The Immortal Alliance assessment was naturally postponed.
The Lingxu Cave Heaven Formation had been introduced with too much spiritual power at one time, and the secret realm needed to be closed to give it some time to purify, absorb and return those spiritual powers to heaven and earth.
As for the Lingxiao Gate, Xuan Yangzi died in the secret territory, and the position of sect master can only be temporarily represented by Elder Ji Yun. Jiyun is the most pure and kind-hearted among the three elders of Lingxiaomen, and Feng Ci can feel a little more at ease when he is entrusted with the position of sect master.
Even if there is a problem in the future, after all, now that Patriarch Qianqiu has returned, he may not be able to control one of the six sects.
In the battle of Lingxu Cave, everyone was seriously injured. Feng Ci simply ordered in the name of Qianqiu Shengzun that all affairs in the cultivation world were postponed, and all sects and sects recuperated.
Only one person did not have to rest.
Wei Chichu, the master of Wanfa Pavilion.
"How long will it take?" Feng Ci whispered to Pei Qianyue who was standing beside him.
It was Yu Chichu who answered him: "What's the rush!"
Now they have returned to Langfeng City, the dim inner hall is full of lights, the body of Qianqiu Patriarch is lying quietly on the couch, his handsome and delicate facial features are especially quiet and beautiful under the swaying lights.
It's a pity that he wears a funny-shaped helmet on his head, which spoils this beauty.
Yuchichu stepped on his brand new wooden legs, busy walking up and down the side of the couch.
—— Xuan Yangzi didn't know where to throw Yu Chichu's legs, Pei Qianyue simply paid for him to build a new pair, which can be regarded as a reward for his busy these past few months.
At the beginning of Yuchi's work, there was a fanaticism that he didn't care about, and after yelling at Fengci, he remembered who the person in front of him was, and hurriedly said: "Well, go back to Patriarch, and you have to wait for a while."
The spiritual power absorbed by the body has been exhausted, and the control of Heaven has been released, but this body has been controlled by Heaven for three hundred years, and the influence left behind is not so easy to eliminate.
Therefore, Yu Chichu proposed to check it carefully.
Feng Ci didn't care much about this: "Where is the need for such trouble, I can do it myself—"
But Pei Qianyue said: "Be cautious, it doesn't hurt to wait a few more days."
Yu Chichu: "I don't need to wait a few days..."
"Pavilion Master Yuchi." Pei Qianyue interrupted, "This matter is very important, and I hope that the Pavilion Master will be more careful, so that nothing goes wrong."
Feng Ci: "..."
This person had been anxious to help him find his physical body before, but now that his physical body has finally been recovered, why is he not in a hurry at all.
There is nothing to check, as long as his soul returns to the physical body, the way of heaven will not be able to control his soul together.
But Pei Qianyue insisted on this, and it was useless to persuade him, so he simply gave up.
Yuchichu took out another weird instrument to greet his body, Feng Ci looked at it for a while, and asked, "Pavilion Master Yuchi, what did you replace the power source of your organ Yanjia?"
After leaving the customs, Feng Ci took the flying boat sent by the Immortal League in the Witch Doctor Valley, and he vaguely realized that there was something different about the organ Yanjia made by Wanfa Pavilion.
This time, after seeing the Wanfa Gui Zongyi in the Lingxu Cave Array, he was even more certain.
The power source used by Wanfa Pavilion is no longer Lingshi.
Therefore, neither the flying boat nor the Wanfa Guizongyi disguised as a tracker could detect the slightest bit of spiritual power inside.
Hearing Feng Ci's words, Yu Chichu slapped his forehead, "Oops", "Why did I forget about this?"
He rummaged through the spirit storage pouch he carried with him, and found a glass bottle the size of a palm. The glazed bottle is transparent, and half of the bottle is filled with liquid things.
That thing looked like viscous water, clear and crystal clear, with a faint blue light.
Yuchichu said: "This is it."
