I Killed Gods and Demons in Song Dynasty

Chapter 195 Goodbye Xu Fu
The sky was gloomy and dark clouds were rolling.

In the valley, the crack in the center of the magic circle was as dark as the abyss, and a dark aura seeped out from it, as if connecting to another strange and indescribable world.

The space was trembling slightly, as if something was about to descend from it.

Li Qingyun stood outside the magic circle with a serious look.

He felt a powerful fluctuation of spiritual energy coming from the crack. This aura was ancient and strange, as if it had traveled through thousands of years of time and space, making people feel a chill in their hearts.

Suddenly, a thick air of death surged out of the crack, and the cold chill swept over like a tide, and the air around it became as heavy as lead.

Then, a blurry shadow slowly rose from the crack.

It was a mutilated spirit, with frosty white hair, simple clothes, and empty and deep eyes.

The spirit was erratic, illusory and distorted, as if it could turn into ashes in the wind at any time.

There is a faint light surrounding it; although it is weak, the aura it exudes is ancient and heavy, as if it has carried the vicissitudes of countless years.

Li Qingyun's face turned stern, and he blurted out:

"who are you?"

The remnant soul floated above the magic circle, its eyes were empty and lifeless, but it revealed a deep and repressed pain, as if its existence itself was experiencing endless torture.

Its eyes moved mechanically, as if traveling through time and space, spanning thousands of years of history, and finally falling on Li Qingyun.

"It's been more than a thousand years. I didn't expect someone would come here..."

A low and hoarse voice emanated from within the spirit, coming faintly as if it came from the depths of the underworld.

Li Qingyun took a deep breath and had a guess in his mind.

He was surrounded by golden light, and asked with a fist:

"Are you Lu Tong?"

The vague residual soul swayed slightly in the air, and it seemed to have expended a lot of strength before nodding.

His voice was low and filled with endless fatigue:
"It is me. I am afraid that everyone in the world thinks that my soul has already been scattered, but they don't know that I am trapped here and will never be freed."

Li Qingyun did not relax his vigilance. He activated the Golden Light Mantra with his infinite divine power to protect his entire body. At the same time, he used the Mountain Moving Technique with his hands, slowly took a step forward, and asked in a focused voice:

"This is your cave, why are you trapped? And I found your handwritten letters and notes here. Didn't you claim that you comprehended the heavenly book and died here? Didn't you die a thousand years ago?"

Lu Tong's soul swayed slightly, and an imperceptible sigh escaped from his dry throat, as if he was recalling an ancient event.

After a long silence, his eyes focused on Li Qingyun. Thousands of years of pain poured out from his eyes at this moment, with endless fatigue and regret:

"At this point, we must start from that year..."

He spoke slowly, his voice seemed to come from ancient times, vast and sad.

"Thousands of years ago, I accidentally got a heavenly stone tablet, and after comprehending it on my own, I finally got a glimpse of the secrets of spiritual cultivation, and stepped into the mysterious sixth realm, becoming a 'world walker', able to travel between the spiritual world and the human world.

“However, although my cultivation has reached the highest level, I have not been recognized by the Nameless Divine Mountain in the Heavenly Book, and I have always found it difficult to embark on the illusory path to becoming a god.”

Li Qingyun's heart moved, and he realized that the "unnamed sacred mountain" Lu Tong mentioned was Mount Buzhou.

The spiritual path lacks methods for refining the body. If the body is weak, even if one has a high level of cultivation, it is difficult to pass the trial of Mount Buzhou and gain its recognition.

The powerful person who left behind the magic weapon obviously wanted to use it to select the successor to a specific path of cultivation.

However, Li Qingyun did not point this out, in order to prevent the remnant soul from being stimulated and collapsing and dissipating on the spot.

Lu Tong's voice became low, full of regret and sadness:
"Now that I have obtained the Heavenly Book and possessed a rare and wonderful destiny, how can I be willing to give it up?

“So I devoted myself to seeking the truth, wanting to transcend the cycle of reincarnation and become a true god.

“After completing the sixth realm, I used the unique ability of the ‘world walker’ to travel between the human world and the spirit world, searching for a way to become a god.

"However, my impatience and arrogance ultimately led to an irreversible mistake... In the spirit world, I accidentally triggered a hidden restriction, opening a rift to the lower spirit world."

Li Qingyun's heartbeat quickened slightly. Things seemed to be more complicated than he had imagined.
"The lower spirit world?"

Lu Tong's residual soul nodded:

"Yes, the lower spirit world, also known as 'Spiritual Hell' in legends.

“It is a forbidden place, full of strange and evil creatures.

“These creatures are completely different from the spirit world gods we know. They are cruel, cunning, strange and incomprehensible.

"Their existence itself is terror and disaster."

Lu Tong's eyes became even emptier, as if he was immersed in endless pain and regret:
"When the rift opened, some weak creatures from the spiritual world took the opportunity to overflow and began to wreak havoc in the human world... They are extremely corrosive and can devour people's souls and seize their bodies, becoming an evil force lurking in the human world."

