Qin Shaoyou couldn't help but swallowed dryly, his heart in his throat.
Four Immortal Sects besieging the Demon Realm?
Isn’t that a thousand years thing?
He pondered Li Ziru's words over and over again, and coupled with what he had heard from Yan Hediode's conversation before, he quickly thought of a possibility.
"It is said that during the war in the demon realm, a demon king obtained a sacred weapon. No matter what kind of serious injury he suffered, he would be restored to his original state after disappearing for a moment."
"So, if I'm not mistaken, the senior used the power of this holy weapon to imprison the day before the battle in the Demon Realm in this chaotic void!"
The corners of Li Ziru's mouth trembled slightly. He didn't expect that Qin Shaoyou could guess the truth here with just a few words.
"You are right, this sacred artifact is the Chaos Bead."
At some point, a bead that alternated between black and white appeared on Li Ziru's hand.
The bead is only the size of a thumb, much smaller than Qin Shaoyou's spirit-devouring ants, but it exudes an obscure and incomprehensible Taoist rhyme.
As soon as the bead came out, Qin Shaoyou actually felt that it was a little difficult to breathe.
"Palace Master... tell this junior, I wonder what I can do?"
Qin Shaoyou's mind sank. Li Ziru took the initiative to mention these things, and it was definitely not without purpose.
Does this matter have anything to do with him?
Li Ziru chuckled. He was not angry at the fact that a junior could see through his thoughts.
"Since you said so, how about we make a deal?"
"If you fulfill my request, this Chaos Bead will be yours!"
Qin Shaoyou was so frightened that he took two steps back and looked at him in disbelief.
This... what kind of medicine is sold in Li Ziru's gourd?
Qin Shaoyou, who is so virtuous and capable, is only a human monk at the Foundation Establishment Realm, but the former Lord of the Demon Realm actually wants him to help?
Moreover, the Chaos Bead in Li Ziru's hand is not a gadget. If he guessed correctly, the war in the Demon Realm that year may have been caused by this object!
"You are so suspicious at such a young age, could I still trick you?"
The corners of Qin Shaoyou's mouth twitched a few times. Although he didn't speak, "Isn't it" was written all over his face?
"Senior, can you tell me what happened in that war?"
Qin Shaoyou had always heard about the Demon Realm. Everyone came here to participate in the trial with different purposes. The current situation was something he had not expected.
Now that Li Changan and Bai Xiyao are being hunted and missing, and he is trapped in this chaotic void, he must figure out the situation here.
"Well, it just so happens that I haven't talked to anyone for a long time. If you don't mind my verbosity, I will talk to you from the beginning."
"Juniors are all ears!"
Li Ziru nodded, temporarily put away the Chaos Bead, and began to tell what happened that year.
"then..."
There were two demon kings back then, one of whom was Li Ziru. He called himself White Emperor, and his body was a white deer. He was a demon cultivator in the form of a demon beast. His cultivation reached the fifth level, which was comparable to that of human gods.
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Another demon king named Liu Mu, who calls himself Qing Emperor, is said to be from the Celestial Demon Clan. His identity is mysterious, and even Li Ziru has never known it.
The two have known each other for many years and have been practicing in the vast woods of northern Xinjiang.
Back then, Li Ziru accidentally obtained the sacred Chaos Bead, and discovered that this object actually had the ability to reverse the void, so he spent hundreds of years to comprehend it. During the period of time when he comprehended it, Liu Mu's cultivation level also broke through.
After reaching the fifth level, he launched a bloody battle to unify the demon clan in the northern border and established the demon domain.
Liu Mu's purpose of establishing the Demon Realm was, firstly, to provide a safe habitat for the demonic beasts in Tianlin Continent, as he was dissatisfied that the demonic beasts had been reduced to stepping stones on the path of human monks to become immortals, and secondly, it was also to give Li Ziru a "surprise"
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After Li Ziru came out of seclusion, he found that his wife and daughter had been invited to the Demon King's City by Liu Mu. Not only that, the place where he retreated was also built into the Demon King's Palace by Liu Mu.
Liu Mu's ultimate purpose in doing this was to ask Li Ziru about the secret of the Chaos Bead.
The Chaos Bead is said to be one of the five sacred objects that flew out of the Immortal Gate thousands of years ago. It has endless magical uses. Whoever can decipher the mystery can reopen the Immortal Gate and enter the upper world.
The emergence of the Demon Realm in the northern border soon reached the ears of the four major immortal sects. At the same time, they also learned of the existence of the Chaos Orb.
Then, the four major immortal sects headed by Yuan Lingzong and a total of five monks in the realm of gods gathered their disciples and launched a brutal war in the demon realm in the name of slaying demons.
In fact, the so-called demon realm is actually a living place divided by Liu Mu for the demon clan. There are not only demon clan among them, but also many mortals.
However, in order not to be threatened by the demon king, the four major immortal sects and other cultivating sects directly identified those mortals as being bewitched by the demons, and directly ordered the plowing of the land with magic, blasting the entire demon realm into a scorched earth.
The scene that Qin Shaoyou saw just now was the first arrow that Lin Jun fired.
Hearing this, Qin Shaoyou's hair stood on end.
In the words of the Yuan Ling Sect masters, Mr. Lin was a fearless man who was willing to commit suicide to kill demons for the sake of the world. However, in Li Ziru's words, he became the first person to launch a war in the demon realm.
What is right and what is wrong is a dilemma.
