txolops Chapter 18 yielded amazing results.
Chapter 18 yielded amazing results.
"Ha ha."
"Further discussion is pointless."
Ji Yun felt his blood rushing through his body, his body trembled slightly, and a sense of exhilaration and gratitude welled up in his heart, so he couldn't help but laugh out loud twice.
Faced with such an old demonic cultivator, his Qi Refining Level 1 spells were useless, and he could only rely on external objects to kill the enemy.
The flying sword left his hand and pointed straight at Lao Xiu's throat.
The talismans burst forth in mid-air, transforming into more than a dozen strange spells that headed straight for the old cultivator and the three soul slaves.
"Are you from an upper-class family?"
"No, since you come from elsewhere, then I won't stand on ceremony."
Old Xiu carefully examined them and discovered that he had never seen these spells before.
But this precisely shows that this young man is not a local cultivator; he did not come from the upper reaches of this night sea.
If we kill him.
No one will chase after them for the time being.
So he made a hand seal to summon a spiritual light to protect himself, the flying boat beneath his feet suddenly shifted to the side, he summoned his soul slave to block in front of him, and added the raincoat on his body to block the way.
Successfully dodged the flying sword.
It also blocked most of the talismans.
However, he was caught off guard and was silently entangled by several spells.
In an instant, he felt haunted by evil spirits, his body drained of life force, and his senses blurred...
"Haha, what a clever trick."
"Under normal circumstances, I would have turned and left, but my time is up, and I have no choice but to kill you today."
The old cultivator laughed loudly, then raised his hand and formed a hand seal, directly abandoning his physical body and revealing his true soul.
This true soul is different from ordinary people. Not only is it solidified like a real person, but it is also wearing a pitch-black robe.
After revealing his soul, he raised his hand and made a hand seal.
He used another secret technique, vanishing from his spot and transforming into a cloud of black mist that headed straight for Ji Yun's brow.
"He's still a half-baked soul cultivator."
"Is this a desperate attempt to possess someone else's body?"
Ji Yun raised an eyebrow. With his knowledge, he could naturally see through Lao Xiu's methods.
This method of seizing a body is very crude; it must have been recently mastered.
He was not afraid of being possessed.
The Supreme Response Method focuses on cultivating the soul, and with the Supreme Original Form guarding the soul sea and spiritual platform, how could someone at the second level of Qi Refining possibly possess such a body?
If Lao Xiu intends to do so, then he is essentially courting death.
In that instant, Ji Yun made a decision.
He reached out and pulled Li Meier into his storage bag.
Li Meier vanished into thin air.
The room fell into a deathly silence.
Old Xiu's true soul reappeared, and he froze in mid-air, his expression shifting between light and dark as he stared intently at Ji Yun.
Ji Yun stood with his hands behind his back.
He stood still, gazing at Lao Xiu across the distance, waiting for the other to possess him.
The two remained silent for a long time.
It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
"That's a brilliant tactic."
"I concede defeat."
Old Xiu bowed from afar, overwhelmed with mixed emotions, and finally let out a long sigh.
He went there for Li Meier.
Ji Yun is likely from an upper-class family, and his soul sea must be protected by a treasure. Nine times out of ten, trying to possess him would fail.
His fearless demeanor at this moment, as if he were being possessed, also confirms this.
But he never expected this.
Li Meier isn't actually alive!
She was actually able to be put into a storage bag!
He had long suspected that Ji Yun and Li Meier were soulmates and had been marked with soul imprints, and that the two must have a master-servant relationship.
Ji Yun has delicate features but low cultivation level, and is suspected to be Li Meier's male favorite.
This speculation has reversed; Li Meier is suspected to be Ji Yun's furnace cauldron.
He originally intended to seize Li Meier first, and then use a secret method to obtain Ji Yun's body through the soul imprint between the two.
But the truth turned out to be so unexpected.
Li Meier was actually a corpse puppet, and this boy reacted extremely quickly, putting the corpse puppet away before he could possess the other party.
"Enter the tower."
"I can give you a way out."
Ji Yun spoke softly, "This old cultivator used a secret technique, and now that he has no physical body to go to, he is doomed."
Old Xiu's physical body has been abandoned by himself and is now entangled with many talismans.
Looking around, the vast night sea was deserted, and the Soul-Suppressing Tower was the only place he could go.
"I refuse to be a slave."
"Deep within my sky island lies a fortuitous opportunity. All my soul cultivation techniques were learned from here. You may take them for yourself."
"Never mind, never mind."
"I have drifted on the sea for 130 years, experiencing both joy and sorrow. Since this is my destiny, I accept it."
