Pawn Crossing the River

At this time, the snake demon had completely revealed its original form. It was a terrifying giant snake of nearly thirty feet, coiled into a snake formation. The huge snake's head still had marks that had been torn apart by Qi Xuansu just now, and it opened its mouth and bit Qi Xuansu.

Qi Xuansu seemed unaware of Li Gui's stabbing blow on his back. After his body reached its peak, he began to fall. The two swords he raised high struck down hard with his falling body.

There were two more bone-deep knife marks on the snake's beak, but Qi Xuansu was also sprayed with poisonous gas. He felt dizzy and swayed. However, the detoxification pill he had taken in advance was effective, and at this time, a wave of poisonous gas surged out of his body. The medicinal power helped him resist the snake venom and made his mind clear.

Although Qi Xuansu was surprised that the ghost was missing, he didn't care so much. He ran forward and got so close that the snake's body was covered with blood and its scales were scattered on the ground.

The snake demon was in pain, its body twisted wildly, its tail whipped like an iron whip, and the walls collapsed and the house collapsed.

Qi Xuansu stepped back, put away his swords, took out his "Dragon Hand Cannon", loaded a "Dragon Eye Yi Er", aimed at about seven inches of the snake demon, pressed down the hammer, and pulled the trigger.

At the moment when the gun was fired, a cloud of intense flames and smoke exploded at the "Dragon Head" position. Because of the huge power of "Dragon Eye Yi Er", Qi Xuansu's arm holding the gun trembled momentarily.

The projectile shot out at a high speed along the rifling of the barrel, and instantly shot into the body of the snake demon.

For the snake demon's huge size, a mere projectile is really nothing, but "Dragon Eye Yi Er" is not only as simple as breaking armor, it explodes immediately after entering the body of the snake demon.

A big hole was blown out of the snake demon's body, and blood filled the sky.

Qi Xuansu unhurriedly reloaded the "Dragon Eye Yi Er", fired the gun again, and exploded a bloody hole in the snake's body.

The reason why the "Shenlong Hand Cannon" was designed by the Shenji Battalion to only hold one projectile was to match the powerful "Dragon Eyes" series. This is where the name Shenlong comes from, and it is precisely because of the power of the "Dragon Eyes" series If it is too large, the load on the handgun will be large, making it almost impossible to fire continuously.

The snake demon's struggle was even more crazy.

Qi Xuansu distanced himself, jumped and rolled to dodge, and continued to reload and fire the gun, firing five more rounds of "Dragon Eyes B-3".

The snake demon raised its head and whined, then the huge snake head fell heavily to the ground, and finally stopped moving.

Qi Xuansu counted the ammunition and found that there were still five rounds of "Long Eyes Yi Er" and ten rounds of "Dragon Eyes Yi San" left. Now that he had lost his Taoist identity, it was impossible to go to Tianji Hall to replenish them, and even if he dared to use his own It would have been impossible to buy the 瓓牒 without Zhang Yuelu's intervention, so it still felt a little heart-breaking to lose one shot every time I used it.

But what puzzled Qi Xuansu the most was, where had that scary ghost gone?

In fact, Li Gui and the snake demon had a greater chance of winning just now. The snake demon's physical strength was far beyond Qi Xuansu's expectation, and it was impossible to fight quickly. There was also snake venom. If Qi Xuansu was entangled by the snake demon, Li Gui would launch a sneak attack from the side. , then Qi Xuansu would immediately fall into a very dangerous situation, but the ghost disappeared strangely. It was impossible for him to escape and sell the snake demon.

At this moment, Qi Xuansu suddenly remembered something, took out the "Jade of Death" he carried with him, raised it and observed it carefully, and then he found that there was a small black shadow in the "Jade of Death", which was constantly moving. Swimming, but unable to escape.

Qi Xuansu was a little surprised and confused.

Could this be that fierce ghost?

Qiniang said that the "Xuanyu of Death" can control the Netherworld, and it turned out to be true.

Qi Xuansu was really surprised.

Raising corpses and catching ghosts are all methods used by alchemists. Now it seems that the "Jade of Death" actually has such miraculous powers.

Qi Xuansu suddenly discovered something. The "Xuan Jade of Life" brought him the supernatural powers derived from the flesh and blood of a martial artist, the physique and vitality of a martial artist, while the "Xuan Jade of Death" symbolized the magical powers of an alchemist.

Life and death correspond to each other, as do warriors and alchemists. One of them pursues the ultimate body, which is called the inheritance of human immortals. When he reaches the end, he is known as the immortal body. He has the true body of human immortals and can regenerate like crazy even if his head is cut off. , is the ultimate in life. One pursues the ultimate soul, which is called the inheritance of ghosts and immortals. After reaching the end, one thought is one self, which can be divided into thousands. It can also abandon the body and seize others. For the world, the soul is dead when it leaves the body. , so ghosts and immortals can also be regarded as the ultimate death.

