Half a month later.
Yunhua Realm, Tianxuan Sect.
Early this morning, a wave of thunder and lightning was heard on the top of Zhongling Peak.
Following the sword practitioner Yan Jiuge, among the new disciples, the medical practitioner Chu Qi also advanced to the foundation-building stage.
The training speed of the two of them was far beyond the reach of other fellow disciples. Since they lacked talent, they could only make up for it with hard work. For a time, this aroused the determination of many Tianxuan Sect disciples to practice hard.
After Chu Qi survived the thunder tribulation and successfully advanced to the foundation-building stage, he felt like he had been reborn. The source of his spiritual energy doubled, and his meridians also widened a lot.
After coming out of the cave where he had been in seclusion on Zhongling Peak, Chu Qi first went to the medicine pavilion to pay his respects to his master, Elder Qingyue, and told him about his successful foundation building.
"From the noise you made while overcoming the tribulation, I already knew that you were building your foundation. Go down the mountain and play. You don't need to serve me the elixir today."
Elder Qingyue glanced at his young disciple and could guess without thinking that he was determined to go down the mountain to play with the sword-cultivating disciple.
Chu Qi didn't go into seclusion on weekdays. His three meals a day were either delivered to him by the sword-cultivating disciple, or Chu Qi would eat with him after his morning class at Wenjian Peak and then come back.
Chu Qi has been in seclusion for nearly half a month now, and he will definitely want to run down Zhongling Peak when he comes out.
Chu Qi touched his nose, a little embarrassed, as his master saw through his little thoughts. "Then Master, I will serve you the spiritual medicine tomorrow."
After saying this, Chu Qi bowed and took his leave, then strode out.
Chu Qi really wanted to find Yan Jiuge.
This was the first time in my life that I was building my foundation as a medical practitioner, and I really wanted to find Yan Jiuge to share this good news.
But unfortunately, the message Chu Qi sent to Yan Jiuge was not answered. I don’t know if Yan Jiuge was busy.
"I don't know if A-Yan has returned from his training..."
Chu Qi murmured, hung the identity token back on his waist, then touched Xiaobai's feathers and said to it, "Xiaobai, please take me to Yuxiu Peak first."
The handover of Tianxuan Sect’s mission is managed by Xuanji Pavilion, which is located on Yuxiu Peak.
When Bai Luan heard Chu Qi's words, it raised its head and let out a clear cry, indicating that it understood.
When Chu Qi sat on the white phoenix's back, it spread its wings and flew towards Yuxiu Peak.
Yuxiu Peak is not far from Zhongling Peak and can be reached in fifteen minutes.
Chu Qi got off Bai Luan's back and headed straight for Xuanji Pavilion. Unexpectedly, he ran into Liu Weiming who had just walked out of Xuanji Pavilion.
"Junior Brother Chu, why are you here at Yuxiu Peak?" Liu Weiming was very surprised when he saw Chu Qi. "Junior Brother Yan just received a mission and left. Why are you two here one after the other?"
"I came here... Senior Brother Liu, what did you say? Did A-Yan just come here?"
Chu Qi was stunned when he heard Liu Weiming's words. He came to Yuxiu Peak to see if Yan Jiuge had returned from his training, but he didn't expect that Yan Jiuge had gone out to take on another sect mission.
"Yes." Liu Weiming nodded. Seeing Chu Qi's puzzled look, he was also a little confused. "Didn't Junior Brother Yan tell you?"
Junior Brother Yan and Junior Brother Chu are inseparable on weekdays, and Liu Weiming thought Chu Qi knew it.
"I just came out of seclusion today, and I might have missed the communication with A'Yan." Chu Qi subconsciously explained.
After listening to Chu Qi's words, Liu Weiming spontaneously told him Yan Jiuge's whereabouts, "I heard from the junior brother guarding the mountain gate that Junior Brother Yan just came back this morning. After he handed over the task of hunting the Red Nether Poison Spider, he also received the task of hunting the Two-Headed Poison Python. He flew away on his sword without stopping for a moment."
"Okay, I understand. Thank you, Senior Brother Liu."
After learning the whereabouts of Yan Jiuge from Liu Weiming, Chu Qi turned around and left Yuxiu Peak without delay.
The two-headed poisonous python was in a rocky forest not far east of Tianxuan Sect. A sword-cultivating disciple in the foundation-building stage needed to fly for half a day to reach it. Chu Qi also needed half a day to ride the white phoenix to get there.
