Infernal Artist

The sun sets in the west, and the autumn wind dyes the mountains and forests.

Long River Crescent.

Liu Ping stood by the river and looked into the distance, saying to himself: "It would be quite different if we had a conversation here, talking about Taoism and drinking wine at the same time."

"You are going to die soon, why bother thinking so much."

The giant sneered in mid-air.

Its shape is so huge, but no one can see it.

Liu Ping sighed and said, "What a disgraceful guy."

Lines of burning small characters appeared before his eyes:

"You have lost the art of 'seeing and hearing as you know', and you have gained back the hexagram art that you are good at."

"There is still a certain amount of time before the historical recorder arrives. If you can, please calculate the time, because this sequence cannot activate the time-space induction, otherwise it will definitely be noticed by the King of Nightmares opposite you."

After Liu Ping glanced at it, he reached out and flicked the non-existent dust on his shoulders.

There is something special about snapping your fingers.

Only those who know the art know that a hexagram master like Liu Ping can calculate the heavenly stems and earthly branches with one flick of his finger, reveal the Nine Gong Bagua with two flicks of his fingers, and even calculate your overnight meal with three flicks of his fingers.

The six arts are the crystallization of the highest civilization in the human world. To put it another way, the human world is the core world of the six paths of reincarnation, simply because it produces all things and nourishes all living beings.

The hexagram technique ranks first among the six arts.

In such a world system, hexagram technology can occupy the highest position among all laws in the world, which shows that it is recognized by all living beings in the six realms.

Of course, there are many methods and techniques for fortune telling, and not everything can be known at the touch of a finger.

——Liu Ping is no exception.

So he smiled and said: "Brother, you sent me back, but you don't know what year or month it is now."

The giant looked down at him and said in a joking tone: "Do you want to go to the future? No, the six reincarnations in the future will be terrible. I will not let those people pay attention to what happens here."

"So we are in the past." Liu Ping said thoughtfully.

His fingers moved again.

The giant said: "Pathetic mortal, do you think I don't know? In the world of six reincarnations, if you die, you can be reincarnated - but now I will seal your soul. When you die, your soul will It will also perish along with it.”

"Very reasonable, very reasonable." Liu Ping stroked his palms and smiled.

Lines of burning small characters kept popping up in front of his eyes. These small characters were brushing upward like crazy, just to make room for new information:

"You launched a war game."

"According to the predictions of the hexagram, you will die from frost and cold and your body will be destroyed;"

"You said something to the Lord of Nightmares and started the deduction again."

"According to the prophecies of the hexagram, you will die of burning fire and oil;"

"You moved your body and smiled at the Lord of Nightmares, which made him very unhappy. At the same time, you launched the deduction again."

"According to the predictions of the hexagram, you will die from a thousand swords;"

"You said something to echo it and then launched the deduction."

"According to the predictions of the hexagrams, you will die from having your heart veins cut off and being skinned."

"..."

Liu Ping stretched out, and the two knives hung on his waist, making a jingling sound in the wind.

This nightmare lord is really an old bastard.

Just in terms of killing itself, it can come up with so many ways that are never repeated.

"By the way, aren't you curious about the secret I'm going to tell you?" Liu Ping asked.

The giant hummed: "This is a deal, I allow you to die here, and you have to tell me the secret - if you don't tell me, I will torture you in every possible way."

Liu Ping said: "Listen carefully, the secret I am going to tell you is this:"

"It's a waste of time for you to focus on me, because the place where the soul originated is being destroyed by a monster climbing up from the Void Pillar, and it will absorb all the power there."

After saying that, he put his hands behind his back and touched each other with his ten fingers.

When you are strong and soft, there is no blame for righteousness.

Good hexagram!

Liu Ping retracted his hand and silently deduced in his mind.

The giant suddenly raised his head and looked towards the boundless void.

It seemed to be able to see something, and said in a tone full of murderous intent: "It's actually real. Who is that guy? It took advantage of me to have fun and robbed those souls that belonged to me..."

After saying that, it seemed to move, then immediately stopped and looked towards Liu Ping.

——Things here are not over yet.

"Yes, it's robbing the souls that belong to you." Liu Ping put his hands behind his back and moved them gently.

I didn't lie to it.

The place where the soul originated was indeed destroyed by the giant armor.

The old gods of Purgatory were also killed by it.

Therefore, the God Lord of Purgatory had to return to the God Pillar to rest and wait for the future.

This is what is happening in history!

The giant looked down and said, "Now it's time to send you on your way."

Liu Ping met its gaze and smiled: "I don't want to die yet, or rather, how do you think I should die?"

His fingers moved slightly.

——He will die from the lightning strike.

The giant said: "I want you to——"

Liu Ping interrupted him and said: "I am no longer a cultivator. After seeing countless civilizations, I feel that one day, you will lose to humans."

Finger flicking, finger flexing, the sun has set, the night has risen, the clouds are like gray dogs, and the moon is shining.

The hexagram is completed.

The giant laughed and said: "Pathetic mortal, you don't understand the gap between mortals and nightmares at all."

Liu Ping's slender fingers moved slowly.

This time, he will die from the rampage and alienation of his flesh and blood.

no.

Must be replaced again.

"There is indeed a gap, but there is also hope. As long as we humans have hope, we will never give up. Sooner or later we will win." He said seriously.

Hope...

The giant was silent for a moment and then said, "I'm leaving. Now tell me, when was the most desperate moment in your life?"

Liu Ping touched it with both hands.

——The new deduction results are out.

very good.

This is it.

This is the only chance!

