Seeking Immortality

Jiuhua Back Mountain is still quiet at this time. Looking around, one can see a vast expanse of green, sometimes dotted with green shades and colorful flowers, which makes people outside the scenery feel peaceful.

But Xu Qingfan couldn't feel this tranquility. His heart still stayed on the top of Jiuhua Mountain with white snow and cold wind. Although the climate there was dry and cold, living there felt extremely warm.

At least that was the case when the old man was still alive.

When Zhang Hualing announced that he would take back the Baicao Garden on the top of Jiuhua Mountain, Xu Qingfan couldn't describe how he felt. He seemed angry, helpless, and yet a little relaxed.

At this time, Xu Qingfan was taking Ting'er Xiaobi and flying "Wanli Cloud" towards the familiar but almost forgotten place in the back mountain.

Under the control of Xu Qingfan, the "Wanli Cloud" now turned into a beacon with a radius of ten feet, so even the huge Xiaobi could be carried on it. However, a huge cloud with colorful rays of light and a huge monster beast on it always seemed a bit nondescript.

After Liu Huaxiang passed away, Xiao Bi also seemed a little listless, or it suddenly realized that the old man who often fed it spiritual grass would never appear again.

But Ting'er was still cold, just staring at Xu Qingfan beside her silently, her eyes seemed to contain something.

But Xu Qingfan was not in the mood to watch the scenery in the back mountains of Jiuhua, nor was he in the mood to observe the reactions of Ting'er and Xiaobi. He just silently played with the two Liu Huaxiang relics that Zhang Hualing gave him in his hands.

One was a crystal stone with a strange light, about the size of a fist, but the top corner was missing, as if someone had deliberately broken it off. But Xu Qingfan discovered that although this crystal stone looked inconspicuous, it was extremely hard, but he didn't know who had broken it off by what means or what it had been used for. Unfortunately, Xu Qingfan did not see any energy fluctuations from this crystal stone. I don’t know what the name of this crystal stone is, what its function is, and what Liu Huaxiang’s purpose was in passing this crystal stone to him.

Looking at this crystal stone, Xu Qingfan always felt a sense of familiarity, as if he had seen it somewhere before. There should be a relevant introduction in a certain book. But I can't remember it. After thinking about it for a long time, I could only give up and secretly decided to search carefully in various books after returning to the cave.

The other relic was just an ordinary letter. According to Zhang Hualing, after Xu Qingfan left the top of Jiuhua Mountain to accept the conferment at Hualing Hall. Liu Huaxiang was teaching Ting'er how to cultivate immortality as usual, but suddenly his face changed, and he silently walked back to the house, wrote this letter, then lay on the bed and never got up again. It can be said that this letter is Liu Huaxiang's last instruction to Xu Qingfan.

On the envelope of the letter. Five big characters jumped out on it: "Xu Xiaozi personally opened it." The handwriting was messy, and it seemed that Liu Huaxiang had lost all his strength when the space agency wrote the letter.

Looking at the letter in his hand, as if he didn't want to face it, Xu Qingfan hesitated slightly, and finally slowly opened the letter and read it carefully.

In the letter, there were still a few confusing lines, no farewell, and no affectionate words. It just told Xu Qingfan a few things and asked Xu Qingfan to do a few things.

After slowly reading the contents of the letter, Xu Qingfan opened the letter. Put it in your arms and close it up. Then he murmured: "Really? In that case, I will fulfill these things as your last wish."

Although Xu Qingfan did not deliberately go to the envoy, as he was muttering to himself, the scenery in front of him was already like the cave he lived in nearly thirty years ago, which was currently surrounded by a fog. But it was exactly the defensive formation that Xu Qingfan set up for this cave before he left.

Pinch fingers. Open the closed cave, and the scenery inside remains the same. Walking with Tinger Xiaobi into this place that seems to have become strange. Xu Qingfan sighed slightly, bowed deeply to Yue Qingru's tomb in the courtyard, and said softly: "Senior Brother, Junior Brother, I have been busy practicing these years, but I haven't come to see you for a long time. Don't be surprised."

As he said that, Xu Qingfan suddenly turned around and looked at Ting'er, who was watching him silently. When their eyes met, Xu Qingfan suddenly smiled, patted Ting'er on the shoulder, and said softly: "I have been kneeling in front of the coffin for the past seven days to keep vigil. "Although your body will be fine with your system, you must be feeling tired in your heart, right?"

