Chapter Forty-six: Confession

  Under the Tianhuo Peak, in the Huoyun Cave.

  The temperature inside the cave can melt ordinary iron bars, hot waves rush, and the air fluctuates violently, making it difficult to see people's shadows a few meters away. A river of molten lava flows slowly from one side, with bubbles the size of human heads constantly bursting on its surface, spewing out countless sparks, and a strong burning smell that can make people dizzy. The ground and cave walls are emitting red light, the rocks on the ground are slightly softened, and ordinary boots touch the ground, suddenly emitting a burst of thick smoke, quickly turning into ash.

  In this environment, only Lin Xiao and Yi Zhen Dao felt very comfortable. The surging flames pouring into their bodies would only make them more comfortable, without any discomfort at all. On the other hand, people like Yi Xing, Yi Xin, and Yi Yi could only use their magical treasures to protect their bodies. The high temperature in Huo Yun Cave was unbearable even for cultivators in the Yuan Shen stage.

  A piece of iron slab forged from the Flowing Flame Iron floated on the lava river, and the high temperature of the river water burned the iron slab to a bright red. The body of the Miao Xian Ren, which was already severely damaged, was tightly locked onto the iron slab by the seventy-two Lock Heart Bone Silks. The bright red iron slab made his muscles sizzle. Even though the Miao Xian Ren's body had been tempered for over two thousand years and was extremely resilient, he was still being burned to the point where his skin cracked open and a smell of charred flesh wafted through the Heavenly Fire Cave.

  One of them stood on the riverbank, quietly gazing at the Miao Xian Ren several zhang away, and asked faintly: "Miao Daoist friend, you are also a giant of the demonic path in your generation, an extraordinary person. Tell us what you know, and we will let you go free. My Yuan Zong is not that kind of sect that uses torture to force people to submit. If you speak out, you can be reincarnated again, but it will also reduce a lot of suffering."

  The Miao Xian Ren slowly lifted his head, gazing at the row of Taoist priests with a strange smile: "This little bitterness, what is it? In my youth, I used the earth's core yin wind to refine my body, and the bitterness I endured was more than ten times stronger than this! Heh heh, if you want me to reveal what you want to know, that's just a dream!" The Miao Xian Ren looked up at the sky and laughed: "Just wait. Wait until the day your Yuan Zong is destroyed, heh heh, when the time comes, I will be reborn! Hmph hmph, when the time comes, I will use your Yuan Zong's female disciple to slowly recover my cultivation! This is your retribution!"

  Yihang's face turned extremely ugly, as the leader of Yuánzōng, he was very angry at being so presumptuous in front of him and saying that he would destroy Yuánzōng. However, as the leader, he couldn't afford to lose his temper. Yihang simply turned his head to the side and nodded towards a pale-faced old Daoist with black whiskers: "Yizhi Shidi, take action!"

  An old Taoist smiled faintly, slowly pulled out a square jade box from his sleeve, and a thin layer of cloud rose under his feet. He floated to the edge of the iron anvil, slowly placed the jade box on it, and opened the lid with his hand. A faint black air surged out of the jade box, containing hundreds of extremely fine gold needles, silver needles, jade needles, and iron needles, as well as various exquisite small knives and saws.

  The Miao Xian Ren's body violently twitched, and he furiously roared: "You Yuán Zōng! You actually dare to use torture on me?! You, you!" The Miao Xian Ren was so angry that his three corpses god violently jumped up, and a thread of blue veins burst out on his face.

  "Miao Dao, this is also an unavoidable matter." A cold and detached voice came from a Taoist cultivator who gazed at Miao Xian Ren with a hint of disdain: "Just now, we used the 'Shaking Spirit' technique to try and get a confession out of you, but your mastery of the 'Soul-Confusing Technique' is even stronger than that of Master Xuan Luo. Your primordial spirit is stable and unaffected by external forces, so we have no choice but to resort to this underhanded tactic." Miao Xian Ren was notorious in the cultivation world for being a lecherous thief who specialized in abducting female cultivators, and his mastery of the 'Soul-Confusing Technique' was unusually high.

