Feng Shui - Chapter 42
However, Monk Liujie seemed not to hear, and forcefully rolled up his wide sleeves, revealing his left hand. Suddenly, a pure white Buddhist light appeared on Monk Liujie's left hand, and then Monk Liujie waved his palm again towards Feng Shui and Zhou Feiliu in the air.
In an instant, a huge, pure white Buddha palm materialized from the left hand of Monk Liujie. In the center of this palm was a blue swastika. In the blink of an eye, this illusory Buddha palm was in front of Feng Shui and Zhou Feiliu.
"There's no escaping it..." Zhou Feiliu cried out in despair.
However, Feng Shui moved even faster, swiftly flipping his hand, still using the "wind from under the sleeve" technique, and a huge blue cloak appeared in front of Feng Shui and Zhou Feiliu. Just then, the Buddha's palm struck the blue cloak with a muffled "thump," like hitting a large cowhide drum. Zhou Feiliu clearly saw a huge handprint protruding from the cloak.
"Subduing Demon Prajna Palm..." Feng Shui's lips curled slightly upward as he murmured.
"Wow, that's amazing..." Zhou Feiliu exhaled deeply, still feeling a lingering fear.
"Hehe, I didn't expect these Vajra Subduers of the True Word Sect to be quite capable." Feng Shui put away the blue cloak he had been wearing and exclaimed.
"Feng Huanzong, what was that cloak you were wearing just now?" Zhou Feiliu realized that the cloak Feng Shui had just taken out must be a powerful magic weapon, and his greed subsided.
"Hehe... You don't need to worry about this; it's not suitable for you." Feng Shui saw through Zhou Feiliu's thoughts and smiled.
"Who exactly are you people!" At this moment, the shout of the monk Liujie came from the ground.
“We are good people…” Zhou Feiliu replied loudly in Japanese.
"What did you say to him?" Feng Shui asked, puzzled.
“I said we’re good people,” Zhou Feiliu said smugly.
"Oh, I see. Next time, please make your dialogue a little more profound..." Feng Shui said helplessly.
"I understand..." Zhou Feiliu murmured, sounding somewhat aggrieved.
"State your names!" Monk Liujie's shout came from the ground again.
"Hmm...hmm...listen carefully, we are cultivators from China, here to help you subdue demons and monsters." Zhou Feiliu cleared his throat and said smugly.
“So you’re a fellow traveler. Please come down and talk,” the monk Liujie called out.
Zhou Feiliu and Fengshui flew down to the ground on their swords, smiling as they looked at the monk Liujie not far ahead. At this moment, the other seventeen monks behind Liujie also stood up, scrutinizing Fengshui and Zhou Feiliu with wary expressions.
"Why does your companion show signs of demonic energy?" Monk Liujie asked warily, looking at the feng shui around Zhou Feiliu.
"He was infected by the demonic energy here, which is why there are fluctuations of demonic energy on his body." Zhou Feiliu started talking nonsense because she didn't want these monks to know the true identity of the feng shui master.
"Contagious?" Monk Liujie asked, somewhat skeptical.
“That’s right, but he’s fine. Fellow practitioners, it seems you’ve been here for quite some time now. What discoveries have you made?” Zhou Feiliu asked.
"Even with the combined strength of eighteen of us, we can only resist the invasion of demonic energy; we still haven't seen the demon that has sealed this place," said Monk Liujie, embarrassed.
“It seems you Japanese monks are nothing special after all,” Zhou Feiliu said in Chinese.
These Japanese monks, of course, couldn't understand what Zhou Feiliu was saying, but they did understand the feng shui.
"What did you say to them?" Feng Shui asked curiously.
"That's all, just asking about the situation here and then chatting with them," Zhou Feiliu said smugly.
"You're really quite cunning." Feng Shui felt that his newly accepted disciple would definitely be a promising cultivator in the future.
