I Slay Gods and Demons in the Deceit Night
Chapter 254 - 184: The Old People of Ancient Times! 【Three Updates!】

Chapter 254: Chapter 184: The Old People of Ancient Times! 【Three Updates!】

Upon entering the ancient relic, he found himself above a town.

One could choose to hide and observe everything from the sidelines.

The consequences were either being eroded by the strange qi, completely losing control,

or if one’s will was strong enough, to resist the erosion of the treacherous night’s strange qi, endure until the very end when the sun and moon rose together, go through the baptism, and gain benefits.

To obtain greater benefits, one needed to "play the role of the town’s old residents"!

The method of impersonation had two outcomes.

The first, as with Lin Yan at the moment, was to break free, remaining oneself.

The second, like the one-armed man before him, was unable to break free and became completely "old residents".

This was equivalent to the "old residents" of this town from the ancient times being reborn.

And this person had already forgotten his original identity, as good as dead.

"High Willow City, one of the six major families within the city, a mark of the Liu Family."

Lin Yan looked at the jade pendant on the waist of the one-armed man, his heart slightly shook.

This person appeared middle-aged and his cultivation had reached the peak of the Refining Essence Realm.

Lin Yan had already thoroughly grasped the intelligence on the six major inner-city families.

At least for now, the Liu Family did not boast such a figure!

Thoughts stirred in his mind as he pondered more distantly.

Years ago, the Liu Family had an expert who went missing!

Tribulation Ash had long acquired the means to enter the ancient relic!

"You are from the Liu Family, turned to the Tribulation Ash, came to the ancient relic very early in search of opportunities, pretended to be a civilian, and then were completely assimilated..."

Lin Yan looked at the man before him and mused aloud.

"The County Magistrate has just come back to life, what nonsense are you talking?"

The one-armed man laughed and said, "It’s all in the past, we’ve come back, just wait a bit longer..."

He pointed to the surroundings and said, "Look, these people might be our reincarnations from the future. They’ve come back to find their previous lives here!"

"It’s soon, very soon, everyone in our town will be able to return, to revert to the very beginning."

"Blessed by Lord Qingling, we have all returned."

The one-armed man laughed heartily, but his eyes were full of tears, showing profound excitement.

Lin Yan glanced left and right, noticing many people amidst the ruins.

People from all the factions in High Willow City.

The nobles and distinguished younger generation from Qifeng Prefecture City and other major cities.

And a large number of Tribulation Ash figures.

Powerful demons, ferocious evil spirits.

The sheer number made his heart sink.

His gaze firmed as he walked toward someone not far away.

This was a disciple of the Tribulation Ash, and he approached the person.

Yet the person looked at Lin Yan before him and said cheerfully, "Mother, I caught three fish today, I’ll make a soup later to nourish the body."

Lin Yan raised his blade and brought it down.

But the real and illusory interchanged.

His blade, unexpectedly fell through.

"County Magistrate, you must not interfere with their quest to reclaim their past lives. It would enrage Lord Qingling."

The one-armed man hurried up, busily trying to stop him.

Lin Yan withdrew his blade, pondering in his heart, "What kind of method is this illusion and reality shift?"

His heart heavier, he exhaled, and as he looked again at the one-armed man, understood.

If this one-armed man could be considered one of the old residents from those times.

Then the notes in the yard when he slew the General Flag Envoy must have originated from this man’s hand.

At that time, this man thought that the town was all evil and wanted to bravely bear the shame to exterminate all the demons of the town.

But in reality, he too had turned evil.

And in the notes’ conclusion, this man had cut off his own hand and, gnawing on it, walked out of the streets, trying to blend in with the "evil", to become one of them.

"I’ve just been reborn not long ago, can you clarify some things for me?"

Lin Yan looked at the one-armed man, suddenly smiled, and spoke.

"Of course..."

The one-armed man replied joyfully, "Thousands of years have passed, the sea has changed, we have awakened from the future to rebuild our hometown, to reunite with old friends, and to be spared from the catastrophe of the treacherous night demons..."

He knelt down towards the front and shouted, "Bless us, Lord Qingling!"

After his kowtows, he stood up, waved his hand, and said, "County Magistrate, follow me first!"

He ran ahead with large strides.

Lin Yan immediately followed.

But then, he couldn’t help but suddenly look back.

"This place is indeed strange."

"Just now I deliberately suppressed myself, didn’t use the Demon Suppression Divine Power, nor did I pour my thoughts into the Nirvana Divine Egg."

"At that moment, I seemed to have completely turned into that County Magistrate."

"Fortunately, I went through more than twenty Refining Essence to Qi transformations, in my three Dantian, upper, middle, and lower, each guarded by my own True Qi!"

"If I had absorbed the strange qi from the outside to cultivate an ’alien True Qi’, then at that moment, having lost my wits, an endless amount of strange qi entering my body, the alien True Qi inside me would probably already be out of control!"

"From this, it seems that entering the ancient relic is indeed extremely dangerous for the Human Clan’s high-level Qi Refining Realm!"

"People from the Tribulation Ash aren’t afraid of losing control, as long as they keep their wits afterward, they would just be unable to maintain their ’human form’!"

With these thoughts in his heart, Lin Yan looked into the distance with resolve.

The Qi Refining Realm peak elder he had deliberately lured into disaster had already turned into a pile of rotting flesh, covered in tentacles, screeching and howling.

And the black-scaled giant snake wasn’t faring any better, its body sprouted with "eyes", constantly weeping a thick fluid.

Nearby, an evil spirit that had given birth to intelligence was also now mad with frenzy.

