Chapter 148
Ming Qiao ran halfway and before he got close to the alchemy room, someone grabbed his collar and pulled him back.
"How can you be so reckless, kid? Do you think you can just walk into the alchemy room casually?"
Ming Qiao was small in stature, so his feet were lifted off the ground due to the pulling.
The cub, with its chubby little feet raised in the air, was stunned for a moment, then started flapping its wings violently.
"Let me go! I'm going in!"
Ming Qiao struggled, as hard to hold down as a piglet waiting to be slaughtered.
The adult who picked him up was thrown around by him until his arms became numb.
"Stop, stop, stop! Don't move!"
The other party put him down, but did not forget to remind him: "You can't just enter this alchemy room casually. It will be dangerous if you go in."
Ming Qiao: “…”
Ming Qiao frowned and asked, "What's the danger?"
The other party said angrily: "Be careful if you go in and get hurt by the explosion. A child as delicate as you will cry for a year if you get hurt by the explosion."
Ming Qiao: “…”
Another one who looks down on children!
He snorted heavily, took two steps back, and distanced himself from the person in front of him.
"I'm not afraid of explosions!"
He raised his chin and said proudly: "I can also make pills!"
Uncle Lingzhou is an alchemist. In addition to making delicious candies for him, he can also make various kinds of pills.
He stayed in Uncle Lingzhou's alchemy room, where Uncle Lingzhou taught him how to make alchemy.
From entry-level elixirs to more advanced elixirs, he refined them all according to the recipes.
Uncle Lingzhou said that he is a little genius!
"How did you learn to brag, kid? Alchemy is not just playing house. If you can make alchemy, then I can become an immortal."
The adult standing face to face with Mingqiao looked at him as if he was looking at a little boaster.
Ming Qiao felt suffocated by this look.
With the people outside blocking him, he tried to turn around and run into the alchemy room several times, but was pulled out each time.
The last time, before he ran in, a loud noise suddenly came from the alchemy room.
It seemed like something exploded.
After this sound, the door of the alchemy room suddenly opened.
The woman in black who had just walked in had her face turned black from the explosion.
She raised her hand and wiped her face, then used the cleansing technique with a gloomy expression.
"Xuan Ru! Get out here!"
The woman in black was very irritable. She kicked the alchemy room next to her and said, "How dare you tamper with the alchemy furnace?!"
"Get out of here!"
The woman in black kicked the door hard, but no matter how hard she kicked, the door wouldn't open.
If they continue like this, by the time Xuan Ru successfully refines the elixir, the winner of this competition will be clear at a glance.
Just as the woman in black continued to kick the door in anger, a childish voice suddenly sounded from behind her.
"Come on! I'll help you open the door!"
It was Ming Qiao who couldn't wait to talk to his senior sister. He grasped the small wooden sword, and under the puzzled gaze of the woman in black, he chopped the door open with a "bang".
The door was cut open. The woman in black, Lin Xia, was stunned for a few seconds. Then, between going up to talk to the child and looking for Xuan Ru, she chose the latter.
"Xuan Ru, are you so afraid of me winning?"
Lin Xia looked at Xuan Ru with a mocking look on her pretty face. She asked in a cold voice: "How shameless of you to tamper with the alchemy furnace I use?!"
"You are talking nonsense!"
After Xuan Ru was forced out, she naturally denied Lin Xia's accusations.
She retorted to Lin Xia: "It's obvious that you knew you couldn't beat me, so you said it was the stove problem."
"Your furnace exploded, or maybe it's because you don't have good skills!"
The two of them started arguing on the spot.
The crowd of onlookers almost unanimously stood on Xuan Ru's side. They blamed Lin Xia and even wanted to make Lin Xia the loser.
In this one-sided situation, no matter how angry Lin Xia is, he cannot defeat everyone.
Her pretty face was gloomy and scary to look at.
Ming Qiao is not afraid.
He rushed forward two steps, and the chubby boy hugged Lin Xia's legs with his hands.
He hugged Lin Xia tightly, and then he looked up at the people who were still talking, gathered his strength, and shouted, "Stop arguing!"
Ming Qiao shouted very loudly this time.
After he shouted, the people present were actually stunned by him.
"The game isn't over yet, who said my senior sister lost!"
