Poor Taoist Qiu Chuji

Chapter 260: Awakening the Demonic Soul, Obstacles of Knowledge and Perception

The river water was surging endlessly, and Ning Caichen walked slowly forward against the flow of people.

In his eyes, people were wailing, fleeing, wailing, and crying, but in his other sense, he smelled anger, desire, killing, hatred...

The true weakness and the inner anger and strength exist simultaneously in those contradictory life forms.

If everyone could release the energy hidden in their bodies, Ning Caichen couldn't imagine how huge and terrifying the destructive power would be.

At this moment, Ning Caichen had a feeling that as long as he stretched out his hand, he could grasp all these things in his hand and hold them tightly.

Everyone here will become his nourishment, his resources, and the firewood that helps him burn brightly.

This is the best opportunity, the most suitable opportunity.

So he stretched out his hand towards the waves coming towards him without any hesitation, forgetting the thick gap between illusion and reality.

Snapped!
Huge waves hit the shore and swept Ning Caichen into the river.

The dragon, which looked more like a snake than a dragon, opened its mouth wide and swallowed the person who fell into the water.

To the demons, the flesh, blood, and yang energy of humans are all considered "tonics".

When Nie Xiaoqian was the top girl in the club, her job was to help Mei Ji steal Yang energy.

If this walking dragon wants to transform into a dragon, it has to stir up huge waves and plunder along the river. If it eats enough people, it can go to the sea to shed its skin and become a powerful dragon.

However, this time, the dragon ate something "dirty".

Just as it was enjoying the meal, it suddenly felt a tremendous pain in its stomach, as if someone was holding hundreds of steel knives and stirring them in its stomach.

With its mouth wide open, Zou Jiao spat out a lot of dirty water and blood and flesh, but it did not relieve the pain. Instead, it made the pain even more excruciating.

It began to roar in pain and rolled even more wildly in the river.

Every time it hits the river surface heavily with its tail, the waves it stirs up will splash onto the embankment like a downpour.

If this continues, the already precarious dam will probably break, the boiling river water will rush out, and countless fertile fields and houses will be destroyed.

People gathered on the embankment and even allowed the dragon to cause trouble, because they didn't want it to delay flood control and embankment rescue, thus causing greater losses.

The people who had fled far away looked back and saw the mad dragon.

Most people were still confused, but some people sensed an opportunity. They looked towards the catapults not far away and had some ideas of standing out.

If they could use tools to kill the dragon at this time, even if they died, they could give their family a chance to become rich and prosperous, and they could also open a separate page in the family tree and enjoy eternal glory.

Thinking of this, most passionate men would sacrifice their own lives.

In the river, the dragon saw that it could not spit out the thing churning in its stomach, so it began to absorb the river water frantically, intending to drown the thing churning in its stomach.

The long dragon's belly kept swelling up, and it gradually became as fat as a ball, floating in the muddy river water.

Such behavior naturally makes the dragon's body become bloated and sluggish.

A large number of catapults were loaded with gunpowder and stones, and they were thrown towards the walking dragon.

These stones mixed with gunpowder exploded on the dragon's body, causing it to crawl all over the river and spit out blood.

Bang!
The round belly suddenly exploded, with blood mist and internal organs splashing everywhere. Ning Caichen, covered in blood, used his hand as a sword to break open the belly of the dragon and flew out.

The waves of black smoke mixed with the heavy rain from the sky made Ning Caichen look indescribably evil at this moment, and this evil seemed to be accompanied by a bit of divinity.

Using magic power to push away the rain curtain, Ning Caichen, with his hair flying, stared at the remains of the wandering dragon under his feet.

The powerful magic power immediately poured down on the walking dragon.

Not long after, the huge walking dragon was refined in a ball of Yin Fire and turned into a black scale armor that was draped over Ning Caichen's body, adding a bit of elegance to his figure. He really looked like a god who came to the world to save the people.

Walking on the surging river, Ning Caichen could still feel the endless "energy" converging towards him from all directions.

All living beings who have thoughts and ideas are nourishment for it.

The evil and desire in a person's heart will become his armor and sword.

At this moment, he finally woke up!
He remembered who he was and the memories that had been temporarily obscured by reincarnations.

He is Ning Caichen, Yixi, and even more so, the devil.

"The demon is dead! The demon is dead!"

"Thank you, Immortal!"

