On the bed, there are two zongzi that are particularly conspicuous.

That's why I say that. It's because it's not a real zongzi, it's two people. Two men who were bandaged, bound from head to toe, and sturdy, sat next to each other on a wooden bed. Outside these two people, in the hall a few steps away, there were five old Taoists sitting casually, and two young people who were standing by the stove, researching medicine. Except for Dean Tianshu and Mo Xian, the people who deduced the strategy on that piece of paper in the Tianji Academy Book Club last night were all here.

"Click~"

"Let's not talk about it yet. ”

One of the zongzi on the bed struggled to prop up half of his body.

Looking at the backs of the two medicines in front of the stove, he said with a little anger: "Brother Xia, you honestly explain it to me." Did you have long expected that me and Lao Liu would end up like this? Are you trying to kill both of us?"

"Duh~"

The medicine hammer of the drug grinder stopped with the voice.

Xia Xun turned around and wiped the sweat stains on his forehead. replied seriously: "Daoist Zheng, don't be angry." As I said yesterday, this is going to be a little bit dangerous. Look, aren't you living well, too? These injuries are all skin wounds, and they will be healed in two days. ”

"You..."

Xia Xun finished talking, and this zongzi was suddenly so angry that there was no place to vent.

Another zongzi, his eyes lifted a deep grievance, and he took over the conversation: "Little brother, you know that it is a tiger, and you want the two of us to pluck the feathers, this is really unkind." ”

"Someone has to touch this hair to know if it's real or fake. Xia Xun said helplessly.

Zongzi stretched out a fat finger that was tied, pointed out the window, and said angrily: "If you really want to steal that thing, why don't you let the seven of us take the seven stars together?" No matter how much he is in his pocket, he will not be like the two of us now, without even seeing each other, and being teased down..."

"Duh~"

That's it.

Next to the stove, another hammer for chopping medicine stopped. Peony turned around, blinked her eyes, and said seriously, "Dean Chen, don't be angry, you really have to do it twice." ”

She tilted her head and held up a little finger: "First, we're going to explore the way." ”

Hold out another finger: "Second, we are the ones who steal." ”

"If we go too much, we're going to have to be scared. If Dean Li is allowed to go, if that person doesn't beat him down all of a sudden, he will definitely have to fight. If you let the disciples go, not to mention whether the cultivation can be achieved or not, at least people may not give this face and kill people directly, then it is all possible. Whatever the outcome, it's not going to end well. ”

"Are you right?"

"Eun En..."

Peony said, Xia Xun nodded in agreement as if a chicken was pecking rice. When Peony finished speaking, he didn't forget to add: "So, it's the best fit for you to go." ”

"Humph!"

"!"

After listening to the natural truth, the two zongzi snorted coldly almost at the same time. One of them took the lead and said angrily: "That means that you made it clear that you sent us to be beaten?"

"No, no, no..."

Xia Xun hurriedly waved his hand: "Daochang Chen, you can't say that, this is called throwing bricks and attracting jade." If you don't want to go, we won't see what is hidden here. ”

"You..."

"Bastard!"

"Iniquity!"

Xia Xun's words really made people have nothing to say. These two poor zongzi were beaten and injured, and now they can't even find a place to reason. This fat beating is really embarrassing.

"Ahem..."

Lu Suifeng clenched his fists and covered his lips and coughed dryly. looked at these two aggrieved zongzi, and said softly: "You two are not seriously injured, just come over." Let's get back to business and talk about what happened last night. ”

"Hmph, you ask me, I still want to ask you!" said a zongzi.

The other continued: "Last night, I and the fifth child, we didn't see each other, and we were teased. We have just woken up and carried this for you. I don't know I've been to Luoxi yet!"

"Well, in this way, this is really only a fat beating. Lu Suifeng raised his head slightly and looked at the two people standing in front of the stove: "What do you think?"

Xia Xun didn't answer, but looked sideways at the peony and asked softly, "What's the use of that person's essence blood?"

