I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 216 Shocking Change (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

The rooms at the Lonely Smoke Spring Inn were so shabby that it was beyond words. After Jiang Yi finished setting up the Tortoise Shell Formation, he habitually set up the Double Golden Silkworm Spirit Devouring Formation, only to realize later that the Golden Leaf Blade had been destroyed.

Besides, all the talisman fragments and jade shards were used up, and the Black Sand Shield, all the Thunderfire Pearls, Fire Pearls, Evil-Suppressing Talismans, and Mountain-Suppressing Talismans were gone.

Furthermore, all the Heavenly Gang Sword Qi she had stored up this month was also completely consumed, resulting in a devastating overall loss.

Even the Broken Blade was tainted by that gray fire, its spiritual light dimmed, and its power greatly reduced.

Fortunately, she still had the sword-nurturing gourd.

Jiang Yi used his mind to send the Broken Tribulation Sword into the Sword Washing Pool in the Immortal Crossing. As soon as the green bamboo sword entered the lake water, it made a hissing sound, and the turbid aura in it turned into wisps of gray smoke and dissipated.

Without this Sword Cleansing Pool, purifying the Broken Tribulation Sword would be a huge effort and would cost money.

"Let's let them rest slowly, and let Zhenshan and Duanjin soak in it too."

Jiang Yi gave them an order, telling them to act according to their abilities, especially Zhen Shan, who had fire within him and didn't want it to be extinguished by the Sword Washing Pool.

This time, Jiang Yi didn't dare use the Heart-Piercing Mirror when dealing with Tianxin Ancestor, fearing that he would anger Tianxin Ancestor and be reduced to ashes.

She was still somewhat intimidated by the madness of the Heavenly Heart Ancestor.

Setting aside the assessment of gains and losses, Jiang Yi took a Rejuvenation Pill and quickly meditated to regulate her breathing. With Hua Gu and Hong Li not around, she was worried and went to sleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.

……

A day later, Jiang Yi finally recovered and slowly woke up from her meditation.

Upon waking up, Jiang Yi found herself unconsciously pondering the matter of Ancestor Tianxin.

It is not hard to see that Tianxin Laozu was killed by Zhu Mingzong's ancestor Xia Changying. He was trapped underground for a thousand years, suffering the torment of karmic fire, and turned to the ghost path to prolong his life.

If the Heavenly Heart Ancestor were to truly possess another body, she would likely turn the entire Zhu Ming Sect upside down.

Jiang Yi still felt that Tianxin Ancestor had not been killed by her explosion. A thousand-year-old vengeful ghost, once a prominent figure, would not die so easily.

"Go back and report it, let the Immortal Alliance continue the investigation. I'll see if what I've gained this time can make up for my losses."

The main gains before entering the underground oasis were fourteen ordinary Sand Soul Tendons, one Sand Soul Lizard King Tendon, and two Stone Lion Warriors.

Once she returns to Huangsha City and consults with Elder Gu of Linlangzhai, she can begin making the strings for her zither, completing her own magical instrument, and formally learning the 'Heavenly Sound Demon-Slaying Melody'.

If we had the help of the koto (a type of zither) this time, we wouldn't have had to get so close to the gray flames, and the fight wouldn't have been so difficult.

Using the zither to wield a sword, she is looking forward to another form of swordsmanship!
Jiang Yi waved his hand, and several items appeared on the wooden table in front of him: five miniature bronze lotus lamps, a jade box, and a gold ring.

These five bronze lotus lamps were the array devices used to set up the 'Five Flames Shining Together' array. They were not destroyed after the explosion, so she took them.

The jade box was opened, revealing a fist-sized, dark gold demon core, which she had dug out from the remains of the Fire-Swallowing Golden Toad.

Gray flames swirled on the surface of the demon core, and three ghost-faced moths suddenly flapped their wings and took flight, leaving eerie gray marks around the core.

The fire on this is the gray, strange fire controlled by the Heavenly Heart Ancestor, which evolved from the Pure Fire of the Candle Moth. I don't know what it's called.

"I wonder if Hongli can absorb the strange fire on it. Ancestor Tianxin's fire is too powerful. It can defile and corrode anything. Even if she can only absorb a little bit, it will still be very strong."

Jiang Yisuo examined it for a moment, and finally picked up the Yin-Yang Pendant and slowly approached the demon core.

"Since the Yin-Yang Fall can devour ice and fire spirit objects to strengthen the power of the Xuanbing Cave and Lihuo Heaven within it, it must have a setting to suppress ice and fire spirit objects. Let's give it a try."

Suddenly, the Yin-Yang Pendant broke free from her palm and drew a Tai Chi phantom image of intertwined ice and fire around the demon core.

The demon core trembled violently, and the gray flames were drawn into thin streams, pulling the demon core into the Yin-Yang Pendant.

Jiang Yi probed the Li Huo Tian with his divine sense and saw that under the crimson sky, the originally scorching clouds were being stained by gray flames, spreading out like ink dripped into clear water.

The gray-white fire lines wandered among the clouds, and the sleeping Red Glass seemed to sense something, its three tails twitching slightly.

One of the crimson tail flames was suddenly enveloped in gray mist, and the tip of the flame gradually condensed into a grayish-white color, spreading downwards like a living thing.

At the same time, the Flower Maiden inside the Xuanbing Cave trembled slightly, and the edges of her snow-white body were stained with specks of gray.

