Leaving the urban area of Jianghuai City, walking towards the southwest of the city, you will enter a green deep mountain.

This is not a barren mountain, on the contrary, under the shade of greenery, there are wide and flat mountain roads, connecting the exquisite, atmospheric and beautiful garden villas.

This is the famous rich area of Jianghuai City, where many wealthy and powerful upper-class people live in Jianghuai City.

At the top of a hill, there is also a huge villa covering an area of more than 3,000 square meters, because of its high position, it seems to look down on other villas.

On a wide balcony on the top floor of the villa, Yun Ruozheng, who was wearing a simple pajamas, was leaning on the railing with both hands, tilting his head slightly, looking at the bright moon in the sky, and the usual indifferent expression on his face rarely had a hint of gloom.

She had been maintaining this movement for a long time, and Sha Mantian, who had been peeking in the far corner, finally couldn't help but walk out.

"Senior Sister Yun, it's already so late, let's go and rest first. I've asked people to check the news of that person, and I'm sure we'll find out soon. ”

Yun Ruo was silent for a moment, turned his head to look at Sha Mantian, and sighed softly.

"From the signs I found at the time, even if I find him now, I am afraid that he has lost his energy and turned into a corpse. No...... Maybe even the corpse is gone. The demonic qi of the Evil Heaven Sect is vicious and vicious, and the middle one, regardless of the essence and flesh, will be swallowed up by the demonic qi. So he's ...... now I'm afraid there will be no trace left. ”

"That's better." Sha Mantian said secretly in his heart.

He was already very dissatisfied with Senior Sister Yun's concern for that kid who only had one side, but now if he was buried under the dense demonic qi, leaving no trace at all, of course, it would be very happy.

Anyway, he didn't really send someone to investigate that kid's matter in the first place, and now that Senior Sister Yun thinks that he has been swallowed by the demonic qi and can't leave anything, she saves him the effort of pretending.

Even if Senior Sister Yun asks again, it's a big deal to excuse him, because he didn't leave a trace, so he couldn't find a clue and it would be over.

"Alas, Master has always said that I am not good at learning and that I am not allowed to leave the sect easily. I was very unconvinced before, but now that I think about it, if it weren't for my lack of learning and not being able to find the abnormality in that person's body at the first time, how could I let him encounter such danger. ”

Sha Mantian was sure that since he had known Yun Ruo, he had never heard Yun Ruo say so many words in one breath, and he had never seen her show such concern for other people.

I really don't know what's so good about that unattractive kid who can make Yun Ruo so worried.

Thinking of this, he even wanted to bury that kid with his own hands.

Of course, although he thought so in his heart, he would never show it, but he had to comfort Yun Ruo and said, "Senior Sister Yun, it's not your fault. Since that person has already stepped into the path of cultivation, whether he intends it or not, he can be regarded as a member of my generation after all. In this case, it is normal to encounter dangers and accidents during the course of practice. You must know that the demon has already harmed hundreds of people before, even if there is such a single him, it is not unusual. Fortunately, the devil has been ambushed now, but he can't hurt people anymore in the future. ”

There is no logic in this nonsense, but for Yun Ruo now, she just needs a way to solve it, so although she was still depressed after listening to it, she still nodded slightly, and the expression on her face looked a little better.

Seeing the situation, Sha Mantian hurriedly continued: "Don't think about these things now, hurry up and go to sleep." Uncle Shi will arrive tomorrow, and when his old man comes here, any problems can be solved. ”

"Hmm." Yun Ruo nodded slightly, turned around, and was just about to go back to the room to rest, but suddenly his expression moved, and he suddenly turned around again, looking at the northwest of Jianghuai City, the direction of Baolian Mountain with a surprised face.

"Senior Sister Yun, what's ......" Although Sha Mantian's sensing was much slower, he still reacted immediately, and looked in the same direction as Yun Ruo, with a shocked expression. What's going on? ”

Ordinary people naturally didn't see anything unusual, but when they fell into the eyes of Yun Ruo and Sha Mantian, they found that at this time, the top of Baolian Mountain had been completely shrouded in an extremely thick black cloud.

Even though they were dozens of kilometers away, the two of them could still clearly feel the palpitating sensation revealed in the black clouds.

"When I was talking to Master on the phone yesterday, he told me that there is a legend that a demon has been suppressed at the foot of Baolian Mountain, and that the Sumeru Mountain Gate has always been guarded. Now in this situation, could it be that something went wrong with the Sumeru Mountain Gate? Yun Ruo guessed in surprise.

"Cloud ...... Senior Sister Yun, this ...... We can't handle this......" Sha Mantian looked at Yun Ruo with a worried face, for fear that she would propose to go and see what was going on now.

With the strength of the two of them, facing this kind of demon that is so terrifying just by releasing some power, it is simply an egg hitting a stone.

Yun Ruo was silent for a moment, and said to Sha Mantian: "Contact Uncle Shi immediately and ask him to come here quickly." ”

Sha Mantian breathed a sigh of relief, and just took out his mobile phone to dial, but saw that Yun Ruo's body was vertical, and he jumped directly from the third floor of the villa.

