Comprehensive Sword Three: Scarlet Sky, Red Lotus and Hongji

A month later.

When a square hole appeared in midair, Li Changsheng, who was sitting quietly in the tea room, opened his eyes.His eyes were cold, as if they would not be moved by anything outside.

【Host, you can go find the answer now. 】

'what. '

[Don't forget to keep calm. 】

'...'

[Even if you want to kill someone, please think twice. 】

'...'

【Should I recite the Jingjing Sutra first? 】

The systematic vaccination had prepared Li Changsheng psychologically, but when he learned the whole thing from Kurosaki Ichigo...he was at a loss.

Aizen is an ambitious person, and Li Changsheng knew it well when he first met him.This person's emotions are changing all the time. If he didn't have special abilities, he would definitely be deceived.The acting skills are so good that he completely manipulated the entire soul world in his hands.

Defected with Xuquan, in order to stand on the throne?For this world, what is the throne?

There is also 'collapse jade'.

Li Changsheng felt very complicated when he heard this word.

Urahara Kisuke put Bengyu in the soul of Kuchiki Rukia, so as to avoid Aizen Soyousuke's detection.But in the end it was discovered that Beng Yu was taken away by Lan Ran.

……

When Li Changsheng came to the Urahara store again, Yaling Tetsuzhai pointed to the opened floor somewhere in the house.

"The basement..."

"Yes."

"It really hasn't changed at all, this man."

"Who says it's not~."

Standing at the entrance of the basement for a while, Li Changsheng could feel a strong cold air coming from the ground, which was a temperature he was very familiar with.

Although he already had a premonition in his heart, when he entered the underground space, he still fell silent because of what he saw.

It was a snow-capped mountain that shot straight into the sky, and against the background of the artificial sky wall, it looked like a lying silver flying dragon.A platform was cut out halfway up the mountain, and there was a small black spot there.

A silky mist-like blue energy rose from the soles of the feet, and after using the Ladder Cloud Zong, several consecutive jumps brought Li Changsheng to the platform.

A huge boulder several people high stood on the right side of the platform, and someone carved the words 'Lunjiantai' on it.The pen walks the dragon and the snake, and the iron draws the silver hook.

Kisuke Urahara is sitting under the welcoming pine covered by snow, with stone tables and chairs, and a pot of tea.

"Do you like it, Changsheng?"

……Like it?

Li Changsheng looked at Kisuke Urahara with complicated eyes, but his eyes were colder than before.Dressed in white, in this snow-capped mountain, the whole person is cold and lonely but domineering.

"It took me several years to build the current scale. In order to keep the snow from melting all year round, I also researched several enchantments."

"You once told me that you lived in a place called Chunyang during your lifetime."

"There are flying snow and dancing, like a fairyland. It is surrounded by clouds and fog all the year round, and it is very spiritual."

"There is a Taoist temple in Chunyang called Chunyang Temple. It is built on the mountain, and the walls are carved into images."

"The environment is quiet, the ancient trees are verdant, the strange rocks are noisy, and the layout of the pavilions and pavilions is good."

"The eaves are warped, and the winding paths lead to secluded places."

"Look, I remember every word you said."

"I've been to Mount Hua..."

"There is no pure yang."

"There is no Sanqing Palace, Chunyang Palace, or Lunjian Peak."

"So?" Li Changsheng looked calm, but a deep light flashed in his black pupils.

Urahara Kisuke quietly stared at the boy he liked, clean and pure, as always.Perhaps because the content to be described next is unacceptable, his voice is a bit hoarse.

"Do you know the Spirit King?"

"Do not."

"The Spirit King is the ruler of the three realms, and at the same time the wedge and foundation for the existence of the world. If the Spirit King dies, everything in the human world, the soul world, the virtual circle, etc. will collapse."

Urahara Kisuke sighed quietly.

"When I was investigating the content of this aspect, I once touched the barriers of the world."

