Bu Wei

“From childhood, my master and senior brothers have always taught me to be a good person,” Feng Zizhang said with a bewildered look on his face. “Before I descended the mountain, I thought I would encounter many interesting things and meet like-minded cultivator friends. However, the two senior brothers who grew up with me were inexplicably targeted by the demon vine to extract their souls. My eldest senior brother’s soul was devoured by the demon vine and turned into vine tendrils because of my willfulness…”

“My eldest senior brother told me that life and death are normal in the cultivation world. They want me to be a good person, but I only get bullied.” Feng Zizhang thought of Han Ziyang and his two companions, his eyes turned red and he sniffed hard. “I don’t understand.”

“The first principle of the Chongzheng Alliance is to uphold righteousness and eliminate evil. Disciples of the sects who join the Chongzheng Alliance must take it upon themselves to maintain peace for all living beings,” Chu Xin said unhappily. “My martial uncle and I saved them, but when they saw that I was weak, they turned around and wanted to kill my martial uncle and me. They are also members of the Chongzheng Alliance. If I had known this, I would rather not have saved them.”

“Hall Master Mei is the most powerful female cultivator I have ever seen. She is my role model in cultivation. When the Four Seasons Hall recruited me, the hall master said that all cultivators in the hall are equal. We are all brothers and sisters, helping the weak and never bullying the weak,” Jiang Yizheng said. “But the four hall masters of spring, summer, autumn, and winter are merciless in killing their fellow disciples in the hall. Now Hall Master Mei is still bullying an innocent baby. Isn’t this bullying the weak?”

Feng Zizhang, Jiang Yizheng, and Chu Xin were hanging upside down from a tree, chatting. They had always been taught to eliminate demons, uphold the Dao, and uphold justice. However, when they really descended the mountain and came to this world, they found that imagination and reality were vastly different. They couldn’t help but feel sad and even began to doubt themselves.

Their position was extremely high, and from time to time, clouds would pass through them, leaving behind damp mist. Chu Xin tasted it curiously but couldn’t figure out what it tasted like.

“Even Zen Master Bai Yu and Elder Qing Yan remain silent,” Chu Xin said disappointedly. “I originally thought they would stand up for justice.”

“People are treacherous,” Feng Zizhang said.

“People are not as good as they used to be,” Jiang Yizheng said.

“People have the face of a human but the heart of a beast,” Chu Xin cursed.

Half an hour ago, they landed on the top of this towering redwood. In their excitement, Jiang Yizheng misspoke and said, “Our father is really powerful.” Feng Zizhang and Chu Xin nodded in agreement, and they were hung upside down from the branch of the redwood by Ning Buwei for nearly half an hour.

Clouds brushed past their faces, and below was a bottomless abyss. The clouds were far away from their heads. At this moment, their heads were all congested, and their words were incoherent.

After a long bout of complaining, Feng Zizhang finally couldn’t take it anymore. With tears in his eyes, he pleaded to Ning Buwei, who was sitting cross-legged on a large tree branch, “Senior, please let us down. We don’t want a father anymore.”

“Senior, I was wrong. How could you be our father?” Jiang Yizheng said weakly.

“No, no, no, it’s how could we be your sons.” Chu Xin corrected him.

“…” Ning Buwei wanted to kick all three of them down.

“Ah~” Ning Xiu kicked his legs in his arms, and his little feet stretched out from the swaddle and kicked on his hand. The white and tender feet were not as big as Ning Buwei’s hand.

Ning Buwei pinched his little foot, and Ning Xiu felt a little ticklish and laughed, shrinking into his arms.

Under the redwood tree, Lu Nan said, “Those people disappeared from here, they must not have gone far. Everyone can spread out and look around, but don’t use too much spiritual power.”

Some brave cultivators tried a little bit and found that as long as the spiritual power used did not exceed the range of the 13th level of Qi cultivation, there would not be too many problems. Therefore, it was completely okay to use a search talisman or a person-seeking spell.

Hearing him say this, a group of people scattered, seemingly treating Lu Nan as the leader.

Mei Luoxue also led the people from the Four Seasons Hall. Lu Nan stopped her and instructed, “This person is extremely cunning, don’t underestimate him.”

