Ren Qi stared at the scene in front of him with wide eyes. He did not step forward, but just stood.
Zhao Qian died, like a beautiful crystal ball suddenly falling to the ground, or like snowflakes, falling on the palm of her hand and disappearing without a trace.
Ren Qi looked at the beautiful, blood-stained corpse and couldn't help but think of that snowy night many years ago.
It was also extremely quiet, and the wind and snow were blowing.
Ren Qi led a group of people and quickly ran into the Forbidden Palace.
They had just taken off the head of a White Lotus Protector King and destroyed the altar. It was a moment of pride, so the sound of horse hooves was particularly loud, as if it was crushing the night.
But what really shattered the night was the sound of musketry.
A projectile passed by Ren Qi's ear and hit the cavalryman behind him.
Then more projectiles came, penetrating the bodies of people and horses, and spraying blood mist.
In a daze, Ren Qi heard someone reading something loudly on the high courtyard wall. He could not remember the details, but only vaguely remembered three or two sentences.
"The traitor Ren Qi is shameless, unfaithful, unfilial, and unjust. He colludes with Bai Lian to rebel against the party and cause chaos. The Holy Emperor decrees that the traitor Ren Qi should be taken down without mercy!"
Kill without mercy!
Ren Qi turned sharply behind him.
Around him, I don't know when, there were already hundreds of Qi refiners standing there.
They were all dressed in the same attire and had similar body shapes. They all covered their figures under the broad cloaks, hiding from the light, like ghosts reborn in this world.
Ren Qihan said: "You did it?"
The Qi Practitioners were just calm. After a deathly silence, someone in the front row raised their hands.
"I did it."
Ren Qi immediately slashed him with his sword. The man's head was split in two and he fell to the ground.
It was a face that could be called a beautiful man. Even though it was contaminated by blood and brain matter and split in half, it did not damage his beauty.
"Who else?" Ren Qi asked again.
Another person raised his hand and said, "I did it."
hiss!
His head also rose into the sky.
"Is there more?" Ren Qi continued to ask.
Two more people raised their hands, "We also have a share."
A cold light flashed twice, and the two fell down.
Ren Qi stopped asking questions and just glanced over with his eyes.
Four or five people in a row raised their hands at the same time and did not answer.
Ren Qi immediately took out another sword from his back. As soon as the sword was unsheathed, those people all fell down, like chopped straw.
There was no need to ask or say anything anymore. Seventy-six swords came out at once, and the snowy field was suddenly filled with cold light. Every time they took a step forward, several people were hacked to death on the spot.
The head is rolling, there are endless Qi warriors to kill, and the heroic fire is endless.
Ren Qi almost took himself as the center of the circle, cut in a circle clockwise, and then turned back counterclockwise. After three full circles, hundreds of Qi Refiners all fell down, and the blood surrounded and soaked him. His sword and body melted the ice and snow.
Ren Qi stepped forward. Every time he took a step, a shocking blood mark was left under his feet.
There is still one Qi Master alive.
She saw that everyone was dead and she was the only one left, but she was not afraid or worried. She just sat cross-legged, holding the sword in her hands, and recited the scriptures in a low voice amidst the blood.
Ren Qi stepped forward and gently opened the cloak with his sword.
Under the cloak is a beautiful face that is neither happy nor sad, but indifferent.
Even in Yujing, where there are so many beauties and ladies and ladies, such a face is rare.
She is even more beautiful than Zhao Qian and A'ke, but she is really unlikable, as if she is just a jade doll, not a living creature.
Ren Qi's sword moved to her chin and gently raised her head.
The female Qi Refiner met his eyes, and her eyes were like a clear mirror, reflecting Ren Qi, who was covered in blood.
"Why?" Ren Qi asked.
"Because this is your cause and effect."
"Bullshit cause and effect!"
Ren Qi turned his wrist, and a red line appeared on the Qi Refiner's neck.
"Don't tell me those things that are there or not, I just ask you what is going on?"
"I said, this is cause and effect."
The Qi Refiner allowed the blood to flow down his snow-white neck and onto his collar.
Her tone was still calm, as if she was not the one who was hurt.
"Ren Qi, you are here to help us become immortals. You are the cause and we are the effect."
"I'm asking you why you killed her!"
Ren Qi's eyes widened, "I'm the one you want to kill, right?"
"Her death here is also her fate and cause and effect."
