So after running for half a day, they managed to leave everyone behind.
The eagle was still preening its feathers on the hillside, while Shi Long lay beside it.
Already dead.
Hell’s Wan Ge was not surprised; this person had been on the verge of death before, nearly gone, which is why You Juanniao said Sui Yi had severed any chance of the Longevity Formula’s ergence.
A half day’s work was enough for him to die.
However, Sui Yi seed quite surprised. She quickly dismounted, approached Shi Long, pressing her fingertips onto Shi Long’s forehead while her other hand pressed on his chest. After a mont, she said, "I didn’t expect him to be afflicted with chronic poison."
"Yuwen Huaji is truly ruthless."
Though it was chronic, it would only take two to three days to erupt.
Now it should be the third day.
So Shi Long could withstand the physical torture, but couldn’t endure the poison’s outbreak.
Previously, when Sui Yi captured Shi Long, she had infused him with Magnetic Sensation to sustain his vitality but failed to penetrate deeper, never noticing the poison in his body.
And then he died.
"Was he an important person?" Hell’s Wan Ge, seeing Sui Yi’s deanor, knew Shi Long had no real relationship with her; thus, his role must have been quite significant.
"It seems so. They ntioned the Longevity Formula, and I recall Gong Jiu saying that the Longevity Formula was the focus of this book... It seems like everything originates from it."
"Now if the Longevity Formula is gone, controlling the world’s direction will be difficult."
Both fell silent.
In this world, they couldn’t seem to stay out of it. If events exceeded this book’s plot, what would the final outco be?
The butterfly flaps its wings, and the vast sea raises huge waves.
If they flap their wings, will this world unravel?
Sui Yi did not hesitate to consider the worst outco for this magical world.
"Forget it, let’s take it step by step," Sui Yi was planning to bury Shi Long, after all, they had no enmity, and eting by chance, it was only right to give him a decent burial to avoid a corpse left exposed in the wilderness.
Just as Sui Yi was about to lift Shi Long, Hell’s Wan Ge, standing on the other side, suddenly said, "There’s writing beneath."
A line of bloodstained words, written beneath Shi Long’s body.
-- Under the Buddha in the ancient temple of Donglin Willow Alley, kill Yuwen Chengdu for .
The blood stains were sowhat blurred, intermittently; it must have been very difficult to write.
Shi Long’s clothes were stained with blood; it couldn’t possibly be the eagle that helped him roll over.
It must have been him.
He wrote the blood words, then rolled over to cover them.
Still had so craftiness.
"If he had been left directly abandoned here, one wouldn’t see the words beneath him."
It was Shi Long’s last gamble, using the Longevity Formula to trade for Sui Yi to avenge him.
But earlier, he filled Seo Ziling and the others without revealing the whereabouts of the Longevity Formula...
Seems he made the easiest choice between Sui Yi and Seo Ziling.
In terms of the likelihood of killing Yuwen Huaji, naturally, Sui Yi’s success rate was higher.
Rather than those two who were utterly rootless.
After burying Shi Long, Sui Yi and Hell’s Wan Ge did not directly return to Yangzhou City but found a mountain cave where they settled Seo Ziling and the others, with Hell’s Wan Ge staying behind while Sui Yi rode the eagle in the night to fly to the ancient temple Buddha in Donglin Willow Alley, in the wilderness of Yangzhou City.
This late night, riding the eagle, there’s truly no one in the world who could discern Sui Yi’s movents.
This desolate place, especially terrifying in the dark, marked by a mass burial mound outside.
Sui Yi walked into the dilapidated temple on her own, quickly locating a hidden iron box beneath the Buddha statue.
Upon opening it, there was indeed a Secret Manual, titled Longevity Formula.
Sui Yi glanced through it casually, surprised by the book... How strange, the Inner Strength cultivation thod felt chaotic.
Just by feeling the texture, using Magnetic Sensation to perate.
Hmm?
Sui Yi suddenly beca bewildered.
This Longevity Formula actually repels Magnetic Sensation?
She flipped through it again, carefully feeling...
Sui Yi beca enlightened.
"So that’s how it is."
If it were an ordinary person, naturally they would cultivate the surface-level Longevity Formula, leading to disrupted ridians and unstable Inner Strength, but Sui Yi, as a veteran archeologist, could tell the paper’s material was unique by touch, dissolving in water to reveal another layer of ink. This ink, in modern terms, was chemical material, that when roasted over fire, would trigger a chemical reaction, revealing the writing...
That’s the fundantal Longevity Formula.
And to know the true secret of the Longevity Formula, perhaps only after it entered fire and water could it be revealed.
Sui Yi put away the Longevity Formula, walked out of the ancient temple, and suddenly gazed toward the distant thriving Yangzhou City.
Under the night, Yangzhou City faintly flickered with light.
With Yuwen Huaji’s escape, finding Wei Zhenzhen would be challenging, while this Longevity Formula in hand might be the only card to lure him.
"She’s implicated because of ; I must find a way to rescue her."
Sui Yi resolved and rode the eagle to take flight, not heading toward Yangzhou City, nor toward the deep mountains where Hell’s Wan Ge and the others were.
In the mountain.
The cave was cold and, at night, the chill penetrated; Kou Zhong and Seo Ziling awoke one after the other but could only sit on the ground, not daring to utter a word.
Because on a stone ahead sat a person.
A woman.
They had never seen such a woman, silent in the pitch-black night, sitting still for two Shichen, neither eating nor needing a light.
Simply ghost-like.
Asking her a question would yield no response, rely a cold glance that made one shiver.
Still, they both knew this person was extraordinarily formidable, an outstanding Minor Grandmaster, so they dared not make a fuss, not to ntion they were severely injured before, later filled by Shi Long, for now, it was best to cultivate.
Ti passed silently.
Suddenly the wind could be heard outside, then monts later... a black figure walked in. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you’re welco to vote for recomndations and monthly votes at Qidian (qidian), your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian to read.)
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