Chapter six hundred and ninety-eight: the battle of breaking the city [below]
Directly using the "God-killing Sword" to attack the Yuanying of a Yuanying stage monk was the first time Zhou Yang had done this.
Although he had used this move to attack the enemy several times in the past, he only did so after the enemy's Nascent Soul emerged from the body. This was a completely different situation from now.
When the monk Yuanying is in the body, it is covered by the physical body and protected by the Zifu Dao Palace. Its resistance to spiritual attacks is much greater than when the Yuanying comes out of the body.
Even if Zhou Yang's spiritual consciousness has now reached the level of a late Yuanying monk, it is impossible to directly kill an early Yuanying monk with this method, but he may suffer backlash.
Therefore, he would never do this while his enemy's body was still alive.
But now the situation is different.
Now his Yuanying is protected by the Yuan Mysterious Treasure, and he can use the power of the secret treasure to nourish and restore the damaged Yuanshen. Even if he encounters a backlash, he doesn't have to worry about losing his ability to fight again.
At that time, he thrust his sword into the Tao Palace of the Purple Mansion, a woman of the Phantom Demon Taoism, and stabbed directly into the chest of Nascent Soul, which could be said to have stabbed her to the core.
It's just that the Nascent Soul is non-physical. Although this sword severely damaged the woman's soul, it failed to directly kill her soul.
But the woman's spirit was severely damaged, and when the reaction was reflected in her body, she who was running away quickly fell to the ground with a scream like a swan hit by an arrow.
Bang!
The woman's white body fell heavily to the ground, creating a big deep hole in the ground.
Fortunately, the Nascent Soul cultivator's body was no longer human, and the height of her flight was not particularly high, so she didn't fall to pieces and become a meat pie.
And just a few breaths after the woman's body landed, a figure of a man in green appeared next to the woman.
This man in green clothes has an ordinary appearance, except for his pair of purple eyes that are very eye-catching.
He looked at the woman in the mud pit who was forced to fall into a deep sleep due to the heavy damage to her soul. After pondering for a moment, he picked up her white body from the ground, and then used several kinds of forbidden magic on the woman's body with his fingers.
He used the secret technique of Yuanshen, and finally very carefully affixed a sealing talisman on the woman's forehead, chest and back.
After doing all this, the man in green nodded with satisfaction, then directly grabbed the woman's neck from behind, carried her like a kitten and flew back to Zhou Yang, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground.
Zhou Yang used the "God-killing Sword" to severely damage the spirit of this phantom-demon woman, so of course he himself could not be left unscathed.
The "God-Killing Sword" is a secret technique of attacking with the divine consciousness. It emphasizes that there will be no regrets when the sword is used. Regardless of whether it is successful or not, the spiritual consciousness that condenses the sword of the divine consciousness will be depleted.
The difference between success and failure is nothing more than a greater or lesser loss.
Zhou Yang just severely damaged his opponent's soul. It can be said to be a success, or it can be said to be a failure.
The argument of success comes from the fact that the other party has become his prisoner.
The theory of failure is that not even 20% of that part of the spiritual consciousness could be recovered in the end.
Therefore, even with how powerful his spiritual consciousness was, his soul was in turmoil after the results appeared, and he had to sit quietly and adjust his breath immediately to calm the turmoil in his soul.
At this time, the mysterious Yuan treasure that protected his Yuan Ying came into play.
Under his active urging, the petals of this treasure immediately opened and completely wrapped his Nascent Soul inside.
Zhou Yang's Nascent Soul was inside the flower bud, and he felt the warm heat flowing out from the flower bud and pouring into his own Nascent Soul.
Under the nourishment of this heat flow, he seemed to have returned to his mother's fetal stage. His whole body felt indescribably relaxed and comfortable. The tingling sensation in his soul that had been caused by excessive consumption of his spiritual consciousness was all healed and disappeared.
Not long after, after Zhou Yang felt that the damage to his Yuanshen would no longer have much impact on his combat power, he took the initiative to end his recuperation and activated the secret treasure to let his Yuanying come out of the bud.
And from the time he severely injured the phantom woman to the time he came to his senses after finishing his recuperation, only half an hour had passed.
If other Yuanying monks knew about this kind of thing, they would definitely open their mouths in surprise and scream that it was incredible!
Even a soul-nourishing sacred object like the [Ten Thousand Years Soul-nurturing Wood] cannot achieve this kind of recovery effect in such a short period of time. It is far inferior.
