The night sky is shining with silver and moon, but it illuminates the world a miserable white scene.

The light went straight down, and you could see that the bare mound was surrounded by knee-deep grass, and among the grass there were many grave bags and mottled and broken graveyard stone tablets.

Occasionally, corpses were exposed, and few were still fleshy, mostly weathered bones.

The color of those bones is mostly gray with yellow, or yellow with gray, and some have even turned into light brown due to time.

Grass grows around it, but the high places of the hills are gradually losing grass, which is a phenomenon caused by the accumulation of corpses for too long and too much life.

Although the imperial court has charitable funds, nine out of ten of these expenditures have been greedy for ink, and only one to two percent can really be applied to the following.

"Whew!"

At this moment, someone suddenly lit a flame.

In such an environment, the flame was even a little green, falling and igniting the dry bones and corpses on the ground, like burning fire oil, the dragon snake formed several small fire paths.

"Practice the sword here and cultivate the mind, breathe the breath of death, corpse, and hell day and night, cultivate the sword of hell, and bring death to the world."

Zhang Lie looked at the situation in front of him and realized the subtlety and subtlety of the Shenyuan Transformation Technique.

He even sat cross-legged, his sword in front of his knees and his eyes closed.

Accompanied by the silent recitation of the mantra, Zhang Lie always felt that in the darkness around him, outside the firelight, there were countless pairs of eyes watching him, and there seemed to be an indistinct sound around his ears, as if someone was whispering and talking, and they covered their mouths from time to time and laughed secretly.

Those things in the darkness are vague and shadowy, but they also add more ethereal fears because of them.

"Three years later, I participated in the Netherworld Abyss mission in the Valley of Ten Thousand Tribulations, and confronted the disciples of the Six True Sects, the competition was fierce, as long as I made a mistake, I would die there, and I would die after years of penance."

"Therefore, from a rational point of view, I should cultivate this Divine Yuan Transformation Technique to enhance my combat power, and cultivate according to the law for three years, so that there is no problem in doubling my combat power. In comparison, although the Earth Demon Sword Sutra is the general outline of the superior sword technique, but the 'sword qi like wisps' and 'Shangdan Chong pulse' that I have learned from it are both step-by-step righteous path methods, and no one knows whether the three-year water grinding kung fu can be practiced or not, if I choose so, I am equivalent to gambling on my life. ”

In the process of Zhang Lie sitting and closing his eyes to realize the trick, a little old man held a torch to protect him not far away.

Zhang Chuanli is old, his qualifications are ordinary, and he has to get by when he is young, so he can't cultivate as much as his son and nephew Zhang Lie, at this time, he really can't give good advice in the face of this situation, he can only say that no matter what choice Zhang Lie makes, he fully supports it.

Before coming to Yue Kingdom from the Golden Rainbow Valley, Zhang Lie's heart was inclined to cultivate the Divine Yuan Transformation Technique.

However, after seeing the crowd holding steamed buns in the Shengjing Dharma Field, and seeing the crowd below the Dharma Field holding steamed buns with excited expressions, Zhang Lie felt his unwillingness from the bottom of his heart:

It's not that I'm afraid, it's that I don't want to be the executioner. Even if you can do the best and not be disadvantaged, you don't want to.

Even if you can deceive the heart of heaven, you can't deceive your own heart after all.

"Do you follow reason and choose relatively certain interests, or do you follow your heart and not be the sword of killing that abandons yourself?"

"Foreseeable benefits and uncertain futures, this is a choice."

In the mind, heaven and man are at war.

Because if you choose the wrong one today, you may really die three years from now.

Once the sect's mission contract is signed, it is not allowed to quit halfway at all.

Thinking like this, Zhang Lie, who was sitting cross-legged on the mass grave and meditating, recited the mantra of the Shenyuan Transformation Evil Method for a while, and recited the scriptures in the Earth Sword Sutra for a while, in order to gain enlightenment and make the right decision.

As the two thoughts continued to gain the upper hand, the moon set and the sun rose, and time continued to consume and pass, the young Taoist who was sitting cross-legged gradually revealed pain on his face.

In people's hearts, there is a heart ape and a horse, so regardless of Buddhism, the first step of practice is to lock the heart ape and determine the horse, which is the real concentration of the mind.

It's like mindfulness meditation, any posture, close your eyes and empty your brain, just sense your own exhalation and inhalation, exercise for ten to fifteen minutes a day, you can improve concentration, creativity, and greatly relieve psychological pressure.

But even these ten to fifteen minutes of meditation are not possible for most people. This is the difficulty of the lock-hearted ape, the determined horse.

Zhang Lie has been cultivating for many years, concentrating and completely locking his heart, and he often can't do it, and a thought will suddenly pop up in his mind.

Just like this time, I have been meditating for too long and too long, and I have been silently reciting the two mantras many times, when a thought suddenly popped up and appeared in Zhang Lie's mind:

At that moment, it was as if in front of himself in his mind, suddenly a green light flashed, and an identical self jumped out, and the other party sat cross-legged in front of him, only to faintly see his face green, his eyes were deep, and his face was smiling.

