Chapter 726 – Failure

A few days later, two powerful auras exploded in succession atop the western mountain. After receiving the news, Yang Junshan and Yan Qinxi immediately rushed to the mountain.

“What’s going on?”

The moment Yang Junshan arrived, he felt that one of the two auras was not right. Although it seemed sharp and fierce, it still had a sense of weakness, and so he hurriedly asked.

Yang Junqi and Sang Shener, who had always been managing the spiritual plantation in the attic, were the first to arrive. Hearing Yang Junshan’s question, a hint of worry appeared on Yang Junqi’s face, and he said: “It’s Su Baozhang!”

“If this goes on, it is extremely likely that he will fail to advance into the realms of life!” Yan Qinxi’s expression was solemn, but his tone sounded extremely certain.

The expressions of everyone present changed. The biggest possibility of failure was that they would perish just like that!

Yang Junqi’s gaze swept across her face, and after a moment she asked: “What should we do?”

Yan Qinxi helplessly shook her head and said: “Right now, no one can help him. He can only rely on herself. Prepare for the worst! ”

Yang Junqi’s expression changed, but just as she was about to speak, Yang Junshan suddenly appeared in between the two of them, and asked: “What should I do?”

Yang Junqi was startled, her face showed some unwillingness, but in the end she maintained her silence. Seeing that, Sang Shener pulled her hand from the side to comfort her.

Yan Qinxi thoughtfully glanced at Yang Junqi who was behind Yang Junshan, but she still said: “At any time, prepare to break through and rescue him. If he fails, at the very first moment you must protect his dantian and prevent it from collapsing from the backlash; Bring the best alchemist from the clan over here, and bring the best healing pellets, especially those that can heal the injury caused by the source of his dantian. Of course, if there is a Longevity Pellet or something like that that can extend his life, that’s the best plan. You can also see it for the last time! ”

Yang Junshan suddenly turned around, and shouted at Yang Junqi and Sang Shener who still had shocked expressions: “What are you still standing there for, didn’t you hear? Do as she says!”

Yang Junqi lowered her head and walked past the two of them, flying down the mountain with Sang Shener following closely behind.

Yang Junshan’s spiritual consciousness carefully sensed the two auras that had just burst forth, his expression showing signs of panic, he tried his best to stabilize his mind, and said: “Even though I know that the risk of advancing to the realms of life is great, but this kind of thing is something that almost no one, including me, has ever experienced before. Now that we are suddenly hit by something like this, we are at a loss of what to do, we don’t know what to do, so I’ll leave the following matters to you to take care of Brother BaoZhang’s life, the best way to protect his cultivation, Brother BaoZhang is not only my father’s disciple, but also our playmate.

Yan Qinxi reached out to grab hold of his hand and said: “Let’s see more clearly. You might encounter this kind of thing again in the future, I can only say that I’ll try my best!”

While they were talking, Yang Junqi had already called Peng Shitong over. Sang Shener also called Zhang Yi and her son over.

Zhang Yi’s cultivation was originally very low, if not for Sang Shener’s protection, under the burst of aura from Su Baozhang and her, she would not have been able to get close to him. However, at this time, if Su Changan was not by her side supporting her, she was afraid that even if Sang Shener was there to help her block the raging Qi of a Spiritual Master, she would not have been able to stand.

“Young Patriarch, my husband, he, he …”

Yang Junshan swept a glance to his side, but he did not know when Yang Junqi had secretly left, but he tried his best to calm himself down, and comforted her: “Sister-in-law, don’t worry, Brother Bao Zhang will be fine.”

The moment Yang Junshan’s voice fell, the aura of the Su Baozhang who was initially trying his best to rise suddenly began to shrink rapidly like a deflating ball. However, the nature’s spirit energy that was absorbed into his originally inflated aura continued to converge, and even surged towards the secret room that he was training in in in an even more violent fashion.

“Oh no, the backlash of spiritual energy is coming! Quickly, break the barrier and save him!”

