Chapter 169 A Monster That Eats Formations
The alchemy team composed of other disciples from the Observatory was also busy in the makeshift workshop.
Dozens of alchemy furnaces were lined up in a row, with fires blazing.
Various medicinal herbs with the effects of exorcising evil spirits, concentrating the mind, and strengthening the body are processed, ground, and proportioned like an assembly line, and then put into the alchemy furnace.
"Brother, the first batch of 'Qingxin Pills' has been refined!" A disciple ran over with a jade bottle in his hands, sweating profusely.
The chief disciple in charge of alchemy was named "Dan Chenzi". He took the jade bottle and poured out a pill. The pill was round and full, emitting a faint fragrance.
"Distribute it," Dan Chenzi ordered solemnly, "Give priority to the soldiers defending the city, and Junior Brother Mo Li and his companions who are responsible for repairing the formation. While this elixir can't eradicate the evil spirit, it can protect the heart meridians and prevent the Netherworld Qi from corroding the mind."
"yes!"
"Second batch, refine the 'Red Sun Pill'!" Dan Chenzi ordered loudly, "Make it even more potent! Use the Earth Fire Stone we brought as an activator. Don't seek gentleness, only dominance! Now we're not curing illnesses, we're scraping bones to cure poison! Everyone, cheer up!"
"Yes!" everyone responded loudly.
The entire workshop is filled with a tense and efficient atmosphere.
…
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!!"
Mo Li almost crawled into the main tent, tightly grasping the useless silver needle in his hand, his face showing unprecedented horror and anxiety.
"Why are you so panicked?"
Xiao Yu was listening to Xuan Yi's report on the defense situation in various parts of the city. Seeing Mo Li's loss of composure, he couldn't help but frown.
"Your Majesty, please look!"
Mo Li no longer cared about etiquette. He rushed to the sand table, slapped the black broken needle on the table, and unfolded a sketch he had just drawn.
The picture shows his detailed description of the traces of damage to the evil-suppressing runes under the ancient well.
"Your Highness, look here!" Mo Li's fingers trembled slightly with excitement. "This isn't destruction! This isn't magic, nor is it brute force! This is... this is being 'eaten'!"
He used a word that was so common that it was a little ridiculous.
"Eat?" Xiao Yu's eyes instantly became sharp.
"Yes! It's eating!" Mo Li explained eagerly, "Those runes that suppress the earth veins, along with the bluestone that serves as the carrier, seem to have been corroded, dissolved, and devoured by something! We surveyed all seven damaged nodes, and the traces are all exactly the same!"
He took a breath and continued, "Moreover, this lingering evil aura is exactly the same as the one on the stone door of the secret room in Prince Yu's mansion! Your Highness, something is wrong! There must be something hidden behind Prince Yu! A... a monster that can 'eat' formations!"
The air in the entire main tent seemed to freeze at this moment.
Xuan Yi was stunned when he heard this, his face full of disbelief.
Eat the formation?
What kind of vicious words are these?
Xiao Yu did not have any doubts or ridicule, his face gradually darkened.
He remembered what Ah Jiu said when he was fortune-telling, "So many mouths."
He thought of the ominous and greedy atmosphere on the West Mountain that made his heart palpitate.
It turns out that those words were not descriptions, but facts.
At this moment, the tent curtain was lifted, and two little Taoist boys staggered in, supporting Yun Shen, whose face was as pale as gold paper and whose eyes were bleeding.
“Your Highness…” Yun Shen’s voice was so weak that it seemed as if he would die at any moment. “I am incompetent… The secrets of heaven have been obscured, and I can’t… calculate anything…”
He struggled and took out the cracked black tortoise shell from his arms.
"I only... I only glimpsed a verse..."
"Roots are below, mouth feeds the sky."
The roots are below, the mouth feeds the sky...
Xiao Yu's pupils suddenly shrank!
He turned around suddenly and stared at the sand table.
The "eat" that Mo Li mentioned, the "mouth" that Yun Shen predicted, and the "mouth" that Ajiu saw...
All the clues are connected at this moment!
The enemy is not a person.
Or rather, it's not just people.
What they are facing is an invisible and terrifying "monster" that feeds on the earth veins and uses the capital city as its dinner plate!
Prince Yu and the Wugut tribe were just servants who handed the knife and fork to this monster!
"Good... what a great Prince Yu! What a great Wugut tribe!" A surge of rage and murderous intent burned in Xiao Yu's chest. The air pressure around him was frighteningly low, making the temperature in the tent seem to drop by several degrees.
He always thought that the enemy was attacking the city.
Now I understand that the enemy is "eating"!
"Xuan Yi!" Xiao Yu said coldly.
"I'm here!" Xuan Yi was frightened by his aura and immediately knelt on one knee.
"Prepare the horses!"
"This king must go to the Imperial Master's Mansion immediately!"
The night wind was howling, and the black horse was like a flash of lightning, making rapid hooves on the bluestone slabs.
Xiao Yu dismounted from his horse, tore off the black cloak stained with blood and coldness, threw it to the guards who came to meet him, and strode towards the inner courtyard.
He walked too fast, and the strong wind he created made the lanterns under the corridor swing wildly. The light and shadow flickered, reflecting his unparalleled handsome face, which was now as cold as ice and murderous.
All the servants in the Imperial Master's Mansion were so frightened by this terrifying aura that they fell silent, prostrating themselves on the ground, not daring to even raise their heads.
"Your Majesty."
Chu Xuanyi's voice came from the inner room, still so cold, but it successfully subsided Xiao Yu's anger that seemed to be about to burn.
When I opened the door, the warm medicinal fragrance mixed with the strange cold fragrance of the Nether Grass hit me in the face.
Inside the room, Ajiu was able to sit by herself. She was wearing a soft snow-white fox fur coat. Although her face was still pale, she looked much better. She was holding a bowl of porridge and drinking it in small sips with a spoon.
Censor Qian was sitting nearby, excitedly telling Ajiu which shop in the capital made the most beautiful sugar figures and which shop had the highest-flying kites.
Seeing Xiao Yu rush in like a tornado, Censor Qian jumped up in shock: "Prince...Prince? Why are you here?"
Xiao Yu ignored him.
His gaze was directed straight at Chu Xuanyi who was sitting in the main seat.
"Something happened."
He didn't say any unnecessary nonsense, and with just three words, the atmosphere in the entire room instantly dropped to freezing point.
He walked forward and placed two things on the table.
The same thing was the broken needle that Mo Li brought back, which had turned completely black.
The other thing was the cracked black tortoise shell that Yun Shen had risked half his life to get back.
"This is what your disciple, Mo Li, scraped off from the node of the West City Gate's earth vein." Xiao Yu pointed at the broken needle. "It can instantly corrode the special spirit-detecting silver needle made by the Observatory."
He pointed at the tortoise shell again and said, "This is the result of divination by your eldest disciple, Yun Shen, using the observatory's most precious treasure, the 'Black Turtle Shell'. The magic tool was completely destroyed, and the person was half-broken, but all he got in return was a single incomprehensible verse."
Chu Xuanyi's gaze fell on two things, and a ripple finally appeared in his calm eyes.
He stretched out his slender fingers and sensed something in the air, then his brows furrowed tightly.
"The devouring power...it really is it."
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