In addition to going out for a walk with the third daughter and Zhao Youcheng every day, Chen Pi learned about the research process from Tian Songzi, that is, he returned to the room alone to meditate and hone his skills, Chen Pi knew very well in his heart that although he had the tailed beast to protect himself, he could be regarded as the top figure in the human world, but he was too sensitive, and if he was not careful, he was likely to face the pursuit of both humans and demons.

In fact, there is a shortcut to improve their own strength, that is, to refine the best magic weapon, a good magic weapon can even play a decisive role in the battle, but because the aura in the human world has been greatly damaged, the pollution caused by industrial modernization has not only destroyed the rivers and lakes, primeval forests, but also destroyed the aura between heaven and earth. This also makes it difficult to find suitable materials for tangerine peel to refine magic weapons.

The Doom System can provide a lot of help to Tangerine Peel, but those help is accidental, and it is necessary to constantly complete various tasks.

However, Ye Huniang's arrival gave him a good opportunity, since his own demon power was difficult to break through the bottleneck for a while, Chen Pi simply ignored it, and carefully refined those magic weapons that Jizo used back then, although they may not be top-notch in the demon world, but what could once make Jizo look into his eyes, how could it be inferior.

In this way, Chen Pi immersed himself in the joy of refining treasures every day, and almost every three or two days, he would have some harvest, and at the same time, he had a deeper understanding of the mantras and classics left by Jizang, and at the same time, the chakra and demonic power in his body began to grow and merge slowly but unstopprisingly.

"It's such a good thing, it's terrible to be able to do this." Chen Pi looked at the small jade wrench finger in his hand, and admired from the bottom of his heart, in this small jade wrench finger, Jizo actually made a summoning array, with his own demon power as a guide, Chen Pi can summon ten demon wolves sealed in it, although it is not a top demon beast, but it is more than enough to deal with the average middle and lower level demon clan.

Chen Pi couldn't help but look at the jade wrench finger in his hand that was as green as water, this thing was really to his liking, whether it was for himself or for Xue Ji and Youlu to defend themselves in the human world, it was a pretty good magic weapon.

Just when he was overjoyed, there was a gentle knock on the door, followed by Xue Ji's shout: "Brother Chen, Daoist Tiansongzi and Judge Lin are here, and now they are waiting for you in the living room." ”

"What are they doing all of a sudden?" Chen Pi came to the living room while figuring out the intention of the two of them to come together, and the three of them sat down separately, exchanged a few more greetings, and immediately turned to the topic.

"Mr. Chen, I came this time mainly because the underworld has just sent an urgent communication to discover the dark forces of Huangquan, not only the Netherworld, but also witches and necromancers seem to be ready to move, and there is a great tendency to declare war on the underworld, in order to ensure the stability of the Huangquan countries, the underworld will not be able to send a single soldier to support in a short time, and the underworld reminds us that the Netherworld Monarch is likely to make a comeback again with their strong allies, so let's take more precautions." Judge Lin Xingchen said directly to the point

"Those who sacrificed with the living? How did they get involved? Chen Pi frowned slightly, he had learned something about Lin Xingchenyi's situation from the history books.

"Huh?"

"Mr. Chen seems to know very well." Judge Lin Xingchen continued with a slight surprise: "Yes, it's those barbaric and cruel guys who sacrifice with living people. ”

Chen Pi shook his head and said, "I don't know very much, but I only know a little bit about it, can the judge explain the situation of the festival in detail for me, in this regard, there are quite few records in the book." ”

"What's wrong? Feeling apprehensive about sacrifice? Chen Pi looked at Tian Songzi's face and asked with a smile.

"Such a cruel thing can be done." Tian Songzi said with a little uneasiness, "If the Nether Monarch and they make a comeback again, their strength will inevitably be stronger than the last time, and with these allies of theirs, our current strength is a little too weak. ”

"How is Zhao Qingshi's research progressing?" This is what tangerine peel is most concerned about now.

