Chapter 216

Hongjun, the Ghost King, and Yu Zaoyun hid behind a collapsed wall and looked out. Hongjun held the Chain of a Thousand Devices in his hand and saw Yuan Kun walking down the altar with his back to them.

"Did they notice?" Hongjun asked Yu Zaoyun.

Yu Zaoyun was very puzzled. He slowly shook his head and replied, "Looks like they didn't, but your actions were too chaotic."

Hongjun looked in the direction where the exorcists had retreated. After a moment of hesitation, Yu Zaoyun said, "Should we chase after them?"

Hongjun's mind was filled with the scene of Li Jinglong risking his life to strike. What was this guy thinking? How could there be a time when he was so unsettled?

Hongjun turned back to check on the Ghost King and said, "The Ghost King's injuries are more important. Let's go first!"

Yu Zaoyun transformed into a human and stood on one side with Hongjun. They supported the Ghost King and hurriedly left.

Luoyang Bureau of Exorcism.

"Are you crazy?!" Mo Rigen said angrily.

Li Jinglong's face and body were covered in blood. He sat tiredly on the collapsed steps in front of the Exorcism Department, gasping for breath. His eyes were filled with doubt and uncertainty.

Qiu Yongsi said, "If you can't save them, don't throw your life away. Chief Inspector, you have to reflect on yourself."

"I understand." Li Jinglong said with his eyes closed.

"Let's follow Fox King's plan." Atay said, "At this time, there's no point in being anxious."

Li Jinglong leaned against a pillar and raised his hand to press between his eyebrows. He said slowly, "General Guo Ziyi is on his way to Luoyang. I'm afraid that a letter won't be enough to persuade him. It's best to get rid of them before then."

Lu Xu's arm was injured. It was a superficial wound caused by a shuriken when he fought with Yuan Kun. At this moment, Mo Rigen was bandaging his wound.

"Didn't you say it was just a test?" Lu Xu asked, "How did it become a real fight?"

"Ask him," Mo Rigen said helplessly.

Li Jinglong said, "Do you remember how he discovered us?"

According to Yu Zaoyun's information, they avoided the surveillance of the birds and quietly came to the vicinity of Yanqing Hall. Qing Xiong obviously didn't know they were coming and was interrogating Hongjun. However, just as Li Jinglong was about to make his move, Yuan Kun saw their sneak attack through his transcendence energy. He came to the front of the altar and pointed out Li Jinglong's hiding place.

"He saw it," Li Jinglong frowned and said in a deep voice, "Yuan Kun has been watching us."

In front of the Earth Vein Spell Formation, the place where the magic treasures had been stored was now empty. Qing Xiong couldn't believe his eyes.

"What changed?" Qing Xiong asked in a trembling voice.

"This is impossible," Yuan Kun pressed three fingers to his forehead and leaned on the wooden staff with one hand, gasping for breath, "Li Jinglong must die today! How did he escape? "

Qing Xiong suddenly turned around and stared at Yuan Kun, asking again, "Where is the magic treasure?"

"I can only see the future, not the past," Yuan Kun said slowly, "There must be something wrong under the surface."

"What did you tell me at the beginning?" Qing Xiong was no longer calm and became nervous.

Yuan Kun said, "Hongjun's existence is a trap. You told him that the trial would be on the third of March, which is two days later. Fox King would send a message to Li Jinglong on his behalf. Li Jinglong decided to make his move in advance. Taking advantage of the second trial, when you interrogate Hongjun, Li Jinglong will do his best to save him … "

"At this time, activate the spell formation and get rid of Li Jinglong in one fell swoop," Qing Xiong said in a deep voice, "What did you see?"

"I saw his death." Yuan Kun said, "I saw Li Jinglong lose his life in front of the altar. Ghost King and Nine-Tailed Fox King came to steal the Immortal-Slaying Flying Saber but were burned to death by the Earth Vein Spell Formation."

"But it didn't!" Qing Xiong said angrily, "Where did Han Ba go?!"

Yuan Kun answered, "This is indeed the future I saw. It has been changed again. Impossible! Why is it? "

Qing Xiong said in a deep voice, "I don't care why it changed! Tell me, what should we do next? "

Ever since Yuan Kun was attacked by Li Jinglong in the Blizzard Sacred Mountain, his strength was extremely weak. He swayed and almost couldn't stand steadily. He said in a deep voice, "It will take some time to activate the spell. Before the execution the day after tomorrow, I can only peek into the Heavenly Dao once more. What do you want to see?"

Qing Xiong examined Yuan Kun. At this moment, Yuan Kun threw the question back to him. With Yuan Kun's current magical power, there was still one last chance for him to choose what he saw.

Qing Xiong didn't answer. He turned around and walked out of the underground spell formation.

Luoyang, in a large house.

"They are in the ruins of the Exorcism Division," Yu Zaoyun said in a low voice. "Go over?"

