Chapter 41: Got a Master

  Long ago, Meng Xuan had heard from the sick old man that the evil gas refined by the Great Sickness Technique was actually the evil gas inside the human body.

  All living beings in the world are troubled by diseases, with different reasons, but without exception, they all have evil spirits growing inside their bodies. Some people contract evil spirits through transmission from others, some because of physical weakness, allowing the evil spirits floating between heaven and earth to take advantage of the void and enter, some bring them from their mother's womb, and some are due to injuries that are difficult to recover from, dragging on for a long time before they grow out. The essence is all the same.

  This evil energy is opposite in nature to the true source of human life, which is the true energy, one yin and one yang.

  This is also the reason why human vitality will disappear after falling ill. After all, when yin is born, yang is weak, which is the ultimate principle of heaven and earth.

  When the disease is extreme, the person dies. When this evil energy grows to its strongest in the human body and completely devours the true energy, it is the time of a person's death.

  In other words, the moment a person dies is the moment when the pathogenic qi in his body is strongest.

  However, when a person dies, whether it is the true Qi or the evil Qi, they will all disperse, leaving only an empty shell. Therefore, the great method of extracting evil Qi from a dead body is impossible.

  However, these corpse demons can, due to a coincidence of circumstances, still retain their true energy, which has not dissipated. Only when they transform into corpse demons does all their true energy also transform into evil energy. In other words, the evil energy within them is actually the true energy that sustains their lives.

  They are naturally violent and kill people because they only have yin energy in their bodies, so they want to absorb yang energy to resolve the yin energy inside.

  What was said is that the nature of the Corpse Demon is also subject to the balance of yin and yang.

  So, in the eyes of the person who passed on the Great Sickness Immortal Art, Corpse Demons are also a type of patient.

  But they were too ill, their lives were just a lingering illness, and when their illnesses were drawn out, it was the moment of their death.

  This patient is incurable, but Meng Xuan can still extract the evil spirit from his body, it's just that he can't do it all at once.

  "Hmm? The quality is pretty good, almost comparable to the innate disease energy within Qingmu's body..."

  After Meng Xuan took out this strand of demonic energy, he didn't even pause for a moment, but discovered that the demonic energy was extremely pure. If refined, it might be possible to produce a good elixir. This was different from what he had heard from the old man when he was young, who had also refined corpse demons in his youth. In his opinion, although the demonic energy of the corpse demon was abundant, its quality was only average, and at best could only refine a third-grade elixir.

  Meng Xuan didn't rush to refine the demonic energy. After a brief moment of hesitation, he poured all the demonic energy into the Reversal Sword.

  This is one of the functions of the Reversal Sword that he has discovered recently, which is to store evil energy.

  The Reversal Sword and Meng Xuan's Qi mechanism are connected, just like a part of his body. When Meng Xuan encounters a patient with an illness that exceeds his cultivation level, he won't be at a loss for what to do. Even if the person's illness is beyond Meng Xuan's purification scope, he can first extract the illness and cure the patient, then store the illness in the Reversal Sword. When his cultivation improves, he can gradually take it out and purify it bit by bit.

  It's just that this effect should have appeared only after the Great Sickness Order and the Wolf Ancestor Order merged, otherwise, with the Great Sickness Order following Master for so many years, he wouldn't be able to not discover this effect.

  A burst of magical energy was forcibly extracted from Meng Xuan by a hard birth, the corpse demon's magic dissipated, and his consciousness became clear once again.

  He was stunned for a long time, suddenly knelt down on the ground and cried: "Young hero, save me... I never want to be devoured by that demonic energy again..."

  "You get up and tell me everything about who you are and how you became a zombie!"

  Meng Xuan said in a deep voice, "This corpse demon's divine consciousness can actually suppress the demonic energy within its body. It is indeed different from others." He was also somewhat curious.

  "Oh, poor little life..."

  The bookish zombie heard this and suddenly burst into loud wailing: "I was originally a scholar from Qinghe County, named Zhu Baoren. My family had some wealth, and my old father had high hopes for me, sending me to study from a young age, hoping that I would take the imperial examination and bring glory to our ancestors. Who would have thought that on my way to the exam, I was seduced by a beautiful woman, taken to a broken temple, and murdered? Not only that, but as I lay dying, she took out silver needles and sealed all the acupoints on my body, saying that I had a naturally evil and murderous aura, making me the perfect material for corpse refinement. These silver needles could prevent my true energy from dispersing, and after being buried underground for several years, I would come back to life with boundless power..."

  "I had been asleep for many years, and finally woke up last year, only to discover that I had transformed into such a strange creature. My body was filled with evil intentions, and I often thought of harming others. However, I had studied the teachings of sages for many years and received their guidance, so how could I succumb to these evil thoughts? Although I endured the invasion of evil intentions day and night, I still managed to hold on, imprisoning myself underground, thinking that it would be better to starve myself to death. Until today..."

  Listening to the bookworm's lament, Meng Xuan's eyebrows also furrowed: "You were actually refined into a corpse demon by someone?"