In fact, not to mention others, Zhou Yang himself was also overjoyed at this time, and he said in his heart that he had made a profit.
It was undoubtedly the most correct choice he made when he did not choose to sacrifice that purple strange flower to become an external incarnation.
Compared with a mysterious Yuan treasure that can quickly restore a damaged soul, the effect of an external incarnation is far incomparable.
He stood up from the ground with a face full of joy, turned his head and glanced at the Huanmo Dao woman who was held in his hand by his incarnation. With a wave of his hand, he put the woman into the [Dong Xuan Bead], preparing to wait until the battle was over.
Conduct interrogation.
Then he looked at the messy battlefield around him, and after his eyes paused for a moment on the broken body of the Yuanying monk named Wang, he thought for a while and put away his body and the magic weapons left on the battlefield, and prepared
It will be handed over to Xu Tianlin after the war.
After doing all this, Zhou Yang did not stay here any longer and immediately chased the two blood-haired evil spirits in the direction in which they fled.
He always felt that these blood-haired evil spirits were not simple. Judging from their various behaviors after their appearance, they did not look like puppets that had their minds wiped out after being sacrificed by demon cultivators. Instead, they looked like the kind of ghost cultivators whose intelligence was as smart as ordinary people.
But he knew in his heart that those blood-haired evil ghosts were definitely not ghost cultivators.
In order to find out the matter clearly, Zhou Yang decided to pursue it to the end and never let these blood-haired evil spirits have a chance to escape next time.
But just as he was halfway through the chase, an extremely strong explosive aura suddenly appeared in the demon city ahead.
Someone blew up Yuanying!
This was Zhou Yang's first reaction after seeing the blue-white explosive aura rising into the sky.
He had seen the scene of a monk self-destructing his Nascent Soul several times, and it had a profound impact on this situation.
Looking at the blue-white aura rising into the sky, he even understood that it was caused by the self-explosion of the Yuanying by a Nascent Soul monk who practiced ice-based exercises. Those blue-white auras were actually the manifestation of his ice-based magic power.
The power of Nascent Soul's self-destruction is naturally extraordinary. The large formation in the Demon City was impacted by this powerful force, and the sky suddenly showed a large blank, and even the blue sky and white clouds in the sky could be seen.
If Zhou Yang and others want to get out of the city, they can easily leave the magic city by rushing upwards.
But since they took the initiative to enter the city to slay the demons, they certainly would not waste their efforts halfway through the task.
On the contrary, because of the tragic act of the fellow monks who self-destructed their Nascent Soul, the rest of them were aroused with the same hatred and hatred, and they even wanted to wipe out the demons and avenge their fallen companions.
"Fellow Taoists, it's time to eliminate demons and defend the Tao. Let's work together to break the demon formation. Don't let Taoist Feng's sacrifice go to waste!"
Taking advantage of the turmoil in the magic city's formation, Nie Yushuang finally spread her voice throughout the city.
His angry words immediately resonated with all the immortal cultivators in the city.
Zhou Yang directly sacrificed the three magic weapons [Haoyang Treasure Mirror], [Thick Earth Sealing Seal], and [Qianyang Golden Pagoda], and launched them towards a nearby place where the formation power gathered that he sensed. onslaught.
At the same time, his external incarnation also activated the [Jiamu Leiyuan Pai] to release thunder in the sky and join the attack sequence.
At this moment, more than ten Yuanying stage monks in the city took action together, taking advantage of the opportunity created by the Yuanying monk named Feng to explode the Yuanying, and finally shattered the [Ten Thousand Ghost Soul-Eating Array] that enveloped the entire demonic city with one blow.
However, the shattering of the formation is not the end. The millions of wronged souls who have lost their restraints because of the shattering of the formation are the last and most difficult problem faced by Zhou Yang and other immortal cultivators.
When the [Ten Thousand Ghosts Soul Devouring Formation] was still there, all the wronged souls were restrained by the formation in those formation bases. At this moment, the formation was broken. Although Granny Ma who controlled the formation was severely injured, she still took advantage of the situation to activate this formation. The most important killing move [Ten Thousand Ghosts Soul Eater].
As a monk who had attracted the attention of the demons before the war began, Zhou Yang had naturally been on the list of people the demons must kill.
At this time, as soon as the magical power of the formation was activated, endless ghosts of injustice suddenly surged out from the ground around him, and he was submerged in the sea of ghosts.
