The Name of Eternity

The spring rain is continuous.

The distant mountains and nearby forests outside the pass are all shrouded in silver-like raindrops.

The patter of raindrops hits the fenced courtyard, and splashes on the cracks of the bluestone slabs in the courtyard, bringing the smell of soil.

There is a pot of tea in the kitchen, and two people are sitting at the table.

One is Li Hao, and the other is also Li Hao.

That's right.

The two figures drinking tea and playing chess at the table in this small courtyard are both Li Hao.

From the appearance, they are the same.

It's just that the other Li Hao is a little dull, and his eyes are a little dull.

"Sure enough, the brain is not flexible enough."

Li Hao made a move and won the game again, but his experience did not increase.

Even in this form of game, the panel judged that he was playing against himself.

But it doesn't matter if he has no experience. Li Hao has taken chess to heart, and even if he has no experience, he still enjoys playing.

The clone in front of him, who looks the same as him, was obtained from the collection of famous paintings sent by the painter.

The famous painting is: Two-Faced Man.

In the painting is a young girl with a long skirt, looking at the distance and gazing at the afterglow.

The seemingly simple painting contains countless details, and the painting techniques of light and dark, symmetry, etc. are integrated to perfection.

Through the thickness of the lines, the swinging skirt is outlined with a few simple strokes. The light and dark amplitude of each fold is natural and symmetrical, which is terrifying.

The afterglow is light red, and the color it emits is also the same, like a furnace of flames melting on the drawing paper, really burning.

Li Hao feels that he is far from reaching this level with his sixth-level painting skills.

He feels that to meet the requirements of the panel illustrations, it may take the ninth-level skills to do it.

And such a superb artistic conception, there are very few people in the mortal world who can achieve it, even the famous paintings or famous scores handed down for thousands of years, there are not many.

And each one has a thousand-year heritage and is of extraordinary significance.

After the two-faced man was collected, it disappeared from the world, which made Li Hao feel deeply regretful.

"Two-faced Man" was embedded into the physical body by Li Hao, and the attributes it brought were extremely strange.

Two-faced Man: With his own flesh and blood, he can construct a dark-faced body with 30% of the ability of the original body.

The original body is not harmed when the dark-faced body is destroyed.

The original body and the dark side are not related to each other, and cannot share memories or vision.

When the dark-faced body is destroyed, this attribute will be restarted-(only one dark-faced body can be constructed)

The original body can give instructions to the dark-faced body, and the dark-faced body will have the simple thinking of the original body.

...

When Li Hao previously collected other chess records, famous paintings, and music scores, the attributes he obtained were all amplification of certain attributes, but this "Two-faced Man" can directly provide him with an ability.

In other words, the previous attributes are also some abilities.

For example, the fatal attribute is an extremely strange ability that can be fatal with a 1% probability.

It's just that the ability of this two-faced man is concrete.

This special attribute, when used in combat, does not bring much increase, which is equivalent to giving Li Hao an extra helper, but the various abilities are only one-third of his original body.

Li Hao found after the test that although it is said to be one-third, the actual combat power is far from it.

Because of the reduction of ability, this dark side clone cannot display the special state of the extreme martial arts, such as the Dharma of Heaven and Earth, divine power, and immortality, which are all disabled.

The physical strength is only 300,000 jin.

The body is strength, not immortal energy, and the whole body strength is less than 4 million jin.

You know, the royal family can reach 2 million jin of strength.

The soldiers of the Yuanzi Camp are 500,000 jin.

It is only twice that of the royal family.

Fortunately, the Yin and Yang dual meridians are not blocked, and the power of the activated dual meridians is 8 million jin.

It is equivalent to 4 times the explosive power of the royal family.

The divine wandering, the control of objects, etc. are also reduced, which is only about twice that of the royal family.

Based on the combat power of this dark clone, Li Hao estimated that it could suppress some great demons in the Unfading Realm, but if it encountered a demon king, it would be beaten to death in a blink of an eye.

But fortunately, Li Hao did not plan to use this clone to fight, but just to play chess with him or run errands for him in his spare time, which was convenient.

Moreover, the structure of this dark clone was effortless, and it was condensed from one of his fingers.

It took only a few minutes for his original broken finger to regenerate.

As for this dark clone, the healing speed of injuries was greatly reduced. Li Hao asked Li Hongzhuang to test it, and it was only about twice as fast as hers.

