Chapter 298: City of Souls
Mu Xingqiu saw a city full of souls, and the souls were invisible, so he was just walking in an empty city, vaguely aware that there was something around him, more precisely, he did not walk, but stood still, and a city rushed towards him, and streets, houses, and trees passed by.
The layout of the city is very similar to that of the Broken Stream City, only larger, almost ten times larger.
This is a lively city, and it is a bit like the Baizhang City of Xijie Country that he had been to a few years ago, bustling with people, and those invisible souls walked by his body, making a sound like falling trees, and it was these voices that made Mu Xingqiu believe that they were all souls.
"General Mu. From time to time, a vague but cordial call was heard, which further confirmed his suspicions.
The city continued to sweep backwards, and unconsciously, Mu Xingqiu was already standing on the dilapidated city wall, and outside the city was a silent desert, flat, with no end, and occasionally a light breeze blew a gust of wind and sand, adding a touch of vitality to the desert. He was wondering what he was looking at, when two armies suddenly appeared in the desert, one was the Xuanfu army of the human vassal states, and the other was the demon army wearing horns and shawls.
The two armies walked calmly towards each other, without running or shouting, and when they met they raised their weapons and stabbed at the enemy with the same calm, like a farmer forking a bale of grass, and the slower one fell, and the faster one continued on until he himself was stabbed.
Soon, the wilderness was littered with corpses, and blood smeared the monotonous earth into a red lake.
"This kind of war is meaningless, you are sending you to death!" Mu Xingqiu said loudly, he paid more attention to those human soldiers, and shouted at them: "Charge, rush forward, kill the enemy, and you will survive!"
No one listened to him, and the battle went on peacefully. When the deceased fell, his helmets were scattered, revealing the faces inside, some of which Mu Xingqiu was familiar with, including Zhang Lingsheng from Jinghu Village, Shen Tongyou from Yelin Town, and some soldiers from Broken Flow City.
Mu Xingqiu was finally convinced that he was in a city of the dead, and the souls that had been imprisoned in the sword were repeating their deaths. But he didn't understand that he was sitting on the edge of the fire of prophecy, and he should see the future, why did the scene of the past appear?
It didn't take long for his opinion to change. More and more people are dying, and new faces are beginning to appear.
Daliang Shen Xiuming should be recuperating from his injuries in Broken Flow City, but he fell in a pool of blood in front of Mu Xingqiu's eyes, his eyes wide, as if he couldn't believe his death.
Princess Saisuke lost that trusting smile on her face, was stabbed with a spear, and fell on her back.
Every mortal Mu Xingqiu knew had fallen, even the reckless man named Tietou, who was also expressionless. There was no struggle.
The blood on the ground really accumulated into a lake, and the Taoist priests came, thousands of them, and fell to the ground. Wading through the blood and water, he fired spells at the demon clan on the opposite side, and the demon clan fell in pieces, but it was endless. Finally met the Taoist priests.
The Taoist priests also fell, Xin Youtao, Shen Hao, Xiao Qingtao, Yang Qingyin, Zuo Liuying, etc., were among them. Their bodies were lighter than mortals, floating above the lake of blood, swinging among the corpses like duckweed.
Mu Xingqiu's whole body was trembling, there were too many deaths, even if he knew that these deaths were all false, his heart was still wrenching, these were all people he knew, his companions, and his friends.
"Xiaoqiu. A voice slighter than a fallen leaf came.
Mu Xingqiu turned around suddenly, and the huge city appeared in front of him, which seemed to be more crowded than just now, but there were still no living creatures appearing.
"Xiaoqiu. The voice sounded again, so familiar that his heart melted, "Look at yourself, look at yourself......"
The voice disappeared completely, and Xiao Qiu felt that he was blown by the wind, and he left the place, but his body was left.
He had this experience, it was the feeling of leaving his soul when he cleared the upper dantian mud pill palace, he saw himself again, but this time it was different, he not only saw the body, but also saw through the inside of the body, and saw the mercury-like mana flowing slowly in the meridians, the pale yellow inner pill the size of a pigeon egg in the lower dantian rotated at a uniform speed, without stopping, but there were two strange gases in the middle dantian palace and the upper dantian mud pill palace, he had never heard of what this was.
The gases are milky white and glow, and you have to look closely to see that they are turning very slowly.
"What is this?" Mu Xingqiu asked, still the same as before, when he encountered something he didn't understand, he always asked Fangfang for advice.
"You know what it is. A familiar voice said.
Mu Xingqiu watched carefully, and gradually understood, but he felt that it was not enough, so he entered the state of illusion again, and it was at this time that he found that he could see the real scene, that was when Shen Geng teased the bald man, Mu Xingqiu wanted to break free from the illusion created by the fire of prophecy, but fell into the battlefield outside the city.
The real and the unreal overlapped, and Shen Geng stood in a pool of blood and proudly declared that he would surpass Lan Curling within thirty years.
Mu Xingqiu fell into a double illusion, where the real scene also became an illusion, and if it continued, the illusion would become more and more layered, eventually crushing and devouring him.
Mu Xingqiu struggled out, without the reminder of others, and without help, he got rid of the second illusion by his own will and efforts, and he could see himself again, the two gases in the Jiang Palace and the Mud Pill Palace were like ripe fruits, falling in the lower dantian, merging into one, enveloping the inner dan, and suddenly burning, the inner dan turned faster and faster inside, expanding, retracting, and restoring to its original state.
