Friends who have played "Legend of Sword and Fairy IV" will probably be disappointed with the ending of the game. Yun Tianhe was blind and guarded Qingluan Peak alone. Han Lingsha died young and turned into a handful of earth. Liu Mengli returns to the demon world and cannot be together in love. See you again after a hundred years, Ziying's head turns white.
Prior to this, the Huan Meng Realm had been completely slaughtered, and the Qionghua Sect was also burned by heavenly fire during this ascension event, and its foundation of nearly a thousand years was wiped out. Xuan Xiao and all the disciples who participated in the ascension were thrown into the whirlpool and imprisoned for thousands of years.
It can be said that the ending of "Legend of Sword and Fairy IV" is a complete tragedy.
Seeing such a tragedy, I can't help but think, who caused all this, and who should be responsible for this tragedy?
In fact, if you carefully review the plot, it is not difficult to find that it was not just one or two people who caused this tragedy, but a group of people. With their joint efforts, everything we see now happened.
Su Yao, as the twenty-fifth generation leader of the Qionghua Sect, has been secretly conspiring with Xuan Xiao to use the double sword net to bind the demon world and allow the Qionghua Sect to fly to Kunlun Tianguang.
It can be said that the reason why Tianhe and his group were able to successfully join the Qionghua Sect was also due to her careful calculation. Lingsha's death was not unrelated to her. She was the main participant in this ascension incident and played a role in fueling the flames behind the scenes.
When she was in charge of the Qionghua Sect, she secretly excluded the elites of the sect such as Murong Ziying and Su Xin because of her jealousy of talents and talents, causing a large number of outstanding disciples to leave.
As a result, the Qionghua Sect was under her governance, and the disciples in the sect were all villains who were difficult to distinguish between right and wrong and who tended to follow others' influence. This also paved the way for the destruction of the Qionghua Sect.
But even so, she was not the main person responsible for this tragedy.
Master Daoyin is the 20th generation leader of the Qionghua Sect. He is only mentioned by name in the game and does not officially appear.
Although he is a character living in the past, his impact on the Qionghua Sect and even the entire "Four of Swords and Swords" has been extremely profound.
In the game, Xuan Xiao and Su Yao use double swords to restrain the demon world, and absorb their spiritual power to obtain the power needed to ascend. Such an evil method to ascend to immortality was invented by Master Daoyin.
After him, successive heads of the Qionghua Sect began to learn his method of ascension. It was not until the 24th generation of head Taiqing that he finally accumulated all the conditions needed for ascension.
When Taiqing was in charge, he chose to let Xuan Xiao and Su Yao become the hosts of the two swords respectively. They practiced the two swords to restrain the demon world and launched the first war against the demon world.
In this war, Chan You, the leader of the demon world, was seriously injured, Liu Mengli, the young master, fled to the world, and four of the six fantasy generals died. The Qionghua sect did not fare much better. Master Taiqing himself also lost his life, and his eldest disciple Xuan Zhen died in the battle.
Suyu and Yun Tianqing couldn't stand what the Qionghua faction was doing, so they chose to escape with their swords, which indirectly caused the Xuanxiao Yangyan to enter their bodies and fall into madness. All this has something to do with the war between the two worlds launched by the Taiqing people.
Of course, Elder Zong Lian, who created the Wangshu Sword and the Xihe Sword, also bears some responsibility for this tragedy. He only focused on making swords and never thought about the consequences of losing control of his swords.
Until his death, Zong Lian could not think of any way to save Xuan Xiao and Su Yu. The two of them had already been tortured to death by the two swords.
Xuan Xiao is the main executor of this ascension event. Without the support of his super ability, it would be difficult for the Qionghua Sect to succeed. However, Xuan Xiao's actions also caused the climate to change and the river water to become dirty, causing harm to the people in Boxian Town below.
He obviously knew the consequences of doing so, but he still chose to raise the Qionghua Sect. In addition to the change in temperament caused by the entry of Yang Yan into the body, it was also largely due to the influence of the Qionghua Sect's obsession with ascension accumulated over the generations.
With Xuan Xiao's cultivation, it is not difficult to become an immortal. However, he chose to drag his family with him, hoping to ascend with the disciples of the Qionghua Sect.
In order to achieve a feat that had never been accomplished by the Qionghua Sect, no matter how many people were sacrificed, the fate of almost everyone was changed under the influence of his crazy move.
Tianhe's blindness, Lingsha's death, and the decline of Qionghua Sect are all directly related to Xuan Xiao. Xuan Xiao seems to have an aura of tragedy, and all the characters who have interacted with him will encounter misfortune.
The Qionghua sect has always believed in the Nine Heavens Xuannv. The Nine Heavens Xuannv once taught Qionghua's ancestors the "human and sword unity" swordsmanship in a dream. The Qionghua sect has been practicing under her feet for a long time, and she must know every move she makes. , the heaven knows even more.
However, when the Qionghua Sect slaughtered the demon world in order to ascend, the heaven did not stop them; the rise of the Qionghua Sect caused the feng shui below to become abnormal, and no one in the heavens stopped it; until Xuan Xiao and Su Yao raised the Qionghua Sect to a level that was almost close to the Kunlun Skylight, When he was only one step away from ascending into the sun, Heaven finally took action.
Following the Emperor's will, the Nine Heavens Xuannv appeared in front of everyone like a mechanical deity, and gave them a blow, telling them that "the act of ascension is against the way of heaven. If you ask for the immortal way, you must first cultivate the human way." Then she threw the group into the whirlpool of the East China Sea.
Throughout the Fairy Sword series, there are many ways to become an immortal, but they basically have nothing to do with character. In "Legend of Fairy Sword and Fairy 3 Side Story: Inquiring about Love", Shu Ming has a despicable character and kills his wife and fellow disciples, but he can still become an immortal and become a god. However, I have never heard what the heaven said to Shu Ming: "If you want to be an immortal, you must first cultivate the human way."
After all, the power to interpret immortality lies entirely in the hands of heaven. What is the way of heaven? The power of interpretation ultimately lies with nature rather than with humans.
The Qionghua sect's ascension is an evil path. They believe that killing demons and slaying demons is doing justice for heaven and doing justice. And Jiutian Xuannv told them, "The demons don't do evil, so why should we get rid of them?" This is against the laws of heaven.
There are differences in the understanding of "the way of heaven" between the two. This is due to the huge information exchange barrier between the two.
The Qionghua Sect has followed this evil path for several generations, but you tell them this is against the way of heaven when they are about to succeed in ascension? The gods are above and have the initiative in information exchange. Only when they want to tell you that you are wrong do you have the right to know that you are wrong.
This road of class crossing has been tightly controlled by heaven.
It is precisely because God's will is unpredictable and human destiny is like duckweed in the water that it is difficult to control oneself, so Tianhe shouts from the bottom of his heart, "My destiny is up to me and not up to God"!
Therefore, the heavenly forces headed by Jiutian Xuannv are the root cause of this tragedy.
All the above constitute the external and internal causes of the tragedy of "Legend of Sword and Fairy IV", and there are also deliberate arrangements by the screenwriter. Everyone in the game seems to be working hard, but no matter how hard they struggle, they can't change their destiny.
That sense of powerlessness that goes deep into the bones is exactly the real feeling that the game "Legend of Sword and Fairy IV" brings to players.