“Hm.” Mei Luoxue nodded at him and said to the people behind her, “Follow me.”

Lu Nan stood under a towering redwood tree, unable to see the top of the tree at a glance. After a moment of contemplation, he used a little spiritual power to fly up the tree branch.

Ning Buwei broke a redwood the length of a forearm and quickly carved something with the fragments in his hand. He asked Feng Zizhang and the others, “Have you ever caught a sparrow?”

“Ah?” Feng Zizhang scratched his head, “I’ve eaten it, but never caught it.”

“I’ve caught it, using a cage and spirit grain.” Jiang Yizheng said.

“Is the sparrow delicious? What does it taste like?” Chu Xin asked Feng Zizhang.

“It’s okay, the senior brother of the Linggu Sect next to Yunzhong Sect made it, it’s spicy.” Feng Zizhang honestly answered.

Ning Buwei knocked Chu Xin’s head with the redwood, and Chu Xin was frightened and shrank his neck, apologizing out of habit, “I’m sorry, I was wrong, I won’t dare next time.”

Apparently, because he was distracted and talked a lot, he was often scolded by the elders in class.

“A big sparrow flew up from the bottom of the tree, you three catch it.” Ning Buwei slapped a communication talisman on the back of each of them.

“But we can’t use spiritual power here.” Feng Zizhang raised a question, “If we fall, we’ll die.”

“Or fall and die now.” Ning Buwei gave him a slight smile.

Feng Zizhang immediately shut up obediently.

“Suppress your cultivation to the level of Qi cultivation.” Ning Buwei’s gaze fell on Jiang Yizheng, “Oh, you don’t need to.”

Jiang Yizheng covered her face in grief.

“Here it comes.” Ning Buwei turned the redwood in his hand and knocked on the legs of the three little guys hanging upside down. Feng Zizhang, Jiang Yizheng, and Chu Xin fell straight down.

“Ahhhh!”

The three of them screamed and fell, but they heard Ning Buwei’s voice behind them, “Gather qi from your Dantian.”

Chu Xin reacted the fastest, mobilizing all his spiritual power from his Dantian and Sea of Consciousness, firmly suppressing it at the Qi Refining stage, and squatted on the tree trunk with a twist of his ankle. “Eh heh.”

Feng Zizhang also hurriedly gathered his qi, clumsily grabbing a tree branch, and breathed a sigh of relief with a lingering fear.

Jiang Yizheng reacted the slowest, directly colliding with Lu Nan who was flying towards her. There was only a scream left in her throat, but she heard Ning Buwei’s voice from the communication talisman behind her, “Step on his face.”

“Ahhhh—ah?” Jiang Yizheng’s “ah” was cut off halfway, and she subconsciously followed Ning Buwei’s instructions, and just happened to step on Lu Nan’s face.

Lu Nan was immediately furious, his tiger claw grabbed Jiang Yizheng’s ankle and was about to throw her out.

Feng Zizhang shouted and came down with his sword to help her, and Chu Xin also followed closely.

“Use the Red Flame Technique to attack his lower body.” Ning Buwei said.

Jiang Yizheng’s eyes were stern, and she gathered a fist-sized fireball in her hand. This Red Flame Technique was the most basic spell, and any child with some spiritual power could do it. She aimed at Lu Nan’s lower body, originally intending to hit his leg, but she missed and hit the man’s unspeakable position.

Lu Nan was fighting with Feng Zizhang, and was caught off guard by Jiang Yizheng, and immediately let out a painful cry, making Feng Zizhang and Chu Xin’s teeth ache.

Lu Nan was angry and ashamed, and he took out a long sword and rushed straight towards Jiang Yizheng.

Under Ning Buwei’s guidance, Jiang Yizheng dodged left and right, and he didn’t even touch a corner of her clothes. Feng Zizhang and Chu Xin cooperated in pairs, attacking Lu Nan among the crisscrossing branches. Every time they thought they could kill him, he cunningly avoided it.

All four of them were now at the Qi Refining stage, but Feng Zizhang’s three people together couldn’t handle a Lu Nan. Lu Nan’s position was constantly rising.

“One person in the southeast, two in the northwest, form the Peaceful Mind Formation.” Ning Buwei’s unhurried voice came from behind the three.

