Chapter 68: Breaking the Character with Thunder and Lightning

Xie Kui nodded in agreement with Li Hongyu's words.
"I originally wanted to rescue the children and then take them to the Medicine Valley for a visit, but I didn't expect to encounter Zhong Wujing again, which led to Baoer being marked by the Blood Slave imprint! Sigh~"
After listening, Li Hongyu also shook his head and sighed, never expecting that it would lead to such a situation.
"Xie Lao, after my ninth uncle wakes up, I will help Xie brother inquire about the details of the curse imprint, maybe there is a way to remove the blood slave imprint."
"Afterwards, we will report Zhong Wujing's situation to the Nine Immortals League, and once all of this is over, we will immediately take Brother Xie to the Medicine Valley for a good check-up!"
"I absolutely cannot let Brother Xie suffer such torture!"
Li Hongyu stood up and looked at Xie Kui seriously, saying very seriously.
"Okay, Xiaoli, you're right. We can't let Bao'er go on like this. Once this is over, we'll take him to the Medicine Valley immediately!"
二人神情激动如达成了某种共同的协定一般。
而此时谢天心并不知道门外二人的对话，身上穿着手术手术服，手中拿着消过毒的手术刀紧盯着面前已经失去意识的李元丰。
Xie Tianxin has injected Li Yuanfeng with five or six different anesthetics in a row, fearing that Li Yuanfeng would wake up due to pain.
Looking at the available experimental subject in front of him, Xie Tianxin was extremely excited. After coming to the immortal realm, he has always wanted to dissect the cultivator and see what the spirit root really is. His understanding of it through his own cultivation is limited.
With full concentration, Xie Tianxin's mind was filled with thoughts of what exactly the spiritual root in the cultivator's body is, and how to extract the purple-red spiritual power emanating from the Mixed Element Palm. He wanted to figure out what exactly this spiritual power was.
Xie Tianxin's shiny surgical knife reached out to poor Li Yuanfeng, and the eerie laughter echoed outside the room.
......
Two hours later, it was already late at night. Outside the door, Li Hongyu paced back and forth anxiously, while Xie Kui sat on the stone table, drinking tea. The food box leftovers had already been taken away by the servants.
"It's been too long, I need to go in and take a look!" Li Hongyu spoke up.
"Xiao Li, whatever you do, you need to have patience. Since you believe in Baor, let him take care of it. Besides, even if you go in, you can't help much, can you?"
“And it's very likely to disturb Bao'er.” Xie Kui took a sip of tea and stopped him.
“I'm just worried whether it's appropriate for Brother Xie to undergo treatment in his current condition....”
"Don't worry, Baoer still knows what he's doing. Based on what he's been doing recently, even though a lot of it is beyond my comprehension, he's still reliable. Didn't he save Zhuzhu and that Wu Chaofan?"
"Well, okay."
Li Hongyu listened to Xie Kui's dissuasion, nodded without mentioning to go inside again, but his eyes were still fixed on the door.
Suddenly, with a creak, the door opened, Xie Tianxin walked out excitedly with a bamboo box on his back and a glass bottle in his hand.
Li Hongyu saw Xie Tianxin come out and quickly went forward to ask,
“Brother Xie, how is my ninth master?”
Xie Tianxin was looking down at the bottle in his hand. When he heard the question, he looked up at Li Hongyu and Xie Kui.
"Huh? Lao Xie, you're here too~ Oh, your Ninth Master is out of danger now, but I gave him a sedative, so he probably won't wake up until around noon tomorrow. Don't worry, even though I don't have the ability to remove the residual power of the Mixed Yuan Palm, your Ninth Master will wake up tomorrow, and the residual power of the Mixed Yuan Palm probably won't cause him much harm anymore."
"Thank you, brother! I'll go in and check on Ninth Master first!" Li Hongyu thanked hurriedly and was about to rush into the house.
"Hey hey, don't be in a hurry. Listen to me, your Ninth Master is still very weak and should not be disturbed. You can go in and see him quietly, but don't wake him up, understand?" Xie Tianxin grabbed Li Hongyu, who was about to rush in, and reminded him.
