When the familiar rustling sound came, Fang Chaozhou knew it was time to drink vine juice again. He didn't know how many days he had been here, but he counted the number of times he drank vine juice.

It's been five times already.

His legs are almost healed and he can stand up. However, although he can stand, he cannot walk around freely. If he walks a few more steps, that thing will get angry.

Fang Chaozhou hasn't seen what that thing looks like yet, he guessed that it might be a tree demon that has lived for many years.

He grabbed the vine that was stretched out to him, sighed softly, sat up, wiped the vine carefully, and then bit it with a fearless attitude.

The bitter taste instantly spread in his throat, forcing Fang Chaozhou's face to almost wrinkle, but he did not dare to stop. Although his legs were almost healed, the spiritual power in his body was still empty, as if he had become a completely mortal.

He crushed the mandarin duck jade pendant given to him by Xue Danrong. The people of Tianshui Sect probably knew that he was still alive and where he was, but there was no response to this action, like a stone falling into the sea.

After drinking the vine juice five times, Fang Chaozhou began to estimate the time. Every time he woke up, he would use a knife to draw a line on the ground next to him. When he drew the fourth line, the vine that stretched out did not crawl to his hand, but wrapped around his ankle.

With a single effort, he was dragged into the darkness.

He had no spiritual power and could not resist, and he only had time to grab the celadon umbrella.

“Plop——”

With the sound of falling into the water, Fang Chaozhou felt that half of his body was soaked in water and the vines stopped. He was stunned for a moment, looked back in the light of the celadon umbrella, and then stood there motionless.

"Are you scared by me?" the eerie voice sounded.

This time Fang Chaozhou finally saw the other party's appearance clearly. It looked like a half-human, half-demon, staying in a small pool of water. The upper body was that of a human, naked, with silver hair hanging in the water. Under the clear water were tangled vines. Those vines looked like a bunch of pythons coiled together, which was disgusting.

It's completely different from its face.

Its face was very beautiful, the kind of beauty that seemed untainted by the world. But no matter how beautiful it was, when Fang Chaozhou saw the vines crawling all over its body, he almost vomited.

He immediately turned his face away. If he looked at it any longer, he would definitely vomit.

"Do you think I'm ugly?" it spoke again.

Fang Chaozhou took a deep breath and shook his head.

"Hypocrisy. I have yet to meet anyone who doesn't find me ugly."

Fang Chaozhou shook his head again. "It's not ugly, it's just disgusting. You know what disgusting is, right? It's like when you eat something that someone else has licked all over with their saliva."

What he was thinking was that he was going to die anyway, and the other party had captured him, so they must have felt that the time was right and they could kill him. He was going to die anyway, so couldn't he say a few words from the truth before he died?

After a moment of silence, the vine that was wrapped around Fang Chaozhou's ankle moved again, dragging him under the water.

"court death!"

Fang Chaozhou was forced to sink into the water. Once in the water, he was surrounded by vines, just like a silkworm spinning a cocoon. He became the cocoon and was trapped in the water.

When he first entered the water, he was still conscious and was able to pull away a little the vine that accidentally blocked his mouth. However, after pulling it away a few times, he realized that it was not an accidental blockage. The half-human, half-demon creature did it on purpose. It caught him in the water and forced him to drink the vine juice.

Fang Chaozhou thought that the vine was the other party's real body, and recalled the disgusting scene he had seen before. He just wanted to vomit and refused to drink the vine juice anymore. But that thing was unwilling to let him go, so it forced the juice into his mouth when he didn't want to.

Even rabbits bite when they are angry. No matter how strong Fang Chaozhou was, he still had a temper. He wanted to be humiliated before dying. In a fit of rage, he bit off the vine in his hand and swallowed it whole.

"Congratulations, Master, for subduing Taowu again."

The man did not react at all to the compliments from the disciples behind him. He just looked at the ferocious beast in front of him, which lowered its head to him and whimpered for mercy in its throat.

This ferocious beast swept through three towns and villages in ten days. It was smarter than it was two hundred years ago. It turned out that it ate along the way, and after eating this town, it would eat the neighboring towns. Now it also knows to eat one town, then move to another town thousands of miles away before eating the next one. It was because of this that it took Zhongli Yueshui some time to catch it.

Wherever Taowu went, there were no living people. The whole town was left with only bloodstains. Not even a corpse could be found as they had all been eaten by it.

This guy is so vicious that he even doesn't spare babies in swaddling clothes.

When the elder of Four Finger Peak heard that Zhongli Yueshui had found Taowu, he rushed over overnight. However, when he arrived, the battle was only at its end. However, he was still amazed at his master's cultivation level.

If he faced Taowu, he would have no chance of winning. Even if he survived, he would probably lose one of his arms or legs.

The fourth elder looked at the subdued Taowu and thought for a moment, "Master, Taowu has been subdued. How are you going to deal with it? If you want to lock him up, I will send a message back and ask the disciples to make room for him in the mountain prison. Oh, and we need to prepare the demon-locking chains. This Taowu is so ferocious, I'm afraid we need to use the thickest ones..."

Before he could finish his words, he saw his master using the dragon-shaped sword in his hand to cut open Taowu's abdomen.

Before he could react to what happened, the deep red inner elixir hidden in Taowu's abdomen had been dug out.

Zhongli Yueshui always liked white and cleanliness. He held the deep red inner elixir in his hand. The undried blood on it dripped down his white hand, staining his white sleeves and leaving ugly marks.

Seeing this, the Fourth Elder swallowed nervously, erased all his previous words, and changed his words.

"This... Taowu has caused a great disaster. Master, take its inner elixir to prevent it from causing trouble again. This is really justice for the heaven." He paused and forced a smile. "But what should we do with this inner elixir after we take it out? I'm afraid that Taowu's inner elixir will cause a sensation among all beasts and make them come here. Ordinary monsters will greatly increase their cultivation if they get Taowu's inner elixir, not to mention rare beasts. Master, why don't you give Taowu's inner elixir to Tubai, who is raised by your side?"

But the next moment, he saw Zhongli Yueshui crush the inner elixir in his hand.

The fourth elder took a deep breath, his voice trembling, "Master, this... this is Taowu..."

Halfway through his words, he met Zhongli Yueshui's eyes.

Zhongli Yueshui's eyes are very light, a light brown. If facing the sunlight, it is almost impossible to see the color of his pupils, but at this moment when the sun is shining brightly, his eyes are as deep as a well, even scary.

The fourth elder felt that he was not mistaken, he just saw murderous intent.

His master just wanted to kill him.

Almost immediately, the fourth elder shut his mouth and dared not say anything. He watched Zhongli Yueshui take out a jade box and put the broken Taowu inner elixir into it, along with a jade token that was broken into two pieces.

The fourth elder recognized the jade plaque because it had the words "Fang Chaozhou" written on it.

That was Fang Chaozhou's life card. The fact that the life card was broken proved that the person was dead.