The breeze passed through the vast Longcheng Pass, then blew into the vast Wujian Realm, gradually fading away.
The breeze roams in the endless realm, as if looking for something.
At first, it was confused and helpless, without a goal. After a while, it seemed to sense something, had a clear direction, and swam quickly in a certain direction.
After a long time.
The breeze stopped.
In front of Qingfeng, there was a very faint ray of light. It was originally moving very quickly, but it suddenly stopped.
A figure appeared in the escaping light.
Thanks Qingyun.
He looked ahead with a slightly surprised expression on his face, looking at a place that was clearly empty to the naked eye.
"Qingshan?" Xie Qingyun asked.
“Buzz…”
The gentle breeze was speechless, lingering around Xie Qingyun like a fish swaying in the sea of ​​clouds.
The expression on Xie Qingyun's face changed from relaxed at first, to solemn later, until he finally fell into deep thought.
When he woke up from his thoughts, he found that the breeze was still there. He smiled gently and replied with three words in a warm and mellow voice.
"Go back." He then soothed her.
Xie Qingyun smiled and waved his sleeves to bid farewell to Qingfeng.
…
Time and space reversed, and the breeze was gone.
Outside Longcheng Pass.
A corner some distance away from the city wall.
The master of Shuiyue Temple opened his eyes, his face was pale and his lips were bleeding from being bitten.
She formed seals with her hands, and bits of spiritual light continued to flow out and penetrate into the body of a handsome man standing beside her.
The man also had his eyes closed, his brows furrowed, and beads of sweat the size of beans were dripping down his forehead.
It was Lu Qingshan.
A moment later.
With a "whoosh" sound as if waking up from a nightmare, Lu Qingshan opened his eyes.
In his hand, he held a strange flower with five leaves.
At this moment, half of one of the five bright and juicy leaves gradually turned yellow and began to die.
Half withered and half full of vitality, it can be said to be extremely magical.
Obviously this is no ordinary plant.
The flower of the gods.
The head of Shuiyue Temple looked at the Wandering Spirit Flower with lingering fear, the leaves of which were swaying slightly in Lu Qingshan's hand, and turned to Lu Qingshan who had come to his senses and said solemnly: "The matter of the Wandering Spirit must not be carried out unless you are 100% sure."
How can the message be conveyed without knowing where Xie Qingyun is, across the Dragon City Pass?
This is a nearly impossible thing to do.
Unless it is an adventurous "wandering".
The mind wandering is uncontrollable and coming back is full of risks. If you are not careful, you may wander into the sky and be unable to return, but this is indeed the only way at present.
Because only it can travel through an area silently and unnoticed, and only it can allow Lu Qingshan to find Xie Qingyun, who is now unknown where he is.
Moreover, this time, the abbot of Shuiyue Temple, who is one of the best in spiritual attainments, is watching over him and can help him come back to his senses.
But even with the help of the master of Shuiyue Temple, this journey only consumed half a leaf, and it was still extremely difficult to come back to consciousness.
Therefore, it was a little difficult for the Shuiyue Temple Master to imagine how Lu Qingshan had managed to regain his consciousness on his own after consuming two leaves of the Wandering God Flower and traveling across the Central Spirit and Eastern Regions.
Perhaps it was due to Lu Qingshan's firm will and stable heart, but no matter what, there must be an element of luck involved.
The master of Shuiyue Temple can be sure of it.
"How?" There are more important things to worry about now, so the master of Shuiyue Temple put these distracting thoughts aside.
"I met the sect leader. Although I couldn't speak, he understood what I meant and gave me an answer." When you are in a trance, you can see, hear, and feel, but you can't speak.
Because you are just a spectator.
"How did the Qingyun Sword Immortal respond to you?" asked the Shuiyue Temple Master.
"He only said three words." Lu Qingshan's expression did not relax as the news was successfully delivered. He even became more depressed and nervous than before.
"What?"
"He said, I understand."
No one understands sword cultivation better than sword cultivation.
Lu Qingshan already knew what Xie Qingyun was thinking.
He looked up at the sky above Longcheng Pass.
Although the morning light was warm, Lu Qingshan felt that a storm was coming.
"I'm going to wait here," he said, "wait for the old sect master to take action."
At this point, the master of Shuiyue Temple also understood.
"Then wait."
She wanted to remain silent, thinking that she had to remain calm in front of the younger generation, but in the end, she couldn't help but ask.
"Qingyun Sword Immortal, can you win?"
"able."
…
This waiting means waiting from dawn to night, and then from night to dawn, for two consecutive cycles, until suddenly a thunder sounds in the sky.
The thunder roared and instantly spread throughout the world.
Lu Qingshan looked up with a bewildered expression, like a statue.
Where the thunder sounded, a blue light brighter than the early morning light blocked it out.
In front of the rising sun, one can vaguely see a huge green dragon head slowly emerging.
Lu Qingshan clenched his teeth, and a great fear surged in his heart.
It's finally here.
Why panic?
Because the ending is unpredictable, and one of the endings is not acceptable .
