In the world of the Awakened, there is a group of people called the Dark Ones. These people take pleasure in studying contraband and like to follow paths that ordinary people are not willing to take.

What exactly is contraband? There is a clear definition in the Creation Gate. Anything that consumes a large amount of vitality power in the process of use and cannot be restored is considered contraband.

Flowing fire mobilizes the vitality of water, using the power of vitality to condense an ice thorn, when this ice spike is used, when it dissolves, those condensed vitality does not disappear, and will eventually return to heaven and earth. The only difference is that these used energies will become less active, and that's because the power inside has been borrowed and used by the flowing fire.

But the vitality will slowly regain his strength over time, and it will eventually become the same as before.

But contraband is the opposite. For example, when you use the wood energy inside, the death energy contained in it will also be released, and when these wood energy energy releases its power, the death energy will entangle these vitality, making it dissipate and die forever.

Not only that, but these violent forces will also affect the innocent energy around it, just like a spark falling in a pot of oil, the whole pot of oil will burn.

When these powers gradually disappear, you will find that the vitality of heaven and earth suddenly disappears, and the 'Jedi' in the mouth of an awakened person is born.

Because of this, this destructive power is strictly forbidden by the Creation Gate.

The accusation of flowing fire made the ninth master put away his cynical smile and said seriously.

"You're wrong, kid..."

"I must admit that the depletion of the vitality of this thousand-mile desert is indeed caused by our research on the essence of dead wood. I don't deny it, but before you accuse me, hear me say what I think..."

"The use of the Yuan Qi by the Creation Gate follows the principle of endless growth, and this behavior of ours is indeed wrong at first glance..."

"However, your understanding of the Yuan Qi is too one-sided, and we have experimented with it. When we evacuated the Black Mine en masse, only two Awakened were left behind to record the changes in our vitality after we left..."

"Guess what? This thousand-mile vitality Jedi has been restored to its original state in less than a year. ”

"What does this mean? It shows that the vitality is immortal, and it only took less than a year for a Thousand Thousand Miles Jedi to recover as before..."

Flowing Fire didn't let the Ninth Master finish, and after interrupting him, he said, "What is recovery? It's just that the surrounding vitality is slowly filling this vacancy, and your behavior will eventually make the vitality between heaven and earth even thinner." In the past few hundred years, there have been fewer and fewer people in the world who can awaken, and the root cause of this is caused by the changes in the vitality of heaven and earth..."

The flowing fire brought out the original words of the master to teach him, hoping to refute the ninth master.

"Little one, I know you will definitely say that, your education for so many years is completely the same as in the Creation Gate. I don't want you to approve of us all at once, but please listen to my reasoning and then evaluate."

"The problem you are talking about is a big problem facing the awakening world right now. If this situation continues, sooner or later the Creation Gate will die out, and the Awakened will become a legend..."

"But please understand that through various texts, this phenomenon of gradual thinning of vitality has been occurring for nearly 500 years. And the 'dark ones' in your mouth are us, and the history of existence is less than two hundred years..."

"In this case, how can you put this black cauldron on our heads?"

"We're not dark, we're here to solve this big problem. Those elders and worshippers in the Creation Gate, they have studied diligently for three hundred years but have no results, and the problem still exists. Why can't we find a new path?"

"Maybe the path we are taking is dark, but he has at least relieved the current pressure and bought us time to finally solve the problem..."

"Maybe one day, the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi will fade to the point where it will not be able to give birth to new awakened people at all. What are we supposed to do at that time? Leave this huge storehouse of vitality between heaven and earth unnecessary, and watch the Awakened die?"

The Ninth Master's words made Liuhuo a little overwhelmed, he obviously hadn't heard such remarks.

"What about you little man, attacking the caravan, attacking our camp, what does that prove?no matter how strong your arguments are, how can you explain your actions?"

"The little man you said is Cang'er, and he is a disciple of my senior brother, who died in the process of studying the essence of dead wood. "The Ninth Master is a little sad.

"He's not bad in nature, it's just that the memories of his childhood have stimulated him too much. When he was a child, his parents died very early, leaving a grandmother to take care of him, but when he was fifteen, his grandmother also fell ill. ”

"A child who had little ability to survive became a thief, a poor thief. Everything he stole was used to support his grandmother, but unfortunately his grandmother didn't live a few more years and eventually died..."

"Later, my senior brother met him, and seeing that he still had half a talent, he accepted him as a disciple. It's a pity that the memories of his childhood have had too much influence on him, and he has all the characters of greed, stinginess, and prudence..."

"When you say attacking the caravan, you're just trying to make the merchant unconscious, so he can steal something. He won't do anything that hurts or harms people."

"As for the attack on you, I also accidentally bumped into it during my night patrol, on the one hand, I want to take revenge, and on the other hand, I want to take the opportunity to steal something good..."