The Peaceful Mind Formation was also the most basic formation, the first formation for beginners in cultivation. The three of them could form it even with their eyes closed. Although they didn’t know what the purpose of this formation was, they subconsciously followed Ning Buwei’s command.

“Heh, foolish!” Lu Nan saw them forming the Peaceful Mind Formation, sneered, and rushed down at Chu Xin and Jiang Yizheng with his long sword wrapped in strong wind. His speed was extremely fast, and he didn’t give them a chance to dodge at all. Jiang Yizheng looked at the long sword slashing towards her forehead and widened her eyes.

Just when it was a matter of life and death, a forearm-long redwood fell from above them and landed right at the eye of the formation. Lu Nan’s sword tip was less than a finger away from Jiang Yizheng’s eyes. In the next second, it was blasted into the ground by a strong force erupting from above, and his whole person was deeply buried in the soil.

Feng Zizhang and the others looked down in astonishment at the dust and soil that had exploded below.

“I’ll go kill him!” Jiang Yizheng wanted to fly down with her sword.

But she heard Ning Buwei’s faint voice, “Going down to seek death?”

Jiang Yizheng stopped instantly.

“If you can’t beat them, you have to learn to run.” Ning Buwei’s voice became somewhat ethereal, “You three fools.”

“Senior, wait for us!” Feng Zizhang was the first to react, and chased after him with a boost of energy.

Chu Xin and Jiang Yizheng also hurriedly ran.

A few moments later, Lu Nan, who was lying on the ground, got up and stared in the direction where Ning Buwei had fled, wanting to chase after him, but someone blocked his way.

Yan Lanpei looked at him with a smile, “Dulu, you really can’t keep your cool.”

Lu Nan said coldly, “That child has the aura of the Linglong bone, are they the bait you released?”

Countless vines emerged from behind Yan Lanpei, his smile turned cold, “You’re not worthy to mention the Linglong bone.”

“It wasn’t me who did what happened back then!” Lu Nan shouted angrily and charged at Yan Lanpei.

Green vines immediately flew out and pierced through Lu Nan’s entire body, but that “Lu Nan” instantly turned into a few leaves and fell to the ground. It turned out to be a decoy released by Dulu.

“Dulu, stop!” Yan Lanpei shouted angrily, echoing throughout the illusion. His powerful spiritual consciousness spread out, searching every corner of the illusion. He shouted angrily, “You were originally a servant of the Ning family. Ning Xingyuan appreciated and promoted you and took you as his disciple, but you repaid kindness with enmity and conspired with outsiders to kill the master! How dare you call yourself his holiness living in the world!”

His voice carried a huge pressure, and for a moment, the cultivators in the illusion were all shocked. Because of the unpredictable Soul Devouring Formation, they dared not use their spiritual power recklessly and could only resist hard.

“Yan Lanpei, you’re nothing more than a companion vine raised by Ning Xingyuan. Since you’re so loyal, why don’t you kill all those bastards in the Chongzheng Alliance! If you talk about repaying kindness with enmity, it should be them!” The voice of His Holiness Dulu came from all directions, near and far, “Ning Xingyuan raised you, a monster, and also raised Ning Buwei, a demon. He brought it upon himself!”

“Dulu!” Yan Lanpei laughed in anger, “Come out for me!!”

The vast illusion began to collapse and disintegrate everywhere, and countless vines penetrated in from the void, binding all the spiritual consciousness, “If you don’t come out, I will kill them one by one, I will always kill you!”

Yan Lanpei’s voice was almost mad, only to hear Dulu curse, “You’re just a madman!”

Ning Buwei and Feng Zizhang were bound in a large piece of vine. The surrounding vines closed in and formed a large ball, trapping them inside.

The conversation between Yan Lanpei and Dulu clearly fell into Ning Buwei’s ears, but there was no reaction on his face. Ning Xiu’s hearing was blocked off by his talisman. He looked at the glowing small lantern that Ning Buwei had pinched out for him, blinked his eyes, and pointed at Ning Buwei.

“Ah~”

Father~ Light~

Ning Buwei pinched his soft little hand, “Hmm.”