The Qi Refiner said calmly: "This series of things happened because of you, Ren Qi.
You are the reincarnation of the fierce star among the one hundred and eight evil stars, so you are destined to travel through the white blade and inhabit the blood all your life, because you want to enter the Tao through killing. Those people killed by you are actually just in the world. Just to help you practice.
Ren Qi, here today, our senior brothers and sisters are also helping you, in order to help you become an immortal and ascend. ”
Become an immortal?
Ascension?
Ren Qi felt a splitting headache, "Bullshit! What kind of reincarnation of Tianmengxing? I just kill people."
"Killing is your way, Ren Qi."
The Qi Refiner said frankly: "To enter the Tao through killing, this is your fate and your destiny."
"What about you?"
The tip of Ren Qi's sword sank a little deeper into the Qi Refiner's neck.
The Qi Refiner is fearless, "Ren Qi, please kill me, I am willing to pay any price to achieve your success."
Hearing this, Ren Qi frowned, "You crazy people."
"So does that woman."
The qigong master suddenly said: "In order for you to become an immortal and realize the Tao, that woman also had to die. This is her cause and effect."
Ren Qi's hand couldn't stop shaking. Although his hand holding the sword was always steady, it was also shaking violently due to murderous intent.
The Qi Refiner closed his eyes and concentrated, just waiting for Ren Qi to make a move.
"Just because she became an immortal or attained the Tao, she had to die, and you people, you don't even have any intention of escaping, you just stand here waiting for me to kill you?"
A smile suddenly appeared on the Qi Refiner's face, "When you killed us, you had already lost to Ren Qi, because our death was the cause and effect that helped you become an immortal.
As long as you ascend, everyone's efforts and the things that Xiandu pursues will come true.
It's not that you found Xiandu, it's that Xiandu has been waiting for you, Ren Qi, you are the one who can unravel all the cause and effect.
So we thank you and respect you, because you have freed us from this waterless sea of suffering, and you have also allowed us to..." "Shut up. ”
Before he finished speaking, Ren Qi's sword had already cut through the snow-white neck of the Qi Refiner, causing the last person to die.
However, Ren Qi didn't feel happy, nor even the feeling after revenge. He only felt lonely and lonely.
And in this vast world, he had a feeling of defeat. Although the Qi Refiners were all killed, it seemed that they had won at the moment.
Somehow, Ren Qi remembered the small package he put on his waist.
He took off the small package and found a red pill wrapped in layers of oil paper.
That was what the Ouchi masters had prepared for themselves, in order to avoid torture.
On that snowy night, Ren Qi broke out of the palace and when he returned home, his eyes were as bloody as now.
The master of Ouchi washed his family's blood with blood, and no one was spared, whether it was family members or servants and maids.
There was blood everywhere and bits of flesh everywhere.
For many days in the future, Ren Qi couldn't sleep, and this scene was deeply etched in his mind, so much so that he later needed smoke to free himself from those nightmares.
But now, these nightmares appeared vividly in front of him again.
At this time, Ren Qi felt as if this pill was prepared for this moment.
In the illusion, on the other side of the mirror, there seemed to be many people waiting for him, hoping that he would enter the world that represented death and transcendence.
The figure and face of Northland Spear Saint Bai Ruo appeared in front of him again, and Ren Qi suddenly realized what he said before he died.
"You have nothing but your sword. This life is just a drag on you."
Is this really the case?
Was Northland Spear Saint Bai Ruo really trying to persuade him to die quickly?
Go on the path that all martial arts masters and all living beings will eventually take?
Ren Qi was already a little shaken, staring at the pill on his palm, as if it was a drop of blood, a drop of blood that did not belong to him, but was closely related to him, hot and rich blood.
Around him, shadows appeared one after another. They were his relatives, enemies, and many of the people he had killed.
Many of the dead were naturally innocent, and some of them had little to do with the White Lotus Sect. However, Ren Qi didn't care about this. He just harvested the weeds in the fields and chopped them off with a sickle like a person who didn't understand farming.
Now these people are all here to ask for their lives. They stand here one by one, watching Ren Qi, wanting to take revenge on him and find relief.
Everyone here was killed by him, or died indirectly because of him.
However, Ren Qi just stood there with a cold face.
He only thought that the "people" who seemed to appear around him were phantoms, but he did not realize that there were really two people in the immortal capital looking down at him.
