Chapter 112: Seeing the Evil Again

Chapter 112: Seeing the Evil Again

Chapter 112: Seeing the Evil Again
The next two days were spent cleaning up the mess.

Li Wuxiang figured out where Zhao Kui's incense came from after Cheng Shengfei destroyed the Taiyi statue.

After Cheng Peixin invited the door gods, many residents in Deyang were trapped in their homes as she said. She asked Cheng Shengfei to prepare drinking water in advance, but there was a special picture of the Kitchen God in the drinking water.

The drinking water sent by Feiyun Temple could not satisfy the trapped people's needs, so when they were hungry and thirsty, those people began to worship the Kitchen God, but in fact they were worshiping Zhao Kui.

These portraits all need to be destroyed, but fortunately with the help of Feiyun Temple, this is not a difficult matter to accomplish.

After Guo Jianming's soul returned to his body, he was still unconscious, so Li Wuxiang waited for two days. On the third day, Lu Renjia arrived at Feiyun Temple and asked Cheng Shengfei if he wanted to go with her, but Cheng Shengfei refused.

She felt that since Li Wuxiang had promised to teach Guo Jianming the sword sect's skills, he should be considered half a swordsman. But this half swordsman died in Feiyun Temple, so she had the responsibility to wait for him to get better before doing her own thing.

This answer made Lu Renjia very satisfied, so satisfied that she agreed to Li Wuxiang's request - after Guo Jianming woke up, she would take him away temporarily to examine his character and teach him martial arts.

So on the evening of the third day, Li Wuxiang said goodbye to Cheng Shengfei and prepared to set off.

During these two days, apart from waiting for Guo Jianming to wake up, he also waited for the people in Deyang City to reshape the Taiyi statue in the Martial Temple. He reattached his divine thoughts to the statue, and the power of will once again flowed into his body. This time, without Zhao Kui snatching the incense, the speed at which the essence in his body gathered was extremely amazing, and he had completely reached the stage where he could advance to the "Refining Qi into Spirit".

Originally, he was still worried about the main medicine called "Guozhong", but from the Shijie Collection, he knew what it was - just a termite nest that was more than a hundred years old.

By drying the part of the termite nest on the ground with fire and then washing it repeatedly with water, he can get the "national tomb". Combined with the medicinal materials he bought in Deyang and obtained from Feiyun Temple, he can enter the realm of "refining qi into spirit" through medicinal bathing.

So it was not difficult to obtain the "National Tomb". Before leaving, he rode around the city and got it. But the reason why he did not enter the next realm immediately was because he was waiting for someone.

Because from the Shijie Collection, he figured out something that had puzzled him for a long time: If the power of incense and vows is so useful, why don't everyone use it?
The Collection of Worldly Explanations says that this method is actually "heterodox".

In the early stage, if there is a way to let oneself absorb the power of will, it will indeed make the cultivation progress by leaps and bounds. Because in the foundation-building stage, everything obtained is to temper the flesh.

But when one reaches the stage of forming elixir in the thirty-six sects' techniques, or the stage of "refining qi into spirit" in the realm of refining qi in the sword sect's techniques, the power absorbed by the practitioner begins to be used to temper the primordial spirit.

The thirty-six sects' skills, from the initial stage of Qi Refining to the peak of Qi Refining, are not that difficult. Once you enter the door of Qi Refining, you will have forty years of youth and lifespan. During these forty years, if your aptitude is not too bad and you have enough consumables, you can almost reach the peak before your youth is exhausted, and get another twenty years, so these people don't need to take this unorthodox path.

As for those with poorer qualifications, whether they are independent practitioners or disciples of sects, they will not be able to obtain the method to cultivate their vows, so they cannot take this path even if they want to.

Only a very small number of practitioners would try this method because of a chance encounter or when they had no other choice. It was still okay during the stage of tempering the physical body, but when it came to forming the elixir, problems arose.

The power of incense and vows includes the countless random thoughts and wishes of mortals. When practitioners obtain this power, they will form one cause and effect after another. Since mortals have limited abilities, it is impossible for them to fulfill people's wishes one by one like gods. Therefore, once this power enters the soul during the process of forming the elixir, evil thoughts will immediately arise, illusions will not disappear, and they will go astray in an instant.

The "Refining Qi into Spirit" stage in the True Immortal Body Dao chapter is to gradually refine the innate Qi refined in the "Refining Essence into Qi" stage into the primordial spirit. In fact, it is equivalent to a long preparatory stage for forming the elixir.

