Myriad Paths

From Li Qi's shamanic perspective, he could clearly see that a thread was connected to the butterfly, constantly extracting her essence.

Li Qi knew how to use this technique, which was a way of arranging landscape formations.

Most shamans know almost nothing about the formation of Yin and Yang magic, because it is too difficult, but they are very good at another type of landscape formation.

The so-called landscape formation actually takes advantage of the landscape, using each landscape as a node, and using the mountain air and water air as the context to build it into a whole.

This kind of landscape formation is not as magical and mysterious as the Taoist yin-yang magic number formation. After all, that kind of thing can turn things upside down, reverse yin and yang, and can do incredible things at a small cost.

But the advantages of the landscape formation are extremely huge.

The formations formed by the gods of mountains and rivers one after another are governed by witches. Although these powers are not subtle, they are grand and can mobilize huge power. Once formed as a whole, they are almost indestructible unless someone powerful takes action. , directly destroying the water veins of this mountain range together, can it be eliminated head-on.

Of course, you can also dismantle the connections between the respective nodes, but that requires slow and careful work.

But there is a premise for all this, that is, Wu Jin mediates and persuades these landscape gods, spirits and even forces from all sides to voluntarily contribute their strength.

"Someone made a deal with you? You were depleted of energy before. It was obviously forcibly extracted by this person. What happened?" Li Qi was a little excited and his tone was a little harsh.

After hearing what her benefactor said, the little girl was so frightened.

Butterfly is an easily frightened species. Now that his benefactor was yelling at him, he was even more frightened, shaking as if he had no clothes on.

Oh, he was not wearing any clothes, he was just wearing Li Qi's robe.

Lao Ma glanced sideways at the side.

Then continue to eat.

He was used to Li Qi being nosy around all day long, so it would be fine if it didn't delay him eating and resting.

As for Li Qi, when he saw the appearance of the little butterfly girl, he took a deep breath, calmed down his mood, found a big rock to sit down, and patted the empty space next to him: "Come, sit here, and tell me, What’s new lately?”

"Well... my benefactor, are you, are you angry?" The butterfly asked cautiously: "I don't dare to sit with my benefactor. I'll just kneel here."

When Li Qi heard this, he couldn't help but rolled his eyes, then stood up directly, lifted her up, and placed her next to him.

Without waiting for the butterfly to react, he continued to ask: "Don't talk about those useless things, haven't you noticed? This thing on your body is extracting your essence. I didn't notice it before, but you have just pupated. The body was reshaped, it should have been perfectly round, but there was an extra line, and that’s when I discovered it.”

"Thread?" The little girl was a little confused. Her original nervousness was dissipated by Li Qi's question, and she recalled the past.

After all, based on her age, although she was considered to have lived a long life in the butterfly, she actually only lived for four or five years, and her spiritual awakening time was only about four years. Her mind was not yet mature, and she was still single-threaded for the time being.

Thinking and being nervous, it was difficult for her to do two things at the same time.

Li Qiyi asked, and as soon as she started thinking, she forgot that she was actually scared.

"Well, my benefactor... Previously, the mountain king here summoned all the demons who had opened their spirits and asked us to do him a favor. He asked us all to give a little bit of our energy to forge a magic weapon for him, and he gave We get some spiritual fruits as reward.”

"Everyone was afraid that he would fall out, so they all did it. Is this what happened?" Butterfly asked.

"Mountain King? The mountain god of your mountain?" Li Qi asked again.

"Well...he calls himself Lord Huangshan, my benefactor. Did he steal my essence?" Butterfly asked timidly.

"Maybe, I'll pinch it off for you first, and you can just help me lead the way." Li Qi stretched out his hand, reached in from the seam of his neck, and touched his back.

This butterfly is just wearing Li Qi's robe, so if you stick it through the gap at the back of your neck, you can easily touch the thread without any other obstruction.

Without any distractions, Li Qi groped all the way from the shoulder blades, along the spine, to the third vertebrae.

The third vertebrae, where the cervical vertebrae are located, corresponds to the place where the air flows in the throat.

The back of the head is the Fengmen point, and the third section of the spine is the Feishu point. They both have holes and are prone to wind.

"Take a deep breath, relax, don't let anything go beyond your imagination, don't let your eyes wander, and keep your mind where it belongs." Li Qi reminded.

Then, he violently used his martial arts energy to hit it.

The inner energy of martial arts has pure characteristics. It will swallow up and assimilate all the energy from different sources and refine it into the same thing. Therefore, most warriors do not have many magical powers, but the inner energy can break through most spells.

