We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real? - Chapter 257: This Is His Only Path
After Xiao Mo awakened, another twenty days passed.
During these days, the external injuries on Xiao Mo’s body had already mostly healed under the herbal medicines Wangxin carefully prepared.
The skin that had been charred black by the tribulation lightning had also shed, and new flesh and skin had grown out.
However, Xiao Mo’s spiritual veins and root bones showed no signs of improvement whatsoever.
That Spirit Absorbing Sword was simply placed in the room.
Because the Spirit Absorbing Sword had absorbed too much bloody baleful qi in Xiao Mo’s hands over these years, to draw it required not only sufficient realm but also needed to be driven by sufficient bloody baleful qi.
So now, for Xiao Mo to draw the Spirit Absorbing Sword had become a kind of luxury.
Xiao Mo would sit in the courtyard meditating every day, attempting to repair the spiritual veins and root bones within his body himself, but it was all futile effort.
Sometimes Xiao Mo would even act too hastily, causing the bloody baleful qi to attack his heart. He would spit out a mouthful of fresh blood, and his spiritual veins and root bones would be injured even more severely.
Whenever Wangxin saw Xiao Mo like this, her heart would become extremely anxious and worried beyond measure.
Countless times, Wangxin wanted to persuade Xiao Mo to give up.
Otherwise, if Xiao Mo continued tormenting himself like this, forget about recovering his realm, his body might not even be able to withstand it but Wangxin also knew.
How could Xiao Mo possibly listen to those words she said?
However, Xiao Mo wasn’t a fool either. After attempting to repair his spiritual veins multiple times and ending in failure each time, Xiao Mo knew this method simply wouldn’t work, so he decided to give up for now.
Xiao Mo no longer tried to repair his spiritual veins. Instead, he sat in the courtyard spacing out, and once he started, it would be for an entire day.
He pondered all methods for reconstructing spiritual veins in his mind but no matter which path it was, none were viable.
Then one day, when Xiao Mo was sitting on a stone stool and saw a spider weaving a web on a tree, a bold conjecture flashed through Xiao Mo’s mind.
This method had never been tried by anyone, and the risk was extremely high but Xiao Mo ultimately decided to give it a try.
Otherwise, what meaning was there in continuing to live miserably like this?
It was after this day that Xiao Mo, upon waking every morning, would sit in the courtyard meditating.
As usual, Xiao Mo still helped Madam Wang chop firewood.
When Ning Wei practiced her cultivation technique, Xiao Mo would still provide appropriate guidance.
Although Xiao Mo’s current realm was only Cave Mansion, his perspective was still there.
The cultivation technique Ning Wei practiced, the “Thousand Soul Yin-Yang Formula,” was an extremely suitable technique for her to cultivate.
If Ning Wei was diligent enough and had sufficient talent, using this technique to enter the Upper Three Realms in the future was not an impossibility.
What Xiao Mo did wasn’t much different from before.
However, Xiao Mo now seemed as if he had resigned himself to fate. He spent a lot of time on other matters but no longer thought about reconstructing his spiritual veins.
Wangxin looked at Xiao Mo’s every move with confusion.
She didn’t think Xiao Mo would give up so easily, but she didn’t know what Xiao Mo was doing.
Wangxin just felt that Xiao Mo seemed to be preparing for something.
He was emptying himself, making his heart even more calm.
“Wangxin, can you tell me about your Kongnian Temple’s Buddhist teachings?”
One day, when Wangxin walked past Xiao Mo, Xiao Mo said to her.
“Eh?” Wangxin thought she had misheard. “Xiao Mo, you want to study Buddhist teachings?”
“Not really studying, just wanting to listen,” Xiao Mo shook his head. “If they can’t be shared outside, then forget it.”
“It’s fine, it’s fine.” A gleam of joy flashed through Wangxin’s eyes. She hurriedly ran into her room and brought out a sutra. “Let’s start with this one.”
Seeing Wangxin’s happy appearance, Xiao Mo nodded, “Then I’ll trouble you.”
“It’s no trouble at all.” Wangxin shook her head.
