by <unknown>
Tianmo Consort has yet to take any actions from the start, even when she was in Qiu Jin'er's array formation, she had only moved around to avoid the attacks. But not once did she join in the battle. If she had, Qiu Jin'er would probably be dead by now.
Qiu Jin'er hearted clenched, and she preemptively recalled the sword boluses to form a new Swords Gate and protect Zhong Yue inside it. She then wielded the golden sword and continued to fight with the demon girls.
However, the demon girls learned their lesson; they avoided direct contact with the Golden Peng Sword and only launched their skills at n it from afar. However, the force of the skills was transferred to Qiu Jin'er's body through the sword, worsening her injuries. She uncontrollably spat out another mouthful of blood.
Zhong Yue was near-paralyzed in the wooden wheelchair, he was coughing badly as he said smilingly, "The imperial demon consort, are you interested in making a deal?"
Rays flashed across Tianmo Consort’s eyes, she smiled coquettishly and said, “What kind of deal?”
“Your pawns for your husband. Today, you will kill your comrades here and in the future, I’ll kill your husband, the Demon Saint.”
Zhong Yue sat in the wheelchair, and he spoke as if he would die at any time, "What do you think of this deal?"
Tianmo Consort's eyes lit up, and she chuckled, "If you kill my husband, wouldn't I be a widow then? How do you want me to accept such a deal? Furthermore, it doesn't seem like you can walk out of the South Barren alive, if you die in the South Barren, wouldn't I suffer the losses of my comrades?"
"What good does it do to you if you kill me?"
Zhong Yue said leisurely, "Furthermore, I'm awake now, not to mention that you can't kill me, I might even be able to kill you all here. I've opened the five Yuan Shen secret realms in reverse. It's only a matter of time before I ascend to the level of gods. Only I can kill your husband. If you wish to take down the Demon Saint, I'm your only hope, am I not?"
Tianmo Consort stared at him. It felt as if a venomous snake had their eyes on its prey. Suddenly, she smiled and asked, "How do you know I want to kill my husband?"
"You are a talented girl, your proud and supercilious personality destined that you would never allow a man to subdue you, let alone marry you."
His breathing was shallow and rapid, and it felt like every breath he took would be his last. He coughed and continued, "Moreover, you are not to be an empress, but only an imperial concubine. You wouldn't even be able to kill him in his spirit form, let alone once he resurrects and regains a mortal body. Only by joining hands with me will you have a chance of escaping your fate. This deal will only be known to three people ... you, myself, and my junior martial sister. If you accept this deal, you may proceed with the necessary steps now."
Tianmo Consort waved her sleeves, and countless silver needles were shot through the back of the Cha Nu Divine demon to its chest. Before the demon girls could react, the silver needles had already pierced through their heads. Their faces turned black, and their psyche ocean was drained away. Their Yuan Shen was sucked into the needles, and their mortal bodies were reduced to a pool of blood.
Tianmo Consort then kept the needles, she turned and left, leaving behind her chortling voices as she said, “Zhong Shan Clan member, do not forget our deal, or I’ll bring my husband and hunt for you instead!”
The Cha Nu Divine Demon collapsed, and the demonic statues fell to the ground.
Qiu Jin’er heaved a breath of relief, just when she was about to turn around, she suddenly collapsed down, she couldn’t contain her injuries anymore and fell down from the sky along with Zhong Yue.
Right before they were crashing onto the ground, she exerted all of the extra arcane energy and paved the ground with multiple layers of vines, creating a soft landing spot for them.
"Sun Moon Emanation," Qiu Jin'er struggled to get up, a moon and a sun emerged and started circling around her, and shone their light down onto her body and Yuan Shen, healing her injuries as she pushed the wheelchair and continued their journey.
Chapter 299: Undying Yuan Shen |
Soon, the sun was setting, and the sky had slowly darkened. Pink clouds still lingered above their heads while Qiu Jin'er was pushing the wooden wheelchair northwest along the foothills.
When the night fell, and the sky had totally darkened, it became even harder to track them down.