【Host……】

'Um? '

【Aren't you surprised? 】

'What's the surprise?He is Kisuke Urahara. '

[What a terrifying man, his wisdom can easily make him stand at the top of this world. 】

'Can't you see the fate line?Didn't this kind of thing have been known for a long time? '

【No, even if you can see it, it's still blurry. 】

'Um. '

"Are you listening? Changsheng." Sensing that the other party seemed to be distracted, Urahara Kisuke bent his eyes and smiled.

"Feel sorry."

Kisuke Urahara nodded and accepted the apology.

"Then continue. I touched the barrier of the world back then, and I was very curious about it. I tried to break through that thin barrier, but no matter what method I used, I couldn't penetrate it."

"I speculated a little bit about what's outside the barriers of the world."

"Is it another world? Or the eternal stars of the universe?"

"In fact, the answer to this question is quite obvious. Humans have already been on the moon, and the exploration of the universe is not 'taboo.' Then I realized that it exists not only to protect the world we live in, but also to prevent …an invasion of species from other worlds.”

"Beyond the world, there are other worlds. They are like parallel lines that will never intersect. They do not interfere with each other and do not invade each other. Human power cannot penetrate the barriers of the world... Of course, the power system is completely different."

"So, how did longevity come about?"

【…】

[I thought there would be some exposed hosts later. 】

'I think it's late enough. '

【yes? 】

'Um. '

"I was swallowed by a space loophole." Li Changsheng replied without changing his expression. "Because of some accidents in the world I live in, space loopholes have appeared in various places. Those who are lucky like me can fall into other worlds, and those who are unlucky are already dead."

"There can be space leaks, has your fate line been interfered by manpower?"

Hearing this, Li Changsheng was a little stunned, and he even guessed this?

Kisuke Urahara took out a paper fan and covered the lower half of his face.

"Changsheng, if I want to, you will never go back."

"……What do you mean."

"You can find a way to go back, isn't it also because of me?"

Urahara Kisuke's eyes softened suddenly, could he be ruthless and personally cut off the boy's hope of returning home?

"Urahara Kisuke..." Li Changsheng's throat tightened and his voice became hoarse. "You want to stop me?"

"I don't know, Changsheng." Urahara Kisuke still had a smile on his lips, but there was a trace of forbearance in his eyes. "If you still want to go home, don't tell me."

Li Changsheng closed his eyes and took a deep breath.After he calmed down a little, he looked at Kisuke Urahara again.

"I want to thank you. Although you don't know what happened, you did cure me."

"Interested in hearing a story?"

"Appreciate further details."

Li Changsheng sat on the stone chair opposite Kisuke Urahara, and when his eyes touched the chessboard carved on the table, a smile slowly appeared on his expressionless face, and his cold eyes melted at this moment .

Urahara Kisuke was reluctant to blink, this was the first time he saw such a vivid Koi Changsheng.After taking off the armor made of ice, his youth is too beautiful to be real.How to let him go?

This is a story about the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Changsheng's narration is very plain, about the Tang Dynasty, about the twelve sects, about swords and swords, about wanton rivers and lakes.There are also the beautiful places that cannot be described in words everywhere, as well as "walking through the road of three lives, and dying in the valley of the wicked", "the sky ordered the remnants of evil to not arise, and the way of heaven is immortal and the noble spirit will last forever."Of course, national hatred and family hatred are also indispensable.

When it came to Ye Huan changing the course of history, Urahara Kisuke's eyes lit up a little, but he resisted not to interrupt.But what happened next put him in a dilemma.

……

Not far from Changgemen, there is a valley surrounded by mountains.There is a man-made labyrinth at the entrance of the valley, just like those secret realms managed by the Yinyuan Club, and it is impossible to enter it without the 'key' to open the formation.It's just that this place is more hidden than the secret place, because this valley belongs to a certain ethnic group, and outsiders don't even know that there is such a place in Datang.

