Ruins of the past

Listening to what 'Shi' said, the eyes of the demon monk Mi Siri moved slightly.

He stared at the dome in front of him. As the clouds and mists in the shell changed, Mi Siri's eyes seemed to be able to see the movement of the stars, the roar of the universe, and countless great secrets.

Mi Siri murmured: "Will God really come? Will He... really set his sights on us, who are insignificant?"

Memories of his childhood and adulthood seemed to flash through his mind.

The reason why the Snow Mountain Demon Kingdom can continue is because the Han Dynasty court has never sent a strong enough force to encircle and suppress it.

The reason why they didn't do this was because the continuous snow-capped mountains were a completely bitter cold land for them and were not suitable for development at all.

Even if it is defeated, it will only lose troops and generals, and there will be no benefit at all. If you want to maintain your rule in such mountains, you will only continue to lose money.

In this kind of environment where the imperial court is too lazy to fight down, even the monsters naturally have a hard time.

Except for a few nobles, most monsters struggle between life and death every day.

Although Mi Siri belonged to a noble with dragon bloodline, he knew that life in the snowy mountains was hard when he was very young. Cold and hunger killed the monsters in his clan every day.

In order to survive, they can only eat the weak and the strong, and constantly eliminate the weak monsters in the clan.

In order to obtain food for the winter, they would cross Xuanji Mountain every year, and rob humans of food while being pursued and intercepted by the Demon Suppressor and the imperial army.

Every year, monsters want to escape from the snowy mountains and go to live in the rich human world.

But all along, the Han Dynasty court was like a big mountain pressing on their heads.

This mountain has blocked their development path, and it has also locked the upper limit of their number, so that they can only survive in the snow-capped mountains.

In a difficult and desperate environment, many monsters also place their hopes on faith.

For example, the Jie Sect and Buddhism, which have been widely spread in Shuzhou for the past two hundred years, have followers in the Demon Kingdom.

God seems to be the only power they can think of that can take them out of this predicament.

The demon monk Mi Siri was originally a believer in Buddhism, but the Buddha did not bring him hope. The one who really gave him hope... was the God of Heaven.

Mi Siri murmured in his heart: 'Generation after generation... generation after generation of monsters have died in this bitter cold land. ’

‘In order for our descendants not to live like this again, I need the power of the gods. ’

Shi's voice continued to ring in his heart: "Whether it's a human being or a monster, they are all as small as insects in this vast universe, projecting their own idolatry to some of the great beings in the universe. superior."

"You are incompetent, short-sighted and insignificant, and He cares nothing for your existence."

As Shi's voice kept flashing through Mi Siri's mind, the demon warrior god's eyes became more and more confused.

"However, in the near future, He will eventually return and open up a terrifying scene about the present world. The past, present, and future will all return to His embrace."

"What is born will be destroyed, and what is destroyed will be reborn."

"Abominations wait in the abyss to awaken from the eternal dream. Decline spreads across the precarious empire of mankind. The moment you have been waiting for will finally come..."

Mi Siri walked up to the dome, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, seeming to reveal a smile: "I understand, I will prepare the magic dye and talisman water... I will wait for his return."

The voice of "Shi" did not come again, and it seemed that the connection with Mi Siri had been severed.

Misiri reached out and touched the 'egg' in front of her, a look of obsession gradually flashed in her eyes.

"God...do you really not love your creation?"

…

Lingzhou, inside the Tianyu Pavilion.

The building that Chu Qiguang originally moved into the Buddhist world has been moved back.

In the Tianyu Building, the two parties held further talks on future cooperation.

The meeting pointed out that Tianyu School has since reached a strategic cooperative relationship with Chu Qiguang. Both parties emphasized that they must fully grasp the development of bilateral relations, further strengthen coordination and cooperation, consolidate Tianyu School’s support responsibilities, and ensure that support tasks are completed on time and with high quality. .

Chu Qiguang emphasized that he will attach great importance to the profound friendship with the Tianyu School, comprehensively promote the mutual awareness of both parties, strengthen martial arts exchanges, improve the health care system, achieve standardized development, and effectively protect the subject rights of every martial arts god.

Fei Yi said that Chu Qiguang and Yunyang Chamber of Commerce are old friends and good friends of the Tianyu School. Today, we can feel the rapid changes in Lingzhou. He will continue to work hard for the friendship between the two parties and deepen the friendship on the basis of mutual benefit. , enhance mutual trust and expand cooperation...

As Chu Qiguang reached a consensus with the Martial Gods of the Tianyu School, he, Fei Yi and the other four old Martial Gods... a total of six Taoist masters formed a terrifying community of interests in Lingzhou.

