Bifeng

Chapter 201 Bifeng

"With my extensive knowledge and comprehension, now that I know there's a cultivation method hidden inside, I can find it by flipping through the pages. I'll wait three to five days, and before the demonic energy is born, I can try cultivating it myself."

They lived in seclusion in the Black Mountain, oblivious to the nature of heaven and earth.

Full of confidence, Li Jieqing picked up "Haoting Xiaodu's Explanation of the Ruyi Sutra" and opened to the first page.

Then, six months passed.

"Hehe—what's this thing?"

Li Jieqing scratched his head, pushed aside the pile of Ruyi Sect scriptures in front of him, and stood up with a start.

I'm not watching anymore, it's scary.

Like an old scholar with white hair, he devoted himself to studying profound classics, pondering and reflecting on these books until he almost became the embodiment of the founder of the Ruyi Sect.

Haotingxiaodu is the full name of Haotingtian, one of the thirty-six heavens. Someone there was reciting the Ruyi Sutra. Who else could it be but the founder of the Ruyi Sect?

Half a year had passed, and he still hadn't begun practicing the Divine Consciousness Visualization Technique. Just then, there was some movement in the deep underground cave, so Li Jieqing put aside his distracting thoughts and came down first to deal with the evil energy.

"—It really has changed."

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Inside the deep underground cave, the restraining magic array that had been set up kept sounding an alarm.

As Li Jieqing stepped inside, the warning signal abruptly ceased.

In the center of the deep cave, the suppression array that had been turned upside down on the ground was completely empty. The originally dense black mist had all disappeared, leaving only a completely dried-up black mud pool above the spiritual spring.

Although the warning disappeared, Li Jieqing did not relax. Instead, he raised his hand and summoned the vertical sword array plate in the deep cave, infusing it with magic power to reveal the images within.

Within the magic array, the warning object could no longer hide; it was a lifelike four-winged creature lying on the edge of a dry, black mud pool.

It is black.

The term "伏翼" refers to a type of bat.

The image on the array plate showed a black four-winged bat that was exactly the same as the Demon Emperor Fuyi back then, only much smaller.

It lay on the edge of a dried-up black mud pit, one wing half-covering its head, its mouth and nose making breathing sounds as its body rose and fell.

It was just like any living creature in the world, showing no trace of any malevolent energy taking shape.

In fact, the special array left by Master Baocheng to gather evil energy could not find any evil energy left in the array. It only blocked anything that wanted to come out and gave a warning, as arranged by Li Jieqing.

Seemingly noticing Li Jieqing's spying, Mei Fuyi, who was lying on the ground, raised her head, her eyes like scarlet amber gems, and blinked.

The next moment, as if shy, Xu Fuyi completely covered his head with his wings.

When it was put down again, it reappeared as a human body and appeared directly in the formation.

It's a woman.

Her face and figure were indescribably alluring, and her four wings, which had been laid down, were closely attached to her body and blended in, like tattoos floating on her exceptionally white skin, creating a striking contrast.

The person who had transformed into a human form stood up and walked step by step to the end of the suppression array. He reached out and placed his hand on the visible barrier light screen, smiling as if he were greeting Li Jieqing, who was a few feet away. This smile was pure and flawless, like that of someone who had just been born.

Only those eyes, which were neither black nor white, remained a deep, amber-colored crimson.

It was truly eerie.

She opened her mouth, as if she were saying something.

Li Jieqing observed the scene from the sidelines with an expressionless face, his eyes wide open, not missing a single detail.

He stepped forward at this moment, seemingly to listen to what she had to say.

Her smile grew even brighter as she braced herself against the barrier of light, pressing her entire body against it.

Then, in the next instant, the suppression array hummed, the eerie woman felt heavier all over, and fell directly to the ground, lying face down.

"You audacious monster!"

"I'll expose your true colors!"

Outside the magic array, Li Jieqing shouted and the Treasure City Sword on the vertical sword array plate pressed down. Using the Ten Thousand Earths Returning to Flow restriction within it, a Treasure City Sword materialized inside the magic array and also slashed down without hesitation towards the woman lying on the ground.

With a deafening roar, the intact woman shattered, and boundless black mist once again filled the magic array, much denser than before.

Just after the woman shattered, the magic array finally sensed the presence of malevolent energy again.

That woman, or more precisely, that lifelike four-winged creature, was formed from malevolent energy, but it had its own internal circulation, just like a elixir, perfectly integrated.

Only by breaking through that seemingly monolithic outer shell can one see what lies within.

One could even say that the very act of giving birth to these beings can be seen as the universe refining an elixir.

Li Jieqing finally understood something and felt his alchemy experience increasing rapidly.

"It can take form before it is born, it has intelligence from birth, and it has the ability to know things from birth. It knows how to use tricks to survive. It is truly a spiritual species born of nature."

"However, I will not forget how you were born—"

Li Jieqing maintained his magical power, intensifying the suppressive force of the magic array.

A swirling mass of yin, malevolent energy, born from a pool of stagnant blood, rotting bones, and putrid organs, further enriched by countless bat and demonic beast corpses—who was it trying to impress with that appearance? Which cultivator could withstand such a test?

Li Jieqing personally created the birth of this being, and now he will personally destroy it.

The birth of a sentient evil aura is considered a precious treasure even in the world of cultivation.

The last time Li Jieqing saw an inanimate object transform into a living being was when it was an egg of a stone dragon turtle, which has now become the Demon Emperor.

