Chapter 980: Changes in the Outside World
"Originally, I thought that if we wanted to make those people in the void world real, we needed some kind of conceptual power similar to the power of reality. Jiang Ning said in his heart: "But in fact, as long as the power of the void is accumulated enough, the existence from the void world can be transformed from the void to the real, and the mystery of this creation is really breathtaking." β
The reason why Jiang Ning knew this was due to the fact that he was controlled by that big flower before and forcibly brought the Yuan Shen into the void world.
That void world was the nothingness projection of the entire abyss, which was much larger and more powerful than the current small world that didn't even have a radius of thousands of miles.
The reason why Jiang Ning was able to return to the real was because he understood that when the power of nothingness was rich to a certain extent, it would be transformed into reality.
In his later cultivation, he even understood that the so-called true power was actually a kind of nothingness, but it was just a manifestation of the concentration of the power of nothingness after it broke through to a certain critical point.
There is a saying that when the truth is false, it is also false, and when it is false, it is also true.
Jiang Ning began to gradually understand that the so-called nothingness is also a kind of reality, and the so-called reality can also be regarded as nothingness.
Perhaps at a certain level of the world where the power of nothingness is more intense, the so-called real world they are in now can also be called nothingness.
Knowing this, Jiang Ning would no longer regard the people in the Void World, or even in the Illusion World, as a game, or a certain test that could be killed and destroyed casually, and there was no need to have a sense of guilt.
In a sense, everything that exists is true.
Since it is real, it needs to be taken seriously, especially after cultivating the power of cause and effect, Jiang Ning knows even more that even if there are those in the illusion, there is cause and effect in their bodies, although the power of cause and effect is very weak compared to people in the real world, but if there is cause and effect, that is, it exists, and it cannot be disposed of casually as a dead thing.
It is precisely because of this that Jiang Ning treats every existence in the void world or illusion world very carefully, firstly, because his temperament is like this, and secondly, although those causes and effects are few, sooner or later they will flow back to himself.
Unless you are strong enough to get out of the cage of fate, the cause and effect of planting will one day turn into retribution.
Of course, not all of the retribution mentioned here is evil.
In fact, in the Buddhist concept, the so-called retribution is not a derogatory term, but a neutral word.
Good and bad consequences are retribution.
After a long time, as if out of dehydration, Jiang Ning and Xu Qingqing appeared from nothingness at the same time and returned to the misty forest.
At this time, the change happened again.
An even richer energy fluctuation spread in the misty forest, and almost the moment he noticed it, Jiang Ning immediately differentiated into a spark, wrapping Xu Qingqing, who had just come from the ** of the Void World.
He didn't want this woman to be eroded by that strange energy before he saw Lu Jie.
Even though Jiang Ning's movements were fast, the moment he came out, there was still an extremely faint wave of dark energy that turned into a small snake and burrowed into Xu Qingqing's body, but at this time, neither Jiang Ning nor Xu Qingqing himself noticed it.
"Where is this?"
Xu Qingqing looked at the hideous and terrifying trees around him, listened to the terrible animal cries in the forest, and stood in the boundless darkness, only feeling like a weak moth, although he didn't want to put out the fire, but the world around him was filled with billowing smoke, and there was no other choice than to jump into the fire.
Immediately, she looked back at Jiang Ning, the man who was standing quietly beside her, the last time, by the river, it was he who reminded him loudly that his mother was lying, and then the two fell into the river and passed out, and it was he who saved her life.
Now in this eerie and terrifying forest filled with cold and mist, the man just stood there quietly, all the cold, mist, poison, and terrifying breath seemed to be gradually moving away from her.
Now she already knows that the emotions for Lu Jie in her memory are just deliberately created by others, Lu Jie's image, Lu Jie's kindness, Lu Jie's love for herself, maybe in a parallel time and space, it does really exist, but in her, no, he is just a projection in a small void world, even the memory is in the manipulation of others, and in that world, in fact, there has never been a Lu Jie, what exists is only the memory of her, her mother, and those people she knows for Lu Jie, and those so-called memories, it's just a picture that someone else implants in your mind, and it's not real at all.
At the moment, although Jiang Ning said that she would take her to this other world to meet Lu Jie, she would occasionally be smarter, and she had realized that even if she saw that person, he was not the Lu Jie in her memory, the self he loved was not himself, he was just a projection of the so-called Xu Qingqing in the real world, this kind of love that sounds very complicated, but in fact has a bit of grafting flavor, is not real at all, everything is false.
Xu Qingqing, who understands this, doesn't have much expectation in her heart about whether she can see Lu Jie in the future, what if she meets, the man who once treated her gently in her memory does not exist at all, and she is not the person Lu Jie really loves in this world now, but she has the same skin and the same memory as the real Xu Qingqing in the original, in fact, they are two people who have nothing to do with each other.