Even a Qi-training stage monk may not be able to kill these wronged souls alone, but when tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of them come in, even a Nascent Soul stage monk can't stand it.
What's even more frightening is that these innocent souls died innocently and tragically during their lifetimes, and were used as firewood and restrained in the formations after their death to suffer torture. Many of them turned into extremely evil ghosts with overwhelming grievances.
With this resentment existing, even if Zhou Yang can rely on magical powers such as "Suppressing Demons Golden Light" to purify his ghost body, his own soul will inevitably be impacted by the resentment.
At that time, when Zhou Yang faced this situation, he could only activate the [Qianyang True Fire] with all his strength to extinguish and purify the vengeful souls and resentful ghosts that rushed towards him, while at the same time he was distracted and activated the Yuan Mysterious Treasure to re-purify himself. The Nascent Soul package was protected.
However, even so, the grievances of those resentful ghosts continued to seep into his Zifu. Soon, even though he was protected by the Yuan Mysterious Treasure, scenes of phantoms appeared in his Yuanshen, and countless shrill ghost howls were heard in his Yuanshen. There was a sound in God.
Those phantoms are mostly the most unforgettable scenes of the resentful ghosts during their lifetimes, and more than 99% of them are scenes of them being slaughtered and tortured by demonic cultivators.
However, there are also some scenes that are transformed by the obsession of resentful ghosts. They turn from the ghosts of injustice into resentful ghosts because they are affected by certain obsessions during their lifetime and do not want to dissipate in the world like this.
Zhou Yang has a strong will, and he has personally experienced countless scenes of mountains of corpses and seas of blood. The tragic scenes of those resentful ghosts being slaughtered and tortured during their lifetimes cannot affect his mind, and the sounds of ghosts crying and howling are equally difficult to shake his mind at all.
But the scenes transformed by the obsession of resentful ghosts moved him so much that he didn't even want to erase these illusions.
Zhou Yang's own experience is undoubtedly a very rich person. This richness does not refer to how many places he has been or how many different scenery and people he has seen, but it refers to the richness of love, hatred and hatred he has experienced in his life.
Hundreds of years have passed since my practice, and many things I experienced when I was young will be difficult to remember if I don’t carefully recall them.
Judging from his face, he still looked the same hundreds of years ago and had never changed.
But his heart has changed!
Whether he admits it or not, there is actually not much difference between him now and the "old monster" in the Nascent Soul stage that he criticized when he was young.
At most, he has a better temper, behaves more decently, and doesn't have the quirks that some Nascent Soul Stage monks have.
These are not bad things, but the growth and transformation that all cultivators must go through on their path to spiritual practice.
The problem is, not all growth is a good thing, not all is beneficial.
For example, a soldier is used to life and death on the battlefield, and his mind has been transformed by the baptism of war. Even if his comrades fall at his feet, he can still step on the corpses of his comrades without changing his expression, execute military orders, and charge forward until death.
At this time, anyone will feel that this soldier is a good warrior, a brave and strong fighting hero, and what he does is beneficial to himself and the people he protects from an overall perspective.
But when the soldier retired from the battlefield after performing a meritorious service, and was recuperating in a quiet and peaceful town behind him, a thief suddenly entered his house and stole. He was discovered.
Being accustomed to the rules of the battlefield, he knocked the thief to the ground with a punch on the spot, then pulled out the long sword hanging on the wall and killed the thief in the room, without feeling at all that there was anything wrong with what he did.
Is this actually true?
Of course, this metaphor is not so accurate for the world of immortals who abide by the law of the jungle and the strong, but in fact the principle is the same.
Zhou Yang's cultivation has reached this point. Although his cultivation is getting higher and higher, his character and will are getting stronger, and his desire to seek the Tao is getting stronger and stronger. However, on the contrary, his personal mood swings are becoming less and less obvious.
In other words, he is becoming less and less humane, becoming more and more like a detached and indifferent immortal god, no longer like a mortal.
This may not be a bad thing, but it may not be a good thing either.
At this time, when Zhou Yang was being eroded by the resentment left by those resentful ghosts after their death, he was deeply touched by observing the similar scenes transformed by the obsessions of those resentful ghosts during their lifetimes. Some memories that had long been dusted came back to him.
The resonance came to his mind.
