Chapter 220: The final battle
“Chengyi, hang on… except for me, no one else will come back. I think they will all come back, they will all come back…” Lu Shan’s voice was breaking up in the wind… and I felt like I was about to lose hearing.
Ru Xue’s embrace was very warm, but it gradually became weaker… I could only vaguely see that the worm in Yang Sheng’s abdomen was still there… and it also looked a bit weak… Where is Ru Yue’s worm?
Is it still in Yang Sheng’s body? I realized that I had a lot of questions I wanted to figure out… Of course, the most important question was what they all meant by “they will all come back”? How could Lushan not come back?
Yang Sheng was furious and wanted to go over and kill Lu Shan… Or, he was so busy rushing up the mountain that he didn’t notice that Lu Shan wasn’t dead, which caused him so much trouble… And he probably never understood what it was that supported Lu Shan.
But Lu Shan didn’t even look at Yang Sheng… he just looked at the still-existing shadow of Baima in the sky and said to me in a broken voice, “Chengyi, in the end, let Baima go to where she should go…”
Then, in the sound of the wind, which seemed to be getting more and more mournful, came Lu Shan’s lonely song: “You… you who fell from the sky… landed on my horse…”
Snow-white tears fell into my neck… I had already been crying so sadly that I couldn’t make a sound… At that moment, I seemed to see a piece of my soul floating out of my voice… Lushan’s singing also came to an abrupt end… Could he not come back?
At this moment, a long cry suddenly came from my soul… The scattered fragments of my soul were forcibly pressed back into my body by a huge spiritual force…
Then my shattered soul was forcibly squeezed together by that powerful soul force… For a moment, it forcibly stabilized my soul, which was about to break… Although this was only a temporary solution, it at least allowed me to delay…
At this moment, a carefree and somewhat guilty voice came from the depths of my soul: “Chengyi, this is all the power I can give you, otherwise I won’t be able to support the next thing… You wait… Everything that is sacrificed will be rewarded by the heavens!”
I knew this voice well… My master, who had been motionless, finally woke up at this moment… Could things still be reversed?
Then, before I could react, Wu Tian’s excited and trembling voice suddenly overturned the entire battlefield: “Yang Sheng, it’s here… fuse with it, you still have a chance! There’s no reason not to take the Kunlun people… hurry up, while Baima’s soul is still not fully awake, you still have a chance!”
Yang Sheng suddenly stopped… Opportunity? What opportunity for Yang Sheng?
I was able to delay it again… I instinctively felt that Yang Sheng’s opportunity should come from above, from Penglai… I looked up and sure enough, I saw a huge purple light rushing towards Yang Sheng… Before I could react, it suddenly enveloped Yang Sheng…
“Hold on, you drank the original liquid extracted from the eggs, your body must be able to withstand it… you hold on! You will be a true Kunlun man… no, with so many Kunlun spirits fused together, you will be even more powerful than a Kunlun man…” Wu Tian’s voice was too excited… I don’t know what benefit he would get from Yang Sheng becoming what he called a Kunlun man.
“Ah…” Yang Sheng let out a loud roar that shook the ground… and then began to roll violently on the ground… The powerful force shook the entire mountain slope… and his body suddenly emitted a strong purple light, then became colorless… and then returned to his normal appearance… which was extremely strange.
“Are you afraid? He’s going to be very powerful?” I whispered to Ruoxue.
“No, I’m not afraid. I’m not afraid at all, because you’re here. Besides, don’t you think he’s pitiful?” Ru Xue’s head rested on my shoulder, and she laughed lightly.
“Don’t you believe that evil cannot triumph over good?” I asked Ru Xue.
“I’ve always believed in it, but I’ve never been in a hurry to see the light. I know it will take a long night,” Ru Xue said softly to me.
I held her hand tightly… at this moment, there was no need for words… but the next moment, the momentary warmth between Ru Xue and I was interrupted by a voice… he said, “It’s in accordance with the rules, but…”
What is “in accordance with the rules, but”? I didn’t understand at the time… Where did this indifferent, yet sacred voice come from… but I saw the man in white suddenly stand up, his whole body becoming majestic and powerful… full of a kind of momentum that did not belong to this world.
He slowly removed his mask… the mask was casually thrown aside… and then it bounced a few times under the snow-covered gravel, and then it landed there quietly… I was shocked and stunned… this, is this Wei Yu?
I still remember what he said… I am the descendant of the immortals… Could it be that he wasn’t joking with me?
At that moment, I suddenly felt that fate was very strange… and I also understood Yang Sheng’s situation… I remembered something that Uncle Johnny told me, that the most powerful Kunlun soul, almost the complete Kunlun soul, was on the edge of Penglai… Yang Sheng was going to devour that soul…
Yes, the soul and the body are inseparable… At that time, Yang Sheng was only strong in the body, but the soul could not support the body… So he became a living zombie-like existence… Later, he devoured the remaining soul of Kunlun in the Tianwen Stone and gained a balance between yin and yang… This time, he drank the so-called original liquid, and the soul was once again unable to support… So, this most powerful remnant soul of Kunlun…
Perhaps, as Wu Tian said… Yang Sheng, after such a tortuous transformation… should already be very powerful…
At this time, when I was shocked, I felt a powerful soul leaving my body. It was the soul of the Grand Master, which had been stripped several times, but was still intact. Could such a remnant of the Grand Master turn the world upside down? Was Yang Sheng that powerful?