In the cultivation world, cultivators who follow the orthodox path naturally harbor hostility towards those who cultivate demonic arts, considering them evil and heretical, deserving of universal condemnation. Feng Shui understood this principle. From what had just happened, he now knew why the monks of the True Word Sect had attacked him and Zhou Feiliu. It was because the energy fluctuations emanating from Feng Shui shared very similar properties with the demonic energy permeating the area.
Suddenly, Feng Shui's heart skipped a beat, and a strong sense of foreboding pierced his mind. He turned to look in the northwest direction, his brows furrowing tightly, and then his face turned deathly pale.
"Oh no, something's happened to Jiang Yao!" Feng Shui exclaimed in alarm.
A yellow teleportation array instantly appeared beneath Feng Shui's feet, and Feng Shui vanished in the blink of an eye.
“Feng…Illusion Sect…” Zhou Feiliu was startled by this sudden change and exclaimed in shock as he looked at the spot where the Feng Shui had disappeared.
2004-12-09 11:02:00
Part Two: Cultivation Array
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Demonic Shadow
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To the northwest lies a low-lying area covered in lush forests, but the dark clouds overhead have made the forests appear excessively gloomy. This is the source of the unbearable demonic energy.
A yellow teleportation array suddenly appeared in the area, and Feng Shui's expression became even more unpleasant.
Here, the surrounding trees have all been felled and scattered throughout the forest in an irregular pattern. However, feng shui reveals a hidden secret within this irregular arrangement. This is because the arrangement itself is a defensive formation based on the element of wood in the Five Elements theory.
However, this Wood-based Five Elements Defense Array is completely reversed from the normal arrangement order. Moreover, in the arrangement of the Wood element, there are four reverse arrangement methods from the outside to the inside: Heavenly Fire, Yin Earth, Sacred Metal, and Immortal Water.
It is evident that the original Five Elements Mutual Generation Array has been transformed into the Reverse Generation Primordial Five Demon Array through the assimilation of demonic energy here.
Feng Shui carefully observed the surrounding activity and discovered an extremely strong energy fluctuation at the location of the White Tiger position, like the airflow generated by the collision of some kind of force field. Feng Shui looked up and saw that the direction of the force field collision was three hundred meters away, which was the only place where the pale white atmosphere was exposed in the dark clouds covering the sky.
“Ah Yao…” Feng Shui’s heart tightened again, and he said in a trembling voice.
He swiftly swung his phantom blade, cleaving an irregular spacetime rift in front of him, and Feng Shui flashed into it. At the same moment Feng Shui's entire body entered this spacetime rift, another spacetime rift appeared in the air three hundred meters away, where he had just emerged from the atmosphere. Feng Shui quickly flashed out from it, startled by the sight before him.
Li Zhanghao had a knife clenched in his mouth and another in each hand. The black scarf tied around his head was tattered, and there was a blood-stained bandage on his left arm. A faint black battle aura emanated from Li Zhanghao, indicating he was nearing exhaustion, yet he still managed to prop himself up, shielding a young woman lying unconscious and covered in wounds on the ground behind him.
Feng Shui recognized the woman, for she was the very same Sugar Water that had tried to invade his body from the demonic realm. Ten meters in front of Li Zhanghao, there was a gigantic, pale yellow "egg," suspended from a towering tree large enough for twenty adult men to encircle. Countless tendrils, like vines, coiled around the surface of this "egg." Feng Shui was shocked to discover that Jiang Yao, who had transformed into a demonic butterfly, was completely enveloped by these tendrils and had lost all consciousness.
“Ah Yao…” Feng Shui shouted loudly.
However, Feng Shui could not sense Jiang Yao's spiritual consciousness making contact with him at all. At this moment, a voice came from Feng Shui's spiritual consciousness.
"Who goes there?" Li Zhanghao asked, his spiritual sense contacting the spiritual sense of the feng shui.
