Bai Guyi burst into the cave where Ling Hun was located and, seeing him sitting cross-legged on the bed, was immediately overtaken by rage. Pointing at Ling Hun's nose, he lashed out with a torrent of curses.

He hadn't seen Ling Hun for over a hundred years and had accumulated a great deal of resentment, which now erupted all at once.

In the past, whenever he had accused Ling Hun, Ling Hun would retort with biting sarcasm, infuriating him to the point of physical pain. But now, Ling Hun sat there unshaken, silent no matter how he was berated, which initially gave Bai Guyi some satisfaction. However, as time passed, he found it meaningless and eventually stopped.

"You heartless wretch, completely indifferent to the bonds of brotherhood! Xue Hong's physical body has been burned, gone to reincarnate, how can you have the face to flaunt this shell of yours? I'll destroy it for you and send you on your way to reincarnation."

After uttering these words, Bai Guyi pointed his hand and unleashed the Taiyin Hook. A curved white light flew out, circling Ling Hun's neck, first making a head roll to the ground. Then, worried that Ling Hun might have some clever technique to reattach and revive himself, he spun the hook light several more times, chopping the body into many pieces—shoulder to waist, left rib to right back—ensuring that he could not reshape and revive himself before he called it quits.

Having slain Ling Hun's physical form, the rage in Bai Guyi's heart slowly dissipated. Realizing he couldn't linger, he hastily left the cave and hurried away.

No sooner had he escaped into the eastern sky and vanished quickly, Ling Hun and the white-haired Dragon Girl, Cui Wugu, flew back from the south.

Ling Hun arrived at the Kaiyuan Temple in Kunming, where the magic duel had ended and everyone had left. He was about to inquire about the events from the monks when Cui Wugu returned. The couple headed home together, and on the way, Ling Hun listened to Cui Wugu recount the details of the day's events, sighing incessantly.

When the two returned to their cave and saw the body chopped to pieces, Ling Hun was overcome with darkness in his eyes and a surge of anger coated the surface of his Primordial Spirit Body. "The audacious villain! I have neither grievance nor grudge against him, yet he dares to destroy my body!"

Cui Wugu quickly inquired about what had happened. Ling Hun, unable to contain his fury, briefly described the encounter with the umbrella-selling youth in Chengdu earlier that day and was ready to seek a fight. "If I have returned this swiftly, he surely can't have gone far!" With that, he flew out of the cave, scanning the surroundings, grabbed several gusts of wind to confirm someone had indeed been there and had fled eastward, and so he pursued to the east.

Cui Wugu still had some sense and found the situation exceedingly strange. She propped herself with the Dragon Head Cane and closely examined the mutilated corpse.

Suddenly, when a figure shrouded in colorful light appeared behind her.

"Who goes there!" Cui Wugu quickly turned, wielding her Dragon Head Cane across, and saw a youth in green holding an Iron Umbrella. She was startled. "My husband and I bear no enmity with the Iron Umbrella, why would you commit such a cruel act?"

Shi Feiyang smiled and said, "I'm not a disciple of the Iron Umbrella, nor have I ever harmed Ling in any way."

After speaking, he inhaled sharply, and the entire cave twisted and contorted. Like an illusion, it rapidly shrank into a stream of Five-Colored Radiant Light that he swallowed into his stomach.

Cui Wugu looked around once more; where was she if not inside a cave? She was standing on a snowy cliff, with their true cave dwelling situated within the neighboring snow peak.

She was greatly amazed in her heart and thought to herself that this young man possessed formidable skills. With her discerning eyes, there were few illusions in the world that could deceive her, yet the opponent had created such a vast illusion that both she and her husband had been fooled. Although she belonged to a side path, her Dao Level had already reached an extremely high realm, and in a moment of thought, she realized the truth, "Did the fellow Daoist come to rescue my husband's body?"

Shi Feiyang smiled and nodded, "I was passing through Chengdu when I divined that Ling was facing a life-threatening crisis. I tried to warn him through the pretense of selling umbrellas, but he mistook me for a bad person. Tonight, barely after Ling's Primordial Spirit left, Bai Guyi from the two elders of Song Mountain arrived. I then concealed your original mountain peak and created a fake one instead, allowing Bai Guyi to enter the cave and destroy the false body I had constructed from an East Sea Big Pearl, helping Ling to survive this calamity."

