Chapter 447 The Four Immortal Spirits, Vermilion Bird
The royal city is composed of countless overlapping high-rise buildings connected by various covered bridges, and there are also dragon staircases inside. When Yu Sui looked at the royal city from the workshop walls and walkways, he marveled at its vast scale. Now that he has come to the interior of the royal city, it feels like several great mountains, each with its own unique world.
These complex terrains should be left to the senior students.
Just as Yu Sui was thinking this, she felt a force fall from above, smashing a large crater into the spot where she was standing.
Hearing the sound of the ground exploding, Ah Ling screamed in fright. After being helped to the ground by Yu Sui, she took the initiative to hide behind Yu Sui.
Yu Sui was in a corridor several floors high when the force directly passed through the top of the corridor bridge and fell down, the attack was dense and fast.
How was she discovered when she sensed no living people or creatures around her?
Yu Sui glanced back and saw Ah Ling covering her head and trying to hide, terrified and afraid of dying.
Is it her?
With a loud crash, the entire covered bridge was smashed through. Yu Sui led A Ling back to the end of the bridge, and behind them, they heard the sound of a door opening. A Ling turned around and saw a black circular magic circle appear beneath their feet.
The black runes took the shape of eyes, and when they opened, a flash of red light appeared, and the space beneath Yu Sui and A Ling's feet disappeared as they fell.
Ah Ling screamed loudly and hugged Yu Sui tightly.
Yu Sui's ears were filled with Ah Ling's screams of fear, as she clung tightly to herself and cried out, "Sister, save me!"
Hearing Ah Ling call her "sister" repeatedly, Yu Sui suddenly burst into laughter for some reason.
In the pitch-black space of unknown origin, all that could be seen during the descent were lotus petals glowing red. These lotus petals were like life-saving ships in a black sea. Yu Sui, using Ah Ling's wind manipulation technique, landed on a petal and looked up:
In just a brief moment, they didn't know how far they had fallen, with only repeated darkness and scattered lotus petals above them.
"Sister!" Ah Ling cried out in fear, too scared to look up. "Are we dead?"
“Hmm!” Yu Sui said, “You helped Wang Jun harm so many people, you’ve already gone to hell after you died, look.”
Ah Ling opened her eyes trembling, seeing boundless darkness and vast expanses of lotus petals glowing red. Fear overwhelmed her, and after despair, she began to rage: "Why should I go to hell? They were the ones who killed people... If it weren't for those people in the royal city, I wouldn't be like this!"
"Why am I the only one who has to go to hell when I die?! This is not fair!"
Looking at her crying and wailing, Yu Sui laughed and said, "I was just kidding, did you really believe me?"
Ah Ling: "..."
Her face flushed with anger, and she shook off Yu Sui's tightly gripped hand: "Is this fun?! What time is it and you're still..."
The lotus petals beneath their feet suddenly dissipated, and a sudden feeling of weightlessness overwhelmed them. Ah Ling was startled, her face turning pale instantly. She hurriedly grabbed Yu Sui, saying, "Sister, I was wrong!"
But this time, Yu Sui waved her hand to block her, and the elegant aura emanating from Yu Sui's fingertips sent Ah Ling flying back onto the lotus petals on the opposite side.
Ah Ling seemed surprised that Yu Sui would push her away and reject her. She was stunned for a moment when she fell awkwardly onto the lotus petals.
But before she could think any further, the lotus petal where Ah Ling was standing vanished in an instant, causing Ah Ling to continue falling.
Yu Sui's location, however, is fine.
There were no living creatures around, and I kept a safe distance from her, yet I was able to know her location because of Ah Ling.
Yu Sui flashed and appeared in front of the screaming Ah Ling, lifting her onto a new lotus petal.
In the pitch-black space, purple starlight shimmered, and the star-sea waters spreading out beneath Yu Sui's feet rippled, making A Ling believe that she was truly standing in the middle of the tide.
"Sister..." Ah Ling collapsed to the ground, crying, "I can't move my arms and legs!"
"Besides Wang Jun, who contacted you, who else knew you were taking me into the city today?" Yu Sui asked.
"I swear! I told you everyone I knew!" Ah Ling said nervously. "The supervisor knew I would bring in an intruder, but he was the one who figured out how to catch him. I didn't know anything about it!"
