Chapter 120: Yesterday's Cause, Today's Fruit
"Wonderful! Wonderful! ”
Emperor Ziwei's head flew in mid-air, looking at Gu Xu's Dharma Body, and exclaimed repeatedly.
His headless body still stood firmly in place, the cut on his neck smooth as a mirror, not bleeding, not falling.
"I really can't imagine that after you were promoted to the sixth realm, you would be able to hold back for so long without using the Fa Xiang! Even I was almost negligent! ”
Gu Xu ignored him.
He manipulated the Faxiang and swung his knife to slash at Emperor Ziwei's head again, like cutting a watermelon, cutting it in half straight along the bridge of his nose.
Emperor Ziwei was still smiling.
His lips were cut in two, maintaining an exact arc. The eyes on both sides of his head also looked at Gu Xu with the same playful eyes.
"In your Fa Phase, you have the following laws of overcoming the strong with the weak, right? The stronger the opponent's strength, the stronger your Fa will become?
"No wonder you have to wait until the soul in my astrolabe returns to its original body before you take it out."
Gu Xu remained silent, swung his knife and slashed again.
As early as when he was in the East China Sea, he discovered that there was a problem with the astrolabe machine spirit-
Natal objects should theoretically be connected to the soul of the owner and share weal and woe.
But as the owner of the astrolabe, Gu Xu couldn't know the thoughts of the astrolabe machine spirit, and he couldn't be as heart-to-heart as Lu Shiyao's remnant soul and Jinghong pen spirit, and he could only communicate with him by words!
Of course, there are very few magic weapons that can give birth to machine spirits in the Great Wilderness World, and their attributes and forms are different, and no one can say clearly what a "normal" machine spirit should look like.
Perhaps, this is just because the astrolabe is relatively high, which causes it to produce a special machine spirit.
But Gu Xu still has an extra eye for the astrolabe because of this.
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Of course, the clues exposed by Emperor Ziwei before are far more than that.
For example, during the "Luoshui Conference", when Gu Xu met the Pishan Ghost King in the royal treasury, the Pishan Ghost King once said to him: "Your body is weak, but you can hold such a strong True Yuan power, and perfectly accommodate two souls." ”(1)
At that time, Gu Xu thought that the "two souls" mentioned by the Ghost King of Bishan referred to the remnant soul of the original owner of the body, as well as his soul as a traverser.
But then he realized that the extra soul was the Ziwei Emperor hidden in his body.
For another example, the original owner of the body has always been a teenager who is physically and mentally healthy and has a normal life expectancy.
It wasn't until he became the experimental object of Emperor Ziwei and was forcibly stuffed into the soul of a traverser that he became a weak and sickly "thin-life genius" because of the incompatibility of body and soul and the mismatch of life.
However, the people around Gu Xu, such as his boss Chen Jisheng, such as his colleagues in the Exorcism Division, and his neighbors in Yishui County, accepted the fact that he was frail and talented without doubt.
They seemed to have completely forgotten that the original owner of the body had been alive and vibrant, and they had also forgotten his original mediocre cultivation qualifications.
There is no doubt that their cognition has been tampered with by Emperor Ziwei with spells.
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A moment later, Emperor Ziwei's chopped head dissipated like smoke, and the rest of his headless body disappeared with it.
But the disappearance of Emperor Ziwei did not make Gu Xu's mood relax a little.
Instead, his expression became more wary.
The Netherworld was full of the breath of Emperor Ziwei.
He knew that Emperor Ziwei would definitely not give up his long-planned plan so easily. This old thing must still be hiding its hind hand.
"I'm here, boy!"
A loud voice was like thunder, rumbling through this dark world, shaking the ground slightly.
At the moment when the voice sounded, Gu Xu's body and Faxiang were each grabbed by a huge hand and carried into the air.
Gu Xu found that the remnant soul of Emperor Ziwei had turned into a giant condensed by starlight at some point, like a living mountain rising from the ground in the netherworld, with a galaxy above his head and the earth under his feet.
Gu Xu, who was pinched in his hand, was as small and helpless as a worm that had been caught.
Gu Xu couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.