More than 300 years ago, after the leader of the ethnic group settled here, the small village at the beginning gradually formed a small town.I don't know what accident happened, it may be an external cause, or it may be a mutation of himself. After waking up one day, the leader obtained an ability that is completely different from martial arts.

Originally, this ethnic group was good at formations. It is said that there was a big brother in the ancestors who practiced Taoism.And the leader's ability to awaken was a bit shocking to the people of that era, he could hear the voice of everyone in the valley.

After he fully mastered this ability, he made several decisions.First, change the surname to Ling. Originally, most of them had the surname Li.Second, close the valley.In the past, they rarely communicated with outsiders. The climate in the valley was like spring all year round, and they could be self-sufficient in food, vegetables and livestock.

From the change of the leader's surname, it can be seen that he is very proud of his ability to awaken, or that although he is already middle-aged, he has returned to the second stage of middle school with the awakening of his ability.As for sealing the valley, it was out of self-protection, he was afraid.This is also human nature. When you find that you are the only special case in the world, and you don’t have high-strength force to protect yourself, once your awakened ability is exposed, not to mention princes and generals, all forces will want to arrest you Let's do some research.

As a result, this ethnic group has changed from occasionally going out to trade with outsiders to being completely isolated from the world.

After 100 years, the first awakened leader still rules his pack.Yes, counting the age, he is over 140 years old.How did a person who has no profound inner strength and ancestors who have no longevity survive till now?

If there is the first awakened person, there will be a second one, just like the plague.Some of the subsequent awakened people can control natural elements, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, and some can communicate with animals and plants, with various abilities and strange things.

And one of the little girls who was naturally cowardly awakened the ability related to life when she was five years old.

Since the leader could hear the voices of everyone in the valley, he knew about it immediately.Then he ordered the little girl's parents to send them to his residence.Three days later, someone saw the leader's two guards throwing something wrapped in a mat to the cemetery.After the mat was opened, I saw a mummy exposed to the sun. It could be vaguely judged from the appearance that it was a woman with gray hair, as if the last drop of energy had been drained from her body.

The leader declared that the little girl's ability was uncontrollable to take the lives of others, so he asked the guards who could control the water to drain all the blood in her body.In order to protect the clansmen, this dangerous ability must not be kept.The little girl's parents also listened to his words. After all, in this valley, the leader is the most knowledgeable and powerful person.

But is this really the case?Other things aside, from that day on, the appearance of the leader stopped aging, as if the passage of time did not exist on him.

Later, everyone in the valley took Ling as their surname, which also meant that all of them had awakened their abilities.The marriage and reproduction of the ethnic group is only carried out among these people.As a result, people gradually discovered that there are more and more dead babies every year, and most of the surviving ones are mutilated, and there are very few normal babies.When I first moved to the valley, there were still more than 800 people, but now there are less than [-] people.

The leader is more than 200 years old. He claims that the ability to awaken is longevity, but the group of peers who first entered the valley have already turned into a cup of loess.

When he saw more and more new memorial tablets in the ancestral hall and batches of deformed corpses of babies in the cemetery, the leader once again fell into deep fear.He just wanted to protect his people, so he decided to close the valley.In less than 200 years, his ethnic group has been greatly reduced in population, and sooner or later it will disappear completely.Is this the price of awakening ability?

Even so, he couldn't make the decision to leave the valley.Not only himself, but other clansmen did not dare to go out of the valley.Apart from being special, they also know nothing about the outside world. After 200 years, they have become accustomed to living in the valley. Once they go outside, can they survive?Will he be hunted down again?

When the leader lived to be more than 300 years old, there were only about 100 tribesmen left in the valley.In the past [-] years, no one has died of old age or disease.But they are all crazy...

After the leader killed three out-of-control clansmen of No.60 with a sword formation, he knelt on the ground.As the first person to awaken his ability, every decision he made could be said to be a wrong step.Enjoying power, controlling the tribe by listening to the voice of the heart, and treating the child who has the power to control life as the food for his own life, so he has survived until now after absorbing the life force of four people.Heh, he never thought of protecting his people, those are all high-sounding words.

