Chapter 48 Blood Covenant Vine Seal
The two sat back to back, separated by the misty white moonlight, and the atmosphere was awkward and tense.
A Che cautiously walked to the spring and dipped his hands in the water. Pure wood spirit energy flowed from his palms, wrapping around the Moon Dew Lotus like tender green silk threads. The lotus petals trembled, and the dripping moon dew suddenly became denser. Silver points of light merged into the spring water like stars, converging towards Jiang Xuelan and Li Jiuyou.
Clear, pure energy surged through his pores, entering his body. Jiang Xuelan's spirits lifted. The tiny cracks in his sea of consciousness quickly healed under the nourishment of the moon dew, and even the dormant God-killing Gu in his lower back calmed down considerably. He focused his mind, guiding this pure power, along the link of the blood pact, slowly probing into Li Jiuyou's body.
Li Jiuyou's body suddenly stiffened!
A cold, pure force, imbued with a powerful will, flowed irresistibly into his meridians like a trickle of water! This force, unlike his own raging demonic fire, was extremely restrained, yet it carried an unquestionable guiding force, precisely enveloping the restless dark red filaments on his back!
"Ugh..." Li Jiuyou groaned, cold sweat breaking out on his forehead. As his evil thoughts were suppressed, an intense discomfort, a sense of being "invaded," washed over him. He wanted to resist, to expel the icy current, but the coolness of the Moon Dew Spring and the soothing power of the icy current strangely alleviated the pain and irritation brought on by the evil thoughts. Two diametrically opposed sensations tore at his body, causing his muscles to tense as if they were iron.
"Concentrate your mind, draw the demonic fire to protect your heart meridians, and accept it." Jiang Xuelan's cold voice sounded behind him, like a dripping ice spring, with a strange calming power.
Li Jiuyou gritted his teeth, flames flickering in his crimson-gold eyes. He forced himself to suppress his instinctive repulsion, following his instructions and channeling his demonic fire to protect his core, attempting to "accept" the icy current. This feeling was even more stifling than battling the Soul-Sinking Mist!
The power of ice and fire, under the harmony of the pure energy of Yuelu Spring, began a true and passive "fusion" through the bridge of blood covenant.
Jiang Xuelan's icy immortal energy, like the most delicate scalpel, meticulously peeled away and froze the tendrils of evil within Li Jiuyou's body. Meanwhile, Li Jiuyou's demonic fire, guided by Jiang Xuelan, gently burned the frozen and exfoliated filth. A moon-white mist surged violently around them, sometimes condensing into tiny ice crystals, then being evaporated into misty water vapor by a surge of heat.
As the purification deepens, strange changes occur!
The calm surface of Moon Dew Spring reflected the two figures like a mirror. But within that reflection, the scene was distorted and shifting!
In Li Jiuyou's reflection, the dark dungeon of the Zhe clan emerged, cold chains. A young man huddled in a corner, wolfing down half a stolen stale cake, his eyes as fierce and stubborn as a lone wolf. Then the scene shifted, and he was fighting amidst a sea of corpses and blood, just to snatch a fragment of the incomplete fire technique...
Jiang Xuelan's reflection was a blanket of snow and wind. A small figure knelt before a snow-covered grave, fingers purple with cold tightly gripping an icy blue jade buckle. Amidst the blizzard, a blurry figure reached out to him, offering him half a warm piece of dry food emblazoned with flames. Then, turning, it vanished into the snow, leaving behind only a few words that drifted in the wind: "Stay alive... I'll come find you..."
The reflected image flashed by, but it was clearly reflected in the eyes of Man Gu, Xuan Jia, and A Che, the guardians at the springside! Moreover, the two people, closely connected by the blood pact, clearly sensed each other's deep-seated, embarrassing yet resilient past at the soul level!
"!!" Li Jiuyou's red-gold pupils suddenly contracted! The blurry figure who handed him dry food in the snow... that flame pattern...
Jiang Xuelan's icy blue pupils were also trembling! That young man with eyes as fierce as a lone wolf in the Zhe clan dungeon...
At this moment, the Blood Covenant Vine Seal burst into an unprecedentedly brilliant light! It was as if two lonely stars were suddenly drawn closer together under the influence of gravity!
What was even more bizarre was that the two people's heartbeats, which had been disordered due to the purification, were strangely... **synchronized** under the forced pull of the blood contract at the moment the reflected image flashed by!
Plop! Plop! Plop!
A powerful heartbeat resonated like the beating of a drum, resonating between their backs pressed tightly together (due to the energy pull, they had unknowingly moved to within a foot of each other)! Scalding body heat and icy immortal energy passed through the thin fabric of their clothing, and the resonant heartbeats were like invisible hammers, hammering fiercely at the rock-hard cognitive barriers of the two straight men!
Li Jiuyou only felt the cold area on his back. The heartbeat vibration at this moment made his scalp tingle more than the evil thoughts eroding it! He suddenly wanted to move forward -
"Don't move!" Jiang Xuelan's voice was filled with a barely perceptible urgency, "If you haven't cleared your evil thoughts, you will fail!" He was also shaken by the strong, hot heartbeat behind him, causing his sea of consciousness to churn. He forced himself to maintain the output of icy immortal power, but his fingertips trembled slightly.
The two of them felt like they were nailed to the spring, their backs stiff, their heartbeats forced to maintain that damned synchronization under the mysterious power of the Blood Pact and the Moon Dew Spring! Every resonant heartbeat was like a small earthquake at the soul level, shaking their minds and causing those deeply buried fragments of memories belonging to each other to be repeatedly washed away in their sea of consciousness.
By the spring, Grandma Qingteng was leaning on a wooden stick, her deep amber eyes staring at the two people standing stiffly in the spring water, and the ice and fire energy that resonated and vibrated around their bodies due to their synchronized heartbeats. Her old face showed an elusive understanding, as if she knew everything.
She spoke slowly, her voice penetrating the steaming mist, carrying an ancient rhythm:
"The vines are born in pairs, sharing the same breath and life. Ice and fire are originally opposites, they counteract each other... but also give birth to each other. The Chaos Altar is the guide, the falling void is the contract, the moon dew cleanses the dust, and the soul is illuminated for the first time..." She paused, her eyes cast towards the huge vine dome floating above the Emerald Dream Lake in the depths of the forest, and her tone turned solemn.
"Children, I can point you to the location of the Jianmu wreckage. But this time... the evil god's remains have awakened, the blood chain has collapsed, and the aura of decadence may have contaminated the roots of the wreckage. To achieve life, you must first face decay. The vines entangled within your bodies are shackles, but also... the only key. Use them wisely."
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