He clearly sensed that Emperor Ziwei had inadvertently rebelled against him and taken over his body.
He became a lonely soul locked in his shell, unable to perceive the outside world, and even lost the ability to manipulate his true element.
It was the most desperate situation he had ever faced.
When facing the empty Xuansan people in Yishan, he could pin his hopes on the saints of Daqi.
On the day when Luojing City was breached, Zhao Yan fought side by side with him.
Even after becoming a traitor and a traitor, in the battle in Liangzhou City, there was a snow girl who did not hesitate to burn his soul to protect him.
But now, he is alone, confronting the once dominant Masters of the Upper Realm.
It seems that he and Emperor Ziwei have fought back and forth.
But in fact, the battle has always been under the control of the other party. The other party is like a cat that has caught a mouse, watching the prey flutter in its paws, taking out one hole card after another, but still unable to escape the fate of death.
"Do you know why I scattered the fragments of the astrolabe all over the wilderness?"
"Do you know why I chose Kunlun as the end of my journey?"
Emperor Ziwei carried Gu Xu in front of him and looked at him with a smile.
Gu Xu didn't say anything.
But he knew the answer in his heart.
The fragments of the astrolabe were not randomly scattered all over the Great Wilderness after the Ziwei Emperor was defeated by Taishang Haotian.
It was carefully planned by Emperor Ziwei.
As a powerful man who is well versed in time and space, cause and effect, and fate, he has long planned his path after rebirth.
The fragments of the East China Sea are meant to plant the "causes" of yesterday.
The fragments of the Northern Hell are for the purpose of harvesting today's "fruits".
Normally, when a practitioner jumps into the ruins, he or she will only travel through time and space once, and then return to the original time and space.
But Gu Xu had three time and space shuttles.
At the time, he thought it was just an accident and didn't investigate the reason.
Now that he thought about it carefully, and then thought about the authority held by Emperor Ziwei, he realized that something was wrong.
With Emperor Ziwei's comprehension of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, it is not difficult to use the authority of "time" and "Qiankun" to interfere with the "return to the ruins".
The first time he shuttled, he returned to the ancient times and became the "god of fire" in the eyes of the ancestors of the people in the north - this undoubtedly hindered Taishang Haotian's plan to collect all the incense in the Great Wilderness World for himself.
It also made Gu Xu effortlessly obtain the support of the incense belonging to the "God of Fire" and the support of the Great Yan Kingdom on the way north in order to find the fragments of "Xuanwu", just by virtue of the cultivation of the fourth realm.
The second shuttle, he returned to the Guangshun period and successfully helped the teenager Chiyangzi to get rid of the slavery of the Medicine King Sect.
Although Chiyangzi has gone mad and unfortunately died, his student, the current Great Qi National Teacher, is still haunted by his death and wants to explore the truth clearly.
If Gu Xu told the Great Qi National Teacher about this experience of returning to the past in the future, along with the secret that "the Great Wilderness World is a prison", he might be able to shake the National Teacher's loyalty to Emperor Tianxing and make him join his own camp.
In addition, the wolf dog "Yuanbao" on the grassland who was worshiped by the northwest barbarians, Luo Chuan, the head of the exorcism division who was the reincarnation of "Wenchang Xingjun", and the "Qingying" organization hiding in the shadows......
It is conceivable that after Emperor Ziwei was reborn through Gu Xu's body, he will not only hold a large amount of incense in his hands, but also have a force that cannot be underestimated and is enough to wrestle with the Great Qi Imperial Court.
In addition, he once had an extremely deep understanding of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.
As we all know, the higher a cultivator's realm, the more dependent his strength promotion is on "enlightenment".
Maybe it won't be long before he will return to the top, and "killing back to the upper realm" and "finding revenge on Taishang Haotian" will no longer be empty talk.
Emperor Ziwei has been dormant for many years, and he has really paved a bright and smooth road for his comeback.
And Gu Xu is an inconspicuous paving stone on this bright road.
As for why Emperor Ziwei chose Kunlun as the end point......
Gu Xu quickly had an answer in his heart.
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(1) Chapter 155 of Volume 2 "The Appearance of the Ghost King of Bishan".
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