Chapter 356: The Remains of Past Glory
To Shi Xuan's surprise, this small world was very small, very small. There was only a small island-like land with a radius of several hundred miles, floating in the void. It was surrounded by chaos. Compared with the Leifu world with a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles, with continents and oceans, it was much smaller.
Moreover, this land was lifeless, without any life, and even the black soil was dead, as if it was transformed by endless death.
At this time, Shi Xuan remembered what Ao Tingtao said. Xu Qing Tianzun obtained a powerful ghost technique, which contained the secret method of overcoming the heavenly and human decline, so he took the risk of retreat.
He also vaguely mentioned the soul and blood sacrifice. In addition to Shi Xuan's understanding of the ghost and magic techniques, he knew that a large part of the advancement and tribulation secrets provided by these techniques did involve sacrifices and blood sacrifices.
So from the situation of this small world, Shi Xuan judged that it should be that Xu Qing Tianzun failed to pass the tribulation by blood sacrifice of soul, and he could not wait for his second disciple, so he activated the last trump card and blood sacrificed the entire small world! Unfortunately, it still failed.
Since the small world is only this big, Shi Xuan did not want to enter it, and directly used Yuan Zhi to search the land of hundreds of miles in radius, inch by inch.
Under Shi Xuan's powerful Yuan Zhi, this small land was quickly searched, but nothing was found.
Carefully recalling the search process just now, Shi Xuan's Yuan Shen thought was running very fast, and he immediately found an inconspicuous abnormality: "Although there was nothing found there just now, even soil and holes were not found, so there is a problem."
With a thought, Yuan Zhi turned into a big hand, grabbed a handful of black soil and sent it outside the bronze door. During this process, the black soil kept falling.
When Yuan Zhi passed through the layer of dim light, it suddenly shook violently, and the small world inside began to collapse.
Shi Xuan had seen what he could not sense or feel in the Yuanshi package. It was a small bone! It was similar to a finger bone, crystal clear like white jade, and fine like gold and iron.
Reaching out his hand, Shi Xuan held the finger bone with great caution, looking up and down. With the naked eye, the finger bone seemed to have a sense of vastness, the creation of the world, and endless resentment.
As the finger bone came out of the small thousand, the whole world and the gate broke into pieces and returned to chaos. Shi Xuan saw the scene of the world coming to an end.
"According to the Taoist book, as long as the great celestial being survives the first heavenly decline, the flesh will be integrated into the Yuanshen. After the fall, it is impossible for bones to appear. Xu Qing Tianzun is not practicing the flesh body technique to achieve immortality!" Shi Xuan looked at the finger bone in confusion.
Shi Xuan continued to guess: "Could it be because of the blood sacrifice that the aura of the heavenly being and the resentful thoughts combined to form such a finger bone?"
Thinking of this, Shi Xuan couldn't help but sigh. In the past, Xu Qing Tianzun was a great celestial being who had survived two calamities, unified the world, and pressured the nearby heavens. He was really glorious, but in the end, he died and only left such a small finger bone.
The road to the great way is long and full of hardships.
After sighing, Shi Xuan began to consider how to deal with this finger bone. Now he dared not put it into the Yin and Yang Qi bottle in his soul. After all, if such a powerful person arranged some resurrection, possession, and reincarnation, and took the initiative to put it into his soul, he would have no power to resist, so Shi Xuan's first thought was to put the finger bone into the storage bag.
But as soon as the finger bone entered the storage bag, it caused a violent shock in the storage bag space. Before Shi Xuan could react, his storage bag was broken into pieces, and only the white finger bones floated in the void.
Shi Xuan smiled bitterly. Fortunately, most of his things were stored in the Yin-Yang Qi Bottle, so he didn't feel sad if the things in the storage bag were gone.
After thinking again and again, Shi Xuan held the finger bone, and then began to activate the time and space gate that Xu Zhenjun blessed on him.
This time and space gate was on Shi Xuan from the beginning, but it was not until Shi Xuan achieved the Yuan Shen that he discovered it.
In the shining purple light, Shi Xuan turned into a ray of light, broke through the empire formation, broke through the barrier of the world, and returned to Yu Yutian.
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In the infinite void, Shi Xuan was not dizzy like he was when he came back from the Seven Immortals World last time, and he couldn't feel anything. Now Shi Xuan knew very clearly that he was passing through the dark hole in the void, and the walls of the hole seemed to be time and space rapidly moving backwards.
"When my two-world void crossing technique becomes an immortal technique, it should be possible to do the same, but the distance between the two worlds cannot be too far, and there must be a time and space marker, otherwise you will get lost in the time and space hole." Shi Xuan said secretly in his heart. Of course, as the level of the immortal technique increases, the world you can go to will be farther away.
Immortal techniques (immortal techniques) are not like magic techniques and Taoist techniques. As long as you spend time practicing, you will eventually upgrade your level. It corresponds to the four-nine heavy calamities and the five declines of heaven and man.
