Heaven is here to torture me

Lu Qingzhou successfully retrieved the pieces of the Qingling Sword, and hurriedly fled from Yue Guining's bedroom before they could be fused together.

With his current skills, he is not enough to compete with the soaring demon king, nor does he dare to lure the furious demon king to Ning Shuyi's side, so he can only jump aimlessly on the tree ancestor, jumping up and down. climb.

"Over there!" The monster guards chased after Lu Qingzhou, and not far away was Yue Guining's ghostly cold fire, haunting him like a ghost.

"Little thing, you ruined my good deed, don't expect to just leave like this!" Yue Guining's voice also faintly rang in his ears, "Open the door of inheritance for me obediently, and then be my warm bed , I will spare your life, okay?"

Lu Qingzhou snorted secretly, regretting how he had softened his heart for a moment and didn't kill this evildoer with a sword.

Seeing a few fire clouds approaching, Lu Qingzhou wondered how likely he was to jump off the tree and land safely.

"Boss! This way!"

Suddenly, an unexpected cry came from a branch not far away.

Lu Qingzhou raised his head, and saw that very familiar figure - the chubby orange cat.

"Why are you here?!" Lu Qingzhou couldn't remember which of the disciples of Xuanji Peak who was traveling with him brought a cat, and how did this fat orange come out?

"I'll talk about it later! Let's go!" Fat Ju was unequivocal, turned his head and ran, with his fluffy tail standing straight up, as if pointing the way to Lu Qingzhou.

Lu Qingzhou followed Fat Ju, jumped onto the other branch of the tree ancestor, climbed higher and higher, and gradually entered the sky.

The surrounding area was filled with white mist and dense water vapor, and it was already difficult to see the situation below them clearly, only two groups of ghostly fires were always following them, chasing them relentlessly.

"Tsk, damned Demon King!" Fat Ju scolded impatiently, "You want to get the Demon King's inheritance without even a single hair? Dreaming!"

"Are you a civet?" Lu Qingzhou suddenly realized, the images of one person and one cat gradually overlapped and matched in his mind, the same chubby, the same noisy, and the same shrewd and cunning!

"You...you won't be Huang Baotian, will you?"

"Hey, little auntie, it's me!" Huang Baotian said while crawling proudly, "Don't worry, I have asked Senior Brother Wang to inform Uncle Ning, and Uncle Ning will definitely come to rescue us of."

Huang Baotian was very lucky, fortunately he and Wang Shu were thrown into Wanshan Map by Ning Shuyi before.

The two experienced a lot of torture in hell mode in Wanshantu. In the end, he finally found a glimmer of life and escaped from the formation diagram. At that time, the fighting formation stage was already in chaos.

He originally planned to find a way to break the inner demon formation, and found the demon king's bedroom, but found that Lu Qingzhou had already entered the palace first, and not long after, the demon king also turned back.

He was afraid that something might happen to Lu Qingzhou, so he asked Wang Shu to rush back to report the news, while he lurks nearby, just in case, so he can only come forward to help at this time.

"Thank you!" Lu Qingzhou thanked him earnestly, "It's because I didn't accomplish enough..."

"Little auntie, don't be overly modest. If it wasn't for little auntie, the disciples alone wouldn't be able to dispel this inner demon formation!" Fat Ju climbed up the branch with great effort, and pointed to the straight trunk in front of him, "Little auntie, hurry up!" Keep up, along this branch, you can go around to our Guiyuanzong territory. Auntie, don't worry, with Uncle Ning around, the Demon King is nothing!"

"Oh? It seems that this king has been underestimated?"

Under the treetops, Yue Guining sneered.

A red light jumped up the branch, blocking the way of the two cats.

"Little little master, you run away first..." Huang Baotian's legs trembled, but he still stood in front of Lu Qingzhou, but he couldn't suppress the instinctive fear in his body.

Even if he is a descendant of the demon queen and has a superior bloodline, he has no chance of winning against the unfathomably powerful and ferocious monster last month, Gui Ning.

He only hoped that he could gain some energy and buy more time for the little aunt to escape with her life saved!

