Chapter 82: Trapping himself in a cocoon
That’s not the case.
Xie Yanyu didn't feel that Helan Wei could not teach her.
She just wanted to put his plot line on hold for the time being, but was afraid that he would go crazy for no apparent reason, so she didn't plan to get too close to him, wanting to maintain this delicate balance where neither of them paid much attention to the other.
But Zhao Zhen has to go into seclusion for half a year, and the secret realm will soon open, probably in half a month.
If she truly needed to learn some magic, there was no need to avoid Helan Wei. Furthermore, the original storyline did include a scene where Helan Wei taught her magic, so this would have been a good way to further the plot.
Xie Yanyu thought about this and replied, "No."
Helan Wei didn't say anything.
Xie Yanyu could see that he was not happy.
Even though his expression was the same as usual, and there was even a faint smile on the corner of his lips, he looked nonchalant, but his pupils were dark and gloomy, and his whole aura was very suppressed, it was just that he hadn't exploded yet.
She didn't react much, walked over and glanced at the spell book on the table.
The pages of the book were open, and because Helan Wei's fingers were pressing on them, the words on them could not be seen completely. Xie Yanyu noticed his hands, which were well-proportioned, slender and strong, with jade-like skin. The veins on the back of his hands were clear and beautiful, but there were several bloodstains on the back of his hands, some caused by scratching and some by pinching.
These marks were made by Xie Yanyu, but he didn't use his spiritual power to erase them. They were just some bloodstains, and such superficial injuries could be healed quickly with spiritual power, in the blink of an eye.
Xie Yanyu's gaze paused for a moment on these traces, then quickly moved away.
She reached for the spellbook.
But when she took it,
Helan Wei used a little strength in his hands to press the book tighter, as if nailing it to the table, to prevent her from pulling it out.
Xie Yanyu pulled twice but couldn't pull it out. Finally, he opened his eyelids and looked at him straight in the eye: "...Young Master."
Helan Wei finally spoke: "Hmm?"
Xie Yanyu: "I want to read this book."
As soon as these words fell,
Xie Yanyu pulled the book out again.
This time he pulled it out very easily. I don't know when Helan Wei let go of her hand. It should be when she looked up at him just now.
Xie Yanyu took the book in his hands.
She flipped through a few pages before she roughly understood what kind of spell this was.
It meets her requirements very well.
It is indeed very useful for saving lives and has a certain degree of offensiveness. It can be said to be both offensive and defensive, but it is more like a sword technique or sword trick than a spell.
However, this sword technique is different from the sword techniques used by Li Xun and those sword cultivators of the Tianjian Sect. This sword technique is integrated with talismans and formations. It is more like using the sword as a medium to exercise the effects of talismans and formations. But it is more than that. If learned well, cultivators in the foundation-building stage can even use it to defeat cultivators or ferocious beasts with Nascent Soul cultivation, and even take out the opponent's heart blood and use it for themselves.
This is Zhao Zhen's unique sword technique, called Wuxiang Sword, which is only passed down to his disciples.
If you can master it, you will benefit a lot.
To know whether you have initially mastered the Wuxiang Sword, there is also a very simple criterion, which is to see whether you can extract the heart blood of a cultivator above the Nascent Soul stage or a ferocious beast after learning this spell.
There are several ferocious beasts with Nascent Soul cultivation level locked up in Shangqing Immortal Palace.
If you want to try it, you can take blood from your heart at any time.
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Wuxiang Sword is not a traditional sword technique.
Therefore, to learn the Wuxiang Sword, one cannot practice sword first, but must first learn the corresponding formations and talismans.
Xie Yanyu had read books on formations and had also taught herself some talismans, but her knowledge was all haphazard and she was not very good at anything. Now that she wanted to learn the Wuxiang Sword, the things she had learned on her own were not very useful. Therefore, she had to start from the most basic talismans and formations.
Many of these contents are Zhao Zhen's secret teachings.
Zhao Zhen was in seclusion, and there was no one else who could teach her except Helan Wei. Therefore, after Xie Yanyu had roughly read the book, Helan Wei began to teach her.
Although he would go crazy for unknown reasons from time to time, his teaching level was very good.
As the first disciple of Shangqing Immortal Palace, Zhao Zhen sometimes had to give lectures to the outer disciples, but he was too busy, so he always delegated Helan Wei to give lectures to everyone. Therefore, he could break down every obscure point very clearly, and explain things from easy to difficult in a clear and organized manner.
Xie Yanyu also wanted to learn Wuxiang Sword seriously.
Therefore, she took paper and pen and wrote down everything Helan Wei said, including the more important content and some things that needed to be memorized.
Helan Wei stared at her while speaking, his eyes were heavy and the air pressure around him was very low.
If Xie Yanyu looked up at him, he could tell that he was in a bad mood, and the more he talked, the worse his mood became.
But Xie Yanyu didn't even look up, let alone glance at him.
She listened very carefully and took notes very carefully.
It was not until a while later that she realized that Helan Wei had stopped talking.
The brush put down the last stroke on the book, she looked up and asked him, "Why don't you talk anymore?"
Helan sat in front, his back straight, and asked calmly, "When Xie Chengjin taught you how to practice before, did you listen so attentively?"
"ah?"
"When you were at the Xie Mansion, he personally taught you how to practice in the days before you went to the Yuan Residence."
He was lecturing one second and brought up this matter the next. Xie Yanyu didn't expect him to change the subject so quickly and he couldn't react for a while.
At this time, hearing him say this, she didn't quite understand his intention of asking this: "Is this related to what we are learning now?"
Helan Wei remained noncommittal: "What did he teach you?"
Xie Yanyu recalled: "The vest method."
