Dharma Eye
The water's surface was visibly filled with ghostly energy, making it impossible to go any further. So the water demon mustered all its strength to try and fly out of the formation...
How could Wu Zi let it escape? He took out the Binding Immortal Rope from his robes and threw it, binding the water demon tightly. Unable to break free, the water demon could only unleash its fury into a roar...
But the roar couldn't stop Wu Zi's actions at all. At Wu Zi's command, the Soul-Destroying Nail buried on the shore flew out at lightning speed and pierced the water demon's chest with perfect accuracy... The black and red Soul-Destroying Nail, carrying the water demon's foul blood and painful howls, shot out and then flew back into Wu Zi's hand...
Once the Soul-Destroying Nail was applied, the three-hundred-year-old water demon collapsed to the ground, exhausted, barely able to breathe...
Wu Zi ignored the water demon and, looking at the thick ghostly aura on the water's surface, quickly squatted down and called out to Xu Yi, "Xu Yi, how are you?"
Yi Qing also came over and clicked his tongue at the black ghostly energy on the river surface, saying, "Tsk tsk... How extravagant, using so much ghostly energy just to force the water demon to the surface?"
Xu Yi had just surfaced from the water when she heard Yi Qing sigh, and she immediately replied, "How can we force him out without covering the surroundings with ghostly energy?"
Seeing the doubt in Xu Yi's eyes, Yi Qing knew that Xu Yi really wanted to know if there was any other way, so she suggested, "You have so much ghostly energy, why don't you just weave a net to trap it?"
“I just thought of that too…” Xu Yi climbed out of the water: “But I tried for a long time in the water and couldn’t connect the threads. As soon as they came out of my body, they dissipated and couldn’t be connected anymore…”
After the exertion of the previous battle, Xu Yi was quite exhausted, so she lay down on the ground, leaving only her legs and feet in the water, trying to retract all the ghostly energy she had just released...
However, without that jet-black bead inside her body, it seemed that absorbing ghost energy was much slower... She saw Yi Qing walk up to her side and lower her head to say to her, "It's probably because those threads weren't strong enough inside her body, which is why they broke into pieces as soon as they left..."
"Oh, then I'll try to make the threads thicker inside my body later..."
“It doesn’t need to be thick,” Wu Zi squatted down next to Xu Yi and touched her temples. “It just needs to be resilient so that it can remain unchanged even after leaving the body.”
“Hmm,” Xu Yi nodded again, “Okay, then I’ll practice more later, and I should be able to do it…” Xu Yi looked inward and found that the ghost energy he had withdrawn could no longer condense into beads, but could only fill his body, but his body was far from enough to store that much ghost energy.
"I need to find a way to gather all this ghostly energy."
After saying that, Xu Yi jumped back into the water and sat cross-legged on the bottom of the water, which was filled with ghostly energy. She used all her mind to condense the ghostly energy around her into beads, but the ghostly energy would just start to take the shape of a bead each time, as if it was not condensed enough. Xu Yi thought of the route that her senior had taken when he explored her body, so she made the ghostly energy circulate in the same way as her senior...
The ghostly energy circulated, gathering excess ghostly energy from all parts of the body, and then grew thicker and thicker... After passing through all the meridians, it gathered again in the dantian, and spontaneously began to condense together, gradually being compressed into a pitch-black bead...
Xu Yi opened his eyes and looked at the surrounding water. There was no longer any ghostly aura in the water. Mission accomplished.
Xu Yi happily leaped out of the water, and just as she waved to Wu Zi and Yi Qing who were waiting on the shore, a thunderclap struck from the sky...
Why am I going to be struck again? Xu Yi was very puzzled. Even Wu Zi and Yi Qing frowned, but Xu Yi knew that Wu Zi couldn't help her with the heavenly lightning, and she also sensed that this heavenly lightning wasn't meant to kill her... So she quickly sat cross-legged, hovering in mid-air, waiting for the heavenly lightning to fall...
A bluish-white bolt of lightning struck down from the dark clouds in the sky, traveling along Xu Yi's meridians and finally dissipating into the bead within his body, making it firmer. The ghostly energy in other parts of his body rapidly filled the bead, filling it back to its original size, only to be further solidified by the falling lightning... After this repeated seven times, not a trace of ghostly energy remained in Xu Yi's body...
But Xu Yi instinctively felt there was one last bolt of heavenly lightning, so he quickly absorbed the surrounding ghostly and yin energy. The yin and ghostly energy in and around the river kept gathering towards Xu Yi, and because of the extremely fast speed, it caused the water surface to ripple upwards... After Xu Yi had absorbed all the ghostly and yin energy within a ten-mile radius, the last bolt of heavenly lightning struck...
The last bolt of lightning, a pale blue-white, faintly revealed a trace of golden lightning power. Xu Yi was still in shock when the lightning struck down at lightning speed, entering through the top of his head and traveling down to the soles of his feet. It was as if someone had taken a hard, thin needle and pierced through the top of his head, then transformed into hundreds of hair-thin steel needles that pierced into the meridians throughout his body...
The pain...it was unbearable...the pain was so intense it felt like blood was seeping from inside my body, as if my internal organs were being pierced and shattered by countless tiny steel needles...Xu Yi couldn't hold back any longer and spat out a mouthful of black blood...
