Chapter 682: Strange and Powerful Causal Force (Two Chapters in One)

Ice and Snow Cold Light Realm, Guanghan Moon Palace.

"The people of the Killing Path are quite upright. I don't know whether to say that they respect their status or that they are crazy." Shi Xuan looked at Han Jing Tianjun and smiled as he moved his hand away from the void a few inches above the heads of the three great powers.

Shi Xuan asked curiously, "What do you mean by that?"

Han Jing Tianjun smiled and explained a few words. It turned out that the Killing Path revenged and killed people as a means to enhance their cohesion, but they always killed only those they wanted to kill. Unless it involved a major secret, or the real victim wanted to exterminate the family for revenge, or blocked their way to kill, they would not take the initiative to kill the fellow disciples of the person they wanted to kill. As for raising many enemies because of this, it was not something they worried about. They even regarded this as a future sharpening, either to kill a smooth road through countless hardships, or to die.

Of course, this is also one of the reasons why they have been passed down to this day without being destroyed.

"It's indeed a bit crazy, but it's good that way, otherwise the real people and disciples of our sect would not dare to travel outside." Shi Xuan nodded lightly. If the Slaughter Path attacked the real people and disciples of the Penglai Sect and used this as bait, even if he was made of iron, he could only hit a few nails.

Han Jing Tianjun continued: "From their memory, there are currently nine four-tribulation Tianjuns in the Slaughter Path, four of whom are ancient great powers. However, because the Slaughter Path acts in a hidden way, they only recognize the breath of the four-tribulation Tianjun of their own lineage, and do not know their specific identities and whereabouts."

"Those four people are probably the followers of Tongtian Lingbao and Chaos Alien." Shi Xuan has contacted Granny Yu over the years and learned more about the Slaughter Path from her. For example, among these four people, there should be Yuantu and Abi, the two famous Lingbao flying swords in ancient times, the killing treasures, and Granny Yu is not very clear about the other two, but she has heard that one of them has a strange follower.

Meng Nishang had been listening quietly, and suddenly interrupted, "Shi Xuan, you showed the eighth-level fairy sword. The Killing Dao should treat you as a three-tribulation heavenly monarch. You need to be careful when you go out to hone your skills in the future."

The Killing Dao can endure for a hundred years, a thousand years, or even ten thousand years before killing Shi Xuan, but Shi Xuan can't always take refuge in Guanghan Sect or Shanggu Gate to practice. After all, it is difficult to improve his realm without tempering. Once he goes out to travel, he will be in a situation where he will be attacked by the Killing Dao at any time, which is really a headache. Fortunately, Shi Xuan has the Zhouguang Bell on him, and his whereabouts are difficult to be calculated and locked. The Killing Dao can only rely on others' hearing and seeing to track Shi Xuan.

"And these four-tribulation heavenly monarchs of the Killing Dao have all had the experience of killing the small with the big. Although Senior Shenxiao is a half-step golden immortal, he has not yet merged with the Dao. After they take action, they can hide from the chaos and prehistoric world." Han Jing Tianjun also reminded.

A lion will do its best to fight a rabbit. Shi Xuan himself understands this principle. He believes that many cultivators in the heavens and the worlds also understand similar principles. However, they either respect their status and disdain to take action, or because of the other party's background, they have to follow the implicit rules of the immortal world that the big does not bully the small, and dare not act rashly.

But according to Grandma Yu, there are several four-tribulation heavenly monarchs in the killing way who have obtained the true meaning of the killing way. After killing, they are not involved in cause and effect, so even the half-step golden immortals find it difficult to track them down, and many taboos naturally do not exist.

Shi Xuan nodded solemnly: "I will be prepared."

Because the three-tribulation heavenly monarch of the Xianxian lineage escaped, Shi Xuan and Meng Nishang did not think of using the contact methods and locations in the memories of several two-tribulation great powers to counterattack the killing way. Just a twist of the sword light would make them die, but because they each had their own ideas, they were suppressed by the three-tribulation heavenly monarch and failed to completely kill them. However, if they want to restore the cultivation of the second tribulation, it will take five or six thousand years, and the third decline of the heavenly man will not be delayed at all.

As for the things they had, whether it was because they were sword cultivators or because they often fought, they had very few, not even a seventh-level secret treasure. This also indirectly confirmed that the higher the level, the rarer the secret treasure. The eighth-level was extremely precious and rare, and the ninth-level was hard to come by.

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Guanghan Moon Palace, the fragrance of osmanthus trees calmed the mind.

