Chapter 432

"It's going to be eaten."

"Going to be... what."

Li Li Zhuiyuan put Ye Dui into his pocket, sat down, and spread out his right hand. First, a blood mist appeared in his palm, followed by the vicious flood dragon flying out, coiling around the youth while carrying the blood mist to stop the bleeding and form scabs on those scrapes.

Wool comes from the sheep's back; this kind of treatment method won't improve the physical condition and will even make the body a bit weaker, but it can stop the pain.

Zhao Yi bent over, leaned in, and whispered:

"Is it really eating in the literal sense?"

"Hmm."

"Then forget it. Knowing you're a picky eater, my skin is thick; I won't wrong you by getting stuck in your teeth."

Zhao Yi walked unsteadily to Lin Lin Shu You's side. Looking at the red Lin Lin Shu You, Zhao Yi let out a sigh of heartache:

"Sigh... ha!"

The final high-pitched sound came from him seeing the sword that had already been sheathed beside A-You.

Although he was full of confidence in the Li-surnamed one's ability, seeing that this sword had really been sealed and removed by the Li-surnamed one, he still couldn't suppress his excitement.

Chen Jing stood by, supporting Zhao Grandpa with one hand and gently stroking his chest with the other, fearing that Zhao Grandpa might just kick the bucket from excitement.

Zhao Yi looked at Li Li Zhuiyuan and called out softly: "Little Ancestor..."

"If I said it's yours, it's yours."

"I dare not refuse what an elder bestows."

When Ye Dui was shaking the bell earlier, the Undead Knights didn't appear, so Li Li Zhuiyuan knew it must have been Zhao Yi's side that played a role.

Zhao Yi's ability and value could never be ignored.

If you let him scout, he can provide cover; if you let him feign an attack, he can turn it into the main attack; if you let him connect, he can act as the alliance leader.

Give him a test paper that only needs a passing grade, and not only will he get a perfect score, but he'll also use his subjective initiative to find extra-credit questions to do, adding extra points.

If you want to enjoy a certain kind of service, you have to pay the corresponding price.

Moreover, for this team, this sword was a one-time product.

A-You slashed once, and it turned into this state.

A precious but useless thing; there was nothing to be nostalgic about, so it was better to give it away generously.

Zhao Yi sat down beside Lin Lin Shu You, took the ointment from Chen Jing, and carefully applied it to A-You, while "tsk-tsk-tsking" in heartache and comforting the unconscious A-You:

"It's okay, we've even finished the chain cuts this time."

Liang Yan dragged Liang Li and Xu Ming to this place.

This meant that as soon as things were resolved on Zhao Yi's side, he immediately brought Chen Jing to support, leaving even his own wounded behind.

Li Li Zhuiyuan dealt with his own injuries, rested simply for a while, and stood up.

Zhao Yi looked up: "I still want to go. At worst, I won't go in; I'll just stand outside and watch?"

Li Li Zhuiyuan: "I have to support you?"

Zhao Yi: "Let A-Jing accompany me. As for here, A-Yan can just watch."

Li Li Zhuiyuan nodded.

Chen Jing supported Zhao Yi up again and wanted to reach out with his other hand to support Brother Yuan.

Li Li Zhuiyuan: "I'm fine, I can walk myself."

Actually, Chen Jing's own injuries were very heavy, exceeding those of Xu Ming and Liang Li, but after his bloodline continuously improved, his resilience also became stronger and stronger.

Li Li Zhuiyuan took Ye Dui out of his pocket:

"Lead the way, take me to that place."

"Okay."

The three of them left the team.

The road wasn't easy to walk, but there were no more strange occurrences along the way.

"Li-surnamed one, I feel that after getting older, it's quite nice to have juniors supporting you. I think I understand why you're so popular with old men and old ladies.

My hair is white now, and my skin is wrinkled; hey, I find you more and more pleasing to the eye."

