Chapter 1: The Millennial Covenant
Lin Shouxi seemed to have a dream.
The average child will not have memories of childhood, but he does, and it is clear.
He remembered the scene when he was still in infancy and was carried back by the master, remembered the four words 'do good and accumulate virtue' on the iron and silver hook on the Mozong tablet pavilion, and remembered the nurse...... No, he was weaned as soon as he was born.
The deepest memory is that when I was a child, the master set up lots for himself, including coins, pen and ink, abacus, jade pendants and other things.
He pondered for a long time, and finally grabbed a shell-like black scale.
At that time, the onlookers were silent, and after a long time, Lin Shouxi heard someone speak:
"When he found this child, he held it in his hand, and refused to let go for days and nights, and now he picked it again...... The legend can't be true, right? This child is really born of an evil dragon, and this black scale is his reverse scale! ”
'The evil dragon was reincarnated as a human being, and his mouth was reversed, and he was born for the common people', this rumor came out of nowhere, but it caused a stir in the demon gate.
"If you don't have any evidence, you must never say it again." Master reprimanded him severely.
They didn't know that Lin Shouxi could already understand it at that time.
The black scales were later set in white copper and hung around his neck.
There is nothing special about black scales except for their hardness, and at that time, he searched through ancient books, and only found a record of 'Pei Zhen Dragon's scales can make people not confused', so over time, he even forgot its existence.
When he was a child, Lin Shouxi liked to sit casually on the side, listen to the speeches of his brothers and sisters, and learn some interesting things from them.
The demon gate has a good atmosphere, and the senior brothers and sisters never reject him because of his strange background, the biggest reason for this is that he is really good-looking, especially before he was ten years old, his voice and description are very immature, at that time, the senior sisters called him little junior brother, and the senior brothers jokingly called him little junior sister.
It was also from their mouths that Lin Shouxi learned that there was more than one outlier in this world.
That fellow named Mu Shijing was a little girl from the Daomen. They were all found in that dead city.
He had always been a little curious about his only kind.
At the age of three, he felt that he should be able to speak, so he spoke.
"Master, instead of doing evil things, we punish the strong and help the weak, suppress bandits and eliminate evil, why do we call the Demon Gate?" That's the first question he asked.
"Because this demon is not the other." The master sold the pass and then explained to him why.
A few decades ago, the rivers and lakes were lifeless, and at that time, those who could fly the eaves and walk the walls, and those who split stones with their hands were considered masters.
But sixty years ago, the story came true.
At that time, in the Yellow River and Luoshui, two monsters suddenly appeared, one was a headless fish with a hundred whiskers and a hundred feet, and the other was a four-legged snake with a hundred scales and eyes. These two books happen to be obtained by the ancestors of the two sects of the Demon Dao, and they are named after the legendary ancient book Hetuluoshu.
These two books record a special method of breathing, which cannot be described in words, but can only be passed on to those who touch the pages.
After receiving the inheritance, the masters suddenly found that they could actually exhale a kind of true qi, which was integrated into the meridians and turned into a mysterious power, and with the blessing of this power, they could even achieve magical powers such as killing people with sword intent that they only dared to imagine in the past.
Martial arts flourished.
People were curious about the origin of the true qi, so according to the thickness of the true qi, they searched all the way to the source, and finally found an ancient dead city.
The Dead City is the densest place of true qi, and many masters choose to migrate to this place and concentrate on cultivation.
But the good times didn't last long, and while the true qi gave people strength, it also corrupted many people. In the process of practicing, some cultivators suddenly appeared black and purple lines on their arms, and the lines spread rapidly, inexorably devouring people and turning them into rotten corpses.
In the era of the barbaric growth of martial arts, there were more and more corrupted cultivators.
As a result, the Demon Gate Patriarch who got the Luo Shu thought that the so-called true qi was the Demon Breath, the ancient city should be banned, the Hetu Luo Shu should be destroyed, and everyone should stop cultivating, and not become the medium for the growth of the Demon Breath.
