To Raise a Soul

The moon rises into the sky, and the stars shine.

Holding a lotus pod in his hand, Yu Zhen sat on the magnified black sword, peeling the lotus seeds and eating them, while observing the eyes below that were constantly grinding and chirping to release evil spirits.

The sky was too dark, and the evil spirit merged with the night, making it difficult to tell how much evil spirit had been released.

Yu Zhen raised his hand to open his discernment, and found that the inner circle of the island had been covered with a layer of "black veil". He looked up at Yin Yan who was standing behind him, and asked, "Is he really coming out soon?"

It has been another hour since the eyes of the array began to release evil spirits, and there has been no major movement on the island. His desire for revenge has been worn out, and now he just wants to make a quick decision, go home and get a good night's sleep .

This campaign of suppression has lasted for two days, and even monks will feel tired.

Yin Yan bent down and touched his forehead, checked his condition with spiritual energy, and after confirming that his dark tendons had been further repaired, he straightened up and retracted his hand, saying: "He has come out."

"What?" Yu Zhen was taken aback, put the lotus pod away and sat up, looked at the evil spirit below, and scanned it again with discernment, but still didn't see a single figure, frowned slightly, took out the mahogany sword and put on a defensive posture, Bian was vigilant about his surroundings and asked: "I didn't sense his existence, how long has he been out, and where is he?"

"Below, those evil spirits are here." Yin Yan replied, then glanced at the ancient book on top of his head that had never left, and asked, "Are you ready to fight?"

What are those evil spirits?

Yu Zhen was puzzled at first, and then remembered the ability of certain evil cultivators to turn their bodies into evil spirits to hide, attack, and play avatars. His expression became serious, and he nodded: "Ready."

"Go down then."

After Yin Yan finished speaking, he put away the black swords under the two people's feet. Yu Zhen quickly released his spiritual energy to support himself, turned his head to look at Yin Yan who had moved to his side, clenched the mahogany sword tightly, and fell first.

The sound of the wind was buzzing in his ears, and as he approached the evil spirit circle, Yu Zhen released the newly mutated real fire, which rushed towards the evil spirit like a small fireball.

Huh, the evil spirit vibrated, and rolled away.

Yu Zhen landed on the ground, glanced at the evil spirits that were far away from him, frowned, and walked out a little, but the evil spirits also retreated outwards with his movements, creating a vacuum around him without evil spirits.

"What are you doing?" He looked around, trying to draw the false immortal energy closer to the evil spirit, but the evil spirit was afraid of even the false immortal energy, and retreated further away.

"What's wrong?" Yin Yan landed not far from him, saw him frowning, and asked with concern.

Yu Zhen shook his head, looked over and replied: "These evil spirits are avoiding me, and they don't fight me at all. Is Yun really manipulating them? What exactly does he want to do..."

Yin Yan had already walked up to him while he was talking, and when he stopped talking, he stretched out his hand to touch his cheek, and said: "The evil spirit is afraid of the real fire, try to draw the real fire back into your body, and lure Yunzhen to make a move."

"No more temptation."

Yu Zhen looked into his eyes, his expression suddenly turned cold bit by bit, turned his head away from his hand, turned his wrist, and the mahogany sword stabbed directly at his heart with real fire and merit, full of murderous aura , with a deep voice: "Yun Zhen, if you want to pretend to be Master to lie to me, you still have to hone your acting skills, go to hell!"

puff.

The mahogany sword entered the body, Yin Yan stopped in mid-air with his outstretched hand, stared at him for a few seconds, suddenly his body turned into evil spirit, burned by the real fire and disappeared into the air.

"Despicable and shameless guy." Yu Zhen retracted his sword, glanced at the seemingly harmless evil spirits around him, and clenched his hands tightly.

"Xiao Zhen."

Another Yin Yan landed on the ground, and Yu Zhen looked sideways, with knives almost flying out of his eyes, and his merit directly came out of his body.

boom.

"Yin Yan" was completely burned by the real fire, and there was no chance of collapsing.

After two fakes in a row, Yu Zhen had to admit that he was angry and had the urge to let go of his strength and burn all the evil spirits around him.But he didn't do that. Instead, he took a deep breath to force himself to calm down, and used his discernment to distinguish his position at this time.