"Then don't turn back into a young man."

"How can that be? I have at least two wives in the future; I can't wrong them.

By the way, Li-surnamed one, I heard from Tan Daban that he plans to get married right after graduation. What about you? When do you plan to start a family, reach adulthood?

Uh, what is the legal marriage age now?"

"You're so long-winded now that you're old."

"Child, you don't understand; I'm doing this for your own good."

Li Li Zhuiyuan didn't respond anymore.

They arrived at the place. From the outside, it looked like a hole, but upon entering, it suddenly opened up, as if arriving in a fairyland.

Close by was a stone arch bridge with a simple and ancient design.

In the distance, streams flowed out from below, middle, and above, intertwining and weaving through, circling a staircase leading upward.

At the very top of the staircase was a canonization platform, simple, ancient, and majestic.

The scenes depicted in myths and legends were nothing more than this.

Zhao Yi said: "Illusion."

What you see does not truly exist.

In fact, this area ahead is completely wrapped by mineral veins.

This is the core of the mineral veins, the absolute heart of the mine.

It's just that it's too dense, manifesting a kind of ethereal feeling; those rivers constantly intertwining are actually a manifestation of the concentration reaching another level.

Therefore, there is no gate here, nor are there any restrictions, because there is absolutely no fear of anyone trespassing or sneaking in.

Zhao Yi: "Li-surnamed one, are you sure you want to go in? No matter how you look at it, this is no different from suicide."

Li Li Zhuiyuan looked down at Ye Dui in his palm.

Ye Dui: "Please step onto the bridge; once you step onto that bridge, you will understand everything."

It is safe on the bridge; it gives people the feeling of a path from the human world to fairyland.

Li Li Zhuiyuan raised his foot and stepped onto it.

Just as he stepped onto the bridge deck, Li Li Zhuiyuan's body stiffened.

His spirit became dazed; this feeling was extremely familiar, as every time he had an episode in the past, there would be this precursor.

Beside his ears, there seemed to be bursts of crisp sounds, like the prelude to skin wrinkles cracking.

The environment here indeed has the function of "cleansing" the inner heart, but it's not through self-cultivation or enlightenment; it's more like scraping bone to remove poison in a physical sense.

Ye Dui: "You feel it, right? I didn't lie to you. I can already feel your trembling and joy from the bottom of your heart; this is the place you've dreamed of!"

A clever scam is making you insist on the truth of being scammed even after you've completely lost.

He clearly detests this feeling, but in his mouth, it has become trembling with excitement.

Zhao Yi, supported by Chen Jing, also stepped onto the bridge.

"Hiss... my head is a bit dizzy."

Zhao Yi covered his forehead with his hand and rubbed it gently; his brain's thinking and consciousness appeared disordered at this moment.

The life-and-death gate seam rotated rapidly, and a black peach blossom bloomed on his chest, only then did Zhao Yi's gaze regain clarity.

On the side, Chen Jing let go of supporting Zhao Grandpa and squatted on the ground, retching wildly.

This purification effect has different physical sensations on different people.

For someone like Chen Jing, a mix of human and demon, it was particularly uncomfortable here.

Li Li Zhuiyuan continued forward; the further he walked on the bridge, the more this "purification" intensity increased, but it was all within a controllable range.

After all, this is still just the periphery, which can only be considered a cold dish before the feast.

Zhao Yi held the railing and followed slowly behind.

"Li-surnamed one, no, there's a problem here. I can't put my finger on it, but it's definitely not right."

Li Li Zhuiyuan's feeling was still okay; he walked directly to the end of the bridge, took one more step forward, and would officially walk into the "fairyland."

The smile on Ye Dui's face grew brighter and brighter; he introduced:

"This place is divided into three levels; the bit on the bridge doesn't count for anything at all, it's just to let you have a taste.

After stepping forward and walking inside, the intensity will suddenly increase, comparable to the water wave torture in the cell.

