Chapter 108: Ruthless and Resolute

  Upon hearing this, Fengli Xi Yun's gentle smile floated lightly on the wind as she said, "I have no regrets!"

  “……”

  "Ruri, from now on, you no longer need to waste your fourth layer of true yuan to sustain my life fire." With great difficulty, he raised his hand and grasped Ruri's wide sleeve, his voice bitter and pleading, "I beg of you, please help me retrieve the 'Mingling Magic Stone' for Master, okay?"

  "Fengri Xi! You're so bold! Are you doing this on purpose?! Upon hearing this, Liusha's anger surged, "You deliberately made yourself lose all your yuan yin, forcing me to help you retrieve the 'Mingling Magic Stone', aren't you?!"

  Yuri's understanding of Fuuka is that she sometimes becomes stubborn and no one can persuade her.

  She was afraid that she had already made up her mind on this matter, forcing herself into a dead end and then forcing him to compromise and help her fulfill her wish.

  "Fengli Xi, you're ruthless!" Seeing Fengli Xi not retorting, Lixuan gritted her teeth in anger, "Ruthless to the point of forcing yourself onto a dead end and still showing no mercy!"

  Facing Lingshuang's anger, Fengli Xi had expected it long ago, so he was very calm.

  As for letting Hui Wu dance and sing to make up for her lost yin energy, she indeed thought deeply about it after careful consideration.

  On the one hand, she had to preserve Xie Wu's true body, and apart from letting him absorb nourishment without leaking his yuan yang, there was no other way.

  She also wanted to take this opportunity to break the ban imposed by Lian Yu in her dantian, only by breaking the ban could Lian Yu use his peak cultivation to help her retrieve the 'Ming Ling Magic Stone' as soon as possible.

  The Cultivation Realm has always been a place where strength and cultivation speak louder than words. With her current half-baked cultivation, it's impossible for her to retrieve the 'Mingling Magic Stone'. Lingshuang is now her only 'lifeline'.

  So, in order to grasp this 'life-saving straw', she had no choice but to force herself into a desperate situation. Anyway, she was already a dying person, and for her now, death was not something to be feared!

  Pausing for a moment, Lian Xuan asked word by word, "Is it worth sacrificing like this for the sake of Wu Yu?"

  When he heard this, Fengli Xi was taken aback at first.

  It seems Ruri misunderstood.

  "Lingyue, this has never been a question of whether it's worth it or not!" Feng Lixi shook his head and said emotionlessly, "If it weren't for me, Xiuyuan wouldn't have been possessed by the demonic energy and wouldn't be facing his current situation. This is my debt to him, unrelated to emotions... I, Feng Lixi, have never liked owing others, so even if it means sacrificing my life, I will repay this debt with my own life, no matter what! Do you understand?!"

  "So that's how it is! It's actually like this!" Upon hearing this, Lian Xiang coldly sneered, "Feng Li Xi, you're indeed ruthless and heartless! If a life debt can be repaid with another life, then what about an emotional debt? Can you just ignore it?"

  "Feelings? I'm sorry, I don't have the strength to bear it..."

  “……”

  Seeing the wind blowing, Xining is stubborn and unyielding, Liansheng can't say anything more.

  After a pause, Lian Yu finally spoke again in a low voice, "So, as you wish, we'll go retrieve the 'Ming Ling' magic stone now! If we can make it back before your spiritual energy disperses, you should enter 'Jing Hua Shui Yue' to hide. At least there, your spiritual energy won't disperse completely."

  “……”

  Upon hearing this, Fengri Xi smiled lightly again and didn't say anything. However, in her heart, she was exceptionally calm.

  The 'Mingling Magic Stone' was originally extremely difficult to obtain, and with her rapidly dissipating vital energy, it's already a miracle if she can hold on until the 'Mingling Magic Stone' is retrieved. How could there possibly be any spare time for her to hide in the 'Mirror Flower Water Moon'?

  And even if she could enter 'Mirror Flower Water Moon' before her essence was completely dispersed, this ending was not what she wanted.

  It is well known that the essence of a cultivator's body is the foundation of the Tao. Once the essence is scattered, it cannot be restored. She has no choice but to stay in 'Mirror Flower Water Moon' forever as an 'undead', and there is no other way.

  It's better to die once and for all than to live a life that is worse than death.

