Chapter 255: The Shortness of Death (Chapter Two in One)
People are often accustomed to siding with the weak and sympathizing with the monks who are about to die, so sometimes they do not have the intended deterrent effect.
A little deterrent effect will be quickly forgotten, because people are always forgetful.
This made Liu Yu couldn't help but recall the much-discussed "abolition of dead practices" in her previous life.
If death cannot bring about the desired effect, should we consider another way to atone for the sins of those who have made mistakes?
For example, a lifetime of high-intensity labor requires the atonement person to sleep for a few hours every day, and only guarantees a minimum amount of food, but he has to endure high-intensity labor torture every day.
Compared with the rapid dissipation of the deterrent effect after death, is this kind of punishment that can be seen, has no freedom, and is extremely painful, more cruel and more deterrent?
And it can be observed at any time, warning people not to cross the red line.
At this time, Liu Yu suddenly realized why the revenge villains in many stories always like to talk nonsense.
Because simple death cannot provide much pleasure in revenge, or even no pleasure at all. What they need is sometimes the repentance, pain, or suffering of the avenger!
That's why so many villains like to play the game of "cat and mouse" when they are about to win, just to enjoy the pleasure of revenge from the panic and pain of being avenged.
Therefore, sometimes those villains will appear "verbose" and "chattering", and in the end they will be overturned, and then "justice" will win.
"Zi Mu Soul Chasing Blade!"
"It's you!"
Du Jingshan's pupils shrank and he let out a low cry. He instantly understood the identity of the person in front of him and the whole story.
He never expected that after just twenty years of seeing him, the young monk in the Qi Refining Stage would actually succeed in building a foundation and have such great strength.
So the tricks he did secretly back then would probably have been discovered by him long ago. No wonder the subsequent tracking methods failed.
So, this is what this person came here for?
Du Jingshan's heart trembled, and he was filled with regret. He didn't expect that it was because of his mistake that he had ruined the life of the most talented child of his family's generation.
Back then, why didn't you be more decisive, find a more remote place, and take the life of the thief in front of you?
"Fellow Daoist Du, it seems that he recognized this magical weapon."
"We are old acquaintances. Hong came to see his Taoist friend this time to catch up on old times."
"We haven't seen each other for many years. Are you still satisfied with this great gift?"
Liu Yu chuckled and greeted like an old friend he hadn't seen for many years, but his dark pupils were full of coldness.
Du Jingshan gritted his teeth. Because of the emotions in his heart, his face was no longer calm and gradually became distorted.
"What a thief. I only regret that I was not decisive enough back then, which led to today's consequences."
"But it's not too late to correct this mistake now!"
Du Jingshan stared at Liu Yu, and as he spoke, he took out a talisman with a golden dagger on it, and input magic power in his hand to activate it.
"Fu Bao, not good!"
Liu Yu had been observing the other party's movements and reacted immediately when he saw it. He also touched the storage bag and took out the diamond halberd talisman.
The quality of the liquid mana of foundation-building monks has been greatly improved compared to the gaseous mana of monks in the Qi refining stage, so the time to activate the talisman is naturally greatly shortened.
After one breath, almost at the same time, the two of them completed activating the talisman.
A bright golden halberd and a dark golden dagger transformed in front of the two people, and then shot out to attack each other.
"Bang bang" "ding ding"
Liu Yu controlled the diamond halberd talisman and shot out crescent-shaped energy blasts, directly taking Du Jingshan's head.
However, they were all easily blocked by the dark gold dagger, defeating the qi energy one after another. Then, the dark gold dagger talisman was waved one after another, slashing out one after another transparent sword energy.
This sword energy is fast and urgent, invisible but qualitative, and extremely condensed. It is actually much stronger than the energy produced by the diamond halberd and talisman.
This thought flashed through Liu Yu's mind, and then a strong sense of crisis came over her spiritual sense.
He gathered his mind, locked his consciousness on the invisible sword energy, and calmly controlled the diamond halberd and talisman to kill them one by one.
At the same time, he touched the storage bag and put the small purple bell talisman, which was suspected to be a defensive magic weapon, into his sleeve. He was ready to activate it immediately if something went wrong.
Although once the talisman is used, it is equivalent to the loss of thousands of spiritual stones, but at this time, there is no need to worry about that much.
"Why does this kid also have a talisman?"
"Could he be a member of a large family or a well-known monk in the Yuanyang Sect?"
"No, that's not right. If this person really had that kind of background, he wouldn't need to go to the Treasure House to buy magic weapons."
Seeing that Liu Yu also had a talisman, Du Jingshan was suddenly shocked and became a little panicked.
From the strength of Liu Yu's attack when he was first attacked, he judged that he would not be able to take advantage in an upright fight, but he did not choose to escape immediately because he had the talisman as a trump card.
When he heard that the other party was the young monk twenty years ago, he felt even more confident. After all, cultivating to the foundation-building stage plus two high-grade spiritual weapons would cost most of the foundation-building monks.
With a huge sum of money, how can you still have the money to buy high-end consumables like Talisman?
But reality gave Du Jingshan a surprise: the thief also had a talisman!
This made Du Jingshan panic, and he finally felt that things were not developing in a direction that he could control, and that he might be in danger of falling at any time.