Just as Yan Qinxi finished speaking, Yang Junshan had already disappeared in a flash, Zhang Yi could no longer stand, and her entire body collapsed to the ground. Yan Qinxi did not care about her, and pulled Peng Shitong along, chasing after Yang Junshan.

Within the secret room, Su Baozhang’s current dishevelled appearance was like that of a ferocious ghost’s. There was fresh blood on his chest, and his mind was already not very clear.

“Disperse the surrounding spiritual energy, imprison the spiritual energy circulation in his body, and protect his dantian!”

Yan Qinxi’s voice came from a distance behind him and did as she was told. Immediately, Su Baozhang lost consciousness.

At this time, the Qi of Yang Junping, who was in the midst of advancing to the last stage, suddenly soared explosively. After it was released, the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth which was originally pouring into Su Baozhang’s body was absorbed by less than half.

Yan Qinxi pulled Peng Shitong to the entrance of the secret room, and the sound of clothes ripping the air came from behind him. He glanced behind him, and saw that Yang Junqi had actually caught up to him so quickly, which surprised her a little, and it seemed that it was as Yang Junshan had said.

With that thought, she turned to Peng Shitong and instructed: First, confirm the condition of his Dantian, and don’t worry about the other injuries!

Honestly speaking, previously, she had actually been intimidated by Yan Qinxi’s forceful and timely response. Only until now did she manage to calm herself down and begin to check on Su Baozhang’s injuries.

“There shouldn’t be much of a problem!”

Yang Junshan said softly, the first thing he did was to seal Su Baozhang’s Dantian, so he had a little understanding of Su Baozhang’s injuries, but his Dantian was the origin of cultivators, so it could not be sloppy at all, so Yang Junshan’s words were more or less uncertain.

Yan Qinxi looked at him but did not say anything, which made Yang Junshan feel a little awkward for a moment, and could only focus on the diagnosis of Su Baozhang’s injuries.

Outside the secret room, Su Changan supported Zhang Yi as they rushed over, the Spirit Qi there was extremely dense and the mother and son were unable to breathe when they got close, only when Yang Junshan sent out a ball of magnetic light to protect the two of them did they get close to the secret room.

At the same time, after hearing the news, the core cultivators of Madame Yang who were guarding the Xishan Village, such as Yang Xi, Yang Tianlin and the others, all did not dare to say anything, and quietly waited for Peng Shitong’s examination results.

In less than the time it took to drink a cup of tea, Peng Shitong’s forehead was already covered in sweat, but luckily she was a woman of some bearing, and quickly calmed down. He carefully checked Su Baozhang’s injuries and heaved a sigh of relief, but his expression did not relax much, and he stood up and said: “Brother, Big Brother BaoZhang’s life is fine, but the spirit energy in his dantian is leaking, I’m afraid his cultivation will drop soon!”

Yang Junshan’s expression congealed, and said: “His Dantian is injured?”

Peng Shitong’s expression was also puzzled, and said: “Nothing, it’s just that my internal organs are severely injured, and my dantian is not damaged, but the source of the dantian’s spirit energy is flowing slowly, it’s very strange!”

When everyone heard that his dantian was undamaged, their tensed expressions relaxed. However, they immediately became anxious again.

“Not surprising!”

Everyone turned to look at Yan Qinxi, only to hear her say, “This is because the backlash of the spirit energy has not completely disappeared!”

Yan Qinxi looked at Yang Junshan and asked: “Are there any Source Spirit Objects?”

“Yes!”

Without hesitation, Yang Junshan extended his hand and beckoned to the outside of the secret room. Circulating his village protection formation, a light golden origin earth bead and a drop of origin spirit water condensed from the large earth and medium water veins on top of the western mountain respectively, then directly flew into the secret room and floated in front of Yang Junshan.

“Good stuff!”

Yan Qinxi praised her. She extended her hand and kept the drop of spirit water into his palm, and the drop of water quickly evaporated in his palm. However, the rising water vapor was unable to leave the range of her palm and could only condense into a ball of white water vapor.

Yan Qinxi flipped his palm, and pressed it in the air towards Su Baozhang. The ball of water vapor immediately entered his body near his dantian.

