Chapter 190: Purification

After taking the third-grade top-grade Fire Returning Pill, not only was the absorption speed fast, but it would not leave pill poison in the body. Tong Yao felt that his exhausted dantian was quickly filled with spiritual energy, and he looked at Hua Changxi with flickering eyes, testing: "Fellow Daoist Hua... is she a descendant of the Pill Saint Hall?"

The five major holy lands in the Central Continent are actually connected in secret.

A cultivator's energy is limited after all, and a large amount of time is spent on cultivation, so the time spent learning other skills is naturally not very abundant.

Pill, Artifact, Talisman, and Array, as auxiliary skills indispensable to cultivators, even if you only learn one, it is a very energy-consuming thing. To make up for the deficiency, cultivators have to communicate with each other.

Spiritual energy recovery actually started very early. How early, even his master didn't know, only inferring that it was before the founding of the Great Jin.

However, at the beginning, the degree of spiritual energy recovery was very low. The concentration of spiritual energy in some ruins and secret realms could at most nourish the physical body, and could not even make people introduce spiritual energy into the body.

Later, as time passed, the degree of spiritual energy recovery slowly strengthened.

During this period, a batch of cultivators appeared one after another. To meet the needs of cultivators to communicate and communicate with each other, nine ghost markets were spontaneously gathered and formed outside the nine major checkpoints guarding the Demon-Monster Prison.

In ancient times, the places for cultivators to communicate and communicate with each other were actually in the markets with large crowds of people in various parts of the human world.

Nowadays, the markets are set up in the Nine Nether, mainly because the cultivators who stepped on the path of cultivation first didn't want the matter of spiritual energy recovery to be known by more people, didn't want the already scarce cultivation resources to be divided by more people, and all tacitly hid the matter of spiritual energy recovery.

Setting up the markets in the Nine Nether and having to carry tokens to enter and exit the ghost markets is undoubtedly the best means to control the leakage of news.

Before the earth-shattering battle at Mount Wuzhi in Qingzhou broke out, the matter of spiritual energy recovery was hidden well by various forces. Whether it was the imperial court or powerful families, they were all secretly accumulating their own strength.

It wasn't until the change at Mount Wuzhi occurred that the matter of spiritual energy recovery could no longer be hidden, and that period was exactly when the spiritual energy recovery fully began.

Tong Yao now thinks of the change at Mount Wuzhi, and feels that the timing was too coincidental. If there hadn't been that Buddhist-Demon battle, the number of cultivators today would not only be 80-90% less, but most of them might only be thugs who relied on the imperial court and various powerful families to survive.

In his view, this is not a good thing.

The five major holy lands, the Central Holy Land is the array heart of the Demon-Monster Prison, and the other four holy lands serve as array eyes, naturally they are in the same camp. Before the spiritual energy recovery was exposed, the five major holy lands had little contact, but after the change at Mount Wuzhi in Qingzhou occurred, the five major holy lands were connected in secret.

Like him, he knew disciples from the Talisman Saint Pavilion and the Array Saint Sect. The last time he went to Kunmen Pass, it was at the invitation of the Talisman Saint Pavilion descendant, Monk Jing Liao, to help and see the world.

As for the Pill Saint Hall, because the ruins were occupied by the imperial court and changed into the Medical Department, most of the alchemists there relied on the imperial court and powerful families, so he didn't have much contact.

Fellow Daoist Hua gave him top-grade pills casually, and gave several bottles at once. This superb alchemy technique, as well as the generous shot, made him have to suspect that she had a relationship with the Pill Saint Hall.

Hua Changxi was silent for a while after hearing Tong Yao's inquiry.

To say she is a descendant of the Pill Saint Hall, she doesn't seem to have received any inheritance from the Pill Saint Hall.

To say she is not, she took ten wooden signs, unlocked nine Qihuang Pavilions, and there is the Shennong Cauldron in her sea of consciousness, which seems to have some relationship with the Pill Saint Hall.

For the Pill Saint Hall, she actually didn't have much sense of belonging. Staying in the Medical Department all along was just because she wanted her medical skills to be useful, and to have a social identity to stand in the world.

Now that she knew that the Pill Saint Hall had to bear the responsibility of guarding the Demon-Monster Prison, she actually didn't want to have too deep a connection with the Pill Saint Hall in her heart.

After thinking for a while, Hua Changxi said vaguely: "I... am a physician, and I work in the Medical Department."

The current Medical Department really cannot be equated with the Pill Saint Hall. Tong Yao couldn't distinguish whether she was a descendant of the Pill Saint Hall after hearing Hua Changxi's answer, but he didn't ask much.

