Chapter 62 Glimpse
Ding Yu exudes a scholarly air, and even holding a coffin in his hand does not affect his demeanor at all.
"I have seventy-three people here. In case anything goes wrong, I'll bring everyone I can."
Qi Mingzhe clapped his hands and said, "One hundred and twelve of us are definitely enough! Junior Brother Shang, please come down first."
As soon as Shang Siding came down, everyone was startled. His face was red, sweat beads on his forehead, and he kept rubbing his ears.
Qiao Yangrun glanced at Luo Xuanyi with suspicion. Luo Xuanyi immediately walked forward to observe and found that there was no incense in his hand and a thin layer of ashes on his clothes.
Lu Kewei reached out and shone his hand around him. After these things turned into mist and dissipated again, Shang Siding's expression gradually calmed down, but he still kept silent.
"No wonder we didn't hear him say anything more later. It would have been a good thing if he had just kept his mouth shut." Qiao Yangrun sighed.
"Brother Shang, why are you so reluctant to light the lamps and incense after drinking Mingtai wine? Mingtai wine can make you feel like you're in touch with the gods. In addition to the ashes and undead spirits, there are also twenty-two kinds of medicinal qi in the fog here. If you come into direct contact with them, your brain will explode."
Luo Xuanyi deliberately dragged on to explain things clearly, lest the group of people, insane as they were, would think she was plotting something. However, due to the lack of readily available elixirs, Luo Xuanyi simply cut open five of his fingers to drain the blood and remove the poison.
It was not until Shang Siding breathed a sigh of relief and started coughing loudly that Luo Xuanyi took out the healing powder and applied it to him casually.
"I told you to be stingy." Qi Mingzhe scolded him with a smile, but Shang Siding did not refute him. Instead, he stared at Qi Mingzhe in silence. Gradually, everyone felt that the atmosphere was not right.
"What did you see up there?" Qiao Yangrun suddenly asked.
Shang Siding didn't answer. He hesitated for a moment, his eyes darting between the Qiming people.
"I-I just suddenly thought of what that pattern was. Hey, Senior Brother Qi, can you guess? You definitely can't guess it! If you can't guess it, I'll take your place next time it's your turn, how about that?"
Luo Xuanyi didn't believe his words at all, but Qi Mingzhe immediately responded, "Don't keep us in suspense. Junior Brother Ding has everything ready since we arrived. Just tell us directly. It's not our turn to go up now."
"I don't think you can think of anything. Are you just trying to cover up your shame?" Ding Yu also said in a literary way. The timing seemed to be to smooth things over, but the attitude was completely different.
Luo Xuanyi looked over and saw that Qiao Yangrun and Lu Kewei were also looking suspicious. Even if the people here had nothing to hide, they would still be suspicious for a long time, let alone something so obvious.
"I deliberately avoided burning incense so I could concentrate. Don't think I'm stupid!" Shang Siding's efforts at being funny were completely in vain, so he had to answer seriously, "I only remember its common name was the Pill Swallowing Beast. It's long been extinct. It was a natural spirit beast that existed at the same time as the first generation ten thousand years ago."
"I remember a senior brother told me that at that time, the essence of heaven and earth was extremely pure, and the elixirs after they were refined did not even have elixir poison!"
When he said this, Luo Xuanyi finally remembered: "I have seen related stories in my master's books, but there were no pictures so I couldn't recognize them."
"Third Sister Yi knows? Tell us now!" Qi Mingzhe was overjoyed, his tone extremely urgent. If they had followed Qiao Yangrun's method and avoided mentioning these things, even if they knew, they wouldn't be as urgent as he was.
Luo Xuanyi increasingly suspected Qi Mingzhe was hiding something from them. Sensing the atmosphere wasn't right, she pretended to fear his reaction and took a few steps back. As soon as she did, Ding Yu and Qiao Yangrun immediately double-teamed her from both sides. While Lu Kewei didn't reveal his attitude, his position implied that Qi Mingzhe's retreat was blocked.
Qiao Yangrun asked directly, "Qimingzhe, if you don't say anything, I'm afraid we won't be able to break through the realm together. Why did you hide the matter of Hongguang?"
Luo Xuanyi was startled, and Shang Siding had already asked bluntly: "What, you also saw the red light? Why didn't you tell me before?"
"Who has no bolt on your mouth like you?"
Ding Yu also said hesitantly, "I also saw the red light from afar, but it's indeed strange. Perhaps Senior Brother Qi can explain it to you?"
Qi Mingzhe's expression changed for a while. Luo Xuanyi had retreated to the outermost circle. The opening in front of Qi Mingzhe was blocked by Shang Siding. Even though Qiao Yangrun and Lu Kewei noticed that Luo Xuanyi was ready to escape at any time, they didn't want to care. They just thought that Luo Xuanyi was a medicine boy with no means, so it would be better for her to retreat far away, so as not to kill her and have no one to use her when they needed her later.
Luo Xuanyi quietly grasped a silent pill in her hand, deciding whether to stay or flee based on the situation. An idea slowly formed within her, but it would be best if Qi Mingzhe could provide some confirmation.
After carefully analyzing the situation, Qi Mingzhe decided to speak, but he insisted that Luo Xuanyi tell him about the Dan-Swallowing Beast first.
The others were curious, too. Luo Xuanyi had long since realized that perhaps these materials, which she had only used to study ancient characters, might contain valuable information. Revealing it might benefit Qiming. Otherwise, she could still escape with the shortcut Qiao Yangrun had provided.
She thought for a while and decided to talk about just one part.
"In ancient texts, this spiritual beast is called Dinglin. No one knows how it was born, but when the alchemist refines his first batch of elixirs, it suddenly appears and jumps into the furnace. From then on, it resides in the furnace and never emerges. If the furnace is damaged, it will disappear. And only the alchemist can see it. Therefore, there is a saying that Dinglin is an illusion formed by the natural spiritual energy of the elixir."
"Ding Lin lives in the furnace, and even with the burning of heavenly fire, he remains unharmed. It is said that as long as Ding Lin is in the furnace, the alchemist will definitely succeed in making the elixir."
"After the end of the ancient era, Dinglin never appeared again. With the damage of the ancient alchemy furnace, the last Dinglin also disappeared six thousand years ago. Since then, alchemists have been accustomed to engraving the image of Dinglin in their alchemy furnaces to protect themselves."
"Is there nothing else?" Qi Mingzhe stared at Luo Xuanyi's face with obvious disappointment and suspicion, but Qiao Yangrun cut off the conversation.
"Okay, tell me why you're so determined to mislead us. You probably have the correct way to leave, right?"
After a final confirmation that yielded no results, Qi Mingzhe simply stated his reason: "I'm under my master's orders to capture an ancient treasure, the one you call the Red Light and the Golden Light."
"Could it be a magical elixir treasure that's about to transform?" Shang Siding blurted out, but it was too late for him to react. He could only say unhappily, "I encountered not only golden light but also red light. My treasures became restless when these two lights approached. But when the golden light approached, their restlessness seemed more like instinctive respect and desire. I've only seen this kind of restlessness when encountering a magical elixir treasure."
"That's really priceless, no wonder you kept silent before." Ding Yu suddenly realized.
"This is no ordinary treasure. It's the only semi-transcendent immortal pill in the world, and it's been waiting for the full transformation for ten thousand years."
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