Shi Xuan woke up from his meditation and walked to the window, admiring the ever-blooming osmanthus and the bright moon. In the past five months, the killing path had not attacked again, and the news gradually spread with the coming and going of the Heavenly Lords.

At this time, Meng Nishang, dressed in white, walked over not far away, like a flower brushing a willow, cold and self-assured, complementing the entire Guanghan Fairy Palace.

Meng Nishang walked all the way to the small building where Shi Xuan lived. Seeing Shi Xuan's figure flashing in front of her, she spoke softly: "A three-tribulation great power named Jinhe Zhenjun came quietly outside the sect and sent me a message through secret means, saying that he wanted to meet you to discuss how to deal with the killing path. Well, I was worried about a trick, so I asked Daoyou Hanjing to preside over the cave and contacted Kong Ran. If you want to see him, you have to investigate carefully in advance."

Shi Xuan nodded: "Senior Meng has considered it very carefully." No wonder Meng Nishang was not in a hurry.

The Wujian Killing Path is a supreme level of concealment and aura-changing sword cultivation technique. When he was in Penglai Sect, under the condition of equal cultivation, Shi Xuan did not find that the two-tribulation great power had changed into a disciple of this sect and mixed in until he revealed his killing intention and the sword light burst out. At this time, it was a hidden period of relaxation of vigilance, especially Shi Xuan was waiting for such an enemy of the killing path to come to meet secretly, so he had to prevent the killing path Tianjun from taking advantage of the situation and taking the opportunity to attack.

After waiting for a while, news came back from Kong Ran that there was indeed a real person named Jinhe Zhenjun, who had almost died at the hands of a Three Tribulations Heavenly Lord of the Way of Slaughter, and his aura was the same as the one outside.

After receiving this news, Shi Xuancai said: "Invite him in and meet him."

Now that he is on guard, if the Three Tribulations Sword Cultivator makes a surprise attack in the Hanjing Heavenly Monarch's cave, he will be throwing himself into a trap and seeking death. Of course, Shi Xuan will not relax his vigilance because of this.

Meng Nishang gently nodded: "Okay." Then she ordered Su Yingzi to quietly lure Jin and Zhenjun into the cave.

When Jinhe Zhenjun passed through the cave-sky barrier, Hanjing Tianjun sent a thought: "There is no trace of the changing aura. Judging from the Dongtian Law in his soul, he is the real Jinhe Zhenjun, and there is no hint of malice."

Not long after, Su Yingzi, who had already survived a catastrophe, led an old man in gray robes to walk in. Although his facial features were old, he was quite handsome.

Jin He Zhenjun raised his eyes and looked at Shi Xuan, smiled slightly, raised his hands and saluted: "Jin He, the old Taoist, has met Shi Zhenjun."

As soon as Shi Xuan returned the gift, he suddenly found that it was difficult to move. His soul seemed to be tightly bound by something!

The surroundings immediately became dark and ferocious, as if we were in another world, where countless killings and horrors were taking place. Fathers killed their sons, sons killed their mothers, mothers poisoned their daughters, women cheated on their husbands, and husbands beheaded their wives...all beautiful relationships. All eventually evolved into a bloody and sad scene of mutual vendetta.

Abi hell, endless hell!

And in this world, a seemingly unstoppable black sword light slashed towards Shi Xuan, who was bound in the center.

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Yu Yu was outside the sky, above a star in the sky, filled with black mist.

In the center of the mist, there is a high altar. Surrounding the altar are twelve demon statues with different expressions but equally strong aura of killing. The black mist arises from them.

The altar was dark, filled with shadows of fathers and sons and masters and apprentices, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, monarchs, ministers and friends killing each other, turning the entire altar into a hell.

And in the middle of this hell, there is a black-robed Heavenly King sitting cross-legged. His face is ordinary, making it difficult for anyone who has seen him to make an impression. There is a black flying sword floating on his knees, and his aura is terrifying and full of killing. breath.

A few feet away in front of the black-robed Heavenly Lord, there was a small, black-and-white Taoist altar, with a tied seven-inch straw man inside.

The light of cause and effect was flowing in the Taoist altar, but the aura on the straw man was unstable and varied. Several times his face tried to transform into Shi Xuan's appearance, but it eventually collapsed, as if it was blocked by something, making it difficult to lock the cause and effect.

The black-robed Heavenly Lord was not in a hurry. Just wait.

