Chapter 2490: Who Holds the Knife

The biggest danger is that you fundamentally don't know where the danger comes from, yet you are already on the verge of death. The most terrifying enemy is that they have already made their move against you, and you don't even know who they are!

For someone like Bao Xuanjing... as long as you understand the problem, you can find a solution. As long as you know who the enemy is, you know how to respond.

He only feels absurd.

He painstakingly strives to be a person, yet because he is too much of a "person," he is thus detested and hated by the Heavenly Dao.

Heavenly intent is like evil waves of knife-like wind, chopping down a reincarnator who possesses transcendent vision, leaving him supported on the left and awkward on the right, almost stepping by step towards self-destruction.

And those predecessors who were able to deceive heaven to this extent, creating such a prosperous human world, what kind of majesty did they possess?

Bao Xuanjing's heart is full of reverence!

Those are his predecessors! They are his ancestors!

Thinking of those names brilliant like stars, thinking of those grand feats of opening heaven and splitting earth, his soul trembles for them, his blood surges for them. That is the most ancient echo from the depths of his bloodline!

He feels extremely proud to be a "person"!

Yes. Even though at this moment he hides his life as a demon horse, he still wants to go back.

The body is a demon horse's body, the heart is a human's heart!

Even though he already knows that heavenly fate is with the demons, how to choose between "demon" and "person" is fundamentally not a problem.

You demon race are all locked in prison like pigs to be slaughtered. Whether heavenly fate is with you or not, what meaning does it have?

We human race sweep across ten thousand realms, suppress various heavens, the human way is greatly prosperous, unstoppable!

"Xuanjing?" Zheng Shangming looked at Bao Xuanjing, who was laughing until he was out of breath, even laughing out tears, somewhat unable to understand it.

Although what I said does have a bit of reason.

But you're laughing... too happily?

"Nothing, nothing." Bao Xuanjing slowed down for a long time, waving his hand: "I thought of... some very funny things."

At this moment, his true fate is still in the demon horse there. This body named "Bao Xuanjing" is merely a shell. Manipulating this body to speak and move gives him a feeling of manipulating a shadow puppet.

This makes him feel interesting.

After wiping away the gloom in front, he once again begins to feel that this world is interesting.

After nearly all his previous efforts were wasted, after pulling back from the cliff edge, how could he not feel the sunset is beautiful?

To falsely fall from a human body into a demon horse, to hide one's fate within it, is not a simple thing.

For example, when a human falls into a demon, this kind of change is usually irreversible.

And he is precisely stepping on that boundary line, just to see the world as seen by the demon horse. The adventure of this step is completely worth it.

Now this game of chess, he has also sat down!

The big dragon in the game that was about to be slaughtered has become the chess stool on which people play chess.

Once the divine dragon flips out of the sea, it is bound to rise high to the nine heavens! Once he holds the chess piece in his hand, he, Bao Xuanjing—

Missed his grandfather.

Having experienced this time of Heavenly Dao's malice, the killing bureau he didn't know about, only then did he discover that he particularly needs his grandfather.

Grandfather was right.

Born in the Bao family, what kind of fortune.

As long as Great Qi's Shofang Earl is by his side, he doesn't need to do anything and can safely grow. External killing bureaus won't even get close, they will be blocked. But he himself sent his grandfather out of Linzi!

"What thing is so funny?" Zheng Shangming was a little worried that Bao Xuanjing was mocking himself.

He didn't mind being mocked.

What he was worried about was that Bao Xuanjing was not a good child.

Bao Xuanjing is in a good mood now, so he can also leisurely tell some 'person' stories.

"I used to love eating sugar pills very much. One time I saw one, placed in a jade bottle, round and plump, with a very faint fragrance, which made me crave it terribly! I asked my mother, can I eat one? My mother said, you don't need to eat it."

"I was very strange. I wanted to eat it! My mouth was greedy! What do you mean 'don't need'? Is it because you dislike that I ate too much?"

"Later, I saw similar ones at my grandfather's place. I thought I needed to change the question. I asked, Grandfather, Grandfather, is this pill tasty?"

