'Lin Shen' slowly opened his eyes, and after being in a trance for a moment, he suddenly woke up and wanted to jump up from the ground, but found that his whole body seemed to be frozen, stiff and unable to move, and he could only lie upright on the ground.
"There is no need to struggle. If you are hit by this binding curse, even if you have the second level of Mingqiao cultivation, you will not be able to break free within an hour."
An indifferent voice came to my ears.
Lin Shen tried his best to turn his eyes and look in the direction of the sound. From where he lay, he could just see the huge alchemy cauldron in the center of the hall.
The Dan tripod, which is made entirely of yellow fine copper, is as tall as a human being. It has three legs and two ears. Its surface is engraved with numerous mysterious and complex patterns. The whole body exudes a cold green luster, giving it an extremely sinister atmosphere.
At this moment, a raging fire has been ignited below the alchemy cauldron, and the four small holes on the cauldron cover are slowly leaking out shreds of white gas, like smoke pillars.
The man in black robe had his back to Lin Shen and stood in front of the alchemy cauldron with his hands behind his back, seeming to be observing the situation in the cauldron.
"It's a pity that Jing Hai died. Without him, there is little hope of refining the fourth-grade blood elixir. After all, my alchemy skills are far inferior to his. Fortunately, the third-grade blood elixir is barely enough."
As he spoke, the man in black robe slowly turned around.
He was not wearing a mask at this time, and his robe and hat were lifted back, revealing a clear and slender face.
The moment he saw that face clearly, Lin Shen's eyes suddenly focused.
"Headmaster Leng!"
The face reflected in the flickering firelight was clearly the headmaster of Jiuyang Taoist Academy, Leng Guang Ting Leng, who was Leng Xing’s father!
"I'm surprised."
The man in black robe glanced at Lin Shen lightly, with no trace of emotion on his face.
"It's hard to imagine that the dignified leader of Jiuyang Taoist Temple is actually the backbone of the notorious Wild Wolf behind the scenes, isn't it?"
".It's really surprising."
Lin Shen looked extremely strange.
Although he vaguely guessed that the man in black robe might be from Jiuyang Taoist Academy, he never expected that it would be Leng Guangting, the usually very low-key leader.
However, it is said that this leader comes from a humble family, is from a well-known family, holds a high position and is respected by others. How could he join an evil force like Wild Wolf that eats people without spitting out their bones, and is also a high-level person?
As if he saw Lin Shen's doubts, a strange light flashed in Leng Guangting's eyes, and he said quietly:
"A hundred years ago, our Leng family was one of the eighteen aristocratic families. But since then, the family has gone downhill, and the family power has continued to decline. In the last generation, our Leng family was finally kicked out of the eighteen aristocratic families and reduced to
It’s cold spectrum.”
"Although they are still an aristocratic family, Hanpu is actually no better than ordinary people. Even the eighteenth aristocratic families who are supposed to be in the same class tend to look down on Hanpu."
"In order to regain our former glory, our Leng family is determined to revitalize the family and return to the ranks of the 18th generation family. I have also been taught since I was a child to practice hard and become a monk to revitalize the family. However, manpower will eventually be limited, and I am not qualified.
, I have never been able to break through the bottleneck and be promoted to a monk!"
"There is no aristocratic family unless you are a monk. This is an unwritten rule among aristocratic families. Even if you have a poor family, there must be at least one monk in the family. If there is no monk in charge for more than ten years, you will be deprived of the title of aristocratic family and will be knocked down from the civilian class.
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"As for our Leng family, we haven't had a monk in nearly ten years since my father passed away."
Lin Shen listened quietly, and then suddenly spoke.
"So you want to use the Blood Spirit Pill to break through the bottleneck. But why are you telling me this now? Do you want to find an excuse for your behavior, or to feel at ease?"
Leng Guangting twitched the corner of his mouth slightly and seemed to smile silently. He ignored Lin Shen's sarcasm and said quietly:
"The road is vast and immortality is hard to come by. How many people do whatever it takes to jump out of their cages and see the scenery at the top of the mountain. You think the Blood Spirit Pill is cruel. In fact, there are many things in the world that are crueler and darker than this. Everything is just for the sake of gain.
strength!"
"I don't feel regretful or uneasy about what I did, so why should I seek peace of mind?"
Having said this, Leng Guangting let out a long sigh, his tone a little bleak.
"It's just that I've always kept these words deep in my heart. I haven't even said them to my wife and children. Now that I've said them out, I feel a lot more relaxed."
Lin Shen twitched the corner of his mouth: "It seems that I have done something good."
Leng Guangting turned to look at him, his eyes flashing.
"Your performance is beyond my expectation. By this time, you should have guessed what I am going to do, but why are you not afraid at all?"