It is rare for Huang Baotian to sacrifice himself for others with such righteousness, but Lu Qingzhou doesn't appreciate it—his morality does not allow him to use his companions as a shield at all!

He crossed Huang Baotian, staring straight at Yue Guining with his jet-black pupils, calculating the possibility of defeating her in his mind...

However, a calm head told him that the current Yue Guining is not what it used to be, and even the self in his heyday would have a hard time defeating him.

He could only try to hold Yue Guining back and let Huang Baotian escape.

After all, Yue Guining is interested in herself at this time, and Huang Baotian... is the real civet blood!

"Flee!" Lu Qingzhou uttered a cold shout to Huang Baotian, this sound was like a king giving orders, full of majesty, Huang Baotian consciously wanted to obey the order and turn around and flee.

But seeing a puff of white smoke coming out of Lu Qingzhou's body, he seemed to be planning to fight Yue Guining desperately.

"No!" Huang Baotian didn't wait for him to transform, and suddenly rushed up from behind.

Lu Qingzhou only felt that the back was hit hard by the huge bell pestle, and when he stumbled, he fell from the tall branch and fell straight into the sea of ​​clouds.

Huang Baotian quickly gave himself a paw, scratched out bloodstains, and sprinkled the blood into the air.

He muttered something silently, his eyes were wide open, and strands of gold shot out from his eyes.

"That's..." Seeing this situation, Yue Guining suddenly raised the corners of her lips, "So that's it!"

He also jumped down from the treetop, with his footsteps in the air, closely following the falling Lu Qingzhou, with no expression of fear on his face.

Just when the two were about to penetrate the cloud layer, a huge formation disk opened in the cloud layer, with a cat's face drawn in the center of the formation disk, it opened its mouth wide, and swallowed the two of them in one go.

"Little Aunt Master!" Huang Baotian turned pale with shock, and looked down again. The cat on the formation had already closed its mouth and hiccupped in satisfaction. The figure completely disappeared.

"Little Master Aunt!!!" Huang Baotian didn't see Lu Qingzhou, and sat down on the top of the tree, shaking with fear, and kept touching his chest to suppress his shock.

"Oh my god, the ancestor didn't mention that you can enter this Demon Emperor's secret realm twice at a time, and if you can enter, it's not from the civet family! Little auntie, little auntie, don't be caught by that guy! You If something goes wrong, Master Ning will have to take my skin off!" Huang Baotian took a few deep breaths, then got up with a round thump, and opened his short legs, "Yes, and Master Ning! I have to tell Uncle Ning immediately!"

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Lu Qingzhou originally thought that his body would have to land for a long time, so he specially adjusted his cat shape, ready to wag his tail and turn over at any time, using the cat's instinct to save himself.

Unexpectedly, in less than a moment, he fell into the soft cotton pile.

He got up and shook the hair on his body, and before he could take a step, he heard a crackling sound from behind, so he immediately jumped away.

"Little thing, quite clever." Yue Guining chuckled, and her long nails slid gently across the side of her neck, "But I still have to thank you, if it wasn't for saving you, that civet would not have turned on the magic weapon." The Realm of the Emperor's Inheritance."

"Is this the realm of the Demon Emperor's inheritance?" Lu Qingzhou looked around in surprise.

If it wasn't for Yue Guining's reminder, he really wouldn't have noticed that this vast expanse of whiteness was actually related to the legendary Demon Emperor who ascended to the previous position.

"As a civet, you don't know?" Yue Guining raised her eyebrows, her blue eyes moved around nimbly, "Who the hell are you?"

"Ahem, I didn't expect that those boys actually sent two candidates in this time... Ahem..." Suddenly, a bulge suddenly popped up under the clouds in front of him, revealing a bare forehead.

"Who is this old man? Hehe, this old man is the guardian of this inheritance realm, you can just call me Lao Bai." The bald head turned around in a circle, and then wobbled out from the clouds, unexpectedly it was a A fat little old man.

The little old man has a protruding forehead and wrinkled face, but he is kind-hearted and leans on a cane in his hand. He looks like a birthday star in a New Year painting.

It's just behind him, dragging a long, fluffy brown tail.

