I have been bound in a forbidden place for five hundred years. Why are you crying when I am a casual

"Why don't we take her with us first?" Jian Yi had also noticed this scene, and after marveling at it for a while, he advised Gu Xiu:

"She has fallen victim to Buddhist magic. Although I don't understand why this is happening, it's certain that her self-awareness hasn't been restored. Her current actions are entirely driven by instinct."

"In other words, unless you kill her, she will instinctively not want to be separated from you."

"Next, we will go to the innermost layer of the Buddhist Kingdom. When we destroy the Buddhist Kingdom, we may find clues to resolve her current situation."

Listen to him.

Gu Xiu could only nod in agreement.

We can't just kill Shi Siling like that, can we?

Gu Xiu had no intention of getting entangled with Qingxuan and his group any further; their relationship had been severed after he abandoned the sect. The same applied to Shi Siling. If she hadn't harbored any further grudges against him, Gu Xiu wouldn't have bothered killing her, especially now that Shi Siling's condition was clearly abnormal.

Left with no other choice, Gu Xiu could only gently pull Shi Siling away, turning her from clinging to him into someone he could carry on his back. Fortunately, Shi Siling seemed to realize that Gu Xiu didn't intend to abandon her and stopped clinging to him; otherwise, Gu Xiu would have had a real hard time moving around.

Feeling that the person on his back was still bleeding profusely and growing weaker, Gu Xiu simply took out another pill and fed it to her.

The medicine took effect quickly.

Shi Siling's wounds began to heal slowly, but they also made her eyelids heavier and heavier. Gu Xiu originally planned to put her down while she was asleep, but he did not expect that Shi Siling would keep holding on. Even though she was being carried on his back like a pestle, she insisted on resisting her sleepiness and forced herself to wake up every time she was about to fall asleep.

Gu Xiu even noticed that she was digging into the wound on her arm that was almost healed, trying to use the intense pain to fight off sleepiness.

This scene left Gu Xiu speechless for a moment, and he could only say in a low voice, "Don't worry, I won't leave you while you're asleep."

Shi Siling, who was on his back, blinked, seemingly not quite understanding.

It wasn't until Gu Xiu repeated himself several times that she seemed to barely understand what he meant, and ultimately left feeling uneasy.

She buried her head on Gu Xiu's back and fell asleep.

Even when she was asleep, her hands were still tightly gripping Gu Xiu's clothes, unwilling to loosen their grip even slightly. Judging from her constantly trembling eyelashes and the occasional furrowing of her brows, it was clear that if Gu Xiu had any intention of abandoning her, he would wake her up.

"I never imagined that Shi Siling, who is said to cultivate the Path of Ruthlessness, would have such a vulnerable side." Jian Er said with some regret upon seeing this scene.

Gu Xiu frowned and approached the Sword Saint: "Senior, what's going on with Shi Siling now?"

Just a pity.

The Buddhist methods are indeed powerful. Even someone as strong as the Sword Saint was somewhat baffled by this situation. After examining it once, he shook his head and said:

"Her situation should have been the same as your grandmaster's, but her body instincts seem to be very afraid of being abandoned by you, which is why she is like this. Moreover, I can feel that her consciousness is constantly trying to break through the Buddhist restrictions, but she lacks the strength to do so."

"I don't have any good solutions either. The only way to resolve this is to truly crush the Buddhist kingdom."

The world is full of wonders. Just because a sword saint is the number one person in the world doesn't mean he can master all the laws of the world. Gu Xiu understands this. Although he feels somewhat helpless at this moment, he can only nod and accept it.

Look up and look ahead.

Ahead, at the edge of the horizon, far on the horizon, stands a huge golden barrier between heaven and earth.

"Is that the final level of the Buddhist kingdom?" Gu Xiu asked.

"Yes." The Sword Saint nodded, also looking in that direction, his eyes gleaming: "The origin of the Buddhist Kingdom, the Holy Truth Academy!"

"Is there a senior's opponent there?" Gu Xiu asked in surprise, suddenly recalling the golden Buddha statue that had appeared earlier.

"An opponent?" The Sword Saint thought for a moment: "He's just a petty person who stole some things. He's not much of an opponent. He's just a sparrow with many tricks up his sleeve."

A sparrow with many tricks up its sleeve?

Gu Xiu was stunned for a moment, but before he could ask any further questions, a loud roar suddenly came from that moment.

next moment.