Feeling that the spiritual energy in his body had recovered a lot, enough to repair the damaged human-shaped stone statue, he took out the boundary stone powder he carried with him and began to focus on refining and repairing.

Hua Changxi looked at Tong Yao, who was repairing and refining on the spot with skilled techniques, labeled him as "can be befriended" in her heart, and then began to investigate the center of the array eye made of boundary stones.

"Hmm?"

Because she mastered the power of laws of burning and tearing space with flames, Hua Changxi was sensitive to spatial fluctuations. When she investigated the edge of the boundary stone platform in the north, she sensed that the spatial boundary here was a bit weak.

Her heart moved, and a wisp of Great Sun Divine Flame was condensed by her, burning toward the weak space.

Soon, a brilliant red light shot in.

The Great Sun Divine Flame burned a spatial rift hole, and the red light was transmitted through the hole.

Through the hole, Hua Changxi saw the thick trunk and lush branches and leaves of the Fusang Tree.

This place is actually connected to the divine tree space!

"Fellow Daoist Hua, what are you doing?"

Hua Changxi was just surprised that the center of the array eye was connected to the divine tree space when she heard Tong Yao's surprised exclamation from behind. When she turned her head, she saw Tong Yao flying over in a hurry, but stopped after running two steps.

Tong Yao looked at the white-gold flame in Hua Changxi's hand in disbelief, feeling the scorching heat emanating from the flame, and didn't dare to continue to approach: "This is... this is..."

Hua Changxi: "This is the Great Sun Divine Flame." After speaking, she quickly put away the flames.

Tong Yao's face was shocked and unbelievable: "How did you get the Great Sun Divine Flame?"

Xia Yang and Xia Xue knew about this, so Hua Changxi didn't hide it: "Fused with the seven-colored exotic fires in the Tang Yu."

Tong Yao's expression was even more shocked: "How is it possible? I also subdued five kinds of exotic fires, and also tried to fuse the exotic fires, but it is very difficult for two exotic fires to fuse together. How did you fuse seven kinds of exotic fires?"

Hua Changxi's eyes flickered. If there was no Floating Light Sword, she certainly wouldn't know how to fuse the seven kinds of exotic fires: "This, it's inconvenient to tell."

Seeing that she was unwilling to say more, Tong Yao felt a bit regretful. Thinking that they were not familiar yet, he didn't ask any more questions, just walked to the spatial rift hole burned by Hua Changxi in confusion: "I know the Great Sun Divine Flame is terrifying, but I didn't expect it to be able to burn the spatial boundary."

Listening to this confused question, Hua Changxi didn't make a sound, naturally wouldn't say that she had mastered the power of laws of burning and tearing space with flames.

Because the spatial rift hole was opened between the boundary stone platform and the divine tree space, the richness of fire spiritual energy on the boundary stone platform side surged dozens of times in an instant, and the pressure of the Fusang Divine Tree also penetrated a bit, making several human-shaped stone statues that were shaken by the impact of demon-monster energy instantly stabilize.

Both Hua Changxi and Tong Yao noticed this.

"Do you want me to burn the rift hole bigger?"

"Thank you, fellow Daoist Hua."

Subsequently, Tong Yao was busy repairing the damaged human-shaped stone statue, while Hua Changxi held the Great Sun Divine Flame to burn the spatial rift hole.

By the time Tong Yao repaired the human-shaped stone statue and blocked the crack that was overflowing with demon-monster energy, the spatial rift hole had changed from the size of a fist to a door hole that could accommodate one person to pass through freely.

"Thank you, fellow Daoist!"

Looking at the door hole that was more than one person high and connected to the divine tree space, Tong Yao thanked Hua Changxi again.

With the pressure emanating from the divine tree, the center of the array eye was more stable.

Hua Changxi clearly sensed the suppressing effect of the divine tree pressure on this side, glanced at the divine hammer in the center, pondered for a while, looked at Tong Yao, and wanted to sell him a favor: "Do you want to take away the divine hammer?"

Tong Yao's heart jumped, and he looked at the divine hammer in the center of the boundary stone platform.

If he got the divine hammer, both his strength and artifact refining level could be improved by a large margin, and whoever got the divine hammer would be the master of the Artifact Saint Palace.

Tong Yao difficultly suppressed the heat in his heart: "... The center of the array eye still needs the divine hammer to suppress it. Now is not the time to take away the divine hammer."

Hua Changxi listened and blurted out that she could continue to burn the spatial rift hole. As long as the rift hole was larger, the divine tree pressure emanating over would be more powerful. With the divine tree suppressing it, the role of the divine hammer would not be so great.

