I've Become a Poisonous Advisor?

I've become a Poisonous Strategist?

When a person becomes famous, it's not just good things that follow!

Chen Qing instantly understood the other party's intentions.

Beside him, Xu Zhaoying's sword techniques shifted, and the Flowing Water Sword erupted with a verdant glow, like a rainbow piercing the sun, dispelling the ghost shadows!

"This person can conjure ghost shadows in broad daylight, meaning he's reached the Mysterious Unity realm!" she transmitted urgently, "But he must be a cultivator without a permit who infiltrated the Immortal Dynasty! Such cultivators are suppressed by the Central Continent's barrier, so his cultivation can't exceed the third realm! I have a treasure bestowed by the Princess that can temporarily trap him. You find an opportunity to repel him and create an opening so we can escape!"

Before her words fell, Xu Zhaoying formed a hand seal, and a square green jade seal shot into the sky. It grew with the wind, transforming into a ten-zhang square, casting down streams of clear light!

"Qingqiu Town Mountain Seal?! How can such a supreme treasure be in the hands of this unknown woman?"

Under the aerial pressure of the green jade seal, the beast-skin man's expression changed drastically, and the black energy surrounding him instantly weakened.

"This person must have just entered the Unity realm, his Yin God is not yet stable!"

At this moment, Chen Qing's eyes flashed with sharp light. Recalling the fragmented words of his master before his death, he had a plan!

However, Xu Zhaoying seemed to worry that Chen Qing would be intimidated by the opponent's third-realm reputation. She immediately reminded him, "This person doesn't have the phantom image of a Dharma robe. He uses his Yin God to control spells, not by projecting his Yin God out. This indicates he's only just entered the third Unity realm! Fighting in broad daylight, if his Yin God is suppressed, his physical body will only be at the strength of the second realm! We still have a chance to strike and temporarily repel him!"

"So that's how it is!"

With this reminder, Chen Qing's heart settled. Thinking of his master's methods before his death, he knew that if the opponent's Yin God was suppressed, he would indeed have one or two chances to attack!

Since that's the case...

Whoosh!

He leaped out into the sword light!

"A mere second-realm cultivator, you think suppressing my Yin God gives you a chance to resist? Arrogant!" The beast-skin man sneered, sweeping his bone staff horizontally. Black energy transformed into a hundred-zhang giant python, lunging to devour him!

BOOM!

A surge of immense pressure erupted. The green jade seal flickered, and Xu Zhaoying's face turned pale!

"As expected of the third realm. The difference between major realms is truly a chasm, even with the suppression of a magic treasure..."

But Chen Qing didn't dodge. He formed hand seals, and the mountain and sea intent within his body erupted!

"Mountain Collapse Sea Tsunami!"

Chen Qing clasped his palms together. The spiritual energy of the Great Mountain Heavenly Art and the Vast Scripture forcibly merged within his meridians. The Supreme Harmony Qi churned like enraged dragons. Every acupoint it passed exploded with thunderous roars!

CRACKLE!

Several meridians in his right arm ruptured, and blood seeped through his sleeves, but in exchange, he gained earth-shattering power!

He threw out a punch. The mountain shadow solidified like a peak, and the tsunami surged as if real, colliding with the hundred-zhang black python in mid-air!

KABOOM!

The shockwave exploded into dozens of clouds, and the mountains and forests below were forced to bow!

Xu Zhaoying, who had been startled when Chen Qing leaped out of the sword light and was about to remind him to retreat, widened her eyes at this scene!

"How can the second realm possess such power?" The beast-skin man staggered, a look of shock on his face.

Chen Qing wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his eyes blazing with fighting spirit!

Although this strike had injured his meridians, it allowed him to truly experience the power level of a third-realm cultivator!

"Again!"

He let out a long roar, his body moving like lightning. Mountain and sea phantom images revolved around his fists and feet. Instead of retreating, he advanced!

The beast-skin man roared in anger, "You Poisonous Strategist! If it weren't for the daytime, making it difficult for me to project my Yin God, how could you have succeeded? Fine!" He suddenly bit his tongue, "Yin God, appear!"

