Chapter 7: Battle of the Loose Immortals
Baili Qingmiao was born without suspicion. She believed whatever others said. This character was also related to her identity in her previous life. In her previous life, no one dared to lie to her. Her powerful strength made Baili Qingmiao not care whether what others said was true or false. Anyway, she didn't want to listen to a word. Therefore, she had almost no ability to distinguish in this life.
She never thought that this senior who suddenly appeared might harm herself. The senior had profound skills and it was easy for him to kill a junior like her. What was the point of framing her?
When the Fire Feather Cloak disappeared, Baili Qingmiao didn't think much about it. She just thought that the cold air in the Wanli Ice Field was too heavy, and the Fire Feather Cloak's spiritual energy was exhausted and disappeared, or she encountered a powerful monster in the ice field and took it away while she was not paying attention.
She used her skills to keep warm and walked in the endless white.
Baili Qingmiao didn't know where to find the flame in the snow. She only knew that the senior asked her to go wherever she wanted and she would find it one day.
The Wanli Icefield is covered with snow all year round. The sky is dark during the day, and the light of the snow at night illuminates the world. It is difficult to distinguish between day and night. Baili Qingmiao didn't know how long she had walked, and how many times she cried on the road, but she never gave up.
Shangqing Sect teaches its disciples to keep their promises. Baili Qingmiao promised that senior and would never break her promise.
Without the Fire Feather Cloak, Baili Qingmiao soon fell into the snowdrifts. The sky was filled with heavy snow. She slowly stretched out her frozen fingers to catch the falling snowflakes.
Shangqing Sect is located in the Jiangnan area, which is the place with the most spiritual energy in Kyushu. It is like spring all year round and rarely snows. Baili Qingmiao only remembered that on her sixteenth birthday, there was heavy snow all over the sky, and it fell into mud when it fell on the ground. She had never seen snowflakes before, so she reached out to catch them, but directly got cold snow water.
Baili Qingmiao pouted, a little angry, sitting on the stone steps of the sect in a daze. Senior brother He Wenchao was on duty today. Seeing the little junior sister sitting in the snow with her knees hugged, her light yellow skirt was stained with mud, he couldn't help asking: "Junior sister Baili, why are you staying here?"
"Looking at the snow," Baili Qingmiao said unhappily, "Such beautiful snow will melt quickly. I'm not happy to see the snow scene."
He Wenchao smiled, stopped, and said to the junior brothers and sisters who were patrolling behind him: "How is your practice of the Ice Art going? Take advantage of the snow today, why not practice it."
After that, he led more than a dozen disciples to perform the Ice Art at the same time. The area in front of the Shangqing Sect was shrouded in cold air, and the snowflakes stopped melting and fell on Baili Qingmiao one by one.
"Junior sister, happy birthday." He Wenchao smiled at Baili Qingmiao, with a warm smile.
Baili Qingmiao heard the sound of snow falling and the loud noise of her uncontrollable heartbeat. Only then did she know that she had fallen in love with her senior brother.
Even without the Ice Art, the snow on the Wanli Icefield would not melt. It fell down and buried Baili Qingmiao in the snow. The bright yellow color could no longer be seen between heaven and earth.
Baili Qingmiao closed her eyes in the snow, her tears froze on her face, and she cried softly, "Brother, woo woo woo..."
A voice sounded in her ears, "What a lovelorn girl, are you thinking about your lover?"
The voice was extremely cold, like the sound of icicles falling in the distance, it was a woman.
Baili Qingmiao's face was frozen, she opened her mouth and said silently, "Brother..."
She gradually lost consciousness, and then a ray of light lit up, and the warm temperature wrapped Baili Qingmiao. A ball of fire rose from the unknown depth of the ground. Baili Qingmiao opened her eyes and saw a cluster of flames appear in her palms. Her limbs and bones warmed up, but the snowflakes around her did not melt because of the fire.
Flame in the snow!
It turned out that this magical flame was really buried deep in the snow, and she could only find it when her whole body was completely buried in the snow!
Baili Qingmiao's spiritual energy was restored, and she climbed out of the snow with the flame in her palm. She saw the wind and snow condensed into a woman in white. She had white hair and eyebrows, her skin was as white as snow, her face and eyes were white, and there was no black pupil.
Rather than saying it was a person, it was better to say it was an ice sculpture condensed by the wind and snow.
The transparent fingers brushed Baili Qingmiao's cheek, and the voice said again: "Good girl, take the Snow Flame to see your lover. But you have to promise me that if your lover betrays you one day and you are discouraged, you will come back to accompany me."
"Dream on!" A voice came, and as the voice sounded, the Snow Flame in Baili Qingmiao's palm was also transferred to the person's hand.
