Looking at Xu Lin's corpse in front of me, I sat there for a long time without getting up. I kept thinking about this question in my mind.
What else did those people know?
My witchcraft cultivation base?
Xiao Jin's Tai Sui identity?
The true dragon vein in the jade bracelet?
The fat father and son?
Snake spirit?
Pupil?
Or even Bi?
These questions couldn't be answered just by thinking about it, but after thinking about it, I understood what I was afraid of, or rather, what I had.
Since the death of my parents, this was all I had. This was also the only thing I treasured.
However, these weren't the things I was most afraid of.
What I was most afraid of was the illusory fate that had been faintly appearing on me.
The so-called identity of Emperor Ku, the dream-like experience in the mausoleum of the Shang Dynasty, Nangong and the others who had been by my side since early in the morning.
This kind of everything, in the clouds around me in the fog, formed a layer after layer of mystery.
To a person, the most terrifying thing wasn't losing something else, but losing oneself.
Many times, I would have a vague feeling that I wasn't me, that I wasn't Zhou Yi, that I didn't know who I was.
The first of the three major questions in philosophy was "Who am I?" To others, this question might only remain on the philosophical level, but to me, this question was placed on the surface and in reality.
Many times, I wouldn't think much about it, but that didn't mean that I would forget.
Everything that had happened had always been in my mind, and I didn't dare to forget it for even a moment.
Every time I thought about it, my heart felt extremely heavy. Just like what Xu Lin had said, I was very dangerous. I could clearly realize this, but I didn't know where the danger would come from, or how it would appear.
I had a sword in my hand, but I couldn't see the enemy in front of me. This made me feel very powerless, even helpless.
I had to use a lot of courage to restrain myself, to prevent the fear in my heart from exploding.
I didn't know how long I had been sitting there in a daze. Only when the sky had completely darkened did I stand up.
Just like before, this time, I suppressed my fear. Facing an unknown danger that I couldn't even comprehend, this was the only thing I could do right now.
The room was filled with the pungent smell of blood, which made people want to vomit. I went to open the window and waved my sleeves. Strong Taoist energy instantly gushed out and turned into a gust of wind. It swirled the foul smell in the room and blew it out of the window. Fresh air came in through the window, and the smell of blood instantly disappeared.
As for Xu Lin's corpse, he couldn't just toss it outside, let alone leave it in the hotel.
I moved the chair under his body away and laid his body flat in the pool of blood on the ground. Then, I gathered Taoist energy on my fingertips and waved it in the air a few times, sketching a talisman out of thin air.
This talisman was the simplest Scorching Sun Talisman.
When my power was still at the Dragon Seeking Realm, the Scorching Sun Talisman was the only talisman I had that could attack. However, to the current me, this kind of talisman couldn't be considered an attack talisman. I had only drawn it to use the explosive Yang energy within it to melt Xu Lin's corpse.
I waved my finger, and the Scorching Sun Talisman turned into a ray of light that shot towards Xu Lin's corpse. After a moment, an invisible flame ignited on his corpse. Immediately after, his corpse gradually melted at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into green smoke that dissipated into the air. There wasn't even a trace of his corpse left on the ground.
The corpse had completely melted, but the large pool of blood on the ground was still there. The Scorching Sun Talisman contained explosive Yang energy, and the human blood also contained dense Yang energy. Thus, the Scorching Sun Talisman wasn't able to make the blood burn and disappear. Instead, during the process of melting the corpse, it forced the blood out of the corpse, causing the pool of blood on the ground to be much larger than before.
However, this didn't matter. I immediately drew a Yin Gathering Talisman out of thin air, which was also the simplest talisman. After neutralizing the Yang energy in the pool of blood, I waved my sleeves and used pure Taoist energy to erase all of the blood.
After dealing with this matter, I sat cross-legged on the bed and began to meditate.
This wasn't because I had used up some of the Taoist energy in my body after drawing the two talismans. With my current cultivation, the amount of Taoist energy consumed by the two talismans was nothing to me. Even if I drew a few hundred talismans in one go, the Taoist energy in my body wouldn't be consumed too much.
The reason why I was meditating was because I needed to maintain the Shaman Qi in my body at its most abundant state before activating the Qingzhou Cauldron that Liang Tianxin had given me.