The supervisor who patrolled the wards last night was a red-eyed crow, a farm beast he controlled.
The Purgatory Red Lotus Space before them was an extremely rare Buddhist technique of the Nine Schools.
"Sister, what is this!" Ah Ling screamed as she looked at the red eye-shaped curse marks growing on her hands and feet.
The lotus petals floating in the darkness, with their long and narrow shapes, have all transformed into eye patterns that glow red.
The body parts that are being watched by these red-eyed curse marks will be controlled by them.
"Sister!" Ah Ling's hands and feet moved uncontrollably, and she got up from the ground and tried to grab Yu Sui's neck.
Even without pupils, one could see the panic and fear on Ah Ling's face.
Yu Sui didn't even glance at A Ling. He easily grabbed her hand and twisted it back. With his other hand, he made a hand seal. The seven southern constellations in the starry sea shone brightly. A golden-red figure flew out from in front of Yu Sui, carrying firelight. Its powerful cry made the dark space tremble.
The golden-red phoenix spread its fiery red wings to shield Yu Sui from the attack of the red-eyed curse mark.
The Yin-Yang School's Four Heavenly Spirits: The Immortal Vermilion Bird.
"Stay in the back." Yu Sui brushed past A Ling's arm, and the flames flashing from her fingertips burned away the red eye curse marks on A Ling's body.
Mu Jin, one of the Eight Trigrams Protectors of the Royal City, was sitting cross-legged in the high pavilion. He clasped his hands together and closed his eyes, but the third eye between his eyebrows was filled with murderous intent.
The third eye between his eyebrows reflected the scene in the Crimson Lotus of Purgatory deep within its pupil. He saw the golden-red phoenix flying out from in front of Yu Sui, and he also saw Yu Sui burn away the red eye curse mark on A Ling's body.
One of the Four Celestial Spirits of the Yin-Yang School, the Vermilion Bird's Undying Flame.
It is also a rare celestial secret technique of the Yin-Yang School.
Even among saints, few can be immortal like the Vermilion Bird.
Who were the intruders this time?
The flames of the immortal Vermilion Bird burned away the red-eyed curse marks, transforming the boundless darkness into a space of blazing fire.
Ah Ling covered her head with her hands and saw Yu Sui standing in the dazzling firelight. Her heart pounded and she felt incredibly shocked.
The undying flames soared into the sky, almost reaching Mu Jin's third eye, and he clasped his hands together again.
No, Kong Jing can't handle her. This intruder must be sent to the deeper parts of Purgatory!
The moment their hands were clasped together, a loud bang was heard, like the sound of space shattering, and Yu Sui and A Ling were once again plunged into weightlessness.
Yu Sui steadied himself immediately and grabbed Ah Ling first.
The wings of the immortal Vermilion Bird protected the two, shielding them from the gaze of the red-eyed curse mark and preventing them from being deprived of control of their bodies.
If Yu Sui is controlled by the red-eyed curse, then Ah Ling is doomed.
The two fell from a pitch-black world into a world full of light. They stood on a ground where water and sky merged into one, the sky above them the same as the ground below, unable to distinguish which side was the real world.
Ah Ling hid behind Yu Sui, nervously looking around: "Where is this again?"
"Sister! I didn't mean to! My hands and feet just wouldn't obey me!" Ah Ling explained nervously to Yu Sui. "I swear I absolutely didn't mean to hurt you, sister!"
Yu Sui looked around and said, "The Buddhist Eight Scenes of Purgatory, the one before was an empty scene, but this one looks like a scene of the mind in purgatory."
"Is it a very powerful low-level technique?" Ah Ling asked, confused.
Yu Sui turned to look at her: "So you know about the Nine Schools of Arts."
“The previous businessman mentioned it to me,” Ah Ling answered honestly, no longer daring to lie to Yu Sui. “Sister, you know so much! You’re more capable than any businessman I’ve ever met before!”
"You'll know once you read more books. Also, how long are you going to keep calling me 'sister'?" Yu Sui looked at her, puzzled.
At first, I found it funny and interesting, but now I'm getting a little tired of it.
Yu Sui said to A Ling, "Don't call me that anymore."