Feng Ci asked, "What is this?"
Yuchichu let out a "huh" and said, "I haven't had time to name it yet, so I'll call it Lingguijing for the time being."
Feng Ci took the thing over and smelled it, it was colorless and odorless, and could not detect any spiritual power.
"Can this thing replace Lingshi?" Feng Ci asked.
"No." When Yuchi Chu mentioned these things, his eyebrows immediately became elated, "This thing has no spiritual power, and cannot replace the alchemy and cultivation function of the spirit stone, but after burning this thing, it can generate energy for the operation of the Yanjia mechanism."
Feng Ci's eyes moved slightly.
Yu Chichu continued: "I found it in the depths of an abandoned spiritual vein. The spiritual vein was allocated to me by City Lord Pei back then, but ah, he..."
Pei Qianyue interrupted: "Get to the point."
"..." Yuchichu coughed lightly, and said, "In short, when I went to inspect the spiritual veins, I accidentally opened the stone wall deep in the spiritual veins, and this thing flowed out from the cracks in the stones."
It takes a lot of spiritual stones to develop and drive the Yanjia mechanism, so Yuchichu has been looking for a substitute for the spiritual stones these years. The intention is not to save the resources of the spirit veins, but because the spirit stone is really difficult to obtain, and it cannot always be obtained by snatching it from other immortal sects.
After discovering this object, Yu Chichu immediately brought it back to the Wanfa Pavilion. After several years of research, it was not until recently that he confirmed that this object could indeed replace the spirit stone as a power source.
Driving force has always been a major problem in Yanjia mechanism art.
The earliest Yanjia mechanism technique used spiritual power as the power source. After thousands of years of inheritance and development, Wanfa Pavilion found a way to replace spiritual power with spiritual stones. But in fact, using spirit stones as a driving force is an extremely resource-intensive approach.
The same amount of spirit stones, I don't know how many small fairy gates can be supported.
But if it were replaced by the thing that Yuchichu found now, it would be completely different.
"Don't look at such a small bottle, the energy it burns can be worth dozens of high-grade spirit stones." Yu Chichu chuckled, his eyes gleaming with pride, "Thousands of trackers in the Lingxu Cave Array , and only used seven or eight bottles of Spirit Guijing."
Feng Ci pondered for a moment and asked, "Is this product produced a lot?"
No matter how useful the power source is, if there is no huge batch of output, it still cannot support the operation of Wanfa Pavilion.
"Who knows." Yuchichu sighed, "I've only found similar things in the depths of a few spiritual veins so far, and I preliminarily deduce that it should be the dead fairy skeletons in the spiritual veins. The cracks in the rocks remain."
"... But whether this inference is true, whether every spirit vein has this thing, and how many there are are still unknown."
It took Yuchichu several years just from discovering this thing to judging whether it can be used in the mechanism Yanjia, and it will take a long time to mine it in large quantities and put it into use.
It cannot be done overnight.
When the two left the inner hall, Feng Ci was still thinking about something.
Outside the hall, a young man was waiting. Seeing them coming out, he hurriedly greeted them: "City Master Pei... Your Honor."
Meng Changqing bowed to the two of them.
He always knew that Feng Ci was not his junior brother, but at that time in Lingwu Mountain, he didn't know who took Lu Jingming's physical body, whether it was an enemy or a friend, so he could only pretend to be ignorant to hide it from Feng resignation.
Now knowing that the person in front of him is actually Qianqiu Shengzun, naturally he dare not get along with him like before.
Meng Changqing's arms were still wrapped in bandages, Feng Ci hurriedly helped him up: "Brother Meng, you don't need to be polite."
He paused, and then said: "Pavilion Master Yuchi said he still needs half a day to check my body, I'm afraid I have to borrow Lu Jingming's body for another half day."
Meng Changqing nodded: "OK."
Feng Ci asked, "Where are the other brothers?"
