newborn
The night is like cotton wool soaked in ink, weighing heavily on every corner of Yaoxi Mountain.
The black stones on the back mountain of the forbidden area shone coldly and hard in the moonlight. Yan Xiu walked forward on the gravel, staggering a little.
He is going to see Yunxiu.
The divine power in his body was like boiling magma, rushing wildly in his blood, almost breaking his spiritual veins.
There was a cloudy, cold white layer under his eyes.
The divine power that he had forcibly absorbed before was still stirring in his body, entangled with his own original divine power, like two snakes biting each other. Every twist made his fingertips numb with pain.
“Too slow…”
The voice of the remnant soul roared in the consciousness.
"You won't have enough time to absorb their powers one by one! Your body can't handle it!"
Yan Xiu raised his hand and pressed it against his chest, where the divine power was fluctuating most violently. The blood vessels beneath his skin bulged like entwined black and red vines.
He is going to see Yunxiu.
A trace of warmth flashed in his consciousness for a moment, but was immediately torn apart by the remnant soul's viciousness:
"Don't think about these useless things! She is the vessel! She is the key to the revival of the Ancient God! Sacrifice her, sacrifice all the immortal spirits of Yaoxi Mountain, and let the Ancient God contain this divine power, then you can survive!"
"Live..." Yan Xiu murmured repeatedly.
Yan Xiu barely regained his composure and returned to Yun Xiu's body. His fingertips hovered on the side of her neck for a moment, and he could clearly feel the beating of the spiritual veins under her skin.
The beating was no longer as steady as before, but as rapid as the beating of a drum, with a tremor that seemed to be on the verge of breaking.
He clearly saw that tiny cold white spots of light were oozing out from the collar and cuffs of Yunxiu's plain robe. Those were the divine power overflowing from her body. They fell into the grooves of the magic circle and were instantly absorbed by the patterns on the ground without even a moment's pause.
The sealing barrier outside the Yunxiu Divine Yuan that he had set up back then was now emitting a faint but stubborn glow, like a tightly wrapped cocoon, tightly locking the 60% of the core divine power.
He tried to mobilize a bit of his original divine power to probe the barrier. As soon as his fingertips touched the bright light, they were bounced back by a sharp recoil force. His knuckles turned white in an instant, and the pain in his spiritual veins intensified.
This barrier was a death curse he cast with the last bit of his life before his fifth life dissipated, just to protect Xiao Que, who had just transformed, and to prevent the backlash of his divine power from hurting her. But now it has become the biggest obstacle.
He couldn't get out of it. Even if he used the original divine power from the same source, he would be repelled by the barrier and couldn't get through even a tiny gap.
"She can't hold on any longer!"
The voice of the remnant soul exploded in my consciousness.
"Look at her spirit veins, they're already turning red! Wait a moment longer, and she'll be torn apart by divine power without you having to do anything! When the divine power dissipates, both you and I will die!"
Yan Xiu gritted his teeth and glanced at Yun Xiu's furrowed brow.
Her breathing grew shallower, her chest rising and falling like a candle in the wind. It was clear that the chaotic immortal energy within her body was vying with divine power, and her spiritual veins were already overwhelmed. He glanced down at his palm again. The pale white divine power was seeping out uncontrollably, and the blood vessels beneath her skin bulged more prominently, as if ready to burst at any moment.
He couldn't hold on much longer. Every breath he took was a tearing pain.
There was no time. If he forcibly sacrificed Yunxiu, and the barrier remained intact, his divine power would simply scatter like broken glass between heaven and earth. If he waited for Yunxiu to crumble on its own, not only would his divine power be lost, but he would also dissipate along with it.
The roar of the remnant soul still echoes in my ears:
"Don't you still have fellow disciples? They...are the only other option besides the two of you..."
"Sacrifice your masters! Use their divine power as a guide! Combined with your own essence, you will be able to break through that broken barrier! As long as you stimulate the core divine power in Yunxiu's body, you will survive!"
Yan Xiu closed his eyes.
He raised his hand and pressed it on his heart, where the original divine power was beating wildly. He knew what this decision meant.
Everyone in the sect will disappear, but if he doesn't do this, he and Yunxiu, along with this last chance of a comeback, will completely disappear.
"This is the only way..."
He fished out a porcelain bottle from his bosom. It contained herbal juice soaked in spiritual spring water, the lavender liquid shimmering with a faint light.
This is a drug that he made using his divine power. It is colorless and odorless, and can even make fairies with deep spiritual power unconscious for more than three hours.
In the bamboo forest, he used this medicinal juice to trick Yu Wei into drinking it.
"This is the prescription left by Senior Sister Yingtang. It can relieve the disorder of your spiritual power after you became blind."
Yu Wei was thinking about other things, but he didn't say a word to Yan Xiu. Yan Xiu watched him drink it sip by sip.
"Master, there has been a strong evil spirit in the mountains recently. Drinking this can stabilize the spiritual veins. The barrier in the mountains now depends entirely on you." Yan Xiu said jokingly.
The master had Jing Er's things in front of him. His eyes were blurry and his head was aching. He sighed and said, "Thank you for your trouble."
Wu Yi was not in the mountains, so Yan Xiu didn't have to worry about it.
"Here's the recipe you asked me to try last time. Do you want to try it on Xiaoyou? Why not wait until your five senses are better?"