Daomen believes that cultivation is a gift from the gods, and that today's human flesh and blood are still weak, and they are not yet suitable for true qi, and when they are reproduced for a few generations, they will be able to completely control it, and destroying this book is not only a self-castration, but also a trespass on the gods, and it is absolutely unacceptable.
Both factions have their own supporters, and the Daomen are much more powerful and refer to each other as the 'Demon Gate'.
"We have been fighting for many years, and the Daomen have always had the upper hand, if it weren't for the catastrophe in the ancient city three years ago, and the Daomen masters who insisted on staying in the city all died violently, our Demon Gate might have been destroyed." Master said.
"It turns out that cultivation is such a dangerous thing." Lin Shouxi sighed.
"Well, True Qi is a means for demons to pollute this world, and it is a terrible thing like a plague. But the Daomen is stubborn and unwilling to accept the truth. Master sighed, "Before we defeated the Dao Sect and captured Hetu, we knew that True Qi was demonic breath, but we could only exhale cultivation to fight against them. ”
"Am I going to be contaminated?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"You're special." Master said firmly.
"Oh......" Lin Shouxi nodded ignorantly, and asked again: "By the way, since the Demon Gate is another name, what was our original name?" ”
"Heaven and earth are crossed by the Yin and Yang Hehuan Sect." Master said magnificently.
“…… The Demon Gate is also very good. Lin Shouxi said unworldly.
When he was four years old, he touched Luo Shu and gained the ability to breathe out true qi, after which he began to practice the Demon Gate Mental Method.
At the age of seven, he learned all the martial arts of the Demon Gate.
It was also this year that he asked the master of the Demon Gate curiously: "Master, since we used to be that sect, will we still inherit the previous patriarchal learning?" ”
"I don't do it, because this method is not compatible with true qi breathing." The master said helplessly: "We are a small sect that has no quarrel with the world, and we just want to simply enjoy the innate pleasure, but after the fish and snake negative book was picked up by the ancestor, the mission came to us, we must abandon everything in the past, and fight to the death to stop the invasion of the devil's breath." ”
Lin Shouxi nodded regretfully.
"Don't be cranky, starting tomorrow, you're going to forget all the spells you've learned in the last three years." Master said.
"I'm not cranky." Lin Shouxi got the point wrong.
Master looked at him, "You should ask why." ”
"Hmm...... Why? ”
"Because they will merge together and become the strongest swordsmanship of the Demon Gate, the White Pupil and Black Phoenix Sword Sutra." After the master said this, he brushed his sleeves and left.
The white-eyed black phoenix is the god that the Demon Gate believes in.
Its sculpture stands in front of the mountain gate, like a black flame in the wind, arrogant and majestic, majestic and indestructible, that pair of white pupils without the slightest variegation, containing blazing light, as if it can see through Zhou Tianhuanyu at a glance.
According to Master, the first and only time the Patriarch saw it in a dream.
It is precisely because the black phoenix taught the ancestor the sword scripture in the dream realm that the ancestor's belief was strengthened.
The White Pupil and Black Phoenix Sword Sutra has a total of nine layers, which seems simple, but in fact it is difficult and profound, after so many years, no one has cultivated it to the extreme.
"The dragon is the length of a hundred scales, the phoenix is the king of ten thousand sparrows, you are born with scales, and you cultivate this sword scripture, you will be invincible in the world in the future."
On the first day of Lin Shouxi's sword cultivation, the master encouraged him like this.
"But as the saying goes, the magic is one foot high, and the road is one foot high......" Lin Shouxi wanted to speak and stopped.
"That's the saying of the Tao, and our saying is the opposite." Master patted him on the shoulder, "What's more, as the saying goes, a ruler is short and an inch is long." ”
Lin Shouxi nodded thoughtfully.
He was gifted and lived up to his master's expectations, and in just a few years, he cultivated to the eighth level, leaving all his senior brothers and sisters behind.
But life is not like cultivation, and it will not always be smooth sailing because of his extraordinary talent.
At the age of fourteen, Master died.
He was corrupted by true qi and died.
