After a short while, Zhang Ling returned to the black stone platform. As soon as he placed Su Yu'er on the ground, several Foundation Establishment stage cultivators immediately approached.
"Senior Zhang, I wonder about Elder Jiang..." A gray-robed old man, who appeared to be the leader, asked cautiously.
Zhang Ling glanced at them and interrupted before they could finish speaking. "Activate the formation and leave this cloud sea. As for Daoist(Daoist: Taoist) Jiang, he has unfortunately perished."
"Elder Jiang perished? How is that possible? Elder Jiang was a Core Formation stage expert!"
The expressions of the gray-robed old man and the others changed drastically. They were all elite cultivators from Myriad Manifestation City, and Jiang Hao was an elder of Myriad Manifestation City and their pillar of support. His death was a heavy blow to them.
Hmph!
Seeing the arguing group, Zhang Ling snorted coldly, finally calming them down.
"Uh... Senior Zhang, please calm down. Once the platform formation we are on stops, each activation requires the Myriad Compass Disk in Elder Jiang's possession. Without the Myriad Compass Disk, we cannot activate the formation."
Zhang Ling frowned and a copper disk appeared in his hand. It was the Myriad Compass Disk previously held by Jiang Hao. Although Jiang Hao was killed, this item was not destroyed. He found this Myriad Compass Disk during the search just now.
"That's great... With the Myriad Compass Disk, we can barely activate the formation."
The gray-robed old man grabbed the tossed Myriad Compass Disk, exchanged glances with the others, and quickly went to activate the formation without saying anything more.
A few moments later, the black stone platform where they were located began to move again.
Zhang Ling issued an order, instructing them to control the platform to fly upwards, directly leaving the endless sea of clouds. These Foundation Establishment stage cultivators naturally dared not object.
A flash of spiritual light appeared in his hand, and he took out a white jade Ruyi Scepter, casting a spell on it that transformed into a cloud of mist, covering an area of more than ten zhang(丈: zhang, a unit of length) around him.
The mist instantly obscured his figure and Su Yu'er's.
Zhang Ling expressionlessly flicked his finger, and a stream of spiritual power struck Su Yu'er, arranging her into a cross-legged sitting position. Streams of spiritual power struck her back, and a layer of bright yellow spiritual light enveloped her entire body.
A few moments later, Su Yu'er trembled and opened her eyes, letting out a painful scream. The fire spiritual power in her body became violent, almost breaking free from control. At the same time, wisps of black gas emerged from her body, and her struggles became more and more intense.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling immediately withdrew his spiritual power, and Su Yu'er calmed down. It seemed that ordinary methods could not expel the turbid Qi(浊气: turbid Qi/ impurity) from this woman's body.
He thought for a moment and then took out the Blood Soul Cauldron, looking at Su Yu'er and saying in a low voice, "I can't guarantee whether you can stay conscious."
Zhang Ling smiled strangely and controlled the Blood Cauldron to release a cloud of bloody mist.
This woman had lost her mind due to the erosion of the turbid Qi(浊气: turbid Qi/ impurity). Ordinary methods could only force out a small portion of the turbid Qi(浊气: turbid Qi/ impurity), which was not enough to clear it completely.
The blood mist in the Blood Soul Cauldron could clear turbid Qi(浊气: turbid Qi/ impurity), and he wanted to try wrapping her body directly in the blood mist to see if it could awaken her.
If it were any other time, Zhang Ling would not have been so kind as to help this woman.
But now the situation was special. He wanted to use merit points to exchange for a high-grade spiritual vein cave for future cultivation. It would be all the better if he could awaken this woman.
As for whether he could succeed, he didn't have much confidence.
After all, it took him several years to clear the turbid Qi(浊气: turbid Qi/ impurity) in the Xuanwu(玄龟: Xuanwu, a mythical turtle) demon soul, and although the Xuanwu(玄龟: Xuanwu, a mythical turtle) demon soul was purified, it lost a lot of soul power.
Using it directly on a cultivator would also have many risks.
Strands of blood mist wrapped around Su Yu'er, directly transforming into a blood-colored crystal, sealing her entire body inside.