"Huh? There are people who are not of my race?" The fat old man walked up to Yue Guining and looked him up and down, "Could it be a coincidence? What is your relationship with the Demon Emperor?"

"Senior, Gui Ning next month will be the leader of the current monster clan." Yue Gui Ning said with a smile all over his face, pretending to be genuine.

"The leader of the monster clan? So what?" The fat old man gave him an angry look, "This inheritance is not acceptable to everyone!"

"Senior, I heard that the Demon Emperor left this inheritance to his descendants 3000 years ago, but no one has obtained it yet?" Yue Guining held back a bad breath, and continued to pretend to smile respectfully, "Then why don't you let the younger generation try it out?" Maybe there is another chance?"

"Just you?" The fat old man glanced at Yue Guining, his eyes full of arrogance.

"Why didn't the senior let the junior try it? Could it be that the senior was afraid that the junior would really get the inheritance and make the Civet Clan look bad?" Yue Guining took the opportunity to use the aggressive method, and the fat old man really sneered when he heard that : "Okay! Since you are so confident, you two will accept the trial together!"

"Thank you, senior!" Yuegui Ningjing general succeeded, his brows were brimming with joy, he suppressed the killing intent in his eyes, and bowed to the fat old man, "Then I don't know how to carry out this trial?"

"Here, take a good look..." The fat old man waved his hand casually, and the white clouds in front of him gradually dissipated, revealing a series of winding ladders.

These cloud ladders, worthy of the name, are really hovering in the clouds.

Below each of the winding ladders, there is a stone tablet, which seems to have inscriptions on it.

Lu Qingzhou had no interest in the inheritance of the Demon Emperor, but somehow he felt that something was attracting him, prompting him to move forward curiously to take a look...

"The Way of Ruthlessness", "The Way of Shura", "The Way of Formation", "The Way of Danse", "The Way of Sword Heart"...

There are different words engraved on the stone tablets. If you look around, you can see that there are so many Taoisms, densely packed, but it looks like tombstones, erected tombs.

"Every winding ladder here represents a way that people in the world practice. Choose the one you want to choose, and walk up it. No matter what you choose, as long as you can reach the top, you can get the demon emperor entrusted here. Inheritance." The fat old man pointed to the Three Thousand Avenues in front of him with his crutches, "Follow your heart and choose your way!"

"Choosing the way?" Yue Guining walked while visiting the steles. Before many steles, there was a pure white one that caught his attention.

"The way of ruthlessness?" Yue Guining's eyes lit up, she stood in front of the white stone tablet, and muttered softly, "The way of ruthlessness has been cultivated in a hundred miles of mountains, and he ascended to the previous position with a body of only five hundred years old. It seems that this way of ruthlessness is indeed a path shortcut!"

"Let me go this way!" With a plan in mind, Yue Guining bid farewell to the fat old man, and then stepped on the ruthless winding ladder without looking back.

"What about you?" The fat old man squinted at the little white cat beside him again, "He said that the path of ruthlessness is a shortcut, do you want to choose this one too?"

Lu Qingzhou looked back from the ruthless way, and shook his head lightly.

Although Baili Chongshan cultivated the Ruthless Dao, in the end he broke through the Dao and was able to ascend.

Therefore, the ruthless way must not be the best choice.

What's more, now that he has fetters in his heart, he can't be truly ruthless.

"I'll choose this one..." Lu Qingzhou patted a warm-colored stone tablet in front of him with his paw. The characters on it were round and round, and they all seemed to exude warmth.

"Oh?" The fat old man's eyes suddenly softened, and he looked at Lu Qingzhou with pity, "This is a good way, I hope you can succeed, after all..."

After all, what the Demon Emperor practiced back then was this—the way of true affection.

Lu Qingzhou bid farewell to the old man, and stepped on the winding ladder of true love.

After going through his previous life, he knew that relying on the way of swordsmanship and formation alone is not enough for him to step up to the height of a master.

Those who can be favored by the way of heaven and lay the ladder to climb to heaven must have the world in mind and see the way.

Even if it is the way of ruthlessness, the master has chosen for the fairness of the world, so he will become the person who listens to the way of heaven.

