Dongxuan Spiritual Realm

Chapter 89 The Fallen Red Fairy and the Silver Toad

Yang Qisheng is currently practicing both internal and external martial arts.

Internal cultivation involves continuing to absorb the five elements' malevolent energy, refining it within the abdomen, strengthening the alchemical furnace, and increasing the total amount of elixir energy.

However, it is best to cultivate this in the Yanghui Palace of Taiyi Cave, where there is a "Five Elements Evil Qi" hood. Once opened, it can be received into the body.

If you're outside, you need to find a place with abundant Five Elements essence, set up a magic array, gather and collect the essence, and then refine it after introducing it into your body, which is twice as difficult and half as efficient.

External skills involve continuing to convert the evil spirits inside the fan, accumulating the five virtues, and transforming them into the Five Virtues True Fire, laying the foundation for refining the Heavenly Heart Divine Flame in the future.

These are all the result of years of hard work and perseverance.

Besides cultivation, Yang Qisheng had a few other things to do.

One reason was to go home to visit his family, sweep his parents' graves, and also to see how the Yang family was doing now, and whether his younger brother Yang Qixing, who had gone missing years ago, had been found.

On the day Jin Guangding stormed their door, Kui Wu took him away. He had made a vow in his heart to guide Kui Wu onto the path of immortality. He could ignore others, but he had to at least give Kui Wu a set of cultivation techniques.

The second task was to send Shen Jin and the other nine people back to Sa Xinghai.

The third thing was that on that day in the general's tomb, in order to destroy the Yin-Yang Corpse and break the Three Corpse Hell Path.

Among the ghosts in the Upper Corpse Path were those from the Chu Hanfeng family and those from the Shi Wenyan family. All the other ghosts agreed to be converted by Yang Qisheng, but the Chu family members wanted Yang Qisheng to send them to their descendants.

Yang Qisheng had promised them, and he had to keep his word.

One should be trustworthy, keep one's word, and not deceive oneself.

Yang Qisheng decided to first go to Sa Xinghai, then search for the descendants of the Chu family, and finally return home to visit his relatives.

He left another note for Ye Yunqiao, then took Shen Jin's nine puppets and left Longgao Mountain, heading towards Sa Xinghai.

Sa Xinghai is located on the plateau of Northwest China, more than 30,000 li further than Qingning Mountain. Here, the sky is blue, the land is green, and snow-capped mountains stand all around.

The so-called sea is actually a large number of lakes, some hundreds of miles in circumference, others just puddles the size of bowls and plates. When viewed from the sky, they look like stars of all sizes scattered across the earth.

The lakes are all fed by meltwater from snow-capped mountains and glaciers. During droughts, the water level drops, revealing more lakes, but each lake is smaller in size. When the water volume is abundant, the glacial water overflows, leaving only five large lakes.

Jidou Mountain is located in a lake in the northwest of Saxinghai. It is in a very remote location, hidden among the mountains, and is not easy to find.

Yang Qisheng had asked Shen Jin about the route and the characteristics of the mountain beforehand, but he missed it twice in a row. Later, he took out the Shen Jin puppet and held it in his hand so that Shen Jin could point it out at any time. Only then did he find it.

Silver Toad Cave is located on the top of Jidou Mountain, hidden among the green pines and cypresses, and further concealed by magic, making it even more inconspicuous.

When Yang Qisheng arrived at the cave entrance, he was surprised to find signs of cleaning and maintenance: Could it be that Shen Jin had not returned for a hundred years and this place had been occupied by someone else?
He asked Shen Jin, "You said that the four disciples you took in back then all perished with you in the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation?"

Shen Jin nodded firmly: "Go knock on the door and see what's going on."

Yang Qisheng knocked on the door outside the cave. Soon, the door opened, and a young man came out. His hair was disheveled, his clothes were rumpled, his face was flushed, and his eyes were glazed with drunkenness. He looked Yang Qisheng up and down and asked, "Who are you, fellow Daoist? What brings you to my Silver Toad Cave?"