The desire to become an immortal cultivator in childhood, the struggle to build the foundation as a boy, the joy after the hard work to build the foundation, the efforts made to make the family strong after taking over the position of the head of the Zhou family, mother, old man
The sadness when the patriarch and other beloved people pass away...
Scenes of experiences in his life that had deeply touched him but gradually faded away as time passed. At this time, driven by the obsession of the resentful ghosts, they clearly resurfaced in Zhou Yang's mind, making him unwilling to
Give up.
Although Nascent Soul monks can dig up and recall some simple memories from their time as a fetus if they are willing, no Nascent Soul monk would be willing to use such magical powers to recall past events unless necessary.
Because for monks who are dedicated to the Tao, for monks in the Nascent Soul stage who want to keep climbing up, it is very important not to let yourself dwell on the past and always maintain a heart of making progress.
Without this spirit, the immortal cultivator will become a "corpse-guarding insect", just waiting for the remaining life span to pass away, and like countless people of the same generation who have been surpassed by him, they will be turned into withered bones under the erosion of time.
Therefore, Zhou Yang is now being responded to by resentful ghosts and obsessions and illusions triggering events in the past. This is both a very dangerous thing and a very beneficial thing.
The danger is that if he is too indulged in it and cannot extricate himself, it will cause a huge blow to his Taoist heart, making it difficult to make any progress in his cultivation in the future.
The benefit is that he uses the ghost's obsession to evoke resonance and recall his past experiences, which is equivalent to another mental tempering. As long as he can withdraw in time and return to his mind, he can not only regain the gradually faded and lost humanity, but also experience a mental temper. If the Taoist heart becomes more mellow, there will no longer be any obstacles to the practice of breaking through the realm in the future.
In fact, the so-called danger does not exist for Zhou Yang.
After all, although there were many resentful ghosts, they were not all coming to him alone. It was just that the number of resentful ghosts coming to him was larger than that of monks of the same level.
But he has the [Qianyang True Fire] to refine the resentful ghosts, and has the Yuan Mysterious Treasure to defend against the invasion of resentments, and his own soul is powerful enough to withstand the attacks of the resentful ghosts faster than almost anyone else.
After the last resentful ghost that pounced on him was refined, the obsessional illusion of the resentful ghost that invaded his soul no longer had the strength to support it. It was quickly dispersed by the mysterious treasure that protected him, and he also So he woke up quickly.
He woke up, closed his eyes and experienced what he had just experienced, and then murmured to himself: "I never thought that this time it would be a blessing in disguise. If I see the devil who arranged the ghost array in the future, I can let him (her) Die happily and avoid torture!"
As soon as he finished speaking, others quickly rushed towards where Master Qingyang was.
Now that there is no magic array to block his perception, his perception has completely returned to normal, and the aura of Master Qingyang happens to be within the range of his perception.
Things changed one after another to this point, and Zhou Yang felt that he needed to meet with others before deciding on the next plan.
Because of his previous outstanding performance in the formation, when the [Ten Thousand Ghost Soul Eater] magical power was activated, Master Qingyang was also one of the targets.
However, this time he came to Beitingzhou to support the immortal world, and specially brought out several demon-conquering treasures from the sect's ancestor hall. One of them, the [Pure Yang Qingxin Pendant], was specially used to protect the soul and prevent It is a treasure that ghosts affect the mind.
When those grievances and ghosts rushed towards him, they were purified by him before they got close with the magic weapon [Great Sun Golden Wheel]. The remaining resentment was for him who had the protection of [Pure Yang Qingxin Pendant]. It has no impact either.
It was just because of the power of these two demon-conquering treasures that he was targeted.
When he took action to subdue the demon, the old man in blood robe who secretly drove the blood-haired evil ghost quietly came out to cooperate with his original opponent and launched a fierce attack on him.
When Zhou Yang arrived, Master Qingyang had already been suppressed by the two demons and was at an absolute disadvantage. He was about to be defeated and run away.
When he saw this scene, he immediately shouted loudly: "The devil should stop being so rampant, Zhou is here!"
Before he shouted, a purple-gold ruler flew out of his hand. In the blink of an eye, it emerged from the top of the blood-robed old man's head and hit the opponent's head hard.
The old man in blood robe did not expect that in addition to [Qianyang True Fire], he also had such a powerful magical weapon. He was caught off guard and had no time to dodge and was hit hard.
After hearing a "bang" explosion, a little blood-colored man who looked very similar to the old man in blood-robe was beaten to death by a purple-gold ruler on the spot.
