Shi Feiyang had left West Kunlun for the East Sea to capture Yue Yun with his disciples, and then ascended to Emei Mountain. Now, he had just left the Liangyi Dust Formation.

He had spent two to three years in all, originally planning to take the Emei Sect to snatch the Xuanyuan Nine Swords and force the Taiyin Hunyuan Ancestor to intervene.

However, this pre-determined goal was not achieved, as the Taiyin Hunyuan Ancestor had not shown up at all.

Fortunately, he first obtained a part of the "Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture" and the "Shaqing Secret Manual" at the Emei Sect, as well as the Jade Lotus and the first volume of the "Blood God Scripture."

Later, in the Wildman Mountain, he also seized the Xuanyuan Nine Swords and part of the Sky Lusting Sect Leader's incarnation.

The Sky Lusting Sect Leader had a total of forty-eight incarnations. Shi Feiyang first seized two monstrous incarnations and absorbed many scattered fragments.

He then combined what was left into four more incarnations, capturing one of them.

In the end, he had a total of fifteen.

The Sky Lusting Sect Leader was extraordinarily powerful. After Shi Feiyang left Wildman Mountain, he flew over the Yun Gui plateau for a while before descending.

He found a mountainous ridge that caught his eye and landed. With a wave of his hand, he emitted five-colored divine light and carved out a cave.

Entering this temporary cave, he took out the Heavenly Treasure Mirror and the Heavenly Secret Demon God Lamp and settled his mind for a second sacrificial refinement.

The mirror was flashing with light, chilling energy rampaging, and rings of cold flames and cold light surged continuously across the surface of the mirror.

The Sky Lusting Sect Leader was roaring furiously inside, trying to break out.

This guy was really ferocious. The Heavenly Treasure Mirror, originating from the Spiritual Space Immortal Realm, had fallen from the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain to the Human World.

Heavenly Treasure, of extraordinary quality; otherwise, it would have shattered long ago, breaking the ban and escaping.

He threw in the two monstrous beings and the scattered fragments that he had captured earlier into the mirror.

His fingertips glowed with five-colored brilliance. He began to draw talisman on the surface of the mirror, using the Demon-suppressing Talisman from the "He Sha Book."

Rows of colorful light talismans fell into the mirror, causing the Sky Lusting Sect Leader inside to curse loudly, "You brat, you actually know He Sha Daoist's techniques! What are you to him?"

Shi Feiyang paid him no attention. After finishing drawing the talismans, he threw him into the Nine Suspicions Tripod.

The Nine Suspicions Tripod's main design was for alchemy, albeit for refining that Chaos Core. Shi Feiyang released the Five Elements True Fire and began refining the treasure mirror as well as the Sky Lusting Sect Leader inside.

He first combined all the fragments of the Sky Lusting Sect Leader into one, then forcibly split it in two, imprinting it into the mirror according to the mystery of the two yi, to form a Liangyi Formation.

Then, he combined them into one mass before separating it into three parts to form a Three Talents Formation.

Each time after splitting, the Sky Lusting Sect Leader could automatically turn each part into a person and try to resist, only to be combined together again.

This repeated process lasted for more than three hundred days, eventually dividing evenly into fifteen parts, which were placed in the form of a Nine Palaces grid according to the layout of the Earth Scripture.

Kan one, Kun two, Zhen three, Xun four, with five at the center, Qian six, Dui seven, Gen eight, and finally, Li nine was due south.

Thus, the sum was fifteen whether added horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Of course, it wasn't completely filled now; the fifteen incarnations of the Sky Lusting Sect Leader kept moving through it, with their positions constantly changing.

But the array Shi Feiyang set up subtly conformed to the marvels of the Heavenly Dao. For instance, if the Sky Lusting Sect Leader tried to surge into Zhen Palace, Shi Feiyang's thoughts would prompt all fifteen incarnations to rush there.

However, only three could enter, with the rest automatically returning to their places, yet where they ultimately settled remained uncertain, like a state of superposition.

