Ziwei Immortal Path

Chapter 75: Yin Shen Changing Houses
Monk Li's injuries relapsed at this time, and his breath was extremely weak. He lay on Xu Boyang's back motionless. Feeling his movements, he asked with difficulty:
"Young friend... why did you stop?"

Xu Boyang did not respond, but stared at the two people on the stone bed. His heart was like lightning and thunder, and like thousands of horses galloping, full of fear and confusion.

There's no way, these two people are too weird!
The man on the left looked to be no more than thirty years old. He was wearing a moon-white Confucian robe and a silk scarf on his head. He had a round face, fair skin and a gentle manner. His dress was very similar to that of Sun Wuyi, and he was obviously a Confucian scholar.

The man on the right was in his forties or fifties, with high cheekbones and a thin face. He wore a Taoist bun and wore a light grey Taoist robe. He looked like an immortal, elegant and otherworldly. He was obviously a Taoist priest!
At this time, the two of them had their heads lowered and their eyes closed, motionless, as if they were dead. But looking at their complexion, rosy cheeks, and creamy skin, they did not look like dead people.

It's just like two lifelike living human specimens!
Seeing that it was unclear whether he would live or die, Xu Boyang did not dare to rush forward. He took a deep breath and asked in a low voice:
"Monk Li, who are these two people?"

Monk Li raised his head with great effort and realized that he had arrived at his own cave. However, his eyes were dark and he was out of breath. He gasped and said:
"My friend... don't be afraid. Those, those are all... my Dharmakāya. They are all... me."

Xu Boyang was shocked, and could hardly believe it. He cried out in disbelief:
"What did you say?"

Monk Li was panting, his whole body trembling, and he said with difficulty:

"Monk Li, Taoist Li, and Confucian scholar Li are all my... My dear friend, my life is hanging by a thread, I can't hold on any longer, please... please take me there... Don't worry, I... I will be reborn, and I will definitely reward you handsomely..."

Xu Boyang was deeply shocked by what Monk Li had just said. He looked at the two people in disbelief. While listening to Monk Li's slow words, he walked slowly closer with his back to him. Sure enough, he found that the two people did not react at all.

"What kind of magical technique is this? Possession? Taking over another's body? Resurrection? What kind of cultivation level is this old man? Why can't he even defeat a Confucian disciple at the [Li Qi Stage]?"

Xu Boyang crossed the stream and came to the platform. His heart was filled with fear and suspicion. He did not dare to take another step forward.

"Xiao-Xiaoyou... please believe me... I am really dying... I am only one step away from death. I... please save me..."

Monk Li saw Xu Boyang stop again. He was already barely breathing and unable to raise his head. He gasped for breath and whispered,
"These two Dharma bodies of mine are from my former disciples. They were murdered by their enemies and offered themselves to me before dying. I didn't force them, and I didn't harm any innocent people. This Dharma body, 'Li Rushi,' is at the sixth level of Li Qi, and the other, 'Li Dao Ren,' is at the ninth level of Ning Yuan. Their cultivation levels are not high. No matter who I replace them with, they won't pose any threat to you. Believe me, I, Li Dao Ren, have lived for one hundred and twenty years and never lie."

Xu Boyang listened silently without commenting. Instead, he asked, "What kind of magic is this? Confucianism? Taoism? Buddhism?"

Monk Li sighed softly, and his voice became lower and lower:

"My friend... don't worry. This is the [Yin Shen Exchange] method of the Buddhist Samsara Paradise Path, not a Taoist technique. The Taoist method of taking over a body is only found in legends. I heard that only the True Lord Qingxu can do it. If I had such a level of cultivation, I would have been invincible long ago. How could I be so seriously injured by a group of Liqi Confucian scholars?"

Xu Boyang had never been to Huangyang, so how could he have heard of such a heaven-defying technique? After listening, he quietly asked, "How can I help you?"

Monk Li was overjoyed to see that he had finally persuaded this man, and he summoned up his remaining strength to speak:

"It's not difficult. Just place me opposite your Dharma body, with the poles facing each other. The closer the better."

"What is a pineapple?"

Xu Boyang was puzzled and asked a question in return. Monk Li came to his senses and said quickly, "Polo is a Buddhist term, which means the Divine Palace in Confucianism and the Purple Palace in Taoism."

"Of course."