Demon Lord Wen Ren'e took the Snow Flame and understood it in his heart. It turns out that as long as Baili Qingmiao is buried in the snow and shows that he loves He Wenchao deeply, the Snow Flame will appear. Only when the body falls into the ice and the heart is facing the warm sun, the only trace of heat in the vast ice field can attract the Snow Flame.
But what's the matter with this woman in front of him? She didn't appear in the original plot.
When the white woman saw Wen Ren'e and Yin Hanjiang appear, one of her arms suddenly broke off and turned into flying snow all over the sky. The snowflakes spun and gathered together, forming a whirlwind that rushed straight to Yin Hanjiang's heart!
The whirlwind was so fast that it was difficult to keep up. Wen Ren'e had just waved his sleeves to stop it when the raging waves swept Yin Hanjiang into it. Yin Hanjiang in black flew into the sky, and the snowflakes turned into countless ice knives, leaving blood marks on his face.
"Senior!" Baili Qingmiao screamed, and hurried to beg the white woman, "Senior, these two are my companions. I helped them get the Snow Flame, not robbed them!"
Yin Hanjiang was attacked, Wen Ren'e did not move, only Baili Qingmiao was anxious.
In the air, Yin Hanjiang's long sword was unsheathed and merged with his whole body. In an instant, Yin Hanjiang's body dispersed and turned into countless blood lights. Looking closely, the blood lights turned out to be countless blood-red swords. Under the edge of each sword, the wind and snow barrier would open a gap.
Under the blood light, the storm condensed by the power of the Wanli Ice Field was actually split by the sword. After breaking through the wind and snow, countless blood swords circled around Wen Ren'e, and then condensed together, gathered behind Wen Ren'e, and turned into Yin Hanjiang wearing a fire feather cloak again.
"Eh?" Baili Qingmiao saw the fire feather cloak on Yin Hanjiang and his face was dull.
The white woman patted her head, pointed at Yin Hanjiang and said, "Are you stupid? These two people have great magical powers. Do they need you to come to the Wanli Icefield? They clearly know my preferences and are using your life to lure me out! Do you really think they care about your life or death?"
"No! Senior, you misunderstood!" Baili Qingmiao believed both sides and thought that they were all good people, but there was a misunderstanding. She opened her arms to block Yin Hanjiang and Wen Ren'e, and would never let the white woman hurt them.
The white woman probably saw such a silly girl for the first time. She waved her snow-white sleeves and threw Baili Qingmiao aside. She was so angry that she said, "Get away!"
Baili Qingmiao was thrown into an ice wall and became a mural in the ice. He still kept the posture of opening his arms to protect people, and his face was full of concern.
Wen Ren'e carefully observed Baili Qingmiao's expression and posture, and finally solved a doubt in his heart.
The book repeatedly describes Baili Qingmiao opening her arms to block attacks for He Wenchao, Wen Ren'e, Zhong Liqian and others. When Mo Zun read the book, he did not understand the heroine's train of thought and felt that this part of the description was completely unreasonable. Every time Baili Qingmiao wanted to protect someone, his magic power was stronger than hers. No one would use a foundation-building body to protect a Mahayana master. This is more incredible than a mantis trying to stop a chariot. It was not
until Baili Qingmiao did this in front of him that Wen Ren'e was convinced that the heroine could really do such a thing.
But he still couldn't understand it.
The black robe fluttered in the wind, and the Demon Lord turned into a beam of light. In an instant, he appeared in front of Baili Qingmiao, stretched out a finger and tapped it. The ice wall broke, and Baili Qingmiao fell out of the ice wall and fell into the snow. She covered her heart and said to Wen Ren'e in fear: "Thank you, senior."
Wen Ren'e didn't need her thanks, but looked down at her and asked: "Do you know my strength?"
"Baili I don't know, probably in the Nascent Soul stage?" Baili Qingmiao asked hesitantly. Her master was in the Spiritualization stage. In Baili Qingmiao's mind, it was impossible for someone to be stronger than her master, and that master could only be in the Nascent Soul stage.
"Mahayana stage." Wen Ren'e said slowly.
Baili Qingmiao's eyes were blank, and she couldn't understand the realm that Wen Ren'e was talking about.
"Why would a mere ant in the Foundation Establishment stage want to protect me, who is in the Mahayana stage?" Wen Ren'e asked.
Baili Qingmiao shook his head: "I, I didn't have time to think carefully at that time, so I rushed over."
Wen Ren'e didn't quite agree with this answer, but Baili Qingmiao really looked very brainless, so he could only reluctantly accept it and ordered: "Next time before blocking the knife, even if you don't have time to think carefully, count three, two, one silently before rushing out again. You probably can't think twice before acting, so learn to count for the time being."
"Oh." Baili Qingmiao was so shocked by Wen Ren'e's calm tone that he couldn't raise his head. He lowered his head and kept these words in mind.