The reason why Jiang Ning chose to agree when she proposed to leave this world together was because she didn't want to be entangled by her mother and Wu Lao Liu, and secondly, because there was another person living in her heart right now.
This man is the person who really appeared in front of her, the one who saved herself several times.
After leaving the void world, the sound of water stopped, and the world collapsed, although this was something that neither she nor Jiang Ning realized, but no matter what, he saved her life again.
Instead of trying your best to see someone who doesn't belong to you like a moth to a fire, it's better to grasp the real beauty in front of you.
Therefore, when Jiang Ning grabbed her hand and left the illusion world, Xu Qingqing did not resist at all, but leaned his body slightly against Jiang Ning's body as if he was nothing.
Because he knew that Xu Qingqing was just a mortal, he didn't know much about the so-called void world, the so-called truth and falsehood, and the power of the so-called immortals, and in the face of this kind of unprecedented power in his body, as well as the scene when the void world collapsed, it was normal to have panic and fear in his heart, so when she approached herself as if she was nothing, Jiang Ning didn't care too much, anyway, when a woman encounters something she is afraid of, she will instinctively want to find a man to rely on by her side, Jiang Ning has long been used to it, he thinks that when Xu Qingqing sees the real Lu Jie, everything will be fineγ
However, Jiang Ning, who was bent on how to find Lu Jie, didn't realize that the mind of the woman beside him didn't know when it had been completely placed on herself.
After the fluctuation of the first dark force was suppressed by himself with Starfire, Jiang Ning thought that the situation in the forest would be better, but after returning from the void world, he found that things were not what he thought at all.
The appearance of dark forces is regular and rhythmic.
He never imagined that what he had tried his best to suppress before was just the first wave of dark power.
And during the time he entered the void world, this forest did not know how many times it had been invaded by dark forces.
The shape of the trees around them has become more and more hideous, and they are no longer just standing in place to attack the incoming people, the dark power has condensed their roots into a pair of big feet similar to humans, and all the branches have become their tentacles, if someone stands in the void and looks down at this time, they will definitely find that in the forest below, all the trees are moving!
Those big trees, one by one, have turned into irrational tree people with terrifying power and evil killing hearts!
The branches and leaves twisted together, turning into huge and sturdy fists, Jiang Ning grabbed Xu Qingqing's waist, and switched back and forth between the Liuyun Moon Body Method and the Tasha Body Method, while dodging the hammer blow of the big tree, he quickly widened the distance between the big tree and the big tree that attacked the two of them.
"Sword talisman, give it to me!"
Since he understood his own path of cultivation, Jiang Ning began to move all his strength closer to the aspect of the sword, the rune path and the formation path, naturally the same, even the Nine Dragons True Qi in the body, Jiang Ning is also combining the refining method of the sword yuan in Li Taibai's "Cangmu Sword Diagram", trying to convert it into the kind of "Nine Dragons Sword Yuan!" that he pondered by himself.
And after some hard work and improvement, all the rune paper he used before has now become the so-called "sword rune"!
Because of his familiarity and proficiency in swordsmanship, after the improvement was completed, Jiang Ning suddenly found that his ability to control the rune paper had risen to a higher level.
In the past, the rune paper made by Jiang Ning was pasted on his body to enhance some aspect of his attributes, but now, these rune papers can be taken out separately and used as flying swords with different characteristics for Jiang Ning to drive.
After such improvements, Jiang Ning's sword path began to become all-encompassing, not to mention, the flying sword technique of "Shadow Splitting Light Sword" has also been fully played!
And with the help of these rune swords with different characteristics, combined with Jiang Ning's current understanding of the almost all-encompassing power of rules, and the comprehension of a considerable amount of Dao power, in front of a master of the same level, his attacks can be almost pervasive, and his defense can almost be achieved without dead ends.
In the same class, such an unflawed opponent is obviously the most difficult to deal with.
Of course, that's all for later.
For big trees, their body is wood, and the most restrained means are naturally gold and fire!
Therefore, what Jiang Ning used this time was the Dao Yan Essence Golden Fu and the Nanming Fire Talisman Improved Dao Yan Essence Golden Rune Sword and the Nanming Fire Separation Rune Sword!
"Go!"
Jiang Ning pointed to make a sword, and under the light stroke, the power of the rules guided the Fu Sword to oppose the guest, and launched an attack on all the big trees around him!
The big trees in the misty forest, although the texture itself is very good, ordinary String Movement Realm Venerables have to waste a lot of strength if they want to destroy them, but Jiang Ning is Dao He after all, and it is the kind of Dao He that can be called invincible in the same level, with the Nanming Lihuo Rune Sword and Dao Yan Essence Golden Rune Sword, both of which are Tianzi level, coupled with the restraint relationship between each other, it doesn't actually cost much strength to cut off those big trees, and the effect is indeed extremely significant.
