One Qi Chaoyang

Chapter 446: Flame Demon Gourd
In Tiandu Mountain, inside the Lihuo Palace, a red light was surging.

The fire in the fire well shot up into the air, with tongues of flame shining brightly, and under the tongues of flame, there was a gourd and a statue.

The statue was very small, but its facial features seemed to be moving and twisting. Its eyes seemed to be open, with a blood-red color in them. Upon closer inspection, it seemed like an endless abyss of blood. Its body seemed to be burning, and it seemed to be growing blood-colored hair.

This was Zhao Fuyun’s Red Flame Statue back then. Later, the Red Flame Statue merged with the Nightmare Demon, and the Red Flame Statue seemed to be injected with a soul. So this statue got another name, called the Flame Demon.

All along, this fire demon seemed to have lost its restraints, like a sword without a sheath, but this fire demon was different from the sword, because it had its own consciousness. If it was not sealed, it would corrode the person holding it. Zhao Fuyun did not even perform a sacrifice, because if he did, his own Dharma thoughts would be integrated into it, and the fire demon could affect him through the touch of his Dharma thoughts.

So he has kept it sealed all these years, wrapped in talismans.

Faintly, Zhao Fuyun actually heard a sinister laugh, and then he heard the Flame Demon actually calling his name.

Zhao Fuyun ignored him and pointed at the gourd. This was the Pure Yuan Fire Gourd, but he had refined it again and the fire in the gourd had been turned into fire cloud.

Fire cloud becomes forbidden.

For so long, in addition to refining his own red jade hand to ward off evil, he also practiced the Fire Cloud Magic Restrictions in the Pure Yuan Fire Gourd, fusing the original restrictions in the gourd into one.

The forbidden techniques in the entire gourd have the function of restraining, nourishing and driving away the fire demon.

The fire demon has the ability to enter dreams, create dreams, capture minds, steal thoughts, eat essence and blood, and burn.

If you need to set up a forbidden formation, you can also use this gourd as the spirit to suppress the formation.

The Flame Demon seemed to be aware of something, and a cloud of fire rolled out from the gourd like a tongue, wrapping him up. He struggled violently, trying to break free from this confinement. This made Zhao Fuyun sigh in his heart. The power of the Flame Demon itself could not be said to be very strong, but his spirituality seemed to be innate.

Or it could be said that after the Nightmare Demon combined with the scent of incense born from the Red Flame Statue, the Nightmare Demon seemed to have awakened and woken up from the chaos.

He struggled violently, and Zhao Fuyun felt his anger. At this moment, he could be said to be a newly born god.

But the fire cloud restriction in the gourd was specially prepared for him, so no matter how he struggled, he was still dragged into the gourd's mouth by the fire cloud.

I saw that the Flame Demon statue was wrapped with silk threads and kept shrinking at the mouth of the gourd. It stopped for a while and then fell into the gourd. However, it did not fall into the gourd completely. A part of the Flame Demon statue's head was left outside. At first glance, it looked like a stopper in the gourd.

However, in the gourd, Zhao Fuyun's consciousness clearly saw that the red clouds turned into silk and drilled into the body of the Flame Demon statue. At first, he struggled violently, but slowly, he stopped struggling.

The prohibitions in this gourd are not only to imprison Him, but also to nourish Him.

Those red threads all drilled into the Flame Demon statue and then merged into one. After that, it looked like a small god sitting on a red cloud, leaning its head toward the sky and spying on this world.

After combining with the gourd, he could drive away the fire demon by offering sacrifices to the gourd.

With a wave of his hand, the red treasure gourd fell into his hand. The mouth of the gourd was the head of the fire demon, which looked extremely strange.

Zhao Fuyun held it in his hand. This red gourd already had a new name in his mind - the Flame Demon Gourd.

It can be called a spiritual treasure. Its mysterious and strange nature will definitely surprise people.

One day, someone suddenly came to visit him.

It was also after his treasure refining and cultivation that the Fire Palace was opened, so there was a copy of the Tiandu Mountain forbidden array hanging in the head of the Wuliang Court. Whenever a palace was unsealed, the clouds on the copy would disperse, revealing a scene in the mountain. The one who came to visit him was Huang Ying. Huang Ying and Zhao Fuyun had known each other for a long time when they were in the upper court. Although they had not seen each other for many years, she was one of the few people in the mountain who had a good relationship with Zhao Fuyun.

