Ruins of the past

Looking at the toilet in front of him, Chu Qiguang's whole body was vibrating with light waves. He had already formed a seal with his hands and activated the future immeasurable heart seal.

Twenty meters underground, equivalent to a depth of six or seven floors underground, a closed pool of blood suddenly boiled.

One of the humanoid monsters suddenly opened its eyes, and countless lights and shadows seemed to flash past.

Qingqiu looked at Chu Qiguang, who was standing still in front of him, and asked strangely: "You... want to go to the bathroom?"

An invisible wave spread from Chu Qiguang's body and directly swept through Qingqiu's physical body and soul.

At this moment, she felt like she was lying naked in the freezing cold sky, and all her secrets were exposed without reservation.

The moment Chu Qiguang turned her head, she felt that in the other person's eyes, there seemed to be countless lights and shadows of the past and the future going back and forth, appearing and disappearing in an instant, like some kind of hallucination.

Qingqiu was confused: "You?"

Chu Qiguang said lightly: "It's nothing, I got something occasionally and made a little breakthrough."

"Speaking of which, aren't the toilets now divided into men and women?"

He asked, looking back towards the toilet.

Qingqiu shook her head. She temporarily suppressed the doubts in her heart and explained: "There are many monsters or monsters that are hermaphrodites, some reproduce asexually, and some can choose their own gender."

"If we follow the old feudal concepts, there will be too many types of toilets. This is wasteful and unnecessary."

"The so-called defense between men and women is just an order imposed by the ancients for the purpose of domination. There has never been such a thing in nature."

"Only by giving up the sense of honor and disgrace related to chastity can we reduce internal friction, further liberate our potential and development power, and leave time and energy for more useful places..."

Chu Qiguang sensed the location of the next monster in his mind.

"Let's go, I also want to visit other parts of the school."

Not long after they walked out of the teaching building, they saw dozens of young people walking from the direction outside the campus gate, carrying various flags and slogans in their hands.

They all have dragon horns on their heads and dragon scales on their faces.

"Release Donghai Aoyu immediately!"

"Resist the human race's oppression of the dragon race!"

"Please do your part for racial equality."

Looking at their appearance, Chu Qiguang asked: "Well... aren't they students here? Doesn't the school stop them?"

Qingqiu said: "They should be members of the Dragon Power Organization and have the authority to protest here."

However, the students around him were all focused on their cultivation and seemed to have no interest in listening to their propaganda.

The dragons shouted loudly and began to tell the story of Ao Yu, a delivery boy who had been carrying the ardent expectations of his parents since he was a child. He spent all his money to sign up for cram schools, but in the end he failed to get into a good school. During his work, he was exploited by his boss and his wages were owed. In the end I failed to repay the loan, my account was canceled by Tianxiatong, and I couldn’t even pay the rent...

Looking at Chu Qiguang who was standing aside and listening, Qingqiu asked: "Are you curious about this case? Do you need me to retrieve the relevant case files?"

Chu Qiguang shook his head: "The case itself has nothing to say, it's just the same old thing."

"A commoner with mediocre qualifications has been squeezed out of every ounce of blood and sweat since he was a child. Even for the next thirty years of his youth, he eventually became a part in a huge machine, and was robbed of all his wisdom bit by bit. attributes of life.”

"And until the end, even if he gave out a cry of despair..."

Chu Qiguang looked at the Dragon Quan Organization that had begun to collect donations and the presence of several suspected reporters who had begun filming. He smiled casually: "It has just become new value and been squeezed out again."

"I've done this kind of story...I've seen too many of them."

"I am more concerned about the current state of the Dragon Clan. Dragons are the messengers of Emperor Tian. Under the shadow of Emperor Tian getting closer and closer, we must always beware of them..."

Listening to what Chu Qiguang said, Qingqiu felt an instinctive discomfort. She frowned and said: "The Dragon Clan has become a member of our civilization. They are equal to us and should not look at them with colored eyes. Look at them..."

"Are they really equal?" Chu Qiguang looked at her and showed a slightly teasing smile: "What will happen if I kill them all now?"

A vicious murderous aura rushed towards him, causing the fox demon to tremble all over.

Since his birth, Qingqiu, who has lived in this prosperous society for many years, has felt the presence of such murderous intent for the first time.

