Dong!
Dong!
Dong!
The sound of war drums resounded like heavy rain.
On the ground, the decisive battle between humanity and the Demons was about to begin.
But outside of the battlefield, deep in the sky.
On a certain cloud.
The man stood with his back facing Liu Ping, holding a white flower in his hand and asked:
"Is that so? Is this the moment from before, the moment of time's death? "
"It is indeed this moment, may I ask who you are?" Liu Ping clasped his fist and asked.
He looked at the badge on the man's waist.
It was Shifu's badge.
Only with Shifu's permission would the badge give off the correct spirit energy waves to represent himself.
There's no problem with the badge.
Perhaps this man was Shifu's comrade?
"The Evil Spirit will soon notice this place, their numbers have far exceeded anyone's expectations, no one would be able to stop them." the man replied.
"What do you mean?" Liu Ping asked.
"In this entire world, only I can stop them. Time is of the essence, quickly go find Xie Dao Ling" the man replied.
"Where is she hiding?" Liu Ping asked.
"Among the many fragments of dreams, the fragments of dreams that you've experienced." the man replied.
"Then I'll have to trouble you, may I know your name?" Liu Ping asked.
The man smirked proudly and casually tossed the white flower away.
The flower flew high in the wind and disappeared into the clouds. Soon, it was nowhere to be seen.
The man spoke: "I am the Abyssal King, the Exiled Apostle, the Greatest Above the Star Crown among the Fallen, the Great Lord of Infinite Origins, you may call me Shroud."
"Then I'll have to trouble you, sir, I'll go find Xie Dao Ling's clone. You can indeed stop the Evil Spirit, correct?" Liu Ping asked.
"Of course, go ahead."
The man crossed his arms and raised his thumb, indicating that he didn't need to worry.
Liu Ping nodded and flew down from the clouds.
In an instant.
Everyone on the battlefield was reflected in his inner sight.
A line of glowing text appeared above the head of one of the female cultivators:
[Xie Dao Ling's clone]
There's a clone here!
Liu Ping was surprised and immediately sent his voice to the female cultivator: "Do you know who you are?"
The female cultivator glanced at him and sent her voice: "No need to say anything, you have that drop of Time blood on you, you can open the other side of time and allow me to fuse with my other selves."
"Alright!"
Liu Ping was still in mid-air. He shook his arm against the wind and his sleeves immediately opened.
World Sleeve!
The female cultivator instantly disappeared.
Liu Ping felt something and suddenly looked up.
An earth-shattering collision sound came from the sky.
That stalwart and handsome man seemed to have been hit by something. His entire body turned into a wisp of smoke and streaked across the horizon.
However, even in such a rout, he still assumed an extremely flashy battle posture and coldly said, "You actually managed to block my strongest move. I'll let you off this time. Don't fall into my hands again!"
After saying that, he spat out a mouthful of blood and rolled into the void, disappearing from sight.
Liu Ping was speechless.
What?
With so many titles, they couldn't even withstand a single attack?
He looked up at the clouds again and saw a large group of black monsters that he had never seen before.
Evil Spirit!
It was no longer a mere flag bearer, but an even more powerful and numerous evil spirit!
The leader of the demons had three faces, and all six of his eyes were looking down at the battlefield.
Liu Ping had already activated [Artist] and hid himself in the void of space. He didn't forget to casually release a faint image that turned into the female cultivator to stand with the other cultivators.
"Let's go!"
Liu Ping's figure moved, hiding in the void of space as he flew forward at full speed and left the battlefield.
Almost in an instant.
The fragments of the dream scattered around him.
Darkness.
Endless darkness shrouded everything.
Liu Ping found himself standing in front of a makeshift barracks, surrounded by an endless graveyard.
A cultivator stood not too far away and smiled: "Fellow Dao seeker, you're back."
It was the cultivator who used the spirit medicine to heal Liu Ping's wounds.
"You know me?" Liu Ping was surprised.
"The Evil Spirit is about to arrive. There's a corpse here that's her clone. Quickly take it and leave this place." the cultivator pointed at a coffin and said.
