The Wheel-Turning Master.

Chapter 121 My Heart is Wishful
The cave was silent.

Shen Xu lay on the ground, his hands gradually becoming weak.

A sword spewed out of his mouth, his eyes turned amber, and amber resin flowed out of his seven orifices, slowly covering his face. The blood flowing from his wounds also turned amber, as if to cover his entire body.

Lin Bai was pressing on him, with only the hilt of the Huolin Sword exposed.

"Live towards death." Qu Ruyi staggered and crawled forward, "He wants to use his blood to turn his body into amber, and then use the amber magic to save his life."

She finished speaking breathlessly, and seeing that Lin Bai remained silent, she quickly explained: "My ancestor also had this kind of magical power, which was to use the essence of life and blood to make divinations."

"I'm not blind." Lin Bai pressed the hilt of the sword and urged his spiritual power. The earth fire surged and immediately burned in Shen Xu's body.

Blood and qi rose, a burnt smell spread out, and it slowly burned all the internal organs with a sizzling sound.

The underground fire burned from within his body outwards until all his flesh, blood, tendons and bones were burned, and even his clothes were reduced to ashes.

"This man's secret technique is so strange and bizarre that I have never seen it before. I will not feel at ease until I see him turn into ashes." Qu Ruyi slumped on the ground, most of his hair was gone, his face was covered with dust, his clothes were dirty and torn, and he looked disheveled.

Especially the sword wound on his chest, the khaki amber poison was lingering in the wound and had not yet disappeared.

"What other secret techniques have you seen?" Lin Bai sat next to her and waved to take Shen Xu's storage ring.

"Can the secret technique be performed at any time?" Qu Ruyi finally came to her senses. She stared at Lin Bai and said, "You were lying to me just now."

"If I can't even fool you, how can I let Shen Xu be fooled?" Lin Bai smiled.

"You..." Qu Ruyi frowned. She was covered in dirt, and her face showed relief and relief after surviving a disaster, but also a bit of reluctance. "You used the Earth Fire Sword Intentions and the talisman repeatedly, and your Qi Sea was already empty. How did you recover so quickly?"

She stared at Lin Bai with curiosity.

"If Song Qing were here, he wouldn't ask." Lin Bai looked at her with a smile.

Qu Ruyi clenched her fists, knowing that this meant that she had little experience and shouldn't ask other people about their privacy.

"I used a secret technique." Seeing that she was unhappy, Lin Bai felt happy in his heart, but he said bitterly, "The cost is very high. I'm afraid it will take several years to raise it." He waved his hand and put on a forced smile, "It's better not to say anything. As long as you can... you can live, what does it matter?"

Qu Ruyi believed it and nodded, "You have paid so much, I thought you..." She remembered that she had despised Lin Bai just now and even kicked him. Now she suddenly realized and felt ashamed.

Lin Bai recalled that when he first met her, she was a very clever girl. Why did she seem to have lost her mind now? Was she out of ideas after surviving a catastrophe?
However, Lin Bai still looked at her and said, "No need to say more." He was very serious, solemn and serious. "As the saying goes, strong winds reveal strong grass, and true character is revealed in times of crisis. You are right." Lin Bai smiled and continued, "Now it seems that it was a wise decision to entrust Xiuxiu to you."

After hearing these words, Qu Ruyi felt even more ashamed. Her eyes became redder. She nodded and said, "I never let anyone down."

There was a hint of choking in her words, and she sniffed, then took out the pill bottle, swallowed a pill of detoxifying pill, threw the pill bottle to Lin Bai, then sat cross-legged with her eyes closed in meditation.

"If it were Sister Pei, she wouldn't be fooled by my words at all. Instead, she would be sarcastic to me." Lin Bai took the pill bottle and muttered to himself.

After swallowing the pill, he examined himself. His Qi Sea was slightly damaged, which was due to excessive compression.

The wounds on the arms and abdomen had stopped bleeding long ago, but the ochre-yellow amber poison was still penetrating into the flesh and blood, but there was not much left.

