In the dark and damp cellar, a few rays of light shone through the cracks in the wooden planks, and the grains of dust were clearly visible in the light, and on the straw-covered floor, unknown black insects crawled around.

Several men and women, who looked to be only five or six years old, huddled in a corner, brought a touch of warmth to each other.

Crunch!

There was a sound of wooden planks being trampled overhead, Xing Wei was shocked, and hurriedly opened her eyes and looked up.

The next moment, the planks used to cover the top of the head were opened.

Before he could see the eyeshadow on it, a dark shadow was dropped with a thud, and the plank was closed again.

"It's a really bad environment."

A grumbling voice came.

Xingwei hurriedly looked down and found that it was a child in a brocade robe who had been left behind.

The boy looked like he was from a big family, he got up and patted the dirt on his body, and when he found that he couldn't get rid of it, he simply gave up, and finally looked around and found a place to sit leisurely.

Then he closed his eyes and recuperated as if he had fallen asleep.

Xingwei was very surprised.

She has been here for more than ten days, and it is the first time she has seen such a calm person.

The boys and girls who were brought in in front of them usually cried for a long time, and did not quiet down until they had no strength.

And when he is generally sent in, he should be in a coma, and it will take half a day to wake up, why did this person wake up as soon as he threw it in?

Xingwei was curious, so she kept staring at the boy, and there was no movement for a long time.

"You can't really fall asleep, do you? That's amazing! ”

People like them have been locked up for days, and they will only fall asleep when they are tired and can't stand it, as if the other party can fall asleep when they come in, just like returning to their own home.

Wait a minute! He must have had his brain broken, right?

Xingwei remembered the boy a few days ago, because his head hit the ground first when he was dropped, and he broke his head, and he sat there that night, fell asleep and never woke up.

She cautiously got up, approached the boy, and held out a hand to see if he was still breathing.

The other children noticed her and looked at her.

Compared with adults, these children are more tolerant, and have gradually adapted to this dark environment, and once again regained their unique curiosity.

Syllable!

Just as Xingwei was about to reach out, the boy suddenly reached out and grabbed her wrist.

"What's your name?" The boy smiled.

"Huh? I, fortunately, fortunately! ”

Xingwei replied instinctively.

She wanted to pull her hand back, but the other party grabbed it too tightly, and she couldn't pull it no matter how she pulled it.

Until the boy voluntarily let go.

Xing Wei was shocked in her heart, obviously the other party was younger than her, why did she have so much strength.

"How did you get caught? What about your family? The boy asked softly.

His voice was flat and soft, giving Xingwei a fatherly feeling, which made her unconsciously relax.

"My father died, my mother went to help people, I was alone, someone came and knocked on the door, I opened the door and fainted, and I woke up here when I woke up!"

Xingwei didn't hide it and said truthfully.

"What about you?"

The boy looked at the others again.

The child was defenseless, and the boy's voice was full of affinity, and soon they spoke one after another.

The boy didn't know where to take something to feed them, and he helped them heal their injuries and tell them stories.

The cellar, which was supposed to be miserable, was now full of songs and laughter.

After about two days, the cellar was opened again, and this time instead of leaving new children behind, a strong man jumped down, lit a stick of sandalwood in his hand, shook it around, and all the children fell unconscious, and then picked them up one by one and threw them out.

When they woke up again, they had already arrived at a cave outside the city.

Xingwei opened her eyes and saw the boy sitting on the ground, paddling around with a rock.

"Xu Da, aren't you afraid?"

Xingwei walked over and asked.

Although she has no life experience, she has also heard a lot of rumors from her mother, knowing that there are demon cultivators and evil cultivators in this world, and she likes to catch some children and use them to refine elixir.

Originally, in Fang City, they still had a glimmer of hope, but now they have been transferred to the mountains, and they are afraid that they will not escape.

Although the children present were not very old, they could more or less guess a little, and they were all very frightened in their hearts, their little faces were tense, and several of them cried.

Even she felt that she might never see her mother again.

If there was a next time, she would never open the door to a stranger again.

Only this Xu Da who appeared last, Xingwei didn't see him show a trace of fear from beginning to end.

"Fear is death, and not being afraid is death, so it's better to make yourself happy." Xu laughed.

"Huh? Seems to make sense! ”

Xingwei nodded her head unconsciously.

But I always felt that something was wrong.

Three days passed in a blink of an eye, during which a female disciple with a wooden expression gave each of them a pill of Bigu Dan.

On this day, the female disciple with a blank face walked in again, kicked the sleeping child awake with her foot, and then led them out of the cave where they lived, and turned left and right to an underground hall.

In the center of the main hall was a huge furnace, surrounded by six monks in cyan robes, sitting in six directions.

