Chapter 151 The Realm of Trials (Part Two)
The snow fell even heavier, landing on the jade armor protecting the primordial spirit and leaving deep burn marks.
Jiang Gu had a bad feeling. The little primordial spirit belonging to Wei Feng was on his body, touching the burns on his skin, and patted his arm urgently, signaling him to leave quickly.
This snow seems to damage one's primordial spirit.
Jiang Gu activated his spiritual power, creating a protective shield around himself. He then took his little primordial spirit and flew on his sword to a nearby cave to hide in. Afterward, he took out his spiritual realm.
The little spirit was very familiar with the spiritual realm. Just as it was about to stick its head in to take a look, it was blasted out by a blinding white light. It looked at the woman who came out in a daze, and was so angry that its head was steaming as it was about to rush up and fight.
Jiang Gu raised his hand, gathered it up, and stuffed it back into his sleeve, then looked at Bai Yi, who was even weaker now.
"Thank you for bringing me in." Bai Yi had been recuperating in the Spirit Realm for some time and was very grateful to Jiang Gu.
"It's alright." Jiang Gu nodded to her.
Looking at the heavy snow falling outside, Bai Yi rolled up his sleeves and said, "I am the spirit born from the detached soul of the White Bone Palace Master. I cannot live long without the White Bone Palace. The only way is to enter the Soul Refining Realm and re-refine my soul. Brother Gu, you have given me a second chance. I have no special skills and no way to repay you. The only thing I have is a pair of bone eyes that can see through everyone's primordial spirit. This is the only thing that belongs to me. I am willing to give you one of my bone eyes."
Jiang Gu frowned slightly. "No need."
Bai Yi shook his head. “Brother Gu, I believe in cause and effect. I hid you once, and you saved me once. Now you risked your life to bring me into the Spirit Tempering Realm. I should repay your kindness.”
She raised her hand and covered her right eye, and then a delicate and translucent bone eye appeared in her palm. "After this eye leaves my body, it will no longer have any connection with me, but it can still observe the primordial spirit. It may be of help to you in the Spirit Tempering Realm."
The bone eye hovered in front of Jiang Gu. Bai Yi's loose hair covered the empty right eye. She smiled at Jiang Gu, "Misfortune may be a blessing in disguise. Now I can pursue my own true freedom. Brother Gu, take care."
Jiang Gu did not refuse again, "Thank you."
Bai Yi smiled and shook his head, then transformed into a streak of light and left the cave.
The pitch-black little spirit jumped onto the bone eye and desperately rammed its head against it, but Jiang Gu grabbed it by the scruff of its neck and pulled it back.
Xiao Yuan proudly grabbed his 'eye', pulled out a small wisp of black mist, and tiptoed to hand it to him.
"..." Jiang Gu reached out and pressed it back down, "Don't be silly."
The bone eye left by Bai Yi was no less than a top-grade Heaven-rank magic weapon. After Jiang Gu recognized it as his master, he lightly covered his right eye with it. His originally dark pupils revealed a faint bone-colored pupil. In his eyes, all the swirling white snow outside turned into fragments emitting black smoke.
Although the jade armor can protect the primordial spirit from dissipation, judging from the burn marks on it, the jade armor does not have the ability to defend against this "snow". Moreover, he had just tried it and found that the spiritual energy shield could not hold for long. He must find a protective magic artifact first.
He set his gaze on the forest above the waterfall, where there must be living spirit beasts and plants, and there must be a way to deal with them.
After thinking it over, he thickened the spiritual energy shield around his body and flew out of the cave on his sword.
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The spiritual energy in the forest above the waterfall was abundant. Jiang Gu cautiously refrained from releasing any divine sense and threw out over a hundred concealment arrays outside the spiritual energy shield in one go, which landed silently on the ground.
A faint fluctuation of spiritual energy came from not far away. He pondered for a moment and then reached out to it.
