My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1076 The dream is shattered
Seeing Wen Rui lying on the ground convulsing, on the verge of death, Yun Zhongxin felt that the ups and downs of immortal life were nothing more than this.

One moment his moral compass was crumbling, thinking that the creed he had believed in for thousands of years was a joke, and that the righteous actions he had performed throughout his life were actually just indiscriminate killing of innocent people.

But the next moment, a glimmer of hope appeared, and all the gloom that had shrouded the world was shattered by a sword strike born of facing death.

Now, the clouds have parted and the sun is shining through, and everything is clear. It turns out that the fellow was indeed a spy of the Heavenly Demons, and the ideas he spread were all evil thoughts of the Heavenly Demon race.

The story of a person with four attributes and the ability to transform demons into humans almost convinced Yun Zhongzi!
Yun Zhongzi couldn't help but feel a chill of fear; the Heavenly Demon's ability to bewitch people was truly terrifying.

The fox spirit Daji was the most skilled bewitching demon Yun Zhongzi had ever seen in his ten thousand years of immortal life, but compared to Wen Rui, she was nothing but a small fry.

This guy is simply the number one succubus in the Three Realms!

Even Yun Zhongzi, who could see through Daji's disguise at a glance, almost fell for his trick.

It's no wonder Yun Zhongzi fell for the trap; who would have thought that Wen Zhong's son was actually a demon descended to earth?

But upon closer reflection, there seemed to be many signs before, but everyone had simply overlooked them.

For example, Wen Rui made many meritorious contributions and did his best to assist Wen Zhong, but Wen Zhong never liked him. He would tell everyone that his unfilial son had been bad since childhood and would definitely be a disaster in the future.

No one knows a son better than his father!

Wen Rui, lying on the ground, thrashed about a few times before finally kicking his legs, and the soul lamp went out.

The giant sword embedded in his body continued to emit a righteous aura, so much so that his corpse seemed to have been doused with a corpse-dissolving liquid, emitting thick smoke and churning bubbles, decaying and rising at an extremely rapid speed.

In just a few breaths, the demon's body turned into a handful of ashes, leaving only a golden staff in its place.

Yun Zhongzi was also taken aback. Based on his experience in slaying demons, he knew that after a demon died, it would often revert to its original form, turning into either a dead fox or a dead snake.

There are also examples of objects absorbing the essence of the sun and moon and becoming demons, which were then killed and returned to their original form.

However, the killing effect of the Giant Sword was clearly meant to kill demons, but now that Wen Rui is dead, its original form has turned into a stick, which is very illogical.

Yun Zhongzi recalled the various rumors and gossip about Wen Rui, saying that he was lewd by nature, not only keeping a mountain of beautiful female demons, but also coveting fairies, opening a Heaven and Earth Club, and luring celestial fairies to party with him every day.

It is said that he also had an affair with a demon princess and fathered an illegitimate child.

The latest rumor is that he coerced the Jade Emperor into making his married daughter divorce her husband and remarry him.

Thinking about it this way, all the inconsistencies gradually began to make sense. Yun Zhongzi guessed that Wen Rui might really be a demonic wand that had come to life...

At the critical moment of life and death, he unexpectedly killed a powerful enemy. Even with Yun Zhongzi's cultivation, it would be difficult for him to calm down in a short time. He suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his mind, activated his Heavenly Eye Spiritual Vision, and carefully examined the place where Wen Rui had died.

In the primordial world, whether one is an immortal, a demon, or a monster, death is not the end.

Even if the physical body is destroyed, it is only a matter of physical dissolution; one must still guard against the escape of the opponent's primordial spirit.

Under his spiritual vision, Yun Zhongzi scanned the area but failed to find Wen Rui's demonic soul.

He immediately became alert, his Golden Immortal realm divine sense covering a thousand miles, yet he still couldn't detect any trace of divine soul fluctuations. It was as if Wen Rui's soul had been annihilated the moment his physical body turned to ash, vanishing forever from the world.

Although Yun Zhongzi's Giant Sword is a divine weapon for slaying demons, its power is not strong enough to reach this level, and it does not have the power to annihilate demonic souls.