There are two villas on the right. According to the location, he should be standing not too far from the hidden formation.Yun Zhen didn't fight him head-on, but kept creating phantoms to try to force him to lose his mind and lure him to consume his strength.

Don't be fooled, breaking the hidden eye may be able to dismantle Yun Zhen's little trick now.

He did as soon as he thought of it, he didn't hold back the real fire all over him, he turned around and was about to walk towards the position where the hidden formation eyes were, but just as he took a step, he suddenly retracted it.

No, something is wrong.

He frowned, looked again at the location of the two villas, and used his aura to prop himself up a little.

With the master's strength, it is impossible for him to not find him after landing for so long. At that time, the two of them obviously landed next to each other.

There was something preventing him from reuniting with his master, something that could separate the two people who landed together, and something that made it impossible for the two to get together... He looked at the evil spirit around him, and his eyes sank.

The evil spirits around him are not just evil spirits, they may also be a kind of formation!

Before coming down, Master also said that the formation on the island has changed.If it is a formation, then everything he sees now should be fake.Those two villas were most likely just phantoms that lured him into the death gate of the formation.

"Yuzhen, come down quickly, and take you to take revenge for the teacher."

Another Yin Yan came out of the evil spirit with a sword in his hand, and stretched out his hand towards him.

"I told you to hone your acting skills again." Yu Zhen was so annoyed that he raised his sword and was about to kill the counterfeit one more time. His eyes touched the evil spirits surging around him, and the great evil that Yin Yan once said suddenly flashed in his mind. If the evil spirit in the human body has a deceiving effect, I was shocked in my heart, and I just reversed the direction of the attack when the power was about to leave the body, and threw all the merits towards the rotten turf.

boom.

The ground was smashed into a big hole by force, and the dried blood under the grass was evaporated, causing the evil spirit above to float unsteadily.

wow.

"Yin Yan" then collapsed and disappeared.

Yu Zhen clenched the mahogany sword tightly with lingering fear, and directly lifted himself into the air, with cold sweat dripping from his forehead.

Just now he suddenly thought of a possibility.

The reason why Yun Zhen was able to reincarnate was because he devoured the souls of the other two elders, and as far as he knew, among the other two elders, Mu He was good at illusion, and Huai Ting was good at passing on injuries and killing people with knives.

The evil spirit around him came out of his body, it belonged to Tiansha, and had its own deceiving effect.If Yunzhen absorbed part of the abilities of the other two elders when he fused their souls, then the power he just attacked on the counterfeit with the addition of magic spells and transfer damage could be transferred to the other elders? On Yin Yan in the formation?

With Yi Yun's narrow and despicable temperament, when he knew he was invincible, it was possible for him to come up with such a trick to make his opponents kill each other. The situation that made him attack.

mean.

Yu Zhen's expression was tense, and his teeth were gritted.

He has not been injured so far. It is likely that Yin Yan has seen through Yun Zhen's little trick and has not attacked anything after entering the battle, but he has released two waves of power just now. On Yin Yan...Damn it!

No, I have to go to Yin Yan's side.

He turned his head desperately, his eyes turned around the evil spirits around him, and after a long time, he lowered his head and landed on the turf on the ground, lowered his hand holding the sword slightly, and touched the red rope on the other hand.

You can't attack the evil spirit blindly, because the attack is likely to be passed on to Yin Yan, but the turf doesn't matter. Burning the blood of the living corpse under the turf will definitely affect the formation.

There is also a red rope, which is not affected by evil spirits and can guide him to Yin Yan's side.

He activated the red rope, lowered the height slightly, gathered the real fire on the tip of the sword, and spread it towards the grass under his feet.

boom.

Where the real fire went, the turf disappeared in an instant, the blood underneath was burned dry, and red mist floated towards the evil spirit above, stirring up the evil spirit to become turbulent.

effective!

Yu Zhen landed directly on the place where the turf and the blood of the living corpses had been burned away. According to the direction guided by the red rope, he walked towards the completely opposite direction from the direction he had determined before without hesitation.

Several counterfeit people came out one after another, some intentionally provoked him to get angry, some wanted to trick him into changing direction, and some wanted to get close to him, Yu Zhen ignored them all and didn't attack them, just buried his head in burning the turf, Stir the evil spirits around and let these phantoms collapse by themselves.

