Seeing Yan Jiuge come back to his senses, Chu Qi looked away and reminded him softly, "Ah Yan, let go first. I haven't cleared the evil spirit in your body yet..."
"… "
Clear away evil spirits
However, after hearing Chu Qi's words, Yan Jiuge's calm thoughts were stirred up again. He let go of his hand and looked at Chu Qi with obvious surprise in his eyes, "Remove the evil spirit from my body?"
The last time he was possessed by a demon, Yan Jiuge had not been drawn into the illusion of his inner demon, so he did not know that the evil spirit in his body was cleared away by Chu Qi instead of being suppressed by the seal.
"Well, I checked it just now. The evil spirit has already penetrated your meridians into your lungs. I only had time to use my spiritual power to protect your heart meridian."
Chu Qi told Yan Jiuge everything he knew.
Yan Jiuge's eyes trembled, "Since when did it start... to be able to clear the evil spirit?"
The evil spirit condenses from the Black Abyss. Under the Black Abyss, there is a boundary stone that seals off the evil spirits in the lower world. If the evil spirit cannot be sealed in time, it will continue to erode the boundary stone. Once the boundary stone is destroyed, the evil spirits in the lower world will break through the suppression seal and come back.
The Yan family has been responsible for guarding the boundary stone for thousands of years. The evil spirit can only be sealed by the Yan family, and the rest of the people are helpless.
But now, Chu Qi said that he could remove the evil spirit. How could Yan Jiuge not be shocked
"Since I found this vine ring." Chu Qi raised his hand, revealing the vine ring on his wrist which had changed from dry brown to light green.
Things from Yaowang Valley.
It actually has this connection with the evil spirit.
A dark light flashed in Yan Jiuge's eyes. He calmed down and warned, "Ah Qi, don't mention this to anyone else."
"…Is it a secret?" Chu Qi asked him.
"Um?"
Chu Qi was about to say something probing, but after looking at Yan Jiuge's hesitant expression, he finally changed his words and said, "Nothing."
Chu Qi originally wanted to ask why there was evil energy in Yan Jiuge's body, and whether it was unusual that the vine ring could remove the evil energy.
"You are gifted and your spiritual power is very special compared to ordinary medical practitioners. Don't expose this easily." Seeing Chu Qi hesitate, Yan Jiuge explained for him, "Medical practitioners are weak and will be captured by some cultivators with ulterior motives in remote places and forced to refine medicine."
Yan Jiuge replaced the Yunyin Realm with "remote place".
Ever since Medicine King Valley closed, the status of medical practitioners in the Yunyin Realm has continued to decline. Without the protection of large families and sects, there are very few medical practitioners to be seen.
What’s more, he is a man of Chu Qi’s qualifications.
Chu Qi was stunned when he heard Yan Jiuge's explanation. He and A Yan had different ideas and their attention was focused on each other.
Chu Qi: "I've got it in mind."
The medical practitioner is weak, and if he possesses rare treasures, he will definitely attract covetous people.
If he could also use the sword to cultivate his mind... In the Tianxuan Sect, the founder of the sect was a genius who practiced both medicine and swordsmanship, but no one knew what conditions were needed to reach that level.
A strong idea grew in Chu Qi's mind, and he looked serious. When he returned to Tianxuan Sect, he would make a careful plan for this.
At the moment, after talking with Yan Jiuge for such a long time, the real business has not been done yet.
"Stretch out your hand, I will clear the evil spirit from your body first." Chu Qi said seriously.
Yan Jiuge: “…”
He pursed his lips slightly. He felt that his condition had recovered now, so there was no need for Chu Qi to remove the evil spirit.
Although Chu Qi can clear away evil spirits, it is very hard every time.
With just one glance, Chu Qi could guess what Yan Jiuge was thinking, so he called him hurriedly.
"Ayan!"
Yan Jiuge then stretched out his hand and said, "You don't have to remove all the evil spirits. Four or five out of ten will be enough."
Chu Qi didn't argue with him about this.
Only when Ayan is possessed by a demon will he quietly accept treatment. When he is sober, Ayan's temperament is a little weird.
Holding Yan Jiuge's hand, Chu Qi transferred his spiritual power into Yan Jiuge's body. The vine ring also began to emit spiritual energy, helping Chu Qi to clear away the evil spirit.
Gentle spiritual energy flows through the meridians.
This time, Yan Jiuge could intuitively feel that the evil spirit in his body was eliminated. It did not return to the seal, but disappeared completely.
My body feels like a long-awaited rain, and I feel unprecedented relaxation.
Yan Jiuge really wanted to know, does Yaowang Valley still have such means now? If so, the Yan family might be able to unload this responsibility and return to a peaceful life... In that case, he could become an ordinary cultivator and accompany Aqi.
Not long after, Chu Qi cleared away the evil spirit and the spiritual power withdrew from Yan Jiuge's body.
"alright."
This time it was several times faster than before. This was probably because the vine ring absorbed the spiritual energy from the core of the secret realm, and its ability was enhanced.
After the treatment, Chu Qi removed the barrier around the two of them.
The moment the isolation barrier disappeared, Yan Jiuge immediately felt something strange, "Soul Sealing Formation? How could it appear here..."