Xu Boyang understood instantly that this was the meaning of the eyebrows touching. He didn't expect that this [Yin Shen Changing House] didn't have any complicated rituals and was so simple. He asked again:
"You are now completely exhausted and have no spiritual energy left. How can you cast a spell?"

Monk Li saw that his tone had changed again and he was determined to get to the bottom of the matter. He was extremely helpless for a moment and said softly, "This is a unique secret method of Buddhism. It does not require spiritual energy. All you need to do is to face the Polo and let your soul leave your body."

Xu Boyang nodded, sighed, and said:
"The world is so vast, and there are countless ways to practice it. It's really amazing that such a vicious technique could come from the hands of Buddhism. It's really unexpected. No wonder the Qingshen cultivators call him a demon cultivator."

"My dear friend... this [Yin Shen Exchange] is not what you imagined. There are many mysteries involved. It's a long story. Please help me exchange the abodes, and then I will tell you everything."

Xu Boyang slowly shook his head and said, "No need. I won't help you with this."

After saying this, he slowly placed Monk Li on the stone table without saying a word.

Monk Li's old face froze, his eyes filled with terror. He supported his broken body with one hand, covered his chest with the other, trembling constantly, and gasping for breath:
"My friend...this matter is not a joke. I am really...dying. I beg you to save my life...I beg you..."

As he spoke, tears streamed down his face and blood came out of his mouth, looking extremely miserable.

Xu Boyang ignored him and turned to the stone wall. He looked at the fiery red sword and the purple gourd, raised his hand to take them down, and said slowly:
"I'm not someone who would stand by and watch someone die without helping, nor am I someone who goes back on their word. If you had been more forthright from the start, I wouldn't have ended up like this. But you've deceived me time and again, tricking me into this state. I really don't understand what your intention is."

After saying this, he put both items into the storage bag, turned around, looked at Monk Li with an expressionless face, and said:

"Let me ask you, where is the secret passage to the bottom of the lake you mentioned?"

Monk Li watched him take the sword and gourd away, his eyes darkened and he almost fainted. He said in a trembling voice:
"It's right next to you, at the end of this dark stream."

Xu Boyang smiled:
"Do you think I'm blind? Or just stupid? Your entire cave is beneath a sea of ​​magma and fire, and yet there's a stream of water out of nowhere? Where does this stream come from? Where does it go? Can such a small stream of water withstand the molten lava and fire outside?"

"You're still lying to me when death is imminent?"

As Xu Boyang spoke, he walked to the stream and squatted down, taking out a ring-shaped jade stone from his storage bag. It was the magic weapon [Lingxi Biluo]. As soon as he put it in, the white ring-shaped jade stone turned dark blue in an instant.

Then he sneered:
"Senior, what a generous gesture! Using a stream of heaven and earth spiritual energy as a decoration for your cave. Killing two birds with one stone: it can cool you down and deceive you at the same time. This water has no source or root, yet it flows on its own, as if it came from the sky. It's truly magical, but I wonder what kind of spiritual energy it is?"

After saying this, he put away the [Spiritual Insight Biluo] and took out the [Craving Fish Lantern], placed it in the stream, and said lightly:
"Since you think it's useless, you might as well give it to me."

Monk Li was frightened when he saw Xu Boyang take out the [Greedy Fish Lamp]. He could only force a smile and whispered:

"This is [Qian Kan], also called [Xiao Han Zheng Lan]. My dear friend, it's just a stream of spiritual energy from heaven and earth. You've done me such a big favor, so feel free to take it."

"Haha, thank you..."

Xu Boyang laughed, stood up, and asked with a strange smile,

"Why aren't you panting anymore? Now that I've seen through you, are you going to pretend anymore?"

Monk Li's expression changed slightly, and he sighed:

"My friend... my body as a monk is really no longer viable."

Xu Boyang laughed and said, "Of course I know it's not working. Otherwise, why would you be unable to move? You must have been struck by lightning, right?"

Monk Li's expression changed and he asked, "Have you been near me?"

Xu Boyang shook his head and said, "I'm not as good at lying as you are, but I have seen people killed by lightning before, and their wounds were exactly like yours."

"Your internal organs are shattered, but you're still alive. If it were an ordinary cultivator, with such serious injuries, they would have been dead long ago. When I saw you, I thought you wouldn't survive for more than a moment, but you took two pills and told me that you could extend your life for two hours."

