Chapter 179 Harvest
As the sun shone overhead, the ghost shivered all over, and a trace of breath invisible to the naked eye evaporated from the ghost's body. The ghost's figure became increasingly faint, as if it would disappear at any time.
The soul has no body. Unless it finds a suitable body to take over, it will eventually turn into a wisp of smoke and merge into the world.
Long Xiaotian's ghost is still relatively weak, probably just at the level of barely possessing a body.
Without the support of a physical body, it is impossible to stay between heaven and earth for a long time.
Qin Ziling looked at Long Xiaotian's ghost, and Long Xiaotian also looked at Qin Ziling.
"You are so cruel!" A divine thought came.
"No matter how vicious I am, I will not use the souls of thousands of living people to refine a spiritual weapon!" A soul transformed into the appearance of Qin Ziling and floated in the void. It reached out to grab Long Xiaotian through the air, and suddenly a large golden palm appeared in the air.
The big palm grabbed Long Xiaotian's soul in its hand like a chicken.
Long Xiaotian struggled and roared constantly, and a trace of negative energy came out of his body.
"Don't shout. No one will hear you even if you scream! Tell me, you are an elder of the Jin Lie Sect after all. How could you know this evil method of refining the soul? Otherwise, I don't mind letting you taste the pain of being burned by flames before your soul flies away.
Don't worry, I am a master of spiritual cultivation at the level of distraction after all. I may not be experienced, but my skills are definitely sophisticated and I can definitely make you want to die!" Qin Ziling's soul said to Long Xiaotian.
"Do you think you can force me to surrender like this? You underestimate our Netherworld Sect! Don't worry, one day, the leader will avenge me! Haha!" Long Xiaotian suddenly laughed, and then the ghost exploded, turning into wisps of residual souls that floated out from Qin Ziling's fingers.
"The Netherworld Sect, the Netherworld Sect again! It seems that the Netherworld Sect is very powerful. Even the elders of the Jinlie Sect are from the Netherworld Sect. I just don't know if the leader of the Jinlie Sect is from the Netherworld Sect.
If the leaders of the Jinlie Sect are all members of the Netherworld Sect, or have a relationship with the Netherworld Sect like the Pang family, this Xiyun Province is really full of dangers! "Qin Ziling turned his thoughts with a gloomy look, and the hand of the soul exploded with Long Xiaotian's soul, turning into a light shield that could not be seen by the naked eye but only by the soul, and fell, covering the scattered wisps of Long Xiaotian's residual soul.
At the same time, the hand of the physical body was not idle either. It had already taken off an ancient ring from Long Xiaotian's hand, and then grabbed the flag in the air.
There were also three silver corpses, and Long Xiaotian's corpse was all put into the corpse-raising ring.
After putting away all the things, Qin Ziling did not leave the valley immediately. Instead, he cleaned up the battlefield a little bit, and then returned to the cave on the cliff along the green vines hanging down from the cliff.
The cave was still the same as before, with no signs that anyone had ever been there, but when Qin Ziling came back this time, he felt as if he was in another world, with a mix of emotions.
The last time he left the cave, he was still thinking that he would be able to fight even if he met Pang Qiwei, so he leaped freely in the mountains and forests with his long hair flying, looking indescribably heroic and free and easy.
As a result, not long after that, he killed Long Xiaotian, the famous late-stage bone refining elder of Jinlie Sect in the valley outside the cave. And this Long Xiaotian also had another identity as a member of the Netherworld Sect, and was able to perform evil soul magic!
Much more powerful than Punchway!
Moreover, the difficulty of suppressing and defeating is incomparable.
Even though Qin Ziling was cautious at every step and used many strategies and means, he was still able to kill Long Xiaotian and left him no chance to escape. This shows that his overall strength is definitely very powerful among the great bone refining late-stage martial artists in Xiyunzhou.
But the Jinlie Sect has a martial arts master in charge, not to mention the Netherworld Sect. The sphere of influence it involves is far more than just Xiyunzhou.
So after killing Long Xiaotian, Qin Ziling felt excited, but also a little gloomy and heavy.
