Do not die

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

In the sky above Sanchuan Plateau.

In the strong wind that blows violently all year round, a strange magic weapon quietly appeared.

Its shape is that of a budding lotus.

The golden petals are stacked in layers and tightly hugged together.

When it appeared, this huge flower changed from lying flat to standing vertically, like a huge golden water droplet falling from the sky.

Its extremely fast forward speed only slowed down slightly, but did not stop completely, drawing a golden parabolic trajectory in the air.

When this trajectory cut through the void and entered the area where the core inner city of Sanchuan Yuan was located, the city defense formations carefully arranged by all forces at a great cost showed no reaction at all.

In the blink of an eye, this golden trajectory accurately landed in front of a cave, hovering lightly in the air three to five meters above the ground in front of the cave.

The golden lotus petals opened instantly, revealing a huge space inside.

In the center of this space, there is a flower bone with closed lotus petals.

Different from the golden lotus petals that have fully bloomed, these lotus petals are all pink, a pink that looks so tender to the naked eye.

And in the void around this closed pink flower bone, six monks were sitting casually in the cross-legged position.

As the golden lotus petals fully bloomed, their figures flashed and they arrived outside the cave.

Just after they left, the blooming golden lotus petals quickly closed and re-embraced into a flower-like shape.

And the size has become much smaller.

Among these six monks, there are three male cultivators and three female cultivators.

The two people in the middle were Xuan Xuan and Xuan Lin, and on the left and right sides of them stood a pair of male and female monks.

Although they all restrained their aura very well, their respective graces and demeanor alone, especially the three female cultivators with their own grace, attracted a lot of attention.

Arriving at the door of the cave, Xuan Lin took the initiative to call the door.

Soon, a corner of the closed cave formation opened in front of them.

Xuan Xuan and Xuan Lin did not hesitate and stepped inside generously.

Seeing this scene, the two pairs of male and female monks who were originally living around them instinctively showed some hesitation.

However, after looking at each other, they followed Xuan Xuan and Xuan Lin and strode into the cave.

The golden flower bone, which had become much smaller in size, was floating lightly in the air less than one meter above the ground, as if it had no weight, and followed them into the cave.

…

Xuan Xuan and Xuan Lin, who strode into the cave, were mentally prepared, but what they saw in front of them still made them stunned.

An old man with white hair and a childlike face was sitting casually on a futon. Although his expression was calm and unruffled, the eyes that fell on them were filled with unabashed curiosity and scrutiny.

"Qihuangzi."

The two people immediately had such an idea in their minds.

Although it was the first time for both parties to meet each other, Xu Zezeng reproduced everything that happened that day in the main hall of the pharmacist branch headquarters using water mirror projection.

Qingxuanzong also provided evidence from other channels.

Therefore, although they have not had formal contact with him, the senior officials of Qingxuan Sect are not unfamiliar with the appearance of "Qi Huangzi" at all.

There were two people standing beside Qi Huangzi.

Among them, the person standing on the left side is no stranger to them either.

This person is none other than "Ge Ping".

It is also the one they are most familiar with.

Seeing the two people's eyes glancing over, "Ge Ping", who was standing respectfully, winked at them mischievously.

The two of them moved for a moment and nodded slightly to him.

Then he glanced at Qi Huangzi's right side, where there was also a monk standing quietly with his hands down, his eyebrows lowered and his eyes narrowed, like a sculpture.

Although he did not deliberately release his aura, with the powerful senses of Xuan Xuan and Xuan Lin, they were able to detect the majestic and blazing power contained in this man's body.

When their eyes fell on this person, they felt as if they were looking at a fireball that had restrained light and heat, but could burst into full bloom at any time.

Just looking at it made them feel hugely threatened.

Their eyes couldn't help but stay on this person for a moment longer.

But that wasn't the reason why they felt stunned and confused the moment they came in.

Their eyes looked to the open space next to them, where there was a cow.

It has four corners on its head, its entire body is green and black, and its shiny skin shows a silver-white metallic sheen.

It is five to six meters tall and more than ten meters long. Although it is much larger than humans, it is considered "small and exquisite" among monsters.