But the words reached her lips, and she swallowed them back.

Almost in a flash, she suddenly figured out some things.

Being proactive is not a deal. Even if she wanted to befriend Tong Yao, she should keep the initiative in her own hands.

Although she wanted to sell a favor to Tong Yao, she handed the decision-making power to him. In the future, if she had anything to use Tong Yao for, even if the probability of Tong Yao agreeing was very high, she would also put herself in a passive position.

The divine hammer is the supreme treasure of the Artifact Saint Palace. She didn't believe Tong Yao had no ideas. As long as he wanted it, there would be a day when he needed her.

With this carrot hanging, her initiative would be greater in the future.

She made a big mistake in the cooperation with the four old men of You back then, so that a series of things that happened later put her in a passive position.

This kind of mistake cannot be made again.

Hua Changxi closed her mouth and stopped mentioning the divine hammer.

Although the crack overflowing with demon-monster energy was blocked, the demon-monster energy that had overflowed before was still lingering in the Tang Valley.

"Demon energy can actually disturb people's minds!"

Hua Changxi found that near the place where the demon energy was rich, the black Awakening Pattern on the back of her hand would appear.

The appearance of the black Awakening Pattern meant that the black flame was growing. The growth of the black flame meant that she was influenced by the demon energy, inducing some negative emotions in her heart.

Tong Yao collected the mood disturbed by the divine hammer and explained: "It's not demon energy, it's the demon-monster energy mixed in the demon energy. Demon-monster energy is spawned by dead great demons and fierce beasts. Because the resentment and violent qi are too heavy, it is easy to affect people's minds."

Hua Changxi: "Demon-monster energy?"

Tong Yao nodded: "What spreads from the Demon-Monster Prison is not just demon energy, but also violent demon-monster energy."

Hua Changxi: "It turned out to be like this, so how to remove these demon-monster energies?"

Tong Yao shook his head: "Demon-monster energy cannot be removed, it can only be purified!"

Hua Changxi: "How to purify?"

Tong Yao: "Some areas of the Nine Nether grow genius treasures with purification capabilities. It's just that for today's cultivators, in the Nine Nether, the range we can move is only around the nine checkpoints. Further out, it is more dangerous. There is no way to remove the demon-monster energy in the Tang Valley in the short term."

"By the way, do you know the Taisu Palace?"

Hua Changxi nodded: "I know." Isn't the tenth lady a disciple of the Taisu Palace?

Tong Yao: "It is said that among the direct disciples of the Taisu Palace master, someone obtained the purification divine ability of the Purifying World Green Lotus after the bloodline returned to the ancestors, and that person can purify demon-monster energy."

Hua Changxi listened and her heart jumped. For no reason, she thought of Hua Shiniang.

She and Shiniang were twins. She obtained the fire lotus divine ability, and Shiniang obtained the green lotus divine ability... It seems very plausible.

"Do you know the name of that person?"

Tong Yao shook his head: "The Taisu Palace protects people very well and has not announced it to the public." After a pause, "In addition to the purification divine ability of the Purifying World Green Lotus, the Yang Flame of the white jade lotus petal can also purify demon-monster energy, but the Yang Flame can only purify demon-monster energy."

Hearing this, Hua Changxi kept the matter of Hua Shiniang in her heart and quickly took out the white jade lotus petal obtained earlier: "How to ignite the Yang Flame?"

Tong Yao looked at the white jade lotus petal in Hua Changxi's hand in surprise, didn't ask how she got it, just shook his head and said: "I don't know how to ignite the white flame either. It is said that only the most pure and kind people can ignite it."

Hua Changxi frowned: "Most pure and kind? That is an absolutely good person. Is there such a person?"

Tong Yao: "Yes, among the people I know, there are people who can ignite the Yang Flame. If fellow Daoist Hua wants to know, I can introduce you in the future."

Hua Changxi was indeed in a hurry to solve the black flame problem and didn't be polite: "Okay, then thank you, fellow Daoist Tong."

It was not good to stay on the boundary stone platform where demon-monster energy was lingering. Tong Yao walked toward Xia Yang and Xia Xue and asked Hua Changxi to help support Xia Xue: "Fellow Daoist Hua, let's leave here."

Hua Changxi: "How to leave?"

Tong Yao supported Xia Yang, walked to the spatial door hole, drew a rune in the air with spiritual energy with his right hand, and soon, a light array depicting complex runes appeared on the ground.

Hua Changxi's expression was excited: "Teleportation array!" ===== CHAPTER 191 =====