Chapter 313

Kongsang Mountain was desolate, eerie, steep, and high, with absolutely no human presence.

Gu Qing and Lu Xueqi arrived here late at night, watching the bats like clouds, circling and swirling in the air. When the two intended to climb the mountain, the bats suddenly sensed the aura of living people and bit towards Gu Qing and Lu Xueqi with a "crackling" sound.

The waning moon hung high, and the moonlight fell to the ground, but when the bats flew over, the surroundings became boundless darkness.

Gu Qing turned his face slightly and saw that Lu Xueqi's complexion was extremely pale.

"Don't be afraid!"

Gu Qing comforted her softly, reached out, and a profound cyan Taiji energy shield appeared around his body, shrouding himself and Lu Xueqi within. At the same time, he reached out and summoned the Dragon-Slaying Sword, which leaped out of its sheath and swirled into the sky. In an instant, ten thousand sword flowers lit up, brilliant and fantastic. Lu Xueqi looked up and saw that under this night sky, it was as if fireworks were being set off, while bats fell like rain with a rustling sound.

The filthy blood and corpses of the bats were immediately bounced away by the Profound Purity energy shield as soon as they approached. Gu Qing and Lu Xueqi walked slowly up the mountain, without a speck of blood on them.

"Your sword is even sharper."

Lu Xueqi watched Gu Qing's sword path, lost in thought. She didn't expect that flying swords could be applied to such a degree.

"I made my name by the sword."

Gu Qing said with a smile.

As time passed in the *Zhu Xian* world, many of Gu Qing's things gradually merged, and the sword path was just one of them.

Lu Xueqi looked deeply at Gu Qing.

With this flying sword performance, Gu Qing and Lu Xueqi moved rapidly upward, approaching the Ten Thousand Bat Cave. When they neared the cave entrance, the two looked back and saw another group of people at the foot of the mountain, using various magic treasures, already approaching the mountain front.

"It's Wan Renwang's people."

Lu Xueqi's complexion changed slightly after seeing this.

Since Zhushan City, Gu Qing and Lu Xueqi had been resting during the day and traveling at night, coming all the way to Kongsang Mountain. Those people of Wan Renwang had always been nearby. Lu Xueqi only had to observe from afar to know that these were likely people from the Demon Sect.

"That Wan Renwang has quite a background."

Gu Qing said with a smile, "Fortunately, I told him I was Ye Fan. After shaking him off, he couldn't find me."

Lu Xueqi was rarely speechless and said indifferently, "In the cultivation world, people are recognized by their magic treasures."

Gu Qing held the Dragon-Slaying Sword; the other party only needed to stare at the owner of the Dragon-Slaying Sword to kill him.

"It doesn't matter."

Gu Qing said indifferently, "I won't be using this Dragon-Slaying Sword for much longer. When the time comes, I'll just pass it on to Lin Jingyu."

"Then what sword will you use?"

Lu Xueqi asked in surprise.

"Zhu Xian!"

Gu Qing said as a matter of course, "I don't believe they would dare to hunt down the owner of the Zhu Xian Sword."

When you get the Zhu Xian Sword, you should be the one hunting them down.

Lu Xueqi was just about to speak when she suddenly felt a warmth on her hand. She was led by Gu Qing into the Ten Thousand Bat Cave. The cave was narrow and cramped, with branches upon branches, and it was difficult to see in the darkness. In this darkness, Gu Qing relied on the sword light to sweep away the bats and the profound light to see, leading Lu Xueqi to run rapidly through the Ten Thousand Bat Cave. The experts of the Demon Sect arrived in an instant, entered the cave, saw the blood stains all over the ground, and the darkness all around, and didn't dare to chase boldly.

"Uncle Qinglong."

A girl in green walked to this place, watched the person in front stop, and asked with a crisp voice, "Why don't we chase inside?"