  Standing behind the Taoist, Lin Xiao clenched his fists tightly and gazed at Miao Xianren with a gloomy expression. He said coldly: "Senior Yihang, what's the point of discussing morality or kindness with this demonic thief? Just use the most ruthless means to extract a confession." Earlier, when Miao Xianren was loudly scolding, Lin Xiao heard the name "Blood God Old Ancestor" from his mouth. Knowing that Miao Xianren was an accomplice of Blood God Old Ancestor, the poisonous fire in Lin Xiao's heart immediately rose up. He hated to tear Miao Xianren into pieces and beat him until his soul flew away, only then would he be satisfied. Using torture on the old Taoist was just a small punishment for Miao Xianren; how could Lin Xiao show mercy?

  A Taoist priest looked at Lin Xiao with a glance, and suddenly shouted: "Lin Xiao, my friend, calm your mind, you're going to go crazy again!" The Taoist's shout was like a morning bell and an evening drum, which shocked Lin Xiao, who was getting more and more excited, back to his senses. Lin Xiao took a deep breath, stumbled backward a few steps, and felt a wave of sweetness in his mouth, almost vomiting blood due to the huge fluctuation in his mood. Lin Xiao suddenly calmed down, suppressed the restless true yuan inside his body, shook his head hard, and threw away the faces of Yao'er, Dan Fuxing, Dan Xia, and others that had just flashed into his mind.

  He spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, Lin Xiao's face was gloomy as he stared at the struggling and screaming Miao Xianren, and said in a low voice: "Yi Hang senior, this demon said that he had once used the earth's heart yin wind to temper his body, the pain is more than ten times worse than being burned by red hot flowing flame iron! It seems that even Yi Hang senior would find it hard to make him suffer to the point of unbearable pain."

  He glanced at Lin Xiao and frowned, saying: "This is indeed a difficult problem, I wonder if young friend Lin Xiao has any clever plan?"

  He lightly bit his lip, Lin Xiao quickly flipped through the records in the Da Luo Dan Jing and coldly said: "Please ask Yi Bo senior to go to the pharmacy to fetch three taels of Qian Ji Teng, two taels of Mi Die Cao, three Corrosion Heart Flowers, three Duan Chang Hua, seven branches of Wu Shen Cao, and bring three packets of commonly used external injury numbing agent."

  "What is this?" Yi Wudao looked at Lin Xiao in shock. As the internal affairs manager of Yuanzong, Yi Wudao had a wide range of knowledge and had some understanding of Dan Dao. He knew that Mazheng agent was used to anesthetize wounded soldiers, but the other five medicinal materials were completely unrelated to each other. What did Lin Xiao want these medicinal materials for?

  His teeth lightly bit his lower lip, Lin Xiao smiled slyly and said: "Mabo agent can make people fall asleep without knowing the pain on their body. But after being mixed with five other kinds of Qimen herbs, Mabo agent can be transformed into a kind of Qimen spiritual medicine called Jing Shen San. This medicine can expand human's perception by more than a hundred times! For cultivators with strong Yuan Shen and sensitive divine sense, it has an even more wonderful effect, allowing the cultivator's physical perception to expand thousands of times! The stronger the cultivator's cultivation is, the stronger the effect of Jing Shen San on him will be."

  Can the flesh perception of a cultivator be expanded a thousand times? The faces of Yihai, Yixin, and Yiyin all twitched at the same time, while in the eyes of that cultivator, a frenzied light shot out.

  The physical sensation is amplified a thousand times, just like being lightly pricked with a needle. Those who take the Shocking God Powder will feel as if their heart has been brutally slashed with a knife. Add to that the special technique of the Executioner's Dao, and the pain produced might be enough to make a cultivator's primordial spirit collapse directly?

  Lin Xiao continued, "Among them, there is also the medicinal power of Qianji Teng. When Qianji Teng and Wu Shen Cao are refined together, their medicinal power can directly penetrate the yuan shen, allowing the physical pain to directly attack the cultivator's yuan shen."

  Everyone gasped in unison. A Taoist priest muttered to himself, "Wonderful! This kind of spiritual medicine is truly wonderful!"

