The governor who was sent by the provincial government to investigate Lu Youtai's monopoly on the imperial examination finally arrived.
This person's name was Ouyang Hong, but Li Qinglin had never even seen him.
Ouyang Hong did not close the case for a long time and left it hanging. Instead, he spent the whole day patrolling the neighborhoods of Feng County, checking household registrations, and even inspecting every household in person.
It seems like he is looking for something.
The sky prison is dark, dead and decayed.
Everything around Li Qinglin seemed to start speeding up.
Death row inmates come and go, and come back again.
Some were executed, and some were sent to open up new areas to serve as death squads.
Even the prison guards with stable jobs have many new faces.
For unknown reasons, many people died in the Ministry of Justice.
Wei Hou, who failed to break through the marrow refining and had met Li Qinglin once, was killed by a mad immortal during the investigation.
There was a demon from the Cang Tian Shu Lu Temple who attacked Jin Qiandai secretly. Although he successfully repelled the demon, Jin Qiandai was poisoned and his realm regressed.
The big families in the inner city suddenly tightened their trade routes and withdrew a large amount of supplies. Suddenly, paper was in great demand in Luoyang, especially medicinal herbs, weapons and elixirs, which increased by more than ten times.
At the beginning, the fellow disciples of Wulao Qingxinzhai often came to visit Li Qinglin.
But as time passed, they appeared less and less frequently, and every time they appeared, they were pale and injured.
After Wen Shoufei taught Li Qinglin the Five Elders' Qingxin Inscription, he has never been seen again. Even the people in the Taoist temple don't know where he is.
Perhaps it was a coincidence, but in Feng County, many martial arts masters who practiced spiritual cultivation had disappeared from all the large and small martial arts halls.
Li Qinglin faintly smelled the scent of gunpowder.
Li Qinglin sat cross-legged on a straw mat, his eyes slightly closed, and his hands clasped in front of his dantian.
His blood and energy were bubbling like boiling water, and his tiny meridians were quickly opened up.
A faint golden light began to appear on Li Qinglin's body surface.
It’s almost there…
Li Qinglin muttered to himself.
…
The demonic power fluctuated, and the Jade Yuan Toad's aura suddenly rose to more than six or seven levels.
"The fourth level of Qi training."
The red lines on his body flickered, then faded away.
The Jade Yuan Chan silently sensed the changes in its body.
The lingering effect of the purple placenta held by the horse was extraordinary, and even now, there was still a residual effect.
Even as the Jade Yuan Toad's realm improves, it is gradually taking effect.
and……
The Jade Yuan Chan raised his head. From the depths of the Nituo River, a strange calling came, acting on his blood. There was even an irresistible sense of urging, forcing the Jade Yuan Chan to go forward.
If it really was a monster that had returned to its original form and had no intelligence, it would have probably fallen into deep water long ago.
"River God, Dragon Palace..."
The Jade Yuanchan's eyes flickered for a moment.
As soon as it came out of its mouth, five formation flags appeared from the strange bag in its throat. As the demonic power was poured in, the restrictions on them were quickly destroyed.
With a light sweep, the formation flags fluttered, five cold lights appeared, large areas of river water exploded, and white waves crashed against the shore.
Before, due to the weak power of the Jade Yuan Toad, it was unable to refine the Five Elements Rotating Flag.
Now that he has broken through to the middle stage of Qi training, he has the ability to control this magical weapon.
The Five Elements Rotating Flags, each flag is a low-grade magical weapon, but when the five elements are combined into one, it is comparable to a mid-grade magical weapon.
Although since the demonic power is not suitable for human magical tools, it can only exert 70% to 80% of its power.
But for the Jade Yuan Chan today, it is also a treasure.
It's just that this Five Elements Rotating Flag is a 'fuel guzzler', which consumes a lot of demonic energy. However, the Jade Yuan Chan's demonic energy is very strong, far beyond that of the people at the same level, so he doesn't care too much.
Recently, the sight of immortal cultivators escaping in the sky above the Nituo River has become less and less.