On the second day of the meeting, in line with the willingness of both parties to exchange martial arts, Chu Qiguang was also invited to a forbidden area of ​​Tianyu School to observe their entry-level method "Fire Fire Pear Blossom Spear".

What appeared in front of him was a spear more than two meters long, with flame patterns all over its body.

The gun body is neither iron nor silver. It does not seem to be made of any metal, but the bones of some kind of monster.

Lines of writing came from Chu Qiguang's seeker's eyes.

"The martial arts method originally known as the Nine Yang Rebirth Method."

"It's the mysterious martial arts taught by the Holy Emperor 'Ji' to the generals."

"It is said that the Nine Yang Rebirth Method contains the secret of the Phoenix."

"The last phoenix burned its own blood for the Holy Emperor's wish, but could never be reborn."

The Ci Ri Martial God on the side said: "My sect's "Fire Fire Pear Blossom Spear" was passed down seven hundred years ago. At that time, when the Great Xia Dynasty ruled the Central Plains, martial arts and Taoism were unprecedentedly prosperous."

"It is said that a martial god found this spear from the ruins of the former Han Dynasty and understood the martial arts of the "Fire Fire Pear Blossom Spear"."

Chu Qiguang looked at the spear in front of him, stretched out his hand to touch the gun body, and could feel the heat flowing from it.

There was even a tremor like a heartbeat, as if the spear was still alive.

Chu Qiguang said, "Can I take this gun back to meditate for a few days? I can leave the Sumeru King Sutra here in exchange."

"This...exchange?"

Several Martial Gods looked at each other. They had never encountered such a situation where they had to take away the treasures of Tianyu School.

They originally thought that the communication was to take it out in person to communicate with each other, but they didn't expect to take it out.

Several old martial arts gods felt strange at the thought of the other party taking the "Fire Fire Pear Blossom Spear" out for a few days to play with.

In the end, it was Ci Sun Martial God who made the decision and made a decision that went against his ancestors and lent the "Fire Fire Pear Blossom Spear" to Chu Qiguang for a few days.

So after leaving the "Sumishan King Sutra" in the Tianyu Pavilion, Chu Qiguang took the "Fire Fire Pear Blossom Spear" in one hand and the Thunder Jade Book in the other, and disappeared into the gate of the Buddhist world.

In the dark Buddhist world, Chu Qiguang could see that the spear in his hand was emitting a faint light, as if there was a flame burning inside the gun body.

Beside Chu Qiguang, Lei Yushu, who was holding Chu Qiguang's hand, stared at the spear, with curiosity appearing in his eyes from time to time.

Chu Qiguang still remembered what Qiao Zhi told him. If the original historical trajectory was followed, Lei Yushu should have joined the Tianyu School and finally became a Taoist Martial God with the "Fire Fire Pear Blossom Spear".

He asked curiously: "Do you want to practice this?"

Lei Yushu looked at Chu Qiguang with admiration, shook his head and said, "I want to practice your Master Xumi Mountain King Sutra."

…

After returning to Yaoyin Village, Chu Qiguang found the Demon Cat again, intending to obtain new technology from the void.

I saw him holding the "Fire Pear Blossom Spear" in one hand and stroking the devil cat's head with the other.

As the knowledge of "Fire Fire Pear Blossom Spear" continued to flow out, streams of demon dye poured directly into the body of the demon cat.

The demon cat in front of me has countless fleshy spines, eyes, and mouths all over its body...

And Chu Qiguang's eyes had turned into darkness.

His consciousness broke through the limitations of the physical body and came to a dark and unknown area.

It was still the same experience as the previous few times, until finally the information about "Fire Fire Pear Blossom Gun" rang in Chu Qiguang's ears.

"My emperor knows people well, is kind and thrifty, rests and supports the people, listens to advice, works hard to govern, appoints talents and innovates... Regardless of martial arts or Taoism, he has amazing talents, which are rare in ten thousand years..."

Chu Qiguang was stunned for a moment, and then he realized it the next moment: ‘This guy is flattering me, right? Was the emperor by his side when this person entered the information? ’

This is the first time Chu Qiguang has heard so much flattery in Void Information.

After listening for a while, the other party finally got down to business.

"The "Nine Yang Rebirth Method" is the martial arts method created by our emperor."

"Contains the secret of the circulation of qi and blood and the transformation of yin and yang."

"The blood-eating technique created based on this method can use the mutual devouring of qi and blood as the driving force to propel the physical body."

