Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

Chapter 363 Wei Xi falls into the vortex of suspicion
These two short lines of words gave Wei Xi a wake-up call.

What does this mean? Isn't the person in the painting Fan Shan? Why did it become Qu Bujin?
Wei Xi, who was already suspicious, suddenly had all kinds of conspiracies burst into his mind, each of which led to his own death.

Fortunately, she quickly calmed down, pinched the scroll, and whispered, "Lian Gou, look at the time of this painting."

The drowsy Lian Gou Qiang opened his eyelids, pulled open the scroll to reveal a pair of bloodshot eyes, and looked up and down.

Wei Xi was afraid that he couldn't see clearly, so he deliberately pushed the scroll with its eyes open forward.

"This... looks old," a bloody nose was revealed, twitching twice. "The smell of ink suggests it's at least eight hundred years old... I need to get inside... Isn't this Fan Mountain?"

"Shh," Wei Xi signaled Lian Gou to keep his voice down. "Can you get in in your current state?"

Lian Gouqi silently put the nose and eyes back into the scroll, leaving Wei Xi with a dark and ugly paper full of animals.

I declined!

What did Fan Shan call Lian Gou? Something like a leather painting? Wei Xi shook his head: "Let's talk about Lian Gou later. The most urgent thing is to escape!"

But it was too late to find a way out by following the Yin and Yang Qi. The Yin and Yang Qi outside had become a mess. Wei Xi's spiritual power could not last long, not to mention that she had to carry two wounded people.

After much thought, Wei Xi could only hope that Fan Shan would keep his word.

Fortunately, Wei Xi had fought with Fan Shan before and knew that Fan Shan’s fighting ability was worrying with only Yin and Yang energy left. He just had to be careful and not be harmed by the magic weapons placed in the boat.

Wei Xi, who had started to plan, turned his attention to the important question of who or what Fan Shan was.

Firstly, the painting's creation period has been determined to be roughly consistent with Tangyin's golden age.
Secondly, compared to "Fan Shan's" words, Wei Xi believed more in the evidence that had been passed down for hundreds of years in black and white. Wei Xi also had some knowledge of Fan Shan's mental state. Whether he was healthy or not was not an issue for the time being, but he was definitely unstable. There was no guarantee that the "Fan Shan" standing before her was already a madman.

Thirdly, Wei Xi knew very little about the Golden Age and was unable to discern it at this moment. Before meeting Fan Shan, she had even thought that the Golden Age was the ultimate fantasy of the immortal world, just as one always remembers a previous meal during a famine, the immortal world relied on this event to survive;
Finally, there's one more thing: Fan Shan's behavior was strange. Looking back, when I first met him, he was relaxed and at ease, looking quite cool. It wasn't until he heard about Dieqishan that his expression changed drastically...

But Wei Xi always felt that there was something wrong with his emotions later on, and it was not quite like the "Fan Shan" in his first impression.

"Also," Wei Xi thought, "Fan Shan obviously knows about the Immortality Wood. He talked a lot but never mentioned the Immortality Wood. It's really suspicious..."

Wei Xi's mind was full of thoughts, and he felt like he was stuck in a quagmire. He couldn't tell whether the next step would be to step into deeper mud or find a place to breathe.

When people have been unlucky for a long time, they develop a subtle intuition. Wei Xi felt that she had inadvertently gotten herself into another big trouble, and according to her experience, worse misfortunes were only to come.

"Wei Xi!" Lian Gou's bloody mouth appeared on the scroll, "Do you want to take this painting away... I mean... well... once I find a new skin, I can get in and take a look..."

"Stirring up trouble will only lead to complications," Qin Feng, who had been paying attention to the movements outside, whispered: "Who knows if this is a trap? What they said is all groundless..." Wei Xi did not answer: Qin Feng's superstition about authority has been going on for a long time. Anyway, with herself by her side, she can avoid any traps in time.

At worst, they could just jump down together. Wei Xi didn’t think it was a big deal.

However, Qin Feng's words "stirring up trouble" hit the nail on the head. Hearing the noise coming from the corridor, Wei Xi closed his notebook but did not put it back. He stood there rubbing his hips with a grin on his face.

"Did you bump into something?"

Wei Xi looked up and said, "Shh... I'm sorry, I knocked a few things to the ground... But what is your table made of? Why is it so hard?"

"The bones of a stone and wood beast," Fan Shan pinched the bridge of his nose, walked over and put away the two notebooks, "Tang Yin killed six hundred spiritual beasts, and this one is the largest. It's perfect for a tabletop."

"The rift has entered its contraction phase. We'll be able to get you out in about half a day. You can rest here for a while. Those guys outside won't be easy to deal with..."

"People from Chongxiao City?" Qin Feng swallowed two pills, but the wound still healed slowly. In a bad mood, she sneered: "How come there is not a single good person in the eyes of the senior?"

"Because all the good guys are dead," Fan Shan shrugged. "Do you know how many people died on the front lines when we fought to the end? Even so, monsters would still massacre the city from time to time... Those of us who were looking for other ways out often left the front lines and rushed to the rifts to conduct surveys. It was common for us to work non-stop for half a year."

"There weren't enough people to suppress the rift in the end. Aside from those of us who volunteered, the remaining spots were shared among the various sects. Do you know how many sects have lost their inheritance since then? Little girl, open your eyes!"

After saying this, Fan Shan shouted at Wei Xi, who rushed over like a child, "Her wound has Yin and Yang Qi. You have to extract the Yin and Yang Qi! Don't think I don't know that you've used Yin and Yang Qi. Even the Dingsheng Banner can't catch you..."

"Who knows what outrageous lies Xu Fulin told? Over the years, the number of cultivators cultivating Yin and Yang Qi has decreased, and the Dingsheng Banner has been getting fuller and fuller..."

Wei Xi keenly noticed that Fan Shan had not been completely isolated from the world in recent years, but his previous behavior seemed like he knew about Dieqi Mountain for the first time.

What is true? What is false? Wei Xi felt a splitting headache.

"Senior, the power of [Dawn and Dusk] should be sufficient to deal with Yin and Yang energy. Why did you two also...what is the purpose of the Dingsheng Banner? Why did it attack the cultivators?"

"We can never penetrate the secrets of Yin and Yang, but I can tell you the function of the Dingsheng Banner. It's a very strange magical weapon, originating from the Western Regions. By chance, it came into the possession of my master."

"The Dingsheng Banner is a very mysterious magical weapon, and ordinary people are simply unable to control it. Therefore, Master was unable to understand its mysteries until Tang Yin successfully made it recognize its master."

"We now know that the Victory Banner absorbs stagnant Yin and Yang Qi within its bodies... This means that anyone who doesn't actively mobilize their Yin and Yang Qi will be attacked by it, and those trapped will be unable to break free and become nothing more than a name on the banner..."

"The most terrifying thing is that the Dingsheng Banner has extremely strong growth potential."

I received three bottles of IV fluid today. Everyone, please be careful during this flu season!