"It's me, Feng Shui... What exactly happened here?" Feng Shui asked, also using his spiritual 'consciousness propagation'.
"You've come...that's great. My four senses have all disappeared, and now only my vision remains. Moreover, my legs have been pierced by the monster's tentacles, and I can't move," Li Zhanghao replied dejectedly.
"What exactly is this thing? How did Jiang Yao become like this?" Feng Shui quickly moved in front of Li Zhanghao, his tone in his spiritual sense sounding somewhat agitated.
“I don’t know exactly what it is, but it can absorb human souls for its own refinement, which seems to be a kind of evolution. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but those tentacles coiled around the outside of this egg…” Li Zhanghao said, his spiritual sense becoming somewhat weak.
"What's wrong with those tentacles?" Feng Shui asked, puzzled.
“Those are soul puppets made from human souls!” Li Zhanghao said as his spiritual consciousness became clear again.
"How could this be! How could Jiang Yao be imprisoned?" Feng Shui asked in surprise, looking at Jiang Yao who was wrapped up outside the giant egg.
“Jiang Yao, the Demon Butterfly, has been parasitized…that’s why I haven’t dared to draw my sword yet!” Li Zhanghao said with extreme helplessness.
"How is this possible..." Feng Shui was completely stunned.
“When I first arrived here, this giant egg wasn’t this big. Later, Sugar Water attacked it, but unexpectedly, all the energy of the attack was absorbed by it, and it continued to grow. Later, I also used the ultimate secret technique of the Three Streams Fusion on it, but it was all reflected back, and these reflected attacks were even faster than when I launched them, hitting Sugar Water and me directly…” A look of despair appeared in Li Zhanghao’s eyes as he turned to look at Sugar Water behind him.
"How's the sugar water?" Feng Shui looked at the sugar water on the ground and asked sympathetically.
"I blocked 30% of the attack, but because the counterattack was so fast, Tangshui and I found our legs bound by the soul puppet when we tried to dodge. So, Tangshui and I shared the remaining 70% of the force. She's only unconscious now because of excessive blood loss, insufficient oxygen to her brain, and too much energy loss. She should be fine." Li Zhanghao looked at Tangshui with concern and spoke with professional medical knowledge.
"But why did Jiang Yao end up in this state?" Feng Shui asked angrily.
"When the Demon Butterfly first arrived, she seemed quite wary of this giant egg, and I sensed that her energy resonated with it. The Demon Butterfly attacked with 'Enchanting Zither,' but unexpectedly, the soul puppets released by the giant egg devoured all her attacks and absorbed them into the egg. After absorbing the Demon Butterfly's attack energy, the giant egg has grown to its current state..." Li Zhanghao's spiritual sense trailed off, becoming increasingly incoherent, and he appeared to be swaying precariously.
Feng Shui immediately took out a crystal-clear cyan pill and placed it in Li Zhanghao's mouth. Li Zhanghao felt the pill melt instantly upon entering his mouth, quickly dissolving into an incredibly strong and pure energy that flowed throughout his entire body and internal meridians. Moreover, this pure energy had the ability to regenerate cells; his legs, pierced by the soul puppet, were completely healed, all his wounds were completely restored, and his five senses were fully recovered.
"What kind of medicine is this that you gave me?" Li Zhanghao asked, stretching his limbs and looking at Feng Shui with surprise.
"Immortal Dew Green Embryo..." Feng Shui didn't even notice the changes in Li Zhanghao's body; his gaze was anxiously fixed on the changes in Jiang Yao and the giant egg.
Actually, it wasn't that Feng Shui didn't want to rescue Jiang Yao. Since regaining his memories of his past life, Feng Shui discovered that while his demonic cultivation had reached the true level of a "demon body," his actual power was still only at the late-stage "ascension to immortality" level in Taoist cultivation. In other words, it was like possessing a bankbook with billions in assets but lacking the account number and password.
