Chapter 536: Those that have been passed down from generation to generation
From Wang Lu's point of view, the Spirit Sword Elders of the previous generation had some problems.
The clues can be seen from the management trainee program - it is rare for a poor and weak sect to gather so many amazing and brilliant disciples at a certain point in time, and it is too late to replace them with other sects to take care of them, but they have the courage to throw all the disciples into a wild place to endure the test of life and death, and to help and beautify the seedlings into jade...... To put it mildly, this is ambitious and bold. It's hard to say, this is simply a matter of careless human life.
Of course, considering that Wang Lu himself also used such a big killer weapon as the Qianyuan Blood Burning Gong when he was developing the Zhijiao, he would not comment on the matter of Cao Kan's human life. But there is no doubt that in the eyes of this generation of Spirit Sword Elders, the lives of disciples are not put first, and the revitalization of the sect is the real core priority compared to this.
The revitalization of the sect is of course a good thing, and from the perspective of the manager, as long as the pros and cons are weighed, it is understandable to pay a certain price in exchange for the success of the sect. As for the failure of the management trainee program, the elders can't be blamed for their strategic mistakes - who would have thought that a wild land that had been peaceful for thousands of years would suddenly have an additional Great Demon King from an unknown world?
However, at this moment, seeing the moths of the Spirit Sword Elders, and the immortal rhetoric of the Great Spirit Sword Sect at the last moment, Wang Lu's opinion of them was completely clear.
This group of guys is not just a problem, they are already sick. Perhaps it was the era when they grew up, which happened to be the time when the Spirit Sword Sect was under the heaviest pressure and the most difficult situation, so their dedication to the revitalization of the sect had reached the point of resentment. Do things at any cost, recklessly, and with a complete lack of foresight.
First of all, they concealed the mutation in the Savage Land, and the elders obviously did not want the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance to know that the Spirit Sword Sect's management trainee plan had released a fierce beast from the Demon Realm, and they planned to carry it down first with their own strength. When it was discovered that the opponent's strength was far beyond imagination, and the crisis brought by it was not something that Cangxi Prefecture could bear, it would be too late.
As for sacrificing the lives of all the elders to make up for the lack of heaven, it seems tragic, but in fact there is no plan - when the crisis has not completely passed, they are all dead, who will shelter Ouyang Shang and other disciples from the wind and rain? Do you expect them to fend for themselves? The last sentence of immortality is even more like human words, the sect exists because of people, everyone is dead, what is the use of leaving a false name?
But in any case, people are dead, and it is useless to whip the corpse. It is enough for the living to think about what is alive. For example, the current Ouyang Shang and others have to think about how to survive under the angry demon king.
It's not that it's out of chance.
The news of the annihilation of the Spirit Sword Sect's elder team will not be known for a long time - it is also one of the five peers of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance, and the collective disappearance of the high-level cannot be hidden, not to mention that the disciples who stayed behind in the sect have not received orders to conceal the news.
Once the outside world learns the news, it will naturally come to foreign aid, and the process will not take too long, the longest is only a few months, a year.
But for the golden generation who are desperate to survive, one more day is a huge torture.
The traces of the sky have disappeared, the demons outside the territory have ceased to appear, and even the black tide has been dispersed, but the demons in the wild land are still raging, and although the demon king who was severely injured by the green dragon has greatly reduced his strength, he still has an overwhelming advantage in the face of a group of disciple monks. What's more, the Demon King already has an unusual attachment to the golden generation.
For a demon who volunteered to open the Otherworldly Passage to invade the Kyushu Continent, since he couldn't accomplish the biggest goal, what he could do was to kill the Kyushu Talents as much as possible to weaken Kyushu's strength. In such a situation, the golden generation suffered heavy casualties.
It was so tragic that Wang Lu couldn't even look at it directly!
On the crossing line, because of Wang Lu's activity in the desert, he directly cut off the Demon King's plan to open the Trace of the Sky with the Black Tide, making the story directly enter the second stage. Later, Wang Lu worked hard for three years and fought with the demon king to the end, although he sacrificed himself, but he kept most of the other people, and he seemed to be very smooth. The tragedy of a hundred years ago is just a heavy story, and there is no intuitive understanding.
Now, there is.
On the real historical line, Ouyang Shang and others failed to stop the awakening of the demon king in the desert in time, they didn't even fully realize the hidden crisis in the desert, and let ten years slip away, so the demon king completely recovered, and after a vicious fight, the demon wolf Fenrir was killed, and only an insignificant fire was retained in despair, and left the demon king with an injury that could not be recovered for the rest of his life.
Then the Demon King absorbed Fenrir's huge magic power, and cooperated with the Black Tide to tear the sky and open the passage. During this period, Ouyang Shang and others tried to stop it in every possible way, but to no avail. wanted to summon the message back to the mountain gate, and the road back was also blocked. Fortunately, some of the Spirit Sword Elders were good at divination, and after sensing the abnormality, they led the crowd to come, so that none of them were irretrievable.
But the golden generation is irretrievable.
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In the Beishan Valley, two young girls dressed in the costumes of the Spirit Sword Sect are cautiously advancing in the valley, their clothes are ragged, their appearance is wolf, but their eyes are resolute, like the steel of a hundred trainings.