The Soul Sealing Array originated in ancient times, but the diagram of the array had long been lost. The Yan family only had half a page of the fragment. They knew how to break the array, but did not know how to set it up.
"Someone wanted to harm you just now. It must be the formation he set up. The body of that person is right here—"
Chu Qi stopped talking midway.
As far as the eye could see, the man's body had disappeared, not even a trace of blood.
"Fellow Daoist, the evil man's corpse turned into green smoke and dissipated. I saw it with my own eyes." Ten feet away, Zhao Si stood up from the ground.
"Green smoke?" Is this some kind of decoy
Chu Qi frowned. He remembered that he had killed that man. That man's original vitality was cut off, and he should not have a chance to escape again.
On the side, Yan Jiuge's face was not very good either. He roughly guessed the identity of that person. He could use the Great Spirit Sealing Array, and he did not die like an ordinary cultivator. He could only be a cultivator who crossed over from the Hidden Cloud Realm.
It was his miscalculation that he failed to find the person who crossed the line earlier, but...
Yan Jiuge suddenly remembered that the two times his seal loosened were both extraordinary. Although the Soul Sealing Formation suppressed him, it would not cause him to fall into the illusion of the inner demon.
That person was coming for him.
Yan Jiuge was determined.
"Let's not talk about this for now." Yan Jiuge changed the subject. The person who crossed the line had special means. Now that the body had disappeared, there would definitely be no evidence left for them to investigate. Instead, the cultivator in front of them was more worthy of investigation.
Yan Jiuge looked at Zhao Si with sharp eyes and asked, "But why can you move?" Everyone else was suppressed by the formation, but the cultivator in front of him seemed to be fine.
"I, I don't know either..." Zhao Si met Yan Jiuge's gaze, shrank his neck immediately, and confessed honestly, "After the evil man who controlled my actions died, I could move."
"As for this formation, I guess it won't restrict medical practitioners as much as other practitioners." Chu Qi said what he guessed, "Ayan, do you still remember the purple herb we found on the outer layer of the central area? There is also its scent in the formation."
Seeing Chu Qi defending himself, Zhao Si became a little bolder and immediately explained the whole story, including how he was caught by Ling Zhihuai and how he was manipulated to set up the formation.
After listening to Zhao Si's description, Yan Jiuge's eyes darkened.
According to the records of the Yan family, this kind of bewitching method is something that evil spirits in the underworld would use.
But the boundary stone is still there, and evil spirits cannot come out from the underworld.
As his thoughts turned, Yan Jiuge's heart gradually became heavy. He had to confirm with the Yan family as soon as possible.
To communicate with the Yan family, one must first get out of the Yunxi Secret Realm.
In this situation, we must first break the soul-sealing formation and rescue the others.
"This Taoist friend just said that he knows where the center of the formation is." Chu Qi looked at Zhao Si with a sincere look, "Thank you for taking us there."
"no problem."
Zhao Si nodded and walked in front to lead the way.
The center of the formation was not far from them. Hundreds of purple grasses grew in it. Six spirit stones were placed on the outside, and this served as the center of the formation. The spirit stones were connected and extended in all directions, finally covering an area of ten miles in radius.
Yan Jiuge was just about to draw his sword to cut off the purple grass, but he saw Chu Qi take out a medicine hoe from his Qiankun bag, squatted down skillfully, and started picking herbs.
"..." Yan Jiuge put down his fingers that were stroking the hilt of the sword, and his previous thoughts faded away.
There was nothing wrong with the herbs; the wrong thing was the person who set up the formation.
"These herbs are intact. I thought they would be refined into medicinal powder." Chu Qi put the hundreds of purple grass into the Qiankun bag.
The purple grass that suppressed the flow of spiritual power disappeared, and the monks in the formation seemed to have survived a catastrophe. Without spiritual power, they were no different from ordinary people, their hearing and vision declined, and their bodies could not move, which made them very panic.
Afterwards, Yan Jiuge destroyed the remaining points of the formation with one sword, and the Soul Sealing Formation was thus eliminated.
The quiet surroundings finally returned to normal, and the monks from various sects gathered together again.
The rare treasure that descended from the secret realm disappeared, and others thought that it was taken away by the person who had just set up the formation. They all fell into a trap, and now all they could do was to draw water with a bamboo basket.
Tianxuan Sect and others were closer to Crescent Lake and knew the cause and effect of the matter. But they naturally would not say it out loud. Junior Brother Chu finally got the opportunity, and the fewer people who knew about it, the better, so as not to attract covetousness.
“So this formation was set up by the people from Fuyao Palace?” Ling Wu from Qingling Sect didn’t look very happy.
Although it depends on one's ability to seize rare treasures, the formation just now was very dangerous. A cultivator without spiritual power is simply at the mercy of others.
The relationship between the five major immortal sects has always been good. Fuyao Palace did such a thing in order to compete for rare treasures, which undermined the close relationship.
“It shouldn’t be.” Chu Qi glanced at the nine Fuyao Palace medical practitioners who had not yet regained consciousness, and explained, “If it was set up by Fuyao Palace, after that person disappeared, there wouldn’t be Fuyao Palace disciples left here to provoke anger.”
