His originally burly body had shrunk as if deflated, and he had once again transformed into the appearance of a little old man. Whether it was an illusion or not, it made people feel that his waist was more bent, as if he had suddenly aged a few minutes.
"Cough, cough!"
As soon as he got up, he couldn't stand anymore and fell to his knees on the ground, vomiting blood.
The blow from the evil disciple Pu Huo just now seriously injured his soul. This is still a case of poor academic skills. He has not yet mastered the essence of the God-Destroying Forbidden Talisman, otherwise a single talisman can kill the soul.
"How can I treat you so well? Why did I first collude with outsiders to kill my master, and now..."
"Hmph, old man, ask yourselves, are you really treating me badly?" Puhuo's face appeared at the tip of the lava earth dragon's tongue, and he couldn't help but sneer.
Of the three senior sisters and junior brothers, it was Pu Huo who contributed the most.
When the master has something to do, the disciple will obey him. He does all the hard and dirty work cleanly and neatly, without leaving any hidden dangers. He has never complained for a hundred years.
What's available?
Very few!
"I'll let it go if I don't pass on the Jihuo Sutra. After all, this is the secret of your Gongsun family. But even if you don't look at merit, you must look at hard work. I have begged and begged over and over again. A hundred years of hard work is just for a golden elixir."
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"But how did you treat me?"
He keeps breaking his promises and gets fat.
By the end of the story, Pu Huo almost lost control of his emotions.
Sudden!
Huo Yezi, who had been kneeling on the ground, suddenly became angry.
Lu Zhong, who was watching the show on the sidelines, immediately cursed the old man secretly when he saw this scene. He thought he was going to see a master-disciple drama, but he never expected that there were plots everywhere.
After Huo Yezi burst into flames, he instantly grew into a giant with a bronze body.
Compared to before, the body size is several points larger.
It’s as big as five feet!
"Dongdongdong!"
Every time the bronze-bodied giant takes a step forward, it leaves spider web cracks on the igneous rock.
In the blink of an eye, he rushed to the lava earth dragon.
The giant wall-like hand stretched forward, making a roaring sound, trying to grab its tongue and pull off the Puhuo attached to it.
"Old man!"
The lava earth dragon roared, and a ring of fire exploded around it, shocking Huo Yezi.
"Do you really think I don't understand you?"
Pu Huo had already prepared for Huo Yezi's sneak attack.
He retracted his tongue, and immediately moved his head and tail at an incredible speed. With one fierce thrust, he knocked the giant Huo Yezi had transformed into into the air, and hit a rock wall on one side, creating a pit several feet deep.
Immediately afterwards, a battle broke out between one person and one dragon.
Wherever the two beasts passed, there were ravines everywhere. Even the solid igneous rocks could not withstand the huge force of the fight, and they collapsed into stones in a few times.
"Peng!" Another fight.
Huo Yezi was defeated and was pushed down hard. As soon as he hit the ground, a big mouth came at him. Pu Huo actually wanted to swallow him alive, which showed the deep resentment in his heart.
On the side, Lu Zhong did not get involved.
He had already fulfilled the promise he had made to Huo Yezi as promised. Now it was a personal grudge between Huo Yezi and Pu Huo. If he wanted to take action, he would have to pay extra.
After all, monks have always been unable to do anything early.
As for the arrears of remuneration?
Lu Zhong is not afraid. The worst he can do is take it with his own hands. He expects that there will be enough stuff in Zhonglong Peak's weapon refining workshop to compensate for his losses. But it's not that he has done nothing, he is secretly setting up formations.
A very simple trap formation.
But the kind that cannot be broken in a short time.
With this trapped formation, no matter who wins or loses between the two, he can take the initiative in his hands and prevent new accidents from happening.
After he had done enough, he stood aside and watched.
Frankly speaking, Lu Zhong hopes that Pu Huo can win.
In this way, in the name of "morality", he can naturally become a profit fisherman, kill Pu Huo who killed his master, and get the lava earth dragon soul.
No one can criticize someone who takes the moral high ground like this.
pity.
Judging from the current situation, Lao Jiang is still better.
The lava earth dragon was beaten half to death before, and now the fire-eating magical power cannot be used. Although his strength has already improved, he can't even defeat Huo Yezi, whose spirit is seriously injured.
This was something Lu Zhongwei didn't expect.
There is a high probability that he is carrying some kind of healing elixir.
