Tianwen sat next to the Dan furnace, looking at the red fire in the furnace with a frown, through the round hole in the furnace body, he saw the gray powder flying in the flames, for a while, he wanted to jump into the Dan furnace by himself, but in the end he still couldn't make up his mind, Tianwen sighed and shook his head helplessly.

Since receiving the holy decree to refine the elixir of life, Tianwen has eaten and lived in the alchemy room every day, although he knows that there can be no elixir, but the emperor's holy order cannot be violated.

This is already the ninety-ninth failure, and the deadline is still a month, Tianwen's mind is chaotic, he has no clue, he doesn't know how to reply to the emperor at that time, let alone how to get out.

"Xianggong, can you have a bite to eat?" a young woman walked in with a plate of snacks.

Tianwen quickly stood up, took the dim sum and helped the woman sit on the chair and said: "Su Xin, why are you here, just let the subordinates do this little thing, you are pregnant now, you have to be careful." ”

Su Xin is Tianwen's wife, the two are brothers and sisters, childhood sweethearts, since they got married, the two have been in love with each other.

Seeing that her husband couldn't sleep day and night in order to refine the pill, as a wife, she naturally felt uncomfortable, but there was nothing she could do, in the past, she could escape with her husband, and those royal guards outside the door would definitely not stop them, but now it is different, she is pregnant, and she is about to give birth.

"Failed again?" asked Su Xin.

Tianwen nodded and said, "It's impossible to succeed at all." ”

Su Xin sighed, moved her clumsy body to the table, picked up a book on the table, and said, "The record in the book is fake?"

Tianwen shook his head and said, "I don't know, I completely refined it according to the records in the book, and I can't do it at all." ”

Su Xin said: "If I knew this, I shouldn't have left this book in the first place. ”

Tianwen walked up to his wife, helped her sit down, and comforted: "It's not your fault, you don't have to blame yourself." Originally, this book was left by Master, and the two of us decided to keep this book together. ”

Su Xin asked, "Then what now?" The time limit given by the emperor is less than a month. ”

Tianwen smiled and said, "Okay, Su Xin, you don't care about this matter, you can take care of your body with peace of mind, and I will handle the rest." ”

Tianwen sent Su Xin out of the room, closed the door, silently took out a crumpled paper ball from his hand, stared at it for a long time, and then put the paper ball into his arms.

"What kind of book is that?

Tianwen continued: "It was left by my master, and its name is Tianwen Suxinjue, which is an ancient medical book, and our name comes from here. When Master was dying, he instructed us to destroy this book, otherwise it would harm future generations. However, at that time, due to my greed, I didn't expect ······"

Tianwen said, sighing reproachfully.

"What about later, have you practiced the elixir?" asked Liu Yuwei again.

Seven days later, Tianwen was awakened by a brief knock on the door, and hurriedly stood up and ran to open the door, it was the Emperor's envoy, followed by a group of heavily armed guards.

There is still half a month to go, and Tianwen's elixir has not yet succeeded, so the emperor sent someone to check it. However, there was also a masked man who came this time, who claimed to be the commander of the Imperial Guard, and the people who came called him Lord Iron Mask.

This person didn't pay attention to Tianwen, but walked straight to the alchemy room, looked around, and finally fell on the book, and Tie Mian picked up the "Tianwen Suxin Formula" and looked through it carefully.

Tianwen followed into the room, cautiously following behind Tie Mian, always accepting inquiries, and at this time, Su Xin also walked out with the support of his subordinates.

The man in the iron mask looked at it for a while, and when he saw the last, his face sank, and he suddenly asked, "What about the last page?"

This question surprised Tianwen, but then he regained his composure and asked in a low voice, "What is the last page?"

Tie Mian glanced at Tianwen contemptuously, sneered, and said, "You can fool others, but you can't fool me." The book is missing one page. ”

Tianwen's expression began to be a little flustered, after he took the book from the master's hand, he secretly opened the book, hid the last page, and then sealed the book intact, the whole book didn't look flawed at all, if he hadn't read the book beforehand, he wouldn't have found it at all, and he didn't even know about his wife, how did he know?

Tianwen said hesitantly: "That's all for this book, there are a lot of pages. ”

Tie Mian sneered, looked at Tianwen coldly, looked at Su Xin next to him, and said, "Yes, if that's the case, then I'm afraid there will be something missing here?"

As he spoke, two guards rushed in from outside and grabbed Su Xin.

Tie Mian pulled out a short sword he carried with him, and gestured on Su Xin's bulging belly, "The child is about to be born, right?"

When Tianwen saw it, he was very panicked in his heart, and knelt on the ground with a thud, and said, "My lord! The villain is willing to be disposed of by the adult, please don't hurt my wife and children." ”

Iron Mask smiled and asked again, "Where is the last page?"

Tianwen looked at his crying wife, and then looked at his wife's stomach, knowing that if he didn't hand over the last page, he would definitely not be able to escape this catastrophe, so he reluctantly took out the paper ball from his arms.