The Yin-Yang Pendant automatically balances the power of ice and fire, turning fire into ice. In the end, half of the power of this demon core will be absorbed by Hua Gu and Hong Li respectively.

"I hope you can wake up soon, Hua Gu. How can I live without you? Although Hong Li is a rebellious daughter, she is also the pillar of the family."

Jiang Yi hung the Yin-Yang pendant back on her waist and looked at the last gold ring on the table, which she had found on a piece of charred bone.

The spell "Refraction of Light and Shadow" can detect things containing metallic power. The Fire-Swallowing Toad is a demon spirit with both metallic and fire attributes, and this ring is also made of some kind of metallic material.

Otherwise, she would have had a hard time spotting something so small.

"Could this be the storage ring of Ancestor Tianxin?"

Jiang Yi used her divine sense to investigate and found that the divine sense imprint on the storage ring was still there, which made her heart skip a beat for no apparent reason. Just then, a swallow's cry suddenly came from outside the window.

……

A quarter of an hour ago.

After Lin Xiyue secluded herself for most of the day, her spiritual energy surged like a river, and she finally broke through the shackles and survived the tribulation of falling in love.

Slowly opening her eyes, Lin Xiyue's lips unconsciously curved into a smile.

After a decade-long bottleneck, she broke through in one day, and her cultivation at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage finally brought her the dawn of her future Golden Core path.

"Go tell Honglian!"

Lin Xiyue's voice was filled with long-lost joy as she opened the door and went out. The sunlight in the corridor was just right, making the fine smile lines at the corners of her eyes sparkle.

Arriving at Ji Honglian's room, Lin Xiyue gently knocked on the door. "Honglian, are you ready to meditate? I have good news to tell you."

"The door is unlocked."

Lin Xiyue pushed open the wooden door, "Honglian, I've finally broken through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, I..."

The room, which could be seen at a glance, was empty. Lin Xiyue paused, suddenly feeling the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end, and saw a figure in her peripheral vision.

Lin Xiyue turned around abruptly, and the sharp serrated teeth of the Burning Heaven Fire Wheel grazed her throat.

puff!

Amidst the roar of the fiery wheels, blood splattered onto the ground, too fast to react to.

Lin Xiyue staggered backward, knocking over a table. Amidst the sound of shattering porcelain, she saw 'Ji Honglian' playing with the fire wheel, her fingertips stained with her blood.

"you……"

Lin Xiyue clutched her neck in shock. Blood gushed out of her slit throat like a burst dam, and gray flames surged wildly into her body through the wound.

"Guess when I separated most of my remnant soul and attached it to her fiery wheel?"

It was clearly Ji Honglian's face and voice, yet it carried the mad laughter of the Heavenly Heart Ancestor.

The Heavenly Heart Ancestor controlled Ji Honglian's body to seal the room and slowly approached. She reached out and pinched Lin Xiyue's chin, seeing her eyes full of astonishment and pain, blood spilling from her mouth, unable to utter a single word.

"I've waited a thousand years for this perfect prospect, and she even has red hair. How could I bear to give her up? Xia Changying plotted for so long but couldn't kill me. You few? What a joke! You won't let your guard down until you've fought with everything you have to 'annihilate' me."

Lin Xiyue struggled to support herself, but the moment her hand, which was hanging by her side, moved, it was grabbed and lifted up by the Heavenly Heart Ancestor, who examined it closely.

"To die so soon after breaking through to a higher realm, is that a pity?"

Chains formed from ash flames suddenly wrapped around Lin Xiyue's limbs. The Heavenly Heart Ancestor stroked Lin Xiyue's cheek with the back of his hand, wiping away the blood from the corner of her mouth.

"When I possessed your junior sister, she cried and begged me to let you go. Tsk~ that was so touching. But it doesn't matter. I will swallow your soul with your junior sister's body, so you can be together forever, hahaha."

"Oh, right, there's another sharp-tongued, crazy girl. I'll make her watch you get swallowed whole, and then... I'll definitely make her experience the pain of being forged through a hundred hammer blows, and finally turn her into a corpse puppet to keep me company~"

"You...are dreaming..."

The sound of ice crystals shattering suddenly rang out, and a blinding blue light burst forth from between Lin Xiyue's brows. The illusory image of an ice phoenix flapped its wings and shattered the gray flame chains.

Lan Shuiyan transformed into a streak of light and rushed out the window.

"court death!"

Ancestor Tianxin angrily waved his sleeve, but Lin Xiyue held it tightly.

The blood gushing from Lin Xiyue's throat soaked through her clothes; it turned out that she could be so calm when death was imminent.

Lin Xiyue's gradually blurring pupils reflected Ji Honglian's distorted face, and in a daze, she saw again those dear friends who covered her retreat in the ancient cultivation ruins.

This time... it's finally her turn.

Within her dantian, the cold energy surged wildly. Lin Xiyue chuckled and shattered her meridians without hesitation.

click!
The extreme cold power, like a bursting dam, exploded along her ruptured meridians.

"you dare!!!"

The angry and shocked voice of the Heavenly Heart Ancestor was frozen in the cold wave. She simply couldn't believe that there was such a fool in the world who was willing to sacrifice himself to please others!
Disgusting! Utterly disgusting!!
Lin Xiyue looked out the window one last time; Lan Shuiyan was flying towards Jiang Yi's room.

Jiang Yi, run!
The erupting illusory image of the ice phoenix vanished along with Lin Xiyue's shattered body, and the entire room was transformed into a crystalline tomb in the extreme low temperature.

(End of this chapter)