Chapter 50: Spiritual Body (1/2)

The senior monk’s body shivered as he continued to chant the incantation to expel evil spirits. However, those evil spirits outside the room were not afraid of death as they continued to ram the room causing the sound of “ping ping” to echo in the surrounding.

While some evil spirits were not able to ram into the room due to the huge amount of others in front of them, they turned and headed towards the senior monk. Upon seeing this, the senior monk reached his hand into his pocket hoping to throw out some expulsion talismans. However, there was none left! He quickly removed his Buddha beads. These Buddha beads were being cleansed with the Buddhist law causing it to be filled with Buddha Qi.

When the evil spirit rushed over, he flung the Buddha beads all over the place, which exorcised the evil spirit into nothingness.

With the continuous ramping of the evil spirits, the spiritual Qi surrounding the room started to distort. When he felt the instability of the formation, Cheng Yu also felt extremely anxious. He released a huge amount of spiritual Qi again, causing the evil spirit to shrink in size. He quickly absorbed the evil Qi in Keke’s body. The evil spirit was extremely frustrated as it continued to try to struggle free.

He felt the evil spirit’s frustration had turned even wilder. The spiritual Qi of the formation started to get more and more unstable. If the formation was broken, the person controlling the evil spirit would be able to feel it. When the time came, he would no longer be able to contend against the evil spirit.

Cheng Yu started to panic. He coughed out some of his blood essence and swung it into the sky. He let go of Keke and raised both his hands into the sky. A huge amount of spiritual Qi gushed out. The spiritual Qi started to join together with the blood that was in the sky, forming a big red whirlpool.

At that moment, a “ping” sound was heard. The soul array was broken! The evil spirit in Keke’s body would be able to start communicating with the controller! The evil spirit’s powers started to soar. A large volume of evil Qi spread out to the surroundings. Keke’s green eyes turned even brighter and her fingernails grew to a length of three inches!

The evil spirit roared as it pounced towards Cheng Yu. As for the evil spirits that were lurking in the surroundings, they also started to rush Cheng Yu from all directions. However, the big red whirlpool started to revolve even faster as it sucked all the evil spirits into it.

Because the evil spirit’s power had soared and it had Keke as its host body, it couldn’t be sucked into the whirlpool. At this moment, Cheng Yu already found out that the controller was at the Golden Core Stage. If he didn’t injure Keke, it would be impossible for him to defeat the evil spirit.

Cheng Yu lifted up his left hand. “Hong!” Six Phoenix flames were projected out of his hand as they flew towards Keke. The six Phoenix flames encircled Keke. The evil spirit was intimidated as it shrieked miserably. It immediately flew out from Keke’s body. However, the moment it exited her body, it was swallowed up by the six Phoenix flames.

Cheng Yu immediately ran over to catch the falling Keke. When he noticed that she was fine, he relaxed. He walked out of the broken and tattered room while the whirlpool in the sky was still absorbing the evil spirits in the surroundings. When the evil spirits realized that the main spirit was gone, they wanted to retreat. Cheng Yu didn’t bother as he shot out another six Phoenix flames to kill the retreating evil spirits.

After the miserable shrieks stopped, Cheng Yu was overjoyed as he had removed all the evil spirits lurking around them.

He didn’t expect that his spiritual flame would be so effective. If not, he would have started the exorcism by using it and wouldn’t have wasted his blood essence. Wouldn’t it have saved him a lot of trouble?

However, the main reason why Cheng Yu did not use his spiritual flame at the start was because he didn’t want to hurt Keke. The spiritual flame was more powerful than fire Qi. It’s impossible for a commoner to endure it. If he had another choice, Cheng Yu would never have resorted to such means. Because of this, Cheng Yu didn’t dare to use it for a long period of time as he was afraid of injuring Keke. However, he didn’t expect the evil spirit to be so intimidated by his spiritual flame and escape out of its host body immediately after witnessing it.

Although it was only for a short while, commoners would never be able to endure the heat. Since Keke is fine after experiencing that, it could be counted as a fortunate event. He didn’t bother giving it much thought as he retrieved the Phoenix flames. Everything returned back to its original tranquility.

“Monk, are you all right?” When he saw the senior monk’s complexion was very pale, Cheng Yu went forward and asked.

“Amitabha. I was useless. It’s just that I overused my spiritual Qi.” The senior monk placed his Buddha beads around his neck as he chanted.

“That’s great. It’s all thanks to monk. Otherwise, if I were to exorcise the curse myself, I would have invited a calamity.”

“Benefactor is too polite. I only managed to drag out the time for Benefactor. Fortunately, Benefactor has high attainment in arrays. Otherwise, I would be too ashamed to face Benefactor.”

“Monk is too serious about this. It’s just that the monk’s backyard has been destroyed to such an extent. I am really sorry about that. When I return, I will ask someone to send over some money so that you will be able to reconstruct the buildings.” When he saw that the whole place was filled with debris, Cheng Yu was embarrassed.

“It’s ok. Benefactor doesn’t have to put it into your heart.”

“Monk, there’s something I wish to discuss with you,” Cheng Yu said solemnly.

“Please speak, Benefactor.”

“When the evil spirit broke my array, it caused the evil spirit to communicate with the controller. According to my understanding, this person is at least in the Golden Core Stage. After this issue, he will definitely make a trip here. I think it would be better for monk to leave this place!” Cheng Yu said seriously.

“Thank you for the reminder, Benefactor. However, I will not leave this place. Furthermore, I am already reaching the end of my lifespan. Benefactor has said before, the most important thing about cultivation is the way of Dao. It’s impossible for me to defy my way of Dao just because I wish to save myself,” Senior Master said in a peaceful manner.

“If you retreat in such dire circumstances, how is it called defying your way of Dao? Isn’t this b******t? Cultivation is all about defying the heaven’s will. As for what will happen today and who will die tomorrow, why not let nature take its course?”[1]

Cheng Yu was very helpless towards the monk. He was too stubborn.

“Even if it’s like what Benefactor said, I will still not leave this place. I hope that Benefactor will not dwell on this topic anymore.”

“All right! Since it’s like that, I will no longer dwell on the issue and hope monk will take care of himself. If there’s any issues, you can come to Yunhai City and find me.” When he saw the abbot was so firm in his attitude, Cheng Yu could not convince him and could only advise him to be more cautious.

“Amitabha. I shall thank Benefactor in advance then.”

“We will make a move first. Take good care of yourself monk!”

“Amitabha.”

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When Cheng Yu used his spiritual flame to exorcise the evil spirit in Keke’s body, in the cultivation world inside a cave, a 40-year-old man was sitting cross-legged on top of a stone. The man’s complexion was very white and pale. At the corner of his mouth, there was blood. The shirt he was wearing was also covered with fresh blood as well. It was quite obvious that he just spat it out.