Embers of Sword

Chapter 24: Breaking Yuan Formation

Outside Tai'an City, the sound of horse hooves thundered and several carriages were galloping on the mountain road.

This time, Xie Xuanyi did not let Deng Baiyi go with him.

He was alone, sitting in the carriage at the rear of the palace.

Everything is going according to plan.

Xu You arranged a mansion for himself and his group pretended to move in. When Xu You's men left, they immediately packed their bags and left Tai'an. This move of leaving without saying goodbye... did not calm Xie Xuanyi's heart. Instead, the feeling of uneasiness in his heart became even stronger!
"It seems like this was set up long ago, waiting for me?"

Xie Xuanyi had a blank expression on his face.

He sat cross-legged with a green pill floating in front of him.

After taking a deep breath.

Xie Xuanyi adjusted his energy and spirit to the peak state, and then without hesitation, he crushed the pill.

Boom!
The Qingyuan Pill burst, and the rich vital energy poured out instantly!

This huge amount of energy that should have exploded the carriage was now perfectly controlled by Xie Xuanyi. He stretched out his hands and forcibly compressed thousands of strands of overflowing energy, condensing it into a fist-sized ball of light!

This ball of light was very unstable, but after a few breaths, it hovered in front of Xie Xuanyi very obediently.

"This Qing Yuan Dan is likely to kill seven or eight Qi Refiners at once..."

Xie Xuanyi stared at the brilliant energy in front of him, concentrating his mind to the extreme.

He couldn't help but chuckle.

The quality of these five Qingyuan Pills is very good. No wonder Xu You felt so distressed when he gave them away.

"Okay, let me see, this Qing Yuan Dan... can condense a few strands of golden Yuan Qi."

Xie Xuanyi held his breath.

A normal Qi cultivator will cultivate his spirit and soul during the process of cultivating his vital energy!
The stronger the soul power.

The easier it is to control your energy...

Now Xie Xuanyi was reborn. Although he had lost all his vitality, his spirit strength had increased instead of decreased. His eyes shone with brilliance, and the vitality ball in front of him was instantly crushed.

"Boom!"

The sound of wind and thunder permeates the carriage!
The fierce horse neighed, as if it sensed the terrifying energy behind it, and the speed of the carriage increased a lot in an instant!

Xie Xuanyi's eyes became brighter and brighter!
He was doing something crazy that went against the understanding of a cultivator, which was to forcibly manipulate the energy of this Qing Yuan Dan, compressing it, and compressing it again...

Less than five breaths!

A ray of golden energy was born in the carriage!
Xie Xuanyi inhaled it into his lungs, and an acupoint was lit up, followed by the second and third wisps!
This "weak" body finally regained the long-lost strength!
At this moment, Xie Xuanyi knew that his previous guess was correct.

As long as there are vitality pills of sufficient quality, the process of cultivating golden vitality will be greatly accelerated!

Unfortunately……

The vitality of Qingyuan Dan is not enough!

This Qingyuan Pill would take three to four weeks for a Qi Controlling Realm cultivator to digest. However, under Xie Xuanyi's frantic absorption, it only lasted less than a hundred breaths before it vanished into thin air!
One Qingyuan Pill condenses eleven golden vital energies!
Although this is countless times faster than absorbing the vital energy of heaven and earth... it is still not enough. To advance to the second level, a Qi Refiner needs to ignite one hundred and eight acupoints.

This also means.

Xie Xuanyi's promotion requires one hundred and eight golden energies!

"Thirteen acupoints were ignited..."

After absorbing the golden energy, Xie Xuanyi's mental and spiritual state changed again!

His pupils were flashing with golden light!

You can become stronger not only by getting promoted.

If his original body was a dry pond, then after eating a Qingyuan Pill, inside this dry pond... there is finally a thin pool of water belonging to Xie Xuanyi!

"Very good! Come again!"

Xie Xuanyi's aura rose, and after confirming that this method of practice was feasible, he completely let go and directly crushed the second and third Qingyuan Pills!
The power of the soul swept out.

He was multitasking as he controlled two light balls to enter his body at the same time!

"Boom! Boom!"

The quality of these two Qingyuan Pills is slightly worse than the previous one. After being condensed, they only condensed nineteen strands of golden energy!
Including the previous one.

Xie Xuanyi has now ignited a total of thirty-four acupoints, nearly one third!

If all five Qingyuan Pills are swallowed, about half of them can be ignited.

"Not enough, not enough..."

Xie Xuanyi did not crush the remaining two Qingyuan Pills.

He quietly felt the weak strength in his body, then lifted the curtain of the car and looked at Tai'an City behind him.

The night was dark and Tai'an City was getting farther and farther away.

But the chill in my heart grew stronger.

……

……

"Bai Yi, keep going forward, don't look back, and don't stop."

A voice was transmitted into the carriage in front.

Deng Baiyi, who was holding Jiang Huang, looked nervous as she finally heard the voice she had been longing for.

"What happened, benefactor?"

Ever since leaving Tai'an City, Deng Chicheng has been nervously looking behind the carriage, fearing that something unexpected might happen.

But he found out.

The rear carriage suddenly stopped.

A man in white stood alone on the mountain path, with no intention of following.

Deng Chicheng was stunned: "Why didn't the benefactor leave?"

"Hey, stop for a minute..."

He subconsciously wanted to ask the coachman to stop the car.

"No, you can't stop!"

Deng Baiyi gritted her teeth and said word by word: "Let's go first and wait for him in front."

Although she didn't know what happened.

But she knew that Xie Zhen had never harmed her since they met in Yuzhu Town.

From Beijun to Qingzhou.