It is noon now, and after we rush to the rocky forest, it will be almost evening.
Under normal circumstances, Chu Qi should be waiting for Yan Jiuge to come back at Zhongling Peak or Zaohua Peak.
But after sending a message to Yan Jiuge with no response once again, Chu Qi took a deep breath and said to Bai Luan, "Xiao Bai, please take me to the rock forest outside the sect again."
The time he spent in the Tianxuan Sect was peaceful and calm, and Chu Qi almost forgot an important thing.
—In the previous life, he and Yan Jiuge had a complete falling out, which was one month after Yan Jiuge established his foundation. Now that Yan Jiuge established his foundation ahead of time, that matter might also be brought forward.
In addition, Chu Qi felt a little nervous because Yan Jiuge’s message could not be reached today.
Chu Qi didn't want to quarrel with Yan Jiuge at all.
After finally getting a chance to start over in life, he wanted to try his best to avoid the misunderstandings from his previous life.
But strangely enough, in Chu Qi's memory, the reason for their breakup in the previous life was very vague. He only remembered that they had a fierce quarrel and Yan Jiuge almost started a fight. Chu Qi broke up with him in anger.
He hasn't quarreled with Yan Jiuge since he was reborn, and he shouldn't repeat the same mistake now... Wait, Yan Jiuge is going to draw a sword against him
Chu Qi suddenly grasped a clue.
In Chu Qi's impression, Yan Jiuge, apart from being a little sharp-tongued, generally wouldn't overstep the line - during that quarrel, Yan Jiuge seemed a little abnormal.
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The white phoenix flew quickly towards the east, but the sky gradually darkened.
Chu Qi looked at the dark clouds gathering above his head and could clearly sense that the moisture in the surrounding environment was thicker. With such weather, it was going to rain soon.
On rainy days, the white phoenix's flight will be hindered.
"Xiaobai, find a place to land and take shelter from the rain first." Chu Qi had no choice but to let Bai Luan stop first.
Fortunately, they have now entered the rocky forest, which is almost where Yan Jiuge is doing his mission.
As for his specific location, Yan Jiuge refused to answer the call and could not be contacted, so Chu Qi could only use a clumsy method to find him.
Within a distance of a hundred feet, the identity tokens of the Tianxuan Sect disciples can sense each other.
The white phoenix circled in the sky for a long time. Seeing that the dark clouds were getting darker and darker and it was about to rain heavily, it saw a cave that was barely big enough for them to stay.
After chirping joyfully, the white phoenix circled down and was about to stop at the edge of the stone cave.
"Xiaobai, wait a minute, there's something in the cave!"
As soon as Chu Qi finished speaking, the creature lurking in the dark pounced on them. It seemed to have some intelligence, and it bit Bai Luan's back.
“Chiu!”
The white phoenix let out a long cry, filled with pain.
"Xiaobai!" Chu Qi jumped off the Bailuan's back, quickly formed seals with his hands, and cast a healing magic on it.
A light green light flashed across Bai Luan's wound, but it could not completely heal it. The wound was stained with black blood, and the thing that bit Bai Luan was highly poisonous.
With the dim light from the magic, Chu Qi was able to see clearly what had just attacked Bai Luan.
It was a three-headed poisonous python with dark vertical pupils shining with cold light, and scales similar in color to rocks with a hint of green. The three heads of the poisonous python were all facing the direction of Chu Qi, and its scarlet tongue made a greedy hissing sound.
The strength of spirit beasts increases from level one to level four. The strength of the two-headed poisonous python in the rock forest is about level two, which is the level that a cultivator in the foundation building stage can deal with. But the three-headed poisonous python in front of him has the strength of level three, which is about the golden elixir stage of a cultivator.
What bad luck.
Chu Qi frowned, his fingers gripped the hilt of the Guiyin sword worn at his waist, and he thought quickly about how to escape from here.
The three-headed poisonous python must have a certain level of intelligence, otherwise it would not have been lying dormant here waiting for them to come down. It must have seen the white phoenix circling in the sky a long time ago.
Chu Qi still has two defensive spiritual weapons, one left to him by Uncle Lin, and the other given to him by Elder Qingyue. If he can't use the defensive spiritual weapon, he will face a passive situation, and then he will call the elders of the sect to ask for help.
It would be great if he could still be the swordsman he was in his previous life.
Chu Qi clenched the hilt of the sword and for the first time in his life felt that the medical practitioner's fighting ability was indeed not enough.
“Hiss!”
