Mortals ask the immortals

The biting wind made his cheeks hurt. His originally honest and ordinary face was wounded by a narrow wound from the forehead through the bridge of the nose to the corner of the mouth. There seemed to be black air rolling at the wound. The severe pain made his whole face a little hideous and deformed.

He clenched his teeth and tried his best to control the blood from his chest. The scenery below was changing rapidly. The flying sword under his feet was a little unstable, but he still stubbornly continued to fly forward.

Ma Liang was in a very bad situation at the moment. This was probably the biggest crisis he had encountered since he started practicing.

He was originally the eldest disciple of Sanyan Zhenren, the head of Yanfeng of Jinxuan Sect in Wuxiang Mountain. He followed his master to practice Taoism since he was a child. He was talented and had a smooth journey. After practicing Taoism for thirteen years, he reached the middle stage of the Transcendent Realm. He was almost about to step into the threshold of the late stage. He was also a top three among the younger generation of disciples in the sect.

At his level, he should have practiced in the sect with peace of mind to impact the late stage of the Transcendent Realm, but he left the sect at this critical moment and went to the border between Da Cang and Erlan to look for snow jade.

Snow jade is just a rare jade stone, which does not contain any spiritual energy, and is not even a spiritual stone. It is useless to Ma Liang himself, but he still went to find it without hesitation because his junior sister needed it.

Yes, it was just because half a month ago, his junior sister accidentally mentioned in front of him that Senior Sister Su of Jingshui Peak had a pair of snow jade bracelets. It is said that wearing it for a long time has the effect of beauty, which made her very envious.

After that, he went to Jingshui Peak to ask Junior Sister Su about the origin of the snow jade.

Ma Liang is 26 years old this year. He was accepted by his master thirteen years ago. When he first saw the junior sister, Ma Liang's heart was given to the little girl who was six years younger than him and dared to come up and pinch his nose when he first saw him.

In the past thirteen years, he has grown from a boy to a young man, and the junior sister has become more and more beautiful.

In these years, he has doted on the junior sister and responded to her every request, but because of his honest character, he has never expressed his love in front of the junior sister. He just wants to silently pay for the junior sister.

The little sister was naughty by nature and always loved to play tricks on people, especially on his honest senior brother, and he was happy to let her play tricks on him.

He just liked to see the little sister's smile when her prank was successful. That was the most beautiful face he had ever seen.

Every time he saw the little sister's quirky smile, he was happiest. Although those pranks were really clumsy at his level, he could see through them at a glance, but he would deliberately fall for it every time to make the little sister smile.

Thinking of the little sister's face, his tortured and deformed hideous face suddenly had a smile.

At this time, his whole face along the wound had been blackened for a little while, and he looked particularly terrifying.

Ma Liang realized that he was almost exhausted and his spiritual power was almost exhausted. He took out the last Lingling Pill in the storage bag with great effort, looked at it, and swallowed it without any hesitation.

As the pills entered his body, his spiritual power, which was close to exhaustion, was slightly restored. Pills such as Rongling Pills that can quickly replenish spiritual power are very precious in Jinxuan Sect.

Even as the eldest disciple of Yanfeng, he only had three pills on him, and he had used up two of them in the previous escape.

In the past, the spiritual power generated by two Rongling Pills could almost restore his spiritual power to its peak state, but he was now poisoned and his spiritual power was being dissolved all the time, so that three Rongling Pills were really a drop in the bucket for his current situation.

The reason why he was so embarrassed was that when he was taking snow jade at the border of Dacang, he met Situ Xiangnan, the elder of the Shayue Sect of Erlan Country.

The origin of the Jinxuan Sect and the Shayue Sect has a long history. Speaking of the founders of the Shayue Sect, Jinsha Zhenren and Lanyue Zhenren, seven hundred years ago, one was the head of a peak of the Jinxuan Sect, and the other was an elder in the sect. The two of them became Taoist partners, which was originally a good story in the sect.

However, the former head of the sect, Jianfeng Zhenren, was one of the admirers of Lanyue Zhenren before he succeeded to the position of head of the sect. Later, Lanyue Zhenren chose to form a dual cultivation partner with Jinsha Zhenren.

