"That night, how did you shoot those mounted bandits?"
"It's simple. I used my Psyche Power to locate them in the dark."
"But how did you locate their vital parts?"
"Psyche Power."
"How did you do it from such a long distance?"
"Because my Psyche Power is very strong."
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"But you … don't have a good aptitude for cultivation. The amount of Qi of Heaven and Earth you can control is so little."
"Needles are not as heavy as knives, but they can still stab people."
"It's really a strange idea. And … don't you think it's a waste to fight in this way? It consumes too much Psyche Power in the sense of perception to lock the opponent's position and figure. "
"As I said before, my Psyche Power is very strong."
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"Have you ever thought about becoming a Psyche Master?"
"No."
"Why?"
"Because I'm a genius in Talisman Taoism. Of course I want to become a Talisman Master like you."
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"That night when you killed the deacon of the Divine Hall, you didn't use a talisman."
"I'm used to using a knife. There are talismans carved on the knife."
"Your fighting style is really different from ordinary cultivators."
"I'm a genius. Of course I don't take the ordinary path."
"But why do I always feel that it's a forced choice?"
"My pride has been hurt by you again."
"I won't lie."
"That's why you can hurt me."
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"Do you feel that the Qi of Heaven and Earth in the forest at the foot of the mountain is very rich?"
"Yes, a little."
"You don't seem to care much about the aura between heaven and earth."
"I care more about the aura in my body."
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From the snow ridge of the Wilderness to the foot of the Cang Mountain, this kind of conversation kept happening between Ning Que and Mo Shanshan. Sometimes Ning Que's mind became a little confused. He always felt that he had returned to the back of the mountain of the Academy or the old library, talking nonsense with the annoying guy Chen Pipi.
The discussion in his eyes was nonsense, but it was very important to Mo Shanshan. This young Heavenly Son, who was obsessed with calligraphy and talisman, gradually deepened her understanding of Ning Que's cultivation method through these conversations. Then, as the two of them got closer to the Snow-capped Peak of Tianqi Mountain, her expression became more and more worried, and a little lost and helpless.
The two rested beside a tiny hot spring. Ning Que looked at her slightly drooping eyelids and her long eyelashes resting on her fair skin. He thought of her emotional changes along the way and could no longer suppress the confusion in his heart. He asked seriously, "What are you worried about?"
Mo Shanshan raised her head and looked at Ning Que silently, as if she was watching the most dazzling gem gradually being buried by the wind and sand. Her eyes were full of worry and worry. She said softly, "I'm worried that you will join the Devil."
Ning Que was slightly startled and then laughed.
Influenced by the novels in that world, because of his life experience in this world, and because of the open-minded environment of the Academy, it was really difficult for him to instinctively resist and dislike the Devil's Doctrine. But he was a very realistic person. He understood that his thoughts might not be wrong, but if he really cultivated the Devil's Doctrine's cultivation method, it would definitely lead to countless troubles.
He said with a smile, "I'm the core disciple of the Headmaster of the Academy. Naturally, I can't be like those poor people who have been insulted and hurt but are unable to retaliate. I can't sell my soul to the devil for things like power or power."
Mo Shanshan quietly looked at his clean and pleasant face. Thinking of what she had seen and heard along the way, she was more and more sure that he was a guy who did not care about the means to achieve his goals. She could not feel that he had the slightest fear for Haotian at all. And the cultivation method he chose now, whether passively or actively, was particularly focused on his own physical skills. He rarely studied how to communicate with the Breath of Heaven and Earth. If he continued on this path, it would be easy to step into the wrong path.
Especially now that he was getting closer and closer to the mountain that was abandoned by Haotian.
Mo Shanshan reached out to pick up the snowflakes by the hot spring and gently blew them off. She expressionlessly looked at the black and white mountain range not far away. After a long silence, she said, "Can you promise me one thing?"
Ning Que asked, "What is it?"
Mo Shanshan looked back at him and said seriously, "If you encounter the Devil's Doctrine's cultivation method in this mountain, don't learn it."
Hearing this, Ning Que could not help but be stunned. He looked at the desolate mountain range that stretched between heaven and earth in the distance. He thought that he had heard from the Desolate Man's tribe that people from the Divine Hall had entered this mountain and guessed that it had something to do with the Tomes of Arcane. Why did Mo Shanshan suddenly mention the Devil's Doctrine's cultivation method?
