"What's inside? A demon?" Li Xiu was a little confused and didn't know what Lao Dao meant.
If Lao Dao wanted to give him the Magic Spirit, he could just give him the Magic Spirit Ring. Why would he burn the Magic Spirit in a furnace?
If this is a wild demon trapped in the furnace, then Lao Dao can just kill it and leave anything he has to him. There is no need to wait for Li Xiu to come and kill it personally.
"How should I put it? This thing can be said to be a demon spirit, or it can be said not to be a demon spirit." Lao Dao pointed at the brass furnace and said, "This furnace is called the Demon Refining Furnace. It has existed for a long time. The demon spirit inside was thrown into it by an elder who used to guard the Heavenly Gate. It has been refined in this Demon Refining Furnace for at least sixty or seventy years. It is hard to say whether it is still a demon spirit now."
"What do you mean? Can this furnace also burn evil spirits into humans?" The more Li Xiu listened, the more he found it interesting.
"Your idea is a bit far-fetched. It is certainly impossible to burn a human being. This furnace is called the Demon Refining Furnace, and it is naturally used to refine demons. Once the demons are refined away, what remains is the spirit." Lao Dao knocked on the furnace with his fingers, and there was a clanging sound from inside the furnace.
The thing inside seemed to sense Lao Dao's provocation and was banging its body against the furnace wall, making a clanging sound.
Lao Dao continued, "The great elder who guarded this place before me guarded here for decades after taking over, but he didn't see the body of this thing completely refined, and ended up losing his life. Before I came here, I estimated that the demon spirit inside had almost been refined to a pure spirit state. As expected, now the body of this demon spirit has been completely refined, leaving only pure spirit. It's just the right time to use it, it's a good deal for you kid."
"What's the use of pure spirit?" Jiuxiaoyun was also curious. He had never heard of such a thing.
"Then there are many uses. The most common method is to directly integrate the spirit into the contract. The quality of the original embryo of the contract we use determines the strength of the contract's body. The higher the quality of the original embryo, the stronger the body of the contract. However, what determines the quality and level of the contract is the purity, quality and quantity of the energy in the contract. Some low-quality contracts have higher original embryo quality than high-quality contracts, which means that the body of the contract is strong enough, but the purity and quality of the energy inside are not enough. If the spirit of pure energy is integrated into the contract and the purity and quality of the energy are improved, the quality and level of the contract can be improved..."
After a pause, Lao Dao continued, "However, if you want to refine the body of the demon spirit, leaving only pure energy, and maintain its spiritual existence, that is a technical job. Apart from the demon refining furnace, there are not many things that can complete this step. Moreover, it takes a long time to refine the demon spirit, and ordinary people don't have the life to wait. The stronger the demon spirit refined in the demon refining furnace, the longer it takes. For example, the demon spirit here is an S-level glorious demon spirit. It took decades to completely refine the demon spirit body, leaving only pure spirit. The two old guys in front were not blessed to enjoy the results, and it is useless to me, so you kid got it."
"Old Dao, you mean that the spirits here can improve the quality and level of the contract. If it is a glorious contract, can it be further improved?" Li Xiu asked in surprise.
"Don't just think about good things all day long. If it can improve the Brilliant Contract to a higher level, then you will have the chance to use it. I used it myself." Lao Dao explained, "Such a spirit can only improve the quality of the contract to the same quality and level as the demon spirit. It can only be used on low-quality contracts. If you have any low-quality and low-level contracts that you want to improve, bring them out and I will help you inject spirits into them. It is estimated that it can be upgraded to Brilliant Quality S-level, which should be of some help to you."
"Is that all?" Li Xiu was a little disappointed.
Lao Dao was immediately angry and said, "I gave you a glorious S-level contract, but you are still not satisfied. Are you asking for heaven? If you don't want me to give it to someone else, I don't know how many people want it but can't get it."
"I can't refuse a gift from an elder. How could I refuse it?" Li Xiu summoned his Forbidden Spear: "This is my symbiotic contract. Old Dao, please work hard and help me upgrade it to S-level."
"The symbiotic contract cannot be used, only the parasitic contract can be used." said Lao Dao.
"Why?" Li Xiu was depressed again.