  As long as the 'Ming Ling Magic Stone' is handed over to Xie Yu Wu, then she will not owe Xie Yu Wu anything in this life. Even if she dies with a smile, she will have no regrets!

  Fūri no Kokoro was deep in thought, her mind racing with a thousand thoughts. However, Ruri stretched out her hand and placed it on Fūri's dantian, intending to use her technique, but Fūri raised her hand and blocked it.

  "Lingyue, don't waste your spiritual energy on this useless person anymore!" Feng Lixi's fingers, which had quickly lost their warmth, felt icy cold. She gently pressed down on Lingyue's arm and said lightly, "First, let's go retrieve the 'Mingling Magic Stone'!"

  Fengli Xi's persistence stunned Lianying, and after a few breaths, he could only hear him let out a helpless sigh. Then he withdrew his arm, changed to holding Fengli Xi in a horizontal hug, and immediately transformed into a purple light flying towards the direction of the 'Mingling Magic Stone'.

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  The place where the 'Spirit Stone' was hidden was a desolate and barren land devoid of any grass. Although there were no green plants, it was eerie that this desolate land was surrounded by large patches of blood-red cherry blossom trees. The cherry blossoms were stained red like blood, eerily making people's hearts filled with fear.

  Ling Xue was dressed in a white robe, holding several nearly fainting Feng Ri, and gently floated down to the top of a tall, blood-red cherry blossom tree.

  The wind that had no strength leaned against Lingshuang's body, looking down at everything under the tree, and couldn't help but feel a little worried.

  Only the middle section surrounded by blood-colored cherry blossoms had a vacant space where a huge granite stone lay horizontally. The granite stone was dark purple throughout, emitting waves of demonic energy that almost covered this entire forest of blood-colored cherry blossoms, and also covered up what should have been a rich and dense immortal energy.

  If it weren't for being certain that he was currently inside the 8th degree secret realm of the Xian Ling Realm, Feng Li Xi feared that everyone would think that he was currently in the Demon Realm.

  "Riyo, this must be that 'Myōrei Maseki' (Spirit Stone of the Underworld), right?!" Kaze no Kei asked faintly.

  "Exactly!" Lianying nodded in agreement.

  After some thought, Feng Ri Xi You asked with concern, "This 'Ming Ling Mo Shi' has an extremely strong demonic nature, and the demonic energy it emits is also very pure and powerful. Can we really use it to dispel the demonic energy in Shifu's body? Won't it completely demonize Shifu instead?"

  Although Fengli Xi knew that the 'Mingling Magic Stone' was the last resort to save Xie Wu Yan's life, she couldn't help but raise questions. She didn't want the stone she had risked her life for to end up harming Xie Wu Yan instead.

  "'Mingling Magic Stone' has the effect of 'magicizing magic', using its own pure magic energy to refine other magic energies! You can rest assured!" Lingshu looked at Fengri Xi with a determined gaze and replied.

  "That's good!" He nodded and Feng Li Xi finally felt at ease.

  Lingyue unfolded a massive seal, enveloping Windrider inside. Now, the essence within her was constantly dissipating, and her already frail body could no longer withstand this pure and unadulterated magical invasion.

  After stabilizing the seal, she released a powerful divine sense to detect the surroundings, and then slowly said, "I used my divine sense to detect that within a radius of ten miles, there are two fairy beasts with cultivation above the 10th stage, and two fairy beasts with cultivation above the 11th stage.

  They are all jointly guarding this piece of 'Ghost Spirit Stone', once we make a move, they will rush over at the first time."

  Upon hearing this, Fengli Xi's heart sank deeper and deeper, but her expression didn't change.

  "Lingyue, with your current 10th level strength, how many levels do you think it'll take to defeat them?! And about how much time will it take?!" Feng Lixi thought for a moment before continuing to ask.

  "It will take at least an hour." Lianying calmed herself and said lightly, "If I exhaust my true yuan, I should be able to annihilate them all."

  Upon hearing this, Fengli Xi was taken aback for a moment, then forced a bitter smile.

  The Xian beasts above the 11th rank are probably on par with Lingshu in terms of cultivation. Letting Lingshu fight two Xian beasts with similar cultivation to his at the same time would be a bit difficult for him. Although he answered this question so calmly and lightly, without any unusual expression, as if discussing today's weather, it still can't hide the fact that this is a tough battle.