That day, the master called Lin Shouxi to the room and showed him his wrist. On the old wrist, there was a black and purple stripe, like a bloodsucking worm lying underneath.
"I'm going to die." Master said calmly.
"I ...... Is there anything that can be done? Lin Shouxi felt sad.
"Shouxi, you are the disciple I have poured the most effort into, and I asked you to come today because I want to teach you something at the end." The master looked at him and said earnestly.
Lin Shouxi originally thought that the master was going to teach him the ability to press the bottom of the box, but no, the master was just in front of him, letting him watch the black and purple true qi erode and engulf this body little by little.
The skin was covered in black-purple blood, the bones inside were melted, and the body resembled a house without its load-bearing pillars, folded and twisted to a human shape. It was the rotten demon that awoke within him and replaced him little by little.
Lin Shouxi only found out today that the master was already so old.
He drew his sword to help the master break it, but the master giggled and shook his head vigorously.
The skin was wrapped in rotting flesh and blood, the sticky fishy stench was irritating and unpleasant, and the old man endured unimaginable pain, and he held on for an unknown amount of time, and the sky gradually got dark, and there was a strange sound, which was the sound of eyes rolling off his face and smashing to the ground. The last scream rang out, as strange as a demon.
Lin Shouxi knelt on the ground and touched his face, his hands full of tears.
He took his master's sword, which was a sword passed down from generation to generation by the Demon Sect Master, called 'Death Certificate', the name of this sword was not very auspicious, revealing the will to die.
He slashed his sword across his palm.
"The evil dragon was reincarnated as a human being, and his mouth was reversed, and he was born for the common people...... Master, you believed in me when you were a child, and I will not disappoint you now. Lin Shouxi swore to the bloodstains that were almost visible to the bones: "One day, I will uproot all evil and regenerate the world." ”
……
In the midst of the storm, Mu Shijing saw Lin Shouxi standing up with difficulty.
He snatched the sword back from the rain, and the mental technique of the White Pupil and Black Phoenix Sword Sutra occupied all four limbs, miraculously crushing his injuries! He took the initiative to walk towards the demon, the tip of his sword dragging a long line of water on the ground.
You are the source of all filth...... Lin Shouxi suddenly wanted to laugh.
"What are you going to do?" Mu Shijing asked him in a cold voice.
"Is this the god you worship?" Lin Shouxi answered the question.
"How...... How can it be? Mu Shijing was flustered.
This is the dead city, the center of all true qi, and this terrifying monster also has a disgusting amount of true qi, but ...... But how could a god be such a thing?!
"This is not God! It is a demon, a demon that causes all things, and the true qi is a gift from the gods, pure and unblemished, and it is it that defiles the true qi! Mu Shijing's tone was firm, but his red lips were trembling.
"Is it a demon...... Lin Shouxi chuckled, as if sarcastic.
He stopped talking, turned around, and looked directly at the true face of the demon, blood rushed out of his eyes, dripping over his pale face, he ran against the wind, swung his sword and stepped forward, jumped up, and slashed at the great demon, the cold light provoked by the blade of the sword was like a broken moon.
The picture seemed to freeze here, the only one of its kind in the world was about to be killed, Mu Shijing suddenly felt a little lonely, and the sneer before he turned around echoed in her ears, and she understood.
"It's a demon...... Mu Shijing also picked up the sword from the ground, the blade was like a mirror, reflecting her porcelain-white face, "The Daomen has been inherited for three hundred years, and they are all responsible for eliminating demons and defending the Dao, and now the demon has come to the front of him, Shi Jing ...... How can you turn a blind eye? ”
The girl's voice was immature, ethereal and full of sadness and determination.
The Dao Gate Mind Recipe is re-circulating.
The despair and fear in her heart were convinced, and the sword was caught in the air, and her figure flew by, screaming and rushing into the rain that poured down from the sky.
The demon was right in front of her, and the girl was like a silver fish, trying her best to spread her wing-like fins, and leaped into the empty sky.
The two descendants of the Dao Gate and the Demon Gate swung their swords one after another and slashed at the evil god, and the sword was as bright as a flying star!