Chapter 41: The Cliff of Forgetfulness
Not only did the other official disciples in the gate not respond to Ling Pengfei's call, but even the guards guarding the palace gate showed no signs of demonization.
"You haven't practiced this exercise......? Not an official disciple?" Ling Pengfei pointed at the guard and said sharply, "Who transferred you here!"
Seeing that his identity was revealed, the guards were silent.
"My good master, don't you still understand what this is all about?" The manager felt that the overall situation had been decided, and finally stopped hiding and showed up.
"It's you, it's you!"
Ling Pengfei's voice was full of anger.
"I appointed you as the chief steward and shared all the prosperity and honor of the Blood Sword Sect with you, why did you betray me?"
"Tell me why, Makoto Kuri!"
The head of the Blood Sword Gate, Li Cheng, although he smiled, a trace of anger also flashed in his eyes.
"Share the prosperity and honor of the Blood Sword Gate?"
"I already have the cultivation of the Yuan Infant Stage, but you forced me to cultivate the Blood Sword Gate Technique from scratch, thinking that with this as a limitation, you will firmly hold me in your hands, and let you send me every move, this can also be called sharing?"
"Whether it's the six elders, a few Dharma protectors, or even your own son, you just treat them as pawns in your hands, and you can discard them at any time. Have you really ever thought about sharing your Blood Sword Gate with anyone?"
Ling Pengfei heard Li Cheng's accusation and sneered: "The territory and power of the Blood Sword Gate today are all cut out by me with one sword, I can share if I want to, and if I don't want to share, I won't share, you are not qualified to comment on my behavior, let alone betray me for this!"
"Hahahaha-what a joke. Li Cheng smacked the ground, his eyes frozen, "You think I betrayed you in order to snatch the Blood Sword Gate from your hands?"
"You also think too highly of yourself, even if the power of your Blood Sword Sect is ten times greater, I am not uncommon. ”
"The reason why I want to do this is just to 'forget the cliff'. ”
"Forget the Cliff?" Ling Pengfei heard these three words from Li Cheng's mouth, his face showed a look of surprise and disbelief, "Are you a 'cliff keeper'?"
More than 3,000 miles to the east of the Blood Sword Gate, there is a mountain range, the first mountain in the mountain system, and its name is Forget the Heart.
There is a Forgetfulness Tree growing on the Forgetfulness Mountain, and every three hundred years on the Forgetfulness Tree will bear a Forgetfulness Fruit, if a mortal eats this fruit, he can be reborn and enlighten the Tao on the spot, and if a cultivator eats it, he can grow his cultivation for a hundred years.
The Forgetful Tree was born on a cliff, because the specific day of the last fruit is not available, so every year there are like-minded people who stay under the cliff and wait for the fruit to fall, over time, this group of people will form a force called "Forget the Heart Cliff", the Forget the Heart Cliff will select the strongest person as the leader every year, and set the rules, if the fruit falls during the period when the person is the leader, it will belong to the leader.
The external title of this leader is "Cliff Keeper".
Li Cheng shook his head and said, "I'm not a cliff keeper, I'm the son of the last cliff keeper." ”
"Thirty-seven years ago, you came to the Cliff of Forget, defeated my father, and then refused to be the next Cliff Keeper, and cut down the Tree of Forget. ”
"Your reasoning at the time was that you didn't have time to wait here for the fruit to fall, and if you left here, the fruit would fall into someone else's hands. Since you can't get the Forgetfulness Fruit, then others are not qualified to take the Forgetfulness Fruit, so you cut down the Forgetfulness Tree, am I right?"
"You cut down the tree and left, and my father, who lost at your hands and failed to do his duty to protect the tree, was mortally wounded and was besieged by others to vent his anger, and finally died at the bottom of the cliff. ”
"At that time, I was only twenty-five years old, and I had only cultivated in the Dan period, and I finally escaped, wandering around aimlessly, and later, by chance, I entered a certain ruin, where I met a woman, and that woman was the most powerful and simple person I had ever seen at that time. ”
"After meeting that woman, a plan of revenge came to my mind - I want to kill you by this woman's hand and avenge my father!"
"Because the woman is a guardian and can't get out of the ruins, I pretended to be dead and left there, searching the world for your traces, and finally let me find you in the Blood Sword Gate. ”
"The plan went smoothly, and it took me decades to slowly climb from an outer disciple to the position of the head of the Blood Sword Gate, and then use the hand-copied fragment I got from the ruins as bait to lure you into the bait, tricking you into bringing the six elders into the ruins. ”
"It's just a pity that those six old fellows sacrificed their own lives to let you escape the ruins alive. ”
"Later, I told your son that the woman in the ruins had good things in her body that could help you break through the realm, and after your son heard it, he really didn't listen to your advice and had plans to explore the ruins again. ”
"Actually, I think you want your son to help you catch that woman, right? Why would you help him assemble a team to explore the ruins?"
"Fortunately, God opened his eyes, and this time the plan finally succeeded. ”
"After I knew that your son had disappeared in the ruins, I transferred the three Dharma Protectors and other official disciples from the sect, completely emptying your power. ”
"None of the people who are still in the Blood Sword Gate are yours!"
"Hahahaha-despair!"
Li Cheng said, with a crazy look on his face, after enduring it for so many years, his goal is finally going to be realized today.
Only then did Ling Tengyun know that the original exploration of the ruins was a trap laid by Li Cheng from the beginning!
"Even if I die, I will pull you on your back!"
Ling Tengyun nodded his forehead, and a red beam of red light the thickness of a thumb shot from the center of his eyebrows, shooting towards Li Cheng.
Li Cheng didn't dodge and let the beam hit, but after a while, nothing unusual happened to him.
"You can't control me. Li Cheng said proudly, "I only practiced the first level of the Blood Sword Sect technique you gave me, and there was no demon seed in my body at all. ”
Ling Tengyun was angry and anxious, his spiritual power was unstable, the old injury recurred, and with a "wow", a mouthful of blood spurted out.
Li Cheng saw the opportunity, raised his right hand, and shot out the blood-colored dagger that had been hidden in his sleeve.
This dagger was a magic weapon he had specially found to deal with Ling Tengyun, not only was it coated with the poison that sealed his throat when he saw blood, but the magic weapon itself also had the effect of inhibiting the recovery of the body.
The dagger turned into an afterimage and went straight to Ling Tengyun's vital point.
Seeing that the dagger was about to stab Ling Tengyun, a "ding" suddenly sounded in the air, and the blood-colored dagger was actually stopped by a sword qi.
"Friend, what do you mean by that?" Li Cheng looked at the little man with a gloomy expression.