Chapter 88: Once Food for the Cang Clan
In Xiao Fan's bedroom, a bright light appeared.
"Ah——!!!"
Amidst the screams, Xiao Fan stumbled backward, clutching his neck, before finally falling onto the bed.
The terrifying scene kept replaying in his mind: that hideous and frightening figure, like a vengeful spirit, and the sword she swung down!
"Xiao Fan! Xiao Fan!"
"Are you alright, Xiao Fan!"
His parents' anxious calls came from beside his ears, and then Xiao Fan felt strands of gentle Foundation Establishment True Essence being channeled into his body.
Gradually, he began to calm down, and he slightly sensed his own body.
"Emm..."
It doesn't seem to hurt at all.
Could it be that I didn't die?
Letting go of the hand covering his neck and confirming that there was really nothing wrong with his body, Xiao Fan couldn't help but feel a bit awkward.
To alleviate the awkwardness, and also to make his previous actions not seem so abrupt.
He first pretended to struggle for a while, and then slowly calmed down.
Then he slowly opened his eyes, and what came into view was the worried expressions of his parents.
Xiao Fan couldn't help but feel a bit self-reproachful.
"Sorry, Dad, Mom, I made you worry just now."
"It's alright! As long as you're alright."
Mother Xiao hugged Xiao Fan immediately. Although she was still shaken, she offered words of comfort.
Although Father Xiao comforted him like Mother Xiao, judging by his tightly clenched fists gradually loosening, he must have also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
Xiao Ming, meanwhile, stood at the bedroom door, quietly observing.
As a Body Cultivator at the Golden Core Completion stage, when facing cultivators of lower Realms, he could determine whether a person was lying from various aspects such as changes in their expression when speaking, the speed of blood flow within their body, and whether their heart rate accelerated.
'Xiao Fan's apology just now indeed seemed sincere.'
However, given his strange behavior within the Mystic Realm, Xiao Ming did not immediately jump to conclusions.
After comforting his parents, Xiao Fan also looked at Xiao Ming standing at the door.
The two brothers' gazes met.
Xiao Fan scratched his head awkwardly: "Brother, were you also eliminated?"
"Hmm?"
Xiao Ming frowned.
Does he really not know, or is he deliberately pretending?
Looking at his younger brother's expression, which didn't seem fake, Xiao Ming was momentarily confused.
"Yes, I was also eliminated." He paused, then said very seriously, "Weren't I eliminated by you?"
"Huh?"
Xiao Fan was instantly dumbfounded.
I eliminated Brother?
How is that possible!
Father Xiao and Mother Xiao were also surprised to hear this news, but they didn't want to see the two brothers argue over it and were about to say something.
"How about I explain?" A gentle voice entered the ears of the two brothers.
In an instant, the two brothers felt everything around them recede, just like when they were pulled into the combat space within the Mystic Realm.
However, compared to the gray combat space, what was before them was a vast expanse of white. An ordinary-looking figure with a gentle demeanor stood in the center, smiling as he looked at the two.
"Senior Huo!" Xiao Fan blurted out.
"Hmm?"
Does Xiao Fan know this mysterious powerful being who suddenly appeared?
Then were his previous changes also related to this mysterious powerful being?
"That's right, his changes are indeed related to me." Huo seemed to see through Xiao Ming's thoughts.
It really is!
Xiao Ming's heart trembled, and he quickly bowed respectfully.
"Dare I ask, Senior, why did you do this?"
Since it concerned his own younger brother, he didn't care if asking this way would be impolite.
"I saw that his nature was pure and kind, and he was even willing to cut off his own path for his older brother. I couldn't bear it, so I bestowed upon him a stroke of good fortune."
"Huh?!!!"
No, you call this 'good fortune'?
Is there some deviation in my understanding of this word?
"To reconnect with his path, and to constantly have opportunities, is that not good fortune?"
"But..."
"That's right, Brother, the Cang Clan's methods are very powerful. The ""Shepherding the Soul and Nourishing My Being Scripture"" can even allow me to build a Heavenly Dao Foundation without relying on rare treasures from heaven and earth," Xiao Fan quickly said.
The influence of Gu disappeared, coupled with Xu Xing's sword slash that severed most of the connection, he had now returned to being that pure and kind young man who greatly admired his older brother.
However, he still believed that the Cang Clan was a branch of the Human Clan, a relatively powerful ethnic group in ancient times that had now declined.
Huo: "......"
Although the method was a bit bizarre, he could be considered to have maintained his original heart.
But compared to the junior supported by Dao Brother, he was still far, far behind.
Xiao Ming, on the other hand, didn't hear anything Xiao Fan said; he could only see his mouth opening and closing.
"The Cang Clan is not a branch of the Human Clan as you think. On the contrary, the Cang Clan is a mortal enemy of our Human Clan," Huo finally began to explain.
Xiao Fan was completely stunned. These words created a huge conflict with his understanding.
"Within the Mystic Realm, you harvested spirituality using the ""Shepherding the Soul and Nourishing My Being Scripture"", but were ultimately taken advantage of by the Ancestors of Cang Race, who seized your body."
I was seized of my body?
"Afterward, the Ancestors of Cang Race commanded the Tongxuan Grass Monster they enslaved to besiege and kill your Brother."
I... killed Brother?!
No!
How is this possible!
But as Huo's words entered his ears, some memories also resurfaced in his mind,
He stood before his heavily injured and dying Brother, and then mercilessly pierced his glabella with a finger.
After that, he went to pursue and kill fellow student Zhang...
Right!
So that's why he ended up dying by her hand. It turns out the injuries on her were caused by him.
"But the Cang Clan..."
