Chapter 123: The truth destroys one’s own path to immortality.
When I woke up again, I was already on Tianyan Mountain.
Mu Fuyun moved his eyelids and slowly opened his eyes. He found that he seemed to be lying in a house with simple decorations. He suddenly came to his senses and sat up.
The energy and blood in her body surged and rushed straight to her head, making her vision go black for a moment. Her limbs also felt painful and weak as if they were pierced by countless needles. It took her a while to recover.
"woke up."
Zhan Yao's voice appeared in his ears, with his usual coldness and a subtle sense of relief.
"This is the Guizang Palace of the Sect Master. Lingshanze is a forbidden area for the sect. You and Uncle Xie are both unconscious, so it is inconvenient for us to enter. We will place you two with the Sect Master."
Mu Fuyun rubbed his forehead, tried to calm down, and opened his mouth to ask about Xie Hanyi's situation.
Zhan Yao, like a worm in her stomach, offered a cup of tea to her lips before she could speak. Taking advantage of her momentary lapse, he guzzled two gulps before saying, "Your vitality is severely damaged, and your meridians are blocked. High-level elixirs are not suitable for direct treatment. Although you've been fasting, you'll need to drink more of the qi-tonifying tea prepared by the medical practitioner to gradually recover."
Seeing Mu Fuyun forced to drink most of the cup in one gulp, he put down the cup and answered her doubts: "Master Xie's injuries are worse than yours. The master has placed him in the main hall to recuperate. Several elders, medical practitioners, and many brothers and sisters in the inner sect were waiting outside to see what was going on. Huai Yan and the others just sent a message saying that Master Xie has woken up. The master has sent everyone back. It should be a good time for you to go now."
Mu Fuyun paused, stood up straight, and tried to mobilize all his spiritual energy, but then he heard Zhan Yao say, "Don't move. You advanced too fast. The medical practitioner has sealed several of your meridians. For nearly half a month, you are not allowed to use any spiritual energy at all."
As he spoke, he stepped out of the door before Mu Fuyun, holding his sword and motioning to her.
This means that he will take her to the main hall on his sword.
"Thank you very much."
Mu Fuyun did not refuse. After thanking her, he quickly arrived outside the main hall with her help.
Just then, several elders came out of the main hall. Seeing Zhan Yao bringing her over, Jiang Hanqiu nodded at her, and his tense expression relaxed. "You're awake too. Come in quickly. Junior Brother will feel relieved to see you."
Mu Fuyun nodded. After seeing her, the elders with different expressions clasped their fists slightly as a greeting, and then stepped into the main hall.
In the center of the hall, with the main seat as the axis, there are neatly arranged couches on both sides. This is where the elders of the sect usually gather to discuss matters. Around the main hall is the resting place.
Before reaching the inner room, he heard Qi Yuanbai's low voice.
"...We're just master and disciple, why bother with this? If you're worried about the inheritance, just pick a better one later."
“It’s different.”
Xie Hanyi's voice came, but because it sounded too weak, it seemed very unfamiliar to Mu Fuyun's ears.
"Brother, regardless of the fact that I accepted her as my disciple not for the sake of inheritance—you know I had no intention of doing so. Even if she were not my direct disciple, but just an ordinary disciple of Tian Yan, I would not leave her alone and watch her in danger."
There was silence in the room for a while. Mu Fuyun stopped and stood there for some reason.
After a moment, Qi Yuanbai coughed twice and suddenly laughed very lightly. There was an indescribable meaning in his hoarse and weak voice: "After all, it's not for the relationship between master and disciple - Junior brother, you are just doing it for her."
Silence spread again. Mu Fuyun, who was still standing in the main hall, unconsciously clenched his hands and pressed his pale lips into a straight line.
"I was once looked down upon by others. It was Master who didn't give up on me, which prevented me from becoming disheartened before even entering the Immortal Sect." After a moment, Xie Hanyi spoke again. His voice was weaker than before, but his tone was firm and undeniable. "Master also taught us that seeking immortality and asking for the way is not just about asking the way of one person. Immortals ascend to the heights and look up to the heavens, but they must not forget the land beneath their feet."
"Brother, have you forgotten?"
The "Master" he mentioned, Qi Guiyuan, is also Qi Yuanbai's father. The bond between the two of them is probably deeper than that between Xie Hanyi.