Yang Qisheng concealed the puppet in his sleeve and asked directly, "Does Fellow Daoist know the Cold Moon Immortal Shen Jin?"

The other person's expression immediately turned serious: "Who exactly are you?"

Yang Qisheng pondered for a moment, then decided that his name was acceptable: "I am a disciple of Taiyi Palace, and my name is Yang Qisheng."

"Taiyi Palace? Never heard of it!" After saying that, the man turned around and was about to go back to the cave.

Yang Qisheng interrupted, "Wait! You still haven't said whether you know Master Shen or not?"

"What does it matter to you whether I know Shen Jin or not?" The young man's tone was tinged with guilt and anger. "And what is your relationship with Shen Jin? Are you perhaps his disciple or grand-disciple?"

"As I've already said, I'm a disciple of Taiyi Palace. I'm here today only because I was asked to come and see who lives in the Silver Toad Cave now."

"It's none of your business who lives here!" the young man said, before heading back into the cave and closing the door behind him.

Yang Qisheng sensed something was wrong and pointed, unleashing a sharp sword beam.

The young man was both surprised and furious: "So, you really came here to cause trouble!" His body flashed with white light, and he made a sword-finger gesture, quickly summoning a flying sword from the cave to block the sword aura.

Yang Qisheng wanted to observe his opponent's swordsmanship techniques, so he used a sword aura to engage in a sword duel with his opponent.

Clearly, this young man was also at the level of refining evil spirits in the furnace, and his flying sword was radiating cold light, showing considerable power.

Yang Qisheng transmitted his voice to Shen Jin in his left sleeve: "Senior, what kind of style does he have?"

Shen Jin said, "It is indeed my Kan Shui Zhen Sha and Burial Flower Sword Technique, but it is very rough. I haven't mastered many key points. It's as if I learned it on my own with a Taoist book and no one to guide me." Yang Qisheng understood the situation and asked Shen Jin what flaws there were in the Burial Flower Sword Technique.

The Burial of Flowers Sword Technique was created by Shen Jin. In his eyes, the sword technique used by the young man was full of flaws. Yang Qisheng compared what he said with his own Taiyi Dividing Light Sword Technique and quickly suppressed the opponent's flying sword with that sharp sword aura.

With a series of clanging sounds, the sharp sword aura, as if it were real, was even sharper than a real sword forged from steel. It struck the opponent's flying sword three times in a row, dispersing the sword aura attached to the opponent's flying sword in one fell swoop.

The man's flying sword lost its light and fell downwards. He was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly tried to escape, but was already trapped by a sword circle formed by the sharp sword aura surrounding him.

The Sharp Light Sword was the sharpest of all. When it flashed with white light, it emitted a chilling glint that made the man's scalp tingle and his hair stand on end. He hurriedly begged for mercy: "I have no grudge against you, fellow Daoist. Why do you have to try to kill me right away?"

Yang Qisheng then asked, "What is your name? What is your relationship with Master Shen?"

The young man countered, "Tell me first, what is your relationship with Shen Jin? And what brings you here this time?"

They're already prisoners and they still dare to talk back!

With a thought, Yang Qisheng slightly contracted the white sword circle, and the chilling sword light tore through his clothes and cut through the muscles on his arms, causing blood to gush out and quickly stain his hands red.

If the sword circle were to shrink inward by just half a step, the bones in his two upper arms would be severed.

"Fellow Daoist, please have mercy! I'll talk! I'll talk!" The man pleaded urgently, fearing he would become an armless cripple. "My name is Xu Zhen, and my Daoist name is Yin Chanzi."

"Where did you learn these Taoist techniques?"

"That's where I learned it."

"Who taught you this?"

Xu Zhen hesitated for a moment, and seeing that Yang Qisheng was about to shrink the sword circle again, he was worried that he would be cut in half across the chest, so he had no choice but to tell Yang Qisheng about his origins.