I saw a glimmer of light emerging from the giant's body and converging on Liu Ping.

Liu Ping couldn't resist this strange trick.

A light and shadow suddenly appeared on his body, condensing into a picture of the past——

a baby.

When he was a baby, he was blind and born without a hand.

He was thrown into the water, helplessly waiting for death to come.

——This is the most desperate moment in Liu Ping’s life!

The picture fades.

There was a hint of joy in the giant's tone:

"I see, is this the first you? Very good, I will let you experience that feeling again. It is called despair. I hope you remember the taste of despair."

"At the end of your life, you have to understand that there is never hope for humanity."

Thousands of tentacles sprouted from its body, and vertical pupils opened at the ends of the tentacles, all looking at Liu Ping.

Liu Ping's hand behind his back suddenly released.

A line of burning small words stayed in the void:

"You figured out the last hexagram."

"You haven't made any more changes. Next, you will-"

Liu Ping didn't have time to read it all, and his whole body suddenly shrank and finally turned into a baby.

"Behold, I have brought you back to the moment when you were most desperate, but with some imperfections."

The giant hummed.

One of the baby's arms suddenly disappeared, and his eyes were covered with a layer of darkness.

"A blind baby with one arm drowns and dies. This is your most desperate moment——"

"Now, I give you this death."

The words fell.

thump!

The baby was thrown into the water.

The calm water surface rippled, and the water waves spread out in all directions, gradually returning to calm.

The giant floated in the sky and waited for a long time.

Time keeps passing.

It saw the baby's eyes gradually closing and no longer struggling.

suddenly.

The giant felt a certain boredom.

As the king of nightmares, he was actually dealing with a human baby here.

There is obviously something very important.

That huge armor that has climbed to the place where the soul originated!

What exactly is it?

The giant raised his head, looked into the void and said: "It's over...it's time to go back to the divine pillar to see who dares to snatch those souls."

Take advantage of this moment.

Andrea suddenly appeared, sank to the bottom of the water, and kissed the baby.

"Remember, remember why it wants to kill you, remember everything it does here, you will understand later!"

She quickly transmitted the message.

The baby had his eyes closed, as if he didn't know anything.

At this time, the giant's voice sounded: "Holy Spirit... give up, there is no hope for you, I can guarantee this."

The giant reached out and grabbed Andrea who was hiding in the void.

It glanced at the baby under the water again, and saw that the baby was suffering its final despair, and then——

The baby stopped breathing.

The giant nodded with satisfaction, then rose into the sky, penetrated the sky of the world, and suddenly disappeared without a trace.

One breath.

Two breaths.

Three breaths.

The water flows deep.

The baby's eyes shot open.

Even though he couldn't see anything, the feeling of being blind was all too familiar to him.

He closed his mouth tightly and rolled slowly along the rapid undercurrent until at a certain moment he broke away from the current and slowly landed on a relatively flat rock in the water.

Lines of burning small characters appeared in the void:

"By constantly changing your behavior and language, you gave the other person countless thoughts of killing you."

"You know various outcomes through hexagrams and choose one of them."

"Baby drowned—"

"This is the only way to die that can keep you going for a while. It is the most painful past for you, full of despair."

"You stopped doing anything and decided this was the way to die."

“The game is over and things are starting to come true.”

"You're a baby."

"You activated the fetal breath method while suffering from suffocation."

"It's something babies naturally learn in the mother's body, so you can continue to hold on for a while."

The baby closed its eyes and concentrated on taking fetal breaths.

Andrea's voice echoed in his ears——

"You have to survive!"

"Stay alive and go to the future to see me, only then can you gain that glimmer of hope to defeat it!"

"...live until the chroniclers come!"

The baby let go of his thoughts and continued to do fetal breathing.

He felt like he couldn't hold on much longer.

——Hold on!

For that ray of hope that has never existed before!

Time keeps passing by, like the water flowing over a baby.

His consciousness began to blur.

Last minute.

When his breath was completely cut off, he suddenly saw lines of small burning characters appearing:

"somebody is coming."

"He's prying into your past."

"Your past forms a picture, known to the other party and to yourself."

A picture unfolds before the baby.

In the picture, there is a strange person standing.

--clown.

His face is painted pale, his eyes are dark, and he wears a colorful costume and a pair of pointed boots.

During the battle, he said to several opponents under the wall:

"It's really funny. When I was born, I was a one-armed blind man. My family threw me into the river to feed the fish. I was about to drown, but I was picked up by a troublesome old man and taught me a skill - —”

"This is why we have the fate to meet you here today."

The screen closed again.

A voice then sounded:

"This is the moment, there is no mistake, it has finally arrived."

The next moment.

I don’t know why, but the baby always feels like something is happening.

The feeling of death gradually faded away, no longer tightening its throat like a shadow.

suddenly.

The baby felt himself being supported by two arms and was suddenly lifted out of the water.

He couldn't help but open his nose and mouth, breathing rapidly.

An old voice sounded in my ears:

"This baby is so pitiful. He was thrown into the river. I don't know whose adults are so cruel!"

"Let me see, blind, one-armed, deficient meridians——"

"Trouble, no one will keep this."

"All living beings suffer. There is no escape. There is no escape. As soon as I save you, you will suffer all the suffering in the world."

A pair of eyes fell on the baby.

The baby just breathed heavily to replenish the oxygen it had lost before.

He couldn't see the other person, but he knew very clearly what moment this scene was and what was happening.

The voice sighed and said:

"The world is so miserable, but you still want to stay. It doesn't matter. I will save you today."

Under the pale moonlight, the old man held the baby in his arms and strode towards the distant village.