Longzang

Chapter 127 Advancement in Medical Skills
This was just a living room. Wei Yuan probed it with his divine sense and discovered that there were many more rooms behind it. Wei Yuan made a celestial sword float above his head, illuminating the surroundings, and then entered the depths of the secret chamber through a side door.

Beyond the main hall lies a winding passageway, flanked by three small bedrooms, simply furnished, resembling guest rooms.

The secret room was very well designed, with ventilation holes in the walls at intervals, so even though it had been sealed for a long time, there was no stuffiness inside.

Further inside were a large bedroom and a meditation room, with much of the furniture made of iron, and iron rings everywhere on the furniture, walls, and even the ceiling. Ribbons were also ubiquitous.

Beyond the master bedroom was a row of rooms, about four or five in total. Wei Yuan pushed open each door and discovered that they were all prison cells. Each cell was decorated in a slightly different style, and one of them even had a corpse hanging on the wall.

The secret chamber had been sealed for several years, and the corpse had become a mummified corpse. Judging from its features, it should have been a female corpse when she was alive, completely naked.

Upon arriving at the cell, Yun Feifei's face was even paler, and her body was trembling slightly. But when Wei Yuan asked her, she only said that her head hurt a lot, but she couldn't remember anything.

Wei Yuan pondered for a moment, recalling the various methods of incense and deity practices his teachers had discussed in class, one of which was sealing the primordial spirit's memories. Yun Feifei's current state resembled that of someone whose memories had been sealed.

Once the cause was known, the solution was quite simple. Wei Yuan sent a wisp of black energy into Yun Feifei's body, which began to consume the hidden incense and prayer power.

Yun Feifei suddenly felt a sharp pain in her head, so she crouched down, clutching her head. Then, through the interaction of their qi, an image appeared before Wei Yuan's eyes.

An old man led a little girl into the prison cell. The old man's face was blurred and unclear, while the little girl was about seven or eight years old, and her eyebrows and eyes bore some resemblance to Yun Feifei.

"When you grow up and become tame, I'll bring you here again, and then you won't need to go out anymore..."

The old man's voice echoed in the cell, then the image disappeared. Yun Feifei stopped trembling, stood up, her expression complicated, and said in a low voice, "I know, this is the secret room that Master built. He brought me here once when I was a child, and then sealed my memories."

Yun Feifei's expression was complicated. She said, "Come with me. I know where he hid his things."

The two returned to the bedroom. Yun Feifei took down a painting of ladies playing with monkeys from the wall, tore it open, and sure enough, a piece of jade paper was hidden inside. Yun Feifei handed the jade paper to Wei Yuan, and while looking at the painting, she suddenly said, "I remember now, the painting is of Uncle Yuan! She was always very kind to me, and then one day I never saw her again."

Wei Yuan picked up the jade paper and scanned it with his divine sense, revealing a rather complex secret technique: "Seven Star Reincarnation Body".

Yun Feifei was also taken aback and said, "So this secret technique was hidden here. Senior Sister, wouldn't you like to consider it?"

At this moment, the red-clad woman's illusory figure stepped out from Yun Feifei's body, looking at the jade paper in Wei Yuan's hand with an extremely complicated expression, a mixture of anticipation and panic, completely unlike her usual cold and ruthless demeanor.

Seeing Wei Yuan's gaze fall upon her, her face filled with panic. She said, "Let me think about it some more," and fled back to Yun Feifei's body.

Wei Yuan scanned the jade paper with his divine sense and, with his solid foundation in cultivation theory, immediately saw that the Seven Star Reincarnation Body was actually a puppet technique that combined corpse refining, soul binding, flesh and blood refining, and incense and vow power.

This method requires seven newly deceased corpses as materials, along with seven spiritual items, and incense and the power of vows as fuel to create a physical body. Then, the suppressed soul is placed inside, and everything becomes like that of an ordinary person. However, the reincarnated body created is actually a puppet of the creator. All her thoughts and even the most subtle physical sensations can be felt by the creator, meaning that there are no secrets left inside or out.

