Chapter 13: Lawless Place
Quan's fear of the ancestor Tianshi is not without reason.
Even though the ancestor Tianshi is no longer in the world.
After the thunder, not only did it open a "skylight" for this ancient temple, but it also cost Quan half his life.
It's so domineering.
After all, the gap between the creation stage and the second calamity immortal is too big. Even if it was just a restriction left by the second calamity immortal, not the real deity.
Qi Xuansu naturally couldn't use such a useful trick once, he immediately shouted the name of the ancestor Tianshi again.
He even thought that no matter how dangerous the Lingshan Cave Heaven was, as long as he shouted the name of the ancestor Tianshi all the way, it would not matter, and this trip to Lingshan would even be unexpectedly simple.
But Qi Xuansu was soon disappointed.
This time, no thunder fell.
Qi Xuansu could faintly feel that there was actually a response, but the thunder gathered halfway and then lost its power. From this, it can be seen that the thunder of Lingshan Cave Heaven is similar to the "Innate Five Tai" of the earthly immortals. There is a certain interval between each use. After all, this is not a completely sealed Demon-Suppressing Well Cave Heaven. It is leaking from all sides and it is impossible to form a real cycle.
Qi Xuansu had no choice but to do it himself, holding "Qingyun" and killing Quan.
Quan was already like a dried corpse, and after being hit by the thunder, he was like a charred corpse, which was horrible to look at.
Qi Xuansu slashed with a sword, and there was a faint sound of tiger roar.
Quan screamed: "'Dragon and Tiger Sword Art'!"
He was first seriously injured by the thunder of Zu Tianshi, and now he saw Zu Tianshi's sword art, which was completely frightened. He would rather go under the blood moon than face Qi Xuansu again.
Quan turned into countless shadows and exploded, wandering around, not only avoiding Qi Xuansu's sword, but also escaping from the temple and escaping into the blood light outside.
A round of blood moon illuminated the entire Lingshan Cave Heaven, and the coverage area was not small. As the saying goes, "If you hold fire but your fingers don't burn, it's because you're fast. If you nail a nail into a piece of metal or stone, it's because you focus on one point." The larger the range, the smaller the power. Therefore, the blood moon is unlikely to endanger the life of the Creator of Heaven, at most it will be a little troublesome.
At this time, the moonlight all over the cave is like the ice and snow in the cold winter. It's not that you will freeze to death immediately after going out. After making adequate preparations, you can be safe and sound, but you will be very uncomfortable with the cold, so it's better not to go out. Lying on ice and snow is not a solution.
Qi Xuansu saw Quan escape into the moonlight and immediately followed.
After entering the blood-colored moonlight, Qi Xuansu heard all kinds of sounds, just like his previous experience in trance, there were war drums, war roars, beast roars, and blood pupils lit up in the blood-colored moonlight, which was even brighter than the blood-colored moonlight.
If it was the previous Qi Xuansu, he might not understand the scene at this time, and would only feel weird and horrible, but now Qi Xuansu has seen the world, and it is easy to analyze the principle. Wu Luo once summoned the projections of her dead sisters, which were resolved by Lan Da Zhenren with the "Tongyou Lantern". The blood moon should be the same as the two, summoning the marks of those dead people and turning them into projections. However, because the blood moon covers a large area and its power is greatly dispersed, it is unlikely to summon a projection of the first level of immortals, at most the first level of heavenly beings.
Without mystery, there is no terror.
Several blood shadows rushed towards Qi Xuansu, and Qi Xuansu transformed into the Dharma body of Taiyin Zhenjun, operated the "Taiyin Thirteen Swords", and the magic sword whistled and moved, relying on the advantage of "Qingyun" to kill all the blood shadows.
However, this move also alarmed the blood shadows in other places, and they immediately rushed towards Qi Xuansu like a blood tide.
Qi Xuansu made a simple estimate in his mind. If he really wanted to kill all the blood shadows, he could do it. The key point was that it was not worth it. This move would not only greatly damage his vitality, but also bring no benefits. He did not practice the legendary method of the devil, which could increase his cultivation by one point for every person he killed. He was not here to clean up Lingshan Dongtian, so he avoided it if he could.
Moreover, Qi Xuansu suspected that these blood shadows could be regenerated continuously. When the Tianshi Sect conquered Lingshan Dongtian, they should have wiped out all the blood shadows. However, after the Tianshi Sect left, these blood shadows began to regenerate and accumulate. No one paid attention to them for so many years, just like wild grass, they have regained this scale.
Qi Xuansu glanced again, but there was no trace of Quan. After all, Quan was a native of Lingshan Dongtian, and his understanding of this place was far better than Qi Xuansu. If he really wanted to hide, it would not be difficult with the cover of the blood moon.
Qi Xuansu had to retreat back to the temple.
On this point, Quan did not lie to Qi Xuansu. These buildings could indeed block the entry of the blood shadow. After Qi Xuansu closed the door of the temple, the various sounds outside gradually became smaller and farther away.
Qi Xuansu looked up at the dome of the temple. There was a hole pierced by the thunder. It must be said that the control of this thunder was really meticulous. The thicker the thunder was, the bigger the hole was. There was no power dissipation.