  Yi ordered the disciples at the gate to bring the medicinal herbs that Lin Xiao needed. Lin Xiao casually mixed several herbs together and used a fire stove to decoct the mixture for about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, producing a pot of dark, strangely smelling, thick and gooey liquid medicine. Yi poured this strange medicine into Miao Xian's belly.

  The struggling Miao Xianren was forced to swallow the liquid, and after a while, the originally red-hot iron plate made a hissing sound as Miao Xianren let out an earth-shattering scream. The original scorching pain was nothing unbearable for him, but now that he had taken Lin Xiao's Jing Shen San, Miao Xianren's endurance of pain immediately collapsed.

  A gleeful laugh escaped the lips of the one-armed Daoist as his hands rose and fell like the wind, causing dozens of fine needles of varying quality to pierce the body of Miao Xian. Threads of strange, true yuan immediately surged into Miao Xian's body through the needles, stimulating his internal organs, meridians, and various acupoints to convulse and twist violently.

  Excruciating pain. The waves of excruciating pain were amplified thousands of times by the shock, and like a bolt of fierce lightning, they burst into Miao Xianren's sea of consciousness.

  The Miao Xian Ren's primordial spirit was like a small stone under the giant hammer of the Heavenly God, shattered and fragmented. The double pain of his spirit and body made Miao Xian Ren open his mouth wide and let out a silent roar.

  Finally, Miao Xianren shouted out a sentence: "I admit it! I said everything!"

  It's no wonder that the Demon Dao giant has not even a bit of selfless spirit. When Miao Xianren realized that this shocking divine scatter had already threatened his survival, he immediately confessed frankly, including the things about Blood God Old Ancestor and Jiang Zixin, one by one. Among them were also included the secrets such as how many Demon Dao cultivators were framed by Blood God Old Ancestor and where their main base was now.

  Yihang Daoren continued to ask Miaoxian Ren, and finally confirmed that Miaoxian Ren had indeed said everything he knew. Yihang Daoren nodded at Yizhi Daoren and said in a low voice: "Brother Yizhi, send Miao Dao friend to reincarnation now. Next life, Miao Dao friend, I hope you will be a good person."

  The unequalled Miao Xianren opened his mouth to speak. One of the Daoist priests pointed with one hand and snapped his fingers, a thin knife lightly separated Miao Xianren's temples, a pink glow flew out from the broken opening, reluctantly circling around Miao Xianren's body several times before flying towards the top of the cave.

  Ling Xiao, who had been following in the footsteps of Dao Ren, suddenly let out a loud whistle. His hands formed into a thunder seal as he bellowed: "Upper Clarity Subdues Demons Threefold Shock!"

  Boom, boom, boom! Three consecutive bolts of purple lightning, as thick as a bowl mouth, suddenly fell from the top of the cave and landed right on Fang Guang. The true spirit of Miao Xianren was struck by these three layers of thunderfire and instantly turned to dust, but his soul flew away, leaving no residue behind.

  Everyone stared at Lin Xiao in shock, and Lin Xiao sneered: "As a junior, I am not a member of the Yuan Sect, so I don't have to keep the promise made by the sect leader. This Miao Xian Ren is a demon who helped destroy my Da Luo Dan Dao, and naturally, he won't be spared either!"

  A Taoist priest opened his hands and shook them, but didn't say anything.

  Yi Xin let out a soft sigh, shook his head and said: "Forget it, Miao Xian Ren, this is also a case of retribution. Hmm, but with the Blood God Old Ancestor's current dominance, how should we respond?"

  He bowed his head in contemplation for a moment, then said resolutely: "I request that all seniors present strike the Qingyuan bell."

  Lin Xiao didn't know what Xuan Yuan Qing Zhong was, but he saw that Yi Xin, Yi Yi, and Yi Zhi's faces suddenly turned extremely serious in an instant, and he immediately knew that this was a very extraordinary matter.

  What made several elders of the Yuan Sect so serious was that Lin Xiao couldn't help but look forward to it.

  "Blood God Ancestor, you're waiting for a group of demonic disciples. Are they the enemies of the entire cultivation world's orthodox sects?"

  Lin Xiao's body trembled slightly with tension.

  Yuansong Mountain Gate is located in a core position, surrounded by mountains and a small valley with clear water.