Mo Shanshan's eyelashes fluttered slightly and she softly said, "The Front Gate of the Devil's Doctrine is in this mountain range that was abandoned by Haotian. However, the mountain is so vast that not many people know where it is except for the senior sublime being who destroyed the Front Gate."
Ning Que gradually digested the shock in his heart. He frowned and looked at the mountain range. After a moment of silence, he said, "I really don't know about this. No one told me about it."
"The information given to me by the Desolate Man's tribe was very clear. The people from the Divine Hall snuck into the Wilderness to cause trouble to attract the attention of the powerhouses of the Desolate Man and the Senior Patriarch Society. The real powerhouses of the Divine Hall had all snuck into this mountain."
"The information given to me by Chang 'an was that the Divine Hall wanted to find the Tomes of Arcane and they thought that the Tomes of Arcane was in the Desolate Man's tribe. That was why I was a little curious as to why they would enter the mountain."
He withdrew his gaze and looked at Mo Shanshan with a frown. He said, "If the Divine Hall thought that the Tomes of Arcane was still in the Front Gate of the Devil's Doctrine and that the Front Gate of the Devil's Doctrine had always been in Tianqi Mountain, then why didn't the people from the Divine Hall come to find the Tomes of Arcane before? Why did they only come to look for it when the Desolate Man was heading south? "
Mo Shanshan shook her head and used her fingers to tuck the fluttering strands of hair behind her ears. She said, "Once an otherworldly item like the 'Ming' Handscroll of the Tomes of Arcane appears in the world, it must respond to the Heavenly Secret. This is not an Opportunity that you and I can understand or guess. However, in my opinion, the possibility of the Tomes of Arcane being in the Desolate Man's tribe is certainly not as high as the Front Gate of the Devil's Doctrine."
Ning Que asked, "Why?"
Mo Shanshan answered, "Because things like the Tomes of Arcane should originally be in the Unknown Place."
The conversation in the sparse forest at the foot of the mountain constantly shocked Ning Que. He vaguely remembered that he should have heard of the Unknown Place, but he could not remember what it was about.
He asked seriously, "What is the Unknown Place?"
Mo Shanshan was stunned and realized that he was not joking. She answered seriously, "It is a place that people can't reach."
Ning Que rubbed his eyebrows and said helplessly, "Can you be more specific?"
Mo Shanshan frowned and looked at him as if she was looking at a very strange tree. After a moment of silence, she said, "The Unknown Place refers to those mysterious places outside the secular world. Very few people can see these places with their own eyes. Even those who have been there will not talk about it after they come out. Therefore, for thousands of years, only some legends about the Unknown Place have been circulating in the cultivation world."
Ning Que did not explain further. He said, "If the Divine Hall is not counted as the Unknown Place, then I think the Devil's Doctrine is just a branch of the Divine Hall. Why is its Front Gate called the Unknown Place?"
Upon hearing this question, Mo Shanshan answered very seriously, "When I was young, I once asked my teacher. According to my teacher, it is because the Great Divine Priest of Light who founded the Devil's Doctrine had already become an unparalleled demon who surpassed the Five States when he established the Front Gate of the Devil's Doctrine. That is why there is such a saying."
"Surpassed the Five States?"
Ning Que thought of the legendary sages that Elder Lu Qingchen had told him about. Those terrifying Great States of Tianqi and Limitless made his mind shake. He felt that those Unknown Places were so far away and untouchable.
"Apart from the abandoned Front Gate of the Devil's Doctrine, I believe that there must be the existence of powerhouses who surpassed the Five States in other Unknown Places. However, these powerhouses are few in number and basically do not appear in the world. Only a young disciple will appear in the human world every few years and is called the World Wayfarer. Once these World Wayfarer appear in the human world, they are Grand Cultivators in the Knowing Destiny State. Even Liu Bai, the Sage of Sword, the strongest powerhouse in the world in the South Jin Kingdom, will be afraid of them. "
Mo Shanshan looked at Ning Que with a very complicated look. The message in her eyes seemed to be saying that what she had just said was not the same as what she had seen with her own eyes. Therefore, she was not confident.