"My senior sister will win!"
Ming Qiao's small voice startled everyone present and also made Lin Xia a little confused.
"What senior sister?"
Lin Xia lowered her head, looked at the little fat boy on her lap, frowned and said, "I'm not your senior sister, I don't know you."
"You are my senior sister!"
Ming Qiao was fierce towards everyone just now, but when he looked at Lin Xia, he was not fierce at all.
He looked at Lin Xia with sparkling eyes, and his voice softened instantly: "Senior Sister, I'm Qiao Qiao!"
"I came down from heaven!"
Lin Xia: “…”
Lin Xia's eyes widened.
She looked up at the sky, then looked down at the cub on her lap.
After being stunned for several seconds, she confirmed in disbelief: "You, you really came down?"
"I'm coming down!!"
Ming Qiao rubbed his senior sister affectionately. Although he had never gotten along with the fourth senior sister, when he heard that the fourth senior sister had found medicine and made pills for him, he knew that the fourth senior sister must be a good senior sister who loved and cared for him!
The big and the small looked at each other, and Lin Xia finally reacted and bent down and picked up the little guy on her lap.
"I should have guessed."
Lin Xia looked at the baby she held in her arms and murmured, "There is no other child who can grow up to be like this except you."
She heard from her fellow brothers in the sect that—
Mingqiao is the most beautiful child in the world.
Anyone who meets him will not doubt this statement.
Lin Xia had no idea what "best looking" meant before.
Now, she finally understood.
The senior brothers were not exaggerating at all; their description of Ming Qiao was completely true to reality.
Ming Qiao was immersed in the joy of reuniting with his senior sister, and he even took the initiative to rub her face.
The senior sister who originally had a sullen face now had smiles in her eyes.
Just when the big and the small were still looking happy together, Xuan Ru, who was being ignored nearby, interrupted them.
"Lin Xia, do you want to just admit defeat?"
"I recognize you—"
Lin Xia swallowed back the curse words that followed.
She was obviously thinking of the baby she was still holding.
"Senior Sister, let's not argue with her anymore. Let's go back to the alchemy room. I have a new furnace!"
Ming Qiao hugged her senior sister's neck, and said proudly, "I want a very good stove. It was given to me by my uncle Lingzhou."
When Lin Xia heard that Ming Qiao had a stove, she knew that this stove must be no ordinary item.
She nodded, and went back neatly with the baby in her arms.
The two returned to the alchemy room where the explosion had just occurred, and Lin Xia cleaned up the scene a little.
Afterwards, Ming Qiao took out the stove from his storage ring as if he was presenting a treasure.
"Senior sister, this is for you!"
Ming Qiao generously gave the stove to Lin Xia.
Lin Xia knew that this was an extremely rare treasure just by looking at the stove.
As she turned on the furnace to prepare for alchemy, she said, "Qiao Qiao, I will use your furnace for a while."
"After you use it, I will return it to you."
Ming Qiao waved her hands: "No need to return it, I don't need a stove, I have other stoves."
He is not showing off his treasures, but he really has no shortage of treasures.
Zhu Ling Clan, Dragon Clan, and Grandma...
They all loved to give him gifts, no, they loved to give him treasures directly.
The kid who used to beg for food is now a very rich kid!
Lin Xia has already started making pills, and she is quite talented in this area.
At this moment, while she was refining the elixir, she was still able to concentrate and continue chatting with Ming Qiao.
"Sister, I have better materials than the ones you used."
Ming Qiao was also paying attention to the alchemy furnace, and he contributed several of his own materials.
Lin Xia originally wanted to refuse, but when she saw Ming Qiao's sparkling eyes, she swallowed the words of refusal back.
"Okay, thank you Qiao Qiao."
Lin Xia took the materials and reached into his pocket to retrieve a small bottle.
“It’s got sugar in it.”
Lin Xia said: "Try it, this is the candy I made."
Ming Qiao: “!”
Mingqiao opened the bottle and poured the candy inside into his mouth.
It's sweet and has a special fragrance.
Ming Qiao, a veteran candy eater, was full of praise for this candy.
“It’s delicious!”
Ming Qiao said happily: "This candy is delicious."
"It's delicious. I'll make it for you again."