These are all secondary. What makes Li Hao most helpless is that this dark clone's chess skills are too bad, and his ability in this aspect is only about one-third of his own.

But chess skills are different from martial arts. Competing with someone with one-third of his skills is simply seen through at a glance. It is too clumsy, and there is no pleasure in winning.

The only comforting thing is that this dark clone can help him run errands when he has nothing to do, and go outside the pass to clean up those monsters from time to time.

Unfortunately, the dark clone cannot earn panel experience when doing things, otherwise the experience will be doubled, which would be really happy.

In addition to the attributes brought by this painting, the chess record given by the little chess master also brings a special attribute.

The name of the chess record is: Qiankun Diagram.

Qiankun is heaven and earth. The chess record is vertical and horizontal, with 19 horizontal lines and 19 vertical lines. It takes 361 pieces to fill it up!

Li Hao embedded this chess record into the Imperial Road and also got a peculiar attribute.

Qiankun Diagram:

You can choose any object as a mark and devote 50% of your strength.

Once the mark is destroyed, the power will burst out.

Total number of marks: 180.

…

These 180 are the number of black or white pieces placed, and are also the total number of marks that Li Hao can make at the same time.

After Li Hao's experiment, he poured his power into a military flag, and in the process of pouring, he could also add his swordsmanship into it.

He injected a swordsmanship and 50% of his power, and this military flag became one of the marks.

When the military flag is destroyed, the sword energy and power blocked inside will burst out and cover the surroundings indiscriminately.

This is a bit like the magic circle constructed by the old man of Xingxiuguan.

But Li Hao's is more concise, belonging to the single type, only suitable for himself.

Under the attribute of keeping a low profile, Li Hao's 50% of the power consumed needs half a day to recover.

In other words, he can only make two military flags to fill the power in a day.

Li Hao is not in a hurry. Anyway, he is idle. He will make one every day when his strength recovers a little.

Now he has accumulated 16 marked military flags in his courtyard.

When the rain stopped, Li Hao asked the dark clone to go outside the pass with the marked flags and plant one flag on each of the hills that were originally filled with the aura of the three immortal demons.

Occupy the mountain and become the king.

He wanted to make sure that demons were forbidden to travel wherever his flags were placed!

In the courtyard, Ren Qianqian was a little surprised when she saw the dark clone, but later she calmed down when she learned that it was Li Hao's technique.

The strange situation of the dark clone is not a special case.

Li Hao has read a lot of ancient books in the Listening Rain Tower and knows that some techniques practiced in the Three Immortal Realms can condense clones, but the quality of the clones is different.

In addition, some strong men in the Four Li Realms are said to specially forge a mortal body, send the original mortal heart to the mortal body, and the original body condenses the Tao heart and enters the Four Li Realms.

This is also a technique to break through to the Tao Heart Realm.

However, this technique is not recommended and is not perfect.

Once the mortal heart is broken, the Tao heart will also be affected, just like an upside-down bowl with a gap.

Like the Li family, or the four realms that Li Hao knows, they are basically transformed from mortals to Tao, with only one true body and no condensed mortal body.

Among the demons, the practice of "dividing the heart and merging the Tao" is advocated.

Like the three-headed snake demon that Li Hao encountered before, if all three heads can be melted into one head, it can be transformed into the Tao heart realm.

The Wanku ghost mother is even more exaggerated. She gathers thousands of ghosts and demons, tears the mortal heart into pieces, and then blends the hearts of thousands of ghosts and monsters, and finally becomes a Tao heart demon seed.

It is very easy to get lost in this process, turning into a lonely ghost, a mountain spirit, and being able to cultivate is also related to luck and strategic layout.

Every demon king who has cultivated to the four realms has a very tortuous experience.

And once you step into the four realms and become a king, unless you seek death, there will be very few worries about your life.

If you reach the realm of defying fate, it will be even harder to die.

Previously, Li Hao had the power to kill several demon kings, but in the end, only the Wanku ghost lady of this state of mind was left, and the rest of the demon kings all escaped.

…

Time flies.

The spring rain is getting more and more silky, and the occasional clear sky is also fleeting.

More and more military flags are planted outside the pass, and each military flag seems to be a slap on the face of the demons outside the pass.

As more and more are planted, finally some demons can't stand the humiliation.

In the heavy rain, a demon in the indestructible realm roared and rushed to the hilltop where the flag was planted a few days ago. There was a new house that he had just built halfway, but now it has been razed, leaving only a bare hilltop and the battle flag bathed in the heavy rain.