Ning Que did not notice the look in her eyes. He was still immersed in the shock brought by these secrets of the cultivation world. He recalled his daily life in the back of the mountain of the Academy and became more and more angry that Second Brother, Third Sister, and Chen Pipi did not even tell him such an important thing.
He frowned and said, "If things like the Tomes of Arcane can only exist in the Unknown Places, then those who are qualified to snatch the Tomes of Arcane should be those World Wayfarer from the Unknown Places. I originally thought that I might encounter competitors at most at the level of the Tao Addict or Long Qing, so I could always compete with them. However, if I encounter those Grand Cultivators in the Knowing Destiny State, it seems that I can't compete with them."
For some reason, Mo Shanshan felt that she completely did not understand what this guy was trying to say. She frowned and asked, "What on earth are you thinking about?"
Ning Que looked at her and said very sincerely and honestly, "I am thinking if we should go back to the south immediately. If you are not happy about it, I can take you to Chang 'an City to play and eat osmanthus cake."
Mo Shanshan opened her eyes wide and looked at him inexplicably. She did not know what to say.
Ning Que did not know what to say either. He fell into a long silence and thought.
It was really a bit inexplicable that the trip to the Wilderness had developed to the present situation. Big events jumped in front of him one after another, and no one had warned or warned him in advance. Even such important news as the "Ming" Handscroll of the Tomes of Arcane was not told to him until the last moment. No matter how he looked at it, this kind of response and planning ability did not match the reputation of the Tang Empire and the Academy …
His Majesty and the Nation Master Li Qingshan would not harm him, and Master Yan Se would not harm him either. His Senior Brothers and Sisters in the Academy might not be involved in this matter, but if it involved the Unknown Places, he did not believe that Second Brother would not have any interest in it. But why did these guys let him come without saying anything?
As a guy who participated in the practice for the first time in the history of the Second floor of the Academy, His Majesty and the elders in the South School might have other ideas. But what was Second Brother thinking? Ning Que became more and more lost in thought. His eyes gradually brightened, and then suddenly dimmed as if he was suffering from some kind of horror. His body became very stiff.
That was because he remembered a passage that went like this: Fate itself is a very cruel fellow. If it wants to choose you to undertake a mission, then before it is sure that you are able to undertake this mission, it will do everything it can to break every bone in your body, strip every bit of your flesh, and make you suffer the most extreme pain in the world. Only in this way can your will and temperament be strong enough to qualify to be chosen by fate …
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This passage was told to him by Chen Pipi.
This passage was told to Chen Pipi by Second Brother.
This passage was told to him by the legendary Youngest Uncle.
Everyone in the back of the mountain of the Academy knew that Second Brother was the most brainless follower of Youngest Uncle and the most fanatical fan. He wanted to be close to Youngest Uncle no matter in words, deeds or style of doing things. Thinking of the famous words of Youngest Uncle, Second Brother threw Ning Que into the vast Wilderness and let him, a weak person in the No Doubts State, face many powerhouses in the Divine Hall, World Wayfarers from the Unknown Place, and face a miserable life. Then he got the answer.
Ning Que could not help but shiver. He looked at the mountain innocently and helplessly like a drowning child. In his heart, he had already cursed Second Brother and called him the ancient crown on his head — a wooden club.
At this time, the Big Black Horse went somewhere to fill its stomach, and slowly walked back with resentment in its eyes.
Ning Que looked at the Big Black Horse and thought of its insufferably arrogant performance in the Royal Court Horse Race. He gradually calmed down the fear and uneasiness in his heart. He frowned and thought for a long time, and suddenly asked,
"Is the result more important or the process?"
Mo Shanshan was slightly startled and answered, "I think it's the process."
Ning Que shook his head and said, "I used to think it was the result. Later when I comprehended talisman, I thought it was the process that mattered. Now I understand that both are equally important. But without the process, there is no result."
Mo Shanshan said, "You are not a person who is used to saying such things."
Ning Que looked at her and suddenly laughed. He said, "Because I have confirmed my purpose of coming to the Wilderness."
"What is it?"