The head of the Azure Dragon seemed to be poking out from the sun, with a silent expression, overlooking the area below.
The Soul Lord's Azure Dragon appeared in the world, overwhelming the world with its might, and its brilliance even blocked out the sun.
Below him was an extremely tiny figure, not even one-tenth the size of Qinglong's eyeball.
He had his back to the sun and the Azure Dragon. His face was shrouded in darkness and could not be seen clearly. The edges of his body were coated with a layer of green and red light.
He was very small, yet seemed extremely tall, as if he was holding up the sky.
Because he is the sky, the sky of the Sword Sect, the sky of Zhongling, the Qingyun Sword Immortal.
"You knew I was waiting for you here." On the huge dragon head, between the two dragon horns, there was a figure dressed in green dragon costume standing, questioning angrily.
The Azure Dragon rules.
Xie Qingyun did not travel at night in fine clothes. Instead, at the moment of dawn, in front of all the demon cultivators in the city, he turned into a sword light without any disguise and crashed into Longcheng Pass like a meteor.
Xie Qingyun smiled and said, "I knew there were guests waiting for me at Longcheng Pass, and I didn't want to keep them waiting for too long, so I hurried over."
In Xie Qingyun's heart, Longcheng Pass has always been the city of their human race, so he is the master and Hun Zun is the guest.
The Azure Dragon Lord rode on the dragon head, looked at Xie Qingyun who was like an ant, and uttered a "hey", with a sinister and playful smile on his face.
He said, "Since you knew I was waiting for you at Longcheng Pass, but you still came, it means that you, Xie Qingyun, are not going to flee like last time to avoid Qinglong's edge, but are going to fight me head-on."
"Since there must be a war, there is no point in hiding." Xie Qingyun was very calm.
"You, Xie Qingyun, are good at fighting. You dare to come to Longcheng Pass. Most likely you have something to rely on. But I also have 100% confidence in Qinglong."
"Then let's see whether your support is stronger or my Azure Dragon is better." The Azure Dragon Lord gradually regained his composure and said with a smile.
Xie Qingyun and Hun Zun, as the strongest people in the Wujian Realm and Zhongling Realm respectively at that time, will eventually end with a peak battle.
That 's appropriate.
"However, I still have some doubts that I want to be answered, and I think you must have some questions that you want to know the answers to. In this case, before this final battle begins, why don't we help each other solve each other's doubts. In this way, no matter who of us loses in the end, at least we can die clearly." The Azure Dragon Lord asked while looking deeply at Xie Qingyun.
"Xie Qingyun, what do you think?"
Xie Qingyun did not object.
He did have a lot of doubts.
"As a sign of sincerity, you ask first." Hun Zun was like a hospitable host.
"After the first war between Taoism and demons, your Heart Demon Clan never left the human realm, right?" Xie Qingyun said without being polite.
The Azure Dragon Lord nodded and sneered, "Your Xia Daozu Chengzu has begun to expel our demon clan. The power of the ancestral realm is something that no one in our demon clan can resist, so even if the situation is very good, our eight holy demon clans can only choose to retreat back to the abyss."
"We are unwilling to give in, and I think the other seven holy demon tribes are also unwilling to do so. However, they dare not retreat. After all, the eyes of the Taoist Ancestor cannot be hidden."
"But we, the Heart Demon Clan, are different. We have the ability to control souls, a perfect and seamless ability to control souls."
"Although we lost that battle, we were sure that there would be another one. Therefore, before we retreated from the Human Realm, we selected a group of seeds with excellent qualifications from among the captured human cultivators and used the Soul Control Method to seize their souls. Then, we pretended that we were retreating in a hurry and had no time to clean up the mess. We deliberately left out the captives, including our soul fragments, and retreated back to the Infernal Realm with our army."
"Before the demons retreated, they couldn't take the prisoners with them, so they killed them all. You were the only one who showed mercy." Xie Qingyun said with a sigh.
"Yes, what's even funnier is that it was because we were the only one who didn't kill a lot of people in order to protect the souls when we retreated that Daozu Xia ignored our Heart Demon Clan when he counterattacked the Abyss. Little did he know that we were the only one who left the demons in the human domain."
"The ability to control souls is indeed not simple. Even the Dao Ancestor couldn't have thought of it, so I let you get away with it." Xie Qingyun praised generously.
"Although you chose the most talented human cultivators when you seized souls, no matter what, our cultivation system is completely different from your demon race, and it can even be said that the difference is huge. Under such circumstances, you can still cultivate to the Venerable Realm and lead the Huanling Sect to become one of the seven great Dao Sects of the human race. Your abilities are indeed high."
The Azure Dragon Lord smiled proudly and said, "Indeed, when we first took control of your human bodies and practiced your human skills, we ran into obstacles everywhere and were confused. We almost wanted to give up, but fortunately, we overcame these difficulties in the end."
"Your 'original body' should really be dead." Xie Qingyun narrowed his eyes and said again.
"That's right." The Azure Dragon Lord nodded very honestly. "There are many ways to fake death, but with a sword like yours, no matter how good the technique is, it can't steal a glimmer of life, let alone hide it from your eyes."