If Li Wuxiang asked himself to enter this realm directly at this moment, he would be attracting countless causes and effects into his body, which would lay a huge hidden danger for his future cultivation. It was only then that he realized that Zhao Kui's methods were really one link after another. He had already become a bead in the Ranshan illusion, but left a big hole!
So the person he is waiting for is the external evil.

The last time it appeared, it was me who defeated Zhao Kui. This time, it defeated Zhao Kui again and joined the Sword Sect again. If the offering it wanted was really to "become stronger", it should have come now.

He walked and waited like this, and when he reached the ruins where he first met Lao Guo, the external evil finally appeared.

But this time, Li Wuxiang was in a state of meditation within the bronze mirror.

Cheng Shengfei handed him the Xuanguang Mirror and taught him how to take a person's soul into it and leave. However, because of the Ranshan Illusion, he couldn't use the broken brick in his hand for a while, so he took a rest in the wild and took himself into the bronze mirror.

Here, there are still the whispers of resentful ghosts from Lingshan, but Li Wuxiang ignores them all and just puts himself in a state of clear mind, which is similar to a short nap and can restore some energy.

In this empty and clear space, that overwhelming sense of grandeur emerged.

And he thought he saw something!

It was already late at night outside, and the entire mirror was pitch black, without any light. But at the same time as that feeling appeared, Li Wuxiang felt a clear light appear in front of his eyes - as if there was an extremely strong light coming in from a certain entrance, and a slightly human-shaped thing was standing at the entrance, so the light changed, vaguely reflecting the outline of the thing, which was constantly changing and flickering.

Then he thought he heard a voice, as if he was talking to himself in his heart - "This is not a good place to meet. Next time, we shouldn't meet here."

Li Wuxiang suddenly felt his heart pounding!
This must be what the evil outsider said!

He has always wanted to know more about this external evil, but from beginning to end, all he got was a "feeling". But now, not only did he see the light, he also heard a voice in his heart. Although it was only his own voice, it was finally not a one-sided reception!

Now the external evil is interacting with me!

Is it because we are inside the bronze mirror that we are neither in Lingshan nor in the world of the living?
However, it was not only this that excited him, but also another feeling that this contact brought him - the grand, empty, huge sense of oppression that enveloped the foreign evil, immediately collapsed in his heart just because of this sentence!
It can talk!

It has a form!

It can be understood!

Li Wuxiang suppressed his excitement and said in his heart: "I am curious why you haven't seen me. I killed a walking member of the True Form Sect and became the leader of Ranshan Sect. Don't these count as two great things in your eyes?" After saying this, he immediately smiled in his heart: "It's not the right way."

Not the right path? Waixie thinks those two things are no big deal?
Li Wuxiang immediately thought rapidly in his mind - he had previously thought that what the Outer Evil wanted was for him to become stronger and stronger. But now, judging from his reply, the Outer Evil had a specific path to "becoming stronger" that he recognized... Ranshan Sect Master was not on that path.

So--

"The Sword Sect is the right path?" Li Wuxiang asked immediately, "Is it because I joined the Sword Sect that you came to see me?"

Did he not respond this time, was that a tacit agreement? Was he planning to take over the Sword Sect?

Li Wuxiang sighed, "As I said before, if you explain things more clearly, we will save a lot of trouble. Okay, then I have another thing I need your help with - I have learned the True Immortal Body Dao Chapter, and now I want to advance to the stage of refining qi and transforming into spirit, but I have absorbed the power of incense and vows before, what should I do about this?"

This tone was very casual, even disrespectful, but Waixie didn't seem to care about it and immediately gave him an answer -

"I can use external forces." Li Wuxiang muttered to himself, "This is so simple, I can't think of it, how stupid I am. Wouldn't it be better to find something that can suppress the inner demon? In this world, when it comes to suppression, the Five Mountains True Form Sect is naturally the best. Is there anything in the world heavier than the mountains? I am so stupid that I can't even think of such a thing... Oh, I have seen that thing too, it is the Five Mountains True Form Map - I can't get this device, but I can get another magic weapon like the one in Xu Daosheng's hand! It should be enough before the Dan is formed!"

In his past and present lives, he had never heard anyone describe him as "stupid". But after being scolded twice in a row, Li Wuxiang felt happy again - compared to when he first came, the temper of the foreign evil made him look more flesh and blood.

Maybe it’s because I’m in the mirror at this moment... in such an environment, I’m closer to it “itself”!

So Li Wuxiang said in his heart: "Okay, thank you, I understand. And... I was going to the territory of the True Form Dao. When I get there, is there anything I should pay attention to? For example, the emperors and gods worshipped by the True Form Dao?"