Li Ziru continued.
During the war in the Demon Realm, countless civilians died tragically, and many demon beasts who came here to seek protection also suffered unreasonable disasters and were buried here.
Faced with the siege of five powerful people in the realm of gods, Li Ziru knew that he was unable to resist. By that time, his wife and daughter had returned to the world of ruins. He was unwilling to accept it, and finally sacrificed his soul to activate the Chaos Bead, destroying all the people in the entire Demon Realm.
Time goes back to the moment before the war started.
So the person standing in front of Qin Shaoyou now is not Li Ziru himself. He himself died in that battle long ago, and what is left here is just a trace of his soul.
Different from human monks, after opening the Jade Gate, their souls will be merged into immortal souls. Once the immortal soul is broken, the body will disappear, but the demon cultivators are different. There is only something called Yuanshen in their bodies. This Yuanshen is different from mortals.
Similar to the soul of a human being, it can be split into several parts. Of course, if it is split too much, it will cause inevitable damage to itself.
However, the Chaos Bead does not really reverse time. It can only fix a certain period of time in a small void, and it will not have any impact on the fait accompli.
All the villagers here, including those monsters living elsewhere, have only a remnant soul left here.
So as soon as Qin Shaoyou came in, Aunt Qing discovered that he was a human monk, because Qin Shaoyou had no soul in his body, only an immortal soul.
Li Ziru used the Demon King's Palace as an altar, sunk it into the ground, and took these remaining souls to rest here.
For thousands of years, the time here has been repeated every day, but all the living beings here have no idea.
Maybe this can be considered another kind of rest.
Li Ziru was also helpless. Only in this way could he keep his daughter and this demon realm.
However, as time goes by, the power of this Chaos Bead is shrinking, and the time of each repetition is getting shorter and shorter. Once the Chaos Bead is unable to support the void, they will all disappear!
He had already prepared his way out long before he decided to do this.
He handed the token to enter the chaotic void to Liu Mu, hoping that he would think of a way to rescue them in the future. However, he did not expect that the token was finally snatched away by the cultivator in the Phoenix Valley, and Liu Mu also
He was captured alive by Yuan Lingzong, and his final fate was even worse than him.
Qin Shaoyou listened quietly to Li Ziru's words, and felt huge waves in his heart.
He always thought that Yuan Lingzong was an upright cultivator, but he didn't expect that there was so much blood hidden behind the bright surface!
What he felt most deeply was the giant corpse buried under Wuyun Mountain.
Yuan Lingzong thought that burying Liu Mu's body five hundred miles away from Yuan Ling would cover up the evil they had done, but this was just self-deception!
"Li...Palace Master, I should know the news about Qing Emperor..."
"That's natural, otherwise who gave you the token?"
Li Ziru asked with a chuckle.
Qin Shaoyou was startled.
It turns out that Li Ziru mistakenly thought that he came in under the entrustment of Emperor Qing!
It is understandable why Li Ziru thinks so, because firstly, after entering here, the spiritual power in the monks' bodies will be suppressed by the power of the Chaos Orb, making them like mortals. Secondly, once a fifth-level monster like Qing Emperor
The beast came here in person and positioned himself to cause the chaotic void to collapse immediately!
Therefore, the only choice was to choose a trustworthy person to come in, and Li Ziru thought Qin Shaoyou was this person!
Qin Shaoyou couldn't help feeling cold when he thought about this place.
No wonder Li Ziruo had such a good attitude towards him. It turned out that he had misunderstood!
This...should I continue to pretend to be stupid and hide it?
After Qin Shaoyou hesitated for a while, he still felt that it was safer to be honest and frank.
You must know that in many cases, as long as you tell a lie, you have to cover it up with more lies. In this way, he will eventually leak the truth.
He also wants to go out to find Bai Xiyao and the others. If he angers this person, he may lose more than he gains.
"Palace Master, what I'm trying to say is that although I entered here, it was not the token given to me by Emperor Qing, and... Emperor Qing died shortly after the battle in the Demon Realm..."
Li Ziru's expression was no longer natural.
His body trembled slightly, and the hands hidden in his sleeves slowly clenched and then relaxed.
"What else do you know?"
Qin Shaoyou didn't dare to hide anything, so he told the truth truthfully. After hearing this, Li Ziru just sighed softly.
Perhaps for him, the thousand years he spent trapped here had already wiped out all his expectations.
"Forget it, if he hadn't caused so many troubles because of his greed for the Chaos Bead, maybe none of us would have died..."
"Now that you're in, it's you."
Qin Shaoyou's face was full of questions, who is he?
"What do you want to do next, senior?"
"It's very simple. Marry my daughter as your wife. After the wedding, I will not only give you the Chaos Pearl, but I will also send you two out."
Li Ziru's words were so shocking that Qin Shaoyou's eyes were so frightened that stars appeared in his eyes.
Why are you marrying his daughter? Isn’t her daughter already dead?
Marry a female ghost as your wife?
Sorry, I, Mr. Qin, don’t have such a strong taste!
"Senior, this...isn't this not good?"
"Why, you don't like my daughter?"
"Senior, it's not that I don't like it, I just don't dare to look at it..."
Qin Shaoyou declined in every possible way, but at this moment, there was a sound of footsteps behind them.
"Hey, are you awake?"
"Dad, what did you say to him?"
Qin Shaoyou's neck shrank, Leng Buding was startled.
But when he slowly turned around, his eyes suddenly went straight.