Xuanxia

Chapter 918 Heir of the Styx Valley

This was the first time... the first time that Fu Qingzhou won, and instead of feeling any joy or happiness in his heart, he felt even heavier.

The large characters that suppressed the green clouds were not as huge as the characters that suppressed the dark clouds. They were deeply embedded in the ground and almost integrated with the surrounding rocks. If you didn't look closely, you couldn't even see them clearly. Naturally, there was no trace of the green clouds anymore.

"Ugh……"

Fu Qingzhou squatted down, stroked the words, and sighed softly: "Why bother."

But now that things have come to this, there is no point in any further lamentations.

He calmed himself down, carried Huoyar on his shoulders, and walked up along the way they came.

When she arrived at the stone tablet, Aiguli was already sitting cross-legged in front of it.

Her eyes were still open, staring at the stone tablet, but she turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to everything in the outside world. Before this, Fu Qingzhou had fought with Huo Yaer and then with Biyun. Although the battles ended quickly, the momentum was still huge. Aiguli did not move a step from beginning to end.

"Oh? The fourth realm?" Fu Qingzhou paused.

He discovered that after sitting in front of the stone tablet for a while, Aiguli had broken through from the third level of martial arts to the fourth level!
But she was still facing the stone tablet, with deathly aura flowing around her...

"Ayiguli, is she actually a good candidate for ghost cultivation?"

Fu Qingzhou was really surprised this time.

Of course, he had roughly taken a look at Ayiguli's qualifications before, and found that her qualifications were mediocre and nothing special. Even if she was given superior skills, it would be difficult for her to achieve too much. Being able to cultivate to the sixth or seventh realm in this lifetime might be her limit.

But ghost cultivators take another path.

Fu Qingzhou didn't know much about ghost cultivation techniques, but he could tell from the previous descriptions of the Four Lords of the Styx that this thing didn't seem to have much to do with aptitude.

These four former bosses of the Styx Valley all changed their careers late.

They realized the great principles related to "death", "soul", "killing", etc. in certain situations, and were then called here by the Styx.

Just like the smoker, the description says that he "looked up to the sky one day and saw the dark stars", and then he entered the Styx Valley.

The same was true for Biyun, who first entered Xuanxing before becoming a disciple and entering the valley.

In other words, things like the Nine Revolutions of the Styx do not conflict with the practitioner's own skills!

Even the requirements for qualifications may be another kind of rule.

"Ayiguli has lived in the Sand Scorpion Tribe since she was a child. She has lived on the line between life and death and has seen many friends and relatives pass away. I'm afraid she has her own understanding of the cycle of life and death. Later, she met me. This understanding... She never told me, but it is probably quite unique."

Fu Qingzhou nodded slightly: "In that case, let her continue to practice here."

He did not disturb Aiguli, nor did he learn the Nine Revolutions of the Styx. He just put Huo Yaer on the ground and walked around in the valley.

The Styx Valley is so big and even though it is half destroyed, Fu Qingzhou still plans to search it thoroughly.

Maybe the old ghost left something behind that points to the whereabouts of his physical body?

At the beginning, the smoker mentioned "desert, river, valley", and Fu Qingzhou understood it as the North Desert Minghe Valley. However, after a round of wandering around, he did not find the old ghost's body. Biyun also said that his master ran away with the sword as bait.

"The old ghost also has problems with his memory."

Fu Qingzhou was helpless: "Damn it, this old guy can't even give directions clearly."

He could only search up and down in the Styx Valley, uncovering the ruins and looking for useful things.

But... I couldn't find even a single hair.

It's too long.

The bamboo slips and parchment that were left behind had long since weathered and rotted away, and the words on some of the stone carvings had been worn out to the point where they could no longer be read. There was almost nothing useful left.

As for magic weapons and weapons?
It is unlikely that anyone was missed when those people attacked the Styx Valley.

