Chapter 25 The Golden Light Dissipates
As the golden light dissipated, the golden phantom also disappeared along with the array barrier.
Inside the main hall of the mountain.
Xie Kuling, who had already prepared himself mentally, was taken aback and stared blankly at the sky.
The previously gloomy sky was now clear and blue, and sunlight poured down from the center of the main hall, shining on him.
Xie Kuling raised his hand. After the formation ended, the bleeding on his wrist had stopped, leaving only a deep bloodstain.
He had originally thought he was definitely going to die.
Xie Kuling couldn't help but chuckle.
After the golden light of the formation disappeared, Xie Xuan's eyes widened, and he rushed over.
"Kuling! You're alright!" He grabbed Xie Kuling's arm and looked him up and down.
"You're alright! Thank goodness! You're alright!"
Not only did the bleeding stop, but Xie Kuling's fever symptoms also disappeared!
Xie Xuan was incoherent, and tears welled up in his eyes again.
He couldn't help but hug Xie Kuling tightly.
"Very good!"
Xie Kuling's eyes welled up with tears, and he gently hugged Xie Xuan back.
In a hazy state, he saw dust particles in the air floating freely and relaxed in the beams of light.
Xie Kuling suddenly remembered that when he was eight years old, his father, before he died, had said to him with endless resentment:
"Array formations are for protection, but aren't they also a form of constraint? Those sects envy us for having an array left behind by a deity, which has protected the Qingfeng Sect for six thousand years. But haven't we, the Xie family, been trapped on Qingfeng Mountain for six thousand years because of it?"
“Bitter Ridge, you have no spiritual root, no cultivation, only your life is connected to the formation. The formation depends on your life to exist, and your body will become increasingly weak. Once demons invade, the formation will be activated and will accelerate the draining of your life force. Just once, you will die.”
"Now that you know all this, do you still want to succeed as the mountain lord?"
Xie Kuling gently closed his eyes.
Whether it was when I was eight years old or now, my father has only one answer.
Also, what you said is incorrect.
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On the training ground.
Li Chang'an blinked, his pupils returning to a dark brown. He suddenly lost all strength and fell backward, the black sword quickly flying over to carry him gently to the ground.
Li Chang'an stopped, lowered his head, touched his chest, and looked at his hands.
That was just now...
"Mr. Li! Mr. Li!" The disciples of the Qingfeng Sect rushed over.
They carried and wore all sorts of magical artifacts, clearly bringing every magical artifact the Qingfeng Sect could get their hands on.
"Mr. Li! Are you alright?"
Li Chang'an came to his senses and smiled, "I'm fine."
The golden light healed his injuries, and even his dantian, which had been in excruciating pain due to the depletion of spiritual energy, was now calm and full of spiritual energy again.
Thinking of those golden lights, Li Chang'an asked again, "Was that something you made?"
"What?" The disciples didn't react.
"That's it, the golden array barrier."
"Oh!" A disciple smiled proudly and said, "It was made by our mountain lord. It's a formation of our Qingfeng Sect, and it was left behind by the God of Boundless Space."
The older disciple nodded, his tone more composed, but also revealing his pride: "The Divine Lord left a wisp of his sword intent in the formation. Once the formation is activated, any demons or evil spirits that touch the formation's barrier will be reduced to ashes."
Li Chang'an understood.
Perhaps when the array barrier was raised, that wisp of sword intent sensed his existence as a reincarnation, so it was used by him.
“However…” the disciple paused again, somewhat hesitant.
He had seen a magic array barrier once when he was a child, but that time was different from this one.
All he had ever seen as a child was that golden wall of runes, under which evil spirits vanished into thin air.
On his way to retrieve the spiritual artifact, he caught a glimpse of a golden phantom in the distance. Although he couldn't make out the face, the figure was somewhat similar to Mr. Li's.
However, the phantom had long hair and wore different clothes.
The disciple looked somewhat puzzled.
Li Chang'an looked somewhat bewildered and tilted his head: "What's wrong?"
