Chapter 51: Sacred Tree
Outside Mingzhou City.
A monster with blood-red eyes swooped down from the mountain. Murong Jing held a magical weapon made of human bones in his hand, and vowed to kill Fan Qingyue and others.
The sound of metal clashing was incessant, occasionally mixed with the roar of monsters.
Different spiritual halos lit up alternately, and countless trees were broken by the aftermath of the spiritual power.
The people in Mingzhou City were of course aware of what was happening outside the city, but they had just been attacked by monsters not long ago and had already suffered heavy losses. As long as those people outside the city did not endanger the city, they did not want to intervene.
Therefore, without any reinforcements or helpers, Fan Qingyue and others gradually fell into a disadvantage.
Lu Fei stood there with difficulty, still protecting Jian An Ning's body tightly.
He was unwilling to accept this. He had many questions in his heart and did not want to die here, let alone watch Jane An Ning die.
The karmic fire attached to his sword, and he became ruthless, trying to force back the demon cultivators and monsters with a life-and-death fight.
But Jiang Tan stopped him and said solemnly, "This is not a solution."
"What else can we do?" Lu Fei shouted almost hysterically, with a hint of despair in his expression.
Meanwhile, Fan Qingyue had also returned from his fight with Fan Shiliu. He didn't look relaxed either, and simply said, "Although Master is often unreliable, he always guides us."
After a moment, he seemed to have thought of something, slapped his storage bag, and took something directly in his hand.
Looking at the demon cultivators and monsters surrounding them with eager eyes, he said, "Master said that if you can't win, then just run away."
The next moment, Fan Qingyue tore up the talisman that Jian Anning had given them, and the people in the center of the encirclement disappeared in an instant.
"What!"
Murong Jing gnashed his teeth in hatred.
But Fan Shiliu seemed emotionless and asked calmly, "So what should we do next?"
"Of course we're going to Qingyun Sect," Murong Jing said rather reluctantly. "That person said long ago that if we can't kill them here, then they will definitely go to Qingyun Sect."
Fan Shiliu also knew some of the demon cultivators' plans. He frowned and said, "Didn't that person lead his men to Qingyun Sect?"
Murong Jing chuckled and said, "That's right, they are going to die on their own."
Having said that, Murong Jing still led a group of monsters to Qingyun Sect.
And on Fan Qingyue and others' side.
Lu Fei finally calmed down a little after escaping the encirclement. He looked at Jian An Ning's body carefully.
This sight made his heart skip a beat and his fingertips tremble slightly.
"Why is she not breathing?"
"Impossible, how could Master die so easily?" Fan Qingyue firmly refused to believe Lu Fei's words.
However, he himself did not feel Jane Anning's breath.
"Don't panic," Jiang Tan remained calm, calming the other two. After thinking carefully for a while, she said, "Master is a Nascent Soul cultivator. It's impossible for her to die like this. Perhaps she doesn't rely on breathing to survive."
"However, how did those guys hurt Master, and how can we wake Master up is indeed a problem."
"However," Jiang Tan recalled everything in the past and said with some hesitation, "Perhaps the Sect Master can save Master."
They did not dare to delay and gathered all the teleportation talismans given to them by Jian An Ning, and returned to Qingyun Sect at an unprecedented speed.
They appeared directly in the open space next to the main hall of Qingyun Sect. The monks passing by were very surprised to see their miserable appearance.
"What's wrong with you?"
But Lu Fei was not in the mood to talk with these fellow disciples. He carried Jian An Ning on his back and went straight to the sect's main hall, trying to find the trace of the sect leader Yun Zhongzi.
But Yun Zhongzi's whereabouts were quite erratic. In the sect's main hall, there was only the great elder who had assigned them the task.
"What happened?" asked the Great Elder.
Fan Qingyue quickly explained the matter briefly to the Great Elder, but Lu Fei was not so polite.
He said directly to the Great Elder: "I want her to live."
The Great Elder frowned, not liking Lu Fei's tone, but considering that he was eager to save people, he didn't care.
He still remembered a very strange thing the sect leader once said to him.
"Qingyun Sect exists because of Jian Anning. If one day she gets hurt and I'm not around, you must take her to the back mountain, to that ancient tree that no longer sprouts."
"That way I'll know and can get back as quickly as possible."
Although the Great Elder would occasionally have some complaints about Jian An Ning, he trusted Yun Zhongzi's words very much.
So, following Yun Zhongzi's instructions, he took Jian An Ning and her disciples to the back mountain, and leaned her body against the dead tree in the back mountain that looked out of place among the lush greenery.
Jiang Tan felt that this scene was somewhat familiar.
After thinking about it carefully, they found that when they were in the sect in the past, they occasionally couldn't find Jian An Ning, and whenever such a moment came, they would come here, and Jian An Ning must be sleeping here.
But this time, Jane An Ning was not only sleeping here, she was also dead.
Jiang Tan felt that something was about to burst out of her mind.
