The Book of Ten Chapters: Yin and Yang Fish

  Those dark demons saw their prey being rescued, and they all let out angry roars, then pounced on Yue Qing again, but were blocked by the five-colored mist outside. No matter how they changed and scratched, they couldn't break through that layer of faint colored smoke.

  Zhu Hong was taken away by Yue Qing, and the black jade calabaza he was holding was also rolled up with the sword light. Yue Qing held the calabaza in his hand, which was a treasure passed down from the Wutai school, so he was naturally not unfamiliar with it. He pinched his fingers to recite an incantation, and a mouthful of vital energy sprayed over, causing the calabaza to spew out a large amount of thick black evil spirit. The strong bloody smell made people feel nauseous, and inside it contained the soul-capturing magic evil spirit. Even Yue Qing's 300 years of Taoist practice felt dizzy in front of him.

  Those yin evil spirits felt the gourd's absorbing power, they hadn't obtained the blood food essence yet and were unwilling to give up, struggling to disperse and escape. Yue Qing hurriedly sprayed a mouthful of refined blood over, transforming it into true yuan blood evil, each yin demon was wrapped by a strand of blood evil, no matter how hard they struggled it was all in vain, they could only be pulled back into the gourd with great reluctance.

  In just a short while, the three-faced Yinmeng flag of the Xuanmen school's formation had been destroyed by the dark demon. The power of the Liuli True Yuan gourd was too great; in the past, when the Taiyi Hunyuan Patriarch was forced to desperation by the Emei School, he also wanted to refine it, but it was too yin and damaging, killing too many lives, so the Taiyi Hunyuan Patriarch did not take action. After refining this gourd, there would be thirty-six dark demons; now, Zhu Hong had only completed one-third of it, with a power that was only one-tenth of what it would have when fully refined. However, if they hadn't obtained the Taiyi Wuyan Luo beforehand, Yue Qing would have had no choice but to flee today.

  Yu Qing put away the gourd, withdrew the formation, and dispersed the dark clouds and evil spirits as well as the illusions of the heavens. The sky outside was still gloomy, with rain falling even harder than yesterday, cooling down his body as it landed on him.

  Yue Qing wiped his face and silently kowtowed to the north, praying: "Master, your great revenge, I have avenged half of it for you today! In the future, I will kill the Three Immortals and Two Elders, destroy Emei Qingcheng, and fully comfort your spirit in heaven!"

  The surrounding mountains of Sima are shrouded in misty rain, and between heaven and earth, only a faint rustling sound of rain remains.

  Yue Qing walked into Zhu Hong's cave mansion. Situ Ping was squatting at the entrance, holding an empty small bowl: "Master, you're back."

  "Have you finished drinking the porridge?" Yue Qing patted his head, went to the western room's dan chamber, cut the Huang Jing Shou Wu into small pieces and put them in the dan furnace, adding spring water to simmer. "Recite the incantation for refining equipment that I taught you."

  Situ Ping carefully sat on a small cushion, then loudly recited in a milky voice: "I have three treasures in my body, Jing Qi Shen is clear. Jing transforms into Qi, Qi transforms into Shen, Shen returns to emptiness and floats away, refining Jing and gathering the five Qi, guarding the middle palace, quieting the heart, one Yang is born...". This is the introductory exercise of the Wutai Sect, "Small Five Elements Chapter", with a total of five chapters, each chapter having ten small sections. Situ Ping was clever and diligent, and no matter what task Yue Qing assigned to him, he would do it meticulously, so he memorized quickly. In just two days, he had recited all 50 lines of the poem without error.

  Yue Qing was very satisfied with him, and gave him a brief explanation. Before long, the porridge was cooked, and he used a small bowl to fill it for Sito Ping, letting him take it into the bedroom to eat.

  After sending away Situ Ping, Yue Qing let Zhu Hongyuan's spirit out.

  Dark winds rose, and Zhu Hong appeared in the form of a ghost. Without saying another word, he immediately knelt down to Yue Qing, knocking his head like a small chicken pecking at grain, and begged in a shrill voice: "Master! Please have mercy on me and let me go reincarnate! Master, I've already died once, and the karma I owed everyone should be cleared by now!" After finishing speaking, he sobbed uncontrollably.

  "Not enough!" Yue Qing shook his head, "Far from it! Even if you die ten thousand times, you still won't be able to repay what you owe Master!"

  "Senior brother! For the sake of our shared sect, I beg of you! In the next life, I'll be your ox and horse!"

  "Let's talk about next life's business in the next life, but I'm asking you now, where is the Taoist scripture that you stole?"

  "The Taoist scripture was hidden by me under the brick at the bottom of the dan furnace, and the outside was set with the Five Devils' Chaotic God Seal. With Brother Shifu's power, it can be broken with a wave of his hand, just in the eyes of the yin fish." Zhu Hong said with great relief, he understood that at this time, people were on the chopping board and he was the fish meat, whether to roll or squeeze depended on Yue Qing's mood. If he provoked him, it was not impossible for him to die and come back to life ten thousand times, so he didn't dare to make any more unnecessary resistance, only hoping that Yue Qing would let him go to reincarnate."