Yingtang's immortal energy suddenly became unstable for unknown reasons, and her eyes, ears, nose, and body all showed signs of weakness. She thought that her symptoms were somewhat similar to Yunxiu's, so she thought it was a good time to try this prescription.
"I'm afraid it's too late." Yingtang said.
Yan Xiu stood aside, watching them drink the medicine, watching the trust in their eyes gradually turn into confusion, and finally fall heavily to the ground.
Yan Xiu stood by the cliff halfway up the mountain, using his divine power to control and support the body of his fellow disciple.
Like a puppet with its strings cut, he was wrapped in pale white light and flew towards the magic circle in the back mountain of the forbidden area.
The grass and trees on the road were knocked down by the uncontrolled divine power around Yan Xiu. Pine needles fell down and hit his shoulders, but did not leave any trace.
His divine power is strong enough to automatically form a barrier, but also dangerous enough to backfire on himself at any time.
“We’re almost there…”
Yan Xiu's pace became faster and faster, and the divine power in his body surged more violently. He could even feel his spiritual veins slightly cracking.
"The sacrificial array... a formation left behind by the ancient gods ten thousand years ago... capable of gathering all divine power to the center... and transmitting it to the ancient gods..."
The magic circle in the back mountain of the forbidden area is hidden behind a huge black stone. There are dense patterns engraved on the ground. They are outlined with the divine power of the ancient gods and are still clear after thousands of years.
There was a circular groove in the center of the magic circle, surrounded by five black stone pillars, corresponding to six divine power nodes. Each pillar was wrapped with dried vines that looked like solidified blood.
Yan Xiu placed his master on the node due north. As soon as his body touched the ground, the patterns of the magic circle lit up with a black and red light, which climbed up along the hem of his clothes and wrapped around his wrist like a chain. He then placed Yu Wei on the node due east, and the same light chain immediately wrapped around him.
Yu Wei frowned, but did not wake up.
Everyone took their place, including Yan Xiu himself.
Finally, he placed Yunxiu in the center groove. As soon as her body lay down, a faint cold light emerged from the groove.
Yunxiu's brows were slightly furrowed, and his lips moved, as if he was shouting something in a dream. Yan Xiu leaned over to listen, and only heard the vague words "Senior Brother".
His heart skipped a beat, and his fingertips hovered above her cheek. But the remnant soul immediately screamed:
"Do it! If you don't, your body will be blown apart by the divine power!"
Yan Xiu paused, withdrew his hand, and stood in the center of the magic circle.
He raised his hand, and the divine power in his body flowed from his fingertips to the ground, and penetrated into the patterns of the magic circle like a stream.
In an instant, the entire magic circle was activated, and black and red light gushed out from the lines, wrapping around the people at each node. The light chain became thicker and thicker, and began to slowly draw the divine power from their bodies.
The immortal power in the master's body was pulled out first, flowing along the light chain to the center of the magic circle like a thin thread; Yu Wei's also overflowed, his body trembled slightly, and his face became paler and paler.
"Very good..." The remnant soul's voice was filled with ecstasy, "Keep going! Draw out all their divine power! Transfer it to the ancient gods! Your pain will disappear!"
His fingertips began to mobilize the original divine power in his body, and pale white light overflowed from his chest and flowed towards the center along the patterns of the magic circle.
He no longer just drew the immortal power from his master and Yu Wei, but also merged his own divine power into the ball of light.
He wanted to take a gamble, betting that this combined power of his master and his own strength could break through the barrier in Yunxiu's body, and that after the 60% of core divine power was activated, they would have a chance of survival.
He increased his divine power output, drawing the light chain even faster. His master's body began to become transparent, and immortal power surged into the center of the formation like a tide, merging with the divine power within Yan Xiu's body to form a massive ball of light.
At this moment, the cloud in the central groove suddenly moved.
She suddenly opened her eyes, and the first thing that caught her eye was the black and red light chains wrapped around her body. Those light chains were bitingly cold and were sucking away the immortal power in her body bit by bit.
She also carried a kind of power that was unfamiliar even to herself... She had never seen it before, but it truly came from her.
"Senior Brother?"
Yunxiu's voice was hoarse, tinged with the confusion of someone who had just woken up. She looked up and saw Yan Xiu standing in the center of the magic circle. He was wrapped in black and red divine power, and his eyes were colder than she had ever seen. He seemed like a completely different person.
Yan Xiu didn't look back, but just raised his hand and drew a stream of divine power towards the master. The immortal power flowed faster, and the master's breathing became weak, and his body almost dissipated in the light chain.
"No!" Yunxiu immediately realized what he was doing and struggled violently.
Seeing that his master was on the verge of collapse, the white light on Yunxiu's body suddenly became brighter and broke through several light chains.
"Brother! What are you doing?! That's Master!"
It is our master who taught us magic and protected us as we grew up!
Yan Xiu slowly turned his head, the cold white light in his eyes becoming brighter:
"Awake? I'm awake."
His voice was filled with the brutality of a remnant soul, completely lacking his usual gentleness.
"Only in this way... can we be reborn."
For you, for me, it's all the same.
"newborn?"
Yunxiu looked at the chaotic white power around Yan Xiu and the bulging blood vessels under his skin, and suddenly understood something.
An unknown but powerful force that originated from the same source as himself.
The power in Yan Xiu's body was overloaded and was about to break his body apart.
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