Qin Yan was very thin and looked like an ordinary scholar, but he was a real swordsman after all. He punched Fu Changling in the face, causing him to see stars.
He felt that he could die on the spot without Yue Sinan's help.
After Qin Yan delivered this punch, he seemed to feel relieved. He turned around and said coldly, "Get up."
Fu Changling was startled when he heard the voice, and quickly stood up with his hands covering his face.
He didn't dare to say anything. He felt wronged. After all, this was not something he could choose. If he had a choice, he didn't want to leave such an impression and such an embarrassing experience on Qin Yan.
But he could also understand that if Shangguan Mingyan or Yunyu had done the same thing to him, he would have wanted to kill them.
Feeling aggrieved and somewhat timid, he followed Qin Yan. Qin Yan looked around and said calmly, "Where is this?"
Hearing this, Fu Changling looked around.
This seems to be a mausoleum, with an arched roof and stone doors on all four sides, but they have long been sealed. There are some murals painted around it, but these murals seem to have been in disrepair for a long time and are no longer recognizable.
The entire room was empty, with only a raised platform in the middle. On the platform was a coffin, the one for the two of them.
Looking at the coffin, Fu Changling couldn't help but wonder, "Why is there only one coffin? Where is Mingyan?"
Logically speaking, the three of them were in a group, and since Shangguan Mingyan was also poisoned, he should have been with them.
Not being able to find Shangguan Mingyan, Qin Yan immediately sent out his spiritual sense, but when it touched the stone wall, it bounced back instantly.
Qin Yan frowned. Fu Changling saw that he looked strange and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"
"Here," Qin Yan looked around, "my spiritual consciousness can't get out."
After hearing what Qin Yan said, Fu Changling immediately tried it.
The spiritual energy he consumed in setting up the formation has not yet returned. At this moment, both his spiritual awareness and spiritual power are far inferior to Qin Yan's. Qin Yan's spiritual awareness cannot leave, so naturally his spiritual awareness cannot leave either.
After his consciousness could not escape, Fu Changling could not help but laugh: "Interesting."
As he spoke, he turned around and looked at the coffin in the center of the room. He lifted his hand and the entire coffin rolled down, revealing the smooth surface of the platform.
Fu Changling raised his hand and touched the platform, carefully feeling the lines on it. Qin Yan looked at him quietly. After waiting for a while, he saw that Fu Changling's expression became serious, so he asked, "How is it?"
"I've searched high and low for something, but I still can't find it." Fu Changling's hands were still groping carefully on the platform, but his eyes were looking at Qin Yan, "Guess what this is?"
"What?"
Qin Yan had no interest in playing dumb with Fu Changling and refused to guess. Fu Changling touched the last stroke of the stone platform, took a deep breath, and said solemnly, "The third seal."
"The third seal?"
Qin Yan's expression finally showed some emotion. He looked down at the platform and after a moment's silence, he said, "Do you have enough power to seal it now?"
"I'm afraid not for now."
Fu Changling smiled bitterly: "If I had known that I would come to this damn place, I wouldn't have bothered to set up that formation."
"How long will the rest be?"
"Two days."
Fu Changling looked at the running formation and said helplessly, "But now there is an extremely difficult matter."
"Um?"
Qin Yan saw that Fu Changling had a bitter look on his face, and he knew something was wrong. Fu Changling stared at the stone platform and said slowly, "This seal has been opened by someone."
"What?!"
Hearing this, Qin Yan cried out in surprise, then he asked anxiously, "So, are there any demon cultivators from the Karma Prison who have already arrived in Yunze?"
"Perhaps."
Fu Changling raised his hand and began placing talismans around the stone platform. As he did so, he slowly said, "The Karma Prison cultivators who can pass through the Qi channel seal to reach Yunze are all top-tier Karma Prison masters. Although this Qi channel has been opened, it has the smallest seal area of the three Qi channel seals discovered so far."
"The smaller the seal, the easier it is to break. However, correspondingly, the higher the requirements for the cultivator to break through it and pass through the Karma Prison. According to my guess, the cultivator who emerged from this Qi channel seal must be one of the top cultivators in the Karma Prison."
"But this is not the most important thing right now. The most important thing is, have you discovered it?" Fu Changling placed the last talisman on the stone platform and pressed down the Tanxin Sword. After taking a breath for a moment, he looked up at Qin Yan and said, "It is absorbing us... No, not just us."
"Actually, it's absorbing the spiritual energy of everything around it."