In the corner of the main hall, there were dozens of children of about the same size crowded next to each other, standing there numbly, counting their group that had just entered, there were almost hundreds of them.

At the children's side, four men and women in gray robes stood guard to prevent the children from running around, and the wooden-looking woman escorted them to the side.

The crowd waited as if they were waiting for someone.

A short time later, a man in a bright red robe who looked yin and yang walked in.

"You're all set, aren't you?"

"Back to the Lord! A hundred boys and girls are together! ”

One of the six green-robed monks said with a flattering smile.

"In that case, let's get started! If you can refine the Blood Essence Pill, you will definitely not lose a share! The red-robed man said.

"Thank you, Lord!"

One by one, they bowed down in thanks, and their breathing became a little heavy.

The red-robed man sat on the main seat, followed by a series of preparations for alchemy, and then he looked at the few people guarding the children.

"Vote one every thirty breaths, separate men and women, if something goes wrong, I can't spare you!"

"Yes!"

The five hurriedly bowed their heads, then turned to look at the children, considering which one to vote for.

All the children were frightened and desperately squeezed into the middle, like a chicken that had just come out of the shell, only the boy named Xu Da stood motionless.

Xingwei reached out and pulled it, but she didn't pull it.

Shoot the first bird!

Xu Da made such an obvious move, and several people didn't get used to him, so they grabbed him and threw him into the furnace, and all the children covered their mouths in fright.

As Xu Da was thrown into the Dan furnace, the flames that originally only covered the point suddenly rose, almost enveloping the entire Dan furnace, and the skin of the people who were roasted at a high temperature was painful, let alone inside the Dan furnace.

Xing Wei covered her mouth and looked at the Dan Furnace, with fear, worry, and more despair.

It's just that to everyone's surprise, the child who threw it in has not made a single movement so far.

Wouldn't it have fallen to your death when you threw it in?

The time of thirty breaths passed quickly, and in the middle, the red-robed man threw a lot of medicinal herbs into it.

Just as the four gray-robed monks forcibly grabbed a child and was about to throw it in again, the red-robed man suddenly spoke up and told them to stop.

"The last one hasn't been refined yet, wait a few more breaths!"

It was only after a few breaths that the red-robed man organized again, and this time he even frowned.

"What's going on? Can I still feel the breath of life in it after all this time? Is this kid not able to beat him with iron? ”

The red-robed man pinched the magic trick in his hand to increase the firepower, and the six green-robed monks also shot at the same time under his signal, and the power of the flame increased significantly, like the transformation of the red spiritual fire.

In this way, after another thirty breaths, the breath of life in it not only did not weaken, but seemed to be a little stronger.

"Damn! Hell no! ”

The red-robed man's face had become ugly, he had been preparing carefully for so long, but he didn't expect such a change to occur at the beginning.

"Add spirit wood to it, I want to see if he is really made of iron!"

Although he realized that something was wrong, the red-robed man had no intention of giving up.

According to his guess, there is probably something life-saving on the other party, which was stimulated in the moment of crisis.

These children were all captured from Fang City, and their parents were cultivators, so it was normal for them to have some life-saving means on them.

It's just that his own subordinates are too wasteful to find out.

But nothing that saves life can withstand the endless heat.

Take it out at this time, and the previous effort will be in vain, so it is better to simply refine it directly.

As time passed, a quarter of an hour, half an hour, an hour, and even the little ones began to realize that something was wrong.

Even if it is an iron lump thrown into it, it should be turned into molten iron, how can the breath of life in it still be there.

The six green-robed monks who assisted in alchemy had already sweated on their faces, and most of the spiritual power in their bodies had been consumed.

At this time, the red-robed man was struggling in his heart, he didn't mean it right, but he didn't dare to stop.

"Looks like you're only going to have these means, and it's really boring."

A childish voice came out of the Dan furnace, and then the lid of the furnace, which weighed a thousand pounds, was held up by a young hand, and the child they threw into it walked into the air step by step as if he were stepping on a staircase.

"Xu Da?!"

Xingwei couldn't help but scream.

The other kids were watching monsters too.

At this time, even a fool likes it, this child is definitely not a child.

"Open the formation!"

The red-robed man let out a loud sigh, and the six green-robed monks and him put their hands on the ground at the same time, and the dense red runes immediately rose, turning into a flying sword with a bloody aura, and shot towards the boy.

"The little second-order formation dares to show off in front of me!"

The boy's five fingers were spread out, and the flames of the Dan furnace quickly converged, forming layers of defense around him, blocking all the flying blood swords, no matter how many people pushed them, they couldn't break a single bit.

"Fire resistance? How can there be such a strong fire resistance? The red-robed man was shocked.