As if it had noticed Chu Qi's hesitation, the three-headed poisonous python moved its tongue and squirmed its body to pounce on him first.
"bass!"
The Gui Yin sword was unsheathed, and Chu Qi swung the sword almost instinctively. Spiritual power poured into the Gui Yin sword through his palm, activating the ancient runes engraved on the sword.
At that moment, the Guiyin sword trembled.
The sharp white sword energy condensed into substance and slashed towards the three-headed poisonous python.
The three-headed poisonous python had never expected that a medical practitioner in the Foundation Establishment Stage could cut out sword energy. At that moment, its three heads twisted together, trying to turn around and avoid the sword energy.
"boom!"
The sword energy was dodged by the three-headed poisonous python, and it struck the stone cave behind it, creating a deep crack, turning the originally small stone cave into a passage that went through both sides.
Taking advantage of the three-headed poisonous python turning around to dodge, Chu Qi raised his sword and said, "Xiaobai, you should reduce your size and I will take you with me."
Bai Luan's wings were injured and it could no longer fly. There was no time for detoxification and treatment, so it could only shrink and shrink into Chu Qi's arms.
Bai Luan did as she was told and shrank into a small white bird the size of a palm, curling up quietly in Chu Qi's palm.
After receiving Bai Luan, Chu Qi jumped down from the cave.
"—" At this moment, a flash of lightning flashed across the sky.
The dazzling light instantly illuminated the desolate and barren rocky forest.
Under those dark rocks, a group of two-headed poisonous pythons were spitting out cold tongues, and their vertical animal pupils were staring in the direction of Chu Qi.
"… "
The third-level three-headed poisonous python not only has intelligence, but can also command all the second-level two-headed poisonous pythons around it. This area is surrounded by poisonous pythons.
There is no way.
Chu Qi calmed his eyes, took out a defensive magic weapon from his Qiankun bag, and planned to send a message to the elders of the Sword Sect of Tianxuan Sect for help.
"Buzz!"
Just as Chu Qi was planning this, the Guiyin sword in his hand began to tremble, as if it was inspired by something.
"Boom!" After the flash of lightning, the sound of thunder came slowly three breaths later and exploded between the sky and the earth.
At the same time, a scarlet sword light crashed into Chu Qi's eyes, and the mighty sword intent followed like a shadow, carrying with it a fierce and oppressive murderous aura.
"boom!"
The three-headed poisonous python's body was cut off at seven inches and fell powerlessly onto the rock.
The murderous aura left in the cut caused the other two-headed poisonous pythons to flee in all directions, fearing that they would be killed by such sword energy.
However, the person who drew the sword did not stop.
The brilliant sword light picked apart the dark rocks and chopped down the two-headed poisonous pythons one after another.
The stench of the poisonous python's blood immediately filled the entire rocky forest.
After the thunder, a rainstorm finally came in this humid world.
The sound of rain hitting the barren rocks wantonly, the water flow picked up the thick blood stains and flowed along the cracks in the rocks, making it impossible to find a clean place to stay.
Ten steps away, the young man in black holding the Long Yin sword had his back to Chu Qi. The murderous aura on his body had not yet faded, and his cold and stern figure was as sharp as the magic sword in his hand.
The cold rain fell on his body and soaked his robes. He didn't know when it started, but all the protective spiritual power and the defensive spells on his robes were gone.
"Ayan."
Coming back to his senses from what had just happened, Chu Qi walked towards him quickly and raised his hand to cast a magic spell to block the rain for him.
The white spiritual light fell on Yan Jiuge's body, but was bounced away and finally disappeared between heaven and earth without any effect.
Seeing this, Chu Qi was stunned.
He paused and put Xiaobai into the spiritual barrier that blocked the rain. Chu Qi freed his hands and continued to move towards Yan Jiuge.
Chu Qi put his palms together, stood on tiptoe, and stretched his hands over Yan Jiuge's head to block the rain.
After doing this, Chu Qi remembered that he still had a lot of questions to ask Yan Jiuge, such as why he couldn't get in touch with him through the message, and why he had to go on training missions one after another...
All doubts disappeared the moment Yan Jiuge raised his eyes and looked at him.
Different from his usual deep black eyes, Yan Jiuge at this moment had a pair of dark golden eyes that were full of hostility, and the murderous intent that had not faded was still in these eyes.
Chu Qi had never seen Yan Jiuge like this before. It was like he was suffering from hysteria, or like he was possessed by a demon during his cultivation. In short, something was wrong, very abnormal.