Qinglong was an expert in the Ghost King Sect. At this time, he stood with his hands behind his back, staring at the cave, and said, "After the Sect Master was injured, he once said that the 【Ye Fan】 seemed to have a demonic weapon in his hand that could absorb essence and blood. The Sect Master was caught off guard and was plotted against. The Sect Master guessed that the thing was the Blood-Devouring Bead."

"Ah!"

The girl in green knew well what the Blood-Devouring Bead was. At this time, she said in surprise, "So that man and woman entered the cave to find the Blood-Dripping Cave?"

Eight hundred years ago, the Refining Blood Hall unified the Demon Sect, and this Kongsang Mountain was its foundation. There were rumors in the Demon Sect that the Blood-Dripping Cave of Kongsang Mountain was the true core of the Refining Blood Hall. For eight hundred years, many Demon Sect members had searched for it, but none had found it.

"If 【Ye Fan】 really masters the Blood-Devouring Bead, I'm afraid the Blood-Dripping Cave will really appear in the world."

Qinglong said.

This cultivation world indeed possessed mysterious fate.

"Then we..."

"We'll just wait here for the rabbit."

Qinglong said, "And collect the Refining Blood Hall here while we're at it."

This place was the foundation of the Refining Blood Hall. Although it had been desolate for eight hundred years, people from the Demon Sect had always been operating secretly.

Qinglong raised his head slightly, his face carrying a faint desolation, and said, "I haven't walked in the martial arts world for many years. I'm afraid the people of this world have forgotten my Qinglong Holy Envoy."

Inside Kongsang Mountain, in the Ten Thousand Bat Cave, Gu Qing and Lu Xueqi moved forward all the way, and then jumped towards the boundless abyss.

Death Spirit Abyss!

Endless abyss, endless chill, endless evil spirits.

Lu Xueqi was shocked when she saw the evil spirits and couldn't help but move closer to Gu Qing. She looked at the faces of men, women, old, and young that manifested around them, each with longing, yet fearing the aura on Gu Qing and not daring to move forward. Lu Xueqi looked at Gu Qing and saw that the Soul-Devouring Rod had already been taken out. Gu Qing imprinted his hand, and it resonated with the Blood-Devouring Bead at the deepest level.

The Blood-Devouring Bead was the magic treasure of the Black-Heart Old Man eight hundred years ago. After Gu Qing obtained it, he had also blood-refined it, and a connection had been established between the two.

In the original work, Zhang Xiaofan could resonate when he saw the corpse of the Black-Heart Old Man, and Gu Qing had cultivated the Dao Dao Dao Xin Zhong Mo Art, having deep cultivation at the mental level. Now, manipulating the Blood-Devouring Bead, he relied on the resonance of the Blood-Devouring Bead to head straight towards the direction of the Blood-Dripping Cave.

A sword light streaked across the Death Spirit Abyss, passed through the Ruthless Sea, disturbed the Black Water Mysterious Snake that lived there, but also brought Gu Qing and Lu Xueqi straight to the outside of the Blood-Dripping Cave.

The cave here was very small. After Gu Qing and Lu Xueqi entered, the Black Water Mysterious Snake smashed its tail, and immediately the mountain trembled and stones fell, sealing the cave entrance.

Lu Xueqi thought of the Black Water Mysterious Snake just now, as well as the sealed cave entrance, and her heart was panicked. When she looked at Gu Qing through the sword light, she saw Gu Qing's expression was indifferent, as if he didn't feel this was a desperate situation.

"It's just a few rocks. When I want to go out, I'll just dig them open."

Gu Qing's body had been tempered by the immortal energy of extreme yin and extreme yang, and strengthened by Gu Qing's merit. With the constant blessing of the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art, he had long since transcended the mundane. In the *Twin Paragons* world, Gu Qing had already been able to dig open caves, and now it was even easier.

Lu Xueqi felt slightly relieved upon hearing Gu Qing's words. She followed Gu Qing to the end of the cave and saw a water curtain with seven crimson stones on it. Water dripped from above, just like dripping blood.

Blood-Dripping Cave.

The true core of the Demon Sect's Refining Blood Hall, and also the place that countless Demon Sect members had been searching for bitterly for eight hundred years.

