Chapter 29: Omens Surrounding Him

  Liang Stealer chuckled to himself as he threaded a white jade bottle onto a thin cord, then with a flick of his wrist, gently tossed it out. Unbeknownst to him, he used some sort of technique that allowed him to accurately toss the jade bottle into the yin-yang fish's eye every time without splashing a single ripple, and then with a sudden jerk, the jade bottle was filled with dragon spittle and earth lung essence.

  As if by magic, in just a short moment, more than ten jade bottles were all filled up. Liang Ze had just put the lids on these jade bottles when suddenly, in the quiet of the night, there came an abrupt and strange sound of footsteps: "Thud, thud..."

  Su Feng looked at Liang Ze with a terrified expression, his eyes wide open, clearly saying "What to do? Someone's coming!" Liang Ze waved his hand and furrowed his brow, but didn't show any signs of panic. As the footsteps got closer and closer, Liang Ze suddenly took a deep breath, swiftly moved behind Su Feng, and with both hands passing under Su Feng's armpits, he lifted him up in one swift motion.

  Liang Steal's feet underwent a series of transformations, and finally he took one step into the void, as if there was an invisible foundation beneath him. His body suddenly suffered a strong pulling force with the wind, and then it actually rose into the air. He had already been shocked to have his mouth open wide, and when he looked down, Liang Steal slowly took three steps, each one treading on thin air. It turned out to be the legendary Void Borrowing Power, which he had used once before when climbing the walls of Jinling City, but that time there was still a wall to borrow power from. This time, not only did he walk in mid-air, but also brought along a follower. Such lightness was truly divine.

  Liang Stealer took three big strides, each one covering a great distance. As soon as he took the third step, Liang Stealer's true energy had reached its limit, his breathing became disordered, and the two of them tumbled sideways into the nearby thicket. Fortunately, both Rong Feng and Liang Stealer were relatively slender in build, while the branches and leaves of the Mu Rong family's flower trees were relatively sparse. At the critical moment when they landed, Liang Stealer didn't care about the disorderly true energy inside his body, he propped one foot on the ground and stabilized their figures.

  Sui Feng let out a sigh of relief in his heart, fortunately not making any noise, like a gentle breeze passing through the trees and disappearing into the moonlight. Sui Feng turned his head to see that Liang Tou'er's face was covered in sweat, not just because he had overexerted himself, but also because his right arm was originally injured. This time, with such a commotion, the old wound reopened, causing an unbearable pain like tearing flesh apart. Liang Tou'er gritted his teeth and pulled Sui Feng to quietly hide in the shade of the flower tree.

  Just then, he discovered that someone had walked to the edge of the pond and was staring at the ground for a long time. "Oh no! Could it be that we left some traces behind?" Su Feng's heart suddenly tightened.

  The man in the magnificent attire slowly turned around, and Su Feng had already held his breath, even the sound of his heartbeat seemed too loud. Despite this, Su Feng was both startled and frightened, his heart racing wildly. Through the dense branches of the flower tree, Su Feng finally managed to catch a glimpse of the face of the man in front of him. His mouth opened wide, almost sucking out all the air. This also shattered Su Feng's last shred of illusion. The person was none other than Mu Rong Yu, the master of the Mu Rong family, whose power had already reached the level of Xian Tian.

  As the wind turned back to take a look, Liang Touer had already closed his eyes. "He must have given up all hope too." The wind thought to itself, no longer holding onto the extravagant hope of escaping alive. Looking at his appearance, he should have discovered some clues, plus the extraordinary sensitivity of the innate expert's spiritual awareness, it was only a matter of time before they were discovered.

  "It's all over, it's really all over" For some reason, Murong Yu hadn't discovered them yet, but Su Feng felt that this time was even more dangerous than the last time with the female ghost.

  Murong Yu looked over and actually walked slowly in the direction of Sui Feng.

  "Later I'll jump out and lure him away, you hide well here, I'll come back to pick you up later." Liang Ze's voice sounded in his ear again.

  Su Feng shook his head desperately, looking at Liang Ze with a pained expression. Liang Ze's eyes narrowed, his gaze stern but not angry. Su Feng trembled and didn't dare to object again. Liang Ze carefully handed over the more than ten jade bottles in his arms to Su Feng, then slowly took a deep breath, preparing to rush out.

  At this moment, a shrill cry of "Ah!" suddenly echoed from the right side of the two people. It was the sound of an owl! The wind could already hear the sound of its flapping wings, and even Liang Ze's thief was desperate this time. In front of them was Murong Yu's search party, to their right was the owl blocking their way, and behind them was the ancient mysterious formation that trapped people, they were completely surrounded and had no escape, their lives hanging by a thread.

  The natural sound of the owl's hooting didn't just stop at the two of them, Murong Yu was suddenly startled and turned his head around. He muttered to himself: "Someone is actually threatening the owl, its cry sounds so urgent? When did such a person rush here?" As he spoke, he took a deep breath and rushed towards the direction of the owl's hooting.

  But it wasn't until now that the two of them discovered that the sound of the crow's hooves was rapidly moving away. The two of them held their breath and waited for another moment, until finally even the sound of the hooves could no longer be heard. Liang Zei only then let out a long sigh, his face pale, those few steps earlier had already exceeded his limits, he had relied on the Reverse Meridian Technique to make it through, relying solely on willpower to hold on. Having narrowly escaped this crisis, Liang Zei could no longer bear it and suddenly spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

  A strip of cloth was torn from his sleeve and used to wipe away the fresh blood at the corner of his mouth, "Was it Wu Jia who saved us?"

  Liang Ze nodded and sighed: "I just didn't kill it, I didn't expect it to come back and save our lives."

