Chapter 22: Shocking Change

Qi Xuansu took out Qi Niang's second-hand pocket watch, stared at the pointer on the dial, and felt that the days passed like years.

Probably because the alchemy furnace absorbed the Yin fire of the alchemist and the Yang fire of "Phoenix Eye Yi San", the speed of the elixir coming out of the furnace was accelerated. After about an hour, the layer of hot fire surrounding the alchemy furnace began to converge inward, and then the alchemy furnace began to cool down.

Qi Xuansu put away the pocket watch and came to the alchemy furnace.

The alchemy furnace is divided into three layers: upper, middle and lower. The smaller upper layer is the alchemy room, which is used to refine elixirs. The slightly larger middle layer is the furnace room, which is used to control the temperature. The largest lower layer is the fire room, which is used to start fires and fill firewood.

With a slight sound, the door of the alchemy room slowly opened, spewing out a huge airflow and spreading around. The strong wind blew in the face, containing a strong fire. Ordinary people would be burned if they touched it a little, and even Qi Xuansu had to retreat.

When the airflow dissipated, there was still a layer of hazy smoke in the alchemy room, and the situation inside could not be seen clearly. However, a strong aroma of the elixir had spread. It was difficult to describe this aroma in words. It had the fragrance of plants and some faint sweetness of blood, but it was not pungent. Instead, it made people feel relaxed and refreshed.

Qi Xuansu couldn't help but take a deep breath.

This was strange. The smell of blood always made people sick. Such a strange smell of blood was rare. No wonder it was called "blood elixir".

At the same time, Qi Xuansu could also be sure that this must be a real top-grade elixir, and there was no reason to miss it.

This was also an unexpected surprise. Qi Xuansu was just cleaning up the zombies, and he didn't expect to have such a harvest. No wonder the alchemist was so murderous when he saw him. He must have regarded him as someone who came to snatch the "blood elixir", but in the end, the "blood elixir" still fell into his hands.

After a while, the smoke in the alchemy room completely dissipated. Qi Xuansu looked at it intently and saw a blood-red pill the size of an egg in the alchemy room. What was even more surprising was that the pill was beating slightly like a heart.

Qi Xuansu hesitated for a long time, jumped up, stretched out his hand to take the "blood pill" out of the alchemy room, held it in his palm, and felt a warm feeling coming. At the same time, he could clearly feel the pulse in it, and murmured: "Is this pill... alive?"

This kind of living thing is more like grass and trees, not birds and beasts, and has no intelligence to speak of, but even so, it is enough to make people wonder, no wonder it is called "creature".

However, Qi Xuansu also knew that this kind of pill must not be taken rashly, otherwise it is very likely to be backfired by the surging medicinal power. At the least, the medicinal power will block the meridians, and at the worst, it will directly burst the dantian. It needs to be taken carefully and slowly refined. The people of Baiyutang may come back at any time. It is not a place to stay for a long time, and the pill cannot be swallowed on the spot.

So Qi Xuansu found the jade box originally used to hold Zhuguo in the medicine cabinet, put the pill into it, and then sealed the jade box to prevent the pill fragrance from overflowing.

Then he looked at the body of the Taoist priest, and decided to do it once and for all. He closed the door of the pill room and opened the door of the fire room. There was still some dark fire inside, and Qi Xuansu put the body and the head into it. The dark fire touched the body and instantly turned into bright fire. In a blink of an eye, the body turned into curling green smoke without leaving any trace.

Qi Xuansu then closed the door of the fire room, climbed up the rock, and left the place.

In this way, even if the people of Baiyutang found that the Taoist priest was missing, it would be difficult to determine whether the Taoist priest had fled with the "blood pill" or was killed. As for the dead zombies, they could be interpreted as evidence of the Taoist priest's murder, or as the Taoist priest's deliberate confusion. It all depends on what the people of Baiyutang think.

Qi Xuansu was taught by Qi Niang after all. After leaving Tiangang Hall for a while, the habits of the Jianghu regained the upper hand. A major feature of the Jianghu is that regardless of right or wrong, only the strong and the weak are considered, and the survival is the most important. Just like a tiger eating a goat, others will only praise the tiger's ferocity, but will not pity the goat's tragic death. This is the world outside the flower garden. People who have been in the flower garden for a long time can't bear to see these.

Qi Xuansu returned along the original road and came to the fork in the road he marked. He hesitated for a moment and did not explore another fork, but went to the ground.

When Qi Xuansu returned to the ground, he found that the heavy rain had stopped, but the rain clouds were still piled up in the sky.

At this moment, a loud rumbling sound came from the direction of the core area of ​​​​"Tuntian".

The rolling black air rushed straight into the blue sky.

Qi Xuansu walked out of the dilapidated building, looked at the direction where the black smoke was rising, and murmured: "What is going on? Did the people from the 'inn' fight with the people from Baiyutang?"

As soon as the voice fell, another black gas swirled up like a dragon, and there were pale ghosts in it, twisting and tumbling with the rolling black gas, and howling miserably.

Although this place was once washed by the Taoist with "Phoenix Eye Jiasan", and it was the Gobi Desert in early spring, after years of recovery, some vegetation still survived tenaciously, but when the black gas passed, all the grass and trees withered at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the green quickly faded, and the ground was covered with yellow.

