I began to understand the myriad things by chopping wood

Yu Ping was in a daze for a moment, and the scene suddenly changed.

The small river under the Bishui Village turned into a huge crack in the ground in front of him. The three shadows of the standing Taoist Dongming, the boy who could not be kicked down, and Xie Yuan who stood quietly overlapped and finally turned into one.

Yu Ping shook his head violently and woke up immediately.

Looking at Sun Yidao and Chen Hongmei who were still dazed, Yu Ping was shocked and finally understood what had happened.

It's an illusion.

They fell into an extremely sophisticated illusion, and the events in Bishui Village were replayed again without them realizing it.

In this state, they naturally cannot lie.

Yu Ping felt a chill on his back.

He didn't even know how he was bewitched or how he woke up.

How could an ordinary illusionist have such a method? Even if he was stronger and at a higher level, it was impossible for him to play with them, who were also masters, in front of him.

He was clearly an extremely powerful master who was only a step away from the Bridge to Heaven, but he had no power to resist Xie Yuan's illusion... What kind of method was this?
Yu Ping was trembling with shock, and suddenly he understood how Taoist Dongming died.

He must have been under the spell as well.

However, this conclusion is not much better than Xie Yuan's overwhelming strength over Taoist Dongming.

What kind of terrifying magic is Xie Yuan's that can make even Dong Ming, who is at such a high level, fall into this illusion without knowing it, and finally be killed by one blow?

How high are his attainments?

I'm afraid there are few people in the world, especially now, who can compare with him in this regard.

I never knew this person had such a high level of secret skills. His defeat was not unfair...

Yu Ping looked at Xie Yuan and for the first time he felt completely powerless.

Even if he was facing Taoist Dongming, Yu Ping believed he had a chance to escape.

But in front of Xie Yuan, he didn't know what he saw was real and what was an illusion. His life depended on his opponent's thoughts in a moment, so how could he resist?
When Yu Ping was feeling depressed, Xie Yuan spoke up:
"I'll spare your life."

He held a pill in his hand and said:
"This pill is indeed enough to heal the injuries of ordinary people. Your life was saved by this pill."

Yu Ping was stunned, his expression complicated:

"You're going to let me go?"

"Why, you don't want to live?"

Xie Yuan snorted.

Yu Ping quickly shook his head, then glanced at the two people next to him who were still confused.

Xie Yuan said calmly:
"Of course they can't survive."

After saying that, he was too lazy to wake the two men up. He just took off their weapons, took away the treasures, gold, silver, and elixirs on their bodies, and then kicked them one by one into the crack in the ground.

The two men fell down, still in the illusion of escaping into the air, and thought they were still chasing Xie Yuan.

Two muffled "puff" sounds were heard from afar.

He was kicked twice without any preparation and fell into a deep crevice in the ground. Even if he was a master, without the power of his strength, there was only one outcome.

Xie Yuan put the things he had found on the ground and motioned for Yu Ping to take them.

Yu Ping was confused, and then he heard Xie Yuan say:

"Take these things to that young man. This will be the last condition for letting you go."

After saying that, Xie Yuan waved his hand and prepared to leave.

"and many more!"

Yu Ping suddenly spoke.

Xie Yuan looked at him, but heard him say:
"Can you... let me comprehend the Black Book?"

Xie Yuan was stunned for a moment, hardly able to believe his ears.

Yu Ping felt a little ashamed, but still bowed:

"I have been trapped in this state for a long time. Without the Black Heaven Book, I don't know how to break through. This time, I came here with Taoist Dongming and the two big escort leaders to seek an opportunity to break through."

"How dare you say that."

Xie Yuan was so angry that he almost laughed. He opened his mouth several times, but in the end he didn't even know what to say.

Seeing Yu Ping's determined and even somewhat dazed look, Xie Yuan hesitated and shook his head, saying:

"If you want to break through from the Black Book, it will most likely be a futile effort."

"But, you..."

"I'm different from you."

Xie Yuan said calmly:
"If you hold the Black Book like I do, you might go astray."

Yu Ping was suddenly speechless.

Naturally, he had heard a lot about the mysteries and rumors about the Black Book. He asked himself, with his own talent and fortune, he was afraid that holding a page of the Black Book would be fatal, let alone someone like Xie Yuan who had the Black Book flying all over the place?

Even if he wanted to fight for it or refute it, as long as he thought about the gap in strength and talent between the two, he had to regard Xie Yuan's words as authoritative.

What's more, the things are in the hands of others, and he is just a defeated general. It's good enough that he can survive. What else does he ask for?
It’s just that Yu Ping has been stuck at the pass for too long. Even though the opportunity to break through is right in front of him, he can only sigh in vain and feel depressed.

"The river and the sea meet, and the water rises to the heaven. The true spirit steps on the ground and crosses the sea of ​​heaven. The natural bridge appears, and the light of wisdom appears."

Xie Yuan's voice suddenly came.

Yu Ping was stunned for a moment before he realized that this was a mantra of Buddhist exercises.

