"What's this!"
The disciples of the Azure Wood Sect couldn't care less about Li Xian's terrifying expression. When they saw him pull out the silver needle from Elder Lianshan's skull, they all felt a shiver down their spines, but they still couldn't help but gather around.
After the silver needle was pulled out, Elder Lianshan's body slumped straight down and landed heavily on the ground.
"Elder Lianshan!"
The disciples let out cries of alarm. They quickly stepped forward to lay Elder Lianshan's body flat and carefully examined his head, only to find a single silver needle.
Then, the disciples looked at Elder Lianqiao with complex expressions.
If there was a silver needle in Elder Lianshan's head, then wouldn't there be one in Elder Lianqiao's head too...
The disciples shied away from each other and none of them dared to step forward to search.
Finally, a bolder disciple stepped forward. After groping around Elder Lianqiao's skull for a long time, she finally felt a small protrusion. She used her spiritual power to control her fingertips and slowly pulled the silver needle out.
The moment the silver needle was pulled out, the disciple immediately turned around and vomited.
"There's such a long silver needle in both elders' heads. Oh my ancestors! What kind of evil sorcery is this..."
"Never mind that. Hurry up and check on the two elders' conditions!"
The disciples surrounded the two elders and began to check them from head to toe again. This time, they even examined their hair carefully.
Li Xian slumped to the ground, exhausted. He remembered, everything came back to him.
The memories he had lost before the age of three were unlocked the moment he saw that red bead, making his memories complete.
The scarlet eyes of that man before he died were exactly the same as the bead on his sword hilt.
Originally, his feelings for Xu Yanxi were complex, but when all his memories returned, all that was left in his heart for her was hatred.
And this evil method of inserting a silver needle into the brain was something only that venomous woman Xu Yanxi could come up with!
"First, seal their facial orifices. Then, use silver needles to let blood from their fingernails. Once the black blood has drained, they will wake up on their own."
Li Xian endured the nausea welling up in his chest and forced himself to tell the disciples of the Azure Wood Sect the method to break the spell.
Although the disciples of the Azure Wood Sect still had some grudges against Li Xian, they were truly at a loss at the moment. Led by Senior Brother Wu, the disciples followed Li Xian's instructions and let blood from the two elders.
As Li Xian had said, the blood that flowed out from their fingertips was black and accompanied by a foul odor.
Senior Brother Wu smelled this odor and found it extremely familiar. He said, "It's a bit like the medicine I use when refining gu worms..."
The other disciples quickly wrote this down. It was a habit of medical cultivators to record the process when treating patients for future reference.
Moreover, they had never seen the method of controlling the two elders before. Wasn't this a great learning opportunity!
On Shen Qing's side, the face of Sect Master Qingdai was almost beaten into a pulp by her.
Although she didn't understand the relationship between slapping and sealing acupoints, seeing that her slaps did allow Jiang Zhijun to successfully seal most of Sect Master Qingdai's acupoints, she silently continued to slap.
"Shen Qing, this is the most important acupoint. Once I seal this acupoint, Qingdai won't be able to circulate her spiritual power and will become just like an ordinary person. So you have to keep a close eye on it. If something goes wrong, you must help me insert this silver needle into Qingdai's body."
Jiang Zhijun exhorted. Since inserting needles was a delicate task that consumed a great deal of her attention and spiritual power, she had become quite weak at this moment.
Coupled with the great grief from before, Jiang Zhijun knew that she had reached her limit.
Shen Qing nodded seriously and continued to slap.
Jiang Zhijun took a deep breath and stabbed the silver needle in her hand hard into Qingdai's body. But this time, she could feel that all of Qingdai's spiritual power had gathered here.
The silver needle only went in a little bit and then became difficult to insert further.
Jiang Zhijun's own spiritual power was almost exhausted. Under the protection of Qingdai's own spiritual power, the silver needle in her hand began to deform and bend.
"Shen Qing, come and help me!"
Jiang Zhijun shouted. Hearing this, Shen Qing immediately rushed over. She gathered spiritual power in her hand and slapped Jiang Zhijun on the shoulder.
Jiang Zhijun first got used to Shen Qing's spiritual power, then used it to supplement her own and continued to insert the needle.
But even so, the silver needle in Jiang Zhijun's hand still bent.
She angrily threw the bent silver needle aside, took out another one from her bag and continued to insert it. "You bastard! I'll stab you to death today!"
She looked as if she was going to tear Qingdai to pieces.
Seeing that her own spiritual power was not enough to fight against Qingdai's, Shen Qing secretly borrowed Ling Zhou's spiritual power.
Ling Zhou had been trying to persuade her, "If you use my power, Jiang Zhijun will notice that there are two different kinds of spiritual power in your body. Aren't you afraid that your secret will be discovered?"
Shen Qing didn't even think and directly replied, "I trust her. Even if she knows my secret, she will only help me take revenge and scold those who killed me in my previous life. This time, Qing Qing's accident is partly my fault..."
Ling Zhou sighed. Knowing that Shen Qing had made up her mind, he stopped persuading and lent his power to Shen Qing.
So, when Shen Qing's spiritual power mixed with Ling Zhou's was injected into Jiang Zhijun's body, Jiang Zhijun immediately noticed, but she was only slightly surprised for a moment and then focused on her fingertips.
In this world, who didn't have their own secrets?
This time, the needle insertion was very smooth. Ling Zhou's spiritual power easily suppressed Qingdai's.
After her cultivation was sealed, Qingdai visibly aged. Her once black hair turned gray, and her young and beautiful face became wrinkled.
"The appearance maintained by sorcery will return to its original state after the cultivation is sealed, but the lifespan will not be affected. Now, the elders of the Law Enforcement Hall can interrogate her to their heart's content..."
Jiang Zhijun accomplished the great task and stood up with Shen Qing's help. But the moment she stood up, her vision blurred. The scene in front of her kept spinning. In the end, even Shen Qing couldn't hold her up.
Jiang Zhijun fell to the ground. Only then did the smell of blood from Qing Qing's blood on her hand slowly spread.
She covered her chest, closed her eyes, but the tears still flowed uncontrollably.
"Shen Qing, why does my heart hurt so much..."
Jiang Zhijun asked helplessly, her voice choking. There seemed to be a stone in her throat that was hard to swallow, making it almost impossible for her to speak.
This unbearable pain finally made Jiang Zhijun understand why her mother had preferred to return to the mortal world and die of old age rather than cultivate immortality and live as long as the heavens.
Losing the one you love forever, even if you become an immortal, life would be meaningless.
In Jiang Zhijun's mind, there was only the scene of her mother and father with white hair, then closing their eyes together.
They were like dry tree roots, ending their lives silently after exhausting their vitality.
At that time, she didn't understand...
"What's wrong with Wansheng! Why has the young sect master's body temperature started to rise again?!"
A commotion arose. Jiang Zhijun suddenly opened her eyes.