Chapter 0984 I Remembered the Fire

After leaving Yelin Town, Shi Hanyuan did not return to the Imperial Capital immediately, but looked for scattered Taoists and monks everywhere, hoping to tell them the truth. The result was not very successful. Everyone was already frightened and fled in panic when they heard his name, without letting him speak.

It was because they heard that he was going back to the Imperial Capital that most of the survivors fled in other directions and escaped a disaster.

The Imperial Capital was destroyed by fire again. This time it was not a demon fire, but the fire of the five elements, which emerged from the ground, fell from the sky, sprayed from the wall, and even spit out from the mouths of some humans and livestock.

The fire did not start all at once, but gradually became more and more serious. A large number of residents had the opportunity to escape from this unfortunate city, but they were confused by the inexplicable flames. Only a few people fled outside the city, and most of the residents ran to the streets and looked at the Taoist Tower in the sky.

The Taoist Tower once brought joy and hope to the Imperial Capital, but at the most dangerous moment, it slowly collapsed.

Shi Hanyuan happened to see this scene, and he yelled, ordering the mortals to flee immediately, and then rushed into the Taoist Tower at great risk. The Taoists in the tower were still in meditation. They were the most obsessed with cultivation. The innocent Taoist friends being locked up in the Demon Cave, the battle of Yelin Town that had ended, and the upcoming decisive battle between humans and demons had not affected their state of mind. The burning Imperial Capital and the tilted Taoist Tower naturally could not affect their state of mind.

Shi Hanyuan used magic to break the restrictions of each room in the tower, awakening the Taoists in meditation, and then went straight to the eighth floor, just in time to see Zuo Liuying disappear with the teleportation technique.

After experiencing the arrogance and joy of the Fu Riman realm, the arrogance of commanding a huge Taoist army, the shock and anger of a tragic defeat, and the shame and self-blame of finding that he was controlled by a remnant soul, Shi Hanyuan's Taoist heart had long been broken by the collision. The moment he saw Zuo Liuying disappear, his state of mind was completely broken.

He found the trace of Zuo Liuying's teleportation and followed it, but the position was slightly off. Shi Hanyuan patrolled in the sky with a furious heart, and finally found Zuo Liuying's trace when he was casting a spell.

"Zuo Liuying, you have already destroyed the Taoist tradition, do you want to destroy the whole world?" The furious Taoist priest Fu Rimang asked sternly, "The ancestor trusted you and handed the Taoist tradition and mankind to you, and your reward is to destroy everything?"

Shi Hanyuan should have cast a spell at the beginning, but he was too angry and had to say something. When he was ready, he saw another person on the ground, a person who should never appear.

"Mu Xingqiu! How could it be you? Impossible, you can't come out..." Shi Hanyuan turned to Zuo Liuying, and his anger was even greater, "You broke the Demon Cave?!"

Zuo Liuying looked up at Taoist priest Fu Rimang in the air, his lips moved slightly, as if he was about to say something, but the next action he did was to wave his hand and emit a small piece of light.

The light was like a meteor, a tiny dot, with a foot-long tail behind it, flying towards the target very quickly. On the way, it collided with the flying fireball twice, and the fireball exploded and dissipated in the air, but the light did not change at all, and did not even slow down a bit, and continued to move forward.

Shi Hanyuan returned the trick, and finally understood why the state of mind of a Taoist must be improved simultaneously with his strength. Those most profound spells require complicated techniques and thinking processes. A slight mistake can lead to a thousand miles. With a furious heart, his techniques and thinking appeared flawed.

The flaw was only a little, but it could greatly affect the effect of the spell. Shi Hanyuan emitted a ball of light, the size of a fist, which was several times larger than the starlight emitted by Zuo Liuying, and flickered. Even ordinary cultivators could see some traces.

Zuo Liuying also lost the heart of a Taoist, but made up for the loophole with ruthlessness.

Before the two spells met, Shi Hanyuan already knew the result, so he sent out the second and third moves in succession. The light balls were smaller and smaller, but all were larger than Zuo Liuying's starlight.

The starlight passed through the three light balls in succession, only slightly brighter, and the rest did not change.

The light ball sent by Shi Hanyuan did not dissipate, but continued to rush to the ground, but he knew that he had lost, and was defeated. He was also in the Fu Ri Mang realm. More than half a month ago, he was only slightly worse than Zuo Liuying, but now one was in the sky and the other was on the ground - exactly the opposite of their real positions.

The three light balls collided with the fireball in the air, emitting a dazzling light that could be seen even with the naked eye, and then they disappeared together with the fireball.

The starlight hit Shi Hanyuan, and he fell from the air. The fireball brushed past him, but he did not avoid it.

Zuo Liuying turned his eyes back to Mu Xingqiu, "What are you waiting for?"

Mu Xingqiu had already used all his strength, and the endless mana in his body was just watching the fun, not helping at all.

With a bang, Shi Hanyuan fell to the ground, and the orb in Mu Xingqiu's hand also broke.

Shi Hanyuan lay on the ground motionless, and Mu Xingqiu stood there motionless.