Seeing the two words Haotian on the flag, the demon's eyes were bloodthirsty and he roared angrily.

"Lord Longze, don't!"

A bird from the Tianji Palace came and shouted hurriedly.

But this demon didn't care anymore. Instead of living in fear outside the pass and hiding and running away every once in a while, it might as well settle down somewhere else.

It had planned to tear up all the broken flags of the damned human kid and then leave.

Anyway, the world is so big, where is not home?

Bang!

As its claws slapped down, the battle flag was immediately submerged, the flagpole was broken, and the flag was torn.

Before the demon sneered, suddenly, a burst of sky-high sword energy burst out from the battle flag, as if a sword opened up the world!

The heavy rain in the sky was swept away and cut off!

Then, the sword energy broke through the clouds, tore the dark clouds in the sky, and stopped the spring rain.

Then it slashed down fiercely!

It was like a sword energy swung down by an immortal in the misty world!

The demon's pupils shrank, revealing a horrified shock, unbelievable, where did this attack come from!

It roared and roared, exerting monstrous demonic energy, and its scales swelled up, trying to block the sword energy.

But the next moment, the sword energy fell straight down, and with a bang, it split its body from the head, splitting its body in half!

Then, the sword energy melted and broke into countless tiny sword energy, rushing like raindrops.

If only the body was split, the demon could still escape with his life. After all, "a mere fatal injury" is not enough to kill a demon in the third immortal realm.

Even if the heart is shattered, as long as it leaves the battlefield in time, takes drugs in time, or saves its lifeline, it can still survive.

Relying on the speed of physical regeneration, it is not too difficult to heal the broken heart.

But at this moment, under the rush of thousands of sword energy, a sword energy instantly sank into its body, and the demon suddenly died before it had time to struggle!

The huge body fell straight down the hillside, in front of the broken military flag.

When the sword energy soared into the sky, the bird demon stopped in fear and retreated quickly, hiding from the coverage of the sword energy.

When the thousands of sword energies continued to baptize the demon's body until it disappeared, the flying bird came to its senses and was so shocked that it couldn't speak.

"This, there is a sword formation on this military flag?!"

"How is it possible!"

"When did the Sitianjian of the Dayu Divine Dynasty arrange such a terrible and sophisticated magic formation!!"

The feathers of the flying bird were shaking and trembling, and the blood in its body seemed to be coagulated in shock. It was obviously spring, but it felt colder than winter.

This spring may be the spring of some people.

But it is the winter of them, the demons!

The flying bird was weak all over and blew the Xuanyin whistle. Soon, a large number of birds from the Tianji Palace gathered.

When they saw a circle of clear sky above the mountain, they were all surprised and came forward to ask about the situation.

When they found out the reason, all the birds were stunned and stared at the quiet mountain in amazement.

The corpse of the three immortal demons was still crawling there.

One military flag, to kill a three immortal realm demon!

And such military flags... if they remember correctly, they have planted more than 30!

And, every once in a while, they will come and plant a few, and plant all the mountains with dense energy of heaven and earth in the east and west areas of 5,000 miles outside the pass!

"These, these are all the battle flags of the young man!"

"He, is he going to turn this 5,000-mile area into his territory?!"

Many birds in Tianji Palace were trembling, feeling fear and palpitations.

They could no longer understand the strength and ability of the young man.

The red bird turned into a girl in a red skirt, but her pretty and watery face was full of horror.

She was an intelligence worker, and she was well-informed. She had seen many geniuses and evildoers in the Great Yu Dynasty over the past hundred years.

However, the brilliant hundred years in the past were not as good as what she saw in just one year!

The horror of that shocking young man, even though he was thousands of miles away, seemed to still release a monstrous majesty and suppress the world!

She suddenly understood why the young man dared to come alone to guard the border.

That was not the gospel of the demons, but the gospel of the young man.

He was far more cruel and terrifying than what was rumored in Qingzhou, like a fierce god that had escaped from a cage, truly releasing his edge and claws!

"Quick, notify them quickly, don't get close to this military flag, and we will find someone to carry one back later to see what kind of sword formation is on this military flag."

The girl in the red skirt said hurriedly.

Many flying birds were dignified and quickly dispersed.

...

In the small fenced courtyard.

A panel prompt appeared in front of Li Hao, and he saw that the number of marks jumped from 35/180 to 34/180.

I immediately knew that one of the marks was destroyed.