"Little fox, do you really understand whether the equality and freedom you talk about are your real thoughts or the thoughts instilled in you by others?"

Qingqiu felt that her body was getting stiffer and stiffer under the stimulation of murderous intent, and she even felt the urge to pee in her stomach, which made her feel ashamed.

At this moment, Chu Qiguang in front of him turned and left: "Let's go, we still have a lot of places to visit today."

Qingqiu gritted his teeth and thought to himself: 'These barbarians from the past...'

Next, the fox girl followed Chu Qiguang through various corners of the campus, watching each other pause for a moment at different locations.

And after every pause, she felt that there was some inexplicable change in the other person's body, like an abyss that kept spreading, sinking, and becoming more and more mysterious, exuding a strange attraction. .

"Let's go. I've almost seen the school. Let's go to another place."

Qingqiu asked: "Where are you going?"

Chu Qiguang was silent for a moment and then said, "Let's go to the collection hall and have a look."

On the way the two left the campus, Chu Qiguang suddenly asked: "By the way, why can't I sense the door to the Buddha Realm in the entire Night City?"

Qingqiu said: "The environment of this world is constantly being destroyed by demons. In order to protect the environment, we strictly limit the number of people who can go to this world."

Chu Qiguang said thoughtfully: "Dream Net, is it... that it only spreads across the Buddhist world, but does not completely cover it in the real world?"

"Yes." Qingqiu nodded: "But blocking the world has nothing to do with it, it is just out of consideration for the environment."

And as soon as he left the school, the leisurely, undisciplined, and free atmosphere came back again as the level of the blessed land dropped.

In this society, if you want to practice advanced martial arts and Taoism, want to become a Taoist being, want to obtain a higher position in the chamber of commerce, and start from scratch, you will have to pay a huge price and a lot of effort.

But if you just want to have enough food and clothing, and don't practice martial arts or Taoism, it will be extremely easy, as long as you provide Qi and blood to Tianxia Tongxing every month.

Next, Chu Qiguang and Qingqiu came to the collection hall of Night City.

This is a collection hall of the Chamber of Commerce open to the public. It collects many historical relics like a museum.

Of course, most of them do not contain too many historical secrets, or some dark knowledge, and just serve a function similar to popular science.

Among these exhibits, one item quickly attracted Chu Qiguang’s attention.

It was a jade seal belonging to the Han royal family.

Then there is the Tianshi Seal of the Hunyuan Master of the Tianshi Sect, but Chu Qiguang can no longer feel anything extraordinary in it.

Qingqiu on the side introduced: "This was donated by Emperor Yong'an, the last emperor of the Han Dynasty..."

According to Qingqiu, after the Han emperor woke up, he became dissatisfied with many of the practices of the Chamber of Commerce. He believed that today's human race was cultivated to be too weak and naive, so he wanted to change the policies of the Chamber of Commerce.

In order to resist his dictatorship, the Chamber of Commerce had to send armed troops to capture Emperor Yong'an and then force him to hibernate.

"The leader of the Tianshi Sect, Huang Daoxu, was also unable to adapt to the environment after he woke up. He also had great resistance to the reform of the Tianshi Sect and the situation of Taoist Xuanyuan, and attempted to threaten the Chamber of Commerce with a terrorist attack."

"After assessing his mental state, we also had to initiate the forced hibernation procedure."

Qingqiu looked at Chu Qiguang in front of him, as if he wanted to see some kind of reaction through his expression, but found nothing.

Chu Qiguang came to the deepest part of the collection hall and saw the most important exhibits here.

Looking at the Demon Emperor Sword on display, Chu Qiguang could sense that the power contained in the sword was far greater than before. Obviously, over the past fifty years, the Demon Emperor Sword has been constantly under attack, just like his arrangement before hibernation. The demon clan worshiped and was repaired with luck.

"Old friend, it seems that you are living a good life."

Qingqiu reminded him hurriedly: "Mr. Chu, the Demon Emperor Sword is now the common property of the Chamber of Commerce. If you want to use it, I will apply to the above..."

He stretched out his hand and made a move, and the Demon Emperor's Sword penetrated through the layers of restrictions with a whoosh and flew directly in front of him.

