Human choice
Just as Xu Yi was happily blocking the attacks from both sides, his meridians began to throb with pain. It turned out that when the powerful ghost energy flowed through his meridians, it directly expanded Xu Yi's own meridians, stretching them out of shape and even causing cracks in some places. However, the massive ghost energy instantly acted as a barrier to fill those cracks, which is why it did not affect the release of the ghost energy...
But the pain in his tendons and veins was unavoidable. As the cracks multiplied and widened, the pain in his body escalated to another level... The pain was excruciating, so much so that cold sweat poured from Xu Yi's forehead, and his fingers trembled uncontrollably...
Xu Yi heard Wu Zi exclaim in surprise, "Xu Yi!"
As soon as she looked down, she saw that her entire body was covered with long, thin wounds, as if her skin had been cut open with extremely fine needles. Ghostly energy dripped from these wounds, just like human blood...
Xu Yi felt dizzy, her body began to feel weak, and her arms were starting to tremble...
She heard the supervisor's voice: "Xu Yi, hold on a little longer, just a little bit more."
Just a little bit more, just a little bit more... I must persevere, I must persevere... Xu Yiqiang roused himself, using his mind to control his ghostly threads to slowly repair the cracks starting from the meridians on the soles of his feet. The surging ghostly energy in front of him was tearing the meridians apart, while Xu Yi's ghostly threads slowly repaired them from behind...
First, there was a burning, bone-deep stinging pain; then, a dense, itchy sensation, like being torn between fire and ice... The first pain was so intense I dared not touch it, and the second itch was so unbearable I couldn't even touch it... It was truly agonizing...
Fortunately, the ordeal didn't last long, and the supervisor successfully put the skeleton into the jade gourd.
The supervisor put away the gourd, stirred it with his whisk, and wisps of golden magic flowed out, striking the leopard directly. The leopard, its malevolent aura solidified, was forced back a few steps by the supervisor's blow. Xu Yi, seeing this, breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed to the ground, exhausted. At this moment, Wu Zi had already collected most of the surrounding spirits, and he reached out and caught Xu Yi in his arms...
"Xu Yi, are you alright?"
Her body was already burning and aching, as if her skin had been scalded off. Now, any contact felt like being hit hard with a scalding, sharp stick, intensifying the pain and causing Xu Yi to shiver and gasp... "Hiss..."
"What's wrong?"
Ignoring her physical discomfort, Xu Yi gritted her teeth and forced a reply: "I'm fine, I just want to rest."
"Don't sleep yet, let's go back and have the chief inspector take a look first..."
Wu Zi looked at Xu Yi, whose body was covered in fine and dense wounds, and felt a pang of heartache. He reached out to touch her, but Xu Yi stopped him: "No, it hurts..." Wu Zi's heart also ached, so he took out the Yin coin and handed it to Xu Yi to hold.
A slight coolness flowed from the Yin coin, easing the burning pain in his hand somewhat, but only slightly, before the Yin energy within the coin was depleted. His palm was once again covered in burning pain, and the sharp, coin-shaped stick continued to irritate Xu Yi's wound, intensifying the pain in his palm… Xu Yi instinctively wanted to throw the Yin coin away, but upon meeting Wu Zi's worried gaze, he ignored the pain and instead gripped the coin tighter…
He put on an exaggerated smile and comforted her, "Thank you, Wu Zi, I feel much better."
Wu Zi stroked her hair tenderly: "It'll be alright in a bit, it'll be alright in a bit."
"Yes," Xu Yi thought to herself, trying to reassure herself. "It'll be over soon, the pain will go away soon..."
Both sides were twitching in pain, while the battle on the other side was growing increasingly fierce... The leopard, with its blood-red maw wide open, pounced on the supervisor. The supervisor dodged to the side, and with the whisk in his hand, each bristle standing upright, he lashed out at the leopard's back. The whisk was no longer soft; it was more like a giant iron brush made of extremely fine and hard iron needles bound together, and its power was unimaginable...
The leopard was struck in the waist by the supervisor's iron whisk and fell down. It turned around and charged at the supervisor again. Each time, the supervisor perfectly dodged and then used the iron whisk to leave wounds, some thick and some thin, on the leopard's body. These wounds could not be repaired by malevolent energy or ghostly energy, so after several times, there was no intact skin left on the leopard's body.
After several such attacks, the leopard went completely mad. It roared at the supervisor, then leaped up and condensed its killing intent into the shape of a sword, thrusting it at the supervisor. As the sword flew in front of it, the leopard itself transformed into a dark gray energy that enveloped the sword formed from its killing intent.
Containing murderous intent and wrapped in ferocity, this was probably a trick the leopard demon would have used in his lifetime. The tip of the dark sword gleamed with a chilling white light, and its speed increased considerably. The supervisor took a step back with his right leg, and his magic power began to condense in front of his whisk. Unexpectedly, the sword suddenly made a sharp turn and headed towards Xu Yi in the middle of its journey towards the supervisor...
"Oh no, it wants to absorb your ghostly energy and use it for its own..." the supervisor exclaimed in alarm. In a flash, Wu Zi pulled out a tortoise-shell-shaped magic weapon to try and block it, but the speed of the malevolent sword was incredibly fast, reaching Xu Yi the instant Wu Zi pulled out the weapon...