"Then?" This is what Xie Qingyun couldn't understand the most. Since the original body was dead, why were the Azure Dragon Lord and Azure Dragon okay?
It is clear that Soul Master did not deny the secret of controlling souls.
"Because, the 'real body' in your eyes is not my real body, it is actually just a fragment of my soul." The Azure Dragon Lord smiled grimly, with an extremely proud look on his face.
"Ten thousand years ago, I used the essence of the four spirits to refine a body of the Azure Dragon with ancestral blood."
"Then, I chose the Azure Dragon as my third soul."
"The Azure Dragon bloodline is too powerful. As time goes by, it will become stronger and stronger on its own, without even the need for cultivation. It was not until it approached the semi-ancestor stage that its progress in cultivation stopped."
At this point, Soul Venerable no longer had any thoughts of hiding anything, and he spoke slowly and calmly, "For a long time, I didn't think there was anything good about having a strong body. The source gods of our Heart Demon Clan are not weak either, right? Even if you sword immortals don't cultivate your bodies, aren't you still able to maneuver freely?"
“But as Qinglong became more powerful, after I clearly felt the almost invincible physical strength, my thoughts gradually changed.”
"Why do we, the Heart Demon Clan, have to hide the secret of the Soul Controlling Ability? It's because our true bodies are too weak, it's our weakness!"
"If the secret of our clan's soul control is leaked, the enemy will bypass the soul and attack the main body directly, just like this time."
"So, no matter how powerful the soul is, our true body can only hide like a rat in a gutter and dare not show up."
"Everyone is afraid of death, and so am I."
"Later, I thought, if my original body could possess a body as unrivaled as Azure Dragon's, then what would I have to fear in this world?"
"Unfortunately, this is just a fantasy after all, because some things are destined from birth, flowing in our blood, and cannot be changed. No matter how much the inner demon practices, it is impossible to cultivate a body as powerful as Qinglong."
"Until another three thousand years had passed. After I discovered that Yu Zun had created a technique to hide the body in the spirit of the mountain, I suddenly got inspired."
Speaking of this, the Azure Dragon Lord's face turned ruddy, showing that he was indeed very proud. "What Yu Zun did was to combine the two into one, making the body of the split soul become the armor of the main body. Then can I also learn from his idea?"
"I'm thinking hard, trying to improve it and create a method that is truly flawless."
"So, you have created a method to break free from the limitations of your body?" Xie Qingyun asked.
The Azure Dragon Lord shook his head. "It's not that simple. The Soul Control is a bloodline ability, a gift from heaven. No one has ever been able to overcome its limitations."
After a pause, the Azure Dragon Lord smiled grimly.
"It's just that your human race's method of taking over another's body gave me the most important inspiration."
"I took over my own body."
"Qinglong is too powerful. According to the rules of possession, the target must be weaker than oneself, so possession is impossible. However, Qinglong is also my soul fragment, coming from the same source, so all this becomes possible."
Soul Master did not elaborate on how difficult and dangerous the process was, but slowly told the final result: "I succeeded, so from then on, Qinglong is my real body, and my real body has become my soul."
No wonder.
Everything is clear now.
The real body of the Soul Master that Xie Qingyun had worked so hard to kill was actually just a split soul of the Soul Master, so the Azure Dragon and the Azure Dragon Master could live in peace.
Therefore, when Xie Qingyun appeared in Fuxin Mountains, White Tiger Lord was able to learn the news through his original soul at the first time, but Azure Dragon and Azure Dragon Lord knew nothing about it.
"That's great." Xie Qingyun was silent for a long time and praised sincerely.
"From then on, my only weakness will disappear, and I will be invincible." The Azure Dragon Lord sneered.
"Have you finished asking questions? Now it's my turn." He looked at the Fuyao in Xie Qingyun's hand and grinned, "My questions are much simpler than yours."
"First of all, how did you know the secret of my Heart Demon Clan's soul division?"
"You should ask your sacred beast." Xie Qingyun said "sincerely" without revealing Lu Qingshan, but went straight to the core.
"Is it it?" The Azure Dragon Lord frowned and said maliciously, "Sure enough, those who are not of my race must have different hearts."
"Is Xia Daozu still alive?"
"I don't know." Xie Qingyun shook his head.
This answer was within Hun Zun's expectations, so he did not suspect that Xie Qingyun was lying.
He continued, "The sword you used to hang upside down in the Fuxin Mountains and kill Yu Zun's body and my soul fragment was too powerful. I think even for you, it would not be so easy to use. So, you must have been seriously injured."
"Yeah." Xie Qingyun nodded.
"It's only been a short while, your injuries shouldn't have fully recovered yet?"
"It has recovered less than 50%." Xie Qingyun answered every question.
"Do you still have the confidence to defeat me?" asked the Azure Dragon Lord again.
"have."
"One last question," the Azure Dragon Lord looked down at the Dragon City Pass, then retracted his gaze and looked at Xie Qingyun, saying, "Why?"
"I'll draw my sword, and you'll know."