"If I'm scared, will you let me go?" Lin Shen said calmly.
Leng Guangting smiled faintly, turned to glance at Danding, and nodded slightly.
"The heat is almost done. Let's stop chatting. It's time to take the final step of refining the elixir."
When the long-cherished wish was about to come true, even Leng Guangting couldn't help but feel agitated, and a trace of flush appeared on his face.
With a wave of his sleeves, he shook open the heavy cauldron lid, and in an instant, white air spurted out, straight into the dome.
A strange fragrance spread instantly.
Lin Shen's nose twitched slightly, and he suddenly felt that his nasal cavity was filled with a sweet and slightly delicious smell.
It feels like a delicious taste made by removing the rusty smell from the blood and adding refined sugar.
While he was thinking wildly, Leng Guangting strode over, lifted up Lin Shen with his hand, turned around and walked towards Alchemy Cauldron.
Just when he was about to be thrown into the alchemy cauldron, Lin Shen suddenly spoke.
"I'm curious, if I'm not caught by you, how are you going to break through the bottleneck and become a monk?"
Leng Guangting paused, frowned slightly, and gave Lin Shen a strange look. He was a little confused as to why Lin Shen still had the heart to ask such irrelevant questions at this time?
But he thought about it, but he couldn't think of any other way for Lin Shen to overcome this desperate situation!
After a few seconds of silence, Leng Guangting still replied:
"I originally prepared an alchemy man, but now that I have a better one like you, I don't need to use it anymore."
"Really?" Lin Shen smiled slightly and showed a meaningful look.
Inexplicably, Leng Guangting suddenly felt uneasy deep in his heart.
He frowned and pondered for a moment, but could not find the source of this uneasiness. He simply threw Lin Shen into the alchemy cauldron without thinking about it, then reached out and grabbed the cauldron cover out of thin air, and closed it with a bang.
The next second, the flames under the alchemy cauldron suddenly became louder, the cauldron buzzed, and the entire alchemy cauldron trembled slightly.
Looking at this scene, Leng Guangting's eyes flashed with excitement, and he couldn't help but clench his hands.
He quickly took a deep breath, calmed down his mind, and focused on watching the changes in the cauldron.
Time gradually passed, and the tremors of the alchemy cauldron gradually subsided. However, the white air sprayed from the sky of the cauldron did not decrease, but increased, and became faintly brown.
Leng Guangting sniffed it and suddenly felt something was wrong. He immediately waved his sleeves to open the lid of the cauldron and looked inside intently.
What caught his eye was not the third-grade blood elixir that he had longed for, but several dark elixirs.
Waste elixir!
Leng Guangting's expression changed drastically.
"What's going on? The steps and materials are obviously correct, how could it fail?"
Leng Guangting murmured with disbelief on his face, his eyes a little dull.
At this moment, bursts of noise suddenly came from outside, vaguely mixed with shouts and shouts, and there seemed to be a buzzing sound that sounded like insects.
The noise was getting louder and louder, but Leng Guangting didn't seem to hear it and just stayed in place.
The alchemy that he had placed high hopes on failed for some unknown reason. This hit him so hard that he couldn't even accept it for a while.
A moment later, the door was suddenly knocked open from the outside, and Leng Xing rushed in with a panicked expression, saying anxiously:
"Father, suddenly a group of fiercest fighters rushed in outside, followed by people from the martial arts hall. These guys didn't know what medicine they had taken wrong, and they actually wanted to search our residence. It's really unreasonable!"
The words "Zhi Wu Tang" seemed to have touched a certain nerve in Leng Guangting. He slowly turned around and looked at Leng Xing with a faint look.
"The people from the martial arts hall are here?"
"Yes, and the team is led by the chief flag officer and the flag officer. I don't know what's going on?"
Leng Xing didn't notice anything strange about his father and was still complaining angrily.
"Obviously we were victims of attacks by monsters, but they suspected that we were related to the group of fiercest warriors, and insisted on searching. Now the steward is leading people to block the people from the martial arts hall, but it is estimated that they will not be able to block it for long, and my father will have to wait.
You take charge of the overall situation."
As he talked, Leng Xing finally noticed something was wrong and looked at his father who looked confused.
"Father?"
Leng Guangting ignored his son, with a desolate look on his face.
"We finally got to this point."
"Father, what's wrong with you?" Leng Xing asked in confusion.
Leng Guangting did not answer, but suddenly turned his head and looked at Leng Xing steadily.
For some reason, that indifferent gaze made Leng Xing feel a little panicked, and a feeling of fear ran down his spine.
Outside the courtyard.
Lin Shen had a smile on his face as he watched a large group of people from the martial arts hall rushing into the courtyard chasing the most powerful Sheng.
