Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

Wei Xi never imagined that she would one day have such a unique look.

If anyone suddenly regained their sight after temporary blindness, only to have an arm fall on them immediately afterward, they would be just as speechless as Wei Xi.

Wei Xi was certain that she had all four limbs intact, so whose arm was hanging in front of her?

Still adjusting to dual vision, Wei Xi was like an insect that had suddenly grown a brain, with more than two eyeballs seemingly attacking her reason.

The two things in Wei Xi's eye sockets couldn't see the top of his head. With a strange expectation, Wei Xi commanded the spiritual sound to continue rising.

With the flapping of its wings, Wei Xi witnessed an extremely horrifying scene through the eyes on Lingyin's wings:
A humanoid creature, the size of a child, rode on her neck, its form both real and ethereal. This phantom had eight arms, each of varying lengths and thicknesses, reminding her of the twisted, gnarled trees that Senior Sister Tang had grafted. In contrast to its unsightly appearance, the skin covering its arms was surprisingly smooth; at least, no rough scars or calluses were visible to the naked eye. The ends of the arms connected to hands or strangely shaped lumps of flesh. One arm covered Wei Xi's nose, another pried open her mouth and grabbed her tongue, and two more covered her ears.

What's there to not understand? Wei Xi's deprived senses came from this phantom!
What alarmed Wei Xi even more was that the phantom had silently entangled itself around him, and if it had intended to kill him, he would probably be dead already.

"So it must have covered my eyes before," Wei Xi said calmly, her thoughts clear. "Something must have attracted its attention before it let go!"

Wei Xi immediately found the answer. Following the middle arm, he saw the phantom stretching towards [Tethered Silk], its thin neck desperately extending forward, and its already precarious head shaking even more violently.

"Is the 'thread' more attractive to it? But what's the difference between that and it targeting me?"

Wei Xi analyzed the scene before her, since no one had ever taught her how to get rid of the strange phantoms appearing above her head.

It was quite sudden.

Wei Xi doesn't have the strange habit of hiding pearls by cutting open his abdomen. If his life is in danger, he will most likely still have to give up [Tethering Silk].

After all, Wei's life is more important; as long as the green hills remain, there will always be firewood to burn.

The problem now is that [Tethered Thread] and Wei Xi's bones are intertwined; abandoning this red thread would be no different from her death.

Not to mention that [Qiansi] followed Wei Xi through thick and thin, so there must have been some feelings between them.

“No,” Wei Xi said, not letting his emotions cloud his reason at the critical moment. “This phantom climbed onto me almost immediately after I fell into the abyss, which shows that it intended to harm me from the very beginning.”

"If this thing had more hands, it would have stripped me of all five senses."

"Now it was the [threads] I released that attracted its attention, which lured it to release the hands covering my eyes."

"In this light, we absolutely cannot abandon the [Tethering Silk], otherwise this damned thing will go all out against me! In the current situation, keeping the [Tethering Silk] will actually allow us to hold our own against it."

Having figured out the situation, Wei Xi frowned again. "But why can't the eyes on Lingyin's wings see this strange phantom?"

Even with his vast knowledge and wisdom, Wei Xi couldn't find the answer for the time being.

However, Lingyin has always been a strange existence. If Master Han hadn't persuaded Qin Feng, this bird probably wouldn't have been able to stay.

Wei Xi cheered herself up—she had been flustered before, but now that she had unexpectedly learned the enemy's location, she naturally put the matter of retreat out of her mind and started thinking about how to get the thing off her neck.

Fortunately, the eight-armed phantom on the neck moved extremely slowly. After so long, it hadn't even touched the edge of the [thread], which gave Wei Xi just enough time to observe.

To avoid disturbing the illusory figure, Wei Xi kept moving. Having dual vision wasn't entirely without its advantages; at least while one pair of eyes was busy, the other remained vigilant. Wei Xi felt a pang of regret: she had been truly reckless, relying on the [Thread of Connection] to descend into the abyss alone. If it weren't for the red thread's accidental usefulness, she would have truly capsized in this "gutter." Therefore, even though Wei Xi knew that to completely escape, she needed to unravel the mystery, she was still keeping an eye out for any path back up.

This time, Wei will use a two-pronged approach!

After careful observation, Wei Xi concluded that the phantom was not particularly intelligent.

Behold, this thing's ten limbs are stiff and trembling as it reaches towards the "threads," its arms far too short to be of any use. This thing seems incapable of thought, only knowing to lean forward, attempting to shorten the distance.

Frankly speaking, Wei Xi was somewhat relieved that the object was just a phantom; otherwise, given its folding ability, his neck would have been broken.

"Judging from this, it won't be able to grasp the [thread] for a while."

The next moment, Wei Xi's conclusion was overturned: the phantom failed repeatedly, but then it pulled out several black threads from thin air and attached them to its body. Its free hand even started weaving, and its arm visibly grew longer.

Wei Xi was astonished and his eyes widened in surprise!
Those black lines are the same as Lingyin Suo's, and are obviously composed of yin and yang energy.

Wei Xi felt a bad premonition and slowly looked down. He realized that the moss-like texture was actually a dense network of black threads. These solidified yin and yang energies were woven into tiny flower bud shapes and clung tightly to the ground. Some of these buds had already bloomed, while others remained tightly closed, and still others were opening and closing.

Wei Xi found the vanished seawater, and glistening water droplets remained in the opening and closing flower buds.

It turns out that all the rivers flowing eastward will eventually be swallowed up here.

"This abyss has been filled with water for thousands of years."

Wei Xi felt that the water disappeared too quickly. Could these "flower buds" really digest it?

The eight-armed phantom was still promoting arm growth. Wei Xi quickly squatted down and used his dagger to scrape off the flower bud.

The moment the dagger touched the flower bud, it was seized by the bud, and then numerous cracks appeared on the blade. In an instant, the flower bud swallowed it completely.

But that little time was enough; Wei Xi saw the environment in which the flower buds were growing.

To be precise, it is a layer of flower buds upon a layer of flowers, layer upon layer, without end.

"No wonder," Wei Xi thought to himself, "Yu Xianzhou found a good place."

Yu Xianzhou's ability to grow into the leader of the Eastern Yi demons is clearly related to his knowledge of the secrets of this place.

After the upheaval in Dongyi, Deadwater City took over the area and also became the dominant force.

"If this place collects all the water in the world, then what do Chongxiao City and Dieji Mountain collect?"

Looking back now, was Chongxiao City covered in ice and snow? And was there a large prison on Dieji Mountain?

Wei Xi felt it was a bit tricky. She had been to Dieji Mountain, but she never left her home and had no idea what was there.
Even more troublesome is the eight-armed phantom image around her neck, which is now only a finger's width away from [Threads of Connection]. (End of Chapter)