Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 113: Gu Refiner

The gloomy sky, the piled up dark clouds, and the silver snake swimming in it.

Taoist Zhaoning, standing on Liuxian Mountain, looked up at the sky. At this time, there was a drizzle between heaven and earth, and the water was misty. Standing on the island, he could see that the water was connected to the sky, the sky was connected to the water, and the water was connected to the lake. The lake was covered with vast mist.

Taoist Zhao Ning, standing in the mist, couldn't help but look upwards, feeling the vital energy and inspiration surging above, and a trace of envy rose in his heart.

The Five Elements and Six Combinations Formation prepared by Chu Tai is not only a demon-suppressing formation at this moment, but also a national protection formation that regulates the weather changes in the State of Chu. Running this formation is like the arrival of the Waking of Insects, which can increase the yang energy, drive the spring thunder, and give life to all things.

In a mysterious way, it is naturally in harmony with the vitality of the Chu State, which is equivalent to using the power of an entire country to refine one's own magic power.

Taoist Zhao Ning glanced at Zhuang Kong, Shi Ruotie, Taoist Cuihuang and Feifei beside him. The envy in his heart was gradually replaced by jealousy, and a trace of hatred emerged in his eyes.

This trace of hatred was very complicated, directed at Chu Tai, Jin Ling, Yu Zhao, and all the people who were setting up the formation above.

He resented Chu Tai's talent, resented the incomplete inheritance of his family, resented Madam Jin Ling for first acquiescing and then suppressing him, and even more resented that Wu Chaoxi, whom he looked down upon, was able to become the person who set up the formation and take advantage of this situation to absorb the inspiration of the State of Chu, thus making it possible for him to make further progress.

Many resentments were brewing in his heart, and under the influence of an inspiration that came from nowhere, they gathered into a special insect. With the help of the aura of the Demon-Suppressing Formation that was like the thunder at the beginning of the Waking of Insects, they gathered and dispersed from time to time, becoming more and more condensed.

Similar to Taoist Zhao Ning, there was another Taoist on the island, Liu Peiyu, the head of the Liu family. He glanced in the direction of Taoist Cuihuang, then looked at Feifei, and finally stared at the rolling clouds above and couldn't help but sigh.

"It's just a matter of one thought!"

Liu Peiyu suppressed the complex emotions churning in his heart, silently chanting pure scriptures, and accompanied by the thunder sounds with hidden Sanskrit music that occasionally sounded from the nine heavens, which drove away the rising distracting thoughts time and time again.

However, these distracting thoughts did not dissipate naturally. Under the influence of the inspiration that came from nowhere, they also spread into the minds of other members of the Liu family around Liu Peiyu.

Most of the phantom insects have already condensed on the bodies of each of them. Some look at Feifei with jealousy, some look at Liu Peiyu with a little resentment, and some look at the fellow cultivators with fierce eyes.

Different emotions condensed different insects, but after absorbing the distracting thoughts that Liu Peiyu cut out, they all roared at Liu Peiyu, and the strands of distracting thoughts in turn affected Liu Peiyu.

'Greed is rampant, obsession is deep, and malice is burning. This is clearly a formation that is like spring thunder driving away darkness, surrounded by the sound of mixed bodhi thunder, but this place is filled with greed, ignorance, anger, poison, hatred, disgust, cruelty and other human poisons. Which master is using humans to refine Gu?'

"The method is so ingenious that there is absolutely no trace of external force. There are probably not many people in the world who can do this."

Shi Ruotie looked at the distracting thoughts in the minds of the people around him, and a desire to explore arose in his heart. He looked around and had a rough guess about the situation of the entire Liuxian Mountain and even the State of Chu.

'With human hearts as the root of all poisons and disasters as the foundation, it can match natural disasters above and inner demons below. This Hanba that tried to bring disaster to the Chu State is actually the Gu King trained by this expert. Now, is he planning to refine it for the second time?'

Shi Ruotie shifted his gaze and looked at the distracting thoughts rising in the bodies of many practitioners. Under the influence of a certain force, they were condensed into insects that ordinary people could not see.

Even Taoist Cuihuang showed some signs of insects condensing on her body, but Feifei next to her was clean. Looking at Feifei, who had the purest aura, Shi Rutie showed a hint of surprise in his eyes.

"This is strange. This little fellow's cultivation is obviously not strong, but he has an innate aura nurtured by heaven and earth? And he seems to have a simple mind and is naturally not affected by these distracting thoughts. Is he carrying some rare treasure nurtured by heaven and earth..."

Thinking of this, Shi Ruotie couldn't help but have the idea of ​​investigating it. When he was about to put it into practice, he suddenly found Zhuang Kong looking at him.

"It's unlucky. This guy's cultivation method is too sensitive to the aura. If I take action now, I'm afraid he will notice something wrong. But I'm really unwilling to miss such a huge Gu refining event and explore the secrets of that little guy..."

Shi Ruotie looked at the distracting thoughts around him, greed gradually arose in his heart, and at the same time, an inexplicable inspiration appeared beside him.

Shi Ruotie, who noticed this, didn't care about his subtle changes at all. He absorbed the inspiration into his body, allowing it to blend with greed, and derived an invisible insect, which then exerted influence on the surroundings.

The insects on Taoist Zhaoning's body reacted immediately, showing extremely strong aggressiveness, and demonstrated against the insects derived from Shi Ruotie. Their high fighting spirit made Taoist Zhaoning's distracting thoughts even more turbulent.

Shi Ruotie raised his hand, half covering his contemptuous eyes, and after laughing in his heart, he looked at the Taoist Cuihuang beside him.