On the other side, Yin Hanjiang and the white woman were fighting fiercely. Wen Ren'e was able to come to Baili Qingmiao so easily without any hindrance because Yin Hanjiang held the white woman. The
white woman turned into countless wind and snow, wrapping Yin Hanjiang, and Yin Hanjiang once again scattered into countless sword shadows and entangled with her. The vast ice field instantly turned into an extremely hot hell. Baili Qingmiao saw with her own eyes that a piece of her robe that fell on the ground was directly frozen into slag. The temperature now was probably dozens of times lower than when she was buried in the snow.
Amid the howling of the wind and snow, only the place where Wen Ren'e stood was calm and peaceful, like a paradise on earth.
The voice mixed in the wind carried a whistle, and with the help of the strong wind, it reached everyone's ears: "A mere junior in the Fusion Stage, I don't know where you got a magic sword from, and you want to defeat me? Even your master in the Mahayana Stage can't do anything to me!"
Hearing her words, the blood light attack became more sharp, and half of the sword that was originally guarding Wen Ren'e was deeply immersed in the snow. When the white woman wanted to mobilize the power of the Ten Thousand Miles Ice Field, countless ice and snow exploded in her body, and countless ice and snow fireworks bloomed on the vast land, accompanied by the white woman's shrill screams.
And drops of blood on the snow field.
Wen Ren'e reached out to catch a drop of blood, clenched his fist, the veins on the back of his hand protruded, blood surged, and blood vessels moved like green snakes on his skin.
Rage filled his chest, and he shouted loudly: "Come back!"
Hearing his order, blood flew back to Wen Ren'e, fell on the snow, and turned into a half-kneeling Yin Hanjiang.
Wen Ren'e pinched his shoulder with one hand, and only one hand and one foot disappeared. After Yin Hanjiang merged with the magic sword, every sword light was made up of his flesh and blood. The sword that just blew up the snowflakes was his hands and feet.
"Ah! You are injured!" Baili Qingmiao hurriedly took out a handkerchief to bandage Yin Hanjiang's wound, but was pushed aside by Wen Ren'e's true energy.
"Absorb the flame in the snow, I will protect you." Wen Ren'e spread his palm, and the flame appeared in front of Yin Hanjiang.
"But..." Yin Hanjiang glanced at the wind and snow that were trying to condense, and his eyes sank. His previous attack did not kill the woman.
Wen Ren'e did not give Yin Hanjiang another chance to say no, and slapped the flame in the snow from Yin Hanjiang's Baihuixue into his body. When the flame in the snow entered his body, Yin Hanjiang had to use his true energy to absorb it, otherwise it would be a waste of the master's kindness.
He could not disobey the Lord's order, so he immediately sat cross-legged and began to practice.
At this time, the snowflakes in the sky turned into a white woman who was one size smaller than before. This time, the woman's voice had a hint of anger: "How dare you hurt me with just a fusion stage!"
The wind blew up Wen Ren'e's robe. A cold light flashed in his hand, and a black halberd appeared. It broke through the air and sank into the white woman's body.
The white woman paused and dispersed in the air. The entire Wanli ice field shook instantly. The ice layer that was a thousand meters deep cracked, and tens of thousands of tons of snow were lifted into the sky, and then fell heavily, rolling up thousands of feet of snow. Baili Qingmiao leaned close to Yin Hanjiang, feeling like an extremely small bird in the world, with its feathers plucked out by the flying snow, shivering and wailing in the Wanli ice field.
She couldn't even see the surrounding environment clearly. The snow fog made her only see Yin Hanjiang beside her. She stared at the snow fog for a while, and then she felt a white light in front of her eyes and couldn't see anything.
It was snow blindness. Staring at the snow for too long hurt her eyes.
Baili Qingmiao quickly closed her eyes, curled up her body, and listened to the shouting outside.
After an unknown amount of time, she heard Wenren'e's always steady voice: "Immortal? Do you really think that immortals are superior to others? Without this ice field, you are nothing!"
Then there was another burst of smoke. Baili Qingmiao circulated her true energy to heal her eye injury. After a while, she felt that she could see again. She opened her eyes and was shocked by the scene in front of her.
There was no longer the white woman on the vast ice field. There was only Wenren'e and a woman in blue shirt confronting each other above the boiling magma.
Baili Qingmiao: "!!!"
Where is Xue, Xue?
The blue-shirted woman looked the same as the white-shirted woman before, but now her face had the color of a living person, her hair and eyes were also black. She covered her chest, and there was a trace of blood at the corner of her mouth, which showed that she was seriously injured.
Wen Ren'e held a long halberd. The weapon was the same as his robe, with dark gold lines on a black background. However, this time, Baili Qingmiao saw clearly that the dark gold lines on the robe and the weapon were connected together to form the Seven Killing Stars in the sky. The golden light emerged from the black clothes, and the Seven Killing Stars in the sky bloomed brilliantly.
