I Accumulate Spirit Roots for My Next Life-Chapter 209 - 109: My Path Is Not Lonely

Their eyes met, and both were filled with shock.

"Why are you in such a disheveled state?"

"You are so severely injured!"

Ye Jingyu looked at Li Jizhou, stripped bare.

Li Jizhou looked at Ye Jingyu, whose half of his body was shattered.

"Golden Corpse of Dao Formation!" Li Jizhou casually mentioned while nodding his chin outward, paying no mind to his own nude appearance.

Upon hearing these words, Ye Jingyu gazed outward, anger blazing in his eyes.

Soon after, he looked at Li Jizhou and smiled.

"I’m not alone in my path!"

This time, Li Jizhou did not refute nor explain further, once again shifting focus to the movements of the Golden Corpse.

At the same time, his heart stirred slightly.

If he had known earlier it was a Golden Corpse giving chase, even if it were a Golden Corpse of Dao Formation, he might still have a sliver of chance.

If they were a grand cultivator beyond the Late Stage of Golden Core, he could only flee, but if it’s just a Golden Corpse, destiny dictates his advantage.

Regardless of the method involved, the greatest fear was Celestial Thunder.

A Tier Three Celestial Thunder Talisman is lethal to all Yin Corpses without Dao Formation.

Whereas Li Jizhou now possessed not only a Tier Three Celestial Thunder Talisman,

On the night of the Core Formation celebration eight years ago, Yu Ziyu gifted a quasi-fourth tier Giant Crocodile Hide,

Over the years, he had already drawn three quasi-fourth tier Celestial Thunder Talismans.

One of them unexpectedly received a Celestial Thunder charge, its power rivaling Purple Sky Thunder Shock.

Against this Golden Corpse of less than a hundred years since Dao Formation, it poses an inevitable threat.

Additionally, he also had a Tier Three Middle Level puppet, infused with a Thunder Attribute Demon Pill of the same level.

Though inferior to the Golden Corpse of Dao Formation by two realms, its natural counter certainly incites dread in the Golden Corpse.

"Hoo~" Moments later, watching the Golden Corpse retreat, Li Jizhou exhaled deeply.

Today was truly a disaster from the void, losing more than ten Tier Three Teleportation Talismans and a chess board array worth over four thousand Middle Grade Spirit Stones.

This consequence runs deep.

"I didn’t expect you also engage in Body Refining, everything seems destined!" Ye Jingyu stared at Li Jizhou’s physique for a moment, making a decision in his mind.

After confirming only a few guards of the merchant alliance remained outside the Fire Domain, Li Jizhou discreetly summoned Bai Yi back, turning to look at Ye Jingyu, half of his body shattered.

From the left half of his neck diagonally downwards to the left rib, the devastation continued, with the left arm long gone, and indistinctly revealing his internal organs at the ribs, with faint death energy lingering around the wound.

However, for now, burn marks covered the wound, seemingly suppressing the death energy, barely preserving his life.

Yet, in such condition, unless the death energy is thoroughly dispelled and life injected, only after forming a Nascent Soul could a physical body be reforged.

With the body impaired, vitality would be affected, reducing not just combat capability but making the path of Dao growth unlikely.

"Don’t look at me, revealing the Demon Dao conspiracy to the world, what is a crippled body compared? Only regret not staging the devils slain, failing Purple Sky True Monarch’s wish,

However..." Ye Jingyu, far from sorrowful, smiled slightly as he gazed at Li Jizhou.

"With you to succeed, I believe you will perform better!

Those overly rigid break easily, the skillful gentleness endures long,

I was too rigid, not knowing restraint, ultimately not as you."

Li Jizhou’s face gradually turned solemn at those words.

Prior underestimating Ye Jingyu,

In this world’s myriad forms, good and evil intertwine,

The true nature of humans ultimately evolves through trials and tribulations, eventually diverging far apart.