Zhong Yue woke up and he tried to regulate psyche ocean. Soon, he was able to control a slight wisp of his arcane energy to cast out the【Sun Moon Prodigious Emanation Art】so that he could start healing his wounds.
Junior martial sister has applied the Yuling Paste perfectly in time, my injuries aren't worsening, and I'm even slowly getting better.
He checked on his injuries and found that most of his wounds had stabilized and that only his bones and internal organs were still fragile. He couldn't move violently nor engage in any battles.
Qiu Jin'er had reconnected his broken bones before she applied an abundance of Yuling Paste that covered his entire body. Although the Yuling Paste's medicinal efficacy wasn't sufficient to completely heal his wounds, it managed to stop them from worsening.
Zhong Yue's mortal body was resilient; his study of the Kui Long Celestial Race's Immortal Body has resulted in his body brimming with vitality. In addition to the life force and life energy of Kui Zheng that he had stored in his Yuan Shen secret realms, all of these elements contributed to his speedy recovery.
His most significant injury lied in his psyche ocean, even if he was cloaked in the Kui Long's cowhide, his consciousness was struck into a swoon by the Leize dragon god. He was on the verge of falling into the bottomless abyss of no return. But now that he was awake, it was all fine.
Thankfully, Qiu Jin'er had been there during his period of unconsciousness where he was utterly helpless.
What a pity we don't have the cultivation method for the true Immortal Body, or otherwise, my injuries could recover even faster so that I can return to my peak form in no time.
Zhong Yue sighed and donned a set of clothes from his Yuan Shen secret realms. The【Sun Moon Prodigious Emanation Art】was an abstruse physique refining technique and also a perfect means to remedy the injuries. Under the effects of the【Sun Moon Prodigious Emanation Art】, his psyche ocean was slowly recuperating. However, it would still take a few days for it to return to its peak form.
"Senior martial brother, I've contacted my mother through the totem pillars, she will inform the elder council, and they will be sending someone over to save us."
Qiu Jin'er took out the medicinal pellets from her Yuan Shen secret realms, opening one of the jade bottles, she said, "We just need to hide for a few days, and we will be saved. Senior martial brother, open your mouth."
Zhong Yue opened his mouth, and Qiu Jin'er fed him a few medicinal pellets. He shook his head and said, "Junior martial sister, do not expect too much of the Swords Gate, the Swords Gate is experiencing some troubled times of its own, I'm afraid that even the Swords Gate can't do anything to help us now."
The Swords Gate was now facing both internal affairs and external threats. There were traitors in the Swords Gate, while countless races on the outside had their eyes on Swords Gate, waiting to strike the moment the Sword God died. This was the most trying time for Swords Gate, and the perfect opportunity for traitors to incite trouble. This was why Zhong Yue was not hoping for Swords Gate to come and save them.
The young girl asked him to open his mouth again as she fed him a few more medicinal pellets, "The elders of my clan wouldn't let us die here, they will definitely come and save us."
Zhong Yue kept quiet, and he opened his mouth again as the young girl fed him a few more medicinal pellets, "Let's hope so. Junior martial sister, don't you worry. Now that I'm awake, my recovery speed will be faster. When I've regained back to my peak form, even the ordinary Inner Core Qi Practitioners wouldn't be of my match."
"Senior martial brother, why did Tianmo Consort agree to suc
h a peculiar deal?" Qiu Jin'er asked while she kept on feeding him more medicinal pellets.
"Tianmo Consort is in the top hundred of the Warrior Board. She has a wild ambition. I've fought with her, and I knew very well that she would rather die than show her true prowess to the world."
Zhong Yue smiled, "To such an ambitious woman, the stronger her husband was, the more unwilling she would be, and the more she wants to surpass her husband, let alone asking her to be an imperial concubine? The Demon Saint is a demon god from ages ago, one of the ancestors of the demon race, of course she wouldn't be able to surpass him. So then, what would the cunning demon race do when faced with such a situation? If she can't surpass him, then she would take him down. I realized her plan, and I proposed the deal."
Qiu Jin'er was enlightened, and she said, "She is really a demon girl. How cunning...."