Along the way, the two of them went from strangers to familiar with each other, although there was not much verbal communication...

But in Deng Baiyi's heart, Xie Zhen is definitely a trustworthy person. He wants to move forward on his own and not look back.

Then she won't look back.

……

……

Xie Xuanyi stopped the carriage and stood alone on the mountain road outside Tai'an City.

There was darkness everywhere.

The night sky tonight is exceptionally dark, with the stars in the sky swallowed by dark clouds. Standing here is like standing in the center of a pitch-black ink scroll.

East, west, south, and north, everything is quiet.

No matter which direction I looked, I saw only darkness.

Xie Xuanyi held the horse reins, walked a few steps, and then stopped completely.

He patted the horse's head, smoothed the mane of this big guy that had been running for more than ten days, and then spoke softly.

"Go."

The horse snorted loudly and walked away slowly.

The carriage only moved forward a few feet before it seemed to dissolve into ink in a painting... It disappeared from Xie Xuanyi's sight, and even the sound of the horses' hooves was "swallowed up".

Xie Xuanyi stood in the pitch-black darkness and smiled.

"The Broken Yuan Formation is the masterpiece of Qin Baihuang, the head of the Weapon Refining Department. It can cut off the connection between the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth and the cultivator."

A second laugh was heard in the pitch-black darkness.

"Master Xie has a good eye. You seem to have a good understanding of battle formations as well?"

Xie Xuanyi smiled slightly and put his hands behind his back: "Talismans and array patterns are inseparable. Since I know a little about talismans, I should naturally know something about array patterns."

"That's the truth."

A sigh sounded in the darkness: "But... since you know the 'Duan Yuan Formation', you shouldn't have stepped in."

"A true Broken Origin Formation is indeed terrifying. Once you enter it, it's like being trapped in a prison. There's no way to escape."

Xie Xuanyi looked at the darkness in front of him.

He stretched out his finger and touched it, chuckling, "But your formation is still a little off, it only covers a hundred feet in radius... If it was arranged by Qin Baihuang himself, ten consecutive mountains around here would be included in the formation, completely isolating it from the world."

This statement came out.

Standing on top of a mountain, Xu You couldn't help but be stunned.

He frowned and subconsciously looked at the young man in white in front of him again, after confirming that the latter had no vitality.

“He keeps calling me Qin Baihuang…”

Xu You sneered coldly: "Little Qi Refiner, can you call me by my name?"

Xie Xuanyi smiled silently when he heard this.

indeed……

With his current status and position, it was really arrogant to directly address the Chief of the Equipment Refining Department by his name.

"The Hundred-foot-long Broken Origin Formation is enough to kill you ten times!"

Xu You held the spear in his hand, stood at the highest point of the hill, and looked down indifferently.

To be on the safe side, he took the big gun and came in person.

But after confirming Xie Zhen's level of cultivation, Xu You was too lazy to rush in and kill him himself.

He just held up two fingers and gently lifted them up!

In just a moment, the earth and rocks broke!

Xie Xuanyi lowered his head.

The area of ten feet around where he was standing was instantly submerged by a huge area of dark murderous intent!
"boom!!!"

The ground shattered, and a huge black shadow, like a whale leaping into the sea, swallowed up Xie Xuanyi completely!
It turned out to be a large box that had been opened long ago and dormant in the ground.

After receiving the order from its master, it rose instantly like a gluttonous mouth, broke through the ground, and then suddenly closed, directly "swallowing" Xie Xuanyi into its stomach!

A cultivator at the Qi Controlling Stage can condense his own natal artifacts... How many artifacts he can condense depends on the cultivator's talents and qualifications, as well as his training path.

Some cultivators only refine one magical weapon throughout their entire life!
For some, the more the better, such as sword cultivators. Most sword cultivators have more than one flying sword.

Xu You condensed two treasures in total!

One of them is the sixth-grade treasure "Cloud-breaking Spear"!
The other item is the fifth-grade treasure "Yuan-Devouring Box" hidden under the Yuan-Breaking Formation!
"Nothing."

Xu You, who was standing on the top of a high mountain, saw this scene and couldn't help but sneer: "Pretending to be a ghost, how capable did I think you were..."

next moment.

The smile on Xu You’s lips froze.

He suddenly felt something was wrong!

The natal artifact is connected to the cultivator's mind. He can feel the status of the Yuan-Devouring Box at any time. At this moment, the "closing" of the box has been completed by 99%. Only the last bit is left, and it can be closed tightly!
But it got stuck on this point!

Smoke and dust billowed around the black box hanging in the air above the ground.

The huge black box, which was just a little bit away from being completely closed, began to tremble violently on its own, out of control of its owner.

Click!

Xu You's pupils contracted, and he heard a very slight cracking sound...

Xu You's heart trembled.

A crack actually appeared on the surface of his own Yuan-devouring Box. The cracking sound continued to spread, and the crack became longer and longer.

A golden light bloomed from the crack of the black box!
"……this?!"

Xu You couldn't believe his eyes.

The breakage of the Yuan-devouring Box was irreversible. After a few breaths, more and more cracks appeared, and the golden light became more and more intense!
Finally, with a bang, a complete, golden barrier of vitality fell down like a canopy and closed! It completely burst the Yuan Devouring Box and exploded!

Under that golden canopy.

A young man in white clothes sat cross-legged, his body empty and without any magical weapon.

There was only a crushed Qingyuan Pill.

And more than a hundred golden little swords of vitality!

Each sword seems to have its own soul——

At this moment, all the flying swords trembled at their tips and turned around to aim at Xu You!

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(End of this chapter)