Professionals of the Starry Skies - Chapter 597

Chapter 597 Appearance

Qingyu Garden, in the wooden house where the disciples rest.

A door quietly opened, and then a figure flashed out and came under the evergreen tree.

The moonlight was dim, reflecting the figure of this person. It was a servant with rough hands and feet, and it turned out to be the old man in the medicine garden – Hua Qing!
“The evergreen tree… This tree is extremely hard, and it is difficult for cultivators below the foundation of Taoism to cut it down… But wood-type spiritual plants are naturally restrained by fire poison. Just sprinkle a bottle of ‘Xuanyuan Fire Poison Liquid’ to destroy its roots… Medicine and stone can’t save it.”

Hua Qing seemed to be talking to himself as he took out a pitch-black jade bottle from his arms.

“well……”

Suddenly, a low voice sounded.

“Who is it?”

Hua Qing was startled, with all kinds of vicious light flashing in his eyes. A shadow puppet turned into a fox demon and landed on the ground.

Puff!

The ground cracked and thorny vines appeared like pythons, tightly binding the shadow fox.

A figure walked out of the darkness, with dark skin and honest features. It was Fei Changqing!

However, at this moment, Fei Changqing was actually protected by a murderous aura, and he seemed to be performing some secret technique. His magic power was abundant and powerful, even comparable to that of a person in the Gangqi realm.

“Fei Changqing? Impossible… I clearly put it in the food…” Hua Qing seemed to have thought of something and his face turned extremely ugly.

“You put ‘You Tan Xiang’ in the food. This spice is non-toxic to the human body and can help you sleep… Therefore, an old herbalist like Meng Tiandong didn’t suspect it, but unfortunately, you can’t hide it from me…”

Fei Changqing shook his head: “Are you a spy from the Blood Shadow Sect? It seems that the real Hua Qing is already dead… What a pity, why did you come to harm this evergreen tree? This is my…foundation for enlightenment…”

By the end of his speech, his voice was so low that it could not be heard, and he flicked his hands, and strange little flags were inserted all around.

These small flags were surprisingly all made of spiritual wood and spiritual silk, mixed together to form a formation.

Green tree shadows emerged, completely covering the area with effects such as enemy defense and sound insulation.

“Is this… a formation?”

“No, this is the ‘Twelve Green Wood God Controlling Flag’. Although its quality is average, it is definitely not something that an ordinary Qi Sensing disciple can refine or use… Who are you?”

Hua Qing’s expression changed drastically, and he took out a leather mask and put it on his face.

In an instant, she turned into a demon!
This demon was two meters tall, with three heads: a sheep’s head, a cow’s head, and a pig’s head, but underneath was a human body, covered with black fur and scales, and its hands were shaped like bird claws.

It looked as if various monsters and human bodies were randomly spliced together.

“Hundred Shadow Puppets… You are considered a core disciple in the Blood Shadow Sect.”

“disease!”

Fei Changqing tapped his hands repeatedly, activating the ‘Twelve Green Wood God-Controlling Flags’. One after another, illusory green vines emerged, like chains, wrapping around the Hundred-faced Shadow Demon.

At the same time, he reached into his flying squirrel bag with his right hand and took out a handful of bean seeds.

These bean seeds took root and quickly grew into bean puppets.

Boom!
In the formation, the puppet demons kept roaring, but not a single sound leaked out of the formation.

After a moment, a scream was heard.

“You…you are not Fei Changqing at all!”

“You are ‘Xuan Mu Zhenren’!”

Both heads of the Hundred-faced Shadow Demon were chopped off, but the remaining pig head made a mocking sound: “Haha… You were killed by our real master, but you were able to escape with a little bit of your Yin spirit and take over another body to be reborn… but you don’t even dare to return to the sect. Obviously, the internal fighting in Qingmu Ridge has been so fierce that it is beyond imagination. This battle will be won by our sect. I’ll wait for you downstairs…”

Puff!
Before he finished speaking, a green wooden flying sword slashed over and cut off the pig’s head.

The entire shadow puppet collapsed like a deflated ball, turning into a pool of smelly skin.

Strands of blood seeped out from the skin.

Fei Changqing sighed, put away the formation flag, and skillfully cleaned the battlefield without leaving a trace.

“Xuan Mu has long been dead. Now I am… just Fei Changqing.”

He came to the evergreen tree, reached out his hand to touch the bark of the giant tree, and silently practiced his skills.

He absorbed every wisp of wonderful breath.

“The aptitude of this body is still too poor. If I practice step by step, I will never be able to break through the foundation until I die…”

“Only by practicing the ‘Eternal Secret’ and absorbing the ‘Aura of the Years’ of the evergreen wood, can one be sure to forge a superior foundation for the Dao – ‘Sui Mu Qiu’. Then, when the time comes, use the ‘Skill of Seizing the Dao and Swallowing the Foundation’ to devour a cultivator who has forged the ‘Shui Linglong’ foundation for the Dao. Then, one can achieve the ‘Shui Mu Nian Hua’ magical power and ascend to the position of a real person again…”

It is precisely because the evergreen tree is related to his own cultivation that Fei Changqing would take the risk.

There were too many abnormalities about him, so he didn’t dare to inform the local Taoist manager.

After a round of daily practice, he whistled and a blue hummingbird landed on his arm.

“Hmm… that person has been in the tree house and hasn’t come out? Very good…”

Fei Changqing fed the hummingbird a pill, a look of satisfaction appeared on his face, and he returned to the wooden house to rest.

After a moment.

There was a flash of light above the earth, and a pangolin emerged.

