Chapter 4 Sudden Change
This bloody gaze suddenly opened the Xuan Mingzi's spiritual eyes, and a blood light burst out of his double pupils, breaking through the layers of thick fog, seeing the true body of that fire dragon, he was shocked and lost color, it turned out to be the Yuanshen body, then what about its physical body? Could it be???
Before he could even think about it, the fire dragon swooped down, swift as lightning, and swallowed the soul wrapped in talismans in one gulp.
Xuan Mingzi immediately sensed a surge of divine soul power about to penetrate the cluster of souls, and his own refined blood and divine soul transformed into a soul silk talisman were suffering a huge impact. In a panic, he opened a seam in the layered talismans wrapping around him, allowing the fire dragon's divine thought to roar into Gan Ping's soul. Not daring to delay, Xuan Mingzi immediately activated the Small Six-Nine Fusion Divine Mystery Technique, beginning to refine the fire dragon's divine consciousness.
As soon as he felt someone was refining himself, the Fire Dragon immediately let out a furious roar and struggled desperately. However, Xia Liujiu's mysterious technique was a secret art of the Great Azure Peak Cliff Mountain, how could it be so easily resisted? Moreover, with the suppression of the Xuan Tian Du Ling Great Array, in an instant, Xuan Mingzi completely suppressed and sealed the Fire Dragon's original spiritual consciousness. Only then did Xuan Mingzi let out a sigh of relief, next was to use his water-milling skills to thoroughly refine the Fire Dragon's primordial spirit, thus creating a second primordial spirit.
At the moment when Xuan Mingzi was secretly rejoicing, a terrifying aura came from the black hole above the big array that had not yet dispersed. Xuan Mingzi was shocked and thought of something, his face turned ugly, and he hurriedly made a series of hand seals to control the Xuantian Duoling Great Array. The black hole above began to slowly close, but Xuan Mingzi spat out a mouthful of vital energy and his hand prints moved rapidly, wanting to quickly close the black hole. However, at this time, the pressure inside the black hole became stronger and stronger, and the terrifying aura suppressed Xuan Mingzi's movements, slowing him down.
Finally, a purple light shot out from it, with dark blue flames entwining above the light, and rushed straight towards the soul of Gan Ping's body. Xuan Mingzi saw this and his face turned pale white, his eyes revealing a desperate look, muttering: "Zhī Miè Shén Léi!"
The Annihilating Thunder of the Five Elements, also known as the Great Five Elements Annihilation Thunder, is not something that can be controlled by human power. It is the most ominous and deadly thunder in the heavenly tribulation. If a cultivator has cultivated to the point where they have embodied the heart of heaven, bestowed their blessings upon all living things, and accumulated countless merits within themselves, then when the time comes for them to undergo the heavenly tribulation, nine thunders will strike down from above, refining their physical body and transforming their vital energy. Without great risk, they can ascend to the realm of immortals.
However, evil cultivators who have killed people and committed boundless slaughter will certainly be struck by the nine thunders when the heavenly tribulation arrives. One thunder will be stronger than the last, and after the nine heavenly thunders have passed, there will be one final Great Five Elements Annihilation Thunder. This Great Five Elements Annihilation Thunder represents the manifestation of the Heavenly Way, annihilating evil and eradicating wickedness without harming the physical body, disregarding cultivation attainments, directly destroying the soul, spirit, and primordial spirit, leaving no room for resistance.
If it is a strong and powerful yuan Shen, it can withstand the yuan Shen without being destroyed, and the karma will be completely eliminated. All past events will be forgiven, and one can embark on the path of immortality. However, if one cannot withstand it, the consequence will be that the soul will scatter, the body will die, and even entering reincarnation will not be possible.
Xuan Mingzi had been planning for a long time, because in his early years, he had killed many people to improve his cultivation and treasure, resulting in a lot of karma weighing him down. He was unable to withstand the Five Elements' Heavenly Thunder that would destroy his soul, and would end up with a miserable outcome. That's why he set up the Xuan Tian Du Ling Great Array, wanting to find another way out, so as not to die under this heavenly thunder.
