At noon, Xiang Jianjue and his group of nine true disciples, under the guidance of the outer disciples of Wanjianmai, walked up the mountain.
As soon as they entered the range of the sword vein formation, everyone's faces changed slightly. They all felt a chill on their faces, their true energy stagnated, and their running speed dropped by more than three times.
The outer sect disciple leading the way in front explained at the right moment: "Please don't be offended, my fellow uncles. This is the Five Absolute Cold Prohibition, set up by the sect master himself. It can suppress the activity of the centrifugal Gu."
Xiang Jianjue nodded slightly to show his understanding, and then asked, "I wonder what the current situation is like for the brothers from the Ten Thousand Sword Vein?"
The outer sect disciple laughed bitterly, "The power of the centrifugal poison is well known to everyone in the cultivation world. All the elders in the sect are suffering, and no one knows when they will be able to recover..."
Having said this, the outer disciple choked up and said no more.
Xiang Jianjue didn't ask any more questions and followed him up the mountain silently.
There are various opinions within the sect about the cooperation between the "Ancient God Taiyin" and the Sect Leader.
The most mainstream one among them is that the ancient god Taiyin can cure the heart poison, because after the leader of the Wanjianmai went to Xitian City, the heart poison disappeared from his body.
Therefore, the sect leader asked Him to come and rescue.
However, Xiang Jianjue knew that the person sitting in the Li Temple was never the ancient Taiyin God, but his master, Xiang Sheng!
Can Master remove the heart-dissociating Gu?
Xiang Jianjue didn't know.
But his intuition told him that he should be close to the answer.
The outer disciples quickly led everyone to the palace of Zhuang Teng's mother, Zhuang Lizhi.
As an inner sect elder of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, Zhuang Lizhi's palace occupies a small hilltop, with carved railings and painted buildings everywhere, which is truly magnificent.
However, after everyone came here and took a quick look, they all looked at Xiang Jianjue at the same time.
"This desolate and cold place is almost as desolate as Junior Brother Xiang's weed-covered yard."
Yuan Wanyin muttered to himself, and then saw several outer gate attendants guarding outside the hall coming over.
The leader stepped forward and bowed respectfully, saying, "My fellow masters, the elder has been waiting in the hall for a long time."
Xiang Jianjue didn't expect that Zhuang Lizhi would be waiting for them in advance. He was stunned for a moment before nodding and stepping into the hall first.
There were only a few spirit stone lamps in the hall, making it extremely dim. However, the nine people who came this time were all very powerful, and they could all see clearly at a glance the middle-aged woman sitting on the throne in the hall.
The woman's hair was gray, and she was so thin she could barely support her moon-white elder's robes. Her face was a dark blue, her eye sockets were sunken, and a faint sense of death lingered between her brows.
When everyone suddenly saw her miserable appearance, they were all shocked and their hands and feet turned cold.
In my impression, Uncle Zhuang was clearly about the same age as Uncle Wen, the leader of the Water Sword Vein. However, after just forty years, he had become so half-human, half-ghost.
This is the centrifugal poison? !
"My current appearance scares you, doesn't it?"
Zhuang Lizhi touched her face, a look of helplessness on her face, but her tone was gentle, "I already know your intentions. This matter is my fault. If I hadn't expected too much of Zhuang Teng back then, the child wouldn't have gone astray and made such a big mistake."
Xiang Jianjue looked at Zhuang Lizhi's gentle eyes and frowned slightly.
The Elder Zhuang before him was gentle and temperless. He was completely different from the strong-willed Elder Zhuang described by Senior Brother Changting. Could it be that his temperament had changed because of the Li Xin Gu poison, and his imminent death?
Li Changting also found it strange, but now was obviously not the time to stop and think.
Xiang Jianjue also knew his place and quickly recovered. He bowed and said, "I am Xiang Jianjue, the true successor of the Yuan Sword Vein. Since Uncle Master knows why we are here, he must also know what we want."
Zhuang Lizhi nodded slightly, her tone calm: "I know. But you came too late, and I have nothing to contribute."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's faces darkened.
Xiang Jianjue's expression remained unchanged as he spoke slowly and calmly, "Uncle Zhuang, it's really not very polite for us to come here and ask for contributions now.
However, one thing is for another. Most of the disciples whose contributions were withheld by Zhuang Teng were in dire straits and desperately needed resources for cultivation.
"For Master Zhuang, a contribution of 50,000 is just a small amount, so why refuse it?"
"Xiang, you misunderstood."
Zhuang Lizhi spoke with some difficulty, and explained slowly: "In order to save the disciples in the sect, all my contributions have been exchanged for medicinal pills for the alchemy room to develop an antidote.
Not only me, but other elders as well.
If you don't mind, you can go to the Wanjianmai's alchemy room to get some elixirs to offset the 50,000 contributions."
Zhuang Lizhi frowned at this and said, "I forgot that the alchemy room has been concentrating on the research of centrifugal Gu over the years, so the spiritual pill reserves may not be much.
Well, I'll go with you and take a look."
After saying that, Zhuang Lizhi stood up, and with a flash of sword light under her feet, she arrived in front of the palace door behind everyone.
Pei Shi, who was closest to him, was startled and subconsciously took two steps back.
Seeing this, Zhuang Lizhi forced a smile and said, "Don't be afraid. The poison in my body will not come out until I die. It can't be transmitted to you."
Pei Shi felt a pang of pain when he heard this: "Uncle Master, I didn't mean to..."
Zhuang Lizhi smiled, said nothing, and turned to leave.
Everyone looked at each other in silence, and they all saw the guilt in each other's eyes.
Xiang Jianjue was silent for a moment, then he exhaled softly, "Follow him."
Soon, the group arrived outside the alchemy room and smelled a strong medicinal fragrance from afar.
The alchemy elder of the Wanjian Clan was named Wu Xiao. He was originally an old man with white hair and a youthful face, and was quite obsessed with mysophobia.
But now, his hair was disheveled, and the moon-white robe he had worn for who knows how many days was stained with a layer of black and gray. His face was not clean either.
When he saw Zhuang Lizhi and his men approaching, he was immediately horrified. "Elder Zhuang, how could you be walking around outside? Go back immediately!"
Zhuang Lizhi smiled slightly: "I'm waiting to die anyway, living one day less won't make any difference."
Wu Xiao's lips trembled, but he didn't say anything in the end. He waved his sleeves and said, "Come in."
The Wanjian Meridian is the main sword meridian, so the alchemy room is naturally very spacious.
When Xiang Jianjue and others walked in, they saw many outer disciples helping out at the alchemy furnace.
On the beds on both sides of the alchemy furnace were disciples with dark complexions lying all over their bodies, each with marks of various rescue methods, such as moxibustion, medicinal stones, etc.
Zhuang Lizhi glanced at it and asked softly, "How's it going?"
Wu Xiao was silent for a moment, sighed and shook his head.
Zhuang Lizhi stopped asking and said, "My son got into some trouble in his early years and needs to make up for the 50,000 contribution gap. I wonder if there are enough elixirs in the alchemy room now?"
Wu Xiao nodded: "Now the disciples have no way to practice, there are many elixirs."
Having said that, he glanced at Xiang Jianjue and the others and said, "I'm going to get the pills. You guys come in with me and wait. The smell in the outer room is not pleasant."
But it's not just the smell. Seeing so many disciples lying there infected with the centrifugal Gu, everyone felt uncomfortable. Upon hearing this, they all followed Xiang Jianjue into the alchemy room.
And just when the last person in the team stepped into the door of the alchemy room, something strange happened!
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