blueteamnovel Chapter 140.1
Chapter 140.1
The two of them looked at each other and saw some urgency in each other’s eyes. Li Tianyan couldn’t help but laugh and raised his hand to scratch the tip of his nose. “Let’s go.”
“Well, let’s go quickly,” Cheng Qi urged. The little shuanger wriggled free from Li Tianyan’s arms and struggled to stand up.
Arriving at the entrance of the valley again, Li Tianyan took another look at the location of the flower demon’s true form, then asked Cheng Qi, “Can you handle this on your own?”
“Yes,” Cheng Qi nodded. “I’ll stay close.”
After hearing his response, Li Tianyan wasted no time. With one palm, he opened the entrance to the illusion, and they instantly entered the valley.
After two months of investigation, Li Tianyan knew the valley well. This time, he didn’t proceed cautiously. As soon as they entered, he swiftly flew toward the flower demon.
The flower demon noticed them the moment they stepped into the valley. Remembering its previous lesson, it had been lurking and waiting instead of rushing out. When they reached the deeper part of the valley, hundreds of tree roots suddenly protruded from the ground, surrounding them.
Li Tianyan and Cheng Qi reacted swiftly. Their flying swords did not pause; one activated divine fire to carve out a path while the other unleashed yin fire to attack the tree roots closing in.
The flames from the divine fire were just enough to restrain the flower demon. When Li Tianyan invoked them, they were more than ten times stronger than those used by Xie Haocui. The flower demon recoiled in fear as the flames approached, dodging repeatedly. The flames seemed to burn not just its roots, but its very soul.
After Cheng Qi reached the Foundation Establishment, his Yin Fire surpassed anything from his Qi condensation period. At his command, the flames split into dozens of strands and surged toward different tree roots. Each strand turned the roots into soft cotton, swiftly eroding them with purple fire.
The flower demon’s broken branches struggled to keep pace with the flames; several times, the fire nearly reached the flower demon itself along its roots.
Li Tianyan, determined not to let it escape, unleashed his mental power to capture and ensnare them.
“Nooooo, don’t catch me! I don’t want my consciousness to be wiped out! I don’t want to be devoured! Wuwuwu, don’t!”
The Spirit of Earthly Essence realized it couldn’t escape and burst into tears, though its voice was inaudible, causing discomfort in Li Tianyan and Cheng Qi’s consciousness.
Hearing the Spirit of Earthly Essence’s pitiful cries, Cheng Qi felt an inexplicable familiarity and couldn’t help but feel a twinge of sympathy.
Seeing it being drawn into Li Tianyan’s sea of consciousness, Cheng Qi hesitated but didn’t voice his thoughts aloud. He silently acknowledged in his heart that the Spirit of Earthly Essence was crucial to Li Tianyan, and he couldn’t allow it to slip away.
Once Li Tianyan captured the Spirit of Earthly Essence, he immediately sat down to meditate on the spot, preparing to integrate it into his Dantian using the Five Elements Yin and Yang technique. Observing this, Cheng Qi also sat down beside him, assisting in maintaining vigilance and ensuring he wouldn’t be disturbed.
“Please, let me go. I don’t want to revert to being soulless earth. That’s not the entirety of who I am. Wuwuwu.”
“It had taken a lot of effort for me to gain intelligence. I just wanted to stay in this pure land. You go find another Spirit of Earthly Essence, we are not suitable, wuwuwu.”
The Spirit of Earthly Essence’s cry never stopped, but after being taken away by Li Tianyan, he was the only one who could hear it. Li Tianyan frowned at the noise. This was the first time he had encountered such a spiritual creature that could cry. He felt helpless for a moment and could only try his best to ignore the voice in his sea of consciousness.
Note
Another foreshadow about Cheng Qi’s past life