He closed his eyes, emptied his mind, and walked to the stone plate.

The dark yellow color that had previously covered the mist had disappeared, replaced by a small amber-yellow color.

The former was due to the dead tree cicada, which seemed to be able to block the connection between the cave and the outside world. Qu Ruyi's black tortoise and his own magical powers to avoid danger and seek good fortune were all ineffective.

The latter is Shen Xu's amber poison, which seems turbulent but is actually quite weak. It is much worse than the green rust left by Tie Huasheng in the past.

Lin Bai opened his eyes again. The detoxifying pill in his body had taken effect. Tiny flames appeared on the wound, slowly removing the amber poison that had penetrated into his flesh and blood.

Qu Ruyi sat down with her eyes closed, her brows slightly furrowed.

Lin Bai stood up and walked towards the pile of sand where Zhu Yushu was buried.

Many roots have grown on the sand pile and are about to break through the soil.

Zhu Jianshui was sitting cross-legged beside him, with amber resin still remaining on his face.

She had been poisoned by the life-fire poison before, and her wound had not yet healed. She was also hit by the amber secret technique. Her hair was now dry, her clothes were torn, and the wrinkles on her face were more obvious.

Lin Bai took out two anti-drug pills and stuffed them into her mouth.

"Senior, how can I help you?" Lin Bai asked.

"No, no need." Zhu Jianshui spoke with difficulty, her wrinkles trembling, as if she was enduring great pain. She opened her cloudy eyes, with a kind look, "You just heal your wounds."

Lin Bai nodded and was about to break the sand pile, but Zhu Jianshui stopped him and said, "Let him do it himself."

"Yes." Lin Bai sat down next to Zhu Jianshui, swallowed another pill to restore his energy and blood, and continued to heal his wounds.

Not long after, the sand pile broke open, and Zhu Yushu's face turned pale, with a faint flame mark between his eyebrows.

Lin Bai pinched two pills, "Brother Yushu."

Zhu Yushu swallowed the pill with a smile on his face, "You saved Yumao first, and then saved my aunt and nephew. I don't know when I can repay you for your kindness."

Lin Bai smiled and said, "One day of drinking is enough."

"That's right." Zhu Yushu nodded.

The two said no more and sat cross-legged to heal their wounds.

After a while, Lin Bai's injuries had already recovered. The amber poison was gone, the wounds healed, the charred scars were gone, and he looked like new.

Lin Bai stood up and first collected Liu Lao Da's storage ring and Fire Kirin Stone, then started a fire and burned the body to ashes. He then went to look for the previous foundation building and the two Qi training people, but their bodies had long been broken into pieces. Lin Bai spent a lot of effort to find the three storage rings.

In this trip, I killed three Foundation Building cultivators and two Qi Training cultivators, which was quite a harvest.

It’s a pity that the most precious thing was taken away by Qu Ruyi.

Half a day later, Qu Ruyi had also recovered from the amber poison, but her face was still a little pale.

She did not continue healing her wounds, but stood up and looked at the dead tree stump in the middle of the cave.

"Yushu, go and collect Yuyan's body. Don't hinder others from building their foundation." Zhu Jianshui said.

She was the person who was most seriously injured this time. The poison from the amber had dissipated, but her face looked dry and weathered, making her look even older.

The trace of fire between Zhu Yushu's eyebrows had faded. He stood up, took out the wooden coffin, and placed Zhu Yuyan's body in it.

"Thank you." Qu Ruyi stood up, bowed to Zhu Jianshui, and then walked towards the dead tree stump.

When he arrived, he sat cross-legged on it.

She didn't talk, nor did she do anything else, just stared blankly.

Lin Bai and Zhu Yushu had never seen such a scene before. They sat side by side against the wall of the cave, staring at Qu Ruyi motionlessly, as if they were listening to a sermon.

After a long while, Zhu Jianshui stood up and said, "I'll go upstairs to guard her." She looked at Lin Bai and Zhu Yushu again and told them, "You two should watch carefully, as this is a rare opportunity."