But at this time, the Grand Master also left me a message… In this world, there are also gods who guard the order of the world… But they also have the same strict rules as Kunlun… That is, they cannot intervene in all the disputes in the world, and can only provide help in accordance with the rules.
And the gods cannot come directly to this world… but must enter the body of certain people in this world through a certain method and with a certain power… these people are very rare and have strict physical restrictions… no one knows what they are except for these people themselves.
The lineage of these people is generally based on bloodline… So, this is the truth about their divine descent!
This is obviously consistent with what Elder Qiu told me about the three iron rules of this world… There are really immortals, and they are as ethereal as legends… but they are really above you three feet away!
Wei Yu is obviously a typical person who has inherited the power of the gods. After he said something that conformed to the rules, he began to move in a way that I couldn’t understand, moving quickly across the platform. His movements were extremely fast, and his body left a shadow. I looked carefully and was shocked to discover that he was actually drawing a formation around the solitary temple with his steps.
I just learned from Lushan that this solitary temple is the real holy object of the Lagang Temple… My master also told me through thought at the moment of his departure… It turns out that the power of the first high monk of the Lagang Temple is very strong, and his heart is clear… He is truly a great being in the world, having achieved the right result and having already ascended… And he is concerned about everything in the world… He is moved by the difficulty of people in the world refining themselves for hundreds of lives, and the hardship of pursuing the Dao… Therefore, he made a great vow to open up a path for the people of the world…
That is this solitary temple… What is this solitary temple? To be precise, it is a port for the wandering Penglai… As long as the right person boards this solitary temple… and communicates with it with the power of the soul… Penglai will appear!
However, the monks of the Lagan Temple later concealed this matter… At that time, Lushan told me that the Lagan Temple was a place that harbored all kinds of evil… Perhaps, the incident happened even earlier than Lushan knew… Otherwise, how could the story of the solitary temple be concealed?
Perhaps these monks knew that they could not go to the realm of the immortals… but were full of ambition and wanted to go to such a place, so they were so cruel as to make such a holy woman as Baima into a so-called holy vessel?
At that moment, I seemed to have realized a lot… Yang Sheng was still rolling on the ground, and Wei Yu’s footsteps were getting faster and faster… so fast that I couldn’t catch up… I saw the golden light that had been thrown into the lonely temple all appear… and then surround the footsteps of Wei Yu, forming a golden light formation…
What is the purpose of this formation? I didn’t quite understand at the time, but I saw Wei Yu retreating to the side with a tired look on his face. He had an expression of a god that should not be detached from the world, and said with a sense of relief, “The power is not exhausted. This is the kindness of the heavens.”
At this time, I saw the somewhat illusory figure of my master. After all, it was the state of a soul… it could not be as solid as a real person… he walked step by step towards the golden light array… his expression was full of a certain kind of determination, saying, “The way of heaven will always leave a ray of hope, and this is what it should be.”
The immortal incarnation of Wei Yu didn’t seem to care about this, and just said, “Anyway, this summoning formation… is maintained by many souls with ancient power… and I didn’t expect that people in this world would be so defiant of the rules, causing Kunlun to personally intervene. However, you and I have been friends for a long time, and I have to admire you… your plan to take every step carefully has actually allowed the descendants of the souls with the power of the ancient bloodline to come here and eventually form a formation… although a few of them are fragmented, they are truly ancient spirits. Old Li, you played a good game.
“If heaven’s will is otherwise, no matter how I arrange it, it will be useless. And it is only through sacrifice and the cruelty of true righteousness that these young people can grow up… It’s just a pity…” As he spoke, the master turned and looked at Lushan, sighing softly.
“I saw it all. Isn’t this also his wish? Besides, he also has his own opportunities.” As he spoke, Wei Yu looked up at the shadow of the white horse in the sky.
The master didn’t say much… he just looked at Wei Yu and said, “Preside over the great formation.”
Wei Yu didn’t mind the tone of his master’s words, but just sat in front of the door of the solitary temple and began to chant obscure and difficult mantras… The master stood in front of the door of the solitary temple, looking at the righteous cultivators below with a compassionate gaze, and said, “Just hold on for a moment.”
At this moment, I finally understood… why it was that we, the younger generation, had rushed all the way to this solitary temple… it turned out that we were carrying the souls of those with the power of the ancient bloodline… then why did those souls only appear when we were about to die… this master didn’t give me an answer.
I was very confused… but the master seemed to read my mind… and looked at me and said, “It takes your strong will to protect the righteous to drive these souls to willingly use their power to form a formation… originally, they would have used up all their power, leaving only their complete souls, and eventually breaking through space… but fortunately, their power has not been exhausted.”
At this time… Yang Sheng was still screaming, but it seemed that… the purple light around him had subsided a lot… was it going to be successful?