"I am so guilty! There are only a few people in the entire Xiyun Province who are capable of killing Long Xiaotian. Apart from Xiao Qing and the others, who would have thought that I would be the one to kill Long Xiaotian? The most urgent task is to improve my strength to the Grandmaster level as soon as possible.
Only when one's strength reaches the Grandmaster level, no one in Xiyunzhou dares to attack easily. Just like the Golden Sword Sect, even though it is in decline, because there is the Jian Bailou with a combat power comparable to the Grandmaster level, those big forces can only watch covetously, but no one dares to attack easily! "Thinking of this, Qin Ziling spread out his left palm, and his eyes fell on the quaint little ring in his palm with a burning look.
As an elder of the Jinlie Sect and a great martial artist in the late stage of bone refining, Long Xiaotian must have a lot of good things on him.
Qin Ziling skillfully used blood to refine the storage ring.
The space of this storage ring is much larger than the ram wood one.
The ram wood storage ring was only as big as a shoe box, but this one was two feet square, which was many times larger in volume.
Of course, compared with Qin Ziling's corpse-raising ring, it is still a dwarf compared to the big one, and is far inferior.
There aren't many things in the storage ring, only eight.
A stack of gold notes, three ceramic jars, a brocade box, a book, and a painting.
Qin Ziling habitually took out the gold note first.
Even though Qin Ziling had seen a lot of money, his breathing unconsciously became heavier when he saw the number on the gold note.
Each gold note was worth 50,000 taels of gold, and there were eight of them in total, which added up to 400,000 taels of gold, or 10 million taels of silver at the current exchange rate.
Previously, in order to enter the Dragon Vein Portal, Qin Ziling and Xiao Qing specially bought two second-grade exotic beasts, which cost them only 100,000 taels of silver.
Fifty thousand each.
Ten million taels of silver means that you can buy two hundred second-grade exotic beasts!
"As expected, a person in the late stage of bone refining is worthy of being in the late stage of bone refining. The cash he carries with him actually amounts to 400,000 taels of gold! With this money, I should be the richest man in Fangqiao City!" Qin Ziling happily put away the gold note.
Then, Qin Ziling took out the three ceramic jars and opened them one by one.
Each ceramic jar contains a kind of aspic-like substance.
This thing not only exudes a strong medicinal fragrance, but also a strong and powerful scent of exotic beast blood.
There were three cans of something like jelly, one of which had a particularly strong aura, almost threatening to that of a Chi.
The other two jars are a little weaker, but still much stronger than the Eight Desolate Green Python.
"This is a secret medicine for refining bones!" Qin Ziling's eyes suddenly lit up.
Sure enough, there were small words written on the ceramic jars.
The jar with the strongest aura was inscribed with the fourth-grade intermediate exotic bird, the Yanyan Crane, a secret medicine for refining bones.
The other two jars were labeled "Fourth-grade lower-level exotic beast, Fire Red Rat" and "Secret Bone Refining Medicine".
"Tsk tsk, the Xiao family, one of the five major families in Fangqiao City, only has a collection of a fourth-grade lower-level secret bone-refining medicine. This Long Xiaotian casually collects a fourth-grade middle-level secret bone-refining medicine and two fourth-grade lower-level secret bone-refining medicines. It's true that big shots are big shots!" Qin Ziling sighed and happily put away the three ceramic jars containing the secret medicines.
Then take out the brocade box.
The brocade box contained forty-nine pills as big as peanuts.
There are three blood lines on each of these pills. The blood lines fluctuate, emitting a powerful aura of an alien beast, as if there is a third-grade alien beast running and roaring inside.
"This should be the elixir that Long Xiaotian usually uses to replenish his blood and energy and condense his strength. It looks like it is made from the essence of the flesh and blood of a third-grade exotic beast." Qin Ziling sniffed it and had an idea in his mind, then he casually put the brocade box away.
The thing he has the most in his storage ring now is this kind of elixir that replenishes qi and blood and condenses strength.
It turns out that everyone who enters the Dragon Vein Land knows that it is a dangerous journey and that they might be buried in the Dragon Vein Land forever, so they generally do not bring martial arts secrets, silver and gold bills, and other precious things into the Dragon Vein Land. They only carry weapons and elixirs that can replenish qi and blood and condense strength.