Unexpectedly, the Xuantian Duoling Great Array actually brought over a fellow practitioner from another realm. It seems that this Fire Dragon has also killed too many and is entangled in karma, currently undergoing tribulation. Under the activation of this great array, it confusedly destroyed its physical body, leaving only a strand of Fire Dragon's primordial spirit to be pulled over.
It was just the Huo Long Yuan Shen who came, but it wasn't until now that things have come to this pass. Unfortunately, that Da Wu Xing Qi Shen Mie Shi Shen Lei actually also followed over relentlessly. For a moment, Xuan Ming Zi was already stunned and standing still on the spot. If he had retreated as soon as Huo Long Yuan Shen passed through that black hole just now, perhaps there would have been a glimmer of hope for survival. But now his divine soul has already merged with Huo Long Yuan Shen's, making it impossible to escape unscathed.
As the bolt of lightning with a faint blue glow reached the soul, Xuan Mingzi suddenly had an epiphany. No wonder everything had been going smoothly, and it was so easy to find the spiritual eye and object. It all made sense now - it was all part of the heavenly way's calculations. How laughable that he had been rejoicing in his own cleverness, thinking he had gotten away with it, only to be trembling like an ant under the heavenly power now. The heavenly way is indeed not to be trifled with!
Even if he understood this truth, it didn't mean that Xuan Mingzi would just sit and wait for death. Cultivators were originally going against the heavens, and even if they had a moment of enlightenment at the end of their lives, it didn't mean they would give up. Among the 100 billion living beings on the Tianfu Continent, only a handful could rise to prominence and cultivate their yuan Shen. Each one was a paragon with unyielding determination and extraordinary talent. What's more, this was Xuan Mingzi, the greatest villain to have traversed the world for over a thousand years! Although his cultivation path had taken a wrong turn and he had been plotted against by the heavens, at this critical juncture of life and death, Xuan Mingzi would not be slaughtered like a sheep. He would not sit and wait for death, even if you were Lei Ting or the heavens themselves!!!
Only to see Xuan Mingzi let out a loud roar, and in an instant, he flew up and pounced on the purple divine lightning. At this time, it was already too late to resist, and with a turn of his mind, he completely released the suppression of the Huo Long Yuanshen. The Huo Long Yuanshen roared and pounced on the Da Wuxing Zai Shen Mie Shi divine lightning.
Under the intense pressure, Huo Long Yuanshen felt the thoughts of Xuan Mingzi and merged his spirit with him to resist the heavenly thunder. As long as they could withstand this blow, from then on, they would be carefree in the world, with light clouds and gentle breeze. Huo Long was Xuan Mingzi, and Xuan Mingzi was Huo Long, no distinction between them, sharing eternal life together. On the contrary, no matter how powerful one was in life, no matter how notorious their name was, all would turn to dust, body dead, Dao disappeared, soul flying away.
Xuan Mingzi and Huo Long's primordial spirits merged into one, jointly facing the heavenly thunder. The Five Elements' divine lightning destroyed the soul but not the physical body, no matter how great your divine powers or extraordinary treasures are, you can only rely on your own primordial spirit to defend against it. Whether you succeed or fail depends solely on your strength, without any room for trickery.
A purple thunderbolt entwined with a faint blue flame, carrying boundless pressure, descended rapidly. Below it, however, was a fiery red dragon-shaped primordial spirit that transformed into a black talisman and a human figure, charging head-on to collide with the thunderbolt. This collision was as resolute as Gun's rage in ancient mythology when he struck Mount Buzhou, where even if one's body died and their Dao disappeared, they would not prolong their dying breaths.
Xuan Mingzi and Huo Long's entangled primordial spirits finally encountered the mighty Five Elements Devouring Heaven's Mind-destroying Thunder. The purple lightning quietly entered Xuan Mingzi and Huo Long's primordial spirits, silently but deadly. However, the blue flames that wrapped around the thunder instantly enveloped their primordial spirits, which was none other than the Nine Heavens Fusing Primordial Fire born alongside the Five Elements Devouring Heaven's Mind-destroying Thunder. This flame immediately trapped the two primordial spirits in mid-air, burning fiercely.