It was He Yue and Qingshuang, He Yue walked in front, was engrossed in observing a towering ancient tree, stretched out his hand to stroke the rough trunk, frowned after a while, and whispered to the people beside him.
"The mark that was left here three days ago is completely gone...... The demons have been here, and we have to shift our positions. ”
Behind He Yue, a slender girl with slightly immature eyebrows said in surprise: "You want to transfer again?" Don't, we finally found a broken spiritual vein, which can barely be cultivated. ”
"Qingshuang, you're enough! Is it important to practice or is life important?! As soon as He Yue's eyebrows were raised, she asked the girl named Qingshuang to shut her mouth.
The next moment, He Yue suddenly trembled, her face turned unnaturally red, and then a mouthful of blood spurted out uncontrollably.
"Senior sister!?"
"The tree is poisonous, I accidentally said for a while......" He Yue barely finished speaking, and her right arm had melted like a burning candle.
He Yue was obviously no stranger to this scene, she smiled miserably, put her hand on Qingshuang's shoulder, and the Jade Mansion Jin Dan spun violently, and the natal true qi was continuously transported out.
"I'll give you everything...... Go find the elder brother, and then survive, and take my share with me. ”
Qingshuang held back her tears, nodded strongly, and ran the golden pill to accept He Yue's true qi.
The movements of the two men looked as if they had been rehearsed many times. A moment later, He Yue had been poisoned by red blood and turned into a pool of dirty blood, and Qingshuang fell to her knees, crying silently.
But after only a few moments, Qingshuang wiped away her tears and stood up.
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On a gravel hill, Liu Sandao was covered in blood, and the corpses of the demons in front of him were piled up into a hill, but more demons surged up without hesitation. Those demons are not royal clans, but some cannon fodder-level servant clans, weak in strength, but superior in number.
At the end of Liu Sandao's strong crossbow, the sword perimeter was broken through in a short time, and those beast-type demons rushed forward one after another to bite his body.
"Haha, the demon cubs want to eat Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will let you have a good time today!"
After speaking, Jin Dan exploded, and the bursting sword qi swept in all directions, hundreds of demons were stirred into meat sauce, and Liu Sandao himself was also left with no bones.
And after Liu Sandao died, a small flying sword, carrying a flickering ball of light, staggered somewhere.
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This is a deep underground cave, and the three spirit sword disciples are guarding the entrance of the cave, stepping on the Sancai Sword Formation, struggling to resist the siege of thousands of demons outside the cave.
It didn't take long for the three of them to feel that their mana was exhausted and it was difficult to continue, and one of the leaders gritted his teeth and said.
"Wang Chenye, Xie Mingxian, you go first!"
“…… I see. ”
Then, the palms of the three of them touched lightly, and the leader spat out a ball of light in his palm, and then he grinned.
"Remember to help me find someone reliable."
"Well, Senior Brother Song, don't worry."
After many sacrifices, the Spirit Sword disciples were no strangers to life and death, Wang Chenye and Xie Mingxian did not hesitate too much, turned around and left. Then Senior Brother Song turned around, and the Jade Mansion Jin Dan shattered, turning into thousands of flying swords and spitting out, stirring up a bloody storm outside the cave.
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Beside a crystal calm lake, Xie Mingxian supported Wang Chenye to walk slowly, and while walking, he used the moonlight reflected on the water surface to treat his injuries, but it didn't take long for Wang Chenye to shake his head.
“…… Senior Brother Xie, I don't think I'll be able to do it anymore, don't waste any more energy to heal me. ”
"No! You've saved me so many times, how can I watch you die!? ”
"Let it be my atonement...... If it weren't for me and Zhang Sheng, how could there be these later things? You're all in the way of us...... Of course, I'm still better than Zhang Sheng's kid, he is too inauthentic, and he has done a big thing for a woman. Forget it, senior brother always said that people are dying, and their words are good, so I'll say something nice. Mingxian, you must live. ”
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pressed it on Xie Mingxian's chest.
"Mingxian, there are some things that I actually wanted to say a long time ago......"
"Well, I'm listening."
"There's a reason why I haven't had a girlfriend all these years."
“……”
"Haha, look at what scared you, oh, Senior Brother Song's relics, oh, and mine, will all be handed over to you."
As he spoke, an undoubted warm current poured into the Jade Mansion in his chest, Xie Mingxian opened his mouth, and his voice trembled: "Who are you going to hand it over?" ”
"Who is left?" Wang Chenye's eyes dimmed, "Everyone is almost dead...... By the way, leave it to Xiao Wu. The elder brother has always been very fond of her. ”
"Wang Wu? But she ......"
"Senior brother likes her so much, there must be a reason, let's believe senior brother."
“…… Well. ”
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“…… In the end, are we the only ones left? ”
Ouyang Shang laughed miserably.
"Zhang Sheng, Feng Yin, Liu Xian, Fang He, Zhou Ming, Lu Li, Guan Hai, Wang Wu...... It's just a few of you. ”
"Still, it's enough."
"I'm going to do one thing next, but before I can do that, I need you to promise me one thing."