"It's all my fault..." The leader looked at the pile of bloody corpses not far away with his cloudy eyes. Maybe he had already gone crazy, but there was still a trace of reason controlling him, like a walking corpse.During this rare waking time, before he could continue to confess, a sharp knife pierced his chest from the back.

This was a fatal injury, the leader turned his head slowly, and he saw the face of the person coming.

"It is you--."

"it's me."

The young man who was less than twenty years old took back the stabbing blade and shook off the blood stains on it.

"Hehehe——, well done."

Excessive blood loss blurred the leader's vision, but he still greedily stared at every inch of the youth.This face is so familiar.

"Live well, Lingjue."

"Let's atone slowly in Huangquan, father."

Lingjue didn't stay any longer, turned around and left, he still had something to do.

Half an hour later, Lingjue returned to his home, his light-colored coat was splashed with a few drops of blood.When I came to the bedroom, I saw a beautiful woman lying on the bed, her pale face added a bit of frailty to her.

"Am I the last?"

"No." Lingjue stepped forward, holding the hilt of his sword. "Don't be afraid, it will be over soon."

"Well, I'm not afraid." The corners of the woman's mouth curled up, revealing a gentle smile. "Thank you."

Lingjue left the valley, and after slaughtering all the living people and creatures in the valley, he set fire to it.He was confused as to what to do next.

He is the No.20 son of the leader and the youngest one.His wife is the chief's only daughter, three years older than him.The other siblings either died of old age or were born deformed and burned.He killed the only remaining clansman with his own hands, which can also be said to be relatives.After all, after so many years, the intermarriage among the clansmen made them more or less blood related.

Father was the first person to awaken his ability, and it was he who led the tribe to extinction.As his son, Lingjue helped him to bring this rotten and smelly group to an early end.It is only natural for Lingjue to do this. Although he has no physical defects, he cannot possess the inherent emotions, anger, sorrow, joy, and fear.

Lingjue is a person with natural abilities, and because of the lack of emotion, he has been observing all the living people during the years he lived in the valley.In the end, he made the decision to exterminate the clan, after learning all the formations and swords taught by his father.

For some reason, Lingjue looked at the two sleeping babies in his arms, and couldn't help it.The twins, who were born less than a month ago, are in very good health, and their appearance is sculpted, just like his sister.Yes, this is his and his sister's child.

When the first snowflakes fell from the sky, the coolness woke up Lingjue who had already drawn out his sword.He doesn't understand, he obviously doesn't understand what emotion is, but he hesitates to these two children again and again.Therefore, when passing Changgemen, Lingjue left the twins at the gate of Huishan Academy, and he himself hid in the mountains behind the academy.He lived in the dug cave, and went to the market to buy some durable food when he was hungry. When he left the valley, he did not forget to bring some gold and silver.

In this way, relying on the formation, Lingjue observed the growth of the twins without being discovered, until a Taoist took away the elder brother of the twins.

He didn't stop because he knew twins weren't normal kids.Over the years, he occasionally went out to inquire about news, and he had a deep understanding of Changgemen and Chunyang Palace.Every year when the twins get together, he will hide and follow the past.It was not until the two children were nine years old that there was an accident.

The younger brother Li Qixian lost control.

So Lingjue appeared, immediately controlled Li Qixian, and brought the two of them back to the cave where he lived in Changgemen for many years.After Li Qixian regained consciousness, Lingjue told them about their life experiences, including everything about the ethnic group.

"I can perceive other people's emotions, so Ling never lied. It was at that time that I knew who my ability came from."

