Heart-Eroding Vermin
Hearing this, Chen Yuanyuan waved her hand and said with a smile, "I've entrusted Jiuer to you. What's the use of this treasure to me? The worlds are all floating clouds to me! What's more, those treasures do not belong to anyone. They should be used for the people. If you can use them to obtain some benefits for the people of Hua Country in the future, it will be worthy of my bad reputation."
At the end of Chen Yuanyuan's words, her tone was full of vicissitude.
Chen Yuanyuan had only one thought in her mind, which was to cure Jiuer's illness. Once her long-cherished wish of three hundred years was achieved, her feelings of these years ago could not help but well up, and she sighed with emotion.
Xiao Yi knew she had endless vicissitudes and sorrow in her heart, but there was no way to persuade her. Looking at Chen Yuanyuan's lonely look, Xiao Yi knew that at this moment, Chen Yuanyuan was not in the mood to look for the treasure in the human world. However, her words were very reasonable. If the treasure fell into his hands, it would naturally be used for the people to accumulate merits.
Thinking of this, Xiao Yi was no longer stubborn. He reached out his hand and took the Yu Feiyan tokens. He bowed deeply and said, "In this case, thank you for your trust."
He then looked at the four Yu Feiyan tokens in his hand. When they were pieced together, they formed a map. However, for a moment, Xiao Yi couldn't tell where they were leading. Without a closer look, he flipped his hand and kept them inside his Square Gourd.
Chen Yuanyuan saw that Xiao Yi had finally accepted the tokens. She turned to look at Chun Yin and said with a smile, "Senior sister, in the end, the two important matters in my life have ended."
Upon hearing this, Chun Yin nodded deeply. She put her palms together devoutly and said, "Amitabha, congratulations, Junior Sister. You finally let go of your obsession. This is a chance. It should be so. I believe that little fellow will live up to Junior Sister's expectation."
Chen Yuanyuan looked at Xiao Yi and then at the innocent Jiuer. Finally, she smiled.
Seeing this, Xiao Yi cupped one hand in the other before his chest and said, "Senior, since Jiuer has already woken up, you must have many things to catch up on. I won't disturb you any longer and will take my leave."
Chen Yuanyuan held Jiuer's little hand and calmly said: "Okay, but you've also said that Jiuer's Nine Yin Extreme Meridian is still there, and it will still continuously absorb Evil Energy from heaven and earth. She can't be away from you for too long. Wait for us women to have a good chat, then I'll send Jiuer to you."
Hearing this, Xiao Yi still felt a little helpless. However, it had happened, so there was no reason for him to refuse. He nodded and said goodbye to the three women. Then he summoned the Skylaurel Crow and left the deserted island immediately.
Seeing that Xiao Yi had left, Jiuer involuntarily pursed up her mouth. A strong unwillingness to part with him surged within her heart. However, she could still clearly sense the masculine aura on Xiao Yi's body through the bracelet on her wrist, giving Jiuer some comfort.
At this moment, Xiao Yi quickly returned to his house in Hai City. The first thing he did was contact Liu Zhen. He was already prepared and waiting for his journey to the ancient ruins.
Liu Zhen also promised him that he would be able to gather all his friends in three days and set off immediately after three days.
Xiao Yi decided to take advantage of the three days to do some preparations before leaving.
He had gained a lot from rescuing Chen Yuanyuan from the Flame Sect. First of all, it was the Forefather Blood Devil's Crimson Blood Gourd.
It contained the 8th-ranked Heavenly Flame of the Cultivation World, the Blood-red Devil Flame, which had a special function of filthy magic treasures. Moreover, it also contained 10,000 blood-colored Heart-Eroding Vermins.
The power of the Blood-red Devil Flame was on par with the Ghostly Flame in Xiao Yi's shabby oil lamp. However, the power would multiply after adding the vermins.
Once the Heart-Eroding Vermin went into the human's body, it would go straight to the heart. As long as the master used mind control, the heart would be eaten up by the vermin at any time.
Without a sound, one could take a person's life. It was impossible to guard against.
Of course, Xiao Yi was very interested in the Heart-Eroding Vermin.
He exerted his Divine Awareness and invaded the gourd. In an instant, he destroyed the mark of the Forefather Blood Devil placed in the gourd. After a little refining, the purple gourd became handy in Xiao Yi's hands.
As soon as he channeled his True Energy, a cluster of Blood-red Devil Flame floated out of the mouth of the gourd. It carried with it a unique smell of blood, which was enough to filth everything.
Xiao Yi nodded with satisfaction and was about to return it to the gourd.
However, it was at this moment that a strange change occurred.
Unexpectedly, the Devil Flame went out of control. It was not retrieved back into the gourd. Instead, it shot toward Xiao Yi, and with the thick smell of blood, there was a violent killing intent.
"Hm?" Xiao Yi was startled. He didn't know why the Blood-red Devil Flame had gone crazy even though he had already refined it.
He wanted to use the Eight Arrays Diagrams or the Fire Dragon Cauldron to trap this ball of Devil's Flame. However, Xiao Yi did not dare to take the risk when he thought of its special properties of magic treasure. Instead, he immediately communicated with the Buddhist treasure, the Chequ Lotus.
