Just like a life-saving talisman, or even more thorough than a life-saving talisman, after the middle-aged man committed suicide, the blood mist gradually turned into a phantom and disappeared, and somewhere in the East China Sea, a disheveled middle-aged man suddenly appeared above the clouds in the sky.
At this moment, the man had none of his previous immortal demeanor. The characteristic of the life-replacing object was to restore the situation before it was activated, so at this moment he was ragged and disheveled, and he was stabbed in the chest. In addition to the other injuries he had to pay for escaping from Ji Yuan's attack range, his whole condition was very miserable.
"Cough cough cough... uh... uh... puff..."
With his feet on the clouds, he couldn't help feeling nauseous and vomited a ball of black blood. The blood kept dripping through the gaps between his hands that were covering his body. He looked so miserable.
"Uh-huh... Ho-ho-ho..."
He covered his mouth with his right hand and his chest with his left hand. His body was shaking constantly and the breath in his body was very disordered. This was an indescribable injury for an immortal cultivator whose cultivation level was so high that most of his body had entered the realm of Dongxuan.
But in this state, he had no time to heal his wounds. After nervously looking back, he boosted his spirits and mobilized his magic power, and continued to fly forward. He was very afraid that Ji Yuan would not let him go, and was very afraid that Ji Yuan would catch up with him. This feeling of fear should not appear in a cultivator of his level. It was a long-lost and real feeling that drove him not to stop.
It was already dawn here, and the man flew until noon before he found a small island to land on.
After landing on the island, he did not care about the fallen leaves and debris or whether the ground was dirty. He sat on the ground and circulated qi to regulate his body. The wind around him gradually subsided, and the surrounding spiritual energy also gathered here at a slow speed.
But the man's facial expression became more and more serious, his brows were furrowed and sweat was oozing out of his eyes. There were streams of sword energy running through various acupoints in his body, stirring up the balance of heaven and earth within his body, tearing apart various wounds, and there was an even more troublesome sword intent lurking deep in his mind. At the moment, his state of mind was unstable, and while he was healing his wounds, he could always hallucinate and see Ji Yuan sending a sword at him with an indifferent expression.
"Puff..."
Another mouthful of blood spurted out, directly dyeing a section of the trunk of a big tree a few feet ahead red. The man's breath was more disordered than before, and the wound on his chest that had stopped bleeding also burst. Fairy light filled the air, trying to tighten the wound again, but a burst of sword energy stirred in it, and another burst of blood spurted out.
"Uh-huh-huh... uh..."
The man flicked his sleeves and took out two long and narrow leaves that emitted bursts of green light. He endured the pain in his mind and body and threw the leaves lightly.
The next moment, two leaves fell one after another on the sword wounds on the man's chest and back, and disappeared instantly after sticking to them. Then the sword energy seemed to be blocked, and the wound was quickly pulled together, but the new flesh and blood could not eliminate the sword marks on the wound, and there was always a blood mark there.
More than an hour later, the man, whose injuries were temporarily stabilized, slowly opened his eyes and looked around the island. When he could no longer sense Ji Yuan's breath, he breathed a sigh of relief.
A hand took out more than a dozen fairy insects with many parts burned from his body. The fairy light on them was dim, but they were still alive.
After a few breaths, the dozen or so fairy insects gradually blurred and turned into a spot of light in front of the middle-aged man, and then gradually turned into an old man with burn marks all over his body in the haze.
"Puff..."
A puff of smoke gushed out of the old man's mouth, and he trembled on the ground for a long time before he caught his breath.
"Haha...haha...haha...the Samadhi True Fire is really terrifying. I almost, almost died in the sea of fire. If it weren't for you, my eldest brother..."
The old man turned to look at the middle-aged man and his voice paused.
"Big Brother! Big Brother, what's wrong with you? Big Brother!"
The old man's hands, covered with burn marks, kept shaking. He wanted to get closer to the middle-aged man but didn't dare to touch him. The other man looked even more miserable than himself. His pale face was gleaming with blood. His hair was disheveled and his clothes were tattered. There was a large blood-red patch on his chest, and the terrible sword mark on his chest could be seen. The three colors of green, white and blue were constantly entangled and confronting each other.
His senior brother had kept his eyes closed, didn't answer, and didn't even have any breath. The old man's heart trembled, and as he couldn't gather any magic power, he wanted to reach out and feel his breath.
"I'm not dead yet..."
The old man heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the eldest brother speak.
The man slowly opened his eyes again and looked at his equally miserable junior brother. He could see that there was a burning force surging in the other's body. The junior brother's magic power was trying its best to suppress this fire. He couldn't help but smile miserably.
"Hehe, you and I, brothers, have ended up in such a situation..."
"Big Brother, you..."
The old man still found it somewhat unbelievable at this moment. In his mind, his own senior brother was a first-class figure like a true immortal, but he ended up in such a miserable situation.
The middle-aged man waved his hand.
"I can't die. I was careless for a moment and got hit by Ji Yuan's sword. I don't... I can't die yet..."