Instantly, seven feet of mist and haze surged from the crown of his head. Illuminated by the sunlight, it emitted a glazed firelight. The man grunted, then formed a hand seal. A Destiny Talisman materialized within the mist and haze, intending to kill Chen Qing even at the cost of damaging his Yin God!

"Yin God wrapped in a Destiny Talisman? This person is going all out!"

Xu Zhaoying was shocked. She glanced at Chen Qing, gritted her teeth, bit her tongue, and spat out a mouthful of blood onto the green jade seal!

RUMBLE!

The green jade seal vibrated violently, connecting with an will in the void. Its weight instantly increased!

"Suppress!"

CRACK!

The misty Yin God was instantly frozen in place!

"Not good!"

The beast-skin man cried out in alarm!

How could Chen Qing miss such a golden opportunity? While his Yin God had not yet returned, he clapped his palms together. The mountain and sea phantom images transformed into a grinding mill of heaven and earth, crushing the beast-skin man, staff and all, sending him flying back a hundred zhang!

"You're courting death!"

The beast-skin man roared, his white bone staff exploding into countless bone spurs that shot towards Chen Qing!

HUMMM!

The green jade seal shone brightly, and all the bone spurs dissolved.

"Sea and Mountain One Qi Finger!"

Chen Qing moved like a swimming dragon, pursuing and striking, pointing a finger at the vital acupoint of the sternum!

"Crack!"

With the sound of cracking chest bones, the beast-skin man let out a muffled groan, and his smoke-and-mist Yin God instantly dissipated!

"Boom!"

The green jade seal fell, smashing the man down the cliff like a meteor, knocking him unconscious.

As Chen Qing landed, his meridians burned, and his Supreme Harmony Qi was almost depleted. However, the nascent Destiny Talisman in his dantian was more solid than before the battle, circulating with mysterious patterns of the intermingling of mountains and seas.

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, looking at the unconscious beast-skin man, his fighting spirit undimmed.

"Early stage of the third realm, if the Yin God emerges, I will surely lose! But if I strike before the Yin God manifests, there's still a sliver of a chance!"

Although this battle borrowed the power of the Qingqiu Seal, it allowed him to truly experience the gap in realms and gain enlightenment between life and death!

It was worth it!

After calming his mind, Chen Qing turned around, and Xu Zhaoying bowed solemnly, "Thank you, Fellow Daoist, for your assistance. If not for the Qingqiu Seal suppressing the Yin God, I would have been in grave danger today."

Xu Zhaoying put away the seal, her pretty face still showing surprise, "You actually managed to repel a third-realm cultivator!" Then her eyebrows furrowed, "But this was too risky! To clash with a third-realm cultivator with only the second realm, a slight misstep means death and the destruction of your Dao! With your talent and comprehension, you should be making greater contributions to cultivation and world affairs, not acting so recklessly?"

Chen Qing thought to himself that he actually cherished his life. It was just that in the real world outside the dream, his goal was not to survive, but to seek!

As they spoke, the Supreme Harmony Qi in Chen Qing's dantian churned like boiling water, and the nascent Destiny Talisman trembled incessantly!

He immediately had a realization.

"Fellow Daoist Xu, please wait a moment!"

Chen Qing immediately sat down cross-legged, jade-like radiance flowing around him, as Supreme Harmony Qi converged into his dantian like a hundred rivers returning to the sea. Three inches below his navel, golden light flashed, and a phantom talisman rose from his sea of Qi—mountains and seas as its patterns, clouds and mists as its network!

"Is he going to condense his Natal Spirit Talisman?" Xu Zhaoying's beautiful eyes widened slightly, then she came back to her senses, immediately forming seals to set up a protective barrier, and took out three green jade talismans to hang above Chen Qing's head, forming a triple light screen to protect his physical body.

After a moment of hesitation, she bit her fingertip and dripped a drop of her vital blood in front of Chen Qing.