There are many people in the southern barbarians who want a well-known weapon refiner like this, so it is not surprising to get some good things.
From this point of view, Pu Huoxing's act of killing his master...maybe it is Huo Yezi's retribution! This old guy has been hiding and hiding him, one after another.
"Well, it's better to be cheap, Master!" Lu Zhong couldn't help but think of Shui Ni.
Compared with Huo Yezi, Shui Ni is simply too good!
After half a stick of incense, the fight ended with the defeat of the lava earth dragon.
Huo Yezi revealed another treasure, but it was the Immortal Talisman - the Immobilization Talisman.
Lu Zhong's eyes were hot when he saw it, this was definitely a good thing.
The body-fixing talisman is one of the famous talismans in the talismans taught by the immortals in the past. It is said that it can directly access the true meaning of the talismans. Although it is recorded in the classics that countless powerful people have understood it, they have not been able to really understand anything from it, but there is nothing.
This does not prevent it from becoming one of the top talismans.
The effect is very simple, that is, it immobilizes the soul and body of the subject.
For the duration of one stick of incense, the subject will still have tremendous magical power and will no longer be able to resist.
This is the effect of the Immortal Holding Talisman.
As for the first-level low-grade body-immobilizing secret talisman, it is something else.
When Huo Yezi put the talisman on the head of the lava earth dragon, the latter suddenly seemed to freeze and did not move at all. Even the fluctuations of his soul seemed to be frozen, making Lu Zhong couldn't help but marvel at the magic of the immobilizing talisman.
To be honest, he understands Pu Huo a little now.
Huo Yezi is indeed an old man.
There are obviously a lot of good things, and the treasures are one after another. It is not an exaggeration to call them "treasures". But even the closest disciples are not willing to share any of them.
He is clearly a stingy miser and deserves to be murdered.
With a "puff" sound, Xue Huhu's tongue was pulled out.
Pu Huo's face was tightly closed above. Huo Yezi knew that his soul was trapped in the lava earth dragon's body, so his tongue at this moment was just a piece of rotten meat.
Throw it on the ground with an expressionless face, and crush it to pieces if you step on it.
Naturally, his master knew the secret technique of Pu Huo attached to the lava earth dragon. It was just a side secret technique in the Jihuo Sutra, collected and recorded by the ancestors of the Gongsun family.
It was called "Dragon Transformation Technique", but I never expected that Pu Huo would actually master it.
Just as he was about to settle down, Huo Yezi suddenly stopped.
"Huh? Not good!"
Huo Yezi's expression changed dramatically. At the same time, Pu Huo, who had his eyes closed on his tongue, opened his eyes. His expression instantly became crazy and distorted. He opened his mouth and spit out a red ball, and then laughed maniacally:
"Hahaha, old guy, I'm better at it after all."
"Let's die together!"
This scene made Lu Zhong slightly startled, and he shot away with lightning.
According to his estimation, Pu Huo's self-exploding demon elixir when the oil was exhausted probably didn't have much power. Apart from taking Huo Yezi away, he probably wouldn't even be able to break through the trap he had set up.
To be cautious, he decided to avoid it first.
"Boom!"
The destructive shock wave swept over, scraping off half of Lu Zhong's body-protecting Qi in two or two blows, followed by terrifying light and heat, which cut off most of the remaining Qi.
The lava that was previously sealed by the Xuan Bing Banner was now affected by the big explosion and began to surge up from under the rock formation, like evil dragons soaring.
The originally dark underground space suddenly turned golden and red.
"This is the result..."
To be honest, Lu Zhong didn't expect this.
"But, I like it!"
His consciousness swept over the point of origin, and there were not many things left there. Even the lava earth dragon was blown away and half of it was left. Before the golden magma was swallowed up, he formed a powerful hand and fished up the things.
Huo Yezi is naturally gone.
But he left behind an ancient ring.
The whole body is pitch black, but there are silver streaks all over it.
Looking at the crystal stone emitting a hazy glow, Lu Zhong couldn't figure out the origin of this ring. It was clearly an empty stone with a space capacity second only to the treasure of the cave and a value a hundred times and a thousand times that of a storage bag.
Storage ring.
"Huh? You can't open it. By the way, you have to refine it like a magic weapon first."
Lu Zhong put the storage ring away and turned to look at the other two things.
It is a small half of the body of a lava earth dragon.
It can be seen from the cut that this dragon is indeed a different species from heaven and earth. Its body is not made of flesh and blood, but more like a spirit made from grass and stone.
