Eight years ago, the fifteen-year-old Hu Yanqi was separated from his tribe during a hunt, and accidentally triggered a mechanism. By chance, he discovered this underground palace... The eyes of the statue once made him lose his mind, and he was shocked and scared.
To make the statue have such an effect, it must be the means of gods and demons.
Hu Yanqi thought he had only discovered an empty cave of gods and demons, and did not make it public. But five years ago, at the Black Pool Mountain Martial Arts Competition, Hu Yanqi saw Jiang Qinghong from the Jiang clan team and recognized her at a glance. Her appearance was almost the same as the statue, but she was a little more immature.
Hu Yanqi was shocked.
After that, he spent a full year traveling back and forth between the tribe and Feixue City many times, consulting a large number of ancient books, and combined with folk legends, he finally came to a reliable conclusion... the reincarnation of gods and demons!
It is said that some gods and demons will voluntarily reincarnate for various reasons, and reincarnation can cross the "long river of time", such as choosing to reincarnate a thousand years later...
Reincarnating many years later can avoid the pursuit of enemies.
"Legend has it that reincarnated gods and demons will lose their cultivation, but the memory of gods and demons still exists, but they need to awaken. In addition to the hidden memory of gods and demons in the depths of their souls, there will also be some remaining power of gods and demons, which also need to be awakened... and the conditions for awakening are either when a certain realm is broken through, or when the body is severely stimulated or injured..."
"Or..."
"Legend has it that if it is a female god and demon reincarnated, then on the wedding night after her reincarnation, she will definitely awaken, and will share the remaining power of gods and demons with her husband to help him improve his cultivation..."
"It's mine! It must be mine! Hahahahahahaha!"
Hu Yanqi would be very excited every time he saw the jade statue, and his thoughts would sometimes be clear and sometimes confused. When he was clear-headed, he also understood that it was because the statue contained the pressure of gods and demons, which affected his mind, but he didn't care.
The jade statue stood there quietly. At the bottom of the statue was a square platform. In addition to some "retro patterns" carved around the platform, there was a word in the middle - Pei!
This was obviously a surname.
This god and demon should have originally been surnamed Pei.
"Jiang Qinghong? Or Pei Qinghong? Hahahaha! It doesn't matter what you call it! If it's mine, it must be mine! No one can take it away! In the past few years, I have pretended to be infatuated. Who in Heitan Mountain doesn't know my deep love for you? You will be mine soon! Hahaha!"
Hu Yanqi determined that Jiang Qinghong was the reincarnation of the Pei-surnamed god and demon, not just because of her appearance. He also found out that Jiang Qinghong was the first genius of the Jiang clan in a hundred years! It was just because she was a girl and couldn't get any cultivation resources since she was a child, so she couldn't break through the innate.
"No one can take you away! Not even my father. I didn't even tell him these things, because I knew that if I told him, he would even snatch you from me. All reincarnated gods and demons are greedy!"
"Do you know? You are already mine?"
"I bought you! Just wait until next month, when the Shentu tribe wins the life-and-death battle, you will be sent to me!"
"It's a pity that I can't get in touch with the level of gods and demons. I really want to know, who are you? What kind of existence are you among the gods and demons? How do you compare to the Lord of Feixue City?"
Hu Yanqi talked to himself in front of the statue.
For a long time.
Finally, he was tired and dragged his exhausted body out of the hall. The further he walked out and the farther he was from the statue, the clearer his consciousness became, but there was one idea that was always firm and never wavered.
——Never tell anyone else about the statue.
...
In just a few days, the news of Jiang Xuan killing Jiang Bao spread throughout the Black Pool Mountain. Those who were interested in the life-and-death battle between the Jiang clan and the Shentu clan heard the news.
A small county about half a day's journey from the Jiang clan - Qinglin County.
In a remote and dilapidated house.
"A Guang, have you thought it through? Are you really going to join the Shentu clan and become a traitor?" The thin young man said excitedly with his eyes wide open.
The word "traitor" hurt the young man in gray in front of him.
"A Xing, I think better than you!" Jiang Guang sneered, "Why did we escape? Isn't it just to live? Now the Shentu clan has released the news that any man from the Jiang clan who joins the Shentu clan before the seventh day of next month can obtain the status of a member of the Shentu clan."
This news was spread along with the news that Jiang Xuan killed Jiang Bao.
There are also rumors that Shentu Lie will personally kill Jiang Xuan next month! This will be the only time Shentu Lie will take action in the three-year life-and-death battle between the two clans!
"But..." Jiang Xing hesitated.