A beam of blood-colored moonlight shone down from this hole. A blood shadow was born in it, but it could not leave the range of the moonlight to enter the place not illuminated by the moonlight, just like being trapped in a cage.
Qi Xuansu could not say that he regretted not being able to kill Quan. For Qi Xuansu, the result was more important than the process. His main purpose was not to kill people, but more to protect himself. Now Quan escaped in a panic, and Qi Xuansu was not injured at all. The result was achieved.
He would not care whether Quan lied to him or not. To put it bluntly, it was just two wary and calculating strangers who fought after testing each other. It was not something that even a child would do to be completely honest with a stranger who had just met. Otherwise, why is it said that the world is full of intrigues? Moreover, this kind of deception is more straightforward and bloody than that in the temple, tearing off all the veils of warmth.
People who have been in the temple for a long time, or people who have been in the peaceful world for a long time, such as the Taoist priest in the flower garden, always overemphasize procedures, rules, and morality. These are of course correct, but we must not forget that the reason why there are procedures, rules, and morality is based on violence.
Without violence to maintain, these are all empty.
Or from another perspective, rules, procedures, and morality are actually a kind of decoration for violent deterrence. The more civilized, the more exquisite and complicated the decoration is, the more barbaric, the more simple, and even disdain to cover up.
In this uninhabited area that is separated from the civilized world, there is no cover-up.
Then only violence can speak.
Does Qi Xuansu still want to condemn Quan? Talk to Quan about rules and procedures? Then seize the loopholes in Quan's words or moral flaws to criticize him? This is not a meeting of the Taoist government. Without the strong violent foundation of the Taoist sect as support, it is meaningless.
Sometimes, the Taoist priests in the flower garden will pursue the rationality of morality, rules, and procedures to the utmost. When encountering certain problems, they will repeatedly and extremely pursue the correctness of morality, rules, and procedures.
To kill someone, it cannot be because you are unreasonable, but because the person being killed is guilty. Even if it is revenge, you cannot be happy with the enmity. You must seize a moral stain of the enemy, stand on the moral high ground under the archway of moral righteousness, and judge the enemy.
You must be morally perfect, must conform to the correct values, and have no flaws.
To put it nicely, killing people and destroying their hearts is not a moral nobleness, but more of a way to satisfy the moral superiority by accusing others of "immorality" and "immorality".
To put it bluntly, people who are good at using rules are also disciplined by rules, immersed in the hierarchy and unable to extricate themselves. They cannot exceed the upper level in the slightest, and remember their position. Even their own children must be divided into legitimate and illegitimate, and they must be clearly divided, without any confusion or transgression, and they are proud of this.
This just proves that the discipline of the Taoist sect on the flower garden Taoist priests is too high. Discipline is essentially a reward and punishment mechanism. If there is merit, there will be rewards, and if there is fault, there will be punishment. The difficulty for the flower garden Taoist priests to escape discipline also means that the flower garden Taoist priests can benefit more from the discipline of the Taoist framework system, so they will spontaneously maintain this framework system.
However, things should be viewed from two sides. Morality and rules are both confinement and protection, which indirectly shows that the flower garden Taoist priests are weak in violence and must be protected through rules.
Wild Taoist priests like the strong to take all and absolute violence, and hate the constraints of red tape. The flower garden Taoist priests like justice, reason, rules and other civilized products to suppress violence. It goes without saying that both like a world that is more conducive to their survival.
The high-level Taoists are neither wild Taoists nor flower garden Taoists. They are the makers of rules and morals.
Qi Xuansu certainly recognized this. Under the framework of the Taoist system, this must be done. If you do not follow the procedures and are not in line with morality, it is easy to shoot yourself in the foot. Therefore, he always speaks with rules under the framework of the Taoist, without any transgression, almost like an ascetic monk.
But once you leave the framework of the Taoist system, it is hard to say whether this set of rules can still work.
If the world is civilized everywhere, why should the Taoists claim to be civilized?
In places that are not so civilized, the binding force of moral rules can be imagined.
Qi Xuansu does not have moral cleanliness. Under the influence of Qi Niang, he is essentially a thorough pragmatist. If the rules are beneficial, he will act according to the rules without any transgression. If violence is beneficial, he will directly use violence, and he doesn't even mind breaking the rules.
So Qi Xuansu has always been a half-black and half-white person, black and white, like yin and yang Pisces, whether it is black or white depends on what kind of external environment. Qi Xuansu can be the brilliant Qi Chieftain, or Wei Wugui who hides in the dark and kills people.
At this time in Lingshan Cave Heaven, I want to laugh if you talk about rules.
The biggest rule here is that there are no rules.
Rules are not the same as regular rules.
Qi Xuansu sat in the temple all night. When it was dawn, he pushed open the door of the temple. Everything outside returned to normal. Only the traces left by Qi Xuansu when he killed the blood shadow with a sword last night proved that everything last night was not an illusion.
Qi Xuansu looked at the direction of Lingshan again and set out on the road again.
At the same time, Xiao Yin drew a door on the wall and sneaked into the alchemy room. He did not find Qi Xuansu. He tiptoed to pick up the "Guizang Lantern" placed on the jade table by Qi Xuansu and looked around curiously.