218: Chapter 218 Infatuation Leads to Trouble, Mysterious Ancient Zither

"Wait!"

Just as Feng Qing'er was about to leave the cave, Hun Tiandi took a deep breath and spoke: "The mistake has already been made, and I will take responsibility..."

Whoosh!

He took out a scroll, poured his soul energy into it to imprint a cultivation technique, casually tossed it into Feng Qing'er's hands, and with a flicker of his figure, vanished from in front of the cave.

If the deceased Yao Tong knew that his painstaking schemes against Feng Qing'er, using the red dust smoke, ultimately benefited Hun Tiandi, would he be angry enough to come back to life?

Previously, the two had sunk into their desires; the originally suppressed impulses had been broken in an instant within their hearts.

It was as if this door, which had been locked before, could be controlled freely.

Now that this door had been pushed open, the desires previously suppressed in the depths of their hearts had no limitations, and all sorts of thoughts were infinitely magnified.

All living beings between heaven and earth, whether human or magical beast, have desires and distracting thoughts...

Just like a gentle man on a normal day, when provoked, might commit terrible acts that he otherwise wouldn't.

Anger is also a form of desire.

The effect of the red dust smoke is to help you push open the door of desire; Hun Tiandi's originally tenacious will was like a small boat in a flood.

It was instantly capsized by the waves.

"Kid, you sure have a way with women..." Just as Hun Tiandi felt helpless, a teasing voice fell into his ears.

He looked up abruptly to see the resurrected Dan Chenzi, Elder Dan, teasing him with a smile on his face.

"Teacher, these are all debts of love; the most troublesome thing in the world is a debt of love, the hardest to repay..."

Hun Tiandi smiled bitterly, flipped his hand to take out a jade bottle, handed a bottle of spirit wine to Elder Dan, and the two drank happily.

However, the taste of the wine they drank was different.

One was bitter, one was delicious!

"Teacher, what about that Yao Ming Dou Sheng?" Hun Tiandi broke the silence and spoke slowly.

"I severely injured him. If I weren't worried about you, killing him would just be a matter of time..." Elder Dan drank the spirit wine, savoring the various flavors.

Hun Tiandi nodded slowly, closed his eyes, and sank his soul energy into his body to carefully examine the changes within. The Fighting Qi flowing through his meridians was pure and powerful.

"How did this happen? Why has my sea urchin Dou Crystal turned into this ghostly appearance?"

In that instant, a turbulent storm rose in his heart. When he advanced to the Dou Ling realm, the condensed Dou Crystal had nine small thorns on its surface, looking just like a sea urchin.

At this moment, silver energy rippled across the surface of a blood-colored pillar, making it look like a blood pearl.

It was crystalline like jade, radiating bursts of blood-colored light, floating within his Qi cyclone.

After his union with Feng Qing'er, it caused the Dou Crystal within his body to change; he hoped it wouldn't cause any trouble.

A human expert's entire cultivation lies in their Dou Crystal, which strengthens every time they break through a major realm.

Therefore, the Dou Crystal absolutely cannot have any problems; once something goes wrong, it will affect one's entire cultivation life. Even Hun Tiandi, who had lived two lives, felt uneasy.

He sank his mind into the blood-colored pillar and clearly felt streams of pure Fighting Qi flowing like ripples in water.

With a thought, he mobilized the Fighting Qi within his body, but there was no change. The surging Fighting Qi gushed out, traveling along his meridians and dispersing into his limbs and bones.

The only change was that his cultivation had broken through!

"Three-Star Dou Ling!"

Supposedly, it hadn't been long since he advanced to the Dou Ling realm, so his cultivation shouldn't have increased by three stars. Could it be because of Feng Qing'er...

Hun Tiandi speculated in his heart.

"Stop thinking so much, let's go! They are still waiting anxiously..." Elder Dan spoke slowly and walked out of the cave.

Hun Tiandi took a deep breath, suppressed the restlessness in his heart, and followed behind him.

Elder Dan waved his large sleeve, wrapped Hun Tiandi in it, and vanished from the spot.

Meanwhile, news that three peerless treasures had appeared in the Beast Region and had been taken away entirely by a young man spread crazily.

