Li Xiuchen's endurance was obviously worse than Luo Jianqing had imagined. Luo Jianqing only waited for half an hour, cut off some of his flesh, and was about to peel off his skin when Li Xiuchen rolled over in pain, and told the truth with tears and snot.
"When I was training in the past, I got a treasure. This treasure can make me immortal. As long as my soul is not broken, I can be resurrected. Now I am outside the ninth dangerous level of the Cliff of Broken Love. They are all surrounded there, waiting to capture you and Xuan Lingzi. You must not go out. I really didn't lie, I didn't lie!"
Li Xiuchen, who was missing two arms, looked extremely pitiful, with tears streaming down his face. He fell to the ground like a long stick, with blood and flesh all over his body.
Luo Jianqing ignored Li Xiuchen's miserable state. He thought carefully for a moment and asked, "Yin Ji should be outside. Who else is there?"
Li Xiuchen explained everything in detail, "There's also Hao Xingzi, the Ghost Flame Patriarch of the Broken Soul Sect, the Bai family's ancestor, the Yun family, the Mo family, the Wei family, the Que family... They all sent people, and there were also quite a few independent cultivators." After a pause, Li Xiuchen remembered, "The demon tribe! Quite a few of them came too, many of them were demon lords in the Mahayana and Tribulation Crossing stages!"
Luo Jianqing lowered his eyes and looked at him: "Did you lie?"
Li Xiuchen cried, "I really didn't lie!"
Luo Jianqing asked calmly, "Master Du Juetian didn't come?"
A faint light flashed in Li Xiuchen's eyes, and he nodded vigorously: "He didn't come, he didn't come at all."
Luo Jianqing suddenly smiled: "Then he will be here soon, right?"
Li Xiuchen suddenly didn't dare to speak anymore.
Luo Jianqing stepped forward, his eyes calmly gazing at the utterly bewildered young monk before him. He gazed intently at his face, his tear-stained eyes, his expression filled with pleading for mercy, his eagerness to kneel down before him. He sighed, suddenly unsure of what he was clinging to.
It was this kind of thing that caused him to die without a burial place in his previous life?
Luo Jianqing asked, "Just now you seemed to recognize the flame I was using. Why did you say it was your Phoenix Fire?"
Li Xiuchen suddenly fell silent, refusing to speak. Luo Jianqing calmly raised his finger and, with a slight movement, tore a piece of flesh from Li Xiuchen's lip. He cried out in pain. Luo Jianqing said, "I can heal your mouth and allow you to speak again, and then I can disable it. If you really don't want to talk, that's fine."
Li Xiuchen immediately said, "I'll tell you, I'll tell you! I once met a hidden great power who told me I could obtain the Phoenix Fire. Since then, I've been very interested in it and read a lot of information about it. The moment you used it, I recognized it. And Elder Du Jue Tian is indeed coming soon, and it should be at least a month away. He seems to be in seclusion to strive for the middle stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, so he hasn't come yet. He really hasn't come yet, really!"
Luo Jianqing's eyes wandered over Li Xiuchen's face, his expression suspicious and his lips slightly pursed.
Li Xiuchen quickly swore an oath to himself, promising that he was not lying. If Du Jue Tianlao came now, he would be struck by lightning and die a miserable death.
"Then why don't you tell me why your storage ring is empty?" Luo Jianqing finally laughed. He asked, "Why don't you swear another poisonous oath to the heavens, saying that you believed you could possess the Phoenix Fire because of some inexplicable fortune-telling, and that only when your primordial spirit is shattered will you die."
Li Xiuchen suddenly opened his eyes wide and couldn't say a word.
The smile on Luo Jianqing's face grew wider and wider, but such a bright and warm smile could not make Li Xiuchen feel a bit of warmth at this moment. His heart felt like it had fallen into an ice cellar, so cold that his teeth couldn't help but tremble.
After a long while, Li Xiuchen said in a hoarse voice, "I...I really didn't lie."
Luo Jianqing didn't look at him again, but only looked towards the Wutong tree, then turned back to look at the exit of the ninth level of danger. It was obvious that that direction must be the exit, because all the cultivators who came to the Wutong tree came from that direction, and that direction was also the direction of the abyss that Senior Chi Yun had mentioned before disappearing.
After a moment's hesitation, Luo Jianqing pulled a binding rope from his ring, tied up Li Xiuchen, and threw him into the boundless mountains. Before leaving, Luo Jianqing thought for a moment and pierced Li Xiuchen's other eye with his sword. At the same time, another burst of sword energy pierced Li Xiuchen's left eye, which was about to heal, causing both eyes to bleed and he howled in pain.
Luo Jianqing would never dare to underestimate a son of heaven like Li Xiuchen. He believed that if he did not do something drastic, Li Xiuchen would have a good chance of escaping from the Immortal Binding Rope even in the face of numerous dangers.
After Luo Jianqing finished all this, he quickly turned and flew towards the sycamore tree. Behind him, he could hear Li Xiuchen cursing. The language was so vulgar that Luo Jianqing actually wanted to laugh. He had an inexplicable feeling that if his master heard these words, he probably wouldn't even know he was cursing.
Luo Jianqing rushed to the paulownia tree as fast as he could and found Xuan Lingzi.
He gently stroked the rough trunk of the sycamore tree, caressing the bark that had endured tens of thousands of years. The tree seemed to sense something, gently swaying its branches, making a rustling sound. A few vines slowly spiraled down, wrapping around Luo Jianqing's arm, as if whispering comfort.
Luo Jianqing chuckled softly and said, "I have to leave here first, Wutong. If I don't leave now, an enemy I can't resist will come."
The parasol tree swayed slightly.
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