Chapter 96
Ji Tang's face turned pale with horror, "Master... Immortal Venerable!"
This is a sign that the inner demon is beginning to suppress the host.
Ji Tang had only seen the inner demon in dreams before, but now the inner demon has appeared in reality and has a real impact on Su Jinzhou's body.
The two of them fell rapidly, and the whistling wind in their ears was fierce and terrifying. When they were about to fall to the bottom of the cliff, Ji Tang suddenly felt a powerful spiritual power supporting her from under her. This spiritual power cushioned her falling speed and finally allowed her to land smoothly.
She immediately went to see Su Jinzhou, and was relieved to see that Su Jinzhou had also landed safely beside her.
Ji Tang stepped forward, "Immortal Lord, your eyes..."
Su Jinzhou dodged to the side, lowered his head, and raised his hand to cover his right eye, "It's okay."
Jitang: "But——"
Su Jinzhou glanced over with his left eye, "Since we have already fallen into the Nine Nether Abyss, let's look under the Nine Nether Abyss to see if Nightmare Lord threw the thing here."
Under normal circumstances, Ji Tang might have praised Su Jinzhou for the word "throw away," secretly saying that her senior brother understood her. But now she had no mood for it, her mind completely focused on her inner demons.
She hesitated, "Immortal Lord, the inner demon cannot be delayed."
Su Jinzhou just looked at her without saying a word.
Ji Tang was always defeated by Su Jinzhou's silence.
She slumped her shoulders and said, "Yes, Immortal Lord."
She searched at the bottom of the cliff.
After walking some distance and looking back, Su Jinzhou was no longer visible.
Ji Tang sighed, using the wildly growing vines at the bottom of the cliff as cover, and squatted down beside the cold ink pool. She took off the ice bracelet on her wrist, revealing a nightmare look, and gently patted the moist soil.
After a while, a group of fish with terrifying appearance that made people's hair stand on end swam over.
This is the Frost Demon Fish, feared by the world of cultivation. To adapt to the perilous Ink Cold Pond, they have evolved over countless ages, becoming the sole overlords here. They have a long lifespan and feed on a wide variety of food, including humans.
Without exception, any creature that falls into the ink-cold pool will have its bones and souls eaten away, leaving nothing behind.
Jitang saw them and raised his eyebrows slightly, "What's wrong with you? Why are there so many of you?"
These ferocious creatures became the most harmless and lively little fish in front of Ji Tang, swinging their tails wildly and constantly stirring up waves on the cold ink pool.
They all came close to Jitang, vying for attention.
"I came back to get something." She pointed out a cold demon fish with golden scales among the fish. "Da Huang, come here."
Dahuang immediately passed through the many cold demon fish and came forward.
Ji Tang: "I threw you a remnant of soul in my early years, you look for it."
Dahuang's belly gradually swelled up, and the belly was poked up and down by the things inside. After a while, a wisp of residual soul like smoke and fog came out of the fish's mouth.
The remnant soul just saw the light of day and was about to escape, but was caught by Ji Tang.
She waved her hand to let the cold fish leave, and the fish swam away reluctantly.
Seeing that the Ink Cold Pond had returned to its dark color, Ji Tang took out a lotus furnace from his storage bag and threw it on the ground before letting go.
Then he shouted, "Come quickly, Immortal Venerable!"
Su Jinzhou arrived quickly. Just as Ji Tang was about to fly his sword to chase the fleeing soul, he urgently called out to him, "Immortal Venerable, that remnant soul!"
Su Jinzhou flipped and pressed his palm, and the remnant soul was grasped in his hand.
Ji Tang jumped off the flying sword and asked knowingly, "Immortal Venerable, is the aura of this residual soul the same as that in the dragon body?"
Su Jinzhou's gaze on Ji Tang deepened. He didn't answer, but instead asked, "Where did you find this remnant soul?"
Ji Tang stepped aside and pointed at the lotus cauldron leaning against the grass. "It flew out from there."
Without her saying anything, Su Jinzhou could see the aura of Nightmare Lord from the alchemy furnace. This was something used by Nightmare Lord.
Jiu Mingyuan is where Nightmare Lord lived, and it is also where Nightmare Lord "died". It is normal for him to leave some things here or drop some things here.