"What is the meaning of life? Why do you pray for this eternal life? ”

"Isn't it a bit inappropriate for me to say that it is for Technician 18 at this time?"

“……”

"I feel like it's a blessing to be alive like this, so I want to live longer. Because immortality is the collection of all desires in the human world, I want to strive for immortality and constantly improve my strong self in order to achieve eternal freedom. ”

"What is Comfort?" The green-faced self on the other side once again questioned.

“…… Comfortable? Zhang Lie himself was a little hesitant, and the other party had already given a guiding answer:

"To be comfortable is to do whatever you want, to do whatever you want, to do anything?"

"No, it's not, being comfortable doesn't mean doing whatever you want, doing whatever you want, doing anything, but when you don't want to do something, you don't have to do it. I hold the Tao and cultivate because I want to transcend myself, so I don't have to do things that I don't want to do for the sake of profit. ”

"So, what are you waiting for? Obviously holding the Taihao classics and the superior sword scriptures, but you are still hesitant to practice this killing method, do you not believe in your ancestors, or do you not believe in yourself? ”

At this moment, the heart magic body in front of Zhang Lie raised his head, and the next moment he became one with Zhang Lie's whole person.

Devil is the way. Just as I am, against me too, under the avenue, there is no difference.

"Whew."

Slowly stood up, and saw the sky bright and the red sun hanging high.

However, Zhang Lie knew that he had been meditating here for more than one night, otherwise, with his physique at this time, he would not have made a slight crisp sound when he got up, his blood veins were stagnant, and his joints were slightly hard.

"Baby, finally finished practicing?" Seeing Zhang Lie walking out of the mass grave with satisfaction, the fourth uncle Zhang Chuanli asked with some surprise.

Although it took three days to go in, it was too fast for the standard of cultivating a method.

"No, I just came to see Master's swordsmanship, and now I've seen it, and I'm satisfied. Fourth uncle, it's time for us to go back. ”

"Ah, are you going back? Well, I'll prepare. ”

Although there was some nagging, Zhang Chuanli was still very happy for Zhang Lie, because he could see that the nephew who had been thinking about something in his heart for a long time finally let go of the burden in his heart after this trip, so at this moment, the whole person seemed to be clear inside and out, and his body and mind were clear.

After the uncle and nephew bid farewell to King Qi and left Shengjing together.

Two more disciples who claimed to be the disciples of the Seven Evil Sects of the Golden Rainbow Valley came to the Qi Palace, because the other party carried the tokens of the Seven Evil Daoists, Liu Zihuan, the King of Qi, did not dare to slack off, and still met each other according to the etiquette, and summoned the subordinates to explain the whereabouts of the two immortal envoys before.

On the same day, Yin Yifei, who was dressed in white, had already taken his second senior brother Wei Boyuan to the law field in Shengjing and the largest mass grave outside the city.

"I understand, killing people during the day to fill the evil qi, refining the sword at night to absorb the dead qi, when the evil qi is full of death, the power of the sword technique can be greatly increased."

Yin Yifei looked at the mass grave in front of him, sorted out what he had learned, and immediately understood the key to the context.

"Senior Brother Yin, practicing swords in this way may have trouble! Senior brother, you have a great future, and your master has begun to retreat and prepare to break through the Purple Mansion realm, you don't lack resources, you don't lack magic tricks, you don't lack the protection of your elders, so why do you have to practice this kind of sword technique? ”

Wei Boyuan was old and serious, and he was also afraid that Yin Yifei would be harmed by his cultivation of the Killing Dao Sword Technique, and he would be blamed on his head by Shizun, so he tried his best to dissuade him.

Even, he already wanted to go back and inform his master, at least he had to inform his senior sister Li Manmei, and try his best to get himself out of this matter.

However, Yin Yifei grabbed Wei Boyuan's arm, and his gaze fell sharply on him.

"Senior Brother Wei, you are the oldest of my master's disciples, but you are also the one who is the least favored by my father, otherwise you would not be willing to follow me, the second ancestor, around."

"If you are willing to accompany me to practice here today, I will teach you all the Seven Evil Sword Techniques created by my father, even if my father finds out in the future, he will not embarrass you if he knows that I taught him, but if you refuse to help me today, you don't have to expect exercises like the Seven Evil Sword Techniques in your life. My father accepted seven disciples, and the sword techniques he passed down were actually only one-seventh of the Seven Evil Sword Techniques, so to speak, the Seven Evil Sword Techniques were ten times more clever than the Willow Secret Sword you cultivated, and the power was ten times stronger! ”

"This, this ......"

Wei Boyuan looked at Yin Yifei, who was already a little hysterical in front of him, and after a little hesitation, he finally stood still in place.

Wei Boyuan also knew in his heart that what Yin Yifei said was not wrong at all, and if he didn't seize the opportunity in front of him, he wouldn't be able to obtain the true inheritance of the Seven Evil Daoists in this life.