"That's right." Ling Wu calmed down. He also carefully observed the condition of the nine people. It seemed that they were under an illusion. Something was not right.
"We can wake them up and ask them what happened." Yun Jiangmiao suggested. As he spoke, the mimic nine-tailed fox standing on his shoulder was unusually quiet, not even breathing.
Yan Jiuge glanced at the nine-tailed fox and said nothing.
Everyone walked towards the disciples of Fuyao Palace.
Among those nine medical practitioners, there was also Su Qiuzhi.
After she woke up, she had a splitting headache. When she heard everyone asking her the reason, she gradually remembered what she had done in the past. She felt remorseful and her state of mind collapsed. Her cultivation level was also affected, and she dropped from the early stage of Jindan to the peak of foundation building.
If she cannot adjust quickly, she may be stuck at the peak of foundation building for the rest of her life, unable to make any further progress. In more serious cases, she may even develop mental demons.
"We at Fuyao Palace were originally planning to leave the central area and go to the outer areas for training." After her realm dropped, Su Qiuzhi defended Fuyao Palace, "Then I don't know what happened, but I followed that person to here."
"Who is that person?" Chu Qi asked. He remembered the person's appearance, but he had no idea of his identity or name. When the person died, his body disappeared without leaving any trace.
Su Qiuzhi held her forehead with her hand, looking painful, "I can't remember it."
The other Fuyao Palace disciples also lost their impression of that person.
“Then I will report to the headmaster and request a thorough investigation of the matter.” Such a mistake was made in Fuyao Palace and was taken advantage of by outsiders. She, Su Qiuzhi, was to blame and now she could only try her best to make up for it.
Yan Jiuge watched Fuyao Palace and the others, and secretly searched them with the Seal of Discipline, but found nothing unusual. The rest were all native cultivators of Yunhua Realm.
The matter had to be left unresolved.
Another half day passed, and the Yunxi Secret Realm was closed ahead of schedule this time. The power of space surged around everyone and teleported them all out.
*
After more than two months, Chu Qi came out of the secret realm. After a dizzy spell, the sunlight from the outside world fell on him after a long absence.
When I came out, it was still night in the Yunxi Secret Realm, but I didn't expect it was still daytime in the Yunhua Realm.
Just as Chu Qi was thinking about this, the sky above him suddenly darkened. He was stunned for a moment, and when he looked up, he saw several thunderclouds gathering in the sky, as if they were about to brew a thunderstorm.
Chu Qi suddenly remembered—
He had an epiphany in the Cloud Secret Realm, and leaped from the late Jindan stage to the Yuanying stage in one step, but he could not survive the tribulation in the secret realm. Now that he had come out of the secret realm, the Heavenly Dao had sensed that a thunder tribulation was about to fall.
Overcoming the tribulation is extremely important and cannot be delayed.
Chu Qi quickly spoke to everyone in the Tianxuan Sect, "My fellow disciples, I have made a breakthrough in the Yunxi Secret Realm, and now I have to survive the thunder tribulation."
"Congratulations, Junior Brother Chu. You should prepare to overcome the tribulation as soon as possible. It's not too late to talk about other things later." Liu Weiming advised.
You can't do the tribulation in a crowded place. Firstly, it's easy to hurt innocent people, and secondly, you have to be on guard against people with bad intentions who might take advantage of the weak period after the cultivator's tribulation.
After Yan Jiuge performed the Sword Controlling Technique, he stood on the Longyin Sword and stretched out his hand to Chu Qi, "Come up, I'll take you to find a suitable place to survive the tribulation."
Chu Qi accepted the invitation without hesitation.
Then, the two of them flew away on their swords.
The person standing next to the disciple of Tianxuan Sect happened to be a disciple of Qingling Sect.
"You sword cultivators... aren't you supposed to let others ride on your natal spirit sword? Why did Fellow Daoist Chu and Fellow Daoist Yan fly their swords together just now?" Luo Xin exclaimed.
Luo Wuci glanced at him and said, "Of course we sword cultivators are like this."
Under Luo Xin's puzzled gaze, Luo Wuci changed the subject, "But Junior Brother Chu and Senior Brother Shouzuo are different. They like to fly swords together. Do you have any objection?"
Luo Xin shook his head, "No, no."
It was a huge shock, and my cognition became confused.
Luo Xin asked with longing, "If I switch to sword cultivation, can my natal spirit sword carry people at will?"
"Brother Luo, first of all, you can't become a sword cultivator unless you give up your skills and cultivate your mind and start over. Secondly, even if you start over and become a sword cultivator, you may not be able to build a foundation and reach the level of flying with a sword after practicing for twenty years. So you don't have to worry about whether your spirit sword can carry people."
Ling Wu wanted to educate him ideologically, but he didn't have time to do so in the secret realm. Now he has to teach him a good lesson.
"Okay." Luo Xin gave up, muttering, "It would take me twenty years to practice sword skills. I might as well ask the weapon refiner to refine a flying spiritual weapon for me that looks like a spiritual sword... This way it only takes two months."
(End of this chapter)