Embers of Sword

Chapter 123 The True Use of the Immortal Fountain
The most feared forbidden soul technique in the world is probably the "Nine Deaths Forbidden Technique".

Once you are branded with the Nine Deaths Ban.

Then it really is... after nine deaths, there is a glimmer of hope for survival.

Thousands of miles of frost and snow cover the lake of my heart.

Xie Xuanyi stared at the word "death" hovering in the air above the sky. Half a drop of the Immortal Spring spread out in Jiang Huang's sea of ​​consciousness, and forcibly dispersed the meaning of annihilation of this forbidden soul technique... The bitter coldness in this heart lake dissipated for the most part, but there was still a frosty and dead air lingering around.

The reason why the Nine Deaths Ban is so terrifying.

It is not because of its great killing power that it is difficult for those who are hit to survive.

But...

The soul of the person who has been beset by the spell will be tortured by the repeated attacks of the death energy, and will eventually sink into depravity.

Death is not scary. It leaves people with hope of living, but makes it impossible to die.

This is the most terrifying thing about the Nine Deaths Forbidden.

"Am I...dead?"

Jiang Huang, who was suspended in the air and covered with frost, slowly opened her eyes, her lips trembling constantly.

The scene in front of me gradually changed from blurry to clear.

Xie Xuanyi's figure gradually became clear.

"If it weren't for me, he would have died once."

Xie Xuanyi turned his back to the main spirit, squatted down, gently wiped the frost from the girl's brow, and asked with a smile: "What should this situation be called, like death?"

"..."

The main spirit's expression was somewhat complicated.

She looked at the water droplets floating in the air in front of her, and her eyes became a little dazed.

The Nine Deaths Ban sealed her heart and continuously infused it with death energy.

And now...

This rolling deathly air continuously flows into the water droplets.

To be precise, these are not even water drops.

A thin mist that lingers, spreads, and constantly changes its shape is absorbing the rich death energy of the Nine Death Forbidden Zones!

Is this the way Xie Xuanyi saved me?
"what is this?"

The main spirit's voice was hoarse, and he looked at the fog in confusion.

Xie Xuanyi did not answer directly, but patiently wiped the snow off the cheek of the little girl in front of him.

Because the soul impact of the Nine Deaths Ban is too strong.

The little girl has fallen asleep.

After a while.

He stood up and slowly walked to the main soul.

"This is... Half Life."

Half-Life?
Jiang Huang was stunned. This answer was really hard to understand, but looking at the ball of water mist full of vitality, she understood something.

The chillness in the lake of my heart was relieved a lot.

He slept in Jinli Mountain for ten years.

She always feels cold.

But now... there is a warm vitality injected into the lake of my heart.

Jiang Huang heard that there was a kind of magical thing in this world that was hard to come by and only needed a drop to bring back the dead and turn bones into flesh.

A spiritual practitioner who takes one drop can extend his life and break free from the shackles of fate.

At this moment, there was a ball of mist floating in front of him.

It reminded her of this legendary divine object.

Fountain of immortality.

At this moment, she suddenly remembered what happened before she fell asleep, and the news that spread throughout the imperial city, the streets and alleys, the entire Da Chu and even the whole world, known to everyone.

Xie Xuanyi, the Dasui swordsman, was buried in the North Sea, his body and soul disappeared.

After his death, he appeared in Jinli Mountain in Beijun.

It doesn't make sense no matter how you look at it.

But if you have this "magic object", everything will make sense.

"Fountain of Immortality..."

Jiang Huang murmured, "This half of my life... is the Fountain of Immortality..."

"Don't get me wrong, I'm just lending it to you temporarily..."

Xie Xuanyi did not deny it. He smiled softly, turned his head to look at the sleeping little guy, and said with gentle eyes: "Or you can also understand it as lending it to her."

"It really is the Fountain of Immortality..."

Jiang Huang looked at Xie Xuanyi's expression and was shocked and stunned beyond words.

Her heart seemed to be squeezed hard.

"You saved my life with the 'Fountain of Immortality'?"

Jiang Huang looked at Xie Xuanyi in confusion.