Tie Mian took the paper ball, looked at it carefully, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to have a good conscience, but after so many years, you still keep this paper, which means that you don't want this prescription to be lost, right?"

Tie Mian's words made Tianwen feel a kind of shame and self-blame in his heart, the reason why the master asked him to destroy this book was because he was worried that future generations would not be able to withstand the temptation and would use this method to refine medicine, and he had thought about burning it at the beginning, but it was just a thought, and in the end he couldn't bear it, and the result was still today's result.

Tie Mian smiled and returned the prescription to Tianwen, and said, "Just refine it according to this prescription, as for the medicine primer, I will send someone to send it tomorrow." Remember, don't play tricks, or I won't be able to guarantee the safety of your wife and children. ”

Saying that, Tie Mian led people out of Tianwen's house, took Su Xin away, and said, "I will come to pick up the medicine in seven days, and when the time comes, the life and death of your wife and children will be decided in your hands." ”

Tianwen watched his wife being taken away by Tie Mian, and squatted on the ground with the prescription in his hand and a painful face.

"What kind of prescription is it, is it difficult to prepare?" Duan Feng asked.

Tianwen sighed and said, "The medicine on that prescription can actually be found, even if there are some rare and precious medicinal materials, it's just that the medicine primer ·······"

"What kind of medicine primer is it?" asked Liu Yuwei.

Tianwen continued: "It is the heart of a newborn boy of ninety-nine eighty-one. ”

Everyone was taken aback, and Liu Yu said indignantly: "This is even more hateful than demons, this hateful emperor!"

Duan Feng continued to ask, "What happened later?"

Tianwen knew that Duan Feng wanted to ask how the eighty-one boys were, so he continued.

The next day, a team of royal guards pulled a few carriages to stop at the door of Tianwen's house, and carried down cages from the carriages, Tianwen opened the cage and looked at it, and was shocked into a cold sweat, it turned out that the cage was filled with the eighty-one boys.

Looking at the sleeping boy in the cage, Tianwen thought to himself that he would have such a child in a few days, but unfortunately these children would be ······

Thinking of this, Tianwen not only had a sense of compassion in his heart, but also thought to himself, as a doctor who heals diseases and saves people, how can he behave like a beast? If he does this, he will spend the rest of his life in self-blame and suffering, and how will his children perceive himself in the future.

But if you don't do it yourself, what will happen to your wife and your children?

Thinking of this, Tianwen's heart was extremely entangled, on the one hand, the conscience of the human race, and on the other hand, his wife and children, Tianwen was about to go crazy.

At this moment, a few monkey calls came from outside the courtyard, and the Tianwen house was located at the foot of a mountain, which was visited by the animals of the mountain every season.

Tianwen had a bold idea in his mind, he decided to replace these children with the hearts of these wild monkeys, although they are still a little cruel, but the monkeys are not my race, and the selfishness between the same species will never let people rise to the moral criterion to judge, and after a long time, he will forget about it.

Seven days passed quickly, and Iron Mask arrived on time, followed by a group of soldiers, and Su Xin was imprisoned in a carriage.

Tianwen nervously handed over the pill to Tie Mian. Tie Mian took the pill and sniffed it carefully, a trace of doubt flashed on his face, but then it disappeared again, and he was satisfied to teach the pill to his subordinates behind him.

Iron Mask finally kept his promise and put Su Xin back. It's just that when he was leaving, Tie Mian sent a team of royal guards to surround Tianwen's house, saying that he would wait until he returned to the palace to test the medicine, and if the medicine was reliable, the matter would be finally over.

What makes Tianwen feel strange is that how to test the medicine for the iron mask, there is no record of the method of testing the medicine in the "Tianwen Su Xin Jue", but Tianwen doesn't have time to think about it, he must hurry up and escape, he doesn't know how long the iron mask will take to test the medicine, whether it is a day or an hour, or a year, it is possible.

Escaping is a big gamble for Tianwen, the stake is the life of his whole family, he doesn't know where he can flee to, the entire Qiu Ze Continent is basically the sphere of influence of the Eastern Fence Country, if you flee to the territory of the southern beast clan, I'm afraid the end will not be better than being caught by the emperor, and the west is a terra nullius, no one has set foot at all, and the only thing left is the far north domain, which is the territory of the elves, and the human race cannot set foot in it.

After a few days of thinking, Tianwen still decided to flee to the Far North Region, no matter what situation he encountered, as long as he could get out of the emperor's control, he would make plans for the rest later.

Everything went smoothly according to Tianwen's plan, and the royal guards outside the door were also expected by Tianwen.

After nightfall, after packing his luggage, Tianwen took out a small box from his arms, then put a bowl of water at the door, and then threw a piece of silver-white medicine into the water, followed by a thick white mist coming out of the bowl, filling the entire house.

After a while, Tianwen opened the door and saw that all the guards outside had fainted to the ground, Tianwen hurriedly helped Su Xin to get into the carriage, and when he left, Tianwen threw the "Tianwen Su Xin Jue" and the last page into the alchemy furnace, and drove the carriage all the way.