But they didn't dare to have the slightest contempt for this beast.

Because the threat posed by this cow to them was no less than that of the monk standing on the right side of Qihuangzi.

Although the monk did not deliberately restrain his aura, he also did not deliberately release it.

But this cow is different. There is no cover up in its arrogant and fierce look.

A pair of huge bull eyes locked them in from the moment they entered the cave.

And in this small cave, there were three more "animals" that were no less threatening to them than this cow.

Right next to the cow, there was a strange six-hoofed creature that was slightly shorter but broader and looked like a combination of a wild boar and a rhinoceros.

There is also a smaller, more slender, dark, monster beast that looks like a black panther.

A vicious bird with gorgeous feathers can be seen with most of its body hidden in the woods.

They did not conceal their existence at all. These four "beasts" that could pose a huge threat to the late-stage Dan-forming monks focused all their attention on them from the moment they entered the cave.

Like four tight strings.

Xuan Xuan and Xuan Lin have no doubt that as long as their behavior shows the slightest impropriety, their attacks will immediately overwhelm them.

As soon as he entered, he was treated like this. How could Xuan Xuan and Xuan Lin not be shocked?

Not only the two of them, but also the two pairs of male and female monks from the Hehuan Sect who entered immediately after them were also very surprised.

Their eyes first glanced at the four big demons, and then looked at Qi Huangzi, who was sitting cross-legged on the futon and looking at them with a smile.

It seems like asking again: "Is this necessary? Is it necessary to go to this point?"

Facing their shocked looks, Qi Huangzi just smiled.

"I am a pharmacist and naturally insecure. Please be considerate."

Just because you are a pharmacist?

Is this a bit too far-fetched... Well, okay, this reason is enough.

Xuan Lin and others couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, and they had already actively persuaded themselves to accept this setting.

Just when they thought they could get to the point, Qihuangzi's eyes swept around the other four people besides Xuanlin and Xuanxuan.

Then, he stretched out his hand and waved it gently, and a gourd flashed in the air.

Then, two new "beasts" appeared next to the black panther.

The appearance is different from the original four heads, but the same thing is that their aura is no weaker than the original four heads.

If any one of them is taken out, it will pose a huge threat to the great monks in the late stage of pill formation.

With this adjustment, they felt that the aura locked on them also adjusted.

Really guard one by one.

"..." Xuan Xuan.

"..." Xuan Lin.

"..." Four members of the Hehuan Sect had two pairs.

They all had the same thought in their minds:

"How many beasts are packed in Qihuangzi's gourd?"

…

Just when they were all stunned by Meng Zhou's operations.

Meng Zhou, who was pretending to be "Qi Huangzi", coughed lightly and drew everyone's attention back.

His eyes had already fallen on the lotus-shaped flower bones floating next to the four Hehuan Sect monks.

"Your ancestor is inside?"

A female cultivator from the Hehuan sect with delicate appearance and charming figure stepped forward and replied: "Yes."

Meng Zhou stared at the lotus-shaped flower bone and looked carefully, then asked:

"Both ancestors are here?"

"Yes." The female nun replied.

Meng Zhou nodded, "Okay, I know everything about the situation...you guys can go out first."

"Ah?!" The female cultivator looked at him in surprise, as if she didn't expect him to dismiss them with just two words.

Others also looked at him in surprise.

Meng Zhou said: "Since the two ancestors are here, I can ask them about any situation. You don't need anything here. Just go and wait outside."

As he said that, he waved his hand to drive people away.

"This..." The female cultivator frowned slightly, but she didn't know how to respond.

At this moment, a slight fluctuation came from the lotus-shaped flower.

In an instant, the female cultivator's slightly frowned eyebrows straightened out and she saluted Meng Zhou Yingying:

"Then let's wait outside the cave first... If you need anything, just ask."

The other three people also bowed their hands to Meng Zhou, and then a group of four people filed out.

Meng Zhou's eyes fell on Xuan Xuan and Xuan Lin, who were motionless, as if to say, "Why don't you leave?"