  Yue Qing looked down at the bottom of the crucible and didn't see any yin-yang fish diagram. He reached out to grasp one of the copper handles on the crucible, gently using force to move it aside, and underneath was indeed a Taiji diagram made from black and white jade stones.

  "If it's false, you know the consequences!" Yue Qing stretched out his hand and grabbed Zhu Hong's neck.

  Zhu Hong is now in a soul form, his body over a foot tall, with a neck only half an inch thick. At this moment, he was tightly grasped by Yue Qing's hand filled with true energy, and immediately pulled to nearly three inches, thinner than a thread. His head was suffocated like a ball, and his body became a curved gourd shape. He begged for mercy without stopping: "I absolutely dare not deceive my brother! Whether it is true or false, my brother can tell by sucking out the fish eye!"

  Yue Qing had always been a cautious person, and after careful observation, he discovered that the Taiji diagram on the surface was set with the Five Devils' Soul-Binding Spell by Zhu Hong. This spell was also one of the authentic transmissions of the Wutai Sect, capable of creating illusions that could even pull out one's soul, turning them into mindless, senseless devils that only knew how to devour people. Even if it were Yue Qing, if he had not known about it beforehand and touched it carelessly, he would have had to expend some effort to escape from it.

  Yue Qing was also quite familiar with this forbidden technique, and after condensing his true energy, he executed the twenty-five moves of the Ling Jue, each move unleashing a burst of colorful light that struck the surface of the Taiji diagram, causing the restrictive seals on it to dissipate.

  He stretched out his palm and stuck it to the ground, sucking out a white tile from under the fish eye, asking Zhu Hong: "Is it inside here?"

  "Yes, yes, yes, the Taoist scripture is right here." Zhu Hong hastily replied.

  Yu Qing's wrist paused, and a burst of true energy shot out. The brick immediately shattered, but in an instant, a cluster of silver stars exploded in front of him, with countless fine needles shooting out in all directions like cow hair.

  This sudden change, even if the earth fairy encountered it, would probably be difficult to avoid. Fortunately, Yue Qing deeply knew that Zhu Hong was cunning and ruthless, so he had been on guard against his tricks. Suddenly, a silver light rose in front of him, and a five-colored mist immediately rose up, protecting himself with a thin layer of fog. The silver needles shot onto it, without even causing a ripple, and fell to the ground one after another. In just a few breaths, the ground was already covered with a thick layer of silver needles that looked like mosquito legs.

  "Not bad." Yue Qing nodded in appraisal, "This treasure of yours is well-refined. If I didn't have the Taiyi Five Smoke Net, even if I had been prepared beforehand, it would still be difficult to preserve this physical body."

  The force of the silver needles shooting out was extremely strong, and only those blocked by Wuyin Luo fell to the ground. The majority of them deeply pierced into the stone wall, and because the needles were too thin, even holes were hard to spot.

  Zhu Hong was so frightened that he trembled all over, hiding in the corner of the wall and curling up into a ball. He didn't even dare to beg for mercy, because he knew that no matter how hard he tried to plead and apologize, Yue Qing would not let him off.

  However, at least one thing that Zhu Hong didn't lie about was that the Daoist scripture supplement was indeed hidden inside a brick, a thick volume with a texture that was neither silk nor paper, smooth to the touch like grease, clutched in Yue Qing's hand.

  However, Yue Qing did not immediately flip through the Taoist scriptures, but instead looked at the other side of the fish eye: "The yin fish eye hides the Taoist scriptures, what is hidden in the yang fish eye?" He put the Taoist scriptures into the treasure bag, bent down and sucked out the black brick from the place where the sun fish eye was.

  Yue Qing originally just made a casual guess, but Zhu Hong's reaction seemed to suggest that there was indeed something hidden. He sucked in his breath and exerted force again, shattering the bricks into powder, which fell down with a rustling sound, revealing an ancient-looking crystal lamp inside.

  "What is this thing?" Yue Qing held it in his hand and examined it carefully, looking like an unfinished magical treasure. The talismanic symbols etched onto its surface were unlike anything he had ever seen before, but they seemed profound and ingenious, subtly connected to the mysteries of the universe. He suspected that even Zhu Hong wouldn't be able to create something like this. "Where did you get this thing from?"

  Zhu Hong hesitated for a long time before answering: "If Big Brother can spare me, I'll say..."

  "Hmph." Yue Qing let out a cold laugh, took out the black jade gourd, opened the lid, aimed at Zhu Hong, stretched out his hand and pointed, and a wisp of black smoke shot out from the mouth of the gourd, tightly entwining Zhu Hong's soul.

  Zhu Hong was shocked and terrified, struggling to escape in the black smoke, but he was wrapped from head to toe by the black smoke, no matter what magic he used, he couldn't get out of trouble, and could only be compressed little by little towards the gourd mouth.