Chapter 97 There is something bad going on underground, it’s about to wake up!
In the Imperial Master's Mansion, inside the alchemy room.
In the alchemy furnace, a ball of golden pure yang fire was burning fiercely, wrapping the Nether Grass inside.
Chu Xuanyi's hair was disheveled, and his Taoist robe with cloud patterns, which used to look ethereal and airy, was now covered with black medicinal ash.
He held talismans in his hands, muttered something, and continuously threw them into the furnace, precisely controlling the temperature.
"Master! It's no use! The medicinal properties of 'Seven Star Grass' are almost exhausted!" The little Taoist boy at the side shouted with sweat on his forehead. He was holding a pile of rare medicinal herbs and was frantically adding them according to Chu Xuanyi's instructions.
"Change to 'Ice Heart Lotus'! Quick! Use a jade knife to slice it and take out three grams of lotus heart!" Chu Xuanyi shouted without turning his head.
"But Master, the Ice Heart Lotus in the warehouse was used up last month!" The little Taoist boy was about to cry.
"Then go ask for it for me! Ask the Ministry of Revenue! Ask the emperor! Tell them that if the regent cannot make the antidote, they will just wait for those crazy people from the Wugut tribe to rip the roof of the palace off!" Chu Xuanyi swung his whisk angrily, almost blowing the little Taoist boy's hat away.
The resentment of this Nether Grass is a hundred times more stubborn than he imagined!
It's like a stone in a pit, smelly and hard.
He had to use a large amount of pure and yang spiritual medicine to neutralize and cleanse it in order to strip out the trace of the original medicinal properties that served as the "key".
During these two days and two nights, he almost exhausted most of his cultivation. The rare medicinal materials he invested were priceless and enough to build another Imperial Master's Mansion.
He now feels that what he is refining is not elixir, but gold!
"Keep calm! You must stay calm!" Chu Xuanyi took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.
After two days and two nights of calcination, the resentful aura in the outermost layer of the Nether Grass had been almost completely eliminated.
Now, it’s the most critical moment - purification!
He formed seals with his hands, his eyes gleaming with brilliance as he shouted, "Pure Yang True Fire, obey my command! Remove the dross and retain the essence, and the divine object will be created! Command!"
“Buzz!”
The golden flame in the alchemy furnace suddenly shrank and turned into a golden flaming knife, cutting with incredible precision towards the core of the Nether Grass, which had been burned to only a small ball of black gas!
Success or failure depends on this one move!
At this moment, Ajiu, who was standing at the door of the secret room of the Regent's Palace, suddenly yawned.
Even a strong man couldn't stand guarding for two days and two nights, let alone she was just a child.
I could still hold on during the day with the help of snacks and faith, but late at night, my eyelids would start to fight uncontrollably.
"No... I can't sleep..." Jiu shook his little head, trying to wake himself up. "What if... what if I fall asleep and the little black bug... runs out..."
Her little head moved no matter how small, like a chick pecking at rice.
Eventually, the overwhelming sleepiness overcame her strong sense of responsibility. She leaned her small body against the cold stone door and fell into a deep sleep.
But she did not fall into a sweet dream.
She had a dream.
A dream that was both incredibly real and incredibly terrifying.
The dream was filled with endless darkness, and she felt like a feather floating in the void.
Suddenly, the "ground" under her feet became transparent.
She "saw" it!
She saw the entire capital, the bustling streets, the towering palaces, and the rows of houses. But that wasn't the point; the point was the underground of the capital!
Just beneath the thick layer of soil, countless black, vine-like things were growing wildly!
Those vines weren't plants; they looked slimy and slippery, like countless twisted, black pythons magnified a thousand times over! They intertwined their roots deep underground, spreading wantonly, covering the entire underground of the capital!
Even more terrifying, Ah Jiu saw golden lines radiating soft light deep within the earth. Those were… earth veins! They were the earth's destiny and lifeline!
And those black vines, like the most greedy leeches, tightly wrapped around those golden earth veins! Their roots turned into sharp straws, piercing into the earth veins, frantically and greedily absorbing the golden power!
“Woo…”
Ajiu cried softly in his dream.
She "heard" the painful cries of the earth veins, drained of their power. The golden light was dimming and withering at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The black vines, having absorbed so much power, grew even thicker and more ferocious! All of their branches converged in the same direction.
In the very center of the entire underground of the capital, right below the imperial palace, there is an extremely huge... "heart"!
That heart, vaster than any palace she had ever seen, was a dark, dark red like coagulated blood. Its surface was covered in knots of black veins, which rose and fell violently with a heavy, thumping beat.
All the black vines eventually connected to this giant heart, continuously supplying it with the power drawn from the earth veins.
As the power flows in, the heart beats faster and stronger!
“Gurgle…Gurgle…”
Waves of sickening, bubbling sounds, like those of a swamp, emanated from the heart. Simultaneously, a strong, stench a hundred times more disgusting than the rotten egg smell in the underground palace permeated the entire underground space.
That was... the sound made by the big sleeping monster!
Its snoring turned into a heartbeat!
Ajiu saw that next to the huge heart, there stood a blurry figure completely shrouded in black fog.
She couldn't see the person's face clearly, and couldn't even tell if it was a man or a woman. But she could sense that the figure emanated an aura that was ten thousand times colder and more sinister than that of the Wugu tribe elder!
The figure stretched out a hand made of black mist and gently "stroked" a huge vine connected to the heart. The movement was so gentle as if he was caressing his lover.
"It's almost there... it's almost there..."
"My God... You will soon wake up..."
"The essence of millions of lives in the capital will be your most delicious first feast after you awaken!"
"No! Don't!"
Ajiu let out a shrill scream in her dream. She wanted to run and shout, but found that she could not move and could not make any sound.
She could only watch the heart beating faster and faster, and the black mist figure laughing silently!
"ah--!"
Finally, a scream in reality broke through the shackles of the nightmare!
"There's something bad underground! There's something bad! It's waking up! It's waking up!!"
Ajiu suddenly sat up from the ground, her little face full of tears, her whole body trembling violently, and she waved her little hands in fear.
The Xuanjia guards standing in the distance were frightened out of their wits by the shrill scream.
"Miss Jiu! What's wrong with you?"
"Quick! Go and report to the prince!"
However, they did not need to report it.
The moment Jiu screamed, the stone door of the secret room that had been closed for three days and three nights suddenly shattered from the inside with an extremely powerful force!
Xiao Yu's figure, like an arrow shot from a bow, instantly appeared in front of Ajiu!
He grabbed the little girl who was huddled in the corner and crying heartbreakingly into his arms and hugged her tightly.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here.
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