Liu Ping looked at the coffin and indeed saw a line of words floating on it:
[Thank you, Dao Ling's clone]
Liu Ping waved his hand and put it into his sleeve.
"The Evil Spirit has already taken over that battlefield's dreamscape, they'll arrive here very soon. You need to quickly head to the next dreamscape." the cultivator said.
Behind him, swords appeared one after another.
A total of seven swords.
Two lines of text appeared above the cultivator's head:
[Master of the seven swords, Xie Gu Hong]
[Bygone Era human, Master of the Barren Clouds Heavenly Palace]
He wielded one of the swords and shouted: "I'll hold them off for a bit, you go quickly!"
"Go!"
The dreamscape around them completely scattered.
Another dreamscape manifested, displaying a completely new scene.
Dark Mist Town.
A bar.
The leader of the Night Watchers brought his subordinates and sat next to Liu Ping in a booth.
"Come, let's celebrate the addition of a healer to our ranks today."
The leader said.
Everyone raised their glasses and clinked them.
Liu Ping downed it all.
The waiter suddenly brought him a cocktail.
"The lady at the table next to you ordered it for you, but she has a question." the waiter said.
Liu Ping looked at the booth next to him.
Only to see a woman with a gleaming Blade at her waist nodding to greet him.
There were 5-6 other women sitting next to her.
Among them were the two women who were summoned by the forces of Forgetting River.
One of them was wearing a silver-white skin-tight combat suit, while the other was wearing a red dress, both of them nodded to him.
So they're all here.
"The lady asked, you clearly know that Blade techniques are fierce and unstoppable, but why do you rarely use them?" the waiter continued.
Liu Ping answered without hesitation: "Because I can't die."
"Why can't you die?" the woman asked from afar.
"Dying in battle is easy, but living is even harder. Only by living can I have a chance to overcome despair." Liu Ping replied.
The woman thought for a bit, then stood up: "The cocktail is yours, I'll go out and hold off the Evil Spirit for you."
She wielded the Blade and headed towards the door of the bar.
"I still haven't asked for your name." Liu Ping asked.
"You'll know later." the woman replied.
The other women followed her out of the tavern.
In the end, the tall woman bowed to Liu Ping and said softly: "Thank you for teaching me the martial scripture, but time is of the essence, see you later."
After saying that, she caught up with the other women and walked out of the bar.
The moment the door opened.
Liu Ping saw many blurry and ferocious black shadows appear outside.
But the people in the bar didn't notice anything.
They followed their original reactions in the dream, did the original actions, and said the same words.
… Time was of the essence.
Actually, time didn't exist anymore.
But there was a fixed number of dreamscapes here, if the Evil Spirit broke through, it would be a failure.
Liu Ping's gaze turned and focused on the Night Watcher Leader's head.
[Thank you, Dao Ling's clone]
A line of small words appeared!
"We need to speed up, the Evil Spirit is breaking through many dreamscapes." the leader smiled.
Liu Ping waved his sleeves.
The leader disappeared.
The dreamscapes went far away.
Liu Ping once again entered the dreamscapes that he had experienced.
Finally.
At a certain moment.
No one else appeared.
There was nothing that could stop the Evil Spirit, and the entire dreamland fell into a state of stagnation.
Everything seemed to have frozen.
All living beings were frozen, unable to move at all.
The dark shadows scurried madly in the sky as if they were trying to find Xie Dao Ling's clones or the existence that was collecting them.
Liu Ping was hiding in a fake scene and was completely unable to leave.
Everything was under the surveillance of the demons!
"Enough."
A Xie Dao Ling in the World Sleeve said.
"Enough? It seems like there are still many of your clones that have yet to be collected, "Liu Ping said.
"These clones are enough for my main body to gain power and analyze how to deal with the demons." Xie Dao Ling said.
In the space of the World Sleeve, the clone smiled and said, "Finally, please pass your martial scripture to me. I have something to integrate into it."
With another thought, Liu Ping imparted all the spells of the Martial Scripture to the other party. Then, he said in a low voice, "Go."
Xie Dao Ling walked into the void of space and disappeared without a trace.
All the clones followed her into the void of space.