  Lin Xiao saw the elders of the Yuanzong Xuanzi generation for the first time. There was a 16 or 17-year-old youth with a clear and elegant face, who had seven or eight points similar to Xuan Yan and Xuan Tong. They were a pair of dual-cultivation Daoist companions, and they were indeed a master and mistress who shared one heart and one mind. Although he looked like a child of seven or eight years old, he had a pair of hands as white as jade, about the length of a foot, and his delicate face looked rosy, but his forehead was full of wrinkles, with a pair of drooping eyebrows and three strands of yellow whiskers hanging from his chin. No matter how you looked at him, he seemed strange and eerie. This was Xuan Luo, who had been hit by the Miao Xian Ren's staff from behind. The other 15 elders of the Xuanzi generation did not have such strange appearances as these three people. Each one had a refined and elegant demeanor, with white hair and white beards, looking like a group of high-ranking Daoist masters.

  From the Yuanshen period to the Xukong, as one's understanding of the heavenly rules deepens, the physical body will undergo a tremendous transformation. Different people have different epiphanies, and their physical transformations are also different. Xuanyuan and Xuankui, who cultivate together in harmony, share a common mind. Their appearances become almost identical. On the other hand, Xu Luo's personality becomes more and more like that of an unorthodox child, and his body shape becomes increasingly strange. The secrets of Xukong are still beyond Lin Xiao's comprehension at present.

  So Lin Xiao just looked at the three seniors who had just stepped into the virtual realm from afar, with an exceptionally respectful gaze, as well as the fifteen Xuanzi elders who had reached the Yuan Shen period. Being able to achieve such a terrifying cultivation level in today's spiritual energy-thin cultivation world. Even if it was due to the unique natural environment of Qiyuan Star, the spiritual energy here was still more abundant than outside, but the willpower and efforts these Xuanzi elders possessed on their cultivation journey were still remarkable.

  "In fact, the seniors of Xuan Yuan and others are not the only ones in our Yuán Zōng who have reached a high level in the void realm." The Taoist priest who had been following Lin Xiao around for days saw Lin Xiao staring at Xuan Yuan and others, and hastily said to Lin Xiao: "Our Yuán Zōng has two more seniors of the Qing character generation above, who entered the void realm 500 years ago. However, they have been busy with several other senior masters on a very important matter, so the news of their entry into the void realm 500 years ago was unknown to anyone in the cultivation world."

  "Five hundred years ago, he had already entered the void realm?" Lin Xiao's heart suddenly shook. He hastily looked at Yidan Daoist: "Isn't that to say, now those two seniors' cultivation is even more profound and unfathomable?"

  A Taoist smiled slyly, gazing at Lin Xiang with a flattering expression. His right hand rapidly rubbed several fingers together as he whispered, "I heard that yesterday, Fellow Daoist Lin Xiang refined some kind of astonishing medicine, the Shocking Spirit Powder? Heh heh!"

  Helplessly, Lin Xiao glanced at the Taoist and nodded: "The Shocking Spirit Dispersion is nothing remarkable. However, the deeds of those two seniors..."

  A Taoist priest with shining eyes stared at Lin Xiao and said quickly: "First, bring the prescription, everything else is easy to say."

  The corners of his mouth twitched, Lin Xiao lowered his voice and told Yidan Daoist the formula for dispersing shock. Yidan Daoist hastily turned around and left. Lin Xiao didn't catch up with Yidan Daoist, who had already run far away. A faint, silky voice floated into Lin Xiao's ears: "As for those two old ancestors, this poor daoist doesn't know much either. In short, when the Qing clock of Xuan Yuan rings, they will return to the original sect within a few days. Dao friend can go and investigate himself at that time."

  Lin Xiao's teeth chattered with rage! The ancestor of the Yuanzong Qingzi generation, now the master of the Yuanzong sect, was asked to spy on someone? Lin Xiao gazed at the back of the fleeing Yidan Daoist and chuckled: "Just wait and see, next time I'll give you a revised Dan formula from Medicine Girl! You won't be able to use it, humph!" As soon as he mentioned Medicine Girl, Lin Xiao's heart skipped a beat. He quickly took a deep breath and dispelled the emotions in his heart.