When Jin He Zhenjun successfully entered the ice, snow and cold light realm, the black-robed Heavenly Lord smiled softly: "Jin He, old ghost, do you think you were able to escape because you were strong enough?"

The moment Jin He Zhenjun saw Shi Xuan with his own eyes, the aura of the straw man stabilized instantly, and Shi Xuan's appearance was transformed into it. The Taoist altar was filled with black and white light, and the cause and effect were locked!

The straw man struggled slightly, but was unable to break away from the shackles of the ordinary hemp rope. At the same time, the surrounding Abi Hell poured into it!

Not to be missed! Because as long as Hanjing Tianjun reacts, he can use the cave sky barrier to slow down the causal connection.

The Abi Flying Sword in front of the black-robed Heavenly Lord immediately turned into a terrifying and sharp killing sword light, slashing straight at the straw man made of ordinary straw!

"If you can consume my eighth-level karma secret treasure that can only be encountered but cannot be obtained, Shi Xuan, you can be considered a worthy death."

The black-robed Heavenly Lord looked at the sword light flying towards the straw man with cold eyes. This secret treasure was given by the ancient great master of the killing path.

But at this time, an all-encompassing golden bridge seemed to be transformed into the straw man, which seemed to be able to suppress the universe and the fate of cause and effect, making his appearance blurry again, and the cause and effect connection would be severed.

"It's a pity that the natal spiritual treasure you refined by imitating the Tai Chi Diagram is less than three tribulations away."

As the thought of the Black-robed Heavenly Lord flashed through his mind, a black-and-white light suddenly burst out on the Taoist altar. In just an instant, the suppressed causal connection became stable again, and the appearance of the straw man became clear again.

The sword light slash that had been waiting for a moment fell on the straw man!

Dang~! A clear and sweet bell rang suddenly and leisurely!

It took advantage of the moment when the causal connection was suppressed under the golden bridge on the other side, and transmitted it through the causal connection, resounding throughout the stars in the void.

Time fluctuated like water, and the diffuse black mist stagnated. The black energy emitted from the twelve demon statues stopped on the surface. The Abi Hell pouring down solidified in the air. The black and terrifying sword light seemed to have lost its soul and had touched the straw man. But it stopped suddenly.

Even the black-robed Heavenly Lord himself was suddenly stagnant for a moment, and his soul could not move.

When this bell rings, time stops!

Only the causal connection is slightly affected by time and still operates, just a little slowly.

At this time, with the help of the causal connection, a piercing ice crystal cold light shot out from the straw man's body, carrying the power of the entire ice and snow cold light world, directly hitting the unresponsive Abi sword light and the black-robed Tianjun. above the body.

The sword light and the spirit were frozen rapidly, and the black-robed Heavenly Lord turned into a crystal clear ice sculpture in an instant, and even his thoughts and incarnations in other places were also frozen due to the extremely powerful power of cause and effect here. Freeze.

"No!"

Time returned to normal. The black-robed Heavenly Lord only felt that his soul was cold and difficult to operate. He was extremely panicked, but he could only watch countless small ice cracks appear on his body. Then, together with the Abi sword light and the incarnation of his own thoughts, he became The sky is filled with ice crumbs and powder.

He created a killing opportunity through the connection of cause and effect, and also completely eliminated his body and death through the connection of cause and effect!

The altar shimmered with black and white light, as if the effect was not exhausted.

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Shi Xuan in Guanghan Moon Palace did not try to break free from the restraints by force. He would just take back the cause and effect secret treasure later.

Just now, Shi Xuan used the Tai Chi diagram to suppress the cause and effect connection for a moment, activated the Zhouguang Bell normally, and transmitted the power of time stagnation through the cause and effect connection, so that Han Jing Tianjun had enough time to react and call on the power of the cave heaven of the ice and snow cold light world to fight back with all his strength.

In front of him, Jin He Zhenjun was talking about dealing with the killing way, and he didn't notice Shi Xuan's abnormality at all, and didn't notice Meng Nishang quietly blocking in front of Shi Xuan.

If she didn't want to start another war at this critical moment when Shi Xuan was on the verge of life and death, Meng Nishang would have activated the cave heaven fairy formation with all her strength. Even if there was no fairy talisman to suppress the formation eye, she would have enough confidence to temporarily suppress Jin He Tianjun. After all, he was in the ice and snow cold light world, in someone else's fairy formation!

"It seems that Jin He Zhenjun seems to be completely unaware." Meng Nishang's fairy consciousness drilled into Shi Xuan's soul to communicate.

