This is not how immortals cultivate

Chapter 254 Confident People Are So Confident
boom! boom! boom!
In front of the city lord's mansion, wisps of red light bloomed, and the shock waves generated by the explosion sent the city guards high into the sky one by one, allowing them to experience the joy of bungee jumping for free.

We are not targeting anyone intentionally. We are not worried about the scarcity of wealth but the inequality of wealth. Our main goal is fairness.

Xiang Yuan admitted that he misunderstood the wasteland at first. At first glance, this and that were not allowed, there were a lot of rules, and it was difficult to communicate. After finding the rhythm, he discovered that the wasteland was very easy to talk to, especially for the numerical monsters who were born with supernatural powers.

As long as you are a sports student, you can do this and that in the wasteland world, and you can stand up and push without any problem.

Xiang Yuan does not need to pursue rationality. As long as the energy in his body is sufficient, he can just make a pose and the skills will work automatically.

It sounds like something is wrong, but that is the fact, the dimensional upgrade of the wasteland has just begun, and the laws of heaven and earth have not yet evolved from simple to complex, so just be simple and crude, straightforward, without any fancy stuff, and just deal with it.

After confirming that no one was standing on two feet in the field, Xiang Yuan searched around and found an ownerless mechanical arm on the side of the road.

90% new, no name engraved, you can get it by removing it from the figure display stand.

After getting the mechanical prosthesis, Xiang Yuan let out a light "hmm", smiled with interest, floated up, and returned to the office in the City Lord's Mansion.

Inside the office, Guan Ling is in a stable mood with a slight fever. Wang Genji somehow comes back to life and launches a sneak attack, taking Guan Yan hostage as a warning to the Great Demon King of Destruction not to mess around.

Guan Yan looked at Xiang Yuan apologetically. She was so focused on watching him kill everyone that she never thought that Wang Genji could be resurrected. She was not paying attention and the other party put an energy blade on her neck.

Guan Yan's facial expression remained the same, and it was difficult to tell whether his expression changed. Xiang Yuan did not pay any attention to it. He looked at Wang Genji with curiosity, muttering that there was such a thing.

The look of Wang Genji's resurrection is very sloppy, the clear idea is still there, but it is simply covered with a layer of red energy, like a Band-Aid.

If my guess is correct, this is the real secret of the dungeon.

Wang Genji put his palm together with his five fingers, condensed a red energy blade, and pressed it against Guan Yan's neck. He said fiercely, "I have a hostage. If you don't want her to die, just surrender..."

hum!
Xiang Yuan raised his hand and a red light burst out from his fingertips, instantly sweeping away Wang Genji's head.

He floated down and threw the mechanical prosthesis he picked up to Guan Yan. He stayed there guarding the body, waiting for Wang Genji to be resurrected again.

"Why didn't he die?"

Guan Yan was also quite curious. After installing the robotic arm and performing some simple debugging, she stood beside Xiang Yuan and watched.

Because his entire head was missing, Wang Genji's resurrection was very slow. It took a long time for the red energy to materialize his head. After waking up, he saw Xiang Yuan who was watching him aggressively, and he backed away repeatedly with his hands on the ground.

Since the establishment of the dungeon, no, in the entire human history, such a powerful monster has never appeared.

"Your resurrection mechanism is not good. The boss is guarding the corpse. If you revive without evolving, you will just be waiting to die."

Xiang Yuan rubbed his hands and said with a bright smile: "Stand still, let me check your body."

Without saying a word, Wang Genji pushed open the office door and ran away.

Xiang Yuan did not stop him. He raised his hand and snapped his fingers, asking Guan Yan to follow. The secret of the dungeon was just ahead, and it was time to uncover the truth.

……

Wang Genji ran all the way, entered the secret passage of the City Lord's Mansion, started the elevator and went deep underground.

He knew that Xiang Yuan was right behind him, and that the great devil was lingering around and could appear at any time. Along the way, he kept reminding himself that as long as he got there, everything would be fine.

The elevator slowly descended, and the roar of the machinery echoed in the narrow space. Every second seemed like a year to Wang Genji.

As the depth increases, the air around becomes colder.

Finally, the elevator stopped at a depth of 100 meters and arrived at a dim passage made of reinforced concrete. The walls were rough and thick. Several emergency lights were hung on the ceiling. The light was dim and could barely illuminate the road ahead.

Without any hesitation, Wang Genji quickly jumped out of the elevator, walked through the narrow path, and saw a bright light ahead, which suddenly opened up to him.

This is a hemispherical underground space similar to a tomb mound. The dome and the ground are engraved with complex array patterns. These patterns are composed of deep grooves with crisscrossed lines, smooth and regular, which are somewhat similar to the array patterns on the outer walls of the City Lord's Mansion.

A very new basement, obviously built in recent years.

