Chapter 69: Burning Willow and Boiling Clothes

  Qin Ziyu saw him smiling foolishly in the remaining light, but mistakenly heard a few lewd tones from this laughter. With a cold face, he flicked his left hand, and the true energy of his fingertips swirled around, accompanied by the sound of breaking air, another gust of wind blade arrived.

  Yi Tianxings face turned pale with fright, although these wind blades seemed to be unable to break through his sturdy skin made of fine jade, the scorching pain was unbearable. He cursed loudly: "It's you who is being a rascal, what does it have to do with me!"

  At this time, the wind blade had already brought the sound of breaking through the air and arrived in front of him.

  Yitian Xing this time learned a lesson, the whole person honestly and quietly didn't move, eyes watching nose watching heart, learning from the old monk's meditation. However, although he had the appearance, his unmoving Buddha heart hadn't been practiced to perfection, in his ears he heard the mournful wind sound, on his body he felt it gradually getting colder, as if several wind blades were brushing past his own nose tip.

  He previously scolded Qin Zhi for being a rascal, unexpectedly it really became true.

  The gust of wind sliced through his skin, cutting back and forth, tearing the clothes on his body into strips of fabric that slowly fell to the ground. Yitian Xing was left with only a small pair of underwear, his entire body exposed.

  "What a talented woman, playing the rogue!"

  Yi Tianxing didn't care whether this seal had any soundproofing effect or not, and he loudly scolded.

  Qin Zi's face turned dark, but he didn't respond. Instead, he used his eyes to scan Tian Xing's body from head to toe, looking at his well-proportioned figure with an unnatural expression on his face.

  After a while, Qin Zi didn't find what he was looking for, and he couldn't help but concentrate his mind slightly. After a moment, he said, "Where's the Heavenly Robe?"

  "In this situation?" Yi Tianxing's face was thick-skinned, looking at her with a naked body, his face full of sly smiles.

  Qin Zi's face turned red with embarrassment, and with a wave of his left hand, the willow branches within the boundary lightly floated over and covered Yi Tian Xing's body.

  Yi Tian Xing didn't make another move, although at this time he was already able to summon the true fire within his body. However, he always felt that the opponent had come prepared this time, and his own flame might not be effective. Moreover, in his divine consciousness, he always felt that the little girl in front of him wouldn't really harm him.

  "The Heavenly Robe is not on me." He said with a straight face, "That day I borrowed the Heavenly Robe from Huiyuan Temple to help me reduce my fever. After the fever went away, the Heavenly Robe disappeared. I reckon it was the old monk in the temple who used his magical powers to summon it back."

  Qin Zi didn't quite believe it, but looking at Yi Tian Xing's almost naked body, he couldn't think of any other possibility.

  Yi Tianxing saw her hesitating and smiled: "Qin Zi, what is your status in Jixiangtian? You're so powerful, I have no way to deal with you." Suddenly, she let out a long sigh, and a look of sadness appeared on her face: "I've been practicing alone since childhood, thinking that there was nowhere in the world I couldn't go. I didn't expect that the first person from the top three heavens I met would be so much more powerful than me."

  Qin Zi turned around, looking at his comical appearance, and slightly furrowed her brow: "I really can't sense the Heavenly Robe on you." A hint of disappointment and gloominess appeared between her eyebrows.

  Yitian Xing was tied to a green pillar with willow branches at this time. He scratched the protrusions on the willow branches with his struggling index finger and frowned: "Who are you in Jixiang Tian, why do you want to deal with me?"

  "A single man is innocent, but one who holds jade is guilty."

  "What do you want with Tian Ya?"

  Qin Zi glanced at him lightly and didn't respond.

  "With your cultivation, the Heaven Cloak won't be of much help to you."

  Qin Zijian gazed at him quietly and said, "You seemed to have some inferiority complex earlier. Let me tell you something. In the cultivation world, a beginner like you can reach such a realm so quickly, it's extremely rare in this world."

  Yi Tian raised an eyebrow and said, "Still not as good as you."

  Qin Zhi smiled slightly and didn't answer, instead asking: "Since the Heavenly Robe is not on you, I'd like to ask you a few questions."

  "Now I'm a fish on the chopping board, gasping for its last breath. Do with me as you please." Yi Tianxing's words carried a hint of anger, "Ask away."

  "How did you get into the back garden of the Temple of the Return to the Origin?"

  "Go ahead and go in."

  Qin Zi's face had a hint of anger: "Don't joke around." After saying this, she unexpectedly fell silent, her hands clasped behind her back, gazing up at the vast sky, and sighed leisurely: "What's in the backyard has always been a taboo topic in the cultivation world."

  She thought for a moment and said slowly: "I won't hide it from you, I've been thinking about this since I was young, and I inferred that there must be someone with great divine power living inside. But whether it's the three days on top or the high plateau, over the years, I've tried to probe, but not once have I been able to successfully sneak in. How did you manage to get in? This is something I need to figure out."

  Yi Tianxing concentrated his mind to listen, and a great doubt also arose in his heart. Later, he often felt that his trip to the Temple of Return to the Origin seemed too smooth, but now listening to Qin Ziyu, the auspicious heavenly being, he realized that the back garden was actually a secret place. Why did he walk in so easily that day? Why didn't he feel anything unusual when he entered and exited later on?

  He suddenly remembered a sentence that Brin Gu Da Shi said to him at Guiyuan Temple.

  "Our ancestors have high hopes for you..."

  He was shocked, and even though he was naked at the moment, he still sweated two drops. The old ancestors valued themselves highly, so they could easily enter the back garden of the Temple of Return to the Origin, learn Buddhist Dharma from Bin Ku, and get the treasure of the Temple of Return to the Origin, the heavenly fire-extinguishing cloak, for Little Red Bird... What a great favor!