"The symbiotic contract is one with your body. If the level of the symbiotic contract is raised using this method, its energy will far exceed the energy your body can withstand. After you take it back, its energy will be shared with your body. With your embryonic quality, your body will probably be directly blown up. Unless you and the symbiotic contract are thrown in to be refined together, don't even think about that good thing." Lao Dao laughed.
"As for parasitic contracts, I have several on me. Let me think about which one to use." Li Xiu looked at his several parasitic contracts.
The gentleman's hat itself is of glorious quality. If you use it to upgrade it, it can only increase some levels, and the quality cannot be improved. It seems a bit of a waste.
The Mirror of Darkness is just a stronger night vision ability, and it doesn't seem to be of much use to improve it.
After thinking for a while, Li Xiu pulled out the Fire Lotus Sword and handed it to Lao Dao: "Just upgrade it."
"The parasitic contract with fire attribute is more suitable. I'm really worried that you would get a kettle or something and let me throw it in." Lao Dao said as he opened the lid of the magic refining furnace. There seemed to be a ray of golden light trying to rush out, but it was slapped down by Lao Dao with one palm, and then the Fire Lotus Sword was thrown in as well.
There was a sudden crackling sound inside the Demon Refining Furnace. Lao Dao reached out and pressed on the furnace a few times. He pressed on the animal heads protruding from the four directions of the furnace.
Every time the old knife was pressed, the golden flame in the furnace became three times stronger. After four times, the golden flame in the furnace was as hot as the sun, making it impossible to look directly at it.
The crackling sounds inside gradually died down, and soon it was completely quiet.
"Wait, it takes some time to infuse spirits, probably at least two or three days." Lao Dao pointed to the city and said, "There is no place to hide in this city. I will take you to find a place to hide in the city later. You can come out after the people from the Li family leave."
"Okay." Li Xiu nodded. He didn't want Lao Dao to be implicated because of him.
"By the way, Lao Dao, I encountered some strange things on the way here. Can you help me sort them out?" Li Xiu recounted the strange things he encountered on the way here.
Jiuxiaoyun, Jingli and Shachu also knew that Li Xiu must have encountered something when he came here, but they didn't dare to ask since Li Xiu didn't say it. After hearing it now, they probably understood why Li Xiu didn't say it at that time.
If Li Xiu had told them at that time, I'm afraid they would also become suspicious and who knows what might happen.
"When swimming across the Yanbo Pool, he was the only one who felt that the water was hot. Didn't you feel anything?" After pondering for a moment, Lao Dao looked at Jiu Xiaoyun and the others with a serious expression and asked.
"No, the water is cool and doesn't feel hot." Jiuxiaoyun said.
Sha Chu and Jing Li also shook their heads, indicating that they found nothing unusual.
Lao Dao looked at Li Xiu again and asked, "After you cut the black lotus, the heat still didn't disappear, right?"
"Yes, I feel the water is still hot." Li Xiu saw that Lao Dao's face was not right, and then asked: "Is there any problem?"
"This is a serious problem. You might really be in big trouble." Lao Dao looked at Li Xiu solemnly.
"How big of a trouble is it?" Li Xiu didn't ask what kind of trouble it was. He just wanted to know whether the trouble could be solved.
"Compared to this trouble, the Li family's problem is nothing." Lao Dao chuckled and said, "Do you know where the Yanbo Pond is?"
"Is this the place where Concubine Lian sleeps?" Ever since Li Xiu saw the skeletons at the bottom of the pool, he felt that the story told by Jiu Xiaoyun was more reliable.
"That's bullshit Lotus Concubine, that's a story made up by the Demon Country people, there was no Lotus Concubine around the Emperor of Heaven." After a pause, Lao Dao continued, "But that story was not made up out of thin air. Although there was no Lotus Concubine and the Emperor of Heaven was not a tyrant, many people did die in the Misty Pool."
"Elder Dao, please don't keep me in suspense." Jiu Xiaoyun was very curious and wanted to know what was going on.
"I have also heard some things from the Great Elder before. He knows magic runes and has seen some records in a temple." Lao Dao told the story again.
It is somewhat different from the stories told by Jiuxiaoyun and Jingli, yet seems to be related.
When the Demon Kingdom was at its peak, it conquered countless demon races and even captured some royal families of the demon races and held them hostage in the Heavenly City.
Among the demon races that were fighting against the Demon Kingdom at that time, there was a race called "evil ghosts" that posed the greatest threat.