"It has nothing to do with the" Ming "Handscroll of the Tomes of Arcane and the Front Gate of the Devil's Doctrine. The reason I came to the Wilderness in the beginning was to participate in the Academy's practice. The purpose of those Academy students' practice is to march and fight, and my purpose of practice is naturally to cultivate."
Ning Que said in a very affirmative tone, "The Academy let me come to the Wilderness, hoping that I can understand something in this process. This is the process, and breaking the state into the Seethrough State is the purpose of this cultivation journey."
Mo Shanshan slowly raised her eyebrows and said incredulously, "You understood it at the beginning of spring, felt it at the end of spring, and then the No Doubts State. Do you want to break the state into the Seethrough State in less than a year?"
Ning Que said seriously, "I have told you before that I am not far from the Seethrough State."
Mo Shanshan gently shook her head and said, "Wang Jinglue of the Tang Dynasty entered the Seethrough State at the age of 16, but he was enlightened at the age of four. I entered the Seethrough State at the age of 14, but I was enlightened at the age of three. I don't know about the Tao Addict, but Prince Long Qing entered the Seethrough State at a younger age, but I believe he also spent a long time. I have never heard of anyone who entered the Seethrough State within a year. Even if you are the core disciple of the Headmaster of the Academy, you have not even seen the Headmaster of the Academy. This idea is really … "
Ning Que smiled and thought, "That is because you have not stayed in the back of the mountain of the Academy. There are too many freaks in cultivation there. However, except for Second Brother, the rest of the Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters seem not to be interested in cultivation. If they put their obsession with chess, zither, flowers and other miscellaneous things into cultivation, they might have already entered the Knowing Destiny State."
Thinking of the great Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters in the back of the mountain of the Academy, Ning Que regained his confidence. Looking at the vast snow mountains, he was full of pride and said loudly, "Are World Wayfarers so great?"
Hearing this, Mo Shanshan's thin red lips slightly opened, but she could not say a word. She thought with a complicated and angry expression, "How could I fall in love with such a stupid person in the summer by the Ink Lake?"
Ning Que looked at her speechless expression and laughed proudly. He said, "Don't be shocked, don't admire me. I am a person chosen by God who dares to face the bleak life, cruel fate, dripping blood, and countless dangers."
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Prince Long Qing stood between the black rock walls, tired of the dark clouds in front of him and the flying snow in the distance. He looked back at the deep desolate and deep mountain range. This mountain range was originally the end of the northern foot of Min Mountain, but it was called Tianqi Mountain Range in the language of grassland barbarians and the records of the Divine Hall.
After the Great Divine Priest of Light betrayed the Divine Hall and founded the Devil's Doctrine, he led his followers to build the Front Gate of the Devil's Doctrine in this mountain range. From that day on, this mountain range eroded by filth was abandoned by Haotian.
A small snowflake was brought from the cliff to his face by the wind, but it could not touch his beautiful face and flew away, which made him gradually frown.
After a thousand years, another Great Divine Priest of Light betrayed the Divine Hall. He did not know what kind of stain it would bring to the glory of Haotian and what kind of damage it would cause to the cause of the Divine Hall.
Although he was the God's favored one who was cultivated by the Divine Hall and was the perfect Son of God in the eyes of the world, he was still young and inexperienced. Above him were the Tao Addict Ye Hongyu, the Great Divine Priest of Judgment, and the Hierarch Lord. He was not qualified to participate in the betrayal of the Great Divine Priest of Light and could only think about it.
The Great Divine Priest of Light destroyed the Confinement, left the You Prison, and betrayed the Peach Mountain, which made the West-Hill Divine Palace fall into great chaos. Almost at the same time, the Great Divine Priest of Revelation who returned from the south sent a Haotian edict at the cost of half of his hair turning white.
Sensing the Desolate Man's southward movement, the filthy Unknown Place in Tianqi Mountain reappeared after decades.
The Divine Hall had never given up looking for the "Ming" Handscroll of the Tomes of Arcane lost in the Wilderness. After the madman split the Front Gate of the Devil's Doctrine into ruins with a single sword, it was said that someone from Haotian Taoism had personally searched for it once, but found nothing. Therefore, the Divine Hall had always thought that the Tomes of Arcane had been taken to the Cold Region of the Far North by the Desolate Man.
