Chapter Twenty-Three: Conscience Saves the Heart
"Thank you for taking care of me during this time, Elder. If it weren't for you, I guess it would take at least three months to get better, and I'll be cured in just a week, and the treatment of the wood elves is really powerful. Tianxing looked at his right hand as before, and there was no scar on it, and he felt very happy.
"Hehe, don't thank me, if you want, stay here for a few more days. β
"Hehe, then thank the elders for their kindness, when I finish absorbing this Pig King's Inner Dan, I'm leaving. β
"Why do you have to be so persistent in cultivating? You already have the protection of the White Star Tiger, so you don't have to work so hard. β
"Although I have the White Star Tiger, it is not my strength, so generally I will not let the White Star Tiger help me, I hope that I can defeat the opponent by my own strength, and I also have to collect the Jade Spirit Bead Grass for my relatives, how can I go if I don't have the strength?"
"Jade Spirit Bead Grass, I'd like to hear of it, it's in a place called Ethereal Island. It's a pity that there is no time limit and no goal, and it is said that there are still very powerful spirit beasts waiting on the island, so it is very dangerous for you to go to that kind of place. β
Tianxing smiled and scratched his head, "There is nothing terrible about danger, to be honest, I have died twice." The elder was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and it didn't look like he was lying. I was even more convinced that Tianxing was the son of the Five Elements, otherwise how could a fourteen-year-old boy suffer such an ordeal.
"Okay, you can continue to cultivate, I won't bother you. β
"The elder walked slowly. β
Tianxing took out the Fire Porcupine King's Neidan from his arms, sat cross-legged, and began to absorb it. A fiery red flame surrounded Neidan, constantly refining, Neidan began to become hot, constantly exuding the breath of the fire element, Tianxing closed his eyes tightly, and summarized this fire elemental breath into his dantian, as Neidan continued to burn, Tianxing felt a huge fire element wrap itself, his whole body was hot, and beads of sweat continued to flow down his forehead.
"No, it's too hot, you have to use the Ice Clearing Recipe to lower the temperature. β
Tianxing lifted the "Ice Qingjue", and suddenly a cool feeling suppressed the fiery feeling, and Tianxing felt refreshed.
The Nedan of the Fire Porcupine King, after it burned out. A large number of fire elements began to be filled around Tianxing, and Tianxing used the spirit monkey bracelet to gather all these fire elements in the dantian, and the five-colored star stone turned and began to absorb these fire elements.
"If I know some fire element absorption techniques, I can absorb them directly, and my speed will increase a lot. But fortunately, I have a spirit monkey bracelet, otherwise it would be so uncomfortable that I can't absorb it just by looking at this Neidan. Tianxing looked at it, gathered in the dantian fire elemental spiritual power, and thought in his heart.
The five-colored star stone began to rotate continuously, forming a whirlwind to absorb the spiritual power of the fire element, in the five-color star stone, the three starlights kept intersecting and swirling, and gradually the speed became slower and slower, and after a while, the three starlights separated and stopped in one place and began to rotate in place, and the speed became faster and faster, the fiery red fire element was constantly sucked into it, and slowly the fourth starlight appeared in the five-color star stone, but the four starlights did not stop and continued to rotate, and after the fourth starlight appeared, the speed of absorption of the five-color star stone was faster.
The fire element in the celestial star condensed into the star stone more quickly, and gradually a new star light appeared in the star stone. The five starlights were still spinning, and it wasn't until all the fire elements of the Fire Porcupine King Neidan were sucked up that the five starlights began to gather together, rotating crosswise around the silver stars in the star stone.
Tianxing opened his eyes: "The Fire Porcupine King's Inner Dan is really powerful, and it has actually increased by two layers of spiritual power at once, but the breath in the body is too vain, and it must be constantly fought to condense the spiritual power in the body."
Tianxing stood up and glanced at the white fox: "Let's go, Xiaoyu, let's go and continue cultivating." "Tianxing left the elven tribe after saying goodbye to the elders, and after that, a man and a fox appeared in the mountain range.
On this day, Tianxing walked into a cave with the white fox behind him, he had been through several caves in the past few days, in order to find an herb in the cave, this herb could cure the white fox's sleeping sickness in the past few days.
Because the white fox took advantage of his own inattention, he accidentally ate a drunken fruit, so he has been drowsy, Tianxing knows that only this herb called the phoenix tail plant can be treated, and this phoenix tail plant grows in a shady and damp place, so it is generally at the bottom of the cave.
