C4

It was the same night as usual. The mountain wind whistled and whirled through the mine, resembling the wails of those who had died. Zi Feng was still in charge of mining ores, while Nie Chen was still meditating on the blood stone.

"I estimate that in three days, I will be able to swallow the blood stone and attack the seal." Nie Chen was extremely excited. He never expected that the day would come so soon when he would be able to unseal the seal.

Without the bamboo slip, without the blood stone and the violet wind, it would have been impossible for him to reach this step so quickly.

Every time he watched Zi Feng leave, Nie Chen's heart would be filled with gratitude and warmth. A close friend, a fellow disciple, a friend of life and death. Now, they were both living together through thick and thin.

"The one who is being taken care of, is me after all!" Nie Chen secretly made up his mind. Even if he couldn't take them away, he would take Zi Feng with him.

Closing his eyes, the intense red light and aura on the floating blood stone in front of him continued to merge with Nie Chen's fleshly body, and didn't push him away at all.

All of the Demonic Qi that he had absorbed didn't rush into the sea of rotors, but rather merged into Nie Chen's flesh and blood, fusing it with the spiritual Qi that had previously remained in him, and using the Nirvana Qi to refine his body.

Nie Chen could clearly sense that his body was becoming more and more light, and that he was becoming more and more transparent. Furthermore, it was also clear that his physical strength was also becoming stronger and stronger.

"According to the Nirvana Mantra, my body is now at the Third Sky of Qi Cultivating Stage. I am still six levels away from the Peak of Nine." Nie Chen opened his eyes and looked at the floating blood stone in front of him. "However, there seems to be an endless flow of demonic spiritual energy within the blood stone. I don't know why, but the current me can only remain calm."

Nie Chen grabbed the blood stone and started thinking about what would happen after he swallowed it.

"..."

"These spirit stones were dug out from this mine. Aside from the majority that I gave to Wang Lin as an offering, I've kept them for three years. That's enough." Zi Feng walked over and shaved a few stitches on a cloth bag in his hand.

Nie Chen opened it to take a look, and saw countless fragmented spiritual stones of all sizes flashing with green light, emanating dense spiritual energy that he hadn't seen in a long time.

Considering the amount of spiritual energy in these Spirit Stones, after consuming them, I'll be able to break through to the Wheel Sea in one go, and my chances of success will be even greater! Zi Feng turned around and left after saying this. "Three days later, I will protect you!"

Nie Chen didn't know what to say, so he had no choice but to remain silent. Even though there were thousands of words stuck in his throat, he was unable to say them out loud.

"I won't let you down!" After pausing for a moment, he turned around with a grin on his face and entered the depths of the mine.

Nie Chen knew that Zi Feng had always loved and cared for Ye'er. Perhaps, he really did like her, but it was hard to say.

Ye'er's death had dealt too much of a blow to him. He reckoned that it was only the faith of revenge supporting him.

Sometimes we question our situation, and it seems pointless to live, but we still struggle and survive in it …

Three days passed quickly!

"Let's begin. I'll be watching you from here." Zi Feng was sitting cross-legged not far from Nie Chen, facing the entrance of the mine. Basically, no one would come at night, but it was always good to be extra careful, just in case.

"Even if it doesn't, cleaning up the mines after three months is still the end. In any case, death is still a possibility, why not take a gamble? " Nie Chen took the scarlet blood stone and swallowed it with one gulp.

The moment the blood stone entered his body, a strange explosion occurred within Nie Chen's body, as if countless tentacles were about to rip it apart.

These tentacles were sharp, flexible, and full of power. They penetrated every inch of his skin, and just like before, when they washed his body, they exploded with an excruciating pain that caused others to be restrained from doing whatever they wanted.

If it wasn't for the fact that he had already adapted to the pain, Nie Chen wouldn't have been able to endure it at all.

However, all of these things were not even a thousandth of the pain in his abdomen. It was like a sun had exploded within his abdomen, practically destroying him from the inside out.

Nie Chen sat there, trembling as he fell to the ground. Sweat poured out of his body like rain, making him completely unable to move.

He felt that if he didn't spit out the blood stone, he would die. He opened his mouth and vomited continuously, but he was still unable to spit out the blood stone.

Inside his stomach, the blood stone bobbed up and down. Countless threads of blood-red light seemed to have taken root inside of him, extending into every inch of his flesh and into the depths of his body.

His eyes were red, his body was glowing red, and he was emitting a shocking amount of demonic energy.

"The spirit energy in my body is insufficient and I am being ravaged by the demonic energy. After all, it's the constitution of the Immortal Dao. Everything will be fine after we endure it! "

Zi Feng walked over. His expression was as cold as always without any changes. Seeing Nie Chen's agony, he seemed to be completely indifferent.

"If they don't succeed, they will die. Just like them, they will die for nothing, just like Ye'er. How can they avenge themselves?"

Zi Feng grabbed a bag of spirit stones and squeezed it. The spirit stones in the bag turned into sand and fell down. "Merge!"

His palm landed on Nie Chen's chest, and a surge of spiritual energy rushed into his body.

"If the demonic energy is too strong, it will cause harm to you." Once the spiritual energy is fused with your spiritual sea, it will definitely lessen by quite a bit. At that time, I'll help you guide the aura within your body to break through the seal. "It should be very painful. You have to stay awake until the end …"

The spiritual energy within the bag of spirit stones gradually dried up. However, Zi Feng's expression remained calm, and a surge of spiritual energy once again gushed out from his palm, pouring directly towards Nie Chen's chest.

This surge of spiritual energy was from the purple wind, extracted with all his might from the broken undersea wheel. The two streams of spiritual energy merged with the spiritual energy within Nie Chen's body, alleviating the tearing sensation. The amount of pain he was feeling had been reduced by a lot.

The boundless spiritual energy and demonic energy started to reverberate within his body.

Nie Chen had clearly heard Zi Feng's words. Taking advantage of the time between the pain to ease up, he clenched his teeth and abruptly sat up. He rapidly controlled the aura within his body and charged straight towards the underwater gate.

The undersea wheel was located at the base of the spine. It was one of the seven energy centres of the human body, and it was a place where cultivators cultivated at the bottom of the sea gathered spirit energy. Here, there was a gate that led to a passageway that connected directly to the inner part of the seabed.

This tunnel can be said to be a natural one. Perhaps it was created just for cultivation purposes." Every time a cultivator used their spirit energy to completely break open the gate, they would become a cultivator of the underwater realm, and their power would far surpass that of a normal person.

In the Underwater Wheel, spiritual energy could be stored in large quantities. The greater the amount of spiritual energy, the higher the cultivation base, and the stronger the battle prowess. It also laid a good foundation for future cultivation.

Like a storm, a mix of red and green spiritual energy directly poured into the tunnel of Nie Chen's undersea wheel, bombarding the closed gate at the end of the tunnel.

A "Seal" character was shining with a green light in the middle of the circular door. It emanated a majestic aura as it blocked the attacks of the mixed Qi that Nie Chen had attracted.

This time, he did not succeed!

"Again!" With another palm strike from Zi Feng, a huge amount of spiritual energy entered Nie Chen's body and gathered with the previous wave.

"Open …" Nie Chen threw his head back and roared.

But …

"All of this can end now!" A cold voice suddenly rang out, along with an aura of despair. It was sinister and cold, causing the two of them to tremble.

"Pfft!" Zi Feng spat out a mouthful of blood. A dagger brought with it a string of blood droplets as it pierced through his chest from behind.