Although Wangxin didn’t know what Xiao Mo was going to do, if she could persuade Xiao Mo toward goodness and help him find a trace of peace from Buddhist teachings, that would be very good.
Thus, in the small courtyard, the woman earnestly explained Buddhist scriptures, and the man earnestly listened.
Sometimes Madam Wang would listen from the side. She was also quite interested in Buddhist teachings.
Ning Wei tried listening for a while, but after becoming increasingly confused, she went to play while holding little Hundun.
By the stone table in the courtyard, the sound of Buddhist scriptures could be heard from time to time.
Not far away, little Hundun kept rolling around in the courtyard, rolling itself into a little snowball.
Ning Wei chased little Hundun around everywhere.
It was as if time had stopped at this moment.
Before they knew it, winter passed and the old snow melted.
On this morning, after Xiao Mo said something to Madam Wang and Wangxin, he left early.
Xiao Mo came to a hilltop outside the village.
He took out some spirit stones from his storage bag and slowly set up a formation array.
Half an hour passed. After the formation array was set up, Xiao Mo sat cross-legged within it. The stream water flowed down slowly before him.
Taking a deep breath, Xiao Mo directly released all the spiritual power and bloody baleful qi within his body.
In an instant, bone-eroding baleful qi corroded Xiao Mo’s body.
Cold sweat appeared on Xiao Mo’s forehead. His palms gripped his knees tightly.
He controlled the baleful qi within his body, directly removing all the damaged parts of his spiritual veins and root bones.
This process was like Xiao Mo himself taking a scalpel, cutting open his own belly, and performing surgery on himself to remove the diseased areas.
Moreover, throughout the entire “surgery,” he had to remain conscious without any anesthesia. The pain was even a thousand, a hundred times greater than cutting open flesh.
After Xiao Mo removed the damaged spiritual veins and root bones within his body, he used bloody baleful qi to construct new spiritual veins and fill in the root bones.
This was the method Xiao Mo had thought of.
Since his previous spiritual veins and root bones were severely damaged and difficult to repair,
He would simply use bloody baleful qi to construct a bridge connecting each spiritual vein.
Using bloody baleful qi as “material” to repair the root bones.
The entire process was extremely painful and exceptionally perilous. If Xiao Mo wasn’t careful, he could fall into qi deviation.
So during this period, Xiao Mo studied Buddhist scriptures and did other things, trying his best to calm his heart.
If in the end he still failed and was completely destroyed by the bloody baleful qi, turning into a “Blood Demon,” then the instant Xiao Mo stepped out of this formation array, he would be annihilated by the array.
Xiao Mo didn’t know if this method would work, but in Xiao Mo’s view, this was his only path.
“Kill them.”
“Xiao Mo! Accept your death!”
“Don’t kill us, please, don’t kill us.”
“Fifth Brother, this is the Western Region. I won’t be bullied by others. I’ll climb to the very top step by step!”
“Kid, remember this. In the Western Region, if you don’t want to be eaten, you must eat others first!”
While constructing spiritual veins and repairing root bones, Xiao Mo’s mind kept recalling every past battle, every person he had killed appearing before him.
“Boom!”
With a loud explosion, bloody baleful qi burst out from among the trees. The formation array around Xiao Mo was directly destroyed by the bloody baleful qi.
Xiao Mo suddenly opened his eyes.
His eyes were blood-red, showing not a trace of humanity, like a bloodthirsty fierce beast.
“Xiao Mo… time to eat… Xiao Mo, where are you…”
Wangxin kept calling out Xiao Mo’s name in the forest, searching for his figure.
Sensing the bloody baleful qi, Wangxin’s heart jumped in alarm. She hurriedly flew over.
Soon, by the stream, Wangxin saw Xiao Mo slowly standing up.
“Xiao Mo?”
Wangxin called out softly. An extremely uneasy feeling arose in Wangxin’s heart.
Xiao Mo turned around. She saw him transform blood qi into a long blade and instantly vanish from his position.
When Wangxin reacted, that long blade was already slashing toward her head.