"Coupled with the immortal medicine taught by Tianshi, we will definitely be able to create an immortal army that is truly invincible in the world. By then, my big man will be able to sweep across the universe and swallow up all the wastes."

"Leave a record again for future generations to refer to..."

Chu Qiguang pondered the words left in this message and thought to himself: 'An army of immortals? ’

He had read the immortal legends about the former Han Dynasty from the classics, all of which were about the disaster caused by the Holy Emperor's pursuit of immortality.

But judging from this information, it seems that the Holy Emperor is not only pursuing his own immortality, but also wants to create an immortal and invincible army.

'And it's different from the message I heard in "The Demon Sword". The person speaking this time didn't feel depressed at all. ’

Chu Qiguang still remembered that the last time he heard the information about "The Demon-Suppressing Sword", the voice was full of unwillingness, resentment and decadence. He also said that only two of the four major scriptures had been collected, and he still did not change his destiny.

But in the message of "Fire Fire Pear Spear" in front of me, there is full confidence in the future.

‘It seems that “Fire Fire Pear Blossom Spear” will be recorded before “Demon-Subduing Sword”. ’

Next, a technique called 'Blood Devouring Technique' surged back and forth in Chu Qiguang's mind, deeply engraved into his memory.

A large amount of information was continuously poured into his mind. When Chu Qiguang came back to his senses, his consciousness had returned to Yaoyin Village.

He thought about this harvest, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

This technique called 'Blood Devouring Technique' can produce a more powerful driving force through the mutual devouring of Qi and blood.

‘If you use it on yourself, it’s just an explosive method. ’

‘But if it can be used in a Qi and blood machine, the efficiency and durability can be greatly improved. ’

Thinking of this, Chu Qiguang came to the blood pool and summoned a farmer soaked in it.

As he cast the Blood-devouring Book on the Farmer, a roaring and vibrating sound came from the Farmer's body.

Chu Qiguang took a closer look and found that in addition to the original energy-blood push, the farmer had an additional mode of energy-blood mutual depletion.

In this mode, as qi and blood eat each other, the amount of qi and blood in this farmer's body is decreasing.

However, the power of the farmers continued to flow out with this reduction, and their output was even comparable to that of warriors in the second realm.

So next, Chu Qiguang simply used the blood-devouring technique on a large number of farmers, laborers, blood machines, and even demon Buddhas, and then left the specific function development to the workshop for arrangement.

‘The helper is almost done, now I should work hard to improve my own strength. ’

Chu Qiguang calculated that the four old martial arts gods Zhong Shan'e, Juno, Fei Yi and Tianyu School he had attracted so far should be enough.

Next, before the war started, he decided to focus his main energy on improving his strength.

Chu Qiguang's current two routes to improve his strength are martial arts on the one hand, and Taoism on the other.

Martial arts mainly relies on his own diligent study and practice.

Taoism, on the other hand, is through understanding the "Record of Ten Thousand Ghosts", and what is needed is for him to transcend various types of ghosts.

To save ghosts, you first need to find ghosts. In this regard, he has been collecting information from all the major forces under his command.

In the next period of time, he took advantage of the opportunity to communicate with the Tianyu School and planned to learn from others' strengths and learn more martial arts to try and continue to improve his martial arts realm.

…

Yong'an 18 years, mid-November.

There was desolation between heaven and earth.

The autumn wind swept by, and the leaves fell one after another, and the withered yellow leaves fell to the ground one by one.

In the blink of an eye, Lingzhou has entered late autumn.

At this moment in the Tianyu Pavilion, Chu Qiguang was holding a stack of secret books in his hand, shaking his head and sighing: "It seems that this is the bottleneck of martial arts."

For more than half a month, Chu Qiguang tried to practice several martial arts from the Tianyu School, and even used the gifts of the Ring of Fool several times to forcibly improve and integrate the martial arts.

Although there has been some progress, whether it is physical fitness, blood, strength, explosiveness... all qualities have improved.

But it was much slower than his previous improvement.

He turned his head and looked at the eight twisted halos behind him, and felt that his martial arts strength seemed to be stuck at the limit of the 8th ring. No matter how hard he tried to improve, it was difficult to cross the upper limit of the 8th ring.

‘If level 8 is the upper limit for becoming a Martial God, then if you want to break through this limit, you may need to learn the next secret book. ’

'For example, in my "Sumishan King Sutra", I need to continue to comprehend the "Dragon and Elephant Great Freedom Power". ’

'Or...directly switch to Taoism and achieve a breakthrough in "The Record of Ten Thousand Ghosts". ’