Chapter 78: True Malevolent Qi Rushing the Apertures (Release, requesting first subscription, requesting monthly tickets!)

"Boom—"

Accompanied by a loud noise, Yunqi, who was shaken to the point of being dizzy, fell into the ground crack. He quickly scanned left and right, discovering that this underground was actually empty, as if it were infinitely vast! And looking down again, it was an endless abyss, unable to see the bottom at a glance!

And in this wide, pitch-black cavern, it was filled with many brilliantly unusual colors, either in groups or in strands, making people feel as if they were in a sea of stars, and as if they had come to the inner landscape world inside the human body through introspection.

Yunqi didn't recognize that it was true malevolent Qi, thinking it was just accumulated mud miasma that had spontaneously formed groups and taken on a true form.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—"

The fire clothes outside Yunqi's body came into contact with the malevolent Qi in the cavern, burning violently and making ear-piercing sharp cries.

Yunqi's expression changed. The miasma poison here was so powerful, and he couldn't consume Qi here. Relying only on the little magic power he had accumulated wouldn't last long!

He first summoned the "Dragon Cart," fell onto the "Dragon Cart," stopped the momentum of falling, and then drove the clouds to rush upward.

But as the saying goes, wind rises from the end of the duckweed. There was earth fire growing at the bottom of the cavern, and the swaying fire Qi blowing up became a howling hurricane. He wanted to fly out of the cavern, but he was like a willow catkin in the wind, unable to help himself no matter where he went.

True malevolent Qi could be seen everywhere in the cavern. If the Red-Haired or Green-Robed saw it, they would inevitably be overjoyed, but now for Yunqi, it was undoubtedly a series of death talismans.

Soon, under the stirring of the hurricane, Yunqi, who had no time to dodge, watched helplessly as he collided with a group of five-colored, small-mountain-sized true malevolent Qi.

And before the collision, Yunqi only had time to put "Autumn Water" and the "Qianshen Studio Seal" among his external objects into the Grand Void Cave Stone.

"Whoosh!"

Like a candle flame in the wind, the fire clothes outside Yunqi's body were blown out in an instant.

Immediately after, the clothes Yunqi was wearing also turned into nothingness in an instant.

"Ah—"

Starting to come into contact with the true malevolent Qi, Yunqi's first feeling was pain—a pain never felt before, an unimaginable torture.

It was like being thrown into a group of fiery red molten iron. His whole body felt like it was being roasted and burned by fire. His skin was burned away in an instant, and his long hair also turned into powder in a split second. In just a short moment, the young Daoist became a bloody person.

And this group of molten iron seemed to have the strength of ten thousand jun, crazily squeezing into his body, squeezing into his flesh and blood, squeezing into his meridians, squeezing into his apertures.

Suffering such torture, Yunqi's eyes were also blood-red in an instant.

In this instant, he lost the ability to think. His thoughts seemed to be solidified by the molten iron. The only thing he could do was scream instinctively.

Yunqi didn't know that this was called "Malevolent Qi Rushing the Apertures," which is the most dangerous step in the process of melting malevolent Qi for Second-Realm cultivators, and the Inner Elixir Dao calls this process "Subduing the Dragon and Taming the Tiger."

In the orthodox Inner Elixir Dao practice, introducing malevolent Qi into the body requires spending years or even decades preparing on the premise of possessing malevolent Qi.

Malevolent Qi is born from the clear and turbid Qi of heaven and earth's Yin and Yang, and is rare in the world. However, all things in the world generate and restrain each other. This malevolent Qi can erode the sky, clouds, earth, and soil, and can scour the human body's apertures, but it happens to be unable to do anything to lead and mercury substances.

Therefore, Inner Elixir Dao cultivators must seek lead and mercury before extracting malevolent Qi. After finding lead and mercury, they must melt them with countless secret treasures. This procedure is also called "Adjusting Lead and Manipulating Mercury."

After refining into mysterious mercury and true lead, they swallow it and refine it into the meridians. After making such preparations, they swallow the malevolent Qi, guiding the dragon and tiger to follow the road paved by lead and mercury to the three inches below the navel, opening the second of the three major apertures of the human body: the Huang Ting, also known as the Dantian.

This act is also "Plowing the Court."

And Yunqi was only in the First Realm, so naturally, he had no prepared lead or mercury. Now, it was not "Plowing the Court," but the true malevolent Qi "plowing" Yunqi's whole body.

In just a split second, Yunqi came back to his senses. The concentration he had practiced day and night finally played the greatest role at this moment. He tightened his thoughts, almost forcibly making himself forget the pain, only thinking about how to fight for his life. Introspecting, watching the inner landscape world of the human body, he saw one light group after another extinguish, and also seemed to hear the sound of water. This was the true malevolent Qi scouring inside the body, blocking and clogging one aperture after another. Yunqi didn't know what use this body would have even if he survived.

