Who is spreading rumors that my filial piety towards them has changed?

If Chu Mingkong had nothing else to do, he would spend most of his days either playing with his daughter or lazing around with his master. He happened to run into Zuo Qiuchi's hurried figure and quickly followed after him.

"What's wrong, Master? Where are you rushing off to?"

"A message must have been sent from my hometown, and then the jade slip was opened. The kidnappers have ill intentions. I'm just wondering, aren't messages usually delivered by celestial falcons? Why does the aura of the restriction seem so strange? Did the person who made the move have ulterior motives towards that celestial falcon?"

"..."

Chu Mingkong was baffled and didn't even know what expression to make. Was someone talking nonsense?

Regardless, he recalled what Yun Nongyu had just told him: Does Master leaving home count as "separation"?

In short, just keep up.

As soon as Chu Mingkong stepped out, the Moon Eclipse Heavy Sword flew out of the mansion like a streak of light. He caught it, and Yuehe's voice rang in his ears:

"The Heavenly Eye Witch is skilled in bewitching arts. She can be killed by guarding one's mind. I have something to ponder and cannot be distracted."

Is this referring to... the enemy that Master mentioned?

Without pausing to think, the key was to see how the enemy would attack the bird. He sheathed his Lunar Eclipse Heavy Sword and followed Zuo Qiuchi without another word.

"Master, where is he?"

"Preparing to go to the border of Xiling."

Hmm? Could it be that the Xiaoxiang Qin Academy is sending jade slips?

......

The female disciples who were transporting the jade slips lay huddled together in the dense forest, seemingly protecting each other, but in reality, they were of little use.

The strange man before them was dressed in a black animal robe, adorned with pale white human bone ornaments, and his hair, resembling withered black weeds, hung down from all sides of his head, obscuring his face. His strength was inexplicably powerful.

It inexplicably targeted them, and then inexplicably broke through the void to appear. Before it could even display any of its methods, the girls were already powerless to resist.

Just one glance at him and their souls felt as if they had been struck by a giant hammer, causing them to bleed from all seven orifices and become powerless to resist. They could only symbolically huddle together for warmth.

This strange person seemed to have an overwhelming power gap over them in terms of spiritual strength.

"Hmm! Hmm? Hmm... What did this jade slip say? Why did it only say 'too long' and then stop? Is this a code from your era? Where are the cultivation techniques? It was specially escorted, how come there aren't even any techniques using extremely Yin energy?"

The disheveled man held the jade slip in his hand and easily broke through the restrictions on it. He easily blocked the backlash of the sword intent that erupted from it, but the female disciples of Xiaoxiang Qin Academy were not so easy to deal with.

Suffering from the backlash of the restriction, the sword intent surged, and the figures of several people were sent flying, blood gushing from their mouths, their faces even paler.

"Don't worry, don't worry, I won't harm you. I'll even spare your lives. What if my powerful abilities scare people away from coming?"

This person kept rambling on and on, and even though he had his back to the female disciples, they still felt as if they were being watched by many eyes at the same time.

"It's really strange. Everyone is discussing the power of extreme Yin, but there are hardly any people who can actually use it. So what are you all discussing it so enthusiastically? It's a waste of my time. However, the transplantation method is not bad. But how come there are moving things in your Extreme Abyss? I'm afraid it's some kind of improper power of extreme Yin?"

Suddenly, he paused, and the heavily injured female disciples felt those gazes shift away from them and converge towards the sky.

The sky suddenly darkened as if it were night, and a crescent-shaped sword light fell!

The Heavenly Eye Witch tapped his cane, and several wisps of black mist shot out from the shadows on the ground. From within these black mists, a bloodshot eye flew out and blocked the sword light.

"Are you in the Sunbird?" Chu Mingkong asked immediately after landing.

"What sun bird? You mean the fire sun bird phoenix? Where is there a phoenix?" The Heavenly Eye Witch retorted with lightning speed, so fast that it almost sounded like a muttered grumble in the dead of night.

Chu Mingkong was relieved to find that the female disciples were seriously injured but still conscious. He tossed them a healing talisman. The Heavenly Eye Witch did not stop him, because her target was not those people, or rather, she did not take those female disciples seriously at all.