Taoist Cuihuang, who vaguely sensed something was wrong, looked around, silently chanted a spell, and calmed his mind, but he still couldn't stop the distracting thoughts that gradually rose in his mind.

Why did he choose to let Wu Chaoxi set up the formation when he had a better relationship with Chu Tai?

Why is it that Taoist Mu Jing’s talent is obviously similar to hers, but the gap between them is getting bigger and bigger?

The many distracting thoughts gradually gathered into a breath of doubt, jealousy and resentment, slowly swirling and converging into an illusory insect.

Because of the struggle of the Taoist Cuihuang, the insect changed back and forth between the formed and unformed. Finally, in a burst of thunder, the Taoist Cuihuang suddenly understood a little bit of the mystery of the birth of spring thunder, and went a little further on the original basis. A little lightning appeared in his eyes, dispelling the impurities on his body.

'pity……'

Shi Ruotie withdrew his gaze and looked at Zhuang Kong. This man had noticed the unusual aura around him early on. A strange aura emerged from his body, which gradually gave him a wonderful feeling of being independent of the world and avoiding the influence of many insects.

But as Shi Ruotie paid more attention, the insects on his body started to roar at him.

An inspiration came from nowhere, passed through the wind and landed on him. Based on the worry, caution, doubt and other emotions in his heart, it rolled up and down, trying to breed new insects.

In the end, Feifei was still the same, holding the magic umbrella and looking upwards with some worry. The aura on her body was clean and there was no reaction when the spiritual energy fell.

'Interesting? Someone outside is thinking of using Liuxian as a vessel to refine Gu, and someone inside actually wants to become a Gu? Is he planning to become the Gu King?'

Chu Tai stood in the air, cooperating with the others to set up formations and cast spells, with the light of the sun and the moon flowing in his eyes.

The "fate" of [physiognomy] and the "wisdom" of [monk] both enable Chu Tai to see more things. The two, combined with the [alchemist's] ability to observe everything, make it easy for him to see the subtle changes below.

He used the influence of his breath to slightly adjust "fate", helping Taoist Cuihuang to understand the wonder of spring thunder and also to notice Shi Ruotie's problem.

'This fellow Shi Dao obviously saw the problem, but he wanted to muddy the waters. Is he a Hanba's man? So, is this method of influencing people's hearts also Hanba's ability?'

"If this is true, Hanba's magical power is beyond my original expectations. Simple changes of the five elements and six combinations may not be able to suppress this guy."

Thinking of this, Chu Tai couldn't help but silently recite the names of Feiquan God and Mingxia God, and told the two fellow Taoists about his new discovery.

With Chu Tai's control of wind and rain, the two Yinjing Sect monks hiding in the mountains and forests felt that the means they had originally prepared were insufficient after hearing Chu Tai's guess, and they each made a new decision in their hearts.

As for Chu Tai himself, he continued to tell the other twelve people about the intricacies of the formation that he had deduced.

The Five Wanderers, the Five Immortals of Chu, Wu Chaoxi and the Goddess of Pure Light listened to Chu Tai's unreserved explanation and were somewhat surprised at Chu Tai's enlightenment.

But the twelve all silently wrote down every word Chu Tai said. The Five Scattered People, the Five Immortals of Chu State and Wu Chaoxi applied them in the changes of the formations, making the changes of the Five Elements and Six Combinations more rapid and the integration of formations more harmonious.

The Goddess of Pure Light changed the rhythm of playing the pipa to make it better fit the changes between the two formations. She even intentionally or unintentionally helped cover up some omissions in the operation of the formation to make it more perfect.

Chu Tai himself used the spread of the principles he had mastered to speed up his mastery and digestion of the [Alchemist] fruit fragment, forming a small virtuous circle.

Slowly, the magic powers of the remaining twelve people gathered together with Chu Tai as the center, relying on the changes in the Five Elements and Six Combinations Formation, stirring up the weather and land veins of the entire Chu State, forming changes covering the entire Chu State.

The rain and thunder affected by the formation also contained more mysterious power, and began to constantly stimulate the drought demon hidden underground, just like the insects hidden deep underground during the Waking of Insects period, which could no longer continue to sleep under the influence of thunder and yang energy.

The most important thing is that this vitality also vaguely stimulated the three magic weapons that Hanba had refined.

The Thousand Corpse Plague Umbrella kept shaking, and the thousands of plague gases inside it collapsed and reorganized with the thunder, sometimes purifying and sometimes dissipating.

The many changes that evolved from the thirty-six plague sand mothers also happened to be slow and fast, colliding and combining with each other amid the sounds of thunder and rain, with signs of being out of control.

The most troublesome thing is the incomplete plague jade seal. The strange patterns on it, which resemble jade characters from heavenly books and ancient witchcraft, are changing rapidly and are vaguely forming the shape of an insect.

A phantom with similar patterns to those of the insects also appeared in Hanba's mind, constantly gnawing at his mind, making increasingly chaotic but inaudible insect sounds towards the outside world, roaring one after another, as if trying to show that it was the master.

"Damn it, it's still a little short. Wait a little longer, wait a little longer..."

Hanba suppressed the desire in his heart to rush out. He looked at the three magic weapons that had not been completely perfected, and felt the power of disaster in his body that he had not yet fully mastered. He wanted to wait a little longer.

"Rumble..."

There was a loud thunder, and the insects let out crazy roars. The pupils of Hanba were also filled with blood, and the next second, a scorching fire emanated from his body.

(End of this chapter)