Shi Xuan didn't know whether to laugh or get angry: "He is really pitiful. He has been under the spell of the Three Tribulations Heavenly Monarch of the Way of Killing for who knows how long. Fortunately, he contacted the Heavenly Monarchs everywhere to deal with the Way of Killing."

"It's solved. Alas, if it weren't for the fact that Jin He Zhenjun himself didn't know, he would not have escaped the detection of my cave barrier. Sorry, I almost hurt you." Han Jing Tianjun explained with a little embarrassment. Shi Xuan met Jin He Zhenjun because he trusted him.

Shi Xuan shook his head: "It has nothing to do with you, Han Jing Daoyou. I was careless. There are countless strange skills and methods in the heavens and all realms. How can I just beware of the Way of Killing." Although he has always been cautious, he has not yet achieved the Golden Immortal. There will be times when he is careless. He needs to take this as a warning in the future.

Making mistakes is not terrible, there are still trump cards to save your life. What is scary is that you keep making the same mistakes. Even if you are a Golden Immortal, you can't escape the disaster of falling.

After a pause, Shi Xuan said, "Please, fellow Daoist Han Jing, let your clone go. The effect of the cause and effect secret treasure has not yet been exhausted. Only after you take it back can you get rid of the restraints."

"Okay." Han Jing Tianjun quickly took back the black and white Taoist altar, took out the straw man inside, broke the hemp rope, and let Shi Xuan regain his freedom.

Shi Xuan stood up, interrupted Jin He Zhenjun's words, and smiled and told him what happened just now. As for the process of the fight, it is not convenient to spread it.

With the cultivation of Sanjie Tianjun, Jin He Zhenjun's face was uncontrollable, and it was difficult to suppress the shock and anger in his heart. No wonder most of the Daoists he had contacted in the past died, and he actually became a bait for his enemies to collect killing power!

"I came here rashly and almost hurt you, Daoist Fellow Shi. I am so sorry that I cannot express it in words. I can only make a cause and effect oath. If Daoist Fellow Shi needs me in the future, I will not fear the danger of life and death."

Jinhe Zhenjun bowed deeply. If something like this happened, even if Shi Xuan joined forces with Hanjing Tianjun to kill him, it was reasonable and he could not blame others. However, Shi Xuan's attitude showed that he was broad-minded, so how could he not express his opinion?

After sending off Jin He Zhenjun, Han Jing Tianjun came to Shi Xuan's small building and handed the Daoist altar, which was still flickering with a black and white light, to Shi Xuan, and smiled gently: "This eighth-level secret treasure seems to be disturbed by time and its effectiveness has not yet been exhausted."

Shi Xuan took it and carefully sensed it: "The contained eighth-level causal power is still a lot, but because the mysterious things that carry it have been backfired, some of them have been broken, and it is obviously impossible to use it completely again."

Meng Nishang looked at the Daoist altar, pondered for a moment, and said coldly: "Shi Xuan, don't you have a causal fairy art? Can these causal powers and some intact mysterious things be refined into the fairy art?"

"There is no method in this regard. It seems that you have to trouble Senior Meng to go to the Tongtian World to see if you can exchange it."

Shi Xuan was moved by what Meng Nishang said. If he could refine it, his causal pill book could become a pseudo-cross-level. In that case, even if he survived the third decline of the heavenly man and other fairy arts were not cultivated, it could still be put to use.

Although the first ray of yin and yang that was differentiated when the universe was created had been engraved on Shi Xuan's own soul according to the method of the Liangyi Sword of Extermination, the origin of wind had to wait for the exchange of such things, but he had many secret techniques, so he was not afraid of not being able to exchange the method.

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A small island with a blooming green lotus was floating above a dark world, and it was only ten feet in radius.

There were several black-robed monks sitting cross-legged on the island, their faces were blurred and their breath was uncertain. Originally, they all sat with their eyes closed and did not say a word, but suddenly, a tall and thin black-robed monk opened his eyes and said in surprise: "Wen Dai has completely fallen."

"Although Wen Dai is not a heavenly monarch at the peak of the three calamities, he has the eighth-level secret treasure Soul-seeking Dao Altar given by you. How can Shi Xuan kill him?" The monk opposite, who was of ordinary stature and looked like an ancient old man, was also slightly surprised.

The tall and thin black-robed monk shook his head: "The specific process involves things in the cave of the Ice and Snow Cold Light Realm, and Shi Xuan's strange treasure that conceals the secrets of heaven, so it is difficult for me to deduce it. I only know that he died under the Frozen Divine Light of the Ten Thousand Worlds in the end."