Li Qingyun frowned slightly, with a sense of foreboding in his heart.

He suddenly realized that this magic circle might be more than just sealing Lu Tong's remaining soul.

"To make up for my mistake, I must close this gap."

Lu Tong continued:
"To make up for my mistake, I must close this gap.

“I originally intended to leave this cave to future generations as a holy place for them to practice, but in order to prevent those spirit beings from further invading the human world, I had to transform it into a magic circle and bury it underground. I used the spiritual energy of Taibai Mountain in the north to seal it up, suppress the expansion of the spirit world channel, and trap those terrifying creatures that passed through the cracks here.

"Since then, my body has long since turned to ashes, but my remaining soul has been trapped in this magic circle forever, guarding this crack until today.

"I will use my soul as a guard for eternity, and endure endless torture... just to redeem the mistakes I made back then."

Lu Tong's voice gradually became weaker, as if he was enduring unspeakable pain, and every bit of strength in his soul was constantly consumed by this magic circle.

Li Qingyun's mood gradually became heavy. He felt the deep regret and despair in Lu Tong's remaining soul.

A lonely soul for a thousand years, guarding the calamity rift that he accidentally opened, enduring eternal pain, just to redeem his mistakes.

This fate is a cruel punishment for anyone.

"But why do you show up now?"

Li Qingyun's voice was low and full of respect, but also with a hint of alertness.

Lu Tong's eyes suddenly became more empty, and his tone was filled with a weak sigh, like a sigh of dusty years:
“I calculated everything, but I missed one point—after countless years of torture, my spirit body is no longer as strong as before, and I am simply unable to stop the natural changes of the mountains and rivers.

“Taibai Mountain has beautiful veins and is where the underground fire gathers, making it the most suitable place to suppress the cracks in the Spirit Prison, but it is also a volcano that has been dormant for a long time.

“In my prime, I could move mountains and fill the sea with a thought, change the direction of the earth veins, and easily suppress all kinds of changes in Taibai Mountain.

“But now, my soul has become so weak that I cannot even reverse the slightest changes in the world.

"Who could have expected that earthquakes and volcanic eruptions would occur here one after another, and no one could stop them. The cave was completely exposed, and it also attracted cultivators like you who came thousands of years later to come and explore..."

Li Qingyun was startled and his heart suddenly tightened.

He has realized that the delicate spiritual balance between heaven and earth is rapidly collapsing. If it is not stopped in time, it will not be long before the passage to the spirit world will be completely opened, and then those terrifying spirit world creatures will swarm in and descend on the human world.

In that case, the brief peace that everyone had gained by risking their lives to stop the God's Descent Ritual would be destroyed in an instant.

He could not accept such a consequence no matter what.

"You're saying that the power of this magic circle is no longer enough to continue sealing the rift?"

There was a hint of uneasiness and urgency in Li Qingyun's voice.

Lu Tong nodded slightly, his broken soul swaying gently in the air, like a wisp of mist drifting in the wind:

"Yes... its power is weakening, and time is running out..."

Li Qingyun fell into a brief silence, then his fists gradually clenched and his eyes became more determined.

He knew that there was no way out. He had to find a way to stop the rift from expanding further, otherwise the whole world would fall into an irreversible abyss.

"Senior Lu...is there any way to remedy this?"

Li Qingyun's tone revealed urgency and determination.

He knew in his heart that the reason why Lu Tong told him all this was probably because he had already made some plans and wanted to make up for his mistakes in his own way at the last moment.

Lu Tong looked at Li Qingyun weakly, with a look of relief and relief in his eyes, as if he had finally let go of the heavy burden that had been weighing on his heart for a thousand years:

"I will use the last bit of strength in my remaining spirit body to form a barrier to temporarily seal the crack again, but this is only a temporary delay and it won't last long... What the future holds can only be left to you cultivators a thousand years from now."

He paused for a moment, with a self-deprecating smile on his face:
"I have endured a thousand years of torture. Although I have not been able to completely atone for my sins, I have received the punishment I deserve. Now, the time has finally come for me to be freed."

Before he finished speaking, Lu Tong's residual soul suddenly became more and more illusory, as if it would dissipate into the air at any time.

Without waiting for Li Qingyun to react, he began to pour his strength into the magic circle, and the surrounding spiritual energy was violently churning, like a lake that was suddenly stirred.

Li Qingyun felt that a powerful energy was drawn out from Lu Tong and gradually merged into the magic circle, turning into the final barrier to seal the crack.

"After today's farewell, I will never return."

Lu Tong's voice was as low as a sigh in the wind, but his face looked calm, with a look of relief.

Li Qingyun stared at him without stopping him. He just bowed deeply, leaving the last dignity for this thousand-year-old lonely soul.

"Senior Lu, I will do my best to protect the human world."