While Lin Xia was speaking, her hands were not moving in a disorderly manner at all.
One of them was refining the elixir while the other was sitting on a small stool and waiting obediently.
I don’t know how much time passed.
With the help of the furnace provided by Ming Qiao and high-grade materials, Lin Xia's elixir was actually refined earlier than Xuan Ru's.
Lin Xia, who had refined the elixir, was also surprised at her success this time.
"Qiao Qiao, I have refined... a heavenly-grade elixir?"
Just at the moment when the elixir was refined, a bolt of lightning struck from the sky.
After the thunder dissipated, a rich fragrance also spread.
The kid who was almost hit by lightning immediately jumped up from the small stool.
He patted his chest, a little frightened.
"Yes, I guess so."
"The book says that these things will happen when refining the Tianji elixir."
Ming Qiao talked about the knowledge he knew.
After he finished speaking, an expression of joy uncontrollably appeared on Lin Xia's face.
"Qiao Qiao, it's you! If it weren't for you, I would never be able to refine the Tianji elixir!"
Lin Xia picked up the cub who was standing on the ground.
She felt that her cub was a lucky cub!
Lin Xia hugged her baby and celebrated. Outside the door, Xuan Ru looked at it all in astonishment.
As a fellow alchemist, she naturally knew the grade of Lin Xia's lightning-attracting pill.
Her face turned pale in an instant.
"impossible."
She said to herself: "How is it possible..."
The alchemist who can refine heaven-grade elixirs cannot be the Lin Xia in front of him!
She couldn't accept it.
When Lin Xia heard the noise behind her, she picked up her baby and walked out.
"My elixir is ready. It's clear who will win and who will lose."
Lin Xia looked at the distraught Xuan Ru and raised her chin.
She said bluntly: "You should remember our bet. Now, you can die."
Xuan Ru: “…”
The onlookers outside: "..."
These people have known Xuanru for a long time and have some friendship with him.
Now that they saw that Lin Xia was really trying to force Xuan Ru to death, they spoke up to stop her without thinking.
"It's just a competition. How can you really let Xuanru die? You are such a vicious woman."
"That's right. Xuan Ru invited you to compete in order to seek justice for someone. She was doing this out of kindness. How could you do this to her?"
Ming Qiao frowned when she heard these people talking without knowing right from wrong.
He frowned and looked at the people in front of him.
"Have you forgotten that the punishment for the competition was set by this evil woman?"
Mingqiao pointed his chubby finger at Xuanru.
"If my senior sister loses now, do you think she will let her go?"
This question makes people choke.
They knew very well in their minds that if Lin Xia was the loser, they would definitely ask for Lin Xia to die.
Seeing the situation come to a stalemate, Lin Xia narrowed her eyes.
She said, "If you want me to let Xuan Ru go, that's fine. I need two kinds of medicine from the Beast Forest. You can find them for me, or take me to find them."
As Lin Xia spoke, she took out the two medicines she wanted.
After she finished speaking, the expressions of the people around her changed.
"The medicine you're talking about is the hair and horns of the Beast God! You're being disrespectful to the Beast God!"
No one was willing to give Lin Xiati the two medicines.
But if he doesn't give it to her, according to the competition just now, Xuan Ru will die.
Xuan Ru is one of the few alchemy practitioners here.
People who live here on weekdays really need her.
"Either give it to me or let her die. Your choice."
Lin Xia gave them the choice.
These people looked at each other, and some of them had evil thoughts and wanted to get rid of Lin Xia.
But Lin Xia is an alchemy cultivator as well as a body cultivator.
She can fight.
Not only can she fight, Mingqiao can fight too.
Not long after, Ming Qiao's chubby feet were stepping on a man's face, and his chubby hands had just thrown away another man.
He said nothing, only listening to his senior sister asking in a vicious voice whether the people on the ground were convinced.
The people who were beaten into submission had to be persuaded.
They hesitated for a long time between Xuan Ru's life and offending the Lord Beast God, and finally, they chose to let Xuan Ru die.
Neither Lin Xia nor Ming Qiao attacked Xuan Ru.
It was these villagers who were frightened by the beating and mistakenly believed that Lin Xia and Ming Qiao wanted to kill people, so they attacked Xuan Ru.