As he moved, the surrounding environment slowly changed, the villa disappeared, and the ruins of the barrel-shaped building were scattered all over.The direction guided by the red rope was just behind the ruins in front of him. He quickened his pace, and as soon as he turned the corner, Yin Yan's figure appeared in front of him.

He paused for a second, and called out: "Master!"

Yin Yan turned around when he heard the voice, first frowned, and the strength in his body flickered. After carefully looking at him for a few times, he relaxed his brows and eyes to regain his strength, walked towards him quickly, and asked: "Is there any injury? The evil spirit around is strange, and there is a burst of evil spirit in it. Law."

"I know." Yu Zhen replied, and also went to meet him. When he was two steps away from him, the pleasant smile on his face suddenly disappeared, and the mahogany sword was raised, stabbing towards his chest without hesitation.

"Xiaozhen, you—"

puff.

The tip of the sword sank into Yin Yan's chest, and then quickly pulled out, blood splashed, which was the real temperature of the human body.

Yin Yan took a step back, looked down at the blood-stained chest, stretched out his hand towards him, his eyes were dark and sad: "Yuzhen, you..."

puff!

"Shut up, Elder Yunzhen." Yu Zhen stabbed with his sword again, his eyes darkened, and his wrist turned, "Stop acting, you have a bad smell on your body, it's something that came out of my body, I'm stronger than you familiar."

"Yin Yan"'s eyes sank, and he raised his hand to hold the mahogany sword. Suddenly, a lot of evil energy burst out from his body, and he rushed towards Yu Zhen.

Yu Zhen snorted coldly, the merit and pseudo-immortal energy came out of his body, released along the mahogany sword, and threw his other hand, aiming directly at "Yin Yan"'s eyes.

The power of real fire and false immortal energy was too terrifying, "Yin Yan" was forced to let go of his hand holding the mahogany sword, and retreated to avoid the Dao Seed.Yu Zhen took the opportunity to shrink into an inch, moved directly to his back, and aimed another sword at his back.

wow.

All the Dao Seeds were shot into the air and scattered on the ground, at the same time, the figure of "Yin Yan" suddenly disappeared into the air with evil spirit.

Yu Zhen missed the shot and quickly turned around to fly into the air.

"It's useless." Yun Zhen finally stopped playing phantom tricks, his voice mixed with the evil spirit around him, with complacency and malice like playing with a little mouse, "As long as you are still in my 'body', you will kill me forever." not me."

Yu Zhen wiped off the blood on the mahogany sword, and sneered mockingly: "I don't think the blood you shed just now is fake. Also, do you think my master's skill in formation is high, or yours? Don't worry, Your 'body' will soon be broken."

The surrounding evil spirit surged violently for a moment, and Yun Zhen was clearly irritated by Yu Zhen's words.

"He is not worthy of being the suzerain. I should be the suzerain of Tianzong, and I should be the genius favored by heaven." Yun Zhen spoke again, his tone was pretending to be indifferent and calm, "He has high attainments in formation techniques and How? Two hidden formations, when he broke the other, you have already become my food, and he is the next one. If you want to blame, you are too useless and let your master hold back."

These words directly hit Yu Zhen's sore spot. He practiced Taoism for two lifetimes. At first, he was not able to learn formations. Although someone taught him later, he was still unable to get started because his foundation was too weak.

In this life, although he is determined to learn formations well, he cannot learn formations in a day or two. So far, his learning progress has only reached the elementary level. There is no other way.

"Thank you so much for your 'instructions'. I will study hard when I kill you." Yu Zhen turned the mahogany sword, and suddenly took a step sideways, aiming at the ground and slashing down with the sword, releasing the false immortal energy, "You Do you know that bad guys always die because of talking too much? Also, even if you copy the face of Master, you will never become a genius favored by heaven, you are now just a demon that heaven wants to kill and then quickly!"

boom!

The false fairy air spread out, stirring up the Dao Seed he had thrown out before.The Dao Seed began to emit light bursts, and then turned into a beam of light that shot up into the sky, faintly forming a small formation, the formation rotated, and the violent power exploded violently towards the surroundings.

At the same time, a golden light suddenly shot up from another direction facing this side, echoing this side. The two formations, one small and one large, quickly connected into a net, cutting through the evil spirit, and then surrounded them inch by inch.

