Chapter 149 Yin-Yang White Bones (The End)
Wei Feng, whose memories were sealed once again, did not appear to be acting strangely.
He caressed the longevity lock with obvious affection. The intense pain in his primordial spirit had somehow dissipated, replaced by a long, tingling comfort. A faint, subtle fragrance seemed to waft through the air, swirling around his primordial spirit, while a strange heat emanated from his back and dantian, causing his breathing to become heavier involuntarily.
Wei Feng sniffed with some confusion, instinctively wanting to get closer to Jiang Gu. If he didn't still have a shred of rationality, he would have wanted to stick his whole body to Jiang Gu.
“Master, I…” He took a step forward uncontrollably, a faint blush still lingering on his brows and the corners of his eyes, forming a stark contrast with his clear and innocent gaze. “I’m not feeling well.”
Jiang Gu took a half step back the moment he approached, avoiding his touch, and said indifferently, "It's nothing, just a side effect of the detoxification."
Wei Feng nodded with some doubt, swallowing hard as his throat tightened.
It was certainly not a bad thing, but the sudden stop at the height of their spiritual communion was definitely not a pleasant experience. Jiang Gu was experiencing the taste of passion for the first time, and now his fingertips were still covered with Wei Feng's primordial spirit's hot breath and sticky texture. He frowned slightly.
The overlap of pleasure and comfort, the fusion of desire and instinct, brought unparalleled stimulation and enjoyment. Even Jiang Gu had to admit that when Wei Feng transformed into black mist and pounced to lick him, his mind went blank for a moment, and he even had an urge to drown in it. Even though reason prevailed in the end, he still inevitably lost his senses.
Spiritual communion is an extremely dangerous thing.
The pale golden spiritual energy forcefully swept away all the comfort and pleasure in his body. A layer of frost covered Jiang Gu's eyes, and he said in a deep voice, "Just a moment of rest will do."
Wei Feng stared intently at him, reaching out to grab his sleeve, but was blocked by an invisible spiritual energy shield. Undeterred, he tried to break through that spiritual energy shield and said aggrievedly, "Master, I don't know how. I haven't learned this breathing technique."
'Master...I don't know how...please teach me how to...cultivate together.'
Stained with desire and urgency, Wei Feng's voice, which had been trembling with tears, suddenly overlapped with his current words.
Jiang Gu's expression grew even colder. He used his spiritual power to roughly demonstrate it to Wei Feng, "Can you see it clearly now?"
Wei Feng nodded, sat down cross-legged, and began to regulate his breathing.
Seeing this, Jiang Gu added several more layers of protective magic arrays to him before turning into a stream of light and disappearing silently from the spot.
About half an hour later, Wei Feng slowly opened his eyes.
However, there was no one there; only two lines of small characters remained in the void of the formation:
'I'll rest here tonight.'
"If there's an emergency, I'll return tomorrow."
The handwriting was sharp and bold, just like Jiang Gu himself. He stared at it blankly for a long time before he suddenly realized that Jiang Gu was not there—there was simply no better time to escape than now!
But... Wei Feng looked down at the longevity lock around his neck with some hesitation. Although Jiang Gu was strict with him in terms of cultivation, he was indeed good to him in other aspects. After all, there were very few people in this world who could remember his birthday.
As Wei Feng was thinking this, the communication talisman in his palm suddenly flickered a few times. Just as he was about to undo it, two figures suddenly appeared outside the formation.
"Wei Feng!" It was a familiar voice.
Wei Feng looked up in astonishment, his eyes immediately lighting up with surprise, "Zhiyan!!!"
Xuan Zhiyan had grown into a young man, quite different from the boy in his memory. He had become increasingly gentle and handsome, with a touch of maturity in his eyes. He did not show the same surprise as Wei Feng, but instead frowned as he observed the formation. He turned to Qu Fengyu and asked, "Elder Yu, these formations should have been left by Jiang Gu. Can they be broken?"
“It can be untied, but we need Wei Feng’s help from within the formation.” Qu Fengyu smiled and looked at Wei Feng in the formation. “Nephew, it’s been a long time.”
