Chapter 66: Tianlei Eats Too Much
Qi Qing used himself as bait, and indeed, Yue Ji was able to surrender obediently.
He kissed Yue Ji's forehead to comfort him, and endured the numbness brought by the other's wandering palms. He concentrated and controlled his spiritual power to probe into Yue Ji's meridians again.
Yue Ji subconsciously wanted to eat his spiritual power again, but he was prepared to dodge it. After several unsuccessful attempts, he actually chased him along his meridians, and small frosty flowers bloomed one after another along the way.
The two of them embraced each other, Qi Qing kissed him from time to time to coax him, while using his spiritual power to lead the way.
Just like when Yue Ji first became his disciple six years ago, Qi Qing patiently guided his spiritual power to flow through every meridian, carefully combing out the disordered aura.
Slowly, the violent agitation in Yue Ji's body calmed down, and his spiritual power gradually returned to normal. Although he was not conscious yet, his burning body temperature was slightly retaliated by the frost, and he suffered a loss and his temperature was physically lowered.
However, the speed at which the spiritual energy was absorbed increased instead of decreased. Even the old man's secret method could not suppress the surging movement of the spiritual energy. Muffled thunder was heard in the distance.
The storm is coming.
Qi Qing's heart skipped a beat, and he estimated that the time had come. He was about to let go of the hand that was hooked around Yue Ji, but Yue Ji seemed to notice it and buried his head in his chest. His hair gently brushed against his skin, causing a slight itch.
Fearing that this man would bite indiscriminately again regardless of the occasion, the young man raised his hand and pushed his head away. The person in his arms rarely did not make trouble. He stared at him with golden eyes for a few times, his eyelids drooped, and soon closed his eyes.
Is this... a successful coaxing?
Qi Qing's expression relaxed and he let out a long sigh. He didn't care about the red bite marks all over his body and lifted the person up and laid him down.
"The one-stick-long deadline has come." He looked up into the air and shouted, "It's time to fulfill your promise."
As the thunder drew closer, Qi Qing could almost imagine the lightning rushing through the clouds. He wondered how terrifying it would be if it struck down.
The world is changing suddenly, I hope it doesn’t attract too many talents.
There was no answer in the air. Qi Qing touched the wound on his lip and cursed Yue Ji secretly. Just as he was about to ask again, the old man suddenly shouted, "Form a formation!"
Qi Qing was startled, thinking it was a trick, but suddenly his whole body was enveloped by a powerful spiritual pressure.
He looked around the ancestral hall in doubt and saw white figures appearing in every direction. Although they were of different heights, they exuded the aura of being from the same clan. They pinched their hands and formed hand seals to surround Yue Ji in the center.
The spiritual energy in the room was emptied at first, and then it began to surge like a torrential rain. Even more massive and violent spiritual energy poured madly into the ancestral hall along the formation.
Qi Qing opened his eyes wide - this formation was actually helping Yue Ji absorb more spiritual power!
Yue Ji had fallen into complete silence, as if he was very satisfied with the food he had just eaten. The corners of his lips slightly raised, and he assumed a meditation posture, staying in the center of the formation.
The old man slowly appeared beside Yue Ji.
He looked exactly like the one in the painting, even the look of anger at Qi Qing was exactly the same. He looked up and down and snorted coldly, "Why don't you put on your clothes quickly? If someone saw his master like this, how could he be embarrassed?"
Qi Qing sneered, took out a new dress from his ring, and draped it loosely over his shoulders without tying the belt. He said lazily, "Old man, you were the one who asked me to comfort my apprentice, and you were the one who complained that I was not dressed properly... Before you opened your mouth, didn't you think that things would turn out like this?"
"...Master and disciple are equally shameless!"
The old man waved his sleeves heavily, ignored him, walked straight behind Yue Ji and started practicing.
Qi Qing stood aside with his arms folded. He looked relaxed, but there was a hint of doubt in his eyes.
He didn't know if it was his illusion, but the old man always seemed to favor Yue Ji in his words and deeds, as if he was a junior who needed protection, and he always spoke from Yue Ji's side - even though the ridiculous thing just now happened right under his nose.
...Is this the charm of Long Aotian?
Now that it had happened, Qi Qing calmed down and didn't feel too embarrassed. Anyway, besides the old man, there were only him and that bastard apprentice, and no one else saw it.
The apprentice needs to clean up, but not now.
He swallowed a pill, sat cross-legged and regulated his breathing for a while, and his spiritual energy gradually filled up. When he was tidying up his inner clothes, the young man's fingertips accidentally touched the wet marks left by Yue Ji on his chest. His ears felt hot, and he quickly took out a towel and wiped it clean.
I don’t know how much Yue Ji has chewed just now. Is this guy born in the year of the dog?
He put on all his clothes unhappily, picked up the belt and tightened it, then walked to sit in front of Yue Ji and began to protect him.
Breaking through the Spiritualization Stage is an extremely important step in a cultivator's cultivation. At this point, the cultivator has already stepped halfway into the door of immortality, the soul can leave the body at will, and can even vaguely touch the laws of heaven, which is a world of difference from the previous realm.
The spiritual energy around Yue Ji became increasingly condensed, as if being suppressed by an invisible force, and the air was so heavy that it was suffocating.
The spiritual pressure continued to rise, becoming so strong that even Qi Qing felt a tightness in his chest and it became increasingly difficult to breathe.
When it reaches a certain critical point, everything becomes silent in an instant.
The next second, a bolt of thunder exploded right next to my ear!
“Boom——!”
The lightning was so bright that it struck the ancestral hall, and it was deafening. Qi Qing only felt that everything in front of him was white, and the world turned white. He could no longer hear anything, and only the thunder came one after another.