Because in the final analysis, all magic and magical powers are the use of the infinite "qi" between heaven and earth.

The inner energy broke that thread.

The area that was originally filled by the thread now reveals a small hole, leaving a slight flaw in the butterfly's body.

The air from the outside invaded, making her dizzy.

External Qi enters the brain, the eyes are misaligned and the head is heavy, which indicates Yang hyperactivity.

Li Qi blocked the flaw with his fingers, and then activated his energy to heal the flaw.

"Okay, now this thing can't extract your essence, so where is Huangshan Jun?" Li Qi asked.

The thread on Little Butterfly was pulled away by Li Qi. After she fell into a daze for a moment, she suddenly felt refreshed and her body relaxed.

She immediately understood that the man in front of her had helped her three times in just a quarter of an hour.

Thinking of this, the butterfly quickly stood up and knelt down: "I will lead the way for my benefactor!"

Li Qi was also a little anxious. Although he knew about the existence of the landscape formation from Wang Baiyan, he had seen it with his own eyes now, so he was anxious to confirm it.

"Old Ma, you eat, I will come to you later. If I haven't arrived in an hour, you can continue to rest." Li Qi greeted Old Ma.

The old horse neighed to show that he heard it.

Upon seeing this, Li Qi followed the little butterfly and walked towards the mountain.

The little butterfly was barefoot and wearing Li Qi's robe, leading Li Qi in the mountains.

However, she always looked a little hesitant on the way, turning her head to look at Li Qi from time to time.

"Are you worried? Don't worry, I won't let them implicate you." Li Qi saw her hesitation and thought she was worried about revenge, so he comforted her.

But the little butterfly shook his head and thought about it: "That's not the case, it's just... I don't have a name yet, and I want to ask my benefactor to give me a name."

"Name, that's it." Li Qi then remembered that this butterfly had said before that he hoped he would give it a name.

"I can't afford the word "give", but I can still give you a name." Li Qi walked on the mountain road and began to think.

After walking for a while, he looked around, got inspiration, and said with a smile: "Butterflies like fragrant grass. It can be seen that dancing butterflies and flying flowers are suitable for each other. Bees and butterflies are happy because of their fragrance. Therefore, a gentleman does not do dirty things and is good with people who are fragrant." When they intersect, their vitality is intact, and their horns are not exposed, they are in a comfortable place in the world, where things go smoothly and nothing happens, just like the full moon and the water in the basin are in the same circle."

"I will name you Zhufang with this meaning. I hope you can avoid filth and pursue fragrant orchids in the future. You will not become the gnat in the bush, but continue to be the dancing flower and butterfly."

"Thank you so much, my benefactor. May I ask my benefactor's name?" The butterfly was overjoyed and bowed again and again.

Li Qi quickly helped her up: "My name is Li Qi, and please don't kneel down!"

"Zhufang understands, from now on, my name will be Li Zhufang!" Li Zhufang said happily.

"Ah? Do you want to take my last name?" After Li Qi helped him up, he frowned when he heard this.

Taking another person's last name is not an ordinary thing. It will affect your future life. Names will be with you for a lifetime.

"Zhufang is just a wild butterfly, naturally nameless and without a family name. The reason why he survived this time is all thanks to his benefactor's help and transformation. He also relied on his benefactor's words and enlightenment. He even relied on his benefactor to help remove external diseases. , I can’t repay this great kindness, I can only keep it in my heart! I hope I can repay it if I have the opportunity in the future!” Li Zhufang said immediately.

The little girl's face was full of determination, which gave Li Qi a headache.

Mainly because he was too young when he transformed into a butterfly. He was only twelve or thirteen years old, the age when his body had just grown.

Li Qi is not good at dealing with children.

So, he simply said with a straight face: "Don't think so much, helping you is just a little effort from me. I don't need you to repay me. Just lead the way and help me find Mr. Huangshan."

"Yes!" Li Zhufang happily agreed and continued to lead Li Qi.

Along the way, the mountain road was narrow and hundreds of people were turned away. However, Li Qi had long been accustomed to walking on mountain roads, and Li Zhufang, as a butterfly spirit, could fly, so he did not encounter any special obstacles.

Along the way, like most places in Baiyue, the scenery is beautiful and the trees are lush, but some places are starting to wither and turn yellow, which does not look like normal conditions.

"Did the great landscape formation begin to extract these mountain energy, causing the trees to wither?" Li Qi thought to himself when he saw this shape.

After turning another corner, a deep abyss fell into a pool. The water spring was deep and clear, and there was a giant fish in it, one foot or two long, swimming listlessly in the water, seeming very tired.