"Young man, I've heard you have a great opportunity and know how to use the power of extreme Yin. I can feel it; your body is indeed flowing with the power of extreme Yin. No wonder I couldn't divine your secrets. Alright, now you can hand over the technique. Don't force me to search your soul. Why is your soul still extremely Yang? Could this be the key?"

Taking things with such self-righteousness, isn't that a bit disrespectful? But then again, this ancient shaman sees that contemporary cultivators don't cultivate their spiritual souls, so who can he possibly respect?

Zuo Qiuchi interrupted Chu Mingkong, asking, "What did the jade slip say?"

"Jade slip? I was just about to ask you that too. What does 'too long' mean? To go to all that trouble to have someone run errands and escort it, and then only have these three words? There must be something mysterious about it!"

"You talk too much, it hurts my ears. Go die again, see you at the next time of the underworld."

Zuo Qiuchi rubbed his ears, said nothing, and picked up the Extinction Heavy Sword, its blade surging with domineering sword intent.

The Heavenly Eye Witch didn't care, and instead said to Chu Mingkong:

"Hey, young man, this woman has spoken rudely to me. If you hand over the technique of extreme Yin power now, you still have a chance to make amends."

Chu Mingkong's response was very simple: he directly activated the Annihilation Domain and decided to first see what kind of face was growing under this withered hair.

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P.S.: I thought the match would end with a comeback from 0-2 down to 3-2...

Chapter 140 Eyelid

Because the opponent was an ancient sorcerer whose strength was not to be underestimated, Chu Mingkong did not hold back. He directly mobilized his icy spiritual energy to calm his mind. Under his indifferent state of mind, the Domain of Annihilation spread out an eternally silent blackness.

In an instant, the Heavenly Eye Witch was imprisoned within, and the mysterious witch remained in the same gesticulating posture she had used when speaking.

This looks... like it was a success?

Chu Mingkong resisted the urge to spit; that would be considered an act of murderous intent, capable of shattering his own Annihilation Domain. Driven by curiosity, he used his sword to part the Heavenly Eye Witch's hair, then froze in surprise—

A butt! This guy's head is actually a butt?!

Furthermore, this guy's filthy skin was covered with eyes, and the skin on the back of his hands looked like it had scars, but those were actually closed eye slits. The sight of so many eyeballs was disgusting and creepy!

And that long, curly hair that looks like dry straw is actually this guy's... gang hair!

"Mingkong, why don't you have this guy's butt checked?" Zuo Qiuchi couldn't help but say, giving his rebellious disciple a piece of his mind.

Chu Mingkong was speechless for a moment, hesitating to speak, then saying, "This isn't a butt, I don't acknowledge it, this is his head!"

Suddenly, the Heavenly Eye Witch's eyes darted around, and a sound emanated from them:

"Clever! Young man, you are very talented. You actually saw that this is my Heavenly Eye Brain. Ordinary minds are simply dull and unenlightened. Only wise people like me, who can see the heavens with spiritual eyes and observe the celestial phenomena at all times, can be called Heavenly Eye Witches!"

Eyes that are always looking upwards? Do you even have eyes under your eyelids?

This isn't even human, is it?

"What a pity, it seems you young man don't know anything about manners. I'll just take a look at the secrets hidden in your brain and soul!"

The Heavenly Eye Witch's clothes exploded as if by sharp blades, and countless eyes all over his body widened and bulged out of his skin like blackheads being squeezed. Countless eyeballs flew out like locusts, and in an instant, they appeared outside the Realm of Annihilation, leaving only a body full of eyeball pits, standing in place, riddled with holes.

Chu Mingkong's already injured soul suddenly felt the rumble of the earthquake, and he immediately felt dizzy and lightheaded.

An invisible force was trying to seize control of his eyeballs, attempting to forcibly separate them from his body!

When his body was attacked unexpectedly, Chu Mingkong suppressed the extreme yang power in his heart and let the extreme yin power run rampant. Black blood vessels spread from his heart all the way to his cheeks and then to the vicinity of his eye sockets.

The extremely yin blood scalded an invisible entity, which approached Chu Mingkong and its invisible hand tried to probe into his eyeballs!

A being that exists in the form of a spirit or soul?

"Ahhh!!!"

The screams, indistinguishable between male and female, erupted. The Heavenly Eye Witch had been touched by the power of extreme Yin, and even her soul and body were corroded by the most Yin and evil forces.

