My apprentice is a little weird?

Chapter 426 The Emperor of the World Shocks the World

The Taoist boy and the gaunt old man were both inexplicably shocked. As they retreated rapidly, they did not forget to use several magical spells and magic weapons.

Those magical skills that were once considered extremely powerful by the disciples of Qianyu Sect were like a drop in the ocean when they fell on Shen Ming, unable to cause any waves at all!

The magic weapon also passed through the body and could not touch it at all, as if it was blocked by an invisible wall. It was just a few feet away, but it seemed like a chasm and it was difficult to advance even half a step.

"This feeling... is similar to the Seven Minds Heart Source! Where did you learn about it?"

The gaunt old man had no doubt that Shen Ming didn't know what the Seven Thoughts Heart Source was at all, because this thing was researched by them, and they had spent countless efforts to barely master it.

It cannot even be said that they have mastered it, and now they are only making superficial use of it.

But this alone is enough to dominate the Jinglan Territory!

Therefore, outsiders hardly know what the source of the seven thoughts is.

"Seven Minds? That's the name of that strange realm, huh? It's quite fitting... No wonder they were able to detect my presence..."

Shen Ming opened her eyes, revealing a pair of bright, star-like pupils. Her face, as bright as a banished immortal, wore an amused smile, and her pure white Liuxian dress was spotless.

Just like a fairy banished from heaven.

Unfortunately, the still beating heart in the hand ruins the overall beauty, but it also has an inexplicably seductive charm.

But the people present didn't see it as charm, but rather as a deadly danger!!

The Taoist boy was already preparing to run away, but even though he didn't feel Shen Ming's gaze on him, he still felt a trembling sensation in his heart, as if if he dared to escape, that hand would pierce through his chest the next moment!

Therefore, he just tried his best to delay. After all... this place suffered a great disaster. Although the incident happened suddenly, that person must have sensed it and would definitely rush here!

They just had to delay for a while until that person arrived.

"Senior, it seems you are not seeking revenge, and you certainly haven't come here specifically to slaughter us. If you are interested in something from the Thousand Feather Sect, or even everything in it, we will offer it to you with both hands! Please only spare our lives!"

Upon hearing this, the gaunt old man quickly agreed:

"That's right! Qianyu Sect has hidden many valuable treasures! Senior, please take whatever you want. We will not stop you! I only hope that you can spare our lives!"

"And there's this Joyful Soul Butterfly! This creature is truly magical, feeding on the "joy" of the seven emotions. When the larvae break out of their cocoons and transform into butterflies, their bodies are glazed, and their wings sprinkle gold dust. It's called the "Blissful Miasma."

Those who are struck by it will experience a profound joy in their "heart source," which can then parasitize within their spiritual platform and sea of consciousness! It is invisible and formless, and cannot be detected, making it the most magical thing!

Shen Ming raised her hand lightly, and a flash of silver light passed by. The Happy Soul Butterfly held by the gaunt old man suddenly disappeared the next moment and appeared in Shen Ming's palm in an instant.

"this……!"

There was no trace of any magical power or spell, nor did Shen Ming use any magic weapon. With just a slight fluctuation in space, he simply raised his hand and snatched away his Happy Soul Butterfly!

This understatement is like a twist of fate!

This shocked him so much that he no longer dared to express the little thoughts he had been hiding, and he bent his waist even deeper.

Shen Ming casually played with the glass butterfly in his hand. The butterfly tossed around like a dead object, with only the occasional trembling of its wings indicating that it was still alive.

“Nice stuff, how much more?”

The gaunt old man hesitated for a moment and was about to tell the truth, but the Taoist boy spoke first:

"In reply to Senior, there are seven different species in the Qianyu Sect! They are the Anger Eater, the Burning Heart Fire Ant, the Worry Eater, the Silken Mist Spider, the Thought Eater, the Thousand-Hole Brain Leech, the Sadness Eater, the Weeping Blood Shark Veil, the Fear Eater, the Ghost-Faced Silkworm, the Shock Eater, the Impermanence Puppet Moth, and the Joy Eater in Senior's hand, the Happy Soul Butterfly..."

Shen Ming didn't say anything, but just glanced at the Taoist boy.

The opponent felt a sudden surge of pressure, and immediately began to sweat profusely. He even knelt on both knees and banged his head on the ground, telling the origins of these seven emotion monsters one by one.

Not only did he tell the origin of the Seven Emotions Monster, but also everything that their Qianyu Sect had done over the years.

It turns out that the Qianyu Sect is quite capable. They rely on the seven emotions monster to adjust the mental knots of the monks, and have actually made a fortune by doing this.

What to do if your cultivation level is low? A set of seven emotions monsters is combined to form a beggar's version of "Red Dust Refining Heart" infusion. Even a fool can turn you into a monk!