The old man in blood robe who was supposed to have his head blown off suddenly appeared dozens of feet away, seemingly unscathed.
However, the expression of pain on the blood-robed old man's face was even more uncomfortable than losing an arm.
"Ah, that damn boy dared to sneak up on me from behind. Grandpa, I will skin you and turn you into a bloody corpse, making your life worse than death!"
He stared at Zhou Yang with pain and anger on his face, his face twitched and trembled, and he screamed in anger.
It has to be said that Zhou Yang's youthful appearance is very deceptive, which makes him easily looked down upon when fighting against Nascent Soul Stage monks who are generally one or two thousand years old.
At this time, facing the accusation of a sneak attack by the old man in blood robe, he did not feel ashamed at all. Instead, he shouted righteously and loudly: "Evil monsters should be punished by everyone. As a Nascent Soul stage demon cultivator, don't you?
Should we have been mentally prepared for this in advance?"
As soon as his words finished, they aroused the resonance of Master Qingyang in the audience. He couldn't help saying with great appreciation: "What Zhou Daoyou said is absolutely true. Such evil monsters are no longer worthy of being called human beings. To deal with such demons, we should
Use every possible means to eliminate them as the highest criterion!"
When the old man in blood-robed clothes heard the two men's harmonious words, his eyes suddenly bulged with anger. He couldn't help spitting a mouthful of bloody phlegm at the two men, and cursed angrily: "Bah! You can speak so righteously about a sneak attack.
Only you Xuanyang Immortal Sect, a bunch of hypocrites who claim to be famous and upright, can do this. The people I hate the most in my life are you hypocrites who talk about benevolence, justice and morality, but act even more despicably and shamelessly than demons like us!"
"Why do fellow Taoist monks in blood clothes have to talk to these sanctimonious hypocrites? Now that other monks are trapped by the [Ten Thousand Ghosts Soul Eater] magical power, you and I can work together to eradicate these two people and achieve unparalleled achievements!"
A violent and ferocious voice sounded from behind the blood-clothed ancestor, but it was a demon cultivator who was originally fighting with Qingyang Zhenren who spoke out.
Among the major factions of the Demonic Path, the number of monks of the Demonic Path is the rarest. The practice methods of this Demonic Monk are the most bizarre. They give up their human body and possess the body of a demonized monster to practice, so that they can practice and perform human skills.
The monks have magical powers, but also possess the powerful physical bodies and innate magical powers of monsters.
It's just that the human soul and the body of the monster are not compatible and are easily rejected. Even if they can reconcile and alleviate the two through special magic skills, it is easy for the conflict between the two to lead to obsession and turn into a crazy monster.
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Therefore, even among demonic cultivators, there are very few monks who are willing to practice the path of demons.
But on the other hand, as long as the monks of the demon path have never gone crazy and turned into monsters, they are the leaders of two clans, and they are indeed at the top of the same level of monks in terms of strength.
Although the demon cultivator who is speaking out now seems to only have the second-level cultivation of Nascent Soul, he still only fell slightly behind when he fought against Qingyang Zhenren, who has several demon-conquering treasures. This shows his strength.
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Zhou Yang also didn't expect that he had just captured a rare Yuanying Demonic Cultivator of the Phantom Demon Dao, and now he saw an extremely rare Yuanying Demonic Cultivator of the Demonic Dao.
If we include the white-bone demon cultivators, corpse demon cultivators, blood demon cultivators, ghost cultivators, and demon cultivators that he has seen before, he has seen them all.
He looked at the demon cultivator who made the noise.
I saw that he was more than three feet tall, with a red face and fangs, and a single horn on his head. He was not wearing any clothes. Except for his cheeks, his hands, feet, chest and abdomen were covered with long, thick and hard black hairs.
The longest one is three or four feet long.
In his furry hands, he was also holding a five- to six-foot-long bone rod magic weapon. The bone rod was dark gold in color, with a looming dark golden magic light flickering on it. I don’t know what it was.
Made from the leg bones of alien beasts, its aura is not inferior to that of a sixth-level magic weapon.
Just from this appearance, it was difficult for Zhou Yang to tell what kind of monster body this demon cultivator occupied.
But this does not prevent him from ridiculing and despising the other party.
A look of surprise flashed across his face, and he looked at the magic cultivator shaking his head in amazement and shouting: "It's weird, it's weird, it turns out that there are people in this world who would leave a good person unjust and take the initiative to become a beast.