Thinking of this, Ji Tang took the initiative to present the Lotus Pill Furnace to Su Jinzhou.
In order to prevent him from using the nightmare energy from the alchemy furnace to put him into a dream again, she absorbed most of the nightmare energy, leaving only a thin layer, but this amount of nightmare energy was not enough to put him into a dream.
Su Jinzhou took the lotus cauldron and rubbed it gently with his fingers.
After a long while, he raised his eyes and asked Ji Tang: "Who are you?"
Ji Tang's smile froze on his face, "What does this mean, Immortal Venerable?"
Su Jinzhou looked directly at her. "Four hundred years ago, the Nightmare Lord fell into the Nine Nether Abyss. Even her body and soul have never been found. People say she fell into the Ink Cold Pond and was devoured by the Frost Demon Fish."
Ji Tang couldn't guess why he suddenly said this, his eyes flashed, "Really?"
Su Jinzhou: "I have been here countless times in the past four hundred years. I know every blade of grass and every tree here like the back of my hand, but I have never seen this lotus furnace."
Ji Tang thought to himself, "This isn't good. Immortal Venerable... maybe he missed something."
She thought the reason was good, but she didn't know that Su Jinzhou had already searched the place thoroughly.
Su Jinzhou: "Do you know how many climbing vines there are here?"
Ji Tang couldn't look at him, so he avoided his gaze and laughed dryly, "Who would know that?"
Su Jinzhou: "Four months ago, there were 5,826 creepers here."
Jitang couldn't laugh anymore.
It was exactly four months ago that she met Su Jinzhou at Zhiyuan Mountain. Afterwards, she was admitted to the Suxuan Sect and went to search for the Nightmare Master's magical weapon for Su Jinzhou. For the next two months, he had been secluded in the forest behind the sect.
As he said, apart from the time when he couldn't leave, he often came to Jiumingyuan.
Su Jinzhou: "You were the one who placed this Lotus Pill Furnace here. You knew from the beginning that a trace of Qiu Runfang's soul was at the bottom of the Nine Netherworld Abyss."
Jitang: “…”
Su Jinzhou approached her, "What is the relationship between you and Jitang, or rather, you..."
Ji Tang stepped back, "I know a little bit about Nightmare Lord—"
"Don't lie to me." Su Jinzhou interrupted her, "Just this one thing, don't lie to me."
Ji Tang heard something was wrong in his voice and without thinking about anything else, he looked up and saw that the half of his body exposed outside the black clothes was covered with black lines.
His right eye was even redder than before, red like a raging fire, which quickly burned his entire eye. Now no white of the eye could be seen.
Su Jinzhou was very tense. His eyes, one black and one red, were fixed on Ji Tang, waiting for her answer.
The black lines were still spreading, gradually climbing over his tall nose bridge and covering the other cheek.
Every inch the black lines spread was an extremely severe pain for him, but he seemed to be unaware of it and insisted on waiting for Ji Tang to speak.
If he continues to let this go, his consciousness will be wiped out by his inner demons before the mastermind behind the black-clad believers appears.
"Is the answer so important?" Ji Tang said bitterly, "Is it important to know even if I become a walking corpse?"
The boat was silent all night long.
This was his answer.
Ji Tang's slightly shrugged shoulders drooped in frustration. The black lines were increasing every minute, and with every increase in the length of the fine lines, they penetrated deeper into Ji Tang's heart.
Even if Su Jinzhou ignored it, she couldn't.
She felt powerless and angry.
The lines piercing her heart fueled her burgeoning anger, "You just don't care about your own life?!"
She took two steps forward and was only half an arm's length away from Su Jinzhou.
This exceeds the safe distance for human interaction.
She suddenly broke into his territory, adding an unignorable fragrance to the light woody scent.
Su Jinzhou wanted to retreat.
Ji Tang grabbed the front of his black robe and applied force, causing several wrinkles to appear on the robe.
Su Jinzhou's eyes opened wide, his shock evident.
She looked up at him, the fire in her eyes still blazing. "You were the one pressing on me, so why are you hiding now?"
There were bloodshot eyes in Su Jinzhou's black pupils.