Sha Mantian was suddenly startled, of course he wasn't worried that such a height would cause Yun Ruo to fall into trouble, what he was worried about was what Yun Ruo wanted to do.

"Senior Brother Sha, your ability is still shallow, just stay here and contact Uncle Shi, and I will go to Baolian Mountain to see what is going on."

Yun Ruo's voice came from the wind, and when Sha Mantian looked down, he found that Yun Ruo's figure had already been lost.

The expression on his face changed several times, and after all, he did not choose to jump down, but turned on his mobile phone and dialed a number.

"Hey, Uncle Shi? Where are you now? Can you get there as soon as possible? Something happened here, Senior Sister Yun...... I'm afraid she's in danger......"

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In Xu Zhuo's rented room, a small black ball floated in the middle of the room, spinning at an extremely high speed.

If you look closely, you will see that with each rotation, the color of the black ball seems to fade a little.

In another corner of the room, Xu Zhuo was sitting on the bed, his eyes closed, and he was concentrating his spirit to mobilize all the heaven and earth vitality that could be mobilized, and he kept infiltrating into the black ball bit by bit.

After the Fengshen Bang released that black qi, Tie Zhu didn't explain to Xu Zhuo what this thing was, and directly used his mind to pass on a refining method to him, and told him that as long as this black qi was successfully refined, it was possible to greatly increase his mana.

Xu Zhuo naturally would not let go of this opportunity and went all out to refine it.

At first, it was difficult for him to even control this black qi, but after he became proficient, he was already able to perfectly control all the black qi, so that they could not leak a single bit, and he compressed it into a round ball, and then used the heaven and earth yuan qi to continuously refine.

In fact, this so-called refining is a bit similar to when he cultivated the Heavenly Imperial True Sutra to refine his physical body, using the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi to extract and discharge the impurities in it.

It's just that when I cultivated, the impurities were the so-called "acquired breath" hidden in the body, but now when I refine this black qi, what is removed is the "filthy qi" contained in this black qi that Tie Zhu said.

It took about half an hour, and the color in the black qi became lighter and lighter, and finally even the last bit of black was completely disappeared, turning into an almost completely transparent sphere, which only faintly contained a hint of milky white breath.

Xu Zhuo's mind flashed the last step of the refining method that the iron pillar gave him just now, and his mind was concentrated, and he mobilized a large amount of heaven and earth vitality at one time and compressed it into it.

The transparent sphere slowly compresses together, shrinking little by little, and finally gradually condenses into a thumb-sized sphere that looks transparent, with only a small white dot in the center.

Xu Zhuo stretched out his hand, and the transparent ball slowly flew into his palm.

"What is this thing?" Xu Zhuo pinched it hard, and found that the feel of this small round ball was actually a little soft, and it was very elastic, and it felt quite good.

"According to your human naming habits, you can call it the Yuan Qi Bead." The Machine Spirit replied.

"Vitality Bead? I'm still alive......" Xu sneered. "But how does this thing really boost my vitality?"

"Ate it."

"Eat?" Xu Zhuo looked at the thumb-sized ball in his hand. "It can't be that simple, right?"

"It's that simple."

"This ......"

Xu Zhuo hesitated, was ruthless, picked up the ball and stuffed it into his mouth.

But as soon as he put it in his mouth, Xu Zhuo's heart suddenly moved, and he asked in the sea of knowledge: "Wait." According to my experience of reading thousands of martial arts novels and hundreds of Xiuzhen novels, there must be hidden dangers in such a method of directly taking foreign objects to improve one's strength, right? ”

"There is no hidden danger, it's just that the mana raised in this way is extremely easy to consume, far less stable than the mana obtained by stabilizing one's own cultivation, and it is difficult to regenerate continuously. If you judge according to your habits, you can call it a disposable consumable. ”

"Damn! Is that still called no hidden danger? Xu Zhuo couldn't help but scold. It's just that one-time consumables have a fart, and I want something that will reduce my cultivation time forever. ”

"There are no shortcuts to your practice. However, if you don't use your mana in vain in the future, you can also break through the limit of your mana in this way and gain a higher level of comprehension. Of course, if you can always have the Vitality Orb as a supplement, even if you use mana in vain. ”

"It's still useless after talking for a long time, where can I find so many qi beads...... Xu Zhuo took out the vitality beads from his mouth in frustration, thought about it, and stuffed them into his pocket. Speaking of which, you haven't told me how this black gas came from? ”

"Windfall."

Tie Zhu told Xu Zhuo about the inexplicable black gas attack that night, which surprised him.

"Is there any mistake that I will be attacked when I sleep at night? Why is this black gas attacking me? ”

"I don't know."

"You don't know......" Xu Zhuo was very helpless. Well, since you know how to refine this Yuan Qi Bead, you should know where these black qi came from, right? Can you find more, I can refine a lot of vitality beads, maybe I can use them in the future. ”

"If you want to find more of this kind of originally pure Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi that has been polluted by filthy qi, there is indeed a place where there are many of them."

"Oh? Where? ”

"Pauline Mountain."