It was the Golden Roc Jade Crown cultivator who had previously made outrageous statements overseas, and the female demon cultivator with fiery red scales on her forehead. In front of them were three Pingze cultivators who were tightly bound. Through his Bone Eye, Jiang Gu saw the Golden Roc Jade Crown cultivator and the female demon cultivator with fiery red scales whose primordial spirits were hazy and gray, while the primordial spirits of the three Pingze cultivators were clear, clean, and brightly colored.
Jiang Gu narrowed his eyes and heard the red-scaled female cultivator say disdainfully, "Do you really think that having the jade armor will solve everything? Why don't we take them as servants first? Once we get out of the first realm, they'll be at our mercy."
Jin Peng Yu Guan nodded with his arms crossed, "This is a gold spiritual root, give it to me, and you can have the rest of the fire and water spiritual roots."
"Water elemental roots are a great tonic for me." The red-scaled female cultivator licked her lips and quickly formed hand seals.
Jiang Gu vaguely recognized that it should be some kind of contract for recognizing a master.
The three Pingze cultivators kneeling on the ground all looked angry. After all, they used to be powerful and influential figures in Pingze, and it was truly humiliating for them to acknowledge a master as a servant.
After weighing the pros and cons, Jiang Gu didn't want to cause trouble and was about to leave when a cultivator from Pingze suddenly stood up and shouted, "If you want me to be your slave, you'll have to die!"
"Feiguang, don't do anything foolish!" The older cultivator next to him exclaimed in alarm.
"Trying to self-destruct? Dream on!" Jin Peng Yu Guan sneered, and the jade crown on his head instantly formed a layer of magic robe as thin as a cicada's wing. Then he reached out his hand to the cultivator on the ground named Fei Guang.
Jiang Gu's gaze paused slightly. Before his very eyes, the snow, emanating black mist, fell onto the robe and instantly melted into water vapor, transforming into pure spiritual energy that cleansed the other's primordial spirit. The originally grayish color even brightened for a moment.
It is an indispensable protective artifact.
Without the slightest hesitation, Jiang Gu calculated the probability of escaping after seizing the treasure. He had already reached the Golden Roc Jade Crown. He drew his longsword and blocked the attack that was aimed at the flying light. Then, he made a hand seal and severed the restraints on the three Pingze cultivators. Before they could react, the Fire Rope had already entered their hearts and then blocked them in front of him.
"!!!" Before the three cultivators could even be shocked, they instinctively took action to block the second attack from the Golden Roc Jade Crown.
"What did you do to us?!" Fei Guang was startled.
"If you don't want to die, then listen to me." Although the three of them were more powerful than him, they had been seriously injured before and were obviously not used to fighting in the state of pure primordial spirit. All of this gave Jiang Gu an opportunity. He used the Fire Rope to control the three primordial spirits at the same time. With his experience of half-seizing the body of Wei Feng, the three of them coordinated their movements extremely well, as if they were one person, and brought their cultivation to the extreme.
Caught off guard, the Golden Roc Jade Crown was at a disadvantage, its jade armor struck, and cracks began to appear on its surface.
The Crimson Scale Demoness stood by with her arms crossed, clearly showing no intention of intervening.
Jin Peng Yu Guan felt he had lost face and gritted his teeth, saying, "So it was you. I was thinking of going to find you, but you came to my door yourself. What, are you so eager to be my furnace cauldron?"
His eyes were filled with lewdness, and he uttered disgusting words, but Jiang Gu remained indifferent as if he hadn't heard a thing. He manipulated the three cultivators to quickly form an array. One of the three cultivators recognized him, "It's Jiang Qi from the Jiang family!"
If this were in Pingze, these proud sons of heaven would certainly not have taken Jiang Gu seriously. But now that they were in imminent danger at Wangyue, and Jiang Gu suddenly appeared and rescued them, they strangely felt a sense of trust and relief.
Compared to scum like Wangyue, at least they are "one of us".
Their resistance to the fire rope lessened considerably, and they knew that only by working together could they escape from the two men.
"Jiang Qi! Use whatever tricks you have up your sleeve! Kill these Moon Gazing scum!" one of the bearded men shouted. "I'll drag them down with me even if it kills me!"