It's a pity that I probably won't be able to eat it.
"Maybe it's a good material for refining weapons..." Lu Zhong thought to himself, took out a hundred square storage bag, and stuffed the body into it, no more, no less, just right.
As for the last item, it is a mini dragon.
If you look closely, you will find that this mini lava earth dragon dragon soul actually has a human-faced dragon body. The human face is somewhat similar to Pu Huo.
interesting!
Using this essence to refine the dragon spirit flag may have unexpected effects.
After thinking about it, Lu Zhong took out a jade box, put the Jiao Soul inside, and placed nine seals and restrictions. He didn't want to play tricks with Pu Huo.
After doing all this, he went to look for the fire dragon tea plant again.
Unfortunately, it was destroyed by a self-destruction long ago.
"Haha, I'm really greedy!" Lu Zhong laughed at himself, and then confirmed that there was no good stuff left at the scene. He saw that the lava was gradually rising and might submerge the place soon.
So he formed a layer of mana shield with his hand, turned around and left the place.
Soon came to the surface.
Affected by the self-explosion of the Puhuo, the weapon refining workshop above was also greatly affected. At this moment, the ground rose high, and golden magma spewed out from the cracks, turning it into a volcanic crater.
Yao Yuting was directing everyone, trying her best to suppress the erupting fire veins.
At this moment, a rainbow light rushed out from inside, bringing out a hundred-foot-high flame trail, spinning in the air, falling to the ground and revealing himself, it was Lu Zhong who came out of the fire veins.
"Senior Lu, are you your tutor?"
"I have recorded the detailed events on the jade slip. You can see for yourself." Lu Zhong handed out the prepared jade slip and slowly floated into the air without waiting for her reaction.
He glanced at the magic weapon in the sword-making pool and quickly looked away.
If he is a casual cultivator, he will definitely do this very hard.
All of these magic weapons were entrusted to be refined by the major southern barbarian forces, and all of them were treasures among treasures. They were sold and exchanged for cultivation resources, enough for one person to have a baby.
As for the revenge that ensues?
Loose cultivators are alone and can be said to have no worries in their hearts. They can call home anywhere in the world. If Nanman cannot stay, just leave.
"What a pity..." Lu Zhong extinguished the thought in his heart and turned into a rainbow light and went away.
On the surface, Yao Yuting looked extremely complicated after reading the contents of the jade slip.
Naturally, she knew everything about Huo Yezi's personality and the resentment in his second junior brother Pu Huo's heart, better than any outsider, so she did not doubt the contents of the jade slip.
I just didn't expect that this would be the final result.
After a long time, he let out a long sigh.
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After leaving Zhonglong Peak, Lu Zhong hurried on his way.
Although this trip to Xuanyang Territory did not achieve its original purpose, the harvest was not small at all.
Not to mention how many good things were hidden in the Kongming Stone storage ring. The human-faced dragon soul alone was worth the price of the trip, and it was not in vain for him to come all the way.
After three or four days without incident, he flew to the wilderness one day. He had just climbed over a deserted hill, and suddenly turned his head to the left with a startled expression, and saw a few more light spots on the horizon.
A look of surprise suddenly appeared on his face, and then it became uncertain.
Being followed?
After thinking about it in my mind, I couldn't find the reason.
After a little hesitation, Lu Zhong decided to wait for the other party to come over so that he could figure out the reason. And judging from the induction results just now, the person who came was at the level of the Danjie stage, and no matter how strong he was, there was a limit.
With the speed of the Danjie monks, it only takes a hundred breaths to reach the horizon.
When the light dissipated, three monks, two men and one woman, appeared.
"How, how is it possible?" After seeing the female cultivator's appearance clearly, Lu Zhong murmured to himself, unable to help showing a very complicated expression on his face.
There are no two identical leaves in the world, but why are there people with the same appearance?
Reciting the Bingxin Jue silently, Lu Zhong turned his eyes away with difficulty, resisting the urge to look at the face that looked exactly like Li Hejun. He quickly calmed down and turned to look coldly at the three people approaching.
"What do you three do?"
Among the three, the leader was an old man in red robe, who was in the middle stage of alchemy cultivation. This man was slightly taller, with a kind face and a faint smile, but it always made people feel that he was a little hypocritical, so he raised his hand to Lu Zhong.
