Chapter 62: Heart-rending

Although at this time, the knot was almost finished, I didn’t feel much except that my whole body felt a little cold. The coldness was even less than when the Luyang knot was tied on me.

I wasn’t sure what the strange Taoist priest was going to do, but recalling what he had said before, that he was going to extract my spiritual talent, I felt that it must be related to this.

But can spiritual awareness be extracted? This is beyond my understanding, but thinking that even more intangible things like luck and fate can be “borrowed,” I feel that this may be possible. Although this is something that belongs to my soul level and also coincides with my fate, it may be more complicated than borrowing luck or something like that. But with this altar, this strange Taoist priest operating it…

I actually feel that this is not a possibility, but that my spiritual awareness will really be extracted.

Something that has been with me since childhood is being taken away… This feeling is even more unbearable than death. Moreover, I don’t value this spiritual awareness because it has brought me any talent. What I care about is that this spiritual awareness has become the origin of my relationship with my master, carrying too many memories. Now, it is even being taken away… but I am powerless!

But for the sake of my friends, I had to endure it. They were my hope, and I was targeted by the demon. I was already desperate, but I had never been so close to despair.

I desperately tried to distract myself from the sadness and grief, so I simply looked down at the grand funeral ceremony below.

At this moment, the cheers below became more and more deafening. All the “newlyweds” were sent on the magnificent ship, and after everyone was on board, the ship left without a trace, heading out of the huge backwater bay…

I was a little surprised. Didn’t we get picked as the ‘newlyweds’ too? Why didn’t they wait for us to set off together?

But before I could wonder, the deafening sound below suddenly disappeared the moment the boat left, as if someone had pressed the stop button on a tape recorder.

Then I saw the red ocean suddenly become shorter… it turned out that the crowd had all knelt down, all heads touching the ground. I could feel a kind of air of fanatical piety! One person may not be so obvious, but a group of people who have been brainwashed like this, when they gather together, this kind of air is so powerful and obvious.

The big boat, with its strong southern style, was so out of place on the Yellow River. I don’t know why, but the boat was moving very slowly, so slowly that I felt like falling asleep just by staring at it.

So, I simply looked down on the scenery on the river. I was already dead anyway, and I was going to lose everything important. Why not relax for a second?

Within my field of vision, the two sides of the backwater bay are almost surrounded by high loess slopes. The water flows around these slopes, flowing in slightly on one side and rushing out on the other… From my position, I can see the river surface around these slopes…

However, because of the visual blind spot, I can’t see the part of the river that is covered by the high loess slopes.

I sighed in boredom, and at this speed, it would take a long time to sail out of the backwater bay and reach the river behind the high loess slopes. Perhaps I was just feeling sorry for the group of fanatics below who would be kneeling like that for a long time.

At this moment, Guaida had already circled around to my back. I felt that he was busy somewhere behind me. Although I couldn’t see his expression, from the occasional hint of his aura, I could tell that he was also very serious and perhaps a little stressed.

After all, a person’s aura is too strong, and just a little bit of it can be detected by those around them.

Is the final step so crucial? It even made this strange Taoist feel stressed, and around me, a group of Taoists surrounded me and began to use red cinnabar to depict the runes that had already been carved into the ground.

It wasn’t until the colors appeared that I suddenly realized that this was a very complicated formation. Don’t think that these people are just following the lines and drawing them in an unusual way. In fact, the thickness and length of each line are all done in one go, and there is great emphasis on the turning points and the convergence points, so this formation requires so many people to complete it at the same time.

Almost everyone is only responsible for one pattern, and many people are hesitant to start, obviously under great pressure. This is a very good test of the basic skills of the formation.

The most exaggerated thing is that the center of the pattern is actually the responsibility of the two Taoist priests behind the strange road. This is a top-level cultivator-like existence!

And if you look closely, the color of the cinnabar is also a bit off. It’s not the kind of ordinary cinnabar we usually use, because ordinary cinnabar also contains a hint of yang energy. This cinnabar… doesn’t have that feeling. I can’t put it into words.

I suddenly realized that I didn’t understand a lot, but I was proud that so many people were busy for me, including that strange Taoist. I think this way of dying is also glorious.