The reason why he chose this path of true feelings is because it suits his eyes and fits his temperament, and the other reason is that he hears some movements in his ears from time to time, as if someone whispered in front of him, asking him to Choose this path.

I climbed all the way up, but I didn't feel tired. It's just that the more I went up, the more hurried figures appeared in front of me, like hallucinations.

"Master..." Suddenly, a small hand gently grabbed him.

Lu Qingzhou bowed his head to his side, and saw a pretty boy with red lips and white teeth timidly pulling him, his eyes full of uneasiness and panic.

"Master, don't leave Xuan'er alone, okay?" The young Xu Zixuan was weak-tempered, and within a few words, huge teardrops rolled in his eyes, "Don't hate Xuan'er, Don't drive Xuan'er out of the school..."

"Xu Zixuan..." Lu Qingzhou put his hand on the top of Xiaowa's head, the touch was as warm as before, awakening the long-dormant memory.

"When I decided to take you in as my apprentice, I swore to teach you well..." Lu Qingzhou recalled all the past in his mind, recalling what happened to Xu Zixuan when he was young, and a smear gradually appeared on his originally cold face. warm smile.

"I was really annoyed to see you wasting your talents and using unscrupulous means. But now that you think about it, you were still young at that time, and you were originally a child's naughty nature. I was too strict and stubborn..."

After seeing Ning Shuyi's many tricks, Lu Qingzhou gradually realized that these small tricks might not be as bad as he thought, and the conspiracy is still a clever trick, and it all depends on the human nature of the cast.

On the contrary, he was too rigid and didn't know how to be flexible, and he didn't know how much hatred he suffered for this for no reason.

Even if Xu Zixuan really hated him because of this, perhaps it was his own fault.

But Xu Zixuan...

"I never thought of expelling you from the teacher. No matter you are good or bad, you are my only disciple, and it is also my responsibility as a teacher." Lu Qingzhou sighed softly, "But, you and I are just master and apprentice. I can teach you and raise you, but I can't respond to your wishes."

"Master... are you afraid of being ridiculed by the world?" The young Xu Zixuan raised his weeping face, his appearance gradually changed, he became a boy, then a youth, and gradually took on his present appearance, "Apprentice Let them all shut up..."

"No!" Lu Qingzhou gently rubbed Xu Zixuan's head, "As a teacher, I have long been afraid of any gossip, but as a teacher, I have always treated you as a master-student, a father-son relationship. No father would fall in love with me Son, what's more, this heart has already been given to others, there is no need."

"Is... Ning Shuyi?" Xu Zixuan asked.Lu Qingzhou didn't answer, but smiled softly.

"...Disciple understands, Master, thank you..." Xu Zixuan sighed softly, and then it gradually dissipated, and his faint sobs could be heard in the air, "It would be great if I could hear this sooner..."

"..." Lu Qingzhou watched Xu Zixuan leave, but he made up his mind.

After leaving the Realm of the Demon Emperor's inheritance, he has to have a frank and honest talk with Xu Zixuan, and he must distinguish between admiration and love...

"Lu Qingzhou! Where are you running to?" While thinking, his hand was suddenly grabbed.

Turning around, the purple-eyed man who disgusted and frightened him appeared in front of him, still so fierce and domineering.

Lu Qingzhou suddenly pulled his hand out of the man's palm, and shook off Sikong Shun's entanglement.

"You are just playing for fun! Don't disobey this deity!" Si Kongshun's eyes burst into anger, he took a step forward, and approached him.

"Sikong Shun..." Lu Qingzhou watched helplessly as that familiar and terrifying face approached, but instead of avoiding it like in the past, he stared straight at those purple eyes.

Suddenly, he chuckled lightly.

Even Sikong Shun, who is full of lies, can't deceive anyone with his eyes.

Why didn't he observe carefully before he was alive? What was contained in those purple eyes was not any murderous intent, but the same fear and anxiety as him.

This Demon Venerable with a high status and a high level of cultivation can actually have this look, just like him, he doesn't know how to love others...

