Chapter 27: Escape was very forced and domineering to cleanse her meridians...
Xu Xingxing's breathing suddenly stopped, just like a butterfly breaking through the last layer of cocoon, just like sunlight shattering thick fog, just like a tender bud breaking through layers of frost and thick soil, and finally seeing the warm spring sunshine all over the fields.
She had never felt that there was such a beautiful sound in the world. It was as if a skylight had been chiseled open in the dank hell. Even the tiny gap was enough to instantly surround her heart, which had been stuffy and depressed, with oxygen. Even though the breath was very weak, it was enough to give her floating soul a place to rest.
This is what is called a sense of security.
"Don't be afraid, I heard you."
The sound was like a gentle breeze, still coming slowly.
"Don't be afraid. This barrier will open in less than half an incense stick."
"Don't be afraid."
"I am here."
There was another muffled thunder-like sound coming from the outside world. It seemed that Xiao Hei had strengthened his skills again.
Zhou Qingying sensed something was wrong, opened his eyes, and frowned slightly: "What is this? That beast?"
The ban was lifted. Xu Xingxing spat, slightly reducing the rusty taste in her mouth. She looked at Zhou Qing with contempt: "No."
"It's your father."
Zhou Qing wasn't annoyed. Seeing he couldn't get any information out of him, he continued, "Except for you, all the cultivators who came from Kunlun this time are at the Jindan stage. I can see that the remaining one is your spirit beast. I never thought he had such abilities."
He looked at Xu Xingxing: "Now that the formation is complete, you will be able to break through to the Divine Transformation realm in less than an hour. Are you sure you want him to hinder you?"
Even though she was somewhat surprised that Zhou Qing knew the technique of transmitting sound over a thousand miles, she was still amused by his choice of words:
"Is there something wrong with your brain? When did I ever say I wanted to break through to the God Transformation stage? Now, what I really want is to break this weird formation, leave this damn place, and beat you up in the process!"
Zhou Qing looked at Xu Xingxing for a long time, then suddenly smiled. "You really are like your mother. No one has dared to speak to me like this in a long time."
He laughed for a while and said, "I understand what you're thinking now, but you don't want your fellow Taoist and the worm in the pond anymore, do you?"
"Yes! Of course not!" Xu Xingxing glanced at Lin Yue, who was wrapped tightly in a blood curse, and cursed, "Put her down right away. I'll consider sparing your life after we break through the barrier!"
"Although this method of absorbing spiritual energy is ruthless, I can see that you have deep feelings for her and would leave a trace of spiritual energy for her. She wouldn't die, but her appearance would age. But if the barrier is forcibly opened..." Zhou Qing suddenly paused and asked her, "Do you know what this barrier is used for?"
Xiao Hei had told her before, but Lin Yue came with her today, so he would not have any connection with this barrier.
"This barrier was created a hundred years ago by a great and evil cultivator from Kunlun. His name was Shi Chen, the leader of a small sect. He was obsessed with evil magic and created this technique to cover up his own actions."
Zhou Qing regained his previous calm expression. "Every brick, tile, and soul here are connected to the barrier. If we break it from the outside, I'm afraid this fellow Taoist and the insect will be reduced to ashes."
Xu Xingxing's pupils shrank slightly. Listening to the sound of the barrier being bombed outside, he looked at Zhou Qing who was calm and composed, and felt his heart being tightened again.
"Xing'er, I'm your elder after all, with far more experience and knowledge than you. How could I be so unprepared?" His tone remained calm and composed. "But don't be afraid. Your life isn't tied to this barrier. Even if it's finally broken, you'll be safe."
"It's a pity that this formation has wasted all my time."
"It's up to Xing'er to decide how to choose."
Zhou Qing closed his eyes and chanted a spell, casting a spell in the formation. Xu Xingxing saw the blood curse suddenly thicken. The pain that she had just been able to bear suddenly became intense. She couldn't hold it back and almost cried out. She bit her lower lip tightly, trying to calm her mind. She said to the person on the other end of the line in her heart:
"Xiao Hei, stop."
The outside noise stopped for only a moment before he increased his power.
The man's voice came over: "But someone threatened you?"
"Lin Yue's life..."
For some reason, whenever she heard this person's voice, she always felt inexplicably wronged. Tears flowed uncontrollably from her eyes, and she sobbed softly, "She's connected to this barrier. If the barrier is broken... she will die."
"Are you safe?"
"I'm safe, I just can't mobilize my spiritual power. I'm poisoned."
There was no more talk from the other end, but the burning sound became louder, and one could faintly hear the sound of the barrier failing to hold.
She was panicking and said hurriedly, "Xiao Hei, stop now!"
"What do other people's lives have to do with me?"
