Chapter Sixteen: Destroy It

  "Jin Rang!" I shouted, having been with Jin Rang for less than a day. Although he didn't say much, everything was done through actions! Seeing him spitting out blood and lying on the ground, I felt so guilty...

  "Zi Jiang... I'm fine... I can hold on for just one more move. You and Ze Hong find a chance to run!" Yan Jing struggled to stand up, wiping the blood from his mouth...

  "One thunder shakes the sky, two thunders shock the sky, three thunders stir the sky!" I saw Jin Rong steady himself, his hands pinched in a secret gesture, and above him, lightning and electricity converged! A scene of flashing lightning and rumbling thunder!

  Jian Rang opened his eyes, and a bolt of lightning from the thunderball above struck down!

  "Ran!" I and Ze Heng shouted out at the same time, because Ran had really fallen down this time! I saw him lying down without any warning!

  "I'm going to kill you!" Ze Hong roared out! I can no longer tolerate the anger in my heart! I almost lost my sanity, and that powerful slash directly slashed onto the tree! I saw all the escaping dark souls being slashed into ashes! The tree was split open! Completely split open. And around the tree, a raging fire ignited!

  That ghost face has finally appeared from the tree! Is it finally willing to come out now?!

  This time I saw it wasn't just a single face, but its entire lower body came out! Withered lower body!

  A great sword stands under the moon, a green dragon's shadow appears.

  "A single righteous energy, and all evil spirits will be subdued!"

  Zehong held a large knife in his hand, with a green dragon wrapped around his body, and rushed forward, "I'm going to kill you!!!"

  "Present! Metal, wood, water, fire, earth, three births and five elements, shape gold sword, slay evil spirits! All the soldiers are lined up in front!" I looked at Jin Rong who was lying down. A flame in my chest was surging to the top of my head! I felt my forehead getting hotter and hotter! It's almost burning!

  The golden sword chopped towards that tree spirit!

  Damn! I see that the tree spirit has gathered a ball of impenetrable black air! It's yin energy! This is a huge resentment! My Golden Blade Technique was blocked by that yin energy!

  Ze Hong wielded a large knife and chopped straight down from the top of Shu's head!

  And then the tree spirit stretched out its hand towards Ze Huan, originally a withered hand I saw that as it stretched out, it transformed into a withered vine stretching towards Ze Huan!

  "Zehong!" I couldn't help but worry about Zehong!

  "I'm going to kill you!" I saw that hand grab Ze Huan, and Ze Huan swung a big knife wildly, chopping frantically! Roaring with anger!

  "Zi Chuan! Maybe, maybe you'll have to stay here today, but you must run away later!" I saw Ze Heng, who had broken free from the tree spirit, one knee on the ground, holding onto his large knife and panting as he shouted at me.

  "I'm already dead, I'm glad to have met you all, but since we're in this together, there's no excuse for me to be alone." I saw Ze Heng like this, it seems he can't hold on much longer, if we came together, then let's die together.

  "Damn it! I'll hold on for a bit longer! You're just a soul yourself! What do you have to stay with us, if you keep going like this, your soul will scatter!"

  I saw Ze Hong standing up with a big knife!

  "Today you're here but I'm not!" Ze Hong took off his top and cursed at the tree spirit!

  He placed his hand on his brow, and I saw a drop of blood being applied by him to the blade with his finger.

  "The four images of the Azure Dragon shift eastward. The Dipper turns and the stars move, as fire gives birth to wood! Wood conceals the form of fire. Righteous energy gathers in my body, solidifying my Daoist heart!"

  It's a great show!

  Blood is derived from the innate essence and generated by the acquired food and water!

  I saw Zehong actually offering his own essence blood as a sacrifice! Essence blood is the source of foundation! Using essence blood will reduce one's lifespan! Not only that, if one's body can't withstand the power of the blood sacrifice, they will be killed by the backlash!

  "Zehong!" I saw this scene and my forehead got hotter and hotter, so hot that I squatted down and hugged my head. I looked at Zehong with difficulty.

  I saw Ze Hong's whole body burst out! Holding the big knife in his hand, motionless, with his eyes closed, I saw that the big knife slowly emitted a breath! And Ze Hong also appeared with an unknown aura! I saw the knife slowly turn fiery red!

  Ze Hong moved! He held the big knife and chopped it towards the tree soul. At the same time, a scorching flame suddenly appeared at the blade of the knife! And the green dragon on the knife seemed to fly out, can be called green dragon? The shadow of the dragon I saw was like a fire dragon! The dragon's mouth was wide open and roaring towards the tree soul! When the tree stretched out its hand, it was directly cut into ashes by the knife!

  Is this the power of the closed door? Green Dragon turns into fire!

  I saw the tree soul seemingly afraid, retreating and dodging Ze Heng's attacks! It seems to know that Ze Heng's greatest weakness is time! It's actually stalling for time with him! But where can it hide, most of its body has been chopped off by Ze Heng! The places where it was cut, turned into dust...

  I saw the flame on Ze Heng's knife slowly go out, and his movements also became slower. Finally, the big knife in Ze Heng's hand fell off, and his body tried to stand firm but couldn't anymore!

  He turned his head and said to me: "I'm done too..."

  I feel like there's going to be a fire bursting out of my forehead!

  I shouted angrily towards the sky! Why?! Why did they all fall down?!

  Ah!