The kingfisher didn’t take it seriously. Instead, it walked up to the pangolin and huddled close to it, as if greeting its new friend.

“What a cute little fellow…”

Fang Xing waved his claws casually, and a ball of green light the size of a soybean sank into the hummingbird’s body.

If Fei Changqing saw this scene, he would probably vomit blood.

The hummingbird he had cultivated with secret methods to monitor Fang Xing seemed to have turned against him…

“If it weren’t for this hummingbird… I would probably only be able to sense that Hua Qing had a problem, but I didn’t expect that Fei Changqing, no, Xuanmu Zhenren had a bigger problem… Yin Shen Zhenren took over another body and was reborn? What kind of story is this?”

Fang Xing came under the evergreen tree and sensed this ancient tree with the natural affinity of a druid.

Then, the scenes that happened under the tree reappeared before his eyes like a movie.

“Hmm… This Fei Changqing is indeed the reincarnation of Yinshen Zhenren. He actually refined a set of formations to protect himself at the Qi Sensing Realm?”

‘And this bean puppet, flying sword… their methods are truly amazing, ordinary Hunyuan Qi cultivators are no match for them.’

‘He actually absorbed the energy of the tree rings to cultivate? This will obviously create a different foundation for his path… So this is the reason why he came to Qingyu Garden?’

Although Fang Xing could not see much, he knew that the technique that Fei Changqing was practicing seemed to require absorbing some special aura from the evergreen tree, which was probably related to the passage of time. In other words, he had to stay in the medicine garden for a long time.

He didn’t know that the foundation of the ‘Sui Mu Qiu’ Taoism was a secret teaching of Qingmuling. When one is in the initial and middle stages of sensing qi, one can practice by absorbing the breath of evergreen trees that are hundreds or thousands of years old.

But when one reaches the later stage of sensing Qi, especially when one wants to break through the foundation of the Tao, one must absorb the Qi from the annual rings of the evergreen tree.

What’s more important is… the energy of the growth rings cannot be achieved overnight. It must go through a complete spring and autumn before the growth rings will grow one circle bigger.

Once you choose an evergreen tree, it is difficult to change it.

Otherwise, if the Blood Shadow Sect spy wanted to destroy the evergreen tree, Fei Changqing would not have been so anxious to take action.

“There’s no need to rush into a showdown…”

“First, do some thorough research, then find a few soul-searching and torture techniques, and practice them to a high level before you talk…”

Fang Xing fell to the ground and the pangolin disappeared immediately.

…

A few months later.

“It seems that there are spies from the Blood Shadow Sect among us recently. Junior Brother Fang, please be careful…”

Fei Changnong personally escorted a batch of supplies over, and when handing them over, he solemnly said to Fang Xingdao.

“Thank you for your concern, Senior Brother. Since the incident with Hua Qing, we have been conducting a strict investigation…”

Fang Xing clasped his fists.

A few months ago, Hua Qing disappeared, so he naturally reported it.

Then Fei Changnong came to investigate but found nothing, so he could only conclude the case by saying that the victim was a spy from the Blood Shadow Sect and died without a complete body.

In fact, it was a blessing in disguise.

After Fei Changnong left, Fang Xing looked at his somewhat anxious disciples and said, “Why are you still standing there? Why don’t you continue to work? You should learn more from Fei Changqing, who has the skill of nourishing his Qi without changing his expression even when a huge mountain collapses in front of him…”

He was giving a long speech there, while Dong Meier was complaining in her heart: “That Fei Changqing is just a fool…”

At this time, Fei Changqing, who was still dealing with weeds in the field, raised his head and smiled innocently.

I don’t know why, but when Fei Changqing glanced at Fang Xing, he felt a sense of fear…

As usual, Fang Xing lay on the soft chair with spiritual tea and snacks at hand, and began to supervise the disciples at work.

After drinking tea and eating snacks, he picked up an ancient thread-bound book and pretended to read it.

The cover of the book is “The Heroes of Aoki”, which tells the stories of the outstanding talents of Aoki Ridge.

Fang Xing flipped through the pages and came to the column about Xuanmu Zhenren:
“Xuanmu Zhenren, whose secular name is ‘Ye Xuanqing’, was born with a vision. He worshipped at Qingmuling when he was young. He established his foundation at the age of forty-six and ascended to the level of Zhenren at the age of one hundred and fifty-seven…”

“Since his debut, he has killed countless evil demons and monsters. He is good at formations and has refined a set of real-person-level ‘Twelve Green Wood God-Controlling Flags’ as his life-long magic weapon, which is extremely powerful…”

When Fang Xing read the rest of the book, he discovered that it was all praise for the master, without any record of his death.

Before, Fei Changnong had only said that the situation on the sect’s front line was very good, with victory after victory, and even the death of Taoist monks was very rare, not to mention the Yinshen Zhenren or something like that…

“Alas… If I really believed it, I might get cheated…”

Fang Xing secretly complained and picked up another miscellaneous book.

What is recorded here is the introduction of the sects in the foreign land, and even some sects of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Among them is the “Killing Cult”!
“According to the contempt chain of the outside world, the Great Zhou Dynasty is good… Therefore, the longer you can persist, the stronger you are…”

‘In other words, the sect that couldn’t bear it first and was forced to migrate was the weakest… and the Killing Sect that has managed to hold on until now is even stronger than the Flying Sword Sect!’

“As for Qingmu Ridge? Sorry, this sect has always boasted of its long history… It seems that among the ten great sects of good and evil, it was one of the first to move to the outside world…”

(End of this chapter)