Chapter 84: The Demon-Refining Insect Taoist
The ruins of Yunshui Heavenly Palace were extremely huge. Even in his previous life, monk Cong Yunhai had been exploring for more than ten years but still could not fully understand the whole picture.
Not to mention now, the Yunshui Palace is shrouded in thick fog everywhere.
The monks who awakened from the Qin Tang stone statue quickly divided into several different camps.
Some felt that the Yunshui Palace was extremely dangerous. They were lucky to survive Qin Tang's attack. If they continued to explore, they would definitely die.
They thought they had memorized several techniques, and that if they could return alive, they would make a fortune. So they decided to leave Yunshui Palace directly.
Most people chose to leave. The rest thought that there was such a chance just for a stone statue at the entrance of the ruins. Then how great would the fortune be inside the Yunshui Palace, those legendary alchemy rooms, law-transmitting pavilions, and sect treasure houses that were essential for ancient sects?
Once greed arises, it quickly expands in the heart and can no longer be suppressed.
Then, this group of people, as if possessed, disappeared one after another into the fog.
Therefore, when Li Fan caught up from behind, he found that he had lost all traces of the cultivators. If it weren't for the Wuxiang Killing Intent that had already locked onto Sikong Yi and the other two, he would have probably lost them.
However, strangely, Sikong Yi and Baili Chen seemed to be very familiar with the layout of the Yunshui Palace.
Every time, he could find a way through the gaps in the fog that seemed like a dead end. With a clear goal, he kept bypassing buildings shrouded in fog and going deeper inside.
Is this the reason why Sikong Yi was able to obtain the "Cloud and Water Diagram" in the previous life?
It is because of the simulated experience in the previous life that I was able to know all the secrets in the Yunshui Palace.
But how did Sikong Yi know this?
Li Fan suddenly felt a strong interest in his heart.
At the same time, he became more alert. These two people obviously have a big secret!
The figures became more concealed, and Li Fan hung closely behind them.
Suddenly, the two stopped moving.
After a pause, Sikong Yi and Baili Chen separated and rushed in two opposite directions.
"A strategy of dividing the troops? Have you discovered me?" Li Fan narrowed his eyes, hesitated for a moment, and then chased in the direction where Sikong Yi left.
Go deeper into the fog and make your way to a tower-like building.
Sikong Yi suddenly stopped at the foot of the tower, turned around and looked in the direction of Li Fan with a provocative smile.
Then he dived into the tower.
"Interesting. Do you want to use the Jedi in the Yunshui Palace to kill me?" Li Fan looked at the tall tower in front of him, which was looming in the white mist and exuding a mysterious aura. The memories of his previous life came to his mind.
The Demon Refining Tower is one of the most dangerous areas in Yunshui Palace.
In the first ten years after the opening of the Yunshui Palace, no cultivator had ever returned alive from the Demon Refining Tower. Therefore, it was once considered by cultivator Cong Yunhai to be a Jedi in the Yunshui Palace and it was absolutely forbidden to explore.
In the previous life, it was finally anchored for 21 years. A master of alchemy risked his life to enter it and finally cracked the strange rules within it.
"If this is what you were thinking, I'm afraid you will be disappointed." Li Fan sneered and followed him into the Monster Refining Tower.
As you step inside, you'll feel a chilly wind and a stench of decay and stench.
The bottom floor of the tower contained cells.
It just seemed that too much time had passed, and only piles of strange-looking bones remained in the cell.
Li Fan continued to go up, and the same thing happened to the second floor of the tower.
All the way to the top of the tower.
I could hear the chattering voice coming from afar.
"My senior brothers and sisters are all fighting on the front lines, and I am the only one who can't help."
"We must refine more pills so that we can increase their strength as much as possible."
"Every time I refine a pill, the chances of my brothers surviving will increase."
"But all the demons in the Demon Refining Tower are dead. There are no more materials for refining pills. What should we do?"
A man with disheveled hair and wearing a loose blue Taoist robe was sighing and looking helpless.
In the air next to him, three figures were bound by invisible ropes.
One of them was Sikong Yi.
The other two were also cultivators who entered the Yunshui Palace together this time, but no one knew why they appeared here.
The two men had pale faces and their lips kept opening and closing. It was unclear what they were saying.
Before Li Fan could make any move, he felt as if his hands and feet were suddenly tied up with ropes and he could not move.
He was then pulled into the air and fixed like the other three.
Li Fan had anticipated this incident and was not panicked.
Only then did he hear the two people talking to themselves.
"How could this happen? Didn't I choose to leave here directly? How come I'm tied up here in a blink of an eye..."
"My life is over, my life is over. I have already left Yunshui Palace, but I was caught and brought back..."
…
"Oh, it's time to refine the elixir!" At this moment, the man in Taoist robes suddenly woke up from his mumbling.