Drawing the power of the stars and destroying the Wanli Icefield, this is the strength of a great master in the Mahayana period. With a wave of his hand, the world changes drastically.
The Wanli Icefield, where Baili Qingmiao had difficulty breathing, could not withstand Wen Ren'e's full-strength attack.
At this time, Yin Hanjiang, who had absorbed the flame in the snow and had awakened, murmured: "My Lord..."
Baili Qingmiao looked and saw that Yin Hanjiang's legs and feet had recovered, but only his left arm was still slowly recovering.
She gently moved her body, rubbed behind Yin Hanjiang, exposed half of her head, and secretly looked at Wen Ren'e.
Baili Qingmiao recalled that the senior had just asked her why she stood in front of others. She only answered half of the question. She was a little embarrassed to say the other half. In fact, she still believed that she could block it.
Until today, when she saw the might of heaven and earth caused by the battle between the two, Baili Qingmiao realized that she was as weak as dust. Even if she stood in front of others, she could not withstand a breath of others.
In the past, Baili Qingmiao wanted to become a Yuanying stage cultivator. It was her senior brother who told her that people in the Yuanying stage could become Dao partners . She didn't have too many obsessions with the Dao, and she only thought about love. Now seeing Wen Ren'e's power, she finally understood what it meant to be a cultivator and what power represented. It was
not to become a Dao partner in the Yuanying stage, but to break through the sky and trample the void with a mortal body!
Baili Qingmiao suddenly realized and entered a mysterious realm. Even without the Jindan stage's mental method, the true qi in the Dantian began to condense gradually, the thunderclouds in the sky condensed, and the thunder gradually formed.
From the Jindan stage onwards, cultivators have tribulations in every realm. The Jindan stage is a small thunder tribulation, and the Yuanying stage is a heart demon tribulation. These are all destined and unavoidable.
Wen Ren'e took the time to glance at Baili Qingmiao and nodded secretly in his heart. He thought that if he realized the truth and became ruthless and cold-blooded from then on, he would not have to kill Xiu Guixiu.
The blue-shirted woman's arm trembled slightly, and she questioned, "Who are you? Why did you destroy my dojo and ruin my foundation? I had never heard of you before I went into seclusion!"
Wen Ren'e said, "You are not in seclusion, you should be using secret methods to cultivate to become a scattered immortal after the dissolution of the weapon." When
a cultivator reaches the great perfection of the Mahayana stage, he will face the heavenly tribulation. After overcoming the tribulation, he can ascend to the fairyland. How many cultivators died in this last heavenly tribulation, and their souls were destroyed. Some Mahayana cultivators know that they cannot escape the tribulation, so they will take the initiative to use secret methods to disperse their physical bodies to deceive the heavenly tribulation during the heavenly tribulation, and use the immortal spirit leaked during the heavenly tribulation to cultivate to become a scattered immortal. After the next cultivation, they can enter the fairyland without the heavenly tribulation. They belong to the power of stealing the sky, and their strength is also beyond that of the Mahayana cultivators.
Several major sects of the righteous path have scattered immortals to support them. They don't show up easily on weekdays, and they will only take action when the sect encounters a disaster.
In the original book, Wen Ren'e was injured by a Shangqing Sect immortal and was saved by Baili Qingmiao. The Shangqing Sect immortal was also killed by Wen Ren'e, losing its strongest combat power and gradually declining.
"I realized the truth three hundred years ago," Wen Ren'e said, "How many years have you been hiding from the heavenly tribulation?"
The blue-shirted woman was speechless. It took only three hundred years to reach the Mahayana stage? She has been in seclusion for eight hundred years! Are the young cultivators now so amazing?
"As for destroying your dojo," Wen Ren'e's eyes swept across the vast ice field, "We just want to take a snow flame. You attacked my subordinates without knowing right or wrong, right?"
"You are bullying the little girl, and I just saw injustice." The blue-shirted woman said.
"She is now enlightened and promoted to the Golden Core stage, which is also related to this life and death experience." Wen Ren'e said, "What do you have to do with our affairs? I'm afraid that you have succeeded in your cultivation and saw us after coming out of seclusion, and wanted to try your skills to see how strong you are?"
The blue-shirted woman was speechless.
Wen Ren'e waved his long halberd and said coldly: "When you think you are strong, you attack unreasonably and pick on those with lower realms; when you realize that you may not be able to defeat them, you start to reason. It's a pity that you admitted one thing wrongly. Now it's up to me to decide whether to reason or not."
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Baili Qingmiao froze to death, the Demon Lord said: Well, a ghost cultivator.
Yin Hanjiang was injured, the Demon Lord said: You are looking for death!