Destiny is ashes

Chapter 53: Seven Stars and Seven Evils
"I just wanted to escape from Xuanming Manor, but I ended up encountering a three-party struggle... What kind of situation is this!"

After a long sigh, An Jing felt his heart beating fast.

Before he went to the other world, he had already seen the scene of the Heavenly Demon being unsealed and the two Shenzang Zhenren taking action... There was no doubt that it was a force that far exceeded his current ability to deal with.

Neither he nor the sword spirit could have imagined that there would be a demon - and such a powerful demon at that - lurking among the Red Armor Guards and taking advantage of the situation to unseal his compatriots.

What happened to Dachen? Even the demons could get in?!
"How many days can I stay in the other world?"

After calming down a little, An Jing asked, and the sword spirit, who had been deep in thought, reacted and immediately answered: "Three days."

"Three days..."

An Jing closed his eyes and concentrated. In his sea of ​​consciousness, around the broken sword, there were three shining sword beams covering him.

The first one of them is gradually dimming, this is the "three days" mentioned by the sword spirit.

"Within three days, if I want to return, I can teleport to an area with a radius of one mile centered on the point where I left Huaixu."

An Jing summarized the current situation: "After completing a cycle of 'coming and going', your teleportation will enter cooldown. It will take a day and night of recharging before it can support me to teleport again."

"Yes." The sword spirit reminded: "So you have to escape alone for at least one day before you can enter the other world for refuge again."

"It's a bit troublesome." An Jing murmured, and the sword spirit was not annoyed: "When you find more fragments of me, my ability will be enhanced. Longer time, faster transmission, more charging methods, my complete body is not troublesome."

"Besides, three days is enough time. Those demons have already left. Even if they have a backup plan, they will not stay there to avoid being discovered."

"The people from the Demon Cult and Dachen should be entangled with each other and will not have the time and energy to chase you. With your current strength, you should be able to leave this forest, hide your identity, and return to the world."

"Since the demon has left," An Jing was thinking: "Can I find the Dachen Red Armor Guard again? Although Ye Qi and the others don't need me to worry about them, but..."

"Perhaps, but it is very dangerous. I do not recommend it." The sword spirit's tone became serious: "There are actually demons lurking in Dachen. Although there may not be many such big demons, there are definitely more ordinary demon hosts than we imagined!"

"Demons are just like cockroaches. When you see one, there are actually a large number of them, but they are all hiding in the dark."

"If we continue to enter Dachen with our current identities, we will definitely be discovered by the demons!"

"The reason I let you leave is because I'm afraid of this - who knows if there are other little demons in the Red Armor Guards who will catch you when you relax?"

"Yeah." An Jing actually thought of this, but with the sword spirit's warning, he understood it even more clearly. He sighed, "But if this happens, my junior brothers and sisters will also be in danger..."

"Don't worry."

The sword spirit did not think it was a bad thing for An Jing to worry about someone he was familiar with. On the contrary, he admired An Jing's loyal character very much.

So the sword spirit spoke the truth: "After all, the value of your friends is not worth it for the lurking demon to expose his identity for this - only you and I have such value."

"As expected of us." With a self-deprecating smile, An Jing straightened his breath, stood up and looked around.

The place was still the same as when he left, with the dimly lit underground caves, the old and broken steel lofts, and the corpses he had looted.

"Well... there are a lot of things missing."

An Jing pondered. Last time he stayed here for only an hour and left after breaking through his inner breath. Naturally, he didn't need to think about anything. But this time he would stay for three full days, so he had to consider issues such as food, air, water, fire and a safe place to rest.

You know, there are monsters in this place that can kill a group of gunmen in the Inner Breath Realm! The firearms in this world feel much more powerful than those in An Jing's previous life, and the gunpowder is not ordinary gunpowder.

He killed the owner of Medicine Manor with his own pistol. Even though it was a sneak attack and the other party was careless, this was just the standard weapon of this team from another world.

However, even with such powerful firepower, they were all destroyed here.

Although these people died from "damage to the mind and soul", An Jing would not be careless. After all, having mental and spiritual abilities does not mean that a monster's body is weak. He must be prepared for the most dangerous situation.

"If it doesn't work, I'll go back to Huaixu Realm." An Jing thought, "But we have to at least hold on for one night. Otherwise, if we go out now, we'll be easily found by others who haven't gone far yet."

As for now, he needs to rest for some time.

From performing rituals to slaying the demon, from fighting the owner of the medicine shop to rescuing the companions in the dungeon, and then unsealing the demon and traveling to another world... plus the loss after the effect of the Qi-boosting pills wore off, An Jing is now very exhausted.

I felt as weak as if I had been hungry for three days and then ran for two hours on a mountain road. My bones and muscles hurt from the friction, and something didn't feel right all over my body.

He urgently needed to find a safe place to recover his strength.

An Jing searched the attic and the main hall of the ruins, but found nothing inside. There should have been an altar for enshrining some ancestor or deity, but now that the columns have collapsed and the floor tiles have been removed, there is really nothing left inside except dust.

However, the beams in the hall were still strong, a little dirty and rotten, but now was not the time to be picky.

An Jing climbed up there, huddled in a corner, and forced himself to calm down, regulate his breathing, and rest.

"After I finish my meditation, I will probably need to sleep for two or three hours to let my body recover naturally. Can you help keep watch?"

An Jing asked the sword spirit, and after getting a positive answer, he started to practice the Pure and Tranquil Sword Contemplation, and after regulating his internal breath for a while, he gradually fell into a deep sleep.

Just after An Jing fell asleep, a faint spiritual light lit up on his forehead, revealing a silver sword pattern with a sword light in the center, like an open eye.

"This world... feels very familiar. And it's not an illusion. This world also has 'devil energy'."

The clear and lively voice muttered to itself, with a solemn tone: "The monster that killed the entire exploration team should also be some kind of 'demon'."

The sword light slightly pointed downwards, as if it was looking at the sleeping An Jing: "And this child's fate is indeed a bit strange... Blood Evil Sword Evil, Spirit Evil Soul Evil, he can accept it. Even in my time, there were almost no people with such a fate."

"Sure enough, this is not an ordinary star evil fate, but it will only appear in the time of great disaster..."

"【Seven Stars and Seven Evils】?"

After a moment of silence, the sword spirit raised his eyes and said, "If so, it is hard to predict whether it will be a blessing or a disaster... I thought I was the one who gave him a heads-up, but it could also be that I was dragged into his destiny."

"Well, let's see how far this child and I can go."

He began to keep vigil.

Soon, three hours passed.

An Jing wakes up.

(End of this chapter)