"Refine the elixir, refine the elixir..." The man reached his hand into his wide Taoist robe, moving it back and forth. After a short while, he took out two black pills.
"The pill has been refined, but I don't know what its medicinal properties are this time." The man scratched his hair, seeming a little troubled.
Then, he slapped his thigh and said, "Oh, right, I just caught a few bugs this time. I can use them to test the medicine!"
After saying that, he looked towards Li Fan and the others who were tied up in the air, his eyes moving constantly: "Which bug do you choose?"
When the man stared at me, I felt an inexplicable chill.
They didn't dare to move and held their breath to keep quiet.
"Let's take this one." The man in Taoist robe looked for a while, his gaze stopped on one of them, and immediately reached out and grabbed it.
Seeing this, the man could no longer remain calm.
But his struggle was obviously in vain and he could no longer make any sound.
His body flew towards the man in Taoist robes, and gradually became smaller in the process.
Finally, it really turned into a tiny flying insect and fell into the palm of the Taoist robe man's hand.
The head of the flying insect still vaguely resembles a human face, and the expression on its face is extremely terrified.
Being gently pinched by the man in Taoist robes, the flying insect with a human face kept making buzzing sounds as it flapped its wings.
But everything was in vain. The man in Taoist robes pinched the flying insect with one hand and held the black pill with the other.
The pill was many times larger than a flying insect, but it was stuffed in there just like that.
The human-faced flying insect struggled in pain and forced the pill into its stomach.
The belly expanded many times and became a giant ball.
The smell of flying insects gradually faded, but the suffering had just begun.
After the pill entered the stomach, it seemed to be digested and began to decrease in size.
However, a buzzing sound like a swarm of mosquitoes suddenly sounded.
The body of the human-faced flying insect suddenly began to twitch uncontrollably.
Tiny black dots emerged from its abdomen one after another.
Looking closely, those black dots are clearly newly born flying insects.
After the flying insect drilled out of the body, it did not fly around, but landed on the human face and ate it greedily.
Soon, the human-faced flying insects were eaten until not even a trace of it was left.
The man in Taoist robe shook his head, looking regretful.
"It seems that the drug trial failed. It should be because the drug is too strong."
As he spoke, he opened his mouth and sucked the flying insects and black mist into his stomach.
Even though he had already heard about what happened in the Demon Refining Tower and was mentally prepared, Li Fan still couldn't help but his eyelids twitching at this moment.
This scene is really too horrifying.
The man in Taoist robe looked at the other remaining pill in his hand and seemed a little distressed.
"How about trying this one again?"
He glanced at Li Fan and the other two again.
All three of them suffered respiratory arrest.
After a long while, the man in Taoist robes sighed and said, "Forget it. The ones made from one furnace should be about the same."
After saying that, the man opened his mouth and casually threw the black pill in.
After swallowing the pill, the man in Taoist robe seemed unaffected.
He just became crazy again.
He started muttering to himself again, saying that there were not enough materials for alchemy, and completely ignored the three people who were tied up in the air.
Among the three survivors, Li Fan remained silent.
Sikong Yi had a blank expression on his face.
The remaining person already had a look of devastation on his face.
"If I had known earlier, I would have rather died at the hands of Qin Tang. At least I could have died quickly."
…
Time seems to have no meaning in this Demon Refining Tower.
The life and death of everyone depends entirely on the behavior of the man in Taoist robes.
After an unknown amount of time, the man came back to consciousness from his trance.
He also took out two pills from under his wide Taoist robe, but this time they were a strange green color.
"Which bug should I choose to test the medicine on?"
This time the man hesitated for a moment, but his eyes turned to Sikong Yi.
"Just choose this one!"
Li Fan immediately perked up. He wanted to see what Sikong Yi relied on to dare to lead him into this desperate place.
What surprised Li Fan was that Sikong Yi did not resort to any means of resistance.
After being transformed into a bug and forced to swallow the green pill, it turned directly into a pool of green water.
Sikong Yi is dead!
"What's going on? What went wrong? Could it be that, in this life, because of my tracking, the development of things is different from that in the previous life?"
"No, Sikong Yi clearly lured me to this Demon Refining Tower. How could he die so easily?"
"He knew this was a dangerous place, and he lured me in just to exchange one life for another?"
…
Just when Li Fan was in endless doubts, he suddenly sensed something and raised his head.
Outside the Demon Refining Tower, Baili Chen, who was locked with murderous intent, slowly approached.
Next to him, Li Fan felt that the Wuxiang murderous intent, which had originally lost its lock on the target, captured the target again: Sikong Yi.
Sikong Yi, who was clearly dead, appeared outside the Demon Refining Tower again.
"Puppet? Incarnation? It doesn't look like anything..."