Wei Feng vaguely knew her identity and called out uncertainly, "Auntie?"
"Hey, that's more like it." Qu Fengyu clapped his hands and began to dismantle the formation left behind by Jiang Gu. "Where did your master go? Why were you suddenly left here alone?"
“He has urgent business to attend to.” Wei Feng felt uneasy. He instinctively felt that he shouldn’t do this, but when Xuan Zhiyan asked him to break the formation, he suppressed his unease and, following Qu Fengyu’s instructions, the two of them worked together to break the tricky protective formation.
"Zhiyan!" Wei Feng shouted and rushed straight to Xuan Zhiyan.
Xuan Zhiyan staggered from the impact, standing stiffly in place, even instinctively protecting his dantian Dao heart.
"Good brother, I knew you would come to save me!" Wei Feng punched his shoulder hard, his eyes reddening. "You have no idea what kind of hardship I've been living here!"
During this time, they could only communicate briefly through telepathic talismans. Xuan Zhiyan did not mention their falling out, so Wei Feng was naturally unaware of it. His memory was still stuck in the purest and most passionate friendship of their youth. He skillfully hooked his arm around Xuan Zhiyan's neck and slapped him twice on the stomach. "You really have grown so tall, but I'm still taller. Tell me in detail what happened in these seven years. My mind is blank right now, and my cheap master is taciturn and unwilling to say much."
Xuan Zhiyan looked at him with a complicated expression, hesitant to speak, and awkwardly removed the hand that was on his shoulder.
Wei Feng didn't take it to heart, and playfully nudged him with his elbow, "Aren't we working together seamlessly, venturing into secret realms together to seek opportunities and seize countless treasures?"
"No." Xuan Zhiyan's tone was stiff, and he gritted his teeth as he said, "You really don't remember anything?"
Wei Feng was startled by his cold attitude. "Of course, when have I ever lied to you?"
Xuan Zhiyan stopped talking, and Qu Fengyu, who was standing next to him, smiled and tried to smooth things over, "Alright, we can talk about catching up later. Let's leave here first. Jiang Gu might come back at any time."
She summoned her flying sword and signaled Xuan Zhiyan and Wei Feng to follow.
Wei Feng hesitated for a moment before turning back. "Auntie, actually, Master didn't treat me that badly. I think—"
"You still want to stay and let him torment you?" Xuan Zhiyan interrupted him coldly. "He's keeping you by his side for ulterior motives. Don't be so stubborn!"
His expression and tone were completely different from the carefree young man Wei Feng remembered. Wei Feng stared at him blankly, "Zhiyan?"
Xuan Zhiyan took a deep breath, grabbed his arm, and pulled him onto the flying sword.
Wei Feng turned back reluctantly. For some reason, even though Jiang Gu was described by Xuan Zhiyan as an extremely wicked and dangerous person who could take his life at any time, he still didn't want to leave.
However, Xuan Zhiyan and Qu Fengyu did not give him a chance to regret it.
A few days later.
On the edge of the border town, a flying boat.
Jiang Xiangyun looked at the puppet opposite him that looked exactly like himself, sighed softly, and then turned to look at Jiang Gu, who remained unmoved beside him, "Seventh Brother, this puppet's split spirit is good, but cutting off the primordial spirit and then nurturing it will take a long time, and it's really risky to put the puppet outside the Boundary Realm."
Jiang Gu was facing his own split personality, who was cultivating without stopping for a moment.
“Nourishing one’s primordial spirit with one’s own flesh and blood is indeed too slow, but it’s still better than being completely controlled by others after entering the Yin-Yang Tower.” Jiang Gu said in a deep voice, “Young Master, it’s too late to say these things now.”
Jiang Xiangyun should have understood their predicament as early as when he agreed to the bone-shaving and puppet-raising ceremony.
Jiang Xiangyun stroked his chin. He knew that his seventh brother was always ruthless and clever, and his methods of self-preservation were far inferior to his own, even Yao Li admitted that he was not as good as him. So he naturally had no reason to refuse. "You saw it a long time ago too?"
