Chapter 79 Youthful Spring Robes (Twenty-Five)
Pingfeng Sect occupies a larger area than Yanghua Sect, but all the mountain ranges and spiritual veins are sealed under ice and snow, making it a rare and secluded place, which is actually a good hiding place.
Perhaps because he was recalling the past, Wu Hezhi was so disturbed that he collapsed before he could even leave the ice cave.
Wei Feng remained unconscious.
Jiang Gu was injured while subduing Wei Feng, so the group had no choice but to rest and recuperate at Pingfengzong for the time being.
Qu Fengyu stayed by Wu Hezhi's side, constantly channeling spiritual energy into him and taking meticulous care of him. Wei Feng, on the other hand, was carelessly left on the ice. She looked at Jiang Gu, who was keeping his distance from strangers, hesitated, and ultimately remained silent.
Jiang Gu disliked those low-intelligence birds and fish. He seemed to have an innate aversion to such creatures, especially their sticky, slippery texture, which seemed so dirty that it could never be cleaned. He also loathed those excessive emotions and desires, which were useless except as stumbling blocks on the path to immortality.
Wei Feng has it all.
He looked down at the boy curled up on the ice and sent a wisp of his primordial spirit into the boy's sea of consciousness.
Although his cultivation level regressed to the Qi Refining stage, Wei Feng's sea of consciousness did not shrink; in fact, it was dozens of times larger than when he was in the Foundation Establishment stage. Jiang Gu stepped on the water surface formed by spiritual energy, and ripples spread out from his feet.
He could sense that Wei Feng's primordial spirit existed in this body, but he couldn't find it no matter what he did—Wei Feng had fainted in a state of mental shock. If he couldn't be awakened in time, it could easily cause irreparable cracks in his primordial spirit, which would be a huge hidden danger for his future breakthrough.
As he was concentrating on his search, a snow-white, fluffy tail suddenly appeared at the end of his sea of consciousness.
Red Snow?
Jiang Gu immediately became alert and carefully observed his surroundings.
Jiang Gu taught Wei Feng how to cultivate, but perhaps because Wei Feng was too stupid or for some other reason, his sea of consciousness was almost a direct copy of Jiang Gu's. Apart from the clear spring water formed by spiritual energy, there was nothing else. It was the pure aura of fire spiritual energy. Jiang Gu stepped on that spiritual energy step by step and stopped not too far from the tail.
Chi Xue's spirit has already been devoured by Wei Feng, so this is naturally not Chi Xue.
The snow-white, fluffy tail swayed gently at him before darting into the darkness ahead. Jiang Gu raised his hand to grab it, but grasped only air. The soft fur slipped through his palm, and the world spun around him, as if he were upside down. Then, an extremely uncomfortable, chilling aura rushed towards him.
The tail was gone. This place was about the same size as the previous sea of consciousness, but it was filled with resentment and countless evil thoughts, even worse than the desolate graveyard. Jiang Gu was no longer standing on a clear and pure sea of spiritual energy, but on a viscous, writhing black substance. Stepping on it felt like stepping on rotten flesh and fur. From a distance, it was covered with countless uneven lumps, wrapped with thorn-shaped fleshy spikes. From his angle, he could see a few scattered pieces of white fur wrapped around those lumps and spikes. Dark green viscous fluid accumulated in the depressions, and some of them still contained the remains of severed limbs.
A sharp, chilling pain shot through Jiang Gu's ankle. He looked down and saw the ghostly markings that had crawled up to his calf. Upon closer inspection, he realized that the markings had grown from the thing he was standing on—
This vast sea of consciousness was filled with densely packed ghost patterns.
However, they showed no intention of attacking. Jiang Gu calmly stepped over the clumps of flesh and the sticky green liquid, stopping in front of a huge piece of white fur.
It was curled up in a small hole formed by the intertwined ghost patterns, its back to Jiang Gu, revealing only a fluffy, snow-white tail and a pair of furry, light pink ears.