"But it's about me! Just think of it as being for me!"
The sound of the barrier shattering finally stopped. Xiao Hei was silent for a long time. Just when Xu Xingxing thought he would not speak, a cold voice came from her heart:
"Don't forget that there is a beast contract between you and me. Protect your life."
Xu Xingxing felt a pang of bitterness in her heart after hearing this, but there were more important things at hand. She said, "Xiao Hei, I have a plan."
Seeing that the outside had returned to silence, Zhou Qing chuckled, "Xing'er, just be obedient."
"It hurts so much, uncle, can you be gentler?" After saying this, she also felt that this line was a bit strange, but she couldn't care less. She wanted to delay it for a while longer. If she continued to suck it out like this, Lin Yue's skills would be sucked dry in less than half an hour.
Zhou Qing looked at her for a moment and said, "Just bear with it."
“…”
Xu Xingxing asked again, "Uncle Master, what is your real name? I can't keep calling you Zhou Qing."
"unimportant."
"Uncle-master, I want to ascend to the realm of spiritual transformation, but if my father knew that I used such evil magic, he would break off relations with me!" Xu Xingxing tried his best to talk nonsense to divert his attention, so that the blood curse would be of no help to him and would slow down a little.
Zhou Qing's body stiffened, and he smiled bitterly, "It's just his temper."
"Then what should I do?" Xu Xingxing said aggrievedly, "I am a savior, how can I just leave Kunlun?"
"So what if you leave? Just follow me."
"Uncle Master, you have lofty ambitions and care about the people, so why did you help Zhou Wuxia?"
Zhou Qing probably wondered why she was being so noisy and was about to raise her hand to silence her, but Xu Xingxing was too familiar with the operation of this spiritual power and hurriedly said, "No, no, no, Uncle Master, I won't ask any more questions."
She urged in her heart: "Xiao Hei, are you done?"
There was no response from the other end.
It should be difficult.
Yue Baiyin once said that if the relationship between humans and animals reaches a certain level, even their skills can be borrowed from each other.
When she asked about the method, Yue Baiyin shook his head, indicating that he didn't know. He said that this method was completely controlled by the spirit beast, and the spirit beast needed to trust its master wholeheartedly. The two of them depended on each other for life and death, and only then could the spirit beast use this method to protect its master's life at the critical moment of life and death.
When she told Xiao Hei about this just now, his response was a bit perfunctory. It was understandable that for the two of them, they couldn't even get over the hurdle of trust, let alone relying on each other for life and death.
She still needs to rely on herself.
Her body was already somewhat numb from the intense pain. Xu Xingxing tried to mobilize her spiritual power to break free from the restraints. Zhou Qing noticed her movements and said:
"Don't move."
"Master, it hurts so much, it really hurts." This was the truth. Her whole body felt like it was bitten by ants, and her meridians seemed to be pulled by external force. She felt pain from the inside out.
Zhou Qing paused, withdrew his spiritual power, and said, "Just bear with it a little longer, it will be over soon."
Xu Xingxing felt lighter under his body, and the severe pain was immediately relieved a lot.
Perhaps because he saw how painful her expression was, he actually answered her question: "Zhou Qing came to me seeking the soul-shaping method. At that time, I was about to break through to the Void Refining Realm, and he wasn't a kind person either. So I absorbed his skills. After all, the method of absorbing spiritual energy was not orthodox. My mortal body couldn't withstand so much spiritual energy and quickly collapsed. So I used his body and became Zhou Qing."
"As for my name, I do not wish to mention it. Just assume that I am dead."
Xu Xingxing tried to break through his spell of immobilization, but because the toxins in her body had not been cleared, her spiritual power was stagnant. She was afraid that Zhou Qing would find out, so she could only mobilize a little spiritual power to grind slowly.
She then asked, "Then are you willing to help Zhou Wuxia this year?"
"He can give me what I need, so why not help him?" Zhou Qing said, "He originally just wanted to keep his mother's soul by his side. I helped that woman change her body. In exchange for this, he helped me build this house and gave me the power to do whatever I want. It's the best of both worlds, so why not help him?"
"But..." Xu Xingxing was speechless for a moment. If that were the case, Rongjun's death seemed more likely to be caused by Zhou Qing...
"If there is no war later, will you regret what you are doing now?" Xu Xingxing finally spoke.
She thought of the story: a train, two tracks, one person on one side, and a hundred people on the other side. How to choose?
Zhou Qing is not a bad person by nature, and he is a person who likes to dwell on trivial matters. According to him, everything he does is for the sake of the people, so he can cruelly and decisively choose the direction of the train, even if the people on the track are very innocent.
In his opinion, saving a hundred people is the right thing to do, even if it requires sacrificing that innocent person.
