A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 278 The Second Divine Soul Technique

After Zhao Gang left.

Xie Daohan called Yang Zhen in and said, "Yang Zhen, go to Liulu. Duan Rong has been promoted to a registered disciple of the sect. As a childhood friend, you should go and congratulate him and take him to Babaolou for a meal and a drink."

Xie Daohan said as he walked over and stuffed a banknote into Yang Zhen's hand, saying, "Yang Zhen, I'd better remind you. Your childhood friend is in extreme danger! Don't sit on the wrong side of the wall!"

Yang Zhen's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately clasped his fists and said, "I will follow Jietou till death, and I will never have second thoughts!"

Xie Daohan waved his hand and said, "You go ahead."

Yang Zhen walked out of the room, and his originally calm face turned pale in an instant.

"Duan Rong! Could it be that you are the one who killed Jie Lei and Xu Ruhu?"

Yang Zhen felt that this answer was too shocking, and it was more shocking to him than Duan Rong's advancement to a registered disciple of the sect.

As Yang Zhen walked, he carefully pondered the various details of his relationship with Duan Rong.

As they walked, Yang Zhen was shocked! He found that Duan Rong had changed since he had a serious illness. He couldn't tell what was different, but he just felt strange.

It was from this moment on that this feeling emerged that Duan Rong would become more different every once in a while. Thinking about it now, it was from that moment on that the Duan Rong in reality became increasingly distant from the “Duan Rong” in his heart!

As Yang Zhen was thinking this, he had already arrived at the door of Yuanshun Escort Agency.

After Yang Zhen left, Xie Daohan went to the street to have breakfast, then returned to the county government office and made himself a large pot of strong tea.

Although he hadn't slept all night, he was not sleepy at all. Instead, he was very excited.

Xie Daohan had just drunk half a cup of strong tea when Yang Zhen walked in hurriedly from outside.

Xie Daohan glanced at Yang Zhen and asked, "What happened?"

Yang Zhen said, "Master, Duan Rong left the city at daybreak."

Yang Zhen went to Liulu but didn't find Duan Rong, so he went to interrogate the escort agency's doorman Ma Wentao. Ma Wentao told Yang Zhen that Duan Rong had left the escort agency before dawn.

Yang Zhen then went to look for a few places on the street, then he suddenly had an idea and went to the city gate to ask the gatekeeper.

Xie Daohan's hand holding the teacup stopped in mid-air, as if petrified. His eyes rolled and his gaze was like lightning. He suddenly looked up at Yang Zhen and said, "You go. Don't tell anyone about Duan Rong's matter."

"Yes." Yang Zhen clasped his fists and retreated.

Xie Daohan stroked the edge of the teacup with his fingers and murmured, "Leaving the city at this time? Duan Rong, it seems that you have a lot of secrets. But don't worry, I will dig them out for you bit by bit!"

Duan Rong jumped down from the top of the cliff and landed on the platform at the entrance of the cave.

Duan Rong walked into the dark cave almost without stopping.

Duan Rong stood in a corner of the cave, blew out the tinder, and lit the oil lamp at his feet. Suddenly, a dim yellow light as small as a bean illuminated the cave.

After all, this cave is on a cliff and has good air circulation. Duan Rong hasn't been here for a few months, and the air in the cave is dry and fresh, without a trace of musty smell.

Duan Rong walked to the innermost stone bed, took off the shaft from his back, and placed it on the head of the bed.

Then he took out a tinder and lit another oil lamp beside the bed.

Duan Rong flipped his hand, and a porcelain bottle containing cold toad venom appeared in his hand. The porcelain bottle containing cold toad venom was as cold as ice. Duan Rong held it in his hand as if he was holding an ice cube.

Duan Rong placed the porcelain bottle next to the shaft cylinder on the bedside.

Then, Duan Rong sat on the bed and took out the secret book of the Taizang Sutra from his sleeve, a waxy yellow human skin scroll.

Under the light, the original handwriting on the human skin scroll had been scribbled into lines of black lines, making it completely unrecognizable...

However, Duan Rong's eyes were calm and he showed no surprise at all.

Because, that's what he did.

He had already smeared the secret book on the human skin scroll with the potion he got from Ximen Kankan, and it needed to be roasted over fire before the original words could appear.

Duan Rong spread out the human skin scroll with one hand and picked up the oil lamp beside the bed with the other.

Duan Rong held the oil lamp in his right hand and moved slowly under the human skin roll...

The top few black lines on the scroll slowly disappeared, revealing the original words.

After the contents of the third layer were fully revealed, Duan Rong moved the oil lamp away.

Duan Rong then carefully studied the contents of the third level of the Garbha Sutra.