Peng Shitong, who had been checking on Su Baozhang’s injuries, hurriedly said: “Your injuries are currently recuperating, the condition of your Dantian’s source energy loss has weakened, uh, I still have to waste a large amount of Water Element Source Energy dissipation.”

Yan Qinxi made a move towards the other Earth Pearl, and the Earth Pearl turned into a cloud of pure dust from her palm, and the origin spirit energy once again seeped into Su Baozhang’s Dantian.

This time, Peng Shitong finally let out a breath of relief, and said: “The dantian’s origin has stabilized, and it will not leak out anymore, my cultivation will be preserved!”

Everyone heaved a sigh of relief this time as they looked at Yan Qinxi witint of appreciation and gratitude. Zhang Yi and her son knelt down towards Yan Qinxi and were helped up quickly.

“There’s no need to thank me. His luck is pretty good!”

Yan Qinxi modestly replied, and then instructed: “However, his injuries will take at least a year to recover, and within five years, don’t think about breaking through again. During this time, take good care of him!”

Zhang Yi and her son hurriedly nodded their heads in thanks.

“Then you two mother and son can take care of him here. The spiritual energy here is also good for his recovery!”

Yang Junshan said from the side, then said to the clansmen outside: “Alright, Brother BaoZhang is fine now, everyone can leave, don’t forget that there is still one more person who is trying to breakthrough the realms of life!”

The crowd dispersed upon hearing his words, and in truth, both Yang Junshan and Yan Qinxi had already sensed that Yang Junping’s aura had stabilized. He had already passed through the most dangerous stage of breaking through to the realms of life, and if no accidents were to occur, Western Mountain’s Madame Yang would gain yet another expert from the realms of life. But the more it was like this, the more Yang Junshan felt that his failure in advancing to the next stage was too much of a pity.

“What are you thinking about?”

Yan Qinxi held onto his arm, her chin resting on his shoulder as she asked. She could feel that Yang Junshan’s current state of mind wasn’t at ease.

Yang Junshan turned around and glanced at the secret room that Su Baozhang was training in, and saw Zhang Yi and Su Changan was bringing Su Baozhang to a stone bed. Su Changan had filled a basin of water, and Zhang Yi was using a wet towel to wipe the blood off Su Baozhang’s face, and then tidied up his messy hair. did not know if it was just an illusion, but he felt that the current Zhang Yi, regardless of his movements, or the way she was looking at Su Baozhang, seemed exceptionally gentle.

Peng Shitong had also stayed behind, she wanted to refine some special healing pellets based on Su Baozhang’s injuries, and was currently helping to the side. Furthermore, because Su Baozhang had failed in advancing, she was more worried about Yang Junping’s situation, even though Yang Junshan had already told her that Yang Junping had passed through the most dangerous stage, she still insisted on staying behind to wait for Yang Junping to come out from his seclusion, and also helped to take care of Su Baozhang.

Yang Junshan’s gaze turned in another direction, only to discover that everyone else had already left. However, he still saw a person’s aura hidden in a forest several tens of meters away from the secret room.

“Is it your little Junqi girl?”

Yan Qinxi followed Yang Junshan’s gaze and looked towards the distant forest, and asked softly.

Yang Junshan chuckled and said, “Yeah, you noticed it too?”

As Yan Qinxi walked down the mountain with him, she smiled and said, “I think this is an interesting story, so why don’t you tell it to me?”

Yang Junshan sighed, and explained the situation between the three of them to Yan Qinxi.

After Yan Qinxi heard this, she laughed: “This matter can’t be blamed on that little sister Jun Qi, and even more so on Zhang Yi and her son. This is all because of Su Baozhang, what’s there to be afraid of?

Yang Junshan did not want to think too much about this matter, and asked instead: “Are there many things like failing to advance to the realms of life in Tan Xi Sect?”

“A lot!”

Yan Qinxi’s tone suddenly became a lot heavier, “We’ll almost always encounter each other every three to two years!”