The slender hand was a little longer, and Peony thought about it.

"The essence and blood of a human being is actually a wisp of essence that has been conceived and nurtured by the heart for many years. Pharmacologically speaking, it is mainly the effect of nourishing blood and nourishing injuries. It's just that this essence blood is divided into several grades, the essence blood of ordinary adults is the lowest grade, the average cultivator is the middle grade, and the cultivator above the Apocalypse is the top grade. The higher the grade, the better the efficacy of the medicine. Of course, there is still the essence blood of saints on top of the top grade, but that is already the category of heaven and earth spiritual objects, and it has to be another matter. ”

As soon as he spoke, Xia Xun's brows furrowed slightly, and he asked again hesitantly, "Is it just a healing effect?"

"Well..."

Peony did not answer this question immediately.

She knew what Xia Xun was hesitating about. Because the things involved in this essence blood are really too incredible. If it is only a healing effect, then many things that could have made sense have lost a reasonable fulcrum. For example, the village of the dog baby. Why did the person who controlled the overall situation behind the scenes drain the blood of the dead?

Just to heal?

Apparently it can't be...

There was silence for a long time, and Peony did not answer.

The more intense and choking the aroma of the medicine.

The slowly boiling decoction gradually rolled up thick white smoke, and the lid of the pot could not block the rushing air pressure, and there was a squeaky sound.

The medicine boiled...

"Shhhhh

Xia Xun casually picked up a rag from the stove, put it on his hand, and went to lift the churning lid. After that, grab the medicinal herbs that had been prepared on the side a long time ago and put them into the medicine pot one by one. With each flavor of the herb in the pot, the hot white smoke weakened, and the medicinal fragrance that permeated the room became stronger. When all the herbs are put into the pot, the white smoke turns into a light mist, and the slowly boiling medicinal soup is no longer hot.

"Huh?"

"That's right. ”

Looking at the boiling soup that was gradually flattening, Xia Xun seemed to suddenly think of something, and then he was stunned. Immediately after, he turned his head to look at the peony: "A wisp of essence blood is a healing medicine, if it is ten, hundred, or even a thousand wisps, refined into a drop of essence blood, then what will happen?"

“......”

Xia Xun was only halfway through his words, and Peony's eyes trembled slightly. If you have a good heart, why do you need to talk more, you can get the hang of it with a little bit. However, Peony still did not answer.

The lips of the small mouth were slightly pursed, and after thinking for a while, the peony prescription said slowly: "This is very different from refining medicine, herbs can complement each other, no matter how much the same medicine is condensed, it will only improve its own medicinal effect, and it will not change in itself." If you want to change the power of the drug, then use other excipients to match. Therefore, according to this reasoning, no matter how much essence blood is refined, it will only be concentrated, and the medicinal power should be sublimated accordingly. But what the final outcome will be, I can't be sure. It's just that it must be supplemented by other drugs to achieve the effect of changing the effect..."

"Is it possible to evolve from the effect of blood nourishment to blood nourishment, or even body forging?" Xia Xun asked.

Peony raised her eyes and looked at Xia Xun with deep meaning.

"You're saying that the knife... Ah no, the pill that the man gave Yang Jun to them was the essence blood that had been refined?"

"Yes. ”

Xia Xun nodded solemnly: "Only this explanation can be smooth, what they said at that time." ”

“......”

With big eyes and small eyes, Xia Xun and Peony's questions and answers simply confused the Taoists in the field. What is the blood nourishment and nourishment, what has been said, what is this? A small thing, how can there be so many words of Shinto and Shinto?

But he didn't let these veterans wait for a long time, and Peony shook his head after just a little thought: "It's still not sure, this is already out of the alchemy category of Xinglin." ”

"What if this is the sacrificial method of the ancestral witch lineage?"

Swish...

As soon as Xia Xun spoke, a chill suddenly gathered!