The expressions and movements of both of them were a little stiff, but in the end they bowed their hands to him and walked out of the cave.

As soon as the two people went out, the formation channel that was open to them closed up behind them.

"..." Xuan Xuan/Xuan Lin.

…

"Fellow Taoist, are you shy?"

Looking at the "Hua Gu Duo" who was still hugging the golden lotus petals tightly, Meng Zhou joked.

After a period of silence, a cold voice came directly from Huaguduo:

"Let this kid get out too."

Meng Zhou winked at "Ge Ping", so after "Ge Ping" bowed respectfully, he also left the cave and went outside to accompany Xuan Xuan, Xuan Lin and others.

Meng Zhou looked at the figure standing on the right with his hands hanging down, and asked with a smile: "Do you mind letting him stay?"

"That's not necessary...if I'm not mistaken, this is your clone, right?"

The cold figure continued to emerge from Huaguduo.

Meng Zhou flashed a look of surprise, but did not deny it. He nodded and praised: "Tao has a friendly eye."

He thought in his heart, and sure enough, Linglian's body appeared directly in front of these ancestors, but it was impossible to hide it under their vicious eyes.

Although the spirit lotus clone can be perfectly disguised in terms of breath and form, the texture and structure of the spirit lotus are still the same inside, which is very different from the flesh and blood body.

This spirit lotus body is his only third-level high-grade red flame fire lotus clone.

The reason why he put it out at this time was, of course, to increase his cards, and the other reason was to test it out.

The results proved that the ancestor's eyes were indeed vicious.

Xuan Xuan, Xuan Lin and the other four Hehuan Sect monks were all monks who had reached the late stage of pill formation, but they did not find anything wrong.

But this ancestor, even though he was distracted by maintaining his Taoist companion's injury, could still see through its authenticity at a glance.

"Taoist friendly methods... I didn't know that there was such a person as Taoist friend in the five realms before."

The voice coming from Huaguduo quietly became softer and warmer.

After the two sides complimented each other on business, the atmosphere became much more natural.

"Fellow Taoist, can you let me check the other person's injury now?" Meng Zhou asked.

After another brief silence, the voice said:

"...The situation is a bit special, I hope fellow Taoists won't take it personally."

Meng Zhou looked serious.

"I am a pharmacist, and I have no other concerns but the patient's injuries!"

No one answered.

However, the tightly closed golden lotus petals bloomed again, revealing the more delicate and compact pink lotus-shaped flower bones inside.

After the golden lotus petals fully bloom, the pink lotus petals can then slowly unfold.

Finally, a pink rosette is revealed at the core.

After being reminded by the other party, although he was somewhat mentally prepared, when he saw the scene on the rosette, Meng Zhou's eyes still couldn't help but tremble slightly.

But soon, he regained the professional consciousness of a pharmacist.

In the center of the pink rosette, sat a beautiful souvenir who was just the right amount of beauty. Any more would be too gorgeous, and any less would be too plain.

Wearing a long green dress, she didn't look out of place at all.

But if you zoom in a little, you can see that the female cultivator is sitting cross-legged not on the pink rosette, but on the legs of a handsome male cultivator.

Under the proper cover of the clothes, nothing was wrong, but from the constant changes in Qi flowing between the bodies of both parties, Meng Zhou already knew that the two sides were using the most classic method of Hehuan Sect to transfer each other's Qi. All in one.

From the outside, the female cultivator's body was not damaged at all and she was very healthy.

Meng Zhou already knew that the female cultivator's problem lay in the soul of Consciousness Sea.

Therefore, to diagnose the injury, one needs to get up close and personal with it.

When Meng Zhou looked at the situation of the two of them, the male cultivator also looked at Meng Zhou.

"Fellow Taoist, have you gained anything?" The male cultivator's expression showed no change, he was calm and calm.

Meng Zhou shook his head: "I need to probe into his sea of ​​consciousness to check carefully."

The male cultivator nodded and said, "No problem, you can do it."

Normally, the sea of ​​consciousness is of course a restricted area.

But the situation is different now, and naturally he will not stick to the rigidity.

