Pawn Crossing the River

Quan's fear of Zu Tianshi is not unreasonable.

Even if the Ancestral Heavenly Master is no longer in the world.

After the thunder, not only did a "skylight" open to this ancient temple, but Quan also lost half of his life.

Just so domineering.

After all, the gap between the creation stage and the Second Tribulation Immortal is really too big. Even if it is just a restriction left by the Second Tribulation Immortal instead of the actual presence of the deity.

Naturally, Qi Xuansu couldn't use such a useful trick just once. He immediately shouted the name of the Ancestral Master again.

He even thought that no matter how dangerous the Lingshan Cave was, as long as he chanted the name of the Ancestral Master all the way, it would be nothing. This trip to Lingshan would even be unexpectedly easy.

But Qi Xuansu was soon disappointed.

This time, no thunder fell.

Qi Xuansu could faintly feel that there was actually a response, but the thunder was unable to continue until it was gathered halfway. From this point of view, the sky thunder in Lingshan Cave is similar to the "Five Innate Gods" of the Earth Immortal. There is a certain interval between each use. After all, this is not a completely sealed Demon Suppression Well Cave. It has air leakage from all sides, and it is impossible to form a real cycle.

There was no other way, so Qi Xuansu had no choice but to take action himself, holding "Qingyun" in his hand and heading toward the spring to kill.

Quan was already like a mummy, but when he was hit by the thunder, he became like a charred corpse, which was terrible to look at.

Qi Xuansu slashed down with his sword, and there was a faint sound of tiger roaring.

Quan let out a scream: "'Dragon and Tiger Sword Technique'!"

First he was seriously injured by the Heavenly Thunder of the Ancestral Master, and now he was completely frightened when he saw the Sword Art of the Ancestral Master. He would rather go under the blood moon than face Qi Xuansu again.

Quan turned into countless shadows and exploded, scattering in all directions. Not only did he avoid Qi Xuansu's sword, he also escaped from the temple and escaped into the bloody light outside.

A round of blood moon shines on the entire Lingshan cave sky, covering a large area. As the saying goes, "If you hold the fire without burning your fingers, the power lies in your speed. The sharp nails penetrate into the metal and stone, and the power is concentrated at one point." The larger the range, the smaller the power. Therefore, the blood moon is unlikely to endanger the life of the creator of heaven. At most, it will be a bit troublesome.

At this time, the moonlight all over the cave sky is like the ice and snow in the twelfth lunar month of winter. You will not be frozen to death as soon as you go out. If you are fully prepared, you can be safe and sound, but you will be very uncomfortable from the cold, so you should not go out if you can. There is no other way to lie down on the ice and snow.

Qi Xuansu saw the spring disappearing into the moonlight and immediately followed him.

After entering the bloody moonlight, Qi Xuansu heard various sounds, just like his previous experience in the trance, there were war drums, war roars, beast roars, and blood pupils lit up in the bloody moonlight, which was even more intense than the bloody moonlight. bright red.

If it were Qi Xuansu in the past, he might not be able to understand the scene at this time and would only feel weird and terrifying. But now Qi Xuansu has seen the world and can easily analyze the principle. Wu Luo once summoned the dead sisters The projection was resolved by Master Lan Da with the "Tongyou Lamp". The blood moon should have the same principle as both, summoning the marks of the dead and turning them into projections. However, because the blood moon covers a large area and its power is greatly dispersed, it is unlikely to summon a projection of the immortal level, at most the celestial level.

Without mystery, there is no terror.

Several blood shadows rushed towards Qi Xuansu. Qi Xuansu transformed into the dharma body of True Lord Taiyin and activated the "Thirteen Taiyin Swords". The magic sword whizzed and moved, relying on the power of "Qingyun" to kill all the blood shadows.

However, this move also alarmed the blood shadows in other places, and they suddenly rushed towards Qi Xuansu like a tide of blood.

Qi Xuansu made a simple assessment in his mind. If he really wanted to kill all the blood shadows, he could do it. The key was that it was not worth it. This move would not only cause him great loss of vitality, but would also bring him little benefit. He had no training. The legendary demon's method can increase one's cultivation by one point every time it kills a person, and it is not used to clean up the Lingshan cave, so avoid it if you can.

Moreover, Qi Xuansu suspected that these blood shadows could continue to regenerate. When the Tianshi Sect captured Lingshan Cave, all the blood shadows should have been wiped out. However, after the Tianshi Sect left, these blood shadows began to regenerate and accumulate. No one paid attention to them for so many years. , like overgrown weeds, regained such a scale.

Qi Xuansu glanced around again, but there was no sign of Quan. After all, Quan was an aborigine from Lingshan Cave Heaven, and his knowledge of this place was far better than Qi Xuansu's. It was not difficult to hide if he really wanted to, and with the cover of the blood moon, it was not difficult.

Qi Xuansu had no choice but to retreat back to the temple.

On this point, Quan did not lie to Qi Xuansu. These buildings could indeed block the entry of the blood shadow. After Qi Xuansu closed the door of the temple, the various sounds outside gradually became smaller and farther away.

Qi Xuansu raised his head and looked towards the dome of the temple. There was a hole penetrated by the sky thunder. It must be said that the control of this sky thunder was really meticulous. The thickness of the sky thunder was the same as the hole. There was no way for any power to escape. scattered.

