Walking by the Abyss on Thin Ice

Chapter 195 – Seeking a spiritual connection

"Being poor and short-sighted, owing others money, one can only help others get rid of disasters."

The old Taoist followed Su Yun with a broom in his hand, walking step by step, his eyes flickering, his heart calm: "However, being able to defeat Di Ping at the same level, make him vomit blood, and have extraordinary talent and intelligence. This kind of cleverness is truly rare in the world. It's a pity..."

He shook his head and thought to himself: "She is the master of the Tongtian Tower and looks down on us Taoists."

On the way back, Su Yun passed by the law field and saw a bustling crowd of people, with many people from Shuofang gathered outside the field.

Su Yun asked around and someone excitedly told him: "It's the seven great families, queuing up to be beheaded!"

"The emperor has issued an edict to exterminate the nine clans of the seven great families! Just in Shuofang alone, tens of thousands of people are implicated!"

"There are also many families in other provinces and counties who are the illegitimate children or married into the seven great families, and they are also implicated and beheaded!"

"There are also many people from all over the country who have been beheaded! It's just that there are not as many as in Shuofang. Many people from other places have come to Shuofang to watch the beheading. It is said that it will take several days to finish the executions!"

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Su Yun stood outside the law field, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.

The old Taoist came up to him with a broom and said, "Su Master, you should have learned a lot of the ancient saint's techniques. Xun Sheng said that people are born evil and need to be educated to be good. Meng Sheng said that people are born good and are corrupted by the world. But we Taoists say that people are born as immortals."

Su Yun turned around and asked, "Please tell me more."

"People are born as immortals, like babies holding onto simplicity. As they grow up, they are gradually disturbed by the world, and that's why they slowly lose their immortal qualifications and become ordinary people."

The old Taoist walked up to him and put down the broom. "When a young man grows up, he loses all his immortal energy and becomes vulgar. The path of cultivation is to slow down this process, or to reverse it, to return to the state of a baby and become an immortal."

Su Yun pondered for a moment and asked, "So, is Di Ping's move good or evil? Does it bring him closer or further away from becoming an immortal?"

The old Taoist looked at him and after a moment, said, "I thought you would ask me about the path of immortals."

Su Yun sneered, shook his sleeve, and turned to leave. "I don't need you to teach me the path of immortals. I could teach you a thing or two. Goodbye, Taoist!"

The old Taoist was stunned and hurried to catch up with him.

Su Yun returned to the Xinglin Medicinal Shop, returned the borrowed old Taoist to Dr. Dong, and took out a Qinghong coin to pay Dr. Dong, saying, "This is the money I borrowed from the old Taoist."

Dr. Dong took the money and checked the accounts, saying, "You still owe thirteen Qinghong coins. It seems that he won't be able to earn so much money this month, and can only wait for Xianyun to pay his salary. However, Xianyun's salary is not much, so it is estimated to become a bad debt."

At this moment, Su Yun suddenly felt that the robbery qi on the street had diminished a lot. He felt a slight movement in his heart and asked, "Did Zuofu find Wutong?"Doctor Dong shook his head, "There's no news from Left Supervisor. These days, I've been trying to prepare some spiritual medicines to see if I can eliminate the disaster energy, but progress has been slow."

"It's strange, why is the disaster energy slowly decreasing?" Su Yun wondered.

Many people still came to seek medical treatment, and the streets were lined with booths for free medical consultations, mostly manned by scholars from the academies. The Marquis of Shuofang ordered scholars from the academies of Shuofang, Jiuyuan, and Moxia to come and help.

Although these three academies were implicated in the rebellion, with many scholars being coerced into joining the rebellion, they were able to rebel with the help of the Marquis of Shuofang, Zuo Songyan, and others, and managed to save the lives of most of the scholars from the three major academies.

However, the scholars who rebelled with the seven major aristocratic families were not so lucky and were inevitably beheaded on the execution ground.

Su Yun and Chi Xiaoyao also helped treat the injured and sick, although they couldn't cure the disaster grey disease, they could help these people survive and delay time.

As the disaster energy diminished, these patients would naturally recover.

