With the help of the battle intent from the Burning Sky Drum, Wen Renhe came to his senses and fought with 21 master cultivators to death. He didn't know how many righteous cultivators had died and how many had survived.
As for Wen Renhe, he wanted to fight with all his might and exert all his strength to challenge his own limits and test how strong he was. He was originally attacked by his opponents without reservation, but was awakened by the sound of Burning
Sky Drum at the last moment.
Yin Hanjiang beat on the Burning Sky Drum using his void realm cultivation so that Wen Renhe wouldn't die in battle.
Before the war, he promised Yin Hanjiang that he would live through the battle and Wen Renhe never broke his promise. At the last moment he retained his strength and shielded his body, which gave him a chance to be saved by Yin Hanjiang.
Wen Renhe breathed a sigh of relief and lost consciousness after telling Yin Hanjiang that he was still alive.
He was so badly injured that his spirit fell into a daze. He could vaguely hear Yin Hanjiang calling him but his eyelids were heavy and could not wake up.
In the book's plot, Wen Renhe was also in a coma for a long time. When he woke up, he saw Baili Qingmiao busily taking care of him and a ray of rising sunlight shining on her. Baili Qingmiao's expression was gentle and firm, making her look very beautiful when she was determined to save someone. Under that sunlight or divine light, the Devil Venerable was moved.
At first, Wen Renhe didn't realize he had fallen in love, so he just coldly told this younger disciple that he could promise her a reward. Stunned Baili Qingmiao shook her head and said: "I just want you to live."
Wen Renhe suffered from a very serious internal injury and was not willing to go back with Baili Qingmiao to Shangqing sect for treatment. Baili Qingmiao had no choice but to use the summoning talisman given to her by her master Qing Rong to tell her fellow disciples that she had some important matter to attend to and needed to leave for a period of time.
Before the start of the war, the Shangqing sect gave a jade slip to each of the disciples in charge of rescuing and healing to relay to them urgent knowledge about healing and where certain spiritual medicines grow. During the three months of Yin Hanjiang's seclusion, Baili Qingmiao and her fellow disciples were busy reciting knowledge from jade slips and practicing the healing formulas.
She found that Wen Renhe's injury was serious and his dantian was in disarray, and even his genuine Qi had disappeared. In order to save him, Baili Qingmiao decided to take him to the Jiuding Mountain recorded in the jade slips to find Jiu Yang, which can bring back the flesh and bones of the dead. She fought with the beasts that guarded the spiritual plant and after she got Jiu Yang, she boiled it into a soup without even tasting a mouthful of it and she fed it all to Wen Renhe.
In the original book, after he recovered from his injuries he looked at Baili Qingmiao with joyful smile and his heart finally become her's. He did not reveal his identity, but left a token, telling Baili Qingmiao to call out to him in case of trouble, no matter how difficult it would be, he would do anything to help her.
Baili Qingmiao didn't even think of asking for a reward, but she was happy to save his life. After bidding farewell to Wen Renhe, Baili Qingmiao returned to the sect and saw He Wenchao who had been emptied of his Nascent Soul cultivation making her heart suddenly turn cold.
He Wenchao who was seriously injured and frustrated asked Baili Qingmiao: "Younger martial sister, when I was injured, I just wanted to see you for one last time. Where have you been?"
Baili Qingmiao cried so much that she was out of breath. At that time she already found Jiu Yang but she did not use it to save her elder material brother, but gave it to a stranger.
In order to save He Wenchao, she asked her elders about the way to save him, and went to the Gold Coast Cliff alone. On her way she met Wen Renhe who was already paying attention to her movements and they went on this journey together.
This time, it was Yin Hanjiang who saved him. He didn't know where Jiu Yang was. When he saw Devil Venerable unconscious, he could only take him to the small valley where he was cultivating before.
It was a small sect that Wen Renhe was in when he first picked up Yin Hanjiang. Wen Renhe was the sect master of this small sect and after he unified the demonic path he secretly gave this place to Yin Hanjiang, and even arranged a formation. Now it was Yin Hanjiang's own place that other people had no knowledge of.
When Wen Renhe was fighting with the righteous master cultivators, Yin Hanjiang was alerted by the change of address by Altar Master Ruan to Devil Venerable. Demonic path was very ambitious, from the protectors, Altar masters to the disciples, they would all take advantage of your weakness to kill you. At this time, if Yin Hanjiang returned to Xuanyuan Sect with the severely injured Wen Renhe he was afraid that the first person he would need to kill was Shu Yanyan.