However, now was not the time to think about these things. Now that the true malevolent Qi was blocking one aperture after another, he couldn't care about it anymore and could only abandon the car to save the commander.

Of the hundred apertures of the Zhou Tian, the most important are naturally the three major apertures that store the three treasures of essence, Qi, and spirit: the Purple Palace that stores thoughts and ideas, the Jianggong that stores the body's essence and blood, and the Huang Ting that stores the Qi of heaven and earth.

No need to think too much, the Huang Ting is not considered for now. His Huang Ting has not been opened, and now that it is blocked, he won't die.

His Jianggong has not been opened, and now all his essence and blood are in the heart aperture, so the heart aperture cannot be lost.

His Purple Palace has not been opened either, but thoughts and ideas are not nothingness; they still exist depending on the Purple Palace. It's just that he hasn't seen the true form of that place, so the Purple Palace definitely cannot be lost.

He suddenly looked at the Twelve-Story Building.

If he wants to protect the heart aperture, he must open the heart mansion at this moment! At that time, having a god sitting in the mansion is the only way to resist the invasion of true malevolent Qi.

As for protecting the Purple Palace aperture, he thought about it and suddenly thought of "Taodu."

The old temple master once said that the flying sword is driven by thoughts and is usually raised in the Purple Palace. He didn't know what grade of flying sword "Taodu" was, but he had contacted "Taodu" with his thoughts before, and the precious sword had responded! With such a spiritual flying sword, could it enter his inner landscape world to protect the Purple Palace?

He divided a strand of thoughts and fell onto the "Taodu" sword that was following him closely, but this strand of thoughts was quickly blown away by the true malevolent energy, losing contact with the main thoughts in the inner landscape world.

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"Clang!"

A clear sword hum resounded through Yunqi's inner landscape world.

A red giant sword that seemed to cover the sky and sun slowly entered this world, then lay horizontally in the inner landscape world, re-illuminating this world that had gradually dimmed due to the clogging of the apertures.

Yunqi smiled; it wasn't too bad after all.

With a thought, "Taodu" suddenly shrank and came to the surroundings of the purple light group on top of the inner landscape world. The flying sword circled and formed a fire tornado, protecting the Purple Palace.

He remembered that most of the solar Bing fire sprayed out earlier had been swallowed by "Taodu," so with another thought, "Taodu" indeed responded to every request. The raging flame true energy sprayed out from the sword body. That golden solar Bing fire was far more than what Yunqi had accumulated!

With his thoughts moving again, the Yuandan Daoist in the throat aperture opened his eyes. The burly Daoist stood up and strode out of the Twelve-Story Building.

Behind the Daoist, the Samadhi True Fire originating from the lights everywhere in the human world followed closely, like a cloak or a flag.

The Daoist flew away from the Twelve-Story Building and converged with the Bing fire waterfall falling from the Purple Palace. It was like a general pointing his troops, with the Bing fire following closely behind the Daoist, straight toward the heart mansion, casting boundless power.

Yunqi's thoughts watched from a high place, as if on a commander's platform.

The heart aperture was a red group, like a small sun hanging in the inner landscape world.

Arriving in front of the heart aperture gate, the Yuandan Daoist knew the body owner's urgency. The peach wood sword phantom in his hand pointed, and the solar Bing fire and Samadhi True Fire behind him no longer distinguished between each other, merging into one, like a river of fire, rushing toward the heart aperture.

And the heart aperture was like a bottomless hole, a boundless sea, swallowing the river of fire completely without showing saturation.

Time only passed for an instant, but Yunqi was anxious. Heh, this word is quite appropriate right now! He laughed at himself. After all, it was forcing a duck onto the shelf! Everything seemed so hasty!

Watching the hundred apertures of the celestial cycle extinguish one by one, Yunqi was almost desperate. However, "Taodu" still sprayed out Bing fire true energy continuously at this moment, directly connecting a line of fire between the heart aperture and the Purple Palace.

Yunqi's thoughts moved again. Since things had come to this, he could only treat a dead horse as a living horse.

Beside the Purple Palace, that Brightness Palace sank!

The exquisite palace with intricate designs sank along the line of fire and came before the heart aperture.

Suddenly, the palace doors swung wide open, and the gorgeously and regally dressed Mao Ri Xing Guan soared out on clouds, heading straight for the heart aperture that resembled a scorching sun; as for the boisterous and unrestrained Daoist Yuandan, there was no need to say more—he threw himself into the fireball!

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