Lu Tong nodded slightly, and his broken soul gradually turned into nothingness in the surging spiritual power of the magic circle, like a wisp of green smoke, blown away by the wind, and finally disappeared in front of the crack, as if it had never existed.

The air was filled with an indescribable desolation and loneliness.

Li Qingyun stood in front of the magic circle, his mind in turmoil. Looking at the crack that had not yet completely closed, he knew in his heart that the real crisis was not over yet.

The prophecy of the third war between gods and the impending doomsday is approaching the human world step by step like an lingering shadow.

The third war between gods has begun, and the prophecy that the human world is about to face the end is slowly being fulfilled in a way that no one could have foreseen.

It seems that no matter how hard you try to stop it, new coincidences and accidents will always occur, and the wheel of fate will still roll forward.

Is it true that human power cannot overcome destiny?
At this moment, a bone-chilling cold wind suddenly whistled up from the crack.

The sky and earth seemed to be shrouded in a layer of cold haze, and an invisible evil force seemed to be quietly spreading in the darkness.

The spiritual light of the magic circle began to flicker violently, and the darkness in the cracks expanded like an abyss, as if something more terrifying was about to break out of the ground.

Li Qingyun frowned again and his fists trembled slightly.

He clearly felt that although Lu Tong's residual soul turned into a barrier to temporarily contain the power of the spiritual world, with his disappearance, the crack was still like a ferocious mouth, slowly opening, swallowing up the surrounding spiritual power and light.

"This crack will open completely sooner or later..."

Li Qingyun's heart sank as he realized the urgency of the situation.

However, before he could even catch his breath, the air around him suddenly shook, and a powerful force like thunder surged in from the sky, roaring like a raging sea, shaking the heavens and the earth.

The force was as powerful as a mountain torrent, and it came with a sense of oppression, which instantly made his chest tighten, as if an invisible mountain was pressing down on him, making it difficult for him to breathe.

The wind and clouds changed color, and a blood-red light suddenly rolled up in the sky, like a red dragon wandering in the sky, tumbling and stirring up rolling blood clouds that penetrated the sky.

In this scorching blood light, a vague shadow gradually appeared in the void. With his appearance, the surrounding air seemed to be distorted, and bursts of heart-pounding low sounds echoed all around, as if some kind of order between heaven and earth was being broken.

Li Qingyun's eyes flashed, and he stared at the figure in the blood.

The shadow gradually became clearer. The person was wearing a bright red robe, and the sleeves of his clothes fluttered in the wind.

His face was old and majestic, and his eyes were so deep that they seemed to be able to penetrate the mysteries of heaven and earth, as if he knew everything in the world.

Li Qingyun's eyes trembled slightly. With his extraordinary spiritual perception, he naturally felt the ancient aura emanating from the other party, as if it came from across the long river of time, bringing with it the pressure and mystery of ancient times, which made people feel awe.

"You are...Xu Fu?"

Li Qingyun couldn't help but mutter, his heart suddenly shocked.

The figure before him was none other than the mysterious sorcerer Xu Fu, whom he had once met in Wuyou Cave.

At that time, the other party claimed to be a guest official of the Grand Tutor's Mansion. His attitude and words were ambiguous, and he seemed both good and evil, and his identity was unpredictable.

Li Qingyun once guessed that Xu Fu was a fifth-level sorcerer, but now, even though he has broken through to the realm of divine intent and used his "Fire Eyes and Golden Pupils", he still finds it difficult to see through Xu Fu's realm - the other party's aura is as deep as the ocean, like an endless abyss, and he is at least a sixth-level "divine wizard".

Xu Fu's figure slowly landed in the center of the magic circle. His eyes were as fast as lightning. After scanning the surroundings, he fell on Li Qingyun. A deep and complex look flashed in his eyes.

Before Li Qingyun could speak, he raised his sleeve and waved it, and the entire magic circle suddenly burst into a dazzling red light, shooting straight into the sky.

The crack that was originally expanding suddenly stopped under the suppression of the red light, as if it was forcibly sealed by some invisible force.

Li Qingyun stared at the scene in front of him in amazement, with a huge wave of emotion in his heart.

This incredible power is not only the result of profound cultivation, but also the control over the rules of the two worlds!

Xu Fu's realm had obviously long exceeded his understanding and was close to the power of gods.

Xu Fu slowly withdrew his hand, his eyes cold and distant, staring at the cracks that were still surging in the magic circle, and a low voice like a sigh came out of his mouth:
"Brother Lu, I am a step late..."

Then, he turned to Li Qingyun, his eyes as sharp as a knife:

"I have temporarily sealed this crack, but the seal can only last for a year or so.

“The power of the spirit world is far more powerful than you can imagine. Their existence has long surpassed the limits of your cognition.

His voice echoed in the wind, carrying an endless sense of oppression:

"The creatures in the human world must be prepared to face even more terrible disasters in the future..."

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(End of this chapter)