It is probably because the origin of Qi is gradually coming to an end, and the monsters in the Nituo River have shifted their attention from treasure hunting and started forcing the cultivators to leave.
"I just don't know if Master Ming Jingzi is still alive. By the way, the sutras that little Taoist boy recites are quite nice to listen to..."
As the Jade Yuanchan was thinking, she heard a croaking sound.
When it looked up, it saw Toad Two hopping towards it, holding in its mouth a strange-looking herb as thick as an arm, with veins like blue veins and a root that looked like a small mushroom.
Toad Er came up to the Jade Yuan Toad and put down the strange herb in a flattering manner.
My frog finally learned how to hunt for treasure?
Jade Yuanchan was stunned for a moment, and felt a little happy.
He crawled forward a step and took a closer look, only to find that this strange grass was actually the 'Dragon Tiger Aphrodisiac Grass'! I think Chan Er felt that the Jade Yuanchan had repeatedly rejected his signals and mistakenly thought that its king was ill, so he looked for this aphrodisiac.
Seeing this, the Jade Yuanchan became angry and said, "How dare you, a little toad, look down on me?" Then he swallowed it and put it into the herb.
Maybe it will be useful in the future...
Seeing Chan Er's eager eyes, Jade Yuan Chan was helpless.
It's really frustrating for a demon to have a subordinate who is always concerned about his health...
The Jade Yuan Chan grabbed a water monster and threw it to the group of horned toads to eat.
In recent days, four more little horned toads have appeared in this group of horned toads, and a large number of tadpoles are bred in the shallow puddles.
Under the protection of the Jade Yuan Toad, the horned toad species multiplied and the number of survivors increased greatly.
In time, it will surely be of great use.
now,
The Jade Yuan Chan took back the Five Elements Rotating Flag, thought for a moment, and took away the three little demon horned toads and more than forty sturdy horned toads that were almost the size of washbasins.
It did not ride on the evil wind, but crawled all the way, hiding its body, like a ghost, and went towards the mountains.
…
The sun is rising.
The afterglow of late autumn, with a faint warmth, spreads over the lush forest, dispelling some of the evil spirits.
The Jade Yuanchan sneaked along the way, observing the air and distinguishing the faint evil spirit in the air.
"Then Madam Hua should be in the middle stage of Qi training. Spider spirit? I think it is good at spraying spider web poison mist. I have to be very careful."
Although the Jade Yuanchan was confident that he, with his mutated blood, was among the best among the monsters in the middle stage of Qi training.
And toads more or less restrain spiders, ranking high in the food chain.
It’s not something that is taken lightly either.
If necessary, even use horned toads as bait and as death warriors to explore the way! After a moment, a bloody smell came to my face.
Jade Yuanchan was surprised to find that the miasma that had existed outside the lush forest had completely dissipated.
Instead, there is a thick smoke that lingers for a long time.
The ground was cracked and dark brown, and there were broken ancient trees and signs of wildfires that had not yet been extinguished.
Miles of dense forests were reduced to scorched earth! Densely packed tiny spider corpses were scattered all over the ground, along with more than a dozen foxes, but they were already dead.
Jade Yuanchan looked into the distance and saw a huge, colorful spider deep in the forest. Half of its body was charred. Even though it was dead, the remaining evil spirit was enough to make people terrified.
Madam Hua, dead?
Jade Yuanchan was dumbfounded.
What's going on? All my preparations have gone to waste.
and……
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What about my magical herbs and plants?
The Jade Yuanchan carefully crawled into the dense forest and took a closer look.
You can also see blood food wrapped in spider webs like cocoons from the cracked ground.
There are humans and there are beasts.
A lot of the blood food in the cocoons turned into a pool of blood under the action of the spider's digestive juices.
"Where did you come from, little demon? This immortal is tired and does not want to take your life. Get out of here immediately!"
Sudden,
A calm female voice came.
Jade Yuanchan saw a woman with red lips and white teeth sitting cross-legged behind a mound of earth. She was making a lotus hand seal with her left hand and holding a whisk in her right hand. She had an outstanding temperament and her spiritual energy formed a rain of light.