At night, they rarely had a moment of peace. Chi Xiaoyao fell asleep after chatting with Su Yun for a while, while Su Yun closed his eyes and brought Ying Ying into his spiritual world.

He held Ying Ying in his spiritual power and said, "With my great progress in strength, I should be able to escape from the Immortal Sword, but I have never brought anyone else's spiritual power into that world before, I don't know if it will be successful."

Su Yun raised his right hand and gently pushed Ying Ying, who cried out in surprise, flying out.

She suddenly felt much lighter and hurriedly looked at Su Yun's palm, only to see another herself lying in Su Yun's palm.

Su Yun pushed her spiritual power out of her body, then gently placed her body down and said, "Hold on to me."

Ying Ying hurriedly flew over and hugged his neck, but Su Yun's body was too big for her to wrap her arms around, so she had to hold onto Su Yun's arm, but it was still too thick.

Su Yun had to stuff her into his chest collar and said, "Hold onto my collar!"

Ying Ying's face turned red with embarrassment as she tightly grabbed his collar, with only a small head sticking out of Su Yun's chest, nervously looking ahead.

Su Yun mobilized his vitality and activated the Eight-Faced Heavenly Palace in his eyes.

The Eight-Faced Heavenly Palace turned, and the Heavenly Gate rose into the sky, suddenly opening!

Su Yun's spiritual power was suddenly pulled by a tremendous force, flying towards the world behind the Heavenly Gate!

Ying Ying screamed, stuck to Su Yun's chest, unable to move!

The next moment, boundless light surged, filling the girl's vision.

When the light dissipated, white clouds slowly appeared, dispelling the fairy light. The long bridge lay like a dragon on the clouds of the fairyland.

Ying Ying had not had a chance to look carefully, but Su Yun ran forward and, in a breath, arrived at the corpse of Qu Jin standing on the bridge. Without hesitation, he pulled Ying Ying out of his arms, grabbed her small hand, and pressed it onto the fairy map!

"Quick! Visualize the Lingxi!" Su Yun shouted.

Ying Ying concentrated and visualized the Lingxi.The Lingxi, a rare divine beast, is seldom seen. Dragons, phoenixes, and even falling dragons have been witnessed, but the Lingxi is too rare.

This divine beast can freely roam within the spiritual realm of various characters or demons, feeding on their dreams and turning nightmares into sweet dreams.

The Lingxi is untraceable, but one hundred and fifty years ago, a scholar named Ying found the Lingxi and created the Lingxi Avoid Dust and Communicate Profound Technique, leaving it in the Wen Yuan Ge of the Tian Dao Yuan.

Ying Ying read the technique and immediately closed her eyes, visualizing the Lingxi based on the pattern in the book.

Su Yun looked at the Xian Tu, but the surroundings were only reflected in the map and no Lingxi appeared.

Ying Ying opened her eyes, feeling confused.

Su Yun quickly placed his hand on the Xian Tu and whispered, "Could it be that only I can use this Xian Tu?"

He also practiced the Lingxi Avoid Dust and Communicate Profound Technique and observed the Lingxi pattern left by Ying, but despite his visualization of the Lingxi, it did not appear on the Xian Tu.

Obviously, the Xian Tu was not exclusively for his use.

"Wait, does it require a Lingxi that has crossed the tribulation to appear on the Xian Tu?"

Su Yun's mind shook, suddenly realizing that he had checked the Xian Tu for various divine beasts or divinities such as the crocodile dragon, the Ying dragon, the Bi Fang, and the white ape. All of them had crossed the tribulation before being killed by the Xian Sword.

Apparently, the Xian Tu recorded the divine beasts that had crossed the tribulation. Any divine beast that died under the Xian Sword could be visualized by the user of the Xian Tu, reproducing the scene of their tribulation.

Since the Lingxi did not appear on the map, it only indicated that the Lingxi had never practiced to the level of crossing the tribulation from ancient times to the present!

Without crossing the tribulation, it would not appear on the Xian Tu.

"This is difficult."

Su Zhou frowned, alertly scanning the surroundings and suddenly gritted his teeth, stuffing Ying Ying back into his arms, turning and running wildly, thinking, "If I delay any longer, I don't know where the sword light will come from. I'd better go back first!"