That would be fine, even the already very barren Gobi Desert was absorbed by the water, began to dry up and crack, and was almost completely desertified.

There are records in the Taoist classics that when the drought demon came to the world, the land was barren for thousands of miles. Now this kind of power actually has some of the atmosphere of the drought demon.

Seeing this, Qi Xuansu took out his armored horse and tied it to his legs without hesitation, and ran out without looking back.

This battle was no less powerful than the day when Wu Luo's projection broke the flying boat. He didn't dare to put his life on the so-called vice heart.

Qi Xuansu looked back and saw people running away like him one after another. However, he was a little late and was immediately trapped by the black yin energy. People with weaker cultivation levels quickly aged and their skin shriveled up without warning. , the flesh and blood melted, turning into mummies in an instant. Although they still maintained their appearance in life, when the wind blew, they completely turned into powder and scattered with the wind. At the same time, there were faint wisps of souls coming from their bodies. They flew out of the body, were caught in the dark wind, and all floated towards the core area.

People with a slightly higher level of cultivation can barely resist, forcibly locking their blood and soul from being taken away by the black energy.

However, the black energy is endless, just like the sea during a storm, with rough waves. Even those who are familiar with the nature of water have to drift with the tide until they are exhausted and sink to the bottom.

As the black air continued to wash away, these people were eventually swallowed up.

When Qi Xuansu escaped from the "Tuntian" area, he stood on a high slope and looked back.

I saw a huge black vortex appearing in the sky at some point, covering the sky and the sun.

Huge cracks and gaps appeared on the ground, and the wall collapsed toward the place where the meditation was conducted. Smoke and dust were everywhere, and there was a roar, as if a ferocious ancient beast was about to tear the earth apart and crawl out from the ground.

Qi Xuansu could vaguely see the leading old man among the nine people in the "inn" leaping high, and he was able to stay in the air for a short time, which showed that he was not far away from the heavenly beings.

The next moment, where he had just stood, there were five tall pillars of different lengths rising slowly. If he looked carefully, he could see where the pillars were. They were clearly five fingers.

I saw a huge hand rising from the ground, and then continued to reach upwards, grabbing the leading old man in the palm.

The earth shook.

The ground within a radius of a hundred feet was completely shattered at this moment, and then all the buildings began to collapse downwards. Only the hand holding the leading old man was still standing tall.

Immediately afterwards, another huge hand climbed onto the ground, and then a huge body slowly appeared.

This is a huge evil ghost, with dark skin all over its body and exposed veins, as if it were the roots of an old tree, and is as thick as an ordinary human's arm. It has a green face and fangs, is ferocious and ferocious, and has an exaggeratedly bloody mouth that can swallow a person whole without any effort.

A figure was also standing on the shoulders of this vicious ghost at this time, smiling and standing with his hands behind his back.

The moment this evil ghost appeared, countless Yin Qi enveloping the dead souls rolled towards it and then poured into his body.

Then, the evil spirit crushed the old man to death, then threw it into his mouth and chewed it, causing blood to splash everywhere.

Qi Xuansu was horrified beyond words.

What the hell is this?

Recalling that this place was once the place where the corpses of the first earth masters were raised, Qi Xuansu couldn't help but make a bold guess.

Could this be the legendary "Great Asura" who is comparable to a deity?

…

Qianhusuo, "Inn" located in the West Gobi.

The shopkeeper stood behind the counter as usual, turning a peace coin.

There is not much business today, and there are not many people in the lobby. As the shopkeeper himself said, in such a borderland, fighting with people is secondary, the key is fighting with the sky.

At this moment, a waiter walked in hurriedly.

The shopkeeper's eyelids twitched, and with a "pop" sound, he stretched out his hand to pat the rotating Taiping Money under his palm, and then slowly removed his palm, revealing the four words "The World is Peaceful" on the Taiping Money.

"What's the matter?" the shopkeeper asked calmly.

The clerk took a breath and said with an ugly face: "Shopkeeper, a large group of cavalry is coming towards us."

"A large group of cavalry, where did this large group of cavalry come from?" The shopkeeper's expression changed.

The clerk said: "Of course it is the cavalry of the men in black. They seem to have been mobilized directly from the Xizhou Protectorate. As you know, the Xizhou Protectorate is nominally under the control of the Governor of Xiliang, but fundamentally it is still under the control of the Governor of Xiliang. Those directly under the cabinet have always acted boldly and unreasonably.”

"Transferring troops across state lines? This is usually a method used against local powerful people. It is because they are afraid that local powerful people are entangled and have their hands on the local men in black, so they will mobilize foreign soldiers to enter. Is the imperial court going to attack Yongzhou?" The shopkeeper is still here I felt a little unbelievable, "Why is there no news from Qingluan Guard?"

The clerk said: "It seems that Qingluan Guard has been bypassed directly, and now the three thousand households of Qingluan Guard are busy arresting people from the 'Tianting'."

Outside the city, the earth trembled.

A dark heavy cavalry force quickly approached this long-abandoned Qianhushe.