The two people were sitting in front of the chessboard. They looked like immortals, and their faces seemed to be carved out of jade. Just sitting there made people feel like they were immortals descending from the earth.
Ling Xuzi holds the white chess piece, and the man of truth goes first with the black chess piece.
A big dragon appeared faintly on the chessboard in front of them. Black and white were fighting each other. The outcome on the chessboard was only between the three pieces.
The man of truth held the black piece in his hand and didn't know how to start.
In other words, the reason why he delayed making a move was because he was paying attention to Ren Qi's movements.
"Temeng Star, will return to its position soon."
"This is exactly what we've been waiting for."
Ling Xuzi's hand was placed in the chess box, stirring the crystal and warm chess pieces.
"Tianmengxing has gone through training, witnessed various causes and effects, and traveled through cycles. Finally, it's time to sense destiny and surrender to the great road."
The man of truth smiled and said: "Becoming a saint by killing, ascending to the throne by killing is not unheard of in history, but it is only a handful.
Finally today, we get to witness a new saint. ”
"This is what Xiandu has been waiting for. I dreamed of this scene many days and nights ago."
"Brother, don't talk about you, I am the same."
The man of truth finally pressed the black piece firmly on the chessboard, which was the ventilation point of the black dragon. As soon as the piece fell, the black dragon came to life and competed with the white piece.
This time it was Ling Xuzi's turn to be in trouble. He picked up the white piece and stared at Ren Qi instead of looking at the chessboard.
"Temeng Star, he..."
"Senior brother, it doesn't matter anymore. After going through many hardships and losing all his energy, Tianmengxing now has no desires and desires. He has a great enlightenment and knows the path he wants to take. He will comply with the destiny and fly to the sky."< br>
"No, see for yourself."
The man of truth looked over there and saw Ren Qi still holding the pill in his hand.
"He wants to be dismissed," the mantra said.
As soon as he finished speaking, Ren Qi threw the pill into the snow, stepped on it with his foot, and crushed it completely into the mud.
"What is he doing?"
The man of truth frowned, unable to see Ren Qi's intention for a moment.
When he saw Ren Qi pull out his sword, he couldn't help but let go of this question: he still wanted to fight.
But Ling Xuzi suddenly said: "He seems to be looking at us."
"What?"
The man's eyes widened slightly and he stared at Ren Qi.
At this time, Ren Qi was holding a sword and looking in the direction of Xiandu with a firm gaze.
Ren Qi has calmed down from the state just now, or it could be said that it was just a ripple that passed through his heart in an instant.
He looked at Xiandu with a sneer, with only firm killing intent in his heart, and his hands became stable and dry again.
No matter how painful and lonely he was, it seemed that he could not defeat this man who stood like a stone wall.
"He hasn't planned to let us go yet?" the man of truth murmured.
"No, he is not going to let himself go."
Ling Xuzi sneered, "I didn't expect that even after experiencing many blows and suffering, Tianmeng Xing has not yet fully understood cause and effect. He is really a bloodless and tearless monster."
"Then what should we do next?"
The man of truth couldn't help but feel a little nervous, because according to various calculations, this was the only chance for Xiandu to escape from the increasingly dry pond.
Soon, the path to ascension will be completely cut off, because the spiritual energy of Kyushu will be exhausted.
"It doesn't matter, he doesn't want to surrender, let's just help him."
Ling Xuzi clung to the white piece and dropped it on the chessboard. The entire chess piece immediately glowed, and there were wisps of purple clouds in the eyes of the True Word Taoist.
Ren Qi did not have the unique inspiration of Xuanmen people. He only relied on instinct to feel the murderous aura.
call out!
He turned over and jumped away, and a hole immediately opened under his feet. Flames spurted out from where he stood, seeming to shoot straight into the clouds.
As soon as he stood still, there was another sound of breaking wind from behind him.
Ren Qi turned around and ran into a snowstorm head-on. Before the snowstorm reached him, his hands were already covered with frost.
He mustered up the energy in his body, circulated the meridians throughout his body, and drove away the cold that penetrated into his bone marrow. His body moved again to avoid the sweeping wind and snow.
After smashing the fireball into pieces with a sword, Ren Qi saw two huge skulls suspended in the air in the smoke.
One is full of fire, the other is full of ice and snow.
One on the left and one on the right, the two skulls stared at him, like deadly ghosts. (End of chapter)