He still remembered the pain in his buttocks from the sword strike. Whenever he thought of it, the muscles in his buttocks couldn't help but twitch, faintly hurting.

The two returned to the spiritual realm, Su Yun sent Ying Ying's spirit back to her body, and he paced around in the spiritual realm, feeling worried.

Ying Ying was also very worried, walking around in his palm.

"Ying Ying, if Ying is you, then she must have left some traces in the Lingxi Avoid Dust and Communicate Profound Technique to mark how she found the Lingxi."

Su Yun suddenly realized and stopped, speculating, "There might be a map or a summoning method she left behind in the book. Think carefully, is there anything strange in that book?"

Ying Ying stood in his palm, stopped, thought carefully, and suddenly her eyes lit up as she jumped out of his palm, "There is a type of medicinal herb attached to every page of the technique!"Her small hand waved, and a series of pages from the Lingxi Bichun Tongxuan Gong appeared in the air, with various peculiar herbs listed at the bottom of each page.

The herb names were messy and not in any particular order.

"This should be a prescription."

Su Yun carefully examined it and speculated, "What is this prescription used for...never mind, we're in an herb shop anyway. Let's just grab these herbs and see what we can make with them!"

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Excited, he immediately woke up from his meditation and left the secret room of the herb shop.

Ying Ying also flapped her paper wings with excitement and followed him.

The two arrived at the end of the secret room and saw the plump Doctor Dong standing there. His back was split open, revealing that the real Doctor Dong was not inside and had gone somewhere else.

As they walked out of the secret room, they saw the old Taoist sleeping soundly on a hospital bed, snoring like thunder.

Su Yun did not disturb him, quietly walked over, lit the Jie Hui lamp, and grabbed the herbs according to the prescription. After a moment, the herbs were weighed and ready.

Ying Ying dragged a cauldron from the corner with great effort. Su Yun and she looked at each other and put the herbs into the cauldron.

Their hearts were pounding as Su Yun activated his blood and a Bi Fang divine fire flew out, igniting the cauldron.

At this point, a wonderful change occurred in the cauldron.

Su Yun and Ying Ying were surprised to see a fragrant mist rising from the cauldron, seemingly tangible and connected to the old Taoist's spiritual realm.

The old Taoist's spiritual realm unexpectedly opened without any defense and allowed the fragrant mist to enter.

"Hurry up and go!"

Ying Ying quickly flew up and suddenly realized that she had flown up, but it was her spiritual body that had flown up while her physical body remained in place.

Su Yun was the same. Their spiritual bodies flew out of their physical bodies after being enveloped by the fragrant mist in the cauldron.

"This is..."

He was stunned, and Ying Ying quickly grabbed his finger and shook her wings, struggling to lead him along the fragrant mist into the old Taoist's spiritual realm.

The old Taoist's spiritual realm was extremely vast, and they could even see the divine beings of the nine heavens and the gods of the Taoist sects, as well as a world.

The old Taoist was surprised, and the sleeping gods one by one opened their eyes, looking at the spiritual bodies that suddenly broke into his spiritual realm, wondering what had happened.

The two flew through the old Taoist's spiritual realm following the fragrant mist, and suddenly the fragrant mist drifted into the spiritual realm of Chi Xiaoyao, who was sleeping soundly in the secret room.

Chi Xiaoyao's spiritual realm was much smaller than the old Taoist's, and the spiritual body of the little dragon was diligently practicing by the Great Abyss, where the dragon ball shone with a bright light.

Just then, Su Yun and Ying Ying broke in one after the other.

Chi Xiaoyao was terrified and ashamed, "If I dream of a man, it means I'm thinking about him during the day. But why is Ying Ying here too?"She was thinking, but then she saw Su Yun and Ying Ying flying into her abyss and disappearing.

Chi Xiaoyao was stunned, leaning over the abyss and looking down. It was a dark abyss with no bottom in sight, and Su Yun and Ying Ying had flown somewhere from this abyss.

"What was I thinking during the day?" the little mother dragon worried.

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