Ning Xiu couldn’t hear his father talking, but he could see his father’s expression under the light. He grabbed his father’s chin, which had grown a bit of stubble, puffed up his little cheeks, and blew air at his father, “Ah~ Hu~”

Father not upset~

“That Yan Lanpei said that we are all spiritual consciousness now, could it be that our bodies are not here?” Feng Zizhang asked, “He actually pulled so many people’s spiritual consciousness into the same illusion, isn’t he afraid of backlash?”

Jiang Yizheng swallowed nervously, “If you die here, wouldn’t it be the end of both mind and consciousness?”

“Has this demon vine gone mad?” Chu Xin was scared and turned pale, “Senior, what should we do now?”

Ning Buwei turned the two blades in his hand and asked them, “Want to get out?”

The three of them nodded in unison.

Ning Buwei extended a piece of blade, “Lend me some spiritual power.”

He had used up most of the spiritual power he had previously obtained from that old thing at the inn, and then used up most of it again when he was rolled into the illusion to set up the Soul Devouring Formation. The little bit of spiritual power left was used by him to pinch a small lantern for Ning Xiu that could glow. Now he had no spiritual power left in his body.

“How much do you need, senior?” Jiang Yizheng asked somewhat embarrassedly.

She only had a little left.

“You decide how much to give.” Ning Buwei said unabashedly, “I’ll give you double when I come back.”

Chu Xin was a reckless one. Upon hearing this, he immediately poured all his spiritual power into the fragment. Feng Zizhang gritted his teeth and also put all the remaining spiritual power into it. Jiang Yizheng shyly gave her remaining palm-sized spiritual power as well.

Ning Buwei looked at the three of them, who together didn’t have enough spiritual power for him to draw a talisman, and tugged at the corner of his mouth, “I’ll be back soon, help me keep an eye on the child.”

“Rest assured, senior!” Feng Zizhang and the others solemnly promised.

“Where is senior going?” Chu Xin asked curiously.

“I’m going to visit a friend.” As soon as Ning Buwei’s voice fell, he quieted down, leaving only a trace of spiritual consciousness holding the child.

He didn’t have enough spiritual power to leave. Fortunately, last time he left a bit of his own spiritual consciousness, the size of a fingernail, in the vast sea of consciousness of the other party, for the convenience of “visiting” next time.

It was a great loss.

It was a big taboo to casually enter someone else’s sea of consciousness, even between Dao companions, they would not casually enter. If one’s own spiritual consciousness was strong, it’s fine, but if the other party’s spiritual consciousness was stronger than oneself, once discovered by the other party, the consequences would be unimaginable.

But Ning Buwei was now at a dead end, and could only take risks.

He deliberately chose an inconspicuous corner. The other party’s sea of consciousness was much stronger than last time. Ning Buwei was amazed while shamelessly pouring spiritual power into his own small broken blade.

He said he was cautious, but he dared to enter this terrifying sea of consciousness again. He said he was bold, but he was cautious and gradually approached to quietly pluck the other party’s spiritual power.

In the center of the sea of consciousness, Chu Jun, who had been quiet for a long time, furrowed his brows slightly and slowly opened his eyes, and silently scanned his sea of consciousness. Sure enough, he found something unusual in an inconspicuous corner.

The other party seemed to be very cautious, not revealing their original appearance at all, even he could only see a small group of black fog.

This small group of black fog had no cultivation base, and the meridians were broken and even showed signs of exhaustion. Chu Jun could almost confirm that it was the thick-skinned cultivator from last time.

He dares to come again?

Chu Jun was truly surprised this time. Such audacity, audacity and recklessness, unfortunately, the other was very cautious. His spiritual consciousness just got a little closer, and the other party stopped moving. The small black fog was quiet for a while, and then continued to arrogantly steal his spiritual power.

The bit of spiritual power that the other party took was nothing to Chu Jun, but he could not tolerate the other party casually and easily entering his sea of consciousness. And both times it was the other party who had already come in before he discovered it, and last time, the other party was extremely cunning and escaped.

Chu Jun’s eyes were slightly dark, such a hidden danger must not be left, this time he must strangle the other party.

A small group of white fog quietly appeared behind the small black fog.

Ning Buwei filled two broken blades and was ready to go home, when his back suddenly felt cold. He had a bad feeling in his heart. He was about to run, but a small group of white fog blocked his way.