In his heart, he still held a trace of beautiful fantasy about the Cang Clan.
Figures herding the stars, wielding dominion over myriad spirits flashed through his mind...
How could that not be the Human Clan!
Only the Human Clan should possess such grandeur!
The Cang Clan should be a branch of the Human Clan!
"Emm..."
After his cognition was twisted, it actually turned into such extreme thinking.
How should I put it? It's a bit strange.
But he seemed to understand why Gu chose to take over this kid's body.
"Whether you believe it or not, the Cang Clan is a great enemy of our Human Clan." Some things still need to be made clear, "You now bear the Cang Clan Bloodline. If I mention something, you should be able to sense it."
"What do you think of... Thousand Spirits Sweet Dew?"
Thousand Spirits Sweet Dew?
As Huo's voice entered his ears, the Cang Clan Bloodline within his body seemed to transmit a piece of information.
Thousand Spirits Sweet Dew requires three thousand Human Clan infants less than one year old, their hearts cut open to extract blood, mixed with Pure Soul True Essence, using Yangjing Danxi as fire, extracting their pure souls as fuel, and refining for nine years to obtain one cup.
Its taste is indescribably wonderful and can increase spirituality.
Extremely vivid and clear images unfolded before his eyes, seemingly detailing the production process of Thousand Spirits Sweet Dew.
Seeing each child having their heart cut open amidst loud cries, Xiao Fan's face changed drastically.
But the next moment, something even more devastating happened to him.
An extremely sweet and wonderfully delicious taste suddenly came from his mouth. His soul seemed to be floating in bliss under the stimulation of this taste.
This taste was precisely the taste of that Thousand Spirits Sweet Dew.
"Ough——!"
Xiao Fan could no longer hold back and immediately knelt on the ground and began to vomit.
He vomited while crying!
The taste was fresh and delicious, but when he thought that this taste was refined from the heart's blood of three thousand infants, he felt incredibly nauseated!
The filth he vomited out did not pile up but disappeared directly.
"Xiao Fan!"
Although Xiao Ming couldn't hear what they were saying, seeing him like this, he felt extremely anxious. He wanted to run over and check but found that he couldn't move.
"Because of a Dao Brother of mine, you have temporarily escaped the influence of the Cang Clan Bloodline, but this does not mean it will cease." Huo continued, "Before long, you will adapt to, and even like this taste. Then what will you do?"
"Perhaps you might even choose to eat your parents and your Brother?"
"Ough——!"
It was as if he was going to vomit out his internal organs.
After a long while, the taste in his mouth gradually disappeared. Xiao Fan was almost exhausted but still forced himself to stand up.
He bowed respectfully.
"What should I do, Senior."
He didn't want to, not at all, to become that kind of man-eating monster.
"I will teach you how to suppress the Cang Clan Bloodline, but you must also always remember that you are forever of the Human Clan."
Xiao Fan didn't hesitate, immediately knelt down, and heavily kowtowed.
"Disciple Xiao Fan, greets Master!"
Perhaps it was because of Sword Revered's interesting and bizarre Disciple, or perhaps because of that sword strike from Dao Brother.
In any case, Huo wanted to take a Disciple.
............
Within the Mystic Realm.
Below the central Sword Peak, Lin Qiuxian closed his eyes and adjusted his breathing. At this moment, only he was below the Sword Peak.
And outside the Sword Peak, several hundred meters away.
A figure was cautiously advancing along the narrow crevices between the rocks, his aura suppressed to the extreme, almost imperceptible.
After advancing a short distance each time, he would stop to observe carefully and continue only after confirming there was no danger.
He continued to move forward like this for nearly a hundred meters. His field of vision gradually widened, and he could already see Lin Qiuxian sitting below the Sword Peak.
"Puff~"
With an extremely subtle soft sound, the figure turned into a small gray bean. After landing, it directly shattered, mixing with the rough ground.
Several miles away, a cluster of seemingly ordinary scattered rocks
However, there was a hidden space within, large enough to accommodate several people. Han Yun sat in a corner and slowly opened his eyes.
"As expected, the first to arrive were the reckless fellows from the Sword Sect."
That group of reckless fellows who only charge forward blindly are not stable at all.
"Unfortunately, my Art of Scattering Beans into Soldiers is far inferior to Senior Brother."
Therefore, only now has he explored seventeen secluded and safe paths leading below the Sword Peak.
As for Senior Brother Yang...
With his Art of Scattering Beans into Soldiers, he has probably already explored more than thirty safe paths.
There's no other way. The Art of Paper Cutting into Humans cannot be used in this place; the burning firelight is too conspicuous.
It seems I need to cultivate a few more transformation arts after returning.
There are quite a few such Spell techniques and divine abilities within the Sect, and some Shishu and Martial Uncle have even improved them so that even cultivators of lower Realms can use them.
Afterward, Han Yun began meditating to recover his spiritual power.
He won't continue forward until he has explored at least fifty safe paths.
Develop cautiously, don't be reckless.
This is his life motto.
At this moment, a graceful figure was fleeing rapidly, but unfortunately approached Han Yun's location.
This person was none other than Jiang Yujiu, her eyes filled with fear.
Just now, she was hiding somewhere to rest and happened to see a female cultivator from Lingyin Workshop and a cold female Sword Cultivator enter the combat space.
However, after only a few seconds, that female Sword Cultivator came out!
"Holy crap!"
In a few seconds, do you think you're stepping on a bug?
Even more exaggerated was that over a dozen Tongxuan Grass Monster attracted there were instantly killed by her.
It was just like mowing grass.
Although this thing is essentially grass, it's still Qi Refining Ninth Layer grass!
Second update, also three thousand characters!
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