Chapter 2: The Demons
Jiang Ming, a disciple of the Tianjiao Sect of the Shushan Immortal Sword Sect.
When he was a teenager, he was a peerless genius who was rare in Shushan for a hundred years, and his cultivation talent was not inferior to the later Shushan Sword Saint Yin Ruoclumsy.
Unexpectedly, when he went out once, he accidentally fell in love with a fox demon, and then because of her, he went crazy, slaughtered countless Shushan disciples, and was finally sealed in the lock demon tower, and sank for a hundred years before being influenced by Li Xiaoyao.
After Zhou Luo got his inheritance, he could almost be regarded as having learned all the advanced sword techniques in Shu Mountain.
Through the deduction ability of the magic weapon of the Hongmeng Babel Pagoda that was opened for the second time, Zhou Luo continued to use these profound sword techniques of Shu Mountain for his own use in the past three years, and developed four new sword techniques in a row, directly advancing his Baiwei Hongchen sword technique to the fifteenth sword, and his strength has improved by leaps and bounds.
Even if it was difficult for him to break through the fifth-order level for a while, he continued to polish his artistic conception within the fourth-order to the point where he could not advance, which can be described as a profound foundation.
With such a deep foundation, coupled with the four-style Baiwei Hongchen Sword Technique created by Zhou Luo based on the Shushan Profound Sword Technique, the True Intention of the Ananda Breaking Ring Sword, and the three-in-one sect exercises, Zhou Luo already had the strength to challenge ordinary fifth-order early sect martial artists.
If it is a small world world where the foundation of the general world is not deep enough, Zhou Luo is even more confident to compete with the average mid-order master, which is from the suppression of dimensional reduction strikes.
But it was in the process of such rapid progress that when Zhou Luo recalled the requirements of the third inheritance mission, he suddenly found that the demon that had been eliminated had actually reappeared, and it was even more powerful and paranoid.
His inner demons this time came from Jiang Ming's obsession, and even his resentment against demons and his sorrow for his own situation, so that even if he only inherited his memories, Zhou Luo's personality was still strongly corroded by him, and he became extremely hateful to demons and evil things.
Even when he thought of Shu Yumei, in addition to the sweetness and longing for love before, he also had a little rejection and resistance in his heart, and even didn't want to go back to that world to see her, so as not to cause the same tragedy as Jiang Ming.
Compared to Jiang Ming's demon backlash and character erosion, before Jiang Ming, whether it was Fu Hongxue or Dugu Sword Saint, because they themselves were not very old, their cultivation was far less powerful than Jiang Ming, even if they were a generation of Tianjiao and had a strong will to martial arts, their own inheritance memories were not enough to cover Zhou Luo's memories of his two lives.
Therefore, even if their life experience and martial arts personality did affect Zhou Luo to some extent, making him more introverted and withdrawn, this influence is still relatively normal and not too serious.
It is like watching a wonderful movie that makes people devoted, a classic book that makes people stunning, even if the protagonist's story in the movie (novel) is touching and impressive, their experience can only make Zhou Luo a reference after all, and by the way, thinking about his future life path cannot really affect Zhou Luo's character.
Like Fu Hongxue, due to his own ups and downs in life experience and childhood influence, and the loss of his right leg, Fu Hongxue's personality is both inferior and proud, and most of the time he lives alone, lonely and cold.
And Zhou Luo was an orphan in his previous life, and like most of the protagonists of the starting point novels he has read, he grew up in an orphanage, and he never enjoyed the warmth of his family.
As a traveler in this life, his parents died when he was young, and his life experience is very similar to Fu Hongxue, so he can fully understand Fu Hongxue's loneliness, coldness, inferiority and pride.
But even with such empathy, Fu Hongxue's inheritance memory did not really affect Zhou Luo's character.
Zhou Luo's cold, arrogant, indifferent and unsentimental personality is also a choice he made by himself after accepting Fu Hongxue's inheritance, not being forcibly changed like this by Fu Hongxue.
As for the Dugu Sword Saint, even if he himself is talented and dedicated to the pursuit of swordsmanship, in addition to making Zhou Luo's desire to seek the Tao stronger, his own influence on Zhou Luo is still not much.
Only Jiang Ming, although he was not very old when he died, he had been wandering in the Demon Lock Tower for a hundred years.
Even if most of his memories for hundreds of years are repetitive lives in the Lock Demon Tower, the huge torrent of memories is enough to completely overshadow the memory length of Zhou Luo's two lives, causing a certain impact and impact on Zhou Luo's memory, and even directly affecting part of Zhou Luo's own personality.
This kind of change is a very hidden process, and the reason why Zhou Luo was able to find out was completely accidental.
A few months ago, Zhou Luo successfully completed the last part of his cultivation tempering, and after cultivating to the point where he was temporarily unable to break through the fifth order, he finally planned to start his third world journey.
But when his mind sank into the Hongmeng Babel Tower and watched the inheritance task he was going to complete this time, he found something strange about himself.
This time Zhou Luo's task is not too difficult, and the task requires him to kill the demons of the world in the world of the mythical Three Kingdoms, so that the sword inheritance of the Shushan lineage will prevail in the world and become the state religion of the new dynasty.
There is nothing surprising about this mission, although there are no demons in the mythical Three Kingdoms world in the novel, but it is normal for the real mythical Three Kingdoms world to be different from the novel world that Zhou Luo has read.
As for the sword inheritance that left a lineage of Shushan in the world of the mythical Three Kingdoms, this is also very simple, even if it is not easy to become the state religion, but Zhou Luo knows the direction of history, and he can completely support the master of one side, and when Fulong succeeds, he can naturally become the state religion of the new generation of dynasties, and he is very confident in his own strength Zhou Luo.
But when Zhou Luo read about killing the demons in the world, he found something wrong.
According to his previous nature, he can pass this request at a glance, and he doesn't care too much about it at all, even if he doesn't like those demons who mutilate the world, when he doesn't really see them mutilating the world, his heart should be very calm.
But this time was different, Zhou Luo found that when he saw that he was asked to kill the demons in the world in the mission requirements, infinite excitement and absolute killing intent for these demons and aliens actually welled up in his heart.
He even felt that if he didn't go to the world of the Mythical Three Kingdoms for a day to kill these demons who were killing the world, he would feel uneasy in his heart, and this abnormal reaction made Zhou Luo suddenly realize that there seemed to be a problem with his personality, which was too different from his previous self.
At that time, he felt that his character should have been eroded by Jiang Ming, after all, he had no grudge against those demons, even if he would hate them as a human being, he would not be disgusted to the extent that he would boil with murderous intent when he thought of them.
Out of this worry, Zhou Luo kept examining his heart during this time, and vaguely felt that he should be affected by Jiang Ming's huge memory, if he didn't release these boiling killing intent, he might be difficult to completely expel the seed engraved in his heart by Jiang Ming and get rid of Jiang Ming's memory influence.
After Zhou Luo realized the fact that he was affected by Jiang Ming's memory stream, he had to give up the idea of continuing to cultivate in the sect to the fifth order before going on a mission, but realized that he had to go to the world of the Mythical Three Kingdoms as soon as possible to feel that his inner demons were in crisis.
Zhou Luo could vaguely feel that the demons in his heart were constantly magnifying, and if he continued to drag on for a long time, it was possible to form a second personality diametrically opposed to his personality, which he couldn't bear at this time.