The Fate of Eternal Life

Chapter 12: The Invincible Suicide Attack
The setting sun was blood-red, and Ning Qingyi stood alone on the half-ruined Lihuo Sect headquarters.

The surrounding area was in ruins. The once majestic temples were now only broken walls and rubble, and huge stone pillars were shattered and scattered among the ruins. Lush trees were uprooted or reduced to charred stumps, revealing vast expanses of yellow earth.

"I killed someone."

Ning Qingyi muttered to himself. The ruins were stained with blood and even the occasional fragment of limbs and flesh, making it daunting to approach. He looked at the Lihuo Divine Furnace, which had fallen to the side, its body and lid separated.

He had never killed anyone before he traveled through time, nor after he began practicing cultivation. But now, for the sake of a quasi-imperial weapon, he could be said to have slaughtered an entire family. The only thing that could be praised was that the Lihuo Sect wasn't a good group either.

"Black eating black? Hypocrisy?" Ning Qingyi carefully pondered his current mood.

He was very calm, and his body was perfectly controlled by his thoughts, without any trembling, but it was precisely because of this reaction that he realized his abnormality.

The subconscious mind was resisting the idea of ​​taking other people's lives for the sake of profit, but the mind suppressed this emotion and told itself clearly that killing the evil people of the Lihuo Sect who oppressed the civilians in the Northern Territory would benefit both others and itself.
"Is this an excuse for yourself? Even though you've embarked on the path of cultivation, your understanding of life and death is still shallow. Is this just womanly kindness?"

Ning Qingyi considers himself neither a good person nor a bad one. He embarks on the path of cultivation to truly witness this magnificent world. Otherwise, what would be the point of awakening to the mystery of his incarnation?
Nowadays, it is hard to say what will happen in the future as they can break through the mountain gate for a treasure.

At this moment, he thought of many things. There were so many supreme beings sleeping in the restricted area. They would probably not turn into dark chaos when they just cut themselves with a sword.

But when the vision of becoming an immortal overwhelms everything, this tragic obsession gives rise to the most terrifying darkness in the history of millions.

I have never embarked on the path of spiritual practice, but now I want to go further and reach the pinnacle.

Isn't this just like getting something and wanting more?
Will my future self also become unrecognizable because of my desire to reach the top?
Ning Qing looked confused, and at the same time, the golden heart lamp of Dao Jie floating in the sea of ​​​​wheels in his body suddenly shone brightly.

The red lotus fire slowly burned in his body, and the pain woke him up instantly.

Ning Qing was shocked to find that wisps of pure black aura emerged from the sea of ​​light in his body, covering the wheel sea spring and obscuring his inspiration.

This is the disaster of being lost!

A calamity that a monk would encounter when he broke through to the other side of the Divine Bridge.

Now he has already achieved the great perfection of Taoism, so how could he possibly encounter such a disaster?

Ning Qingyi looked solemn. After careful observation, he found that the calamity energy was floating out from the wheel sea. It was only because the glorious wheel sea was too pure that the calamity energy was forced out.

It seems that relying on the state of unity between man and nature brought by the Bodhi magic medicine to directly break through the wheel sea realm has left certain hidden dangers after all.

This hidden danger, once his heart of Taoism is tainted by karma due to killing, will turn into an inner demon that will seduce him and try to cloud his soul.

A fierce look flashed across Ning Qing's eyes. He was about to activate the red lotus fire to burn away the calamity energy completely, but he suddenly stopped, his face changing from gloomy to bright.

Although being lost is a disaster, after a monk overcomes this disaster, his mind and spirit will be cleansed.

Now that I have reached the perfection of Dao Palace, my spiritual consciousness is inherently stronger than that of the monks of Shenqiao. If I still cannot survive, I might as well just crash to death.

He sensed the formation pattern he had arranged, used the secret word combination to communicate with the Lihuo Sect's mountain protection formation, and then set up a few more formations. He immediately sat down cross-legged and sank his mind into the sea of ​​​​wheels.

As soon as the divine consciousness came into contact with the black mist, it felt hazy and confused. Not only did it lose its direction, it also lost the chance to resonate with the physical body.

"Divine consciousness is useless. It seems that even the Taoist monks cannot resist the essence of this disaster."

Ning Qingyi was not panicked, and a look of determination flashed in his eyes.

It is a blessing to discover the hidden danger now, which is worse than being triggered by a natural disaster in the future.

He continued walking forward, in the endless darkness, as if he was trapped in a cage. Gradually, his five senses disappeared one by one, first his sight, then his hearing, until he was completely trapped in darkness.

Ning Qingyi felt that he was about to lose all his spiritual perception, even the sense of time. This was an unprecedented danger. If he was not careful, he would probably sit there in despair for the rest of eternity.

But he became increasingly calm. Only when he sat facing the eternal darkness could he feel his true heart.

Finally, he even lost his spiritual power and almost merged with the darkness.

At this moment, a light flashed through his heart: "I have already stood on the sea of ​​suffering. How can this place not be the other shore?"

"Rumble..."