Previously, when I was in Hong Kong, I had relied on the Shaman Qi stored in my body to transfer more than half of the Shaman Qi needed to activate the Qingzhou Cauldron. After that, I had to go to Shenzhen, so I was delayed for a day. Now that the matter in Shenzhen had come to an end, I couldn't wait to continue what I had been doing.
It was extremely important for me to understand the effects of the small cauldron. Since I couldn't find an answer from Xu Lin, I had to start from something that I already knew.
Since Liang Tianxin had asked me for help, there was no reason for him to lie to me. Once the small cauldron was filled with Shaman Qi, it would definitely give me an answer!
Of course, after the incident with Xu Lin, it wasn't that I didn't gain anything.
At the very least, I knew that the person controlling Xu Lin in the dark didn't want me to discover the secret of the small cauldron.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have used such a method on Xu Lin.
After understanding this, I couldn't help but feel a bit of anticipation.
What the enemy didn't want me to know was naturally something that would be beneficial to me. There was no mistake about this principle.
Thus, I abandoned all distracting thoughts and transferred the Shaman Qi in my body into the Qingzhou Cauldron as fast as I could.
Since the Qingzhou Cauldron was already half full, the suction force from the cauldron weakened a lot when I transferred the Shaman Qi this time. It didn't crazily and greedily absorb my Shaman Qi like before.
Even so, with my full strength, the speed at which the Shaman Qi entered the cauldron didn't slow down by much. Not long after, the Shaman Qi in my body was completely emptied, and all of it was transferred into the Qingzhou Cauldron.
I put down the small cauldron and rested for a while before going to eat something.
Today, I had first set up the Great Dragon Attracting Formation to draw out the True Dragon Vein to restore Shenzhen's luck. Then, I had experienced Xu Lin's matter and exhausted my mind. At this moment, after transferring all the Shaman Qi in my body, I felt a feeling of fatigue that hadn't appeared in a long time.
Even though I was anxious, I didn't force myself.
Even for ordinary people, the feeling of pain, fatigue, and other negative feelings were actually a protective mechanism. It was the body's protest, reminding me that what I was doing was very dangerous. The spiritual senses of cultivators were stronger, and the situation wasn't urgent, so I didn't need to force myself too much.
After resting for a while, I waited for the feeling of fatigue to disappear. Then, I sat in meditation again and used the Shaman Qi Source Stone in the Vein of the Heavens to dissolve the Shaman Qi stored in my body.
Back in the Corpse Sect, the Tai Sui had given me too much Shaman Qi. From what I could feel, it wouldn't be a problem to replenish my Shaman Qi several hundred times. Thus, I didn't need to conserve it, nor did I recover it on my own. Instead, I absorbed it all.
Not long after, my Shaman Qi had completely recovered. Then, I picked up the small cauldron again and transferred my Shaman Qi into it.
As the Shaman Qi in the small cauldron increased, the previous suction force had completely disappeared, and there was even a slight repulsive force. However, compared to the previous suction force, this repulsive force wasn't a problem. As long as I used a bit of force, it would disintegrate, so it didn't affect me much.
Of course, due to the existence of the repulsive force, the speed at which I transferred my Shaman Qi into the cauldron was much slower. However, I wasn't in a hurry and maintained a slow pace as I transferred my Shaman Qi into the cauldron.
At dawn the next day, I transferred my Shaman Qi into the cauldron for the second time.
I got up and went out to eat breakfast. After returning, I took a short nap. After my body recovered from its fatigue, I repeated my previous actions and recovered my Shaman Qi before transferring it into the Qingzhou Cauldron.
This time, my speed was even slower. When I finished, it was already night time.
After transferring my Shaman Qi three times, the Qingzhou Cauldron was almost filled with Shaman Qi. There was only a small gap left, roughly one-third of the Shaman Qi in my body.
As long as I worked harder, it wouldn't be a problem to fill the cauldron to the brim. However, the repulsive force in the cauldron had increased, so I didn't rashly try it. Instead, I rested and slept until the next morning. After my body had completely recovered, I absorbed the Shaman Qi and transferred it into the cauldron again.
This time, the speed at which I transferred my Shaman Qi into the Qingzhou Cauldron was extremely slow. Even though I had only transferred one-third of the Shaman Qi into the cauldron, the time taken was more than three times that of the previous one. It wasn't until the afternoon that I finally completed the last one-third, filling the Qingzhou Cauldron with Shaman Qi!
After completing my task, I quickly retracted my Shaman Qi and held the Qingzhou Cauldron with both hands as I gazed at it.