And the next moment, a stream of light suddenly descended on their side. It was Yun Zhongzi who came from nowhere.
Yun Zhongzi looked at Jian Anning with a serious expression, but said directly: "It was done by the person who looks exactly like her, right?"
"She had long anticipated this day would come, so the sacred tree has remained here forever, and has never sprouted a single leaf."
Lu Fei didn't understand what he was saying, but he felt a hope of saving Jian Anning, so he pleaded with Yun Zhongzi, "How can I save her?"
"You lean against the tree too." Yun Zhongzi said bluntly.
Lu Fei remembered this tree. He remembered that the last time Jian An Ning touched it, she fainted immediately, and so did he.
But since Yun Zhongzi seemed to be an insider and knew how to save her, he just did it.
However, this time, Lu Fei did not faint successfully, and Yun Zhongzi continued to explain: "This tree is called the Fusang Sacred Tree. It has the power of 'recording', so the tree records all the past events of the mortal world."
"If her body is seriously injured, her soul will return to the sacred tree."
"And what you have to do is to find her soul in the sacred tree and bring her back."
Lu Fei asked anxiously, "Then what should we do?"
Yun Zhongzi continued to explain, "Her soul will experience the past over and over again in the past recorded in the tree. I will cast a spell in a moment to send you into the past recorded by the sacred tree as well."
"However, since many souls in the world are reincarnated, you will also return to your soul's original life and lose yourself."
"Then how can I save her?" Lu Fei asked anxiously.
Yun Zhongzi took out a triangular talisman wrapped in red cloth and handed it to Lu Fei, saying, "Take this. Not every moment is suitable for bringing your soul out. This talisman will remind you of the most appropriate time, and at that time, you will also remember your mission."
Lu Fei held the red triangular talisman in his hand, hugged Jian An Ning's body and leaned against the sacred tree.
Yun Zhongzi cast a spell, and the next moment, Lu Fei also lost consciousness.
Fan Qingyue said to Yun Zhongzi, "What about me and my junior sister? The two of us can also help bring back Master's soul."
But Yun Zhongzi just shook his head and said, "You have more important things to do, and that is to protect the Dharma. Don't let anyone interrupt their slumber and force her to wake up."
"Because once it's interrupted, the soul inside that body might not be Jane Anning's anymore."
Fan Qingyue and Jiang Tan understood what was going on, and stood guarding Jian An Ning and Lu Fei on the left and right, but they saw Yun Zhongzi walking very quickly and about to leave from the back mountain.
Jiang Tan couldn't help but ask, "Since their process cannot be interrupted, why don't you protect them yourself, Sect Master?"
Yun Zhongzi stroked his beard and said, "Since that guy has already attacked Jian Anning, he will definitely not let go of the Qingyun Sect, which she regards as a thorn in her side."
He called out to the Great Elder and said, "Next, Qingyun Sect will have a tough battle to fight."
After saying this, the two of them disappeared from the back mountain.
Fan Qingyue and Jiang Tan had no suspicion of anything and just stayed in the back mountain.
Perhaps because Lu Fei moved Jian An Ning's body, a small corner of the book that Jian An Ning had originally hidden in her arms was exposed and seen by Jiang Tan.
She felt a little strange, so she stepped forward and tried to take the book out without permission.
If Jian An Ning was still conscious at this moment, she would probably run away screaming, or do something else, in short, to cover up the matter of the book and not let Jiang Tan or Fan Qingyue have the chance to touch the book.
But Jane An Ning had lost consciousness and was unable to stop it.
Fortunately, Fan Qingyue could indeed be called her most caring disciple. When Jiang Tan was about to touch the book, he said to her, "Junior sister, this is not good, right?"
Jiang Tan finally came to her senses. She stared at her hands in confusion, wondering why she had been so possessed just now.
But Fan Qingyue didn't notice it and just continued to express his opinion.
"Anyway, you can't touch Master's things casually. However, if you have any questions, we can just wait until Master wakes up and ask her directly."
At this point, apart from the mountain breeze, nothing could disturb Jian An Ning in the slightest.
In front of the floating mountain, the person in the mirror who looks exactly like Jian An Ning, Wei Shengliang, who is using the body of "Ye Qingzhou", has arrived at the foot of the mountain.
The five original forces converged into the body of "Ye Qingzhou", and Wei Shengliang happened to know how to use this power.
They started killing people from the foot of the mountain, trying to kill their way up the mountain and wipe out the Qingyun Sect bit by bit.
But Yun Zhongzi didn't give them too much time to be arrogant. In just a moment, he interrupted their indiscriminate killing of innocent people.
The person in the mirror looked at him expressionlessly and snorted coldly, "You are just mere humans. If I had killed you all earlier, nothing would have happened later."
Yun Zhongzi fought back, unyielding, "What you're thinking will never succeed. Do you think she didn't anticipate the situation today?"
The person in the mirror was stunned and his eyes suddenly widened.
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