Chapter 22: Shock
Qi Xuansu took out Qi Niang's second-hand pocket watch, stared at the hands on the dial, and only felt that life was like a year.
Probably because the Dan furnace absorbed the Fang Shi Yin Fire and the "Phoenix Eye Yisan" Yang Fire, it accelerated the speed at which the pill was baked, and about an hour later, the layer of blazing fire around the Dan furnace began to converge inward, and then the Dan furnace began to cool down.
Qi Xuansu put away his pocket watch and came to the Dan furnace.
The Dan furnace is divided into three layers: upper, middle, and lower, with the smaller upper floor being the Dan chamber, which is used for refining pills. The slightly larger middle floor is the furnace chamber, which is used to control the heat. The largest lower level is the fire chamber, which is used for starting fires and filling firewood.
Only a soft sound was heard, and the door of the Dan Room slowly opened, spewing out a vast air current, spreading out in all directions. The wind was blowing, containing a strong fire aura, and ordinary people would be scalded and burned as long as they touched it, even Qi Xuansu had to retreat.
When the air flow dissipated, a layer of hazy smoke still lingered in the Dan room, and it was impossible to see the situation inside. However, a strong danxiang has spread, it is difficult to describe this danxiang in words, there is not only the aroma of herbs and trees, but also some faint blood sweetness, but it is not pungent, but it makes people feel refreshed and refreshed.
Qi Xuansu couldn't help but take a deep breath.
This is a strange thing, the smell of blood is always disgusting, and the strange smell of blood like this is rare, no wonder it is called "blood pill".
At the same time, Qi Xuansu can also be sure that this must be a real top-grade elixir, and there is no reason to miss it.
This can be regarded as an unexpected joy, Qi Xuansu was just cleaning up the living corpses, but he didn't expect such a harvest, no wonder that the Fang Shi was about to kill him when he saw him, he must have regarded him as the one who came to snatch the "Blood Pill", but in the end, the "Blood Pill" still fell into his hands.
After a while, the smoke in the Dan room completely dissipated, Qi Xuansu looked intently, and saw that there was a blood-red pill the size of a chicken in the Dan room, and what was even more amazing was that this pill was beating slightly like a heart.
Qi Xuansu hesitated for a long time, jumped forward, reached out and took out this "Blood Pill" from the Dan room, held it in his palm, only to feel a warm feeling coming, and at the same time, he could clearly feel the pulse in it, and muttered: "This pill is...... Alive? ”
This living creature is more like plants and trees than birds and beasts, and has no intelligence to speak of, but even so, it is enough to make people amazing, no wonder it is called "creation".
However, Qi Xuansu also knew that this kind of elixir must not be taken rashly, otherwise it is very likely to be eaten by the surging medicinal power, which will block the meridians with the medicinal power, or directly explode the dantian, so it needs to be taken cautiously and slowly refined. The people of Bai Yutang may go and return at any time, and they are not a place to stay for a long time, and they cannot swallow the pill on the spot.
Therefore, Qi Xuansu found the jade box originally used to hold the vermilion fruit in the medicine cabinet, put the pill into it, and then sealed the jade box to block the overflow of the danxiang.
Then he looked at the corpse of the priest, and simply did not stop, closed the door of the Dan room, and opened the door of the fire room, there was still some dark fire left inside, and Qi Xuansu sent the corpse and head into it. When the dark fire touched the corpse, it instantly turned into an open flame, and in the blink of an eye, the corpse turned into curling green smoke, leaving no trace.
Only then did Qi Xuansu close the door of the fire room, climb the rock, and leave this place.
In this way, even if the people of Bai Yutang found out that Fang Shi was missing, it would be difficult to determine whether Fang Shi had escaped with the "Blood Pill" or had been killed. As for those dead living corpses, it can be explained as evidence that Fang Shi was killed, or it can be explained as Cheng Fang Shi's suspicion, it all depends on what the people of Bai Yutang think.
After all, Qi Xuansu was taught by Qi Niang, and after leaving Tiangang Hall for a period of time, the habits of the rivers and lakes regained the upper hand. One of the major characteristics of the rivers and lakes is that no matter whether they are right or wrong, they only talk about the strong and the weak, do not be reasonable, and live the greatest. Just like a tiger eating a goat, others will only praise the ferocity of the tiger and will not pity the tragic death of the goat, this is the world outside the flower garden. Those who have been in the flower garden for a long time will not see these things.
Qi Xuansu returned along the same path, came to the fork in the road he had marked, hesitated, and did not explore another fork in the road, but went to the ground.
When Qi Xuansu returned to the ground, he found that the heavy rain had stopped, but the rain clouds were still piling up in the sky.
At this moment, a loud bang came from the direction of the core area of "Tuntian".
The billowing black gas rushed straight into the blue sky.
Qi Xuansu walked out of the dilapidated pavilion, looked in the direction where the black smoke was rising, and muttered, "What the hell is going on?" Could it be that the people of the 'inn' and the people of Baiyutang have exchanged hands? ”
As soon as the words fell, another black gas swirled up like a dragon, and among them were miserable white ghosts, twisted and twisted as the black gas rolled, and continued to howl miserably.