This busyness continued, and the big ship was still slowly sailing in a state that could be called leisurely. I was inexplicably caught in a state of boring waiting until that small boat appeared.

That small boat gave off a gloomy feeling, and the whole boat had an inexplicable, obscure sense of mystery. But when this black boat, with its striking color, sailed into the backwater bay, I didn’t even notice it at first glance. I looked at it for a long time before suddenly realizing that a boat had entered here.

Unlike the festive atmosphere, this ship seemed so out of place. But as soon as it appeared, everyone’s heads bowed even lower, because from my position, it was obvious that the red sea was ‘lower’ by one level.

At the same time, the pious atmosphere became even stronger, almost affecting my state of mind. At one point, I felt that I should also worship.

It was so powerful that I couldn’t help but make this kind of exclamation in this situation. But before I could come to my senses, I suddenly felt a strong force that was simply irresistible suddenly locking my whole body.

“Ugh!” In just a moment, I couldn’t help but moan in pain from this squeezing force. You have to know that the rope is just a thin rope, and it’s impossible for me to feel bound. My body can even move very freely, but a strong feeling of being bound comes from the depths of my soul.

It was like a rope that was being pulled deeper and deeper, and the whole person was tied up like a bundle of rice dumplings, unable to struggle or move at all, but there was still a lot of strength desperately pulling on the rope. The feeling of being squeezed layer after layer, and every inch of the soul was unable to escape that feeling, except for the spirit platform.

That is the only way out!

But my soul was bound by another kind of power. The coldness I felt before was just a false illusion. This was not a yang knot at all, but a yin knot. In the same way that a yang knot locks in yang energy, my yin soul energy was locked in my body.

And there are other forces at work. I feel as if my soul is being cut off layer by layer… It’s not painful, just a feeling of stripping away the soul force and essence, like taking clothes off.

The array was already drawn, and I saw several cultivators respectfully dragging several trays covered with yellow cloth forward.

This time, it was the strange Taoist who came forward and lifted the yellow cloth… What was under the cloth was not obvious. It was several flags that looked a bit old, and some jade that looked plain and unremarkable.

I was tortured by multiple forces, and I couldn’t tell whether these things were good or bad. At first, I could suppress the pain I was feeling, but by this time, I couldn’t help but gasp and cry out to the heavens!

“Brother…” “Third brother…” I seemed to hear someone crying out my name, but even my hearing was blurred. Although my body was free, my soul was locked up, and without its support, my body could not move at all.

At this time, I was forcibly held up by several Taoist priests, unable to fall. Even if I lay down, it wouldn’t be that uncomfortable, I thought.

It was no wonder that he took the time to pick up those old magical instruments and began to place them under the extremely complex array. He didn’t even look at me. The magical instruments were quickly placed, and there was no earth-shattering change.

At this time, he calmly walked up to me and said very lightly, “If you weren’t so calm, maybe you would have suffered less. Why be a hero when substance is more important?”

In this painful situation, I couldn’t hear anything clearly. But he had the ability to speak word by word into my ears, even though I couldn’t think about what he meant.

“Chengqian, come here. His talent and intuition are yours from now on.” It was as if he had a different kind of affection for Xiao Chengqian. When he spoke to him, his tone was tinged with a faint warmth.

But he also seemed to want me to hear it.

I looked at Xiao Chengqian with a vacant expression as he walked towards me step by step with a calm expression. In such a painful situation, I felt that the pain in my heart was even greater. Xiao Chengqian, is he not a partner that I can trust and who has experienced life and death together with me?

“Xiao Chengqian, you are a bastard after all… no, a yellow-eyed dog! In short, you are all animals!” Chengqing was yelling furiously over there, but he was quickly dragged away.

“Shut up.” Xiao Chengqian looked back at Chengxin and said, “Shut up,” in a cold voice.

And as he wished, his mouth was covered!

Haha… Is this also a kind of loss? It’s like the kind of loss I felt when my master left me…

My brain could no longer think of anything, and the pressure on my soul became even stronger… And finally, Silly Tiger also felt this pressure deep in his soul, suddenly opened his eyes, stood up with his hair standing on end.