"Be careful not to do anything stupid." He said to himself, "Zeng Jianqiu told me that if some swordsmen found out that I'm not human, I'd be in big trouble."

This foreign evil seemed to hold a grudge. But he did not remind himself to be careful of "Taiyi" - if Taiyi was really suppressed in the Five Mountains True Form Dao.

Li Wuxiang wanted to test it a little more - to ask it whether he wanted to offer a shrine to it since he was already familiar with it.

But the clear light and the sense of grandeur suddenly disappeared, as if the external evil had just thought of him by chance, rushed over to help him solve a problem, and then immediately went back to busy itself with its own business.

Li Wuxiang stayed in the mirror for another quarter of an hour before he caught a divine thought in the darkness - a blood-red and radiant figure, a tiny wish. Then he followed the wish and plunged into the void, emerged from the pool of blood in front of the ancient cave, and came to Lingshan.

He spent all his rest time in the Xuan Guang Mirror these days, not entirely for "safety", but because of what Zhao Kui had said before in Lingshan.

——If you were in the mortal world, your external evil would come instantly as soon as you thought about it, but now that you are here——did you know that external evil also lives in Lingshan? How long do you think it would take for him to rush from the upper heaven to this sea of ​​blood to save you?

If what Zhao Kui said was correct, this time the external evil should have come from the "upper heaven" he mentioned, to the "blood sea" where the ancient cave was, and then entered the mirror. He had asked Zhao Qi to guard the ancient cave these days. If this guess was true, Zhao Qi should have seen it!
Li Wuxiang stood on this piece of flesh and blood land in the sacred mountain and immediately looked towards the ancient cave——

In the past few days, Zhao Qi has been practicing in the ancient cave, relying on the incense provided by Li Wuxiang from time to time.

Normally, he would sit in the cave like Zhao Kui did before, meditating and regulating his breathing like he did when he was alive. Although he still looked like a bloody human figure, the resentment from before had dissipated, and now the blood on the human figure was quite bright and smooth. If you didn't look closely, you would only think that his face was peaceful and not very scary.

But now, when Li Wuxiang looked into the cave, he saw Zhao Qi slumped in the ancient cave like a frightened person, his two pairs of bloodshot eyes wide open, and his mouth that was split all the way to his ears without closing. He looked utterly terrified.

Li Wuxiang immediately ran to the front of the cave, lit three incense sticks and threw them into his arms, then patted him on the face: "Hey! Did you see it? What did you see? "

Zhao Qi slowly turned to look at him, and for a moment he was speechless, as if he had gone mad.

At this time, Li Wuxiang realized something was wrong. The bloody land around the ancient cave had always been entangled with the remains of the rolling, wriggling, and twisting ghosts. They emitted endless screams and groans from underground, and together with the sounds coming from farther away, they formed the harsh wind in the sacred mountain.

But now, the ground around the ancient cave was only bloody - the remains soaked in blood and pus were all motionless and tightly linked together, as if they wanted to squeeze themselves in as much as possible and let others show up. It was at this time that Li Wuxiang realized that the surrounding area was frighteningly quiet, and the howling wind became distant and ethereal, as if it had just been dispersed by something!
He immediately squatted down, pinched Zhao Qi's face, and told him to face him. Then he circulated his energy to his throat and blew a long breath at him.

Zhao Qi's body suddenly jumped and he shivered as if he had woken up from a nightmare.

Li Wuxiang asked him again: "What did you see just now!?"

Zhao Qi stared at him with bloodshot eyes, and after a moment, he murmured:

"Taiyi... Taiyi..."

"…I saw Taiyi! The evil outsider you mentioned is Taiyi!"

　I want to explain the update schedule. The update has been unstable these past two days because of some external factors. My neighbor was renovating, and I don't know which family got a new dog that was barking, so I didn't sleep well. As a result, the next stage of the plot has not been completed yet, and my brain is not working. I am still anxious about the update, and I am even more anxious, so I have become a code cripple.

　　In fact, I should have realized this problem yesterday and postponed the update time. In the end, I was able to get it done. I found out at eight o'clock today that I hadn't done it, and I have only finished writing it now.

　　So on the 22nd, which is the update at : tomorrow morning, I will postpone it to : p.m. so that I can have some time to think about it carefully.

　　So far, I still owe one chapter of 2,000 words. If the update on the 22nd goes smoothly, the update the day after tomorrow will resume as usual, at 00:05 and 8:00 in the morning.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)