He looks just like an immortal.
The Jade Yuanchan was so frightened that he was stunned.
Is this the person who killed Madam Hua?
But this guy in the scorched earth and brown forest didn't leave after killing the monster, and instead acted like a master. Isn't that too incongruous?
and……
The Jade Yuan Chan vaguely sensed that there was a spiritual energy that was gradually dissipating in the pile of earth.
That was a sign that the immortal cultivator had just died, his magic power in his body had collapsed, and his spiritual power had returned to heaven.
Her companions died in the battle?
When the woman saw the Jade Yuanchan stopped, her eyes turned cold and she shouted, "Hey! You evil creature, don't leave now or you will make mistakes!!"
The voice was not loud, but it seemed to have infinite majesty. After it was heard, it echoed in the lush forests and deep mountains.
It was as if the anger of an ancient god was surging in the wind like a wave.
"Hey! You evil creature, don't leave now or you will make mistakes!!"
"Hey! You evil creature, don't leave now or you will make mistakes!!"
…
The sound waves continued and the leaves rustled continuously.
Who knew that the Jade Yuanchan's gaze towards the woman became more and more strange.
Instead of spending so much effort, even using magic power to amplify the sound, it would be better to drive yourself away directly.
Thinking of this, the Jade Yuan Toad hummed softly, revealing a hint of submission, and then took a small step forward.
"Evil beast!"
The woman kept shouting.
The Jade Yuanchan's steps became bigger and faster.
In the end, there was only rolling evil wind and black fog, but no sign of the toad.
The powerful demonic power instantly left the body and burst out like a sharp claw, slapping the woman fiercely!
The Jade Yuan Chan escaped from the evil wind in an instant and retreated in the opposite direction to a distance of dozens of feet.
Boom!
A look of shock appeared on the woman's face, and a round, black thunder bomb flew out of her hand.
There was a flash of fire, and purple lightning swept by. The violent air wave swept across like a blade in an instant.
The scorching breath was like a fire snake, raging and rolling. Even from a long distance, the Jade Yuan Chan could feel the terrifying temperature.
When Jade Yuanchan saw this, he was secretly frightened.
After a long time, when the smoke and dust cleared, it looked carefully and saw the woman with her head down, her clothes tattered, and no breath left, as if she had been killed on the spot.
The Jade Yuan Chan did not come closer, but activated its demonic power and summoned the Five Elements Rotating Flag, which immediately emitted five cold lights of different colors.
The woman suddenly opened her eyes and looked at the Five Elements Flag fluttering in the wind with horror on her face. She seemed to have realized something and immediately understood that Senior Brother Jia was probably also at the hands of this monster.
"You dare to kill me?!"
"My father is a master who has perfected his Qi training! If you kill me, he will definitely find out!"
"I will definitely skin you, this evil monster, and chop your flesh and bones into pieces!"
The woman screamed hysterically.
But deep down I was filled with fear and regret.
She and her senior brother thought they had a 90% chance of slaying the demon, but they didn't expect that Madam Hua actually raised a group of fox demons that were lurking outside the lush forest.
They were careless for a moment and fell into the trap of hallucination. Although it was not serious, it only distracted them for a moment.
But for Madam Hua, one breath is enough to do many things.
So the consequence was that Senior Brother He died under Madam Hua's magic in order to protect her.
Although she used the thunderbolt to kill Madam Hua, her own magic power was exhausted, and even her legs were melted by the poison, making her unable to move.
Hear the woman's voice.
Qi training completed?
Jade Yuanchan's heart sank, and the formation flag shot out with a cold light, instantly cutting off the woman's limbs and suppressing her magic power.
The formation flags fluttered, wrapping the woman up. The Jade Yuan Chan jumped up and ran away, traveling for dozens of miles, found a scorpion's nest, threw it into it, and then fled far away.
The screaming stopped abruptly.
A ball of green light emerged, and a human figure could be vaguely seen in it.
The figure's face was dull and rigid, and he just shouted mechanically, "How dare you hurt my daughter?"
(End of this chapter)