"No! How is it possible! How could you find the eye of the array! No!"

The evil spirit surged, passively gathered together, the surrounding scenery gradually became clear, and a black figure gradually appeared in the net of golden light of merit.

Yu Zhen drew out the mahogany sword, tilted the tip of the sword to pick up the red string placed on the insertion position, received it in his hand, looked at Yin Yan who was quickly approaching this side on the other side, smiled, shrank his ground an inch, and stopped In front of Yun Zhen who was locked in the net.

"I really didn't find the eyes of the formation." He looked at Shang Yun with disbelief, shook the red rope in his hand, and smiled brightly at Yun Zhen, "But I have a powerful master, he left me mark."

Yin Yan happened to hear these words when he came over, looked sideways at him, and couldn't help boasting: "Yuzhen is smart."

Yun Zhen looked at them with a distorted expression, and gritted his teeth and cursed: "You two scum who destroy human relations!"

"I thought you were wishing us to grow old together." Yu Zhen returned the red rope to Yin Yan, raised the sword and pointed it at Yun Zhen's chest, leaning close to him, face to face with him, turning the point of the sword expressionlessly , the merits and virtues come out of the body.

"Yunzhen." He whispered, his eyes were as dark as a ghost crawling back from hell, and he whispered in his ear, "When I was lying in the abyss of misery, I wanted to dig out your heart and take a look at it all the time. , to see if it is black."

The counterattack that Yun Zhen gathered just now was stabbed away by his sword, as if he couldn't believe that he could suppress his own strength so easily, he stretched out his hands into claws with difficulty, spit out blood from his mouth, and his eyes bulged , said intermittently: "No, how could you kill... Come on..."

"Of course I can kill you." Yu Zhen stepped back, pulled out the mahogany sword, and then pointed the tip of the sword at his forehead, and the golden light shone on the tip of the sword, "The evil spirit that provides you with power in your body now is not enough for me when I first became enchanted One tenth, I have lived with them for two lifetimes, do you think I will not be able to kill you?"

The golden light flourished, triggering the formation, and the net began to close, forcing Yunzhen's figure back into the form of evil spirit, compressed into a black air mass, and then with a puff, it was completely dispersed between heaven and earth by merit.

A soul body appeared out of thin air, and Yun Zhen, who finally regained his original appearance, wanted to escape in a hurry. Yu Zhen stretched out his hand to suck him in and crushed him to pieces.

Unable to even scream, Yun Zhen died completely.

The soul flies away, the real death.

Yu Zhen lowered his hand holding the sword, looking expressionlessly at the place where Yun Zhen's soul dissipated, his heart was actually empty, and he did not have the expected satisfaction after revenge.

Just feel relieved.

Those years of suffering seem to finally have an explanation at this moment.Whether it's bad breath or hatred, it's all just a matter of the previous life. He is Yu Zhen now, and Yu Zhen is useless and timid in this life, and always relies too much on his partner.

Oh, by the way, you can no longer rely on your partner too much. You must study hard, make progress every day, and strive to be a great monk who contributes to the realm of self-cultivation, to human beings, to the whole society, and to the way of heaven, so that others can rely on him with confidence, and then Come on and fly, and be with the one you love forever.

Speaking of which, since becoming a teacher, he seems to have not gone out to practice alone... Maybe he should try?

Thoughts ran for a while inexplicably, he came back to his senses, turned his head to look at Yin Yan who was always quiet beside him, couldn't help poking him with a sword, and said with a smile: "You still spoiled me, I almost fucked smashed."

When he sensed the red rope but not Yin Yan's breath, he panicked briefly. If Yun Zhen hadn't appeared at the corner with Yin Yan's face on his face, he might not be able to regain his senses and guess what Yin Yan meant. .

"But you didn't." Yin Yan held the tip of his sword, tilted his head and let out a low cough, and said in relief, "Your swordsmanship is getting better and better, and the strength of your attacks is very precise, not bad."

Seeing him coughing, Yu Zhen remembered the two swords she swung at the beginning, her expression changed, she hurriedly put away her sword and ran to him, looked him up and down anxiously, and said, "Are you injured? Show me quickly, It's all my fault, if only I had reacted sooner."