Ting'er shook her head and said softly: "You are more tired."

Xu Qingfan was slightly stunned, but he did not expect that Ting'er, who had always been taciturn, would actually talk to him at this time. However, Liu Huaxiang had just passed away, and he was not in the mood to be happy or confused anymore, but he felt a little more relieved in his heart. She smiled again, and then suddenly waved her right sleeve, and two gleaming magic weapons suddenly appeared in front of Ting'er.

But it was the "Wanli Yun" and "Qingling Arm Guard" that Xu Qingfan had used before.

But I heard Xu Qingfan say to Ting'er: "You are about to enter the period of spiritual death, about ten years earlier than I expected. So whether I don't interrogate you, Grandpa Liu, I haven't had time to prepare a magic weapon for you. . These two magic weapons were used by me before I formed the elixir. They are Wanliyun for flying and Qingling Armguard for defense. I can’t use them now, so I’ll give them to you.”

Indeed, Xu Qingfan has now entered the elixir formation stage and can already perform the "Cloud Control Technique", and the effect is no worse than the "Wanli Cloud". And with the "Five Spirit Bell" whose defense power is not inferior to the heaven-level magic weapon, the defense of "Qingling Armguard" becomes redundant, so it is just given to Ting'er who does not have any magic weapon yet.

Ting'er nodded. She didn't refuse at all when facing Xu Qingfan. She also waved her right sleeve and put the "Wanli Cloud" and "Qingling Armguard" into her sleeve.

Xu Qingfan nodded and said: "You are already familiar with this place. Now go back to your own room and refine these two magic weapons. From now on, Grandpa Liu is no longer here. If you have any questions about your cultivation of immortality, just Come and ask me."

Ting'er nodded slightly. He looked deeply at Xu Qingfan again, a trace of worry seemed to flash in his eyes, and then without saying anything else, he silently turned around and went back to the house to refine the magic weapon.

Xiaobi, on the other hand, suddenly returned to the place where she lived "when she was a child". She seemed a little excited and was rolling around in the courtyard, crushing countless flowers and plants in the courtyard. It seems that the listlessness just now has been forgotten.

At this time, Xu Qingfan had no intention of stopping Xiaobi's nonsense. He just bowed to Yue Qingru's tombstone again, then turned and walked towards his previous room.

This cave in the back mountain of Xu Qingfan. The surrounding environment is quiet and distant, with a very ethereal feeling. The house he was in was also a neat and exquisite wooden house, although it was not elegant. But also neat. Compared with the dilapidated thatched house that Xu Qingfan lived in for the past twenty or thirty years, it is more than ten times better?

But Xu Qingfan found that he liked and was more accustomed to that dilapidated thatched cottage.

Suddenly, Xu Qingfan seemed to remember something, and a wry smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

It turned out that Xu Qingfan suddenly remembered that if the dilapidated thatched house he lived on the top of Jiuhua Mountain represented his memories of Liu Huaxiang, then how could the wooden house in the back mountain of Jiuhua not be his memories of his senior brother Yue Qingru?

But now. Xu Qingfan found that he was more nostalgic for the dilapidated thatched cottage represented by Liu Huaxiang. Is it because his feelings for Liu Huaxiang were deeper than those for Yue Qingru?

No matter whether it was his senior brother Yue Qingru who had taken good care of him, or Liu Huaxiang who was also his teacher and friend. He, Xu Qingfan, seems to be all elders who are extremely important to him. Their feelings are the same, with a hint of nostalgia in their gratitude.

But at this time, Xu Qingfan missed Liu Huaxiang's thatched cottage even more. There was only one reason to explain it, and that was that Yue Qingru had been dead for nearly fifty years, but Liu Hua had only been dead for seven days.

When Yue Qingru just passed away, was Xu Qingfan not feeling sad? Even Xu Qingfan didn't have much experience at that time. My heart has not been numbed by the successive encounters, and the sorrow and pain are much deeper than now. However, more than 40 years have passed, and any grief and nostalgia will be washed away by time and slowly fade away. Until it disappears. Just like Xu Qingfan is facing Yue Qingru at this moment. Or forty years later, Xu Qingfan versus Liu Huaxiang.