Such a gift from nature deserves to be enjoyed by him now!

"howl--!"

No longer disguised, it reappeared from the black mist as a four-winged demon, simultaneously launching wave after wave of attacks on the magic array binding it.

The second-tier array left by Master Baocheng kept issuing warnings, which rose and fell with the howls of the demons inside, and it looked like it was about to be breached.

A newly formed wisp of malevolent energy can withstand a second-tier magic array, and it's a magic array specifically designed to suppress malevolent energy—this performance is nothing short of heaven-defying.

But it didn't work.

Li Jieqing reached into his sleeve and pulled out two Sun-Radiance Pearls. Using his object manipulation technique, they floated around the magic array on the left and right, radiating sunlight.

Two were not enough; one after another, the Sun-Radiant Pearls were taken out, forming a dense circle that illuminated the deep cave.

It was as if there really was a sun there.

The black mist that was frantically trying to break free of the cage within the magic circle was illuminated by the dazzling sunlight. It melted away like ice and snow and began to retreat. In the end, only a four-winged demonic creature remained, huddled in the center of the magic circle, enduring the scorching sun and the oppressive power of the phantom of the Treasure City Sword that occasionally fell from the magic circle itself.

The evil energy has a simple attribute and is extremely easy to suppress.

When Li Jieqing was cultivating his Qi, he knew how to use blood bamboo to trap snake miasma and evil spirits. Since breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage, he has learned many methods for cultivating and condensing evil spirits through the Treasure Chapter, Treasure City, and the cultivation world of the Eastern Land.

Having spent half a year in the Black Mountain, Li Jieqing had already tested that the Sun Essence could restrain the Deep Cave Demon, and was prepared in advance for the Demon's emergence.

It was clear that the four-winged creature was being tormented by both the sun's rays and the magic array, and its intelligence was almost completely shattered.

"Since they are born of heaven and earth, I wonder if there is any karmic retribution for killing them?"

Standing beside so many radiant pearls, Li Jieqing felt a long-lost, burning heat within him, as if he were about to be ignited.

To avoid harming innocent people, Li Jieqing continued to channel his magic power to speed up the process of killing the demonic spirit, while simultaneously dodging and hiding in the passage he had entered through.

Don't worry about business reports or anything like that.

Firstly, he had never heard of it, and secondly, if the new demon emperor was preventing people from leaving Blood Heart Cave, Li Jieqing was even thinking of killing the dragon turtle that had been hatched with great difficulty. How could he not dare to attack the evil spirits at this moment?

After retreating to the passage, the ominous shadow of being set on fire dissipated, and Li Jieqing breathed a sigh of relief. He then sent the yellow worm that had followed him back, as he had no use for it.

The Yellow Worm is currently only at level one, and it is no longer useful in many areas.

Upon hearing this, the yellow worm didn't linger. It hurriedly left and burrowed up to guard its home.

Li Jieqing rested and caught his breath for a while, wiping the sweat from his forehead that had been exposed to the sun, when he suddenly heard the sound of wind.

This wind is not from the east, west, south, or north, nor does it come from the directions of the Eight Trigrams, such as the Xun position.

This wind is not the harsh north wind that blows through the seasons, nor does it display the flavors of spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

This wind is not the wind blowing through flowers, willows, pines, or bamboos; it has no natural charm whatsoever.

This wind is the Bifeng, a kind of natural disaster.

Whenever disaster strikes, the wind of death enters through the Heavenly Gate acupoint of the person facing the calamity, blowing away their internal organs, passing through their dantian, and piercing through their nine orifices, causing their bones and flesh to disintegrate and their body to dissolve.

Li Jieqing was startled to hear the sound of the wind blowing, and felt the wind blowing into his flesh. Terrified, he turned and ran, following the yellow worm's footsteps.

Since being struck by lightning while practicing the Blood Absorption and Qi Transformation technique, Li Jieqing had taken the time to learn about natural disasters and learned that any evil spirit technique that appeared in the world would be accompanied by calamities, the essence of which was to destroy things that violated the laws of nature.

However, this wind doesn't seem to be targeting the calamities of heaven and earth caused by supernatural powers, but rather the living beings.

Having run far enough away, he could no longer hear the sound of the wind, nor did the wind penetrate his flesh. However, Li Jieqing was still careful not to release his divine sense to avoid being injured by the wind. He simply raised his hand and touched the vertical sword array plate in his hand.

The array plate flickered with spiritual light, revealing a hazy, intermittent scene within the array.

It turned out that the wind was specifically blowing on the newly born Fuyi Demon.

The four-winged bat, which had been beaten into a daze by Li Jieqing, was instead roused by the wind and began to howl loudly.

When the wind blows, the four-winged bat is blown away and scattered, then it relies on its evil energy to reform its body, only to be blown away again and scattered again, in this repeated process.

Although the four-winged bat was half-dead from the wind, the Sun-Radiance Pearls surrounding it were destroyed first by the dissipating wind, extinguishing and falling one by one.

Then comes the formation.

The formation that Master Baocheng had painstakingly built up over an unknown period of time was ultimately extinguished by the continuous wind.

A snap.

The hazy image on the vertical sword array plate turned off. Li Jieqing quickly took down the hanging Baocheng sword. The next moment, he heard the sound of the array plate cracking, and the entire array plate split in two in his hand.

"My plate!"

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