Tianxing entered the cave, carefully observed the surrounding situation, put a fire porcupine king's tooth in his hand, released a trace of light, illuminated everything in this cave, and after he checked the cave in detail, he did not find the phoenix tail strain, and when he was about to leave, a voice suddenly came from behind him: "Boy, we meet again." β
Tianxing shuddered with fright, almost dropped the fangs of the fire porcupine, he kept this sound in mind, Tianxing slowly turned around, and found that in the corner of the wall where there was nothing at all just now, there was a person sitting there motionless, this person's white face continued to have beads of sweat flowing, and the exposed hands were as white, if he hadn't heard his heavy voice, he would have thought he was dead, this person was the Snake of the Underworld.
Tianxing was so frightened that he took two steps back, this person is a person with the same strength as Feng Lao, he was forced to jump off the cliff last time and fell to his death, could it be that he has to die again today?
"You don't have to be afraid, I'm dying, I just want to talk to you before I die. β
Tianxing saw that he really couldn't do it, and knew that if he wanted to kill himself, he wouldn't be able to run away. "How dare you come to the Maple Wood Sect's territory. β
"I haven't left, just hoping to find the bone-sucking clams to rescue the power of gold that I can't suppress in my own body. β
"Then it looks like you haven't found it. β
"Sometimes there must be in life, and there is no time to force it, I hit eight feet, and it is difficult to find one. When I first found it, I thought I was saved, but I was eaten by you. I have seen it now, I don't care about anything, if I didn't insist on becoming the strongest person in the Five Elements Continent, I wouldn't want to join the Underworld Temple to learn the exercises of sucking others, and then I wouldn't think that I was strong enough, so I came to the Maple Wood Sect to find the Feng Killing Competition, if I lost the competition at that time, I would be open-minded and don't care about anything, but I just wanted to go out to the Kingdom of Jin to absorb other people's exercises to retaliate against the Feng Kill, and because I sucked too much gold power, I couldn't take it for my own use, and I was eaten by the power of gold, everything is my own fault, and I can't blame othersγ β
"Well, good is rewarded with good, evil is rewarded with evil, you have injured so many people's lives in order to absorb spiritual power, you must have this retribution. β
"I sucked their power but did not kill them. β
"But as a spiritual cultivator, you have absorbed spiritual power and become an ordinary person, it is simply worse than death. β
"I also consume the spiritual power of sinful people who do evil and oppress others. β
"So you're still a good person?"
"I can't say that, although I didn't kill them, but they lost their spiritual power, they will be killed by the enemy, and after their death, their wives, children, and parents in the family will have no one to take care of them, or they will starve to death, and if I don't absorb their spiritual power, they will also rely on their strength to bully others or mutilate others, so that those people, parents, wives and children at home have no one to take care of them, and live hard or even die. β
"You seem to understand a lot~!"
"Well, since my meridians were blocked by the power of gold, my whole body will convulsions and pain every day, and my whole body is as uncomfortable as a needle, and the pain has become worse these days, like ten thousand arrows piercing my heart, and a hair falling from my head to my body will feel like a knife cut, so that I don't dare to move, I can only wait here to die, I feel that I should not live long. β
Celestial Star is speechless "......"
"You and I are quite fateful, and the two times we met were also met in the cave, I am willing to pass on your exercises, are you willing to learn?"
"No, I don't want to learn the exercises of the Spirit Palace. β
The Stygian Snake thought for a moment: "I have a set of hidden exercises, give it to you, this set of exercises is my own originality, and it is not a practice of the Underworld Temple." β
"It's still forgotten, it's useless. β
"Actually, I want to trouble you with one thing. β
"You say. β
"When I die, please find me in a pit and bury me, I don't want to be in the wilderness, and this set of exercises can be regarded as my gratitude to you. β
"Hmm,...... Well, just what I need, I promise you. β
"There's a white jade pendant around my waist, and you can take all the things I have, and you can use what you can use. β
Tianxing stretched out his hand and took off the jade pendant on the waist of the Dark Snake, and accidentally touched the Dark Snake, and the Dark Snake immediately groaned in pain: "Hiss, ah~~ You slow down." β
Tianxing didn't, anxious to see what was in the jade pendant, but sat opposite the dark snake, looked at the dark snake and said, "What else do you want, I can help you, I will help you." β
"I have no wife and no children in my life, and I have struggled for fame all my life, and now I am about to end up with hatred. If thou wilt, erect a tombstone in front of my grave, and write on it: Sinner, the serpent, and the deceitful of burying it here, all his life. If there is an afterlife, I just want to live in a peaceful and peaceful place for the rest of my life. β
"Okay, I promise you. β
"Okay, you can go, you can come here and bury me in a few days. β
Tianxing turned around and picked up the white fox out of the cave, and suddenly there was a heart-rending scream behind him, Tianxing ran back into the cave, watching the whole body of the snake arch, constantly convulsing and trembling, looking very miserable, but helpless. Slowly, the snake stopped moving, and its breath became weaker and weaker.
