Chapter Nineteen: Fierce Battle in the Secret Room

  As the saying goes, now it's really an eye-opener. I thought I was already a bit shameless, but compared to this person, I'm really too honest.

  "Alright, kid, you've asked all your questions. Now it's my turn to enjoy my big meal. Don't worry, since you saved my life, I'll leave you with a whole corpse." After saying that, he pounced on Gu Yun.

  It is said that he turned around and ran away, but in such a small secret room, he had nowhere to escape, and was forced into a corner in just a few moves.

  "Kid, you've got nowhere to run now, so just stay still and let me absorb your vital energy. You'd better hurry up and reincarnate, but remember, don't practice medicine again in your next life, it's really too dangerous." Just as Li Jinyang finished speaking and was about to grab Gu Yun, a strong sense of crisis suddenly made him shiver. A long sword immediately appeared in his hand, sweeping horizontally towards the back, shattering a giant stone cone. At this moment, the Ling Xiong controlled by Gu Yun took action, but the secret room was too small, and it couldn't transform back into its original form, so it could only launch a magical attack.

  Li Jinyang turned around, looking at the little bear he had always thought was just an ordinary pet. He didn't expect to be wrong about it. "You think this little thing can save you?" As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the little bear stomp its foot on the ground, causing the earth to shake violently. Over a hundred stone cones flew out from the ground, covering the sky and rushing towards Li Jinyang from all directions. Seeing this, he also took a deep breath of cold air, not expecting the little guy to be so fierce. However, as a master in the combined period, he took a deep breath, and his long sword danced quickly, emitting over a hundred rays of light that protected him tightly. After a series of loud crashes, the surrounding stone cones were all shattered by him.

  "I said, you little brat, why didn't you bring any guards? It turns out you're bringing a spiritual beast instead. But do you think it can handle me just because of that? It seems that today I not only get to absorb your Rejuvenating Physician's essence blood but also the essence blood of this spiritual beast." By now, he had already seen through White Stone's origins, but he didn't put him in his eyes at all. After all, White Stone was only a Spiritual Infant Boundary, two boundaries lower than him, and even if it was a spiritual beast, it wasn't anything special.

  His response was met with over a hundred stone cones that rushed towards him, and he coldly smiled to himself, thinking that this spirit bear didn't have anything special after all. Before he could even get excited, a loud "boom" sound echoed through the room, and the hundreds of stone cones simultaneously exploded, creating a massive shockwave that shook the entire secret chamber into disarray, with smoke and dust filling the air. However, the chamber itself did not suffer any damage, and the walls surrounding it flashed with a faint light as the energy was dissipated. Even the two shelves filled with spiritual medicine and instruments were unaffected by the blast, clearly indicating that this secret chamber also had a protective array in place.

  However, Li Jinyang, who was at the center of the explosion, didn't have it so easy. His clothes were tattered, his hair disheveled, and his red eyes stared fixedly at the small bear in front of him. He hadn't expected to underestimate this spiritual beast; although the previous move hadn't seriously injured him, he had still suffered some damage. Moreover, since his meridians hadn't fully recovered, there were now signs of further rupture.

  He had originally wanted to wait until his body was fully recovered before making a move on Gu Yun, but he couldn't wait any longer. He didn't take Gu Yun seriously either - an unguarded Spring Return cultivator would be enough for him to fully recover and advance another level in cultivation. Unexpectedly, due to his own underestimation, he had gotten injured again, which made him furious. Just as he was about to use a killing move to strike down the spiritual beast, a black net enveloped him tightly, and then he felt a massive sword energy surge into his body, causing his body to levitate and crash towards the wall in front of him. Just as he was about to hit the wall, dozens of sharp stone spikes suddenly grew out of it, densely packed together. Li Jin Yang's eyes narrowed sharply as he watched from mid-air - if he crashed into those spikes, he would probably be turned into a sieve.

  He couldn't care about the sword energy rampaging inside his body, the spiritual energy in his meridians was frantically circulating, trying to stabilize the momentum that had been charging forward. Finally, he stopped just one foot away from those terrifying spikes and fell straight to the ground with a loud "whoosh", spitting out three large mouthfuls of blood. This time, he was truly severely injured. The blow on his back earlier had left a huge wound on his back, which was still protected by his armor; otherwise, he would have been split in two by now. However, the armor was now ruined. Moreover, the sword energy that had entered his body had also destroyed his meridians again, although it had been dissipated by him, but it still made the originally broken places crack open once more.

  He raised his head, his eyes fixed intently on the youth holding a black sword in his hand, with a hint of a cold smile at the corner of his mouth. He muttered to himself: "Impossible, impossible, how can a medical cultivator cultivate sword energy? What's going on here?"

