Infernal Artist

Liu Ping stood in a dusty street.

This is a mountain gate for practitioners, with several high mountains reaching into the blue clouds, various pavilions and practice rooms, caves, markets, and a wide square enough for practitioners to fight.

However, it seemed like a big earthquake had erupted here.

Everything is topsy-turvy.

——Liu Ping didn’t even see anything intact.

The pavilion is old and dilapidated.

The streets are overgrown.

Skeletons littered the ground.

"It's strange...what exactly is this place?"

Liu Ping said softly.

There was silence.

He seemed to be the only one in the world, and there was no sound except the rustle of his walking.

Liu Ping walked slowly on the street, his expression becoming more and more solemn.

The world of spiritual practice is your home.

I practice Taoism here, fight, get to know monks from various sects, and travel to all corners of the world. I am so familiar with it, just like my own body.

——I have never imagined that there are secrets behind this world that I don’t know about.

From the time I used hexagrams to calculate the burning desires of sentient beings, everything seemed different.

It was like something was triggered.

Liu Ping walked to a skeleton, squatted down, and picked up a rotten battle axe.

The ax has completely lost its spirituality. Even the magic circle runes etched on the ax body have become mottled and have completely lost their effectiveness.

Liu Ping stroked the runes carefully, and a look of shock gradually appeared on his face.

"There are some deviations from our system... but it is more concise, beautiful and powerful than ours..."

He put down the battle ax gently and picked up another dagger.

The dagger suddenly emitted a blue light, instantly penetrating the sky and cutting the void into two parts.

Click.

The dagger broke immediately after releasing that blow.

"Such power has exceeded the upper limit of our world's strength - when was this a relic?"

Liu Ping muttered to himself, with a look of confusion on his face.

For the first time in his life, he felt that the world of cultivation was not simple.

Liu Ping continued to move forward, and finally walked through the entire long street and arrived at a pagoda temple at the end of the road.

I saw four big characters written on the plaque of the pagoda temple:

"Sage of Wind and Rain."

saint--

Is this the former residence of the saint?

Since there is a saint sitting here, why is the whole world so overturned, with corpses everywhere?

Liu Ping stepped into the pagoda temple, released his spiritual thoughts and continued to observe the surroundings.

I saw mountains of skeletons piled up in the entire pagoda temple, covered with dust and desolate. There was a human statue carved on the high platform in the middle.

It was a woman.

Liu Ping looked at the female statue carefully with his spiritual thoughts, and various questions kept popping up in his mind.

pity--

Nothing can withstand the baptism of time, and they have lost their spirituality and effectiveness, leaving Liu Ping unable to obtain any valuable clues.

Then there is only one way.

Liu Ping took out a few copper coins from his arms and quickly folded them on his fingers.

——When things are uncertain, ask Heaven for help.

What's more, the whole thing was caused by his own fortune-telling.

Ding!

A few copper coins were thrown out by him, and they landed on the ground with a clanking sound, and then they all stood upright on the ground.

Liu Ping was speechless.

Everything here is obscured by some kind of power!

Even the secrets have been hidden, making it impossible for people to see the truth of the past years.

A flash of lightning suddenly flashed through Liu Ping's mind.

wrong!

--its not right!

He knelt down and put his hands on the ground.

When I entered this world, I had some sense of the changes in space.

This world is obviously connected with the world of practice.

It can even be said that they are twins.

So at that moment in the future, when Lady Pain leads the world of practice into eternal night and obtains souls from it, does she know that there is such a secret world hidden behind the world of practice?

Does she know?

If she knew——

How much does she know? What are you plotting from this?

Just as Liu Ping was thinking about it, suddenly a spiritual light flashed from the statue.

Then, the statue lit up.

A female voice sounded:

"Welcome, latecomer."

"Who are you?" Liu Ping cupped his hands and asked.

"I am a ray of spiritual thought from a cultivator in the past era. My true name is Feng Yu, and I am called a saint by cultivators all over the world." A voice echoed on the statue.