"I'm here to talk to my seniors about this." Tian Songzi immediately smiled happily, "The research has made great progress, that ancient recipe has been proven to be effective in removing the demonization effect, Qingshi's main goal now is to find the original body of the plague virus, according to his words, as long as the original body is found, the research work will be completed by ninety percent, and the rest of the things will be done, he believes that if it goes well, he will be able to hand over the finished medicine in another month." ”

"It's going to take another month." Chen Pi's mood couldn't help but sink, although he also knew that for a new plague, it was already very fast to be able to hand over an effective finished potion in such a short time, and he had no reason to ask for anything, but in a month, that would mean that tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, would die in the entire world.

"However, Senior Chen, from the news coming from China, I found that people in various parts of the country are now buying licorice on a large scale, and the purchase price has now increased to more than three times the market price."

"How much?" Chen Pi interrupted Tian Songzi's words and shouted, he almost suspected that his ears were hearing badly.

"More than three times." Tian Songzi repeated.

Chen Pi's face immediately sank, and the purchase price increased to three times the market price, which means that a new round of licorice grabbing is about to unfold in the northwest, and the wild licorice resources that have just been restored will be devastated again, and people who are blinded by high returns will never let go of this opportunity.

"Tian Songzi, there must be a traitor around us." Chen Pi almost gritted his teeth and said that the market price of licorice was already not low, since these people dared to buy it at such a high price, then they must have something to hold, otherwise they are not afraid of smashing it in their own hands, and in the near future, there will be a large number of sky-high demand for licorice, it can only be the plague treatment agent that is being studied, these people must have gotten some rumors, and concluded that licorice will be one of the main raw materials, so they will buy it at a high price in advance.

"The disciple thinks so too." Tian Songzi nodded and said, "I have already started an investigation into all those who know. ”

"Find out who is behind it?" Chen Pi asked with a grim face, "Such a large-scale acquisition is definitely not something that ordinary people can do. Originally, he was still worried about how to not only cure the disease and save people, but at the same time try to protect the licorice resources for future generations, but now it seems that he no longer has to worry about this, he seems to have seen thousands of people, dragging their families to the grassland, frantically digging the wild licorice that has been scarce, and the grassland, which has been desertified, will be completely degraded after experiencing this "storm", until it is swallowed by the desert.

And if you want to restore the desert to green, the price you will pay for this will be dozens or even hundreds of times the cost of destroying it.

"Damn bastard, he wants to make a fortune." Chen Pi only felt that the anger in his chest was constantly rising upward, which filled his heart with murderous intent, and he almost wanted to cut them off one by one and feed them to the dogs for the scum who only cared about their own wealth, regardless of the suffering of the country and the people, and made the already deteriorating environment in the country worse.

It is these bastard things, for the sake of money, at the expense of human life, regardless of the environment, that have caused the bad environment that is now polluted everywhere, and it is precisely to satisfy their damned appetite that countless creatures have died.

Tian Songzi said gloomily: "There is no definite news yet, but I guess it has the above background." ”

Without enough power, it is impossible to have such a big hand.

"No matter what background you have, Tian Songzi, you must find out for me who is pushing behind, no matter how much money you make, it makes sense to spend it with your life, hum."

Chen Pi rarely scolded foul language.

"Senior, I'm afraid this won't work, the iron law of the cultivation world does not allow cultivators to do things to mortals for no reason." Tian Songzi said with a worried face, "You better think about how to stop them through normal channels, it's too dangerous to do that." ”

"Normal channels, daylilies are cold." Chen Pi shouted angrily, others don't know the efficiency of the domestic office, can he not know, procrastinating, by the time they decide to do things, the little licorice resources in the country have already been completely destroyed.

Chen Pi calmed the anger in his heart, calmed down and thought for a moment, and said to Tian Songzi: "Now we have two things that we must do immediately, one is to inform the domestic and cultivation circles, asking them to do everything possible to suppress this buying wind, and they must not be allowed to destroy all the few licorice resources in the northwest. ”

"You can let out the wind, just say that Zhao Qingshi has found alternative medicinal materials, so that you can slow down and give them enough time to act, the second thing is to find out the traitors around us, licorice is the main drug in the formula, where did this news spread, we must find out."

"In fact, only a very small number of disciples in our Qingcheng Gate know this news, Zhao Qingshi and a very small number of their researchers, you and me and Ye Fanghua."

"Huh?"