"Okay, okay, thank you, thank you for reminding me, brother!" Li Hongyu thanked with a bow, and then walked towards the room again. This time, he didn't rush, but pushed the door gently and quietly.
Xie Tianxin looked at Li Hongyu and shook his head, and then signaled Xie Kui to leave together.
Inside the room, Li Hongyu was quite surprised by the situation. Li Yuanfeng on the bed was wrapped up like a rice dumpling with white bandages, from head to toe, even his toes were wrapped up, just like a mummy.
And there are still a lot of blood stains on the ground, should have been caused by Xie Tianxin's treatment just now.
"Huh? Didn't Jiulao only get hit in the chest with a palm? Why is his whole body wrapped in bandages?" Li Hongyu asked in confusion.
But Li Hongyu saw Jiulao lying quietly asleep, even making a slight snoring sound, and felt much relieved.
He walked to the bedside, and sat down.
Xie Tianxin and Xie Kui were walking towards the backyard, Xie Tianxin looked at the bottle in his hand, and grinned from time to time.
Xie Kui saw a small piece of flesh in the bottle, and what is strange is that there was a spiritual power fluctuation in the flesh, as if it was the palm power of Hunyuan Zong.
"What is in your bottle?"
"Hey, Lao Xie, this is really something good~"
"With this, I can figure out why the human body can retain the spiritual power of others! Even what exactly is the spiritual root!" Xie Tianxin held up the bottle, treasuring it as if it were a priceless treasure.
"Um... so the spiritual power was injected into your body by someone else? Isn't the spiritual root the basic of cultivators, born to sense the spiritual energy in the world?"
Xie Kui looked at Xie Tianxin helplessly, wondering if even little kids knew such a simple principle?
“silence！（安静！）”谢天心抬起一根手指，拖着长音喊道。
“老谢啊~以后少说这种傻话，不然别人会把你当傻叉的。”
Xie Tianxin shook his head.
"Get lost! You're the idiot! You're the only one in the whole Xie Family with a problem in your head!" Xie Kui roared and kicked towards Xie Tianxin.
Seeing Xie Tianxin dodge, Xie Kui walked forward in frustration.
“喂，老谢，你的那个破字符还没给我看呐！”
“你可不能说话不算话啊！”
谢天心在谢魁身后大喊着。
二人来到谢魁的房间内，谢魁小心翼翼地观察者周围，关好门窗，做贼似的拿出一个正方形魔方一样的阵盘来。
Xie Tianxin looked at Xie Kui suspiciously.
"Lao Xie, we didn't do anything, why are you so cautious?"
"Shh, lower your voice!"
"If Clear Spirit Sect finds out what I showed you, we will lose our heads!"
Xie Kui said as he placed the Rubik's Cube on the floor in the middle of the room, and then he formed hand seals and activated the array with his spiritual power.
Xie Tianxin watched as the array activated, causing all the small cubes on it to constantly flip, while a glowing prohibition character also appeared on the top of the array.
Immediately, I felt the spiritual energy shrouding the whole room within the formation, a sense of oppression came over me.
"Is this alright? Where did you get this formation from?" Xie Tianxin asked.
"Well, that's it. This formation plate was refined by me, your grandfather, myself."
Xie Kui looked around to make sure everything was in order, nodded, and took out a jade talisman from his arms and handed it to Xie Tianxin.
"Don't you want to see? Here you go~"
"Is this the broken character?"
Xie Tianxin took the jade token handed to him by Xie Kui. The jade stone was not large, about the size of a goose egg, and inside the clean white jade stone, you could faintly see a broken character.
"Not bad, this is a broken character!"
"Feels a bit rough in the making~" Xie Tianxin looked at Yufu and gave her own evaluation.
Xie Kui's old face turned red and angrily said:
"Get out! If you don't like it, don't look!"
Saying so, he was about to go and reclaim the jade token.
“Wait, I haven't finished reading it yet!” Xie Tianxin quickly covered the jade token.