The seven people and fourteen eyes suddenly burst into surprise, and they all stabbed at Xia Xun's face.

The surprise is strong, hard to dissolve, and slightly frightened.

I'm afraid of those four words.

Ancestral witch lineage!

Although there are 3,000 avenues in the world, all roads can go up to the sky, and there is no distinction between high and low. However, this does not include the eighteen Taoist systems inherited from Nanming Penglai by those eighteen big men a hundred and ten years ago...

Because, those eighteen Dao systems are immortal Dao systems!

And the ancestral witch lineage that Xia Xun said just now is exactly one of the eighteen immortal paths! And it is the most special one.

According to legend, it was the first emperor of heaven and earth, the first emperor in the world, and one of the four great kingdoms created. The Taoist system is supreme, the power is great, swallowing mountains and rivers, covering the sun and the moon in the sky, it is never a problem. And the biggest difference between it and other Taoist systems is that the Tao it cultivates is not the way of heaven or humanity, but the self-contained incarnation of all things. It advocates taking all things in heaven and earth as the source, devouring essence and absorbing marrow, sacrificing and refining the body to be invincible, pregnant and nourishing qi and blood into dragons, and finally ascending to the immortal Tao, turning into immortality and immortality.

In short, it is to shake the heavens and the earth with the flesh!

Thinking of this, Lu Suifeng narrowed his eyes and forcibly held back his surprise: "You mean, this essence and blood are all from the means of that senior uncle in Wushan, Miaojiang?"

Xia Xunshen closed his lower eyelids and opened them again, indicating confirmation.

"It can only be that one. ”

"Tsk!"

One of the zongzi on the bed next to him sighed as if he had a big understanding, and said hurriedly: "I'll just say, why did the sick cat suddenly become a tiger, it turns out that there is a big man behind it." ”

"Not one. ”

Peony looked at the zongzi, and then said quietly: "It's three." In addition to Wushan's uncle, there are also uncles in the two veins of corpse refining and feng shui, all of whom have already entered the game. ”

“......”

Stupefied.

Surprise and numbness.

After hearing this, the first reaction of the Taoist in the audience was not to doubt, but to keep his eyes wide, open his mouth, and be stunned. Peony's words named two names with great origins. And in the past few days, there have been many mysteries about that village, and it is natural that many of them have been solved.

However, as this mystery dissolves, another mystery hidden in the depths also emerges.

Suspicion grew.

The white smoke is getting stronger, and the medicinal fragrance is strong.

Freshly put in the herbs and bring them to a boil again.

Xia Xun opened the lid of the pot again through the rag and carefully put in the third medicinal herb. After that, he took a long spoon, put it in the pot, and stirred the herbs along with the soup. The white smoke followed the long spoon, rising a faint column, dissolving the mist and emitting some moist grass fragrance...

Wandering, wandering.

Looking at Xia Xun's back, where everything was dull, Li Qingfeng felt a little uncomfortable. Shook off the dust, put it on his arm and wrist, and said coldly: "Since you already knew, why didn't you say it?"

"No, no, no..."

Before Xia Xun could answer, Peony hurriedly raised his little hand.

"Daoist Li, don't get me wrong. We only found out about it the night before yesterday. And I haven't had the time to say it..."

Xia Xun was silent, smiled slightly, turned half of his face sideways, and added: "Besides, we weren't sure last night that King An had something to do with this matter. It's always bad to guess nonsense. ”

“......”

seems to think that the words of these two people are reasonable. Li Qingfeng didn't dwell on this issue with them anymore. His gaze shifted slightly down to the desk in front of him, on a piece of paper.

The length and width of the letter paper are about four inches, the white background is inlaid with gold edges, and there is a small Anzi seal in the upper right corner, which is very expensive.

This was found from one of the two deans who were not possessed by their souls when they went to Luoxizhai this morning. And the content of the letter is very simple, just four words: "Dinner waiting".

"Is this a fraud?"

"I don't know. ”

“......”