There are a total of eight afterimages, and I am the last of its clones. That means that Zixia has split into nine clones. At this time, I only need to wait for my own clone to finally return to its original position...
Great success...
But once my avatar returns to its original place, will I still be me?
Could it be that everything in the past and present life is just the other party's arrangement?
Why did he arrange it like this?
"Why go to all this trouble?"
Cheng Yu asked Zixia.
"After you return to your position, I will know everything when I am accomplished."
After Zixia finished speaking, she opened her arms calmly and continued:
"bring it on."
"Crack!"
"when!"
"puff!"
"Bang!"
As Zixia said "Come on", the exquisite dice on Cheng Yu's body, not the sword, the Wujun token and the jade gourd on his waist all fell to the ground one by one.
At this time, his spirit had involuntarily changed from real to virtual.
"Whoosh!"
Zixia, who was opposite, glanced at the object that fell on the ground without making any move. The jade gourd flew into his hand with a "whoosh!"
"Bo!"
There was another soft sound, and the sapphire gourd plug flew out on its own. The little dragon soul who was taking a bath in the general's drunken body was startled. Before he could raise his head to take a closer look, he suddenly felt that his heart was confused and there was no trace of intelligence anymore.
.
Zixia restored the scabbard of the black sword to its original form of a black dragon, and then led the soul of the black dragon out of the jade gourd and patted it back into its original form.
At this time, Liu Hedong's soul returned to his true form, and there was a bit of brilliance in his eyes, but he still stood motionless on the spot with a look of dementia and ignorance.
Zixia looked at Liu Hedong, shook her head slightly and said with a smile:
"You useless bitch, go ahead."
With a gentle wave of his robe sleeves, the old man in black who was standing on the ground suddenly made a "buzz" sound and emitted streaks of purple light, and disappeared into Qixia Ridge along with the light.
Cheng Yu looked at the place where the black dragon stood before and asked Zixia:
"What are you going to do with it?"
"Don't worry, I'm just sending him out of the mountains."
Zixia said casually, Cheng Yu briefly recalled the previous encounter between himself and the black dragon, and then asked Zixia doubtfully:
"Did you really take Liu Hedong as your disciple back then?"
When Zixia heard this, she shook her head slightly and said with a smile:
"It's true that this guy is a disciple, but I didn't accept him. I remember that after I became an Earth Immortal, I traveled around, and then happened to meet this little snake demon in Qingluo Mountain. I thought it was a snake demon at that time.
If I have some ideas about the alien species in the wilderness, I might be able to use them to my advantage in the future... Ha!"
Zixia suddenly chuckled softly as she spoke, and then continued:
"It's a pity that the secret was unpredictable later, and the chess piece I set up in advance was not used. Otherwise, your soul would not have returned to the true form of a sparrow."
Um?
Cheng Yu's heart trembled when he heard this, and looked at what Zixia said opposite him. If he followed his previous arrangements, after his soul traveled through time, he should be in the true form of the black dragon.
Zixia looked at Cheng Yu, as if she could read minds, and immediately nodded and said with a smile:
"That's right! That Liu Hedong was able to turn into a dragon smoothly was due to my guidance. At that time, he also wanted to join me several times, but due to ethics, I couldn't accept him, because I really saved it and wanted to use it.
His true thoughts are just..."
Zixia paused for a moment when she said this, a cold light flashed in her eyes, but she continued with a smile on her face:
"...You generally know what happened next."
"Could it be that...there was someone else who was causing trouble with Yuan Deng's appearance and the loss of the water spirit in Liu Hedong?"
Cheng Yu asked, because he had always thought that the appearance of Liu Hedong and Yuan Deng was arranged by one person, and Yuan Deng was just a spare chess piece deployed to suppress Liu Hedong.
"Maybe! In our cultivation, the path is extremely difficult, with internal limitations and external obstacles. It is ultimately difficult to break. Even if someone secretly obstructs us, it is normal.
At that time, I was in Qixia Ridge. I was distracted and had no time to pay attention to the outside world. Therefore, when I noticed that there seemed to be a deviation in the place where your soul returned, I had to rush and try my best to defy the odds, so that you finally
Returned to the body of an ordinary sparrow."
After hearing this, Cheng Yu finally understood: It turned out that Zixia had laid out Liu Hedong as a chess piece in advance, keeping it as a carrier for the return of his soul.
But what happened with Jin Shao's original appearance was really strange, and most likely someone was behind it secretly.
The man first stole the water spirit from the east of Liuhe River, and then placed the water spirit in the true form of the golden salamander. His purpose was probably to lure Cheng Yu Yuanshen back to the golden salamander.
Zixia, who was attracted by this, had to take action in a hurry, and reluctantly landed the soul in the body of an ordinary sparrow.
But perhaps neither party expected that the water spirit would go around in circles and finally fall back to Cheng Yu.
"Do you know who is the person behind this?"
Zixia shook her head gently when she heard this:
"The secret is unpredictable, and I don't know it at the moment, but fortunately, in the end, you passed all the trials and came here."
He said with a carefree smile, while looking at Cheng Yu seemingly casually, but there was a hint of menace in his eyes.
Layers of trials...
It turns out that along the way, the people I met and the things that happened in my past and present lives were just layers of trials for each other.
