CHAPTER 571: CHAPTER 291

A Li Feng Guide, containing a Li Feng Seed, also known as the Essence of Li Feng.

The wind has a thousand changes, and the fire has ten thousand kinds.

The wind commonly manifests as fierce wind, evil wind, scorching wind, yin wind, while uncommon ones include Unyielding Wind, Li-He Wind, Samadhi Divine Wind...

The fire commonly manifests as Wood Fire, Stone Fire, Water Fire, Heaven and Earth Fire, while uncommon ones include Li Ding Divine Fire, Samadhi True Fire, Sun True Fire, Tai Yin True Fire, etc.

The ’Li Feng Guide’ in Xu Qing’s hand contains the ’Li-He Wind’.

The Li-He Wind is not an ordinary southern wind or giant wind; it is an unusual wind similar to the Samadhi Divine Wind.

It is said that Liezi rode the wind, frequently traveling to the eight wildernesses in spring and to the Wind Cave in autumn. When the wind arrives, vegetation grows; when it departs, they wither, thus called the Li-He Wind.

If one can master this wind, they will fear neither ghosts nor cold or heat.

To refine it to the extreme, a single breath of Li Wind can strip the soul from a living person, causing their flesh and bones to disintegrate, and it can also scatter the true spirit of ghostly entities, making them dissipate instantly.

Xu Qing remembered the yellow wind of the Yellow Wind King in the legends, a Samadhi Divine Wind, which required holding a wind guide in the mouth and facing the southeast at three places to stimulate wind energy.

For the Li-He Wind, it requires facing the southwest at three places to stimulate wind energy.

However, not everyone can refine or control the wind.

As the saying goes, the wind follows the tiger, and the cloud follows the dragon; creatures like the Tiger Demon are adept at wind control techniques.

Xu Qing had witnessed Guan Dazhuang change the wind direction, even touching upon the ability to summon wind and rain, the ’Wind Summoning’ power.

"The tiger is the king of the forest; only the attributes of the forest are suitable for wind control."

Xu Qing switched to the Fur Zombie state, and instantly grew a lot of blue corpse hair.

The Fur Zombie belongs to the forest domain, and when Xu Qing cultivated the Fur Zombie Transformation, the first forest fate he refined was the ’Tiger Lord’.

At that time, he utilized the pelt of Guan Dazhuang’s brother, Guan Xiaohu, to trigger the forest Tiger Lord fate, thus entering the fur zombie branch.

The Fur Zombie belongs to the forest domain, cultivating it can lead to a Fur Demon; when the Fur Demon emerges, the forest submits.

At this time, Xu Qing mobilized the magical power of the Fur Zombie, clearly discerning the passing wind in the Incense Hall, the mountain wind outside, and the early winter north wind.

With his mouth, he swallowed the Li Feng Guide, and the first sensation Xu Qing felt was countless sharp objects falling down his throat, as if forcibly swallowing several bone-scraping steel knives.

Fortunately, as a zombie, he isn’t as sensitive to pain; otherwise, an ordinary cultivator would be rolling on the ground in agony.

The piercing bone-scraping sensation didn’t last long; when the guide reached the abdomen, the Li Feng Seed instantly turned into countless sharp air currents, darting into his limbs and bones like needles.

Xu Qing could sense hundreds of invisible wind blades rampaging throughout his body, but these wind blades couldn’t immediately break through his Hidden Corpse body.

After about half a tea’s time, Xu Qing noticed that the elixir pill-like Li Feng Guide’s surface had symbols gleaming like sugar coating, awakening him from his daze.

It turned out the Hidden Corpse body couldn’t easily withstand the erosion of the Essence of Li Feng, but rather this Li Feng had been sealed by secret spells, unable to unleash full power.

Xu Qing internally visualized the symbols on the guide, suddenly understanding.

"The wind has no fixed form; only the rider is constant."

Xu Qing stopped resisting, instead using the magical power of the Fur Zombie as a guide, leveraging the forest’s momentum to channel the aggression of the Li Feng.

The turbulent guide gradually calmed down, then emitted a gentle trembling, akin to a wild cat purring under caresses.

When the Li Feng Seed was refined, the binding symbols on the guide dissipated as well, and Xu Qing sensed the greenish-gray cyclones wandering through his body like they’re familiarizing themselves with a new home, showing a joyful expression.

When he cultivated the Black Zombie Transformation, he once refined a mass of Unstable Black Water; cultivating the Fire Zombie Transformation, he refined a seed of Yin-Burning Fire.

And now, his Fur Zombie Transformation is enriched with Li Feng as a foundational change.

Xu Qing lightly pinched his fingers, a strand of wind snake carrying death energy coiled around his fingertips; wherever the wind snake passed, flowers and plants withered, and hot waves turned cold...

He had preliminarily seized the authority of the Li Feng!

"Huh?"

Just as Xu Qing intended to retract the small wind snake, he suddenly sensed a familiar magical power fluctuation.

That fluctuation was extremely similar to the incense flame of Bao Sheng Temple, containing an intense vitality.

Yet that fluctuation flickered and vanished; when Xu Qing tried to capture it again, aside from the death aura corroding souls, he couldn’t perceive anything else.

Seeing the withered flowers and plants in front of the Incense Hall, Xu Qing had an epiphany.

"Li-He Wind, in spring, promotes the growth of plants, in autumn, the shedding of all things. One combination, one separation, one birth, one death."

When Xu Qing looked again at the flowers and plants scraped by the Li Feng in front of the hall, this time, he no longer saw the eliminated vitality, but the vitality extracted by the Li Feng.

"When the wind scrapes over vegetation or true spirits, it can enhance the Li Feng; then wouldn’t stimulating plant growth consume the Li Feng?"

Xu Qing pondered the rule of the Li-He Wind, only realizing he hadn’t reached the structure to truly grasp the Li Feng authority, and the previous feeling was merely an illusion.

In other words, he merely obtained the method to manipulate Li Feng, but whether he can truly master the Li-He Wind remains to be verified.

"The Sutra of Salvation offers pure Li Feng, as it doesn’t contain vitality; now that the Li Feng has extracted the vitality of the hall’s outer flora, it possesses the ability to ’combine’."

Xu Qing’s eyes grew brighter; if his guess was accurate, as long as the Li Feng absorbs enough vitality for reciprocal nourishment, he could acquire the legendary Li-He Wind once practiced by Liezi.

In other words, the current Li Feng can’t yet be called Li-He Wind.

Xu Qing contemplated nourishing the wind seed and then attempted to extract a drop of dew from the Mother Qi Bottle, merging it into the wind seed.

The dew in the Mother Qi Bottle is the consolidated incense dew from the blood lake Dharma Realm of Bao Sheng Temple, currently the most vital incense essence Xu Qing can offer.