Shouque, who had been kneeling on the ground with his head in his hands and trembling, slowly stood up, his long hair scattered, covering most of his face, "Who are you? Why are you so cruel to destroy my soul?"

Zuo Liuying took two steps sideways, "The mind illusion technique is indeed unique. It can actually gather many residual souls and resist the powerful attack of the Demon Cave. But these residual souls are not really fused, they are just glued together, and there are still a little cracks between them. The residual soul that I destroyed is of no benefit to you, and you have lost more than one residual soul, you have lost a lot before."

Shouque pressed his temples with both hands, his nails digging deep into them. After a while, she said: "No wonder I forgot many things, but how did you know?"

"I saw your remaining memories, plus a little guess."

"You named yourself Shouque?"

"Is that right?" Shouque remembered the name, but could not remember the history.

"Some people must regain their memories, while others are better off forgetting the past. Your name is Shouque, so you should accept your incomplete soul."

"But there will be people who will break it and destroy it..." Shouque trembled again. The pain brought by the destruction of the remaining soul had been deeply imprinted in her mind, deeper than the torture of the Demon Cave.

Zuo Liuying waved her hand, indicating that she would talk about her later, and turned to look at Shi Hanyuan who was slowly getting up.

Shi Hanyuan looked like he was drunk, his face was slightly red, and his body was swaying, "It was not you who destroyed the Imperial Capital and the Daotong Tower. These flames are different from your magic."

Zuo Liuying shook his head. He could explain to the successor of the Nianxin Department whose soul was incomplete, but he did not want to say a word to the other Taoist priest Fu Rimang.

"Where is the Demon Cave? It's not you either, but where did the disciple of the Nianxin Department come from? Where did Mu Xingqiu come from?" Shi Hanyuan was silent for a while. He checked the memories of the two people, but what he saw was a mess. There was no memory that could prove that the two people really escaped from the Demon Cave.

"I don't understand, I don't understand..." Shi Hanyuan looked up at the fireball flying in the air, followed by the burning houses around, and then the flames rising into the sky in the distance and the explosions one after another. He didn't understand, but he didn't want to admit it, "Why did the ancestor do this?"

He finally came to the only conclusion that there was only one person who could create magic in such a large area, and it was definitely not Zuo Liuying, but the Taoist ancestor Kun Dun who had always used magic to nourish the world.

It was not until then that Zuo Liuying was willing to speak to Shi Hanyuan, "Why bother to guess the ancestor's thoughts? Since you are not dead, just take it."

Shi Hanyuan laughed twice. The Taoist heart was still broken, but his reason had recovered, "Everyone in the world will think it's your fault. Can you convince them to see the truth?"

Zuo Liuying shook his head.

"It's a pity that I can't help you. In the eyes of the world, I am already a Taoist who has been possessed by the devil."

"The truth can't help me defeat the enemy."

"I met a strange female Taoist in Yelin Town. She called herself Qin Lingshuang. I remember that she was a Taoist from Pangshan who died in Duanliu City after her elixir was shattered."

Zuo Liuying lowered his head and said nothing about it.

"Her method is extremely strange and completely different from the Taoist tradition. It may be a hope, but it is not perfect. She needs the Taoist secret book, and I got it." Shi Hanyuan stretched out his hand and revealed a small incense burner. He did not forget his promise and found the carrier of the secret book when he stayed in the Taoist tower.

"Give it to her. At this time, any accident is not a bad thing."

"No, you give it to her. I can't suppress the remnant soul of Shen Geng." The biggest impact of Shi Hanyuan losing the heart of a Taoist priest is that it gives the remnant soul of Shen Geng an opportunity to take advantage of.

"Remnant soul?" Shouque interrupted.

Zuo Liuying waved his hand at her, indicating that the remnant soul here had nothing to do with her, and then said to Shi Hanyuan: "Someone will naturally give the secret book to Qin Lingshuang, and there is something that is very suitable for you to do."

"I will remove my memory and die with the remnant soul." Shi Hanyuan thought Zuo Liuying could see through all his thoughts.

"Death is too easy. That's not what a Fu Ri Mang Taoist should do."

"Do you have a way?"

"Let Shou Que suck out the residual soul of Shen Geng, and I will destroy it. Your realm will be lowered."

"I don't deserve to be a Fu Ri Mang Taoist."

"But you have achieved it. Even if it only lasts for one day, you have to take on the responsibilities of a Fu Ri Mang Taoist. In the next few months, a group of strange babies will be born near the Imperial Capital. I don't know what this means, but they are worth fighting for and worth cultivating. This is your responsibility."

Shi Hanyuan was silent for a while and nodded, "Aren't you worried that the flames will kill these babies? They may not even have a chance to be born."

Without waiting for Zuo Liuying to answer, Shi Hanyuan himself had awakened, "Opportunities never belong to everyone." He pushed the secret book incense burner to Zuo Liuying in the air, then sat on the ground with his eyes closed, ready to accept the spell to remove the residual soul. He completely trusted Zuo Liuying.

Zuo Liuying pushed the incense burner towards Mu Xingqiu again, "What do you think of?"

"I think of fire."

Zuo Liuying was silent for a while, and a smile appeared on his face, "I understand, you are very smart."