Chapter 219 Life and Death Without Blame (Sixteen)
"Wei Feng, are you alright?" Xuan Zhiyan noticed that something seemed off about him.
Wei Feng shook his head, his gaze hardening. He didn't need to rack his brains to figure out the clues Jiang Gu had left behind. Since Jiang Gu had asked him to do this, it meant he believed he had a way, and he couldn't let his master down.
The entrance to the Floating Spring Ancient Temple certainly cannot accommodate so many Pingze cultivators. Moreover, once Xiao Dan realizes this, Pingze may be completely wiped out. Most of the Pingze cultivators are not as powerful as the Wangyue cultivators; their only advantage is their numbers. However, in cultivator battles, numbers cannot be relied upon to win. The most important thing right now is to ensure that as many Pingze cultivators as possible survive...
Thinking of this, Wei Feng's eyes hardened: "I know what to do."
Qu Fengyu, who was also helping to come up with a solution, asked with some surprise, "How?"
“I previously integrated the Trial Realm of Yin Yang Tower, an ancient artifact, which is divided into ten realms. Inside are ten vast and expansive spaces, each capable of accommodating countless primordial spirits. However, it does not reject my ghost runes. The ten realms are distributed around the Misty Rain Terrace and the Eight Pavilions. If these ten realms are separated and placed on the tenth floor, my ghost runes can cover the cultivators of Pingze, allowing them to enter the tenth floor from the tenth realm.”
Wei Feng continued, "Inside the tenth floor, Yan Huai'an and Xie Chenglian of the Life and Death Tower are chasing Jiang Xiangyun. The Yin Yang Tower is in chaos. Wu Hezhi, the master of the Qiankun Tower, is in our hands. Meanwhile, Master is in the Shun Ni Tower. Song Shijun has to focus all his attention on dealing with him. The Xu Shi Tower is full of cultivators who are studying formations behind closed doors. Their cultivation levels are not very high... In this way, we can take them down one by one by surprise. Pingze can at least take half of them and gain the upper hand."
“But you have already merged with the Tenth Realm. Wouldn’t it be…” Xuan Zhiyan looked at him disapprovingly.
"My primordial spirit was originally stitched together, and besides, my physical body is immortal. At most, it will hurt a little, so there's no need to worry," Wei Feng said with a smile.
Xuan Zhiyan fell silent.
"Next, I'll trouble you all to take a portion of my primordial spirit to the various buildings." Wei Feng looked at Qu Fengyu, Xuan Zhiyan, and Wu Tuo.
Qu Fengyu looked at him: "You believe us?"
“Before this, I didn’t believe it,” Wei Feng said with a smile. “I’ve seen too many ugly things in Wangyue. I’ve always felt that people’s hearts are the most untrustworthy thing. I don’t believe you, I don’t believe Jiang Gu, I don’t believe anyone. Only interests are real. I once thought that Jiang Gu came to Wangyue for my own benefit. I’ve guessed more than once that maybe he just came to kill me to prove his Dao so that he could transcend tribulation and ascend to immortality.”
He said with relief, "But I can't let him go. Even if he's nice to me for a reason, I tell myself it doesn't matter. That's how people are. I even used him to regain my freedom and pretended to be the way he liked me to satisfy my own desires. What right do I have to demand anything from others?"
“But now I realize that this is not right.” Wei Feng said seriously, “People’s hearts and feelings are not calculated like this. If I shut everyone out, do not trust anyone, and do not believe in any sincerity, then all that is left is pure desire. This is not human, but a monster with only desire.”
So he wanted to get close to Jiang Gu, kiss him, communicate with him spiritually, and be intimate with him, but Jiang Gu always rejected him coldly and silently. Only when he was pestered to the point of helplessness would he compromise and coax him, giving him a kiss or a hug. Jiang Gu was so smart that he could see at a glance that there was not much true feeling in his heart. His affection was nothing more than endless desire and possession, but Jiang Gu still indulged him to the greatest extent.
If he were truly as deeply in love as he appeared, how could he possibly have sought enlightenment through a master? Unfortunately, Jiang Gu had pointed this out to him more than once, but he still failed to understand, allowing himself to be consumed by desire and resentment, willingly becoming his own monster... Jiang Gu, however, never considered abandoning him.
“When Zhiyan heard my communication talisman, he came to save me without hesitation. And outside the border town, you also agreed to take me with you and exchange me for the Misty Rain Token because you knew Jiang Gu wouldn’t harm me. You knew that from the time Jiang Gu learned the art of finding people from you at the Jiang family.” Wei Feng said to Qu Fengyu, “If you really wanted to harm me, why would you come with me to Wangyue, a completely unfamiliar ancient temple, without knowing anything? I trust you because you are trustworthy.”
Qu Fengyu stared at him intently, then suddenly laughed: "Jiang Gu really taught you very well."
She seemed to see that young man from Yanghua Sect again, but he was much more vibrant and sincere than before. And the current Wei Feng carried the shadow of Jiang Gu, making people subconsciously feel safe and reliable.
Wei Feng smiled and said, "Unfortunately, I am too stupid and have not yet been able to understand Master's intention."
He had barely finished speaking when Wu Tuo, who was standing beside him, suddenly said, "Wei Feng, hurry, you're about to break through!"
Rolling thunder and lightning rushed towards Wei Feng, and the powerful and surging energy of heaven and earth surged wildly into his body. Wei Feng looked up in astonishment. He had not broken through for a long time. He had only been acting recklessly because of the special nature of his primordial spirit. He once thought that he had been abandoned by the Heavenly Dao and had no chance of ascending again.