Last night, Hongjun was in the Exorcism Division. Today, Li Jinglong brought the exorcists over. Hongjun helped the Ghost King escape from Luoyang Palace and chose this large house to temporarily rest.

Hongjun pondered for a moment and still decided not to meet with Li Jinglong. After all, no one knew if Yuan Kun could predict what would happen in the future. But at least through Li Jinglong's probing, he understood one thing — Yuan Kun could only see the "reality" that was about to happen, but he couldn't see the actions of everyone at any time.

For example, his attention was all focused on the exorcists and ignored the future of Hongjun, Yu Zaoyun, and the Ghost King stealing the Immortal-Slaying Flying Saber. The current situation was still beneficial to them. As long as they didn't meet up with Li Jinglong before the trial, Yuan Kun wouldn't be able to discover that the current "Hongjun" was Du Hanqing impersonating him.

And once Li Jinglong knew that the "Hongjun" trapped under Qing Xiong's hands was fake, it might be easy for him to see through his future actions.

"So, Hanqing requested to meet with Qing Xiong today." Hongjun asked Yu Zaoyun, "Was it all arranged by Jinglong?"

Yu Zaoyun replied with an "Mm" and replied, "Last night, I kept the fact that you escaped and asked him to think of a way for us."

The night before, Yu Zaoyun told Li Jinglong in detail what had happened. He only told him that Hongjun was imprisoned and that the Qianji Chain couldn't be broken, so he asked Li Jinglong to help him with the plan. Therefore, Li Jinglong designed a series of psychological activities for "Hongjun" to get information from Qing Xiong and planned to take the opportunity to rescue Hongjun with Qiu Yongsi and the others.

"In other words," Hongjun suddenly said, "if it weren't for Hanqing, today's situation would have been …"

Thinking of this, Hongjun couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine. If Du Hanqing hadn't impersonated him, he wouldn't have come out to act with the Ghost King and Yu Zaoyun. The two Monster Kings would have been burned to death in the Earth Vein Magic Array, and Li Jinglong, who came to save him, would have died under the altar in front of him.

"Could this be the trap that Qing Xiong said they set?" Hongjun murmured. "But why did everyone survive?"

"Because of you," the Ghost King said indifferently. "Didn't all of this already happen?"

Hongjun shook his head and raised his hand. His vision was hazy, as if he had grasped a thought, but he couldn't say it clearly.

"Did Yuan Kun expect this to happen?" Qiu Yongsi and Li Jinglong sat side by side in the courtyard.

Lu Xu said, "People who don't have enough brains listen to you talk about Kun Shen all day long. It's simply too tiring. I'm not going to the meeting."

Yu Zaoyun said, "I don't understand either. It's too complicated."

Mo Rigen sent the two of them away first, leaving Li Jinglong, Atay, Qiu Yongsi, and Mo Rigen to ponder in the ruins of the Exorcist Division. At this moment, a white figure silently entered the courtyard. It was Yu Zaoyun. He squatted in the courtyard and quietly looked at Li Jinglong.

"Fox King?"

"Fox King." Everyone greeted Yu Zaoyun.

Yu Zaoyun said, "I came to pass on a message to everyone."

Li Jinglong raised his eyebrows, indicating that Yu Zaoyun should speak if he had something to say. For a moment, everyone's eyes focused on him.

"Yuan Kun saw the scene of your sneak attack today," Yu Zaoyun said slowly.

"Definitely." Qiu Yongsi replied, "Otherwise, there wouldn't have been that altar and the array that suddenly stopped time. He and Qing Xiong were waiting for this moment."

Mo Rigen said, "But he didn't tell Qing Xiong earlier. Instead, he chose to give us a warning right before we made our move."

Qiu Yongsi said, "Because he wanted to prevent all possible variables from occurring. The more people who knew about the future, the easier it would be …"

Li Jinglong signaled everyone to be quiet and listen to Yu Zaoyun.

Yu Zaoyun nodded and said, "We're guessing that he foresaw the conversation between Hongjun and Qing Xiong today. He foresaw your sneak attack, but at the last moment, what he foresaw was definitely not your successful retreat."

Li Jinglong said, "That's right! We were also discussing this matter! At the last moment, someone … "

"Shh." Yu Zaoyun suddenly said.

Everyone suddenly looked at Li Jinglong. Li Jinglong raised his eyebrows slightly, and his expression became subtle.

Qiu Yongsi suddenly asked, "Did you get the throwing knives?"

"We got them." Yu Zaoyun said calmly, "Originally, the Ghost King and I thought that we would die in the array. This is also something that we couldn't figure out."

Li Jinglong suddenly stopped talking. There was a long silence in the courtyard.

Finally, Yu Zaoyun said, "We couldn't figure it out. Maybe you can. Let's go."

After saying that, Yu Zaoyun turned and left the ruins of the Exorcist Division.

Everyone looked at each other. Mo Rigen asked, "What happened at the last moment?"