His cultivation has reached the perfection of Qi training, and he is only one step away from building a foundation, plus the help of six subordinates in the middle stage of Qi training, and controlling the formation at the same time, this power cannot be blocked so easily even in the foundation building period, and the result is that the opponent is just the most ordinary fire resistance technique, and the attack is blocked.

This person's strength is too strong to be beaten!

A high-level escape talisman appeared in his hand, and the red-robed man was about to flee immediately.

As for the life and death of his subordinates, he didn't bother to care.

As a demonic monk, it is normal to sacrifice others to fulfill oneself.

"Want to run? Hehe! ”

The boy smiled coldly, his fingers pinched together, and a small ball of flame quickly differentiated into flying needles, which shot out in an instant.

Puff puff!

All the monks in the entire room were shot through the heads by flying needles in the blink of an eye.

There was no resistance, including the strongest red-robed man.

The children were so frightened that they didn't dare to speak, and they were also afraid of the boys.

Only Xing Wei took a step forward and stopped talking.

The boy jumped down from the furnace, and at the same time, a cyan divine bird with a long tail dragging like a peacock flew out of his body and flew around several corpses, drawing one soul after another from their bodies.

That's right, the boy in front of him is Xu Mu.

As for the cyan bird, it was evolved from the blue, Xu Mu called it Qingluan, and its strength was not much weaker than that of ordinary Jindan, and it was specially used by him to protect this clone.

After reading the memories of these people, he knew the birth and origin of these people.

It turned out to be a group of loose cultivators who had obtained the inheritance of the Demon Dao, because they heard that Baihefang City had a large population, so they built a secret base nearby, wanting to catch children for alchemy, but they were very unlucky and caught Xu Mu's head.

"It seems that the strength on the periphery of Fang City should also be strengthened, and I am afraid that there will be fewer similar situations in the future!"

Although the Demon Dao Sect was destroyed, the Demon Dao Inheritance was difficult to destroy, and in the process of exterminating the remnants of the Demon Dao, there must have been many people who had obtained the inheritance.

The cultivation of the Demon Dao is different from the Righteous Dao, especially in the early stage, relying on some evil methods can make rapid progress.

This supports those cultivators who have poor talent and insufficient resources to take risks.

This kind of thing can't be stopped no matter what.

In other words, the Demon Dao is a part of the Immortal Dao, but their actions are more extreme and their methods are more ruthless.

Now it has only been thirty years since the Tongyou Sect and its affiliated strength were destroyed, and there must still be many demon path cultivators.

These remnants of the Demon Dao did not dare to go to the hinterland of the Great Sect, and if they wanted to survive, they could only focus on the Fang Market that had just begun to rebuild and was close to the original Demon Dao area.

According to the news from Chi Feiyan, the area originally managed by the Demon Dao was the real hardest hit area, and there were often Demon Dao monks haunting, and the fighting never stopped, and if you want to truly and completely eliminate the remnants of the Demon Dao, I am afraid it will take at least a hundred years.

Xu Mu picked up the red-robed man's storage bag, turned around and walked towards the outside of the cave.

"Xu, Xu! What are we going to do? ”

Xingwei asked boldly.

"You guys wait here, and the guards of Fang City will come and see you back."

Xu Mu smiled and waved his hand, and disappeared in front of everyone's eyes.

He didn't have time to send this group of little kids back, the reason why he mixed into the team was just to see what these people were doing, and now that he had had enough fun, he naturally wanted to go back.

Soon after, the Fang City guards, who had been instructed by the main body, hurried to pick up the mess and send the group of children back to their parents.

"Uncle, do you know where that Xu Da is?"

Xingwei couldn't help but ask the guard.

"I don't know!"

The guard shook his head.

"We just received an order from above to come and wipe out the Demon Dao monks! But since the surname is Xu, it should be someone in the Xu family! ”

To be able to kill so many demon monks, only a master of the foundation building period can do it, and the only force in the entire Fang City that has the strength to build the foundation is the Xu family, the manager of the Fang City, and the other party is surnamed Xu, it must be someone from the Xu family, but which one it is, it is not something that a small guard of him can know.

Instructions have also been handed down from above, telling them not to spread the news, let alone inquire.

"The Lord of the Xu family?"

Seeing that the guards didn't know, Xing Wei could only bury her doubts deep in her heart, thinking that she would be grateful to the other party if she had the opportunity in the future.

On the other side, the doppelganger who returned to Fang City, Youzhu personally sent it to Liyang City, and then escorted it by someone arranged by Chi Feiyan, and took a flying boat to Tianhe Sect to participate in the Tianhe Sect's ten-year apprenticeship ceremony.

At this time, the main body passed through the spatial rift and went to Suxin Palace to see the two children who were about to be born.

Half a year later, the clone arrived in Tianhe City and went to Tianhe Sect to sign up with his newly acquired identity.

"I wonder if my doppelganger can get through the trick?"

(End of chapter)