  "Oh, how can you be so sure that a doctor cannot cultivate sword energy?" Gu Yun asked with some puzzlement upon seeing Li Jinyang's expression.

  "Medical practitioners not only cannot cultivate sword energy, but they also cannot cultivate any other skills. The Rejuvenating True Energy will devour all other energies. What's going on with you? You're not a medical practitioner, no, you are a medical practitioner, how is it that there is sword energy in your body?" Li Jinyang asked incredulously.

  As soon as he said that, Gu Yun also let it go, because he remembered when he was treating him, his own Rejuvenating True Qi had indeed absorbed a part of his True Qi. However, he didn't understand why the Dragon-shaped True Qi and the Chaotic Fire God's True Qi inside his body hadn't been absorbed. But now wasn't the time to think about these things, so he stopped thinking about it and turned his head towards Li Jinyang. Gu Yun said coldly: "I was kind enough to save you, but you didn't even show gratitude. Instead, you actually thought of using this evil technique to absorb my vital energy. It seems I should send you to reunite with your son."

  "My son, how do you know my son? What have you done to him?" Then he glared at the black net that had covered him earlier, "This was given to me by Old Man Pang, how did it end up in your hands? You've killed them all." The last sentence was spoken through gritted teeth.

  "Hmph, they wanted to take advantage of this spiritual beast's master and kill me to silence me. I had no choice but to kill them all. Who would have thought that later on, I ended up saving you? Now you're thinking of devouring me, it seems like neither of you two are good things." Gu Yun said with a cold smile.

  "You actually killed my son, good, good, good, I want you to accompany him in death, I will chop your body into ten thousand pieces, the law of reversing blood, ah!!" After hearing Gu Yun's words, Li Jinyang suddenly became crazy, let out a loud roar, and a burst of fresh blood spurted out from his seven orifices, while bloody mist also emerged from the pores all over his body. Soon, Li Jinyang was surrounded by a cloud of bloody mist, which condensed into a crimson cocoon.

  Gǔ yún took a look and knew that this was the Inverse Blood Technique he had mentioned. Although he didn't know what its effects were, Gǔ yún also didn't have the idea of letting him finish it before coming to test it out again. With a flash of his body, Gǔ yún arrived in front of the blood-colored cocoon, raised the Mò Yán in his hand, and fiercely slashed down at this red cocoon. However, the scene of cutting it in two with one slash did not appear as imagined. This red mist was extremely strange, and Gǔ yún's Mò Yán advanced with difficulty within this red blood mist. It was as if he was chopping at tempered steel, no, even better than tempered steel, because if Gǔ yún used the Mò Yán to chop at tempered steel, it would be like chopping tofu, and wouldn't be unable to move like now.

  Gǔ Yún drew his sword, Mò Yán, out of the bloody mist. Since he couldn't cut through it, he stopped trying. A stream of True Fire erupted from his hand, but it only managed to burn away a small portion of the mist before being extinguished with a hiss. Gǔ Yún wanted to continue attacking, but saw the mist quickly retreat back into Lǐ Jīn Yáng's mouth. Gǔ Yún was startled by the sight of Lǐ Jīn Yáng emerging from the mist.

  Lǐ Jīn Yáng now resembled a desiccated corpse, with hair like dry grass standing on end and eyes glowing with a blood-red light. The flying sword in his hand was also shrouded in a bloody aura, making him look like a malevolent spirit crawling out of a grave. However, the aura surrounding him seemed even stronger than before.

  A hoarse, unnatural voice emerged from his mouth: "You little brat, you've driven me to this state! I'll make sure you can neither live nor die in peace... Ha ha ha ha!"

  As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Yun had already flashed to his side, and Mo Yan brought a cold knife light down towards the top of his head. When hitting someone, one must take the initiative, this was what his master taught him.

  Although he had become a man who was neither human nor ghost, his strength was even greater than before. He raised the long sword in his hand and faced Gu Yun's Mo Yan. With a loud crash, Gu Yun was knocked back three steps by a massive counter-shock force, while Li Jinyang only retreated one step. With the weight of Mo Yan's thousand jin on his hand plus his own strength, he could only knock Li Jinyang back one step, but himself was countered and retreated three steps, the difference was huge, it can be imagined.

  "Little one, it's my turn now." With a swift movement, he arrived in front of Gu Yun. A massive red blood aura burst forth from his body and swept horizontally across Gu Yun. Gu Yun also raised his sword to meet the attack. With a loud crash, Gu Yun was already sent flying into the wall behind him, spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood. In just one move, he had already suffered internal injuries, and it took several rapid cycles of his Revitalizing True Qi to recover.