During the most prosperous period of the Demon Kingdom, they were unable to completely subdue the evil ghost clan. Later, they used a strategy to capture the king of the evil ghost clan and brought him to Tiancheng, and suppressed him in Yanbo Lake. In order to suppress the king of evil ghosts, many powerful men of the Demon Kingdom died, and it was said that the Yanbo Lake was almost filled up.
Taking advantage of the suppressed evil ghost king, the demons lured the evil ghost clan into rushing into the Tianmen without regard for the consequences. Using the net that had been laid long ago, they killed countless evil ghosts and demons. Even so, some evil ghosts were not killed. Instead, they used their special talents and skills to parasitize on some of the demons.
Among those Demonic people who were parasitized by evil spirits, many were relatives of powerful figures at the time. If one wanted to kill the evil spirits that were parasitizing them, one had to kill their relatives as well.
Even the Emperor of Heaven could not do anything about this kind of thing, so he could only imprison all the demons who were possessed by evil spirits.
"If I remember correctly, the place where the seal suppresses the evil ghost king is where the black lotus is. You killed the black lotus, and it is estimated that the evil ghost king has escaped. You felt something on your back on the single-plank bridge, which means that the evil ghost king is using you to cross the single-plank bridge."
"The name of that single-plank bridge is actually the Duxian Bridge. Only the demons can walk across it. Demon spirits cannot walk across it. We, the Earthlings, can also walk across the Duxian Bridge thanks to the demons. The evil ghost king cannot walk across it by himself, so he can only use you to carry him across the bridge. I guess he has gone to rescue the evil ghost that possessed the demons before."
"So, we've gotten into a big disaster." Sha Chu said with a grim expression.
"It's not a big disaster. Tiancheng has been destroyed a long time ago. Many people from the Demon Country who were possessed by evil spirits have escaped before. It's only a matter of time before the other evil spirits escape. As for the evil spirit king, it's estimated that he should be freed sooner or later, otherwise he wouldn't have any problems with his body." Lao Dao said with a smile, "You don't have to be afraid. With me here, those evil spirits can't leave the trial gate."
"The evil ghost king is so powerful that even the Emperor of Heaven can only suppress it but cannot kill it. Is it really possible for it to escape?" Li Xiu frowned.
"The more powerful it is, the harder it will be to get out. At most, it will leave Tianmen City and return to its homeland. You don't have to worry about it." Lao Dao is very open-minded: "To put it another way, the world is already in such a mess anyway, and one more evil ghost king won't make a difference."
Seeing that Lao Dao seemed very confident, Li Xiu and his companions felt a lot more relieved.
“But if those evil ghosts escape, the previously safe places in Tiancheng will no longer be safe. You should stay here for the time being and don’t go in and wander around.” Lao Dao pondered.
"What if the Li family comes?" Li Xiu asked Lao Dao.
"Now that the evil ghost has escaped, it's hard to say whether the Li family can get here. Let's see the situation first." Lao Dao didn't have a better solution either.
There was no other solution now, so a few people had to hide in the city gate tower first, and think of a way if the people from the Li family really came.
For two or three days in a row, no evil ghosts were seen, and the golden flame in the demon refining furnace was still burning.
"You stay here and guard the demon furnace. When the flames in the furnace go out, it means the soul fusion is successful. You can open the furnace cover and take out the deed." After giving a few instructions, Lao Dao jumped down from the city wall: "I'll go into the city and see if the evil spirits have left. I guess they should have left Tianmen by now."
After Lao Dao left, Li Xiu and the other three stayed inside the city gate tower, guarding the magic furnace and chatting.
"It's been two or three days. I guess the people from the Li family won't come. If they were going to come, they would have come a long time ago." Jiu Xiaoyun said while lying on the ground, crossing his legs.
Sha Chu was about to say something when Jing Li suddenly stood up, walked out of the city gate tower, to the edge of the city wall, and looked towards the Tiancheng Gate inside the city wall.
Li Xiu and the other two also hurried out and followed Jing Li's gaze, only to see a figure walking in from the crack of the Jade Gate.
The cloud and mist in the city wall were much lighter, and it was clear that the person who walked in through the crack in the Jade Gate was not Lao Dao.
"It can't be such a coincidence? The Li family's people came just after Lao Dao left? Could it be that Lao Dao betrayed us?" Jiu Xiaoyun said, staring at the figure.