Bao Xuanjing's expression was dejected: "My grandfather said, 'This has nothing to do with you.' I then didn't dare to speak."

He sighed: "I pondered that his meaning was that I wouldn't be allowed to eat sugar pills in the future. It scared me so much that I quit them all."

"You're talking about Pulse Opening Pill?" Zheng Shangming's expression was strange.

"Later I knew it was Pulse Opening Pill, and it wasn't good to say I wanted to eat it either." Bao Xuanjing said quite emotionally: "Because I grew up, I am the heir of the Bao clan, I must mature early. Pulse Opening Pill is too precious, it is the key for humans to open the door to the extraordinary, it possesses extraordinary practical significance, I cannot... eat it for fun."

Pulse Opening Pill is of course very important, and indeed has profound historical significance, but the Pulse Opening Pill system is so mature, and the output is so abundant... with Shofang Earl manor's financial resources, it's not a big deal for Bao Xuanjing to truly eat it like sugar pills.

It can only be said that the Bao family's education is very strict, and this child is managed tightly.

Zheng Shangming smiled kindly: "Eating one or two is not a problem, not stealing or robbing. Later, Uncle Zheng will give you one, you eat it quietly!"

"Okay!" Bao Xuanjing was very happy.

"Can you bring it over now?" He looked at Zheng Shangming, very embarrassed: "I haven't eaten it before, I want to taste it fresh. Today, I came out to the suburbs with you, letting myself fly, feeling freedom, so I especially want to taste it. At this moment, this is a Pulse Opening Pill named freedom."

He added sensibly: "Any quality will do."

The problem of the human body being too archaic, too pure, and thus detested by heavenly intent, is absolutely a problem that has existed for ten thousand ages.

Even with Bao Xuanjing's kind of vision, if you threw him into ancient times, he wouldn't know how to solve it.

But in today's era, it is very simple.

Because the great human race predecessors have already written down the answer. Those ambitious people of the previous generation have further simplified the answer over a long time—

Pulse Opening Pill!

Why are natural dao pulse holders so rare in the era when the human way is greatly prosperous and the human race dominates the present world? And why are they becoming increasingly fewer?

In the darkest ancient times, some natural dao pulse holders could still appear from time to time, leading the human race to survive with difficulty in ancient times.

In the stage when the human race began to rise, qi and blood opening pulse holders who survived nine deaths and one life and natural dao pulse holders were almost half and half.

But the further it got, the fewer natural dao pulse holders were seen.

Up to now, among the contemporary famous ones, there are no more than Zhong Xuan Zun, Wei Xuan Che, and a few others.

He, Bao Xuanjing, was also held as a treasure.

It's not because the human race is declining, or the human race's bloodline is not strong enough.

On the contrary, the potential of the human race is increasingly rich. The continuous breaking of cultivation records is precisely the proof.

It's just because heavenly fate is always with the demons, with those natural, earth-nurtured innate races. Heavenly fate has no love for humans.

Not giving natural dao pulse is precisely an expression of having no love.

But heavenly fate also has no hate for humans.

Because the ancient humans detested by heavenly fate no longer exist. They have either already transcended and fundamentally don't care about heavenly fate.

Only a Bao Xuanjing can still make heavenly fate show its might!

A small Pulse Opening Pill opened the cultivation path for ordinary people and broke the extraordinary natural moat. A small Pulse Opening Pill will also fan the so-called heavenly fate until it is dizzy, letting the malice of the heavenly dao dissipate like smoke.

Why must the fierce beasts that produce Pulse Opening Pill take the demon race as their source and nourish themselves with human qi?

It's not just because this can greatly increase the output of Pulse Opening Pill.

It's also because only in this way can the continuous evolution and sublimation of the overall human race's bloodline be ensured, so that they are not detested by the heavenly dao!

So the existing Pulse Opening Pill system is almost impossible to innovate further. It has already exhausted the wisdom of the human race, and it is almost impossible to be more perfect.