As Fu Changling spoke, he snapped his fingers, and Qin Yan immediately saw the spiritual energy turned into a visible transparent color and was rapidly rushing towards the stone platform.
Qin Yan's face turned extremely grim when he saw this scene. Fu Changling, noticing Qin Yan's worry, quickly consoled him, "But don't worry. I can use the Tanxin Sword and the formation talisman to seal it for two or three days. Once I recover, I'll seal it with the Gathering Spirit Tower."
"Um."
Qin Yan responded, thought for a moment, and then said, "You can do it."
"I still need help from my senior brother."
Fu Changling smiled and opened his hands towards Qin Yan. Qin Yan's eyes fell on his fair palms. Fu Changling stretched out his hand towards Qin Yan and said, "Give me your hand."
Qin Yan looked at Fu Changling's hand, and seemed to be a little hesitant. Fu Changling guessed that he might think he was playing around again, so he ignored him and reached out to grab Qin Yan's hand. Just as Qin Yan was about to struggle, he said, "Give me spiritual power!"
After hearing this, Qin Yan knew that Fu Changling was doing serious business, and quickly poured his spiritual power into him.
Qin Yan's spiritual power flowed into Fu Changling's body, and those spiritual powers passed through Fu Changling's tendons and veins. When Fu Changling thought that these spiritual powers came from Qin Yan, he suddenly felt that this spiritual power seemed to silently bring a numbing feeling, and penetrated through his body all the way to his Qinggu fan. He pretended to be calm and poured the spiritual power into the talisman. After a while, the light passed through the dust and lit up on the stone platform. Then a gust of wind blew past, blowing away the dust, revealing the busy patterns on the stone platform with a bluish-white light.
When Fu Changling saw the entire stone platform light up, he breathed a sigh of relief and withdrew his hand.
"alright."
Fu Changling felt relieved, but Qin Yan was staring at the stone platform. Fu Changling felt a little strange and followed Qin Yan's gaze. "What's wrong?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he noticed something unusual. On the stone platform, a small, long ball of light lay quietly asleep. It seemed to have been lying there for a long time, suddenly awakened by the call, and flashed with light.
This is something that Monk Yunze is very familiar with, the soul left behind after a person dies.
However, this soul was obviously incomplete, and seemed to be just an extremely weak soul and spirit.
Fu Changling looked at the soul, hesitated for a moment, took out a soul-protecting lamp from his spirit bag, and then carefully placed the soul into the soul-protecting lamp.
After it was installed, Qin Yan asked, "Why is there a soul here?"
"It's probably someone who died here before," Fu Changling looked at the weak soul in the soul-protecting lamp. He watched quietly, and when he saw the soul flickering with light, he felt vaguely familiar. So he stared at the soul and said slowly, "However, it has been able to stay here for so long without being completely devoured by this formation and turned into nutrients. It shows that this soul must have been an extremely powerful cultivator in his lifetime."
To die here would be extremely powerful...
Qin Yan hesitated for a moment and said slowly, "Is she Senior Lin?"
Fu Changling's body stiffened. Qin Yan walked over to Fu Changling and looked at the soul flickering in the soul-protecting lamp with him. After hesitating for a moment, he slowly said, "I heard there's a Taoist method that can see the memories of a soul."
"It's harmful to the soul."
Fu Changling replied calmly. He knew what Qin Yan was going to say. He glanced at the soul and said softly, "Unless the soul itself is willing to let people see her memories."
"She doesn't want to?"
Qin Yan continued to ask, and Fu Changling fell silent, his soul still flickering. Qin Yan looked at his expression and continued, "Or are you unwilling?"
"Why wouldn't I?"
Fu Changling chuckled, and Qin Yan was speechless. After a while, he just said, "Don't be afraid, I'm with you."
Hearing this, Fu Changling took a breath of cold air: "Senior Brother, you are really..."
Qin Yan stared at him quietly. Fu Changling smiled bitterly and said helplessly, "Really? You don't even give me a single bit of face."
"We have to know what happened." Qin Yan said calmly, "Only by knowing what happened can we decide what to do next."
"That's right."
Fu Changling sighed. He looked at the soul, then at Qin Yan: "Do you want to send your soul with me?"
"Let's look at this soul's memories together?"
"Yes." Fu Changling nodded and explained, "We will place a wisp of our spiritual consciousness on this soul. As long as this soul agrees, we will be able to see everything."
"Of course, if you forcefully attempt to search my soul, that's fine, but..."
"I understand." Qin Yan interrupted him and said directly, "Let's go together."