"The embalming has been completed, ready to be sent back to Tianxuanzong." Meng Changqing said.
The body of the orphan of Tianxuanzong who was killed in Lingwu Mountain has been collected by Langfeng City. Meng Changqing had worked hard in the Lingxu Dongtian formation this time, and according to Feng Ci's intention, he sent someone to send the corpses of the disciples of Tianxuanzong back to Tianxuanzong, and reburied them at the master's gate together with other senior brothers.
That's why Meng Changqing followed them back to Langfeng City.
Feng Ci asked again: "Then what do you plan to do next?"
"I..." Meng Changqing thought for a moment, and said, "I want to send the brothers back to the school first, and then come back to pick up Junior Brother Lu after they are settled down."
Feng Ci: "Alright."
Meng Changqing did not stay long.
Feng Ci watched the other party leave, and then remembered to ask: "When did Meng Changqing become your internal agent?"
"After you retreat." Pei Qianyue said.
Since the return of Feng Ci's soul was designed by Heavenly Dao, it cannot be a coincidence that he possessed Lu Jingming. And the only one in this world who knows what happened to Lu Jingming is Meng Changqing.
Therefore, Pei Qianyue found Meng Changqing first after Feng Ci retreated.
After a little more testing, everything came out.
Pei Qianyue said: "After Meng Changqing paid homage to the Lingxiao Gate, he accidentally discovered the hiding place of the physical puppet. But he didn't startle the snake, but pretended to surrender, and gained the puppet's trust. During this time, he has been inquiring for the puppet News from the cultivation world."
"...It's really easy to trust others, just like you."
Feng Ci: "..."
At this time, I still don't forget to say a word to him.
Feng Ci was too lazy to argue with him, and turned to leave, but was stopped by someone: "Where are you going?"
He really didn't know where to go.
After Feng Ci hesitated, Pei Qianyue hugged her from behind: "I'll take you somewhere, okay?"
The tone is low and soft, sticky.
Feng Ci laughed: "My lord, my physical body can't stand the torture now."
This was also the reason why Feng Ci was eager to return to his physical body.
Lu Jingming's physical body can only be used for at most three days after washing the marrow. Now it was the third day, and this physical body was in danger of being damaged at any time.
I don't know what Pei Qianyue was thinking, but he asked him to wait for half a day.
After hearing Feng Ci's words, Pei Qianyue not only did not give up, but even softened his voice: "I won't torment you."
His voice was already low, but he intentionally spoke in such a soft tone, which made half of Feng Ci's body go limp.
My heart also softened.
So after a while, Feng Ci was held in Pei Qianyue's arms, and Yu Jian left Langfeng City.
But they didn't get very far.
Pei Qianyue landed in a forest with Fengci.
It is Lingwu Mountain.
Feng Ci has been to Lingwu Mountain several times in the secret realm, but it is the first time to step here in this world.
However, it didn't surprise him that Pei Qianyue would bring him here.
Lingwu Mountain was protected by a magic circle, which couldn't stop Pei Qianyue and Feng Ci, but everyone couldn't control their swords.
Feng Ci was too lazy to walk, so he simply asked Pei Qianyue to carry him into the mountain.
It was dusk, and the setting sun pierced through layers of tree shadows, reflecting on the snow that had not completely melted in Lingwu Mountain. Pei Qianyue stepped on the soft snow, and walked step by step into the depths of the mountain forest with Feng Ci on his back.
I don't know if it's because of the magic circle or Pei Qianyue's deterrent, Lingwu Mountain is very quiet.
Feng Ci crouched behind Pei Qianyue and looked back, but he couldn't see any living things, nor could he hear any sound. In the deep woods, only Pei Qianyue left a string of footprints when he walked by.
How lonely.
Feng Ci suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, and he asked in a low voice, "Did you ever think about not waiting for me again in the past three thousand years?"
Pei Qianyue paused.
But he quickly returned to normal, calmly said: "Think about it."