"How capable do you really think Jiang Xuan is? He is only fifteen years old! The killing of Jiang Bao is questionable. Maybe it was Jiang Cuiyun and the others who did it and forced it on Jiang Xuan! How could a half-step Xiantian really kill a Xiantian? Besides... even if it is true, Shen Tulie killing him is as easy as crushing an ant?" Jiang Guang could see clearly.
"That being said, but... but why surrender to the enemy?" Jiang Xing still couldn't accept it, "We have escaped for three months. We are already cowards in the tribe. If we surrender to the enemy again..."
Both of them are in their early twenties, in the post-natal realm, and fled the Jiang clan together three months ago.
"Three months! Then tell me, what kind of life have we lived in these three months?" Jiang Guang shouted, "We are tribesmen. We came to the city and were bullied. They said we were barbarians. No one even wanted to hire us to work. Look at where we live. It's an abandoned house. Only beggars live in such a place in the city!"
Jiang Guang became more and more excited.
In the city, the tribesmen will be discriminated, especially those in the acquired realm... The innate realm will be considered fierce and difficult to provoke, and will make people afraid. The tribesmen in the acquired realm are more than one level lower than the people in the city. Because the tribesmen have different living habits from those in the city, and some of them have tattoos, they are often easily identified.
"This is still good! When the life-and-death battle is over, we will be fugitives. There is no place for us in the city. Go to the wilderness? How long can we survive with our strength?"
"But, surrendering to the enemy will be stabbed in the back!"
"What's the back? Stay alive! We have to stay alive!"
"My mother... If I betray the tribe, my mother will never forgive me even if she dies!"
"Then you are really filial." Jiang Guang said sarcastically.
Jiang Xing's mother is still alive and now in the Jiang clan, a member of the patrol team. Three months ago, Jiang Xing wanted to leave and persuaded his mother to flee with him, but his mother had already discussed with his aunts and decided to live and die with the clan. Seeing that his mother was unwilling to leave, Jiang Xing hesitated whether to flee. In the end, it was his mother who persuaded him, and he fled with Jiang Guang.
"I am in the post-natal realm, and going to the ring can't change anything. I will only die in vain, so my mother let me escape. But if I change my surname to Shentu, betray the clan, and betray my ancestors, my mother will kill me with her own hands. As long as she has the chance, she will!" Jiang Xing said.
In fact, he just couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart.
Tribal people are often loyal to the tribe, and the larger and longer the tribe is, the more so. Moreover, most of them are extremely loyal and can even sacrifice their lives for it. Jiang Xing's mother is that kind of person, and he himself... He admits that he is a coward, but not surrendering to the enemy is his bottom line!
"Then take your foolish loyalty and prepare to be a fugitive!" Jiang Guang turned around mockingly, "I have to live a good life."
Jiang Xing looked at Jiang Guang's back as he walked out, his expression was extremely complicated and struggling. Seeing that Jiang Guang was almost at the wall, Jiang Xing suddenly shouted: "A Guang, maybe Jiang Xuan..."
"Don't dream." Jiang Guang interrupted coldly, jumped over the wall and disappeared.
Half a day later, Jiang Guang rode a stolen horse to the temporary camp of the Shentu tribe. After Jiang Jingsheng confirmed his identity, he officially joined the Shentu tribe.
***
On the first day of August, there were only six days left before the life-and-death battle.
At dusk, the Jiang clan's earthen city back mountain.
Hu! Hu! Hu! Hu! Hu! Hu! Hu! …
The wind was howling, ghosts were flashing, and the wind was getting weirder, blowing south, west, and east. This was not the real wind, but the incomplete ninth style that was being performed over and over again!
"Chase the wind like the wind!"
"Chase the wind like the wind!"
"Chase the wind like the wind!!"
Hu~~~
A wisp of ordinary breeze blew through the forest, and Jiang Xuan suddenly felt that he had merged into the world, as if he had really turned into a wisp of breeze, blowing over the green grass, blowing over the lush branches and leaves, the mud on the ground, the dust in the air, the light and shadow in the sky, everything was moving forward with the wind, faster and faster, and in the process of moving forward, it was condensed and compressed, and finally gathered into a terrifying sword light!
As far as the eye could see, this sword light seemed to be everywhere!
Where the wind was, there was the sword light!
Jiang Xuan appeared in the wind, his face was a little dull, as if he had forgotten the joy.
"Ninth move, completed?"
Boom boom boom~~Dozens of towering trees around the sound transmission stone collapsed with a roar, and each tree was cut into at least dozens of sections, which was shocking and spectacular.