Lin Bai and Zhu Yushu stood up and saluted. Zhu Jianshui said no more and turned into the cave.

After waiting for another half a day, Qu Ruyi suddenly smiled.

Lin Bai and Zhu Yushu sat up straight immediately.

"The spiritual energy of the soil here is pure, and soil produces gold." Qu Ruyi said with a smile, "My natal star is Qingyu Ruyi, and Qingyu was born in soil and stone, which belongs to gold."

She pointed to the top of the cave, referring to Zhu Jianshui, "Lapis Lazuli produces black water, Senior Zhu's natal black water."

Qu Ruyi looked at Zhu Yushu again and said with a smile: "Water gives birth to wood, and your natal star is the Jade Tree."

Finally, he looked at Lin Bai and said, "Your destiny is not a single one of the five elements. It has the meaning of vastness. However, you practice fire magic and understand the meaning of earth fire. At this moment, it belongs to fire."

After saying this, Qu Ruyi flipped his hands, with a green jade ruyi in his left hand and a black jade cicada in his right hand.

"Shen Xu borrowed Zhu Yuyan's body, imitated the shape of amber, and gained the meaning of amber. He sacrificed his own cultivation to avoid the magic of the dead tree cicada. He can be said to be living towards death."

"This time, I was blessed by the dead tree cicada's magic. My face aged, but then I was reborn from death and regained my youth."

"In the end, you deceived Shen Xu, which was also a way to survive in the face of death."

A flush of color appeared on Qu Ruyi's pale face, and his smile became so round and natural that it seemed as if it was natural.

"The five elements are present here, and we see rebirth from death, which is a cycle. The way of heaven is the same."

"With a dead tree beneath me and a jade cicada in my hand, I am content."

Qu Ruyi closed her eyes, and a feeling of tranquility and depth spread over her.

The road is difficult, and building the foundation is the first major hurdle on the road of cultivation.

If a Qigong practitioner wants to build a foundation for the Tao, he needs great perseverance and determination, and his mind must also be open.

When your Qi training is complete or about to be complete, you will feel a revelation in your heart.

With the opportunity of divine revelation and the chance to build a foundation, one will then gain some enlightenment, and then draw the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body, cleansing oneself, thereby condensing the spiritual power in the sea of ​​​​qi.

This process is extremely dangerous. If you are not careful, your Qi Sea will be damaged. If you fail to build your foundation because of this, it will be extremely difficult to build your foundation again in the future.

Similarly, if one loses the opportunity to build a foundation, one will need to forcibly draw the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body, which is extremely dangerous. Only one in ten people can succeed, and most of them end up dying.

Therefore, most of those who have lost the chance to build a foundation stop at the perfection of Qi training and dare not risk their lives to have another chance to build a foundation.

Lin Bai stared at her intently, observing Qu Ruyi's subtle changes while pondering her words.

After half an hour, changes suddenly occurred in the cave. Spiritual energy surged in from all directions and gathered around Qu Ruyi.

After another quarter of an hour, a vortex of spiritual energy formed and all of it was absorbed to a place three feet above Qu Ruyi's head.

This took an hour to prepare, and the spiritual energy in the cave became more abundant, with a hint of violence.

The vortex slowly pressed down, and Qu Ruyi's face immediately showed an expression of unbearable pain.

The spiritual energy that entered the water was all absorbed into the body, but most of it dissipated and returned to the vortex.

After half an hour, the green jade ruyi in Qu Ruyi's left hand regained its luster, and the black jade cicada in his right hand began to chirp faintly.

Qu Ruyi's hair turned black and then white, and she looked old again, but then she immediately returned to her youthful appearance.

This cycle repeated itself for a long time, and the spiritual energy here also centered on Qu Ruyi, like the tides, like breathing, dispersing for a while and gathering for a while.

After an hour, the rich spiritual energy slowly dissipated, and the faint foundation-building aura from Qu Ruyi's body dissipated.

"Once the foundation is laid, supernatural powers will naturally arise." Lin Bai watched silently, guessing what kind of supernatural power Qu Ruyi would obtain.

(End of this chapter)