"That person is not from the Li family, or rather, that person is not a human being." Jing Li said coldly.
Li Xiu could see through the thin cloud of light and could tell that the figure did not look like a human.
Although it looks very human, how could a person have two pointed horns on his head?
As the figure gradually approached, Li Xiu and the others could see his appearance clearly.
His face was as blue as iron, he had a pair of green pointed horns on his head, his eyes were also glowing blue, and his clothes were tattered like a beggar. From the tattered parts of his clothes, you could see that even his skin was glowing with the same blue-iron luster.
"Could this be a Demon possessed by an evil spirit?" Jiu Xiaoyun said as he looked at the strange man with interest.
"It should be." Li Xiu said, staring at the thing.
"You wait, I'll go take a look." Jing Li said as he jumped down. While in the air, he drew out the Tang sword in his hand, and with both hands he held the sword with a dazzling light and slashed at the strange man.
The weirdo looked a little silly, but his reaction was not slow at all. When he saw Jing Li slashing in mid-air, he suddenly looked up, stared directly at Jing Li with his eyes shining with green light, and revealed his vampire-like fangs in his mouth.
Facing Jing Li's wildly slashing Tang sword, the strange man did not dodge or evade, but directly reached out to grab the coming Tang sword.
His palm, as hard as blue iron, collided with the Tang sword, making a sound of metal clashing.
Jing Li's sword failed to cut off his palm, and instead he was able to grab the Tang sword.
Li Xiu and the other two were all a little surprised. Even though Jing Li did not enter the super spiritual state and did not use the light veins, he was able to catch an S-level attack with bare hands. The ability of that monster should not be underestimated.
Seeing his knife being caught, Jing Li's eyes flashed with cold light, and his body and knife simultaneously emitted purple-black light, entering a super spiritual state.
Jing Li pulled with both hands, and the Tang sword was pulled out by him. At the same time, the palm of the strange man was cut off, and half of the palm along with four fingers fell to the ground.
The strange man seemed to be completely unaware of the pain. Green light on his body was like smoke and fog, and it was also like a green gauze ribbon wrapped around him. He flew directly towards Jing Li at an incredible speed, like a ghost dancing in the air.
Jing Li slashed with the Tang sword in his hand. The ghostly and dancing monster dodged two swords in a row, but was beheaded by the third sword.
"What? This is all an evil ghost can do." Jiuxiaoyun curled his lips. Jing Li didn't use the power of the light vein at all, but he could still achieve this level.
But the next second, Jiu Xiaoyun shut his mouth.
After the strange man fell to the ground, the green light in his body seemed to come alive, overflowing from his body and condensing together in the air to form a transparent human outline. The green light all over his body was like smoke and fog, like a ghost emitting green light floating in the air.
The evil ghost with green light like smoke and fog rushed towards Jing Li. Jing Li slashed wildly with the Tang sword in his hand. The sword light slashed on the evil ghost's body, cutting the evil ghost's body into several pieces.
But after the knife passed, the evil ghost's body that was like smoke and mist gathered together again and continued to pounce on Jing Li, which made Jiu Xiaoyun horrified: "Oh my god, is that thing immortal? No wonder the Emperor of the Demon Kingdom couldn't kill them completely."
Jing Li retreated and slashed at the same time. The Tang sword in his hand had turned into a ghost-head sword. The power of the light vein was also mobilized. The shocking sword light slashed towards the evil ghost and directly cut the evil ghost in half. However, as soon as the sword light passed, its body condensed together again without any damage.
Jing Li's eyes focused, and the ghost-head knife flashed continuously. The knife lights crisscrossed and split the evil ghost that pounced on him into countless pieces.
"It's time to die now, right?" Jiu Xiaoyun breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the evil ghost that was chopped into pieces.
But the next second, those fragments flew towards one place again, condensed together again, and turned into a green ghost like smoke and mist that pounced towards Jing Li.
Li Xiu and the others all looked solemn. Even with Jing Li's powerful light energy, he couldn't kill the evil ghost. There was no point for them to go up there, as it was just an immortal monster.
When the three were worrying, they saw more and more demons possessed by evil spirits walking in through the cracks in the city gate of Tiancheng.
Jiuxiaoyun was immediately horrified, they hadn't even gotten rid of one evil ghost yet, and now dozens more had come, and were still rushing in, this was really a threat to their lives.