Therefore, after Qin Ziling killed Mao Zongjun and others and collected their bodies, the most he gained from them were elixirs that replenished qi and blood and condensed strength, and he didn't gain anything else.
Later, Feng Ziluo and Cui Shanhe were moved by Qin Ziling's "righteousness and generosity", so they packed the pills they had looted from Shen Yan, Hou Hu and others into a bag and gave them all to Qin Ziling.
So much so that Qin Ziling now has hundreds of pills on him.
Of course, only a few of these pills reached the level that Long Xiaotian carried with him, and most of the others were pills made from the essence of the flesh and blood of first- or second-grade exotic beasts or some precious medicinal materials.
However, due to the large quantity, it can also be a huge source of income.
Of course, these are nothing compared to the Hua Chi collected in Qin Ziling’s corpse-raising ring.
After putting away the brocade box, Qin Ziling then took out the books and paintings.
The book is a handwritten copy of the Jinlie Sect's Vajra Flame Palm Technique. It only contains methods for practicing to the bone refining realm, but no methods for practicing the internal organs.
Qin Ziling flipped through it casually and put it away.
For now, the Vajra Flame Palm is of no use to him. He will have to wait until he starts to refine his bones. The cultivation methods for the bone refining realm recorded here should be of reference to him.
Finally, Qin Ziling spread out the scroll.
As the scroll was spread out, Qin Ziling's eyes narrowed suddenly.
This is a picture with a dark background, giving people the feeling that it is a dark world extending to infinity without sunlight.
This dark world was split in two.
Half of it gives people great peace and relaxation, making people calm and peaceful. It feels like listening to a soft lullaby in the arms of their mother and falling asleep leisurely.
Half of it gives people a feeling of endless fear, despair, dead silence, gloom, killing and swallowing everything.
In the dark world stands a god and demon.
Half of his face had a peaceful smile, while the other half was distorted and hideous.
One of his hands was in the lotus seal, like a pure lotus slowly blooming, and the other hand was holding a black curved sickle, as if to reap all life.
These gods and demons are just like this dark world, giving people two completely opposite feelings.
One side is beautiful and peaceful, the other side is endless darkness and cruelty.
"Eternal Night of Gods and Demons!" Qin Ziling's hand gently stroked the images of gods and demons in the scroll, and his eyes fell on the words below the images of gods and demons.
This is also a visualization picture, which visualizes this statue with one side being beautiful and peaceful, and the other side being dark and cruel.
“Darkness represents peace and tranquility, but it also represents evil, devouring and killing.
After working hard all day, people hope that when night comes, they can lie down on the bed and have a good sleep. This is rest. To die at the end of one's life, to die with a smile on one's face, and to sleep in darkness forever is also rest.
But on the other hand, darkness can make people feel fear and despair. It can cover up evil deeds and make people breed evil. When a person's heart always lives in a dark world, he will become twisted and cruel, and he will kill... This is really a mysterious visualization method.
However, isn't my Immortal Galaxy Visualization Dafa the same? The stars are eternally bright, illuminating the universe and giving birth to endless life. But when the stars explode, collide, or fall, what a great destruction that is!" Qin Ziling thought a lot at once, and his soul seemed to have grown stronger because of these insights and understandings.
"It's a pity that although the idea of this visualization method is brilliant, the portrait is far inferior to my visualization image of the Immortal Galaxy, and even worse than the 'Wandering Dragon Picture'. It cannot truly express the profound meaning contained therein.
I can still see some changes every time I look at the "Dragon Swimming Picture", especially the "Dragon Swimming into the Sea" and "Dragon Swimming in the Sky", which still have many mysteries that I haven't figured out. But for this picture, I basically see through it after just a few glances. It can be seen that the person who drew this picture still has a very limited understanding of the darkness and the Taoism of the gods and demons of the eternal night."
Qin Ziling looked at it carefully again and read the words below carefully. He found that he had seen through the visualization picture, and then he put the visualization picture away.
After putting away the visualization diagram, Qin Ziling set his sights on the Dark Blood Soul Refining Banner.
Qin Ziling is now a powerful cultivator in the realm of distraction, and has inherited some of Li Mo's fragmentary memories. He picked up the Blood Soul Refining Banner and recalled the fight with Long Xiaotian. He basically understood what this banner was all about.