Upon learning that Ling Hun's physical body was still intact, Cui Wugu was overjoyed and hurried home to check. Indeed, she saw Ling Hun's body unharmed, sitting upright on the bed. Thus, while expressing her gratitude to Shi Feiyang, she cast a spell to summon Ling Hun, urging him to hurry back.

At this time, Ling Hun had already pursued his quarry thousands of miles away. After Bai Guyi destroyed what he believed to be Ling Hun's physical body, he began to have regrets, knowing that Ling Hun's Daoist Technique was superb and on par with his own. Realizing that a direct confrontation would surely lead to catastrophic destruction, he used his Escape Skill to flee straight to the overseas regions.

When Ling Hun received Cui Wugu's summons, he thought there was another emergency at home, so he rushed back. Upon entering the cave and seeing Shi Feiyang sitting at the stone table, he was filled with anger and immediately spat out the Flying Sword, aiming it straight at Shi Feiyang. Shi Feiyang deflected it with his treasured umbrella as Ling Hun shouted furiously, "You thief, I cannot coexist with you!" He was about to resort to using the Five Fire Burning Heart Transformation Technique in a fight to the death, with Five-Colored Flames emerging from his Primordial Qi, turning his entire being into a multicolored being of fire.

Seeing the danger, Shi Feiyang opened the treasured umbrella to shield himself, shouting, "Cui Daoist friend, come out quickly!"

Cui Wugu, who had gone to the back cave to pick Ice Spring Water to make tea and had taken out many Immortal Fruits collected over the years to prepare for the honored guest, heard the commotion and rushed out. Seeing the urgency of the situation, with her husband about to risk his life, she quickly stepped between them, holding her Dragon Head Cane across, and shouted, "No disrespect allowed! There has been a misunderstanding!"

Seeing his wife acting this way sparked a thought in Ling Hun's mind: Could his wife have had an affair with this young man? Was all of this a ploy devised by adulterers, intending to first destroy his body and then kill his Primordial Spirit, so that his body and soul would be destroyed?

Fortunately, his many years of Cultivation, even in the midst of crisis, still allowed him a few strands of clarity. He knew that his wife had entered the Dao with him since the Song Dynasty, becoming disciples of the Iron Shoulder Ancestor. After hundreds of years, her Dao heart had become unshakably firm, and she would definitely not harbor desires of lust for someone's physical appearance and conspire to murder her own husband.

Cui Wugu shouted, "Your physical body is still intact; why not hurry to the East Cave to place your spirit back into your body? Shi Daoist friend has saved you today, and the details are yet to be fully explained. Are you really going to repay kindness with hostility?"

Her loud reprimand awakened Ling Hun, who hastily flew to the East Cave. Seeing his own body unharmed and sitting on the bed, he was filled with joy and hurriedly returned his soul to its vessel.

After rising from the bed, reinvigorating his spirit and body, his mind quickly regained clarity. Standing on the floor and looking back at the bed, then at his own body, it was as if he had just experienced a horrible nightmare!

He quickly came out, and Cui Wugu said, "This time, that old fiend Bai Guyi came to destroy your body. Thanks to Shi Daoist friend's intervention that misled him away, your body was saved from the hardship of finding a new host and reincarnating. Hurry over and thank Shi Daoist friend!"

By now, Ling Hun's emotions had settled down considerably. He came over to inquire about what had happened, and as they explained the whole affair, he finally understood. Astonished and admiring Shi Feiyang's mystical Daoist Technique, which had managed to deceive even Bai Guyi, he also felt grateful for his lifesaving grace. Facing Shi Feiyang, he bowed deeply in thanks, with Cui Wugu standing up to join her husband in the gesture of gratitude.

Both of them appeared to be around thirty years old in appearance. Ling Hun was tall and handsome, with a wise and mature look in his eyes, the result of weathering through hundreds of years. Cui Wugu also looked well-nourished yet gracefully slim, with a rosy complexion and bright, spirited eyes. However, her head was covered in thick, pure white hair, casually secured with a golden hairpin, exuding a sense of laziness. She leaned on her Dragon Head Cane, radiating the youthful charm of a young woman combined with the dignified authority of an elder.

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