  The wind was also very emotional, and unexpectedly, such an animal is more human than many people. It's probably that the behavior of many people can't even compare to this animal. Turning his head, he asked: "What's wrong with you? Are your injuries serious?"

  Liang Ze said in a low voice, "It's all right, no big deal. Although Murong Yu has left, this place is still not safe to stay for long. Who knows, after this commotion, he might send a few disciples from the Murong family to guard here. Follow me, we'll leave quickly, I need to go back and treat my injuries." As he spoke, Liang Ze took a deep breath and covered his right arm with his left hand, only then did Feng Wu notice that there were patches of dark red blood seeping out from between his fingers.

  Liang stole a glance at the stable atmosphere inside his body, and slowly got up. He turned around with the wind and disappeared into the shadows of the trees behind him. But this time was different from when he came, all the way, Sui Feng could hear his constant coughing sound.

  Perhaps it was because Liang Ze had been injured, or perhaps he had changed his route and was no longer familiar with it. This time, it took them a whole hour and a half to walk out of the array hidden under the layers of flowers and trees. Su Feng pushed more than ten jade bottles in front of Liang Ze, saying: "This is what you gave me just now, now you can..." Before Su Feng finished speaking, Liang Ze grabbed them all at once, leaving eight jade bottles for Su Feng, instructing him to remember that the dragon's spittle and earth lung's essence needed to be taken alternately in order to have the effect of yin and yang complementing each other. Now it was already past midnight, they should return to their rooms separately, and must take good care of themselves, not letting Murong Yu discover anything unusual.

  After finishing speaking, Liang Zei quickly put the remaining jade bottles into his arms and turned around to hurry away.

  Carefully wrapped up the jade bottle with the wind, didn't dare to linger, stepped on the phantom step along the small path back into the house.

  He washed up a bit and lay on the bed, but couldn't fall asleep for a long time. Tonight was another fierce battle, and he had encountered danger again and again, with his physical strength he should have fallen asleep long ago. "Could it be because of that milk I drank?" Su Feng thought of this and suddenly sat up with a start.

  "At this moment, the aura of the earth has not dissipated, and it's certain that half the effort will yield double the results." With this thought in mind, he sat down cross-legged. After a brief period of meditation, he felt something was off. Originally, his dantian only had scattered strands of innate energy, calm and peaceful without any anomalies. However, as soon as he mobilized his true energy, his dantian suddenly began to gush out true energy like an underground spring that had been tapped."

  Suī fēng pīn le mìng de qù yǐ xī tiān jué jiāng qí yī diǎn diǎn de qù zá cún jīng, yóu hòu tiān fǎn xiān tiān. Zhè gǔ qì xī nǎi shì dì qì suǒ huà, xiáng hé hòu zhòng, běn bù huì shāng rén jīng mài. Kě shì yóu yú suī fēng liàn qì de sù dù tài màn wán quán gēn bù shàng qì hǎi pēn yǒng de sù dù, jí biàn tā tóng shí àn yùn tiān suàn diào dòng wú míng jiàn jué kuò zhǎn jīng mài, yě gēn běn shì gé xī sāo yǎng, nán yǒu chéng xiào.

  In the blink of an eye, his body was completely filled with true energy. He felt like his body was constantly swelling, as if it was about to burst open. His meridians were stretched to twice their normal size, and fresh blood had already seeped out, with some areas even torn apart. Su Feng couldn't help but secretly lament: "Liang Tou'er, Liang Tou'er, why didn't you stop me earlier? The divination said there would be an opportunity, so how did it turn into a disaster?"

  He soon didn't even have the mood to lament his situation. In fact, he had reached a critical point where his dantian was swollen to nearly half its original size. It could be said that if he couldn't think of a solution in the next moment, he would be lucky to survive with his life, and forget about practicing martial arts for this lifetime.

  Perhaps some wisdom really needs to be reached at a critical moment, and suddenly an idea came up. In the Xī Tiān Jué (析天诀), there is not only a method for converting breath into pre-heavenly breath, but also methods for converting breath into various other types of breath. Suddenly, I thought of converting that vast internal energy within my body into yin and yang energies, then separately stimulating them to converge at the Qi Hai (气海), allowing them to intersect and return to nothingness. In this way, the problem before me would be easily solved.

  It's not as easy as it was before, the yin and yang energies seem to be one level higher than the pre-heavenly true energy, and it's not just a matter of circulating the breath according to the method. It also requires the combination of some eight trigrams and five elements techniques, and the inclusion of heavenly calculation methods within the analysis method, which is most suitable for this type of mental arithmetic.

  Just starting out, there was still some clumsiness, and even with a large amount of energy converging, not a single thread of yin-yang energy was born. Fortunately, there was no danger of exploding the body, and gradually, he grasped the key points, becoming more and more proficient. The first thread of yin-yang energy was nurtured, and at this time, the surging momentum in the dantian had not decreased in the slightest. Random winds could not stop him, and he continued to cultivate his internal energy.

  Another hour passed, and the Qi Hai finally calmed down, and the meridians gradually repaired their wounds. Su Feng also finally transformed all his breath into Yin and Yang energy. Unlike what he thought, the Yin and Yang energy was not that much, only enough to fill the Qi Hai.

  Next, another huge problem was in front of him. The yin and yang energies were incompatible, so how could he merge them? Previously, he didn't dare to let the yin and yang energies touch each other, using his own innate energy to separate them. Later on, as more and more yin and yang energies accumulated, his innate energy became a minority, so he simply transformed his own innate energy into yin and yang energies as well.

  Wiping the sweat from his face, he thought about the danger he had just faced and still felt a little frightened. Calculating the time, there was less than an hour before dawn, and forcibly dividing his internal energy in two was not a solution. However, with no secret manual to follow and no master to guide him, he could only grit his teeth and try it himself.