"Wei Feng," Jiang Gu called out to him.
The furry creature trembled at the words, and after a long while, it slowly turned its head, revealing a hideous and terrifying face covered with ghostly markings. Its white pupils were empty and lifeless, and the ram's horns on its forehead resembled withered branches. On each side of its pale lips were two curved and interlocking fangs, and its face was covered with mottled scales, with some areas growing soft, snow-white fur like crimson snow—making it difficult to look directly at.
Jiang Gu closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "What are you doing?"
Wei Feng silently turned his head back and buried himself in the ghost pattern, seemingly not wanting to answer him. But a wet shark tail slid out from the snow-white fur, and the sticky, cold tail fin quietly wrapped around Jiang Gu's ankle.
"I'll become more handsome," Wei Feng's muffled voice came from beneath the ghost pattern, as if in a fit of pique, "more handsome than Chi Xue."
Anyway, he has already consumed all of Chi Xue's spirit.
Jiang Gu knew that Chi Xue had died ten years ago, and whether Wei Feng swallowed it or not would have the same result, so there was no point in caring about it. But he still felt a sense of unease.
Wei Feng clearly sensed his irritation. With his back to him, he grinned excitedly, then turned around and looked at him provocatively. He twitched his furry ears and deliberately licked his lips. "It doesn't taste good at all."
Jiang Gu looked at him expressionlessly.
Wei Feng slowly approached him, his entire spirit almost completely entangling him. He sniffed lightly near his neck, then stuck out his tongue and licked his earlobe, leaving a striking red mark. He stared at Jiang Gu for a long time, his provocation turning into trepidation and unease, and he subconsciously wanted to back away.
But Jiang Gu grabbed his chin.
In an instant, spiritual energy surged wildly into Wei Feng's primordial spirit from his fingertips. The crimson fur covering Wei Feng's body slowly turned into specks of light and vanished into the darkness. Along with his ears and his beautiful tail, Wei Feng reverted to his original ugly appearance in Wei Feng's eyes.
The aura belonging to Chi Xue has completely disappeared.
"Don't waste time on inanimate objects," Jiang Gu warned him coldly.
Wei Feng pursed his lips, staring at him stubbornly and persistently, "I can be your spirit pet."
"No need." Jiang Gu released his hand without hesitation and turned to leave.
"Why?" Wei Feng hurriedly caught up, and as he moved forward, the ugly original form was replaced by the figure of a young man. He reached out and grabbed Jiang Gu's wrist. "Didn't you want to sign a spirit pet contract with me before? I'm more powerful than Chi Xue, so I can definitely do a better job than it!"
"Too ugly." Jiang Gu hit the nail on the head.
Moreover, given his temperament, the number of spirit pets he raises in the garden wouldn't even be enough for this monstrous thing to eat.
Wei Feng held onto his hand tightly, refusing to let go, "I will try my best to become more handsome."
"This is unnecessary." Jiang Gu only sent in a wisp of his primordial spirit. Wei Feng's primordial spirit is now much stronger than before, and he couldn't break free for a moment. His expression turned even colder.
Wei Feng's eyes were turbulent, but he forcibly suppressed the violent urge to destroy everything and said in a low voice, "I still have a sea of consciousness. Do you want to go see it?"
Another spatial inversion occurred.
This sea of consciousness was slightly smaller than the previous two, but much brighter. The sky was high and the clouds were vast, birds sang and flowers were fragrant. There was a simple cave on the mountain peak. Jiang Gu recognized it at a glance as the cave he had casually opened up on Qingping Peak before.
The cave dwelling was not a simple stone wall, but rather a series of adjacent rooms. There was the study where Lian Yunfeng had taught Wei Feng, his bedroom in the main hall, and the small cave that Wei Feng had built himself... Each room was filled with odds and ends related to Jiang Gu, making it dazzling to look at.