Is this a coincidence? Or does it have a deeper meaning?

In addition to human immortals and ghost immortals, there are also earth immortals, gods, and heavenly immortals. The course of the Wanxiang Taoist Palace describes the miraculous aspects of the five immortals reaching their extremes in a very straightforward language.

The Earth Immortal possesses five extremely powerful magical powers, which can move mountains and seas. Xuan Sheng once used his magical powers to interrupt the ground veins of Yunjin Mountain, causing the mountains to shift, and the Zhengyi Road has not been repaired to this day.

Immortals can create a divine kingdom on earth. Even if they die, as long as the divine kingdom is immortal, they can continue to return and be reborn. There is a saying of triple death.

The immortals are even more mysterious and can leave this world.

The world is like a big tree, and the holes in the sky are the fruits on the tree. The earth immortals are the insects on the tree. They are very powerful. They can drill holes in the tree, gnaw the fruit leaves, and wander around with the trunk. But The Earth Immortal cannot leave the big tree. Even flying insects with wings can only fly up briefly and soon fall down.

But the immortals are different. The immortals are butterflies. Butterflies may not be the opponents of some powerful insects, but they can fly. In this way, the immortals can not only leave the big tree, but also "pollinate" and help the big tree bear fruits, which are all kinds of caves. The largest cave in the world is the Kunlun Cave held by Taoism. It is also the largest fruit on the tree and was created by Taishang Taozu.

As for the relationship between heavenly immortals and earthly immortals, it is actually the relationship of breaking out of cocoons and transforming into butterflies. After some earthly immortals reach the end, they will immediately form cocoons and transform into butterflies, transform from insects into butterflies, and leave this world, which is called ascension.

There are also some earthly immortals who will continue to stay in this world as insects, growing and becoming extremely powerful, and can even hunt down heavenly immortals and gods. Human immortals and ghost immortals are not even considered by them, but they have to bear the price every hundred years. Each catastrophe becomes more severe than the last, until it is annihilated in ashes.

According to records, only Taishang Daozu experienced three heavenly tribulations and then ascended to death. This is already an incredible supernatural power. Ordinary earthly immortals cannot withstand one heavenly tribulation and will die immediately after the expiration of a hundred years.

This is also the reason why the Taoist sect’s great masters of all dynasties will ascend and pass away instead of staying in the human world. This also leads to the fact that the Taoist sect has very strict requirements on the age of the great masters. If you do not become a great master until you are ninety years old, you will be a hundred years old in a few years. When the term expires, he will ascend to death. It would be better to choose a sixty-year-old "young man" who can still have decades of time.

Of course, there are exceptions. For example, the Sixth Generation Grand Master ascended and passed away in a hurry before the expiration of a hundred years. There is no reason to explain, maybe because he feels that there is no nostalgia for him in this world.

When Qi Xuansu was learning these things, he felt that they were too far away from him, and he almost listened to them as fairy tales. Looking back now, he made a bold guess.

Qiniang said that the five major inheritances correspond to the five immortals of heaven, earth, humans, gods, and ghosts. Xuansheng only integrated the five inheritances, and was not created out of thin air. Before Xuansheng, the five inheritances had existed for many years, but they were not systematic. .

Only the Sanren are the inheritance forcibly created by Taoist sects through human power. The original intention is to use human power to create immortals, just like farming, which requires manual labor to increase income and change the situation where the harvest depends on the sky. The result was a failure, but it was not a complete failure. Due to a strange combination of circumstances, the inheritance of Sanren was achieved, which was a little comfort to those who could not leave the inheritance of the Five Immortals.

According to Qiniang, a casual person can also become a banished immortal, but it requires something extremely valuable to make up for his innate deficiencies and change his abilities.

Just like the finishing touch, the banished immortal is a real dragon, while the Sanren is a fake dragon drawn based on the real dragon. To be able to confuse the fake with the real, it only needs the final finishing touch to turn it into a real dragon.

This extremely valuable thing is the finishing touch.

The Taoist sect could get it, but it was not cost-effective. Even if the banished immortals they created did not die in the process, it would be difficult to recover the money. At most, there would be no profit and no loss. If one person died, they would lose all their money, so the Taoist sect finally decided to terminate this plan.

Could it be that "Xuan Jade" is that precious thing that is known as the "finishing touch"?

Qi Xuansu was shocked by his idea, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was reasonable.

As long as he can get the third piece of "mysterious jade" with a different miraculousness, he can verify whether this guess is right or wrong.