At this time, the thunder that had not entered their divine bodies exploded, a fierce white light burst out from their bodies, blasting their divine souls into countless fragments. Each fragment was attached to a blue flame, flying in all directions. The two of them, one human and one demon, were top-notch masters who dominated both realms, but they died and disappeared here. The power of the Heavenly Way is evident.
But earlier, Xuan Mingzi saw that the fire dragon's neck was intact, and the dragon pearl was unharmed. It seemed that it wasn't a spiritual entity, but rather something that had lost its restraint when the fire dragon's primordial spirit exploded, transforming into a ball of blood that fell into the blazing earth vein spirit fire below.
A small soul hovering below was unscathed, as Xuan Mingzi had already extracted all the soul threads from Xiao Gan's soul and wrapped them around Huo Long's primordial spirit when he used his body to block the lightning. The Heavenly Way is impartial, it will not let off Xuan Mingzi and Huo Long who are entangled by their karma, nor will it harm this nine-year-old ignorant child.
So Xiao Ganping's soul was still floating above his body, enduring the burning of the earth's spiritual fire along with his physical body. When Xuan Mingzi and Huo Long Yuanshen were blasted apart by that divine lightning, several pieces of their Yuanshen fragments stained with the Nine Heavens Fused Origin Fire flew into Xiao Ganping's soul, merging with it. Everyone has their own karma, and the Nine Heavens Fused Origin Fire was refining the Yuanshen of those two extraordinary villains, but once their Yuanshen merged with Xiao Ganping's soul, they no longer refined it, instead surrounding that soul and wandering around it, as if waiting for those fragments to reappear.
Gradually, under the refining of the terrestrial spiritual fire and the attraction of the extreme yang energy, it slowly seeped into that cluster of soul essence, transforming into a blue-colored web-like pattern, wrapping around the outside of the soul essence. At this time, the Xuantian Duoling Great Array had already stopped operating due to the surge of spiritual energy, but the terrestrial spiritual fire was still burning fiercely. Xiao Ganping lay in the fire, and that cluster of soul essence floated above his brow, several inches away.
At this time, no one was controlling his soul, so under the attraction of his body, that ball of soul was moving towards Gan Ping's body. It seemed that it was only a matter of time before his soul returned to its original place. All living creatures within a hundred miles had been killed by Xuan Lingzi, and there were no wild beasts to disturb Gan Ping in the fire. Seven days and seven nights passed like this. Gan Ping's soul had already returned to his body on the third day, and after being tempered by the earth's spiritual fire, his soul and body had merged into one. Anyone who wanted to capture his soul again would have to pay a great price. It seemed that this was also some compensation from heaven for this poor child.
Gradually, as the earth's spiritual energy dissipated, the blazing earth spiritual fire also died down, but Gan Ping still showed no signs of waking up, only frowning slightly, as if he was having some sort of dream.
I had a dream where I transformed into a divine dragon, roaming the heavens and earth, swimming in the four seas, creating massive waves on the riverbanks that flooded countless homes, leaving dead bodies scattered everywhere, with cries of despair shaking the skies. Whatever living creature I encountered, if it didn't please me, I would swallow it whole, doing as I pleased. In an instant, however, the heavens changed color, and a bolt of lightning struck my body, catching me off guard, leaving a massive wound on my body. Enraged, I let out a mighty dragon roar, looked up to see another bolt of lightning descending upon me, and hastily fled, only to find that this lightning was following me like a shadow, relentless in its pursuit, until it had destroyed my physical form, at which point it finally stopped. My spirit transformed into a small dragon soul about the length of a foot, regretfully gathering up the scattered essence of my blood, coalescing it into a dragon pearl. At this moment, a terrifying feeling emanated from above, as a purple lightning bolt wrapped in blue flames was about to strike me. Panicked, I grabbed hold of the dragon pearl formed from my essence and fled in disarray, with no place to turn, finally diving headfirst into a dark cave. In an instant, everything changed once more, and I transformed into a young child, kneeling before a fearsome-looking old man in a massive mountain cavern, paying respects as a disciple, receiving a magical artifact, diligently practicing my craft, yet always sensing the malicious gazes of my fellow disciples, ultimately slaying them one by one. Later, my master failed his tribulation and died, and I took control of the entire sect, which was called something like Wangxia Mountain. After that, I roamed the world, engaging in battles with others, using evil magic to slaughter countless innocent people, refining magical artifacts, until finally, I couldn't shake off the feeling of impending doom, fearing the wrath of heaven, searching for a way out, and finding the Spirit Eye. There, I encountered an extremely yang-spirited child... wait, wasn't that child me? Then who am I? Suddenly, I woke up with a start, opening my eyes wide.