"Oh no! I was so shocked just now that I was careless. Could it be that he escaped?"

With a sigh, Yun Zhongzi quickly calculated with his fingers and surprisingly, he successfully located the soul's whereabouts. The destination was both unexpected and reasonable—Yun Zhongzi calculated that Wen Rui's soul was currently suffering in the lowest level of the eighteen levels of hell, the Avici Hell.

"This... karma came way too fast..."

Yun Zhongzi felt like he was dreaming. How could everything go so smoothly? He had just killed the demon, and the demon's evil spirit had gone to hell and gone to where it belonged.

If he had been able to kill the fox spirit Daji so easily back then, there wouldn't have been the Investiture of the Gods!

"May the Ancestral Master bless me, may Heaven bless me, this must be divine assistance from the unseen realm!"

Yun Zhongzi looked up at the sky, his heart filled with endless sighs and emotions. He said in a trembling voice, "On the path of cultivation, the Dao heart is paramount. Once one is swayed by selfish desires, even if one possesses extraordinary abilities, one will ultimately fall into the abyss. Evil and heretical sects, no matter how cunning they are, and how powerful their evil magic is, even if they deceive all the gods and Buddhas and all living beings, in the end, evil cannot prevail over good, and cleverness will only lead to one's own downfall!"

In an instant, his faith in the teachings became even stronger. He was convinced that his victory was not due to any skill, but entirely due to luck and divine intervention!

Having slain the strongest demon he had ever encountered, Yun Zhongzi's Dao heart was now perfectly clear, his thoughts seemingly communicating with the heavens. Countless insights gathered from the stars in the nine heavens and poured into his sea of ​​consciousness through the Baihui acupoint on the top of his head.

At this moment, it seemed as if he was about to attain enlightenment, taking a solid step towards the realm of the Primordial Golden Immortal.

Just as he was about to cross the threshold, a sudden warning from the heavens erupted from the depths of his heart without any reason. Before Yun Zhongzi could react, he was swallowed by a blinding white light.

The next moment, time and space shifted, and he returned to the moment when he thrust his sword into Wen Rui's body through the three-foot probability reversal domain.

This time, the chaotic domain protecting Wen Rui suddenly disappeared. The Giant Sword was unaffected by any strange energy field and pierced straight towards Wen Rui's chest. However, Wen Rui simply took a step to the side, and the straight sword missed its mark.

Wen Rui suddenly raised his hand and grabbed Yun Zhongzi's wrist, which was holding the sword. A tremendous force came from his wrist, followed by a tearing pain. Yun Zhongzi lost his grip on the sword, and the Juque Sword flew out of his hand and shot into the cliff of Zhongnan Mountain, passing through the entire mountain and deeply embedding itself in the ground.

Immediately afterwards, Yun Zhongzi's face was slapped by Wen Rui's other hand. The power contained in that slap was extremely terrifying. It cracked countless cracks on Yun Zhongzi's indestructible face. His immortal eyes were filled with golden stars. He was almost knocked unconscious.

This slap was like waking Yun Zhongzi from a beautiful dream. The memory of killing Wen Rui with a single sword was slowly fading, just like a person who has just woken up from a dream and is gradually forgetting everything experienced in the dream.

Yun Zhongzi tried hard to remember, but no matter how much mental energy he used, forgetting was inevitable.

"This... is the law of spacetime. Only when spacetime is reversed will the memories of those who experienced it be erased by the law of spacetime... No..."

With his last ounce of spiritual strength, Yun Zhongzi shouted at the top of his lungs, but after uttering that shout, the glint in his eyes was replaced by blankness, and he murmured, "Have I really lost? Lost so miserably, fighting with all my might but having no power to resist... Could it be that everything I believed in was wrong?"

After his memory was erased, Yun Zhongzi's consciousness was fragmented. He only remembered that he had used a desperate sword strike, which was easily neutralized by Wen Rui, who then slapped him so hard that he was dizzy.

"Luckily, I planted a time-reversal grenade just in case..." Wen Rui thought to himself with lingering fear, "We almost crashed!"

(End of this chapter)