Once he calmed his mind, the fifteen incarnations would either be in Zhen three, Xun four, Gen eight, vertically aligned to fifteen, or in Zhen three, Central five, Dui seven, horizontally aligned to fifteen.

If he entered the Central Palace or one of the four corners, there could also be a diagonal arrangement of fifteen.

The Sky Lusting Sect Leader was defiant, trying several times to go against the tide, but no matter how he attempted to cast his spells—whether by scrambling the positions or changing the numbers—he couldn't succeed.

This was no easy feat. Shi Feiyang contended with him tens of thousands of times before finally succeeding.

The Sky Lusting Sect Leader clashed repeatedly inside, scrambling around in disorder, leaping from side to side but still unable to break free of this pattern. Growing increasingly frustrated, he cursed incessantly.

Shi Feiyang smiled, coaxing him like a child, "Don't worry, once I find the rest of your incarnations and bring them here, I'll let you revive and be reborn in this mirror. Then you'll get your wish."

He was about to put away the treasure mirror and continue refining the Xuanyuan Nine Swords.

Suddenly, he sensed something. A black-robed youth was escaping desperately from a distance, seeing a gentle slope up ahead with a stream winding below, and he descended.

His chest was drenched in blood, as soon as his feet touched the ground his knees buckled under him, unable to support his body, he tumbled down the slope, and finally, plunged headfirst into the stream.

This unlucky kid was truly unfortunate—not only was his body still on the bank, but his head was dunked into the water!

Shi Feiyang stepped out of the cave and stretched out his hand, using his power from afar to pull the youth from the stream and lay him flat on the gentle slope.

With just one glance, Shi Feiyang noticed he was severely poisoned with a type of miasma. His skin was purplish-blue and getting worse. He had sunk into a deep coma, which explained why he didn't even react to the choking water.

Shi Feiyang took out an Immortal Pill and, holding it with three fingers, released his True Essence Power, slowly dissolving it into a pure stream of Dan Qi that entered the young man's body through his nostrils and ears.

Soon, the young man's vital energy began to revive, and the purplish hue on his body faded away.

After a while, the young man opened his eyes, saw Shi Feiyang, looked around, first summoned his Flying Sword from the water below the cliff, and then propped himself up to stand, "Was it… did the senior save me?"

Seeing that Shi Feiyang was young but had an extraordinary demeanor, he didn't dare call him a fellow Daoist and addressed him as a senior.

Shi Feiyang nodded; he didn't say much.

Just now when the young man had flown in, although Shi Feiyang was inside the cave, he could tell that his swordsmanship belonged to an unorthodox school. He didn't want to get too involved, so he didn't ask further questions.

But who would have known that the young man would suddenly kneel with a plop, repeatedly kowtowing while pleading for help, "I beg the senior to show great mercy and save my brother."

Shi Feiyang asked, "Who are you? Who is your brother? What danger has he encountered? Please get up and speak."

Still kneeling, the young man said, "My surname is Lei, my name is Lei Xun. My brother's surname is Qiu, he's called Qiu Yuan, and he's trapped in a valley over there…"

Qiu Yuan, Shi Feiyang knew, was the secondary Sect Leader of the Qingcheng Sect under Zhu Mei and Jiang Shu in the original story.

He nodded, "Your brother has already been captured by those people."

"Ah?" Lei Xun found it hard to believe. This place was over three hundred miles away from where the incident happened, he didn't know how Shi Feiyang knew, "My brother has a Magical Treasure given to him by his uncle, it should be able to fend off the Demon Humans…"

"It didn't hold up, was it a yellow barrier? It was pierced by a Crossbow Arrow."

Hearing him accurately describe the Magical Treasure's color and shape, Lei Xun finally believed it and was both shocked and relieved. He hadn't expected that the senior he met in the wilderness would have such divine abilities.