He felt a little warmth flowing out of his ear, and when he touched it, it turned out to be blood.
After all, the body of a Yuanying stage cultivator could not withstand a direct strike from a thunderbolt of such intensity. If he continued to hold on, he would be seriously injured.
But if he just stepped back and left Yue Ji alone with this strange old man... he immediately rejected this idea.
This person's origin is unknown, who knows if he is a friend or an enemy? In the original novel, Wen Lao, who should have admired Yue Ji, actually harbored inexplicable malice towards Yue Ji in reality. How could he trust this old man in front of him?
Sensing his distrustful gaze, the old man raised his eyelids slightly, and he still had the strength to spare. With a flick of his finger, a protective shield formed by spiritual power suddenly enveloped Qi Qing.
"Young man, don't be distracted." His tone was calm, but there was a hint of helplessness: "I can't stand him going crazy again."
Is he really protecting Yue Ji?
Qi Qing's eyes moved slightly, and he became even more surprised and suspicious. He wondered who this old man was.
However, the current situation was urgent, and he couldn't swagger out to take out the original book to unlock it. He changed his hand gestures and sent the recovered spiritual power into Yue Ji's meridians.
When the thunder raged from the sky, he would use his spiritual power to warm it, one destroying and one protecting, so that no one would be hurt too badly.
The lightning struck continuously. After who knows how many times it struck, Qi Qing suddenly opened his eyes and looked in one direction vigilantly.
Someone is coming.
He retracted his gesture, and the cold air condensed in his palm, and the ice sword quietly took shape.
Soon, there were several restrained knocks on the door. "May I ask which Taoist fellow is here to transcend the tribulation? Would you please show yourself?"
“…”
Qi Qing was silent for a moment after hearing his question.
Since we know that the person in the room is undergoing a tribulation, how could anyone answer?
This is like going to an air conditioner repairman and asking him what his job is - you will only get a speechless look in return.
Under the guise of courtesy, he was testing whether there were any companions in the room. If someone was not very smart, he would probably have to answer him.
The old man didn't even raise his eyelids and said, "Don't pay attention to it. He can't break the barrier."
Qi Qing said nothing, standing with his sword in his arms, his eyes moving back and forth between the door and the old man.
The knocker saw that no one answered, but spiritual energy was still pouring into the house. His tone suddenly changed: "In that case... I'll come in and help you protect the law?"
As he spoke, the man began to push the door. The stone door was not locked, but it did not move at all.
He used his spiritual power in disbelief, but still failed to shake it at all.
"...Fellow Daoist, why are you still so formal?" He gave a dry laugh and immediately started banging on the door.
Just like in the zombie siege, do we have to use courtesy before force?
Qi Qing sneered in his heart, and suddenly his expression became serious - several more auras were approaching, and the people who came this time were stronger.
He was worried, not sure how long the barrier could last under the joint attack of these people.
Fortunately, the thunder in the sky has weakened and the breakthrough is nearing its end.
The person who knocked on the door seemed to notice something and paused for a moment. After a few breaths, the sound of deliberately suppressed conversation came from outside the door.
One of the voices was somewhat similar to the voices of the group of disciples from the major sect during the day.
Qi Qing's heart tightened and he suddenly thought of a question.
Shouldn't those people have already arrived on the island? Why is there no trace of them in the ancestral hall?
An intuition that something was wrong flashed through his mind, but before he could think about it further, a sudden loud noise interrupted his train of thought.
"boom--"
The piercing sound of bells exploded in the young man's ears, so loud that it vibrated his eardrums and almost drowned out the lingering sound of thunder.
He covered his ears, his pupils suddenly shrank… This loudness was like a high-level magic weapon that he had only seen in books. It was rumored that this magic weapon could shatter high-level barriers. There were only a few of them in the entire cultivation world, but someone from outside could actually take it out.
Qi Qing's face became solemn, and he had a bad feeling.
Sure enough, after the bell rang a few times, the wispy mist in the room began to dissipate.
The old man frowned: "It's going to be troublesome."
Qi Qing held his breath and said in a deep voice, "Let Yue Ji continue to break through, and you follow me to meet the enemy."
"Meet the enemy?"
Qi Qing squinted at him and said, "You are responsible for this matter, but you don't fight. Do you want to be a coward behind me and Yue Ji?"
The old man smiled contemptuously and said, "Why bother?"
He just pressed his hand and triggered some mechanism. A few muffled sounds were heard from the ground, and a deep tunnel entrance suddenly appeared before his eyes.
Qi Qing took a quick look with his spiritual sense and found that there was no danger inside, but he didn't know where it led to. A wave of hot air hit his face.
"Go down." The old man said calmly, "It just so happens that the food down there should be cooked. I'll just consider this as compensation for you."
Qi Qing was wondering when he saw him throwing something over.
He raised his hand and took it. It turned out to be a key. It was covered with bronze rust and red lines were faintly visible on the handle. It looked like... half a lotus?
Qi Qing suddenly understood something, clenched his fingers and said: "...Ten Thousand Years Fire Lotus?"
The old man nodded slightly: "You are quite knowledgeable. Although this key is only half, if we go down from here, we can still reach the center of the lava with a little more effort. Whether you can take it away depends on your ability."
Unexpectedly, the other half of the key was in the hands of this unknown old man. Qi Qing was shocked and wanted to ask a few more questions, but suddenly -
The thunder stopped abruptly.
The person who broke through the realm had spiritual energy surging all over his body, but he was still unable to break through the shackles of the last step.
Qi Qing frowned and put his hand on Yue Ji's wrist. His expression changed slightly as he checked and said, "It's bad. He absorbed too much and it's hard for him to digest it all at once."
We must buy some more time...but at this moment, there was a bang at the door.
The door of the ancestral hall was broken open.
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