Chapter 72: Master Qingqingyun?! (Second Update)

When the screen stalled, it landed at the end.

Gu Jiangming had almost figured out the gist of the entire plot.

The world order constructed now was formed temporarily after his Four Thousand Bureau, and those gods, in order to realize the important order-maintaining function of the Four Thousand Bureau, had transformed their own divine bodies into various divine abilities within the Four Thousand Bureau.

What shocked Gu Jiangming the most was that the final form of the Four Thousand Bureau was actually an algorithm of fate for all phenomena among all living beings from the perspective of the Heavenly Dao.

From a certain perspective, Gu Jiangming had indeed, in the last day and the last hour of his life, replaced Heaven and Earth and taken over all living beings in the world.

"The reason for the dissipation of the Spirit Qi of Heaven and Earth was a great catastrophe of Heaven and Earth ten thousand years ago."

"And the Four Thousand Bureau stabilized the order, making Heaven and Earth stable once again, but the problem is, the Four Thousand Bureau is, after all, still a divine ability, a technique."

"If the Taiyi Stone that serves as the support point for the Four Thousand Bureau encounters a problem, the living beings who have lost the protection of the Four Thousand Bureau will still have to suffer the baptism of the great catastrophe of Heaven and Earth."

"More importantly, 【Mie Changsheng】 has a prompt stating that I have already changed the ending; this is clearly implying that the original ending was not like this, it is just that the final trajectory of both endings is the dissipation of Spirit Qi in Heaven and Earth."

Gu Jiangming collected his thoughts.

Looking at the rewards for the end of this Reincarnation, those cards belonging to others slowly fell into his item box; Gu Jiangming did not pay much attention to such things, as this was clearly like a skin function, just something to look at for fun.

The more substantial reward was still that trait reward—【Born with a Proud Bone】.

Besides this, what Gu Jiangming wanted to verify more was whether his rebirth in the Reincarnation was truly a reincarnation transformed by his own original body.

If it was.

Then the speed at which he picked up the things that this physical body of his had once practiced should be very easy.

The information from countless Reincarnations actually hinted at this point.

Now was the moment to verify it.

Gu Jiangming closed his eyes, feeling the Qi mentioned in several Reincarnations.

If only he had a copy of the Gu Family Heart Method 【Facing the Heavenly Palace】 in his hands; if he did, he would definitely be able to test it out.

And at the very moment Gu Jiangming attempted it.

The bell in the center of the yamen rang out.

Xuanyang, who was meditating there, closed his eyes and saw the surrounding Qi moving toward the location of a side room.

He pondered for a moment, never having expected that in this small Leping County, he would encounter a fellow Daoist.

Xuanyang weighed in his heart whether he should disturb the other party.

After mulling it over for a moment, he decided he should pay a visit.

Just at this moment.

The Token placed in the center of the county town suddenly began to shake amidst a gust of strong wind, and Xuanyang immediately stopped his movement to knock on the door.

"Bang—"

The Token shattered into two halves.

Xuanyang was struck by a heavy force against his chest, which sent him flying straight away, causing pain all over his body.

Such a disturbance immediately drew the attention within the yamen; after waking up in a start, County Assistant Li lit the oil lamp in the study and held it up to look outside.

Seeing Xuanyang in such a state, County Assistant Li was shocked and immediately raised the lamp to step forward and ask: "Master, what is this..."

"We're in trouble," Xuanyang said in a muffled voice, "It's a demon... a great demon, not an ordinary ghost or spirit."

"What kind of evil did your yamen run into? How could a great demon of this level appear here?"

Xuanyang was truly at his wit's end right now.

The so-called demon-subduing and ghost-exorcising he did on a daily basis mostly dealt with the souls of ordinary people, which were basically harmless; if he ran into a few wronged spirits, saying a few nice words would make them disperse.

Even for fierce ghosts, he could handle one or two.

The problem was, demons and ghosts were two completely different concepts; this level of cultivation was simply not something he could easily handle.

Xuanyang had thought that as long as he performed some casual ritual like he did every day, he could swindle a sum of silver, but now he had truly landed in big trouble.

"The three Tokens I set up can sense the direction and Demon Power of demons."

"A demon that dares to break into a county yamen so unscrupulously is no ordinary character," Xuanyang said, his face already looking very grim.

County Magistrate Lu, who had walked out together, heard these words, and his expression was equally ugly; he had thought the immortal master he invited was enough to deal with the demons and ghosts here.

Who could have thought he had invited a charlatan...

No!

It couldn't exactly be called a charlatan.

But a fake who was strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

"You can't deal with it?" County Assistant Li knew that at this juncture, the only person he could rely on was indeed this Daoist before him, so he immediately asked if there were any other ways to break the situation.

"There is," Xuanyang looked at County Assistant Li and said: "That is to find a cultivator with deeper cultivation than mine."

"But," Xuanyang gave a bitter smile, "it dares to break into the county town like this, which shows that the visitor is not well-intentioned."