Evil spirits devoid of spiritual intelligence are nothing but wandering ghosts!

Before his eyes, the evil spirit kept dividing, turning into hundreds of wandering ghosts, never to recover.

This ancient ruin held chances of fortune but also endless danger.

"County Magistrate, please wait, it seems the Scholar is breaking free from the curse and recovering..."

The one-armed man suddenly stopped in his tracks, his face showing delight as he looked ahead.

Lin Yan followed his gaze and couldn’t help but freeze.

Lv Tang?

He’s the Scholar?

This guy could play a Scholar?

At that moment, the dark-faced big man was dancing with great vigor, clutching something in his hand that looked like a wine cup.

"When the incident happened, the Scholar was attending a poetry gathering."

The one-armed man said with a smile, "He has come to the poetry gathering here, he must have remembered his previous life."

Lin Yan nodded thoughtfully.

So it seems that, after the County Magistrate slashed the ox and killed the woman who reported the crime, he went home.

The County Magistrate’s final step was to return home and kill all his family members.

And the Scholar’s last step was to come to the poetry gathering.

"Lv Tang actually managed to act out the last step?"

Lin Yan’s heart trembled slightly as he thought to himself, "To go so far as the last step, he must believe that he’s the Scholar and no longer Lv Tang!"

Just like a moment ago, when he returned to the County Magistrate’s home, he believed he was the County Magistrate!

This was a collision between one’s own perception and that of the ancient "former citizens"!

In the obscurity of his mind, he fell completely into the illusion.

If one’s own perception broke through the "former citizens’" perception, then one would be freed, just like himself.

If one’s own perception was shattered by the "former citizens’" perception, then like this one-armed man, the person itself would die, and the former citizen would be reborn.

As Lin Yan thought this, he heard Lv Tang recite with great spirit and assurance, his hand behind his back.

"Outstanding amongst the forest are the trees, the crane stands out among chickens, the dragon amidst the snakes, just like immortals among mortals, it’s clear at one glance, certainly not something mundane!"

Filled with emotion, Lv Tang said, "Indeed, with this essay praising the State Preceptor, I will surely make the lists and win the title of top scholar!"

He put his hands behind him, then muttered to himself, "Top scholar... isn’t that the first place?"

"Something isn’t right!"

"I don’t seem to be the first!"

"Before me there was the Li Shen Sect, whose talent was on par with mine!"

"And after me, that inhuman Lin Yan, he managed to surpass me later on, truly detestable!"

"All things considered, my talent ranks third at best, not the first!"

"What is third? Right, third is called ’second place’? No, it seems like it’s ’third place’?"

"At best, I’m just Lv Third Place... Lv Third? Lv Tang? I am Lv Tang!"

Lv Tang threw his hands up, making a motion as if to overturn a table, and roared, "What a bunch of nonsense!"

But this action just happened to flip the one-armed man in front of him away, sending him crashing in the distance, rolling several times.

Then, within Lv Tang’s somewhat confused gaze, clarity began to return gradually.

"Eh?"

"..."

Lin Yan fell into silence, quietly saying, "Mr. Lu, he sealed your wisdom, locked away your distractions, polished your pride, all just to gift you with such pure folly?"

"Nonsense!"

Lv Tang instinctively retorted, angrily saying, "This is called the heart of a newborn, totally free from distractions, unaffected by the outside world! Wait... Did I break free?"

He looked around and then burst into laughter, saying, "It looks like in the whole Qifeng Prefecture, only your talent surpasses mine, not even the Li Shen Sect is necessarily stronger than me! Look at those in the distance, what a Qi Refining Realm peak, still out of control, nothing compared to us brothers, mere clay chickens and pottery dogs!"

"Scholar, you’ve finally woken up!"

The one-armed man jumped up, ran over from the distance, his face full of excitement.

Lv Tang instinctively wanted to punch him.

Lin Yan reached out to hold him back, shaking his head slightly.

Immediately after, the one-armed man embraced him with one arm, crying out, "You have returned at last, it was only a matter of time..."

Lv Tang looked bewildered, glancing towards Lin Yan.

Lin Yan said with a smile, "It seems he was even closer to you, this learned man, back in the day. Let him tell you."

"County Magistrate, please calm your anger, your dignity is deep and solid, this is not my disrespect."

The one-armed man quickly turned around, continuously kowtowing.

Lin Yan waved his hand, signaling him to get up.

Then, he saw the one-armed man pull Lv Tang aside and repeat a similar story to the one he had told before.

Gasp fell from Lv Tang’s lips as he looked back at Lin Yan.

And Lin Yan, looking at this one-armed man, asked, "Should we wait for all of them to wake up?"

"No need, apart from you, no one else has reached the last step of recovering their ’previous life’s wisdom,’" the one-armed man quickly replied. "Let’s go to the Five Elements Altar to pay respects to Lord Qingling and see the folks from our hometown."

His voice was full of emotion as he said, "It’s been over a thousand years..."

He led the way deeper into the ruins.

Lv Tang couldn’t help but lean in and whisper, "The Lord Qingling from over a thousand years ago, could he be a divine spirit slumbering in the ruins?"

Lin Yan pondered and said, "Let’s go see, and you’ll understand."

Lv Tang pointed behind him and asked, "What about these?"

Lin Yan shook his head and replied, "They are in a state between reality and illusion, temporarily beyond our interference, just follow this man!"

"Come on, hurry up!"

The one-armed man ran ahead, turned back, waving his remaining hand and called out cheerfully, "They’re all waiting for you..."

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