Jiang Gu was not as excited as him. The Fire Rope in his hand formed a huge magic array. The three Pingze cultivators were like the most obedient puppets in his hands. As the controller, he obviously did not care about the life or death of the puppets. He trapped the Golden Roc Jade Crown in the array in a way that was no less than self-destruction.
"Trying to bind me? Wishful thinking!" Jin Peng Yu Guan roared, and a pair of golden roc wings instantly unfurled from his back, blasting Ping Ze and the other two away. His face also transformed into the shape of a roc, with its sharp beak wide open, spitting out a series of flames, attempting to burn their souls.
Jiang Gu manipulated the three to dodge, and summoned a huge three-legged cauldron from one of their magical treasures. The cauldron expanded a hundredfold, absorbing the nearby waterfall and heading straight for the raging flames. The cultivator from Pingze was clearly unable to withstand such a huge consumption of spiritual energy, and his primordial spirit was showing signs of collapse. If it were him, he would never have used such a move that would harm the enemy a thousand while also harming himself eight hundred, but Jiang Gu used it without any pressure. At the same time, Jiang Gu manipulated another person to summon all the water-type magical treasures and threw them at the flames as if they were free. Finally, the cultivator named Feiguang, who tried to self-destruct, was forced to merge with his spirit pet, the giant dragon, and tightly entangled the golden roc's wings.
Jin Peng was unable to take flight, and his movements froze for a moment. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jiang Gu closed in on him, his Crimson Snow Sword gliding straight up from Jin Peng's neck. Jin Peng was shocked and leaned back, which gave Jiang Gu the opportunity. The Crimson Snow Sword pried open the jade crown on his head, and with a crisp ringing sound, the hair broke off and the jade crown fell to the ground. Before Jin Peng could try to snatch it, it landed steadily in Jiang Gu's hand.
Fei Guang was manipulated to block a blow from the Golden Roc for Jiang Gu. His primordial spirit was almost shattered, but it was then roughly gathered together by Jiang Gu's magic array.
Jinpeng, his hair disheveled, suddenly flew into a rage and let out a screech. Jiang Gu gripped his sword in the back of his hand and thrust the longsword straight into Jinpeng's wide-open beak, twisting it fiercely. Blood instantly splattered all over Jinpeng's face.
Jiang Gu met his furious gaze with a cold expression and said in a deep voice, "If your mouth is dirty, you don't have to use it."
Before he finished speaking, the three Pingze cultivators, controlled by the Li Huo Rope, gathered their cultivation and attacked Jin Peng's brow in a manner that was almost suicidal. The Li Huo Formation pressed down overwhelmingly. Jiang Gu gripped his sword in reverse and pressed down on the blade with his elbow, suddenly exerting force. The Crimson Snow Sword fell from Jin Peng's mouth and cleaved his primordial spirit and protective jade armor in two. The huge explosion caused the waterfall to flow backward for a moment.
Jinpeng's primordial spirit suddenly dissipated, leaving only a pair of broken wings floating in the messy magic array space.
Seeing this, the red-scaled female demon beside him gave Jiang Gu an ambiguous look before decisively transforming into a streak of light and leaving.
Everything has settled down.
Jiang Gu sheathed the Crimson Snow Sword, picked up the pair of damaged wings, and looked coldly at the three dying Pingze cultivators on the ground.
Their jade armor was all badly damaged, but they had managed to save their lives. One of them struggled to his feet, clasped his hands in a salute, and said, "I am Yang Meng. On behalf of my fellow disciples, I thank Seventh Young Master for saving our lives."
Jiang Gu accepted his bow, then waved his sleeve and disappeared from the spot.
Yang Meng smiled bitterly, looked at Fei Guang and Xi Feng who were barely alive on the ground, and helped them up. "The three of us have reached the True Immortal Realm, yet we are not as good as Jiang Qi, who is at the Great Ascension Realm."
“The three of us can’t coordinate like that,” Fei Guang shook his head and said, “His methods of manipulating the primordial spirit are truly… exquisite. For a moment, I almost thought he would possess my body.”