Zhang Ling's divine sense(神识: divine sense/ spiritual sense) constantly observed Su Yu'er's condition. After a moment, he revealed a look of joy, thinking to himself that it was indeed useful.
He saw Su Yu'er, sealed in the blood crystal, trembling, with wisps of black gas emerging from her body, instantly dyeing the blood crystal pitch black.
With a wave of his hand, Zhang Ling dispersed the blood crystal that enveloped her, transforming it back into mist, but the blood mist had turned into black mist, as viscous as ink.
At the same time, a jade bottle appeared in his hand, and a suction force came, sucking all the black mist into it.
The turbid Qi(浊气: turbid Qi/ impurity) contained in this black mist was extremely dense and very pure, obviously specially refined by someone. Collecting it might be useful in the future.
Then, the Blood Soul Cauldron once again emitted blood mist, enveloping Su Yu'er again.
After repeating this more than a dozen times, the turbid Qi(浊气: turbid Qi/ impurity) in this woman's body had been reduced by eighty or ninety percent. The turbid Qi(浊气: turbid Qi/ impurity) that emerged was no longer the pitch-black color of ink, but had turned into an ordinary dull yellow.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling put away the Blood Soul Cauldron, as these were just ordinary turbid Qi(浊气: turbid Qi/ impurity). Under his perception, the fire spiritual power in this woman's body also began to operate on its own, also expelling the turbid Qi(浊气: turbid Qi/ impurity).
Zhang Ling was slightly surprised at how quickly the turbid Qi(浊气: turbid Qi/ impurity) was cleared, but after thinking about it, he understood.
Although Su Yu'er was eroded by the dense turbid Qi(浊气: turbid Qi/ impurity), the time was not long. Only about a quarter of an hour had passed. It seemed that the turbid Qi(浊气: turbid Qi/ impurity) had not yet taken deep root, which allowed it to be easily cleared.
However, the Blood Soul Cauldron naturally also played an important role. Once the turbid Qi(浊气: turbid Qi/ impurity) had completely eroded Su Yu'er's mind, even if it was cleared, this woman would probably become an idiot.
Zhang Ling then sat cross-legged in place and meditated. He had also consumed a lot of spiritual power just now, and now he naturally had to recover.
...
"Little sister, thank you, Senior Brother Zhang, for saving me." Several hours later, Su Yu'er woke up and thanked Zhang Ling with a grateful expression.
"Fairy, you don't need to be so polite. We are carrying out a mission together, and we should naturally support each other when encountering danger." Zhang Ling smiled wryly. At this time, he also roughly explained to this woman the situation after she lost consciousness.
Of course, the Blood Soul Cauldron was naturally not revealed.
He only said that after killing the enemy, he saw that she was eroded by turbid Qi(浊气: turbid Qi/ impurity), and he used spiritual power to sort out the spiritual Qi in her body, expelling some of the turbid Qi(浊气: turbid Qi/ impurity).
Su Yu'er felt very unwell at the moment. Her head was aching faintly, and her divine sense(神识: divine sense/ spiritual sense) had weakened by more than half, as if her soul had been severely damaged.
Thinking of the five black-robed men she had fought before, a trace of fear appeared on Su Yu'er's face. She naturally also noticed that those people contained a strong turbid Qi(浊气: turbid Qi/ impurity).
She was about to be unable to hold on at the time, but she didn't expect that the enemies who besieged her would explode in the end. She originally thought that she would be directly blown to death by the explosive force, but she didn't expect to survive.
"Fairy Su, do you feel anything wrong with your body now?" Su Yu'er's thoughts were complicated, and she heard Zhang Ling's voice again, squeezing out a smile and saying, "Little sister feels that other than a slight weakening of her divine soul(神魂: divine soul/ spiritual soul), there is nothing else wrong."
Seeing Zhang Ling nod, but with a strange expression, Su Yu'er couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then felt a chill all over her body, only to realize that the clothes on her body were already tattered, revealing a large expanse of snow-white skin, and a blush immediately appeared on her face.