“While in turn, killing me does no good to Tianmo Consort, considering the two options, she accepted the deal I’ve proposed.”
Zhong Yue opened his mouth again as she continued feeding him medicinal pellets. He said smilingly, "In the future, she will kill me after I help her to kill the Demon Saint, because if she can't allow the Demon Saint to surpass her, then she won't allow me to do so either. I'll have to die, even more, it's best if I can die together with the Demon Saint."
The young girl was shocked, she was puzzled, “Then why is senior martial brother helping her?”
"Because if I don't, she will come after me along with the Demon Saint. Furthermore, the revival of the Demon Saint is definitely not good news to the humans and the other races. No matter in what sense, I'll have to kill him … Junior martial sister, what is this?"
As Zhong Yue was looking at Qiu Jin'er opening her Yuan Shen secret realms to take out more medicinal pellets, he noticed a woodcarving in it, and he said curiously, "Let me have a look at that woodcarving."
The woodcarving was incredibly bizarre, engraved with familiar-looking totem patterns and it was shaped into one foot Kui Long statue.
Qiu Jin'er quickly took out the Kui Long woodcarving and said, "This is from that Kui Long expert's secret realms. After his death, his secret realms collapsed and his items paved across the floor, I've kept them all but didn't have the time to inspect them yet."
Zhong Yue took over the woodcarving, he then took out the Kui Long’s cowhide and laid it on his legs, he looked carefully at the two items, meticulously cross-referencing the totem patterns on them.
The young girl was nonchalant, she took out a few more jade bottles and continued feeding him with more medicinal pellets, she said, "Senior martial brother, open your mouth. The totem patterns on the woodcarving are quite similar to the totem patterns of the Immortal Body, but there are also some disparities in them. But I haven't studied them yet. I don't know what relation it has to the Immortal Body."
"It's fine. I'll be able to find out as long as I take a look at them!"
With a thought, a slit rift emerged on his forehead, the eyelids opened and revealed the divine third eye. He then looked over at the woodcarving. Xin Huo said that the divine third eye could see through the totem patterns and reach to the quintessence. And indeed, Zhong Yue realized that his divine third eye did have such a function.
The unattainable, obscure totem patterns in his two usual eyes were clear as crystals when he looked at them with his divine third eye. He could instantly identify the totem patterns' structures, the quintessences, abstrusities, and attainments in them.
Xin Huo once said that the divine third eye could see through everything in this world by just a single glance at it. Although Zhong Yue was still far from that stage, he could still use it to study the totem patterns of the skills and arts faster.
"The totem patterns on this Kui Long woodcarving is of the same system as the totem patterns of the Kui Long's cowhide. They are all the totem patterns of the Immortal Body."
After a few moments, Zhong Yue said shockingly, "But the totem patterns of the Kui Long's cowhide focuses on the mortal body, and this Kui Long woodcarving is regarding of the Yuan Shen! The unkillable Kui Zheng that was taken down by Swords Gate and sealed away in the Seal Suppression Hall had the undying Yuan Shen, which is why his Yuan Shen couldn't be killed!"
Qiu Jin’er was shocked and overjoyed at the same time, she quickly asked, “Is it useful?”
"Of course, of course it is! That Kui Long expert must not have cultivated the undying Yuan Shen, which is why he brought this woodcarving along with him so that he could study it at any time."
Zhong Yue said happily, "The Immortal Body's totem patterns are divided into two parts, the Yuan Shen, and mortal body. The Kui Long's cowhide contains the mortal body part, although the part that involves the bones are missing, in addition to this Kui Long woodcarving, we can extract at least seventy to eighty percent of the cultivation method of the Immortal Body. It's just that we can't cultivate the bones. However, even if we can't cultivate the bones, our attainments in the Immortal Body will be able to allow us to compete with the Martial Masters in terms of mortal body, or at least, be as close as we can to them! And also, my injuries can recover at a faster rate!"
The Immortal Body they could extract out from the Kui Long's cowhide and Kui Long woodcarving was incomplete. The twenty to thirty percent missing parts involved with the totem patterns of the bones. The bones were the structures that create the blood, replacing the old blood with new ones, thus, maintaining the cultivator's body at its peak form and extending the lives of the cultivator.
