Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 314: 313: Its Power Can Swallow the Sky
"Who am I, and what have I forgotten..."

The dim sunlight sprinkled on the earth, small stones rolled in the wind, and the world was silent and desolate.

Xi Xuan walked quietly among the endless ruins, his footsteps making slight echoes.

His eyes were full of doubt and confusion. He had forgotten everything about his past. Those things were obviously very important, but he just couldn't remember them.

"Crack, crack..."

He stopped and slapped his head, but no matter how hard he slapped it, he felt no pain, just like he couldn't feel the pain in his body.

"Every time I resurrect, my body becomes stiffer."

Bending his fingers slightly and looking at the sharp black nails on his fingertips, Xi Xuan sighed.

"Things are getting worse. Maybe it won't be long before I die and never wake up again."

He raised his head and looked at the almost eternally unchanging gray sky of Luozhou. There was nothing but the sunlight shining through the clouds in the distant horizon.

The fragments of memory in my mind are like pieces of shattered glass, which cannot be put together or used again. The past has all turned into nothing, and now only a blank remains.

He didn't know what he should do.

They say that life must have a direction, but he is not even a human being.

Every time I woke up after resurrection, what I saw when I opened my eyes was not the caring eyes of people, but the cold eyes of zombies.

Suddenly, a faint voice sounded behind Xi Xuan, seeming particularly abrupt in the dead silence.

Xi Xuan subconsciously turned around and tilted his head to look behind him.

After seeing the other person, Xi Xuan's pupils dilated slightly and he stood there with a dazed expression.

"you……"

Just as he was about to speak, he saw the figure stretching.

"finally found you!"

"What do you want me to do? Aren't you..."

Xi Xuan frowned stiffly. He was originally unable to do this in his current physical condition. It was really that the scene before him was too shocking.

Because the person standing in front of him was really a 'figure'.

In a literal sense.

But he still remembered what happened yesterday and could recognize the other person's voice.

The person who gave him a very strange feeling yesterday.

Moreover, that person had a smell that was somewhat familiar to him, even unforgettable.

Xi Xuan looked at the black shadow in front of him with only blurry facial features and asked curiously.

"How did you escape from under the nose of that monster?"

The monster he was referring to was naturally the nine-headed hungry monster.

The shadow shrugged nonchalantly: "I just came out like that. No one can stop me from going wherever I want, including the secular gods."

"Because you're just a shadow?"

"No, because I'm dark enough."

"..."

Now he could see that the shadow was not the same person from yesterday.

Although the two are inextricably linked, this thing has a very different personality from the person from yesterday.

Xi Xuan felt that he had no way to communicate with the other party, so he shook his head and turned away, not intending to pay any more attention to him.

But at this moment, his collar was grabbed by a dark, somewhat illusory, yet slightly substantial hand.

"What are you going to do?"

Xi Xuan looked back. He never had a good impression of things that were not human.

"I need your help. I can't handle that freak with many heads." The black shadow opened his mouth, revealing his dark oral cavity.

"You are just a shadow."

"You are the same person from yesterday. Did he go and provoke that monster again?"

Xi Xuan said in a hoarse voice: "That monster is very scary. I have been killed by it many times, and I have never defeated it once."

"Yes, that guy is very strong. Even if my original self uses all my means, I will still be one step behind him." The black shadow said lightly.

"You come to me and I can't do anything. I can't beat him. You'd better let your original body run away." Xi Xuan sighed and said, "I advised you many times at the beginning, why don't you listen to me!"

"Not only my original body, but also more than 2,000 soldiers from Zhenxi Army."

"What..." Xi Xuan raised his head in surprise: "You actually called them all out together!"

"They will eventually fight that monster. It's just a matter of time. Fighting with all their might to carve out a way to survive is better than starving to death in an unknown corner."

The black shadow stared at Xi Xuan and smiled helplessly: "Today is a good opportunity, because my original body has brought them hope."

"What hope can one person bring..." Xi Xuan seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes became dim.

"Who said that I am just one person? I have thousands of troops behind me."

"Are there still so many people in Luozhou now?" Xi Xuan's eyes moved.

"Please, please don't think of people as so fragile. Some people died in the disaster, but there were always some who were strong enough to survive the catastrophe and adapt to it."

"Human beings are very tenacious creatures."

The black shadow stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes scanning the surroundings.