Because he already had the experience of practicing the first two levels, he quickly mastered the contents of the third level.

Duan Rong put the human skin scroll into the inner pocket of his clothes, and he was ready to start practicing the third level immediately.

Duan Rong took the shaft behind him, opened it, and took out the portraits of the Four Great Kings.

Duan Rong spread out the portrait and slowly heated the bottom of the portrait with an oil lamp. The images of the Four Great Wisdom Kings hidden in the landscape painting then appeared.

Duan Rong took away the oil lamp, posted the portraits of the Four Great Kings around the stone bed, and then sat cross-legged on the stone bed.

Duan Rong closed his eyes tightly, formed seals with his hands, and muttered a spell...

After finishing the three rounds of spells, Duan Rong suddenly reached out and took out the porcelain bottle of ice toad venom in his hand. He opened the bottle and poured nearly half of the ice toad venom into his throat.

Ice toad venom is a soft, cool and icy substance. Once it enters the throat, it slides down the throat and floats in the stomach...

Once the ball of coolness entered the stomach, it gradually dispersed and turned into thin strands of cold things that floated in the stomach. Strands of cold air began to escape from the thin cold things and spread out...

Duan Rong shivered, and soon his whole body was covered with a thin layer of frost!
The two tufts of eyebrows were even more frosty white!
At the moment when the cold air was spreading, Duan Rong had already hit the elusive point of the turning point of breathing. He felt dizzy and appeared in the sea of ​​consciousness.

At this time in the sea of consciousness, a layer of frost formed on the black earth, and cold air filled the space between heaven and earth.

Duan Rong did not dare to delay and immediately sat cross-legged and began to practice. If he practiced the cold toad venom for too long, it would harm his body...

As Duan Rong formed seals and chanted incantations, the images of the Four Great Bright Kings appeared in this world...

The shadows of the Four Great Kings gradually solidified. At the same time, the rolling mist in the space began to settle...

The milky white mist settled on the ground, the air became clear, and finally wisps of frost could be seen floating in the sky, like an image of a sky full of frost... Duan Rong knew very well that these wisps of frost were made of ice toad venom!
Duan Rong flipped his hands and formed a seal. The four great kings' divine shadows shot light from their eyes and sucked air from their mouths and noses. Milky white mist, like a dragon sucking water, entered the mouths of the four great kings' divine shadows. Then, strands of light floated out from the noses of the divine shadows and went to the center of the sky...

The light threads floating out of the noses of the Four Great Kings intertwined and gathered in the center of the sky. And the light threads seemed to have some kind of attraction, attracting the strands of frost floating below the sky to also gather and intertwine back and forth...

About half an incense stick of time later, a vague silhouette of a baby appeared not far from the two floating stars in the center of the sky...

As soon as the shadow of the baby appeared, the originally calm sea of tree spirit light instantly floated up, and large swathes of light, like a swarm of locusts passing through a territory, densely moved towards the sky...

The shadow of the baby greedily sucked the light, and his shadowy body solidified little by little at a speed visible to the naked eye...

As time went by, the baby had formed a thin cocoon. At first glance, the cocoon looked like a lump of ice, emitting a transparent white light...

The frost beneath the sky had become so thin that it was no longer visible, and there were no more strands of light floating from the sea of tree spirit light...

Only the statues of the Four Great Vidyarajas were still absorbing the descending mist, shedding strands of light...

The tree spirits in the sea of tree spirit light had been completely swallowed up, and only the Four Great Bright Kings could be pulled out of the sinking mist bit by bit, at a speed comparable to that of a turtle...

Duan Rong formed seals with his hands and withdrew from the spiritual sea of consciousness.

The moment Duan Rong left his sea of consciousness, he exhaled a breath of cold air. The frost that had condensed around his body had almost all dissipated, leaving only a patch of white frost between his eyebrows...

He was in Wild Boar Mountain at this time. The tree spirits had been completely devoured, so he could just replenish them on the spot.

Moreover, the ice toad venom had been almost consumed, so he had to withdraw first, replenish it, and then enter the spiritual sea of consciousness.

As soon as Duan Rong exited his sea of consciousness, his figure flashed and he disappeared from the stone bed. His figure flashed and he rushed out of the cave, went down the stone wall and came to the valley.

It was already late at night, and a crescent moon cast a pitiful little moonlight into the dark valley...

As the mountain wind blew past, black waves rose and fell, as if they were about to swallow up the crescent moon...

At this moment, a black dot appeared in the undulating black waves of the treetops. The black dot was as fast as a ghost, appearing and disappearing from time to time. It was Duan Rong...