Hearing Qin Yan's words, Fu Changling's uneasy heart suddenly calmed down.
He had almost learned everything about Lin Chen from Yue Sihua. He knew that it must have been an extremely tragic past. If he was asked to go alone, he would definitely go. But it would be different after all with someone by his side.
Fu Changling smiled. He pulled Qin Yan up and took him to find a place to sit down. Then he placed the soul-protecting lamp in front of him. He held Qin Yan's hand in one hand, put the Qinggu fan to his lips with the other hand, and chanted a spell in a low voice.
The way he held Qin Yan's hand was to gently hold his hand in the palm of his hand. There was nothing wrong with this posture, but the feeling of having someone wrap his hand completely gave Qin Yan an indescribable feeling.
He had a feeling that something was wrong, and he didn't know what went wrong, so he frowned slightly.
Fu Changling glanced at Qin Yan's expression, but pretended not to notice it and said calmly, "Close your eyes."
Qin Yan listened to him and closed his eyes. After Fu Changling finished chanting the spell, Qin Yan's expression changed a little, as if he saw something.
Fu Changling turned his head and looked at him quietly. After a long time, he stretched out his hand, slowly inserted it into Qin Yan's fingers, and interlocked his fingers with his.
Then he smiled and closed his eyes.
The moment he closed his eyes, the world around him spun. Before Fu Changling opened his eyes, he heard an extremely noisy voice, like a cicada chirping desperately beside him, but the person spoke much faster than the cicada, speaking without taking a breath.
"I'm telling you, you really can't do anything outside anymore. Our wedding is only a month and a half away. If you can't make it, we're done. It's not me who's done, it's us who's done, right?"
Fu Changling slowly opened his eyes and saw two figures slowly walking towards him from a distance.
The woman walking in front was dressed in white, wearing a white jade mask painted with golden chrysanthemums, her hair tied behind her with a red headband, and carrying a coffin the size of a sword case on her back.
The young man walking behind looked to be in his early twenties, wearing a black robe embroidered with chrysanthemums and a golden crown inlaid with jade. He kept muttering to the girl without stopping: "How can you be so calm, so nonchalant, and so indifferent? Lin Chen, do you know how much effort I have put in to find you? I have someone put up a reward of 100,000 spirit stones for you, but you haven't made any move. Do you take me seriously? Have you ever thought that I am your fiancé? Have you ever..."
Fu Changling stared blankly at the two people walking past. As if they were sensing immortal cultivators, the two of them glanced in Fu Changling's direction without leaving a trace, and fell silent as they passed by.
After a while, the two walked away, and Qin Yan's voice rang out behind Fu Changling: "It's the head of the Fu family."
Fu Changling heard Qin Yan's voice, he turned around and saw Qin Yan standing in front of him. Fu Changling smiled bitterly: "Yes, it's my father."
"Is this nineteen years ago?" Qin Yan glanced around. This was Taiping Town, but strangely, this Taiping Town was exactly the same as the one they had entered before.
If that's the case, it would be a bit strange, because it means that Taiping Town has hardly changed in the past 19 years.
Fu Changling and Qin Yan exchanged a glance, and then they heard a loud bang nearby. Then, more than a dozen cultivators came flying over on their swords and stood on a high place and said, "Gather everyone to the altar!"
The townspeople of Taiping Town were obviously accustomed to such scenes. Although they were trembling, they still followed the monks' instructions and walked towards the altar.
Qin Yan and Fu Changling glanced at Lin Chen and Fu Yushu who were standing in the distance gazing into the distance. Both of them were staring at the cultivators in the sky, seemingly a little annoyed. Then Lin Chen lowered his head and said something to Fu Yushu, and the two of them followed the townspeople forward.
"Follow them."
Fu Changling retracted his gaze and said to Qin Yan beside him, "Look at what happened."
Qin Yan nodded, and the two followed the crowd to the altar.
After arriving at the altar, Fu Changling deliberately stood next to Fu Yushu. The four of them concealed their breath and stood side by side. Fu Yushu saw Fu Changling standing next to him and couldn't help but take a look.
Fu Changling remained unmoved.
Fu Yushu took another look.
Fu Changling had no expression on his face.
Fu Yushu could no longer bear it and finally said, "Senior, I don't think I've seen you before at the Fu family?"
"What a coincidence," Fu Changling turned his head and smiled slightly, "I haven't seen you before either. May I ask your name, fellow Taoist?"
"My name is Fu Yushu." Fu Yushu asked doubtfully, "Senior?"
Fu Changling bowed and whispered, "Fu Changling."
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