Chapter 290 A Love Tribulation That's Hard to Overcome (Thirteen)
Kongxuan and Yunguang were still exchanging cryptic messages.
Wei Feng stared at the dense black rocks beneath their feet and said to Feng Wuyou, "These rocks look like some kind of formation. They should be the remnants of the Chaos Core that was suppressed before. We can use this remnant formation to modify a new one and trap them here with the least amount of immortal power."
Feng Wuyou remained silent.
Wei Feng turned to look at him: "This method is not feasible?"
“It is a great taboo for cultivators not to arbitrarily alter other people’s incomplete formations, otherwise they will be backfired by the original formation if they are not careful,” Feng Wuyou added. “Your idea is very good. I have only tried it once in my life and almost died.”
"Don't worry, leave it to me." Wei Feng released his ghostly runes and peeked out. "When I was eighteen, Jiang Gu taught me how to modify the formation. The backlash will hurt your primordial spirit a bit. If you're not brave enough, just protect me from outside."
Feng Wuyou looked at the densely packed foundation stones in the distance and grabbed his shoulder: "No, Jiang Gu told me to keep an eye on you. What if something happens to you? How am I supposed to explain it to him?"
“What’s there to be afraid of?” Wei Feng said. “Yao Yan can sense my every move. If I’m really about to die, he will definitely come over.”
Feng Wuyou asked, utterly puzzled, "Do you believe him or not?"
Wei Feng chuckled: "He should be glad he's still useful, otherwise I'd be the first to eat him."
Feng Wuyou gasped: "You really are Jiang Gu's disciple, you're ruthless enough."
If it were an ordinary person, they would be moved if their partner had regained their original identity and hadn't forgotten them. But Wei Feng was different; he went straight for the kill.
Wei Feng's ghostly runes had already disappeared into the ground, silently spreading towards the foundation stones left by the chaotic cores. He carefully sensed the fluctuations of the surrounding chaotic energy, and these intricate remnants of the array transformed into clear and distinct patterns in his eyes—
It is a remnant of the Shadow-Changing Formation.
He was very familiar with the Shadow-Changing Array. Back then, when he and Jiang Gu were struggling to survive in Wangyue, this array saved him several times. Even when the two of them were forced to lose all their cultivation, Jiang Gu took the time to teach him how to modify the array and add new arrays. When his physical body was taken by Jiang Gu to the secret realm for training, he was forced to learn countless complex arrays. Later, when Jiang Gu mistakenly entered the Void Seal for more than ten years, he pondered over and over again what Jiang Gu had taught him, and had long since figured out many tricks of the trade.
There's just not much of a chance to use it.
Just as Wei Feng was about to make a move, he heard Kong Xuan say, "The Chaos Core was finally sent to the lower realm, but Yao Yan actually brought it back up. Now it's sealed inside that filthy thing. I wonder what he's planning."
Yun Guang weighed the black stone in his hand and said, "I heard that this filth was born under the Seven Killing Tree at the end of the River of Forgetfulness. It gained sentience shortly after birth and has a deep connection with Yao Yan. It caused such a big commotion in the River of Forgetfulness before, even using the Soul Binding Nails—it was just a container that Yao Yan used to hold the Chaos Core. What, you really expect Yao Yan to take a liking to a filth?"
“That’s Yuan Yao’s business,” Kong Xuan said. “Dealing with Yao Yan requires extreme caution. You need to hurry and move all these foundation stones away before he discovers them.”
Yun Guang looked at him meaningfully: "You're in such a hurry to transfer the foundation of the Chaos Core, could it be that you're trying to drag the Yun Guang Realm into this to attract Yao Yan's attention?"
The blue lines on Kong Xuan's face moved slowly: "You won't suffer any losses."
“If we kill that filthy thing, won’t the Chaos Core lose its container?” Yun Guang said.
"Go ahead and give it a try." Kong Xuan paused. "Let me remind you, back then, Ling Yin, Yao Shuo, and those old guys in the Nine Heavens racked their brains, but they could only exile it to the lower realm. Yao Yan fought against sixteen immortals under Ling Yin and Yao Shuo for it. If it weren't for the immortal spirit left behind by Hong Chen, he would have overturned the Nine Heavens back then."
Yun Guang said in surprise, "We've never heard of this before."
“This isn’t exactly something to be proud of,” Kong Xuan said. “I advise you not to even consider it. Yao Yan has now reached the sixteenth level and is in charge of life and death. Even his parents have to temporarily avoid his advance.”
"Ha, truly deeply in love." Yun Guang chuckled sarcastically.
“He simply cannot tolerate others challenging his power,” Kong Xuan said. “If true love were truly deep-rooted, who would seal the Chaos Core within the body of someone they deeply love?”
Wei Feng was stunned for a moment. The chaotic energy within the ghostly pattern fluctuated for a brief instant. Kong Xuan suddenly turned around: "Who?!"
"Someone's here?" Yun Guang raised his hand, and his armor instantly scattered. The overwhelming magical power spread along the surrounding aura, instantly blocking all of Wei Feng's escape routes.