"Do you want to send more people?" asked another chubby black-robed monk.

The tall and thin black-robed monk said without hesitation: "No hurry, if we don't find out how Wen Dai fell, the other three-tribulation heavenly monarchs may suspect that I need to sublimate the killing of the Avici Hell and deliberately send them to die. After all, our killing sect is not as cohesive as normal sects. Moreover, those old enemies seem to have started to contact Shi Xuan, so we will wait a little longer."

The other Heavenly Lords all nodded in agreement, but none of them suggested personally dealing with Shi Xuan. After all, it was rumored that Shi Xuan had a close relationship with the Five Elements Sect. Without other verification, they would not dare to go that far. Sending out a Three Tribulations Heavenly Lord was already the limit.

Only the simple old man with an ordinary figure had a slightly flickering look.

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"... Hui Xuanzi bows his head." Shi Xuan said, reciting a strange yellowish talisman in his hand. The content was roughly that if Shi Xuan met someone from the Slaughter Dao, he would burn this talisman with his own magic power, and he would directly move over or attack across the border.

Han Jing Heavenly Lord smiled and said, "It turned out that the first Four Tribulations Heavenly Lord who came here was him."

Hui Xuanzi's name was ordinary, and many cultivators used it as their name, but this one was a famous Four Tribulations Heavenly Lord in the Tongtian Realm. He was born as a demon beast, and his only blood descendant died at the hands of the Slaughter Dao.

Ten days after Jin He Zhenjun left, Hui Xuanzi, who was in the Tongtian Realm, sent this talisman to Meng Nishang through secret means and handed it over to Shi Xuan.

"But we can't rely on this too much." Meng Nishang said lightly.

Shi Xuan nodded in agreement. Even if these four-tribulation heavenly monarchs have a blood feud with the killing path, the most important thing for them is their own cultivation and the unpredictable decline of the Tao heart. It's good enough to concentrate on waiting for a hundred or eighty years. If they meet people from the killing path in the future, they may be in other situations and find it difficult to escape.

With the cultivation of the Tao heart of a celestial being, he will not put all his hopes on their help, and if things happen in a hurry, he must have a chance to burn the talisman paper.

"It's enough to delay for a while, and these four-tribulation heavenly monarchs should have some mysterious things to exchange." Shi Xuan said slowly, "There is only a thousand days of thieves, but no thousand days of defense against thieves. We need to create an opportunity to fight back against the killing path."

This time, Shi Xuan will never wait passively, waiting anxiously for others to attack and kill him!

In the following six months, through various secret channels, Shi Xuan received a lot of goodwill and plans from the Four Tribulations Heavenly Monarchs and the Three Tribulations Heavenly Monarchs, such as asking Shi Xuan to go out now and use himself as bait, etc., but Shi Xuan temporarily refused them all. However, Shi Xuan exchanged the things he needed from them, and the method of refining the power of the cause and effect secret treasure was also obtained from the Tongtian World.

The killing path disappeared in the past six months, and it has attracted the attention of many four-tribulation and three-tribulation Heavenly Monarchs. I think they will not act rashly in about a hundred years. Otherwise, if they are captured on the spot, with the ability of the four-tribulation Heavenly Monarch to attack across the universe, the killing path below the four-tribulation Heavenly Monarch will definitely suffer heavy casualties.

Therefore, Shi Xuan said goodbye to Guanghan Sect and returned to Penglai Sect, where he retreated to refine the half-wasted cause and effect secret treasure and deduce something.

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A sixty years later, Shi Xuan's cave residence at Tianji Peak of Penglai Sect.

In the quiet room, countless black and white words flew above Shi Xuan's hands and began to condense into shape.

A stone with black and white differentiation and yin and yang flowing was placed in front of Shi Xuan, and was locked by his eyes with the black and white innate eight trigrams, and the trigrams evolved rapidly.

Suddenly, Qinglang activated the sound transmission ban left by Shi Xuan at the door of the quiet room: "Master, the Shen Chenxi Shen Zhenjun you specifically ordered is here to visit."

Shi Xuan nodded and put away the object that was about to condense into shape. It looked like a scroll with several Taoist characters on the cover. Most of them were not clear, and only one word could be barely seen: "Record".

"Please ask Shen Zhenjun to come to my cave." Shi Xuan stood up, opened the door of the quiet room, and contacted Han Jing Tianjun at the same time.