"You really think I can't defeat you just because you don't have a physical body? Mind Sword!"

Zuo Qiuchi stood still, the Extinction Heavy Sword simply held in his palm, but the invisible sword slashed out according to the "intention" in his heart.

The invisible sword shadows crisscrossed and created a chaotic whirlwind. As soon as they touched Chu Mingkong's Yin blood, the formless Heavenly Eye Witch was unable to dodge and was repeatedly struck. With thousands of swords of intent falling, the Heavenly Eye Witch had nowhere to hide.

But the eyeballs in the distance were still moving, as if they were about to fly away and escape.

"Could it be that the body just now was a host, and all the eyeballs belong to a Heavenly Eye Witch? This might be the operation of an entire Heavenly Eye Witch tribe."

Zuo Qiuchi was disgusted. He rode his sword into the air, and the one sword, Annihilation, multiplied into seven swords, appearing in seven different locations around him. The area within these locations transformed into a sword array, and the Heart Swords within it strangled and killed the fleeing eyeballs.

Occasionally, an eyeball would return to try and launch a sneak attack, but Chu Mingkong would slash his fingertip and flick a drop of blood to knock it down.

Only after all the eyeballs had been severed did Zuo Qiuchi retract the Extinction Heavy Sword.

"Are you alright?" Zuo Qiuchi helped Chu Mingkong up.

"Master, how come I didn't know that you, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, could also use this Mind Sword and Sword Formation? You're keeping it a secret!" Chu Mingkong complained, but the pain in his soul caused his face to contort.

After chewing on the bitter grass several times, the effects were slow and no longer as immediate as before.

Just now, the Eye Witch seemed to be trying to seize eyeballs with his invisible body, but all his actions put pressure on the souls of others, especially since Chu Mingkong's soul was already in poor condition.

“Normally you wouldn’t encounter an enemy like this. Those who learn swordsmanship always need to keep a Heart Sword technique for self-defense, in case they encounter someone their blade can’t reach. But that Heavenly Eye Witch isn’t that strong either, and my Heart Sword technique is pretty rough. You have it even easier; you don’t need to learn anything, you can just chase after people and spit on them.”

"That's quite inappropriate..."

The bitterness of the bitter grass gradually spread through his soul, overshadowing the pain, and Chu Mingkong was finally able to catch his breath.

The master and apprentice went forward to check on the condition of the female disciples, while also checking whether the Heavenly Eye Witch had left any hidden tricks on them.

Fortunately, no. These female disciples were only at the second or third level, with low cultivation. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been assigned to run errands and deliver things. The Heavenly Eye Witch didn't even look at them.

However, one of the female disciples' eyeballs "ran away," leaving a bloody pit. This was most likely an alternative soul-searching method used by the Heavenly Eye Witch. She only took the eyeballs; her body was still alive, but her consciousness was disturbed and she fell into a coma.

But this might also be a blessing in disguise, as the female disciple's eyes made the Heavenly Eye Witch even more certain that they were of little value and she didn't "take care" of them much.

"Here's some pills. I hope she won't develop any inner demons. Her cultivation is still shallow. After breaking through a few levels, her body will regain its vitality, and her eyes will recover." Zuo Qiuchi took out the pills and gave them to her, asking her fellow disciple to keep them for her temporarily.

Chu Mingkong was not stingy and also took out some of the best pills for them.

They ended up in this situation because of him; that shaman with the divine eye was clearly after him.

Chu Mingkong pressed for details, asking how the Heavenly Eye Witch found them—whether it was by chance or something else.

One of the female disciples who could still speak recalled the details:

"I don't know. He appeared suddenly. We were chatting about His Highness when his voice suddenly came to mind... At that time, that thing should have been far away from us. It wasn't something that heard our conversation while we were nearby. After a while, it suddenly broke through space and appeared."

Chu Mingkong thought of Yun Nongyu again. Was the ancient divination skill really that outrageous?

They only uttered his name once, and it was immediately "heard" and transmitted to them?

Row!

I'll go to the deepest part of the abyss and call out my own name, giving you all a big surprise!

"I'll take you to Xiling to settle down and recover properly. I'll handle this matter and give you an explanation."

Chapter 141 The Old Almanac