Tianxing looked at the snake and was very conflicted in his heart: "To save or not to save? If I save him, he will intensify and then harm others, won't I help the abuse, if he really changes, I won't have a bad conscience." β
Feeling that the breath of the dark snake began to seem to come and go, Tianxing stomped his foot violently and put the white fox down, "Heaven has the virtue of a good life, let you meet me before you die, maybe it is to give you a chance to be reborn, I hope you don't let me down." β
Tianxing stretched out his right hand, picked up the wood element, wrapped his palm and pressed it against the snake's chest, feeling the state in the snake's body, "It's too serious." "The power of gold has penetrated into the meridians, blocking all the meridians, and all the internal organs are also stained with the power of gold, and the heart is almost surrounded by the power of gold. β
Celestial Star first transported the wood element to continuously supply life force to the heart of the snake, surrounded its heart with the wood element, and slowly applied the power of fire to the surrounding meridians to restrain the power of gold, and watched the power of gold be softened.
"You can't use the fire element anymore, if the power of gold is completely transformed, it will penetrate into his heart even more, and it can only lead the power of gold out, and now that his body is full of the power of gold, I am afraid that he will die of anger immediately if I use the power of gold to infiltrate his body, but there is no other way than this, it depends on whether your life should be extinguished." β
Tianxing changed the power of the five elements in his body to the power of gold, and carefully infiltrated into the body of the snake, and the snake frowned with a "hmm", and his head tilted without movement.
"Dead?" Tianxing didn't dare to pull out the golden power that had seeped into the snake's body, and carefully felt the snake's heartbeat, and the snake's heart stopped beating and made no sound.
Tianxing shook his head, helplessly preparing to withdraw the power of gold, suddenly the heart of the snake seemed to beat a little, Tianxing was stunned, did not withdraw the power of gold, but while transporting the power of gold, slowly pulled the power of gold around the inner veins of the snake body to his body, while carefully observing whether the heart of the snake was still beating.
After a while, the heart of the snake beat again, and Tianxing felt that the snake had not lost its breath, so he continued to pull the golden power in the snake's body into his body little by little. When it can no longer be pulled, it is transformed into the power of wood to deliver the power of life to the heart of the snake, and then converted into the power of fire, gently restrained, the power of gold in the meridians of the snake, and finally transformed into the power of gold for traction.
Cycle after cycle, repeating the process again and again, day and night passed, after the stars withdrew the last trace of golden power from the body of the snake, the breath of the snake, although it could be felt, it still became something that seemed to be nothing.
Tianxing's face was very pale, his hands looked the same as his face, the golden power in his body was about to explode, and the sweat on his face continued to drip down, Tianxing wanted to leave the cave to find a place to cultivate, but he didn't dare to move at will, so he had to sit cross-legged on the spot. For the time being, I can't care about the life or death of the snake, "Whether you live or die, everything depends on the destiny of heaven~!"
Tianxing didn't think much about it, and hurriedly turned the five-colored star stone in his body, and began to continuously absorb the power of gold in his body, which was stuffed full, and the five starlights in the star stone began to stop and rotate in one position, forming a small whirlwind, absorbing the power of gold.
The huge power of gold, although it is constantly being absorbed by the star, but there is no trace of shrinkage, but it still wants to expand outward, the star moves, it will be in the star stone, the power of time in the silver point is pulled out, wrapped in the power of gold, when the power of time wraps the power of gold, the power of gold is finally not expanding, quietly fixed in the body of the star, staying there still.
"Ding" The sixth starlight appeared, and the power of gold was a little smaller than before, Tianxing was helpless, and still did not dare to move his body, for fear that the power of gold, which was finally controlled, would swell up again, so he had to put his heart horizontally, simply let go and settle down, and continued to absorb the huge power of gold, and no longer cared about everything in the outside world.
Time passed little by little, and Tianxing didn't know how long it had been, although he felt physically and mentally exhausted, but looking at the three starlights that appeared in the star stone, he was very happy in his heart, "The spirit is at the ninth layer, and the strength has increased a lot. At this time, the power of gold had turned into a very small cloud of gas, and a few hours later, Tianxing finally absorbed the last trace of golden power and slowly opened his eyes.
The white fox, lying next to Tianxing, has woken up at this time, indicating that Tianxing has been cultivating for at least a few days, and the dark snake in the corner has disappeared, Tianxing stood up and was about to leave here, and suddenly found that there was a person standing at the entrance of the cave, who was looking at the scenery outside with his back to Tianxing.
"It's been almost half a month since you finally woke up. β
Hearing this person's voice, Tianxing relaxed a little, it turned out that this person was the Stygian Snake. "Well, you're all right?"
"Yes, thank you for saving my life. β
"You're welcome, you saved yourself. If it weren't for your dying feelings, I wouldn't have saved you, so what are you going to do in the future?"
"I plan to live in this cave in the future, no longer set foot in the Five Elements Continent, rest assured that I will not tell you your secret, and there will be no more dark snakes in the Five Elements Continent from now on. β
"And what shall I call you?"