Before Mu Xingqiu could understand what was going on, two more balls of white qi appeared in the Jiang Palace and the Mud Pill Palace, this time it did not descend to the lower dantian, but turned into a stream of mercury-like mana, and joined the process of meridian circulation, when the two white gases all disappeared, Mu Xingqiu's eyes lit up, and he saw a translucent human figure all over the city.
The two changes happened quickly, and Mu Xingqiu suddenly understood what it meant.
That was still when it was in the Broken Flow City, the first seat of the Pangshan Five Elements Section gave every disciple who had made meritorious contributions to defending the city a Dao Fire Baby Pill, and Mu Xingqiu was the first to take effect after taking it, and he had already reached the seventh level of inhalation, but because of a momentary heartbeat, he lowered back to the fifth level of inhalation. But the potential of the Dao Fire Baby Pill did not disappear, but remained in the Jiang Palace and the Mud Pill Palace.
Mu Xingqiu had risen from the first floor of the illusion realm to the second layer at that time, but it had nothing to do with the Dao Fire Baby Pill, it was all his own original power.
The two changes in the white qi indicate two futures, one is the Dao Fire Quenching Pill, which pushes the Inner Dan to go further. This is something that most Taoist priests dream of, and the other is to turn qi into water and enhance the power of mind illusion, and only Mu Xingqiu will encounter this choice.
The translucent crowd in the city and the city gradually dissipated like quicksand, this is about to get rid of the fire of prophecy, there is only one potential, either used to quench the pill, or used to enhance the illusion, the inner pill is extremely difficult to improve, there is such an opportunity, should not hesitate to choose the former. But what Mu Xingqiu needed most now was illusion improvement, because he had to distinguish Fang Fang among the many souls. One day, he will enter the Frost Soul Sword with the help of Si Mingding, and he hopes to see the appearance of the soul by then, even if it is a rough appearance.
Mu Xingqiu woke up, the process of double illusion and turning qi into water to enhance illusion took a lot of energy, but he didn't feel tired, but he had an urge to cast a spell, and he challenged Shen Geng. Then he said to the bald man, "I'll catch him later and let you take a bite." โ
The bald man nodded happily, "Take a hard bite." โ
Shen Geng snorted briefly, "I gave you a chance." Not once, but twice or three times, and you repeatedly refuse. โ
"The threat of death is not called opportunity. Mu Xingqiu took the bald man and stepped back. He wanted to distance himself, "You fight for yourself, I fight for Erliang and the bald man." Maybe you are a better Taoist than me, but you are not qualified to live in the world. You want to save the world, but it's actually another way to say ruining miรจ. โ
Fifteen steps, Mu Xingqiu stopped, flicked his right hand, and flashed a black whip.
"You don't plan to use a sword yet?" Shen Geng doesn't need a magic weapon, the Streamer Treasure has an excellent self-defense effect, but it is not much use for attacking, he would rather be empty-handed, "You don't need qualifications to live, what you need is strength." โ
Shen Geng's hands became claws, and the weeds under his feet immediately withered a large area, he will cast a magic cultivation spell, but he does not have half a demonic aura, after leaving the Cultivation God Peak, this is the third time he has fought with Mu Xingqiu, he knows the roots, there is no need to test again.
"It's a shame. Lan Bing Curling sighed meaninglessly, "Wouldn't this be Zuo Liuying's trick, let a Pangshan Taoist priest die here with me, and then set up the blame?"
"The bald man will witness a qiฤ and hand him over to Zuo Liuying, so that you can stay out of the matter. Mu Xingqiu said, but his eyes kept staring at Shen Geng, and the whip several feet long hung on the ground.
"I'll prove that Brother Xiao Qiu defeated Shen - oops. Before the bald man finished speaking, he was summoned by Lan Bing.
"That's right, you're a witness, you have to stay with me, don't die inexplicably. The fighting method of the two little Taoists of Pangshan is all their personal grudges, and it has nothing to do with me, I don't treat everyone equally, the fire of prophecy is such a good thing, and others don't have a chance to use it yet. Lan Bing suddenly raised his voice and said to the surrounding cultivators: "Look at it, although you are only mortals, only the mixed Inner Dan, but after all, you know some spells, you can see things that ordinary people can't see, and observe the fighting methods of Taoist priests, smart people will benefit a lot from it." โ
The eyes of the scattered cultivators had already been fixed on the two Taoist priests, for fear of missing a glance, Shen Geng attracted more attention, he had just shown his strength, blocking the three attacks of the Dharma King, and in the eyes of the scattered cultivators, the chances of winning were higher.
The bald man struggled a few times, unable to get out of Lan Bing's grasp, so he had to give up and said loudly: "Brother Xiaoqiu, whip him hard!"
Shen Geng cast the spell first, and the withered grass under his feet suddenly expanded again, and then a huge cloud of black light grazed the surface of the ground and rushed towards the enemy, marking a scorched trace.
Only then did he learn to manipulate magic with Dao fire, Shen Geng was not skilled enough in the use of new powers, once he used his full strength, he leaked a lot to the surroundings, and it was these leaked powers that also shocked the scattered cultivators flying in the air, and they cast spells to protect themselves, and many people were forced to land and dare not watch anymore.
Mu Xingqiu has also just gained new strength, he has risen to the third layer of the illusion realm, he can use three purposes, for him there are many options for offense and defense, but like Shen Geng, he desperately wants to taste the feeling of attacking with all his strength.
An arm, a whip, no defense, no tricks, straight towards the magic, the lightning attached to the whip body illuminates the entire peak.
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