Fu Qingzhou spent two hours and kept walking until dark, when the bright moon hung high in the valley, but he still gained nothing.

He thought about it again and wondered if he could become the "Lord of the Styx" as Biyun had said before when she pretended to be Wuyun, but of course he got nothing in the end.

Come to think of it, even the fact that "the desert becomes bigger and the grassland shrinks because of the influence of the Styx" is made up by themselves, so the so-called Lord of the Styx and the control of the Styx can change all this are of course false.

"Forget it, let's go." He sighed and returned to the stone tablet.

This time, Ayiguli was no longer meditating. Her aura was still at the fourth level of Wuqiao. She was leaning against the stone tablet... and fell asleep.

The deathly air in the Styx Valley was already circulating around her, flowing freely in and out of her acupoints with her breathing.

This Styx Nine Revolutions Divine Art...she has mastered the art.

Not only that, she practiced this technique when she was at the third level of Wuqiao, and used it as a basis to break through to the fourth level. In other words, this is her only and main technique!

“I didn’t expect that she would become the heir of the Styx Valley.”

Fu Qingzhou held his forehead helplessly: "Looking at her current condition, it seems that it is not easy for her to practice outside..."

He did not try to hide his breath and footsteps when he came, and Aiguli was quickly awakened.

As soon as she opened her eyes and saw Fu Qingzhou, she quickly stood up and bowed, "Master Zuling!"

Then she saw Huoyar lying beside her with lifeless eyes and was shocked.

"It's okay, she's dead."

Fu Qingzhou said calmly: "How do you feel now?"

"I?"

Ayiguli was startled at first, then she realized what he was asking, and said with a slightly strange look: "I think... it's great."

"When I saw the words on the stone tablet earlier, I tried to read them, but for some reason I thought of... the people who died around me."

She lowered her head, her tone somewhat sad: "When they left, some people were obviously in pain, but they were smiling before they left; some people had obviously lived for a long time and kept saying that they were not afraid of death, but before they left they shouted that they did not want to leave."

"I gradually could no longer see the words on the tombstone, but I saw the dead people come alive, standing by me and talking to me."

“In fact, I didn’t understand what they were saying, but for some reason, I just felt very engaged and wanted to continue listening.”

"As I was listening...I fell asleep, and then, Master Zuling came."

"Now... I feel very relaxed all over. I feel like they are all relieved. I even have a feeling that they are very happy to see me and talk to me again."

Fu Qingzhou was quite curious.

He had seen the stone tablet before, but had no reaction. To him, the stone tablet was just a line of text. He had not tried to practice, so naturally there would be no impact.

But Aiguli just looked at the words and broke through the fourth realm on her own?

Sure enough, everyone has talents in different fields...

"In the future, you will be the successor of the Styx Valley."

Fu Qingzhou suddenly said: "But you can't be the Valley Master. The Valley Master is someone else."

Ayiguli was startled: "What?"

"It's okay, you will understand in the future." Fu Qingzhou shook his head: "As for how to solve the problem of your need for dead energy for cultivation... I will think about it again, let's leave this place first."

After saying this, he put his hands behind his back and walked up the stone steps alone.

Aiguli responded quickly, ran a few steps, then remembered something, went back, carried Huoyar on her shoulders, and then jogged over.

She had worked hard in the tribe and was not a delicate girl. Now that she had broken through the fourth realm, it was not a problem for her to carry a person.

The two of them returned along the same route they had come. The desolate and dead place no longer responded to anything. The way back was much easier than the way here.

Around midnight, the two finally passed through the sandstorm on the edge of the desolate and dead land and returned to the desert.

But surprisingly, someone was waiting for them!
I saw a man covered in a black robe and wearing a dragon mask, standing alone not far away, covered with sand, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

Seeing the two of them come out, the other party seemed to be relieved, and said leisurely: "Damn, I've been waiting for you for so long, and they finally come out."

(End of this chapter)