All subsequent research is at most to reduce the consumption of human qi and increase the output and quality of Pulse Opening Pill.

The opening of pulses by human race cultivators is all mixed with the blood of the demon race.

The bloodline of the human race takes the essence of ten thousand races.

A large part of the god通 seeds hidden in the human race's inner mansion that are available for exploration were, in ancient times, nothing but the innate abilities of various races!

Heaven does not give, humans take it themselves.

Those holders of innate god通 can also be viewed as accidentally appearing atavisms. What is returned to are those ancestors who personally swallowed the god通 powers of innate races!

The so-called heavenly intent, how can it distinguish who is who, who is the true son?

Only one Pulse Opening Pill is needed to solve Bao Xuanjing's current problem. But he cannot immediately wrap his body with the blood lotus, return to the dao fetus, and go to the Bao family himself to get one. Otherwise, under the malice of the heavenly dao, it is hard to guarantee that there will not be some mistake again.

He can only seek help from Zheng Shangming.

And Zheng Shangming was speechless for a moment.

Someone of Bao Xuanjing's origin and family background has actually never eaten a Pulse Opening Pill and wants to taste its flavor but cannot.

Truly... the troubles of a genius.

If he could, he also wouldn't want to eat Pulse Opening Pill.

He also wanted to lie in Jixia Academy reading idle books, waiting for some attention-grabbing moment, sitting up and smiling, saying the time has come. And then the wind would fill Linzi.

"Send a Pulse Opening Pill over." He picked up his waist badge and instructed.

"Thank you, Uncle Zheng!" Bao Xuanjing's face was full of joy.

In the horse's belly, on the blood lotus, there is a small human figure, sitting and thinking quietly, his eyes deep with light.

He is tracing back all the things he encountered today.

All the causes of today must bear the fruits of tomorrow.

The knife of heavenly intent is about to be solved, so what about the one who is pushing the knife of heavenly intent?

Where is this person? What is their surname and name?

Can they recognize him, Bao Xuanjing?

"Guest officer, you are already the fourth batch of people to come and see the scene..." On Youxia Island, the innkeeper of Guanlan Inn wiped his sweat: "This humble one really doesn't know what happened. How could the affairs of immortals relate to us?"

The inn's owner has already run away, fearing the gloomy and terrifying murder scene, and even more tired of the big people flying around, saying nothing will make him return to the inn.

Once the reputation of a murder house spreads, there is no hope for any business.

But as an employee innkeeper, he cannot just leave. His feet are also trembling, but he has to guard his post for one day's wage.

He also needs to deal with immortals from all roads. If he doesn't handle it properly, he might turn into ashes and smoke—

Indeed, there are places in the Near Sea Islands with rule of law, but in this matter, it doesn't give people much sense of security. Haven't several of the staying guests gone missing?

That couple who looked very kind and also very compatible were behind the demons who killed without blinking an eye and slaughtered many officials of the Jing country.

According to the investigation by the Sea Patrol Guard lords, they said it was something called Equality Country. See ghosts.

Didn't Jing country immortals recently exterminate that notorious Sky Ghost of Equality Country?

The officials of Qi country never discussed this matter, but all the passing sea merchants said so.

"Who were the first three batches?" Zhong Li Yan asked.

"This—" The innkeeper's head shrunk.

"You don't need to know what happened. We are just informing you that we want to go and see." Zhong Li Yan took out a silver ingot and placed it on the counter: "Lead the way."

"It doesn't hurt to tell us what you heard." Zhuge Zuo put down the book he had been reading all the way and said from the side: "We will judge the truth and falsehood ourselves."

Star Witch grandfather indeed didn't tell him to come and confirm anything.

He was very clear about his grandfather's ability. As long as they saw, experienced, brushed past, or even just passed by some places, regardless of before or after, the things grandfather wanted to confirm were already completely confirmed.

So they didn't need to do anything extra, just turn around at sea and it would be fine.

But Zhong Li big one is someone with his own ideas.

Hey... he, Zhuge little Zuo, also didn't want to be muddled.