  Now, Fengli Xi could only sigh at her own bad luck. In the immortal realm, there were actually not many divine beasts that could cultivate to tenth stage or above. They could be counted on one's fingers, but in this eighth-degree secret realm, she just happened to run into Lingshuang, and what's more, it was two of them at the same time! This...this was truly heaven playing a trick on her!!!

  Even if she knew that this battle might be extremely arduous, and might even affect Lili, Fuuri already had no time to consider these things. In any case, she had to obtain the 'Makai Maseki' in the shortest possible time!

  Thinking of this, Feng Ri Xi Qiang endured the discomfort in his body, lifted his heavy lead-like arm, took out a purple cloud ribbon from his sleeve, and threw it towards the direction of 'Ming Ling Magic Stone'...

  Before Zixia ribbon approached the 'Mingling Magic Stone', a piercing bird cry was heard, and before the sound fell, a giant red bird with a huge body plunged down from the high altitude of the south. The big bird spat out a fireball, which flew straight to the purple ribbon that Fengli had thrown into the air.

  That purple ribbon was a top-grade treasure, impervious to water and fire, and could be retracted at will. However, it was instantly reduced to ashes by that fireball.

  Feng Li Xi stared at the scene in front of him in shock, this giant firebird's strength was incredibly fierce.

  "This great bird is one of the four divine beasts of the immortal realm, the Vermilion Bird of the South, belonging to the fire element. The fireballs it spits out are not ordinary fire attributes, but rather the Vermilion Bird's Fire refined from its own essence and blood. Any artifact that cannot be extinguished by water or fire is a sacred artifact that cannot rival it." Lian Xiang slightly furrowed her brow and slowly explained.

  "What's with the Vermilion Bird?!" Fengli Xi regained his composure and carefully looked at the Vermilion Bird Divine Beast that had landed on the 'Mingling Magic Stone'.

  The Vermilion Bird divine beast, viewed from a distance, is entirely scarlet red; however, upon closer inspection, it can be discovered that the colors of its plumage are slightly different.

  The forehead, crest and other parts of the Vermilion Bird are vermilion in color. The back of its neck, back, and rump are a deep pinkish-red color with faint golden-yellow feathers mixed in. The feathers on its waist and tail coverts are a bright red color. The long feathers on top of its tail are rose-colored with edges that are a dark reddish-brown color. Its wings are a sleek apricot color, with the upper wing coverts having wide pinkish-red edges, while the outer flight feathers have narrow clay-red edges. The ear feathers are golden-yellow in color mixed with pale pink. The cheeks, chin, throat, and upper chest are vermilion, gradually fading to a light pinkish-red on the lower chest, abdomen, and flanks. The central abdomen to the underside of the tail coverts is a golden-orange color, while the armpit feathers and wing undercoverts are a pale reddish-brown color.

  Just as Fengri was about to split into gods, he saw Zhuque facing her direction again, opening his mouth once more and spitting out a cluster of fiery red flames.

  "Beware! Young one..." Just as the Vermilion Bird's flames were about to land on Feng Ri Xi's body, Liuli Xing flashed in front of her and blocked the attack. With a swift motion, Liuli Xing's treasured sword burst out of the Purple Mansion world and stood upright in mid-air. The sword's body was surrounded by a pale purple aura, with intricate carvings of pale purple mandalas on its hilt. The delicate patterns were clearly visible, exuding elegance and refinement. A long, pale purple tassel hung from the hilt, fluttering gently in the breeze as it danced in mid-air. As soon as Liuli Xing's treasured sword appeared, it forcefully chopped the Vermilion Bird's flames into tiny fragments that vanished into thin air.

  This was not the first time that Kazehaya saw Rikka's true form of her Otonashi, but at this moment, he felt a strange sense of familiarity with the long sword in front of him.

  This sense of familiarity is rather eerie...

  It's like... It's like...

  He was deep in thought, his face twisted in contemplation of a certain possibility. But although he had promised himself that the answer would soon be forthcoming, at the crucial moment it seemed to stick in his throat and he couldn't think of that all-important solution.

  "Yatou, are you alright?!" Lingshu saw Fengri Xi lowering her head, not making a sound, and was afraid she might have some accident, so she quickly pulled her into a hold and reached out to feel her pulse.

  "I'm fine for now! You can rest assured!" Feng Rixi, who had finally come to his senses, skillfully avoided Lingshu's touch, raised his head, shook it, and asked nonchalantly, "Lingshu, your Benming Yu Jian feels very familiar. It's just that, for the time being, I couldn't recall where I've seen it before..."