"Even ants can survive, let alone humans."

"In this land of Naju, there must be many people who have survived by chance. They are waiting for the day when Naju can return to normal."

"Will that day ever come?" Xi Xuan fell into confusion.

He has been waiting since the day he died and turned into a zombie, but as the years passed, all his expectations finally turned into disappointment and despair.

"Of course." The shadow answered decisively.

He is different from Lin Beixuan himself. He can provide Xi Xuan with emotional value that Lin Beixuan cannot.

As he spoke, the black shadow took out a booklet from somewhere.

The cover of this booklet was torn and yellowed, and even the binding threads were only a few strands left connecting the pages.

However, when this booklet appeared in front of Xi Xuan, Xi Xuan's body suddenly trembled.

His pupils contracted, and his hands stretched out like lightning, snatching the booklet from the black shadow's hand.

Xi Xuan carefully flipped through the booklet, and beads of sweat actually seeped out of the zombie's stiff body.

"Your name is Xi Xuan, you are from Qingling Village, Jingyang County, and you have the title of a scholar."

The shadow slowly recited Xi Xuan's message: "You have a wife and a newborn child at home. During the first year of drought in Luozhou, you went out with several people from the same village to try to find water and food. As a result, you got into a fight and fell off a cliff..."

Following the black shadow's words, the lost memories in Xi Xuan's mind slowly floated, condensed, and finally combined into pictures.

"I remember now. My name is Xi Xuan..."

Xi Xuan spread the book in his palm. On it were twisted words. It could be seen that the author was not in a good condition. In some corners of the paper, one could see traces of tears dripping and drying on the words. "After becoming a zombie, the more important things are, the faster I forget them. So I found a book and put all my memories on it, letting it carry my memories."

Xi Xuan muttered softly, looking at the words above, he remembered everything, including things that were extremely true and important to him.

Wife and children.

"Li Niang... Zhao Er..."

The shadow saw the most fantastic scene he had ever seen in his life.

A zombie, he cried, cried very hard.

The zombie lowered his head, holding the thing in his arms tightly with both hands. Tears flowed uncontrollably from the corners of his eyes, leaving a crystal mark along his stiff and rotten cheeks.

"Ugh!"

The black shadow sighed softly. Although he didn't want to disturb Xi Xuan at the moment, he could no longer hold on any longer.

"I helped you find this thing, so you should help me too."

Upon hearing this, Xi Xuan raised his head silently, then stood up and put the booklet away carefully.

"Let's go. You don't have to use this thing to make a point. I will still accompany you to save people."

"Thank you!"

The black shadow nodded, and the whole person turned into a shadow on the ground like a melting candle, swimming rapidly towards where Lin Beixuan was.

Xi Xuan stood there in silence for a few breaths, then followed. This time his steps were more firm than ever before, and there was a look of determination in his eyes.

……

"The path to the North Horse Shrine outside the pass: Conflict - Karma Flame."

"Hu~~"

The karmic fire was fleeting, like a flaming lotus falling on the shoulders of the nine-headed hungry minions.

In an instant, the flame, which was only a faint wisp, burned violently, like a spark splashing into a highly flammable substance. In a blink of an eye, it formed a surging force, pulling the body of the nine-headed hungry minions into the sea of fire.

The characteristic of karma flame is that the heavier the opponent's karma, the more vigorously the flame burns and the stronger the power.

Since the birth of the Nine-Headed Hungry Minion, it has killed countless innocent people. It has a heavy karma on its body, and Lin Beixuan doesn't even need to control the karma flame, and it will ferociously pounce on the pile of firewood of the Nine-Headed Hungry Minion.

Under the burning of the karmic flames, the nine-headed hungry creature let out shrill screams, its body twisting and struggling violently in the flames, as if countless sins were erupting at the same time, and every spark carried endless pain and purifying power.

However, at this moment, the body of the nine-headed hungry monster suddenly split into two parts.

The six heads were separated, one body had four heads on top, and another body had two heads on top.

While separating the body, it also separated its own karma and transferred it to the other body with two heads.

After the karma was separated, the karmic flames followed the karma and burned, burying the two-headed nine-headed minions in the flames.

"I didn't expect you could get away with this method!"

Lin Beixuan gasped heavily and swung his giant sickle to chop hard at the remaining heads of the nine-headed hungry minions.