Moreover, with the help of the seven-emotion monster, they also discovered the "Seven Thoughts Source" scattered throughout the world, which are the root marks of the seven emotions.

Based on this, and with the assistance of a certain amount of seven-emotion monsters, you can start a "reincarnation", that is, throw people in to experience a "real" reincarnation.

It is more efficient and useful than refining the mind in the secular world.

In this way, they were able to gather so many "talents" in such a short period of time to enhance the reputation of the Qianyu Sect.

What's even more amazing is that they can also distort and manipulate some monks who are refining their minds in the mortal world in the "Seven Thoughts Heart Source" according to the combination and dosage of the seven emotion monsters.

Change their common sense and cognition.

Therefore, the Qianyu Sect was able to achieve an almost "100%" casualty ratio despite Shen Ming's overwhelming invasion without anyone collapsing and fleeing.

The reason I say almost is because one of the disciples is already escaping...

Of course, these gaunt old men and the Taoist boy didn't know this.

Shen Ming had no intention of interrupting, so the Taoist boy had no choice but to tell him everything about the Qianyu Sect. After a long time, he raised his head with some difficulty.

"Senior... I've already told you everything... This is the Qianyu Sect's greatest secret. Please spare my life..."

Shen Ming was silent for a moment, as if thinking about something, and slowly walked to the Taoist boy.

Then she squatted down softly and said with a regretful tone:

"You said that after reincarnation, people's cognition will be distorted..."

The Taoist boy trembled and said nothing.

Shen Ming placed the still beating heart in front of the Taoist boy, and the hot breath sprayed on the Taoist boy's face as the heart beat.

"Senior...what does this mean..."

Shen Ming didn't answer and continued talking to himself.

"What you just said was sincere and without any lies, but have you ever thought about where the demonic seed of the Seven Emotions Demon came from... And what exactly is the purpose of your closing down the mountains and shutting in your homes this time~"

"Naturally, it's forging..."

Right? If it was just a matter of researching and experimenting with the Seven Minds, it could have been done privately as usual. But why is it being so ostentatiously closed off now?

Wouldn't this let the whole world know what shameful things they are doing?

But what exactly were they doing? Why do they clearly know what they were doing, but it is always vague and they can't remember it?

For some reason, the questions that I could answer smoothly in the past were now strangely stuck, and I felt confused.

He stared at the heart that was clearly dead but still beating. There was a familiar aura lingering around it?

If Sect Leader Fen Yuan was still alive, he would naturally not be able to detect it, but now...

"Is this... a trace of the Seven Minds Heart Source? The four of us have researched it, but knowing how powerful it is, we've mostly used it! We've never personally dabbled in it, so how could it be..."

“Unless…unless!”

The Taoist boy raised his hand tremblingly, and before the old man's horrified eyes, he thrust it into his chest! He literally ripped his heart out!

"Boom, boom, boom..."

A bright red, bloody heart beat quietly, its frequency echoing that of the heart on the ground.

"Ahhhhh!!"

The Taoist boy's originally delicate and graceful face became terrifying and hideous, with thick black blood vessels swollen like earthworms, moving and twisting on his face, which was extremely weird.

"It's fake! It's all fake!! I don't believe it!! I am who I am! No one can control me!!"

"Ahhhhh!!"

The Taoist boy suddenly thrust his hands into his eyes! He howled miserably, tearing his entire face to shreds, revealing a bloody skull underneath.

This was not the end. The Taoist boy did not stop even after tearing off his thick skin. His ten fingers fell on his body like knives, tearing off his flesh and blood bit by bit like a slow slicing, and it was like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon.

I want to break free from the shackles of this body.

But... even when all the flesh and blood disappeared, leaving only a skeleton, nothing changed...

In the end, all that was left was blood, flesh, and Shen Ming, who looked regretful.

“What a pity~”

"You failed to break free from the shackles~"

Shen Ming seemed to really feel sorry for the Taoist boy.

Then he slowly stood up and his eyes fell on the only gaunt old man left in the field.

The other party had already collapsed to the ground. As a cultivator close to the Hedao realm, his body and the Dao should not be so unbearable, but facing this witch, he no longer had any thoughts of resistance...

"You... you used the power of the Seven Minds to make him realize the abnormality in his cognition, but you didn't let him break free from the shackles of his contradictory cognition! You... you are simply..."

The gaunt old man understood exactly what had just happened, and he also realized that he and the others had cognitive abnormalities.

But even though he knew it, he still didn't think there was anything wrong with his cognition.

This is the horror of the Seven Thoughts Mind Source.

Even if the person who has been transformed by it is told the truth and abnormalities later, he will still think that everything is normal.

But there is a prerequisite, that is, the person being transformed cannot be allowed to come into contact with the Seven Thoughts Heart Source again.

Under the power of the same personality, a person who has undergone transformation once will notice the "traces" of personality transformation when they come into contact again.