In the medical tradition, there are some healing arts that can relieve the evil spirits and clear the mind. But those are arts that can only be practiced by medical practitioners in the Jindan stage. Chu Qi is just building his foundation now, so he doesn't know if he can succeed.
Chu Qi silently recited the obscure spiritual spell in his heart. He focused on Yan Jiuge's condition and prayed that the spiritual spell would be successful.
However, as the spiritual art gradually took shape, it was bounced away before it could touch Yan Jiuge.
Chu Qi pursed his lips, "Ayan, can you still hear me? Your body protection spiritual power should be used to avoid the rain, not to deflect my healing magic, otherwise the magic will be ineffective. If you can't hear me, I will pull your hand."
Using physical contact as a means of transmitting spiritual power is also a means of medical treatment. More importantly, it will not be blocked by the protective spiritual power.
"… "
Yan Jiuge did not answer, but his brows were deeply furrowed, and a hint of struggle appeared in his dark golden eyes.
Seeing this, Chu Qi knew that his mind was probably in chaos. If it wasn't resolved quickly, it would cause even greater trouble.
Without bothering to ask Yan Jiuge's opinion, Chu Qi reached out to pull Yan Jiuge's hand that was not holding the sword.
The boy's fingers were cold, and his palms were a little damp, probably because of the rain.
But when Chu Qi pulled up his hand, he found that there were hideous wounds on his palm, with blood mixed with rain water flowing on it.
Because of Chu Qi's actions, Yan Jiuge seemed to have regained some consciousness. He lowered his head and looked at his palms.
"laugh!"
A sword energy condensed out of thin air, and then cut the palm just like Yan Jiuge had done thousands of times before.
New wounds piled on top of the old ones, and the pain made Yan Jiuge sober up for a brief moment.
"Aqi..." His voice was incredibly hoarse.
"Don't hurt yourself anymore, I will help you, A'Yan, believe me." Chu Qi said anxiously, and quickly transferred his spiritual power into Yan Jiuge's hand.
This time, the healing magic finally worked successfully on Yan Jiuge.
The hideous and chaotic wounds on Yan Jiuge's palms healed, and Chu Qi's spiritual power was still moving inward, trying to find Yan Jiuge's meridians and help him calm the confusion of his consciousness.
It was a bit difficult to use the medical skills of the Golden Core Stage during the Foundation Establishment Stage. The spiritual power in Chu Qi's body was almost exhausted. Finally, he could no longer maintain the use of spiritual skills and stopped.
When Chu Qi looked up, he met a pair of black eyes and was pleasantly surprised. "The spiritual technique really works. Are you feeling better?"
Yan Jiuge held the Longyin Sword and suppressed the evil spirits remaining in his body again, making sure that he would not lose control again. Then he looked seriously into Chu Qi's gentle eyes, "I'm better now. Sorry, I was a little crazy just now."
After the Yan family sacrifice, Yan Jiuge did not stay for long and hurried back to Yunhua Realm. Unexpectedly, the sect mission he took on at that time was to hunt poisonous spiders. After Long Yin Sword drank blood, the evil spirit in his body leaked out through the murderous aura of the sword.
Yan Jiuge knew that the situation was urgent, so he found an excuse to leave Tianxuan Sect again, hoping to return after regaining consciousness. In addition, he withdrew all his defensive spiritual power and relied on the pain from the injury to regain some clarity.
The only thing he didn't expect was that Chu Qi would come looking for him.
Thinking of this, Yan Jiuge couldn't help but feel a little scared. What if he lost control and Chu Qi was hurt by him
"Next time if you see me like this, stay away from me." Yan Jiuge said with his eyes lowered.
"Why should I stay away from you?" Chu Qi wondered as he took out the elixir from his Qiankun bag. He had just treated Yan Jiuge and his spiritual power was exhausted.
Yan Jiuge was speechless for a moment, "..."
He couldn't say it, because after the evil spirit backfired, he would become very scary.
Chu Qi hadn't finished speaking yet. He held the Huiling Pill in his mouth, puffed up his cheeks and continued, "On the contrary, you should have come to me earlier. I'm a medical practitioner, and I can cure your obsession."
Yan Jiuge was stunned.
Just now, he was only concerned with suppressing the evil spirit, and did not notice that Chu Qi's spiritual power was also transmitted into his meridians. The gentle spiritual power was healing the meridians in his body that had been gnawed by the evil spirit. The pain faded away, leaving only peace.