The darkness receded, and the sea of ​​light reappeared. His five senses and spiritual perception revived again, and his divine consciousness became deeper than before and incomparably sharper.

He passed the test of life and death, and his body and mind seemed to have been tempered.

Ning Qingyi stood up and suddenly felt that the array pattern he had set up was triggered by someone. After a quick calculation, he found that half a month had passed.

He used the secret of group words to spy into the distance, but found that it was a group of people probing at the foot of the mountain. They used several sets of magic weapons and were attacking the protective formation of the Lihuo Sect.

"Senior Brother Li, will this really be okay?" one of the disciples asked uneasily.

The man called Senior Brother Li said, "Fool, if that madman had succeeded, the mountain protection formation wouldn't have been closed for so long."

"Senior Brother Youran, what if the people from the Lihuo Sect win?" another disciple also asked.

Li Youran said coldly, "If the Lihuo Sect had won, they wouldn't have watched us break through the formation. It must have been a tragic victory for the Lihuo Sect, but they didn't have the energy to watch over the outside world."

"Senior brother is right. If we can attack the Lihuo Sect now and plunder their resources, my Xuanyue Cave will surely become the leader of the five sects, no, the four sects! The cave master will reward us greatly by then!" Another disciple said enthusiastically.

Ning Qingyi didn't want to hear what was coming next. He walked towards the Lihuo Divine Furnace. Infused with divine power, the quasi-imperial weapon shrank to a mere inch tall and flew into Ning Qingyi's palm. Its entire body shone with crystal, and there were some faint carvings on the furnace, including a sun and several divine birds.

He continued to infuse divine power into it, but found that the god of this sacred furnace did not respond at all, and was as deep as if dead.

Ning Qingyi was not surprised. He stored the divine furnace in the divine sea, plundered all the resources of the Lihuo Sect, and slowly walked down the mountain.

The people from Xuanyue Cave who were attacking the mountain were so busy that sweat broke out on their foreheads. Suddenly, they found that the formation pattern in front of them had changed. They thought that the attack was effective, but they found that the formation pattern was automatically dissipating.

The person walking towards him was a young man in black clothes.

A disciple from Xuanyue Cave suddenly shouted, "Ninth Senior Brother, it's him. He was the one who attacked the Lihuo Sect."

Ninth Senior Brother Li Youran cursed the idiot inwardly and was about to speak when he heard something.

Ning Qingyi asked, "Are you from Xuanyue Cave?"

Li Youran shouted, "That's right, it was you who attacked the Lihuo Sect, right? Surrender now, or else..."

The next second, he was horrified to see that Ning Qingyi had appeared in front of him without him noticing, and the two were only an arm's length apart.

Then he heard the young man talking to himself.

"I see. Otherwise, I would have been captured, my cultivation abolished, and I would have been a mining slave, contributing energy to Xuanyue Cave for the rest of my life."

"How do you know?" Li Youran exclaimed in shock. Ning Qingyi undoubtedly used his telepathy, but he wouldn't waste time talking to a dead man.

"It's said that those who aspire to become emperors have all fought their way up from infancy. So, it seems that my Wheel Sea realm is still not perfect."

Ning Qingyi muttered slowly, "In that case, let's start with you. Without using divine power, relying only on your physical body, if you can block this finger of mine, I will say goodbye to Dilu."

He stretched out his finger and calmly pointed it at Li Youran's forehead. The latter was horrified and was about to use his divine power to escape, but he found that under the other party's finger, the surrounding space seemed to be sealed.

Unable to escape, only able to fight.

Li Youran was about to muster all his strength to fight Ning Qingyi, but he found that the other party's golden index finger was poking down directly, killing his brain as easily as poking tofu.

With a bang, Li Youran's body fell straight down.

Ning Qingyi looked at his fingers, which were not stained with anything red or white, and thought thoughtfully: "I see, I can't think too much when fighting. If I think too much, I will lose faster!"

He turned to look at the stunned Xuanyue Cave disciples and said, "The same goes for you!"

The disciples scattered like birds and beasts, fleeing in all directions, but how could they escape Ning Qingyi's attack? Even without using his divine power, he had now achieved the Unbeatable Golden Body of the Prajna Jadeite Realm, and his speed exceeded that of ordinary cultivators.

The remaining monks were killed in this way.

Ning Qingyi, who had searched for the location of Xuanyue Cave in his sea of ​​consciousness, ran over without hesitation.

The distance between the two sects was not far, and it wouldn't take him much effort to defeat them purely with the power of his golden body.

Soon, he arrived at Xuanyue Cave.

Gullies crisscross the landscape, slicing the earth into fragmented plates. Streams meander through them, their clear water gurgling, sometimes swift, sometimes gentle. Ancient trees tower over the sky, their lush branches and leaves blocking out the sun, leaving only dappled sunlight filtering through the gaps. Immortal vines, like emerald green ribbons, entwine and weave, stretching from cliff to cliff, forming natural bridges.

These vines are tough and resilient, bearing the marks of time and forming pathways connecting various places. Occasionally, a mountain breeze blows through, and the vines sway gently, making a rustling sound, as if telling the ancient and mysterious story of this land.