He urgently continued to plead, "My brother and I were gathering herbs and practicing Alchemy in the mountains. After the Dan was completed, that group of Demon Humans came out of nowhere to rob us…"

Shi Feiyang made him stand up to speak, "Those people have taken your brother into a mountain about twelve hundred miles away, and they entered a cave. They are currently torturing your brother. Let's go take a look and talk about rescuing him."

Lei Xun had just felt a surge of joy at Shi Feiyang's agreement to save someone when Shi Feiyang waved his hand, releasing a swath of Five-Colored Radiance that enveloped them. They felt a slight shift and, as the radiance dissipated, they were already on another mountaintop.

A thousand miles traveled in an instant.

Shi Feiyang led him to a cave entrance.

The cave had a door made of stone slabs, but with a point of his finger, Shi Feiyang caused the door to explode into pieces.

The people inside were all startled, and four "wildmen" quickly came out.

To call them wildmen wasn't quite accurate—they were more like mountain folk, with feathers stuck in their hair, the men with pierced ears adorned with gold and silver jewelry, necks and wrists strung with various gemstone chains, and skirts made from peacock feathers below, barefooted, with rather unfriendly gazes.

Upon seeing Lei Xun, they shouted angrily, "You brat, you dare to come back!"

One of them threw out a flying knife. The knife was as red as blood and coated with deadly poison, aimed to sever Lei Xun.

Lei Xun reflexively tried to summon his Flying Sword for defense, but Shi Feiyang had already caught the blade in mid-air with a gesture.

It was a small knife, three inches long, thin as paper, and the blade was long and slender, shimmering with a bloody glow, trembling and wavering like a small snake.

Everyone was taken aback, especially the four men, who, used to rampant behavior in the Southern Border and relying on their Demon Blade's invincibility, could not imagine that aside from their own Ancestor, there was someone else in the world who could snatch their blade barehanded.

They cursed angrily at Shi Feiyang and made their move simultaneously, firing a flying knife, two Flying Forks, and a stream of colorful Poison Mist.

Shi Feiyang caught the knives and forks in his hand and also absorbed the Poison Mist, condensing it into a Miasma Poison Pearl the size of a dragon's eye in the palm of his hand and casually tossed it to Lei Xun, "Here, take this to play with."

Lei Xun was both shocked and elated. Those objects had caused him and his brother a lot of suffering earlier; he himself had been wounded by the toxic Miasma and nearly died a wrongful death. Now, they were all in his hands, and holding the knives, forks, and poison pearl, he felt as if he were dreaming.

Shi Feiyang addressed the mountain men, "I don't care whose youngsters you are, I could guess, but it doesn't matter. I can't be bothered to deal with you. Just let that little boy out, and I'll let you go. If you continue to argue with me, I won't be courteous anymore."

The mountain men were enraged, with two of them still wanting to fight, but they were held back by another who seemed to be their leader.

The man asked Shi Feiyang, "Our master is none other than the Earth Splitting Divine Demon, Hong Changbao! And our eldest senior brother, rolling back the Wu River, Yao Kaijiang! The flying knives and forks we use were all refined by our master. Dare you to forcibly take them from us, do you have the gall to state your name?"

Shi Feiyang replied, "My surname is Shi, my Daoist name is Yuan Yang. Go back and tell the Red-haired Ancestor, let's see if he dares to come and ask for these items back."

The four of them were stunned by his defiant challenge to their master, shocked to the core.

"Fine! Fine, young man, just you wait! We'll return and report to our master, and when he comes, don't you piss your pants in fear!"

"You brat, stay right here and don't run! We'll be back!"

"If you get so scared you pee yourself, it's fine if you run away…"

As they spoke, they each formed hand gestures, casting spells and releasing streams of colorful Miasma that formed a cloud, enveloping them as they rose off the ground and swiftly flew towards the Southeast.

Shi Feiyang took Lei Xun into the cave, where there was a Five-Colored Furnace already burning, generating vast amounts of heat that made the cave oppressively hot.

Another young man, bare-chested, had his scapula pierced by a Hooked Blade used by the mountain people, his feet off the ground and nailed to the wall, his body soaked in blood.

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