Mysterious mirror hanging high

Lu Yingzhao was talking, but his hands did not stop at all. He just raised his hand and caught the golden spear thrown by Yuwen Baoge, blocking the angry attack and saving the life of Yuanying Zhenjun who was next to Yuwen Baoge.

At the same time, Jing Yu stepped out and grabbed Ye Xingyun's collar to prevent him from falling into the water.

At this moment, a young man who looked exactly like Jing Yu floated out of the lake, leaned close to Jing Yu's ear and whispered:

"Jing Yu, Ye Xingyun is incredibly lucky. If you save him today, he'll just think it's his destiny that allows him to avoid misfortune and seek good fortune. He might not be grateful to you, so why bother trying to be such a good person?"

Jing Yu faced the inner demon in front of him but ignored it and said, "Make way."

Seeing that the inner demon was blocking his way, he simply passed through this intangible illusion. With a rub of his fingers, the gray and hazy Kudu Xuanguang turned into a silk thread, pulling a Nascent Soul cultivator who was tempted by the inner demon and was about to fall into the water back to the center of the bamboo raft.

"Besides, the Chosen Immortals may not necessarily be on your side..."

The inner demon still refused to give up and said, "The Immortal Selection Palace is collecting the destiny disciples from all the heavens and realms to train in the mortal world. It's not as simple as it appears on the surface. There must be a conspiracy... The origin of the [Questioning Mirror Fate-Observing Method] is unknown. Who knows, it may be a trap set by some Taoist master to lure you into it."

"It's a pity that you were being schemed against step by step from the very beginning. You thought you were getting a great advantage, but you didn't realize that when you achieve enlightenment in the future, you might just be making wedding clothes for others."

The inner demon's words were extremely suggestive, and he slowly said, "Hey! Isn't the purpose of a cultivator seeking the Tao to transcend all living beings in the world and to free their own destiny from being controlled by others?"

"I control my own life!"

"Jing Yu, stop being someone else's plaything. Resist! Break the schemes of those high-handed monks and break free from the shackles of fate!"

Jing Yu rolled his eyes, and a golden vertical eye opened between his brows. Clear light gushed out, and mysterious spiritual light shot out, freezing a Nascent Soul cultivator who had gone mad due to the invasion of inner demons in his body.

The inner demon's tone was a little anxious: "What's the point of being someone else's puppet!"

Jing Yu rescued several people in succession. Lu Yingzhao had already suppressed the several Great True Lords in the late Nascent Soul stage. Now he finally had a free hand and looked at the inner demon impatiently:

"Can everyone make Daozun's marionette?"

"Before my reincarnation, I was a social animal with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan. My pockets were cleaner than my face. How dare you, the Taoist Master, have so much free time as to plot against a mortal like me!"

"According to you, without the schemes of these Dao Masters, I would have simply been crushed to death by the barbell. There would have been no need to cultivate the Dao or seek immortality... I would have been reincarnated endlessly, life after life, until my spirituality was worn out and my soul shattered!"

"Is this what you want, 'My fate is in my own hands, not in the hands of God'?"

"Before, [Dao Zun Gan Qi] wasted five epochs, and finally, under the protection of [Dao Zun Chang Qing], he resumed his cultivation path, achieved the realm of [Qi Training], and attained the rank of Venerable."

"If Dao Zun Gan Qi was as stubborn as you, he would have simply refused Dao Zun's protection in the first era. I'm afraid he would have died long ago, and there would be no future for him!"

Jing Yu sneered, "You really don't like being a puppet, so why are you being sent here to disrupt my mind today? Isn't your inner demon being manipulated by someone else?"

The inner demon was slightly startled, and subconsciously said: "We inner demons are born to invade the minds of cultivators..."

"Then you are worse than me."

Jing Yu laughed and said, "A puppet has room for thought, unlike you who act purely on instinct. I'm also bored, arguing with a robot like you..."

"A cultivator ascends the Dao path, one step at a time, a step to the heavens... The further one advances, the greater the gap between each realm becomes, like a chasm. Let alone the gap between me and the Dao Master right now? In front of the Dao Master, I'm afraid I'm not even a speck of dust. How can I resist fate?"

"You didn't even choose the right time to sow discord. Even if I had achieved the Dao Lord realm now, all the farts you said in front of me would seem reasonable..."

Jing Yu blew a breath, shattering the inner demon in front of him, and walked past the illusory dust to support Yang Dingfeng, who was pale and had his eyes closed.

----

Yang Dingfeng sat cross-legged on the edge of the bamboo raft, his pale face looking even sicker in the reflection of the lake.

The inner demon invaded the body, and the scene before the eyes suddenly distorted and changed——

"Junior Brother Yang..." A familiar voice sounded faintly.

Yang Dingfeng suddenly looked up and saw Qi Liyan's blue-gray figure slowly rising from the lake.

This Zhongyue Zhenjun still maintained the appearance he had before his death: a bowl-sized hole was corroded in his chest by the cold poison, and the green poison crawled all over his body like a spider web, and even his Nascent Soul Dharma Image exuded a smell of decay.

"Why are you harming me?"

Qi Liyan's ghostly figure floated above the bamboo raft, his voice like sandpaper rubbing against each other, "I treat you like a brother..."

Yang Dingfeng's pupils suddenly shrank, and his mind raced: "I must not reveal any flaws at this moment..."

Then a look of shock and anger appeared on his face, and he said, "Bai Wei, why did you betray me?"

Qi Liyan frowned and said, "Junior Brother Yang, what are you talking about? It's obvious that you are using a puppet to lure me..."

"Bai Wei, you are my concubine. All the spiritual resources for cultivation were prepared by your husband. After you formed your elixir, you were given the status of a true disciple and accepted into the sect. The position of the future Xiyue Peak Master is reserved for you. Isn't this enough?"

Yang Dingfeng said sadly: "You disappoint me so much."

Qi Liyan hissed, "Yang Dingfeng, stop talking about other things...you..."

"Okay, okay, I was wrong."

Yang Dingfeng smiled bitterly. His conversation with Qi Liyan was simply a miscommunication.

Gradually, perhaps because the power of his inner demon gradually weakened as he appeared in the world, Yang Dingfeng's mind slowly recovered. Finally, Qi Liyan's ghost suddenly dissipated with unwilling howls. Yang Dingfeng only felt a burst of clarity in his mind. When he opened his eyes and looked around, he found that a small number of the surrounding Nascent Soul True Lords had regained consciousness. These True Lords were doing their best to rescue those monks who were trapped in illusions and went crazy.

Yang Dingfeng turned his head and saw Jing Yu resting his hand on his shoulder. Seeing the Master Qi's gaze sweeping over him, Jing Yu smiled slightly and said comfortingly:

"Most of these illusions are just fleeting thoughts that capture the cultivators, stirring up their darker side. The scenes and events in these illusions may never happen, so Fellow Daoist Yang, don't take them to heart."

Yang Dingfeng pursed his lips, nodded slightly, and said nothing more.

After about half an hour, all the Nascent Soul cultivators who were trapped in their inner demons finally recovered, and the bamboo raft finally reached the center of the lake.

The cultivators climbed up along the silk threads hanging from the palace and finally stepped onto the jade steps in front of the palace.

Looking up, the towering palace gate soared into the clouds. Above the lintel hung a dark jade plaque with three large characters inscribed on it:

【Weiyang Palace】.