Yefutidaolu

Chapter 205: Breaking up with Zuo'an
In the inner city, the battle was in full swing.

The Pantheon formation in the sky was about to be torn apart, but... this 'soon' would take at least a quarter of an hour.

For Zuo An, he has found Gao Jian's weakness at the moment.

So, within a quarter of an hour, Gao Jian was killed.

Then, let the real dragon continue to put pressure on the elders.

No matter what, Gao Jian, as the starting point of all this, must die. He cannot be allowed to live.

The same goes for Gao Jian.

Obviously, the host of the Ten Thousand Gods Formation is Zuo An. Killing Zuo An can help Jingjiang Jun get rid of the entanglement.

Both sides must kill each other, and the grudge must be settled at this moment.

Zuo An stretched out his hand, and the ghost trees around him began to emit thick fog.

Gao Jian's figure was looming in the mist.

The fog did not seem to be an ordinary thing, so his senses seemed to be obscured when he was in it. He could not see or hear anything. It was like he was wearing glasses with a layer of fog on them, and then he put on earplugs, and finally he could not see or hear anything clearly.

However, Gao Jian simply closed his eyes.

There is no need to worry about perception or not.

The highest view today is the Five Realms.

The old turtle he killed in the past was also in the fifth realm.

The old turtle has an innate method of deduction. Gao Jian used to have great difficulty in using it. He needed to put a lot of energy and brainpower into practicing this method, otherwise it would not work. This caused Gao Jian to be distracted when practicing this method, and his own combat effectiveness would be greatly reduced.

And now, he has also reached the fifth realm.

If the old turtle were still alive, he might be surprised to find that this method of deduction worked even better for Gao Jian than it did for himself!

With the insight of the fifth realm, he can use the deduction method without any pressure. He does not need any senses, no eyes or ears, he can find the direction as long as he follows the deduction in his mind!
At this moment, Gao Jian's footsteps were so light and fast that people could not see clearly.

Zuo An raised his hand again.

This is his trump card.

Suddenly, vines grew in front of Gao Jian.

The vines quickly spread to the surrounding houses and streets.

The streets in the inner city are quite wide, often several dozen feet wide. They are built extra wide to accommodate various spirit beasts and mechanisms.

Now, this place is covered by dense forests, and the gloomy atmosphere is so chilling that it makes people shiver to the bone.

In the deep woods and valleys, where no human beings are seen, hidden virtues are lurking, and many elves and monsters appear.

And now, this is a man-made "dark forest".

The vines spread out into ghost trees, isolating the outside world and surrounding Gao Jian.

You can see that the forest is divided into five parts, intertwining with each other.

Under the mulberry forest, the sky is as dark as ink, the sunlight is bleak, and the shadows of the trees are swaying. Mulberry trees are the place where ghosts live. There are faint whispers among the treetops. As the saying goes: "After the mulberry soil is planted with silkworms, the people can live in the hills. The soil is black and the graves are covered with grass and wood." Therefore, you can see piles of black graves down there, and ghosts are constantly wandering among them.

Beside the elm forest, there were overgrown weeds and dense mosses. There was an air as black as ink in the air. From time to time, ripples appeared on the air surface, as if something was hiding. There were bursts of sobbing sounds coming from inside, as the saying goes: "At sunset, there are scattered bones on the barren hills. The catalpas and elms rustle, and the weeds and mugworts rustle. Monkeys cry across the misty graves, and ghosts weep around the smoky embankments."

In the peach forest, the fog was thick and the shadows of the trees were looming. Although peach wood is used to ward off evil spirits, it is also closely related to ghosts. It is said that "there is a mountain called Dushuo, on which there is a big peach tree. The northeast between its branches is called the Ghost Gate, where all the ghosts come in and out." The peach trees in this forest are all dead, and the branches are twisted like ghost claws. There is a cold wind blowing through the forest from time to time, mixed with a shrill and terrifying sound, which makes people shudder.

The situation in the Sophora japonica forest is even more dilapidated. The Sophora japonica is the most evil of all trees. The trees are towering into the clouds, with lush branches and leaves. However, the leaves are gray and lifeless, with dead leaves and rotten matter piling up.

The riverside is desolate beside the willow trees, with drooping willow branches. Willow trees are extremely yin, and their branches are twisted, as if they are entangled by countless ghost hands. The rotten branches creak when you walk on them.

There is a temple above the Wumu barrier. In the temple, there is a clay statue of a god. The statue has a hideous face and red eyes, as if it wants to devour someone. Low incantations can be heard in the darkness, but they cannot cover up anything. The sense of terror is getting stronger and stronger.