"Mountains and seas as the foundation, Supreme Harmony as the guide..."

Chen Qing silently recited the mantra from the Sea and Mountain Remnant Scroll, integrating all his battle insights into the Destiny Talisman. The mystery of the beast-skin man's Yin God emerging, the might of the green jade seal suppressing the surroundings, along with the summary of the Heaven and Earth as a Furnace Chapter he had heard before, all became nourishment, nurturing the talisman.

"Condense!"

With a soft shout, his dantian bloomed with radiance, and the three-inch jade talisman fully took shape, hovering in his sea of Qi! Majestic mountains, surging waves, and swirling cloud patterns formed their own Dao Rhyme!

"It's done!"

Chen Qing opened his eyes, his gaze sharp as lightning. From now on, his Magical Power would undergo a qualitative change, and its power would double!

Xu Zhaoying withdrew the barrier, unable to hide her astonishment, "Breaking through mid-battle..."

"It's not the orthodox way," Chen Qing stood up and stretched his limbs, feeling the surging Magical Power. "Nowadays, the emphasis is on accumulating strength and then making a breakthrough, staying away from danger, and cultivating in seclusion in a Cave Mansion, watching the world change."

Chen Qing said this, naturally feeling that his main body outside the dream should prioritize caution, but his illusory avatar in the dream didn't have so many scruples.

Thinking this, he stood up and stretched his limbs, feeling his body as light as a feather, his Magical Power circulating smoothly and without hindrance. Then his gaze sank, fixing on the unconscious beast-skin man on the ground.

"This person could be ambushed so precisely; someone must have tipped them off."

Xu Zhaoying's expression changed.

"The journey to Jade Capital may have variables," Chen Qing sighed. "We need to make plans early. Can you contact the Princess and inform her of the situation here."

"Don't worry, she will know." Xu Zhaoying took out a small green jade bottle, "This is a Soul Locking Pill. It can temporarily seal this person's cultivation. When he wakes up, we can interrogate him."

Before she could finish speaking, the beast-skin man suddenly convulsed all over!

"Pfft!"

As black blood spurted out, a wisp of green smoke shot out from the top of his head.

"Not good!"

Xu Zhaoying's sleeve shot out three talismans, just managing to lock the green smoke into the talisman paper, transforming into three pitch-black, ferocious Ghost Face Talismans.

Looking at the man on the ground, he was already lifeless.

"Soul and spirit utterly destroyed!" Xu Zhaoying's face was grave. "Someone must have implanted a soul curse! What a grand scheme, to use a cultivator of the Return to One realm as a pawn!"

Chen Qing was also shocked, "The third realm can be destroyed just like that?"

As dusk deepened, Xu Zhaoying recalled the Flowing Water Sword and said urgently, "This place is not safe to stay. Let's go!" She took out a black talisman and handed it to Chen Qing, "This talisman contains a Yin God's strike. Keep it for protection, use it sparingly."

"Alright!"

Sword light rose again, cutting through the twilight.

At the same time.

Ninety li outside Yujing City, in Qingxi City.

A green cloth carriage slowly rolled over the bluestone road.

The curtain was slightly lifted, revealing the gloomy eyebrows of a young man.

"We're here."

Inside the carriage, the young man spoke softly before looking at the pale-faced girl beside him.

The girl, about fifteen or sixteen years old, had a pretty face but was tinged with a sickly pallor. Hearing his words, she whispered, "Fifth Brother, do you think... Second Brother will listen to us?"

The young man was silent for a moment, then shook his head. "I don't know, but this is the Chen Family's last chance."

Outside the carriage, a middle-aged man in brocade robes stood with his hands behind his back. Seeing that the two were taking a long time to get out, he frowned slightly and stepped forward. "Young Master Chen Wu, Lady Chen Qi, guest rooms have been prepared at the post station. Please rest early. You will enter the capital tomorrow, and Sixth Highness will personally meet with you both. However, before that, you need to write a letter and send it to Young Master Chen Xu using the bloodline secret technique."

Today was a busy day, so I got home a bit late