Chapter 42 The Way of Life
Jie Nanfeng was immobilized and couldn't move at all, but he still kept babbling: "So this is your method, using yourself as a filter to extract their spiritual power, hahaha! You think you're smart! You've actually fallen into my trap! What I want is your life! If I force you to your death, what does it matter if they kill me!"
"Then lie down and watch carefully," Qingjue said in a hoarse voice, forcibly suppressing the spread of the poison with his spiritual power, black blood flowing continuously from the corner of his mouth and dripping onto the ground. "If I can pull through, you can twist your own head off."
Qingjue grabbed Jie Nanfeng by the collar and burst out of the valley, standing in mid-air.
Upon seeing him emerge, the several people who had been anxiously waiting outside the valley all looked over in surprise.
He stood with his back to the people, his long hair flowing, and only said one sentence: "Tianyu, synchronize the locations of the other Gu worms with me."
This information was quite important, so Wen Tianyu made a point of remembering it. He nodded and said, "...Okay."
After receiving the approximate location, Qingjue teleported away.
Aju asked in alarm, "...Does this mean there's hope?"
Ruan Linglai shook her head: "I don't know... but Master's voice just now... wasn't it a little strange?"
Jie keeps his head down during the day, his nerves and muscles are tense.
What did Master do? Why did he bring that person out in such a short time? Why did he ask about the location of the other Gu worms? What did he intend to do there?
He suddenly remembered the unexpected hug he had just received.
Jie touched the cloth bag at his waist and his breath hitched.
The wooden whistle-shaped object, a magical artifact for isolating Gu worms, lay there quietly.
No.
wrong.
Can't.
Can't!
"I'm going to find him!" Xie Zhoujian said sharply, "Give me a place!"
Wen Tianyu remained silent, unable to make a judgment: "..."
Seeing that Jie Zhoujian was about to use a teleportation talisman to follow, Yan Shiqun reached out and grabbed him: "Calm down!"
"I can't calm down!"
"Release the daytime order!"
Yan Shiqun's hand was shaken off, and Jie Zhoujian disappeared from sight in the blink of an eye.
“…Let him go,” Wen Tianyu said weakly, “otherwise I have a bad feeling.”
Frustrated, Yan Shiqun tossed his hair and said, "I need a teleportation talisman too."
Even though her arm wasn't fully healed, Ruan Linglai said, "I want to go too!"
Wen Tianyu shook her head firmly: "You can't go."
"Why!"
Wen Tianyu recalled the scene that flashed by at the bottom of the valley: "I saw your destinies, although I couldn't see them clearly or in detail, but it's definitely not the time to go... Senior brother can go, but you can't."
"Can't fate be changed?!" Yan Shiqun retorted, "I don't believe in such nonsense!"
“All I know is that my master will still be here in the future,” Wen Tianyu raised his eyes, his black and white eyes meeting the person’s gaze, his tone leaving no room for doubt: “If he were to leave, who would bear the consequences of the mistaken alteration of fate?”
"How can you be sure he can go?"
Wen Tianyu replied firmly, "Intuition."
"..."
The wild goose, separated from its flock, fell silent, seething with anger, and turned away without saying another word.
The remaining few looked at each other, and seeing that Yun Yuelin's condition had not improved, they fell into another round of silence.
Jie teleported to the first location during the day, where there was no black mist and the stone was empty.
I'm late.
Qingjue was too fast; he couldn't keep up.
Jie quickly proceeded to the next location during the day.
They finally found the last place, a dilapidated wooden hut in the suburbs that no one ever visited. There was only a water vat there, and inside the vat was the special transparent stone.
He finally saw people.
Jie Nanfeng was still lying on the ground unable to move. Qingjue found his chattering too noisy, so she also gagged him.
Qingjue's entire body was covered in black blood vessels as he performed his final spiritual energy separation.
"Master!!"
Jie rushed forward during the day, and Qingjue was not surprised to see him.
He spat out his last bit of spiritual energy, spitting a mouthful of black blood onto the ground.
Jie Zhoujian quickly supported the person, his eyes reddening: "...Master!"
"What's the rush?" Qingjue still had the strength to speak, and even smiled: "You won't die."
"No..." Jie Zhoujian shook his head, trying to shove the wooden whistle into Qingjue's hands: "No... I'll share the burden for you, I'll carry it for you!"
"You're so silly," Qingjue gently pushed the person away and said, "The absorbed Gu worms can't be separated; they'll only spread."
"Then what will you do!"
Qingjue gave a forced smile: "Don't you think you can't live without me?"
"..." Xie Zhoujian's eyes suddenly went dead, but even this idea threw him into a state of panic.
“…Yes,” Xie Zhoujian stared at him, “I can’t live without you.”
“Nonsense,” Qingjue slowly gushed black blood from his seven orifices, looking disheveled and terrifying, but his tone remained gentle, “I still have high hopes for you to take on the main responsibility.”
It was originally such a beautiful face, a face untouched by the world and bloodshed.
“You must have a way!” Jie Zhoujian, unwilling to think any further, said, “You’ve always been the most resourceful! Qingjue! You’re the most resourceful! You’re not the kind of person who would die for the sake of all living beings! Right!”
He's never been that kind of person; he wouldn't do something he's not sure about.
He would not leave them behind, would not abandon them, and would not act as a hero by himself!
Jie Zhoujian regained his senses almost instantly, wiped his eyes, and said, "Just tell me what you want me to do!"