After saying that, he couldn't help but smile:
"If this Condensation Stage elixir is so miraculous, then how powerful would the elixirs of other realms be? If that were true, wouldn't the Qingshen Taoist sect have been invincible long ago? How could it be as unbearable as you say?"

"After all, you see I'm young and my cultivation isn't high, so I'm easily fooled, right? I'm sorry, but I've been exposed to these two elixirs since I was a child and am very familiar with them. I also have a book on elixirs that details the effects of the Rejuvenation Pill and the Bone-Growing Pill. The author of this book must be a very skilled alchemist, with neat writing and thorough research. Unfortunately, according to his description, these elixirs aren't as miraculous as they seem."

Monk Li's expression changed drastically, and he slowly said, "Have you been suspicious of me from the beginning?"

Xu Boyang glanced at the bottles and jars on the wall, his face changed slightly, and he walked over and said casually:

"I was suspicious, but I saw that you were seriously injured and unable to move, and it was indeed more dangerous then than it is now. So I didn't think you had any ill intentions or wanted to harm me. Unfortunately, I was wrong."

Monk Li saw him walk past the stone wall, and his heart suddenly hung in the air. He smiled awkwardly and said:

"My friend, you're joking. I was in imminent danger, and you saved me. I can't thank you enough, so how could I possibly harm you?"

"is it?"

Xu Boyang asked back, and reached out to take down a small bottle with red top and blue bottom from the wall. He wanted to open the bottle, but he didn't expect that there was an extremely strong spiritual restriction on the stopper. He tried to break it, but failed.

He came over with the small bottle, sat on the stone table, looked at Monk Li and said:
"Actually, I did feel compassion at first. It wasn't for anything else, but because I got something that seemed to belong to your family. It's called Huaiyi Binzhu. It seemed very valuable, but it was almost destroyed. Fortunately, I was quick to get it. If it hadn't been destroyed, it would have been snatched away by that Confucian scholar."

"Since this thing has fallen into my hands, I thought I'd do you a favor and save your life as a token of my gratitude. It's a pity that you have ill intentions and want to harm me."

Monk Li's eyelids twitched, and he wanted to cry but had no tears. He said in a hoarse voice, "My friend, let's not talk about it anymore. Money is only a thing outside of our body. Since this pearl has fallen into your hands, it is fate. Just take it. But my friend, I really, really don't want to harm you!"

"is it?"

Xu Boyang smiled slightly, looking at his withered old face. "In fact, at first I also thought you were seriously injured and dying, and I didn't even have such thoughts. It wasn't until you lured me here step by step that I realized you might not be a good person."

"You deliberately said the height of the stone wall in the sunken area of ​​the mountain was a few feet shorter. You just wanted to see if my strength was really at the sixth level of Condensation Yuan, what kind of spiritual energy I cultivated, and what kind of magic tools I had. Am I right or wrong?"

Monk Li smiled bitterly and said, "My friend, I am old now and my memory is really not good..."

"hehe!"

Xu Boyang smiled and said,
"If I'm guessing correctly, that's the entrance to the cave you go in and out of every day. Your cave is at the bottom of the volcano. Who would be so idle as to go to the crater and jump out?"

"If that's the case, you have to pass through this every time you enter and exit. How can you not remember? I see you have a good memory and can explain the Confucian cultivation methods clearly and clearly, like you know the back of your hand. How many feet is this cave entrance? How can you not remember it?"

"But at that moment, I still thought you were afraid that I would give up and didn't want to save you. It wasn't until we were in the sea of ​​fire that I realized you didn't care about my life or death at all. You just wanted me to risk my life to save you, and then you would turn around and kill me after you got your Dharma body back. Is that right?"

Monk Li complained, "My friend, you misunderstood me. If you die in the sea of ​​fire, I will die too!"

Xu Boyang smiled and said:
"Of course I won't die, but the formation will be broken. To save you, I will use the 'Sitting on Fire Technique' to protect you. When I'm stretched thin, I will be hurt by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth outside, and then I will be injured or poisoned by the fire. In order to survive, I have no choice but to obey your orders and help you complete the last task and help you change your body."

"Although this 'Yuanqing Green Light Shield' isn't a particularly good spiritual weapon formation, I've used it many times, nurturing it with spiritual energy. Even in a sea of ​​magma or fire, I wouldn't be able to withstand it for even a moment. The only thing I can think of is the strange fire, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth."