"Although my younger brother has no awakening ability, he is in danger of losing control. When he is out of control, he will only blindly destroy everything in sight. Not only dead things, but also living people. It takes ten and a half days months, as short as three to five days, and there will not be any second of sobriety in the middle. That is to say, during this period of time, he has doubled his force value and is irrational. The martial arts of Changgemen disciples There are martial arts to restore internal strength in the moves, so even if he wants to exhaust his internal strength and lose power, he can’t do it. Another 'he' instinct will use everything he knows to endlessly destroy and destroy."

"However, fortunately, he doesn't have the ability to awaken, otherwise it is very likely that he will increase his strength on the basis of losing control."

"And I also have a natural defect, not physically, but emotionally. I have inherited the ability of spirituality, and I have also inherited the lack of emotion. Maybe it's because of the twins. Only when I am with my younger brother can I experience a trace of human emotion. .”

"You were aware of this at the beginning, so you made the Collapsing Jade."

"You hope to use the powerful power of Beng Yu to change the composition of my soul."

"Actually, Bengyu shouldn't be able to play a role. Because the power of this world cannot change me from another world. However, you and I have misjudged the real function of Bengyu. It is not to treat people's souls. not to change, but to break the rules in a way."

"Or in other words... it can make its owner's wishes come true. The real power of Bengyu is to realize the development of people's inner wishes according to their own ideas, but the condition is that they need to have the ability to realize this wish. strength."

"You want me to have feelings, you created Beng Yu. I hope I can return to normal, I let Beng Yu recognize me as the master."

However, Li Changsheng didn't mention the danger in it. In order to merge with Bengyu, he would sleep for a hundred years.Later, with the help of the system, the conditions were met.

"It has self-awareness and is quite satisfied with me as its master. Therefore, it will help me return to Datang. But the energy left now is not enough..."

"So, I need the piece of Hokage that was snatched by Aizen Soyousuke. Someone told me that Aizen Soyousuke actually started making Hokage before you, but he only made a half-finished product. Take Kuchiki After the immaturity in Rukia's body collapses, the two semi-finished products will merge into one."

"The finished product in my hand, plus another finished product, is enough to send me home."

"Kisuke Urahara, everything happens for a reason."

"You made the collapsed jade, in order to hide the piece I own, and then made a semi-finished product and put it on the bright side..."

Li Changsheng didn't even know what to say, the fate line of this world was so tenacious.If it wasn't for the fusion with Beng Yu, the system 'saw' part of the future, and he wouldn't be able to find a way to go home.

"Wait until the battle with Aizen Soyousuke has completely started, it will be the best time for me to snatch the Beng Yu."

"Don't stop me, I have a reason to go back."

The smile on Urahara Kisuke's face has completely disappeared. He really made the Bengyu for longevity, and he also knows that the other party wants to use the energy of the Bengyu to break through the barriers of the world.When he wanted to break the barriers of the world, the only method he didn't use was Bengyu. Something in the dark affected him.However, I didn't expect this thing to go beyond common sense.However, the most important thing right now is not Bengyu.

"What is the reason?"

"After Lingjue told the ins and outs, he begged me to kill him. Without my brother and me, he would probably die in the valley, because what he wants is the complete demise of this ethnic group. He has no desire to live, even if he does not I don't know what that emotion is."

Li Changsheng's tone became more gentle.

"I agreed to him, but my younger brother made the move first. In order to prevent me from being involved in this crime, and to prevent me from living as a second spirit. Moreover, at that time, Qixian already had a tendency to self-destruct."

"Urahara Kisuke, I can't leave him alone."

Kisuke Urahara gave a wry smile, so that was the case.

It turned out to be like this...

Because he trusted him, Li Changsheng explained all the ways to go home one by one.Kisuke Urahara pressed the fisherman hat on his head, if he dares to stop...

No, he couldn't accept that the boy looked at him with hatred, and even drew his sword at him.

"What do you want me to do? Longevity."

As the breeze blew, the snow on the welcoming pine fell from the branches one after another, and the two people sitting opposite each other fell into a deathly silence.

The author has something to say:

Ah, I ruined the store manager to no end.

But I just had a blast writing it, poof.