It even stirred the experts of the Pill Tower, the Three Valleys, and the Twelve Sects, who all mobilized to search for traces of Hun Tiandi.

For a time, countless experts rushed to the Beast Region to search extensively, but the Beast Region is the world of magical beasts; once human experts entered, they inevitably fought each other.

The entire Beast Region was stirred up and thrown into chaos.

Under Elder Dan's lead, Hun Tiandi keenly sensed that the number of human experts in this Beast Region was hiding.

"The three treasures that appeared have drawn out so many experts; they are all here to hunt you down..."

Elder Dan teased.

Hun Tiandi shook his head helplessly. Upon reaching the Beast Sea, he chose a beautiful spot and entered the Heavenly Silkworm Ruins.

Time Tower.

Feng Qianyou, Lei Xuanji, and their group were waiting anxiously. Seeing Hun Tiandi appear, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Upon hearing General Ye Wudi say that Hun Tiandi had been taken away by a beautiful woman, Lei Xuanji and Feng Qianyou were both somewhat worried.

"Are you alright!" Lei Xuanji asked slowly.

"I'm fine!" Fortunately, my teacher acted in time to save me. Everyone, get ready; we will leave here once I come out of seclusion.

The group did not hesitate and spoke slowly.

Elder Dan lay on a chair, happily drinking spirit wine. Since his rebirth, the spirit wine had never run out.

The Time Tower contained a large amount of spirit wine...

"That's not right, why is there a woman's scent on you..." Suddenly, Feng Qianyou sniffed with her delicate nose, looked at Hun Tiandi, and her beautiful eyes held a hint of profound meaning.

Once these words were spoken, Lei Xuanji frowned slightly, leaned toward Hun Tiandi, sniffed, and nodded slightly.

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm going to go into seclusion and cultivate..." Hun Tiandi interrupted the two and hurried away.

Feng Qianyou and Lei Xuanji looked at each other, both seeing the suspicion in the other's eyes.

"A woman's intuition is truly sharp..."

Returning to the main hall, it was silent. Hun Tiandi sat cross-legged, took a deep breath, flipped his hand, and took out a pitch-black scroll. Strands of colorful light mixed with black energy burst forth.

The scroll was unfolded, and what came into view was an... ancient zither.

A phantom of an ancient zither appeared before his eyes. It was obtained from the scroll earlier, a demonic cultivation technique: Purgatory Soul-Suppressing Melody.

In fact, the scroll also recorded an ancient zither.

Among ancient zithers, there are generally seven strings, known as the seven-string zither.

They are named: Gong, Shang, Jue, Zheng, Yu, Shao Gong, Shao Shang. The seven-string zither is the most common, though this is not absolute.

Ancient zithers naturally have seven strings, five strings, or even eight or nine strings... The more strings an ancient zither has, the more difficult it is to play.

The seven-string zither is the most suitable and also the most widely used.

But the ancient zither recorded in the pitch-black scroll before his eyes was a nine-string zither. The zither body was made of spirit wood, and at the front of each string, there was a small groove, as if something was meant to be inlaid there?

This nine-string zither looked very comfortable to the eye, carrying a primitive and natural feel, radiating a unique Dao rhyme.

As long as one took a glance, they would fall into it, attracted by a mysterious power.

"I have naturally heard of and seen seven-string zithers, but I have never heard of a nine-string zither..."

Hun Tiandi spoke slowly. If one were to talk about who understands zither theory and music theory best on the Fighting Qi Continent, it would naturally be the most mysterious Sound Valley in the Central Plains.

In Sound Valley, they are proficient in musical rhythms, and the cultivation techniques and Dou Technique they practice also use sound waves as a means.

As a mysterious hidden force, they rarely appeared in the Central Plains. Back then, when he blood-sacrificed the Central Plains to condense the Emperor Pill, Sound Valley still chose to remain closed off.

It was like a paradise outside the world.

"Could it be that to unleash the power of the Purgatory Soul-Suppressing Melody, one needs a nine-string zither to perform it?"

Hun Tiandi looked at the pitch-black scroll with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

He didn't think too much about it.