2004-12-09 11:03:00
Previously, Feng Shui had never considered cultivating demonic arts. On the path of cultivating demonic arts, he only relied on some "cultivation scrolls" obtained from unknown sources. He studied the incomplete cultivation methods recorded on them and comprehended them on his own. It was only through a series of coincidences that he reached his current level.
When one is a deity, feng shui is utterly disregarded by those who cultivate demonic arts. Imagine someone who has already achieved the pinnacle of cultivation—a deity—would they possibly bother to study the heretical and evil paths of demonic cultivation?
After being killed and reincarnated by a deity, Feng Shui vaguely accessed fragments of memories from his previous life as a deity, finding remnants of ancient demon cultivators and discovering stories of demon cultivation techniques within them. However, in his previous life, he had been unable to truly achieve the realm of a demonic body, thus remaining stuck at the level before attaining it, much like the case with Wu Yong he encountered recently.
Later, after this final reincarnation, and through enlightenment at the spiritual spring of Emei, he gained vague memories of his previous lives, even those before he reached the level of a deity. Feng Shui then realized that he had truly entered the realm of demonic cultivation, possessing an eternally indestructible demonic body. However, the demonic body was merely a marker of true entry into demonic cultivation, completely unrelated to one's actual cultivation level.
Possessing a demonic body only means that one can now truly continue on the purest path of demonic cultivation without worrying about going astray and falling into the Demon Realm. However, this does not mean that one possesses the power to contend with cultivators at the level of immortals or higher.
Furthermore, after some twists and turns, he encountered Jiang Yao, Huang Quan, and Gui Eting, three reincarnations of demonic butterflies possessing seven different emotions. He was even able to continue his unfinished love affair with Jiang Yao and Huang Quan from their previous lives. Having thoroughly understood the path of cultivation, Feng Shui was even less likely to advance further in his cultivation. Therefore, his current level remained stagnant in terms of external power after achieving demonic body cultivation, only reaching the late-stage "Ascension to Immortality" realm in cultivation. This level was simply insufficient to contend with the giant egg before him.
Feng Shui could sense that the energy emanating from this giant egg was dozens of times stronger than the power he had felt when subduing the "Enchanting Kite" demon butterfly. This was something Feng Shui's current cultivation level simply couldn't withstand.
Furthermore, Feng Shui now understood why Jiang Yao was no match for the giant egg and was instead imprisoned. It was because Jiang Yao currently only possessed half of the Demon Butterfly's power; she was not the complete Demon Butterfly and could not unleash its full potential. Therefore, she was so easily imprisoned on the giant egg.
At this moment, Feng Shui seemed somewhat helpless. He had never imagined that such a high-level demonic creature would appear in this realm. There was solid evidence to support the claim that the giant egg was a demonic creature. This type of cultivator, evolving into a cultivation form, only appeared in the Demon Realm and the Demon Luo Domain within the Three Realms. Furthermore, the demonic creature didn't emanate demonic energy, but rather the kind of demonic energy possessed only by those from the Demon Luo Domain—the Xuanming Soul-Dissolving Energy. This further solidified Feng Shui's long-held suspicions.
"Immortal Dew Green Embryo! How do you have such a healing elixir from the Thousand Immortal Realms? This kind of elixir is not something that cultivators in the mortal realm can take!" Li Zhanghao shouted from the side, interrupting Feng Shui who was thinking of a countermeasure.
"This is the 'Immortal Dew Green Embryo' that I specially made based on the cultivation level and physique of cultivators in this realm. It is perfectly suitable for cultivators in this realm," Feng Shuici said softly, having calmed down.
"How is that possible! Could it be that you have already cultivated to the level of 'Ascension to Immortality'?" Li Zhanghao asked, even more shocked.
"According to the terminology used by cultivators in this realm, we should be close to the 'Ascension to Immortality' stage. However, the 'Immortal Dew Green Embryo' pill is one that I specially developed, using the methods for making immortal medicine to create a pill suitable for cultivators who have not yet reached the True Immortal stage!" Feng Shui explained.