The middle-aged man originally wanted to say that it was nothing serious, but in his situation, he couldn't say such a sentence even to reassure himself, after all, it was too unconvincing.
"You must not suppress the fire poison in your body hastily. You need to use your artistic conception to create a seal, seal it deep in your mind, and then slowly overcome it with the water method to slowly eliminate it... I didn't expect that the Samadhi True Fire could actually burn the mind..."
The old man also sat cross-legged to regulate his breathing, nodding as he circulated his Qi.
"Yes, I have only heard that Samadhi True Fire is Ji Yuan's unique fire-based magical power, which has unfathomable power. I didn't expect that this fire can burn both the real and the fake. It is really difficult to deal with. If the eldest brother hadn't arrived in time, I would have been burned to death even if I gave up 99% of the immortal insects."
As he said this, the old man paused again, suddenly thought of something, and asked quickly.
"Big Brother, do you know the whereabouts of Junior Brother? I held Ji Yuan back and let him go first, but now I don't know where he has gone."
The middle-aged man shook his head.
"I have calculated before, it is very likely that he will be captured by Ji Yuan."
The middle-aged man's words were meant to comfort him. In fact, judging from the previous fight, his fellow apprentice might have already died.
"Well, we can't stay here for long. We need to get further away."
"But Junior Brother..."
"In this situation, are we going to go back to Ji Yuan to ask for someone?"
The eldest brother asked this question, leaving the old man speechless. He could only sigh and give up.
Then a thin mist rose from the island, and the two people's hidden light of escape was hidden in it, and they flew towards the sky and left into the distance together.
On the other side, Ji Yuan did not fly back to the Zu Yue border in a hurry, but moved slowly over the Zu Yue border.
The sky was already bright, and the morning light shone from behind Ji Yuan, as if a thousand-foot-high light was rising from all around him. Ji Yuan was currently located below the Zu Yue Fu land, and even through the heavy clouds he could see the boiling anger of the people.
Fortunately, the battle took place farther away and more remotely, and Zuyue State has had a small population in recent years. Otherwise, entire tracts of mountains and rivers would have been led into the air by the middle-aged man to block the sword, and the people on the ground would have suffered the most, apart from the animals and plants.
At this moment, Ji Yuan shook his sleeves, and the white-haired old man was shaken to the white clouds under his feet. He closed his eyes and lay motionless, as if he had no breath.
"wake up."
Ji Yuan spoke the order, and not long after, the old man's eyelids began to tremble. Then he slowly opened his eyes, felt a glaring sunlight, and could not help but cover his face with his hands.
"I... I'm not dead yet?"
The old man felt waves of weakness coming over him, but he still supported himself and sat up. There was a gentle breeze towards him and blue sky and white clouds all around him. He realized something and looked to the side, but he could not keep his balance. He almost fell off the cloud due to the loss of balance, but Ji Yuan reached out and grabbed him and pushed him back onto the cloud.
The old man was still in shock, knowing that he could not mobilize his magic power to perform any spells at the moment. If he fell off the cloud, he would be smashed to pieces. He raised his head and looked to the side. He saw an elegant man in a long gown with wide sleeves, riding the cloud with his hands behind his back, facing the wind.
"Mr. Ji? Senior Brother..."
In the old man's opinion, his senior brother stayed behind to buy time, and they had a deep bond as brothers, so it was impossible for his senior brother to just run away. But now that he was caught, his senior brother was probably in great danger.
Ji Yuan turned around and glanced at the old man with his pale eyes, which made him dare not move. Then he just said calmly.
"Your senior brother was burned by the Samadhi True Fire. Although his injuries are serious, he is not dead. He said before that the Insect King is already in the Song Emperor. I am not familiar with the insect poisoning method. If you can get rid of this technique, I can give you two choices. One is to let you die quickly, and the other is to take your cultivation and live the rest of your life as a mortal."
"What about my senior brother?"
Ji Yuan's eyes remained calm. He knew that the old man had been rescued, but he didn't know about the man in front of him, so he avoided the question and spoke vaguely.
"Let him go this time too."
The old man continued quickly.
"Sir, can you help me get rid of the fire poison? It is said that the Samadhi True Fire is inextinguishable. If my cultivation is destroyed, I will die!"
Ji Yuan nodded slightly.
"If he is willing to let me cure the fire injury, then of course I can. But to go back to the previous point, you have to cure the insect technique first."
"Sir, do you keep your word?"
The old man's voice was slightly excited, and Ji Yuan turned his head to look forward. In the distance and below, he was not far from the Zu Yue Kingdom.
"Ji doesn't like to lie."
The old man had some understanding of who Ji Yuan was, and he felt much more at ease hearing these words from Ji Yuan.
"To avoid being unfilial, I can only tell you how to solve it, but I won't do it myself."
Ji Yuan nodded without saying anything. With a wave of his sleeves, the white clouds immediately turned into a wisp of smoke, and then like an illusory dragon shadow, they spread towards the distant land.
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PS: Regarding the update issue, I will try my best to get back in shape. I don't want to do that, but I can't update just because I want to. I thought I could update twice yesterday... ╥﹏╥