"Huang Ying greets the master." Huang Ying saluted.

"Senior Sister Huang, when we first met, we addressed each other as senior sister and junior brother. With this status already established, why should we call each other real people? Was the me I knew before a fake person?" Zhao Fuyun said with a smile. The Huang Ying in front of him had changed a lot compared to the one he had in his mind.

Back then, Huang Ying's face and eyes were full of the innocence of being ignorant of the world, but now that innocence seems to be hidden, probably because she has experienced more.

However, when Zhao Fuyun said this, her eyes revealed some of the expression she had when they first met.

"The golden elixir and the divine fetus are the process of transformation into the true self. Now that you have formed the golden elixir and nurtured the divine fetus, you are a true person. Although people in the mountain gate have always been free and casual, we cannot help but respect the pioneers on the road ahead. This is what you are honoring, and you are also honoring your future self." Huang Ying answered very seriously.

This surprised Zhao Fuyun. After all, he only said this because Huang Ying looked so serious. After hearing what Huang Ying said, he couldn't help but said seriously, "Senior sister, what you said makes sense, but we have known each other for hundreds of years after all. How can we just talk about cultivation? Senior sister has never been to my Lihuo Palace in all these years. You must have something to do when you came here today?"

Huang Ying was silent for a moment, then said, "This time, I came mainly to the mountain where I practiced. I also want to invite the Red Flame Divine Fire of the Immortal to descend and stay there, just like in Wuze County."

Zhao Fuyun was somewhat surprised, but not surprised. What was not surprising was that he expected that there would be many people who would pray for fire to come down like in Wuze County, so as to achieve the purpose of praying for fire's protection and driving away evil spirits.

He believed that various forms of sacrificial offerings would develop.

What was surprising was that his senior sister from Tiandu Mountain also came to ask for fire.

"I remember that senior sister seemed to have said that her greatest wish in life was to open a cave and set up a residence, accept a few disciples, establish a Taoist school and practice in the mountains. I wonder where senior sister is practicing now?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"I have built a cave in the mountain behind the Demon-Suppressing Wall, where the Immortal once practiced. I have not yet accepted any disciples. I am practicing with fellow Taoists in the mountain. As the sky is getting darker, I heard that a fire fell from the sky in Wuze County and fell into the lamps of every household. From then on, the lamps have protected the houses and driven away evil spirits."

What Huang Ying said was what Zhao Fuyun had expected. He had held such a grand sacrifice in the entire Wu Ze County that time just to allow his Golden Crow divine bird to land on the lamps of thousands of households and spread the meaning of fire among the people from then on.

"So, senior sister, you are practicing there. Is the Demon-Suppressing Wall still there?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"Of course, the Demon-Suppressing Wall has become a place for us to discuss the Dao. It is also an important venue for us to resist evil spirits and hold ceremonies." Huang Ying said briskly.

"Hold a ceremony? What kind of ceremony will be held there?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"Sacrifice to the wall, burn the wall."

Zhao Fuyun didn't know what kind of burning wall Huang Ying was talking about, but he thought it was related to fire, so he didn't ask any more questions. He just said, "I have a sacrificial text here. When you hold the ceremony in front of the wall, you can just recite it."

After Zhao Fuyun finished speaking, Huang Ying hesitated to speak. Zhao Fuyun saw this and asked, "Why, Senior Sister Huang, do you have any other ideas?"

Huang Ying said, "Just now, Senior Sister Jin Ling gave me an idea. She said that if we can let the monks in the mountains come to our Tiandu Mountain to 'ask for fire', people will know that it really comes from Tiandu Mountain. With the process of asking for fire, people will cherish it more and Tiandu Mountain will become more prominent between heaven and earth."

"If that's the case, then so be it." Zhao Fuyun didn't care.

There was a bright fire in the Lihuo Palace. He looked up at the sky, but it was getting darker and darker, as if night was approaching.

Once upon a time, this kind of weather has become the normal weather, and those sunny days have long sunk into the depths of memory.

(End of this chapter)