She looked at the face that looked as young as yesterday, and felt that the person in front of her seemed to have become much more unfamiliar.

During the Northern Hunt, the two men fought fiercely.

Jiang Huang still remembers it clearly.

At that time, Xie Xuanyi, who was standing in front of him, exuded a sharp sword intent. Even if they just looked at each other, he could feel the sharp murderous aura.

And now, all the makeup is gone.

Xie Xuanyi's murderous intent no longer spilled out.

He still looked like a sword, but no longer the kind of sword that had just been sharpened and unsheathed.

It was a blunt, heavy sword.

The edge is still there, but it is not easily revealed. When you look into it, it feels like an abyss and an ocean, impossible to fathom.

Jiang Huang had to admit it.

She couldn't see through him anymore.

"Master once told me that the greatest thing in the world is cause and effect."

Xie Xuanyi looked at the dark clouds slowly flowing over the heart lake and laughed at himself, "I didn't think this sentence was right at the time, but later I gradually understood... one drink and one bite, one cause and one effect, it seems really hard to escape."

When he was young, he competed for the top spot in kendo.

Every sword he swung out eventually came back to himself several years later.

What a sword cultivator cultivates is nothing more than "enlightenment of the sword heart".

The reunion with Jinlishan, and the rescue today... are all the fruits of the causes planted in the past.

"Xie Xuanyi, are you crazy?"

Jiang Huang didn't understand these words.

She suddenly raised her voice and asked sharply, "I told you long ago that I would kill you! When I recover, the first thing I will do is to take revenge... Why did you save me?! What gives you the right to save me?!"

Perhaps it was because the Nine Deaths Ban had tortured the soul for too long.

Jiang Huang's voice was very weak.

As a result, this harsh shouting sounded weak and powerless, with a hint of grievance mixed in it.

"As for revenge... let's talk about it after you escape the 'Nine Deaths'."

Xie Xuanyi shook his head.

This half drop of immortal spring temporarily fell into Jiang Huang's heart lake, which could greatly alleviate the erosion of the death energy of the Nine Death Forbidden Zones. But it was only a temporary solution, not a permanent one.

To unlock this forbidden technique, the caster must either personally take back the mark, or use a violent spiritual impact to shatter the word "death".

He turned around and looked at the little girl curled up at the end of the lake of his heart again, and said calmly: "Live well first, then think about revenge."

……

……

Xie Xuanyi let out a long breath.

The burning eyes that illuminated the bed in the house were completely extinguished.

Jiang Huang's body temperature returned to normal, her face was no longer pale, and her wrinkled brows gradually relaxed.

Breathing becomes even.

Xie Xuanyi put the little guy down and then sat down cross-legged.

Fighting against the Nine Death Forbidden Order tonight may seem easy and simple, but it is actually very exhausting.

Xie Xuanyi's back was wet with sweat.

In the sword energy cave, the sound of swords could be heard——

The old flying sword lying in the cave flew out at this moment, shaking out a ray of sword consciousness.

The natal flying sword is connected to the soul of its master.

The seriously ill person has developed a certain level of spiritual awareness, although he is unable to transform into a human form or speak.

But it knows what happened tonight.

"Buzz!"

The sword energy vibrated, and Xie Xuanyi understood the sword intent conveyed by Chen Yan.

"Is it worth it just to be called a brother?"

Xie Xuanyi smiled and shook his head. He stretched out his hand, and probed his palm into the sword energy cave that opened in the void, stroking the flying sword that he felt sorry for its master.

"Not everything in this world is worth it."

At first, he just didn't want to go against his original intention, so he chose to save Jiang Huang.

But later... Jiang Huang followed him through all the hardships, and Xie Xuanyi felt fortunate from time to time, fortunately that he made the right choice at the moment when Jinli Mountain collapsed.

"Saving her life is also saving my life."

Xie Xuanyi stood up and walked to the wooden table. He twisted the wick of the oil lamp with his fingers and rubbed it. The almost extinguished wick began to burn again.

He chuckled softly and said, "The Immortal Spring is important, but a clear sword heart is more important."