Walking up the stairs and ascending level by level, each step is equivalent to using a taboo in the cell, and the degree of water wave torture intensifies.

The top step is equivalent to the highest level of cell torture.

Once you officially step onto the canonization platform, you will welcome the true ultimate, facing the will of heaven directly!"

Li Li Zhuiyuan: "Cell torture? Do you think my physique can withstand it?"

Ye Dui: "The difference between here and the cell is that this only targets consciousness, not the physical body."

Li Li Zhuiyuan fell silent.

Ye Dui seemed to have doubts; he didn't understand why, even when the youth had reached this point, he could still endure the temptation and was even worrying about whether his body could withstand it.

Shouldn't he be uninhibited and ecstatic?

Li Li Zhuiyuan raised his hand and tossed Ye Dui inside.

"Patter!"

Ye Dui, who was left with only a piece of flesh, landed. A look of pain immediately appeared on his face; however, this piece of flesh indeed didn't undergo any changes.

This meant that what Ye Dui said was true.

If it only targets the consciousness level, then he really could go in.

Ye Dui: "Look, I didn't lie to you; I really didn't lie to you."

Li Li Zhuiyuan looked back at Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi: "Li-surnamed one, think it over yourself. My ominous premonition is very slight... if it were any stronger, I wouldn't be this worried."

Li Li Zhuiyuan: "I have a reason why I must go in and take a look."

Zhao Yi: "Then I won't go in; I'll wait for you here."

Li Li Zhuiyuan nodded, reached out and pointed at Zhao Yi, and the vicious flood dragon flew out, heading straight for him.

Zhao Yi was stunned for a moment and didn't dodge.

The vicious flood dragon crashed into Zhao Yi's body.

"Cough cough... cough cough... oh my... my old arms and legs can't handle this kind of tossing~"

Li Li Zhuiyuan officially stepped off the bridge.

The pain in his spirit and consciousness began to strike.

If the precursor on the bridge was just the precursor to his episode, then now, it was almost equivalent to when he was having an episode.

All your distracting thoughts and emotions are stripped away at this moment.

For the suppressed evil spirits, this is a process of decomposing your conscious existence.

Actually, this should be the true killing move targeting evil spirits; as for the damage to the body, Li Li Zhuiyuan suspects that's just a side effect caused by insufficient concentration.

For example, in "Ye Dui's" statement, Wei Zhengdao's injuries actually began to recover after he raised the water wave torture in the cell to the highest level.

This should be because after the concentration increased, that side effect no longer existed.

And the reason Wei Zhengdao dug a hole might also have been to find this place.

But this place is simply too big, and there was no special arrangement in front of this hole, so before entering here, one would only think it was an ordinary cell.

Therefore, for the sake of efficiency, Wei Zhengdao simply dug all the way to the banquet hall to find the tomb owner.

Letting the tomb owner bring him here to achieve purification in order to kill him.

Li Li Zhuiyuan slowed his breathing, his figure swaying slightly.

Right now, it's very strange; even though he's in the episode stage, his true body still hasn't made a move.

In the same situation, if it were any other sample, they would have long since started fighting at all costs to seize control of the body.

Here, he is still yielding.

This won't do.

It's too uncomfortable.

Li Li Zhuiyuan closed his eyes.

He arrived deep within his own consciousness.

At the dam in front of Great-Grandpa's house, Grandma Liu, who was drinking tea, finally turned back into her elderly appearance, which meant the true body had finally finished cleaning up and rebuilding this place.

When Li Li Zhuiyuan arrived, the true body was wearing an apron and holding a carving knife, walking out of the basement.

The true body knew Li Li Zhuiyuan's intention and asked directly:

"Don't you think it's a bit too much?"

"I'm uncomfortable; you take my place for a while."

"I'm very busy."

"I'll help you."

The true body untied the apron and handed it forward with his fingertips.