After Jianfeng Zhenren became the head of the sect, he targeted the two of them everywhere. Later, he forced the two of them to leave Jinxuan Sect with all their disciples and go to Erlan Country to establish the Shayue Sect. This matter caused a big fuss at the time and became a laughing stock in the cultivation circles of several nearby countries.

Therefore, since the establishment of the Shayue Sect, it has always been incompatible with the Jinxuan Sect. In the past, once the two factions met, there would often be a big battle. However, after so many years, the two factions also realized that it was not a good idea to continue fighting like this, but it would give other sects an opportunity to take advantage of it.

So they all tacitly agreed to cease fighting. In recent years, when the two factions met again, they often competed with each other in words, and rarely fought with real swords and guns.

But it was also Ma Liang's bad luck. One of Situ Xiangnan's beloved disciples was killed by people from Jinxuan Sect in a conflict between the two factions ten years ago. This was also the only time in recent decades that there were casualties in the conflict between the two factions.

So when Ma Liang got the snow jade at the border of Da Cang Kingdom, he happened to meet Situ Xiangnan. Because of the Yanfeng disciple uniform on his body, Situ Xiangnan saw through his identity, and Situ Xiangnan immediately attacked him.

At the first sight of Situ Xiangnan, Ma Liang already knew the other party's identity. Because the two factions were hostile after all, they knew a lot about the high-level people in each other's sects, and even the portraits of the other party's head elders were circulated in the sect.

In particular, Situ Xiangnan was very hostile to Jinxuan Sect because his beloved disciple was killed. In recent years, many of Jinxuan Sect's missing disciples were said to have died at the hands of this person. Ma Liang's master, Sanyan Zhenren, also specifically told his disciples that if they met this person, they should run away as soon as possible.

Although Ma Liang started to run away as soon as he recognized Situ Xiangnan, he almost died on the spot at the hands of Situ Xiangnan, who was already an old monster in the Questioning Heart Realm.

Fortunately, he relied on a life-saving magic weapon given by his master in the past to save his life and escape, but the magic weapon was destroyed by Situ Xiangnan, and Ma Liang was also poisoned by Situ Xiangnan.

Originally, with the spiritual power support of Ma Liang's mid-stage Transcendent Realm, it would be enough to fly back to Jinxuan Sect several times, but the tea poison was extremely poisonous, and it kept dissolving Ma Liang's spiritual power along the way, so that while flying on the sword, he had to constantly divide his spiritual power to resist the tea poison, causing the original spiritual power consumption to increase by nearly ten times.

Even the Rongling Pill, which could restore half of his spiritual power in the middle stage of the Transcendent Realm, lost nine out of ten of its medicinal power under the effect of the tea poison, which is why Ma Liang ended up in such a situation.

He didn't blame anyone for his current situation. He didn't blame Junior Sister Su who told him the address of Xueyu, and he didn't even blame Situ Xiangnan, because the two factions were originally hostile, and it was also a fact that Situ Xiangnan's apprentice died at the hands of Jinxuan Sect's disciples.

The only thing he couldn't let go of at this moment was that he couldn't hand Xueyu over to Junior Sister in person, and he couldn't see how Junior Sister looked when she saw Xueyu, she would definitely be very happy. . . !

Although he would rather endure the pain of the biting gale scraping his bones than spend a little more spiritual power to perform a wind control technique for protection when flying with a sword, his spiritual power was still exhausted now.

At this time, he no longer had any extra spiritual power to resist the tea poison in his body, and could only let it ravage his body. The flying sword under his feet gradually lost the support of spiritual power and began to slowly fall, making a buzzing sound, as if it was wailing for the fate of its master.

The flying sword was slowly falling. Ma Liang looked down at his feet in great pain. A stone arch bridge stood across the river. His vision began to blur and he could not see clearly what was on it. He instinctively wanted to get closer to the direction of the sect, so he used up the last bit of spiritual power to fly forward for a distance. In that direction, there was an undulating forest.