Chapter 158

"Umm..."

Hua Tian gritted her silver teeth, those pearly teeth almost embedding into her lip flesh, forcing her body to want to stand up.

But that pain was like a tide, wave after wave, spreading from the soles of her feet to the top of her head, seeping from her skin into her bone marrow, enveloping her in an unspeakable torture.

Her throat couldn't help but spit out a suppressed-to-the-extreme groan, the sound as thin as a mosquito, yet carrying a heart-rending tremor.

Beads of crystal-clear fragrant sweat seeped from her fair forehead, sliding down her cheeks and dripping onto the withered leaves at her feet, staining a small dark patch of sweat.

The little strength she had just accumulated in her body collapsed directly under the impact of this wave-like severe pain, like a sandcastle meeting a tsunami, instantly collapsing.

Her whole body actually slumped to the ground, unable to even lift a finger.

"Sister..."

A few teardrops emerged in Hua Tian's water-clear eyes, shining with crystal light in the moonlight.

She and Hua Ning were separated, yet could feel such clear pain.

She really couldn't imagine what her sister was experiencing now...

She wouldn't be killed, would she...

At this moment, she hated her own powerlessness.

Her fingernails were deeply embedded in the soil, but her body remained motionless, as if nailed to the ground.

Don't know how long it had been.

Hua Tian finally felt the severe pain seemed to have ended.

The clarity in her water-like eyes was replaced by a trace of dazed blurriness at some unknown time, the gaze somewhat scattered, as if her soul was still wandering elsewhere.

The faint blush on her fair face was no longer the pure paleness from before, but carried a faint blush, like peach blossoms in early spring, blooming quietly.

"What exactly is going on..."

The moment clarity returned to Hua Tian's eyes, she stood up instantly, her movements as fast as if she were popped up by a spring.

Immediately after, she discovered in horror that the perception between her and her sister Hua Ning had become very weak, like a thread stretched countless times, ready to break at any moment.

This was something that had never happened since the sisters awakened their twin spiritual bodies.

Since childhood, no matter how far apart, they could clearly perceive each other's existence, like a person's left and right hands, like two trees born from the same root.

But now, that perception was as blurry as if separated by a layer of thick fog, vague and uncertain, making her panic.

An unprecedented panic and fear erupted in her heart.

She couldn't care about the residual pain on her body, relying on that trace of weak perception, and hurriedly ran toward the direction where Hua Ning was.

In a dense forest of intertwined trees and vines, Hua Tian finally found her sister Hua Ning.

At that moment, her beautiful eyes contracted violently.

She saw Hua Ning's body firmly bound by vines as thick as a thumb, from ankles to wrists, from abdomen to neck, tied tightly, like a butterfly trapped in a spider web.

Her eyes were closed, her face pale, but there was still heaving in her chest, clearly still alive.

Hua Tian breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, the giant rock that had been hanging for a long time finally falling.

What she feared most, and worried about most, was coming over to see Hua Ning's cold corpse.

She hurriedly rushed forward, mobilizing the true qi in her body, her hands like knives, shattering all the vines binding Hua Ning.

The sound of the vines breaking was exceptionally clear in the silent dense forest, like strings breaking, one after another.

Hua Ning's body fell from mid-air and was steadily caught by Hua Tian, held in her arms.

Subsequently, she checked Hua Ning's body.

Besides the bloodstains from the vines binding her, there wasn't even a single external injury.

This made Hua Tian feel suspicious and anxious, her brows tightly locked.

Because she saw Hua Ning's eyes closed, her pale face although carrying a trace of blush, but that blush was extremely faint, like rouge diluted by water, instead making that face look even paler.

Her brows were full of listlessness, as if recovering from a serious illness, and as if something important had been extracted.

She called out several times, even stimulating Hua Ning's acupuncture points with true qi, but couldn't wake her up.

This was clearly a serious injury, and it was an injury to the foundation.

"No external injuries, could it be that sister suffered internal injuries..."

Hua Tian, in her suspicion, hurriedly picked up Hua Ning.

She didn't dare to stay here long, that Head-Chopping Demon didn't know when he would return.

Thinking of their sisters' bold words about eliminating demons earlier, and then seeing her sister's injured appearance.

Her heart was full of mixed feelings...

"Go back to Xuanshui Peak and find the Peak Master first."

Hua Tian no longer hesitated, holding Hua Ning, and ran nimbly out of the dense forest.

Several hundred meters away from them.

An aged figure sat cross-legged on a big tree, wisps of heat radiating from his body, his brows tightly locked, his face full of pain.

It was none other than Jiang Ye, who had successfully taken the spirit.

"Bad, why does this spiritual body origin have a rejection reaction..."

Jiang Ye closed his eyes, the veins on his forehead jumping slightly, gritting his teeth, suppressing the full-blown pain.

Inside his dantian, a stormy sea was surging at this moment.

In the middle of the five true qi pills was a ball of white light.

This streak of white light was precisely the spiritual body origin he had managed to take from Hua Ning's body using the secret method in the "Five Elements Spirit-Taking Chaos True Explanation."

As a result, after this spiritual body origin entered his dantian, it was very restless, not only resisting his refining, but also wanting to attack his dantian.

In short, it wanted to get out of his body.

So much so that he almost couldn't hold it at the time, leaving Hua Ning's side as if fleeing.

He felt that if he absorbed any more of Hua Ning's spiritual body origin, his dantian might really be blown up.

Jiang Ye mobilized the five true qi pills in his body, red-gold, water-blue, pale-green, earth-yellow, gold-white.

The five-colored light intertwined into a five-colored net, finally trapping that ball of white light firmly.

The five pills trembled in unison, Five Element True Qi surging out continuously, wrapping that ball of white light layer by layer, like a cocoon, winding thicker and thicker, denser and denser.

At this moment, he finally understood why this "Five Elements Spirit-Taking Chaos True Explanation" must be based on Five Element True Qi to take spirits.

If any of the five elements are missing, the spiritual body origin cannot be controlled.

And the consequence of not being able to control it is the destruction of the dantian and the end of the person.

"Refining here is still a bit unsafe, must return to Tianyang Peak."

After Jiang Ye finally controlled the spiritual body origin, he stood up quickly.