But Meng Zhou, who had received the male cultivator's consent, did not act. Instead, he looked at the pink rosette under the two of them, as well as the layers of pink and golden lotus petals surrounding the pink rosette.

Meng Zhou said: "You two can move, right?...Is it okay to come here?"

As he spoke, Meng Zhou pointed to an open space beside him.

The male cultivator was startled and finally showed a speechless expression:

"Fellow Taoist, this is your cave. Are you being too cautious?"

Meng Zhou smiled but did not answer.

Just kidding, these ancestors are half of the Hehuan Sect.

One was seriously injured and dying, and the other was tied up with most of his energy trying to maintain his life.

Under such circumstances, he actually dared to travel hundreds of thousands of miles to seek medical treatment.

How dare you? Who gave you the courage?

Is it just the four late-stage pill-forming people who are accompanying us?

Therefore, Meng Zhou would not enter this lotus petal area under any circumstances.

The male cultivator stared at the smiling and silent Meng Zhou for a while, then finally nodded, and saw that the pink rosette under the two men quickly shrank.

The blooming, layered lotus petals also quickly closed.

Finally, with the pink inside and the gold outside, it reassembled into a flower bud the size of a thumb and submerged into the sea of ​​consciousness of the male eyebrow trimmer.

The two figures sitting cross-legged on top of each other slowly fell in front of Meng Zhou.

Meng Zhou put his hand on the female cultivator's eyebrows, and focused deeply into her sea of ​​consciousness to check her injuries.

But what makes the male cultivator feel speechless is that at this moment, the six big demon spirit puppets, all of which have reached the peak level of the third-order high-grade, are all locked on him.

If he makes the slightest move, these six powerful demon spirit puppets will rise up.

At the same time, the strange clone moved two steps sideways, inserting Qi between him and "Qihuangzi".

Faced with such a situation, even if he wanted to make a violent move, he would still have to bypass many obstacles and waste a lot of time.

And most importantly, he must give up the life support of the Taoist companion.

so--

"As for that?!"

He was thinking like this, but when he thought about the identity of the other party's pharmacist, he felt that the other party's excessive caution was not completely incomprehensible.

"No wonder Qi Huangzi has such ability, but his reputation has never been revealed. With his character, it is strange that he should show up."

Thinking like this, he frowned quietly.

"But why is he uncharacteristically revealing himself now without any cover-up?"

…

Divine consciousness has just penetrated into the sea of ​​consciousness of the female cultivator.

Meng Zhou discovered the female cultivator's soul which made him feel a little shocked.

Her soul showed an abnormal black-gray color, and there were radiating cracks starting from her heart.

It exists not only on the surface of the soul, but also in the depths of the soul.

Her soul was like a delicate porcelain that could break into pieces at any time.

The reason why it hasn't broken yet is, on the one hand, because she is fighting hard.

Use all your strength to fight against this black and gray pollution and the cracks that may expand anytime and anywhere.

But if that was all, she would have died long ago.

The misty clear air that appeared around her soul from time to time was the key.

This is also an important reason why although her condition is terrible, she can still maintain balance.

The source of this misty Qi is the product of the exchange of their bodies and the circulation of Qi.

From this misty fresh air, Meng Zhou felt extremely rich vitality.

The vitality quality contained in it is not far behind even his third-level mid-grade Qinglian Sword Essence.

However, its output is too scarce.

And every time a bit of it is born, it is integrated into the female cultivator's soul, and it is quickly consumed while healing the injury.

The current situation is like a tug-of-war between evenly matched opponents. You can neither defeat the opponent to win, nor can you guarantee that you will not be defeated by the opponent.

The two sides were in a difficult and painful stalemate.

After confirming all this, a medical plan that can make his recovery quickly came.

Very simple.

Just take out some of the more than 1,500 drops of the third-level mid-grade Green Lotus Sword marrow in the spirit gourd space and inject it into the female cultivator's soul.

There is no need to consider the sharp sword energy contained in it.

As long as he doesn't detonate it, it will be repaired after the female cultivator's soul condition improves.

