I use my daughter's body to cut down the rivers and lakes

Chapter 390 Legend
Just as Liu Qi moved her gaze to the bronze gate in front of her, a flash of red light flashed in her eyes, and then a familiar scene emerged in her mind.

The sky was filled with rolling dark clouds, and countless silver snakes were flashing. Meteorites with long tails of flames kept passing through the sky. Looking around, the earth had already been occupied by huge waves that were taller than the mountains.

In this apocalyptic scene, two half-naked men standing on the top of the mountain are looking up at the sky with firm eyes.

This was not the first time Liu Qi had seen this scene.

At the bottom of Danyang Lake in Sihai Villa, after Zhurongzhu and Yugui touched each other, Liu Qi was pulled into a similar scene.

Rumble…

At this moment, the situation suddenly changed. One of the men with his upper body naked suddenly raised his hands high. The sea water around the mountain seemed to be summoned by him and gushed out directly, turning into water curtains on all sides to shield the top of the mountain!

The magical power of the sea!

Liu Qi narrowed his eyes, but the scene in front of him quickly collapsed until the bronze gate reappeared.

"You saw it too." Jiang Xuanyun's slightly vicissitudes of life voice came to my ears.

Liu Qi silently turned his head and looked at Jiang Xuanyun with a deep gaze.

Jiang Xuanyun seemed to notice Liu Qi's gaze. He smiled slightly and then said slowly, "The myths that have been passed down to the world are just embellishments of the past by later generations. After all, no one can accept that their mother would choose to abandon her children."

Liu Qi finally spoke: "Who is that flying woman, and who are those two men standing on the top of the mountain?"

"It's the Mother Goddess and her child." Jiang Xuanyun turned his head and smiled gently at Liu Qi, "That's what people often call the God of Fire and the God of Water."

Although Liu Qi did not study the myths and legends of this world in detail, he had heard a little about them.

The mother goddess who gave birth to human civilization gave birth to a pair of extremely outstanding children. One of them controlled the power of the ocean, and the other could control the fire that destroyed everything. In the end, they fought each other because water and fire were incompatible. In the end, the god of fire won, but the defeated water god was so angry that he crashed into the pillar supporting the heaven and earth and broke it.

Liu Qi was very familiar with the following developments.

The compassionate Mother Goddess could not bear to see the suffering of all living things on earth, so she resolutely chose to sacrifice herself to repair the sky, and finally put an end to this catastrophe.

But the legend seems to be different from what Liu Qi saw.

"Everything you see through the bronze gate is the catastrophe that is about to happen in reality." Jiang Xuanyun said in a low voice, "The flying woman is not a mother goddess, but the first person to take the last step in the martial arts."

Liu Qi pondered for a moment after hearing this, and then said, "Do you think that once the nine tripods gather together, it will inevitably cause a catastrophe that will overturn the heaven and earth?"

Jiang Xuanyun smiled and said, "Miss Liu already knew this conclusion a long time ago, so why do you need to ask me for confirmation?"

Liu Qi lowered his head and fell into a brief silence, then raised his eyes and said bluntly: "I have indeed glimpsed a little bit of the future. Since everyone is desperately pursuing "one", as long as we want to make it to the end, you, me, Xiao Qifeng, and even all the martial artists in the world today, will become stepping stones for the last person!"

Liu Qi has thought countless times in his mind about what the so-called last step of martial arts is like.

It was the seventh-level skills and some of Kongsang’s remarks after she entered Zhiwei that inspired her.

If one wants to take the last step, one must use the energy nurtured between heaven and earth to achieve the utmost sublimation, thereby breaking away from the scope of time and space and reaching a higher dimension of existence. This is the ultimate goal of martial arts, not the so-called ascension to become an immortal, coming to a world that may be more powerful than the mortal world, but in its origin is no different in essence from the mortal world.

If we cannot break free from the shackles of time and space, then the so-called ultimate is nothing but a joke.

Just as water needs the help of flame to turn into steam, the energy required to complete this ultimate sublimation process is naturally enormous. It just so happens that such a pure energy exists between heaven and earth.

In other words, the person who takes the last step will drain all the Yuan Qi of Heaven and Earth. At that time, the closer one is to the Yuan Qi of Heaven and Earth, the greater the impact he will naturally receive.

So who is the person who is most closely connected with the Yuan Qi of Heaven and Earth?
There is no doubt that these are the masters who are now at the top of the martial arts world.