Wei Feng and Feng Wuyou retreated rapidly. The chaotic energy within Wei Feng's body surged forth, and the moment it clashed with Yun Guang's magic power, the ghost pattern pierced towards Kong Xuan beside him. Suddenly, a writing brush appeared in front of Kong Xuan, its immortal power blocking the unexpected attack. Wei Feng was not afraid of facing two opponents at once. The enormous impact forced Kong Xuan and Yun Guang to retreat several feet. The black stones protruding from the ground began to crack, and the residual chaotic energy inside leaked out continuously.
Wei Feng rapidly formed hand seals, and countless ghostly patterns shot up from the ground through the black stone, weaving into a dense network that bound Kong Xuan and Yun Guang within it. Just as Feng Wuyou was preparing to fight him head-on, he dragged Feng Wuyou directly into the ground.
As the dust settled, the area where Kongxuan and Yunguang had been was empty, leaving only overturned earth and cracked foundation stones.
Kong Xuan's heart sank: "Chase!"
Wei Feng led Feng Wuyou and charged straight out of the Demon Forest. Feng Wuyou clung tightly to his ghostly tattoo and shouted, "Weren't you planning to trap them? Why did you run away again!"
"The power of the chaotic energy is too great. Killing them rashly would be difficult to explain and might ruin Jiang Gu's plans." Wei Feng's figure kept changing, and the black energy emanating from the chaotic core within his body rapidly dissipated. "It would be better to lure them to the Sixteenth Heaven!"
A gust of wind swept by, and Tianmen, who was dozing off, was knocked over by the black smoke of chaotic energy. He opened his eyes with a blank expression, then grabbed a cloud of spirit and used it as a pillow under the threshold to continue sleeping.
In Yaoyan Immortal Palace, Jiang Gu had just finished dealing with the affairs accumulated over the past few decades and was about to leave the palace when, as soon as he stepped out of the palace gate, a dark, writhing ghost pattern, emitting black smoke, dragged a Worry-Free Beast straight towards him.
"Get out of the way!" Wei Feng was not yet proficient in controlling the chaotic energy and could not stop in time. Seeing that he was about to crash into him, he shouted loudly.
Jiang Gu's eyebrows twitched slightly, but he neither dodged nor avoided. He raised his hand towards Wei Feng, who was rushing towards him. A dazzling golden light flashed and enveloped the surging chaotic energy on Wei Feng's body. When Wei Feng regained his consciousness, he found that he had turned into a soft and sticky ghost pattern, which was steadily held in Jiang Gu's palm.
Jiang Gu habitually squeezed the small amount of filth in his palm: "What's wrong?"
Wei Feng was momentarily disoriented, shocked and furious: "What did you do to me?!"
Jiang Gu brushed the petals off his head with his thumb and looked up at Kong Xuan falling not far away.
"Immortal Lord Kongxuan, is there something you need?" He took a piece of immortal spirit and placed it in Wei Feng's arms, gesturing for him to eat it.
"..." Wei Feng kicked the piece of immortal spirit away and bit his finger viciously.
Wei Feng had excellent teeth; his sharp, fine teeth instantly severed his finger bones. Jiang Gu, however, did not let him go. Instead, he found a piece of radiant golden immortal spirit among his surroundings and stuffed it back into Wei Feng's arms.
"It's nothing." Kong Xuan twitched the corner of his mouth. "Just now, in the Demon Forest, there was a chaotic aura nearby, so I chased after it. But I figured the Chaos Core has been imprisoned in the Immortal Palace, so it shouldn't have been able to leave."
“Then Immortal Lord Kongxuan must have been mistaken.” Jiang Gu lied without changing his expression. “Wei Feng has always been by my side and has never left.”
He lowered his eyes and watched Wei Feng tentatively poke the immortal spirit with a ghostly mark, then secretly took a sip, his mood instantly brightening. He looked up at the spoilsport Kong Xuan in front of him: "Is there anything else?"
Kong Xuan's words had a hidden meaning: "The Chaos Core can easily disrupt the immortal energy of the upper heavens. Immortal Lords should keep a close watch on the Chaos Core to avoid causing unnecessary trouble."
"Hmm." Jiang Gu responded perfunctorily, wiped the blood from Wei Feng's lips, and led him back to the palace.
Kong Xuan, left standing outside, had an unpredictable expression on his face. He lingered for a long time before reluctantly leaving.
Feng Wuyou emerged from behind the palace gate, still shaken, and said, "Thank you for saving me, Immortal Lord."
"No need to be so polite." Jiang Gu glanced at him. "You can just call me Jiang Gu."
Feng Wuyou looked at him with delight: "Okay."
Wei Feng suddenly raised his head, looking at him with surprise and doubt: "Master?"
Jiang Gu pinched his belly: "Finally decided to come back?"
Wei Feng stared intently at his expression, then instantly flew into a rage: "You think you can become my master just because you call yourself Jiang Gu? Dream on."