"Oh, it's nothing." The disciple shook his head.
Perhaps it was because the golden light surrounding Mr. Li made him mistaken.
The disciple straightened his expression and bowed solemnly: "If it weren't for Mr. Li today, we would probably have perished in the belly of that snake demon."
"Thank you, Mr. Li."
As soon as he finished speaking, several disciples behind him quickly followed suit and bowed, saying, "Thank you, Mr. Li."
All of them looked solemn, but the youngest one still had a hint of joy in his voice, as if he had survived a disaster.
Li Chang'an stood there, stunned.
Once upon a time, he was just an ordinary mortal, helpless against demons, at their mercy, and needed protection from others.
But now, he has become the one protecting others.
A strange, indescribable feeling welled up in Li Chang'an's heart.
He snapped out of his daze, his smile still sincere: "It's nothing, don't mention it."
After saying that, he returned the greeting with a fist and palm salute.
As they were talking, a figure flew swiftly from afar, finally landing gracefully on the training ground.
The visitor was none other than Yuheng.
Li Chang'an caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye, turned around and greeted him: "Yuheng Star Lord".
"Lord Yuheng." The Qingfeng Sect disciples quickly bowed to him.
Yuheng nodded, his gaze falling on the huge snake head to the side.
"Is this the demon that invaded Qingfeng Sect today?"
He stepped forward and extended his hand, his palm gleaming with an emerald green light.
A purple demon core, enveloped in golden light, slowly emerged and landed in his hand.
“Early stage of Golden Core, spatial magic…” Yuheng murmured.
Could the three monster-infested rifts that have appeared in Ling'an City recently be related to this snake demon?
The demon core floated up, and Yuheng formed hand seals, slowly channeling silk-like green light into it.
He closed his eyes, and the snake demon's movements during this time clearly appeared in his mind.
Although spiritual energy is now depleted, a demon in the early stage of the Golden Core realm is enough to crush all cultivators except for the seven stars of the Alliance. However, modern firearms in the police station, which are enhanced with spiritual talismans, can still cause considerable damage to demons.
Not to mention the Cultivation Alliance, which constantly monitors the demons who travel and cultivate within the Cangxuan Realm. If a demon tries to do something bad, a cultivator of suitable cultivation level will immediately be dispatched.
Therefore, this snake demon acted very cautiously, only traveling in the mountains, concealing its demonic aura as it headed towards Ling'an City.
Its target is the Mysterious Spirit Immortal Mountain.
Not only human cultivators yearn for the spiritual energy that may remain in the Xuanling Immortal Mountain, but demons do too.
It didn't arrive in Ling An City until three days ago.
It had heard of the formations on Qingfeng Mountain.
After all, it was a formation left behind by the Boundless God, a formation that terrified all demons.
It then lingered outside Qingfeng Mountain for two days.
Until the early hours of this morning, when the torrential rain ended, it was so eager for the spiritual energy of Xuanling Immortal Mountain that it tentatively used its demonic power to possess itself and swim into the area of Qingfeng Mountain.
It is over four hundred years old. If it cannot break through to the Nascent Soul stage, it will die in a few decades.
Since dying sooner or later is inevitable, it might as well take a gamble.
Then, the formation did not appear.
The snake demon was overjoyed, and then arrived at Qingfeng Sect without any problems.
Images flashed through my mind, finally settling on the scene of the array barrier rising, with the snake demon suppressed by golden light and lying on the ground.
Yuheng slowly opened his eyes.
The three monster-infested fissures from a while ago had nothing to do with this snake demon.
This is not good news.
Yuheng frowned deeply.
Seeing his solemn expression, a disciple of the Qingfeng Sect asked, "Lord Yuheng, is there something else urgent?"
Yuheng snapped out of her daze and smiled, "It's nothing."
He handed the demon core to Li Chang'an, saying, "This is yours."
Before the array barrier was raised, Li Chang'an paid a heavy price, so this demon core should rightfully belong to him.
