Chapter 323: Silver Dragon Flashes into the Abyss
As Han Yang took the life-extending elixir, his breathing gradually calmed down. However, due to the internal exhaustion from forcing himself to perform the magic, he might not wake up for a while. Fortunately, his life was not in danger. Lingxiang finally felt relieved after a thorough auscultation.
As long as the mountains are green and there is firewood, everything will be fine.
The black cloth that resembled the sky had ceased shaking, and was as still as a pool of dead water. The ghost-faced figure waved his long arms, withdrawing his magical powers. The sky was still covered in dark clouds as before, but the world was like a purgatory.
Fires shot up into the sky all around Jiuque Mountain, and inside the mountain, either monsters were roaring or demon spirits were wailing in pain.
Lingxiang didn't know what the catastrophe fourteen years ago was like, but everything she saw now made her heart ache.
This is her home! It's where she grew up, carefree and uninhibited, where she can do whatever she wants without any scruples!
Looking at the flames rising into the sky from the mountain, which were even more brutal than the sunset after the scorching sun, Lingxiang was stunned for a moment, then made up her mind and took out a pill from her waist.
The pill is silver-white in color, with a restrained brilliance, and looks very ordinary.
This pill is a Xiaofufang pill that Lingxiang refined when she was living in Ding'an. There are two pills in total, one is top-grade and the other is medium-grade, and this one is the medium-grade pill.
After the battle of Ding'anju, Xiaobai's departure made Lingxiang deeply realize that there are many things in life that are beyond her control. She didn't want to see anyone get hurt because of her, so she tried to develop this pill.
This pill has no name yet, but it was made by Lingxiang on a whim. It aims to use the power of the outer pill to guide the spirit of the inner pill, temporarily improving the cultivation level so as to perform more powerful spells.
While this was theoretically possible, Lingxiang had no idea if it would actually work; after all, she had never tried it before. Furthermore, forcibly activating internal energy would undoubtedly have significant side effects, though what those were was still unknown.
Moreover, in order to stimulate the power of the inner elixir, one must have a complete inner elixir.
Although Lingxiang is at the Condensation Pill Stage of the Foundation Establishment Dao, her cultivation level is strange.
There are three realms in the foundation-building path: the wandering spirit realm, the concentrated spirit realm, and the elixir-condensing realm.
The so-called wandering of the mind means to circulate qi to open the meridians, relax the muscles and tendons, and use the method of introspection to explore the deficiencies of the body and make up for them; concentrating the mind means to gather the internal qi of the body, and build a qi pool in a corner of the sea of consciousness to nourish the qi; and condensing the elixir means to gather the qi in the sea of consciousness and nourish it with qi essence. When the time is ripe, you can condense the qi into elixir, break through the golden elixir realm, and step into the elixir formation realm.
Those with damaged spiritual roots could only reach the Qi Refining Stage at best, but Lingxiang had been in the Wandering Spiritual Stage since she knew what was happening, and within two or three years, she had broken through and condensed the elixir. However, those with damaged spiritual roots were unable to cultivate Qi, and without complete Qi, the elixir would not form, let alone condense the inner elixir and break through to the Golden Elixir Stage.
Moreover, since ancient times, no cultivator has ever been able to embark on the path of foundation building without undergoing physical training and Qi refinement. Lingxiang had discovered this a long time ago, but she had never figured out the reason.
If it was because she inherited the blood of the ancient god Tumi, Lingxiang couldn't feel anything. But if it was because of her half-demon body, Lingxiang could practice the Five Elements.
It's not that demons can't practice Taoism, but from ancient times to the present, no demon has ever studied Taoism. Demons have their own unique way of cultivation, and most demons disdain the Taoist methods of humans.
Furthermore, Lingxiang couldn't nourish Qi, so it couldn't condense into a pill. Therefore, theoretically, this pill might not be effective for her, not to mention the potential backlash. However, she was at the end of her rope and didn't have time to think about it.
The man with the ghost face only had time to see a flash of silver light and wanted to reach out to stop it, but the pill had already been swallowed by Lingxiang.
For Guimian, regardless of his purpose or who he was, the most important thing right now was to keep Lingxiang safe. However, the resolute look on Lingxiang's face when she swallowed the pill just now made him worried.
It’s really hard to say what this girl will do.
Just when Guimian was worried, he saw Lingxiang's whole body overflowing with spiritual energy, strands and wisps of it, soft yet tough, entwining and floating away.
As soon as the pill recipe entered her stomach, Lingxiang quickly twisted her fingers to stimulate it. Instantly, she felt spiritual energy rapidly flowing through her body, and her heart meridians became unprecedentedly clear. She didn't know where these streams of spiritual power came from, but although she felt that spiritual power was abundant, her dantian was still empty.
Dantian is where the Qi pool condenses the elixir. This can only mean that one's path in this life has come to an end.
Never mind, even if that’s the case, so what?
Lingxiang stood up and walked towards the stone steps, making some complicated hand gestures.
This hand gesture was very strange, and Ghost Face had no idea what she was going to do. But this was understandable. Not only Ghost Face, but even the several elders in the Wuji Hall present couldn't guess what Lingxiang was up to.
This is a technique that Lingxiang comprehended on her own. The first move is the Lotus Heart Sword Technique, which gathers spiritual energy into the fingers, using the fingers as swords to kill evil. The second move is the Lotus Heart Sword Formation, which uses lotus petals as blades and exudes fragrance. Within ten steps, there is a sword formation.
Lingxiang had used these two moves before, but there was a third move that had never been shown to anyone.
It wasn't that Lingxiang didn't want to perform the third move; given her personality, she'd be eager to post notices and publicly announce her prowess. However, even though she had mastered the third move, her cultivation was shallow, and she lacked the spiritual power to perform it. Every time she tried, she ended in failure.
But now she has been given such an opportunity.
The Lotus Heart Technique is essentially a technique of the five elements. The first form is based on wood and supplemented by metal. The second form is based on metal and supplemented by water. As for the third form, it is a technique of the mutual generation of water and wood.
After a flurry of complicated hand gestures, the spiritual energy that overflowed from his body flew up like a shawl in the wind, gathering or entwining, rising into the air.
After a cup of tea, the spiritual threads dissipated, and only lightning and thunder were seen in the dark clouds, with a continuous rumbling sound. The number of demon soldiers flying down seemed to have decreased a lot.
Thunder roared in the clouds, and the swirling dark clouds became even more turbulent, rolling and spreading, covering the entire Jiuque Mountains.
A silver snake streaked across the sky, as if splitting the dark clouds apart. Suddenly, heavy rain poured down, soaking Jiuque Mountain completely without any warning.
The flames on Mount Jiuque, which were originally shooting up into the sky, gradually died down in this sudden rainstorm, and even the smoke and dust disappeared completely.
Seeing this, Guimian was amazed: This little girl actually has such ability?
But what Ghost Face didn't know was that this rain was not ordinary rain.
The disciples who were lying in a mess outside the Wuji Hall gradually woke up in this rainstorm. The external injuries on their bodies gradually healed under the rain, and even the internal injuries caused by gravity were not as painful as before.
"This is..." Ghost Face couldn't help but exclaimed.
"I haven't decided on a name yet," the graceful figure in the rain said, standing tall, looking not at all embarrassed, "but I think 'Into the Abyss' is quite appropriate."
The silver dragon enters the deep water, and its soft scales awaken.
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