But Qingqiu and the many visitors in front of them seemed unaware and were still commenting on the Demon Emperor Sword and other exhibits.

Chu Qiguang flicked the sword, and the invisible pressure swept across a kilometer in an instant. All the monsters seemed to be suppressed by blood, and an inexplicable fear arose in their hearts.

Qingqiu couldn't see Chu Qiguang's movements of sheathing and flicking the sword, but he just said doubtfully: "Mr. Chu, have you done something?"

"Nothing." Chu Qiguang smiled slightly and said, "Take me to see the Zhu Xianjia."

But just as Chu Qiguang was leaving the collection hall, a young man walked up to them.

"Qingqiu, let me talk to Chu Qiguang. You can go first."

Chu Qiguang looked at the young man in front of him and said doubtfully: "You feel very familiar to me."

The young man said: "I used to be called Zhang Xinhui. Now you can call me Zhang San or Li Si. The name is just a title. It doesn't matter."

Chu Qiguang raised his eyebrows: "Zhang Xinhui?"

In the past, the leader of Huangtian Dao, Xinhui, was once sunk into a pool of blood by Chu Qiguang and turned into a tool for making talisman water.

But at this moment, Zhang Xinhui looked completely different, with a young body and lively vitality, completely unlike an old man who should be in his eighties or nineties.

"The reincarnation plan was successful." Zhang Xinhui said calmly: "This body is already my third life. It has high potential and I like it very much."

"Chu Qiguang, the board of directors asked me to tell you that you can take back the Demon Emperor Sword and we will help you cover it up."

"If you want to return to the Chamber of Commerce, they welcome you back to the board of directors."

Chu Qiguang laughed: "You... use my things to trade with me?"

Zhang Xinhui said: "Then do you want to be reincarnated?"

"Lifespan, without those shares, magic weapons, skills, and knowledge, is it important?"

"People in this era must hibernate constantly to slightly extend their lifespan."

"Even if you are as powerful as you, you will be nothing more than a pile of bones when your lifespan is exhausted."

"And if you can be reincarnated again and again, you can live forever."

Chu Qiguang snorted coldly and said: "The lifespan problem has not been solved yet, but you are going around claiming that Emperor Tian is vulnerable."

Zhang Xinhui shrugged and said, "It's just to appease those stupid people."

"You did something similar when you were being hunted by Emperor Tai."

"These people at the bottom simply don't have enough willpower, self-control and talent to practice martial arts and Taoism. Providing them with resources is a pure waste and will also lead to the improvement of demon dyeing."

"In this world, a few elites lead the majority of ignorant people to move forward."

"They sacrifice their freedom, will, and part of their assets to support our strength, while we provide them with a guarantee of safety and life."

"But the existence of intelligent life will always have some unrealistic illusions because of the comfort of the environment."

"The methods you used in the past solved this problem very well and allowed them to create greater value. We are just carrying forward your methods and taking it one step further."

Chu Qiguang applauded Zhang Xinhui and said with a smile: "That's right."

He looked at Zhang Xinhui, then at the ordinary people who were visiting, and said calmly: "But what's the difference between you and them... to me?"

The next moment, light flashed in Chu Qiguang's hand, and the magical book suddenly appeared.

Immediately after Zhang Xinhui screamed, he discovered that along with the bursts of severe pain, the transformations in his body were extracted one after another, and poured into the magical book.

Zhang Xinhui said in disbelief: "What is this..."

"My self-created magical power, if you can be the first to die under this magical power, it will be enough to leave a name in history."

But there was something strange in Zhang Xinhui's smile the next moment: "You shouldn't be so reckless."

"You can kill me in this life, but you can't kill me in the next life."

"And he...will come to you."

Then Zhang Xinhui's body instantly melted into a ball of blood.

Chu Qiguang frowned as he watched this scene. He did not stop, but flew towards the south of the city with a flash of figure. The Zhu Xian built according to the design of the Greedy King should be there.

But after he flew for a while, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

He found that no matter how he flew towards the border of Night City, it was like an infinite distance, with no sign of getting closer.

With a trace of doubt in his heart, Chu Qiguang tried to open the door to the Buddhist world and return to reality to take a look.

"Is it the influence of Mengwang?"