"The barrier formed by mulberry, elm, peach, locust, willow and five ghost trees, is this your trump card?" Gao Jian looked at himself being pulled into the five forests and clenched his knife.

The deduction method is constantly ticking, and the sense of 'danger' is coming from all directions.

At this moment, heavy rain poured down above Gao Jian's head.

He moved his feet lightly, but at the critical moment he dodged all the raindrops by turning sideways. The raindrops rubbed against his clothes and nailed into the ground, making a dull "thump thump" sound.

Some of the raindrops could not be avoided, so Gao Jian swung his knife and gently brushed them away.

Although he couldn't see or hear anything around him, Gao Jian could clearly feel the distance and "good or bad luck" of the breaking point.

The breaking point is a thousand steps away.

Here, it is a thousand steps away from the left bank.

Take a thousand steps.

Haha, take a thousand steps.

So familiar.

Back then, in Ningtai County, when Gao Mian faced the ghost tree, he wanted to take a thousand steps.

And now, facing the owner of all the ghost trees and Zuo An himself, he has to take another thousand steps.

Gao Jian couldn't help but feel some emotion in his heart.

But, this is also... fate?
The first problem I encountered when I came into this world was the ghost tree on the left bank.

Now, to finish the final thing, I have to do it to Zuo An.

The next moment, the air was filled with a burning and rotten smell.

"Hot hell of shit and mud, Zuo'an, you——!" Gao Jian looked at the hell built by Guimu in front of him and shouted angrily.

Build hell with ghost trees.

In the cycle of reincarnation, there is "hell", which is said to be established by Buddhism to "cleanse" cause and effect.

Yes, karma, actually 'cleansing'.

This is 'retribution'.

To be precise, this is part of clearing the karma at the time of reincarnation.

Before everyone reincarnates, they must repay the karma of their previous life, wash away all the ties and relationships on themselves, become clean and innocent, and then they can be alone and enter reincarnation peacefully.

Good deeds bring good results, bad deeds bring bad results, and all the entanglements in life end here.

Of course, there is no good or evil in reincarnation itself, because what you get is what you have done.

Everything you do in your life will get almost perfect feedback here.

When you are alive, you do good things like being kind to others, and you will get the same in return.

You have been killing people without reason all your life, and what you get here is an endless process of killing, except that this time the target of killing is yourself.

Whether it is good or bad depends on yourself.

It doesn't matter what you do, it doesn't matter what you think. Here, you will only get the retribution for everything you have done in your life. It's like some kind of basic principle, similar to 'force is mutual'. Whatever you do, there will be a reaction.

This reaction force will be fed back to you after your death and at the time of reincarnation, and will eventually help you pay off everything and return to reincarnation again.

And in this process of 'feedback', 'hell' was born.

Hell is not the underworld.

The underworld is an organization of ghosts. It is a planned place with specific tasks. Although the gods are gone and the underworld is quite chaotic, it is generally orderly.

And hell is just a place.

At this moment, what Guimu constructed is "hell".

These things... are not illusions, but real things. They are the silhouettes of hell summoned by the ghost forest in front of them. They do not care about cause and effect, but only pure torture.

The manure was boiling hot, with smoke and flames coming out.

In the small hell of excrement, there are iron worms that drill into the excrement and mud of living beings, piercing through their skin, flesh, tendons and bones, and eating all the essence of the living beings, causing them to suffer severe pain all over their bodies.

In this man-made little hell, one can see many people, both men and women, old and young, screaming in pain and suffering constantly.

The prison was burned by flames, and the interior became scorching hot. Bursts of hot smoke and foul odors kept coming, and countless insects in the mud of hell were desperately biting the ghosts all over their bodies, from the eyes, nose, ears, and mouth. The iron worms kept drilling into every crevice of his body, even the eyeballs, and there was no place on the body where they could not enter.

The worms are as hard as iron, crawling, drilling, and flying. They may invade the mouth and nose, penetrate the bones and flesh, and eat the throat, tongue, heart, lungs, liver, spleen, intestines, stomach, and even tendons and joints. The pain and horror of falling into them is beyond words.

More bugs came and gnawed non-stop, burning and gnawing the body beyond recognition. At first glance, the whole body was full of bugs, and one could vaguely see the bones.

Gao Jian dodged the spray of feces and looked around.

There is more than one hell.

There are many hells beneath this ghost tree barrier!

Pincer mouth with needle, a ghost has its mouth pinned with a needle in its mouth. Gillnet locusts drill into a ghost, a ghost is trapped in a gillnet, locusts drill into the wound.

The pestle pounded the flesh into pulp, and some ghosts were pounded into pulp, blurring out. The pestle pounded the skin, and some ghosts were peeled open, with their skin torn apart.