  After finishing speaking, Fengri Xi looked at Ruri Sakura with a profound meaning in her eyes. However, Ruri Sakura's figure was always hidden behind the thick fog, making it impossible for her to see his facial expression clearly.

  If Feng Li Xi could see, she would find a fleeting astonishment flashing across Li Shuang's icy face.

  Just then, the enraged Vermilion Bird Divine Beast dived down and flew towards Feng Ri Xi fiercely. With a mouthful of flames, five clusters of Vermilion Bird fire shot towards her face.

  Lingyue instantly opened the Violet Palace Sword Domain, enveloping herself and Fengri Xi within it. In an instant, the purple primordial sword grew at a geometric rate, reaching high into the clouds in just a few breaths. The originally physical primordial sword slowly turned into a virtual shadow, while countless physical primordial swords suddenly appeared around the periphery of the sword domain. It was as if the sword intent was like a forest, with the sword edge constantly emitting dazzling white light halos. Wave after wave of pure and overbearing yuan yang energy emanated from the center of the sword domain...

  This majestic and overbearing Purple Mansion world is actually the first time Fengli Xi has seen it in his life, even if it's a cultivator from the Cultivation Realm, such as Xu Yu Zhenjun's Purple Mansion and spiritual power, which are far inferior to Lian Xiang's.

  Is this really the difference in cultivation strength?!

  For the first time... since Feng Ri Xi crossed over until now, for the first time he felt the huge disparity in cultivation strength...

  Even if millions and millions of cultivators were to spend their entire lives comprehending the Way, they still wouldn't be able to compare with Lingshuang's strength...

  I'm afraid it's not only impossible to compare with Lili's strength, but even the imagination is breathtaking...

  The five-clawed Vermilion Bird's flames touched the sword blade wrapped in the Original Yang Essence, and instantly turned into nothingness.

  Seeing that Suzaku's ultimate technique was useless against Ruri, Fūri's heart was somewhat at ease.

  Before she could even react, a storm of golden sand made up of countless grains swept towards them from all directions. Feng Ri He subconsciously raised her wide sleeves to block the wildly flying golden sand, although most of it had already been blocked by Liuli Ying's sword domain, and another small portion was also blocked by Feng Ri He's purple cloud-like skirt. However, a few grains still fell into Feng Ri He's eyes, those tiny grains were extremely hard, and soon Feng Ri He felt wave after wave of piercing pain spreading from her eyes...

  "Ah......" Feng Rixi closed her eyes tightly, covering them with her hands that were in pain, and couldn't help but moan and hum out loud.

  "Xi'er......" Lianying saw that Xi's eyes had slowly seeped out fresh blood in the wind, and was shocked at once.

  He steadily moved to Feng Ri Chi's side, embracing her with one arm and repeatedly comforting: "It's okay, it's okay now, just hold on a bit longer! Once I've eliminated that White Tiger Divine Beast, I'll come treat your eyes."

  "I'm fine!" Feng Li hid in Lian's arms, her eyes still aching as she trembled slightly. She grasped Lian's sleeve tightly and said, "Lian, time is running out! Don't worry about me, hurry up and get the 'Mingling Magic Stone' first!"

  "I, Ruri Sakura, will absolutely not let you go!" Upon hearing this, Ruri Sakura unconsciously tightened her grip on Fūriki's arm.

  After a solemn promise, Lian raised her hand and condensed a group of immortal yuan to gently touch Fengri Xi's brow. Only after the immortal yuan was fully absorbed into his body did he withdraw his hand.

  The wind just felt a cool breath coming from Lixia's slightly cold fingertips, and in a moment, her originally fiery eyes seemed to have been applied with a cooling medicine, feeling much cooler. Fengli Xi blinked his eyes, although they were still unable to see things clearly, but he could already make out the general outline of objects.

  In the wind, Xi saw that on the left side of where Zhu Que was located, another giant divine beast had appeared at some point. The golden sand was released by that giant divine beast. Looking at the blurry body of the divine beast, Feng Ri Xi subconsciously guessed, "Lian Xiang, standing beside Zhu Que is Bai Hu!"

  What Feng Li Xi used was not an interrogative sentence, but a declarative sentence.

  It's not just because of the divine beast's body shape that she determined it was a white tiger, but more importantly, through its killing technique to determine the identity of this divine beast.