The crowd knelt down before Ning Caichen, thanking him for saving them from the evil dragon's mouth.

However, Ning Caichen waved his hand, and a black airflow swept through the crowd, immediately sucking more than a dozen heroes who were helping to deal with the wandering dragon into mummies.

Such behavior shocked the people who were originally bowing to Ning Caichen.

They don't know why, but misfortune always visits them again and again.

"Don't kowtow to me!"

"You should be afraid of me! Fear me! Be terrified of me! Even hate me... curse me!" Ning Caichen said as he looked at the people on the embankment.

His voice has also changed compared to before, becoming more powerful and deep, as if it came from underground, or rippling out from the darkness outside the sky.

Looking at the cold and ferocious Ning Caichen at this moment, the people couldn't help but feel great resentment and hatred, fear and anger.

They were silent, but provided Ning Caichen with the most delicious food in the world, which made Ning Caichen's strength rise steadily in a short period of time...

Whoosh!
A beam of sword light flew over from a distance and directly pierced through the black fog condensed around Ning Caichen, almost shattering the black scale armor on his body.

The young man in white seemed to be walking on the light, and the Dragon-Swallowing Mace in his hand shone with a dazzling white light.

"Who are you?"

"Dare you to come and die?" Ning Caichen didn't recognize Yang Kang.

Yang Kang looked at Ning Caichen and said, "It's you! I've always felt there's something wrong with you. If I'm not mistaken... you're the real demon!"

"Oh? You know me?" Ning Caichen looked at Yang Kang who was flying in the air, and did not rush to fight back, but talked to him.

After all, for Ning Caichen at this moment, every extra moment of time will increase his strength.

Yang Kang's sword strike just now made him feel a little painful, so he planned to wait for a while before taking action... After waiting for a while, it wouldn't hurt if an attack of the same strength hit his body!
"A little, but not much."

"I'm just wondering why both he... and many people in this world have ignored you whose flaws are so obvious!" Yang Kang said while holding the mace.

He was not in a hurry to act. On the one hand, he was communicating with his master Qiu Chuji, and on the other hand, he was making some preparations, intending to accumulate strength for a big move. Saying something at this time was just a delaying tactic.

"Are my flaws obvious?" Ning Caichen asked curiously.

Yang Kang nodded: "Isn't it obvious enough?"

"Seven Lifetimes of Enmity, Seven Lifetimes of Failure, I think someone is interfering. I don't know the whole story, so I won't comment. But in this seventh life, Nie Xiaoqian, one of the Seven Lifetimes of Enmity, actually fell in love with you from the very beginning. This doesn't make sense."

“The so-called couple of enemies should have love even if it doesn’t work out. However, Nie Xiaoqian and Qiye have no true love in this life, so how can there be any hatred between them?” Yang Kang heard Qiu Chuji talk about seven lives of enemies and seven lives of love. From that time on, he started to pay attention to Ning Caichen.

Because in these two love stories, one guided by human beings and the other dominated by fate, Ning Caichen was too abrupt.

He is neither a couple of enemies nor a couple of lovers, but Nie Xiaoqian and Yan Hongye are both in love with him, as if it were a joke played by fate.

But is it really fate that controls everything?
Su Tianxin, Yan Chixia, Sima Sanniang, Qiye and others were unaware of the weirdness and strangeness in it because they were in the game and were hindered by their emotions, cognition and habitual ideas, so they could not see the truth.

As for Qiu Chuji, he should have seen it clearly because he was an outsider. However, due to his understanding of the so-called original plot and more stories related to A Chinese Ghost Story, he also formed an inertial thinking.

Nie Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen are a couple, there is nothing wrong with that, and there is no problem at all.

Nie Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen are not a couple, so are they a couple with Yan Chixia?
How weird is that?
This is a type of cognitive obstruction, because because one is so certain of a certain conclusion, one turns a blind eye to many obvious clues.

"Hahaha! You're absolutely right. Even I didn't calculate this."

"I did use the so-called Seven Lifetimes of Enmity to communicate with the real body outside the sky, and used the real body to paralyze the defense of this world. However, what I didn't calculate was the accumulation of emotions and the entanglement of cause and effect."

"In the past six lives, I have been involved in breaking up couples six times, and I have also killed three couples. As a result, I have developed an extremely strong karmic entanglement with them. In the seventh life, I was also addicted to it and could not extricate myself."