"Do you think it's Ye Fanghua that they leaked the news, or maybe they bought licorice through an agency?" Tian Songzi immediately became nervous.

Chen Pi pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: "Probably not, we have at least half of the lifeblood now, and they will only anger us by doing this, which can be said to be harmful to them, even if they have made a lot of money from it, but without the country, what is the use of asking for so much money." ”

"It should be impossible to have a hostile takeover, you just need to check whether it will be leaked unintentionally, and I think the disciples of Qingcheng should not leak this matter out, so the focus of the investigation should be in Zhao Qingshi's research room." Tian Songzi nodded and got up.

Chen Pi let out a long sigh and leaned back on the sofa, his good mood these days was dissipated by this news, he still underestimated the greed of human beings, and the last bit of wild licorice resources seemed to be difficult to keep.

"Tangerine peel, don't think about it so much, didn't you think about the day when wild licorice became extinct, so you planted the seeds of licorice on the oasis, even if they destroyed those wild licorice, but as long as your oasis is still there, one day, licorice will still spread all over the country." Another brigade came to his side at some point, and comforted him softly.

"Again, I still underestimate the greed of human beings, if I could have thought of it earlier, and asked Tian Songzi to arrange preventive measures earlier, maybe this scene would not have happened." Chen Pi said with a long sigh.

Youlu gently leaned on Chen Pi's body, caressed his chest and whispered: "Don't blame yourself, these things, you alone are powerless, even if you make arrangements early, all this will still come, but it is only a matter of time, human beings are like locusts, they are recklessly devouring all the resources of the human world, and the cultivation world cannot fight side by side with you due to the iron law, how can you fight against them alone, you have done your best." ”

Chen Pi only felt that he was extremely tired, everything he did in the desert now seemed like a void, no matter how hard he tried, he could never catch up with the speed of human destruction, maybe he should help the demon clan, reduce the influence of human beings on the entire human world to the lowest point, and give nature a chance to recover, this thought suddenly came out of his mind, and he grabbed him tightly.

Although Chen Pi has always been neutral towards the invasion of the demon clan, it is undeniable that his existence to a certain extent still slows down the pace of the expansion of the demon clan.

The demon clan has invaded the human world for several months, but it is still being dragged to the mainland in the middle of the army, although it is said that there are all the demon clans that have entered the human world have not yet appeared, the help of cultivators, and the impact of this sudden plague, but Chen Pi also played an important role in it, but now, Chen Pi strongly wants to leave it alone, return to his own oasis, and let them make a mess.

"Chen Pi, since this traitor can leak the main medicine of the prescription, it is hard to guarantee that he will not leak your research progress, you must be careful, now this prescription can be said to be invaluable, I am afraid that not only human beings, but even the demon clan and the demon clan will be tempted by this." Youlu worriedly reminded Chen Pidao, "You and Tian Songzi must take precautions and don't be robbed of the prescription." ”

The reminder of the brigade woke up Chen Pi as if it was a slap in the face, and Chen Pi sat up suddenly, and the brigade was right, since this traitor can leak the main medicine in the prescription, it is difficult to guarantee that other important information will not be leaked out, I am afraid that those guys who salivate over the prescription are now on the way.

"You're right, there's a good chance it could happen." Chen Pi pondered for a moment and said solemnly, "The Nether King and their allies are on the verge of making a move in the Yellow Springs, which makes the underworld nervous, but now it seems that this may be a trick to attack the west, and their real target may still be here. "You must know that Huangquan is also a plague epidemic area now, and if you rush into a fight with the underworld, it is inevitable that you will be infected, and the leader of the Nether King should not take this risk.

"If this research progress is leaked, I am afraid that the eyes of cultivators all over the world will be shifted here, this is the first disease in the human world that also threatens cultivators, mastering its treatment method is equivalent to mastering a sharp weapon in battle, no one can refuse this temptation." A layer of cold sweat immediately appeared on the back of tangerine peel.

Fortunately, with the reminder of Youlu, Chen Pi realized that the Mocheng Research Institute had probably become the focus of all forces at this time, and the formula for treating the plague was not only a good prescription for curing diseases and saving people, but also a bargaining chip for all forces.