"So you are the Wind and Rain Saint." Liu Ping said.

The statue said: "Young man, if you can enter this place, you must have seen through some secret of the Six Paths of Reincarnation and escaped a certain death situation, so you have the opportunity to arrive here..."

"Senior, I was trying to find a way to create a martial art to benefit all sentient beings, but I found that all sentient beings had raging desires and suffered widely, so I sensed something was wrong." Liu Ping said.

The statue did not speak.

Pieces of aura emerged in the pagoda temple, revealing everything Liu Ping had experienced in the past.

"Very well, you came well."

the statue finally said.

A strange light group suddenly appeared above its head.

I saw that the outside of this light group was a layer of holy white, but deep in the white light, there was a wisp of wildly moving black light.

This ray of black light is constantly struggling, impacting the white light, trying to rush out from the surrounding white light.

The statue said: "I saw your past life. You are worthy of being a strong-willed being - throughout your life, you have been fighting against invincible opponents just to save mankind."

"And you discovered this place and even got...approval."

"What do you want to say?" Liu Ping asked strangely.

The light ball slowly flew down and floated in front of Liu Ping.

"You have obtained this qualification. This is an idea from the past era. We never thought of realizing it because it is too crazy, but your strength makes me see hope for the first time——"

The statue continued: "All living beings have raging desires and unstable temperaments, which are affected by the struggle between these two forces."

In the light group, black and white colors kept flashing.

"What are they?" Liu Ping asked.

"It cannot be said - but you can try to use them - you need to balance their power so that they no longer fight." The statue said.

"I'll try." Liu Ping said happily.

"I want to remind you that if you do not succeed, you will fall into complete destruction together with this place." The statue said.

"What if I succeed?" Liu Ping asked.

"Then you can start creating martial arts scriptures, and you will definitely be able to benefit all sentient beings." the statue said.

"Hasn't anyone tried it before?" Liu Ping asked again.

"If no one discovers this, there will be no way to trigger the power of the world. You are the first." The statue said.

"Will there be anyone after me?"

"There will be no one else - this is the only seal. If you fail, everything here will end, and the world must fall into eternal destruction."

"So this is a try."

"You can understand it this way, it is the only one. If it fails, there will be no new attempts."

Liu Ping nodded.

He stretched out his hand and caught the light group.

Lines of burning small characters suddenly appeared in the void:

"You have received two power seeds, namely: ???? and ????."

"These two forces have been fighting for countless years in the era of the Positive Era, and will eventually show off again in the distant future."

“You get an opportunity to be exposed to them.”

"Notice!"

"You are the first person to discover the secrets of the world behind the Six Paths of Reincarnation."

"Your life and death are about to be answered."

The ball of light disappeared into Liu Ping's hand.

He stood there silently sensing, but found that there was nothing strange about him.

"What's going to happen? Why don't I feel anything?"

Liu Ping asked.

The statue said: "They take effect slowly and will not kill you immediately."

"You will try to conquer them, or be overwhelmed by their power."

"I'm here waiting for you to succeed or fail to determine whether the world will exist or be destroyed."

"—Go!"

The words fell.

Everything around him suddenly disappeared.

Liu Ping found himself back in the world of practice, standing amidst dense thunder and lightning.

The demon turned his head sharply and saw him immediately.

"Ah...where were you just now?"

The demon roared and stared at Liu Ping.

Liu Ping really had no choice but to draw out his Baina knife and said: "Come on, it seems there is no way to survive."

After saying that, he suddenly felt something welling up in his body.

There seemed to be densely packed small limbs inside the entire body, holding itself in place, unable to move at all.

"eat you!"

The demon jumped forward.

The lightning all over the sky also found its target and fell towards Liu Ping one after another.

Between the lightning and flint.

A line of burning small words then appeared:

"The power of ???? begins to take effect."

boom! ! !

The strong wind pressure blew the lightning away.

A black claw stretched out from the spraying mist and suddenly grabbed the demon's throat.

"Giggle, giggle, giggle - you said - eat me?"

A strange voice sounded in the fog.