Xuan Ru was caught off guard.
When she was knocked down from behind, she didn't die from the first blow.
The second and third hits came up...
It made her fall completely.
"If we offend Lord Beast God, we will all die! Xuan Ru is kind-hearted, she definitely doesn't want anything to happen to us!"
They clearly killed someone, but these people are still justifying it.
They said Xuan Ru did it willingly.
They also said that Xuanru would understand them.
Ming Qiao looked at Xuan Ru, who was lying on the ground with his eyes open, and suddenly felt that compared to Xuan Ru——
The people in front of me are even crazier.
They have no fear of killing.
Even if it's someone familiar and someone they have had a relationship with.
Xuan Ru was gone just like that. Lin Xia looked at her body and didn't bother her anymore.
"Qiao Qiao, let's go."
Lin Xia came over and picked up Ming Qiao.
They left the crowd.
After walking a few steps, Ming Qiao took out a small magic weapon and started shaking You Qing.
"elder brother."
Mingqiao was afraid of disturbing her brother, so she spoke in a low voice.
He only called out once and then stopped.
After You Qing responded to him, he continued to ask: "Are you done with your work? Should I still wait for you at the noodle stall?"
"Well, now that we're done, wait for me at the noodle stand and we'll go to the inn and rest for a while."
"good!"
Ming Qiao agreed and showed Lin Xia the way.
They returned to the noodle stall, where they waited for You Qing.
You Yuan and Lin Xia's meeting seemed peaceful.
They had previously communicated through correspondence and had also met outside.
At this moment, when they met again, You Qing called out in a calm tone, "Fourth Senior Sister."
Lin Xia pinched her face and said, "Don't keep a straight face like that. Learn from Qiao Qiao. Look how soft Qiao Qiao looks."
You Qing: “…”
I'm afraid he can't learn this.
Lin Xia pinched You Qing's face, but You Qing neither dodged nor resisted.
It can also be seen from this that this pair of senior and junior sisters still have a strong sense of friendship as fellow disciples.
"Senior sister, let's go back to the inn and talk."
Now outside on the street, You Qing didn't want to reminisce about the past, nor did he want to talk about business.
He took Lin Xia and Ming Qiao into the inn.
In the room, You Qing set up a barrier.
He poured two glasses of water, one for Lin Xia and one for Ming Qiao.
"Sister, why are you here?"
You Qing first asked Lin Xia why she came: "Are the herbs you need here?"
"Yes, I'm still short of two medicines."
Lin Xia readily admitted: "There is a beast god here. I heard that this beast god can be used as medicine. It is said that the hair on his body is the hair of Bai Ze."
"His pair of dragon horns are also the horns of a divine dragon."
"And the scales under his hair are the scales of a black snake."
"If the rumors are correct, Bai Ze's hair, dragon horns, and other materials are all good medicinal materials."
"If he really is a beast god that merged with many mythical beasts, I think his blood would work."
After Lin Xia finished talking about the rumored origins of the Lord Beast God, Ming Qiao immediately jumped out to debunk it.
"He has nothing to do with the divine beasts! He doesn't have Bai Ze's bloodline, nor does he have the bloodline of the divine dragon. The horns on his head are different from dragon horns!"
Ming Qiao knew Bai Ze, and he had even seen Bai Ze's portrait.
Bai Ze was extremely beautiful, but she disappeared many years ago.
His grandmother knew Bai Ze.
I heard that Bai Ze once passed by the Demon Palace and treated his injured grandfather.
When grandma saw this scene, she thought grandpa wanted to raise Bai Ze.
Because of this incident, when his grandfather later talked to him about Bai Ze, he unconsciously lowered his voice.
He secretly said that grandma must not hear these two words.
He boasted that it was the first time that his Dalong became jealous because of Bai Ze.
Of course, my grandfather at that time thought that jealousy meant that the pet was jealous of its owner and would not allow the owner to keep any other pets.
Now, with the passage of time and the passage of time, my grandfather, who has come to his senses, has belatedly realized something.
He realized that perhaps he had missed something back then.
Mingqiao thought about his grandfather in his little head for a while, and soon he returned to the topic.
He suddenly revealed his little horns.
"Senior sister, look, this is the dragon horn."