Seeing Yang Junshan’s face filled with disbelief, Yan Qinxi’s gaze looked into the distance, her tone becoming a little uncertain: “Do you know how many martial arts realm Perfection of the cultivatohere are?”

Without waiting for Yang Junshan to reply, Yan Qinxi continued: “Most of the time, there are more than fifty or sixty people, and at least thirty of them. Amongst these Perfection of the cultivator s, almost every two or three years, there are people who are fully prepared to enter closed-door training and rush into the realms of life, and some of these people have succeeded, but the majority of them have all failed. Among these failed cultivators, some just barely managed to survive and had their cultivation destroyed, and some had their dantian essence damaged, falling all the way down, but some had no chance of advancing to the realms of life anymore.

Yang Junshan heard Yan Qinxi’s words and tried to change the topic, “Didn’t they say that ten to twenty percent of the cultivation realm’s Perfection of the cultivator s can use all their realms of life?”

Yan Qinxi scoffed, “You actually believe that? According to this algorithm, my Tan Xi Sect is currently just a few dozen Perfection of the cultivator s. Even if there is one person who can break through to the realms of life in two years, in twenty years, there will be one or two cultivators who can successfully advance to the realms of life, and in a hundred years, that would be seven or eight. With the average lifespan of a Adept Realm Cultivator, which is around three to four hundred years, putting aside the hundred years spent before advancing, even if there is still two hundred and fifty years of time, does that mean that a sect can accumulate twenty cultivators in two hundred and fifty years? Furthermore, in these two hundred and fifty years, just how many people from Martial Realm Cultivator would choose to break through to the Great Circle of the realms of life? According to this algorithm, in two hundred and fifty years, there would probably be less than thirty Spiritual Masters, and even forty Spiritual Masters would be easy, but is that possible? ”

Yang Junshan was speechless, and asked after being stunned for a long while: “Then how many people can advance to realms of life?”

Yan Qinxi thought for a while, then said: “This is hard to say, but everyone’s current situation is different. There are too many unexpected situations, such as whether there are sufficient resources, whether the sect supports them, whether they have fallen in the middle, etc. If there really is a correct explanation, then it should be that among the cultivators who have reached the great circle of martial arts realm, one would not even have the qualifications to breakthrough to the realms of life, which is to say that even more Perfection of the cultivator s do not have the qualifications to rush into the realms of life.

To cultivators, this topic was both heavy and realistic. It wasn’t until they walked down the western mountain that the two of them contemplated. However, they didn’t say anything more.

Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!

Suddenly, the sound of a bird flapping its wings broke the silence between the two.

Yan Qinxi said in surprise: “Why are there demon birds here? Could it be that your invisible lightning array is trying to scare people?”

Yang Junshan suddenly woke up from his stupor, held down Yan Qinxi who was about to take action, and said: “No, I’m here to deliver a letter.”

Ignoring Yan Qinxi’s surprise, Yang Junshan stretched out her hand and beckoned towards the crow in the distance who was frightened by their auras to the point of not daring to come close. This crow finally flew over trembling, landing on Yang Junshan’s shoulder and let out two “caw caw” sounds.

“Aiya, that sounds really bad. Where did you find these crow demons? Why are you using them to send a letter?” Yan Qinxi could not help but find it funny, but she was more curious in her heart.

Yang Junshan took a paper ball from the crow demon’s leg and opened it up. Looking at it, he was shocked, his entire body released an imposing aura, causing all the trees on both sides of the road to bend down!

Yan Qinxi knew that something was wrong, and immediately grabbed his hand and asked: “What, what happened?”

Yang Junshan passed the slip of paper in his hand to Yan Qinxi, and said: “Tuo Wu Shan’s demonic cultivators have left the mountain, passing through the Huyao County and heading towards the northwest direction!”

Yan Qinxi unfolded the slip of paper and took a look. The words written on it were indeed as Yang Junshan had said, but there was still a later half of the paper: “…. Yang Junxiu and Bao Yuer were sent to the west by the twelve true demon peaks spirit cultivators, leaving Xiong Zhuang and I to guard the place. Since we need to keep an eye on Xiong Ba, we cannot deliver the letter in person.