"You probably didn't expect that I have two formation magic tools, right? Or rather, you probably didn't expect that at such a young age, I actually possess the magic tool [Spiritual Insight Biluo] that only ordinary family heads have?"

Monk Li lowered his head and sighed, then shook his head and said, "My friend, I really don't mean to harm you. Why do you have to let your imagination run wild?"

"Senior, it should have been more than two hours since you took the elixir, right?"

Xu Boyang placed the small bottle on the table and said softly,
"Why aren't you dead yet?"

Monk Li's face twitched. He looked into Xu Boyang's piercing eyes, sighed, and said, "I know you won't kill me, but what do you want in exchange for helping me?"

"Your cave contains so many treasures, and you possess so many secrets. I'm deeply curious. Besides, although you harbor murderous intent towards me, I've seen through it. We don't have a deep blood feud at this point. Why would I want to kill you before I understand the whole story, before my life is in danger?"

Xu Boyang raised his eyebrows and smiled, then winked at the small bottle on the table.

"Senior Li, tell me, what kind of spiritual energy is contained in this small bottle?"

Monk Li took a quick glance and whispered, "[Li Kan], also known as [Yan Bo Ni Lu], you should know this spiritual energy, it's in Yunfu County, Qingshen."

"What's that sea of ​​magma and fire outside?"

"Uh... [Li Gen], also called [Chi Yan Shan Ju], is also on the stone wall inside the cave."

"I know, I saw it, and it seems there is more than that. Tell me, what other spiritual energy is there on the stone wall?" Xu Boyang half turned around, looked back at the dazzling array of small bottles on the stone wall, moved his eyes, and asked.

Monk Li sighed softly and said in a hoarse voice:
"There are four more. One is [Li Xun], called [Red Flame and Suifeng], one is [Gen Kan], called [Shan Yin Night Snow], one is [Xun Kan], called [Spring Breeze and Yishui], and one is [Qian Li], called [Qian Yang Yan He]."

Xu Boyang turned around and said with a smile:
"No wonder you knew I cultivated the [Shanyin Night Snow], it turns out you've already absorbed this energy. Alas, what a pity! In that case, there are two duplicates."

Monk Li laughed dryly and said, "Young friend, these spiritual energies are not rare. If you want them, feel free to take them... I only ask that you can save my life."

"Isn't it rare?"

Xu Boyang took out the purple gourd from his storage bag and placed it under his nose.

"Then the spiritual energy in this gourd must be very rare, right? What is it called?"

Monk Li looked at the gourd, his heart was dripping with blood, and the corner of his mouth could not help but twitch. He whispered: "My friend, this is not spiritual energy..."

Xu Boyang smiled and said, "It's not spiritual energy? I looked at your wall. Besides the small bottles for gathering energy, there are porcelain bottles for elixirs. There are so many elixirs that I haven't had time to look at them yet. Besides that fiery red sword, it should be at least a foundation-building magic weapon. By the way, what is the name of this sword?"

Monk Li said hoarsely, "It's called [Floating South Flame], and it's indeed a foundation-building magical weapon."

"It turned out to be [Fu Nanyan]."

Xu Boyang had heard Fei Wenyu mention the name of this sword before and was deeply impressed. It was the sister sword of [Biyouxian]. What a coincidence that he came across it today, which was another unexpected surprise.

"I wonder if Senior Li would be willing to give me this sword?" Xu Boyang asked shamelessly.

Monk Li's face twitched, and he had already cursed Xu Boyang for eighteen generations in his heart, secretly criticizing:

"You've already put it in your storage bag, and you're still asking me? Compared to that Huaiyi Binzhu, what's this sword worth?"

Although he cursed in his heart, he dared not say a word. Looking at Xu Boyang's sincere eyes, he trembled and said:

"My friend, please stop joking. I'm in danger every day. If you don't save me today, what use would I have for this magic sword?"

"Okay! Thank you! So back to the question. Your entire stone wall is covered with these two things. Your purple gourd is so big, could it possibly contain so many pills? You, the Fireworks Sect, are so generous, do you eat pills by the handful? Or am I just blind? What kind of powerful magical weapon is this? A spiritual weapon? A magic weapon?"

Xu Boyang asked him word by word with his head lowered.