It was as if an unimaginable, immense pressure was pressing down on the giant sword that was constantly rushing across the sky, causing it to slowly descend at this moment.

"What's going on? Why do I suddenly feel like flying isn't allowed here anymore?"

"The sword control technique is difficult to activate!"

"Flying magical artifacts have also failed; even warships cannot fly!"

"What power is this?"

To everyone's surprise, under the suppression of that mysterious force, they had lost their ability to fly. Whether it was walking on air or any other means of flight, they were all restricted at this moment.

Even the birds and insects that were originally flying all fell to the ground at this moment.

"Don't panic." The Sword Saint, unfazed by this, spoke up:

"It is the power of the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. They used a portion of the power of the rules to suppress us, causing us to lose our ability to fly."

"Everyone, march forward!"

The old swordsman's words instantly calmed the previously panicked crowd back down.

Indeed, although they had lost their ability to fly, their strength was not suppressed in any way; on the contrary, they remained powerful. Those present were all experts; even though they could only walk and could not fly, their speed was still considerable.

but……

In contrast to the relaxed expressions of everyone else, Gu Xiu noticed that the Sword Saint's expression gradually became serious. Seemingly noticing Gu Xiu's gaze, the Sword Saint replied:

“Those hypocritical bald monks are using the power of the rules of the Pure Land of Bliss to restrict us. It’s definitely not just to prevent us from flying. Something big is probably going to happen next.”

event……

Gu Xiu's heart sank, as if to confirm the Sword Saint's words. At that moment, exclamations of surprise suddenly rang out once again:

"Look what that is!"

"What's going on? Why are all these people here?"

"They want to stop us?"

"Mortals, they're all just mortals!"

Amidst gasps of surprise, they saw countless figures appear around them, forming impenetrable walls of people that were closing in on them.

At first glance, it was filled with people, and the number had already exceeded hundreds of thousands!

more importantly.

these people……

It's a mortal!

They were all the mortals living throughout the entire Western Desert Buddhist Kingdom, from the elderly with frail bodies and white hair to the toddlers who had just learned to walk. Men, women, the old, and children all appeared from all around, densely packed like a tide surging towards them.

Worse.

"Their eyes... are very similar to those of the warrior monks from before!"

"Are all these people controlled by Buddhism? Why are they trying to stop us with ordinary people?"

The crowd quickly noticed that these mortals, in every single one of their eyes, possessed the same devotion as the martial monks they had seen before. It was an extreme devotion, and within that extreme devotion lay a touch of madness!

The way they looked at each other.

It was as if he were looking at a mortal enemy, his eyes filled with rage!

The only thing that brought them relief was that these were merely mortals without any powerful cultivation. Jiang Jian Si immediately gave the order:

"Take action and stop them, but try not to kill them."

They came to wipe out the Buddhist Kingdom, but they would not attack these mortals unless necessary. Upon receiving the order, a group of Tianyuan sword cultivators immediately stepped forward to clear a path through the dense crowd in front of them.

Since they were just mortals, the crowd didn't pay too much attention to them and simply used spells with little lethality to push them aside.

The result went very smoothly.

Faced with the methods of cultivators, mortals indeed had little power to resist. With each spell cast, the wave of mortals in front of them was quickly cleared, creating a passage large enough for everyone to pass through.

Seeing this result, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Can……

As Gu Xiu watched this scene from the crowd, a sense of foreboding suddenly arose in his heart.

He stared intently at the mortal closest to him.

It was an eight or nine-year-old girl with two little braids. She should have been a lively and cheerful girl, but at this moment, her eyes were filled with madness, a madness that made one's hair stand on end at first glance.

Suddenly, Gu Xiu's expression changed, and without hesitation, he flipped his wrist and took out the Xuanwu Shield, holding it in front of him as he spoke a reminder:

"Not good! Defend!"

Almost at the same moment he finished speaking.

"boom--!"

A loud bang suddenly rang out, and the girl who had been so incredibly cute before suddenly swelled up a bit as she got close to him, like a ball, and then burst open in an instant.

It turned into a foul-smelling blood mist, along with fragments of bones, blood, and internal organs, which were scattered all over the ground!

At the same time as the girl exploded.

"Bang bang bang-!"

Then, a series of explosions rang out again.

These mortals who approached were actually self-destructing!