Li Li Zhuiyuan took the initiative to take it, tied it on, and then took the carving knife, asking by the way:

"You don't seem to have grown at all."

"This environment is just purification, purely removing things; there is no increase. We are two heads growing on one dog; me eating your meat won't make me stronger."

"What a crude metaphor."

"You're laying the groundwork, I know." The true body looked at Li Li Zhuiyuan calmly, "You're betting that the lies left by Wei Zhengdao can bring you a great opportunity."

"What a rare opportunity; I was tricked miserably by him, aren't you too?"

"You don't need to try to move me; I only pursue the maximization of interests."

"I know."

"But in my view, this risk isn't worth taking. Preliminary estimates show I can actively protect you to the top of the stairs, but after entering that canonization platform, the final purification will come.

Back then, the tomb owner completed the annihilation of Wei Zhengdao by eating him into its stomach and bringing him to the canonization platform.

Similarly, as an inner demon, you will also completely dissipate.

Without you pasting and mounting things outside, it's not a good thing for me now."

"I believe Wei Zhengdao has successfully died, but I don't believe he died here."

"You suspect that the tattered straw mat in your family's ancestral grave once wrapped him?"

"It's also your family's ancestral grave."

"You have more and more boring leisure time now."

Li Li Zhuiyuan shook the carving knife in his hand: "Like this?"

The true body vanished and went to take control of this body named "Li Li Zhuiyuan."

Li Li Zhuiyuan didn't rush to the basement but went to the second floor, to the true body's room.

The door wasn't locked.

Li Li Zhuiyuan nodded with satisfaction.

He pushed the door open, walked into the room, and came to the desk.

Hmm, the desk wasn't locked either.

Li Li Zhuiyuan opened the drawer.

Unlike last time, there were no papers and notes flying all over the room.

Inside, there was only a blank sheet of paper with words left in his own handwriting:

"Recently busy with restoration and reconstruction, no time to read and reflect."

Leaving the second floor, he came to the basement.

Just after pushing the iron door open, Li Li Zhuiyuan understood why the true body hadn't had time to read and reflect recently.

Originally, the basement here was ten times larger than in reality; this time, it had expanded several times more on the original basis.

The area in the basement was now equivalent to half a standard football field.

Sitting in the front row were the newly restored villagers.

Behind them were the cats and dogs of the village; in the very center, Xiao Hei raised its head, its fur black and shiny.

"Why didn't you carve all the snakes, insects, rats, and ants in the village too? Oh, and mosquitoes."

Waiting until he continued walking inside, Li Li Zhuiyuan saw jars and cans; he really did see the snakes, insects, rats, and ants placed inside, and there were even local mosquitoes.

In the past, energy was insufficient, and the true body could only maintain Great-Grandpa's house and the fish pond.

Other parts of the village were as simple as possible; even the sun in the sky was often just a drawn fried egg.

Now, conditions were ample, and he had to beg it to consume a little more energy, otherwise the body couldn't support it.

It really started carving "in every detail."

Li Li Zhuiyuan sat down, pinched a bit of clay with his fingernails, and started carving a mosquito.

"What a waste of time; better to read more books."

Zhao Yi came down from the bridge because Chen Jing was about to collapse.

"Hoo... hoo... hoo..."

Chen Jing knelt on the ground, accompanied by heavy panting; the white wolf fur on his body appeared and retracted intermittently.

Zhao Yi watched Chen Jing's state for a while, then looked toward the bridge at the Li-surnamed one, whose body had been trembling slightly.

Hmm?

Zhao Yi suddenly discovered that the Li-surnamed one's body had stopped trembling, as if he had suddenly become like someone who was perfectly fine.

On this point, Ye Dui, who was closest, felt it most deeply.

He felt that the youth before him seemed to have changed into a different person, especially in that gaze, which revealed a chilling coldness.

The youth bent down and picked up Ye Dui.

Ye Dui: "Shall we... continue?"

