Chapter 686: Calming the Karmic Fire Requires Rituals

The scene shifted, and Xu Qi’an saw the bruised and battered “monster” moving its mountainous body and crawling into the bottomless Great Rift Valley.

The structure of this monster’s body was extremely frightening, with a single tendon protruding and a single muscle expanding like a mountain made of muscles.

The muscles make up the “mountain” body with rows and rows of stomata, spewing out dark green smoke, dazzling in the sky, forming dark green clouds.

Sticky shadows flowed from the base of the mountain of flesh.

Compassionate God!

The last time he had seen the Compassion God was in his drowsy dreams after he had slept with the State Master.

Compared to that time, the current Compassionate God’s breath was weakened to the extreme, with a mountain of flesh strewn with scars, and no beings ready to mate at any time, as well as the walking corpses that followed Him.

Although this was just a dream, Xu Qi’an could feel the Compassionate God’s weakness.

As the Compassionate God entered the Extreme Abyss, the image shattered, and Xu Qi’an opened his eyes in the darkened room, noticing that his arm was being gnawed on by something.

Turning her head, Xu Suoyin hugged his arm, nibbling as she slept, her shallow brow slightly furrowed as if wondering why she couldn’t nibble the pig’s feet.

Really enough, how could I have a stupid and greedy sister like you ………. Xu Qi’an drew back his arm and pinched Xu Suoyin’s little nose, and after ten seconds or so, she woke up rubbing her eyes in a dazed and pouty manner.

“Are you hungry?”

Xu Qi’an asked.

“Cauldron, I just dreamed of something delicious.”

The little beanstalker danced around a bit and said in an exaggerated tone.

She whirled around and commiserated, “But I can’t bite.”

If you can gnaw on a Mahayana Vajra Divine Power, you can go down to the Extreme Abyss and eat the Compassionate God ………. Xu Qi’an pointed at her right hand that was strewn with tiny bite marks:

“Look, your hand’s been chewed on too.”

Her right hand still had not-so-obvious teeth marks, while the saliva had evaporated, and Xu Qi’an figured that it probably hurt a little bit from biting her own wrist, so she instinctively didn’t put down a hard mouth.

And when she bit him, Xu Lingyin was exerting all her strength.

Little DouDing looked at her right hand, and sure enough, there were bite marks, and she was shocked, her expression exaggerated and wide-eyed:

“Who wants to eat my hand.”

“It’s Lina!” Xu Qi’an said.

When Little Beanpole heard this, he was full of caution, and after holding his tongue for a while, he said aloud:

“She must be craving my meat for dinner.”

It took Xu Qi’an several seconds to understand what she meant:

Lina was going to take away all that meat she ate at night by eating her.

“I just beat her off.” Xu Qi’an comforted.

“Thank you, Cauldron~”

Little DouDing was relieved, if Master was going to eat her then there was nothing she could do about it because Master was stronger than her.

Xu Lingyin had just been promoted and had a large amount of food, so she felt hungry, and because she was sleepy, she didn’t wake up hungry, which led to the behavior of nibbling on “pig’s trotters” while she slept.

Xu Qi’an went out, found a thigh of an unknown animal in the kitchen, sliced it, and fried a plate of meat for Xu Lingyin.

In the candle-lit room, at the table, he watched his young sister with her mouth full of oil, but his mind drifted to the clouds.

Gods and demons were once the masters of heaven and earth, and to this day, no one can say how terrifying gods and demons really are.

But it was possible to pipe in and learn a thing or two about the power of some of the descendants of gods and demons.

The demonic barbarians and the nine-tailed sky foxes that now dominate the north, as well as some powerful spirit beasts on the continent of the Kyushu, and the overseas spirit beasts, all of these are descended from gods and demons.

From this, it was presumed that the gods and demons of the ancient times were absolutely powerful to the point of causing people to tremble.

In later generations of human practitioners, the reasons for the end of the gods and demons have been debated endlessly.

The most widespread and mainstream story is that the human and demon races rose to power and defeated the gods and demons that had crisscrossed the ancient continent and dominated the world’s living beings.

After the death of the gods and demons, their descendants fought against the human and demon races for thousands of years before they were finally wiped out.

“There were no humans in the images I saw, ah, and no demon race either ……….

“These images, if nothing else, should have been “transmitted” to me by the Seven Extremities Compulsion, which is most likely the means by which the Compulsion God breaks free from the seal, in other words, these images are probably part of the Compulsion God’s memories.

“If it wasn’t humans, then what kind of existence could have slaughtered the gods and demons? And how was the Compass God spared. He also looks like He’s getting whacked on the verge of hiccuping.”