Anyway, the things grandfather instructed were very simple and wouldn't be affected. The two of them could also have their own judgments.

He guessed that the things grandfather wanted to confirm were related to Immortal Palace.

This was a game between grandfather and grandson, and reaching the wisdom of Star Witch was something he always pursued.

Earlier, he had gone to Chaowen Dao Heavenly Palace with questions to ask Jiang Cabinet Elder—"Are there immortals in the sky?"

That last question was first raised by Original Heaven God.

And he noticed that Jing country's Yu Xianyu also had a deep touch on this question.

The "ascension legend" of the immortal era and the "Immortal Court scheme" once promoted by Jing country, their specific details were all secret intelligence, and he had the fortune to read them.

But at the moment of seeking dao at Heavenly Palace, he still couldn't glimpse the full picture.

It was after the Nine Palaces Heavenly Resonance that he had some enlightenment.

Original Heaven God's seeking dao at Heavenly Palace was essentially a behavior to cover people's eyes. Its asking about immortals had its fundamental stance. Original Heaven God, which ended the myth era and absorbed the nutrients of the fall of the myth era, had an instinctive and should-care attitude towards immortals.

Of course, after Original Heaven God was crowned and truly transcended, Zhuge Zuo had further cognition of this—in the big picture of clearing out One Truth Dao in the entire Jing country, Original Heaven God perhaps always grasped something. Asking about immortals was just the final confirmation of the Immortal Court scheme, or more specifically, It was confirming Luqiu Wen Yue's plan to clear out One Truth Dao!

Let's talk about Yu Xianyu again... Yu Xianyu's master is Ji Jinglu, and behind Ji Jinglu obviously stands Luqiu Wen Yue. Calling Yu Xianyu a sky immortal is related to the failed Immortal Court plan, and another reason is actually One Truth Dao. If Jiang Zhenjun once saw a sky immortal in the deep sky sea, it is also very possible that he saw One Truth.

The whereabouts of the sky immortals are perhaps the cunning rabbit holes of One Truth Dao.

Then what about grandfather?

As the Star Witch of Chu country, for whom did grandfather ask about immortals?

Jiang Cabinet Elder's answer at that time, "There are no immortals in the sky, and there should not be any in the human world," what does it represent?

That is the answer of heaven and man. Does it represent the attitude of the heavenly dao?

Just talking about immortals again?

If they had a choice, Zhuge Zuo believed that those several Immortal Palace lords who had always been hidden in the Immortal Palace definitely wouldn't be willing to respond to the Nine Palaces Heavenly Resonance.

But to gain something, one must bear something. Having the inheritance of the Immortal Palace means one cannot avoid the karma of the Immortal Palace.

When Ruyi Immortal Palace was in its peak state, it once faced the One Truth Dao that exterminated the immortal era. The echo of the immortal era swept away all traces related to immortals.

For someone like him who has been studying star divination since childhood, having the exact locations of Ruyi Immortal Palace and several other Immortal Palaces, and having the Nine Palaces Heavenly Resonance which shook all heavens, although he cannot precisely locate every Immortal Palace lord, it is still not difficult to draw the approximate range of the remaining several Immortal Palaces.

At that time, there were two Immortal Palaces that responded in the sea—

Wanxian Palace, Ba Mansion Immortal Palace.

Of course, they can continue to move or hide, but tigers don't move the mountain, and dragons don't leave the pool. There must be remnants in the Near Sea.

Or perhaps grandfather wants to confirm the situation of some Immortal Palace among them?

"Why are you just looking at that broken book of yours whenever you have free time?" At the door of the guest room, Zhong Li big one beckoned: "Don't look! Come in and pinch your fingers to calculate how many people died here and who all came over? Big one doesn't have time to calculate."

Zhuge Zuo said 'oh' and closed his book.

He bent his fingers and lightly tapped his brow, his eyes swirling with starlight.

Stepping into the room, he saw heavenly mechanisms like lines, intersecting vertically and horizontally, like a three-dimensional, abnormally complex net, making him dizzy to look at!