“Old Xie, did you make this crappy token?”
“Of course! Do you think there's anyone else in Changping Town who can do it?” Old Xie rolled his eyes.
“Let me tell you, the magical symbols I have are different from those of the Qingling sect. I have infused my own thunder and lightning spiritual power into it, making it more powerful than what you saw that day. It's just that it's much more difficult to make.”
Upon hearing Xie Kui's words, Xie Tianxin noticed that there was still a faint thunderous power within the jade talisman, and small bolts of lightning were swirling around the cracks, emitting a weak electric glow.
"Old Xie, how many of these cracked talismans do you have left?"
"Not much, since I learned to make the broken characters, I have only created three of these characters containing the power of thunder. I have already used two of them, and this is the last one."
"You only created three? Old Xie, aren't you two hundred years old this year? Were you kicked out of the Clear Spirit Sect because you have no talent for cultivation?" Xie Tianxin said disdainfully.
"But fortunately, I learned something before being driven out, otherwise it would be too..."
Xie Kui felt ashamed by Xie Tianxin's words, his face turned red with shame, and he immediately became angry. He slammed the table, grabbed the broken character, and dragged Xie Tianxin out.
“You go back to sleep for me!”
“Grandpa, I kindly showed you something, and you are here nitpicking. Get the hell out of here!”
“Lao Xie, why are you driving me away! If I don't do well, can't people say it?”
"I think you little brat didn't take your medicine today, you need to be taken care of!"
"Grandpa, I'm sorry, grandpa, let's not use our hands and feet, let's talk things over!"
After a moment, Xie Kui sat at the table, drinking tea in a sulky mood.
Xie Tianxin knelt beside Xie Kui and smiled apologetically...
"Hehe, Old Xie~ don't be angry, okay~"
"Bring out the broken talisman and let me have a look~"
"Qingling Sect is just a crappy sect! It's too small to accommodate my great Xie! My great Xie is extraordinary and has the appearance of a god!"
“Qinglingmen, a bunch of dog stuff, blind! Don't they know that my old Xie is the literary star descended from the sky?”
Xie Kui listened to Xie Tianxin praising himself with satisfaction, his anger gradually subsided and he slowly spoke:
"Bao'er, are you not worried that Qinglingmen can hear you when you curse them like this?"
"Huh? Hear us? What do you mean?"
Xie Tianxin quickly shut up and looked around warily.
"Bao'er~ Grandpa will teach you again. In these major sects, there are places like Tianji Pavilion, which can analyze evolution and even investigate where you criticize them. Even if you are hiding in a formation, you can be traced." Xie Kui looked at his grandson sideways and threatened.
"What?!"
"Tianji Ge (Heaven's Secrets Pavilion)?"
"Even inside the formation, you can hear it?"
Xie Tianxin's face changed dramatically, looking nervously around, and praised the Qingling Sect in his heart.
"Tsk~ Look at you getting scared, do you think those big sects' Tianji Pavilion are idle and calculating who's cursing at them all day long?"
“那他们就算要忙死，也推算不完！”
“行了，起来吧，你爷爷我没那么小心眼，喏~再拿去看看吧。”
谢魁说着又从怀中将破字符递给了谢天心。
"Hey, hey, it's still Old Xie~" Xie Tianxin laughed and took the broken character with narrowed eyes.
"Old Xie, can we find a place to put this thing? Let me see its power."
"No way!" Xie Kui immediately refused.
“So you really can't teach me how to make the Broken Character?”
“No! Once I pass on the secret technique of the Clear Spirit Gate, it will surely bring great calamity upon us! Neither you nor I will survive!” Xie Kui solemnly refused Xie Tianxin's request.
"You go ahead and do your thing, I won't interfere. But what if I assist you from the side when you are creating it? Don't worry, I won't steal any of Clear Spirit Sect's secret techniques, I'll just help guide the flow of spiritual energy from the side, is that okay?"
Hey, as long as I understand the production principle, I can't be bothered to learn the symbols of the Qingling Sect! Xie Tianxin thought to himself.