"Then, how should I call you?" Ah Ling asked, feeling a little wronged and at a loss.
Yu Sui did not answer. She looked into the distance and saw the water and sky blending into one, a clear and transparent blue, as if she had come to the sky. It was serene and beautiful, and it calmed her heart.
But she did not let her guard down.
The Buddhist Eight Views of Purgatory are not as simple as illusions; they are more like a divine dream, a real spatial seal, which cannot be broken using the Heavenly Eye.
This Buddhist sorcerer hid at a distance beyond the detection range of her strange fire. Just now, when the Vermilion Bird's Undying Fire was about to break out of the empty scene, it was stopped in time and teleported into the mental scene.
This place weakened her light core, limiting the amount of Five Elements energy she could use. Even the Immortal Vermilion Bird could only transform into a golden-red feather form clinging to Yu Sui, unable to materialize a complete form.
The nine schools of Buddhism are indeed a bit difficult to understand.
"elder sister……"
Yu Sui turned to look at A Ling and saw the girl's aggrieved expression: "Didn't I tell you not to call me that?"
"I don't know what to call you! And what should we do now?" Ah Ling cried.
Yu Sui didn't speak.
Ah Ling sobbed, "Can I call you my sister?"
"..."
"No." Yu Sui looked down at the mirror-like ground and said to A Ling, "Kick it down."
Although Ah Ling didn't know why, she did as she was told. She kicked the ground, which was as smooth as a mirror, and soon felt someone kick her leg, which hurt so much that tears welled up in her eyes.
What's going on?
“If I launch an attack within the mental landscape space, it will bounce back onto me,” Yu Sui said.
"What do we do? Are we going to die here?"
Ah Ling was truly terrified, and knowing there was nothing she could do, she felt utterly powerless in this life-or-death crisis, which made her cry out, "Sister, I really don't want to die!"
Terrified, her muscles ached all over. She collapsed to the ground, wiping away tears as she cried, "I finally managed to make my life in the workshop a little better. I wasn't beaten or scolded every day anymore, my food was stolen, and I had to share a room with so many people, even having to stand against the wall to sleep. Now I finally have my own room, I can lie down and sleep, I can get more incense offerings, I can get more food... Sister, I don't want to die! I've only just recovered, I don't want to go back to what I was before!"
By the end, Ah Ling's sobs had turned into wailing, and she was heartbroken.
Yu Sui looked at her with some surprise, but still didn't say anything, quietly listening to her cry.
In the end, she's just a little girl in her early teens.
Yu Sui's eyes went unfocused for a moment. She unintentionally recalled a moment in the past when she seemed to want to cry her heart out like Ah Ling in front of her. She was clearly very sad and upset, but why couldn't she cry?
She remembered the moment she saw the mute woman die.
Why did a voice in her heart command her not to cry?
No tears, no sobbing, and certainly no more tears streaming down your face like the person in front of you.
Why not?
Forget it, it's pointless.
If my mother-in-law could speak, what would she say to me?
By the way, when I was little, my mother-in-law would patiently wipe away my tears when I cried.
Yu Sui's thoughts drifted away from A Ling in an instant, and she saw the figure of the mute woman appear in the mirrored world below her feet.
"Mother-in-law?" Yu Sui was stunned.
The mute woman reached out her hand to Yu Sui from the mirror-like surface, gesturing for her to come over quickly.
Ah Ling wiped away her tears and asked, "Sister, who are you calling? There's no grandmother here."
Yu Sui stood up, turned her back to her, and left.
"Sister! Where are you going?!" Ah Ling hurriedly got up to grab her, but was blocked and repelled by a ring of fire that ignited around Yu Sui.
Yu Sui remained motionless within the circle of fire.
The third eye between Mu Jin's brows reflected this scene, and she slowly frowned. To have imprisoned herself with a circle drawn on the ground the instant she sensed danger—her keen perception was astonishing.
However... just now it was the Yin-Yang School's Four Spirits Undying Vermilion Bird, now it's the Taoist Heavenly Secrets Technique. Is this person a dual cultivator of the Yin-Yang School and the Taoist School?
A dual-cultivation sorcerer at the thirteenth realm; the intruder's strength is not to be underestimated, and we must deal with him carefully.
[Author's Note]
Let's change it back to 11 PM!
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