“After I survived my tribulation, my sea of consciousness split into three parts, and my dantian spiritual root also split into three parts, causing my cultivation level to drop to Qi Refining.” Wei Feng followed closely behind him. “I tried to merge them together, but I failed.”
“It should be related to the bloodline in your body.” Jiang Gu observed the light blue spiritual root in front of him. “This is the sea of consciousness of the Divine Kite Shark. The one that belonged to Ghost Face White Eyes just now was a human cultivator.
He paused for a moment before stating his conclusion: "It may not be a bad thing."
Wei Feng glanced at the red mark on his earlobe, his Adam's apple bobbing slightly as he tentatively asked, "Master... do you believe what Wu Hezhi said?"
Jiang Gu looked at him coldly.
Seeing that he didn't refute his form of address, Wei Feng felt a little relieved. "If I really am the kind of monster he described, I'm afraid—"
I'm afraid the cultivators of Pingze Continent won't tolerate him.
It can devour all living things and shatter one's Dao heart, and it is very likely that it cannot be killed. Just one Divine Kite Shark Scale can attract countless pursuers, and even a powerful figure like Wei Mingzhou has fallen at its hands... Could Jiang Gu approach him because of this identity?
Once suspicion arises, it can create countless obstacles.
"Just take it as a story." Jiang Gu met his bewildered gaze and said calmly, "He once told me a completely different version."
Wei Feng was stunned.
"What you learn from others is always hard to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and even what you have personally experienced may not be just a part of an illusion." Jiang Gu raised his hand and drew a calming talisman on his forehead. "Apart from your Dao heart and primordial spirit, everything else is a burden."
Jiang Gu stood before him, unmoved, his eyes lowered, looking at him coldly and indifferently. In a daze, he seemed to overlap with the phantom of the ancient god statue in the Xiyuan Secret Realm. Every word he spoke was like snow falling into a clear spring, yet it stirred up a storm in Wei Feng's mind.
That was the first time Wei Feng realized that enlightenment, in the form of a few words, could carry the weight of a thousand mountains.
Sensing his mental turmoil, Jiang Gu decisively gathered his primordial spirit and returned it to his body.
Inside the ice cave, the boy who had fallen to the ground got up and entered a meditative state without even opening his eyes.
Qu Fengyu stared in astonishment at the Vermilion Bird divine mark that had appeared on Wei Feng's forehead, his face full of disbelief. "He actually mastered the Dao?"
In the cultivation world, the master usually teaches the disciple. However, in most cases, due to differences in talent, comprehension, Dao heart, and other qualities, the so-called inheritance between the disciple and the master is usually superficial, consisting of techniques and scriptures. The true Dao heart must be comprehended by the cultivator himself.
In extremely rare cases, a disciple may inherit the Dao from his master. They may not cultivate the same "Dao Heart," but their understanding of the universe can be passed down in one lineage. This understanding is something far deeper than the Dao Heart and closer to the laws of the universe. Whether it is with the master or the disciple, it is a rare and great opportunity. The right time, place, and people are all indispensable.
Jiang Gu was also surprised. In fact, he took Wei Feng as his disciple to help him overcome his love tribulation. However, he took a shortcut and taught Wei Feng only to help him protect himself. The master-disciple relationship was dispensable to him.
But after Wei Feng's enlightenment through his master, he clearly felt that Wei Feng recognized his Dao, admired his Dao, and was even willing to follow his Dao without any distractions. The laws of heaven and earth recognized Wei Feng's status as a disciple of his master, and the connection between him and Wei Feng became closer than ever before. Even the bloodline mark of Jiang Gu's family appeared on Wei Feng.
This is his true disciple.
Jiang Gu's gaze toward Wei Feng held a rare seriousness and solemnity.
As Wei Feng gained enlightenment, Jiang Gu's cultivation also showed signs of breakthrough. He glanced at Qu Fengyu and Wu Hezhi opposite him, then decisively flicked his sleeves, swept up Wei Feng, and disappeared into the endless snow and ice of Pingfeng Sect.
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