Even the previous illusions outside the ridge and within the ridge were probably part of the trial.
"good!"
Zixia said something right, and she knew that she had understood Cheng Yu's state of mind at this moment, and saw him nodding and continuing:
"The illusion I set up before and the subsequent tests are all to verify whether your last distraction has eliminated the last and biggest difficulty among the nine difficulties."
"Nine difficulties?"
When Cheng Yu heard the other party's words about the Nine Difficulties, he felt they were familiar, but at this time he could not remember which difficulties they were. And for his own soul, it was the biggest difficulty he had ever experienced, but he didn't know which difficulty it was.
"Yes, after I became an Earth Immortal, I wanted to further understand the mysteries of the heaven and earth and ascend to the Heavenly Immortal Realm, but I couldn't find the way. I finally learned by luck that if I wanted to achieve great success, I had to go through nine difficulties and then three disasters.
Every step is like walking on thin ice..."
"Then you figured out the method of distraction, separated the nine souls into different worlds, and after going through the nine disasters respectively, you reunited to survive the three disasters?"
Zixia nodded slightly when asked.
"Then what are the nine difficulties? And which difficulty have I... experienced?"
Cheng Yu asked.
Zixia suppressed her smile at this time and said expressionlessly:
"The nine difficulties are greed, anger, pride, fear, stupidity, barbarism, laziness, jealousy, and love..."
After Zixia finished speaking, she looked at Cheng Yu calmly.
"What I experience is a word of love?"
Cheng Yu had already roughly guessed it.
Zixia nodded again and said:
"Yes, for me, the first eight difficulties were basically eliminated when I attained the Earth Immortality, so they are nothing. Therefore, these eight distractions returned early, except for the last word of love..."
After Zixia said this, the doubt that Cheng Yu had always buried in his heart was finally solved.
No wonder……
At this moment, beautiful figures flashed through his mind, including Jia Fei, Huang Shan, Hu Meizi, Qin Hongyu, Li Qin...
And when he faced these, all of whom had peerless looks, and there was even a cat demon among them who faced him several times in naked and exquisite postures, he never had any intention of being moved, so that he was even suspected of being his preference several times.
south wind……
At that moment, I also thought to myself that since I traveled through time, I seemed to have lost something.
I see……
No wonder the Immortal Lord's tone was a bit complicated when he scolded the little boy for falling into love.
It turned out that he felt the same way.
"When this last distraction of mine returns, you still need to go through three more disasters before you can achieve success?"
After Cheng Yu pondered for a while, he remembered what Zixia said just now that there were three more disasters, and asked Zixia.
Zixia nodded and said with a seemingly indifferent smile:
"Yes, but due to a coincidence, before I was distracted, two of the three disasters had been eliminated, and the last thunder disaster was left. Only after the distractions are combined can the final achievement be achieved."
After he finished speaking, he looked up at the purple sky, causing Cheng Yu to look up involuntarily.
I don't know if it was an illusion or a change in my mood, but I saw that the sky at this time was a bit darker than before, and it could even be considered to be gradually oppressive by the majesty of heaven.
"So, when you looked up at the sky just now, you were looking for thunder."
"..."
Zixia smiled silently and nodded.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
At this moment, the last three remaining Qi spirits in Cheng Yu's spiritual body all came out.
At this time, his spirit was finally clean, making him feel as if his whole body had lost a few pounds, but in fact, he was being pulled bit by bit towards Zixia by an unknown force.
Zixia raised her head and glanced at the three air spirits. She was not surprised by their appearance. At the same time, a purple air branched out from the top of her head and wrapped the three air spirits in it.
"Actually, if I hadn't seen that you had almost mastered the three souls, I wouldn't have been in a hurry to recall you immediately. I would have been more interested in seeing what other interesting things you might do."
"So, I would like to thank you for your clever arrangement during this trip."
"..."
Zixia did not answer directly, but stared at Cheng Yu meaningfully and smiled without saying a word.
At this time, Cheng Yu suddenly recalled that when he was killing the evil corpse outside Qianjiang Mansion City, he heard a soft "Huh?" sound coming from deep in the sky, far away in the horizon but very close to his ears. , it should also be issued by the Zixia Immortal Lord opposite.
Presumably, the evil corpse was also made by his hands to test him, but when he saw that he was finally able to kill it on the top of the mountain, even he couldn't help but marvel.
But……
At that time, if the generals Zuixiang in the Jade Gourd had not helped him turn the tide, I am afraid that all the living creatures in Qianjiang Mansion City would have been annihilated by the entire Qianyuan Lake.
Such a test would be a bit presumptuous.
well……
Forget it, it’s all gone...
Thinking that everything he had experienced in the past two lives had been arranged by others, Cheng Yu felt mixed emotions in his heart, and he no longer had the intention to worry about other things outside his body...
Looking at the purple energy above my head, it is dissolving my three souls, and then returning my avatar to the original body. At that time, my soul may no longer have any sense, and everything will return to dust.
wrong!
In the end, nothing will be left behind, not even dust.
No!
Thinking of this, Cheng Yu suddenly felt unwilling again, and his soul power condensed again. Even the nameless force that sucked and dragged him was weakened by three points.
"Huh?"
Opposite Zixia noticed something was wrong, let out a light sigh, and then asked with a smile: