Before Lu Qiming left the Martial Academy, according to the different scenarios imagined in advance, he had refined various spiritual liquids specially used to draw formations in advance, which was often referred to as spiritual ink on the formation path. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Now these spiritual inks are being carefully stored in these dozen or so white jade bottles from the Plum Blossom Palace.

Lu Qiming's mind moved, and the five branches in the white jade bottle floated in the air one after another, tilting slightly, and the spirit ink of different textures poured out from the mouth of the bottle like silk satin, and quickly snaked out the complex patterns of secrets on the ground.

Lu Qiming raised his hand and pointed to one of them—it was a crystal spring with a faint blue hue. He said softly: "The Water of Nine Separation is the material with the highest affinity with spiritual power under the same conditions, and it is not rare in spiritual ink—Sir should have used it in the past, right?"

Han Bingkun bowed his head and said, "In the Divine Domain, this kind of spiritual ink is usually called 'Soul Attracting Water'. But I've really heard the name Nine Separation Water. ”

Lu Qiming didn't answer, but looked at another jade bottle nearby, and continued: "As for this pale cyan spiritual ink, it is a new kind of concoction that I made some time ago based on Whisker Grass, Bone Bamboo and Zhaoye Flower, which was named 'Hagi Lu' by my senior brother, and can be mutually beneficial with the effect of the Water of Nine Separations. Of the other three......"

"The clouds and cranes seal the flowers, the scorching, and the ice. ”

Han Bingkun rarely interrupted Lu Qiming's words, and said with a smile: "I said the name correctly, right? I am indeed familiar with the remaining three - I don't know if you are satisfied with this answer." ”

Lu Qiming was not in a hurry, and also smiled: "Each other." ”

The conversation did not delay the drawing of the formation diagram; when Lu Qiming's words fell, the formation had already taken shape.

Different from the square lines common in ordinary formations, the causes of soul-related formations are often related to ancient characters, or mysterious totems handed down from ancient times, so most of the formations are mysterious and complicated, and people's hearts are swaying.

And Han Bingkun is an eighth-generation descendant, and Lu Qiming intends to make the details of the formation clear, so there is naturally no problem in understanding the entire formation. He knew that Lu Qiming had been properly settled, so he simply said, "Let's start." ”

With that, he had turned into a white light and rushed into the Mirror of the Hidden Spring.

The Youquan Mirror was embedded in the central array eye, and it suddenly lit up at the moment when Han Bingkun's soul was submerged, urging the entire formation to flicker and darken, and there was a faint sound of momentum.

As soon as Lu Qiming's trick was introduced, the formation moved instantly, connecting with the entire cave mansion, and the aura of heaven and earth converged, and there was no end in sight.

On this moonless night, the soul that was once a powerful man has returned.

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After everything was quiet, Lu Qiming brushed his sleeves to eliminate all traces of the formation, and put the Youquan Mirror into the ring.

He chose the ring that was traded from the Plum Blossom Palace, instead of the better quality jade pendant, because of the mysterious girl, Yu Wenxuan.

Lu Qiming couldn't be sure whether the green jade pendant had been touched by Yu Wenxuan. Although his current judgment of the rules tells him "no", Yu Wenxuan has similar abilities to him after all, and is obviously more advanced than him, so he can't go wrong with being cautious.

As for Han Bingkun, if he wants to stabilize his soul and further control the Youquan Mirror in all aspects, there is still a lot of content that he needs to complete by himself. Until then, he didn't have the strength to perceive the space beyond the Mirror.

- At this point, it seems that today's events have progressed unexpectedly easily. This is not the case.

Lu Qiming had deliberately collected information about him in the past year, and he knew very well that Han Bingkun was by no means a reckless person, on the contrary, he was an extremely outstanding person, so that even a master who had been famous for a long time in the Divine Domain would no longer regard Han Bingkun as a "genius", but as a profound cultivator who had to be regarded as an equal.

It can be said that if Han Bingkun had not been punished by heaven, then looking at the contemporaries of the current Divine Domain, I am afraid that only Wu Zong Huashi and Feng Clan Yuan Zhao could compete with one of them.

Therefore, it stands to reason that in today's situation, Han Bingkun has never really trusted Lu Qiming for a moment, and Lu Qiming is the same.

Lu Qiming knew early on that he still had the power to protect himself, but Han Bingkun didn't know that the "kind of power" he concealed as a hole card was the easiest for Lu Qiming to solve.