Wang Genji operated the mechanism, and in the center of the formation pattern, the mechanism moved along the groove and raised a completely black jade coffin.

The surface of the coffin is as smooth as a mirror and covered with a layer of mysterious luster. A closer look reveals that its surface is covered with fine array patterns, like some kind of seal.

Wang Genji's breathing suddenly became rapid. He took two steps forward and pushed open the coffin lid. A strong red light hit his face. The purest blood-colored crystal energy poured into his body, causing his aura to rise wildly. His disappeared head was restored to its original state.

The red eyes opened, and powerful energy fluctuations echoed in the grave mound, reflecting the formation pattern and dyeing the entire underground blood red.

Wang Genji roared softly, and under the influence of the endless energy in his body, his limbs twisted and mutated, gradually losing their human form.

Humans have their limits, so he stopped being human.

Wang Genji has always rejected mutations and maintained his human form. After witnessing Xiang Yuan's unrivaled power, he chose to accept the mutation in order to carry more powerful energy.

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The sound of footsteps like strolling came from the passage. Wang Genji looked over with bloodshot eyes. A huge amount of energy flowed through his body. He said calmly: "You are late. You missed the last chance because you underestimated the enemy. Now, I am invincible!"

Confident people are just that confident.

hum!
A red beam of light swept past, and Wang Genji's headless body fell down.

"The echo is too loud. What did you say just now? Can you say it again?"

Xiang Yuan walked out of the passage, looked around, saw the black coffin placed in the middle, and thought to himself that it was effortless to get it.

With a single point of his finger, he evaporated Wang Genji from top to bottom, making sure that no ashes were left and there was no possibility of him resurrecting the corpse. Only then did he begin to study the jade coffin in front of him.

It's over so soon?
No, the city lord has transformed!
Guan Yanru was in a dream. The plot development was bizarre and the twists were intense. Nothing followed the routine. She asked a dry and nonsense question: "Is he dead?"

"What else? The main plot is so long, why don't we just wrap it up and wait for the trilogy to shoot a memoir?"

"Just a portrait will do the trick!"

Xiang Yuan continued to complain: "But you are right, the death was a bit sudden. I even prepared a classic line 'You are already dead', but he just left without giving me a chance. His quality is too poor."

Wang Genji was the worst final boss Xiang Yuan had ever led. Compared with the previous batch of brave and resourceful muscular bosses, he could be described as weak.

Guan Yan didn't know how to answer, so he looked around and said, "This is the formation our family has been studying. I didn't expect that Guan Ling's lineage would give it all to the city lord and move it to the basement of the city lord's mansion."

These words are lonely and bitter, expressing both helplessness about the past and confusion about the future.

She is lost!

At this time, if you extend your warm arms to Xiang Yuan and say "I will support you", you will probably be able to have a friendly match with Aunt Guan.

But he didn't have that thought in mind, as his attention was completely drawn to the two items in the coffin.

A relic and a black scabbard.

There was nothing much to say about the relic. As for the mission target, Xiang Yuan, he held it in his hand, blew on it, wiped it with a few licks, and then casually put it in his pocket.

"Uh, that relic belongs to our Guan family..."

"mine."

"But the operation of the formation still requires..."

"mine."

Xiang Yuan interrupted without mercy and said bluntly: "The relic is indeed a divine object, but I am very sure that with the ability of your Guan family, you will not be able to figure out what it is even if you give it another 500 years. It is even more nonsense to use it in the art of formation."

"No, the relic and the formation have protected the underground city for three hundred years, and our Guan family has been maintaining the operation of the formation." Guan Yan said excitedly.

"Is there a possibility that the so-called formation was copied from the coffin board, and your Guan family cooperated with the Wang family, pretending that the formation could really withstand the blood rain, and deceived everyone?" Xiang Yuan suggested tactfully.

To tell the truth is even more hurtful. In order to make their position in the underground city unshakable, the Guan family forged a so-called ancestral formation, which became an indispensable shield for the underground city and they enjoyed three hundred years of praise.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Guan Yan flatly denied it, her hoarse voice a little sharp: "The formation is indeed effective, otherwise the underground city would have been infiltrated by the blood rain long ago. I was a researcher and I experienced it myself, it can't be false."

"Big sister, I know that telling the truth is hurtful. This belief has supported you for twenty years, and you will rely on it in the future. But the fact is that this has always been the shield of the dungeon." Xiang Yuan picked up the black scabbard in the coffin.

The scabbard is completely black and about five fingers wide. It swallows up the surrounding light like a black hole, so its outline is blurred and it is difficult to see its true appearance.

Observing from Xiang Yuan's soul, there is infinite space inside the scabbard, connected to a deep red universe.

The universe is ancient and withering in old age. The stars in the distance have lost their vitality and become dim, with only some faint lights still lingering on.