  It is well known that the White Tiger is the western divine beast of the four directions, with the attribute of gold, and it is good at using golden magic. The golden sand belongs to the golden magic.

  At this, Lianying nodded and replied, "Yes!"

  Only the white tiger in front of him was huge, about ten feet long, with long and dense fur, all over his body was white with black stripes, the black stripes on his body were relatively narrow, while the black stripes on his head were denser, there were whiskers on his cheeks, and his abdomen and ear back were completely white, without any black stripes.

  Just as Lingshu's words fell, the Vermilion Bird Divine Beast raised its head and shook its tail feathers, puffing out its chest and raising its tail feathers high, as if showing off to the wind that it had found a powerful helper.

  The Vermilion Bird Divine Beast once again flapped its fiery red tail feathers, and in the next breath, it spat out several even more magnificent Vermilion Bird True Flames.

  When the Vermilion Bird Divine Beast took action, the White Tiger Divine Beast was not to be outdone. It immediately released an even more magnificent golden sand array. In an instant, the golden sand merged with the Vermilion Bird's true flames.

  As the Vermilion Bird True Flame was about to reach his face, Lian Xuan did not use his sword domain to resist the refining like he had in the previous two times. Instead, when the Vermilion Bird True Flame was about to touch the sword's edge, Lian Xuan even withdrew the sword's edge, allowing the Vermilion Bird True Flame to charge towards him unscrupulously.

  In that instant, Lingshu withdrew her defenses, ignoring Fengli Xi's cries of alarm, and quickly gathered all the spiritual energy around her into her hands, forming a powerful ball of spiritual energy. Then, with one hand embracing Fengli Xi and the other supporting the ball of spiritual energy, she faced the Vermilion Bird True Flame...

  When the Vermilion Bird True Flame, carrying the power to destroy everything, collided with Lian's spiritual energy sphere, it was as if the sphere had opened its mouth wide and quickly wrapped around the flame, holding it tightly no matter how hard it struggled, not giving it a chance to escape.

  At this moment, the white tiger divine beast released another golden sand array that was about to rush in front of Lian Xiang. The fairy-like figure suddenly bounced into the air and rushed towards the eye of the golden sand array...

  Then, Fengri Xi didn't know what happened, she could only feel the aura of Jinsha Array reaching an unprecedented peak in an instant. The wind around her was mixed with golden sand, stirring up the originally clear sky to become like a sandstorm, with dark clouds and flying sand everywhere, the howling wind was frightening.

  Ling Xue held the tightly wrapped Feng Rixi in his arms, not daring to relax for a moment. But he himself had removed his protective shield, completely exposing his true form to the air.

  If the divine beast were to deliver a fatal blow at this time, Lianying might no longer have the ability to protect herself.

  "Ruri, have you gone mad? Withdraw the protective wall, aren't you afraid of any accidents?" Fūriki grasped Ruri's arm and asked through gritted teeth.

  "It doesn't matter!" Lianying said disapprovingly, "If you want a quick battle, you must make some sacrifices!"

  "If I were to have an accident because of you, how would you feel?!" Seeing Lisi's careless tone, Fengri's eyes darkened for a moment, and he unconsciously held his breath.

  ...Yuri tugged at the corner of her lips, but didn't say anything else.

  In the next breath, the golden sand that filled the sky suddenly disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye...

  "The five elements are mutually born: metal gives birth to water, water gives birth to wood, wood gives birth to fire, fire gives birth to earth, and earth gives birth to metal. The five elements are mutually restrictive: metal restricts wood, wood restricts earth, earth restricts water, water restricts fire, and fire restricts metal. This is an eternal and unchanging truth!" Lingshuang rubbed her hands through Feng Rixi's thick hair, saying slowly.

  Yes! The five elements restrain each other, and the five elements generate each other. This is a common truth, how could I not have reacted to it just now?!

  The wind blew, and Xi's face stiffened, regretfully knocking on his own head, with a sense of helpless wandering. Could it be that as life reached its end, even his IQ had declined along with it?!

  At this moment, suddenly, Fengri Xi's face changed, and the next moment, she bowed her head and vomited out a large amount of black blood...

  The author has something to say: Why did Xi Xi want to abandon Yuan Yin? This chapter is written very clearly!

  She is just a ruthless and resolute person!

  To achieve one's goal, even being ruthless to oneself!

  There is still one more chapter before starting a new chapter!

  Staying up all night to write, striving to release another chapter tonight!