The youth: "Hmm."

Ye Dui: "Go up those stairs and listen to the true sound of the Heavenly Dao!"

The youth: "Okay."

Walking along a river, he arrived beneath the stairs, raised his foot, and stepped up.

After standing on the first step, the pain on Ye Dui's face intensified.

The position below the stairs was the normal torture intensity of the cell, which Ye Dui could adapt to, but after going up the stairs, each level increased the torture by one grade, and he began to feel uncomfortable.

But the youth didn't give himself or him any time to adapt, going directly up level by level...

"Ahhhh!!!"

Ye Dui let out a miserable scream.

This sudden increase in torture intensity made him unable to bear it.

What was even more terrifying was that he found there was no trace of pain on the youth's face, and his gaze remained incomparably calm.

It was as if these sacred stairs were just ordinary climbing for the youth.

By the time he climbed halfway, Ye Dui's face was already distorted, in a state of impending collapse and dissipation.

"Please... swallow... swallow me... swallow me... swallow me... right now..."

The youth ignored him and continued upward.

Ye Dui's face gradually blurred, his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose almost disappearing, leaving only that mouth, which kept opening and closing like fish lips.

His existence entered a countdown.

Finally, the youth walked to the top step.

Ahead, a barrier appeared, blocking entry.

This should be the rule of the stairs; only one person can enter the canonization platform, no matter what method you use, you must become "one person."

"Please... swallow... swallow me... Heaven's will... I want to see... Heaven's will... just one step away... I could have seen it... I've longed for it for so long... wish..."

A ball of karmic fire appeared in the youth's palm and began to burn Ye Dui.

Ye Dui's lips opened; even without a face, he still expressed that extreme shock and despair.

The tumor in his palm turned into a ball of black powder, and the youth flicked his hand, letting it drift away with the wind.

"I can't swallow something so disgusting."

Something that had schemed against him and had already been squeezed of all remaining value had no need to be kept.

Letting him fall into despair at the place closest to hope was the best placement for him.

The barrier disappeared; the canonization platform could now be entered.

This time, the youth didn't rush to step down.

He felt nothing from entering to climbing the stairs because he was absolutely clean, so naturally, he didn't have to suffer the pain of purification.

But after standing on this, he would no longer be able to protect the inner demon.

He also couldn't bear the result of the inner demon dissipating here.

"Clearly already won, yet still want to make a big bet; not rational enough."

If there were clear clues to support it, and he made a trade-off based on probability, he could understand.

But this time, the inner demon was completely betting on the scam left by Wei Zhengdao, wanting to pick the fruit left by Wei Zhengdao back then.

In the basement deep within his spirit and consciousness, the true body's voice echoed.

Li Li Zhuiyuan didn't stop his carving work and responded:

"Don't you think that if this wave ended just like this, it would seem too plain?"

The youth: "What kind of reason is that?"

Li Li Zhuiyuan: "A feeling that transcends absolute rationality."

The youth: "Childish."

Li Li Zhuiyuan: "Go up."

The youth: "Once a choice is made, there is no room for regret."

Li Li Zhuiyuan: "Under all correct choices, I won't live to adulthood."

In the end, the youth still stepped onto the canonization platform.

In an instant, a purification force many times stronger than before descended.

The youth raised his head and looked at the light that suddenly shone brightly above. At this moment, the youth seemed to truly perceive the existence of Heaven's will.

Pure and unblemished, symbolizing the highest rationality.

The youth's eyes revealed doubt: "You, actually will descend your will here?"

The existence of the inner demon was rapidly dissolving.

"Ding-dang!"

In the basement deep within his spirit and consciousness, the carving knife in Li Li Zhuiyuan's hand slipped.

His body had become transparent and could no longer pick up things here.

The true body's voice sounded in the basement again:

"You are about to disappear; this is not the result I wanted."