Long Xiaotian cultivated his soul, and it was not known whether it was because of the short time he had spent, or because of his talent, and of course also because of the visualization diagram, but he had only just reached the possession realm at such an old age.
Therefore, in terms of spirit and soul, he himself has no combat power, and compared with his martial arts in the late stage of bone refining, he is nothing.
But he chose another way and took the cruel and evil path. He used the Dark Blood Soul Refining Banner as the body of his soul and absorbed the souls of thousands of living beings into it to cultivate a powerful soul.
Then, he used his own blood as a medium to manipulate the Nether Blood Soul Refining Banner, which was like having an additional powerful soul clone.
In this respect, it is actually somewhat similar to corpse refining.
The necromancer cultivates powerful zombies, and then uses the art of corpse control to control the zombies to fight.
However, controlling the soul outside the body involves human soul consciousness, which is more mysterious and complicated than controlling zombies, and the soul consciousness of the main body will also suffer great backlash.
Therefore, Long Xiaotian would not easily use this Taoist method unless it was absolutely necessary.
“If the way of the spirit and soul is used in evil ways, it would be really weird and against the will of heaven! Long Xiaotian is only at the possession realm, but he can use the Blood Soul Refining Banner to exert the combat power of a great martial artist in the middle stage of bone refining, and even better! How many levels he has jumped!” Thinking of this, Qin Ziling frowned. He always felt that there was something wrong with his idea.
Otherwise, wouldn't it be too outrageous for those who practice the way of the spirit and soul to fall into the way of evil?
"Oh, right, I only thought about Long Xiaotian's realm of possession, but overlooked Long Xiaotian's identity and strength as a great martial artist in the late stage of bone refining. If Long Xiaotian didn't have this identity and strength, how could he have such a powerful magic weapon as the Nether Blood Soul Refining Banner? Even if he had such a magic weapon, how could he have the ability to slaughter and refine the souls of thousands of living beings!
It's just like me. If I didn't have powerful soul techniques and the help of the three-headed zombie in the beginning, and if I didn't have a lot of resources, how could I have reached the level I am today in martial arts and Qi training?
Long Xiaotian has the identity and strength of a great martial artist in the late stage of bone refining, so he is able to obtain the Nether Blood Refining Soul Banner and use it to refine and cultivate a powerful soul. But even so, Long Xiaotian has to pay a heavy price every time he uses it! So my thoughts just now are a bit unfounded!
However, from Long Xiaotian, it is not difficult to infer that some of the upper echelons of the Netherworld Cult should be masters of the soul, and there are also visualization diagrams in the church that can truly demonstrate the essence of the 'Eternal Night Gods and Demons' Taoism. If you encounter a strong man from the Netherworld Cult in the future, you must guard against its soul technique! "Qin Ziling's mind turned, but his hand picked up the Netherworld Blood Refining Soul Banner and flipped through it.
Holding this banner not only gave Qin Ziling a gloomy and heavy feeling, but he even seemed to vaguely see endless darkness sweeping towards him. From the depths of the darkness came bursts of shrill screams, shocking people's souls, as if the sharp claws of evil spirits were about to reach out from the dark abyss and drag people in.
However, Qin Ziling's soul was so powerful that he let the illusion appear in his mind for a while. With a thought, golden light bloomed in his mind, and all the illusions disappeared without a trace in an instant.
"The weapon is for people to use. If used properly, it is good; if used wickedly, it is evil. The power of this Nether Blood Soul Refining Banner is really huge. Since it has been successfully refined, the souls of the killed creatures have long been wiped out and refined into one. There is no need for me to destroy it in a pedantic way. I can collect it by using the method of soul sacrifice.
From now on, I will treat people the way they treat me, and use this soul-refining flag to refine the souls of people like Long Xiaotian!" Qin Ziling hesitated for a moment when looking at the soul-refining flag in his hand, and soon made a decision.
Then, Qin Ziling first dripped a drop of blood on the Nether Blood Soul Refining Banner, and then in the Heavenly Palace of Niwan Palace, the virtual image of his soul kept pinching the magic formula, forming a soul seal that fell into the Nether Blood Soul Refining Banner.
