Chapter 97 [097] Inner Demon

"Is that... the Virtual Thought Technique?" A cultivator on the ground turned slightly pale.

The Xu Nian Jue is a banned mental method in the world of cultivation. No disciple who aims to become an immortal would practice it in order to improve his or her cultivation in a short period of time. Moreover, the original text of the mental method is now in Sanqing Mountain, and even the handwritten copies that circulated in the past have long been destroyed.

The later monks learned about this practice from the lessons taught by the old Taoist masters.

Those who practice the Xu Nian Jue increase their strength at the cost of burning their lives. During the practice, with each level increased, an extra circle of spells will appear on the body, one open, half open, three open, and fully open, for a total of four levels. A master can jump up to four levels of cultivation in a short period of time.

Although it sounds tempting, when it is fully activated, it is equivalent to completely burning out all the vitality of the practitioner, and eventually dying.

Even if they never fully activated the spell in their lifetime, their lifespan would be the same as that of ordinary mortals, just a few decades.

Over the past tens of millions of years, there have been people who have practiced cultivation, but most of them were those who had a blood feud and wanted to die after taking their revenge.

Some disciples of the sect who recognized it didn't expect that there were actually people in Sanqing Mountain who were actually practicing this thing!
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After chanting the spell three times, his cultivation level jumped from Golden Elixir to Crossing the Tribulation.

Shi Qing was at the second level of the Golden Core, and when he jumped to the second level of the Tribulation Realm, he was also at the second level.

However, the second level still couldn't see through Changzhu's cultivation level, and that man was still above her.

Changzhu didn't seem to expect Shi Qing to have this skill. The light in the man's eyes became more excited, as if he saw a toy that could stir the blood in his body.

"Interesting! Interesting!" The demon with a human face let out a low laugh, and a pair of eyes with only black frames suddenly burst out with a thick purple mist.

His body began to condense like other monsters, and eventually became a human body, but his entire body was still in the form of swirling mist and had no substance.

After casting the spell, Shi Qing no longer had any extra spiritual energy to control the bandages.

The long strip of bandage fell straight down from the moment it came off her body.

Zhongli Jin suddenly rushed forward and caught the bandage before it was about to sink into the dust, his pair of scarlet eyes staring at the sky.

At this moment, a strong hatred seemed to arise in his heart again.

He hated that his cultivation had been destroyed by the demon cultivator and that he had lost his spiritual roots. Even after being reshaped, he was powerless to do anything about the situation. It seemed like he could do nothing to help Shi Qing.

I hated myself for having to watch that emerald green figure rush to the front again and again at the cost of burning my vitality.

why?
Why on earth?
Is being strong so important?
Is it so important that she is willing to practice this kind of mental method that may take her life?
Zhongli Jin really wanted to ask Shi Yue why he was like this, but the man had not come out since the disciples of Jinping Peak went down the mountain to collect herbs, so he couldn't even see him, let alone ask him.

My heart ached so much as if someone was squeezing it tightly with one hand, and the force was even increasing, and it was almost about to burst in the next second.

His breathing began to become increasingly difficult, and he felt an indescribable feeling of suffocation all over his body.

Beads of sweat appeared on his forehead and slid down his cheeks. The strange thing was that those beads of sweat turned into a cloud of misty black smoke and dissipated a second before dripping onto the ground.

In the chaotic battlefield, no one noticed this tiny scene.

Even Zhongli Jin himself didn't notice it.

[Junior! Junior! Can you hear what I am saying?!]

The old man's voice finally sounded again at this moment.

After being drawn into the psychedelic array by the fake senior sister, the boy tried to call the old woman in his mind, but there was no response.

Unexpectedly, the other party finally spoke at this time: [You are crazy again! There is something strange about your body! !] [Strange?] Zhong Lijin was stunned and woke up from the endless hatred and complaints.

[Young man, there is something in your body that seems to want to suppress me.] After the old man rescued Zhong Lijin from the Magic and Martial Secret Realm, he always felt a kind of irresistible fatigue.

The time and frequency of his sleep increased. Something in the boy's body was competing with him for the right to exist in Zhongli Jin's mind.

The brilliance of the ring gradually faded, but the cinnabar between the boy's eyebrows became more and more charming.

Zhongli Jin was also vaguely aware that his heart, thoughts, and ideas would sometimes inevitably or uncontrollably fall into a state of paranoia.

Every time this happened, he would start to become a little crazy.

But thanks to the reminders from the people around him and the old man's awakening in his mind as soon as he realized something was wrong with him, the boy was able to come out of it quickly.

Now that the old man mentioned it again, there was something that wanted to suppress his existence.

Zhongli Jin realized that he had most likely developed a demon in his heart without realizing it.

The first time he used his spiritual power to enter Shi Qing's body from the center of her eyebrows, during the process, he thought of the girl's upcoming breakthrough to the Jindan stage, and he felt jealous, so he was uneasy and restless.

The second time was when he lost his memory and was in the fairy ship. He felt disappointed and in pain when he learned that he could no longer hold the sword. He had strong negative emotions, perhaps because of a demon in his heart. That's why Shi Qing suddenly rushed in and said something without any context that there was a demonic aura.

In a place with abundant spiritual energy, Shi Qing is very sensitive to demonic energy, and her judgment was not wrong.

But there is demonic energy, and that demonic energy comes from the young man himself, which is the demon in his heart.

The third time... the fourth time...

Unexpectedly, his demonic disorder has even affected the old man.

"I'm sorry..." Zhong Lijin said hoarsely, "I'm the one who caused trouble for you, Senior..."

He always prides himself on being calm and letting go of many past events.

But in the end he found that he couldn't really be so free and easy.

The demonic obstacles had already arisen, and his mind was unstable. He was always disturbed by many things around him, and his emotions began to fluctuate and his heart was in turmoil.

[Young man, from now on, no matter what happens, you must stay calm and not give the demons in your heart a chance to take advantage of you.] The old man said earnestly, [I barely suppressed the things in your body so that I could wake up quickly and remind you - if you are dragged into the demonic state by him again, it will be difficult for you to recover.]

Zhongli Jin raised his eyes and looked at the girl who was fighting with Changzhu in the sky. His voice trembled slightly, and his red lips opened and closed slightly. He suppressed the turmoil in his heart and said, "I...will."

[That girl is determined to rush to the front and fight the demons alone. Young man, don't lose to your sweetheart. Even if you are not a sword cultivator, your formation and talisman are enough to save all the disciples here! ]

Sweetheart.

Zhongli Jin silently repeated these three words.

He held the girl's bandage tightly in his hand.

At this moment, he realized that his heart was not really that strong. He would always collapse, but Shi Qing would never collapse. At least, in the scenes he saw, Shi Qing was the one who was always calm and self-controlled, and became the pillar that supported him to persevere.

Now - the magic circle has been formed, and the next thing to do is to activate it.

Shi Qing: I'm in the front row
Chen Xiang: I'm in the back row
Zhongli Jin: I assist