It's the same as the previous example of transforming the Youquan Mirror and the Nian Ci Knife - if he used the most conventional martial arts of a cultivator to fight, Lu Qiming actually didn't have much ability beyond ordinary people, but Han Bingkun's body was destroyed, so there was no second possibility.

If it weren't for this certainty, for the same reason, Lu Qiming would not rashly re-enter the cave mansion alone.

It can only be said that fortunately, both of them have no ill will towards each other.

As for now.

Lu Qiming finally glanced at the empty first-layer cave mansion and stepped into the third-layer chaos alone—that was the real purpose of his trip.

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At this point, Lu Qiming did not hide Han Bingkun.

Before coming again, based on the memory of the cave at that time, Lu Qiming could not judge whether Han Bingkun still existed. The reason why he came back here was really just to go to the third layer again and see these things clearly-

The sword marks containing the rules of "creation" are indiscriminately carved.

Lu Qiming slowly stepped onto the last stone staircase, and what caught his eye was indeed the mysterious gold that represented the rules.

In his imagination, every sword mark that existed on the stone wall should be attached to countless densely interlaced golden threads. It's just that although the gold thread does exist, it is broken—

Originally, this place was supposed to be a perfect, reasonable, and artistic masterpiece, but what remained here for Lu Qiming to see was only scattered and broken threads, like a spider web that was scratched by a naughty boy.

And these remnants of the rules are the true core of the Lifeless Sword's "creation" - that is, the core that has been completely destroyed by the gods of this world.

Lu Qiming walked around the empty mountain wall of the third layer for a week, carefully looked at all the rules of gold, and had to come to the conclusion that even he could not recover this degree of destruction. In other words, if Lu Qiming had this kind of magical rule vision at that time, he would probably not be able to deduce the sword intent of the Lifeless Sword - this gave Lu Qiming a reminder not to rely too much on this seemingly profound ability.

And then again, at that time, Lu Qiming did not have the ability to see through the rules, and even his cultivation had just passed Xiao Zhoutian, and even the memory of his previous life had not been fully recovered - so it was impossible for him to deduce the performance at the beginning.

This can no longer be summarized in a "miracle".

It's not a miracle, it's an inevitability.

That is, he has this ability in his own right.

Lu Qiming sighed silently, swept away the floating dust and sat on the ground, looking up at the chaotic carvings on the wall.

Different from the ignorant understanding of this special power in the past, since he woke up that night after absorbing the power of faith gathered by the stone people, Lu Qiming found that the scope of his influence could be increased by more than ten times compared to the original, and more importantly, for some questions in the past, he no longer needed others to solve them, and he could answer them.

Lu Qiming casually touched the void, and countless regular golden network lines appeared around him at the same time—the most profound truth between heaven and earth was in front of him.

This is also the rule, but it is a higher being.

They are different from the five elements that practitioners usually use in battle to defend against the enemy. They represent the rules by which the world works, i.e., "reason".

Lu Qiming's current understanding of his ability is to see the "principles of the world" and be able to influence it to a certain extent.

But the magnitude of this effect is very weak.

Lu Qiming can feel that the "principles of the world" have a stable and unchanging nature, and it is extremely difficult to be shaken by the will of an individual. Even the faint part that Lu Qiming can influence is the most minor of the "principles of the world" - just like the movement of the wind for a short moment, the swaying of branches and leaves, etc., it has never affected the nature of the world. If Lu Qiming were to change a pine tree directly from the rule level to a sword, it would be impossible, at least not yet.

Now, Lu Qiming has a deeper personal experience of Yu Wenxuan's statement. That is, the system of practice that ordinary practitioners refer to is not important to them.

Referring to the regular cultivation system of this world, in addition to the necessary energy accumulation, high-level cultivators who want to advance rely on their understanding of the mysteries of the five elements.

Comprehend one of the five elements, and get the perfection of the small mystery. All the five elements are the great mysteries.

For Lu Qiming, the rules of the Red Lotus Karmic Fire are enough to support him to cross the small mysteries without bottlenecks, not to mention that he can even directly see the "reason" at the moment, and there is no longer any hindrance to the promotion of cultivation in the conventional sense.

However, no matter who they were, as long as they had felt that high-level power, they would never be complacent about the progress of cultivation in the ordinary sense. The same is true for Lu Qiming. Just like Yu Wenxuan's reminder at the beginning, this kind of power that he had never heard of in the past was the root of their cultivation.