"It's a pity that I only ever went to the third level of the Night Sea in my entire life, and I never dared to go any higher. Now I regret it deeply."
"If only I had been a little braver when I was young, I could have secretly gone up to the upper levels to see what the Primordial Spirit Realm was like, even just for a glimpse..."
Old Xiu looked up at the sky.
His words were filled with deep regret.
He spent his entire life wanting to ascend to the higher realms, but when he was about to die, he had never even seen what the Primordial Spirit Realm looked like.
Because they dare not.
The Night Sea level is insurmountable; if one sneaks up and is discovered by the upper-level demonic cultivators, death is certain.
The Primordial Spirit Realm is the dwelling place for Foundation Establishment.
Legend has it that the place isn't as dark as the Night Sea, but is bathed in sunlight and rich in resources; whether that's true or not, I wonder...
Reflecting on and regretting.
The old cultivator's soul slowly disintegrated on its own.
It vanished into nothingness in an instant.
This is the Night Sea.
Ji Yun sighed silently; the old man's last words had touched him deeply.
But we still have to be wary of a fake death.
He scanned the air with his divine sense, made a hand seal to grab a remnant soul of the old cultivator, and began a soul search.
A moment later, he looked surprised.
This old man actually has a secret.
As this person's life was drawing to a close, he searched everywhere for methods to prolong his life and seize another's body. By sheer chance, he actually obtained some information.
It is said that beneath the first layer of the Night Sea, in the shallow depths of a completely spiritual abyss, lies the ruins of an ancient demonic sect.
So he and a few others went to explore.
After many twists and turns, he was the only one left alive.
He reaped a great harvest, obtaining a variety of magical artifacts and a demonic sect's inheritance, including the secret technique of possession.
But after studying it, I discovered...
This secret technique of possession turned out to be incomplete.
It only has the method of seizing a body, but no follow-up, so it cannot allow the soul to merge with the new body, nor can it stay in the new body for long.
In other words.
This method cannot prolong life.
It can only be used as an offensive spell.
"I see."
"No wonder he didn't try to possess someone else to extend his lifespan, but instead insisted on asking me for a method to prolong life."
Ji Yun shook his head slightly; this matter was truly a cruel twist of fate.
Because the fragment was not much damaged, just a couple more sentences would be enough for the old cultivator to obtain the method of integration.
Unfortunately, such is fate.
Heaven did not want him to live longer.
Since that's the case, Ji Yun had no choice but to accept the old man's belongings.
Old Xiu owns a rather large, empty island within the market town. He also employs some servants and maids on the island.
However, there's no rush.
The old man carried his valuables with him at all times; the only thing on the island was that inheritance.
But Ji Yun does not need to be passed down.
It's not as valuable as the Sky Island itself.
"This time the gains were even greater."
Ji Yun gathered up Lao Xiu's belongings and roughly counted them.
A storage bag.
Seven spirit stones.
A small airship.
Large quantities of elixirs and miraculous medicines.
A dozen or so medium-grade ritual implements.
A large quantity of spirit sand and spirit pearls.
There are also artifacts from the ruins of the Demon Sect.
……
All of these items combined were so valuable that Ji Yun couldn't estimate their value in a short time.
This is not just Lao Xiu's property.
It was also the entire fortune of the three or four demonic cultivators who accompanied him when they explored the secret realm.
There are even relics of cultivators who perished while exploring the secret realm earlier, including many from the upper layers of the Night Sea.
That's how the storage bag came about.
He rummaged through the corpses at the ruins and picked one up from the upper corpse.
"I really need to get some fresh air. This amount of assets is enough for me to cultivate to the second level of Qi Refining."
"No need to go out anymore."
"You can go into seclusion until you break through."
Ji Yun was quite satisfied and immediately turned back, flying directly back to Zhao Family Market on his sword.
……
One month later.
Zhao Family Market.
The Zhao family is holding a celebration banquet today.
Ji Yun was unwilling to go, as he only wanted to break through to the second level of Qi Refining in one go, but the old manager of the talisman shop actually came to his door in person.
The celebration banquet only takes half a day.
He had no choice but to take some time to deal with it.
Surprisingly, the celebration banquet was not held in the market, but on the third floor of the Night Sea.
"The Night Sea has three layers..."
Ji Yun sat inside the flying boat of the Zhao family's talisman shop, his heart filled with mixed emotions.
Since the Ji family fled, he has never returned to the third floor of the Night Sea.
I originally intended to go after breaking through my current realm.
But now we've taken the first step.
He was to travel to the Zhao family's third level of the Night Sea, posing as a talisman master from the Zhao family, along with several other excited talisman masters from the Zhao family...