The serious illness still had some resentment, and it shook the sword again.

The sword thought of this feedback is——

"But you only have half a drop left, what should you do?"

"At the beginning, I didn't have a single drop."

Xie Xuanyi raised his eyebrows slightly and said calmly: "Since we can survive, there is a way to make it more..."

In his opinion.

Although the Fountain of Immortality is a divine object, it is still a "thing" after all.

The path that practitioners follow always revolves around themselves, with people being the priority.

Xie Xuanyi calmed down and scanned the dantian area with his mind.

After lighting up one hundred and eight acupoints, he condensed the first drop of the Immortal Fountain.

The reshaping of the Sword Qi Cave allowed the Immortal Spring to be "nourished" by the sword energy, and its size began to increase.

According to Xie Xuanyi's guess, if the second cave is condensed, there will probably be a second drop of immortal spring.

It increases as one progresses on the great path.

The Immortal Fountain will also "accumulate little by little" and eventually converge into a spring.

Now that half of it has been divided out... It seems to be a tiring process, but the foundation of the Sword Qi Cave Heaven has been laid, and the mist in the Dantian will soon fill the vacant position of that half drop of spring water.

"The speed at which the water droplets are increasing is much faster than I thought."

Xie Xuanyi took a quick look and felt a little surprised.

After the Immortal Spring was separated.

The Fountain of Immortality began to repair itself quickly.

At this rate, this drop of water would be restored to its original state in about twenty days.

Chen Kuang also realized that the recovery speed of the Immortal Fountain was different from his imagination.

This magical object is located in Dantian.

Normally, Xie Xuanyi would never use it unless he was injured!

After all, whoever gets such a divine object will protect it carefully, fearing that it will be damaged in the slightest, let alone... giving it away openly like Xie Xuanyi did!

In the previous battles, whether it was Bei Hailing killing Chu Man, or Nanjiang fighting against Jin Yuan and Chi Hun, the consumption of the Immortal Fountain was almost negligible.

Repairing a minor injury might only consume a wisp of water vapor. Even if repairing a serious injury consumes seven or eight wisp of water vapor, it is only less than one tenth of a drop of the Fountain of Immortality.

"Could it be that... the Fountain of Immortality should have been 'given away'?"

Xie Xuanyi stared at his dantian, and suddenly a very bold idea popped into his mind.

He took a deep breath.

He took out his natal flying sword which had a broken and somewhat rusty surface.

The serious illness was entangled by the Dao principles of the [Dao Pen], and even after being cleansed hundreds of times, many scars were still left.

There is still half a drop of the Immortal Fountain left.

Xie Xuanyi hesitated for only a moment before breaking it up. The water droplets spread into water vapor, about forty or fifty strands. Then he grabbed a handful of water vapor and smeared it on the surface of the disease.

hum!
The flying sword clangs!

Shen Kuang was startled by his master's bold move.

Use the Fountain of Immortality to wipe the sword?

But the next moment, the rich vitality spread over the sword surface, and the damage caused by the great Dao brushstrokes to the flying sword was visibly faded!
Xie Xuanyi did not wipe it a second time.

Because that half drop of the Immortal Spring now only had ten wisps of water vapor left, and it was no longer able to condense...

He stared at the ten wisps of light water vapor.

It can be said.

So far, 90% of that drop of immortal fountain has been wasted.

However, the ten wisps of water vapor did not disperse, as if there was an unknown force twisting them together.

The speed of "repairing" is twice as fast as before.

If we say that half a drop of water takes twenty days to return to the complete shape of a drop of water.

Then, a wisp of water vapor can be restored to half a coin in just ten days.

"What does it mean……"

"The more you value your life, the less you can appreciate the true purpose of the 'Immortal Fountain'?"

In the dim room, Xie Xuanyi sat at the table, silent for a long time. He felt that this discovery was really ironic.

He looked at the oil lamp in his palm.

have to say……

The characteristics of the Immortal Fountain are quite similar to the oil lamp and candlelight.

When only a few embers are left.

Most flammable.

(End of this chapter)