In those years when I was a mortal and a demon

When the last spot of light disappeared, Senior Brother Lin had completely ended his life.

Lu Yuan didn't have time to digest Senior Brother Lin's memory and hurriedly returned to his own sea of ​​consciousness.

After checking Zhang Tie's injuries, Lu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. There were several serious wounds on his body, but none were fatal.

But the strange thing is that no matter how Lu Yuan tried to save him, Zhang Tie showed no sign of waking up.

If his body wasn't still twitching, anyone would have thought he was dead.

At this time, Lu Yuan remembered what Senior Brother Lin had said before, that life was worse than death, and that the soul was torn apart.

I quickly tried to digest Senior Brother Lin's memory. After some sorting, although the memory was incomplete, I still roughly understood the cause and effect.

When Senior Brother Lin fled the Qianzhu Sect, he was hunted down several times and went through a series of fierce battles. Although he managed to escape, his foundation was damaged, making it difficult for him to make further progress in his life.

Later, he lived in the Yellow Maple Valley, originally planning to remain anonymous and live the rest of his life.

But later Lu Yuan's entry into the valley aroused his interest, and he even became murderous in the end because of Lu Yuan's temptation. However, due to the many people in the valley, it was inconvenient to take action.

Coincidentally, Lu Yuan wanted to die, so Jin Ran asked him to be his guarantee. After learning that Lu Yuan was leaving the valley and asking for an approximate itinerary, he tampered with the letter issued.

As soon as Lu Yuan and others came out of the valley, he would immediately set up an ambush on the only road they must pass, waiting for Lu Yuan to arrive.

The reason why Zhang Tie was unconscious was because Senior Brother Lin used a secret technique in the Dayan Jue.

This secret technique is designed to hurt people's soul. Thanks to Zhang Tiexian, he severely injured Senior Brother Lin, greatly reducing his strength. If the power of the secret technique was not used 100%, otherwise the soul would have collapsed by now.

Knowing this, Lu Yuan hurriedly searched for Brother Lin's body to see if he could find a way to treat him.

Not to mention, this guy is really planning to fly away after seizing the body. There are actually as many as five or six storage bags on his body, half of which are high-end storage bags. He obviously took all his family wealth with him, which made Lu Yuan make a considerable fortune.

But Lu Yuan was not in the mood to count these now, so he probably checked them. Finally, I found the Dayan Jue in a storage bag.

But it is a pity that although the Dayan Jue records the cultivation methods of the secret technique, it does not mention how to crack it.

Lu Yuan knew very little about Yuanshen. After much thought, I decided to go back to Yellow Maple Valley to find someone for help.

Old Man Ma, as a late-stage foundation-building monk with good knowledge of spiritual herbs and elixirs, was the best person to ask for help.

Because Senior Brother Lin is dead and no longer has his spiritual control. The two giant tigers in the wooden house and the puppets patrolling outside the house all turned into palm-sized dolls.

Lu Yuan put all these things into the storage bag, then took out a few fire talismans from Zhang Tie and burned the place completely.

As for Han Li, there is no need to worry about it. With his level of caution, there was no need to worry.

Lu Yuan carried Zhang Tie on his back and rushed back overnight. Although I was questioned at the mountain gate and encountered some twists and turns. But with Tian Fei's token, he finally entered the Yellow Maple Valley smoothly.

After returning to Baiyao Garden and settling Zhang Tie, Lu Yuan went straight to Old Man Ma's cave and invited him over.

"What happened to you? Why are you so seriously injured and one of you is missing?"

"Zhang Tie's soul has been damaged. It is impossible for a monk in the Qi refining stage to use such methods." Old Man Ma is worthy of being a monk in the late stage of foundation building. He saw the key at a glance.

"We did encounter the pursuit of the Foundation Establishment monks and were dispersed."

"How did you provoke the foundation-building monks and escape the pursuit? It's not easy for you."

"We used a thunderbolt to injure the man, and then we were able to escape. While escaping, the man used some unknown means, but Brother Zhang blocked it for me, and then he became like this. .”

"As for the reason for chasing us, I think we were targeted because we spent a lot of money to buy Tianleizi in Fangshi."

"What do you think of Brother Zhang's injury? How should we save him?"

After some investigation, Old Man Ma gave two methods.

One is to forcibly crack the secret technique with external force, but this requires that the mind of the person who cracks it must be very strong, at least one level higher than the one who performs the technique.

But this consumes a lot of spiritual energy on the person who takes action, and it only prevents the injury from getting worse. The previously lost spirit can only rely on Zhang Tie to slowly recover by himself.

"The Yuan Shen is different from others. It is the seat of the soul and the foundation of a monk. If you hurt the Yuan Shen, you will basically lose half your life!" Old Man Ma sighed.

Then he told Lu Yuan that when he used his spiritual consciousness to explore, he found that Zhang Tie's soul was already showing signs of shrinking, and it would not take long before it would completely die.

Unless you can wake up and slowly repair it with your own magic power.

But with Zhang Tie's current loss of soul, it is impossible to wake up, so it is a dead end.

"A big level higher..." Lu Yuan muttered and repeated.

That is to say, the alchemy monks have to take action, but among the alchemy monks in the valley, they can go to Tian Fei themselves. With Tian Fei's virtue, he may not be willing to help.

"Is there another way?" Lu Yuan asked without giving up. Zhang Tie was trying to save himself, so how could he just watch him die in such pain!

"The other way is to rely on elixirs. The power of elixirs can be used to enhance Zhang Tie's soul, thereby breaking through the erosion of the secret technique."

The Nourishing Pill is a kind of elixir that specifically strengthens the soul and nourishes the soul. If you can get it, there is still a glimmer of hope.

Old Man Ma suggested another way, but he advised Lu Yuan not to have too much hope, because even monks in the Dan Formation Stage or even the Nascent Soul Stage regard pills like this that are beneficial to the Yuanshen as treasures and do not care about them at all. Maybe take it out.

In their eyes, using the Nourishing Pill to treat a low-level monk in the Qi-refining stage would be a waste of the pill even if it could be cured.

"Then I'll practice the head office myself!" With the direction, Lu Yuan's hope greatly increased.

"Do you think it's so easy to refine? There are not many auxiliary drugs for refining the Shen Yang Pill, and they are all very common. The key lies in the main drug, Divine Soul Grass."

Divine Soul Grass is extremely rare and must be more than ten thousand years old before it can grow seeds. However, Divine Soul Grass can usually be used as medicine to make elixirs within a hundred years. Although it is said that the longer the medicine is, the better the effect will be, but even a Nascent Soul cultivator only has a lifespan of a thousand years, so who has the time to wait for it to grow seeds.

So once it is discovered, as long as there is a medicine that is hundreds of years old, they will use it themselves. This has caused the Soul Grass to become increasingly rare, and it has simply disappeared from common places. The only places where they can still be found are in the so-called forbidden areas.

I also longed for this medicine back then, and even after searching for it for many years, I never found it.

However, I heard later that someone had seen one in the forbidden area where the seven sects obtained the main medicine of the Foundation Establishment Pill.

But at that time, I had already built a foundation and there was no way to go in and pick.

Speaking of this, Old Man Ma was also sighing.