What he didn't know was that the fragments of Xuan Mingzi and Huo Long Yuanshen had merged into his soul, this dream was equivalent to two lifetimes of rebirth and tempering, which had a great benefit for his mental strength and understanding of the Great Way. Now, he was no longer that ignorant and confused child.
He opened his eyes, and Gān Píng twisted his head to look around, where was he? Who was he? Huǒ Lóng? Xuán Míng? Gān Píng? As he thought about this, his head suddenly hurt violently, unable to recall anything about himself. He hurriedly covered his head with his hands and began to moan softly, really unable to remember who he was. However, the name Gān Píng felt very familiar, as if there was a rough yet kind voice calling out to him in his ear, "Gān Píng, Píng ér, Gān Píng."
It seems that he was called Gan Ping, thinking of this, he turned over and got up, only to find himself shining all over his body, the mountain wind blowing by, couldn't help but shiver, looking at a black robe not far away, hurriedly walked over, picked it up, and shook off the black ash on it fiercely. Poor Xuan Mingzi, who had killed countless people, shocked the world with his name, in the end, his physical body was melted by the heavenly fire, and then he was treated as dust by this child and shaken away. The flying ashes of his physical body were scattered like this, from then on, there was no more Xuan Mingzi in the world.
Gan Ping was continuously burned in the spiritual fire of the terrestrial vein for seven days and seven nights, his clothes had long been reduced to ashes, but Xuan Mingzi's physical body was refined by the Nine Heavens Fused Yuan Fire, this divine fire restrained the primordial spirit, refining the physical body without damaging ordinary objects, so the clothes remained intact, however, Gan Ping wrapped around his body became much larger.
Xiao Ganping used both hands to tear off the excess, although it was a bit unseemly, but barely passable. He merged with Xuanmingzi and Huolong's primordial spirits, equivalent to obtaining most of their memories, greatly increasing Xiao Ganping's wisdom and experience. If he were still his original young age, he wouldn't be able to do something like tearing off clothes. Moreover, after being tempered by the earth fire, the fusion of Huolong's essence blood, his small body had an inconsistent strength, otherwise, even if he wanted to tear off the fabric, he wouldn't have the energy.
But Gan Ping was completely unaware of this, and after handling it calmly, he raised his head to observe the environment around him. Suddenly, he felt something strange under his feet, and his bare foot stepped on a ring-shaped object. He lowered his head to take a look, and surprisingly, it was a black and shiny ring. Little Gan Ping picked up the ring and examined it carefully. It was a ring that looked like it was forged from black iron, dull and unremarkable. However, when he placed it in the palm of his hand, he felt a sense of familiarity. So, he naturally put the ring on his thumb, making it his own.
After fusing with Xuan Mingzi's Yuanshen fragments, Gan Ping naturally felt familiar with the storage ring from his previous life. However, he didn't have time to think about where this familiarity came from because he had more pressing matters to attend to. After seven days and nights in the spiritual fire, Gan Ping was already starving, his belly flat against his back. No matter how much spiritual energy he had, it couldn't replace food. Feeling extremely hungry, Gan Ping rushed towards a nearby forest not far away.