The Xuanyuan Sect had a marvelous army under Devil Venerable's command when he was well but when Devil Venerable was seriously injured, the Xuanyuan Sect was a dog-eat-dog kind of place.
Yin Hanjiang did not dare to take him back to Xuanyuan Sect. He had two places in his mind, one was the border town where Yin Hanjiang grew up, and the other was the place where he was brought to by his Lord when he was young.
He took Wen Renhe and dived under the waterfall where he had been cultivating. There was a small cave full of spiritual energy, suitable for healing.
Devil Venerable was seriously injured. Yin Hanjiang took out all the pills from his storage belt, selected some mild and replenishing spiritual medicines, and put them all into Wen Renhe mouth.
After hearing no breathing from Wen Renhe and noticing he was unable to swallow the medicine pills after a long hesitation, Yin Hanjiang apologised "I am sorry" to Devil Venerable and opened his mouth putting a mouthful of genuine Qi into his mouth from a distance of several inches.
He was careful to not touch his Lord's pale lips and deliberately avoided touching them with his teeth.
After taking the medicine, Yin Hanjiang put his genuine Qi into Wen Renhe body for about a week. He was relieved when he realized that Devil Venerable genuine Qi had begun to actively work and absorb the medicine.
After relaxing, Yin Hanjiang realized that he was unsteady on his own feet. He spurted out a mouthful of blood, and fainted at the feet of Wen Renhe.
Back then, the old Sect Master of the Xuanyuan Sect was the pinnacle cultivator of the Mahayana realm. When he beat on the Burning Sky Drum he would be trapped by the illusion and possessed by demons. Yin Hanjiang had just entered the Void realm, so when he used the drum his internal organs would naturally be severely damaged. However he was wholeheartedly thinking about saving Wen Renhe so he didn't care about his injuries and didn't feel the pain. It was not until Wen Renhe took a breath that Yin Hanjiang realized that he had also run out of oil.
Wen Renhe woke up after absorbing the medicines and found that he was in a dark and humid cave. The man in black was lying at his feet with his face against the cold stone stairs. Turning the man over, he saw a patch of green moss growing against his face just like in the folk ghost story book used to foil the cruel victims of ghosts.
Wen Renhe let out a breath, his dantian was in pain as if they were being torn apart. He took off his black robe and saw that his body was full of wounds, sword wounds, knife wounds, whip wounds, stick wounds ...... caused by the eighteen kinds of weapons. From almost all of them.
The physical injury was a small matter but his dantian was almost completely destroyed. His genuine Qi was almost completely drained by Seven Star Killing Halberd which would not heal without Jiu Yang even if healed himself for a hundred years.
He propped up Yin Hanjiang and felt his palm become a little wet when he touched his clothes. When he untied his clothes, he saw that his flesh was split open. His thin body was split by some weapon and looked like it was sewn by a very thin thread. It was very difficult to find a piece of intact skin among various wounds.
Wen Renhe only saw wounds and blood making him feel shocked. He put his hand on Yin Hanjiang's heart and tried to heal him, but he couldn't mobilize a single bit of his genuine Qi and could only sit down weakly against Yin Hanjiang letting out a bleak laugh.
For more than three hundred years, since he entered the path of cultivation, he has never been in such a mess.
In the book, Baili Qingmiao found Jiu Yang to save him and now in order to get rid of the plot he gave up his hope for easy survival and chose a very difficult road.
"Protector Yin." Wen Renhe said softly: "The most difficult time in my life was three hundred years ago when I was searching for my family in the mass grave,"
Two hundred and seventy-three decapitated bodies of the Wen clan all the way till their ninth generation. The culprit who was behind this massacre didn't bury them, the beheaded bodies were burned and dragged to the mass graves. It was only seven days later that Wen Renhe rushed back to the capital, by then corpses were already so decomposed that he could not tell who was who.
He searched day and night in the mass grave and dragged out 296 headless corpses, the youngest of which was three months old. Except for those who had more special bodies, the remaining 237 corpses, Wen Renhe could not tell who they were.
There were also the corpses of other prisoners among them so Wen Renhe could not tell which of them was his own family.
His whole family was loyal and good but now there were only corpses left. The 16-year-old Wen Renhe broke down in front of 296 headless corpses and cried bitterly, unable to vent his hatred.
