Dao Qi Wu Zang Guan Guan: I became a Daoist Master in the 1990s

Chapter 105 The Mind's Aperture, Hidden Divine Fire

The moment Qi Yun met the pair of pure black eyes on the bed, his heart tightened suddenly, as if his soul was about to be sucked into that endless coldness and resentment!

"You wicked creature!" His eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he roared like thunder, his reaction faster than lightning!
His right palm was instantly enveloped in a raging, dark red Crimson Hunting Flame. The blazing flames and scorching heat forced away the surrounding chill, and he slammed his palm down on Li Jun's face!

However, when his palm struck down, he missed!

There was nothing but emptiness where I reached out!
The bed, Li Jun, and even the entire room were suddenly replaced by an absolute darkness that was so thick it couldn't be dissolved and swallowed up all light!

"Here it comes again!" Qi Yun's heart skipped a beat, and he instantly realized that he had been dragged into the ghost's mental prison once again!

The rune "Black Law Edict of Fengdu, the Northern Underworld" suddenly appeared between his eyebrows, its eerie light shining brightly, and it shook violently!
hum!
A supreme and all-powerful law, governing the order of Yin and Yang, suddenly erupted, sweeping through this strange space like an invisible shockwave!
Snap! Snap!

The surrounding darkness solidified like glass struck by a heavy hammer, instantly covered with countless spiderweb-like brilliant cracks, from which eerie light burst forth!

The imperial edict shook the heavens once more!

A second, even stronger wave of the power of the laws surged forth!

Boom! ! !

The entire dark space could no longer bear it, letting out a groan of unbearable strain, and completely shattered into countless fragments before vanishing without a trace!
The illusion shatters, reality returns!
The moment Qi Yun regained his vision, he saw that Li Jun was already standing straight in front of him, his face was ashen, his eyes were still pure black, and his hands were like hooks, tightly gripping his own neck!
Thick, ink-like, icy ghostly energy was gushing out from his seven orifices and pores, frantically drilling into his body!

Zizizi!
The chilling ghostly energy clashed fiercely with the Crimson Hunting Fire within Qi Yun's body, which was protecting its master. The clash produced a piercing sound like boiling oil being poured onto snow, and billowing white smoke filled the air!

A bone-chilling coldness spread rapidly through my meridians, freezing the blood almost wherever it passed, and causing a sharp, needle-like pain in my meridians!

"What powerful ghostly energy!" Qi Yun cursed inwardly, instantly regaining his composure.

Within his dantian, five streams of milky-white true qi, as white as jade marrow, suddenly boiled and ceased to circulate normally. Instead, he forcibly gathered them together with immense willpower and pressed them all into his heart!

The heart holds the fire of the divine!

boom!
The immense true qi was compressed and ignited to the extreme within the heart aperture, transforming into an unprecedentedly surging heart fire, like a volcanic eruption, which fiercely injected into the Crimson Hunting Fire Pill that was fighting against the ghostly energy!

With the aid of this extremely yang and powerful heart fire, the Crimson Hunting Fire instantly surged in power!

The color abruptly changed from dark red to a deeper, more intense shade!
Flames soared into the sky, and the scorching and domineering purifying will filled every meridian of Qi Yun!
"burn!"

Qi Yun exhaled and spoke, and the dark red Crimson Hunting Fire within his body roared like a ferocious beast awakening, crushing everything in its path with overwhelming force!

Wherever it passed, the chilling ghostly energy that had invaded the body was instantly evaporated and purified, just like ice and snow encountering the blazing sun, leaving not even a trace behind!
Expel the inner evils, and the flames will burn even brighter!
Qi Yun's arm jerked, and the black and red Crimson Hunting Fire surged into Li Jun's body like a burst dam, flowing down his arm where it had touched Li Jun!

"what!!!"

A bloodcurdling scream, beyond human comprehension, suddenly burst from Li Jun's throat!
His body convulsed violently, and his skin turned crimson instantly, as if the blood inside him was boiling and burning!
The next moment, with a loud bang, streaks of black and red flames shot out directly from his eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and even pores, turning him into a raging fireman!