Li Chang'an accepted it with a smile, without any hesitation: "Okay."
A demon core at the Golden Core stage should be able to produce more inferior spiritual soil, right?
Yuheng looked at the snake demon's head and asked to himself, "This demon died in the formation, so it should have been reduced to ashes. How come its head and demon core were still preserved?"
Li Chang'an touched his temple, his eyes darting away.
At the last moment, he suddenly remembered that the sacrifice required the head of a Golden Core stage demon, and demon cores could fertilize the land, so...
Sword Intent specially preserved the snake demon's head and demon core for him.
"That's because I preserved it with my spiritual power," Li Chang'an blinked and said with a serious expression.
“I need these things.”
He wasn't lying, and his performance wasn't overtly staged.
Yuheng didn't suspect anything, after all, it was just a small matter.
Now that the snake demon is dead, nothing else matters.
Yuheng lowered his head and took out a green brocade bag.
He glanced at the snake head, which was at least 1.6 meters tall, and handed the brocade bag to Li Chang'an, saying, "This snake head is huge and difficult to transport. This is a first-class storage bag with about 20 cubic meters of space inside. You can take it and use it."
It was only at this moment that he remembered that although Li Chang'an had inherited the Xuanling Immortal Mountain and embarked on the path of cultivation, he did not possess any spiritual artifacts.
There isn't even a basic Tier 1 storage bag.
As for the first-tier storage bag, all cultivators will be given one by the academy after they awaken their spiritual roots and enter the cultivation academy.
Li Chang'an, however, only has this now.
Yuheng's feelings were somewhat complicated.
Li Chang'an was unaware of this; he happily accepted the storage bag and thanked him.
Yuheng withdrew his gaze and looked at the Qingfeng Sect disciples: "Where are your mountain lord and the Grand Elder?"
The older disciple replied, "The Mountain Lord has no cultivation, so activating the formation requires manual operation. He should be in the Mountain Lord's Hall right now."
"Could you please inform me that I have something I would like to discuss with your mountain lord?"
"Alright, Lord Yuheng, please." The disciple turned and led the way.
Li Chang'an put the snake head away in a storage bag and left with them.
He will pass by the main hall of the Qingfeng Sect on his way back to Xuanling Immortal Mountain.
After bidding farewell to Yuheng and the others, Li Chang'an headed towards the back mountain. He looked up and saw the disciple who had come to announce his arrival bringing Xie Kuling and Xie Xuan over.
Xie Kuling wore his usual gentle smile, while Xie Xuan's eyes were red and swollen. Occasionally, he would lower his head and wipe the tears from his face with his sleeve, making him look inexplicably comical.
The two also saw Li Chang'an.
Xie Kuling smiled and nodded at him, "Thank you for today. After I finish discussing with Lord Yuheng, I will go to the immortal mountain to formally thank you."
Xie Xuan quickly turned his back, seemingly wiping away tears. When he turned back again, it was as if nothing had happened, but he dared not look at Li Chang'an.
Li Chang'an waved to the two of them, "Okay, then I'll go back and prepare the meal."
Now that the matter is resolved, it's certainly worth celebrating.
That evening, Xie and his nephew brought many gifts to Xuanling Immortal Mountain to celebrate with Li Chang'an and express their gratitude.
Li Chang'an prepared the meal in advance, caught a few fish, grilled them, and asked Xie Kuling to take them back to his disciples.
Xie Kuling sat by the barbecue grill and helped with the grilling, but his cooking skills were not good, so he could only add seasonings and turn the fish over under Li Chang'an's guidance.
Xie Xuan was already drunk, lying on the table, sometimes crying and sometimes laughing, constantly calling out "Big Brother" and muttering something.
In the end, he apologized to Li Chang'an while shedding tears.
Li Chang'an was completely bewildered, not understanding why he was suddenly apologizing to him.
Just assume he was drunk and confused, and mixed up thanking him and apologizing to him.
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