This is the simplest and most effective method.

But as soon as this thought arose in his heart, Meng Zhou suppressed it to death deep in his heart.

This would not only expose the essence of his Green Lotus Sword, but would also bring no additional benefits to him.

It is better not to use this "unconventional" pharmacist method.

Therefore, after understanding the opponent's situation, Meng Zhou decided to use the most "stupid" method.

Thinking like this, Meng Zhou's palm pressed against the female cultivator's eyebrows flashed a slight fluctuation of mana, and a master-level soul-healing technique penetrated into the female cultivator's sea of ​​consciousness.

Finally, this soul-healing light gently covered the female cultivator's soul.

The female cultivator's soul was like a scorched body with the residual heat of fire still lingering.

This soul-healing technique is like a thin mist gauze.

The actual effect of wearing such a piece is very limited, but according to the induction of the male cultivator, the state of the female cultivator's soul has been visibly improved.

However, as the light disappeared, the trauma deep in his soul emerged, quickly drowning out these slight improvements.

The male cultivator was not disappointed, but rather excited.

"It works, it really works!"

Although the effect was very slight, it still surprised him.

Meng Zhou was also very excited.

"Soul Resurrection Experience +200"

"The ancestor is the ancestor." Meng Zhou praised in his heart.

Immediately afterwards, another ray of light transformed from the Soul Healing Technique was draped on the surface of the female cultivator's soul.

In order to gain more experience on her, Meng Zhou even weakened the power of this soul healing technique.

——Of course, this weakening is not intentional.

If he wants to gain experience in a skill, he must not hesitate when using this skill and must go all out.

His release was not in the Soul Healing Technique itself, but somewhere else.

The first time, in order to ensure the effect, when Meng Zhou used the master-level soul-healing technique, he also mobilized the third-level Spring Water Sutra that he had practiced to the master level.

Although the soul-resurrection technique is a kind of soul technique and does not consume mana, the vitality contained in the Grand Master Spring Water Sutra can enhance the effect of the soul-resurrection technique.

The first soul-healing technique was "dipped" in some of the vitality power contained in the magic power of the master-level Spring Water Sutra.

Because of this move, the effect of the soul healing technique was weakened compared to the first time, but it still had a positive effect on the female cultivator's soul.

This is enough.

Except for him, the other two people couldn't tell the difference at all.

"Soul Resurrection Experience +200"

"No effect."

Then, Meng Zhou began to use the soul healing technique over and over again.

In the female cultivator's sea of ​​consciousness, rays of light veiled one after another on the surface of the female cultivator's soul.

The wounds on the surface of her soul healed again and again, but as the wounds deep in her soul arose, they repeated again and again.

But the overall situation is slowly getting better.

Although the experience gained from each soul healing spell is more than the foundation required to heal an injured soul, it also consumes more soul power and mental power.

After Meng Zhou performed the Soul Resurrection Technique a hundred times in a row, he felt that both his soul power and his mental power had fallen below the warning line.

He immediately stopped decisively.

Not hiding the fatigue on his face, he said to the male monk: "That's it for today. I have to practice for a while. Let's continue tomorrow."

The male cultivator nodded: "Okay, Taoist friends, have a good rest."

As he said that, the male cultivator saw "Qi Huangzi" staring at him closely.

Soon, he realized something and smiled casually.

A golden flower bone the size of a thumb emerged from between his eyebrows. As it quickly grew in size, the golden petals and the pink petals inside bloomed, and the two of them gently floated onto the pink rosette.

The golden lotus petals and golden lotus petals closed again and turned into a golden flower bone again.

"Friends, have a good rest, we are going out first."

"Yeah." Meng Zhou responded.

The golden flower bone floated out of the cave, and just when it was about to leave, the male cultivator's voice came out again.

"Oh, I forgot to introduce you. My common name is Yin Youyi, and her name is Mu Hanyu."

…

On this day, Meng Zhou gained a total of 20,000 soul healing experience points.

"Master of Soul Healing 85,000/120,000"

The next day, the soul-healing magic experience increased by another 20,000.