The result was empty.

The fewer heads the nine-headed hungry minions had, the more it seemed as if the shackles that bound it had become fewer, and both its strength and speed increased exponentially.

In contrast, the capabilities it demonstrates are gradually becoming single.

However, its singleness does not mean that its strength is weakened. On the contrary, it is equivalent to a person who is broad but not specialized to gradually become proficient in a certain way.

This also brought great pressure to Lin Beixuan.

Because it's so hard to kill!
The nine-headed hungry monster was the most difficult evil spirit to kill that he had ever encountered, except for the secular gods.

"Thunder!!"

The voices of the nine hungry minions became uniform, and every attack they made was like the might of heaven descending.

A huge bolt of lightning swooped down like a dragon and hit half of Lin Beixuan's body, making it impossible for him to lift up the hand holding the Shadow Scythe.

"Are you not ready yet?" Lin Beixuan shouted loudly without turning his head.

He really can't bear it anymore.

His chest seemed to be twitching like a bellows, and Lin Beixuan could clearly feel that the power he had forcibly increased through the shrine method was slowly receding.

Although the Nine-Headed Hungry Minion has not yet reached the realm of a secular god, his strength is almost the same. His battle with the opponent is equivalent to facing a secular god in his prime alone.

"The gap in realm strength is still too big!"

Although he chopped off five heads of the opponent, Lin Beixuan knew that the strength of the nine-headed hungry minions would become stronger as time went on. As the number of heads of the opponent decreased, the strength would become more condensed and more difficult to contend with. The more they fought, the stronger they would become.

Just as Lin Beixuan was lost in thought, Luo Bingzhong's voice suddenly appeared behind him.

"Brother Lin, this great favor will be remembered by our Zhenxi Army."

“Remember this!!”

Following closely was the loud cheers of the soldiers of the Zhenxi Army.

Although the large-scale attacks of the Nine-headed Hungry Minion still caused them a lot of trouble when they formed the formation, fortunately Lin Beixuan was able to restrain the Nine-headed Hungry Minion, so that the opponent's attention was mainly focused on Lin Beixuan.

At this time, the military momentum had been achieved, and the morale of the Zhenxi Army was coordinated and unified, reaching its peak.

They stared at the nine-headed hungry minions, the flames of revenge burning in their eyes, and each of them tightly grasped the weapon in his hand.

“Kill, kill, kill!!”

Three earth-shaking shouts echoed in the valley. The Zhenxi Army's formation was neat and uniform, and they slowly advanced forward like an indestructible barrier.

When Lin Beixuan looked over, he could see wisps of invisible energy gathering above the Zhenxi Army's heads, transforming into a strange beast with a triangle on its head and a huge rock hammer tail.

Luo Bingzhong took a deep breath. The long-term repression that had made him a little crazy finally came out at this moment.

Not only him, but also the soldiers of the Zhenxi Army under his command were the same.

Everyone understands that today's battle will be their last battle against the Nine-Headed Hungry Minion, and either the opponent will die or they will die.

At this moment, no one backed down.

Although they were all emaciated and could only barely hold up their former armor, their spirit and energy had reached a peak they had never reached before.

"Zhenxi Army!" Luo Bingzhong raised his long sword and shouted, "Follow me to kill all the evil spirits!!"

"kill!!!"

"Rumble..."

The entire valley was shaking, the strange beasts were roaring towards the sky, and a shocking force emanated from the Zhenxi Army that was charging forward, surging like waves, turning into invisible ripples that swept around.

Lin Beixuan's eyes widened. This was the first time he saw a truly united army from the secular world. Although there were less than three thousand people, the terrifying force made his eyes bloodshot at just one glance, as if it wanted to tear him apart.

Lin Beixuan had no doubt that if he allowed his rookies to fight against the iron-blooded soldiers of the Zhenxi Army, they would be defeated in just one round.

It's like a ball of cotton hitting a stone. It's a qualitative difference, not quantitative.

"No wonder so many secular gods hid themselves obediently during the heyday of the dynasties, and only dared to develop incense and believers in private, until the dragon energy of the dynasties dissipated and the dynasties declined in their last years, and then they gradually emerged."

"Because in a prosperous dynasty, there are sages to govern the country and heroes to defend the borders. Its power can swallow the sky, and all gods, ghosts, demons and monsters retreat."

(End of this chapter)