Although this place was once washed by the Daomen with "phoenix eye armor", and it was the Gobi in early spring, after years of restoration, there is still a little vegetation tenaciously surviving, but when the black gas passes, all the grass and trees wither at a speed visible to the naked eye, the green fades quickly, and the ground is yellow.
That's it, even the already barren Gobi has been drained of water, and has begun to dry up and crack, almost completely desertifying.
There are classics in the Daomen record, the drought came to the world, and the red land was thousands of miles. Now this kind of power has a bit of a drought atmosphere.
Seeing this scene, Qi Xuansu did not hesitate to take out the armor horse and tie it to his legs, and galloped out without looking back.
This formation is not inferior to the day when Wu Luo projected and broke the flying boat, and he didn't dare to pin all his life on the so-called sub-heart.
Qi Xuansu looked back and saw that there were also people fleeing out like him, but he was a little late, and he was suddenly trapped by the black yin qi, cultivating to a weaker person, under the unguard, he quickly aged, his skin was shriveled, his flesh and blood melted, and in an instant, he turned into a dried corpse, although he still maintained his demeanor before his death, but as soon as the wind blew, it completely turned into powder and dispersed with the wind, and at the same time, a faint wisp of soul flew out of their bodies, was wrapped in the yin wind, and all floated towards the direction of the core area.
Those with slightly higher cultivation can barely resist, forcibly locking their blood and soul from being taken away by the black qi.
However, the black gas is endless, like the sea in a stormy season, the waves are stormy, even those who know the nature of the water have to go with the flow, and when they are exhausted, they will sink to the bottom.
As the black gas continued to wash away, these people were eventually engulfed as well.
When Qi Xuansu escaped from the range of "Tuntian", stood on a high slope, and looked back.
I saw a huge black vortex appear in the sky at some point, covering the sky and the sun.
Huge cracks and cracks appeared on the ground, extending in all directions, and the walls of the houses where they passed through collapsed, and smoke and dust rose everywhere, roaring, as if a ferocious ancient beast was about to tear open the earth and crawl out of the ground.
Qi Xuansu could vaguely see that the leading old man among the nine people in the "inn" jumped high, and he was able to stay in the air for a short time, which showed that he was not far from heaven and man.
The next moment, where he was standing just now, there were five tall pillars of different lengths slowly rising, and if you looked closely, where were the pillars, they were clearly five fingers.
I saw a huge palm rising from the ground, and then continued to stretch out into the air, grasping the leading old man in the palm of his hand.
The earth shakes and the mountains shake.
The ground shattered in an instant, and then all the buildings began to collapse downward, except for the palm that grabbed the leading old man.
Immediately after that, another huge palm climbed the ground, and then a huge body slowly appeared.
This is a huge evil ghost, with dark skin and green tendons, as if it is the root of an old tree, the thickness of an ordinary person's arm. The green-faced fangs, the vicious and hideous, and the unexaggerated bloody mouth can swallow a person effortlessly.
A figure was also standing on the shoulder of this vicious ghost at this time, smiling and standing with his hands in his hands.
The moment this evil ghost appeared, countless Yin Qi wrapped in the revenant soul rolled towards it, and then all injected into his body.
Then, the demon pinched the old man to death, and then threw it into his mouth, chewing it heavily, and blood splattered everywhere.
Qi Xuansu was shocked and unspeakable.
What the hell is this?
Thinking that this place was once the corpse raising place of the first generation of earth masters, Qi Xuansu couldn't help but make a bold guess.
Could it be that this is the legendary "Great Asura" comparable to the celestials?
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Located in the West Gobi, the "inn".
The shopkeeper stood behind the counter as usual and turned a Taiping coin.
There is no business today, and there are few people in the lobby, as the shopkeeper himself said, in this kind of border place, fighting with people is secondary, the key is to fight with the sky.
Just then, a guy hurriedly walked in.
The shopkeeper's eyelids jumped, and with a "snap", he reached out and slapped the rotating Taiping money under his palm, and then slowly removed his palm, revealing the words "World Taiping" on the Taiping money.
"What's the matter?" The shopkeeper asked quietly.
The man gasped and said with an ugly face: "Shopkeeper, the cavalry is coming towards us. ”
"Brigade cavalry, where did the brigade cavalry come from?" The shopkeeper's face changed.
The guy said: "Naturally, it is the cavalry of the man in black, it seems that he directly transferred troops from the Xizhou Metropolitan Protectorate, as you know, the Xizhou Metropolitan Protectorate is nominally controlled by the Governor of Xiliang, but at the root it is still directly under the cabinet, and it has always acted boldly and is unreasonable." ”
"Interstate troop transfers? This is generally a means that will be used against local tyrants, because they are afraid that the local tyrants will be intertwined and reach into the local black-clothed people, and all the guests will be sent into the country. The imperial court wants to attack Yongzhou? The shopkeeper still felt a little incredulous, "Why is there no news from Qingluanwei?" ”
The man said: "It seems that Qingluanwei has been bypassed directly, and now Qingluanwei's three thousand households are busy arresting the people of the 'Heavenly Court'." ”
Outside the city, a great earthquake trembled.
A dark heavy cavalry force quickly approached the long-abandoned Thousand Households.