An hour later, Tianjiu pushed away a huge boulder, then dug through more than two meters of garbage with his bare hands, and finally got out of the hole.
He discovered that this exit was on the west edge of the garbage mountain. In the distance, there was still black smoke, and the flickering police lights and piercing sirens indicated that the razed Tongzi Tower was there.
Tianjiu felt extremely relaxed, and there was no threat anymore. He fell into the garbage and fell into a deep sleep.
If a passerby saw it, he would definitely think that the unkempt beggar was sleeping here! But who cares about the life and death of a beggar?!
On a starry night, Tianjiu was awakened by the cold wind. Except for his burnt and curly hair, the burns on his body were almost invisible, and there was no pain at all on his back, which was the most severely burned.
"It seems that entering the Qi refining period is different from ordinary people, and the recovery is so abnormal!" Tianjiu said happily.
He tried hard and wanted to hit a carp.
With a "Whoosh!", he jumped up to a height of ten feet, and then fell heavily.
"Ouch, mom! What's going on!"
Tianjiu was surprised to find that he could jump very high. Just now, he could jump to a height of about ten feet while lying on his back. If he jumped while standing, how high would he jump?
With this discovery, Tianjiu climbed up carefully and kicked his legs hard.
With a "whoosh" sound, he jumped up to a height of three feet. As expected, he fell heavily into the garbage pile again.
"Damn it, I can do Qinggong!"
Tianjiu kept jumping excitedly. After falling more than twenty times, he gradually found his body's balance point, and the chance of falling gradually decreased. After repeating it hundreds of times, he could jump and run freely.
I saw, on the garbage mountain, a black figure carrying a backpack, jumping up and down, left and right, and making strange calls from its mouth, like a ghost.
Tianjiu was so excited! Power, the first time he had power, made him so obsessed!
If he had known that he had such power half a day ago, he might have scared those vampires to death long ago, and he would not have been in such an embarrassing situation.
He stood quietly on the top of the garbage mountain and looked at the night sky.
The sour wind blew his torn clothes wildly. There were no stars in the starry sky, all covered by layers of mist. Thinking of his unknown future, Tianjiu's heart calmed down little by little.
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At dawn, Tianjiu arrived at the ancient street.
Jibaozhai was in a mess. The door was split into several pieces and scattered on the ground. A corner of the plaque of Jibaozhai was also chopped off. The inside of the house was beyond recognition. The calligraphy, paintings and porcelain that had not been sold were all smashed to pieces.
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Tianjiu came to the second floor with mixed emotions. There was only a frame left here. Even the glass in the window was not good. The wind came in through the window and it was cold.
I don't know when the moon has quietly disappeared in the clouds. Tianjiu stood in front of the window and looked lonely at Baitan Temple in the distance. The ancient bells came from time to time, stirring in the air and lingering for a long time. Baoguang Pagoda
It just stood there quietly, with half of its spire piercing the sky, like an eternal sculpture.
Tianjiu looked a little crazy, and a dazzling purple light shot into his eyes without any warning.
"Purple light?" Tianjiu's heart suddenly flashed.
This bright purple light was like a magic power, attracting him strongly. He felt as if something in his head was calling him, telling him to catch the purple light.
Tianjiu looked far and wide, looking for the source of the purple light. His eyesight was now extremely good and he could see clearly within several thousand meters. Finally, at the broken tip of the Baoguang Tower, a faint purple light came out and streaked across the night sky.
Tianjiu suppressed the excitement in his heart, scanned his surroundings, and after confirming that no one was around, he jumped out of the window.
He could now reach a height of three feet in the air, and within a few breaths, he was under the Baoguang Tower.
After many years of training on the garbage mountain, his leaping ability is extremely skilled, but he is a little bit unfamiliar with avoiding obstacles. There is no light in the Baoguang Tower, and the door is closed. The presence or absence of light does not have much impact on Tianjiu.
His eyes can now see at night.
With one jump, he jumped up to the edge of the third-story tower. The surface of the tower was a bit slippery. He staggered and almost fell down. He quickly put his hands on the tower, then slowly stood up, and then jumped again, and he was lying on the fifth floor.
At the edge of the tower, we quickly reached the base of the tower spire.
A rich purple light reflected in Tianjiu's eyes.
It was a purple-black bead embedded in the spire. Now most of it was exposed, about the size of a goose egg. Tianjiu carefully dug hard along the periphery of the purple bead, and after a while the entire purple bead was taken out.