Perhaps it encountered some disaster, or perhaps it was abandoned, the deep red glory is no longer there, only desolate and ruined remains.

In other words, this scabbard does not produce demonic energy, it is only responsible for transporting demonic energy.

It is still a lifeless and defective demonic energy.

Xiang Yuan weighed the scabbard in his hand and guessed that it was a magic weapon. The demon who held the magic weapon experienced a tragic battle, and the magic weapon was destroyed. After the battle, he buried his own scabbard. The coffin in which the scabbard was buried fell into the wasteland and was found by archaeologists...

If you are brave enough, there are two archaeologists, one with the surname Wang and the other with the surname Guan.

The scabbard saw the light of day again, red light shot up into the sky, disrupting the laws of heaven and earth. It rained blood for nine days and nine nights, and the overflowing evil energy polluted the entire world.

Under the re-establishment of the laws, humans can practice cultivation, but they must introduce the evil energy in the blood-colored crystal and change themselves before they are qualified to come into contact with the laws of heaven and earth.

Compared with the Dragon-Subduing Realm, it is roughly equivalent to the four great demons creating the demon race. Because the demonic energy in the scabbard is defective, the transformation of human physical characteristics is very limited, and is accompanied by the strong side effect of missing limbs.

If the scabbard was intact, it would be a different story.

Based on the size of the scabbard, Xiang Yuan guessed that it was equipped with a broadsword. He was secretly amazed. If the scabbard was so powerful, how terrifying would the sword be, and how powerful would the demon wielding the sword be.

A thought from a powerful master is enough to overturn the world, and his power is unimaginable. Xiang Yuan only knows that when gods fight, mortals suffer. The wasteland should have a bright future, but it is all ruined because of this scabbard.

As for why the relic was buried together with the scabbard, Xiang Yuan said that his brain power was limited. He did not know the true purpose of the relic and therefore could not guess the truth.

"If I'm not mistaken, among the group of archaeologists back then, there was the ancestor of your Guan family. The Wang family was also there. The two families joined forces, or you could say they divided the resources. One excavated the energy in the scabbard, and the other studied the coffin lid, using the incomprehensible relics to spread lies..."

"The Guan family has become the guardian of the dungeon, and their position is unshakable. The Wang family has developed a genetic modification fluid, which can transform humans into demons. Because the Wang family controls the scabbard, they can develop a more perfect modified body without limb mutilation."

"Twenty years ago, my uncle and aunt should have wanted to make some good changes, such as turning over a new leaf. After all, you are so kind, there is no reason for them to be evil people..."

"This move harmed the interests of the Wang family. In order to gain dominance, they orchestrated the fire, expelled the Guan family from the family, and seized the relic through marriage."

"As a commoner, I suddenly became a perfect transformer and got involved in the core interests of the Wang family. It just so happened that you were right next to me. The city lord thought that we knew the secret, so he was impatient and killed us."

Xiang Yuan told Guan Yan his speculation, not giving Guan Yan any face at all.

Give up. You may be a good person, but your family was not. You grew up eating human blood.

To put it bluntly, this is called collapse therapy!
Rather than waiting for Guan Yan to figure out the truth bit by bit and let her faith collapse in a corner where no one cares, it would be better for him to reveal the truth to someone and give her a quick death.

As expected, Guan Yan collapsed on the spot, the world was spinning and he could hardly stand. He slowly sat down against the coffin, muttering to himself that it was impossible and he didn't believe it.

"Don't be sad, big sister. People cannot choose their birth, but they can choose their own life. Whether the future is wide or long, it is up to you to decide."

Xiang Yuan patted Guan Yan's shoulder and saw that the light in his eyes had gone and he looked like he didn't care. He said slowly, "The twenty years you have persisted in this are not meaningless. You have waited for me. The world can change and return to its original state after the disaster!"

"really?"

Guan Yan's eyes lit up and she grabbed the last straw, which was Xiang Yuan's belt. Tears flowed from her one eye, hoping that Xiang Yuan would lie to her again.

"I'm not lying to you. It's true. But first, I need to study the scabbard and see if I can use it to reverse reality."

Xiang Yuan only speculated whether the wasteland world supported magic weapons, and had not tried it yet. Blood dripping to recognize the master...

As expected, it failed.

"That's right. If blood oath can be used to recognize the master, the Wang family has already done it. How can I be so arrogant?"

Xiang Yuan frowned and thought, then took two steps holding the scabbard, and with a hissing sound, he lowered his head in silence.

No, you're still holding your belt!

There was a big hole in Xiang Yuan's pants. Guan Yan leaned against the coffin, holding a piece of belt in his hand. It was awkward to give it back to Xiang Yuan or to continue holding it.

This scene was familiar to Xiang Yuan. It was the same when he stole Master Jingyun's belt.

"Cough cough!"