Feng Ci was taken aback.
"At that time, I hadn't started to practice, and I couldn't transform into a human form." Pei Qianyue said, "Waiting day after day will consume a lot of things. There was a time when I didn't know what I was doing, and I didn't know what I was doing. What's the point? I even think that instead of living like this, it's better to die."
"So I didn't eat or drink, and my consciousness was dizzy, which lasted for several days, or even several months."
When talking about this, Pei Qianyue's tone was steady, as if this was not his experience.
Feng Ci changed his breath silently, and his voice softened: "And then?"
"Then, I found out that I couldn't die." As if mocking, Pei Qianyue chuckled softly, "I drank your blood and absorbed too much of your spiritual power in this Lingwu Mountain, and I have already left my mortal body. "
"I can't even die."
Pei Qianyue stopped, tilted his head slightly, and still had a faint smile on his lips: "At that time, I was thinking, this man is really a liar, I like him so much, how could he treat me like this."
Let him wait so hard, let him not be free.
Feng Ci looked away, her throat was dry: "I don't know..."
If he had known earlier that there were still people waiting for him in this world, he would have come back.
But that's just if.
Pei Qianyue continued to walk forward, the two walked through the woods, and the setting sun reflected on the two of them, stretching their figures very long: "Since then, I have decided not to wait like this foolishly. I want to practice, I will If you want to transform into a human form, I will find you back."
"No matter... what price I will pay."
And he did.
He also paid an unbearable price for ordinary people.
Feng Ci felt choked up in his heart.
Pei Qianyue really knew how to make him feel bad, Feng Ci thought in his heart, if this continues, he will really be reluctant to leave.
Feng Ci buried her head on Pei Qianyue's shoulder and said nothing.
Not long after, Pei Qianyue stopped.
But it was not the familiar cave.
Pei Qianyue came to the top of Lingwu Mountain with the speech on his back.
On the top of the cliff of the highest peak, the setting sun that has not yet fully set has dyed the clouds blood red. As soon as you look up, you can see the perennial snow in the Kunlun Mountains in the distance, as well as the layers of clouds in the mountains and forests.
Pei Qianyue placed Feng Ci on a bluestone by the cliff, and sat down beside him.
"Is this where you want to bring me?" Feng Ci asked him.
"Yes." Pei Qianyue said, "This is the most beautiful place in Lingwu Mountain."
Feng Ci leaned against Pei Qianyue's arms, looked into the distance, and took a deep breath of the cool air on the top of the mountain: "It's really beautiful."
"When I first discovered this place, I was still very young." Pei Qianyue stroked Feng Ci's hair, as if thinking of something extremely interesting, he smiled slightly, "At that time, I thought, this must be The most beautiful scenery in the world. When the master comes back, I will take him here to have a look."
"If he sees such a beautiful scenery, he will never want to leave again."
"Later, as I grew up, I realized that there are many more beautiful scenery in this world than this. There is no scenery that is beautiful enough to leave a person behind."
Pei Qianyue's voice was gentle and quiet, Feng Ci had almost never heard him speak to him in such a gentle tone.
"But I still want to take you to see it." Pei Qianyue said, "Just as... fulfilling my childhood wish."
Feng Ci stared at him for a long while, and suddenly couldn't help laughing.
Pei Qianyue tilted his head: "What?"
Feng Ci grabbed Pei Qianyue's sleeve and fell into his arms with a smile: "I just think that Xiao Hei was really innocent and cute when he was a child. Unlike now, he has become less and less innocent."
Pei Qianyue hugged Feng Ci tightly to prevent him from falling, and raised Feng Ci's chin with one hand: "Why not simple?"
"Why is it not simple, don't you know?" Feng Ci put his hand on Pei Qianyue's shoulder, with a sly smile in his eyes. He just looked at him like this for a while, and regretfully said: "Look, if I had just changed my body back, I could kiss you now."