Once someone embarks on the path of ultimate sublimation, these great figures who are out of reach in the eyes of ordinary people will face the most miserable ending. The Yuan Qi of heaven and earth in their bodies will be extracted bit by bit. Liu Qi believes that this process is extremely painful and desperate.

If one day she would inevitably have to endure such pain...then she might as well commit suicide!
But judging from Jiang Xuanyun's words, the consequences seem to be more serious than Liu Qi imagined. The collapse of heaven and earth is not just a legend, but a reality that is about to happen.

So... is Jiang Xuanyun trying to stop this catastrophe, or does he want to become the one who achieves the ultimate sublime in the end?

Liu Qi couldn't help but cast a suspicious look at Jiang Xuanyun again.

Jiang Xuanyun did not avoid Liu Qi's questioning gaze at all, but said calmly: "Miss Liu, do you still suspect that I am Your Excellency Futian?"

Liu Qi nodded without hesitation and said, "That's right."

In the past, she always thought that the word "天" in "覆天" represented Da Qi and the great general who was the most powerful person in the world.

Futian was founded because someone took advantage of the resentment of those people in the underworld who had lost their families and loved ones due to breaking the military order towards the court of Da Qi and the general.

But later we learned that Futian had already existed long before the founding of the Great Qi Dynasty, and even Fang Hen was once a member of it. In this case, what the word "Tian" in the name represents is worth discussing.

Liu Qi had thought about it. If there were really people who wanted to follow the example of the Great Qin Emperor and reunite the Nine Cauldrons to impact the Heavenly Dao, then there would be only a handful of people who were qualified to stir up trouble behind the scenes.

They are nothing more than those people who have already reached the top.

Liu Qi had one thought in mind: whoever was most involved would be the most suspicious.

There is no doubt that the people currently in the capital are the most suspicious!
Xiao Qifeng, Kong Sang, Gu Liancheng, Jiang Xuanyun.

Liu Qi was almost certain that His Majesty was among these four people.

Jiang Xuanyun's smile gradually faded, and then he turned his gaze to the bronze gate and said slowly, "If Kong Sang brings the imperial seal as promised, then five of the Nine Cauldrons will be under your nose, Miss Liu. No matter who the Lord is, as long as he wants to get his hands on the end of the martial arts through the Nine Cauldrons, he will inevitably have to fight with Miss Liu."

"Well said!" The ethereal voice instantly echoed in the underground palace.

Liu Qi and Jiang Xuanyun looked over and saw Kong Sang floating over and landing steadily beside Liu Qi. Kong Sang smiled at Liu Qi, and then when she raised her hand, something in her sleeve slipped into her palm. When she presented her palm to Liu Qi, a jade seal lay in her palm.

Liu Qi's eyes quickly swept across the palm of her hand, and then she looked up and met Kong Sang's smiling eyes, only to see him winking at her mischievously: "Why? You don't want it anymore? If you don't want it, I'll take it away!"

Liu Qi narrowed her eyes slightly and then stretched out her hand. When her fingertips touched the jade seal, she instantly felt the extremely pure and powerful energy contained in the jade seal. As Liu Qi tightly grasped the seal with her five fingers, she suddenly felt a vast air flowing into the ground along the jade seal.

Liu Qi, who picked up the imperial seal, couldn't help but look down at her feet. She had a vague feeling that as long as she activated the power of the seal, the place where she was standing would undergo drastic changes.

Kong Sang saw Liu Qi's solemn expression and couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Why, this is incredible, the Nine Cauldrons are not so much a cauldron as they are vessels used to seal the origin of heaven and earth. Because each school of thought has its own strengths, and the situation was too critical at the time, they had no choice but to use the things they carried with them, so the origin of the power after sealing inevitably merged with these vessels, and became the Nine Cauldrons you know now."

Jiang Xuanyun also chimed in, "Each of the Nine Cauldrons has its own mysteries, and they all fit the characteristics of the various forces at the time. This imperial seal itself is an extremely rare earth marrow jade. It is not surprising that it can have an impact on the mountains and rivers after combining with the power of the Nine Cauldrons."

Liu Qi's gaze slowly returned to the imperial seal in his hand, and he then spoke softly, "It seems like you know a lot more than I do."

"Of course." Kong Sang said proudly, and then pursed his lips in annoyance, "Although I am annoyed with them sometimes, I have to say that there are still many little secrets in their memories that are worth seeing, such as..."

Kong Sang smiled and looked at Jiang Xuanyun who was standing aside: "I think the secrets that Sect Leader Jiang knows should not have been passed down from the Qingcheng Sect."