Long Xiaotian's realm in the way of the soul is still very low, and he can only use the clumsy method to sacrifice and use the Dark Blood Soul Refining Banner. He has to use his own blood essence as a medium every time he uses it. However, Qin Ziling is a strong man in the realm of distraction, so naturally he does not need such tedious and troublesome methods.
The blood sacrifice, coupled with a soul seal, completely took control of the soul, as if he had an extra soul clone.
Qin Ziling's mind moved, black gas rolled, and a divine soul walked out from the flag.
It still had the same image of two horns on its head and a height of three meters, but when this spirit came out, it gave people the feeling of no ferocity, no hostility, no devouring, no killing... There was only peace and tranquility, just like the silence and tranquility in the middle of the night, which allowed people to fall asleep peacefully.
Appearance is determined by the heart!
This soul has no self-awareness, and only represents the most primitive essential nature of darkness.
This nature has both good and evil, a peaceful and harmonious side, and a devouring and murderous side.
When it was controlled by Long Xiaotian, the cruel and murderous nature in Long Xiaotian's bones magnified the dark and negative nature, and a demon came out of the Blood Soul Refining Banner.
When Qin Ziling placed the seal of his soul on the Nether Blood Soul Refining Flag, the soul became a god guarding darkness and tranquility.
Looking at the soul that walked out, emitting a peaceful and powerful aura, Qin Ziling had a complicated expression, feeling both happy and having a lot of complicated emotions.
Then Qin Ziling's mind moved, and the soul suddenly revealed its brutal and murderous side. It opened its bloody mouth, and a long black tongue stretched out from it. It probed into the light shield opened by Qin Ziling, rolled inside, and rolled up all the scattered souls of Long Xiaotian.
Then it retracted its mouth and chewed twice with a smacking sound, as if it was eating something delicious.
"Long Xiaotian has been killed by me, and I gave him a taste of his own medicine. I refined his soul and put it into this Nether Blood Soul Refining Banner, and I allowed the silver corpse to suck his blood, which can be considered as revenge for you! From now on, this soul will be called An Tian!" Qin Ziling muttered to himself, and then with a thought, An Tian turned into a ball of black mist and sank into the Nether Blood Soul Refining Banner.
Qin Ziling put the Dark Blood Soul Refining Banner into the Corpse Raising Ring.
In the corpse-raising ring, Long Xiaotian had already become a dried corpse. As for the bodies of Pang Tianpeng and others, they were lying quietly in the corpse-raising ring.
Except for a few that had their essence and blood sucked out, most of them remained intact.
Qin Ziling came out of the cave, found a suitable place, built a match rack, moved the corpses out of the corpse ring, burned them with fire, and then buried them directly with earth and rocks, completely destroying the bodies.
From then on, even if Long Xiaotian and others disappeared completely from this world, no one would have thought that their bodies had turned into a pile of bones and carbon ash buried under the loess somewhere on the Wuyang Mountain.
"I can go home now. I can finally rest and recuperate for a while."
After doing all this, Qin Ziling felt relaxed, especially when he thought about the gains from the dragon vein and the killing of Long Xiaotian, a smile appeared on his face involuntarily.
Soon, a figure flew rapidly among the mountains of Wuyang Mountain towards Fangqiao City.
Nightfall, Anhe Village.
Qin Ziling knocked on the Qin family’s door.
The person who opened the door was not Du Hongmei, but Shao E.
"Master, you're back!" Shao E looked surprised, with slightly red eyes.
Qin Ziling was slightly stunned when he saw Shao E's exaggerated performance, but he soon understood and lowered his voice to ask: "Has Xiao Qing been here?"
"Yes, Miss Xiao Qing said that you are in big trouble. If you come back, please go to the cave in Wuyang Mountain to find her last time. If you don't come back, she asked me to take good care of the old lady and not to mention your relationship with her to anyone. She may disappear for a long time before appearing again." Shao E replied.
"Okay, I understand. Now the trouble has been solved, you don't have to worry." Qin Ziling nodded to Shao E.
"I knew that the young master would be fine." Shao E smiled.
"I'll go see my mother and then meet up with Xiao Qing so that she won't worry." Qin Ziling smiled when he heard this, without pointing out that her eyes were red just now.