Wei Yuan knew what Gong Yufeng was thinking, but he didn't really care. If she wanted to become the Seven Star Reincarnation, so be it; if not, it didn't matter. She could stay inside Yun Feifei's body. Wei Yuan scanned the surroundings twice more with his divine sense, confirming there was nothing else of interest or any more causal light spots, before leading Yun Feifei out of the secret chamber.

As soon as Yun Feifei left the secret room, she said she was going to survey the dwellings of mortals, and then hurriedly flew away.

Wei Yuan had a lot to do at the moment, so he couldn't care less about Yun Feifei's feelings and went straight back to the main hall. But as soon as he arrived at the main hall, he was stopped by Xu Wan'er.

She stared at Wei Yuan and said, word by word, "Senior brother, my injuries are quite severe. Could you help me heal as well?"

She emphasized the word "also".

In the previous battle, Xu Wan'er fought desperately, constantly exchanging injuries in the most critical moments, essentially intending to die together with her. For both emotional and rational reasons, Wei Yuan couldn't refuse her request.

Wei Yuan looked around, trying to find a suitable room. However, Xu Wan'er had already entered the disciple's room where she had just been healing, so Wei Yuan had no choice but to follow her in and close the door.

Xu Wan'er lay down on the bed where Yun Feifei had just been lying, having already completed the preliminary preparations for Wei Yuan, displaying all his wounds in front of him.

An hour later...

Wei Yuan walked out of the disciples' room, feeling that his medical skills had greatly improved. Jia Mu Sheng Xuan only played a supporting role. He was mainly able to cure Xu Wan'er by himself.

A sound of horses' hooves approached from afar and then receded into the distance; it was Xu Wenwu walking his horse.

After working continuously for two hours, Wei Yuan's primordial spirit was repeatedly tested by various inner demons, and he almost forgot what he was supposed to do. So he mentally reviewed what he needed to do. The most urgent task was not construction, but to guard against the retaliation of the Witch Clan.

It was past noon, and the aroma of food wafted over. The cultivators set up a large pot and cooked a thick soup with wild vegetables and military rations unearthed from the secret vault, which served as their lunch.

Wei Yuan found a relatively flat wooden plank, placed it on the stone, and it became a table. Then he spread out a sheet of jade paper and began to draw an array on it. Initially, he drew a Purifying Spirit Array to resist the taint of the blood curse, with a total of nine array nodes. However, since there were only nine Dao Foundation cultivators left alive, Wei Yuan kept revising it, eventually reducing it to a simplified version with five nodes.

Immediately afterward, Wei Yuan drew another feng shui array, also with five array points, which coincided perfectly with the Cleansing Spirit Array. This method of stacking two arrays and sharing nodes was also taught in the art theory class. This method can be used as an emergency measure, but the drawback is that the people at the array nodes must bear double the spiritual energy. It is said that the most skilled array masters can design seven arrays stacked together, but for now, two arrays are Wei Yuan's limit.

After drawing the array, Wei Yuan immediately summoned five Foundation Establishment cultivators, explained the array to them, and then began setting up the grand array. Five array nodes were arranged around the main hall, each a hundred feet apart. After the five cultivators entered their positions, Wei Yuan activated the grand array and then observed its operation.

The Dao power of these rogue cultivators from the Western Regions was incomparable to that of the disciples of the Taichu Palace, but their spiritual energy naturally recovered at twice the speed in the Qingming Realm. Therefore, even if they maintained the operation of two great formations simultaneously, they could last for three days. Including Yun Feifei and Xu Wan'er, there were four more Foundation Establishment cultivators who could be replaced at any time.

The Feng Shui formation and the Purification Formation can cover a radius of a thousand feet around the main hall, which is sufficient for now. This is the first line of defense set up by Wei Yuan to prevent the witch clan from casting a curse through blood sacrifice.

Only after setting up this defensive formation did Wei Yuan feel at ease, and he began to think about his next steps while looking at the map.

(End of this chapter)