One cannot always live in the past. Always forget, time can always make people forget everything, even the grief when losing a loved one. This is human nature, but this common behavior made Xu Qingfan a little confused.

Because of this common feeling, he felt a sense of guilt in his heart. No one wants to be forgotten, but he found that he had gradually forgotten Yue Qingru, or forty years later, he would also gradually forget Liu Huaxiang. In this continuous forgetting and being forgotten, Xu Qingfan suddenly felt that maybe human nature is to be lonely. First, he keeps forgetting the people around him, and then he keeps being forgotten by the people around him.

Xu Qingfan shook his head slightly, putting aside the random and boring emotions in his heart, and walked towards the bookshelf in the room. Xu Qingfan always felt that the crystal stone would not be that simple.

Looking through books, Xu Qingfan has not done this kind of thing for decades, because before this he found that for the same doubt, instead of looking through books, it would be better to ask Liu Huaxiang. Liu Huaxiang's mind is full of information, and almost any information can't be found. Yes, the answers you get when you ask him are much more accurate and detailed than reading a book.

Unfortunately, Liu Huaxiang was no longer around at this time, and the letter he left to Xu Qingfan did not mention the crystal stone at all.

There are many books left by Yue Qingru, and Xu Qingfan has also collected some over the years, which is even more huge. Although Xu Qingfan is sure that he accidentally saw the information about this crystal stone in a certain book, but which book is it? But it has been forgotten. When I looked for it, I didn’t know how long it would take to find it.

But there was plenty of time at this time, and Xu Qingfan was not in a hurry. He just opened it slowly and slowly, forgetting everything else for a while, and time passed by silently.

Three days later.

Xu Qingfan was holding a copy of "Miscellaneous Notes on the World of Immortal Cultivation" and was opening it. Suddenly, when he saw a piece of information, his expression froze.

This passage describes the battle between immortal cultivators and demon cultivators more than ten thousand years ago.

"The nine magic beads sacrificed by the Demon Ancestor are collected from the essence and blood of hundreds of millions of wronged souls. They are made up of the evil energy of heaven and earth. Their power is boundless. My immortal cultivators were killed and injured countless times when they were used. However, the way of heaven moves and self-preservation is fair and righteous. Yiwuming The cultivator accidentally got a crystal stone when the magic power was at its peak. It was not very strange at first, but it could be easily dispelled when the evil spirit of the innocent soul invaded. It was the nemesis of the magic bead. However, although this thing was strange, after searching the vast land of China, only seven were found. Block. Use this to make the sword of the Holy Spirit, and you can defeat the nine demon beads, and this crystal stone is called the Holy Spirit Stone."

See this paragraph. Xu Qingfan took out the crystal stone that Liu Huaxiang left for him and observed it carefully. He thought to himself: "Could this crystal stone be the legendary Holy Spirit Stone? No wonder I couldn't remember the origin of this crystal stone before. It turns out that Its source is not in those books that introduce genius treasures, but in this book about the history of the world of immortality."

Though thinking this way, Xu Qingfan was not sure that this spiritual stone was the "Holy Spirit Stone". He also thought: "At that time, the whole cultivation world gathered its strength. Searching the entire Shenzhou, only seven of these Holy Spirit Stones were found. In the past ten thousand years, Holy Spirit Stones have rarely appeared. You can imagine how precious it is. I'm afraid. This Holy Spirit Stone is the most precious collection of Uncle Liu in his life. However, since this Holy Spirit Stone is so precious, why didn't Uncle Liu give it to the sect, but gave it to me as a relic? Is there any deep meaning?"

When Xu Qingfan thought of this, his heart suddenly moved slightly, and he murmured: "Is it for the mutant dry air in my body? Uncle Liu wants me to use this Holy Spirit Stone to suppress or even solve the disaster of mutant dry air in my body?"

Thinking of this, Xu Qingfan hesitated slightly in his heart, and then mobilized the mutant dry air in his body. Slowly input it into this crystal stone.

But at the moment when Xu Qingfan's mutant dry air entered the crystal stone, the crystal stone, which originally had no energy fluctuations, suddenly shone brightly, and an extremely powerful holy spirit suddenly gushed out from the crystal stone, not only instantly repelling the mutant dry air input into the crystal stone, but also rushing into Xu Qingfan's body quickly.