Just as Li Jun's body collapsed, a more condensed, pitch-black, yet burning with black and red flames, painful humanoid shadow suddenly tore out from his back, letting out an extremely venomous shriek.

In an instant, it vanished into the thick darkness of the night outside the window!
"Trying to leave?!" Qi Yun was about to give chase.

"Ah!!! Thief! Murder!!!"

A sharp, piercing scream from behind exploded from behind, filled with extreme terror.

Qi Yun turned around abruptly and saw Li Jun's wife, Yang Hui, who had been awakened at some point. She was standing at the bedroom door, her face ashen, her body trembling like a leaf in the wind, pointing at Qi Yun and screaming incessantly. Upon seeing this, Qi Yun frowned deeply.

"You headless robber! What did you do to my man?!"

Seeing her husband lying on the bed, his life hanging in the balance, Yang Hui was so terrified that she unleashed the fierce and shrewish nature typical of women from the mountain town, turning around and rushing towards the kitchen.

With a clanging and clattering sound, she rushed back, wielding a gleaming kitchen knife. Her hands gripped the handle tightly, the tip pointing directly at Qi Yun. Though her arms were still trembling, her eyes were unusually fierce: "Don't move! Get down here! Or I'll fight you to the death!"

Qi Yun suddenly felt a headache coming on, and inwardly sighed that the women of Chongqing were truly as fierce as tigers.

Just then, Li Jun on the bed let out a painful groan, slowly waking up. His eyes were unfocused, filled with extreme exhaustion and fear. He murmured, "Ghost... footsteps... are coming... they've got me... I can't escape!"

Yang Hui was startled by the sound. Looking at her husband's genuinely frightened expression, her hand holding the knife involuntarily stiffened.

Qi Yun seized the opportunity to shout: "Shut up! Be quiet! Listen to what's happening outside!"

The couple instinctively held their breath and listened intently.
Dead silence! Utter dead silence!

Despite their screams and shouts, the entire building and even the area outside remained completely undisturbed! No neighbors inquired, and no dogs barked!
It was as if the whole world had shrunk to just their room and the terrifying darkness outside the window.

A deeper chill instantly gripped Yang Hui and Li Jun's hearts.

"It hasn't left...it might never have left at all!"

Qi Yun's eyes were sharp as knives as he scanned the window and doorway. "If you don't want to die, stay here and don't move!"

Before he finished speaking, he no longer hesitated. In a flash, he was at the window, his right fist clenched, and he threw a powerful punch!
boom!
The window, along with its frame, was blasted open by the force, sending shards of glass and wood flying everywhere.

Qi Yun leaped out like a roc, his toes tapping several protrusions on the outer wall of the building to dissipate the force of his fall. With a few leaps, he landed lightly and instantly disappeared into the deeper darkness below.

As soon as he landed, Qi Yun's heart sank.

Looking around, within a radius of several dozen meters centered on the tenement building, one could still barely make out its outline, but further away, all scenery, light, and sound were swallowed up by a pure, suffocating darkness, as if the whole world had been covered by a huge black cloth.

The tenement building in front of us has become even more eerie.

Large patches of plaster had peeled off, revealing rotten bricks underneath. Most of the windows were broken and dark. The entire building exuded a desolate and abandoned atmosphere, a stark contrast to when he had just jumped out!

He suddenly looked up at the spot where the thief had been hanging.

There was nothing there.

"It's not a mental illusion...this time it's...a ghost realm?!"

Qi Yun gasped, a warning screaming in his heart, "How could a mere ghost create a small ghost realm that affects reality?"

Just as he was filled with doubt and uncertainty, a twisted black shadow slowly coalesced and emerged from the dense darkness ahead.

Immediately afterwards, the dark figure split in two, then the two became four, and the four became eight...

In the blink of an eye, countless silent black figures, like a tide surging from hell, locked onto him with empty gazes.

(End of this chapter)