  My forehead is no longer hot! But I feel like my forehead has been burned through by something! It's as if it was burned through by fire! I touched my forehead and felt a mark!

  The Tree Spirit saw Ze Heng weaken and his two hands transformed into withered vines that flew over!

  "Damn it, I'm going to kill you!" I felt my soul was about to explode, lost my sanity, and stared at that tree spirit!

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  "Present! Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, three births and five elements, depart from fire and be born, depart from fire and burn! Those who are about to engage in battle all array themselves before me!"

  Unconsciously, I recited the Fire Separation Spell!

  Only after I finished did I react, staring blankly at the sky, and still hadn't reacted for a long time...

  Just when I was about to lose hope, I felt the scorching heat of the air around me! Even the air itself had a burning smell!

  Is it coming?!

  I saw a ball of fire slowly forming in the air! It's Li Huo! I haven't reached Master's realm of heavenly fire sea, but having Li Huo is enough already. There are only three words in my mind: Kill it!

  I saw more and more fireflies gathering, all of them flying towards the tree soul!

  The tree soul was surrounded by the flames of Lihuo, and from the shadow of the fire, I saw the tree soul struggling, constantly making explosive sounds! Can it be extinguished this time?!

  Ah! I saw that tree spirit slowly dissipating, and finally disappeared completely after passing by the fire!

  It succeeded! It finally succeeded!

  I went over to Zehong and took a look at his breath. He's not dead yet! But he's not far from death either!

  I saw him coming and I burst into tears...

  He forcibly summoned the thunder for us... His soul was severely damaged during the summoning, I saw his faint and elusive soul floating outside, but it's a broken and tattered soul...

  "Come on!" I shouted at him.

  "Kokawa... am I dead?" was the soul that floated out of Jinlan, he said to me very calmly...

  "Sorry... it's all my fault." I looked at him with shame.

  "It's nothing, as a Taoist who exorcises evil and guards the way, we've long since looked down on life and death. I'm already happy to be able to guard the way with my own body." As Jing Rong said this, he glanced up at the sky, and listening to him, my heart felt like it was being squeezed..."

  "Alright... Zǐ Chuān... I'm leaving, if possible, we'll meet again in the next life, but will there be a next life? Please trouble yourself to go back and tell my master for me, I owe him for these years of guidance..." After Jiǎng Ruǎn finished speaking, I saw him slowly dissipating... eventually turning into a speck of light in the vastness of space.

  "Jin Ruan!" Watching Jin Ruan disappear, I felt a pang of distress. Thinking that Ze Heng was still there, I had to hurry up and rescue him or it would be too late!

  Later on, when I met people who knew Dr. Wen, I couldn't forgive myself for being so indifferent to his death...

  I rushed to the hospital's morgue and entered my own body, when I woke up, the sky was spinning, looked at my own body but it was riddled with wounds... Ran out of the morgue, my body was freezing in pain, ran back to take Ze Hong to the hospital...

  "It's no use. He can't be saved." The doctor said this to me, and I directly grabbed him by the collar, how could Ze Heng not be saved?!

  "Are you a doctor or not?!" I shouted out this sentence, he was stunned and ran outside. Leaving me alone facing Ze Heng on the bed...

  What's going on! What's going on! I saw Zehong's Lingtai slowly floating out of his body! What am I supposed to do! Won't our Jiuzi Gate save people?!

  Save people? Ah, yes! Master and I have discussed it before. The Li Zi Jue is a technique to turn injuries around!

  Yes! The rhyming couplet! I know these basic entry-level rhymes!

  I grasped the secret of hand-sealing technique and pressed down on Ze Hong's Lingtai.

  "Form up! With my body, I'll deflect their blows! All of you, line up in front and prepare for battle!"

  I forcefully suppressed Ze Heng's soul, and my forehead started burning again! I persisted, slowly feeling my own soul as if it had been injured, slowly feeling dizzy and disoriented, I didn't know what was happening, and I fainted.

  When I woke up, I saw myself lying on a hospital bed. I thought of Zehong and wondered how he was doing!

  I got out of bed and was still standing unsteadily when the door opened and a nurse came in.

  "You're not fully recovered yet, don't move around recklessly," the nurse said to me.

  "Last night, I came with someone last night, how is that person?" I anxiously asked the nurse.

  "It's strange to say, but later when we came to the ward, we saw you lying on the ground, and that person you brought who had no vital signs suddenly did, now he is recovering."

  After hearing the nurse finish speaking, I also felt at ease. After staying in bed for a while, I went to Ze Heng's ward and saw that he had also woken up.

  "Did you save me?"

  "Uh-huh."

  "Zi Chuan! Thank you, I owe you a life."

  "Don't say that, I owe you too."

  "By the way, how's Jian Ran doing?" When Ze Heng asked me about Jian Ran, I became downcast, and it seemed that Ze Heng noticed my abnormal state.

  "Something's gone wrong with Jian Ruan!"

  "He's dead... gone with the wind..."

  Ze Hong heard this news and knocked on his own head.

  "I've actually killed him!!! Ahhhhhh!" Ze Heng hit even harder, I was afraid he would get into trouble, and forcibly pulled him away.

  "I know none of us wanted his death! But the deceased is already gone! All we can do now is fulfill his last wish!" I told Zehong what Ran said to me before he left.

  "Jin Rang...... I will bring Jin Rang's body back to Mao Shan. I owe his master an explanation..." Ze Hong said heavily, yes, I also owe a lot...