will never ascend the throne." "I won't stand in front of the steps anymore. In the past, I would have liked wealth and glory, but now, those things are meaningless to me." "No me, no sword, no heart?" Ling Xuzi seemed to understand something. "Ren Qi, you seem to have reached a certain realm that we pursued before. However, you are more real than those of us who pursue immortality. We are floating in the sky, illusory, and empty, but you are a living person." "No sword, no heart? I don't know." Ren Qi didn't dwell on the so-called mentality. He just put his hand on the sword and said, "I'll give you a ride?" "No need, we have our own way." Taoist Zhenyan and Lingxuzi looked at each other, both revealing a tranquil mood that was the same as this eternal world. "Then I won't have to clean my sword again." Ren Qi turned and left. When he stood on the snow-covered mountain top, the mountains were already at his feet in the clouds and mist, looming in and out of sight. These mountains, which have existed since ancient times, have not declined due to changes in history, nor have they become more majestic because the immortal capital is located here.
They just stand outside the long river of time, and no matter how the history changes or heroic deeds happen, they will not change. Sensing something, Ren Qi turned around and saw that the fairyland above the clouds was burning in flames. The great building is collapsing and falling in flames. (End of this chapter)