It wasn't because of her inner demons, but because Ji Tang barged in without warning and spoke rudely to her.
What kind of a mere nightmare is this? Even the Immortal Venerable dares to challenge him.
An idea began to sprout in my mind. It was an idea full of hope. Once it broke through the soil, it would grow wildly, taller and more vigorous than any vine at the bottom of the Nine Nether Abyss.
Su Jinzhou's hands hanging by his sides trembled again and again.
Ji Tang loosened his lapel and placed his palm on his chest.
The next moment, the powerful spiritual power surged into Su Jinzhou's body like a tsunami.
This force was too brutal. Even someone as strong as Su Jinzhou couldn't help but tremble violently when this spiritual power entered his body.
Su Jinzhou's eyes were already blurry.
That thick layer of water vapor was extremely unfamiliar to him, and could be counted on one hand in the long time.
He didn't have to wait for her answer.
The enormous power injected into the body says it all.
The power of the soul during the tribulation period.
In this world, besides Su Jinzhou, only one person can perform this function.
Ji Tang no longer hid or covered up, and controlled the spiritual power that was poured into Su Jinzhou's body, forcefully and domineeringly suppressing the raging inner demon.
The blood color in Su Jinzhou's right eye gradually faded, and the black lines that had already spread to his left cheek began to retreat and converge.
Ji Tang felt very uncomfortable when he saw the crystal tears in Su Jinzhou's eyes.
Even breathing is difficult.
The black lines gradually faded from his right cheek and disappeared at the collar. Ji Tang did not stop moving, continuing to control the power of her soul. She lowered her eyes to look at his wrist. When the black lines on his wrist also faded away, she suppressed it for a moment before letting go of her hand that was on Su Jinzhou's collar.
Su Jinzhou held his hand tightly in the air.
There were too many suppressed emotions in Su Jinzhou's voice, so thick that it couldn't be dissolved. As soon as he spoke, Ji Tang trembled.
She was far less calm than she appeared.
He said, "The water is deep, the water is deep, the abyss is the abyss."
Jitang's body suddenly fell down.
Su Jinzhou was suddenly panicked and immediately put his long arms around her.
Ji Tang's entire weight was lifted up by him. Her hand slowly climbed onto Su Jinzhou's arm. The intense dizziness made her lose control of her body. She murmured, "Brother, if you dare... to indulge your inner demons again, I will not forgive you."
Su Jinzhou said helplessly: "Ji Tang, what's wrong with you Ji——"
"I used to have a high level of cultivation, but in a battle, my foundation was damaged. My soul was severely damaged, and only a few fragments of my golden elixir remained. So now, judging by my cultivation level, I am only at the opening stage."
Su Jinzhou hugged Jitang tightly.
This was not false, she had told him the truth a long time ago.
But in order to get an answer, he allowed her to use the power of her soul to suppress his inner demons.
Intense regret and heartache continued to gnaw at him.
The inner demon began to stir again.
This time he did not hold back, and the mighty power of his soul completely suppressed the inner demon that had emerged.
The reason why he had not gotten rid of his inner demons was because he wanted to dream about Ji Tang. Now that Ji Tang was right in front of him, how could he put the cart before the horse?
The inner demon was forced to stop moving due to the power.
He was overwhelmed with emotions. His heart, his entire being, felt as if it were being carried by a flying sword up to the clouds and then plummeting down, only to be thrown back up to the clouds again before being shattered to pieces, over and over again, without stopping.
For more than four hundred years, we have been in a state of confusion and ups and downs.
Everyone thought that the inner demon would turn his body into a walking corpse, but only he knew that his mind had already become a walking corpse four hundred years ago.
Nothing in the outside world could affect him in the slightest. He only wanted to live in You Jitang's dream, so there would be nothing wrong with dying like this.
Now Jitang is right in front of him, in his arms.
The great joy of regaining what he had lost enveloped him.
Others called him the Immortal Lord, envied his ascension, revered him, and looked up to him. What did his cultivation, his future, or his immortality matter? These material possessions were nothing more than that; only the person in his arms was his true desire.
He had never felt so at peace as he did at this moment. He was finally no longer a lonely soul wandering in the world.
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