After Ye Jing'an and Zhou Qingdui said goodbye to Lin Chengshuang, they came to the inn of the nearest city.

The city is called the Great Zhou Tian City, and the inn is called the Little Zhou Tian Inn.

The room for two people had only two beds, a wooden table, two wooden chairs, and a long wooden barrel behind a curtain for bathing.

At this time, Zhou Qingwan was sitting cross-legged on the floor according to Mr. Ye's request, and took out the ancient sword and small porcelain vase in the box that he had brought out from the main hall earlier.

Ye Jing'an stretched out two fingers and made a move, and the small porcelain bottle was suspended, and the wooden stopper of the small porcelain bottle flew out, and a blood-red breath poured out from it, wanting to rise to the sky.

"Town!"

Seeing this scene, Ye Jingan waved his other hand, and the word "town" in his mouth suppressed this sky-high aura.

Immediately afterwards, a golden "elixir" wrapped in blood-red luster slowly floated out of the small porcelain bottle.

"Zhou Qingdu, eat it."

At the same time, inside the Great Zhou Heavenly City.

An old beggar who was sleeping soundly on the side of the road opened his eyes, stretched out his hand to wipe the sweat on his wrinkled forehead, looked at the inn not far away, and muttered: "Dadao, it's messy." ”

A certain young man who was arguing with the shopkeeper and wanted to take credit stopped chattering and suddenly turned his head to look somewhere. made Xiao Er scratch his head and didn't know why, thinking that he wanted to distract himself and take the opportunity to escape, so he hurriedly urged the young man in front of him to hurry up and give money.

The beings who were hidden in the city all looked at the strong aura that suddenly emanated from the Little Zhou Tian Inn at this moment.

In an instant, the aura disappeared again.

In addition to the ground floor hall, there are three floors of guest rooms in the Little Zhou Tian Inn, and there are nine rooms on each floor. From high to low, they live according to their status. At this time, in the guest room with the word "Lihuo" in the middle of the highest floor, a black shadow suddenly appeared behind a graceful and luxurious woman in a purple dress. The lady turned her head slightly and asked, "Have you found the aura emanating from the guest room?" ”

The black shadow was silent for a while, and then said in a low voice: "Madam, that breath has been blocked by an extremely strong means, and my subordinates are incompetent and unable to intervene and investigate. ”

"I can roughly guess such a result, I don't blame you." Madame Hua waved her hand.

"But madam, the moment that strange aura came out just now, there were several strong auras who tried to test one after another, including even those in the guest rooms on the fourth floor. Although the existence that concealed the aura intervened in time to block it, his subordinates caught the approximate location at that moment. That breath came from the second floor. Those few people shouldn't have noticed it at this time, should we go first......" The black shadow heard the words and slowly spoke, and as he spoke, he reached out and swiped his neck to make a gesture.

Mrs. Huagui pushed the abacus on the table, waved her hand and said, "No need, do you think that this person is just a means to cover up his breath, so that those few people are helpless, how can we quietly kill people and seize treasures?" Even if we do, I'm afraid it will greatly reduce our strength. When the time comes, if those few people make a move, the result will always be picked up by those few people. This deal is not a good deal. It seems that there is a big man in our inn today, and we had better make friends with this person, and we must not be an enemy of him. Alright, go down. I'll send someone to the second floor to have a look. ”

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In the guest room, Zhou Qingdui swallowed the golden "pill" into his mouth at Ye Jing'an's signal. The pill was extremely hot to the touch, and it almost burned Zhou Qingdu's hand before. This "elixir" came from the mysterious hall, so Zhou Qingdui knew that this elixir was extremely extraordinary, and put the elixir into his mouth by enduring the pain in his hand.

As soon as this golden "elixir" entered his mouth, it turned into a warm current and flowed into his abdomen, and at that moment, a strong pain suddenly came from Zhou Qingdu's whole body. Zhou Qingdui tossed back and forth on the floor, screaming in pain. This is the pain that I have never felt before when I was seriously injured, as if I had just been in an endless sea of fire, and then I was lying on top of thousands of silver needles, and in the blink of an eye, I was tortured by wind and thunder, and finally I was lying in rags in the glacier. And that's it, an endless loop.

What Zhou Qingdui couldn't see, there were bursts of strange black gas coming out of his body, and the black gas surged out and then returned to the young man's body.

During this time, Zhou Qingwan wanted to die in the sea of swords and fire countless times, but the words that the plainly dressed woman said to him before she died always came to mind: "Never give up hope in this world." The young man gritted his teeth and persevered, but this was not enough to bear the great pain caused by the golden "elixir". Until in the midst of the endless torment, a colorful light suddenly appeared, and in that light, the young man saw a plain girl with his back to him. All the pain, at that moment, became several times smaller.

After that, the confused boy saw the endless and eerie darkness again.

Ye Jing'an, who had been watching Zhou Qingdui, also saw that the colorful light in the young man's dantian at this moment, was gradually approaching the blood-red golden light, and finally merged into it.

Ye Jing'an muttered: "What is the difference between doing this and exchanging life for life? ”

After an unknown period of time, the pain in Zhou Qingdu's body began to gradually begin to dissipate. When I opened my eyes again, it was already night.

Ye Jing'an was looking at himself at this time, and Zhou Qingdui opened his mouth with difficulty and asked, "Mr. Ye, how long has the time passed?" ”

"It's just half a day, not much. There's nothing I can do about the pain caused by this thing. Now that you have successfully survived the pain of the first tempering, congratulations, from now on, you can officially embark on the path of cultivation. ”

As soon as Ye Jing'an said this, the young man lying on the ground suddenly felt full of strength, jumped up from the ground, and jumped up in the guest room, extremely happy. I didn't pay attention to the sentence in Ye Jing'an's mouth, "You have successfully survived the pain caused by the first tempering." The young man was also puzzled at this time, why he was able to cultivate by eating that golden "pill". But obviously, the joy in the young man's heart at this time was greater than his doubt. Soon, Zhou Qingwan stopped thinking about it.

The young man who was happy was smiling and laughing and suddenly sat down on the ground, with two lines of tears flowing from his eyes.

At this moment, Zhou Qingdu's bleak life finally saw hope at this moment. Over the years that Zhou Qingdui has walked alone, he has extinguished the young man's weak hope for life again and again. In this world, in this world where the two races are fighting each other and the flames of war are raging, the people of the world respect their strength, and countless people are on the road of continuous cultivation and becoming stronger. And he, Zhou Qingdu, watched people of the same age embark on the path of cultivation again and again, although he often didn't care about it, how could he really not care about anything? Now that white-haired sword cultivator Li Qiubai is willing to accept himself as an apprentice, and Ye Jing'an, a white-clothed Confucian who has cultivated to a high level, is willing to teach himself the method of cultivation. All of this was too unbelievable for a teenager. Maybe it was just a dream, but he didn't want to wake up at this point.