Ning Qingyi looked at it with great interest. As the saying goes, a mountain is famous not because of its height, but because of the immortals living there. This trace left by the Wu Shi Great Emperor now seems to be extraordinary.

"Who is coming——"

Before the gatekeeper disciple could finish his last word, he was stabbed to death by Ning Qingyi's fingers. The people nearby were frightened to death, and then they heard Ning Qingyi's voice resounding throughout the mountains.

"I've long heard of the Xuanyue Cave's great name. I'm the Bloody Hand Man-Slayer, and I'm here to enforce justice on behalf of Heaven!"

The surviving disciples guarding the mountain were really scared at this time, but soon they didn't need to worry anymore, because a finger poked over and took their lives directly.

Ning Qingyi walked towards Xuanyue Cave. With every step he took, array patterns emerged from his feet, connecting heaven and earth. He discovered that the word-combination secret was truly a powerful weapon for killing and arson. As long as it was used properly, it would catch a group of turtles in a jar.

I think Lingbao Ancient Tianzun was the same. He regarded the corpses in the sky as dry bones in a tomb, but was troubled by the low efficiency. That's why he developed the secret of combining characters to catch them all in one fell swoop.

Ning Qingyi tried to figure out Gu Tianzun's state of mind and felt that his understanding of the secret of word formation had become deeper.

"Who are you!" An old man broke through the air like a meteor and landed in front of him.

"I can't even hear you clearly, so let's get going as soon as possible."

Ning Qingyi poked at him with a finger, and the old man became furious. As a powerful person of the first level of the Taoist Palace of Xuanyue Cave, he had never been looked down upon like this.

He was about to use his secret martial arts, but he found that the other party's ordinary finger occupied all his vision like a pillar of heaven. The next second, he felt a chill on his forehead, and then he lost consciousness.

"I'm becoming more and more proficient at this finger technique, so why not just call it the Vajra Finger?" Ning Qingyi said calmly.

Then he looked at the people who surrounded him. They were obviously the head of Xuanyue Cave and the Supreme Elders. This group of people had gloomy faces, but they were obviously afraid of Ning Qingyi's strength and did not dare to do anything extreme.

The Xuanyue Cave Master asked gravely, "You look unfamiliar, fellow Daoist. You're not from around here, are you? Is there some misunderstanding?"

"Master, you have misunderstood. There is no misunderstanding between us at all." Ning Qingyi said seriously, "I came here today to enforce justice. That's not right."

Ning Qing shook his head, laughed silently, and his expression gradually became indifferent.

"I'm here to kill you, or be killed by you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ning Qingyi disappeared from the spot and appeared behind a supreme elder. Then he pointed his finger again, like poking an ant, and the force of his finger penetrated the brain and killed him.

"You brat! Elders, follow me!"

The Xuanyue Cave's headmaster roared, his voice resounding throughout the surrounding area. A fierce gleam crossed his face, his hair and beard standing on end like needles, and his eyes gleamed coldly. Several magical instruments burst forth from his sea of ​​​​wheels, radiating light and brimming with murderous intent.

Deep within the Dao Palace, a silver-armored deity materialized, several feet tall and imposing. Every step it took shook the earth. Silver light surged like a tide, and thousands of sword beams poured down like a torrential rain. The entire world was instantly filled with endless murderous intent, leaving one's heart pounding and trembling.

The other elders also used their divine powers and magical weapons, and for a moment Ning Qingyi was surrounded by dazzling light.

In the distance, the disciples of Xuanyue Cave cheered loudly, thinking that the thief had no chance of survival, but reality made them shut up.

Ning Qingyi just stood there with no emotion or joy. He only damaged the corner of his clothes but didn't hurt an inch of his skin.

Then he moved, moving horizontally into the sky, and in front of the horrified eyes of the Xuanyue Cave master, he sent him back to reincarnation with a Vajra Finger.

Then, corpses fell one after another, and many great elders lay dead at his feet.
He was like a young killing god, killing the entire Xuanyue Cave into silence and turning the green leaves into red.

Finally, he came to a place with many ancient relics and stood in front of a broken stone mountain. There were three sentences here.

"The Tao is vast but ignorant, the heart is thoughtful but uninhibited, and things are endless but nothing different."

This is the handwriting of the Great Emperor Wu Shi, and it has not been erased after tens of thousands of years.

Ning Qingyi read these words and seemed to see a figure with its back to the world from the mysterious aura.

That was an invincible era, an amazing existence in ancient history, the Wu Shi Emperor!

If he had broken the seal today, the dark turmoil would have been impossible.

Unfortunately, he was born in an era that needed him more.

Ning Qingyi stood here for a long time, then left.

On this day, the Bloody Hand Butcher wiped out four sects in a row, and then killed bandits all the way to the Northern Territory Divine City!

Thank you all for your monthly tickets and recommendation tickets! This is my first time writing a battle plot, so I am still a little nervous. I apologize on behalf of the cat if it is not well written.

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