After achieving the primordial spirit, in most cases, you can only advance Taoist techniques or directly practice them into first-level immortal techniques. Only a few secret techniques, such as Shi Xuan's Four-Elephant Immortal Sword, can cross a level and practice immortal techniques to the second level, but it is only a leap of one level. It is not possible to directly practice third-level immortal techniques.
After that, every time you pass a heavenly tribulation, the level of the immortal law you can practice will rise by one level. When you pass the 49th level of tribulation and become a celestial being, you can practice the immortal law to the fifth level. After passing the five declines of the celestial being, you can combine some immortal laws according to the law and condense them into the great way.
Coming out of the time and space hole, Shi Xuan felt the Gangqi layer of the Yuyu world, as well as the many stars and countless void demons outside the Yuyu world.
The purple light roared into the Gangqi layer, and its speed was almost space movement.
But just as the purple light entered the Gangqi layer and threw it towards the gate of Penglai Sect, a purple hand suddenly appeared, with a plain and inconspicuous small lightning on it.
It just gently grasped it, and Shi Xuan couldn't help but throw it towards it with the purple light, but the familiar breath made Shi Xuan not have any thoughts of resistance. Besides, even if he did, it would not have any effect.
Shi Xuan flew to the side of the big hand with purple light wrapped around him, and then the purple hand changed, and Granny Yu's beautiful oval face appeared in front of Shi Xuan.
She circled around Shi Xuan in the aura layer with a little surprise on her face, as if she was looking at something strange.
Shi Xuan had never seen a surprised expression on Granny Yu's face before. She had lived for so long, had seen a lot, and had a high level of cultivation, and she rarely encountered things that surprised her, so she smiled bitterly and said, "Granny brought me here, what do you want me to do?"
Granny Yu was surprised and said, "It's really you, kid. I thought I was wrong. You have only been out for a short time, and you have achieved the Yuanshen. I haven't even finished a nap!"
You haven't finished a nap in more than two years. That's your own problem, Granny. Of course, Shi Xuan only said this in his heart. He said, "I had already advanced to Yin God in the Seven Immortals World and practiced for eighty-three years. And by chance, I saw the creation scene of the world in the small world through the Tai Chi diagram, so I saved nearly a hundred years of effort in sensing the true spirit compared to others."
"Okay, don't be modest. When I was a disciple of Master Yu Yu, I saw many natural spirits who were born since the beginning of the world and were not contaminated by the vanity of life. There are also disciples in the human race who practice the "Bao Lu" like you, but there are not many who advance to Yuan Shen faster than you." Grandma Yu interrupted Shi Xuan unceremoniously.
Shi Xuan did not expect to be compared with those great figures in the ancient times. He felt a little proud. Of course, seeing the surprised look on the face of a person like Granny Yu made Shi Xuan feel good. So he roughly recounted his experience in that world and finally said, "That sword can be regarded as the true sword of the disciple's heart."
"Good, good one. You can kill others and me." Granny Yu praised with her palms, "I thought your cautious character would take at least one or two hundred years to burst out, but I didn't expect you to be so resolute and firm. Not bad, not bad. Teacher Yu Yu's Taoist inheritance is promising."
"By the way, Granny, is there any problem with this finger bone?" Shi Xuan spread his hands, showing the finger bone he got from Xu Qing Tianzun's small world, and asked Granny Yu.
Granny Yu looked at the finger bone with a strange expression on her face, as if she was smiling but not smiling, and as if she was trying to hold back her smile. After a long while, she said, "Hey, which celestial being was tricked?"
"This is what was found in the Small Thousand Worlds of Xu Qing Tianzun, Granny, what does tricked mean?" Shi Xuan had only given a general idea before, without mentioning those unimportant background information.
Granny Yu looked like she wanted to laugh, but she had to take care of her image in front of Shi: "Haha, let me guess, maybe he didn't have confidence when he was preparing to survive the calamity of heaven and man, and at this time he accidentally got a ghost or magic skill, which contained a secret method of surviving the calamity, so he prepared a blood sacrifice?"
"Granny, have you seen something similar?" Shi Xuan thought of this immediately.
Granny Yu suppressed her smile and nodded: "I have seen quite a few. Those skills were created by a Half-Step Golden Immortal named Songli Taoist, and then spread out. There is a small, inconspicuous trap in it. Even a powerful person who has survived four calamities will not notice it if he is not careful."
"Once someone uses it to sacrifice blood to advance and survive the calamity, at the last moment of success, he will sacrifice himself and bless Songli Taoist. Uh, he used this method to deceive many cultivators, including celestial immortals, and condensed the seeds of death."
The world is dangerous. For some reason, these four words appeared in Shi Xuan's mind. The secret method that he finally got by chance turned out to be someone else's trap. It's really a pitfall.
"So, what falls from the sky may not be sweet rain, but hail." Granny Yu reminded Shi Xuan.