There is nothing new in the world, and wherever you go, you'll leave a trace.

When the transformed person discovers such traces, his instinct will drive him to find the source of the abnormality.

For example, if a person's cognition is altered and they believe they are invincible, but they cannot defeat many people, this cognition would be normal under normal circumstances, but under the same level of strength, it would cause them to notice abnormalities.

I start to wonder why I can't beat them, and then I'll get obsessed with it, going crazy until I find the source of the anomaly.

The gaunt old man was very scared at this moment. The Seven Thoughts Heart Source that should have trapped the witch had become a soul-noose strangling his neck!

However, until this moment he still believed that there was nothing wrong with him and was not afraid of the witch's methods at all!

The conflict between reason and cognition occurs without the influence of the Seven Minds.

The contradictory psychology caused his face to gradually become distorted.

Shen Ming watched silently with a smile on his face, but he was not in a hurry.

“Interesting~”

As for why Shen Ming didn't use her absolute strength to blast them to pieces from the beginning, it was because she had not yet escaped the control of the Seven Thoughts Heart Source!

In Shen Ming's eyes, there was no such thing as Qianyu Sect, they were just creatures like walking corpses!

The place where she was located was a city, which was a destroyed city in the Broken Jade Snow Mountain. There were countless immortal cultivators and the market town still existed in it.

In the eyes of others, they are all living creatures, but in Shen Ming's eyes, they are just puppets whose fate has already been determined.

It was not difficult for her to escape from the predicament, but it would not happen overnight.

Therefore, after knowing that she could not escape easily, she did not hesitate to act with thundering means, trying to attract all eyes to herself.

Whether it was overt or covert, as long as she continued to make such a fuss, her own master would be much safer.

She could feel that her master's current situation was quite bad. Even when the gaunt old man took out the Happy Soul Butterfly, her premonition had reached its peak.

There is no other reason. Although the Qianyu Sect seems to be full of talented people and is a den of dragons and tigers, there is always something missing.

There is one person missing who can stand on his own! Too mediocre, really too mediocre!

Such a large sect, yet there is no one who can match them?! Shen Ming absolutely couldn't believe it.

The results of the investigation by my own master seemed calm and normal, but a single detail could reveal a whole story.

The calmer the water surface, the more ferocious the undercurrents are!

Shen Ming couldn't even waste a moment. After realizing that Master was in danger but he couldn't get there in time, he simply alerted the enemy.

Don't they like to scheme in the dark? I'll just flip the table!

I'm about to wipe out the Qianyu Sect, and you're still sitting still, haha~

Judging from the results, the effect is still very good.

…………

Suddenly, a steady sound of footsteps was heard in the back hall, which was as quiet as a dead pool. The person who came was a rather strong man.

He walked on flowing clouds and snow, and was dressed in a black robe with a dark gold dragon pattern. There seemed to be some starlight flowing between the sleeves. He tied a cold jade belt around his waist and wore a purple gold crown on his head. The nine-tasseled crown beads swayed slightly with his steps but did not appear to jump.

His face was calm, yet gave people a sense of majesty without even being angry.

With his arrival, the skinny old man's originally conflicted heart suddenly became quiet and peaceful.

The ferocious look on his face disappeared, and he stood up respectfully and bowed to the visitor.

"Greetings to our Emperor..."

The visitor ignored the gaunt old man's greeting, without even glancing at him. He walked slowly with one hand behind his back until he stopped ten feet in front of Shen Ming.

The two men stared at each other. The former's expression was calm, like an almighty emperor surveying his subjects, carrying an irresistible dominance. He vowed to see through the other.

The latter was fearless and looked at the other person with interest.

The two looked at each other in silence and no one spoke.

After a long time, the emperor finally spoke for the first time.

"You are the second person who can project power outward while trapped in the Seven Thoughts Heart Source."

"I, Dalan, have never seen a person like you before."

Shen Ming squinted and smiled.

"Who could have imagined that a mortal emperor could possess such extraordinary talent, manipulating numerous immortal cultivators at his fingertips and maneuvering across several realms?"

"That's right... who would be wary of a mortal emperor, the one least likely to be allowed to embark on the path to immortality~"

In the mortal world, anyone can practice and embark on the path to immortality, except the emperor.

Every decree issued by the emperor involves the fate of countless lives. The "karma of all living beings" he carries is far greater than that of ordinary people, and the Ziwei dragon energy is more like the "karma fire of the mortal world."

Even those with good cultivation will lose a layer of skin if they get involved.

Having already been gifted by heaven and earth to be extraordinary, how could one still greedily hope for immortality? Haha...

Not to mention being repelled by spiritual energy, it is estimated that after death, even the life span will be gone. The soul in heaven will directly return to the soul in heaven, and the soul in the earth will enter the human body and dissipate.