He repeated it in a low voice, and suddenly felt that there was great wisdom hidden in it, as if it was talking about the Twin Bridges of Heaven and Earth!
Yu Ping hadn't tasted the true flavor yet, but he looked at Xie Yuan in shock and murmured:
“You, you are…”

"This is a short passage of the Indestructible Golden Bell. You are practicing the Confucian way, which is the same lineage as the Buddhist way. If you can comprehend it thoroughly, it may help you break through."

Xie Yuan said quietly.

Yu Ping was shocked and said in a lost voice:
"Is it the secret of the Immortal Golden Bell Cover?"

He was very excited. Even with his tyrannical strength and the extremely high level of his cultivation technique, it was still not comparable to the peerless technique of the Immortal Golden Bell Cover.

If one could hear a few words about this top-notch technique and reflect it on oneself, the benefits would naturally be immeasurable!
After Yu Ping was excited, his face was trembling again, and his expression was complicated:
"Master Xie, you are willing to teach me this secret? I did have some plans for your treasure before."

Xie Yuan put his hands behind his back, looked up at the sky, and looked at the dark hole:

"There are fewer and fewer people willing to help innocent people in this world. But in such a situation, if there is no one willing to take the lead, how can ordinary people survive? Don't get too excited. This is just a part of the formula, and it is naturally not the secret of the Indestructible Golden Bell. Whether it can inspire you depends on you. I just hope that whether Mr. Yu has gained something or not, he will always do things for Bishui Village."

He retracted his gaze and looked at Yu Ping:

"I promised a gentleman a righteousness, and I hope that the gentleman will not betray it."

Yu Ping was stunned for a long while before he straightened his face, straightened his clothes, and bowed to Xie Yuan solemnly:
"I admire Patriarch Xie's character. I dare not neglect the trust of a gentleman, and I will repay it with my life."

Xie Yuan also bowed to him and was about to say goodbye when he suddenly felt the sky flicker.

He originally thought it was an illusion, but with his current level of cultivation and top-notch spiritual awareness, how could it be an illusion?
Yu Ping also obviously noticed something was wrong and subconsciously looked up.

The clear sky suddenly became still, and even the wind was silent. The blue sky gradually darkened, and then turned red.

It is not the red of the setting sun and the sky filled with red clouds, but the red of the mountains and rivers dyed with blood and the heaven and earth weeping blood.

Suddenly, a bloody rain fell from the sky.

Although it was only for a moment, and it dissipated in mid-air before it fell, Xie Yuan saw it very clearly. In the blood rain, there were blurry scenes, extremely fierce and earth-shaking battle scenes that emerged back and forth, and finally stopped between a ferocious beast as big as a mountain and a bloodthirsty man with disheveled hair.

Xie Yuan's pupils suddenly shrank because he recognized the man and had a very deep impression of him.

It was the Red Blood Demon Lord, Lu Xuefeng, who had made Xie Yuan truly realize the power of a grandmaster.

However, Lu Xuefeng, who had strength as profound as the sea, looked so small in front of the giant beast's mountain-like body, not even as big as its scarlet eyes.

The giant beast looked somewhat like a prehistoric dinosaur, but its hideous giant spines, scales and huge size made Xie Yuan realize that it was completely different from the ancient creature he had imagined.

The beast launched its final attack, and with a wave of its front paws, it instantly reached Lu Xuefeng. Lu Xuefeng barely dodged it, but was blown to the ground by the violent wind.

He seemed to be at the end of his strength and could only dodge without any counterattack.

After several rounds, the giant beast was about to defeat Lu Xuefeng, but its body suddenly paused.

Lu Xuefeng seemed to have not reacted yet, when he suddenly saw the spikes on the giant beast's body flash suddenly, and one of them shot out, as if it had traveled through time and space, and hit him directly - it was indeed a hit, with such large spikes, each as big as a mountain peak, even though the spike tip was extremely sharp, it could not be said to have pierced through.

Lu Xuefeng's body was torn apart without any suspense, turning into a rain of blood, which was what Xie Yuan saw.

His eyes were focused, and he seemed to see the darkest part of the blood rain, but it was rising instead of falling, and he didn't know where it went.

"This is……"

Xie Yuan's eyes suddenly focused.

Before he could figure out what this meant, he heard Yu Ping exclaim:
"what is that?"

Xie Yuan turned around and saw Yu Ping looking to the west with a shocked look on his face.

West? The highest is Yunshan Mountain. If the weather is good, you can see the continuous Beidu Mountain Range, which blocks most of the border between Yunzhou and Ximo. What can it be? Xie Yuan grew up in Yunzhou and is very familiar with this.

As he thought this subconsciously, he turned his head and saw an unexpected scene.

Behind the vague Beidu Mountains, the sky, which should have been empty, suddenly had a single peak rising up. From an unknown distance behind the Beidu Mountains, it pointed straight to the sky, into the azure sky, and stretched straight to the leak in the sky that seemed to be above everyone's head yet was everywhere.

This mountain covers the Beidu Mountains and is higher than the Yunshan Jianfeng Peak. It truly connects the sky and the earth. It is clearly far away in the west, but it can be seen clearly in the distance.