"Master of Soul Healing 105,000/120,000"

On the third day, when Meng Zhou put the 275th ray gauze on the female cultivator's soul, the soul-healing technique completed the accumulation of the master level and advanced to the realm of the grand master.

As the realm of soul-healing skills improved, from master to grandmaster, Meng Zhou gained more experience and insights about soul-healing skills, and its effects also improved significantly.

Even without the assistance of the vitality power contained in the Spring Water Sutra, the effect of a master-level soul healing technique is stronger than the first time it was used.

In order to accumulate experience in the Soul Healing Technique, each performance must be taken seriously and cannot be ignored.

When Meng Zhou performed twenty-five master-level soul healing techniques, he stopped the day's treatment.

The condition of the female nun has been greatly relieved.

The originally thick black gray on the soul became much lighter, and the frightening cracks in the soul also became much smaller.

Before withdrawing his consciousness, Meng Zhou took a deep look at the heart of the female cultivator's soul, which was also the source of the crack.

"Master of Soul Healing 05,000/240,000"

…

Five days later, Meng Zhou draped a gauze of light transformed from a soul-healing technique onto the body of the female cultivator.

After a long time, this ray of light slowly dissipated from the surface of her soul.

The original thick black-gray color on her body and the cracks all over her body completely disappeared with the use of this soul healing technique.

At the same time, a dense black-gray light shot out from the position of the female cultivator's heart, and was about to be thrown outside the female cultivator's sea of ​​consciousness barrier.

Once you let it succeed, you can no longer capture its traces.

——Beyond the sea of ​​​​consciousness, that is an area that the alchemy monks have not yet been able to explore and touch.

However, Meng Zhou was already prepared for this moment.

Before it broke through the barrier of the sea of ​​​​consciousness, it broke into a piece of gauze clothing.

Well, in the perception of the male cultivator and the female cultivator, the culprit that caused the female cultivator to die until now was that she crashed into the same light gauze that had been draped over the female cultivator's soul countless times before.

In fact, this is just an appearance.

This is actually the disguise of Unbounded Sword Domain.

The black and gray light crashed into it, like a fish breaking into a fishing net woven from tough and fine steel wire ropes.

The next moment, this piece of light gauze disappeared from the female cultivator's sea of ​​consciousness.

Everything happens in the blink of an eye.

It only took a moment for a dense black-gray light to emit from the female cultivator's heart, to be captured by Meng Zhou, and to disappear from the female cultivator's sea of ​​consciousness.

The other two people's attention was still entirely on the condition of the female cultivator's soul. By the time they reacted, the female cultivator's sea of ​​consciousness had returned to calm.

Even Meng Zhou's spiritual consciousness has been withdrawn from the female cultivator's sea of ​​consciousness.

Meng Zhou withdrew his hand from the nun's eyebrows and took a few steps back.

The female cultivator's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she slowly opened her starry eyes. She looked at Meng Zhou and said softly: "Thank you, fellow Taoist!"

Meng Zhou nodded slightly.

"Next, there shouldn't be any need for me to take action."

In fact, the female cultivator is far from cured.

Her soul is still extremely weak.

But Meng Zhou no longer planned to take action.

First of all, the female cultivator can slowly recover from this kind of weakness. If they are a Taoist couple, the recovery speed will be even faster.

There is no need for him to be meddlesome at all.

Another thing, to completely cure the female cultivator now, Meng Zhou felt, would be harmful rather than helpful.

The Hehuan Sect monks have one characteristic. If you pick just one, they will be slightly inferior to the other four monks at the same level.

But if the two come together, their deterrence will increase dramatically.

Although judging from the state of the two of them, they shouldn't do anything to him.

But a practitioner's psychology changes with his strength, so it's better not to take this kind of test.

…

Since he was promoted to the Grand Master in the Soul Healing Technique, after five consecutive days of diagnosis and treatment, he has gained another hundred thousand points of experience.

"Master of Soul Healing 105,000/240,000".

Regarding this rapid progress, Meng Zhou only felt "regret" in his heart.

"It would be nice if her injuries were more serious." (End of Chapter)