"If you hadn't killed my original body, I might have ended my own life due to the debts of the previous six lives, driven by fate and cause and effect. Then... I would have been trapped in my own cocoon!" When the demon Ning Caichen said this, he couldn't help but feel a little relieved.

It is said that man proposes, God disposes. He enters the game with his own body, wanting to seize the entire world and turn all the living beings in the world into lambs for him to shepherd. However, the world does not have to plot against him, but only needs to take advantage of the situation and go with the flow. He is entangled in it without knowing it.

If he really kills himself, he will cut off the past from the cause and effect, and he will truly live as Ning Caichen.

Sometimes, there really is only a fine line between losing and winning.

"In that case, it is we who helped you?" Yang Kang was not shaken by Ning Caichen's words, nor did he feel the slightest bit of regret.

Regardless of what this world is like, it has little to do with him, Yang Kang. Even if it has some, he is definitely not the wavering and self-doubting person he is now.

After going through mental tribulations and getting rid of the devil to become a Taoist, Yang Kang is very open-minded about many things.

"Yes! But I don't thank you."

"I will take back everything you took from me... double the amount!" Ning Caichen's tone became increasingly tough.

Because during this conversation, he absorbed a large amount of energy transformed from negative emotions from the people around him.

At this time, Ning Caichen thought that he had recovered 60% of his strength as Yi Xi, so it would not be difficult to kill the man in white in front of him.

"From what you said, are you ready?" Yang Kang asked.

Ning Caichen asked back: "Are you ready too?"

"almost!"

"Then stop talking nonsense and take action!"

After they finished talking, they attacked at the same time.

Ning Caichen's long black hair danced in the wind like a dragon or snake, and every time he swung his palm he became a sword.

This sword... cuts the sky!
The Heaven-Slaying Sword Technique was originally created in one night, and its meaning... is so obvious.

If such a powerful sword appeared on Qiye, it would show arrogance and control. However, on Ning Caichen at this moment, it showed violence and destruction.

It has no room for anything else and is born only to kill and destroy.

The dark grey energy was like an invisible giant hand that was about to tear the sky apart.

When the sky was torn open, the terrifying power that spread out smashed down heavily on Yang Kang, wanting to smash him to pieces.

Yang Kang held the Dragon Swallowing Mace in his hand. The sword energy surging back and forth in the mace had been brewing for a long time, and the time had come for it to be unleashed.

However, the moves he used seemed restrained and conservative. He simply stabbed forward, and the long mace collided with the sword that cut through the sky. The collision caused a sound like a dragon's roar and a tiger's howl.

In the great river, the abundant water all flowed back to the sky, breaking away the dark clouds that filled the sky and the earth.

In a forehand attack, even though Yang Kang was ready to launch an attack, he was still firmly suppressed and at a disadvantage.

But with his other hand, Yang Kang released a series of sword energies, unceremoniously spraying a large amount of fine sword energy at the people hiding behind the dam.

Killing was not something unbearable for Yang Kang.

He was never truly cleansed, but he learned what restraint is.

"You dare!" Ning Caichen was immediately furious.

Faced with Yang Kang's shameless move, Ning Caichen could only give up his power to cut through the sky and block Yang Kang's large-scale sword energy.

This is not the "kindness" of the demon Ning Caichen, but his instinct to protect his "private property".

Just like humans are never kind or friendly to chickens in chicken farms or pigs in pig farms, but anyone who dares to destroy them is an enemy and they will instinctively protect them.

Yang Kang saw through Ning Caichen's true colors and became more unscrupulous.

Yang Kang used his lightness skills and body movements to the extreme. He no longer attacked Ning Caichen, but continued to attack the people nearby.

As one of them took action while the other tried to stop him, sparks flew across the river like lightning and flew to a farther place.

Ning Caichen wanted to push Yang Kang further away to prevent his "private property" from being taken away by Yang Kang.

Yang Kang also wanted to lure Ning Caichen away, because where there were people, no matter what role Ning Caichen played, he would have constant support, and would only become stronger and more difficult to deal with.

In the blink of an eye, the two of them had moved dozens of miles.

There was still heavy rain overhead, but the surface of the river had calmed down a bit, as if a greater danger was brewing.

The two men stood facing each other on the surface of the river.

One black and one white, the composition is simple.

It seems like the opposition between black and white, but also like the vision blurred by the rainstorm, blending into each other.

(End of this chapter)