"But it's okay."
He raised his head and touched Pei Qianyue's forehead, a gleam of light flashed between them.
Feng Ci opened his eyes and saw the familiar sea surface.
In the depths of Pei Qianyue's sea of consciousness.
Different from the previous visit, Pei Qianyue's sea of consciousness is calm now, as if the wind is no longer blowing. Feng Ci flew at low altitude in this eerily quiet sea, searching patiently.
After a while, a small boat appeared in the field of vision.
Pei Qianyue stood on the bow of the boat with his back to him, and Feng Ci floated down behind him.
"What are you doing here?" Pei Qianyue asked.
"Come in and kiss you." Feng Ci still had a smile in his eyes, he took Pei Qianyue's hand from behind, and turned his shoulders little by little.
I saw that handsome face and the scarlet mark on the forehead.
really.
"In the Lingxu Cave Array, a large amount of spiritual power flows through your spiritual veins, affecting your sea of consciousness." Feng Ci said, "The devil's heart was stimulated and activated in advance."
Pei Qianyue turned his head and responded softly.
Feng Ci sighed softly.
People in the world always think that after becoming a demon, they will immediately lose all reason and change their temperament, but this is not the case. Only when wandering on the edge of good and evil, will there be pain, and will it be possible to lose control. It is a game between reason and evil.
But when the demon heart really controls the consciousness, it will no longer be like this.
It will only erode and pollute the depths of the sea of consciousness little by little, and become a real demon.
That was an irreversible cannibalization.
Pei Qianyue is currently experiencing this kind of encroachment.
His appearance hasn't changed yet, because he still has the orthodox kung fu that he has practiced for three thousand years in his body, but his soul has gradually become demonized, and it is only a matter of time before it affects the entire sea of consciousness, including his body.
Pei Qianyue didn't seem to want Feng Ci to see him like this. Just as he was about to turn his head away, Feng Ci forced him back: "What are you doing, you still want to hide it from me? If I didn't find out, would you just Do you want to hide it until you are completely enchanted?"
"What do you think?" Feng Ci said angrily, "Could it be that I don't want you if you've become a demon?"
Pei Qianyue was startled.
The more Feng Ci said, the more angry he became: "I wanted to help you get rid of the demon heart before, but that's not because it hasn't grown yet, I'm afraid you will feel uncomfortable. Now that it has grown out, let it grow out, what age is this? Now, do you still want to fight against the demons?"
Pei Qianyue suddenly grabbed Feng Ci's arm with his backhand and pulled him into his arms.
"Say what you said just now." Pei Qianyue whispered in his ear.
Feng Ci blinked: "What age is this..."
Pei Qianyue: "Not this sentence."
Feng Ci: "Before, I wanted to help you get rid of your demon heart..."
Pei Qianyue: "It's not that sentence either."
Feng Ci smiled.
He broke free from Pei Qianyue's arms, stared at that face, and said seriously: "I won't want you."
"Now there are so many rumors out there that I abandoned my spiritual pet. If I really don't want you, wouldn't this rumor be confirmed?" Feng Ci said something here, and suddenly thought of something, "By the way, you are so advanced in cultivation now, you should Can you bear the Spiritual Blood Contract?"
He squeezed Pei Qianyue's face, and threatened ferociously: "If you hide anything from me in the future, or make me angry, I will give you a blood contract and make you really a spiritual pet. If you are told to go east, you cannot go west.”
After the blood contract is established, all conscious actions, even life and death, will be under the control of the master, and they will never be disobedient and lose their freedom forever.
And more importantly, the master is dependent on the pet. Once the master passes away, the pet will die with it.
This was really not a threat to Pei Qianyue.
He gently stroked Feng Ci's side face with his fingertips, and asked in a low voice, "Are you coaxing me too?"
Feng Ci laughed.
He didn't answer, but suddenly raised his head and quickly kissed Pei Qianyue.
"This is coaxing you."