Perhaps it was because he had touched a sore spot, Qi Yuanbai coughed heavily again, and then said coldly: "Junior brother, don't think too much, I'm just reminding you-"
As he spoke, his gaze suddenly shot towards the main hall. With a flick of his finger, he used his spiritual power to bring Mu Fuyun, who was standing there, directly into the inner room.
"Is it worth it to ruin my own path to immortality and even nearly lose my life for a child whose meridians are half-broken?"
He was also seriously injured and only woke up from his coma when he went to the Western Desert again. At this moment, using his spiritual power, even if it was just a little bit, seemed a bit strenuous. His originally upright body with a Taoist aura was now slightly hunched over, and his chest hidden under the Taoist robe kept rising and falling due to his rapid breathing.
"Look at yourself. You're just going to live a mediocre life hanging on for dear life. How can you be the 'Number One Swordsman in the World'?"
Xie Hanyi was seriously injured and weak, so he rarely used his five senses and spiritual power. At this moment, he was half lying on the couch. When he suddenly saw Mu Fuyun, his eyes couldn't help but be stern, and even the tone of his voice became a little colder.
"Brother, what are you doing? What does this have to do with her? Since I didn't delay the sealing of the spirit vein out of selfishness, I haven't wronged anyone, let alone implicate others."
Qi Yuanbai sneered repeatedly, his face, originally pale from weakness, now turning an unusual shade of purple. "Junior brother, why are you so anxious to defend yourself? You don't want to involve her, but have you ever asked her if she's willing to accept your protection?"
Maybe it was because his words touched her heart, but Xie Hanyi, who was always calm and indifferent, became a little evasive, as if he didn't want to look her in the eye.
Mu Fuyun didn't care about the sarcasm and malice in Qi Yuan's words, and just focused on the sentence "He ruined his own immortal path and almost lost his life."
She knew that when Xie Hanyi was in the Xisha polar region before, he was affected by the interference of those monsters and was seriously injured in order to save her, but she did not expect that he would be injured to this extent.
"What happened to Master? What do you mean by 'ruining the path to immortality'?"
The spiritual power that Qi Yuanbai used to pull her had been withdrawn. Once she was free, she couldn't help but step forward, half-kneel beside the couch, put her hands on the edge of the couch, and looked up at Xie Hanyi.
Faced with her worried questions, Xie Hanyi lowered his eyes and remained silent.
Mu Fuyun became more and more uneasy when he didn't get a response. He simply ignored the hierarchy between master and disciple, lifted the sleeve of Xie Hanyi's Taoist robe that was draped over the edge of the couch, and grabbed his wrist.
The cold touch coming from her fingertips made her stunned for a moment, then she reacted, put her index finger and middle finger together, and gently placed them on the side of his wrist, trying to force the spiritual power to penetrate into his meridians.
"What are you doing!" Xie Hanyi noticed her intention, pulled his hand back abruptly, and turned his hand back to stop her movement. "You have just advanced to the next level, so you can't use your spiritual power without permission!"
"Then Master, please tell me what happened!" Out of concern, Mu Fuyun lost his usual persistence and demeanor. "Otherwise, I—I will destroy myself!"
Xie Hanyi was stunned for a moment, and the look in his eyes as he looked at her changed from anxiety and anger to a dull expression: "You—Hey, what nonsense are you talking about."
Qi Yuanbai listened to the conversation between the master and disciple and couldn't help but sneer again and again: "I didn't know that in such a short time, you two have developed such a deep friendship. If that's the case, shouldn't we be honest with each other?"
As he spoke, he looked at Mu Fuyun with a malicious look that was very different from the past, and said slowly: "Since Junior Brother is unwilling to speak, let me speak for you."
Mu Fuyun looked up and met his gaze. For some reason, his heart skipped a beat and his hands, which were still on the edge of the couch, clenched quietly.
"Over the years, due to the seal on the Western Extreme Spiritual Vein, Junior Brother has not only had to endure the alternating shocks of ice and fire from the icy pond and the spiritual vein, but has also been deliberately suppressing his realm to maintain the seal. Although this journey to the Western Extreme is dangerous, it is also a good opportunity for him to break free from this suppression. Once he successfully seals it again, he will be able to break free from the shackles of the spiritual vein and continue his cultivation path. With his cultivation level, it is only a matter of time before he ascends to immortality. However, to prevent your meridians from bursting due to your rapid advancement, he has forcibly accelerated the sealing process by self-destructing."