  Yi Tianxing wasn't a fool, and when he thought about it, he felt a little shocked. He looked at himself and found that there was nothing that could make the old ancestor, who was strong to the point of being abnormal, look at him with favor. Since the old ancestor had given him such great kindness, there must be some hidden reason behind his back.

  But the reason is that the current self cannot be thoroughly understood.

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  Qin Zi quietly waited for him to speak up.

  Yi Tian Xing thought for a long time before saying: "Do you believe in fate?"

  Qin Zi was taken aback for a moment, and then shook his head after a while.

  "I believe it." Yi Tianxing smiled, "Fate is something that when I think the cause and effect of a matter is unreasonable, I attribute it to fate. The encounter in the Temple of Return to the Origin, I also consider as a kind of fate."

  Qin Zi shook his head again.

  Yi Tianxing suddenly smiled and said: "You won't plan on tying me down for a lifetime, will you?"

  He said with a smile, but Qin Zi seemed to have heard nothing and asked himself: "What is in the backyard of the Temple of Return to the Origin?"

  Yitian Xing was somewhat skeptical of the intentions of the Huiyuan Temple, but compared to that, he had even less trust in this terrifying little girl in front of him. After thinking for a moment, he put on an honest face: "I really don't know, what kind of strange encounter a foolish kid like me might have, maybe it's just good luck."

  Qin Zi's face was calm and serene, unable to discern what he was thinking in his heart.

  Yitian suddenly let out a loud "ah" at this time.

  Qin Zi turned his head to look, but saw that the willow branches around him had somehow caught fire. He slightly furrowed his brow, thinking that this kid still didn't know how to control the fire element in his body?

  In the midst of loud wailing, Yi Tianxing secretly shouted and slowly forced out the fire element in his body, burning the willow branches on him clean. Although the countless strands of virtual energy inside his body still couldn't be shaken off, the fire element wrapped around his body made him feel a bit more comfortable.

  Willow twig burned out, what else is on his body?

  The little underpants were made of cloth and had long since been reduced to a pile of ashes at his feet.

  He now stood before Qin Zi, a refined and elegant young lady, like a clean and shiny light pig.

  Qin Ziwei blushed slightly and turned her face away, scolding in a low voice: "What kind of behavior is this?"

  Qin Zixi's mind was slightly disordered, and the mysterious smoke in her right palm also shook slightly. Yi Tianxing felt that the unknown restraint on his body had relaxed a bit, and he smiled slyly behind her back.

  "Let's just burn everything clean, so you can investigate even more clearly."

  He spoke while secretly circulating the Three Flavors Scripture, and with his true yuan rapidly operating within him, he finally managed to take a step forward. Earlier, when he was trapped in the seal, he had heard Qin Zhi unintentionally mention that this seal could last for about half an hour, and since he had calculated that half an hour was almost up, he used his own little trick.

  Yi Tian Xing was just waiting for this opportunity, before Qin Zi could react, the muscles in his calf suddenly tensed up and he pounced towards Qin Zi.

  Qin Zi suddenly felt a shock in the palm of his hand, and he knew that there was something unusual behind him. He forcibly turned around, but saw Yi Tian Xing, who was completely naked, pouncing towards him.

  With her cultivation, she shouldn't have been flustered to this extent when encountering any expert in the world. If Yi Tianxing were to unleash his full power and transform into the Blazing Heaven Technique to pounce on her, Qin Zi was confident that she could handle it - but after all, she was still a young girl who hadn't shed her innocence, so how could she not be frightened when suddenly faced with a stark naked man charging towards her? She subconsciously formed a hand seal and teleported three feet away.

  It was this flustered spirit that forced the Taoist secret method of True Lan Xuan onto Yi Tianxing's body, resulting in a spiritual flaw.

  Yi Tian walked half a step forward, his left knee kneeling on the ground. He felt that the restraints on his body were gradually dissipating, and with a hint of joy, he suddenly shouted out the "Breaking Self-Constraint" mantra: "Break free from all constraints!"

  A golden red flame was rapidly forced out of his body, from the tip of his left hand to the middle finger of his right hand, circling around his back, a extremely brilliant firebird burst out, shooting straight up into the sky and heavily striking the seal that had gradually revealed its true form over time.

  A mouthful of fresh blood spurted out from Yi Tianxing's mouth.

  A loud rumble shook the air within the barrier.

  Yi Tian's feet touched the ground, his entire body engulfed in raging flames, carrying a scorching heat that made people retreat three paces. Taking advantage of the brief moment when the boundary was thin, he charged forward. After the boundary dissipated, the Seven-Eyed Bridge appeared not far away. He didn't dare to linger, and with his body still ablaze, he jumped headfirst into the turbulent waters of the Beifang River.

  A loud crash was heard and waves splashed everywhere.

  ………………………………

  The barrier was broken, and the place where the two had been standing before returned to its usual scenery. A gentle breeze began to rise on the river, and the willow branches started swaying gently in the wind again, with a refreshing fragrance filling the air, only a chair shattered into wooden pieces and some tattered cloth scraps on the shore proved that there had just been an intense battle here.

  A small figure in all black knelt behind Qin Zi.

  "My lord, why spare this little one's life?"

  Qin Zhi had been controlling the True Lan's zither for too long, and her true yuan was greatly depleted. In the end, she even used her divine sense to harden the Nine Heavens Profound Fire with Yi Tianxing, causing her face to turn pale, making this beautiful face look even more fragile and pitiful. She didn't explain anything to the little guy, but instead stared at the rolling waves of the river, lost in thought.