When Li Qi saw this, he knew that the giant fish must have had its essence extracted, just like Li Zhufang.

But Li Zhufang is a butterfly, inherently fragile, and extracting some of it almost killed her.

Although the giant fish's cultivation level is similar to that of Li Zhufang before, he has already awakened his spirit and gained consciousness, and is almost at the stage of transformation, but his body has strong energy and blood, and after being pumped so much, he is just tired and has not been injured at all.

When Li Qi saw this, he didn't care much, but continued to move forward to find Mr. Huangshan.

After walking for three miles, we reached a peak in the west and saw a dangerous cliff stretching out alone, forming a gorge inside. We crossed the ridge a little lower and walked along the dangerous cliff. The mountain opened up again, so we climbed up the hillside and entered.

Entering this mountain, a wind tunnel seems to be formed here, with the wind roaring constantly and the clouds opening and closing indefinitely.

When they got here, Li Zhufang stood still: "My dear friend, Lord Huangshan is right below the Tiger Roar Cliff...but I don't dare to go down."

"Tiger Roar Cliff, this name is quite appropriate." Li Qi looked down and heard the whistling of the wind.

The sound of the wind roars and rumbles, like the roar of a tiger in the forest, which is breathtaking.

But occasionally, Li Qi could hear a real tiger's roar, full of violence and impatience, which echoed with the sound of the wind.

The roar of the tiger and the roar of the wind were mixed together, and the power shook the mountains and forests, and seemed to soar into the sea.

"This Fang Mountain God...a ninth-grade tiger demon? He has followed the divine way." Li Qi observed a few things and came to a conclusion.

Then he said to Li Zhufang: "Just wait here. I'll go down for a while and come back soon."

After saying this, Li Qi grabbed the cliff and climbed down carefully.

He also wanted to jump down handsomely, but unfortunately, he couldn't fly.

This Tiger Roar Cliff is a hundred feet high. Jump directly. After all, you have a body of ninth level martial arts. You may not fall to death, but there is no suspense about breaking your legs.

Let’s just keep climbing.

Stepping on the bumps on the rock wall along the way, Li Qi quickly reached the bottom of the cliff.

But before he arrived, he felt the murderous aura in the shadow below.

A scarlet gaze came from the lair below, through the mountain wind.

But he saw a giant tiger running out from below, wagging its tail and shaking its head, stretching its waist and arms, with a mouth like a blood basin, broad arms, a steel waist, golden claws, and an iron tail. It looked at Li Qi eagerly, roared loudly, and uttered human words. : "Where are you, kid! How dare you disturb your great master's peace?!"

After hearing this, Li Qi estimated the distance and looked at the distance below, which was about twenty feet away. His legs should have been broken due to the fall, so he simply jumped down, hit the ground hard, and stood three feet away from the tiger.

"Huangshan Jun? Really?" Li Qi asked, looking around at the same time.

The whole place was full of ferocious aura and death. There were many bones placed around it, including those of humans and other animals. They were probably piled outside by the Huangshan Lord after he finished eating them.

Li Qi didn't have any objection to him eating people. After all, he was a tiger. He not only ate people, but also other animals. He couldn't stop tigers from eating meat.

However, the placement of these bones...

Li Qi frowned: "Who taught you? The placement of these bones... There are no ghosts around you, they were all broken into pieces by you and mixed into the bones? With the aura of hundreds of fairies in the mountain as a guide, plus you The ghosts you have accumulated in the past have been nourished by the power of this mountain and water array. Do you want to give birth to a bone demon? And the intelligence of this bone demon was cultivated with your ghost spirit, so it will naturally listen to you? The order, this cruel technique... is not ordinary Shinto society, this is clearly the art of witchcraft. "

Yes, ruthless tactics, this kind of formation, sacrificing the spirit of the mountains and rivers, and at the same time killing countless little demons like Li Zhufang, and all this is to breed a ninth-grade bone demon as his Retinue.

The most important thing is that this method is from the witchcraft lineage.

Different from the orthodox witches, the witches and witches are good at refining Gu insects and cultivating evil demons to use them as followers to protect themselves. They can also specialize in casting curses. Like ghost witches, they are a branch of witchcraft and have the same methods. insidious.

This bone demon is one of the followers that can be refined by the Witch Gu lineage.

Li Qi sighed secretly.

Sure enough, was it the work of Guangyang City?

There's just a problem.

The landscape formation actually does not require blood sacrifice.

So, what do they do with the blood sacrifice? Or is the blood sacrifice a lie that Wang Baiyan tried to irritate himself?