The ninth master said very helplessly, maybe he also knew that Cang'er's behavior was indeed a bit embarrassing, and he had no confidence at all in these words, and he completely lost the momentum of his mouth just now.

Liuhuo quietly pondered the words of the Ninth Master, and couldn't find any words to refute for a while. Liuhuo's mind was a little confused, he knew that what the Ninth Master said was wrong, but he couldn't find a reasonable reason to refute it.

Just then, the clock left the mouth.

"You're the one who secretly financed the steppe tribes, right? According to the information I've spent, you have supported the steppe people with weapons and money many times. Why is that? Stirring up a war is also a project that you are studying?"

The Ninth Master seemed to have known about Zhongli's problem for a long time, and said unhurriedly.

"It can't be said to be funding. It's just an exchange, and the cultivation of the awakened is inseparable from all kinds of heavenly and earthly treasures. And who has the most treasures? not us, but in your worldly world..."

"You have an innumerable population, and you have a strict hierarchy. After thousands of years of precipitation, many materials for cultivating magic weapons have been hoarded by you, but you don't know it. Just like the two mountain hearts around your waist, in your eyes he is just two pieces of gold, but in our eyes this is a necessary material for refining the magic weapon of metallocity..."

"We're just exchanging, do you want us to rob it?"

After speaking, the ninth master looked at Zhongli with a smile.

Zhongli and Liuhuo were silent, both quietly thinking about the words of the Ninth Master. Shortly after the cell fell silent, a hurried footsteps came from the hallway.

It was a man in black who came quickly, and he quickly ran to the Ninth Master and whispered a few words.

After hearing this, the ninth master got up and prepared to leave, and glanced back at the flowing fire before leaving.

"We're leaving, we'll see you again in the future, and I'm sure we'll see you again..."

Liuhuo was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Are you leaving? What are you going to do with us? I still have questions for you..."

The ninth master turned around and walked towards the corridor, saying as he walked.

"There's no time, stay in your cell, someone will come to your rescue. As for your question, ask it later..."

After speaking, the figure of the ninth master disappeared into the corridor.

Just as Flowing Fire and Zhongli looked at each other, a fierce battle was unfolding outside the Black Mine Cave.

The entrance to the Black Mine Cave is hidden in a small col. In the eyes of ordinary people, there is nothing abnormal here at all, because there is a very simple light system magic circle at the entrance of the cave, which obscures the location of the cave entrance. But in the eyes of the Awakened, this kind of unpopular formation is simply three hundred taels of silver here.

What's more, it was the chief disciple of the Creation Sect who came today.

The current situation is obvious, and the three of Jade Qilin, Hou Wen, and Yun Shaoyue are surrounded. Around the small mountain pass, a group of black-clothed people condescendedly surrounded the three chief disciples.

The man in black seemed to be very taboo about the three intruders, and did not choose hand-to-hand combat, but used a strong bow and crossbow for long-range shooting.

The strength of the sword master is not trivial, and the forcibly injected vitality is wrapped around the feather arrows like electric snakes hovering on it. Every time the bowstring rattled, white light shot out into the col.

These three disciples didn't seem to have the consciousness of being surrounded, and they were still relaxed in the face of many enemies.

The jade qilin lightly sideways, with a slight copy of his right hand, a feather arrow that passed by fell into his hand, and with a flick of his backhand, a man in black snorted and fell to the ground.

Hou Wen didn't change his funny temper, with a flick of his hands, one air shield after another appeared out of thin air and bounced off one Yuan Qi arrow after another, and from time to time he also helped Senior Sister Yun bounce a few, and his mouth kept chattering.

"Senior sister, don't do it, I'll come... I'll come..."

Senior Sister Yun obviously didn't admit his affection, and clasped her hands together and muttered to herself. After a while, the sky above the col suddenly overflowed, and the sunlight seemed to be blocked by something and refracted everywhere, casting spots of light of different sizes on the ground.

When the man in black looked up in surprise, a hailstone suddenly shot down from the sky and covered the entire mountain col.

The man in black, who couldn't react, was thrown into chaos by the high-speed hail of condensed vitality.

Some people didn't have time to shout, they were hit by fist-sized hailstones on the ground and remained motionless, and their bodies trembled with the impact of the hailstones.

Some of them were clever and quickly looked for rocks as shelter, and hail smashed stone chips on them.

If you cultivate a little higher, you can pick up a giant shield that is one person tall and cover it above your head, and pour a large amount of vitality into the shield. The white smoke of the shield smashed by pieces of ice, and the swordsman under the shield trembled and resisted with his body.

Just when the battlefield was in disarray, a black figure appeared on a high hill in the distance, his face was unclear with his bare body, and the only bright spot was the huge ring on his hand.

Faintly, a faint streamer swirls in the ring.