But after those fine steel needles moved around, a very subtle golden energy followed the direction in which the needles pierced, repairing the body... miraculously smoothing out all the wounds on the body...
What seemed like an eternity to Xu Yi was only a fleeting moment to Wu Zi and the others… Wu Zi was incredibly anxious when he saw Xu Yi being struck, and was about to rush forward when Yi Qing grabbed him: “She’s undergoing tribulation… Don’t disturb her…”
"Tribulation?"
Yi Qing gave Wu Zi a hard knock on the head: "Are you so worried that you lose your composure? You can't even recognize the bright lightning of a tribulation?"
"Oh, oh..." Wu Zi looked at the lightning in the sky, nodded blankly, "I didn't notice..."
Yi Qing looked at this nominal junior brother and shook his head with a sigh...
After the heavenly lightning dissipated within her body, Xu Yi opened her eyes and found her vision to be exceptionally sharp. She immediately spotted Yi Qing and Wu Zi, who were radiating a yellow light, on the riverbank, and saw their vital points and inner cores...
Xu Yi was quite surprised. She flew down and walked to Wu Zi. She saw a very faint pink ribbon-like thing on Wu Zi's chest. She was very curious and reached out to touch it, but Wu Zi grabbed her hand...
Her gaze shifted from Wu Zi's hand to his face, only to see a pale, human-shaped outline... She quickly regained her composure, her vision returning to normal. Wu Zi looked at her with concern, patted Xu Yi's head, and asked in a low voice, "Xu Yi, how are you?"
“I’m fine…” Xu Yi pointed to Wu Zi’s chest: “I just saw something pink like a ribbon here, I don’t know what it is…”
Xu Yi looked puzzled, but the two cultivators in front of him understood. Yi Qing laughed twice, patted Wu Zi on the shoulder, and said to Xu Yi, "What you saw should be lust."
"Huh?" Xu Yi didn't think about why only Wu Zi had the ribbon of desire on his body, but asked curiously, "Can desire be seen?"
“Of course,” Yi Qing’s voice remained clear, “You have successfully overcome the tribulation and have reached a higher level. Naturally, you can see… not only lust, but also malevolent energy, willpower, and resentment. You should be able to see these as well.”
"Oh?" Xu Yi looked at Wu Zi in shock, wanting to gain Wu Zi's approval.
Wu Zi nodded: "Yes, but the Dharma Eye consumes a lot of energy. You just activated it unconsciously because you had just successfully completed your tribulation. After all, you are a ghost, so you should use the Dharma Eye less in the future."
"This is the Dharma Eye?" Xu Yi asked curiously, having never heard this term before. "Are there any other, more powerful eyes?"
“Yes…” Yi Qing nodded: “The highest level is the Heavenly Eye. With the Heavenly Eye, one can see the origin of objects; with the Heavenly Eye, one can see the cause and effect of people, and even see the marriage line.”
"That's amazing? How can I develop the Heavenly Eye?" Xu Yi was so eager to learn that she didn't even notice that Wu Zi's face had turned bright red all the way to his ears...
Yi Qing glanced at Wu Zi with amusement before replying, "Then... one would have to become an immortal or a god to do so."
"Become an immortal or a god?" Xu Yi murmured to himself, then thought of the Mountain Lord: "Then... is the Mountain Lord possible?"
“Of course,” Yi Qing nodded, “but it also depends on where the mountain is from, as mountains are different.”
"Mountains...are different too?"
"Every mountain has its own characteristics, just like people; naturally, they are all different."
"Oh, okay."
After they finished talking, Xu Yi noticed that Wu Zi's face was red: "Why is your face red? Do you have a fever?" Xu Yi was about to touch Wu Zi's forehead when she found that her hand was still being held by Wu Zi.
Wu Zi naturally saw it too, so he let go of Xu Yi, cleared his throat, and said, "It's a bit hot, a bit hot."
Xu Yigang just said "Oh, oh" twice when Yi Qing spoke up: "Let's go. We've been here for half a month. It's time to go back to the Qu residence and get some rest."
"Half a month?" Xu Yi was shocked: "It took me half a month to overcome my tribulation?"
“No,” Wu Zi replied, taking Xu Yi’s hand. “You spent half a month in the water, but the tribulation only lasted a moment.”
"It took me half a month to clear away the ghostly energy in the water?" Xu Yi thought it would only take him about fifteen minutes at most, but it had already been half a month outside?
"Hmm," Yi Qing chimed in from the side, "You absorbed and cleared away not only the ghostly and yin energy in the water, but also the ghostly and yin energy within a ten-mile radius. You've done a great thing!"
"Really?" Xu Yi only heard the words "great news" and happily shook Wu Zi's hand, sharing, "Great news! I did a great thing!"
Wu Zi felt a pang of tenderness and nodded in agreement: "Yes, you've done a great thing. And the funds allocated by the court have arrived. Imperial Censor Chu is already leading the soldiers and conscripted laborers to build the dikes. The dikes are much higher than before."
"Oh? Does that mean the people here won't have to worry about floods anymore?"
“Yes,” Wu Zi said, seeing Xu Yi’s happy smile, he was happy too: “This is another great thing, the icing on the cake.”
"Great, great, this trip to Quhua Town was totally worth it!" Xu Yi waved happily, unaware that her shadow had only just appeared at her feet.
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