And these holy spirits rushed into Xu Qingfan's body without hesitation. Just like the mutant dry air entrenched in Xu Qingfan's dantian. And the mutant dry air faced this holy spirit as if it was facing a dead place, and did not retreat. It was not controlled by Xu Qingfan and took the initiative to rush towards this holy spirit, and collided fiercely. Although the mutant dry air was very powerful, the holy spirit was not inferior, and the amount was endless, and it soon fell into a disadvantage.

At the moment when the two energies of different natures collided with each other, Xu Qingfan's body was severely injured, his face turned pale instantly, and he vomited large mouthfuls of blood one after another.

It turned out that at the moment when the Holy Spirit Qi collided with the mutated dry air, although a lot of the mutated dry air was dispersed, Xu Qingfan's body was also severely damaged by the collision of these two energies. The meridians that were originally strong were almost broken in an instant.

Feeling the severe damage to his body, Xu Qingfan was horrified and threw away the crystal stone in his hand without hesitation, and the Holy Spirit Qi in his body slowly disappeared.

Wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, Xu Qingfan smiled bitterly in his heart. This crystal stone may really be the "Holy Spirit Stone". At least the extremely powerful Holy Spirit Qi contained in it will not be fake, but with Xu Qingfan's current body, he can't withstand the collision caused by this Holy Spirit Qi when dispersing the mutated dry air. The injury to Xu Qingfan's meridians will be catastrophic.

In fact, this crystal stone is the rare "Holy Spirit Stone" in the world of cultivation. It was obtained by Li Xuhan accidentally hundreds of years ago. It can be said to be the largest and most precious collection in Li Xuhan's life. Even if it is placed in Jiuhua Mountain, it needs to be placed in the third-level secret library, and it is one of the most precious treasures. The missing corner of this "Holy Spirit Stone" is the corner that Ji Xuhan finally broke off after trying every possible way, and then put it into Zhang Xusheng's heart to plot against Zhang Xusheng.

Zhang Xusheng used the blood and souls of millions of people to strengthen and transform himself. Although it is different from the method of cultivating magic ten thousand years ago, it is also restrained by the "Holy Spirit Stone". Although the Holy Spirit in this "Holy Spirit Stone" is extremely restrained, Li Xuhan is still worried about being discovered by Zhang Xusheng, so he only hides a corner of it in his heart. Even so, the Holy Spirit contained in it can keep Zhang Xusheng busy for decades. It can be seen how powerful and terrifying the Holy Spirit contained in this "Holy Spirit Stone" is.

Li Xuhan left this "Holy Spirit Stone" to Xu Qingfan, not only because he wanted Xu Qingfan to use it to suppress the mutated dry air in his body, but also because it was used as a precaution when Xu Qingfan completed something he had told him to do in the letter.

But Xu Qingfan didn't know this, and he used the wrong method to suppress the mutated dry air, and as a result, he was severely injured when the mutated dry air and the Holy Spirit Qi intersected. If Xu Qingfan had thrown away the "Holy Spirit Stone" a moment later, it would be very likely that Xu Qingfan's meridians would be broken.

Feeling the situation in his body, Xu Qingfan smiled bitterly in his heart, and could only slowly sit down, swallow several healing elixirs in succession, and then reluctantly use the spiritual energy in his body to slowly heal the severe injuries in his body.

Although Xu Qingfan did it unintentionally this time, he was severely injured. I don't know how long it took, the light and darkness outside the house changed day and night, and even Ting'er had refined the first magic weapon. Xu Qingfan finally finished healing and slowly opened his eyes.

After waking up, Xu Qingfan looked at the Holy Spirit Stone that he had thrown on the ground before, and shook his head with a wry smile.

This crystal stone might really be the "Holy Spirit Stone", and it also has a suppressing effect on the mutated dry air, but he can't use it at all. He couldn't help but feel helpless.

Suddenly, Xu Qingfan's heart moved slightly, as if he thought of something again, and then picked up the crystal stone from the ground again, and used the spiritual energy in his body again, and carefully transferred it into the crystal stone.

But unlike last time, the spiritual energy Xu Qingfan transferred this time was the Mu Yi spiritual energy in his body.