Zhong Yue surmised that the missing totem patterns were related to the extension of lives as the ones that have successfully cultivated the Immortal Body held a longer life than the others. Kui Zhen was an example of this.
“Junior martial sister, you don’t have to feed me medicinal pellets anymore, I want to concentrate on studying this Yuan Shen Immortal Body!”
Zhong Yue's interest was piqued, he submerged himself in his own thoughts and studied the Immortal Body. Qiu Jin'er was a little disappointed as she heard that she didn't have to feed him anymore. So she took out the medicinal pellets and ate them herself. Seeing that the sky was turning darker and the pink clouds were fading away, she cast out a patch of clouds and lifted them up into the sky. They rose up to hide behind the clouds as they continued traveling in the dark.
When the first ray of sunlight shone onto the sky, Zhong Yue had finally attained all of the totem patterns of the Immortal Body that was in the level of Atman Body, he surged his psyche out and passed his attainments to Qiu Jin'er.
After a whole night of traveling, they had flown out 8000 miles. Zhong Yue and Qiu Jin'er alighted down and continued traipsing through the woods while trying to avoid the scouts in the sky.
After Zhong Yue explained the abstrusities and quintessence of the Immortal Body to Qiu Jin’er, they then started to cultivate it.
Among the two, Zhong Yue’s attainments in the Immortal Body was the deepest, allowing him to cultivate it at a great speed but surprisingly, Qiu Jin’er cultivation speed wasn’t any slower than his either!
Qiu Jin'er was the Wood Innate Spirit Body. Her body was glutted with the immense Wood Qi. Before this, Qiu Jin'er couldn't stimulate the life energy and life force in his body, but she now comprehended the Immortal body. She could then stimulate and utilize the immense force of vitality that was held in her Innate Wood Spirit Body. It would be akin to cultivating using half the effort for twice the results!
While Zhong Yue cultivated step by step on his own. It wasn't even noon yet, and the two of them had nearly healed their wounds and recuperated their Yuan Shen. They were both shocked and overjoyed at the same time.
“What a pity we don’t have the totem patterns that cultivates the bones, or otherwise, we would have the complete Immortal Body, and not the flawed ones now.” Zhong Yue stood up, he moved his muscles around and whined.
With a thought, his pitch-black hair shot out like arrows, extending longer and longer, in a trice, they were alr
eady hundreds of feet long, sharp and incisive as if they were swords, chopping down trees that stood on their paths.
He controlled a strand of hair and sliced down at his hand. It broke off like glass and failed to leave even a single impression on his hand.
My hairs' toughness and sharpness aren't as strong as Xia Shengchu's, the Martial Masters also have immense life energy and life force, and they had their own ways to cultivate the mortal bodies, even their hairs were stronger than the ordinary soul weapons.
Zhong Yue sighed, the Martial Masters had sacrificed their arcane energy and Yuan Shen so that they could achieve the mortal bodies of the highest caliber. It simply wasn't something that could come easily.
However, the Martial Masters are not as strong as the Swords Gate in the sword arts … SHIT!
As he was thinking in his heart, Zhong Yue’s face suddenly changed drastically, —Huuu— His mortal body expanded and morphed into the three-taloned Golden Crow, lifting Qiu Jin’er on his back and bolted away!
In mid-air, white clouds suddenly converged together, forming into the upper body of an old man with clouds around him. As he emerged in the sky, the old man immediately locked his eyes on the little Golden Crow that was bolting away beneath him.
Then, the cloud giant raised his miles long palm and slammed down heavily at Zhong Yue!
It was undoubtedly the Avatar of a Heavenly Dharma Qi Practitioner!
Chapter 300: Reinforcement |
The Heavenly Dharma Qi Practitioner's avatar was incredibly huge, just when Zhong Yue stepped out a foot, the avatar's hand reached out a few ten meters away and slammed towards himself.
This was not his real body, but a body formed by the clouds. His real body was still a thousand miles away, but since he possessed strong power, he was able to launch an attack from afar!