A beam of blood-colored moonlight shone down from the entrance of the cave, and a blood shadow appeared in it, but he could not leave the range of the moonlight and enter a place not illuminated by the moonlight, as if he was trapped in a cage.

Qi Xuansu couldn't say he regretted not being able to kill Quan. For Qi Xuansu, the result was greater than the process. His main purpose was not to kill people, but more to protect himself. Now that Quan escaped in embarrassment, Qi Xuansu was not injured at all, and the result was achieved.

He wouldn't even care if Quan had lied to him. To put it bluntly, it was just two strangers who were full of vigilance and calculations who tested each other and then came to blows. To completely confess to a stranger they just met is something that even a child would not be able to do. What to do, otherwise the world is full of intrigues? Moreover, this kind of deceit is more straightforward and bloody than the temple, tearing away all the veil of warmth.

People who have been in temples for a long time, or people who have been in the peaceful world for a long time, such as Huayuan Taoist priests, will always overemphasize procedures, rules, and morals. Of course these are correct, but we must not forget that the reason why there are procedures, rules, and morals , is based on violence.

Without violence to sustain them, these are all empty.

Or looking at it from another perspective, rules, procedures, and morals are actually decorations for the deterrence of violence. The more civilized it is, the more exquisite and complicated the decoration is, the more barbaric and crude it is, and it doesn't even bother to cover it up.

In this uninhabited area separated from the civilized world, there is no cover.

Then only violence speaks.

Does Qi Xuansu still want to condemn Quan and talk to Quan about the rules and procedures? And then seize on Quan’s verbal flaws or moral flaws to lash out? This is not a Taoist meeting. It has no meaning without the strong violent foundation of the Taoist sect as a support.

Sometimes, Huayuan Taoist priests will extremely pursue the rationality of morals, rules, and procedures. When encountering certain problems, they will repeatedly and extremely pursue the correctness of morals, rules, and procedures.

If you want to kill someone, you can't do it because you are unreasonable, but because the person being killed is guilty. Even if it is revenge, it cannot be a grudge. You must grasp a moral stain on the enemy, stand on the moral high ground under the arch of moral justice, and judge the enemy.

Must be morally perfect, must be in line with correct values, and have no flaws.

To put it nicely, murdering someone with a heart-wrenching heart is not morally noble, but more about satisfying a sense of moral superiority by accusing others of their "immorality" and "immorality."

To put it harshly, people who make good use of rules are also disciplined by the rules. They are immersed in the hierarchy and cannot extricate themselves. They cannot be more than half a point against each other. They must remember their own position. Even their own children must be classified as legitimate and concubine. They must Make the distinction clearly, without any confusion or overstep, and be proud of it.

This just proves that the Taoist discipline for the Huayuan Taoist priests is too high. Discipline is essentially a reward and punishment mechanism. If you have merit, you will be rewarded, and if you go wrong, you will be punished. It is difficult for the Huayuan Taoist priests to escape from the discipline, which also means that the Huayuan Taoist priests can be in the Taoist framework. They benefit more from the discipline of the system, so they will spontaneously maintain this framework system.

However, things have to be viewed from two sides. Morality and rules are both imprisonment and protection, which indirectly illustrates that Huayuan Taoist priests are vulnerable to violence and must be protected through rules.

The wild Taoist likes the strong to take all, absolute violence, and hates the constraints of red tape. Garden Taoist priests like justice, principle, rules and other civilized products to suppress violence. It goes without saying that both prefer a world more conducive to their own survival.

The higher-ups of the Taoist sect do not belong to the wild Taoist priests, nor do they belong to the Huayuan Taoist priests. They are the makers of rules and morals.

Of course Qi Xuansu recognized this. Under the framework of the Taoist system, this must be done. If you don't follow the procedures and are unethical, you can easily shoot yourself in the foot. Therefore, he spoke according to rules everywhere within the framework of Taoism, without any transgression, almost like an ascetic.

But once it leaves the Dao Sect framework system, it's hard to say whether this approach will still work.

If the world is civilized everywhere, then why should Taoism claim to be civilized?

In less civilized places, the binding force of moral rules can be imagined.

Qi Xuansu has no moral obsessiveness. Under the influence of Qiniang, he is essentially a complete pragmatist. If the rules were beneficial, he would act according to them without going beyond them. If violence is beneficial, he will just use it, and he doesn't even mind breaking the rules.

Therefore, Qi Xuansu has always been a half-black and half-white person, with black and white sides, like yin and yang in Pisces. Whether he is black or white depends on the external environment. Qi Xuansu can be the glorious Chief Qi, or he can be Wei Wugui who hides in the dark and murders people violently.

At this time, in the cave of Lingshan, you tell me the rules and I want to laugh.

The biggest rule here is that there are no rules.

Rules are not the same as rules.

Qi Xuansu sat in the temple all night. When dawn, he pushed open the door of the temple. Everything outside returned to normal. Only the traces left by Qi Xuansu when he used his sword to kill the blood shadow last night proved that everything last night was not an illusion. .

Qi Xuansu took another look at the direction of Lingshan and started on the road again.

At the same time, Xiao Yin drew a door on the wall and sneaked into the alchemy room without finding any trace of Qi Xuansu. He tiptoed to pick up the "Gui Zang Lamp" placed on the jade platform by Qi Xuansu and turned it around curiously. look.