  Generally, Corpse Demons are naturally formed, but this Book Spirit is clearly a product of deliberate refinement.

  "How can I save you?"

  Meng Xuan hesitated for a moment before asking in a soft voice.

  "That scholar cried: 'Young Master, your divine powers are vast and great. Just now, you patted me with that palm on my crown, and I immediately felt the evil energy in my heart decrease by a lot... I only beg Young Master to show mercy and turn me back into a human again...'"

  Meng Xuan bitterly smiled and said: "Turning a dead person into a living one is something that even the master of the immortal sects can't do, let alone me!"

  The scholar heard this and cried even more miserably, shouting: "I am truly a man of ill fate... What can I do? Anyway, with my current appearance, my future is already ruined, and I have no face to return home and see my old father again. Just ask the young hero to help me end it all..."

  Meng Xuan helplessly said: "We've been chatting for so long, I couldn't bring myself to do it. Anyway, you're awake now, just end it yourself!"

  That bookworm let out a loud "wow" and cried even harder: "When I was underground, I bit my tongue to death several times, but it didn't work..."

  Meng Xuan said: "You are now half-human and half-corpse. How can biting your tongue to death be useful? Perhaps taking off your head would work!"

  "Take off your own head... how cruel, let's ask Young Master for help instead..."

  The scholar wept uncontrollably and begged incessantly, truly moving the listener's heart and bringing tears to those who heard him.

  Meng Xuan sighed and said, "I won't tease you anymore. To be honest, I don't have the ability to bring you back to life. However, I can help you maintain your consciousness. Moreover, although I don't have the power to revive you, there are many spiritual doors in the world that possess elixirs, precious medicines, and wonderful methods. There are also rumors of immortal arts that can revive the dead and turn white bones into flesh. If you're lucky, you might still have a chance in the future..."

  The scholar was taken aback, and his sobs subsided as he choked out: "You mean... I still have a chance?"

  Meng Xuan nodded and said, "Who knows? Maybe there's a chance. After all, I've only heard of those immortal methods!"

  "Well... anyway, I'm at a loss for what to do now, so everything is up to you, Young Master..."

  Meng Xuan nodded and said, "I have another condition: now that you've become a corpse demon, the evil energy in your body is constantly growing. Even if I can help you extract the demonic energy, it's only treating the symptoms, not the root cause. As the demonic energy grows inside you, you'll still be consumed by the demonic intent. The only solution is for you to follow me as a servant, and every so often, I'll help you extract some of the demonic energy to keep you lucid. Once I've entered the immortal sect, we can slowly look for a way to revive you. What do you think?"

  "An attendant? This... I'm also a scholar, how can I be someone's attendant?"

  That corpse demon hesitated, and unexpectedly felt a bit wronged.

  Meng Xuan almost burst out laughing and scolded: "You pedantic scholar, at this juncture you still quibble over trifles?"

  The corpse demon hesitated for a moment and said: "Or I'll be your master, it sounds better..."

  "I'm not an official, what do I need a secretary for?...Anyway, suit yourself!"

  Meng Xuan reluctantly agreed, with a hint of regret in his heart. Had he just made a wrong decision?

  He turned around and walked towards the group of villagers, with the corpse demon following closely behind him, as if afraid that Meng Xuan would shake him off.

  "Ah...... The corpse demon is coming over......"

  The villagers surrounding the iron cage were frightened and shouted, trembling with fear.

  "Don't be afraid, everyone! I've already tamed it and it won't harm you!"

  Meng Xuan smiled and explained, and only when they saw his calm demeanor did the villagers slightly calm down.

  "Thank you, young hero, for saving my life..."

  There were also people in this group who understood things and led the way to Meng Xuan to kowtow, and others followed suit.

  Meng Xuan hastily stopped them and asked: "But I don't know where you are from? Why were you brought here?"

  At that moment, a villager cried out: "We are all villagers from Qingquan Village at the foot of the mountain. We make a living by casting iron and have never provoked anyone, but today that evil little girl brought her subordinates to our village, injured Huang Xian who was guarding our village, and forcibly took us here, saying they want to catch the Corpse Demon... When we refused, they seized our children and threatened their lives..."

  "That wicked woman, she truly deserves to die ten thousand times!"

  Meng Xuan thought of a female Taoist named Tu Jiao Jiao and felt a surge of hatred in his heart.

  "I'll send you back first!"

  Meng Xuan broke open the iron cage and rescued the child inside. He then led the villagers down the mountain.

  Those children were indeed drugged and the villagers could only hold them. The mountain road was slippery, and they almost fell several times. The scholar-demon was kind-hearted and wanted to go over to help, but before he even got close, the villagers screamed in fright. Meng Xuan had no choice but to order him to follow from a distance, not allowing him to get within ten zhang of the villagers. The scholar did not dare disobey, but felt somewhat wronged, wiping away tears from afar.

  It's just a fierce-looking corpse demon wiping away tears with a wronged expression, the scene is really intoxicating...

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