"This this…"

Monk Li was almost driven crazy by Xu Boyang. He opened his mouth several times to speak, but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back and couldn't say anything.

"It seems that Senior Li doesn't want to tell me. That's fine. The spiritual restriction you set is too strong for me to open. However, someone will help me open this gourd."

Xu Boyang collected all the items on the table, stood up, stroked his chin, pondered for a moment, and said to himself:
"You have three Dharma bodies. As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows. You must have many enemies. You probably don't usually carry anything good in your storage bag, right?"

"The storage bag with the stuff should be on these two people."

Monk Li saw that he was planning to take over the Dharmakaya, and he became very anxious. He said:
"My friend...you...you...don't be so ruthless and take everything away...you're going too far..."

Xu Boyang approached the stone couch and scanned with his spiritual sense. Sure enough, he found that "Master Li" had a storage bag on him. He immediately changed his mind and the storage bag flew into his hand. He smiled slightly, put it into his sleeve, and turned around to look at the pills on the wall again.

Monk Li was so furious that he wanted to die, but he was powerless to stop him. He could only watch Xu Boyang looting everywhere, and he didn't dare to curse him, for fear that he would really abandon him and leave on his own. He would be waiting to die, with no one to help him.

He had worked so hard all the way, pretending and scheming, just waiting for the final change of bodies so that he could kill this person immediately. However, he didn't expect that in the end, all his efforts would fail, and he was actually blamed by this boy in white robe, putting him in an awkward situation where he couldn't live or die!
Monk Li thought about it and started to talk about nice things again, just hoping that the boy would be moved by his sincerity and kindness.

Xu Boyang completely ignored him and didn't care whether he said anything or not. He just turned a deaf ear to him and took down the bottles of pills hanging on the wall one by one. Except for the small bottle for gathering energy, he found that most of them could be opened, and only a very few could not be opened.

He immediately put the unopenable porcelain bottles of elixirs into the storage bag, and placed the bottles of elixirs that could be opened on the ground one by one. Finally, he cleaned the entire stone wall, sat down cross-legged, and used his spiritual awareness, eyesight, and sense of smell to check and identify the types of elixirs bottle by bottle.

After all, I am more familiar with elixirs. Monk Li is unwilling to tell the truth while talking, so I might as well leave him alone for a while. Anyway, as long as it is not an elixir above Huangting level, most of it is recorded in "Shao Yuan Dan Ding Notes", so I can just read it slowly.

In addition, the number of these pills was indeed astonishing, at least no less than a hundred bottles. Xu Boyang was too lazy to ask about them one by one. He would take a look at them first. If he really didn't know what they were, he would come and ask the old monk.

Monk Li was talking until his mouth was dry. Seeing that Xu Boyang had no reaction, he had to keep silent. He felt heartbroken and watched him tinker with the elixir with a dry look.

After a full hour, Xu Boyang patted his butt and stood up. The pills in front of him had already been swept away. He sighed softly and said with a smile:

"Senior, you have a lot of good things, but unfortunately these pills are very common, there is nothing too exotic, and the levels are not high, just the Condensation and Foundation Establishment levels."

Monk Li sighed:
"My friend, I've told you that of my two Dharma bodies, one is at the sixth level of Li Qi and has no soul, and the other is at the ninth level of Ning Yuan and has no foundation. I can't buy elixirs that are too high, and it would be a waste to buy them. Why don't you believe me?"

Xu Boyang smiled and clapped his hands, ignoring him, and turned to look at the [Fish-Greedy Lamp] in the stream. He found that the absorption speed was quite fast, but the time was too short at the moment. He estimated that it would not be enough to collect it in a short time, so he simply sat cross-legged by the stream.

When Monk Li saw him making hand gestures, intending to meditate and practice, he felt a chill in his spine and became extremely panicked. He asked:
"My dear friend, why do you have to come to this? I beg you, how can you trust me?"

Xu Boyang closed his eyes and said calmly:
"That's fine, no rush. Senior, this cave is blessed by nature, protected by a spiritual formation, and so secretive. I estimate that even if the three outside dig three feet into the ground, they won't be able to find it. Anyway, they can't get out for a while. Let's wait for Senior to think it over. When you are willing to tell the truth, we can talk again."

"By the way, I'd like to take a good look at you, Senior, while you're still hanging on to this body. When will you finally die and disappear?"

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