Originally, he was a herdsman from the grasslands east of Sa Xing Hai. Because of his handsome appearance since childhood, he caught the eye of Zhe Hongying, the Fallen Red Fairy of the Pu Yang Sect, who used magic to capture him in the mountains and reward him handsomely.

Xu Zhen was not only good-looking, but also good at reading people's expressions and had a sweet tongue. She tried her best to please Zhe Hongying and beg her to teach her her magic.

Zhe Hongying originally intended to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, rewarding him several times to drain his vital essence and cause him to die. However, seeing his handsome and charming appearance, she softened and changed her mind. She decided to teach him the Puyang Sect's magic and use him as a furnace, waiting for him to condense a vital essence core within his body before draining it.

The inner elixir is not the golden elixir. The Puyang School has a quick way to achieve it. A young man with vigorous blood and energy, even if he is of average appearance, can achieve it in just three years.

Back then, Wen Jingluan wanted to bring Yang Qisheng back to the mountain so that he could refine this.

Seeing that Xu Zhen was handsome and that after practicing the Xuanpin Great Law, he became even more irresistible to women, Zhe Hongying worried that if she took him back, her master and other elders would snatch him away. So she prepared to find another cave to settle him in.

After searching around, they unexpectedly found the Silver Toad Cave.

Zhe Hongying didn't take a liking to any of the items in the cave, including a Taoist book and several bottles of pills left behind by Shen Jin and his disciples; she left them all to Xu Zhen.

Xu Zhen had cultivated for many years and had already reached the Refining Demon Realm.

When he heard Yang Qisheng mention Shen Jin's name, he was worried that the original owner's descendant had come to demand the cave, so he panicked: "Zhe Hongying, the fairy of the Puyang Sect, is my lover. If you kill me, the fairy of Zhe will not let you off."

Upon hearing that the other party was from the Puyang Sect, Yang Qisheng harbored murderous intent and became wary. He first asked expressionlessly, "I know the rules of the Three Peaks Evil Sect. If a man is used as a cauldron, the other party can only survive for three years at most. You have cultivated to your current level, which is obviously more than three years. Why hasn't she come to collect the Yuan Yang Inner Core in your belly?"

Xu Zhen hesitated, and seeing that Yang Qisheng was about to tighten the sword circle again, he had no choice but to answer: "Fairy Zhe values ​​me very much and wants to be with me forever."

Worried that Yang Qisheng wouldn't believe him, he hurriedly added, "It's true, I'm just like an outsider kept by Fairy Zhe here! She has many cauldrons, having me doesn't make a difference, not having me doesn't make a difference either."

Yang Qisheng sighed: "You still won't tell the truth! I've given you too many chances, but you don't cherish them! Since you consider yourself an outsider of the Puyang faction and use those sluts to threaten me, then I don't need to hold back anymore!"

In the blink of an eye, the sharp sword circle contracted inward, instantly severing him at chest level.

Xu Zhen's primordial spirit, enveloped in the malevolent energy within his abdomen, reformed into a small figure about a foot tall with the aid of the blood light, and swiftly fled into the cave.

Xiaoqian, dressed in orange, appeared beside Yang Qisheng. She held a black heart lamp in her left hand and a soul-stealing rope in her right. With a flick of her wrist, she threw the rope, which flew out and pierced into Xu Zhen's primordial spirit, imprisoning him and pulling him back into the black heart lamp.

Xu Zhen was so terrified that his liver and gallbladder were about to burst. He threw himself against the glass lamp wall and kowtowed, begging for mercy: "Master, spare my life! Master, spare my life!"

Yang Qisheng said, "Are you willing to tell the truth this time?"

Xu Zhen said with a sob in her voice, "I'll talk! I'll talk! I'll definitely tell the truth! I killed Zhe Hongying, that fairy!"

"What?" Yang Qisheng could tell he wasn't telling the truth, but he hadn't expected him to be able to kill her. "How did you manage to kill her? Tell me the whole story!"

(End of this chapter)