He lowered his head and saw the tip of the sword protruding from her chest, the blood foam overflowing from the corner of her mouth, the last smile on her face, and her head lying in his arms.
The warmth of the world that he had just experienced was shattered.
At the moment when Chengxin was stunned, a giant net descended from the sky and covered him. Spirit-Locking Formation, trapping formations, and killing formations were covering his location layer by layer. This was the burial place left for him by all the chasing monks.
Chengxin didn't even bother to escape or fight back, the huge grief penetrated his mind.
I'm tired, let's leave it at that, Chengxin slowly closed his eyes.
At this moment, the suppressed bracelet on Chengxin's wrist instantly backfired, and the remnant soul of ancient Devil Cultivator took advantage of it. Dark clouds gathered in the sky, lightning flashed and thunder, and Spiritual Qi from heaven and earth poured into his body at an almost crazy speed.
He broke through.
The coercion of the Nascent Soul Realm swept the world, but the Nascent Soul, which should have been pure gold, was surrounded by an ominous purple-gray Devil Qi. He stood next to the girl's body, raised his head, and there was no mercy in his eyes, only a cold nothingness.
"You guys, damn it."
He murmured softly, and the bracelet made of skulls in his hand erupted with strange blood. All the monks who besieged him felt their bodies stiffen and Law Power stagnant at the same moment, and even their thoughts seemed to be frozen.
A one-sided massacre began.
Blood dyed the entire mountain forest red, and he slaughtered all the monks who participated in the siege overnight, including the young sect leader Yang Battle Sect and the two elders.
The bracelet absorbed countless blood and remnant souls, becoming even more weird. When the last person fell and the cold mountain wind blew by, Chengxin looked at the corpses on the ground, and then looked down at the cold face of the girl in his arms.
Clearness returned to his eyes.
What followed was boundless despair and remorse.
He carried the girl's body on his back and returned to Pure Land Chan Temple step by step. He knelt in front of the astonished abbot. The monk's robe was covered with dried blood scabs, and the expression on his face was more embarrassing than crying.
"Master, disciple... we can't go back."
He could feel that his will was being wiped away bit by bit by the bracelet.
The old abbot did not scold him. He was silent for a long time, then reached out and touched the top of Chengxin's head. The old palm trembled slightly.
He summoned all the eminent monks in the temple and set up a large formation on the fifth floor of the monastery, trying to help Chengxin refine the monstrous evil intention in the bracelet.
At the moment when the entire temple's high-end combat power was being held back and its defenses were at their most empty, the coalition forces from the major sects launched an attack on the mountain gate.
Under the banner of "eliminating demons and defending the Tao", they demanded the handover of the possessed Chengxin and the "source of trouble" bracelet. Pure Land Chan Temple's mountain gate formation was crumbling under the fierce attack of the coalition forces. Yang Battle Sect, Spirit Taming Sect, Spirit Pivot Sect, more than twenty sects of various sizes, and nearly a thousand monks, surrounded Pure Land Chan Temple.
At first, maybe it was for justice.
But when the coalition forces broke through the defense lines and plundered massive amounts of Cultivation Resources, greed completely replaced the original intention.
Law Artifact, elixirs, Cultivation Method Jade Slip, Spirit Stone, spiritual materials, Pure Land Chan Temple The heritage accumulated over thousands of years was looted layer by layer. The red-eyed monks burned and killed them all the way to the final six-story Zen temple.
When the coalition forces attacked, all the eminent monks who could stop them were unable to move in the magic circle.
In order to save the monastery, the abbot and several senior monks forcibly left the formation and tried to negotiate with the coalition forces.
When they walked out of the gate of the monastery, their bodies still had wounds from the formation's backlash, and the monk's robes were stained with blood. The abbot stood on the steps, clasped his hands, and opened his mouth to say something.
What greeted him was a cold slap from the leader of the coalition forces.
The figure of the old abbot was like a dead leaf, falling in front of Chengxin. Immediately after, came the corpses of several uncles. One by one, they were cleared away by high-level monks from the coalition forces as obstacles. Cleanly and without any unnecessary movements.
The world in Chengxin's eyes completely turned into blood.
If the death of the girl made him obsessed, then seeing the abbot who was like his teacher and father die tragically while protecting him completely shattered his last line of defense as a "human being".
He gave up resistance and allowed the demonic intention to engulf him. In exchange, he received the demonic Nascent Soul power that instantly surged to the extreme.
A more brutal massacre began.
The golden Buddha light intertwined with the purple-grey Devil Qi. When he stood up from the center of the magic circle, none of the coalition monks present could take a step to escape.
It's not that they don't want to run, it's the Nascent Soul level of pressure that has pinned them all to the spot. Chengxin transformed into Shura, dancing in Zen singing and wailing. Except for a few high-ranking monks in the coalition who saw the opportunity and fled early, he left them all in this Buddhist pure land forever.
Most of the thousand-year-old temple was destroyed in blood and fire.
He was covered in blood and stood on the ruins. The bracelet in his hand had absorbed too much resentment and blood. It was buzzing and was about to be completely revived, turning into a monstrous Devil Creature that no one could control.
At the last moment, looking at the devastated home and the dead brothers, Chengxin shed two lines of tears of blood in his eyes.
He made the final decision.
"I wish to stay here forever."
He used his last trace of sober Law Power to activate Pure Land Chan Temple's remaining mountain-protecting formation, sealing himself and the bracelet forever in the remaining three-story Zen temple.
At the cost of his own death, he turned himself into the core of the seal. He forcibly removed his most special rib, which is said to be the "Buddha Bone Sarira Rib" that is only the reincarnation of the Buddha. After Nascent Soul, the most special "Divine Ability" may be awakened.
Chengxin takes this as a guide and injects all the vitality and Law Power into it.
A golden beam of light rose into the sky, completely sealing off the string of Devil Artifact made from the skulls of ten eminent monks, himself and the entire battlefield.
The light dissipated and the sound stopped.
Pure Land Chan Temple, which was once full of Buddha's light, fell into a lifeless ruin.
The record of Jiang Lie ends here.
The last few lines were written in an extremely sloppy manner, with crooked strokes that were almost illegible.
He wrote that the first blow after Chengxin turned into a demon severely injured him. The attack struck the middle of his head and shattered his Purple Mansion. When he was about to die, he desperately escaped from the massacre and hid in the forest that was later dyed red by his Qi and Blood.
He wrote down all this before he died, not only as a testimony for future generations, but also in the hope that someone could return his remains to his homeland.
Qin Tiexin retracted Divine Sense from Jade Slip.
There was silence in the cracks between the rocks, and the light cyan light of the sound-proof array slowly flowed against the stone wall above his head. He turned Jade Slip over and stared at the extremely light golden Spirit Rune on the back for a long time.
The broken arm shook slightly on his right shoulder. The dark golden runes shone slightly through the clothing fabric, and the feeling of the same origin was clearer than ever. Deep in Pure Land Chan Temple, the Buddha Bone Sarira Rib that sealed the bracelet and Chengxin.
The direction pointed by the broken arm points directly there.