Chapter 353: Should Be at the Front

The sun rises as usual.

Wei Yuan looked at the rising sun and checked his own luck. The five Dragon Blood Woods all sprouted, forming a circle like a natural array. And in the center of the array, a wisp of faint luck was slowly rising, pushing Wei Yuan's luck to a new height.

It was still a scorching summer in the domain, but it was already severe winter in many places in Great Tang.

Three days later, it would be the New Year.

At this time, there was a festive atmosphere in the domain, and people in every city had spontaneously made arrangements, and many people were preparing for the New Year according to previous customs. This was Qingming's first New Year, and the cultivators had already agreed to ring the bell twelve times on New Year's Eve to celebrate.

For this reason, Yu Zhizhuo specially cast a large bronze bell, weighing ten thousand jin, and had been busy engraving the array these days so that the bell sound could spread throughout the domain.

A batch of spiritual fields would mature on New Year's Eve, as if to celebrate.

In the past few days, the number of merchant caravans coming and going to the domain had increased by 50%, and they were constantly transporting various New Year goods into the domain.

Everywhere was thriving and festive.

Wei Yuan stood on the top of the main peak, overlooking the entire domain, enjoying this moment of peace and harmony. However, he suddenly felt something was wrong. This morning was too quiet, even the cities that were usually noisy in the morning became quiet, and people walked through the streets in a hurry, as if everyone had lost the desire to speak.

Wei Yuan frowned slightly, looking at the sky, looking around, only feeling an indescribable tranquility, but couldn't see any abnormality.

Deep in the Shaman domain, on a magnificent altar nearly a thousand zhang high, tens of thousands of Shaman tribe high priests climbed up level by level. In front of the team, many strong men carried a white jade coffin covered with a scarlet shroud. The coffin was somewhat transparent, and faint blood light rippled inside.

The team finally climbed to the top of the altar and placed the white jade coffin in the center of the altar. Two Spirit Shamans and two Ghost Shamans sat at the four corners, and a Saint Shaman pushed open the coffin lid.

A girl lay quietly in the coffin. Her expression was peaceful, as if in a deep sleep, with four hands folded alternately on her chest, and a long tail coiled between her legs.

As the ceremony began, blood curtains rose from the altar into the sky, and a huge vortex slowly rotating appeared in the sky. The terrifying pressure made all the Shaman tribes tremble.

A giant claw protruded from the vortex in the sky and slowly grabbed toward the girl in the coffin. The girl was lifted up by an invisible big hand, flying toward the giant claw.

This giant claw was hundreds of zhang long, and the girl was as small as dust in front of it.

Rising into mid-air, the girl suddenly had an expression on her face, as if in extreme pain, and let out shrill screams that resounded through the world!

Her body twisted unnaturally, and then her long tail suddenly exploded into blood mist section by section, followed by her legs, body, and arms, exploding section by section, and her screams became more and more shrill.

Several Great Shamans sitting on the top of the altar suddenly hugged their heads and rolled in pain. After rolling a few times, their heads exploded violently, turning into a pool of pus and blood.

The girl's head persisted for an exceptionally long time, and she even opened her eyes. But there was only rotting flesh in the eye sockets, no pupils. Blood springs suddenly sprayed from her eyes and mouth, as if there were endless blood plasma in her head. Finally, the skull exploded, leaving only the screams echoing in heaven and earth for a long time.

Around the altar, one hundred thousand upper offerings and five hundred thousand middle offerings fell at the same time, while the periphery was an endless sea of lower offerings. Blood flowed out from under the offerings and merged into the altar.

In the blink of an eye, a blood Qi hundreds of zhang thick rushed out from the altar, straight into the sky, tearing a hundred-li-long crack in the firmament.

The blood pillar lasted for a full moment before dissipating. Where the girl's corpse was, only three deepest blacks remained, as if to suck everything around them in.

The giant claw in the sky probed down again, grabbing remotely at the three blacks. The three blacks slowly rose, while the giant claw trembled slightly, as if it were lifting three mountains.

In the blink of an eye, the giant claw seemed unable to withstand the pressure, began to crack, and seeped out drops of blood. Once those blood drops the size of carriage compartments landed, they would ignite raging ghost fires, burning everything into white ash.

On the altar, many Wild Shamans, Ghost Shamans, and Spirit Shamans were looking at the sky, watching their little princess completely turn into nothingness, cutting off the future, turning her own foundation of existence into terrifying causal power, to launch a heaven-shaking and earth-shattering great curse, to curse the murderer who killed her, and everything related to the murderer.

This arrangement had been prepared for a long time. Now that it was launched, presumably the Heavenly Shaman finally found a clue. It's just looking at the causal power that turned into three parts in the air, it should be that the clue is not so clear, and all three targets are possible.

The Saint Shaman and a Wild Shaman knew some inside information and exchanged a hidden look.

The little princess had shown various special features since birth, and her perception and spiritual sense were advancing by leaps and bounds. Any danger could not approach her at all before she noticed it. This is also the reason why she dared to practice in the Ghost Realm with only a few guards.

She carried a special cause and effect on her body, and thus received the attention of all Heavenly Shamans, who cultivated her with all their strength. It is said that under the blessing of that cause and effect, she is the next Heavenly Shaman, without suspense.

It's just that now, all the remaining cause and effect have turned into terrifying curses. The little princess, who could have become a part of the legend, fell when the curtain was slowly opening.

Since ancient times, the will of heaven has been difficult to ask.