Xu Qi’an thought of “gatekeeper”, what kind of gate is it? No, “door” should have another meaning.

“The fact that the White Emperor didn’t ask the Compassionate God about the gods and demons perishing means that it knows the truth. If the Gatekeeper slaughtered the gods and demons, then why did it ask more questions?

“And the Compassionate God said that He originally thought that the Gatekeeper was the Confucian Sage, but the Confucian Sage was a character from a thousand years ago. From this, it can be seen that the Gatekeeper shouldn’t be the murderer who slaughtered the Gods and Demons. There’s another reason for the gods and demons to perish ah.

“The White Emperor first asked where Zun was, and had to know that Zun might have perished, and only then asked who the Gatekeeper was; does this mean that the White Emperor suspected that Zun was the Gatekeeper?

“There will be no lack of Him when the great age falls, tsk, could this be the reason why the Confucian Sage sealed all the superpowers.”

With meticulous logical reasoning, he still came to some useful conclusions.

“Ah, yes, in his suicide note, Lord Wei once said that the world was far more cruel than I had imagined. Does he know the secret of this, or have a guess? If so, Duke Wei’s pattern is suddenly no longer limited to the imperial court.”

At this time, Xu Suoyin licked the ceramic plate with intent and said:

“I’m full.”

Xu Qi’an looked back at the dishes that didn’t need to be washed:

“Really full?”

“If only there was another plate.” Xu Lingyin climbed up the pole.

“Enough, don’t eat too much at night.”

Xu Qi’an picked her up and threw her onto the bed, “Go to sleep.”

“But I can’t sleep if I’m not full.”

Little Beanstalk struggles to fight it off for a few minutes …….

“Ahoo, Ahoo ……..”

She fell asleep.

Xu Qi’an blended into the shadows and left the patriarch’s compound.

Sleep was a pleasure for him, not an immediate need, and the amount of information he had gained today had put him out of the mood for sleep.

Wandering around Burzan, he found a crystal clear pool of water.

So I planned to take a bath and pulp my clothes in the process.

Today, he fought with the leader of the Compulsion Clan and went to the Extreme Abyss, his body is by no means clean.

“Alas, since stepping into the jungle, my sense of hygiene has gotten worse and worse, often going to bed without bathing or brushing my teeth ……..”

Though hygiene wasn’t that important to a transcendental powerhouse.

Pssst… ……..

He peeled off his clothes and leapt into the water, which was cool and refreshing.

The pool of water was only up to his waist, and as he stood in the cool pool of water, his upper body was well-proportioned and beautifully muscled, with smooth lines that were filled with a sense of strength, but not the exaggerated dead muscle.

Coupled with a handsome, masculine face, it was a seductive body for a woman, even if you put aside the aura of the body.

“Tsk! As soon as I saw Xu Yinluo’s body, people couldn’t walk without craving for it.”

A flirtatious, petulant laugh came from the shore.

In the moonlight, the tall, beautiful woman stood playfully on the shore, wearing a white wrap, white chaps, and a long tulle dress over it.

Her legs were tight and slender, her small waist with a waistline, under her wrapped breasts was a bulging flavor, and her face was pouty and seductive.

“What are you doing here.”

Xu Qi’an didn’t have the heart to say, “Although I promised to accompany you for three months, it’s not now.”

Luan Yu covered her mouth and laughed softly, raising her hand on her fragrant shoulders, brushing down her long muslin skirt, she slowly walked into the water pool, the cold pool water roaming over the long slender legs, roaming over the small savage waist ……..

She walked up to Xu Qi’an and threw a wink:

“After absorbing that little bitch Chunyan’s love poison during the day, the love poison accumulated, and some of my heart itched, so I especially wanted to Xu Yinluo.”

Are you sure it’s the heart that itches ……….. Xu Qi’an coldly said:

“You go back.”

Luan Yu pursed her red lips and pouted, “You men just like to talk out of your asses, if it’s not for the sake of a private meeting with me, what are you doing here, don’t tell me that you can’t detect my stalking.”

Xu Qi’an sighed:

“I didn’t come here for a private meeting with you, it was someone else.”

Luan Yu’s face changed slightly, “Is it that little bitch Chunyan?”

Xu Qi’an shook his head, “Look back!”

Luan Yu suspiciously looked back, under the moonlight, on the bank of the water pool, at some point there stood a woman in feathered clothes, she wore a lotus flower crown on her head, carried an ancient sword on her back, and had a whisk resting on the crook of her right arm.

Her features are stunningly beautiful and beautiful, and a little bit of vermilion on her brow sets off the cool fairy atmosphere.