"It's okay." Yin Yan held his hand, hugged him into his arms, and said with satisfaction in his tone, "The source of your power is pseudo-immortal energy and merit, and it doesn't do much harm to me. I've already taken the elixir ,never mind."

"How can it be okay?" Yu Zhen was full of self-blame, and was about to break free from his embrace to see where he was injured, when his dantian suddenly became hot, and when he realized something, he suddenly raised his head and looked over his head.

Above him, the ancient book that had been floating above his head for some inexplicable reason and could not be retrieved was turning pages frantically at this moment, and the white light faintly turned into gold, which looked very obvious at night.

Yin Yan also looked up, with a solemn expression, and tightened his arms.

The two looked at each other, and Yu Zhen opened his mouth in a dumbfounded manner, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "I... seem to be breaking through..." After thinking about the messy declaration of five lectures and four beauties on self-cultivation...

"Meow~"

Sensing the end of the battle, the nothingness quickly fell to the ground, spat out the monks very rudely, turned back into a white cat and ran towards this side.

"Don't come here, take him away." Yin Yan waved his hand and formed an enchantment to cover the two of them. At the same time, he took out the Dao Seed from Yu Zhen's pocket very skillfully, and began to form the formation.

Yu Zhen consciously meditated, restrained her mind, and secretly complained in her heart.

It is really not a good thing to break through after fighting for two consecutive days and breaking a tendon once.

The third question in "Nongjing" is the heart of an immortal, so do you like to listen to some official flattery in the book of exercises?That's how he broke through.

With some slightly helpless and slightly teasing thoughts in his mind, he sank his consciousness into his dantian, changed his exercises, and his thinking quickly entered a mysterious state, and he could no longer detect the movement of the outside world.

On his back, the golden seal of Innate Dao Body rotates slowly, echoing the ancient book above his head.

Yin Yan planted the last Dao Seed and formed a formation. At the same time, the ancient book was covered with a golden light, covering Yu Zhen inside.

As soon as Feng Lao and the others landed on the ground, they saw the vision of the ancient book cover. After taking two steps closer, they saw the Taoist golden seal on Yu Zhen's back, and couldn't help but gasped in unison.

"Natural body, my God, grandpa, pinch me quickly, I suspect I'm dreaming." Feng Lin pulled Feng Lao's sleeves desperately, looked at the golden seal on Yu Zhen's back, and blushed with excitement.

God knows how long they have been secretly jealous after a natural Buddha body appeared on the side of Buddhism and Taoism, but what he saw now, a natural Tao body!

Elder Feng was also shocked, and actually pinched him. After hearing Feng Lin's cry of pain, he came back to his senses, and he was also very excited, and said loudly: "Quick! Xiaozhen is about to break through, let's all disperse, Go to the periphery to protect him, hurry up!"

Everyone came back to their senses one after another, hurriedly found their places to disperse, and meditated excitedly, protecting the Dharma for Yu Zhen.

Yin Yan glanced at them when he heard the movement, and cast a barrier around them, and then sat in the seat closest to Yu Zhen.

The night was soft and floating, Yu Zhen's consciousness was floating, and he faintly heard someone asking him the same question repeatedly.He shut up and didn't answer, looked at the scenery along the road, bid farewell to his parents in his previous life, took off the Wentian Zong jade tablet he wanted to take off most in his previous life, walked along the Yehuo Road that turned into a sea of ​​flowers at some point, and stopped at In front of the dilapidated Taoist temple at the foot of the mountain behind Lianhuagou Village.

The wooden door opened, and an old man in a shabby Taoist robe sat on the high threshold of the main house, raised his eyelids to look over, and asked slowly, "Want to hear a story?"

"I want to." He replied, stepped closer, and at some point turned into a child, lying on the old man's lap.

The old man gently stroked the top of his head, and continued to ask in a slow tone: "What do you want to hear?"

What are you listening to?

He looked at the dust floating in the sun, smiled and closed his eyes.

"I want to hear...the hearts of immortals."

"Oh, the heart of an immortal." The old man nodded and said, "Okay, then the heart of an immortal. It is said that a long time ago, there was an immortal who had a very ill-fated fate. When he was a mortal, he first met The fake nobleman was later..."

The old man's voice drifted away, and he fell asleep in the warmth, forgetting the time.