The Qi of Heaven and Earth in Chang 'an was so vast that it could not be calculated. At this moment, it was pouring into Ning Que's body through the array eye pestle along his left hand.
The Qi of Heaven and Earth had no substance or quality. It was clearer than the clearest water and lighter than the lightest air. But there was too much of it entering his body, which naturally brought him an unbearable burden.
If an ordinary person, even a cultivator at the peak of the Knowing Destiny State, had absorbed so much Qi of Heaven and Earth in such a short period of time, he would have been crushed to death.
But Ning Que cultivated the Great Spirit and his body was stronger than steel. Except for the Abbey Dean who cultivated the Taoism, Buddhism and the Devil's Doctrine, and Third Sister Yu Lian who was the leader of the Devil's Doctrine, no one was stronger than him.
His body was like a container made of stainless steel, which was used to make the Primordial Thirteen Arrows. It withstood the Qi of Heaven and Earth and compressed it to an unimaginable degree.
At this moment, he was like a seashell in the depths of the sea. His body and soul were under terrible pressure, but he did not know when they could condense into dazzling pearls.
It was a very painful process. But he showed no expression on his face, except for his eyelashes that kept blinking and the snow on his clothes that kept melting. He just looked at the Abbey Dean.
The wounds on his body opened up again, and blood gushed out. The blood was like red jade, and when it came into contact with the cold wind on the street, it dispersed into extremely fine particles.
Those particles left the surface of his clothes and drifted in the air around him. They looked like flames or fog. He looked like a burning man, or an extremely cold man of ice.
He continued to pull out his cutlass.
The sharp blade slowly rose from the bluestone cracks on the Vermilion Bird Avenue, bringing out black mud and was about to leave the snow. Many things happened in Chang 'an.
…
…
In the early morning, the Abbey Dean waved his sleeves to break the Stone Array Tactics, entered the city, and defeated the Eldest Brother and Third Sister of the Academy. Then many Divine Talismans appeared in front of him, telling him that it was a dead end.
From that moment until he saw the Abbey Dean in the wind and snow on the Vermilion Bird Avenue, Ning Que went to many places in Chang 'an and erased many traces left by Haotian in the God-stunning Array.
Though he didn't completely repair the God-stunning Array, he left behind enough Divine Talismans — those Divine Talismans were formed by two knife marks, which looked like the Chinese character "Yi".
These Divine Talismans put the Abbey Dean in a difficult position. They prevented him from entering the Imperial Palace and destroying the Array Eye of the God-stunning Array. They forced him to walk into the wind and snow on the Vermilion Bird Avenue and kill Ning Que first.
Ning Que was seriously injured by the seven Natural Stream Magical Fingers. He did not continue to write the Talisman of Yi because it was meaningless. However, the hundreds of Talismans he wrote did not disappear. Instead, they continued to float in the streets and alleys of Chang 'an under the support of the God-stunning Array and gradually disappeared into the wind and snow.
As he unsheathed his sword, hundreds of Yi Talismans reappeared.
On the street, at the end of the alley.
In the well, in front of the yamen.
Behind the wall, in the garden.
Under the willows, beside the plum trees.
Hundreds of "Yi" Talismans reappeared in Chang 'an!
Inconceivably, these divine talismans were still changing.
To be precise, these Yi talismans were changing shape.
These "Yi" Talismans were formed by two knife marks, which were two strokes.
One stroke and one stroke.
As Ning Que unsheathed his sword, the stroke slowly rose to the right, as if it was going to float away from the stroke.
This stroke was like an arrow. The invisible bowstring was pulled back, farther and farther away from the bow, and at the same time, it was accumulating more and more power.
It was also like a knife that was leaving the ground and was about to show its sharpness.
…
…
Unsheathing a sword was a very simple action. Ning Que had repeated it countless times in his life. He was very familiar with it, so he finished it in a very short time.
The changes in the streets and alleys of Chang 'an also happened in a very short time.
The situation suddenly changed. The first person to feel the changes in Ning Que and Chang 'an was not the Abbey Dean, Eldest Brother, or the people on the snowy street. It was the sky above their heads.
The water at the bottom of the well at the entrance of the alley had long been frozen. Suddenly, two knife marks appeared. Two knife marks appeared on the snow-covered bell, and two knife marks appeared on the Yanming Lake.
The water in the well began to ripple again, and so did the sound of the bell. The willow branches by the Yanming Lake began to sway in the cold wind. Thick snow fell from the pine trees in the Tantuo Temple. A fat squirrel sat on the food for the winter under its buttocks and kept rubbing its forelimbs. It did not understand why it was frozen before.
The aura that enveloped the lakes, mountains, pagodas and temples instantly disappeared as hundreds of "Yi" Talismans reappeared and changed shape. Even the falling snow suddenly stopped, and the frozen Chang 'an came back to life.
The unknown aura continued to spread around with Ning Que's action. At the same time, it rushed to the sky, wildly dispersing the thick snow clouds. The blue sky reappeared.
When the Headmaster of the Academy left the human world, the Abbey Dean was the first in the world.
The sky was the first to feel this change, and he was the second to feel it.
He sensed the danger.