Xi Feng said with a solemn expression, "We should leave here as soon as possible. Although Jiang Gu saved us, he didn't care about our lives at all. The jade armor is already damaged. We must find other ways to protect our primordial spirit. This is only the first level."
Hearing him say this, the other two looked extremely grave, and the three of them helped each other leave the place.
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After flying on his sword for a long time, Jiang Gu finally found a secluded place to land.
Almost the instant he landed, his knees buckled, and he knelt on the ground, vomiting a mouthful of foul blood.
Wei Feng's little primordial spirit rolled out of his sleeve and eagerly grabbed his little finger, trying to transfer spiritual power to him. However, his spiritual power was so little that it was negligible, and Jiang Gu ruthlessly rejected it. He was so anxious that tears welled up in his eyes.
"I'm fine." Jiang Gu forcibly gathered his faintly dissipating primordial spirit, calmed his mind, and began to regulate his breathing while sitting cross-legged.
Simultaneously controlling the primordial spirits of three True Immortals, even though they were all severely injured, was still too much for Jiang Gu. The spiritual power in his primordial spirit meridians was flowing backward, and he would explode and die if he made the slightest mistake.
Jinpeng's jade crown floated above his head, replacing his original hairpin. His thin, cicada-wing-like robe transformed into a light veil, covering his jade armor and blocking the snowflakes emitting black mist.
He used his spiritual power to mold Jinpeng's damaged wings into a pair of small wings and placed them on the back of Wei Feng's small primordial spirit.
The little spirit stepped on his knee, moved its little wings, turned its head to look, then flapped its wings and flew up, covering its mouth in surprise, and then excitedly circled around Jiang Gu.
"I'll find you a nicer one later." Jiang Gu opened his palm while regulating his breathing, and the little spirit flapped its wings and stepped into his palm, hugging his fingers and rubbing affectionately.
Jiang Gu gently stroked its round little head with his fingertips.
With the protective robe, he could move freely in the dark snow. Next, he needed to find the technique to temper his spirit. He had a vague premonition that if he could find the technique, he would not be far from breaking through to the True Immortal Realm.
He flew high into the sky on his sword, his Bone Eyes scanning the surrounding mountains and lakes. In the murky darkness, he spotted a glimmer of golden light—a light that looked somewhat familiar, quite similar to the light he had seen on the flying boat at the ancient temple ruins.
Are there ancient temple ruins in the Tempering God Realm?
The dark little spirit sat on his shoulder, grabbed a strand of hair from his temple, flapped its wings excitedly, and stretched out its chubby arms to point in that direction.
Jiang Gu narrowed his eyes and decided to go to the spot of the golden light to seek opportunities.
He flew swiftly on his sword, keeping the falling snowflakes out of his robes. The little spirit mischievously reached out to catch them, but the snowflakes unexpectedly turned into sharp blades that shot straight at its brow.
In the instant it was stunned, a powerful spiritual force reacted swiftly and blocked the attack of the snow blade. A fierce glint flashed in Jiang Gu's eyes, and his spiritual force transformed into thousands of fine ice spikes, piercing and strangling all the snowflakes around him. His robes suddenly expanded, gathering the small primordial spirit into his sleeves, protecting it completely.
"Don't touch dirty things." He glanced at the little spirit indifferently, pressed its emerging head back into his sleeve, and rode his sword through the black snow, transforming into a stream of light and heading towards the ruins of the ancient temple.
Beneath the blood-red Bodhi tree, the young man's face was gloomy, and a ferocious smile appeared on his handsome face.
Jiang Gu is not even concerned about something that is not even a part of his mind.
On what grounds?!
He raised his hand, grabbed his right arm, and slowly exerted force. As his right arm was pulled away, fine, sticky golden threads were revealed in the air. He gritted his teeth and tore his already stitched-up primordial spirit apart. The torn-out right arm turned into a filthy, thick black mist that rushed straight towards the Tempering Spirit Realm.
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