Like giant pillars holding up the sky.

When did such a huge creature appear between heaven and earth?

Xie Yuan was dazed for only a moment, then his pupils shrank and he recognized what it was.

Yu Ping murmured:

"How dangerous and high is it? This peak is so high that it reaches the blue sky and the underworld."

“This is not a mountain.”

Xie Yuan said in a deep voice.

"Not a mountain?"

Yu Ping looked at Xie Yuan in surprise and asked:

"Master Xie, do you know this mountain... this wonder?"

Xie Yuan nodded slowly:

"This is the Tower of Babel, the deepest part of the Western Region."

"Tower of Babel?"

Yu Ping was surprised. Of course he had heard of this legend.

Looking back at the huge tower that connected the sky and the earth, he murmured to himself:

"This legend of the Tower of Babel is actually true?"

"Of course it's true. I've been there before. If I'm right, all the great masters are in the tower right now. It seems that this Tower of Babel is probably the key to this catastrophe."

Xie Yuan's voice was low and his eyes were solemn.

The scene just now gave him a general idea of ​​this great change in heaven and earth.

The so-called great catastrophe is probably an unprecedented struggle in which the great masters collectively fight against the way of heaven.

As for why this happened and why it happened now, Xie Yuan still didn't quite understand.

"You've been to this Tower of Babel? There's also the Great Tribulation? What is the Great Tribulation?"

Yu Ping's face was half shocked and half confused.

Xie Yuan was so young, but he had actually set foot in this legendary place? His growth and his experiences were much different from those of a master like me who already felt that life was wonderful.

There is also a great catastrophe. Although everyone can feel the recent changes in the world, few people really understand what kind of great catastrophe this is.

To many people, it was just a change in fortune at the end of the dynasty, with such changes in the situation and celestial phenomena.

Since the Eight Gates Rebellion, the internal situation of the Dali Dynasty has been delicate. The royal family has never had a grandmaster, and then the emperor was even directly assassinated during the Beijing Incident;

The new emperor was fighting a deadly battle with the aristocratic families. The situation was corrupt and turbulent. Many people had already concluded that the Dali Dynasty was doomed.

The country has existed for a thousand years, which is almost the time when dynasties change in history.

Xie Yuan just shook his head, absentmindedly bowed to Yu Ping, said "Don't forget what I entrusted to you", and disappeared from the spot in an instant.

Yu Ping hardly saw Xie Yuan's figure, but he vaguely noticed that he was leaving to the west, wondering if he was heading towards the Tower of Babel.

Shocked by Xie Yuan's movements again, with a complicated expression on his face for a while, he sighed lightly, bowed seriously in the direction Xie Yuan was leaving, and then left with a heavy heart.

Xie Yuan traveled quickly all the way to the Beidu Mountains.

He was more familiar with the land of Yunzhou, and even saw bandit camps in places where battles had been fought before, such as Jigong Mountain.

However, these places are no longer inhabited by the same group of people as before. Xie Yuan took care of some bandits who were even more vicious than before. He passed by Yunzhao, passed Panlong, and went straight into Xiaoshi Village. With a quick glance, he realized that things and people had changed.

However, Xie Yuan did not stay for long. Li Lan's family had long been arranged by the Pingxi Palace to a safer place, so he did not need to worry. The old friends of Yunzhao and Panlong were also taking good care of themselves now. Xie Yuan confirmed their safety when he passed by, and felt relieved. At this time, he stood on the hillside of Xiaoshi Village, ready to go directly into the depths of Beidu Mountain, the old site of the Mu family.

At this moment, a purple light flashed across the sky and fell straight towards Xie Yuan.

Xie Yuan immediately became alert. The person who came was extremely powerful and definitely not an ordinary master. He was holding the hilt of the sword with one hand and holding the dragon soul with the other, when he found that the purple shadow was actually a familiar face.

The charming Yun Xing landed in front of him, with a look of surprise on her face:
"You are here after all! What are you waiting for? Come with me to the outer world!"

"What? Why are you going to the outer world? Envoy Yun, how did you know I was here?"

Xie Yuan was confused.

Yun Xing looked anxious and stamped his feet:

"Hey! Your mother-in-law is gone, and your princess is in big trouble! I ran away, why don't you follow me to help her!"

"What? Miss Qin..."

Xie Yuan’s eyes widened and he was about to be pulled by Yun Xing.

However, he stopped for a moment, turned around and looked at the woods on the hillside, and towards the depths of Beidu Mountain.

"Hey, why are you still dithering? Although your lover is strong, he is alone and weak. If you don't go now, it may be too late!"

Yunxing yelled.

Upon hearing this, Xie Yuan knew that the situation was critical, so he did not care about anything else. He did not even have time to figure out how Yun Xing found him, and quickly followed Yun Xing and fled away.

Wait until the two of them leave.

In the woods, Mu Chaoyun in white appeared faintly, looking at the figures of Xie Yuan and Yun Xing going away, standing there for a long, long time. (End of this chapter)