Chapter 176: The Alchemist's Bones
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The so-called don't fight and don't know each other, the sword emperor Lu Xuanji and the Tianxiang prince had a fight, the Tianxiang prince had the upper hand because of the sacrifice of the humanoid magic weapon, fortunately, Xingchen came forward to stop the fight, and the sword emperor Lu Xuanji was saved from injury. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Lu Xuanji was grateful to Xingchen, and left Xingchen to stay in this deep mountain, but it was also a treat of good wine and good food, but the dishes in the mountains were all delicacies and game in the mountains, but the prince did not drink that day, and Xingchen and Lu Xuanji were half drunk.
Lu Xuanji looked at the crescent moon outside the window, took out a firewood knife, arched his hand to Xingchen and Tianxiang Gongzi, and said: "The old man has something to do tonight, so I won't accompany the two little brothers! The road to the west is the Necromantic Abyss, so you two should be extra careful." With that, he stroked his robe, dragged his steps away, and went out.
Xingchen watched Lu Xuanji leave, and there was inevitably some unease in his heart, he knew that Lu Xuanji went up the mountain this time to kill the demon beast, but he wanted to help him.
But that day, the prince of Xiang grabbed Xingchen and said: "That Lu Xuanji claims to be the 'Sword Emperor', he must have extraordinary skills, your swordsmanship is not worth other people's ten moves, and you can't help others if you go, it's just a mess." ”
Xingchen felt that Tianxiang Gongzi's words were very reasonable, so he dispelled the idea of going up the mountain with Lu Xuanji. After the two of them had eaten, they rested in this room, and the night was uneventful, and the next day, they woke up to find that Lu Xuanji had not returned.
"That Lu Xuanji didn't return overnight, even if it was to subdue the demon beast, it wouldn't take so long, something happened at all!" Xingchen said worriedly to Tianxiang Gongzi.
"If you don't feel at ease, you should go up the mountain with him last night, after a night, it's useless to worry, maybe he has already been bitten to death by that demon beast!" Tianxiang Gongzi sat at the table, but he didn't seem to care about Lu Xuanji at all.
"But yesterday you stopped me from going up the mountain!" Xingchen was a little dissatisfied with Tianxiang Gongzi's statement.
Tianxiang Gongzi was also worried about waking up and getting angry, so he said: "Say it, I will give up my life to accompany the gentleman and go up the mountain for a walk, if Lu Xuanji is really dead, I will also collect his bones and collect the body for him, and I can't let him be violent in the wilderness, don't you say?"
Xingchen came to the mountain with the son of the heavenly phase, here is a mountain with strange peaks and strange rocks, the mountain is ten thousand high, the ancient trees are lush, the grass is even green, and the brocade flowers are beautiful.
This is the daytime, the reason why Lu Xuanji went up the mountain at night is because the demon beasts will appear at night, if he comes to this mountain during the day, but the wind is clear and the clouds are idle, the grass and trees are swaying, and there is silence.
The path between the mountains leads directly to the top of the mountain, one side of the top of the mountain faces the cliff, the clouds and fog under the cliff are hidden, and nothing can be seen clearly, Xingchen stands on the edge of the cliff, looks down, and says to the prince of the sky: "You said that Lu Xuanji will not fall from this cliff because he can't see clearly at night, and he will fall off this cliff for a while?"
Tianxiang Gongzi nodded and said, "I think it's very likely, but I'd rather believe that he was lying in the belly of that demon beast." ”
Xingchen frowned and said: "Then Lu Xuanji can't be so bad at his exercises, unless he is plotted, maybe he has encountered some trouble, and he urgently needs someone else to help him!"
Tianxiang Gongzi smiled slightly: "Brother, this is purely a conjecture for you, and the truth is often the opposite. I'm afraid that Lu Xuanji has already died, so don't worry about it!"
When the two were arguing on the cliff, they saw a goshawk with wings like clouds attacking them, Xingchen looked up and exclaimed: "Brother Tianxiang, it's a demon beast, get out of the way!"
Seeing the goshawk's claws attacking him, Tianxiang Gongzi hurriedly dodged, but before he could do so, the goshawk scratched a few blood marks on his shoulder, and his body turned backwards and fell towards the cliff.
The sea of fog under the cliff is vast, if you fall down, you will not die, at this moment, the Xingchen stepped forward, grabbed the hand of the Tianxiang Gongzi, the hand was gentle and smooth, but like a woman's hand, Xingchen was shocked, but at this time, where did he have time to think more.
Xingchen crouched above the cliff, holding Tianxiang Gongzi's hand tightly, and pulled it up, Tianxiang Gongzi's body was not very heavy, just because his hand was too slippery, Xingchen said on the cliff: "Hold on, but don't let go, if you let go, you will die." ”
Tianxiang Gongzi was nervous, looked down, it was a high cliff, Xingchen was also sweating profusely, and when he was about to pull Tianxiang Gongzi up, the goshawk swooped down again, attacking Xingchen, Xingchen saw the goshawk attacking, his heart panicked, the center of gravity of the whole body deviated, and together with the Tianxiang Gongzi, both of them fell from the high cliff.
Of course, Xingchen knew that he would die if he fell off the cliff, and at this critical moment, he drew his sword and stuck it in the crack of the stone, so that he stabilized his body, and the two of them hung on the cliff wall flutteringly.