Jiang Xuanyun smiled and replied, "Fairy Kongsang is right. Brother Zhu told me all this in secret."

When mentioning Zhu Weitong, Jiang Xuanyun couldn't help but sigh: "If we talk about the person who has studied the Nine Cauldrons the most in the martial arts world today, it must be Brother Zhu. What a pity..."

He stared at Liu Qi and said sternly, "Miss Liu, may I ask if Brother Zhu died at your hands?"

Liu Qi shook his head and answered truthfully: "When I saw him at the bottom of Danyang Lake, Zhu Weitong was already dead. But... when I wanted to take the jade sceptre from him, he still attacked me."

Even thinking back on it now, the situation was still too weird.

A dead man actually fought with Liu Qi for several rounds.

As for why Liu Qi was so sure that the other person must be dead, it was very simple. He just needed to check if there was any sign of life in the other person.

Liu Qi was very sure that there was not a trace of life left in Zhu Weitong at that time. She was confident that no one in the world could hide this from her eyes.

Hearing this, Jiang Xuanyun lowered his head thoughtfully.

Seeing that the two of them were silent, Kong Sang smiled and said, "You don't have to worry too much. I just want to ask you one thing. Even if you really get all the Nine Cauldrons, do you know what to do next?"

No one responded, so Kong Sang continued, "In the past few thousand years, there has only been one Qin Emperor in this world, and even he failed. The records related to the Nine Cauldrons have been destroyed by various forces. Based on the few words that have been passed down, I think even if someone gets the Nine Cauldrons, at most they will just imitate the Emperor and destroy themselves."

Jiang Xuanyun raised his head and smiled helplessly: "Fairy Kongsang has extraordinary knowledge. I admire you."

Kong Sang was too lazy to waste time talking to Jiang Xuanyun, so he simply turned around and said to Liu Qi, "I think Sister Liu should just leave the capital and travel around with me. If we join forces, who in this world would dare to covet the treasure in your hands!"

"That's enough!" Liu Qi suddenly said, "Since you all have nothing to do, please leave first and leave me alone here."

Kongsang wanted to say something else, but in the end Jiang Xuanyun secretly gave him a look, and finally the two of them left the underground palace together.

Liu Qi, who was left alone in the underground palace, simply sat down cross-legged on the spot, then raised her eyes to look at the bronze gate in front of her. As her eyes flickered, the scene in front of her changed rapidly, and in an instant Liu Qi returned to the scene of the collapse of the sky and the crack of the earth.

Only this time she was standing on the only mountaintop in the scene that was not submerged by the sea.

At this time, of the two men who should have appeared on the top of the mountain at the same time, only one was left, and the other had long disappeared.

Liu Qi looked at the man's back and suddenly asked, "Where did he go?"

The man slowly raised his hand and pointed to the sky.

Liu Qi looked in the direction the other party pointed, and saw a surging column of water rising into the sky and heading straight for the colorful auspicious cloud. A figure was clearly standing at the top of the water column.

"Can he succeed?" Liu Qi asked again, while retracting his gaze to the shirtless man not far in front of him.

The shirtless man still kept his hand pointing to the sky, as if he didn't hear Liu Qi's question.

Click!

Suddenly, there was a crisp sound in Liu Qi's ears, and the scene in front of her eyes became blurred. She knew in her heart that this was a sign that the illusion was about to collapse.

At this moment, the man in front of him suddenly turned around, revealing a tattoo on his chest that flickered like a flame.

Liu Qi focused her eyes, trying to see the other person's face clearly, but the picture in front of her kept flickering...

Finally, for a brief moment, she caught the expression on the man's face.

It was an expression Liu Qi had never seen before, a mixture of despair, grief, relief, and a hint of... joy hidden in the eyes. It was hard to imagine that such emotions could appear on the same face at the same time.

He looked in the direction of Liu Qi with his lips slightly opened and closed, as if he wanted to say something.

Rumbling--

But at this moment, a sound like the collapse of heaven and earth came from the sky.

Liu Qi raised his eyes and saw a striking rainbow of auspicious clouds in the dark sky suddenly burst into dazzling light...

Liu Qi only felt a little stinging in her eyes, and then everything in front of her collapsed instantly. When she blinked her eyes lightly, she found that the familiar bronze door appeared in her sight again.

Liu Qi stood up expressionlessly, thinking back to the last scene, and couldn't help but ask in his heart:
So, did she succeed in the end?
(End of this chapter)