Eternal Life: I Can Control My Essence Qi-Chapter 157 - 144: Aftermath Turmoil

"Tie her up?"

Zhang Yao was taken aback, somewhat confused.

"Yes, use this."

Lord Haihe said as he pulled out a thin silver-gray cord from his sleeve and tossed it to Zhang Yao.

Zhang Yao caught the silver-gray cord, and with a sweep of his divine thought, he realized it was a high-grade Spiritual Artifact, seemingly designed specifically for binding and subduing.

"Truly extravagant."

Zhang Yao secretly clicked his tongue, feeling the silver-gray cord in his hand.

High-grade Spiritual Artifact, and he didn't even have one, yet Lord Haihe had crafted a cord specifically for tying people up.

Zhang Yao imprinted a temporary mark on the cord with his divine thought, initiated a preliminary sacrifice, and then infused his magical power: 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

"Whoosh!"

The silver-gray cord shot out suddenly, dancing like an incredibly agile long snake, automatically binding the unconscious Feng Dujuan tightly.

Curiously:

Once the binding was complete, the aura on Feng Dujuan's body immediately dissipated, as if she had turned from a living person into a stone statue.

A few Foundation Establishment masters were amazed, while only the most senior, Peng Yue Xian, smiled but said nothing, as if he already knew the artifact's effect.

"This artifact is called the 'Life and Death Rope.' Those bound by it fall into a half-dead state, almost impossible to awaken without external aid."

Lord Haihe spoke, then signaled:

"Qingxu, since you captured Feng Dujuan alive, you should take care of her for now."

"She can't be considered a living person anymore, just put her into a storage bag."

"Alright."

Zhang Yao responded, quite amazed internally, and tried to store Feng Dujuan in the storage bag.

Unexpectedly, as the magical power operated, Feng Dujuan was really lifted out of thin air, rapidly shrinking, as if a small clay statue, falling into the storage bag.

"Truly, nothing is too strange in this world."

Zhang Yao sighed with emotion.

"Let's go up first."

Lord Haihe said, taking the lead to use his escape technique, ascending:

"Suiyu Mountain's mining area has just begun to restore some order after a great chaos, there are still many things waiting for us to handle."

"As for these demon cultivators, just throw them out of Suiyu Mountain, no need to overcomplicate things."

…

A little less than an hour later.

In a remote mountain depression where the stream babbled.

By the stream bank, the Hu Family Elder slowly awakened, his gaze first somewhat confused, then his expression changed, and he sat up abruptly.

"I didn't die... Where is this?"

He instinctively scanned the surroundings, his expression wary but quickly relaxed.

He recognized the surroundings; it should be in some mountain area outside of Suiyu Mountain, with several familiar figures lying beside him.

"Wake up!"

He stood up and used magic, quickly waking the others.

"We didn't die?"

"I remember being knocked out... Did they spare us?"

"Uncle Seven, Second Brother... Thank goodness, everyone is alright!"

After waking, everyone quickly gathered information and ultimately concluded it must have been Hu Weiwei's words that caused their captors to hesitate and spared them.

"Sigh... In the end, it was still Uncle's renown that saved us."

The Hu Family Elder sighed with relief:

"Thankfully, the Haihe Association people have heard of Uncle's name; otherwise, they might not have given us this face."

"Escaping death like we did counts as extraordinary luck."

The young man in white, his face pale, recollected the earlier events with lingering fear:

"That Lord Qingxu is too formidable!"

"Though only in the early stage of Foundation Establishment, he has such immense power... Why hadn't we heard of him in Da Li before?"

The middle-aged Daoist beside him pondered and said:

"This person is indeed very powerful... Perhaps this was his first action after achieving Foundation Establishment."

As he spoke, his expression suddenly changed, belatedly realizing as he looked at his waist, exclaiming:

"Oh no... My storage bag!"

The Hu Family Elder waved his hand, speaking calmly:

"Forget it, surviving is a heavenly blessing; losing things outside our body is just that."

"The urgent matter is to quickly leave the Da Li Border and take Weiwei back."

He paused, turning to look at Hu Weiwei, speaking solemnly:

"Weiwei, I already know about your parents. This matter... It can't really be blamed on Uncle for being ruthless."

"It's the fate of us demon cultivators, I hope you can understand and come back to the Jing Kingdom with us."

Hu Weiwei remained silent, lowering her head without speaking.

"By the way, what about this boy?"

The young man in white suddenly realized, with a strange expression pointing at Wu Silei beside him:

"It seems they mistook him for being with us and threw him out too..."

He turned to look at Hu Weiwei, unable to resist:

"Weiwei, I was meaning to ask you."

"Why did you protect this boy back then? He doesn't seem like a demon cultivator..."

Hu Weiwei, her head down, spoke in a slightly fluctuating tone:

"He was kind to me, saving me in the mining area."

"I see."

The Hu Family Elder slightly nodded, looked at Wu Silei, and said solemnly:

"Boy, you saved Weiwei, and thus coincidentally escaped the mine, so let's say we are even now."

"Let's part ways here; you'd better change your identity..."

"Wait!"

Wu Silei couldn't hold back anymore and said:

"Can I go with you?"

"Go with us?"

The three Hu family members were stunned, the young man in white couldn't help asking:

"You want to go with us? Why?"

"Don't you know we are demon cultivators, hunted by all?"