Xiang Yuan clenched his fist and coughed lightly, then took the belt and tucked it into his waist: "Big sister, you don't need to explain. I understand. You are almost 40 years old and you like a sports student like me. It's normal to have physiological needs. Don't be embarrassed."

"I'm not, I didn't..."

"That's enough. If you keep quibbling, it will not end well."

Xiang Yuan waved his hand and said that business was more important and now was not the time to talk about this.

Seeing him seriously studying the scabbard, which is the future of mankind, Guan Yan opened his mouth and politely chose to remain silent.

She can neither support the main character nor make comments, so if she isn’t embarrassed, then who will be embarrassed?

After a moment, Xiang Yuan seemed to have thought of something. His body suddenly swelled up and leaped to a height of two meters and five. He tore all the tattered clothes on his body into pieces. Horns grew on his forehead and a long black tail swung back and forth behind him as if it had self-awareness.

Because she was surrounded by evil spirits and black fog, nothing was exposed, and all the parts that shouldn't be exposed were blocked out with black mosaics.

Guan Yan was stunned and subconsciously took two steps back, but the long tail entangled his ankles and pulled him back to his original position.

"Don't be afraid, it's still me."

Xiang Yuan said this without turning his head, grasped the scabbard with his demonic body, and his soul sank into the crimson universe again.

The password was correct, and the scabbard responded.

The sacred object had a spirit, and it trembled slightly after recognizing its master. The dying instrument, in its last moments, only conveyed one meaning - emptiness.

As a scabbard, it was forged with the mission of protecting the blade. It has been empty for many years and urgently needs to be filled with its original scabbard. Even if it is only once, it will die without regrets in its broken state.

"I didn't realize you're also a pure love war god!"

Xiang Yuan nodded with satisfaction. This scabbard was like him, both following the route of pure love, but his original wife was not in his hands, so he could do nothing to help alleviate the emptiness.

The scabbard trembled slightly, urging Xiang Yuan to hurry up.

"Well, I can't find your original wife, but I can still satisfy you before you die..."

The scabbard kept urging Xiang Yuan to open it. He scratched his head and recalled that he had gone shopping at Master Hard Drive's supermarket some time ago and bought a batch of swords. He picked out one that matched his size and sheathed it with a clang.

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The scabbard trembled violently, and a red light emanated from the sword body. The broadsword did not last for many strikes before breaking into pieces and turning into ashes.

At first glance, it seemed that the scabbard had been empty for too long, and the desire was insatiable, so it directly drained the broadsword dry.

Xiang Yuan also thought so at first, and lamented that the sword circle was really messy. After a little sensing, he realized that he had misunderstood the scabbard.

What they conveyed was not that they wanted to fill the void, but that they knew they were about to die and urgently needed to find their original partner and transfer the entrance to the Crimson Universe.

If you don’t have the original version, the higher version will do.

The broadsword was of average quality and could not withstand a great opportunity, so it broke.

"Even if you say so, I don't use a sword. The ones I have are of average quality."

Xiang Yuan took out the inventory and inserted the long swords into the scabbards one by one. The swords were of different sizes and lengths, each with its own size and colors.

The extremely noble scabbard immediately expressed resistance. With its status, how could any sword enter it at will? Due to the order of its master, it endured it silently.

The result was not very good. Xiang Yuan moved out almost all of his inventory, but none of them could match the scabbard. After entering, they were all ruthlessly crushed into slag by the scabbard.

"Don't be like that. It's hard to find the right one when your requirements are so high."

Xiang Yuan held the scabbard and tried to persuade her kindly. The scabbard was about to die, so why did she have so many demands? Finally, he reluctantly took out the Rouge Sword, slowly put it into the scabbard, and said, "The Rouge Sword is only so-so in quality, but it is very beautiful. If it doesn't work, you can bear with it. If it doesn't work... then I have no other choice."

"To be honest, you have good conditions, but you are going to die soon, so you really can't be picky. You don't want to die without leaving behind a legacy, do you?"

The scabbard said nothing, hesitating and unable to make up its mind.

"Look carefully, it's really beautiful!"

Xiang Yuan frowned, having lost so many precious swords, he was no longer used to the scabbard and grasped the hilt of the Rouge Sword, moving it in and out.

Unsheath!

Sheathed!

Unsheathed and sheathed again.

Guan Yan, who was watching from the side, felt terrible. Although she didn't understand, she still felt it was too dirty.

After a few times, the scabbard probably figured it out. Perhaps it could not bear the humiliation, or perhaps it was because the Rouge Sword was so beautiful, it slowly emitted a red glow and engraved the entrance to the crimson universe on the Rouge Sword.

Buzz!
The Rouge Sword and its scabbard beat at the same time, and after a few breaths, they both returned to calm.

"It's done!"

(End of this chapter)