Because there is not much power left in this talisman, there are only two chances to use it. What if the opponent has an intact talisman and waits for the power of his dark gold dagger talisman to be exhausted, wouldn’t it be enough?
Lamb to the slaughter?
Thinking of this, Du Jingshan was sweating all over and thinking about countermeasures.
However, before he could think about it, Liu Yu launched another fierce offensive.
In the battle of Fu Bao, although the Diamond Halberd was at a disadvantage, it was still going back and forth for a while and would not be defeated quickly. There was no problem in maintaining the situation.
After all, the Diamond Halberd Talisman still has three powers left, which is enough to ensure a long-lasting battle.
On the one hand, he controls the talisman and on the other hand, Liu Yu's two spiritual weapons come out at the same time.
The Qi machine locked onto Du Jingshan's position, his clothes swayed, and his magic power poured out without hesitation.
The Green Dragon Halberd and the Li Xuan Sword were able to fully open their spiritual weapons and transformed into forms. With frightening power, they attacked each other from the left to the right.
After finishing these things, Liu Yu didn't give up. He pointed at the Qingyang Demonic Fire in front of him, causing the flames to swell and transform into a half-foot-sized blue bird, which flapped its wings and flew towards Dujing Mountain.
The blue bird is extremely flexible, with a light blue body and dark blue eyes. Although it is small, it is not something that people dare to ignore.
If it weren't for the lack of energy, some monks might think it was an elf in the flames!
Facing a series of fierce attacks, Du Jingshan's eyelids twitched, and he quickly took out a pitch-black cone and moved towards the Green Dragon Halberd.
"Bang bang"
The green dragon halberd and the pitch-black cone fought back and forth, and for a moment it was impossible to tell the winner.
This jet black cone looks inconspicuous, but judging from its power, it turns out to be a top-grade spiritual weapon!
Du Jingshan had no time to breathe a sigh of relief after blocking the Green Dragon Halberd. He took out a small brown umbrella from his storage bag and input mana to increase the size to two feet, blocking the attack of Li Xuan Sword.
After several blows, there were only a few shallow marks on the small brown umbrella, and the spiritual light was not dim at all. It seemed that it was not difficult to resist the Li Xuan Sword.
The small brown-yellow umbrella seems to be a magic weapon that specializes in defense, and it is also a top-quality magic weapon. Its defensive power is extraordinary, even better than the gold steel flag.
In the end, the Qingyang Demonic Fire was left, and Du Jingshan played a second-level high-grade water attribute, which turned into a small, dark stream of water, wrapping around the blue bird like a black ribbon.
Try to exercise restraint and see if you can put it out.
Water and fire cannot restrain each other. With the current power of Qingyang Demonic Fire, facing the attack of a second-level high-grade water attribute spell, it was suppressed in a single encounter.
The black ribbon formed by the dark current easily entangled the blue bird. It waved its claws repeatedly but was unable to do anything, and then tightened it tighter and tighter, trying to extinguish the strange flames.
But the Qingyang Demonic Fire is not an ordinary magic fire. How can it be so easily wiped out?
Seeing this scene, Liu Yu's magic weapon was pinched, and the blue bird's flames converged and suddenly spread into wisps of tiny flames, getting rid of the entanglement of the black ribbon.
Wisps of green, tiny flames regrouped into a ball of Qingyang Demonic Fire not far away, changing into various shapes and continuing to consume this spell.
As the head of the treasure gathering building, Du Jingshan has many tricks, but he only has the cultivation level of the middle stage of foundation building. Controlling a talisman, a high-grade spiritual weapon, and a top-grade spiritual weapon has almost reached the limit.
He could control at most one more magic weapon or spiritual weapon, but he chose a conservative approach and did not take the initiative to attack, leaving some room to avoid being caught and unable to make up for the shortcomings.
At this point, all Liu Yu's attacks had been blocked, and the two sides were in a stalemate.
"As expected of the manager of Jubao Tower, he really has a lot of tricks and tricks. He is much better than Xie Junjie who we fought against before."
Liu Yu sighed in his heart, but soon realized that this also meant that he would gain more later.
In this stalemate, a quarter of an hour passed.
Du Jingshan always paid attention to the collision of the two talismans and felt that the power of the dark gold dagger talisman began to weaken, but the opponent's golden halberd talisman remained the same as before.
This caused his energy to become slightly chaotic, and a chill rose from the bottom of his heart like falling into an ice cave.
Du Jingshan began to look at the surrounding environment, and he already wanted to retreat.
How keen is Liu Yu's spiritual sense?
He noticed on the spot that the power of the dark gold dagger talisman was weakening, and the opponent's small movements, he immediately increased the output of mana, and the attacks of the Green Dragon Halberd and Li Xuan Sword were even more fierce!
"No, we can't go on like this, otherwise our lives will be at risk."
"Where there is life, there is hope!"
"Those juniors who have fallen can only return to the family to apologize."
Feeling that the power of the talisman was about to be exhausted, Du Jingshan quickly made a decision.
He immediately took out three second-level talismans of different grades from his storage bag, threw them at the Green Dragon Halberd, Li Xuan Sword and Qingyang Demonic Fire. At the same time, he recalled the jet black cone and the small brown umbrella, and took out another red one.
The flying sword jumped up.
Du Jingshan even stayed behind to cut off the talisman. He was already half a mile away in a flash and had to rely on his high speed to escape.