Lines of burning words appeared in his mind:
[Thanks to the drop of Blood of Time in your body, the clones have returned to the other side of time and fused with the witch]
[Thanks to this, the witch's power has begun to increase]
[She will use even more power to search for all the knowledge and power of the flagbearer]
All the text faded away.
Just as Liu Ping was about to return to the other side of time, another line of burning text appeared:
[Xie Dao Ling is now one of the holders of the Martial Scripture]
[All the Evil knowledge and techniques she obtained will be infused into the Martial Scripture, absorbed and controlled by you]
Liu Ping couldn't help but admire Xie Dao Ling.
As expected of the most powerful existence, she immediately thought of a way to give him a share of the Evil's knowledge and techniques while also giving him a share.
This was the double insurance.
Now that all the clones have left, there's no point in staying on the other side of this world.
I have to return and see how far Xie Dao Ling has gone.
With that in mind.
Liu Ping's figure flashed and disappeared from the other side of time.
…
Blood Rain was sitting cross-legged under a tree with her eyes closed, meditating and cultivating.
But everything around her was still.
She seemed to have fallen into a state of oblivion, not knowing that there were two people standing next to her.
One was Liu Ping who had just returned.
The other was the man with the seven swords hovering behind him, Xie Gu Hong.
"What's the situation now?" Liu Ping asked.
"Soon." Xie Gu Hong replied.
All of a sudden.
Overlapping patterns of light appeared around Blood Rain's body.
These complicated patterns flew out, circled around in the void of space, and finally formed a large ice crystal.
Liu Ping looked at the ice crystal.
Inside the ice crystal, hundreds of thousands of Spirit Jade Flowers were clustered together, surrounding a pure and holy lotus.
On top of the lotus flower, a young girl with a pure and innocent face was peacefully sitting, sleeping.
On the other hand, the flowers carved out of spirit jades were full of runes. Clearly, they were some kind of profound magical array.
Within the ice crystal, strands of spiritual light emerged from the Spirit Jade Flower, mixing with the seven colors of the Flower of True Spirits and entering the little girl's body at an extremely slow speed.
"This is Xie Dao Ling's true appearance?"
Liu Ping could not help but ask.
"Because she lost so many clones, she could only reappear at this level." Xie Gu Hong replied.
He formed a hand seal.
The void instantly opened up.
"We need to go, to a certain point in the future. There, Xie Dao Ling will awaken and infuse the Six Paths Reincarnation with a technique that can counter the evil spirits, granting the spirits of the Six Paths the power to defeat them." Xie Gu Hong said.
Liu Ping asked, "What about here?"
Xie Gu Hong looked deeply at him: "This moment belongs to you, we can no longer participate in it. As for how the situation will develop, that will be up to you."
With that, he took a step back and disappeared from Liu Ping's sight along with the Thousand Flower Lotus.
Once they left, Liu Ping looked at the blood rain and fell into deep thought.
Xie Dao Ling had found a way to deal with the Evil Demons and was planning for the future.
At this moment.
There seemed to be nothing left to do.
Is that so?
No.
And that Flag of Era Changing …
Liu Ping pondered silently in his mind. Soon, he found the Demonic Art that Xie Dao Ling had placed in the Martial Scripture.
Right now, Blood Rain is a human, while I'm the Evil Demon.
Might as well take that flag for myself!
He walked in front of Blood Rain and chanted an incantation.
A few moments later.
The white bone flag that was dripping with black blood silently appeared behind Blood Rain.
Liu Ping stepped forward and took the flag in his hand.
In an instant, a low voice came from the flag.
「Is the flagbearer here?」
Liu Ping's expression changed, but he couldn't care less and immediately activated the power of the 'Artist'.
He instantly turned into Blood Rain's appearance, while Blood Rain was hidden in the void of space.
As soon as he did that, ferocious faces appeared on the Black Blood Flag.
One of the faces looked at Liu Ping and spoke:「Xie Dao Ling has lost too many clones, she is no longer a threat. As long as she doesn't meet the spirit of her Apocalypse technique, there will be no issues.」
「Now, flagbearer, begin summoning the Era!」
「This time, we will thoroughly defeat her」