Thinking of this, Lu Qiming smiled a little helplessly. Some of the questions were answered, but the facts gave rise to more questions again -

How many so-called "they" are there?

According to the information currently known, in addition to Lu Qiming himself, Yu Wenxuan must be counted as one, and the deceased master in Shi's mouth is obviously the same existence, as for the other nine generations who call themselves "Cheng Yuan...... Whether it is Lu Qiming's intuition or reasoning from Yu Wenxuan's attitude, "Cheng Yuan" is most likely the same.

It is worth pondering that this ability is not necessarily something that you are born with. Just now, in front of Lu Qiming's eyes, there is a most typical example - Han Bingkun.

The lifeless sword carved by Han Bingkun with the power of creation is a creation that transcends ordinary rules and touches the height of "reason". And Han Bingkun's ability to keep his soul alive from the hands of the gods has already surpassed the limits of ordinary cultivators. As for the "kind of power" that Han Bingkun thinks is enough to protect himself, in Lu Qiming's perception, it is also the same level of power.

Now that it has been proven that this ability can also be acquired through acquired perception, the number of practitioners who truly possess this power is even more unknown.

As for what this power means, Lu Qiming can get the answer from the knowledge of his previous life-

It's essentially a higher-level rule. Realizing it and gradually mastering it - this is the first step that mortals must complete if they want to ascend to the throne of God.

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Lu Qiming withdrew his gaze from the stone wall and looked down at his hands.

At this moment, his mind suddenly returned to a few months ago - in the teahouse in the Divine Domain Yeliang City, Xu Chaoke showed him palmistry. And at that time, Xu Chaoke may be right.

Everything is familiar to him, and there is no difference between the past and the present life, but this familiarity always reveals a strangeness. Linked to a series of recent events, Lu Qiming felt uneasy in his heart.

In my previous life, I practiced for nearly 500 years, but in this life, I don't even have 20 years. If this world is special, then the mysterious master of the stone man has no way to explain it. And since the world in the previous life had studied this power, it was obvious that it existed.

Thinking about the previous life, apart from him, those senior brothers and sisters of the Chengyuan Sect, there were more talented people - none of them were worse than Han Bingkun, how could it be that none of them had a higher-level breakthrough?

At the same time, there is a high probability that there will be serious paradoxes in the timeline.

Lu Qiming knew very early on that the eighth person who arrived 10,000 years ago was named Han Qianshan - he had the same name and surname as his senior brother in the previous life, and even the legendary personality was almost identical.

This is too much of a coincidence, but Lu Qiming can only explain it by coincidence.

First, the past and present lives may not use the same name. More importantly, in Lu Qiming's memory, the senior brother passed away a hundred years ago, and according to the correspondence between the degree of spatial stability and the speed of time flow, it should be that the time of the world in the previous life passed faster.

But Lu Qiming can't help but admit that he always has a trace of expectation in his heart - perhaps, the senior brother really did not die, and continued to live in this world like him.

Therefore, although it was clear that it was not the best time, Lu Qiming couldn't help but use the information about the Eight Generations as a condition, and also used the two spiritual inks of "Su Branding" and "Cold Ice" to test Han Bingkun's reaction.

Because "Su Brand" and "Cold Ice" were created by the senior brother in the previous life.

Lu Qiming slowly breathed a sigh of relief. It was hard for him to tell how he was feeling at the moment.

On the one hand, he inevitably has greater expectations, and on the other hand, acknowledging the "one" means negating the "two".

Regardless of the final answer, there must be something important that is out of Lu Qiming's control.

Lu Qiming couldn't help but shake his head. Come to think of it, the five hundred years of the previous life in the Chengyuan Sect were so wonderful, but at least nothing strange happened. Lu Qiming never thought that he was different from ordinary people, it was nothing more than that there were people in the world who were good at calligraphy and painting, and some people were good at piano scores, and he happened to be good at aspects related to cultivation.

How could he have imagined that when he came to this world, everything was no longer what he thought it was.

Yu Wenxuan, another nine generations who call themselves "Cheng Yuan", Shiren and his mysterious master, the power of faith, Han Qianshan, the principle of the world......

Unconsciously, Lu Qiming had already gotten up and walked to the front of the mountain wall, stroking the notches that still had golden remnants with his hand. He could vaguely feel the two breaths that had fought here, and the familiarity in them.

When the first rays of morning light poured into the forest, Lu Qiming left the cave and returned to the town of Dusk in the east.

When he reached the destination of this journey, he was puzzled by all this.

Perhaps there is an answer.

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