About an hour later, Duan Rong returned to the cave again. After he entered the cave, his figure flashed and he sat cross-legged on the stone bed.

Duan Rong reached out and grabbed the porcelain bottle of ice toad venom. He tilted his head back and poured the whole thing down his throat...

The ice toad venom will vanish into nothing in twelve hours after leaving the extremely cold environment. He got it from Ximen Kankan at midnight yesterday, and the time is almost up.

Duan Rong sat cross-legged, his whole body instantly covered with frost. His consciousness hit the point of breathing transition, and in a flash, he entered the spiritual sea of consciousness...

At this time, Wutong Lane was quiet late at night.

In a dilapidated house, a figure suddenly floated into the yard, and his feet landed silently like cat claws.

Xie Daohan listened intently. There was almost no noise except for the rustling of dry branches in the night wind. The courtyard was even quieter.

Xie Daohan did not move again, but walked slowly across the courtyard and came to the door of the main hall.

Under the dim and cold moonlight, Xie Daohan saw a lock hanging on the door of the main room. He turned and came to the window of the inner room. He put his ear to it and listened carefully for a while.

Then he suddenly drew the sword from his waist, inserted the blade into the crack of the window, and carefully lifted the inner buckle of the window.

Xie Daohan sheathed his sword and pushed open the window. The moment he pushed open the window, he clearly felt some spider webs stuck on his hands...

Xie Daohan leapt into the dark room.

He stood in the darkness, his nostrils twitched as he smelled the faint musty smell in the air. He was sure that no one had lived in this room for a long time.

Xie Daohan flipped his hand and took out a tinder from his sleeve. He blew out a flame and looked around the small room in front of him with the faint light.

Everything was covered in dust. Xie Daohan was careful not to leave any traces, but he checked every corner of the room, including the cupboard next to the bed, whose door had been deformed. He took great effort to open it, but there was only a pair of rusty scissors inside...

If you only look at this house, Duan Rong's background was indeed poor.

Xie Daohan searched the house inside and out, but found nothing suspicious.

Xie Daohan didn't take it seriously. Duan Rong was able to commit such a big crime without making any noise, and evaded the repeated pursuits of him and Fan Yuanhai. If he hadn't participated in the Elite Selection Meeting, he probably wouldn't have been able to track him down until now.

How could such a thoughtful person easily leave mistakes?
Xie Daohan leaped away from the courtyard. His figure flashed like a wild cat, and he left Wutong Lane in the dark night.

The willow branches of Liulu have sprouted, swaying gently in the chilly night breeze...

Suddenly, a figure jumped down from the top of the courtyard wall where willow branches were swaying, and landed lightly like a big bird!
Xie Daohan followed the same method and searched Liu Lu inside and out.

Although the Yuanshun Escort Agency has guards who patrol at night, Jie Daohan is a powerful person in the true Qi realm, so it is easy for him to hide from these guards.

Liu Lu searched everywhere but still found nothing.

Xie Daohan's face was solemn. Duan Rong was more careful than he thought. This place was already his permanent residence. After searching for a while, he still didn't find any clues.

However, Xie Daohan understood in his heart: since there were no clues or traces in the two residences, then the clue must be on Duan Rong!
He believed that Duan Rong did not escape when he left the city. He had just become a registered disciple of the sect, and he just left. Didn't he want to give up his great fame?
He just needs to wait. Wait for Duan Rong to return to the city!

In the early morning in the Wild Boar Mountain valley, birds were singing and springs were gurgling. Duan Rong suddenly walked out from the depths of the cave and stood on the platform at the entrance with a tired look on his face.

The spring breeze blew and the sun shone on his face. Duan Rong smiled and suddenly moved.

Using his full strength, he leaped and galloped along the rock wall, his clothes fluttering...

Duan Rong came to the spring, washed his face with the cool spring water, then scooped up the sweet spring water and drank two handfuls.

Duan Rong wiped the water stains from the corners of his mouth with his sleeve. On a tree not far away, there were two birds chirping happily...

Duan Rong's eyes suddenly moved and he looked towards the direction of the two birds.

The two birds were chirping just now, but when Duan Rong's eyes focused, they suddenly stiffened without any warning, as if they were shot, and fell from the branches.

Duan Rong smiled faintly, then stood up and walked towards the place where the two birds fell. However, just after he took two steps, the two fallen birds suddenly flew up, flapping their wings, and flew into the depths of the wild forest.

Duan Rong stood there, looking in the direction where the bird flew away, his eyes flickering.

"It seems that this soul wave attack cannot damage the soul. It will only cause the soul to tremble instantly and fall into a brief blank."

(End of this chapter)