Chapter 558: The Escaped Taoist Priest (1st Shift)
The small tent was dim, with no furnishings except a bed, and Meng Xu paced back and forth in the narrow clearing, stopping when he turned around for the eleventh time, and said to himself, "I will never hand over Neidan." ”
As soon as the words came out, Meng Xu himself was frightened by this idea first, handing over Neidan was not an order from Mu Xingqiu or someone, but a requirement of the entire Dao system, compared to killing them all, this was already magnanimous, but-
Meng Xu recalled many past events: the surprise when she was selected by the Summoning Mountain, the excitement when she condensed into a pill, the pride and excitement brought by every realm ascension, and finally she encountered the sigh tribulation.
Joining Zhaoshan at the age of twelve, after one hundred and fifteen years of cultivation, Meng Xu, who swallowed the smoke quadruple, suddenly felt exhausted, the road ahead was too far and difficult, and she had exhausted all her will, to be honest, after confirming that she could no longer improve the realm, her first feeling was not regret, but relaxation.
She doesn't need to be ashamed, there are many Taoist priests who stop in the realm of dining and inhaling, and the four layers of swallowing smoke can already rank among the upper middle ranks, sighing tribulation means that another life begins for ordinary Taoist priests, she can live for another four or five hundred years, she can work diligently in the field of Dan Medicine, and maybe she can create a few new formulas, so as to leave a name in the Taoist books.
To start practicing again, to experience pride and excitement again? No, no, Meng Xu did not have such a strong will.
"I'm hiding, I won't let the Dao Tong find it, and I won't let the demons find it, and my Neidan won't cause trouble. The more Meng Xu thought about it, the more he felt that this plan was feasible, but there was still the danger of falling into the demon to consider, "It's been a few months, and I haven't done anything at all." I'm hiding in a deserted place, even if I fall into the devil, who can I affect?"
Meng Xu's fear gradually disappeared, and he glanced around and found that there was nothing to put away. The magic weapons are gone, and the materials for alchemy are all in another snow room, "I won't take anything away, and I made the elixir, which is enough." ”
Meng Xu's heart became more and more steady, believing that he did not owe any favors to the Demon Invasion Taoist and Mu Xingqiu.
She sat down on the bed and waited patiently for the dawn, because the Taoist priests were more fortified at night and would not be noticed during the day.
At this moment, how many people can't sleep at night because they want to hand over Neidan. Unable to even carry out daily thoughts? Meng Xu felt that he would never be the only one. Maybe she could find some like-minded people to go, Meng Xu almost got up to find someone, she knew that there were a few demon invasion Taoist priests who were likely to agree with her own thoughts.
It didn't take long for her to dispel this thought, this was a risky move, the demon invasion Taoist priests believed in Mu Xingqiu, and even relied on him, maybe someone would tell him, and the more people there were, the more likely they were to expose their whereabouts.
Meng Xu decided to go it alone.
It's dawn. Meng Xu waited a little longer, so as not to arouse suspicion, and after two quarters of an hour, she really couldn't wait any longer. The impatience reminded her of the urgency of standing by the stove as a child waiting for her mother to lift the lid of the pot.
She made up a narrative that there were some rare herbs in the nearby mountains, and she was going to pick some for reserve. No need for help...... But she thought too much, and no one came forward to ask, she was the only smoke-swallowing Taoist in the camp. Always treated with the respect they deserve.
The Taoist priests outside the tent all nodded to her, and two of them deliberately invited her to talk, but when they realized that she was not interested, they swallowed back the invitation.
After more than two months of getting along day and night, Meng Xu had some feelings for the Demon Invasion Daoist, even more than the nostalgia for Zhaoshan, where she had lived for more than a hundred years, but she didn't have the opportunity to have much contact with her fellow disciples during the cultivation process.
Artemisia and the bald man chased each other around the fleas, and only they were happy in the entire camp, which was not surprising, the bald man had no intention, the realm of the little artemisia had just reached the triple inhalation, and handing over the inner dan would have little effect on them.
Meng Xu walked out of the camp, tried not to walk too fast, climbed a nearby mountain, and glanced back at the top of the mountain, before the demon invasion Taoist priest found out that she was going to escape, the camp was as usual, there were golems standing in the spirit demon camp, and further west were demon camps, which were larger in scale and more lively inside.
When these demon clans hear about the plan of the commander, they will probably turn their faces immediately.
Meng Xu continued to move forward and quickened her pace, but she didn't fly, that would attract unnecessary attention, and her main magic weapon was gone, if she flew purely with mana, the consumption would be too great, and she would have to make long-term plans.
After noon, Meng Xu climbed over five peaks, and when he turned back, he could no longer see the camp.
A red dot on the eastern hillside caught her attention, and she knew from experience that it was an herb, and there was no special plan anyway, so Meng Xu walked towards the red dot.
A large, seven-petal snow flower blooms every three years, is usually white, blends with the snow, and is extremely difficult to spot, only turning bright red when it opens, attracting the attention of creatures.
This is not a precious herb, but it is not something that can be obtained if you want to, Meng Xu has only seen the dried snow hidden flower, and this is the first time he has seen the living body.
She hesitated for a moment and decided to take it away, and in the lonely years to come, she would continue to make alchemy.
There are many rules for collecting medicine, but it is not as simple as reaching out to pluck it, because there is no magic weapon, you can only use your hands to cast the spell directly, remove the water of the whole plant, leave only the dry essence, and then carefully dig it out by the roots, the advantage of this is that it can retain the aura of heaven and earth in the rhizome.