"Sikongshun, back then, if you had been more frank with me, the two of us might not have come to this point." Lu Qingzhou said with a sour smile, "You know that I don't know anything about feelings, but if you don't tell me, how can I Can I understand what you mean? 20 years... Sikong Shun, in your eyes, am I really just a plaything that you have entertained for 20 years?"

"..." Sikong Shun stared blankly, after being poked in the center, the panic hidden in him was completely revealed on his face.

panicked...

"I treat you with all my heart, are you really not moved at all?"

"Qing...Qingzhou...it's not..." Sikong Shun spoke incoherently, his purple eyes gradually became sparkling, "I...I'm not...that's not the case!"

"That night, if Xu Zixuan hadn't revealed your identity first, would you really want to become a Taoist couple with me?" Lu Qingzhou raised his head and asked, his black eyes shining brightly.

"Qing Zhou, I really want to marry you! It's true!" The false mask on Si Kongshun's face finally cracked, he was like a child, he couldn't choose words, he didn't know how to express the distress in his heart.

"I planned to tell you everything that night... Even if this relationship was indeed a scam at the beginning, after 20 years, I have already fallen into it and cannot extricate myself. But I am afraid..." Sikong Shun covered his face and murmured, "You Jealousy is like hatred, there is no room for a grain of sand in my eyes, I am worried all the time, I am afraid that after you know my true identity, you will abandon me like a shoe and run away from me... That's why I imprison you and force you, I am not If I really want to hurt you, that's definitely not my intention..."

"..." Lu Qingzhou let out a long breath.

Ever since he met Wu Lei in Xuantian Secret Realm and got rid of his inner demons, he often calmly thinks about Wu Lei's words, and wonders whether Sikong Shun was really so ruthless to him back then.

Or, the two of them are not good at expressing themselves, which eventually led to an unresolvable misunderstanding...

"So, the Yangyan Pill wasn't your hands or feet?"

"What?" Sikong Shun was stunned, "Yangyan Pill?"

"It's nothing... the past is in the past, it's better not to mention it." Lu Qingzhou said, turning around at the same time, and climbing up the cloud ladder again.

"Qingzhou, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have treated you like that... shall we do it again?" Sikong Shun tugged on his sleeve, pleading, "This time, I will never let you down again! I I will definitely treat you well..."

"No need, Sikong Shun. We are destined for each other, and you are already my past..." Lu Qingzhou didn't turn his head, but dragged Mozun up step by step, and his steps became lighter and lighter.

The past is the past, and the dead heart cannot be awakened.

Now even if he knew Si Kongshun's true thoughts back then, he couldn't arouse any emotions in him, except the relief that everything was empty.

"Axue, don't get lost. Come!" Not long after throwing away Si Kongshun, Ning Shun's familiar voice came from ahead.

Lu Qingzhou looked up, and saw Ning Shuyi's back, and his hand stretched out to him.

Lu Qingzhou habitually stretched out his hand, and the moment his fingertips touched Ning Shuyi, Ning Shuyi turned his head and gave him a strange sneer: "Idiot!"

"Do you really think that Young Master Ben will like you?" Ning Shu's expression became ferocious, and his tone was full of contempt and sarcasm, "Like a stupid old man like you? "

"..." Lu Qingzhou was slightly taken aback, feeling the pain of being pricked by a needle in his heart, and his outstretched hand froze in mid-air.

"Oh, by the way, it's still a broken shoe that has been played with..."

Lu Qingzhou's face turned pale immediately, his lips were bitten to the point of losing color, his fingers curled up, and they were retracted.

"Master, I just came out to practice and experience, and I am teasing you because I see you are interesting." Ning Shu let go of Lu Qingzhou's hand, folded his hands on the back of his head, and whistled heartlessly, "Look at your prudence! You have been raped before, but you still hold yourself high, pretending to be precious, and you don't let anyone touch you on weekdays. Didn't you obediently obey me in the end?"

"A'Ning..." Lu Qingzhou called out in embarrassment, "You, no, you are not him..."

What is in front of me is just my own illusion, it's just the training given by the way of true feelings!

"You think right, this is indeed the training of true feelings, but this is also what you fear most in your heart..." Ning Shu approached and poked Lu Qingzhou's chest hard with his fingers, "Dare you say that you have never Have you ever been afraid? Never thought that I, like the Demon Lord, pretended to lie to you? Wouldn't you despise you?"

