Chapter 72 - Heart Attraction
"Not stable enough! Bingtuzi! Heart! Your mind! Thinking about him! Thinking about him being alive! Thinking about his noisy appearance! Use 'thinking' to guide the evil spirit!" Luo Hongyi shouted sternly while quickly mixing several kinds of spiritual herbal poisonous strains emitting strange vitality in his backpack, as if instructing a clumsy apprentice.
Chu Linyuan's eyelashes trembled violently under his tightly closed eyes.
Amidst the icy torrent of murderous energy, a faint yet scorching thought struggled to separate—not power, but images: Xie Zhao's playful grin as he approached, his endless chatter, the resolute look in his eyes as he burned the talisman blood, the silliness hidden beneath the red tassel at his waist...
This hot thought was like a spark thrown into an ice river, instantly opening up a tiny, warm channel in the cold evil energy.
The dark blue mysterious ice evil spirit followed the guidance of this thought and no longer froze indiscriminately, but turned into an extremely thin but extremely tough ice soul shield, gently and carefully wrapping, freezing and sealing the swaying red soul fire in Xie Zhao's sea of consciousness!
It is like sealing a fragile seed deep in the black ice, isolating it from the erosion of the outside world and stopping its withering.
Plop… plop…
Under the effect of the Ice Soul Locking Technique, Xie Zhao's heartbeat became weaker and the intervals between beats became longer. Like a creature sleeping in an extremely cold place, his vital signs dropped to the lowest point, but... that little bit of life was forcibly locked away!
"It's done!" Luo Hongyi let out a long sigh, her tense nerves relaxed a little, and sweat almost soaked her coarse cloth clothes.
She looked at Chu Linyuan's face, which turned pale as paper and shaky after he withdrew his fingers, and the red light on the tassels at his waist that seemed to have brightened again. A trace of extremely complicated emotions flashed in her eyes, and finally turned into a cold snort, "It's a good thing that this piece of ice is still useful!"
"Second brother...he..." Su Tang looked at Xie Zhao who seemed to be frozen in sleep, with tears still on his little face.
"You won't die for now." Luo Hongyi interrupted her, her tone unquestionable, "But you won't survive either.
"Ice Soul Lock is like drinking poison to quench thirst, it won't last long. The most urgent thing is to leave this damn place! The evil spirit is too strong, it is extremely poisonous to his soul recovery!"
She looked around the vast cavern that Uncle Chen had cleared. The majestic ancient dragon skeleton sat there in dead silence, emitting an invisible pressure. "This place...can't stay any longer."
"Go... back to the sect!" Tie Niu said in a muffled voice, and his huge body turned towards the direction of the passage they came from. The brute force of the stars surged, ready to clear the way.
"I can't leave." A hoarse and tired voice sounded.
Everyone was startled and looked towards the source of the sound.
Uncle Chen had unknowingly dragged his broom and slowly walked to the bottom of the majestic ancient dragon skeleton that was as big as a mountain.
His hunched figure looked as small as an ant beneath the massive dark-gold skeleton. His cloudy old eyes didn't look at the others, but instead stared intently at the rough ground beneath the dragon skeleton's spine, composed of solidified lava and sinister crystals.
There was a huge hole left after the Immortal-Slaying Spear was pulled out.
Deep within the hole, there was no rock, but rather a swirling mass of liquid evil energy as thick as ink, pure and violent to the extreme! It was like a spring connected to the Eye of the Abyss!
Without the suppression of the Immortal-Slaying Spear and the restraint of the Dragon Skeleton, this "Evil Spring" is becoming active and boiling at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Waves of purer and more violent evil spirits are gushing out from it and merging into the void, causing the pressure in the entire space to slowly and continuously increase!
Uncle Chen gently tapped the edge of the roiling evil spring with the tip of his broom and said hoarsely, "The road... is blocked by this thing. It's even more dangerous outside."
His meaning was very clear. The return passage had been completely disrupted and blocked by the energy released from the revived core of the evil spring.
The evil spirit of the God Burial Abyss in the outside world, after losing the restraint of the core, has probably become so violent that it is difficult to pass through.
"Then...what should we do?" Su Tang's face turned pale.
Uncle Chen's cloudy eyes slowly raised, sweeping across the huge dragon skeleton, and finally fell on the winding spine that looked like a continuous mountain range.
The broom in his hand very slowly pointed to a relatively flat bone platform at the highest point of the dragon skeleton's spine, near the bottom of the skull.
There, the huge dark golden dragon-bone platform as big as a square emitted a faint luster under the reflection of the evil spirit swirling around it, appearing relatively "clean".
"Up there." Uncle Chen uttered those two words hoarsely, then stopped talking. He dragged his broom and slowly began to sweep away the rubble thrown up by the energy shock near the dragon's toes. It seemed as if clearing a temporary place to stay was his only concern at the moment.
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