There are many buildings on Qingyu Island, as one of the largest halls under the Lingxiao Sect, the Dantang naturally also has its own territory here, called the "Ming Furnace Palace", in addition to assigning some tasks to the newcomer disciples on weekdays, there are many Dantang disciples of the Ning Yuan Realm stationed here every day, in order to find the newcomer disciples with alchemy talent in time, and to win over and teach some basic alchemy methods as soon as possible.

In the past five years, the inside and outside of the Ming Furnace Hall have been very lively every day, because this is the only place where the alchemy furnace has been set up on the six islands of Qingyu, and the newcomer disciples are tight, and after paying a little spirit crystal, they can use the large and small Dan furnaces set up here in the Lingtang for alchemy, of course, if you can have a Dan furnace by yourself, but it is definitely better, because in fact, each Dan furnace has a very subtle difference in the mastery of various fires, if you can get used to a Dan furnace alone, it is also a very important thing for the alchemist to master the fire of alchemy, in addition, you can also try alchemy anytime and anywhere。

Ming Furnace Hall in the name of Dan furnace, in the back of the hall specially opened a piece of territory, several rows of stone chambers in a total of thirteen large and small Dan furnaces, although the grade is average, but the realm of the newcomer disciples on the blue fish island is just like that, there is no need for too high-end heavy treasure Dan furnace.

On the morning of this day, Zhong Qinglu came to the back of the open furnace hall, holding a square box in his hand, looking at the row of Dan furnace stone rooms in front of him, his face was slightly gloomy, and his brows were slightly furrowed.

There was a woman beside her, who looked slightly taller than Zhong Qinglu in terms of stature, and was a disciple of Ning Yuan Realm sent down by Dantang, named Gui Shuyun, at this moment, she looked at Zhong Qinglu's expression with a little concern, and said softly: "Senior Sister Zhong, you don't seem to be very happy to see you?"

Zhong Qinglu smiled strongly, but his expression was still not happy.

Gui Shuyun sighed softly, she actually knew a little bit about this junior sister's thoughts, since the Dan furnace that Zhong Qinglu bought back was accidentally damaged, Zhong Qinglu did not mean to buy a new Dan furnace again, but since then, she has chosen to come to the Dan furnace stone room here in the Ming Furnace Hall for alchemy.

From the beginning of the Qi Nourishing Pill all the way to the current Pei Yuan Dan, Gui Shuyun watched Zhong Qinglu's talent in alchemy gradually revealed, and it was she who was the first to vigorously recommend this rookie disciple to several elders in the Dan Hall on Jinhong Mountain, Zhong Qinglu began to attract the attention of the upper echelons of the Dan Hall.

In many cases, Zhong Qinglu and Gui Shuyun can actually be regarded as sisters.

In the past few days, Zhong Qinglu has come here many times to refine Pei Yuan Dan, and Gui Shuyun has also seen it, but as she expected, alchemy is a rare genius who can get it without hard work, although Zhong Qinglu is extremely talented, but after starting to refine Pei Yuan Dan, he still failed one after another, and this is obviously constantly hitting this young girl.

In addition, Gui Shuyun could also think of Pei Yuan Dan's high cost and how heavy a burden it would be for a rookie disciple of the Qi Refining Realm, so she was indeed a little worried about Zhong Qinglu, and after a moment of silence, Gui Shuyun walked up to Zhong Qinglu and said softly: "Qinglu, if you feel that you are not in good spirits today, maybe it will not be too late to wait a few more days for alchemy." ”

Zhong Qinglu was silent for a moment, shook his head, and the corners of his mouth pursed slightly, looking like he was gritting his teeth gently. Then she turned her head and nodded to Gui Shuyun and said, "I'm fine." ”

Gui Shuyun glanced at her deeply, and didn't say anything more, alchemy, if you want to succeed since ancient times, it is piled up on the basis of countless failures, as long as the spiritual perseverance does not fall, everything else is nothing.

She slowly took a step back, Zhong Qinglu smiled at her, took the box in her hand that contained the Pei Yuan Dan refining spirit materials, her fingers tightened slightly, and then strode towards the middle of the row of Dan furnace stone rooms.

This is the best Dan furnace in the Ming Furnace Palace, Gui Shuyun is in charge of this place, and he is quite optimistic about Zhong Qinglu, and often leaves this Dan furnace for her to use. Before entering this Dan Hearth Stone Room, Zhong Qinglu's footsteps paused slightly, and he couldn't help but look up at the sky, the sky above Qingyu Island was blue and boundless, under the same blue sky, maybe that person should have arrived on that dangerous demon island at this moment and continued to fight with the vicious demon beasts, right?

Although Zhong Qinglu told herself many times that it was just a transaction, but for some reason, these days, she often thought of Shen Shi, especially after the continuous failure of refining Pei Yuan Dan, Zhong Qinglu felt that she seemed to be a little unworthy of him.

At that moment, she seemed to be in a trance for a moment.

However, she immediately came to her senses, took a deep breath, and cheered up: it is useless to think too much, and if you want to make yourself better now, you can only refine this Pei Yuan Dan. When he finished refining a furnace of the expensive Pei Yuan Dan and handed it to that guy himself, he would presumably be overjoyed after being stunned!

For no reason, Zhong Qinglu suddenly felt better, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and then she pushed open the door of the stone room and walked in.