Zhou Qing looked at her and said coldly, "Tianji Pavilion can't be wrong."
Suddenly, Xu Xingxing sensed something. She curled her lips and sarcastically said, "Zhou Qing, don't be so paranoid. There are many ways to save the world, but you choose the most radical one. You kill civilians and use it as a pretext for saving the world, as if they died for the great cause, not for you. Wake up and stop pushing yourself into the abyss!"
Zhou Qing frowned slightly and was about to refute.
Xu Xingxing seized the opportunity and suddenly exerted force, mobilizing the ice and snow to freeze him. Suddenly, a dark green Hades snake jumped out from the blood pool, opened its mouth wide and swallowed Zhou Qing into its stomach!
She used her spiritual power without authorization, and the poison in her body began to take effect, causing her to spit out blood.
Xiao Hei's slightly anxious voice came from my heart: "What's wrong? What are you trying to do?"
"It's okay," Xu Xingxing wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, "I won't die."
The Hades Snake turned around and bit the iron chain that bound her and tore it with all his might. Before long, he pulled the chain directly out of the wall!
After Xu Xingxing broke free, she did not dare to waste time and directly summoned ice and snow to freeze the wriggling blood curse. Seeing that the formation had finally stopped, she spat out another mouthful of blood. Before she could breathe a sigh of relief, she saw the Hades Snake suddenly scream, and Zhou Qing actually broke out of the Hades Snake's belly!
Blood scattered everywhere, and the Hades Snake lost its strength and fell to the ground. The blood spilled onto her body, but she did not dodge. Instead, she flew forward and used magic to freeze the wounds of the Hades Snake. She had learned some magic to heal spirit beasts, and she kept injecting blood into the Hades Snake's body.
The poison surged in her body, colliding with her meridians wantonly, but she seemed unaware and just blindly treated the Hades Snake.
"Xing'er, you are too impulsive." There was no trace of blood on Zhou Qing's body, and even his aura had not changed.
Xu Xingxing no longer had time to argue with him. Her mouth was full of blood. As soon as she opened her mouth, the air in her body would leak out and she would no longer be able to mobilize her spiritual power.
Perhaps sensing her condition, Xiao Hei's voice rang out again: "You're killing yourself!"
She no longer had the energy to respond.
A revolving lantern was about to appear before her eyes. She smiled bitterly in her heart, wondering what she was trying to achieve. It seemed that she had no way to get things done.
"Xu Xing'er, speak up!"
My name is not Xu Xing'er, my name is Xu Xingxing.
She wanted to say so, but she couldn't open her mouth.
If she died now, no one in this world would remember her.
Perhaps it was the release of poison or the loss of spiritual power, she felt extremely cold, even colder than when she was in the blood pool just now.
She missed her grandfather very much, wanted to go home, wanted to sleep in a warm bed, and was worried about her graduation project.
She had been forcing herself not to think about the fact that she had been in a car accident and that the old man would be very sad because he loved her the most.
It’s okay to die like this, but I don’t know if I can go back to my own world. Even if I can turn into a soul and enter grandpa’s dream to say goodbye to him, it would be fine.
His consciousness became increasingly blurred, but the wound was finally under control.
This snake is pitiful, but I'm sorry, it seems I can't take you out...
A wave of heat suddenly surged into her body, forcefully and domineeringly washing her entire meridians, diluting the toxins in her body in just a moment!
Her nerves, which were just confused and chaotic, suddenly became light, and she felt that her whole body was full of strength again!
Heige! From today on, you are my real brother!
"Xing'er, if you interrupt the spell forcefully like this, we'll have to start all over again," Zhou Qiang walked towards her. "You shouldn't be so stubborn. After you reach the Divine Transformation stage, I'll give this bug to you, okay?"
The Hades Snake raised its head with difficulty and stretched out its tongue towards him, protecting Xu Xingxing between its body.
Xu Xingxing ignored it. She only felt that her spiritual energy was boiling, which was a hundred times better than her usual state.
The two originally opposite spiritual powers were now miraculously integrated in her body. She placed her hand on the iron chain that passed through the body of the Hades Snake, and with a little force, the ice instantly froze the entire chain, and then the firepower directly blew the chain apart.
She touched the body of the Hades Snake and asked:
"Do you still have the strength? Follow me out."
*
Xiao Hei was casting a spell seriously when he suddenly heard a very clear voice coming from the air.
He saw the woman he was worried about, stepping on a giant green snake, rushing out of the fire. Flames erupted behind her, and the sound of the barrier shattering resounded through the heavens and earth. The flames rising into the sky were not as bright as her eyes. She smiled wildly and brightly, and shouted at him:
"Xiao Hei, catch me!"
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