Through the improvement of the [Ripple] move, the changes, power and accuracy have increased a lot of sword moves [Swimming Fish Style], just like the fireflies flying in the forest in the sky, integrated into Jiang Ning's understanding of the body method of flowing clouds and crossing the moon, the so-called avoiding its edge, attacking its vital point, seems to be fluttering and flickering, but those defensive attacks that are subconsciously used by the redeemer have failed to do so for those [Swimming Fish] caused any substantial obstacles, and they couldn't even touch them, but when they opened their posture and prepared to attack, those runic sword swimming fish took advantage of the gap when they attacked to reveal their flaws, and attacked the weak places above the bodies of those tree people!
All of a sudden, the forest was full of fire, sawdust was flying, and although the bright starry sky overhead, the dazzling Milky Way was missing, but such a scene, in this gloomy and dark world, was absolutely gorgeous and beautiful.
Xu Qingqing felt like a butterfly, being held in her arms by Jiang Ning like this, flying left and right, dancing with the flames, for a moment, she felt that the most beautiful Milky Way in the world, the most beautiful fireworks, was about the moment in front of her.
In the chaos, she quietly wrapped her two arms around Jiang Ning's waist, and put her whole body on Jiang Ning's body, her head buried tightly in his chest, in the chaos of light and darkness in the misty forest, and the overlapping light and shadow, the woman named Xu Qingqing actually laughed softly.
"It would be nice if time could stop forever at this moment," Xu Qingqing thought, but she knew in her heart that this was absolutely impossible to happen, so she hugged Jiang Ning tightly, silently feeling every trace of warmth at this moment, because he knew that this piece of fireworks in front of him was about the most dazzling and brilliant fireworks in his tragic life, and after this fireworks, there might never be such a chance again in the future.
Jiang Ning didn't have as complicated thoughts as hers, and he didn't even feel what the woman in his arms was doing, all he thought about was how to survive this wave of energy shock, and then hurry to find Lu Jie's whereabouts, because the longer the time drags on, the greater the possibility of Lu Jie dying.
In any case, it is good to let these two meet before Lu Jie's death.
How could he have imagined that in just a short period of contact, that woman quickly walked out of the role she had created with the power of nothingness, and very decisively cut off the vain emotions for Lu Jie in her heart, and fell in love with Jiang Ning herself at the speed of light.
If he knew, then he probably wouldn't have taken Xu Qingqing to see Lu Jie anyway.
It's just that a woman's mind will not be easily told to others, especially not to the person she likes.
And the tree people in the forest seem to be endless, no matter how many Jiang Ning kills, soon more tree people rush towards him, so that after a long time of fighting, the broken branches and trunks are piled up around a small mountain of wood, and those trees that were killed by Jiang Ning regained their original appearance after death, and the mysterious energy in the tree body flowed back into Jiang Ning's body like the owl that Jiang Ning killed before.
Jiang Ning could clearly feel that the feeling of being one and one in his body was even stronger, but at the same time, his physical strength was also rapidly depleting.
After all, the strength of these trees is very high, so high that after being transformed by dark energy, each of them can be equivalent to a string movement venerable who can't cast spells, so Jiang Ning is a great venerable of the Dao and the second order, and his strength is far beyond Tongji, but after cutting down so many trees, his incomparably strong physical strength is gradually unable to support it!
"Damn, is there an end?" In his perception, Jiang Ning felt that he had cut down not five hundred but three hundred, but there were more and more tree people around, and there was no sign of reducing them at all, which made him a little embarrassed, and he even secretly retreated.
It is true that the energy return of the hacked tree man makes him stronger and stronger, but a person's energy and physical strength are limited after all, and if it is too rigid, it is easy to break, and after the body's bearing capacity reaches a certain limit, it must rest, otherwise after the damage, it will take ten times more time and energy to repair, and the gains outweigh the losses.
In fact, according to his physical strength, even if he fights with people for ten days and ten nights without rest, he will not be tired like this, but the power of these trees is too strong, because of the bonus of dark power, the defense ability is also stronger than imagined, Jiang Ning can kill so much in a short period of time, because he has almost used all his strength.
"No, even if you are tired to death like this, you can't finish killing it!"
As soon as his mind turned, a smile appeared on Jiang Ning's face.
The power of the primordial gods radiated out frantically, controlling the corpses of those tree people on the ground, that is, the broken branches of the broken trees, and erected a high wall around the bodies of the two people, and then, the black sparks scattered into seven or eight clusters, and fell on the walls formed by the accumulation of broken trees around them.
The dazzling fire burst into flames, and the surrounding treemen stopped!