At this time, the entire Baoguang Tower trembled slightly, and Tianjiu turned pale with fear.
"Isn't it because Bodhisattva is angry?"
He quickly plopped down at the base of the tower, kowtowed a few times, and muttered something.
"Bodhisattva, don't blame me. I didn't mean to steal your gems. If you want to blame, you can only blame the old man. He drugged me, otherwise I wouldn't have the ability to get up here.
I can't help it, this gem is too tempting."
As soon as Tianjiu finished speaking, the Baoguang Tower slowly stopped shaking.
He was overjoyed.
"Is this okay? It seems that if you don't burn incense at ordinary times, it will be helpful to hold the Buddha's feet when you are in an emergency!"
He did not dare to scan around for other purple beads, and immediately jumped downstairs and disappeared on the top of the tower.
Soon he returned to Jibaozhai.
"Oh my god, you scared me to death. If you beat me to death, I won't do such sneaky things again."
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At the same time, deep inside the tower, inside the stone chamber, the old man with a white beard suddenly opened his eyes and roared in fear:
"What's going on? Why did the spiritual energy suddenly change? Ah~! The spiritual energy here is still being lost! Why? Why!"
The old man was furious, so he floated out of the Mother Cauldron of Time and carefully sensed the changes in the room. The little frog in the corner also opened its eyes wide and tensed up, fearing the old man with the white beard.
The conclusion reached is still the same. After half a month, the spiritual energy inside will dissipate and not a trace will be left. At that time, he will die due to the exhaustion of spiritual power, and his soul will fly away and return to the world of heaven and earth.
"Alas!" The old man raised his head and sighed.
"Damn toad, what do you think I should do? Am I just waiting to be killed?" The old man seemed to be talking to himself or to the little frog in the corner.
The little frog was trembling all over, staring at the old man with the white beard, and even his chin no longer clenched.
"It's no use asking you. In another hundred years, you will be reduced to the size of an ant, and you may have turned into dust long ago. It seems that I have to use that waste outside. Although he has broken through Qi Refining
, but the spiritual root is too useless! Why didn’t I take action a hundred years ago! I hate it! I hate it!”
The old man's eyes were red, and his pale face was full of unwillingness.
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Tianjiu held the purple bead and felt that it was unusually warm and moist. The faint purple light turned the small bedroom on the second floor of Jibaozhai purple.
Tianjiu was lying on the floor, with the broken bed board beneath him.
He stared at the ball without moving, and there was always a voice in his mind telling him.
"Eat it, eat it!!"
"No way? Why do I have such a ridiculous idea to eat this thing? If I can't digest it and can't pull it out, I have to suffocate to death. No, no!" Tianjiu shook his head hard, trying to get rid of that idea.
Lose.
"Eat it! Eat it!" That voice still sounded in the back of my mind.
"What's wrong with me? These are not biscuits! They can kill people." Tianjiu's hands were shaking.
"Eat it—eat it!!!" The voice in his mind became clearer, completely occupying all his thoughts.
He couldn't resist the temptation and slowly stuffed the ball into his mouth.
A faint ray of light appeared, and a purple ball wrapped around it disappeared from the mouth. The ball slowly moved along the esophagus to the abdomen, stopped near the Dantian, and shrunk little by little, until finally only a tiny bit remained.
of purple light.
Tianjiu suddenly woke up from a daze, looking at his hands empty, and a cold sweat broke out on his back.
"Where's the ball? Did I really eat it? Isn't it? It's dead, it's dead, it's definitely dead this time! Aren't you going to strangle me to death!"
Tianjiu cried sadly and violently pressed his belly with his hands.
"Huh? It seems like my belly isn't swollen either? I don't feel the swelling pain either!" Tianjiu was extremely surprised and jumped up. He patted his belly a few times, but there was still nothing wrong, and he jumped a few more times.
, no problem.
"Hey, is something weird? There is no problem eating beads as big as goose eggs. They are digested very quickly. It seems that my character has exploded!" Tianjiu thought scratching his head.
"Huh? Could it be that my digestive function is abnormal after I advanced to Qi Refining? Well, it is possible. It seems that I have to find a stone to try."
Tianjiu looked at a few small egg-sized bricks in the corner of the house, goosebumps spread all over his body, and finally gave up this ridiculous idea.;