But this time he found that he couldn't even open the door to the Buddhist world.

Then, in his surprised gaze, another door to the Buddhist world opened, and a familiar figure walked through it.

"As expected of me, you won't cooperate with my experiment at all."

Chu Qiguang looked at the man in front of him who looked exactly like him, and asked in surprise, "Who are you?"

The man in front of him was wearing a white robe, and the power of the void behind him turned into a black throne, emerging under him.

"I am you who succeed, and you are me who fail."

"I abandoned the Ring of Foolishness, gave up the immeasurable heart seal of the future, and relied on myself to practice hard step by step for the past 52 years."

"Facts have proven that I am successful when I make this choice."

"And only the successful Chu Qiguang is Chu Qiguang."

Chu Qiguang, who was holding the Demon Emperor Sword, threw the sword away. The Demon Emperor Sword turned into black lightning and surrounded him. The next moment, he formed seals with his hands and activated his magical power.

Transformations from the magical book poured into his body.

He shot out a palm from the air, intending to directly capture the transformation inside the white-robed man's body.

But under this palm, he only felt that he had hit a ball of air.

The man in white robes in front of him looked close, but seemed to be far away, at a distance that he could not reach at all.

The man in white robe said calmly: "Extracting transformation and depriving it of transformation are indeed extremely overbearing magical powers."

"But as long as it's beyond the attack range, it's all meaningless."

"You are in the palm of my hand, but you don't even know where I am."

"Before this battle begins, the outcome has been decided between you and me."

The next moment Chu Qiguang raised his head, he found that the whole world was gradually closing, and everything was about to return to darkness and tranquility.

A flash of enlightenment flashed in Chu Qiguang's heart: 'This is the power of the ghost realm... He has also cultivated the holy dharma of the "Ten Thousand Ghosts Record" line? Then it was condensed into magical power...'

The next moment, he was completely swallowed up by eternal darkness.

The man in white robe, or rather Chu Qiguang, looked at his clenched right palm and sighed: "It's over, but it also means that in the future battle with Huang Tian, ​​I can only rely on myself."

"In the past 52 years... I hope that you are the one who succeeds."

"This position is so lonely."

Qiao Zhi emerged from the air beside him and asked curiously: "Is it over?"

After seeing Chu Qiguang nodding, he said: "Where is there another me?"

Chu Qiguang said: "Don't worry, it's right under my nose."

Qiao Zhi heard this and breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. I think it's too dangerous for you to split yourself into two and test two routes at the same time. What if you fail?"

Chu Qiguang shook his head: "I am the one who succeeds. No matter what, there will always be one winner. It doesn't matter which one."

Qiao Zhi asked curiously: "Then why do I have to use the blood pool to create another one?"

Chu Qiguang looked at him and said: "According to the deduction of the future immeasurable heart seal, your influence on the outcome is very important."

Qiao Zhi scratched his head in embarrassment: "Hey, it turns out I'm so important."

Then he said: "Then are we also copied by another Chu Qiguang? That's why we copied with me..."

"How is it possible? Stop thinking nonsense..." When Chu Qiguang said this, he suddenly paused and looked at the border of Night City: "I... how long has it been since I left Night City?"

Qiao Zhi asked in confusion: "How long... it seems like we went out a few years ago? Where did we go specifically... Why can't I remember?"

Chu Qiguang's face darkened: "How can I not remember it if I have photographic memory?"

Then he seemed to sense something. He looked up to the sky and felt a terrifying suction force coming to his body.

With a whoosh, he was sucked all the way up to the sky, and the next moment he broke through the top of the Buddhist world and passed through what should have been the boundary of space.

Looking down, the Night City he was in just now was shrouded in a black spherical space.

He looked up and found that there were row after row of countless similar spherical spaces on the entire land.

A trace of relief flashed in Chu Qiguang's eyes: "So that's it?"

He flew towards the end of the sky and saw an extremely huge face, enough to cover the entire sky, hidden behind the sky, looking at him.

"come back."

When the huge face opened its mouth and inhaled, Chu Qiguang was sucked directly into it and disappeared completely.

The giant, or the real Chu Qiguang, sat in the Sala Palace, looking at the countless small worlds in his palms, and once again fell into deep contemplation.