His eyes suddenly became lighter than gray, until they were transparent, like crystals. There were countless lights and shadows moving at a high speed in them, as if many stories were happening on the screen.
He saw some scenes, scenes that he could not believe.
In Chang 'an, the Abbey Dean could not see the future clearly, just as he could not see what the Academy would become in the future. However, he once saw some scenes that he firmly believed.
But those scenes changed.
At the moment when Ning Que pulled out his knife.
…
…
The snow stopped, and the wind stopped.
The Vermilion Bird Avenue was very quiet.
The Abbey Dean looked at Ning Que. His eyes returned to normal, but there was a touch of surprise left behind.
He believed in Taoism, and he had no love or hate for things like killing.
Today, the Abbey Dean had killed countless people. He had his reasons and his needs.
He wanted to kill Ning Que previously because of his needs.
However, he wanted to kill Ning Que now because of an inexplicable vigilance.
This vigilance was so strong that it even caused his Dao Heart to sway slightly.
He wanted to kill Ning Que. This desire was almost an instinct.
But he sensed that there was something hidden in the air between him and Ning Que.
He could not enter the Limitless State, so he could not kill Ning Que in the shortest time.
So he could not let Ning Que raise that knife at least.
The Abbey Dean looked at Ning Que and said, "Those who believe in …"
Ning Que did not know why he spoke at this time.
The disciples of the Academy in front of the Verdant Canyon would definitely think of the West-Hill scriptures that the Great Divine Priest of Revelation had read. It was the Taoist Divine Skill that was as famous as the Xuankong Temple's Chief Preaching Monk's Words.
Ning Que did not die.
Because the Abbey Dean only had time to say these three words.
Because Eldest Brother said these three words at the same time, "Zi does not speak."
After saying these three words, his face suddenly turned pale, and more and more blood flowed out of his cotton-padded jacket.
Ning Que finally pulled out his knife after such a short delay.
The blade completely left the snow.
Looking at the knife in his hand, the Abbey Dean took a step back.
Retreating meant leaving.
For thousands of years, he was the only one who had killed his way into Chang 'an.
He was about to destroy the God-stunning Array, the Tang Empire and the Academy, and achieve a great achievement.
As long as he could kill Ning Que, he could achieve all of this.
For the Abbey Dean, this was a very simple thing, and naturally a great temptation.
But he wanted to leave.
Without any hesitation, without any reluctance.
Only a person with a truly bright Taoist Heart could do this.
There was no wind or snow on the street.
The Abbey Dean could not move forward, so he stepped back. His right foot stepped on the ground, and wind and snow appeared under his foot.
An invisible door appeared in the wind and snow.
The door could only be seen by people in the Limitless State.
The Abbey Dean's right foot stepped into the door, and his indigo robe suddenly became transparent.
The next moment, he was about to step into the void.
The Qi of Heaven and Earth in Chang 'an had been disturbed by Ning Que, but it still could not stop him from leaving.
Ning Que was not going to let him leave.
Because he had already pulled out his knife.
When the blade left the snow, it made a very faint sound, like a brush dipped in oil brushing across a piece of meat that had been roasted over a bonfire, or like a brush dipped in ink sliding across a snow-white paper.
Hundreds of soft sounds were heard in the streets and alleys of Chang 'an, and beside the willows and plum trees.
It was like the sound of a zither, like the sound of a bowstring, and most like the sound of a blade being unsheathed.
That was the sound of friction between the skimming and pressing.
It was the sound of hundreds of "Yi" Talismans.
Then, there were more sounds of blades being unsheathed.
This time, it was a real sound.
Dozens of Pig Slaughtering Knives hanging on the wall of the Eastern City Pork Shop had been lonely in their leather sheaths for a day and a night. Suddenly, they broke out of their sheaths.
Not far from Vermilion Bird Avenue, there was a sharp knife stabbed into a chopping board in a certain house. The knife was stained with fresh blood. Not far away, there was a pot of stewed meat steaming. Suddenly, the kitchen knife jumped out of the chopping board.
Two teenagers were lying in a pool of blood beside the Vermilion Bird Avenue. They were seriously injured and leaned against the wall that was wet with snow. Although they were not dead, they could no longer hold the knives and forks beside them. Suddenly, the two choppers and the kitchen knife jumped out of the snow and landed beside their hands.
Ning Que pulled out his knife.
All the knives in Chang 'an were pulled out.
Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of knives began to show their sharpness.
The winter willows by the Yanming Lake were fluttering.
The pine trees in the Tantuo Temple were bowing.
The snow on the whetstone floated up.
One of the lines among the hundreds of divine talismans moved very slightly.
The snow on the long street was blurred, and countless sharp auras suddenly appeared.
The invisible door was cut into pieces in an instant.
Countless tiny cracks appeared on the Abbey Dean's indigo robe.
Many cracks also appeared on his powerful body that was forged from the Heavenly Demon realm.
The Abbey Dean began to bleed, a lot of blood.
Ning Que raised his knife and said, "I want to kill you."
As he spoke, the absolutely condensed Qi of Heaven and Earth spurted out from his lips and turned into a half-foot-long white mist. There were tiny flashes of thunder and lightning in the mist, as well as his strong desire.
…
…
(Two more chapters tomorrow.) (To be continued.) If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com to vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