Li Hao raised his eyebrows slightly, and immediately asked the dark clone to investigate, and asked Tianji Hall to give an explanation.

Not long after, the dark clone came back, and brought back the body of a third immortal demon.

At the same time, there were bird demons from Tianji Hall waiting along the way, who mistook the dark clone for Li Hao, apologized to him, and explained the whole story.

The dark clone didn't say anything, but just crushed the bird demon to death.

Tianji Hall was furious when it learned about this, but didn't dare to retaliate. The next day, it sent a bird demon to ask the reason. Li Hao said that this was just the first lesson.

Actions are often more deterrent than words.

The bird demon who sent the message went back tremblingly, and brought back Li Hao's words. Tianji Hall was shocked and angry, but helpless.

But after this incident, Tianji Palace promoted Li Hao's bad reputation more vigorously. Those demons in the three immortal realms heard it, although they were half-believing and half-doubting, but they did not dare to take real risks. In the end, they slowly left the outside of the pass and chose to go to other places to find another way out.

Although some mountains, hills and swamps outside the pass are the "ancestral lands" of many demons.

Birthplace.

Even demons have feelings and dependence on their birthplaces.

But they know that during the time when the young man was in charge of Tianmen Pass, this ancestral land did not belong to them.

Fortunately, they have a long life span and are more patient than humans. If they come back after decades or hundreds of years, the young man will probably have left.

And a hundred years is just a retreat for some big demons.

The outside of the pass became more and more silent.

Only the empty scenery remained.

Thousands of miles outside the pass, demons have disappeared, and only the occasional small demons wander around without knowing the situation.

...

Time flies.

After the spring rain, the hot summer arrived.

Cangya City became more and more prosperous, and there were more pedestrians coming and going.

In the hot summer, there were sparse pedestrians on the Longguan Road leading to Cangya City, and there was also a caravan.

And dozens of miles outside Longguan Road, in a dense forest.

A huge and bloated demon crawled out of the dense forest.

Soon, it saw the wide and snow-white Longguan Road in front of it, and its eyes showed bloodthirsty color. .

It was about to crawl forward, and suddenly an old tree in the dense forest spoke, saying: "Don't go any further."

"Hmm?"

The demon stopped and turned to look at the old tree demon who spoke. If the other party didn't speak, it wouldn't have noticed it.

Its face changed slightly, and it said coldly: "What?"

The old tree demon said hoarsely: "Go forward, it's Longguan Road."

"Hmph, what's the matter with the Dao, what about Longguan Road?"

The bloated demon snorted coldly.

"Once you reach Longguan Road, you can't go any further, that's the territory of the human race!" sighed the old tree demon.

"Human race?"

"Hasn't this road long been the territory of our demons? How dare the human race come here?"

"You are from another state, right?"

The old tree demon swung the branches slightly, as if shaking his head, and said: "The situation you are talking about is a long time ago. There are no demons there now. There are only corpses of our demons, mountains of corpses and seas of blood!"

"Hmm?"

The bloated demon frowned and looked at Longguan Road, but only saw some delicious human race, like walking desserts.

"Did you see that flag?"

The old tree demon waved its branches, pointing to a flag that was pierced through a high stone beside the Longguan Road: "If you see that flag, leave quickly. You have such a strong smell of human blood on you, it will bring you death."

"Hmph, you are playing tricks, and you want to scare me with a flag?"

The bloated demon sneered: "Don't talk about flags, I have eaten an army, old man, if you are not so weak, I will eat you!"

After saying that, he was too lazy to pay attention to it and rushed straight to the Longguan Road.

"Grandpa, it doesn't listen to you."

A small branch next to the old tree demon shook and said.

The old tree demon sighed and said nothing.

The bloated demon had already rushed to the Longguan Road at this moment, rushing towards the figures at the end of the sight.

Its eyes were full of bloodthirsty killing intent, and the wind driven by its body blew up the flags drooping on the high stone next to it.

But just as it was approaching rapidly, a breeze suddenly swept over.

In this hot summer, the breeze brought coolness and swept past the bloated demon.

"This..."

The pupils of the bloated demon suddenly shrank, and it wanted to dodge, but it was too late.

Its body suddenly split open, its internal organs scattered all over the ground, and blood flowed.

The breeze seemed to come from Cangya City at the end of Longguan Road.

It seemed to be the sword energy that the young man casually threw out a year ago, killing the demon that year, hovering on this official road, and after a year, it blew back to the past...