Xu Yi's body was still in excruciating pain, and she was already weak. After watching the fight for so long, she had relaxed and was too late to concentrate and draw upon the ghostly energy...
Looking at the sword before her, she closed her eyes resignedly. Suddenly, with a clang, Xu Yi opened her eyes and saw that the small wooden sword at her waist had suddenly grown larger, completely covering her body. The malevolent sword slammed into the black wooden sword, breaking the tip of the sword. The huge recoil force sent the malevolent sword flying.
The supervisor acted decisively, raising his whisk and thrusting it straight into the leopard's forehead, which had been transformed back into its original form. The three-foot-long whisk pierced through the forehead and, without pausing, penetrated deeper into the back of the leopard's head, reaching its neck...
The leopard let out a mournful howl, and in the next second it vanished into thin air without leaving a trace...
"It's over?" Xu Yi looked at Wu Zi, who nodded with relief. "It's over."
"Haha," the supervisor laughed and walked over to praise Xu Yi, "It's over, little Xu Yi, all thanks to you!"
Xu Yi smiled shyly: "I'm glad I could help."
With the matter resolved, all three were quite happy. Wu Zi picked up Xu Yi, intending to go outside together, when they discovered that the magic mirror they had left outside, which had let in a patch of sunlight, had suddenly disappeared. The light source above them vanished, and the three of them were plunged into darkness...
As the spell of the Light-Brightening Incantation was cast, Wu Zi looked at the Supervisor. The Supervisor's expression was calm, he only habitually stroked his beard, his eyes gleaming with a sharp light...
Xu Yi and Wu Zi were able to escape last time thanks to the mirror left outside, but now that escape route has been removed. Xu Yi looked at the supervisor and asked, "Supervisor, what do we do now?"
"The mirror is just an illusion; you can still go out even without it. It's just giving people the right to choose!"
The right to choose? Xu Yi looked at the supervisor: "The supervisor is referring to distribution?"
"He still had some conscience; he didn't remove the mirror while we were fighting, but in the end, he did put it away."
"Then..." Wu Zi asked tentatively, "What does the supervisor intend to do with him?"
"It's not too outrageous, so we'll let it go this time. However, he won't need to join the Imperial Observatory or any other sects in the future."
"A ban?" Xu Yi was shocked and asked directly.
The supervisor gently tapped Xu Yi with his whisk: "Each sect has its own magic treasures and its own methods of suppression. He is not suitable to learn any higher levels of Taoist magic, lest he harm his sect or the human world in the future."
After finishing his sentence, the supervisor looked at Xu Yi and said, "Your meridians need some treatment. Let's go back to the inn first." The supervisor took the jade hairpin from Wu Zi's head, put Xu Yi into the hairpin, and then placed the hairpin containing Xu Yi into Wu Zi's hand with a meaningful expression.
Xu Yi was inside the hairpin, suspended in the middle, without touching the top or bottom of the hairpin. The pain in her body was relieved a bit, and she could also see the appearance outside from inside the hairpin. Xu Yi thought it was really good.
For example, at this moment, Xu Yi found it amusing to see Wu Zi seriously asking about the division and the magic mirror...
"Fellow Daoist, please return the magic mirror to me. It wouldn't look good if I summoned my magic weapon from you in public."
Fen Yu gave a fake laugh: "What are you talking about, Fellow Daoist Wu? I did not go to the mass grave today, nor did I find your magic weapon. You have misunderstood."
"Oh?" Wu Zi stopped wasting words and immediately began chanting an incantation to summon the magic mirror. In no time, the magic mirror flew out of Fen Yu's storage bag...
Fen exclaimed in shock: "Impossible..."
"Impossible?" Wu Zi sneered. "The old supervisor is truly farsighted, which is why he planted a summoning array on the magic mirror beforehand. Once activated, the summoning array can break through all obstacles..."
Wu Zi put away the magic mirror and was about to leave when Fen Yu grabbed his sleeve tightly. His face was pale, his eyes were wide with shock, and he asked urgently, "Does the old supervisor not know?"
"Hmph..." Wu Zi shook off Fen Yu's hand: "Is there anything that this old man doesn't know?"
This answer was undoubtedly a fatal blow to Fenyu, who was trapped on the sea. Regret, resentment, and despair appeared in Fenyu's eyes, causing him to unconsciously release Wu Zi's sleeve. Seeing him like this, Wu Zi also felt sorry for him, but since it was a human choice, how could others interfere? So he just shook his head and walked away from Fenyu.
Back in the room, they saw a large bucket of water in front of the warden. Wu Zi let Xu Yi out, and Xu Yi looked at the warden and asked, "Where is this, Warden?"
"Your meridians need to recover. Give me that small wooden sword at your waist."
“Oh,” Xu Yi honestly handed over the small wooden sword with both hands.
The supervisor infused his magic into the small wooden sword, which emitted a chilling aura of yin and ghostly energy that quickly filled the room. Xu Yi could no longer see anyone, only hear the supervisor's laughter: "So much yin and ghostly energy, what a treasure..."
Then the small wooden sword in the center was placed into the bathtub by magic. The supervisor used magic to write runes, which flew around the bathtub and spun in circles. All the yin and ghostly energy that had been released in the room was absorbed into the water in the bathtub...
Just as Xu Yi was wondering what was going on, she heard the supervisor call out, "Go in, little Xu Yi. Once you've absorbed most of the energy from the little wooden sword, your meridians will be healed."
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