The shadows of the seven stones were reflected in the water pool below. Gu Qing aimed at the position and pressed lightly on it, and a stone room opened with a bang.

"How do you know the mechanism of the Demon Sect?"

Lu Xueqi asked suddenly.

There were too many secrets on Gu Qing, which already made Lu Xueqi unable to see clearly.

"It came from the Blood-Devouring Bead."

Gu Qing held Lu Xueqi and said, "It seems this place involves the death of the Black-Heart Old Man." As he spoke, Gu Qing brought Lu Xueqi into the stone room.

On the left side of this stone room, two stone statues were enshrined. The male was ferocious and evil, with a black face and ghost horns, while the female was kind-hearted and stood with a smile. These two gods were the Nether Holy Mother and the Heavenly Evil Bright King worshipped in the Demon Sect.

Gu Qing examined the two statues. In the legends of the Demon Sect, the Heavenly Evil Bright King created the world, and the Nether Holy Mother nurtured all living things. However, in the legends of the righteous path, it was the Pangu Great God who created the world, and the Nuwa Wangmu Niangniang who nurtured all living things.

Gu Qing passed by these two gods and brought Lu Xueqi towards the inside of the cave. Before they had gone far, they came to a spacious place. Looking up, it was written on the side: 【Heaven and Earth are not benevolent, treating all things as straw dogs】.

Each character was four feet square, the brushwork was ancient and simple, and the momentum was vigorous.

After seeing this, Gu Qing couldn't help but think of the God of War Record that he hadn't seen even after squatting in the *Twin Dragons* world for more than ten years. It was said that in the Jingyan Palace, inside the God of War Hall, in front of the forty-nine God of War Records, there were also the words 【Heaven and Earth are not benevolent, treating all things as straw dogs】.

"This can be considered a kind of alternative compensation for regrets."

Gu Qing and Lu Xueqi walked into the tunnel. At the end, they saw where the Heavenly Book was.

【When heaven and earth were created, it was the time of chaos, ignorance was not yet divided...】

Lu Xueqi's gaze was fixed, looking at the Heavenly Book in front of her. She had been taught the Great Brahma Dafan Dafan Bore and the Other Shore Sword Art by Gu Qing, and could be considered to be cultivating both Buddhism and Daoism. After cultivating, she felt that the two sets of techniques had many stagnations and conflicted with each other. It was just that the Great Brahma Dafan Dafan Bore's blessing on the meridians was too high, which made Lu Xueqi grit her teeth and cultivate.

But all this vanished into thin air after seeing the first volume of the Heavenly Book. This set of techniques engraved in the Demon Sect actually pointed out that Buddhism and Daoism were different paths to the same destination. All conflicts between the two could be reconciled with the Heavenly Book. Even many obstacles in Lu Xueqi's cultivation of the Taiji Profound Purity Dao seemed to have been answered under the Heavenly Book.

Lu Xueqi looked sideways at Gu Qing, watched Gu Qing turn his gaze at this moment, met her eyes, and then nodded heavily.

"I've heard a legend."

Gu Qing said, "It is said that all techniques in the world come from the Heavenly Book, and there are ten volumes of the Heavenly Book in total. It's just that the people who saw them were different, and their understandings were different, which led to differences in cultivation."

Lu Xueqi heard this and looked at the wall again. The expansive stone carvings contained the greatest cultivation secrets throughout the ages.

Gu Qing closed his eyes silently at this moment. A long, long time ago, Gu Qing had bought a set of *Zhu Xian* physical books. On one page of the physical book, it recorded that there were ten volumes of the Heavenly Book in the *Zhu Xian* world, which seemed to have been passed down by the Nuwa Wangmu Niangniang, and also recorded the affairs of the Yellow Emperor. In the records of that physical book, the techniques of the Incense Valley and the Miao Frontier also seemed to have come from the Heavenly Book.

It was just that over a long period, that set of physical books was lost while being borrowed by people. Later, when Gu Qing went online to look, they were basically all five volumes of the Heavenly Book.