Li Li Zhuiyuan raised his head and asked back: "Then do you think this would be the result Wei Zhengdao wanted?"

"Meaningless emotion-oriented thinking has caused you to lose calm judgment."

"The tomb owner's and Ye Dui's judgments were very rational, but they were both wrong."

"You don't have much time left to argue."

Li Li Zhuiyuan looked at his increasingly transparent hands and asked: "Then, have you heard its voice? I mean, Heaven's will?"

"I heard it... hmm?"

The true body's voice paused for a moment, then continued slowly:

"Inner demon, you bet right."

Li Li Zhuiyuan: "I have never admitted that I was betting."

In reality.

The youth lowered his head and looked down.

He heard Heaven's will, but it didn't come from above his head, but from beneath his feet.

When did the Heavenly Dao run down below?

The youth squatted down, placed his palm on the canonization platform, and began to observe the patterns here.

Even the tomb owners who had gone here through the ages to accept the canonization of Heaven's will had never had such a leisurely time, because they couldn't be unaffected here like the true body.

The youth: "Soul transparent, no impurities, monster without skin.

This was the tomb owner's evaluation of you when you first met in the identity of Ye Dui; in reality, it was the tomb owner's objective comparative feeling toward Wei Zhengdao in that scene back then.

The tomb owner was suffering; Wei Zhengdao was calm and composed."

Li Li Zhuiyuan: "Why would the tomb owner suffer? It had already accepted canonization back then; logically, it should have been purified. An absolutely clean it, when coming here again, should only be as clean and as composed as Wei Zhengdao."

The youth: "This shows that it is not clean; even if it had been purified, it is still not clean."

Li Li Zhuiyuan: "Hmm."

The youth: "Purification is purification, dirty is dirty; purification is for the sake of being better able to be dirty later."

Li Li Zhuiyuan: "Did you hear it? Share it."

The youth: "The murmurs of the Heavenly Dao; the sound is still small now. It's something like a scripture. Apart from the strong sense of holiness, it's dull and boring, with no new ideas. This should be the groundwork."

Li Li Zhuiyuan: "I'm about to disappear; I might not be able to wait for this 'Heaven's will' to slowly lay the groundwork."

The youth: "I'll accelerate it."

Li Li Zhuiyuan: "Thank you."

The youth's hand pressed against the ground turned; he had long been analyzing the situation of the canonization platform's surface and now had preliminary results.

"Click... click... click..."

The canonization platform emitted sounds of unlocking and unfolding, and it was the kind where one move affects the whole body; soon, its unfolding speed became faster and faster.

The youth: "I only started it, and it unfolded by itself, which shows that this place had been opened by someone before."

Li Li Zhuiyuan: "Guess who it might be?"

Who else could it be? Only that person.

The canonization platform completely unfolded, revealing a groove inside, and lying within the groove was a skeleton as white and crystalline as jade.

The skeleton's mouth was constantly opening and closing slightly.

The murmurs coming from "Heaven's will" were precisely emitted from here.

The youth leaned his face close to the skeleton and observed carefully.

The sound became louder.

One, it had a trend of gradually expanding; two, with the distance closing, the sound naturally became clearer.

Li Li Zhuiyuan: "My transparency has stopped."

The youth: "The principle is very simple and also very bold.

He should be that Goguryeo Heavenly Master who built this ancient burial.

He is already dead.

But he used the special mineral vein core environment here to set up this trap; he is preaching, and after his death, he still continues to preach in person.

The purification here, the removal of all impurities, is all to better pass on his 'Dao' to generations of canonizers in the form of Heaven's will.

The Heaven's will heard by generations of tomb owners is all his murmurs.

He is dead, but he is still 'alive,' able to continue passing on his understanding and belief in the Heavenly Dao."

Li Li Zhuiyuan: "I think he is out of good intentions; he shouldn't be for himself."

The youth: "Yes, he hopes his Daoist lineage will never change and will be eternal."