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On the demon island, in the middle of the dense forest.

Shen Shi stood up from the side of a demon beast, and put the obtained spiritual materials into the small Ruyi ring in his left hand, the expression on his face seemed a little strange, since the joy and relaxation after a little success brought a little strange doubt.

The dead spirit beast lying in front of him, all black and shaped like a black panther, was another ghost shadow bobcat.

From entering the Demon Island to the present, Shen Shi has been smooth all the way, using the Five Elements Spell and the Talisman to kill four low-level demon beasts, such efficiency and ease, I am afraid that there is no second person among the Qi Refining Realm disciples on Qingyu Island.

It wasn't until he met the fifth demon beast just now, that is, the ghost shadow lynx that had died in front of him at the moment, with its swift speed, it could be regarded as causing a little trouble to Shen Shi, but Shen Shi, who had been hunting demons on the demon island for the past two years, was already experienced in dealing with demon beasts, although the ghost shadow lynx was difficult, but for him, it was only a little more trouble at most, and in the end, he still hit the vital point of this demon beast with a fast-casting talisman and killed it.

It's just that after the battle, when Shen Shi looked at this ghost shadow lynx, the doubt that had been a little forgotten in his heart unconsciously surfaced again, why did a demon beast like a ghost shadow lynx go out of the way on this demon island and go out to move out during the day against his nature?

He stood in the middle of the leafy forest, frowned slightly and thought for a while, then went up and turned over the corpse of the ghost lynx, and examined it carefully, but just like the situation he had encountered before, the demon beast that died in his hands did not look unusual.

Could it be that you are really overthinking?

Shen Shi shook his head and stood up, pondered for a moment, and finally slowly left this place and continued to walk towards the depths of the forest.

And as his footsteps gradually faded away, the forest also quietly returned to calm, the sunlight overhead cast a thin pillar of light from the gaps in the branches and leaves, with a trace of golden light, as if dancing in this quiet forest, and I don't know when it started, suddenly there was a faint hazy mist, floating from the forest, faint and dark obscured a little light, and some vague shadows in the trance seemed to be shaking.

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Shen Shi parted the branches in the forest, walking between trees of different heights and sizes, perhaps because the demon island itself is an island, this forest also makes people feel a little damp, many winding branches and leaves, there are a few or strings of water droplets, which look crystal clear, but quite beautiful.

Just walking, Shen Shi's heart suddenly jumped, as if he felt something, and he looked back suddenly, but there was still a calm forest in his eyes, without the slightest abnormality.

Shen Shi frowned, reached out and rubbed his eyebrows with some confusion, and said to himself, "Why do you seem to hear something behind?"

After thinking for a while, for the sake of caution, Shen Shi still searched back a little bit, but saw that there was indeed nothing unusual around, and it seemed that he was too careful.

Shen Shi turned his head stupidly, but he was also relieved in his heart, there are many demon beasts in this demon island forest, and it is not too much to say that it is full of dangers, so he still has to be careful.

But at this moment, he suddenly heard a low chirping sound from the depths of the forest in front of him, this sound was like a bird but not a bird, with a little crisp, and like a whisper, very pleasant to the ear.

Shen Shi was stunned for a moment, his eyes rolled, and he quietly touched over there, hiding his body in the shade of a tree as much as possible along the way, so he lurked forward about ten zhang away, when he hid behind a big tree and looked out, he saw a small clearing in the forest in front of him, and sure enough, a demon beast appeared.

This monster beast is small, it seems to be only a little bigger than an ordinary rabbit, its fur is snow-white, its body is like a mink, and its eyes are red like agate.

Seeing this little demon beast with a very beautiful appearance and a little cuteness, Shen Shideng's eyes lit up, and he recognized that this demon beast was called "Blood-Eyed Marten", but because of its snow-white fur, it was sometimes called "Ferret", which was a very famous demon beast in the demon hunting mission.

The reason why the Blood-Eyed Marten is famous among the many demon beasts on the Demon Island is not because of how fierce and powerful this monster is, on the contrary, the Blood-eyed Marten is actually a vegetarian demon beast, and it likes to dig spiritual grass and spiritual trees for food on weekdays, and there is no particularly powerful aggression, and the first reaction when encountering people is often to run away. In addition, this kind of demon beast itself is not produced by any particularly valuable spiritual materials, and the requirement issued by the task is not to ask people to kill this kind of demon beast, but to capture it alive.

This is the only demon beast that is specifically marked to be captured alive among all the demon beasts involved in the demon hunting mission, and the reason is that the blood-eyed marten naturally likes to eat spirit grass and has a superb feeling for many spirit grasses, so after studying the spirit beast hall of the Lingxiao Sect, he actually came up with the idea of domesticating this kind of demon beast and taking it to the wilderness to find all kinds of spirit grass.

Such a blood-eyed marten is worth a hundred spirit crystals in the Spirit Beast Palace.

Shen Shi's heart suddenly became a little eager, he hid behind the tree and thought for a while, and with a slight wave of his hand, there was an earthy yellow talisman between his palms, which was the earth sinking technique, and he was ready to try to see if he could catch this legendary timid but extremely fast little thing.

It's just that his mind is all on the blood-eyed marten at the moment, but he doesn't notice for a moment that farther behind him, in the forest with intertwined branches and leaves, a faint and hazy mist is quietly floating in his direction.