"Get out of here quickly and find a safe place to set up an array to undergo tribulation!" Qu Fengyu reacted the fastest, grabbing him and Xuan Zhiyan and running away. Wu Tuo transformed into his original form and jumped onto her shoulder. The group flew forward quickly, with the tribulation lightning chasing after them aggressively. They only stopped when they were far away from the entrance of the Floating Spring Ancient Temple.
Wei Feng quickly set up the formation, with Qu Fengyu and Xuan Zhiyan protecting him from the outside.
“He only has the body of a puppet, yet he was able to break through the tribulation.” Xuan Zhiyan was somewhat uneasy. “This is too dangerous for his primordial spirit.”
"The opportunity to learn from a master is ultimately a unique privilege. He met Qingdu and Xialing, which, by a twist of fate, resolved his long-standing inner conflict. A cultivator's inner demons are sometimes subtle, even imperceptible to the cultivator himself, yet they suffer greatly from them, willingly entangled in them. Sometimes, a small opportunity is all it takes to resolve them, but even so, many people spend hundreds or thousands of years without encountering one." Qu Fengyu looked at Wei Feng, who was sitting cross-legged in the magic array. "Jiang Gu initially showed him care but then deceived him, which was the source of his abandonment of affection for lust. Because of this, he has always harbored resentment towards Jiang Gu, merely indulging in self-deception. In reality, he has never let go, which is why he has been unable to break through... It can only be said that the one who tied the knot must untie it."
A barrage of lightning bolts crashed down from the sky.
Wei Feng sat in the center of the tribulation formation, his heart calmer than ever before. This was unlike any of his previous tribulations. The unease and suspicion that had been weighing on him dissipated like smoke. The hatred and resentment that he had been holding onto without even realizing it silently subsided. The resentment born from the torment gradually faded away, and the humanity that had been extinguished by hatred began to sprout again. The desires that had entangled his limbs and tried to control his mind were forcefully suppressed and subdued.
However, Heaven seemed dissatisfied with his smooth progress. White pupils appeared, and ghostly patterns spread, piercing his dantian and spinal cord. The intense pain reminded him of his resentment in the Tower of Life and Death. He remembered the despair and fear when he was deceived by Jiang Gu, the anxiety and unfulfilled desires, and the pleasure and ease of indulging in desires... He wanted to give up. Even Heaven thought he should become a monster with only desires and no emotions. Such a filthy being as him should not have human feelings and reason by nature.
In a blinding flash of lightning, he saw Jiang Gu again, but this time it was no longer a blurry silhouette, but a real person.
Jiang Gu looked at him without any emotion, then raised his hand and touched his forehead with his cool index finger, like an immortal descending from the heavens, clear and wise, cleansing away the filth and transforming him into a human.
'Return safely.'
The distant voice was exceptionally clear amidst the thunder. Brilliant golden light rose from between his brows, enveloping his nearly shattered primordial spirit. The originally dark and viscous primordial spirit became somewhat cleaner, even faintly emitting a silvery light.
After an unknown amount of time, the lightning tribulation finally dissipated slowly.
"Taiyi Realm... Great Perfection." Qu Fengyu looked at Wei Feng in disbelief, then his expression turned to wild joy, "Taiyi Realm Great Perfection!"
"Wei Feng!" Xuan Zhiyan was also extremely shocked.
Wei Feng stood up and clenched his fist. Although he had reached the Taiyi Realm before, it was all by consuming his primordial spirit. But now he was a true Taiyi Realm Great Perfection cultivator. His perception of the aura of heaven and earth was completely different. The spiritual energy and turbid energy in his body were flowing in a very harmonious way. The desires that had tormented him and made him irritable and angry were now subdued. The black ghost patterns became transparent, and the pale and empty white pupils of his primordial spirit turned into a light silver. His pitch-black primordial spirit also had a faint silver-blue light, no longer completely black... as if he had been reborn.
He smiled at Qu Fengyu and Xuan Zhiyan and said, "Thank you for protecting me."
He was still eager to get to Jiang Gu's side, but he restrained this reckless impulse. Through his body, he looked at his now intact primordial spirit, put two fingers together, and cleanly cut his primordial spirit into more than ten pieces. The pain made him frown slightly.
"You're insane!" Xuan Zhiyan exclaimed in astonishment. "You just survived your tribulation!"
Qu Fengyu also disagreed, "Your primordial spirit has finally been stabilized..."
"There are more important things to do now. Don't worry, everything will be fine." Wei Feng still had a selfish thought, so he cut off an extra piece of his primordial spirit. "I'll leave the rest to you."
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Meanwhile, inside the Golden Spirit Pagoda.
Jiang Gu felt his cultivation level increasing and even had a faint tendency to break through to the Golden Immortal realm, so he guessed that Wei Feng had broken through to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, but he did not expect why he would break through so suddenly.
As Jiang Gu was wondering, a strong spiritual energy fluctuation suddenly appeared in his sea of consciousness. Unfortunately, he was in the Spirit Loss Array and could not control his primordial spirit to enter his sea of consciousness. But in the next instant, his primordial spirit was suddenly enveloped by a turbid energy and silently entered his sea of consciousness.
A cool, primordial spirit tightly embraced him, its edges covered in wounds.
Jiang Gu frowned, raised his hand and placed it on his back, forcibly mobilizing his spiritual power to cover the wounds, and said in a deep voice, "Have you encountered any difficulties?"
He came without a word after surviving the tribulation. Sure enough, such an important task was still too much for Wei Feng. He was too eager for quick success.
Just as Jiang Gu was about to handle the situation himself, the person holding him suddenly chuckled softly. Jiang Gu tried to push the person away, but was held even tighter.
“Jiang Gu,” Wei Feng raised his head and looked straight into his eyes, his expression more serious than ever before, “I like you too.”
Jiang Gu was stunned.
A gentle breeze swept across their intertwined sleeves, creating ripples on the calm water.
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