Qingjue swallowed a mouthful of black blood, feeling a burning pain in his throat. Holding his breath, he still had to say a few words even at this moment: "You brat... you're so smart it scares me."
"Then I'll give you a task: blow the wooden whistle, and then... give this guy on the ground... a good beating."
If it weren't for him, would I be in so much pain?
Xie Zhoujian straightened up and looked over: "...Zhoujian obeys the order."
Before this, Mu Yuan was separating Gu poison at the Yun family's house. Suddenly, she felt that the difficulty of separation had dropped sharply. She cleared the poison from a person's body in less than a minute.
Mu Yuan tried several more, puzzled by the sudden change in the Gu poison.
So she went there immediately upon receiving the summons, and the sight of Qingjue that came into view shocked her.
It was a person bleeding from all seven orifices, his body covered in black patterns. Apart from his calm expression, he was not human in any way.
"Such a large quantity..." Mu Yuan examined it for a moment, then said with great difficulty, "I'm afraid I can't do it right now."
“It’s not that I need you to save me, it’s that only you and Zhoujian can stand in front of me right now,” Qingjue said, closing his eyes and regulating his breathing. “As long as I can hold out until you find the mother Gu, these worms… will crawl out on their own.”
"So many Gu worms... how can we..."
"The moon and clouds descend."
Mu Yuan was taken aback, then instantly understood, and said, "Young Master Yun... he was parasitized by the mother Gu."
"Hmm, I'll leave it to you. I can still hold on..." Qingjue estimated his own endurance. If he fought to the death... "Twelve hours."
This was the first time Mu Yuan had ever seen a person whose seven orifices were gushing blood, whose body was covered in black blood, and who could still speak normally after absorbing hundreds of Gu worms.
What level of cultivation must that be...?
"I can't go," Qingjue continued with his eyes closed, trying his best to suppress his emotions, "The Gu worms in my body are not completely under control. I'm afraid it will affect others. Bring Yun Yuelin in. The others can only wait for my news outside this room. Go quickly and come back quickly..."
Mu Yuan nodded: "Alright, Immortal Lord is my savior, I will do my best."
In fact, Qingjue was indeed uncertain at first, and it must be admitted that he was taking a risk in doing this.
Fortunately, besides the wooden whistle that helps him during the day, there is also the wooden scepter that can separate the Gu worms, which can help him.
Otherwise, if others come, the Gu worms that Qingjue intentionally sealed in his body will be overjoyed to see food.
Jie Zhoujian, who had been standing silently by, seemed to understand Qingjue's thoughts, but he was uncertain.
"Master, you mean to..."
“The Gu worms can’t be completely wiped out… cough!” Qingjue coughed up a pool of black blood halfway through his sentence, mixed with a few wriggling Gu worms. Even Qingjue himself felt a little nauseous looking at it.
However, Xie Zhoujian remained expressionless, grabbed the immobile Xie Nanfeng from the ground, and pressed him face down onto the Gu worms, crushing them to death.
Grass! !
He understood the feelings in the south wind and greeted the man eight hundred times during the day.
But his mouth was gagged, and he couldn't speak.
Seeing Qingjue's distress, Jie Zhoujian could only vent his anger by tightly gripping the back of Jie Nanfeng's neck, saying, "You'd better not say anything."
"..." Qingjue suppressed the toxicity and continued, "No, it's good to distract myself..."
He has difficulty staying conscious if he doesn't speak.
He said, "The Gu worms cannot be completely eliminated. First, because they are attached to the spiritual veins and contaminated with spiritual energy, they will die if they are destroyed. I have solved this problem. Second, the cultivation level and body of a normal person cannot withstand the torment of separating the Gu worms... If they cannot be eliminated slowly, they will have no chance of survival if their flesh is torn apart in that instant."
“You mean you can,” Jie Zhoujian said on his behalf, “but!”
What if?
"What's done is done," Qingjue said in a hoarse voice, "At worst..."
At worst, I'll die a heroic death.
Thinking about it carefully, he wouldn't have much of a future if he returned to the real world.
He truly didn't want his apprentices, teachers, and friends to lose their lives.
Anyway, he's just an outsider, and maybe this is the only thing he can do.
Qingjue had this suspicion ever since he pointed out that something was wrong with Yunyuelin.
With so many Gu worms, Mu Yuan certainly couldn't separate them all by himself. If he didn't act as a medium, he couldn't remove the spiritual energy from the Gu worms either. But if he suppressed the separating spiritual energy first, and then let them come out on their own—
The mother Gu is eager to "go home," and these Gu worms must also be eager to find their "mother."
Then I'll grant your request.
From now on, we'll just have to tough it out.
Qingjue closed his eyes again and clenched his teeth.
The twelve-hour system was because Jie Zhoujian overheard him casually mentioning it.
In fact, he didn't even know how long he could hold on.
If you can't make it, then forget it.
...Just kidding.
He didn't want to die yet.
So even if it costs 90% of your life, you have to hold on.
Soon Mu Yuan brought Yun Yuelin, and made it clear that he could only bring Yun Yuelin, and everyone else had to wait outside the house.
Xie Zhoujian took Xie Nanfeng out and threw him on the ground.
Before he could speak, Wen Tianyu finally unleashed the black ink that had been bottled up inside him for so long, saying, "I heard you say before that you wanted your master to kneel before you and that you wanted your senior brother to die."
This was the first time Xie Zhou's face had turned this dark as he looked down at Xie Nanfeng.
Jie Zhoujian gently said to his junior brothers and sisters, who also had black lines on their faces, "Beat them."
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