All kinds of torture were done to force out their resentment, so that their wailing and pain could become nutrients for the ghost tree! Nourishing this ghost tree barrier.

As a result, many ghosts continued to tumble, and their resentment rolled out, making people's scalps numb!
Moreover, at this moment, these many hells began to surround Gao Jian, and even moved towards Gao Jian, trying to bring Gao Jian into hell.

This is Zuo'an's trump card!

Gao Jian's pupils shrank slightly, and with anger, he gritted his teeth and dodged, moaning: "Zuo'an... fuck you."

Gao Jian cursed.

There's no way not to curse.

This is because, in these real hells, those who are tortured are not real evil ghosts, but ordinary ghosts!

In the past, in Ningtai County, there were thousands of headless ghosts under the terrible Ghost Willow, and countless ordinary little ghosts, but due to Gao Jian’s blood and energy at that time, the little ghosts could not get close to it.

So, how many ghost willows are there here?

Gao Jian took a look and saw... a whole willow forest over there, with at least dozens of trees.

There are also many other ghost trees.

The numbers of mulberry, elm, peach, locust and willow trees are roughly the same.

In other words… these are ordinary people being tortured by hell.

They did nothing wrong, but they were being tortured just to maintain the magic and barrier on the left bank.

This made Gao Jian's eyes even colder.

It happened in a flash. In fact, it was only a moment before the hell appeared in front of him. The breath of hell was already rushing towards him, trying to grab Gao Jian!
Gao Jian pointed his toes, the five elements in his body fluctuated violently, and then he swung his sword fiercely!

The fire in my heart roared away!

But hell itself did not dodge or avoid it. Gao Jian's anger was obscured by the yin energy, like a drop in the ocean, and had no effect at all.

Gao Jian remained unmoved and immediately fought back. His long sword drew an arc and light blue vapor appeared on the blade.

The cold air of accumulated yin becomes water, and the essence of water vapor becomes the moon.

The Five Elements Genesis and Control unfolded, and Gao Jian used his own water energy to transform into a full moon at the tip of the knife.

This knife is extremely gorgeous.

In hell, Gao Jian danced his sword like a wheel, the blade was perfect, like a bright moon casting light, paving a long, flat and wide road in the darkness.

The moon shines dimly in the misty sky, and the sky is filled with moonlight and frost.

The bright moon opens the way - to tear a path out of hell!
"laugh--"

But the next moment, the bright moon formed by the water vapor on the blade was eroded.

The star has hairs, and there are short comets beside it. There is a dog-shaped one below it. There are meteors in all directions. The front is like a jar, and the back is like fire. The whole sky is like thunder. There is a sound like thunder on the spring equinox, but it is not thunder. The sound is in the ground. Wherever it lives, its master will rise up in war. There is thunder without clouds, and it is called "Heavenly Dog".

There was famine, disease and epidemic among the people, and many of the ministers died.

The divination said: "Where the heavenly dog fell, there will be corpses and blood below."

The heavenly dog comes flying, bringing poison, weapons and fire.

The ghost's eyes are bright when he blinks, and his eyes are wide open.

The Tengu licks the ground, and the blood is pouring.

If you have a bright moon in the sky, then let the heavenly dog eat the moon!

When it comes to disasters, this is what the Zuo family is best at!
Tai Sui, the God of Plague, the Xi Beast, the Heavenly Dog, these incarnations of the God of Disaster are what the Zuo family is best at!
The sword energy and bright moon collided with the disaster and turned into a ball of white mist.

Gao Jian was injured and seemed to be pulled down to the ground and swallowed by the hell below!

But he was not in a hurry. He used the recoil force to suddenly rise up and barely avoided the three ghost tree vines that were attacking from behind.

His sleeves fluttered in the wind, and he looked like a fallen leaf, yet filled with murderous intent.

This is not avoidance.

This is a raid!

The dragon controls the wind and rain, and the water vapor and bright moon itself is a trap. The real purpose is to disperse the condensed water vapor, and then activate the dragon thunder!
The blade moon that had just been eroded was still hanging in the sky, casting an eerie white light on the entire ghost woods.

The branches of the trees drooped, like countless long-haired ghosts swaying in the wind.

There was a loud bang under the tree!
Dragon thunder, struck towards the ghost forest!

In the ghost forest, the moonlight shattered and thunder suddenly sounded, as if it was going to shatter hell!
but……

But it was like a drop in the ocean, with no movement at all.

"You have demonstrated Dragon Thunder several times. You don't think... it's still useful, right?" Zuo An finally spoke.

(End of this chapter)