The chaotic energy around him erupted instantly. Jiang Gu didn't want to hurt him, so he could only let go and let Wei Feng transform back into human form.
Wei Feng cautiously took half a step back, but did not leave immediately.
"Why would Kong Xuan hunt you down?" Jiang asked.
Wei Feng had no need to hide anything from him, so he told him what he had heard, and then took a cracked black stone from his sleeve and threw it to him: "This is the Chaos Core Foundation Stone that I took out while I was away. The pattern of that broken array looks a lot like the Shadow Shifting Array."
Jiang Gu took the black stone and said, "The origin of the Shadow Array that I taught you in the lower realm is the array that suppresses the Chaos Core. However, even after studying it for thousands of years, I have only grasped its form but not its essence. This foundation stone and the Chaos Core share the same origin, but once an immortal gets close, their immortal power will be absorbed and their immortal bones will be eroded. The same is true for demons and monsters, but the impact will be less. Therefore, few people go to that place."
"Then why are you still holding it?" Wei Feng frowned and reached out to take the black stone from his hand.
Jiang Gu did not let go, and said calmly, "The immortal bones in my body have long been tainted by the Chaos Core in your body, so it's fine."
Wei Feng glanced at him and withdrew his hand: "Who cares about you?"
"There's just one thing I don't understand." Jiang Gu put the black stone into his sleeve. "I retrieved the immortal bones and regained my memories from the upper realm, and my memories from the lower realm remain, yet you refuse to acknowledge that I am Jiang Gu—"
"But Jiang Gu wants you to refine your immortal bones, at which point you will naturally regain your memories of the Upper Realm," Jiang Gu said unhurriedly. "According to you, are you still Wei Feng?"
Wei was somewhat confused by his words and said angrily, "Of course I am."
"Then you admit that I am Jiang Gu," Jiang Gu said calmly.
“I didn’t—” Wei Feng said through gritted teeth, “I’m not going to argue with you about this.”
No wonder Master forbade him to speak with Yao Yan; the other party was indeed as cunning as Master—no, Master was clever, only Yao Yan was cunning.
Jiang Gu pinched another piece of immortal spirit and put it in his hand, leading him forward: "This matter was my fault. I shouldn't have taught you to be so clear-headed. I've been recalling what happened in the lower realm these past few days. Since there is affection between us, there's no need to be bound by the master-disciple relationship. After the apprenticeship ceremony is over, we can become immortal couples."
Wei Feng was somewhat distracted by the aroma of the immortal spirit. Just now, when it was in Jiang Gu's hand, he secretly licked it with his ghost mark, and his cultivation level instantly soared. But that bite awakened his long-lost hunger.
Since they were all his master's immortal spirits, he figured he might as well eat them. He swallowed them whole, his eyes lighting up slightly, but he straightened his face, crossed his arms, and looked at the person in front of him arrogantly: "Don't misunderstand, I'm only here to remind you of Kong Xuan and Yun Guang's conspiracy. There's no need for anything else. We'll be leaving now."
He turned to look for Feng Wuyou, but the fat horse had already disappeared. Just as he was about to call for help, something strange suddenly happened around him. He instantly remembered the piece of immortal spirit he had just eaten and looked at Jiang Gu warily; "What did you hide in the immortal spirit?"
Jiang Gu remained expressionless: "Just half a piece of your immortal bone."
Wei Feng's expression changed, but a torrent of memories rushed in, making him momentarily breathless and causing him to stagger backward.
Jiang Gu stood before him with his hands behind his back, about to speak, when a sharp pain suddenly shot through his temple. The excessively intense and rich emotions that he had been deliberately suppressing swept over his entire primordial spirit, forcefully and ruthlessly swallowing him up.
Those memories were vivid and profound, yet excessively intense and vivid. Jiang Gu slowly narrowed his eyes. This was a memory restriction he had set up before regaining his memories, which was actually connected to Wei Feng's immortal bones, but he had no recollection of it at all... No, that's not right.
Even if he set the restriction himself, it shouldn't be this intense.
He suddenly looked at Wei Feng.
Wei Feng raised his head, looking at him with unsteady breath, then reached into his chest and slowly pulled out a bright golden heart, which was wrapped with countless ghost patterns. He handed it over slowly and firmly: "Master, of course I know that Yao Yan and Jiang Gu are the same person. Whether you have tens of thousands of years of memories or hundreds of years of memories, it doesn't matter to me."
"But I want you to love me the most."
Jiang Gu certainly taught him very well. He was Jiang Gu's personal disciple, taught by Jiang Gu himself. He was a one-in-a-million disciple who had mastered the Dao. He learned Jiang Gu's ruthlessness and his unscrupulous methods.
Jiang Gu was his respected teacher, his unwavering faith, and also his most genuine and naked desire.
He wanted Jiang Gu, who loved him the most.
Jiang Gu, you should love yourself even more.
He grinned at Jiang Gu, the sinister and crazed look in his eyes exactly the same as when he caught up with Tianmen:
“Master, I have merged your memories and heart with mine.”
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