"..." Lu Qingzhou looked at that snow-white finger, and a certain feeling in his heart gradually recovered, awakening fragments of past memories.

Those slender fingers that were always intertwined with his fingers, the scorching body temperature that warmed his body and mind at that moment, the gentle whispers that kept lingering in his ears...

"Axue, in my heart you will always be the best..."

These memories, like seeds, germinate from the heart at this moment, and breed enough power to support the entire world!

Lu Qingzhou raised the corners of his lips slightly, puffed out his chest, let out a long sigh of relief, and said with great certainty: "He won't!"

He was indeed afraid of Ning Shuyi's approach because of this, and he also felt guilty and inferior because of his unbearable past.

However, every time he felt uneasy, as long as he raised his head to look for it, he would always find Ning Shuyi's gentle eyes locked on him tightly.

"I'm really stupid and stupid." Lu Qingzhou's brows gradually softened, and his expression softened a bit, "But fortunately, Aning never disliked him. The only thing I can repay him is to trust him unswervingly..."

"Have you thought about it, can he really help you without asking for anything in return? He really has no other intentions?"

"If he really wants something, even this life, I will definitely do my best to give it to him." Lu Qingzhou clutched his chest and sighed softly, "A-Ning gave me everything, and I can only give it to him Repaying this sincerity, I... will not regret it!"

"The avenue is merciless and the heavens are merciless! Your sincerity can move the world..." A male voice came from above the sky, and the golden light of the rising sun broke through the clouds and sprinkled on Lu Qingzhou's body, covering him with a golden cassock.

A surge of spiritual power poured from the clouds, rushed straight to Lu Qingzhou's heavenly spirit, and poured into his originally exhausted dantian of Zifu.

At the same time, there was a rather domineering and powerful divine sense that escaped into the flame imprint on his forehead.

Some inexplicable pictures appeared in front of his eyes like a revolving lantern, and there was a lot of voices in the picture, but he couldn't see the figures in the picture clearly.

"Hmm..." Lu Qingzhou's body trembled slightly, his forehead was in pain as if it was about to be torn apart, and there were noisy sounds in his head.

I didn't expect that the Demon Emperor's inheritance would be so domineering, almost tearing people apart!No wonder no one has been able to get it for 3000 years.

"Quiet me!" Lu Qingzhou gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and tried his best to resist the impact of this divine thought.

The flame on his forehead suddenly lit up, and then something automatically flew out, shaking slightly in the air.

"Ding……"

A crisp bell sounded next to his ear, and the noise in Lu Qingzhou's mind suddenly disappeared, and the pain that was about to tear him apart was relieved by most of it.

The spiritual power pouring into the dantian was like a spring spring, circled in it, and a gray dan body gradually appeared in the dantian.

It was only then that Lu Qingzhou realized that there was already a sealed golden pill in his body, oh, it wasn't a golden pill, but a demon pill, after all, he was a cat.

Lu Qingzhou raised his head, and saw a small bell floating in the air, resisting in front of him, absorbing the spiritual power pouring down from the clouds into it, and then sending it to him continuously.

On the bell, the beautiful cat-shaped glass gradually reflects five-color brilliance, which is gorgeous and dazzling.

In Yaozong's territory, everyone saw the colorful rays of light rising from the blue sky, like a long rainbow leading to the sky.

"It's... the inheritance of the Demon Emperor!" Seeing this, the elders of the Demon Sect exclaimed in surprise and knelt down, looking extremely devout.

Ning Shu raised his head and looked up, but there was an ominous omen in his heart for no reason.

"Uncle Ning!" At this time, Wang Shu happened to arrive, and found Ning Shuyi's position from the chaos at a glance, and shouted, "Little Auntie is in danger!"

At the same time, there was a sudden thunderbolt in the clear sky, and the thunder exploded!

The colorful Changhong seemed to be frightened by the thunder, and gradually dissipated in the air.

"Axue!?" Ning Shu's heart tightened, leaving Xu Zixuan and Luo Nianshan behind, and went straight to the place where the thunder fell...