  He stood up, Gu Yun's eyes staring at Li Jinyang. With both hands, he raised Mo Yan above his head and chopped down with a long, red blade that was over a meter long, striking towards Li Jinyang after shrinking the Heavenly Support Strike. Gu Yun flashed again and appeared behind him, slashing fiercely towards him. Although Li Jinyang was one realm higher than Gu Yun, against this physically abnormal and extremely fast guy, he seemed to be at a disadvantage. He had just broken through the first blade, when his back was struck by another knife. Fortunately, the Inverse Blood Technique made his body extremely strong, otherwise this one strike would have been enough for him, but he was still chopped and sent flying out. Before he even landed on the ground, Gu Yun flashed again and appeared behind him, striking a second blow to his body. This flashing and chopping continued until nine strikes had hit Li Jinyang, only then did Gu Yun stop, as his Dragon Flash could only flash nine times.

  However, these nine blows were enough for Li Jinyang to suffer. His whole body was chopped open, with nine deep and terrifying wounds that exposed his bones all over his body, but strangely, not a single drop of blood flowed out. His entire body's blood had already been transformed into a bloody fog by the Inverse Blood Technique.

  "Hah, hah, hah, you little brat, you can't do anything to me like this." Li Jinyang sneered at Gu Yun after he stopped attacking.

  Looking at Li Jinyang, who was cut by himself so many times and yet seemed to be fine, Gu Yun knew that there would be trouble. Sure enough, Li Jinyang also flashed over to Gu Yun's side, his speed only slightly slower than Gu Yun's. A fist shot out towards Gu Yun's chest, his long sword having already been cut off by Gu Yun, but he didn't pull out another one and instead started fighting with Gu Yun using his fists.

  Ji Yun was knocked back over a dozen steps by the massive force, despite using his ink to block the punch. Before he could even steady himself, Li Jinyang attacked again, and this time it was Ji Yun who was on the receiving end of the blows. Bai Shi stood there watching Ji Yun get beaten, unable to intervene as the two combatants' speed was too fast for him to keep up with.

  It was as if Li Jinyang had been stimulated by Gu Yun's earlier attack, which left him unable to fight back. He too went crazy and attacked Gu Yun non-stop, not giving him a chance to catch his breath. If it weren't for Gu Yun's extremely robust body and the super healing effect of the Rebirth True Qi in his body, he would have been beaten into a pulp by this madman by now. However, even so, after continuous blows, the healing speed of the Rebirth True Qi in Gu Yun's body was already slightly lagging behind the speed at which he was being injured.

  Gǔ yún was still struggling to hold on, of course, if he could fight back, he would have done so long ago. Now, he can only wait, waiting for the moment when Li Jīnyáng's offensive weakens, he believes that Li Jīnyáng cannot sustain himself by converting all his vital energy into attacking power through this secret technique, as soon as he appears to be off guard, he can counterattack. And the situation was just like Gǔ yún had imagined.

  Li Jinyang's heart was racing, he used the Reverse Blood Technique recorded in the cultivation method that increased his cultivation by absorbing human blood, which he found in a cave years ago. He reversed the blood flow in his body, temporarily healing all the injuries he had just sustained, and at the same time, his cultivation increased to the middle stage of fusion. His body also became as hard as fine steel, making it difficult for even ordinary magic swords to harm him. However, this state would not last long, only one minute. After that, if he was lucky, his primordial spirit would escape and re-cultivate, but if he was unlucky, both his body and spirit would be destroyed, never to be reborn again. He had originally planned to quickly defeat Gu Yun and then absorb his blood to see if he could save this physical body. But unexpectedly, Gu Yun turned out to be ten times more difficult to deal with than he had imagined.

  He was confident that with his current state, even if he were to punch a hole in a set of spiritual armor, he would be able to do so. However, when he punched this strange doctor, the effect was far from what he had imagined. He had already punched him dozens of times, but the guy still looked like he couldn't be killed or crushed. Even if Ancient Cloud spat out a mouthful of blood now, he would feel extremely relieved, but the other party refused to give him that opportunity, leaving him feeling very helpless. Seeing that he wouldn't be able to hold on for much longer, if he couldn't take care of this guy, his own fate was unimaginable. Gritting his teeth, he went all out, and every time he attacked Ancient Cloud, a bloody mist would enter the latter's body. Once inside, these mists would automatically absorb the opponent's vital energy to strengthen himself. However, doing so also put Li Jinyang in great danger, as each time some of the mist dissipated, his supported time would decrease, and his chances of recovery would become even slimmer. But now he had no choice; if he didn't do this, his fate might be even more miserable.