The whole process took nearly two quarters of an hour, Meng Xu had almost forgotten her escape plan, and when she put the whole snow hidden flower into the Qiankun bag, she felt satisfied, and felt that it was worth the delay.
When she straightened up and was about to move on, she froze and her heart almost stopped.
Ten paces away, on a snowdrift, sat an old man in a Taoist uniform, staring at her without blinking.
"You, who are you?" Meng Xu didn't recognize this Taoist priest, and she couldn't even tell which Taoist family he came from, but she believed that this must be a high-level Taoist priest, otherwise she wouldn't have found out about his existence for so long.
"This is the eleventh time it has been opened, and the first time it has been picked. The old Taoist priest spoke, his voice didn't sound old, but it didn't have any characteristics, and it was easy for people to forget it.
"You mean this Snow Hidden Flower?" Meng Xu was extremely surprised, this Taoist priest could tell the year of the herb at a glance, which was much more powerful than his own disciple of the Pill Medicine Department, "You are a Daoist priest who injects the gods." To collect Nedan?"
Meng Xu's heart almost fell to Xia Dantian.
But the old Taoist priest shook his head, "There is a golem nearby, I came to take a look, and I happened to find this snow hidden flower, I wanted it, but you took the lead." ”
Meng Xu immediately summoned the hard-to-dig snow hidden flower and held it in both hands, "Please accept it, just as I am a gift for you." ”
The Taoist priest didn't make any moves, and the dried snow hidden flower automatically left Meng Xu's palm. Fly in front of him.
The Taoist priest stared at it for a while, suddenly opened his mouth, and swallowed it whole from the flower to the root, not a little chew, but a bite into the stomach, the snow hidden flower was more than two feet long, but he did not look embarrassed at all.
Meng Xu was extremely surprised, and became more and more convinced that this was a high-level Taoist priest, and it was likely to be a Shenzhu Taoist priest.
"Seven hundred years ago. A snow leopard died here, its body covered in snow and ice and slowly rotting, and the seeds of this snow flower came from 500 miles to the southeast. It drifted in the wind for a whole year before landing on the corpse of the snow leopard, absorbing the last bit of its flesh, living for thirty-three years and blooming eleven times. Picked by you today. ”
Meng Xu stood dumbfounded for a while, and then said respectfully, "You are Li Huashi Daoyou of Hongshan Dan Pharmacy, right?"
There are only two Divine Daoists in the Dan Medicine Department, one is Yang Yannian, the Grandmaster of Pangshan. Meng Xu had seen it before, when Yang Yannian was still in the Starfall Realm and was detained by Chaojing Mountain, the other was Li Huashi of Hongshan, Meng Xu had never seen it.
The old Taoist priest still didn't answer, but continued to talk to himself, "It's a pity, not enough demon seeds are injected, the golem can only be a golem, and it can't become a real demon, one step late, alas, one step late, the demon heart has been destroyed, and the golem is not of much use." Maybe another way ......"
The old Taoist priest chattered endlessly, but it sounded unpredictable to Meng Xu, she listened for a while, and couldn't help asking: "Why is the Dao Tong hiding? The Dao Tong has indeed declined a little, and he has not served the Sun Mang Daoist, but there are more numbers and more powerful magic weapons, so he may not be weaker than the demon clan." ”
The old Taoist priest was still talking about the Golem, and after a while, he suddenly changed his mind and answered Meng Xu's question, "...... This is not surprising, the tricks of the Dao system are the same as those of the demons more than 130,000 years ago. The demons were tired of destroying the Taoist priests one by one, so they deliberately showed weakness, and the Taoist priests who were hidden everywhere all came out and decided to have a decisive battle. The result is that the Dao Tong won, because there is a traitor within the demon clan......"
"Traitor, didn't Dao Tong rely on his own strength to defeat the demons?"
The old Taoist priest didn't seem to hear Meng Xu's words, and continued to say to himself, "The Daoist system wants to repeat the old tricks, they don't plan to fight another long war, but to solve all the demons at once." ”
"No, as soon as the Demon Suppression Bell breaks, all the demon seeds will pour out from Wangshan, and there is no need to design to gather them. ”
It was impossible to talk to the old Taoist priest, he raised a finger and completely immersed himself in his words, "The nine supreme treasures are the key, for hundreds of thousands of years, they have accumulated more and more power, and they have long exceeded the power of the entire Dao system, but how to stimulate the power inside is a big problem. If it is too easy to excite, it will bring danger to the Dao system, and if it is too difficult, it will lose the opportunity to dominate the enemy. Therefore, the Daoist system wants to hide as a whole, and their methods must have something to do with it. ”
The old Taoist priest thought for a while, "But what is the solution? Alas, headache, headache, I need to eat a Taoist priest to find the answer." ”
Meng Xu stepped back step by step and asked in a trembling voice: "You are not a Taoist priest, who are you?"
"There was a Taoist priest in front of me. The old Taoist priest stared at Meng Xu for a while, and even his gaze was featureless, "It's a pity that she is too ordinary, she doesn't know anything, and her food is tasteless." ”
"Are you a different historian?" Meng Xu finally came to his senses, and the various behaviors of this old Taoist priest were very similar to the legendary different historians.
The old Taoist priest stood up, and his appearance underwent a series of changes, one would be a Taoist priest, one would be a demon clan, and one would be a beast, like a series of overlapping shadows, "Omniscient is a god, this is the only difference between me and God, but I am trying, I want to know a qiē, so I have to find an informed Taoist priest to eat." ”
The figure flickered continuously, and the old Taoist priest was about to disappear, and suddenly said again, "The divine soul is a rare delicacy, let's start with it." ”
(End of this volume) (To be continued......)