At the moment when Yuan Kun used that heaven-defying technique, everyone was forcibly imprisoned by time. Mo Rigen stared at the sky, unable to turn his head. Lu Xu, Qiu Yongsi, and the others were completely focused on Hongjun in the center of the altar. No one saw what happened in the hurricane.

"Someone broke the karma." Li Jinglong murmured, "Saved us and the two Demon Kings."

"Who?" Mo Rigen frowned.

Li Jinglong said, "It doesn't matter who it is. The key is … I think … I understand! Just like Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly Technique … I went back in time and changed the karma of the six artifacts the first time. This is the second time … I have to find that node! "

"Did you succeed?" Atay said blankly, "Anyway, we all survived."

"No." Li Jinglong said, "We didn't really survive. Now we are in a 'possibility'. We have to decide it thoroughly before it becomes inevitable!"

Qiu Yongsi said, "What will happen if it's not completely decided?"

"I don't know." Li Jinglong spread out his hands and said, "Maybe we will still die."

"Wait …" Even Mo Rigen's brain couldn't handle it. He said, "What are you talking about?"

Atay said, "Ever since Yu Zaoyun appeared, I couldn't understand their words."

At first, the four exorcists were all first class, but at this time, Li Jinglong and Qiu Yongsi's wisdom finally showed a difference. But this time, Li Jinglong didn't pretend to be mysterious. After all, this was a matter of great importance. He took a branch, drew a circle on the soil, and wrote "Six Artifacts".

"Yuan Kun once changed our fate on us." Li Jinglong explained, "He brought the Mind's Lamp through Hongjun and gave it to me, so that the Immovable Wisdom King could no longer concentrate the Six Artifacts on me alone …"

Mo Rigen sat down and said, "You said this before. Yuan Kun first changed your fate, and then used Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly Technique to send you back to the past. "

Qiu Yongsi muttered, "We have also discussed this process before. It's not enough to just change the 'process'. We have to change a series of fates before returning to the beginning and establishing this route."

"Cause and effect." Li Jinglong said, "In addition to cause, there is also effect." He explained to Ah Tai, "You can think of it as if everyone's fate is a book that has already been written. If you want to change it, you have to choose a paragraph and rewrite it. After you've finished writing it, you have to flip to the very front and stamp it with a seal. The process of Yuan Kun giving me the Mind's Lamp was the rewriting itself, and using Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly Technique to send me back to the past and establish the opening of this fate is this … "As he spoke, he made a" stamp "gesture." It's the action of stamping. "

Atay roughly understood and said, "But what does this have to do with now?"

"The first change to fate has been completed." Li Jinglong said, "Yuan Kun scattered the Six Artifacts through the first change, which also led to Hongjun still being alive, and at the same time weakened the Exorcism Division's power. Now, he wants to take the opportunity to completely destroy us, and in the process, someone gave him a taste of his own medicine and initiated a second change. The goal was to let us survive and defeat Yuan Kun and Qing Xiong. And now, we are in the midst of this second change. "

"So, now we have to find that 'seal'." Qiu Yongsi said, "It is also the 'node' that we speak of that can completely establish the karma that has been changed. Just like how Hongjun survived and separated from the demonic seed at the node, it was Jinglong who requested the separation of the Six Artifacts in front of the Immovable Wisdom King. Now that we have escaped unscathed, there is also a node of this event. "

Mo Rigen and Atay roughly understood. Mo Rigen said, "I think we have to ask the more active person. Who exactly is it? "

Li Jinglong shook his head and said, "If he can tell us, Yu Zaoyun will definitely say it. If he doesn't say it, he must have his reasons. "

Qiu Yongsi said, "I think, from his eyes, perhaps he hasn't figured it out."

Li Jinglong murmured, "That doesn't matter. Last night, we already explained to Yu Zaoyun. He must hide something in order to deceive Yuan Kun, who can see the future."

Atay said, "But even if you find the node of the past, how do you go back to that point in time to stamp it?"

"Hmm …" Li Jinglong murmured, "Yes … only Yuan Kun can make us go back to the past from the dream. It depends on him."

Qiu Yongsi suddenly said, "Jinglong, do you still remember? The past you went back to is not the real past. "

"That was just a dream." Li Jinglong said seriously, "This dream can't affect others."

This problem had been discussed by the exorcists more than once. Yuan Kun's Zhuang Zhou's Dream of a Butterfly technique didn't really change the timeline of the entire world. It only made Li Jinglong return to himself many years ago. When he woke up from the dream, Hongjun's parents were still dead. In a sense, he didn't change the past that had already happened.

Rather than "change", it was more like "establish". Yuan Kun had already finished changing the cause and effect. All he was waiting for was the moment when Li Jinglong finally established the truth. The promise he made in front of the Immovable Wisdom King became the source of all this. And this action, only Li Jinglong could do it.

"So," Li Jinglong murmured, "this node should still be on me."