The Abbot of the Wuxiang temple was so powerful that he could not help reminding him of the things he had already forgotten after three hundred years. He looked sideways at Yin Hanjiang's closed eyes, and a faint smile appeared in his eyes: "Protector Yin, do you know how happy I was when I walked past the mass grave and saw a pair of hands grabbing me?"
A hundred years ago, when Wen Renhe thought he had already forgotten what had happened, a small hand reached for the corner of his clothes. He took a child out of the pile of the corpses and touched his neck; it was not a beheaded corpse. After putting his ear to the child's heart he heard a faint heartbeat of the child's which sounded heavenly.
At that moment, the cold-hearted Wen Renhe held the little Yin Hanjing in his arms and tears fell from his eyes that he didn't even notice.
It was as if the feeling of the powerlessness of the sixteen-year-old was being vented at that moment.
He finally saved a life.
Wen Renhe held Yin Hanjiang tighter, the child he saved back then was now dying.
This silly child was already seriously injured, yet he forcibly gave his genuine Qi to Wen Renhe letting go of his last trace of vitality.
"Yin Hanjiang, since I already saved you once I can save you for a second time. As long as I don't allow you to die, you will not die." Wen Renhe's face sank as he looked at the sword beside Yin Hanjiang.
Yin Hanjiang never stored the sword in his storage bag and stubbornly became a sword protector making this sword gain some self-consciousness.
After Wen Renhe entered the cultivation path, he had stolen many cultivation methods from the demonic path and one of them, which was the most difficult to cultivate, seemed just right for him.
"Your name is Red Underworld Sword." Wen Renhe said to the Devil Sword.
When he threw this sword to Yin Hanjiang, he never told him the name of the sword.
Because when you called out the name of the sword you would awaken its consciousness.
When the Red Underworld Sword heard someone calling its name, the sword trembled and left the sheath on its own accord, floating in front of Wen Renhe with countless strange patterns appearing on the sword that Yin Hanjiang had never seen before.
Wen Renhe looked at the sword and recited a technique, lines appeared on his body which looked similar to the Red Underworld Sword.
It was a life-bound magic weapon so when Seven Star Killing Halberd sensed what Wen Renhe was about to do, it started buzzing. Wen Renhe raised his hand slightly and commanded at Seven Star Killing Halberd: "Don't make any noise."
Seven Star Killing Halberd shook a few times but it was forcefully suppressed by Wen Renhe and finally quieted down.
The Red Underworld Sword turned into countless blood swords while Wen Renhe recited the technique, the swords pierced Wen Renhe's body in pattern. As countless blood swords pierced the man in the cave, blood splattered against the stone wall and fell on Yin Hanjiang's face.
Yin Hanjiang eyelashes trembled painfully several times but in the end he failed to open his eyes and see his Lord, whom he was determined to protect. Devil Venerable, who was cut with Red Underworld Sword, embarked on a road of death.
Wen Renhe's heart was pierced by ten thousand swords, but his mouth did not stop. He slowly raised his hand and drew a formation in the air with great difficulty that was identical to the pattern on his body.
It was Heart Blood Soul Locking Formation. After the array was drawn the blood red light of the array integrated into the soul of Wen Renhe.
Cutting the body with the blood swords and carving the soul with blood!
When the Red Underworld Sword left his body, Wen Renge's body turned into bloody mist with a bang and dissipated into the cave.
Seven Star Killing Halberd screamed as Polis star was gradually stained with blood.
A quarter of an hour later a bloody mist gradually condensed into a human silhouette. In the moment when his soul was scattered and the body disappeared, Wen Renhe endured the excruciating pain of the broken soul and firmly completed the Blood Cutting Array.
In the realm of cultivation there were many techniques called Blood Cutting.
The cultivator had to draw blood patterns on his body and destroy his body and soul with his own hand and use Blood Cutting technique in the moment before his death to completely fuse his body and soul into one.
This Heart Blood Soul Locking Technique has been practiced by only one person in millions of years. It was not because it was not strong enough but it was a technique of nine deaths and only one lifetime. Without absolutely strong faith, it was impossible to endure such pain.
After it was completed, no matter how many wounds you suffer, as long as you have enough spiritual energy, you will be able to recover.
Wen Renhe put on the black robe that had been thrown to the ground and pain of cutting his own soul with his own hands still remained in his body. He frowned slightly and took the pill from his sleeve, swallowing it.