The injuries in his meridians could not be cured by spiritual medicine or magic. Over the years, there was no other way except to endure and heal himself.
But now, Aqi's spiritual power can actually heal these injuries.
There was a look of surprise in Yan Jiuge's eyes.
Seeing Yan Jiuge's expression, Chu Qi mistakenly thought that he didn't believe in his own strength, so he defended himself, "Why do you look like that? Well, I'm just building my foundation now, so it's a bit difficult for me to use advanced healing techniques, but I will become stronger and stronger in the future."
Chu Qi thought to himself that he would have to continue to practice hard after he returned so that he would not be caught off guard like this time.
After hearing Chu Qi's words, Yan Jiuge's eyebrows showed a smile. He suppressed his surprise and nodded, "Okay, I will wait for Ah Qi to become more and more powerful."
As for the fact that Aqi's spiritual skills are extraordinary, he will slowly understand it in time.
"But how did you know I was here when you were possessed by a demon just now?" When Yan Jiuge was possessed by a demon, he didn't even answer the message, but he was able to arrive at the critical moment, which surprised Chu Qi.
"The Guiyin Sword I gave you has some connection with the Longyin Sword." Yan Jiuge explained slowly, "It probably came here following the sword energy."
"It can be like this." As expected, these spiritual swords are made from the same material and there is such a wonderful connection between them.
There was a flash of surprise in Chu Qi's eyes.
After taking the Huiling Pill, Chu Qi's spiritual power recovered a little. Seeing that Yan Jiuge had regained consciousness, he put his worry at ease. He turned around and picked up the white phoenix that he had just placed on the ground to check the injuries on the bird.
The wound has healed, but ordinary healing magic cannot completely eliminate the remaining poison. To remove the snake venom, I have to take the snake gall from the three-headed poisonous python and go back to refine the antidote.
"Ayan, let's go back." Chu Qi said to Yan Jiuge, "Xiaobai was bitten by three poisonous pythons just now, and the remaining poison has not yet been cleared. I have to use the snake gall to make an antidote."
With sword energy rising, Yan Jiuge took out the snake gallbladder from the corpse of the three-headed poisonous python and put it into the jade box. He then handed the clean jade box to Chu Qi.
Then, Yan Jiuge let go of the Long Yin Sword in his hand.
Under the Sword Control Technique, the blade of the Long Yin Sword expanded twice its size, enough for a person to stand on the sword and control it in flight.
Yan Jiuge raised his eyes and looked at Chu Qi with a warm look in his eyes, "Stand up, I will fly you back to the sect on my sword."
"Ah?" Chu Qi heard his words, but did not move. Instead, he hesitated, "This is not good. The Longyin Sword is your natal sword..."
A sword cultivator's natal spirit sword cannot carry other people at will. Chu Qi, who was also a sword cultivator in his previous life, knows this very well.
"You are not someone else." Yan Jiuge said this, and in Chu Qi's confused eyes, he urged, "Hurry up and stand up. It's already dark and it's raining heavily. Bai Luan is injured and can't fly. You have to take a small boat back tomorrow morning."
That makes sense.
Chu Qi thought about it and realized that as a medical practitioner, he couldn’t fly a sword and he didn’t have any other flying magic weapon to go back.
Letting go of the awkwardness in his heart, Chu Qi carefully stepped onto the blade of the Long Yin Sword.
This spirit sword, which was so powerful in Yan Jiu's singing, was now very quiet. It had no dissatisfaction with Chu Qi standing on it.
If some spirit swords are unwilling to carry anyone other than their owner, they will vibrate and hum when someone else steps on them.
Seeing that Long Yinjian didn't show any disgust, Chu Qi felt relieved.
However, Yan Jiuge, who was half a head taller than Chu Qi, also stepped onto the Long Yin Sword and stood behind him. He gently put one hand around his shoulders as if to prevent him from falling, and used his spiritual power to set up two layers of barriers around the spiritual sword.
"Hold on, we're going back."
“Okay.” Chu Qi nodded, thinking that he had flown on a sword before, so he wouldn’t fall so easily.
However, this was the first time that Yan Jiuge took me flying on a sword.
Thinking of this, Chu Qi felt a little weird.
A moment later, the Long Yin Sword carried the two of them into the air.
The spiritual barrier blocks out the heavy rain from the outside.
In the gray sky and earth, the light of the spirit sword was like a winding meteor, sweeping towards the direction of Tianxuan Sect.
(End of this chapter)