"Amazing, every time I meet you I discover you have endless secrets... Could you give me another one?" Li Zhanghao exclaimed, then pleaded.
"I never expected you to develop feelings for someone from the Demon Realm... Perhaps it's fate!" Feng Shui, having already discerned Li Zhanghao's meaning, remarked with emotion.
Then, he handed Li Zhanghao a "Fairy Dew Green Embryo". Li Zhanghao thanked him gratefully and quickly stuffed the "Fairy Dew Green Embryo" into the mouth of the unconscious man.
The "Immortal Dew Green Embryo" was indeed amazing; Tang Shui's injuries and lost energy were instantly restored to their original state. Tang Shui opened her eyes, moved her body a little, and then jumped up from the ground, looking at her whole body in disbelief, her eyes full of astonishment.
Looking at Li Zhanghao, whose face was brimming with tears of excitement, and then glancing around, Tangshui realized the presence of feng shui.
"Ah... how did you end up here!" Sugar Water asked, pointing at Feng Shui in shock.
“I think I should be the one to say that!” Feng Shui glanced at the sugar water and said calmly.
"This...this..." Sugar Water concealed the secret in his heart, unable to utter a complete reply for a long time.
"Forget it, now is not the time to talk about these things." Feng Shui had no intention of saying anything more useless to Tang Shui, and turned his attention back to the giant egg and Jiang Yao.
Suddenly, the giant egg emitted bursts of blinding yellow light, which instantly transformed into a reddish-yellow glow, appearing to flow. Simultaneously, the dark clouds shrouding the area also shifted rapidly, seemingly stirred up, layer upon layer rushing towards the distance. From the only opening of pale white sky directly above the egg, a massive beam of deep blue light shot in from beyond, completely enveloping the giant egg. Then, the giant egg began to tremble violently; the demon was about to break free. At this moment, however, another change occurred: Jiang Yao's body swiftly merged into the giant egg!
“Ah Yao… the sky is overturned…!” Feng Shui exclaimed upon seeing Jiang Yao’s condition.
With his left hand wielding the illusion blade, he swiftly formed hand seals with his right, making over three hundred variations in an instant. The speed at which he changed the hand seals left Li Zhanghao and Tangshui, who were standing nearby, completely dumbfounded.
Feng Shui's illusory blade swung towards the giant egg, and his right hand completed the hand seal. A deep cyan mist quickly appeared on the black illusory blade. A massive, deep cyan sword aura traced its path from the black illusory blade towards the giant egg, swiftly slashing into it. In the blink of an eye, it cleaved out from the other end of the giant egg, tearing open a wide cyan spatial rift in the air due to the deep cyan sword aura unleashed by Feng Shui. The trees on both sides of the rift were all sucked into the cyan spatial rift by an incredibly strong suction force.
The cyan spatial rift vanished in an instant, leaving behind a vast, boundless clearing in the forest behind the giant egg. The forest that had once been in this clearing had completely disappeared.
"Amazing..." Li Zhanghao and Tangshui exclaimed in shock at the same time.
However, Feng Shui had no time to listen to their nonsense, his gaze fixed intently on the giant egg. A complete crack gradually appeared on the surface of the egg, spreading outwards and splitting it in two. Jiang Yao stood precisely in the center of the egg, yet appeared unharmed. A faint reddish-yellow mist emanated from behind her, but because Jiang Yao was blocking the view, the object behind her was obscured.
Feng Shui's "Sky-Splitting Overturning" is not an attack technique like Li Zhanghao's, which directly strikes a physical object. Instead, it's a technique that tears apart spacetime and the boundary array to break through it. The advantage of this technique is that it doesn't destroy the physical objects within the boundary array, yet it completely separates the boundary array from the physical objects.