When his body had recovered to 50%. Wen Renhe lifted up Yin Hanjiang and injected his newly acquired genuine Qi into Yin Hanjiang meridians, forcing out the evil qi from his body caused by Burning Sky Drums.
In the next few months, Wen Renhe and Yin Hanjiang were in a small cave. After absorbing spiritual Qi, he transferred it to Yin Hanjiang to repair his damaged meridians little by little.
Qiu Congxue, who was far away, was carried on Baili Qingmiao's back as she climbed the mountain.
Qiu Congxue said to Baili Qingmiao: "Don't worry about me and don't take me back to the sect." She fainted after that, she was hurt more severely than Wen Renhe. The Buddha's light was very damaging to ghost cultivators, all ghosts in her body crossed over so she couldn't use any of her cultivation.
Seeing Qiu Congxue's reluctance to return to the sect, Baili Qingmiao thought that she was too badly injured to be cured and didn't want to face her fellow cultivators so she made up her mind to save her.
Baili Qingmiao reported this situation with the talisman given to her by her master and tied Qiu Congxue, who was unconscious to her back as she rushed to Jiuding Mountain.
Jiuding Mountain was said to be a temple for immortal cultivators, even Mahayana realm cultivators would be suppressed to a mortal level here.
Baili Qingmiao could not fly, and the cliff was very steep, so she gritted her teeth with tears as she used the vine to climb.
Along the way, she fell countless times, her face and body was covered with scars. She thought of giving up, but when she thought of the fellow cultivator on her back waiting for her to save them and thinking of the countless people she was unable to save during the war Baili Qingmiao gritted her teeth as she summoned her courage to continue climbing.
When she finally reached the top of the mountain, she was almost dying.
Jiu Yang was good at hiding so ordinary people were unable to find it. Baili Qingmiao was lying half dead on the top of the mountain, when Jiu Yang, thinking that he was already dead, became attracted to her divinity coming out of the soil trying to absorb Baili Qingmiao's cultivation.
Another snake, which was always guarding the Jiu Yang crawled up to her. Seeing its appearance Jiu Yang and the snake began to fight.
Baili Qingmiao was awakened up by the sound of the snake and was overjoyed to find Jiu Yang right in front of her. She killed the snake with all the strength she had left plucked Jiu Yang and stewed it together with the snake.
The aroma of the Jiu Yang healed Baili Qingmiao wounds and helped her advance to the fifth stage of Golden Core realm.
If Baili Qingmiao drank the meat mushroom soup, she would have been able to soar to heaven. But she didn't take advantage of the elixir and soaked Qiu Congxue into the soup. Seeing the flesh regrowing on her body she said happily: "So you're a girl."
When Qiu Congxue internal organs were fully grown, Baili Qingmiao fed Qiu Congxue all the leftover soup after soaking her.
Qiu Congxue's realm was instantly restored to the Mahayana, her face rosy and healthy.
When Qiu Congxue woke up, she saw very beautiful woman looking at her with her chin propped on her hand, her gaze filled with undisguised joy: "Senior, you are finally cured."
Cured? Qiu Congxue sat up and suddenly felt that something was very wrong. She looked down and found that she had grown flesh.
At this time, a sentence appeared in Qiu Congxue mind – seeing the concerned eyes of Baili Qingmiao and the pot of Jiu Yang soup she was fed she couldn't help sighing "This time it's over."
Although she didn't know where it came from, Qiu Congxue nodded approvingly and said: "It's over."
"What's over?" Baili Qingmiao blinked and naively looked at Qiu Congxue.
"I am the altar master of the demonic sect and a ghost cultivator. In order to cultivate the merciless path I devoted myself to the Hungry Ghost path and gave up my body in order to feed the ghosts. Only after such sacrifices had I reached the Mahayana realm." Qiu Congxue looked at Baili Qingmiao with a fierce glare.
It was only then that Baili Qingmiao noticed that something was wrong, she took a few steps backwards and fell to the ground. She said in a trembling voice: "Senior, Senior, what's wrong with you?".
"What's wrong?" Before Qiu Congxue could deceive her, her warm finger pinched Baili Qingmiao neck and said in a voice
full of hatred "I am a ghost cultivator, it was not easy for me to give up my body. But you with a mouthful of soup made it all regrow. I will strangle you!"