However, at this time, the Great Divine Priest of Revelation issued such an edict.
Prince Long Qing's frown deepened. It did not affect his handsome face, but it looked a little serious.
The Front Gate of the Devil's Doctrine was the only Unknown Place that had been destroyed. Once it was reopened, many things would definitely be found. Those things were probably no different from garbage to the madman and the person who went to search for the Tomes of Arcane. But for the Tao Addict and other young cultivators in the world, they were very precious.
He believed in Haotian fervently and yearned for the light. Naturally, he would not be interested in those filthy and dark Devil's Doctrine skills. But after all, he was the Priest of the Judicial Department and knew some historical truths that had been annihilated by time. He thought that even if he could not find the "Ming" Handscroll of the Tomes of Arcane, if he could inherit the mantle of the madman, this trip would be very meaningful.
But how much Lucky Chance did it require?
Prince Long Qing looked at the mountain that had been abandoned by Haotian and said calmly, "This is also a kind of cultivation."
Dozens of feet below the cliff, a deacon of the Judicial Department dressed in black appeared. The deacon humbly bowed to Prince Long Qing and then said a few words. His voice was blown intermittently by the cold wind between the mountains. Ordinary people could not hear it, but it was very clear in Prince Long Qing's ears.
All the masters of the Divine Hall had come out. The powerhouses of the Desolate Man's tribe and even a few elders of the Senior Statesman's Society had been attracted to the west. The Tianqi Mountain in the east now seemed very empty, but …
"There are three deacons missing?"
Prince Long Qing looked at the subordinate under the cliff expressionlessly. It seemed that he was simply asking, without the slightest emotion. Only he himself knew that when he heard the name of the deacon, he was a little annoyed.
One of the three missing deacons was called Luo Weiyang, who was at the lower stage of the Seethrough realm. He was a very capable subordinate of Prince Long Qing. But this was not a big deal. The important thing was that he was Luo Kedi's brother.
Luo Kedi himself was not a big deal. The important thing was that he was the most favored commander of the divine guards of the Hierarch Lord.
Because of his gloomy expression, the subordinate under the cliff became more and more nervous. He lowered his head and continued to report, "Mr. Thirteen from the Second floor of the Academy has also left the palace. He should be coming here. The specific route is unknown. I only know that he should be traveling with the Calligraphy Addict from the Black Ink Garden."
Prince Long Qing slowly raised his sword-like eyebrows and a faint smile appeared on his face. He said to himself, "It's a little interesting. He has actually begun to travel around the world. But has there ever been a World Wayfarer as weak as you in the past thousand years?"
Then his smile gradually faded and turned into frost as the cold wind brushed against his cheeks.
As a young powerhouse who was absolutely qualified to be proud, Prince Long Qing had only lost to Ning Que once in his life. So after hearing Ning Que's name, his pride naturally turned into anger and displeasure.
Although he hid it very well and was still calm and peaceful, from climbing the mountain in spring to climbing the mountain in the harsh winter today, no one in the Divine Hall could see it. But he knew that the anger and displeasure had always been there.
When he left Chang 'an in spring, thanks to that failure, he saw the threshold of the Knowing Destiny State waiting for him on the other side of the mountain. But it was also because of that failure that he saw the threshold on the other side of the mountain. He had no way to get close to it, let alone cross it.
Anger and displeasure would not have an essential impact on the Taoist Heart. But the hidden unwillingness and imbalance were definitely the greatest damage to the clarity of the Taoist Heart.
He was very proud, so he was unwilling. He did not dare to question the Headmaster's choice, but he believed that the Academy Examination was not presided over by the Headmaster himself. So there must be other reasons why he lost to Ning Que.
Because he could not be worse than Ning Que.
To prove this, he needed to defeat or even destroy that guy in all aspects.
The Great Divine Priest of Judgment had said so. The Hierarch had not said so, but his cold eyes had said so before he left. Ye Hongyu, that crazy woman, had also said so with her scornful smile. So he knew he had to do this.
"I'll wait for you in this mountain."
Prince Long Qing looked at the black and lowly stones at the foot of the Snow-capped Peak and said with a self-mocking smile, "I'm about to become the first person in history to defeat a World Wayfarer. Why don't I feel any sense of accomplishment?"
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