At this time, Tianxiang Gongzi suddenly found that there was a pine tree growing obliquely on the cliff, and Tianxiang Gongzi smiled: "Don't panic, Brother Xingchen, we are saved now." ”
With that, he slapped his palm on the stone edge of the cliff, and with a stroke of strength, he jumped on top of the pine tree, stretched out his hand towards Xingchen, and said, "Come, take my hand, and I will send you up!"
Wake up and be overjoyed, and sigh secretly in his heart: "It's really a desperate situation, and the location of this pine tree is really good." ”
But this blessing and misfortune is determined by heaven, and when Xingchen is happy, the prince of the heavenly prime minister shouted above: "Oh no, this trunk can't bear it, it's about to break!"
At this critical moment, in order to save the prince of heaven, Xingchen let go of his hand and jumped down the cliff, this is life or death, and he can only gamble once, Xingchen closed his eyes, only heard the sound of the wind in his ears, and the whole person fell off the cliff.
But Xingchen was not killed, he did not fall to the ground, and there was no craggy rocks below, he fell on a very soft thing, this thing is black, and the hand feels very fleshy, the light here is not very good, but Xingchen saw that this black thing was spread on the ground, like a ball of soft mud.
At this moment, I only heard someone screaming in pain, and I also fell to this place, it turned out that the prince of the same day saw the dust fall from the pine tree, and he was in a hurry, and the trunk of the pine tree was broken, and he also fell.
"What kind of place is this, and how am I still alive?" asked Tenxiang Gongzi as he stood up.
Xingchen smiled and said: "Is there still someone in this world who is looking forward to his own death, you are still alive, which shows that Ji people have their own heavens!"
Tianxiang Gongzi heard him say this, but he was very happy in his heart, and forgot the pain in his body for a while: "Hey, why is this underground so soft?" Tianxiang Gongzi stomped on the ground with his foot and asked.
Xingchen had already felt that something was wrong, pulled out his sword, and stabbed it on the ground, only to see that blood was gushing from the ground, and the ground was constantly shaking.
"Mom, what's the earthquake?" said Tianxiang Gongzi in surprise.
"It's not an earthquake, we're standing on the back of a huge mollusk that looks like a jellyfish, but it's a terrestrial animal. If there is an earthquake, stones will fall from these rock walls!" Xingchen explained.
The huge mollusk struggled for a moment, probably dead, and the ground was not shaking, and then Tianxiang Gongzi noticed that they had fallen into a cave. Here, there is only one way out, and that is to go along the cave.
"Look, there's a stone tablet here!" Tianxiang Gongzi walked in front and saw a stone tablet covered with moss in front of him, with a line of words written on it, "Refining Lingyuan".
When Tianxiang Gongzi saw the words on this stone tablet, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, no wonder this place was gloomy and miserable, and there was a cold wind blowing from time to time, and he could feel a breath of death.
This is not an ordinary cave, in an ordinary cave, there are not so many pools of water, the water in this pool is green, and this green is the color of the poisonous juice. There is no sense of life here.
Xingchen and Tianxiang Gongzi are complaining about why they came to such a ghost place where birds don't.
Here, Xingchen saw a coffin hanging on a rock wall of the stone cave, and the four walls of the coffin were unobstructed, but it seemed to be hanging in the air.
Tianxiang Gongzi jokingly said: "Brother Xingchen, do you think there are any treasures in there?"
"There may not be a treasure, there may be a corpse!" Xingchen also smiled, he thought he had answered well.
But Tianxiang Gongzi shook his head and said: "You are wrong, there is no corpse here, and if there is a corpse, it has already rotted into the earth, if there is a treasure, it will not rot for thousands of years." ”
Xingchen held his chin and said: "If there is a treasure, it will definitely be set up in the secret channel, don't believe it, let me give it a try!"
After that, Xingchen flew forward and cut the rope hanging the coffin with a sword, and the coffin fell to the ground and shattered, but there was no body or treasure in the coffin, but some utensils for refining medicine.
Just as they were startled, a stone chamber behind the coffin opened.
"It turns out that this hanging coffin is a secret passage, hehe, this is also an unintentional discovery!" Xingchen smiled slightly.
"Then do you dare to go in?" Tianxiang Gongzi pushed the dust to wake up, and the two walked into the stone room that had just been opened, one after the other. Because it had been closed for so long, there was a musty smell inside, and there was a corpse inside, which looked like it had died by suicide by poisoning. But because of his age, he has become a pile of white bones.
Tianxiang Gongzi glanced at the pile of white bones and said, "This person may be the alchemist who lives here!"
"How do you know he's an alchemist?" Xingchen looked at Tianxiang Gongzi in surprise, feeling that she knew too much.
Tianxiang Gongzi held a booklet in his hand and said, "This booklet is what he left, and his identity has been written on it?"
Xingchen snatched the booklet and looked at it, only to see that it was written: "Maybe I am the greatest alchemist in this world, and the elixir I refined can make the bodies of those demon beasts extremely large, but later I found out that this has no effect on my cultivation." I started refining the poison and trying to eliminate them, but it was too late, it was really self-inflicted, I couldn't live, I just wanted to die......"
"Let the demon beasts become huge, no wonder we encounter such a huge goshawk!" Xingchen finally understood that all this was the ghost of this alchemist, but he was no longer able to restore those demon beasts, so he chose to commit suicide to escape.
"I wonder if there is this mutant demon beast in this cave?" asked Tianxiang Gongzi on the side.
"When we first came in, that jellyfish-like monster we killed was that!" Xingchen said.
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