Gu Qing threw the information about the ten volumes of the Heavenly Book to the back of his mind for the time being. Relying on the first volume of the Heavenly Book, the general outline of cultivation in the *Zhu Xian* world, Gu Qing began to think about all his martial arts and all his moves, adjusting and transforming them towards the techniques of the *Zhu Xian* world.

In this trance, Gu Qing thought for three days and three nights. When he came back to his senses, he heard the sound of bells beside him. After looking over, he saw Lu Xueqi holding a bell in her hand, examining it.

"Hehuan Bell?"

Gu Qing called out immediately.

Lu Xueqi turned her eyes, put down the worry in her brows, and said, "This was found in the cave."

Gu Qing stepped forward, took the Hehuan Bell, and said, "This thing is quite unlucky. Give it to me."

Gu Qing knew his own nature; he would inevitably attract wind and rain in the future, and Gu Qing had no interest in letting others use a Infatuation Curse on him.

Lu Xueqi frowned slightly as she watched Gu Qing take it decisively, and then said, "There seems to be no way out in this cave."

In these two or three days, Lu Xueqi had searched everywhere in this cave but couldn't find a way out. Gu Qing was in the middle of understanding, so Lu Xueqi didn't disturb him.

Gu Qing looked down at the dry food bags the two were carrying. The dried fish made along the way had decreased by two or three. Clearly, Lu Xueqi was in a dangerous situation and didn't dare to eat much.

"Come."

Gu Qing took out the dry food from the package and handed it to Lu Xueqi, saying, "Let's eat our fill first. After we're full, we'll prepare to leave."

The dry food in this package was made according to Lu Miaozhi's recipes. Although it was dry food, the taste was excellent. Lu Xueqi saw that Gu Qing had a plan, so she felt relieved and gnawed on two pieces of dry food.

"Do you have any difficult parts in your cultivation?"

Gu Qing asked suddenly while gnawing on dry food.

Lu Xueqi shook her head, looked sideways at the side, and said, "Originally, it would still take some time to adjust to break through the ninth layer of the Taiji Profound Purity Dao, but after reading this volume of the Heavenly Book, the ninth layer of the Taiji Profound Purity Dao is already within reach."

Not only that, the Great Brahma Dafan Dafan Bore could also be improved rapidly. Now Lu Xueqi just needed accumulation.

"That's good."

Gu Qing smiled and said, "At least I didn't let you make a wasted trip."

Lu Xueqi raised her eyes slightly, then lowered her gaze, buried her head in gnawing dry food, and didn't say a word.

Gu Qing smiled, walked through the cave rapidly, relied on the insight of the Dao Dao Dao Xin Zhong Mo Art to find any omissions in the cave, and confirmed that there was nothing left inside. Only then did he memorize the Infatuation Curse and brought Lu Xueqi to the statues of the Heavenly Evil Bright King and the Nether Holy Mother.

"If we want to go out, we have to pass through these two statues."

Gu Qing pointed to the missing weapons in the statues. The mechanism to open the cave was right here.

"The fierce gods of the Demon Sect?"

Lu Xueqi rarely looked at these two statues.

"Since all cultivation techniques in the world can be completely connected, has there been a deviation in the recognition of gods in the world?"

Gu Qing said, "Like the Pangu Great God and Nuwa Wangmu Niangniang we believe in, while the Demon Sect believes they are called the Heavenly Evil Bright King and the Nether Holy Mother..." As he spoke, Gu Qing took the axe of the Heavenly Evil Bright King and said to Lu Xueqi, "Look, the weapons are all the same."

The axe of the Heavenly Evil Bright King was also called the Heaven-Opening Axe.

Lu Xueqi looked deeply at Gu Qing, feeling that Gu Qing had a different kind of tolerance for the Demon Sect.

"Although it's a bit inappropriate..."

Gu Qing looked at Lu Xueqi and said, "But good and evil actually depend on the human heart."

(End of chapter)