"When I realized the meaning of life for more than a year, I will call it Yu Yi in the future. β
"Then Old Yu, give this jade pendant back to you. β
"You keep it, you are still young, if you set foot in the Five Elements Continent in the future, the things in it will be useful to you, it is useless to keep it now, and besides, if you save my life, I really have nothing to give you." β
"When I stepped into the Maple Wood Sect, the Maple Wood Sect had rules that I didn't want to reciprocate by saving people. β
"You don't count the picture, it's just me to repay you, you can keep it, I don't want to ink with you for this thing. β
Tianxing smiled and hung the jade pendant around his waist, "It seems that you have really completely changed, then I'll go"
"Wait, your spiritual power has suddenly risen to the top level, and now it's best to stay here if your spiritual power is vain, and I can teach you your kung fu. β
"This ......"
"I understand what you think in your heart, I am still the aftermath, the snake is dead, why can't I, as a senior, guide your kung fu? When your spiritual power is condensed, I can also rest assured that you will leave, otherwise when you encounter danger, your spiritual power will not be able to continue at the critical moment, and it will be dangerous. β
"Well, I know you want to be right with me, and besides, I'm going to ask you about your hidden skills. β
In the following time, Tianxing and the white fox lived together with the original Dark Snake and the current Yu Lao. Every day, Tianxing constantly fought against Yu Lao, and he also gained a lot of experience in the battle, and the spiritual power in his body became more and more condensed.
Yu Lao, who turned out to be the hall master of the Assassination Hall, was very good at assassination and concealment, so when he taught Tianxing, he also passed on his own experience to Tianxing.
"When fighting with others, you must keep your mood calm, and don't let the other party see that your mood fluctuates, otherwise it is easy to be suppressed by the other party, and the skill of hiding and burying traces is called "Shulker". What you want is to keep a calm heart at all times, and you can't have any emotions in it, otherwise it will affect the surrounding elements, be exposed by fluctuations, so if you want to learn "Shulker", you must keep a normal heart, and be calm when you see everything, even if the other party says something 'I see you', and other fraudulent language, you must stabilize your breath and don't believe it. Instead, let the other party mistakenly think that their feelings are wrong. β
"Well, I understand~!"
"Alright, let's start practicing Shulker First of all, you first attract the most dense elemental spiritual power around, attach it to yourself, wrap yourself, and then in this element, try to find a gap, open up a space of your own, wrap your body, so that others will no longer see you, and you, but you can observe other people's every move very clearly, but you can't fight with people, you can only walk quietly to dodge, if you fight, the combination of elemental spiritual power around you will be disrupted, so that you will be exposed from it, okay, it's useless to talk more, you can try itγ β
Tianxing nodded, closed his eyes, and attracted the most wood elements around him to wrap his whole body.
"No, it's not enough, more," Yu Lao reminded.
Tianxing began to attract again, and the spiritual power around him continued to wrap himself, layer after layer, until the five-colored walking stones in his body were automatically absorbed, Yu Lao shouted again: "You can't absorb these spiritual powers, you can only control them to wrap yourself continuously." β
Celestial Star nodded vigorously, and forcibly pressed down the five-colored star stone that was running, causing it to stop absorbing it, and began to grow layer by layer, attracting wood elements to cling to its surroundings.
Tianxing felt as if he was living in a spirit ball, and the surrounding wood elements were almost dense and about to drip water, Yu Lao said: "Okay, keep it, now start using your spiritual power to find the gaps in these wood elements around you, don't worry." β
Tianxing spread his spiritual power as he said.
"Don't spread out, be sure to concentrate a little. β
Celestial Star once again controlled the mental power and concentrated it. Constantly condensing his spiritual power to a point, he began to search for the gap that seemed to exist at all.
Three days passed, Tianxing still couldn't find anything, and his heart began to be a little discouraged, but Yu Lao kept encouraging him, "Young man, the most important thing you lack now is time, I am old, create such a rare skill, let you learn it in three or four days, don't I live for so long in vain, it is because this skill is not easy to learn, so I have not passed it on, your qualifications are already very good, as long as you persevere, you will definitely be able to find it." β
Tianxing nodded, "You must learn this skill, in the future, if I can't defeat the spirit beast guarding the island, I can use this skill to sneak in and pick the jade spirit bead grass, for the sake of Xiaoyu, I must succeed." Tianxing shook his head, put the boring feeling away, and began to practice.
Five days later, when Tianxing was concentrating his spiritual power and carefully looking for the gap in the elements condensed in front of him, suddenly, vaguely, he saw a black line like hair, floating in front of him, and Tianxing was happy, and the black line disappeared again.
"There must be no emotion, a calm heart must be maintained. Tianxing immediately calmed down again and began to search.