Chapter 230: Survival in Desperate Situation
After a full hour, Lu Gui finished asking all the questions and took back the heart-searching ball.
As the strange red light disappeared, Zhan Nianchuan stumbled and fell to the ground, gasping for breath, his face full of fear. He was not completely pretending, and running the soul-refining technique with all his strength was also very exhausting for him.
Lu Gui waited for a quarter of an hour, and when Zhan Nianchuan recovered his energy slightly, he calmly cast a spell, and the ground slowly cracked into a hole of about ten feet. He motioned Zhan Nianchuan to follow, and then jumped directly.
Looking at this dark hole, Zhan Nianchuan's expression kept changing, and finally he jumped in.
The hole was five feet deep. As Zhan Nianchuan's feet landed on the ground, the entrance above quickly closed, and the surroundings fell into darkness.
Although he could not see with his eyes, with his powerful consciousness, Zhan Nianchuan could still easily see that there was a path about ten feet wide in front of him. The walls and the ground were covered with green stone bricks, which looked extremely simple and seemed to have existed for many years.
At this point, there was nothing to do but move forward.
It took more than half an hour to walk along the way. According to the direction of the journey, Zhan Nianchuan estimated that he had reached the southern part of Yandang City. At this time, there was light ahead. Lu Gui, who had been walking slowly, stopped and turned to Zhan Nianchuan and said:
"Boy, for the sake of your tens of thousands of spirit stones, don't say that I don't take care of you. This is a better room among the rooms where Qi Condensation Realm cultivators live. It is spacious and close to the square. In addition, if you can complete the alchemy task every day, you can come to the square to get some fresh air."
Zhan Nianchuan cursed in his heart, but still forced a smile on his face.
"Thank you for your care."
Now his heart was like thunder, and he felt a headache. From what Lu Gui said, they actually detained cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Realm!
Even cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Realm could not escape. How strict would the guards be? Even if he could suddenly burst out with the strength of the foundation-building realm, could he break through the heavy guards and escape successfully?
For a moment, Zhan Nianchuan felt that the future was extremely bleak, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Lu Gui walked without stopping for a moment, and took Zhan Nianchuan up the stone steps and entered a wide square.
There were flower beds on both sides of the square, competing for beauty. There were several chairs placed next to the flower beds, and several monks with pale faces sat on them, looking as if they had never seen the sun for years.
When these people saw Lu Gui coming, most of them showed a trace of hatred in their eyes, and some looked indifferent and ignored the two.
On the left side of the square was a closed door, and two monks sat by the door with expressionless faces. On the right side were two narrow alleys, with no end in sight. Above the square was a huge transparent light curtain, which stretched out all the way, completely covering the square and the two alleys next to the square.
It seems that this is the restriction that binds all cultivators here to make pills. Zhan Nianchuan's eyes flashed and he looked carefully.
Lu Gui didn't care about Zhan Nianchuan's actions. He took Zhan Nianchuan into the alley on the right, took out a jade card and opened the second stone door. He looked at Zhan Nianchuan sideways and said, "Go in. You can adapt first. Someone will come to inform you what you need to do every day tomorrow."
The room is indeed quite bright, about five feet in radius. There are many moonstones inlaid on the walls, emitting bright white light, illuminating the whole room.
There is a stone platform in the middle, with a ground fire outlet on the top, and a pill furnace next to it. Zhan Nianchuan took a look and found that this is a yellow-grade top-grade pill furnace. There is already a thick layer of medicine scale inside, which seems to have refined a lot of pills.
After casually opening the underground fire and trying it, Zhan Nianchuan was surprised to find that the quality of this underground fire was really good, better than the underground fire in Lindan Peak's own cave. The blue flames rose, and even though he was several feet away, Zhan Nianchuan's strong body felt some burning pain on his skin.
There was a large stone bed in the corner of the room, and there was a stone pillow on it.
Zhan Nianchuan sat cross-legged on the stone bed and began to think about how to get out of his predicament.
This is not a good place. Although Lu Gui said that he would let him go after refining the elixir for ten years, Zhan Nianchuan did not trust him at all, and would not put his fate on the kindness of others.
Refining the elixir for ten years and wasting ten years of cultivation time, this is something Zhan Nianchuan cannot tolerate.
What's more, Tong Xi is now in a very difficult situation and is waiting for him to go back for emergency.
But if he wants to leave here, he must solve several difficult problems.
The first one is where to leave?
There is no need to think about the light curtain. It is probably at the same level as Fuyuan Tea House, and it is impossible for non-Jindan cultivators to break it. According to Zhan Nianchuan's observation, the two monks guarding the gate of the square were both in the foundation-building stage, which made him feel extremely difficult. He asked himself that even if he used all his means, he could only fight one at most. What about the other one?
The second question was how to deal with the bloodthirsty poisonous insects?
Although he had some methods, he would have to wait until the test to know whether they were effective. Moreover, if Lu Gui could sense that he had killed the poisonous insects, wouldn't it be like shooting himself in the foot?
After thinking about it, Zhan Nianchuan felt a headache and had no good solution for the time being, but he decided to be an honest man for a few days and observe whether there were any loopholes in this monk prison that could be exploited.
A day later, the door of Zhan Nianchuan's stone chamber was opened, and a thin, pale servant came in with a pile of spiritual medicines in his hands. After placing the spiritual medicines in his hands on the stone platform, he handed Zhan Nianchuan 20 fasting pills and two jade bottles, and then said expressionlessly:
"Within three days, refine these spiritual medicines into 30 Qi-gathering pills. After completion, you can rest in the square. If you fail to complete it, you must take a heart-twisting pill."
"Heart-twisting pill?"
"This is a pill made from several kinds of poisonous insects. It will make you feel heart pain and unable to breathe, but its medicinal effect only lasts for one hour and will not kill you."
Zhan Nianchuan cursed in his heart, but his face was still as calm as water, without a ripple.
The servant looked at Zhan Nianchuan with a little surprise, handed him 20 pills of Bigu Pill, and said lightly:
"This is for you to fill your stomach. You can only eat this here. If you want to eat good food, you should practice more pills and make good pills."
After saying this, the servant turned around and left, as if he didn't want to stay with Zhan Nianchuan for a moment.
As the servant left, the stone door slowly closed again, and the room became quiet.
Walking to the stone platform, Zhan Nianchuan checked the quantity and quality of the spiritual medicine. Overall, the quality was good, and it could be refined ten times, which was no problem for Zhan Nianchuan.
Zhan Nianchuan adjusted the temperature and tried to drive the pill furnace. Fortunately, it could be used.
After reviewing the entire method of refining the Qi Gathering Pill in his mind, Zhan Nianchuan took out the spiritual medicine that could be used to refine a furnace of Qi Gathering Pill with an expressionless face and began to refine.