As he spoke, he hunched his back slightly, and his terrifying and ambiguous eyes moved closer, staring at her closely. He whispered, "Now, the seal is complete, but most of his meridians have been destroyed by you, making it difficult to repair. From now on, I'm afraid he won't be able to have great fortune again."
Mu Fuyun stood there in a daze.
It is indeed "self-destruction of the path to immortality".
The importance of meridians to monks is self-evident.
This was the reason why "Mu Fuyun" in this small world suffered so much, leading to a difficult life and a miserable end. After arriving here, she was also trapped by this, and even with her extraordinary talent, she dared not advance too quickly.
Cultivators like them pursue throughout their lives to help the people of the world and reach the pinnacle of the immortal path. Although only a few can achieve the great path, there is finally a destination that everyone longs for waiting in the distance. If their meridians are destroyed and there is no way forward, it is like a mortal being sentenced to life imprisonment.
The mortal body is fragile and will die in just a few decades, but for monks, there is no telling when they will be able to survive to the end.
"My junior brother, the one everyone praised and admired back then, sacrificed his own path to immortality for a person who was already disabled."
Qi Yuanbai almost gritted his teeth when he said the last sentence, using a tone that contained implicit resentment.
Xie Hanyi pursed her lips, her dim eyes turned, lingering on Qi Yuanbai for a moment before falling on Mu Fuyun.
"That's enough, Senior Brother. Let us, Master and Disciple, be quiet for a while."
Qi Yuanbai slowly straightened up, calming his chest, which was rapidly heaving with emotion. He glanced at the two of them expressionlessly, then turned to the door, waved his hand, summoned two Taoist children, and coldly ordered, "Send the Taoist back."
The "go back" he mentioned naturally refers to returning to Lingshanze.
Xie Hanyi was still half-lying on the couch. Two Taoist boys quickly walked to the couch and wanted to help him up from both sides.
Xie Hanyi looked at Mu Fuyun who was still half-crouching beside him, and wanted to signal the second Taoist boy to help her first, but he just waved his hand, and before he could say anything, he saw her with her eyes lowered, standing up without saying a word, and walked out of the main hall with somewhat unsteady steps.
Xie Hanyi's hand paused in the air, then he stood up without saying a word, followed her three or five steps away, and left Guizang Hall.
Since neither of them could use spiritual power, the two little Taoist boys asked them to go to the teleportation array set up in Guizang Hall.
Along the way, the two of them always maintained their positions, one in front and one behind, without saying a word.
Xie Hanyi looked at Mu Fuyun's thin back. For some reason, he felt the stubbornness revealed in her straight back, which made him at a loss for a moment.
He opened his mouth several times, wanting to say something, but when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say them. He couldn't even reach out and pat her head gently.
The two of them remained in a stalemate and returned to Lingshanze through the teleportation array.
The cold and frost that lingered here all year round were still there, covering the entire place in a vast expanse of white. However, for Xie Hanyi at this moment, they had lost their use - after being re-sealed, he no longer needed them to suppress the Qi and blood in his body.
Surrounded by white mist, Mu Fuyun took a deep breath and felt a deep chill penetrate into her heart and lungs from her nasal cavity, spreading throughout her chest, bringing with it a pain like a needle stabbing or a knife cutting, causing her head to throb.
"Master, do you know why I chose to embark on this difficult and bumpy path of cultivation even though I knew I had little talent and a difficult foundation?"
She had her back to Xie Hanyi and didn't look back, but he could hear a slight tremor in her low voice.
His heart skipped a beat and he slowly reached out, wanting to touch her long black hair that had long since fallen from her high ponytail and was hanging behind her.
Before I could answer, I heard her trembling voice continue, "Because I want to get rid of everything here, leave everything here, and never come back - this is the goal I have been pursuing unwaveringly!"
As she spoke, she took a step forward, turned around abruptly, and looked at Xie Hanyi with a complicated and sad look.
"But, I, I once had the thought of giving up because of Master..."
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