A gust of night wind blew, and the feathered garments fluttered as if they would take flight at any moment.

This person can noiselessly invade their own within five feet, Luan Yu willow eyebrow up, drinking:

“Who are you!”

There was scorn in her eyes, but she had Xu Qi’an by her side, so she had plenty of backbone.

Luo Yu Heng’s smile was then as cold as a pool of water, and his eyes were even more refreshing:

“The one who wants you dead!”

In an instant, the entire heaven and earth was filled with sword qi, chopping at Luan Yu from all directions.

Tinkerbell ……….

The sword qi that was as thin as a cow’s hair, but as dense as rain, was blocked by a layer of golden light.

Xu Qi’an held up the air shield of the Vajra Divine Power, blocking Luo Yu Heng’s anger-laden strike and allowing Luan Yu to escape the crisis of becoming pierced by ten thousand arrows.

“State Master, she is the leader of the Compassion Compassion tribe and an ally of Da Feng, show mercy.”

Xu Qi’an said busily.

Turning his head again, he explained to Luan Yu, “She is the Grand Bong State Master and my daoist partner.”

Luo Yu Heng lightly looked at him askance, seemingly disdainful, but collected the sword qi that filled the sky.

“Go!”

He pushed Luan Yu and pushed her out of the pool of water, floating all the way into the distance.

Luo Yu Heng didn’t block it.

Chasing away the light bulb, Xu Qi’an playfully laughed:

“I came to the Southern Border on business, and I was a bit far away from Da Bong, so I couldn’t contact the State Master for a while.”

Luo Yu Heng’s face was expressionless: “I went to Qingzhou to look for Sun Xuanji, and he said that you were in the Southern Border.”

After coming to the Southern Border, I searched all the way here with my sense of the amulet.

Xu Qi’an stared at her for a long time and said:

“The State Master seems to be able to collect karmic fire?”

Luo Yu Heng nodded:

“The karma fire has weakened a bit compared to last month.”

So it can be suppressed until now? Xu Qi’an hurriedly congratulated, “Congratulations, State Master is one step closer to being a land god.”

The first grade of the Taoist sect is called the Land Immortals.

Only then did Luo Yu Heng reveal a little smile, the snow lotus flower turning bright all of a sudden.

She looked around, frowning slightly:

“The barbarian land of the southern border can’t find an inn, so I’ll take you back to the Central Plains.”

Dual cultivation needs rituals? Xu Qi’an looked left and right and laughed:

“It’s just fine here, deserted and undisturbed.”

Luo Yu Heng’s pretty face was like a shroud of frost as she looked at him coldly.

Xu Qi’an walked to the shore and tugged at her wide sleeves.

Luo Yu Heng pulled back, cold and silent.

Xu Qi’an pulled over again, and Luo Yuheng pulled back.

After a bit of pestering, Luo Yu Heng frowned and was half-pushed down.

………..

Pine Mountain County.

At the head of the city, Xu Xinxin, dressed in military attire and holding a torch, walked on the horse paths strewn with cracks and potholes, counting the garrison armaments one by one.

The militia gathered at the city’s head in twos and threes, busily repairing the crumbling walls.

Pine Hill County is bordered on the south by dangerous peaks, the terrain is extremely high, and the city walls are higher than those of an unusual county, and there is a Pine River on the west side, which is a natural fortification, blocking the large-scale buildup of enemy troops.

Therefore, it is the east and north gates that need to be closely guarded.

This was the natural geographical advantage of Songshan County. In addition, Songshan County had a well-developed trade in the area encompassed by the canal, coupled with fertile land, rich money and grain, and abundant granary reserves.

The above reasons made it one of the three most important cities in the second line of defense laid out by Yang Gong.

Erlang Xu was entrusted by Yang Gong with the responsibility of holding Songshan County.

“The city is here, the people are here, the city is gone.”

Here’s what he replied at the time.

Yesterday the rebel army of 6,000 troops, which was at the foot of the city, was engaged in a fierce encounter with the garrison defending the city.

The rebel artillery battalion pulled out forty guns and fired them against the twelve guns on the city’s top.

The foot soldiers, on the other hand, launched a siege under the cover of artillery.

Both sides fought until dusk, when the rebels retreated leaving eight hundred bodies behind.

And the garrison lost three hundred men.

“Do you think those bastards will attack in the night.”

A rambling voice came from behind him.

Xu Erlang glanced back, the speaker was a young man of ordinary appearance, carrying a knife in one hand and a pancake in the other.

He walks with a dangling posture and wears light armor strewn with slash marks.

“A night attack is a purely dim move in a siege.”

Erlang Xu said indifferently, “Brother Miao doesn’t need to worry.”