"Hmm." Since they were all smart people, Jiang Gu stopped beating around the bush. "There must be something wrong with the cultivation methods in the Boundary Village. Bai Yi once secretly pointed out that the primordial spirits of the cultivators in the Boundary Village are very tainted, and they are very good at using poison to control the primordial spirits. There must be a connection between them. It won't hurt to leave a trick unsaid."
"Have you thought about where this puppet's divided spirit will go?" Jiang Xiangyun pondered. "It won't enter the realm of the immortals. The divided spirit is closely connected to the original body. If we want to avoid the Yin-Yang Tower's investigation, this connection must be temporarily severed."
Jiang Gu raised his hand, and a drop of milky white liquid appeared in his palm. It was the antidote that he and Wei Feng had obtained from Suixinfang earlier. "This is the Jade Marrow that controls the primordial spirit of spirit pets in the Heaven and Earth Pavilion."
Jiang Xiangyun raised an eyebrow, sent a wisp of spiritual energy to investigate, and his expression gradually became serious. "This thing... is made of primordial spirit?"
"Moreover, it is an extremely pure and powerful primordial spirit," Jiang Gu said. "It has been diluted millions of times, and the aura of the primordial spirit within is very faint."
Jiang Xiangyun stared at him with an ambiguous expression. "What do you want to do with it?"
"Everything in the world has its counterpart, and if the primordial spirit is the antidote, then the poison controlling the primordial spirit is probably also related to it," Jiang Gu said calmly. "In that case, why don't we strike first and directly refine the puppet's divided spirit into poison?"
A hint of shock flashed in Jiang Xiangyun's eyes, but he quickly became excited again. "In this way, our divided spirits will become walking poison outside the border town. Even if our divided spirits are found by the Yin-Yang Tower, they probably won't know what to do. If our main spirit is controlled by them, we can still fight poison with poison and find a way to survive... Seventh Brother, this plan is brilliant."
Aside from being excessively cruel and insidious towards themselves, they truly possess a cunning that is utterly reckless.
Although Jiang Gu was eager to find an opportunity, he habitually investigated and left himself an escape route before taking action. He planned one step ahead and ten steps ahead, ultimately just wanting to survive.
Jiang Xiangyun had already prepared a backup plan, but his method was simply not as clever as Jiang Gu's.
It was a terrible waste for my great-grandfather to make Jiang Gu his scapegoat.
"This journey is so dangerous, Seventh Brother, are you still planning to take your little apprentice into the Yin-Yang Tower?" Having finalized the plan, Jiang Xiangyun always liked to ask about gossip. "I think his cultivation seems to have regressed quite a bit."
"No need for the young master to trouble himself," Jiang Gu coldly retorted.
The protective formation he left behind had been broken, and Wei Feng had already left, just as he had predicted. However, with Qu Fengyu's intelligence, he would probably be able to react quickly. If it weren't for that spiritual connection, he could have handed Wei Feng over in a more discreet and natural way.
He did not intend to bring Wei Feng into the Yin-Yang Tower. Chu Guanshan already knew that Wei Feng was his weakness and would definitely use this as a breakthrough point. Now that the poison on Wei Feng's primordial spirit had been suppressed, his life was temporarily out of danger. Moreover, using the split-spirit puppet to control the poison was enough to protect Wei Feng outside the boundary village.
He wouldn't let Wei Feng become an obstacle—even if what he really wanted to do was to put Wei Feng into the Spirit Realm and keep him under his watchful eye every day.
Moreover, if Wei Feng stays outside the border town, all the emotions that arose from the kiss and spiritual communion will completely disappear when he returns from his trial.
Jiang Gu's eyes, seemingly filled with icy water, were dark and calm, reflecting the vast and deep vortex outside the window.
Outside the flying boat, the clouds scattered, spiritual energy surged, and the passage into the Boundary Realm slowly opened. The Misty Rain Token transformed into thousands of streams of light that flowed into the body, protecting these fragile primordial spirits. The Moon Gazing Continent finally slowly unveiled this mysterious veil, revealing its true face to these outsiders.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged in from all directions, an unprecedented vastness and grandeur.
At this point, they finally set foot on the real continent of cultivation.
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