With a thought, a soft white beam of Buddha's light slowly fell from the lotus and immediately enveloped Xiao Yi.
When the light came together, the dot of crimson Devil Flame completely crashed into it.
There was a soft "poof" sound. The crimson Devil Flame hit the shield of the Buddha's light, but it failed to break through. Instead, it had a scorching Qi overflowing from the Buddha's light. Although it would not destroy the shield of the Buddha's light immediately, it did some damage.
Seeing this, Xiao Yi was frightened.
Xiao Yi had experienced the defensive power of this Chequ Lotus. At that time, even with Chun Yin's cultivation at the middle stage of Nascent Soul Realm Realm, she still couldn't shake the power of this shield. But now, such a drifting wisp of Devil Flame caused damage to this shield.
The Buddha's light had the function of scaring the devil, and so was it. If it were an ordinary magic treasure, would it be any better?
Xiao Yi was horrified. He was glad that he had not used the Eight Arrays Diagram or the Fire Dragon Cauldron.
However, he just couldn't figure out why he still couldn't control this cluster of Devil Flame even though he had refined the gourd.
Frowning, Xiao Yi's Divine Awareness made its way through the protective shield and wrapped itself tightly around the ball of Devil Flame. He wanted to find out what exactly was going on.
After taking a look at it, he was suddenly enlightened.
It turned out that there was a world inside the Devil Flame, and there were dozens of blood-red vermins hidden inside. The vermins were extremely tiny, but upon closer inspection, sharp-mouthed tusks were found to be extremely cruel.
Needless to say, those insects were definitely the Heart-Eroding Vermins.
When Xiao Yi released the Devil Flame, these similarly blood-red vermins hid within to launch surprise attacks on Xiao Yi.
"Can it be that I've refined the Crimson Blood Gourd, but I still can't control these vermins? Not only can't I control them, but I'm also nearly countercharged?" Xiao Yi frowned and felt depressed.
However, it did not take long for him to figure it out.
These vermins were not like magic treasures. Upon removing their Divine Awareness, they would become their own. These vermins were things that Forefather Blood Devil had raised for hundreds of years. As long as Forefather Blood Devil didn't die, these vermins, in theory, would only listen to him alone. Even if outsiders had the Crimson Blood Gourd, they wouldn't be able to activate them.
It must have been that he had just removed the mark of the Divine Awareness in the Crimson Blood Gourd. Naturally, the Forefather Blood Devil had noticed something, which was why he had activated the Heart-Eroding Vermins to plot against him.
If it hadn't been for that Buddhist treasure, the Chequ Lotus, he would've been hit by it today.
When Xiao Yi thought of this, he couldn't help but secretly say that he was lucky.
"Good, Forefather Blood Devil! How dare you plot against me?! But do you think that I can't do anything to these vermins?" Xiao Yi looked ruthless. He turned over his hand, and suddenly a small Yu Feiyan bottle appeared in his hand.
The bottle was the one containing Nine Heavens Water.
Li Ziyan once said that Nine Heavenly Water was the first saliva of Dragon Vermins. It was extremely poisonous and had a Pure Yang nature, which could restrain all vermins worldwide.
"Even though the Heart-Eroding Vermin is extremely powerful, it's still a bug. I'd like to see if your Heart-Eroding Vermin can resist my Nine Heavens Water!" Xiao Yi snorted.
When he was helping Jiuer refine the Wuji Pill, Xiao Yi didn't use up the Nine Heavens Water. Instead, he intentionally left some. Today was a good day for him to use it.
He cast a spell with his fingers, and a cluster of Samei True Flame appeared on Xiao Yi's fingertips and aimed at the location of the ball of Devil Flame. Xiao Yi shook his hand, and the Samei True Flame shot out and wrapped around the ball of Devil Flame.
Although the crimson Devil Flame was not afraid of Samei True Flame, the vermins inside it could not withstand it. With a slight crackling sound, a dozen vermins were burned under Xiao Yi's control until they were on the verge of dying. One by one, they fell to the ground.
Xiao Yi immediately took out a Yu Feiyan box and stuffed all the dying vermins. Then, he slowly removed the lotus light shield.
In this process, even though Xiao Yi was a late-stage Nascent Soul Realm Realm expert, he was extremely cautious when he did it.
That was poisonous vermin, one of the most mysterious things in the world. If one were not careful, one would be killed by it.
Moreover, when the Samei True Flame was out of hand quickly, the vermins became alive again in the box. They tried to find a way out, showing they were highly tenacious.
Xiao Yi carefully poured a drop of Nine Heavens Water and used his True Energy to pull it inside the Yu Feiyan box. He then used his Divine Awareness to enter the box and observe the reaction of the Heart-Eroding Vermin.
Sure enough, after a while, the Heart-Eroding Vermins, which had just been alive, seemed to have been strongly intimidated by the Nine Heavens Water. They couldn't even jump. They all prostrated themselves on the ground and shivered.
"It's true that there's always one thing to prevail over the other!"