Initially believing Ye Jingyu, having faced the cruel resource battles within Qi Kingdom’s cultivation realm, endured betrayal from the revered mentor, faced misunderstanding and scorn from the world, his temperament disrupted.

His single-minded investigation into the Demon Sect seemed merely to fulfill his Heart Demon vow.

But now it appears Ye Jingyu’s sense of righteousness might never have been extinguished!

"This was the greatest fortune I received in the Fire Domain!" With these words, Ye Jingyu tossed over a golden jade slip.

"Back then pursued by the Divine Intent Sect, with paths both heavenly and earthly closed, ultimately desperate, I rushed into the Fire Domain,

At the fourth level, nearly all my Magical Power burned by the Nether Flame,

Struck by a spatial treasure, I was directly plummeted into the sixth level of Red Flame Gilding,

Resigned to certain death.

Unexpectedly discovered an elder there who had passed on.

Though deceased, the senior’s flesh and bones withstood the burning gold flame, still gleaming with golden light, holding this jade slip in his hand that you can now inspect."

Li Jizhou, looking at Ye Jingyu’s carefree demeanor, moved in heart, solemnly accepted the gold slip.

Scanning quickly, his shock deepened.

The predecessor was a Divinity Transformation Daoist Venerable from eight thousand years ago.

With his lifespan nearing end, he dispersed all worldly attachments, finally without burdens, to the sixth tier of the Fire Domain to strive refining his Life Spiritual Treasure, hoping its ascension to Fourth Grade, with its own Spiritual Sense and form, to explore independently, without being buried alongside, honoring their two thousand years of bond.

However, ultimately the Spiritual Treasure failed to ascend, unexpectedly creating a "True Flame Hundred Forging Skill."

This Hundred Fools Daoist Venerable, having risen to Nascent Soul from the Top-Grade True Core, should not have his Golden Corpse remain eternal, but surprisingly forged a golden body at the sixth tier within the Fire Domain, his Magical Power honed to unparalleled sharpness.

Yet, could not escape the ravages of time, still sitting here.

After reading the gold slip, Li Jizhou understood why Ye Jingyu could reverse and defeat a Late Stage Core Formation cultivator of superior realm.

He also knew why every time Ye Jingyu was wounded, he fled back here.

True Flame Hundred Forging, not only hones Magical Power but also the physical body, enabling rebirth, accelerating recovery indeed.

Additionally, Li Jizhou speculated Ye Jingyu probably obtained the Top-Grade Spiritual Treasure of Hundred Fools Daoist Venerable back then in the sixth tier gold flame, perhaps his Life Spiritual Treasure now.

"Here you perform initial forging of your Magical Power, generally rendering the fear of fourth tier Nether Flames unnecessary. Besides your exceptional Body Refining, twenty forgings grants access to the fifth tier Purple Flames, forty forgings invincibility against sixth tier gold flames... I’ve now completed fifty forgings, barely within reach of the seventh tier rootless flames!" Ye Jingyu began explaining.

"Once both your Magical Power and body accomplish fifty forgings, you likely will eclipse me!"

Listening to Ye Jingyu’s words, Li Jizhou laughed heartily, now with firm resolve.

"I am skilled in medicine; I have some confidence in restoring life and regenerating limbs for you!"

"Hmm? I was injured by a Nascent Soul True Monarch, with their cultivation of a wicked art, unleashing endless death energy, those outside guard here to prevent me seeking high medical aid." Ye Jingyu slightly startled, never having imagined Li Jizhou to also excel in healing arts.

Nonetheless, he already understood Li Jizhou’s character. If he spoke, he basically had certainty.

"Sit!" Wasting no words, Li Jizhou sat cross-legged, gesturing Ye Jingyu to sit before him.

With excitement barely contained and clenched teeth, Ye Jingyu expectantly sat in front of Li Jizhou.

By now, Li Jizhou had shielded himself with Magical Power, donning a robe retrieved from his storage pouch.

As his palms touched Ye Jingyu’s wound, an endless cycle of life from the year rings coursed forth to cleanse...