The three blacks disappeared one by one, and then the sky began to rain blood. The blood in the rain is human blood, containing abundant spiritual energy, which is the feedback of heaven and earth to the sacrifice. The Shamans let go of their bodies and minds one after another and began to cultivate and absorb. A small batch of Shaman tribes at the top of the altar absorbed 90% of the entire blood rain.

Qingming Domain.

The morning glow continued to spread, soon covering the entire horizon. The firmament turned dark red and began to have a rich, viscous texture. People in the domain looked up at the sky, all exceptionally calm. No one panicked, and no one ran away, as if they had silently accepted the arrangement of fate.

This is extreme fear.

Primary fear is panic and screaming and running away, intermediate fear is paralysis and inability to even run; while extreme fear is waiting peacefully and calmly for everything to happen, without thinking or reflecting, almost heroic and fearless. With a hum, a clear Qi sprayed from the center of Qingming, and then turned into a green light curtain covering the entire domain.

All the cultivators of the Taichu Palace were summoned and flew to the main peak. The main peak had an array left by Ji Liuli, which could achieve maximum protection by gathering the strength of all cultivators.

Such heaven and earth anomalies, the old people who initially survived in Qingming had an impression, this is the Shaman tribe's great curse, but the blood curse was far from the scale of this time.

Wei Yuan sat in the study and picked up a mirror to look at himself. The flesh on the face of the person in the mirror was constantly dissolving and sliding off, and then the two eyeballs rolled down one by one.

Wei Yuan instantly knew that this was a causal great curse!

At this time, Wei Yuan couldn't care about thinking why the Shaman tribe still knew, he rushed out of the room quickly, then circled around Zhang Sheng's residence, and planted the four Dragon Blood Wood sprouts in the four main positions.

Wei Yuan already knew his ending from the divination of the jade mirror. In fact, he could know without divination. Under the causal great curse, no one could escape. So now Wei Yuan only hoped that the teacher who was most deeply involved with him could escape a disaster.

Wei Yuan planted the last Dragon Blood Wood next to the Qingming Domain Stone.

Everything started here, and returned here. This bit of meager luck, I don't know if it can save a few more ordinary people.

In the ten thousand li of rivers and mountains, the girl Yin-Yang suddenly opened her eyes slowly, having a faint resonance with a place outside the sky. At this moment, Wei Yuan could no longer isolate her connection with heaven and earth. However, the causal great curse had already descended, and the Shaman tribe should have already known of her existence.

In the blood clouds of the firmament, a huge eye opened.

This narrow eye had three pupils, looking at the past, present, and future respectively.

!.

Wei Yuan stood on the peak, looking up at the giant eye that was hundreds of li long, without any fear. Wei Yuan was incomparably eager to live, but when death was imminent, Wei Yuan found that he was not afraid at all.

Thinking back on his life, although short, it was incomparably intense.

Achieving a Dao Foundation that is unparalleled in the world, conquering alien races, opening up territory, letting hundreds of thousands of people live, leading hundreds or thousands of people who originally had no hope of Dao path to build Dao Foundations. Great Brightness Demon-Subduing Sword, Ten-Direction Glazed Golden Fire, Six Paths Jia-Yi Divine Wood Qi, they look like jokes, but in fact, they have opened up paths for countless people.

Wei Yuan hoped that after he died, this path could be continued by someone, and not let it be cut off halfway. Fortunately, the cultivators of the Taichu Palace had already accepted the ideas of the world outside the sky. As long as someone is still alive, they should continue.

As for Xu Wenwu... even if this world is completely destroyed, he might be able to travel to the next world.

Father, mother he had never met, and other bonds, now he couldn't care about them. Everything came so suddenly, Wei Yuan was completely unprepared.

In the ten thousand li of rivers and mountains, the girl Yin-Yang's face kept changing, sometimes showing pain and struggle, sometimes becoming cold and ruthless. All the immortal plants were holding their breath, silent, as if they sensed the end of the world continuing to descend.

The Red Lotus Bodhi became more and more ethereal, its branches and leaves swaying, faintly sounding the chanting of scriptures. The Laurel Immortal Tree hid behind the Bingli Shenmu.

Wei Yuan entered the ten thousand li of rivers and mountains and uprooted the Filthy White Lotus.

In the study, Zhang Sheng cast a hexagram, divining Wei Yuan's fate, and the hexagram said: End.

Zhang Sheng stood up, seriously straightened his clothes, bowed three times to the portrait of Ancestor Xuanyue in the study, then sat cross-legged on the couch, placed his sword on his knees, and waited quietly for that moment to arrive.

The fourth immortal sword was placed on his knees, and at this moment it suddenly rang softly: "There is still a glimmer of life."

"I know."

"Then why not ask for it?"

"How to ask?"

"Use me to slash open the void, return to the Taichu Palace, use the Yin-Yang Reversal Pendant to fake death and escape, and rely on the thousand-year accumulation of the Heavenly Green Hall to cut off cause and effect, and you can get a glimmer of life."

"If so, Wei Yuan will die."

"He must die!"

"Even so, I must stand in front and block it for him."

"Knowing you will die?"

"Hmm."

"Why not keep a useful body and take revenge for him in the future?"

Zhang Sheng smiled indifferently and said: "The trend is surging, the red dust is rolling. You and I are just one of the ordinary living beings, whether we live or die is not that important. If we can't stand up at this moment of life and death, what's the point of talking about the future? I don't want the so-called useful body obtained by surviving."

"So at this moment, as a teacher, I should be at the front."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 354 =====