Li Fan stared at the pool of green water on the ground and couldn't help laughing.
"It seems that the secrets of these two people are bigger than I thought."
"But once I'm on to a secret, it's no longer a secret."
As Li Fan sensed, Sikong Yi and Baili Chen continued to move deeper into the Yunshui Palace.
"With the killing intent locked on them, we are not afraid that they will escape. We just need to get out of this Monster Refining Tower as soon as possible."
But the Taoist robe man's actions have their own rules, and Li Fan cannot control it. He can only choose to wait patiently.
Soon, the third round of drug trials came.
This time, Li Fan was still not chosen. This made Li Fan feel a little bit amused and he didn't know whether it was lucky or unlucky.
The man in Taoist robes took out two pink pills and fed them to the human-faced flying insect.
The flying insects turned into a pink smoke screen with a bang.
In the smoke, painful faces kept appearing.
As the powder mist floated, the person's face was pulled and twisted, appearing even more hideous and terrifying.
Li Fan, who was standing nearby, also got goosebumps when he saw this scene.
In the end, it was the man in the Taoist robe who inhaled the smoke into his body while muttering, thus ending the eternal suffering.
The man in the Taoist robe fell into mumbling to himself again.
The fourth round of drug trials has finally arrived.
At this time, Li Fan was the only one left in the Demon Refining Tower.
The man in Taoist robe was about to use Li Fan to test the medicine, but Li Fan suddenly spoke.
"Brother Chong, I heard that you don't have enough materials for alchemy?"
Upon hearing this, Chong Dao Ren suddenly stopped his outstretched hand and nodded subconsciously: "Yes, there are not enough materials for alchemy."
He said with some guilt: "I haven't been able to refine new pills for a long time..."
The Taoist Chong paused for a moment. He stared at Li Fan for a while, and when he saw clearly what he was wearing, he suddenly became a little flustered: "It turned out to be Brother! I thought it was a bug!"
"Brother, I'm so sorry! I'll put you down right away."
Following the words of the Insect Taoist, Li Fan felt the restraints on his body loosen and he regained control of his body.
Taoist Chong covered his head and lowered it, as if he was too ashamed to face this senior brother.
He just blamed himself and said: "I messed it up again. It's always like this. I can't make the elixir well, and my cultivation progress has always been very slow. I'm holding everyone back..."
Li Fan walked forward, held Chong Daoren's shoulder, and said gently: "Don't say that, Chong Junior Brother. The elixir you refine is very effective, and everyone likes to eat it."
Hearing this, Chong Daoren suddenly raised his head, his eyes full of surprise: "Really, Brother? Do you all like to eat the pills I refine?"
"Why, you don't believe what brother said?" Li Fan frowned.
Chong Dao Ren quickly shook his head: "Of course I believe what Senior Brother said."
Then he said dejectedly: "But I no longer have the materials for alchemy. I can no longer make the elixir that everyone likes."
Li Fan touched Chong Daoren's head and said softly, "It's okay, I'm still here."
"Let's refine my brother into a pill, so that everyone can have pills to eat again."
"Senior Brother, you..." Taoist Chong seemed shocked by Li Fan's words. He widened his eyes and looked at Li Fan.
Li Fan just sighed and continued, "Although I entered the sect early, I am not talented enough and my cultivation has always been very low. My senior brothers and sisters are all fighting on the front lines, and I am the only one who can't help."
"Every time I think of this, I feel extremely heartbroken and hate my own incompetence."
"So, turn me into an elixir. That way, I can be of some help."
Li Fan grabbed Chong Daoren's hand and said excitedly.
The Taoist Chong stared at Li Fan in a daze, seeming to be deeply moved.
"It turns out that Senior Brother is the same as me."
"But my senior brother is much greater than me. He would rather sacrifice himself to help the senior brothers and sisters on the front line."
"And I, and I will just run away. I will just hide in this tower."
The Chongdao man grabbed his hair in pain.
"No, I can't just watch my brother die."
He seemed to have suddenly thought of something, and suddenly said to Li Fan excitedly: "Brother, I can make pills for you! As long as you eat the pills I make! Your strength will definitely not be very low, and you can go to the front line to help!"
Chongdaoren seemed to have found his goal: "Refine the elixir, I want to refine the elixir!"
He reached his hand into his wide Taoist robe and moved it.
Not long after, he took out two golden pills.
"Brother, here are the pills for you."
Taoist Chong held the pill in both hands, smiling, and handed it to Li Fan.
Li Fan did not take the pill, but untied the Taoist robe of the Insect Taoist.
I saw...
Under the wide Taoist robe, there was only an empty skeleton left.
Only a little bit of barely visible flesh remained on the bones.
The Chongdao people used their own flesh and blood.
Refining the elixir.
(End of this chapter)
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