"Recite it to me."
There was no way Xie Yanyu could recite it.
That mental method was to help her clear her spiritual meridians, facilitating subsequent growth in her cultivation. If she didn't have a system and couldn't absorb the spiritual energy from objects into her body and transform it into cultivation, this mental method would be very useful to her. But since she had a system, this mental method was dispensable to her and there was no need to spend the effort to memorize it.
therefore,
At that time, she didn't really memorize the method at all.
Now, after such a long time, she has forgotten everything. Before, in order to fool Xie Chengjin, she could still recite the first few sentences, but now she can't even recite a complete sentence.
She was silent and didn't speak for a long time, which meant she couldn't recite it.
But she is very smart, and if she puts her mind to it, she will be able to recite a single sentence.
Xie Chengjin asked her to study, but she wasn't serious. However, she listened attentively to his lectures, showing a slight difference in her attitude. Helan Wei stared at her for a long moment, then smiled, a faint smile. His posture remained unchanged, still kneeling and looking at her, but his aura was less oppressive than before, as if his mood had slightly improved. "Write down everything I say, word by word. Will you remember it until next year?"
He turned the topic back to the Wuxiang Sword.
Xie Yanyu was a little confused.
She thought he mentioned that mental method because learning the Wuxiang Sword required her to memorize some mental methods, so he wanted to see what she had learned. But looking at him, it seemed that it was not the case, as if he was just asking casually.
But why was he asking this for no reason?
Xie Yanyu was quiet for a moment and didn't delve into the matter any further.
She responded to what he had just said: "If you don't write down the formulas you mentioned, how can you remember them? You have to memorize them all."
Helan Wei: "...Come closer."
Xie Yanyu didn't understand what he was up to, so he moved closer.
The next second, I felt a touch on my forehead.
Helan Wei stretched out his hand and touched her forehead with his fingertips.
A golden light penetrated her skin along with his movements and soon disappeared without a trace.
But at this moment,
Xie Yanyu felt her mind was clear, and some of the key formulas mentioned by Helan Wei during his lectures flooded into her mind like a tide. She didn't need to memorize them by rote, and now she couldn't even forget them. She didn't know what magic Helan Wei used to instill the formulas directly into her mind.
She paused and heard him say, "Remember it like this."
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at the same time.
Tiandu, Xie family.
Xie Chengjin was sitting at the table when he suddenly felt his mind become clear.
The movement of flipping through the case files paused, and he could tell that this was not his body's feeling, but hers.
...Xie Yanyu's.
Even though the remaining poison was taking its toll on him and he no longer used her blood, his body could still empathize with hers.
It's not that they empathize all the time, nor that they can feel everything. It's only sometimes, and there's no pattern. But just when he has finally put her behind him, she always reminds him of her existence.
It was so clear that she had already left and gone to the Shangqing Immortal Palace thousands of miles away, but it seemed as if she was still there.
Her shadow would still appear in his dreams at night. During the day, he would clear his mind of all distractions and stop thinking about things related to her, but from time to time he would sense some of her feelings, and these feelings would force him to start thinking about what she was doing at that moment.
A few days ago,
Her body suddenly felt very painful, and he could guess that the spiritual power in her body was flowing backwards.
Her eyes suddenly hurt, and he couldn't help but wonder if she had lost her sight again.
What about now?
Was this sudden clarity of mind a sign of enlightenment? Or was it someone leaning in and casting some kind of spell on her?
Xie Chengjin lowered his eyelashes and after a long while, he moved the case file in front of him away.
On the table under the file, there was a piece of paper that looked like a map.
But if you look closely, you will find that this is not a map. The handwriting on it is so strong that it can be seen through the back of the paper, recording the date and time. Below the date and time, there are some speculations about Xie Yanyu's actions.
Even though he had never asked the servant about her whereabouts, he knew that she had used the shrinking technique to reach Shangqing. He deduced that she might have been injured during the sect entry trial, and her eyes were damaged, but later recovered. Although he didn't know the specific details, and didn't know how her eyes recovered or how the spiritual veins in her body healed, he could still know her general whereabouts. Even if he couldn't guess 80%, he could at least guess 50%.
He looked at the paper on the table, at the handwriting on it, and realized that this was wrong.
But the words were in front of him in black and white. Although she had left, he did not pretend to be out of sight as expected, nor did he return to normal. The fact was that he seemed to be sick and wrote these things, so he could no longer deceive himself.
Perhaps he had begun to decay since the first time he dreamed of her and went to the medicine pavilion to check the love silk Gu.
At first, he'd just wanted to see if she was the same as he'd dreamed, but then his attention grew on her, realizing she was a double-faced person. He'd become so tightly guarded, trapped in his own cocoon, himself, that he'd noticed the feel of her skin, the scent of her, the shape of her waist and collarbone. Those dreams had gradually become more like a dream, but he couldn't erase her from his mind. Her image had appeared so often in his mind that he couldn't tell what he felt for her anymore. Perhaps it wasn't love, but it wasn't dislike either. He didn't know what it was.
He had no expression on his face.
He resisted this change, but after a while, he picked up the pen again and wrote the four words "Lingtai Qingming" under today's date and time.
But after finishing it, he had no way of predicting her movements, so he did not write again.
When she just left the Xie family, her movements were actually easy to guess. After all, when ordinary people leave home to become apprentices, they first go to the master's door and then undergo trials, which can be guessed using common sense. However, after passing the trial at the Shangqing Immortal Palace, he could no longer guess her movements.
The kite string in my hand finally broke.
Xie Chengjin subconsciously made a grasping motion and clenched the pen in his hand.
After a while,
He put down his pen and finally sent a message to the servant -
What is she doing now?
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