But I feel extra at ease with my master here… I just asked my master, “What does this mean?”
“Don’t you know?” The Grandmaster looked at me and said.
I frowned and thought about it, and suddenly remembered when Shatu took my vitality… The Grandmaster continued, “They carry a thread of your vitality so that they can maintain their own souls without being traumatized and become a complete formation… If their power is exhausted, they will return to where they belong, such as Kunlun, or many other places… But if not, this thread of vitality will be returned to you, as long as there is a thread of vitality… there are infinite possibilities.”
At this point, the Grandmaster became silent and serious… because the formation behind him seemed to have reached a critical point… just as it did when Penglai appeared, white mist began to emerge… Next, I felt a shock again… that is, the space above the formation also distorted… At that moment, I saw a blurred scene…
This scene was already familiar to me… because I had seen it long ago in the Black Rock Miao Village, the moment the demon worm disappeared… the mountains shrouded in thick fog… seemed endless, with occasional eaves… a fairyland, a real fairyland…
But just like last time, it only appeared for a moment… The next moment, something even more shocking happened… I saw the space violently distorting… and in the midst of it, I couldn’t see clearly… a figure sitting cross-legged suddenly appeared…
It was… it was… the Grand Master!
I couldn’t believe it… Grandmaster had always appeared to us in a spirit form… I never thought that one day I would be able to see Grandmaster appear before me in the flesh…
“Chengyi, my soul is incomplete and cannot wait for a long time to cultivate my soul… You and I have the same fate… So today I will use your power… to use the power of Kunlun to subdue the chaos…” As he spoke, I saw my master’s soul walking towards his own body… but I didn’t know what my master wanted to borrow from me?
At this moment, I seemed to see hope, but I was also shocked. It turned out that the Grandmaster was really still alive… His physical body was sealed in Kunlun… If Master and the uncles saw this scene, how happy would they be? Unfortunately… Thinking of this, I felt even more sad… We younger generations still have a chance, but what about Master and the others?
It seems that at this time, the fusion of body and soul takes a certain amount of time… Grandmaster’s body is still sitting in meditation…
All that happened on the mountain top was seen by all the righteous people… giving them infinite hope… The struggle continues… Wu Tian’s face was complex, but Jiang Yi didn’t know what he was thinking?
Maybe it was just a few minutes… or maybe it was more than ten minutes… At this time, Yang Sheng finally stopped struggling… and stood up from the ground…
He looked very disheveled, but at this moment, he had completely regained his former appearance… except that the madness in his eyes had become even more intense…
“I won.” He simply said that… Perhaps knowing that time could not be wasted, he did not say a word… A larger river of fate appeared beside him… and then swept towards the position of the master and Wei Yu…
I couldn’t help but worry about the Grandmaster… because Yang Sheng’s power had reached a peak that I couldn’t see through… but I didn’t expect the formation to flicker… and a force tilted out of the formation… blocking Yang Sheng’s river of fate in an instant…
Yang Sheng’s face showed a look of disbelief… Reluctantly, he mobilized the river of fate… and attacked the master again and again… but all of his power was canceled out…
“Then I’ll do it myself!” Perhaps knowing that the Grandmaster was the key to the battle, Yang Sheng roared and rushed at the Grandmaster himself.
This time, it was not possible to avoid it with invisible power… My heart suddenly went up to my throat… but I saw the Grandmaster suddenly open his eyes and shout, “How dare you!”
As he spoke, the Grandmaster’s body rose up… and a light breeze wrapped around him… causing his body to suddenly move half a meter away, avoiding Yang Sheng’s fist…
The Grandmaster had truly resurrected!
My heart was suddenly filled with an indescribable joy, as well as a great sense of grievance… It was like a younger generation finally having the support of an elder, and being able to pour out their feelings… The master gave me a kind gaze, and then once again lightly moved his body, avoiding Yang Sheng’s fist…
This was an almost impossible task for us… because Yang Sheng was moving too fast… there was no way to avoid him, only to collide… but I didn’t expect that Grandmaster, who had mastered the Five Elements, could avoid him like that, and at the same time, he started to make hand gestures!
Yang Sheng was like a child who could never catch a butterfly… Gradually, his expression became anxious… He probably didn’t expect that, despite having gained great power, he still couldn’t touch a single corner of my master’s clothes.
My master’s movements were completely unearthly… floating, just like a real immortal…
“If that’s the case, you can only hide. What can you do to me? Then I will ascend to Penglai… and go to Kunlun… I already know how you came back.” Yang Sheng roared, and surprisingly gave up attacking the master… At this moment, he also realized that the master did not have the power to defeat him… he only used the advantage of his magic to avoid his attack.
After saying this, Yang Sheng ran towards the solitary temple without looking back… If that place is the harbor… then to reach Penglai, you must pass through the solitary temple…
At this time, the Grandmaster turned his head and looked down at the battlefield… and took a look at Wu Tian, his eyes full of disappointment… Obviously, Yang Sheng knew these secrets because Wu Tian had revealed them.
However, the master’s face did not show any signs of panic… Instead, he continued to chant the hand movements…
And Yang Sheng rushed into the temple…