Not surprisingly, due to the incident at the Wild Wolf stronghold in the Southern District a while ago, Zhiwutang attached great importance to the appearance of the most fierce Sheng and actually sent a large number of troops over.
Lin Shen even recognized several of them as the general banners of the four major urban areas.
You must know that the general banners are all strong men with the ninth level of Mingqiao cultivation.
With these few people here, plus hundreds of members of the Zhiwu Hall, Lengguang Ting will definitely be doomed now.
"It's a pity that a clone was sacrificed."
Lin Shen secretly shook his head.
In order not to arouse Leng Guangting's alert, he did not take back the clone, but allowed it to disappear automatically after death.
It's a pity that the person holding the martial arts hall arrived a little late, otherwise he could have tried to avoid the clone's death.
Fortunately, the clone of Perseverance had originally planned to refresh its talent, so it doesn't matter if it's gone now.
But then I have to think of a reason to explain his role in this matter.
Of course, it would be best for Leng Guangting to die directly in battle, so that no one would know that he was involved in this matter.
After hesitating for a moment, Lin Shen dodged out of the shadows and quietly approached the courtyard not far away.
The courtyard was already in chaos at this time, and no one even noticed an uninvited guest breaking in.
Arriving at the other courtyard smoothly and helplessly, Lin Shen happened to see the people from Zhiwu Hall breaking through the obstruction of the guards in the other courtyard and starting to search around.
Not long after, Zhiwu Hall made a discovery.
"Sir, we found a secret door inside, which leads to a cave. It seems to be quite large!"
A flag officer reported to the leader, a middle-aged man with a strong appearance.
Lin Shen recognized the middle-aged man as the general bannerman of the Southern District, and his name seemed to be Yuan Ming.
After hearing the report from his subordinate, Yuan Ming immediately waved his hand.
"Search!"
"The residence of the dignified Taoist leader actually has a crypt. It seems that we may be able to gain something this time!"
Yuan Ming smiled and took the lead in striding inside.
The other two general bannermen looked at each other and followed after hesitating.
There was something wrong with everything tonight, and it seemed that the most powerful group had deliberately lured them here.
After discovering their arrival, the management here behaved very wrongly. They immediately summoned people to block them out and refused to let them in no matter what.
Such an abnormal reaction immediately aroused the suspicion of several experienced commander-in-chiefs.
Others were afraid of the leader of Jiuyang Taoist Temple, but they were not afraid. In addition, Hall Master Xia had issued a death order, and if there was no gain, he would definitely be in trouble if he returned, so the three of them worked together and simply broke in.
Unexpectedly, I actually discovered something.
Is it possible that the leader Leng Guang Ting Leng who lives here really has some ulterior secrets about him?
The group of people quickly arrived at the secret door and strode in without stopping.
As soon as they entered, Lin Shen's figure appeared silently behind them.
With the help of the Silence Talisman and the Escape Talisman, as well as the rapid speed of Yunlong Law, no one noticed him along the way.
The leaders of the martial arts hall also focused their attention on the cave, and did not even notice that there was an extra tail behind them.
The area of the crypt is indeed not small, at least two or three times the size of the other courtyard on the ground.
Fortunately, the buildings in this area are far apart from each other, otherwise someone would have noticed something was wrong in the long run.
After walking around all the way, not long after, everyone in the Zhiwu Hall came to the room at the end of the cave.
The door was wide open, and dim light came from inside.
The three commander-in-chiefs looked at each other, paused for a moment, then rushed through the door with rapid strides.
In the dark hall, the flame under the alchemy cauldron has been extinguished. In the large hall, only a few pearls inlaid on the ceiling are emitting dim light, making the surroundings more and more eerie.
Leng Guangting sat cross-legged next to the alchemy cauldron, staring at the elixir in his hand with an incomprehensible expression.
Even the arrival of everyone from Zhiwu Hall couldn't make him take his eyes away for an instant.
The leader, Yuan Ming, frowned when he saw this, and was about to step forward to ask. His eyes suddenly glanced at the elixir in Leng Guangting's hand, and his expression suddenly became startled.
The elixir is bright red all over, smooth and round like the finest ruby, and exudes some kind of magical magic, making people reluctant to look away after taking one look at it.
"This is."
Yuan Ming's eyes widened, as if he suddenly thought of something, he took a deep breath, and sure enough, he found that there was some kind of weird sweet smell permeating the air.
This smell was not unfamiliar to Yuan Ming. He reacted immediately, his expression suddenly changed, and he looked at Lengguang Ting in horror.
"Blood Spirit Pill!"
"Leng Guangting, you are indeed in cahoots with Wild Wolf!"