"I'm afraid we might not have that opportunity."

County Assistant Li could not understand Xuanyang's words; why would a demon breaking into the county town like this mean it was not well-intentioned?

Xuanyang saw through County Assistant Li's thoughts at a glance.

"Hundreds of years ago, our Human Race's orthodoxy was prosperous, and there was a righteous sect named Mount Shu that went everywhere to subdue demons and devils, making the Demon Race afraid to enter the world at will."

"A demon that kills its way straight into the county town like this, and even ignores these rules to kill people wantonly, how could it be a small demon?"

"Moreover, do you think that if it dares to kill its way in like this, it will leave us alive?"

"It is only because the place under our feet is a yamen that it has one more layer of national fortune protection than ordinary people."

"But some demons don't care about that; it's hard to say if they'll kill the yamen officials first."

"Because you officials carry more noble energy on your bodies, and some demons who are at their wit's end and injured like this kind of thing."

Xuanyang had just finished saying this.

The main gate of the yamen opened, a gust of strong wind blew, and the water vat in the hall cracked with several fissures, shattering with a loud bang a moment later.

Everyone's gaze turned toward the entrance.

They saw that the other Token set by Xuanyang inside the yamen had been split in two on the spot; under the heavy pressure of the Demon Power's erosion, Xuanyang clutched his chest and violently spat out a mouthful of thick blood.

He truly did not know why he had accepted this errand, as it was simply throwing his life away here.

When Xuanyang saw clearly what was before him, his eyes went dark.

"Mermen—"

"This is an Ancient Demon!!!"

"What virtue or ability does your Leping County have to attract such a great demon?"

Mermen, of the water tribe, are known as mermen.

They are called the spiritual anomalies among fish-folk.

Ancient texts record—beyond the South Sea, there are mermen; they live in water like fish and do not cease their weaving; when they weep, their tears turn into pearls.

"So be it; to encounter a monster like you, I have no regrets in this life." Xuanyang gritted his teeth, drew a talisman with his blood, and sent it directly forward.

To a certain extent, he had gained some insight; he feared that even his grand-martial uncle had never had the chance to see such an Ancient Demon.

However, this blood-drawn talisman landed on the merman and seemed to have no effect at all; it did not even glance at it, letting Xuanyang's technique strike its body.

Weak. It is truly too weak.

At this moment, the Sea Demon had no deep interest in the people inside the yamen.

Its gaze was fixed intently on the distance, at the room that originally belonged to Assistant Magistrate Li.

A constant stream of Spirit Qi, seemingly far yet near, had been drifting there all along.

It had not smelled this Spirit Qi that made it feel so refreshed for a very, very long time; like sweet dew, it could not wait—it even craved it.

Gu Jiangming naturally heard the commotion as well; he walked out of the room and happened to lock eyes with the Sea Demon.

The Sea Demon let out a roar.

Saliva from the corners of its mouth had already slowly dripped onto the ground.

Gu Jiangming had never imagined that the moment he stepped out, he would see such a terrifying scene, but what surprised Gu Jiangming even more was that he actually felt not the slightest bit of panic because of it.

As for the others in the yamen, seeing this horrifying sight, they immediately scrambled toward the entrance in a panic.

At this moment, those bailiffs no longer had the imposing air they possessed during the day; each and every one of them wished they could escape from here.

Only Chang An stood trembling, drawing the broadsword in his hand and standing in front of the two masters.

Regrettably, these bailiffs crashed straight into the entrance, as if an invisible wall were blocking their path of retreat.

"Thud—"

The sound of impact rang out.

Several bailiffs who touched the barrier and still wanted to force their way out had their hands quickly corroded by the Demon Power, turning into a bloody mess in an instant—becoming a lump of rotting flesh.

The desire to survive erupted instinctively at this moment.

"He is treating us all as rations." Xuanyang's expression sank, and his gaze finally settled on Gu Jiangming.

That energy from just now had come from Gu Jiangming's room.

He... should also be a cultivator.

Being so calm, his cultivation must be above his own.

"I want to eat you—" The Sea Demon suddenly let out a shrill scream; this was an ancient language that no one could understand.

Yet Gu Jiangming felt he could understand the other's meaning.

A sense of urgent crisis suddenly emerged from Gu Jiangming's heart; in an instant, he sensed that something was about to break free from his own mind.

Suddenly!!!

A sound of something piercing through the air rang out above the firmament.

"Thud—"

A figure suddenly appeared in front of Gu Jiangming, a Flying Sword firmly pressed against the Sea Demon's wide-open, serrated mouth.

"I am late."

"Master..." Xu Qingyun whispered in a voice only he could hear.

The moment he saw Gu Jiangming, everything—all his memories—reappeared in his mind.

He... remembered everything.

And the moment that person landed.

Xuanyang's expression changed abruptly.

"Real Person Qingyun?!"

There should be another chapter later.

(End of this chapter)