The dragon horns of that beast god were fake.
Lin Xia: “?”
Lin Xia suspected that she was dazzled.
She looked at the little dragon horns that suddenly appeared on Mingqiao's head and opened her mouth.
After a while, she found her voice again: "Qiao Qiao, are you a dragon?"
"Yes, I am a little dragon, and my grandmother is a dragon, so I can become a dragon too."
Lin Xia: “…”
Lin Xia really didn't know what to say.
She raised her hand and wanted to touch the dragon's horn.
But Ming Qiao dodged reflexively. He covered his little dragon's horn, looked at Lin Xia with moist eyes, and said softly, "Don't touch the horn, it's itchy."
The dragon's horns are the most sensitive part of the dragon.
The horns of Mingqiao, the little fat dragon, are no exception.
Neither his father nor his mother would touch his corners.
Only his elder brother always touched his little horn. Although his brother felt itchy when he touched it, Mingqiao was still very indulgent towards his brother.
He allowed his brother to touch his little horn.
"Okay, I won't touch it, I'll just look at it."
Lin Xia carefully studied the dragon horn for a long time. She asked, "Qiao Qiao, what color are you, little dragon?"
"It's golden."
When Ming Qiao saw his senior sister asking a question, he simply transformed into a little dragon to show her.
The golden little fat dragon is so dazzling.
Lin Xia watched without blinking.
She looked straight at the little fat dragon and reached out to hug him.
"Oh my god... am I dreaming? I really hugged a dragon."
Dragons, whether in the upper world or the lower world, are divine.
Everyone has a special feeling towards dragons.
In the underworld, where there are still emperors, the emperors all call themselves the true dragon emperor.
"Qiao Qiao, do you know why the Beast God is so revered?"
Lin Xia held the little fat dragon in her arms lovingly. Although the little fat dragon was heavy, she still held him tightly.
She just held him like this and talked to Mingqiao.
"The Beast God claims to be the incarnation of a dragon. He can fulfill many people's wishes. He can also control the weather."
"Because of him, there is no poor household among the villagers here."
"In addition to the villagers here, there are also people from far away who believe in him."
When Lin Xia said this, You Qing, who had gone out to get information, added a piece of news that made Ming Qiao even more shocked.
“Qiao Qiao, the offerings to the Beast God are not only organized by these villagers.”
"There are still many people who condone this behavior behind the scenes."
For example, this piece of land belongs to a small country.
The information provided by Lin Xia and You Qing made Ming Qiao extremely angry.
One is an ugly guy who has some abilities but obviously does more evil than good. He pretends to be the incarnation of a divine beast and eats offerings here while harming people's lives.
Ming Qiao really couldn't stand it at all.
"Brother, how many days do you have left to offer sacrifices?"
"Originally it was five days later, but we smashed his idol, so the villagers decided to offer him sacrifices tomorrow in advance to appease his anger."
You Qing went out for a trip and found out a lot of things.
Not only did he find out the date of the tribute, he also got a more useful clue.
"Qiao Qiao, I also heard some clues about the heart of the jungle. After we deal with the beast god tomorrow and bring the child out, we will search in detail."
"Um!"
Ming Qiao nodded vigorously.
Tomorrow we will be able to rescue the child and kill this fake beast god. We also have a clue about the heart of the jungle, and the day when we can go back to find our parents is just around the corner.
Mingqiao suddenly felt that the road ahead was bright.
This night.
Lin Xia wanted to hold the little fat dragon in her arms while she sleeps.
Unfortunately, her junior fellow apprentice mercilessly took the little fat dragon away and said good night to her coldly.
Without the little fat dragon in her arms, Lin Xia felt extremely lonely.
The little fat dragon that was carried away by You Qing did not transform back to its original form even when he slept.
He coiled around his brother's body and stayed like that all night.
The next day.
Mingqiao asked his brother to rub his scales for him early in the morning.
He handed the soap to his brother and urged him, "Clean my scales and make them shiny!"
Today, the fake beast god will come out to accept offerings.
He wanted to show it to everyone, so that everyone could see clearly—
What does a real divine beast look like!
What does a real dragon look like?
The author has something to say:
Baby Dragon: Awooo! This dragon is here!
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