, smiled and said:
"Your Excellency, are you Lu Zhong? I am Gongsun Yu, the current head of the Gongsun family in Xuanyang Region. When I heard that my second uncle Huo Yezi was killed by that villain, fellow Taoist happened to be at the scene. Can you follow me back to Gongsun's family to talk?
When I find out what happened, I will not only apologize to fellow Taoists, but I will also give you generous gifts!"
Apology? Gift?
Lu Zhong sneered in his heart, Gongsun Yu said something very high-sounding.
But I’m afraid you can’t even deceive a three-year-old child with this, right?
As for the purpose of the three people's visit, as soon as he heard that Gongsun Yu had left home, he had already made a guess in his mind, and it was most likely related to Huo Yezi's relics.
"You don't want to be ungrateful! If it weren't for the kindness of the head of the family, how could you have been kept alive until now. I advise you to cooperate obediently, otherwise don't blame Kan's ruthless men!" The person accompanying him was a man with a scar on his face.
With a bald head in yellow robes and a cruel look on his face, he doesn't look like a good person at first glance.
At this moment, he seemed to be a little impatient and threatened Lu Zhong.
Hearing this, Lu Zhong, who was already agitated, immediately made a decision. What happened today is destined to be unsatisfactory. In this case, let's just see the real deal.
Then he opened his mouth and offered the Star Mirror.
At the same time, he was constantly kneading in his hands, and effects such as the Star Gathering Technique and the Star Blessing were all being blessed on his body. Even though it was a day with sparse starlight, his aura was also rising steadily.
When the three people on the opposite side saw this situation, as if they had expected it, they all came forward with their magic weapons, especially the bald man in yellow robe, who rushed to the front.
The magic weapon he sacrificed was a snake-wrapped pestle.
Seeing Lu Zhong approaching, Kan'er, who was in the early stage of forming pills, was not surprised but happy. His snake-wrapped pestle was a trap and kill magic weapon, and it had a huge trapping effect even on monks who were a little higher than him.
He threw the small pestle in his hand into the air, and in order to show off in front of the master of the house, he also exerted great effort. When he opened his mouth, he sprayed a ball of yellow mist-like elixir energy onto the magic weapon, and then he muttered something.
The snake pestle trembled slightly and started to shine brightly.
Suddenly the fishy wind rose, and a lifelike giant snake with green scales appeared. The snake was a hundred feet in size. It suddenly opened its mouth and was about to swallow Lu Zhong head-on.
"Haha! I asked you not to eat a toast but to drink as a penalty. You insist on going against the Gongsun family. You really don't know how to live or die!" Kan'er laughed strangely, with a look of pride on his face. At the same time, he didn't forget that his opponent was in the middle stage of pill formation, so he pressed harder. He used his magic weapon to trap Lu Zhong in one fell swoop.
When Lu Zhong saw it, he secretly laughed and said something fancy.
There are no unnecessary movements, just raise your hand and it will be a thunder gun.
Wherever the thunder gun passed, the giant snake collapsed into spiritual energy, and then there was a crisp "ding" sound. The green snake-wrapped pestle was knocked out, and was struck by two flying swords in the air.
After a while, it was in tatters.
With a "wow" sound, Kan'er spat out a mouthful of blood. He didn't expect Lu Zhong's strength to be so strong, and his magic weapon was severely damaged in just one face-to-face encounter.
If he dared to fight again, he hurriedly recalled Snake Pestle.
Seeing the result of the test, Gongsun Yu and Gongsun Rou looked at each other, their expressions were not very good. After communicating with each other for a few words, they each used a flaming red flying sword.
They are all "Jihuo Swords". The Jihuo Sword is recorded in the Jihuo Sutra passed down by the ancestors of the Gongsun family. Jihuo Sword is a yin-type fire-moving flying sword. It has always been famous for its great power, no less than the natal flying sword of sword cultivators.
The track flickers on and off, weak but not extinguished.
When Lu Zhong saw it, he felt like two sinister fire pythons attacking his face.
Without thinking about it, he flicked his sleeves, and three miniature dragons shot out from his sleeves, followed by two more crisp "ding-dong" sounds from the front.
"This man's strength is extraordinary, come together!" Gongsun Yu shouted.
Immediately, the three men began to besiege Lu Zhong.
For a moment, spiritual light flashed, and all kinds of brilliance rose into the sky. The wilderness below was affected, either a deep valley was plowed out, or the entire mountain top was cut off.
Sparks fell to the ground and a raging fire suddenly ignited.
Although the momentum was huge and fierce, Lu Zhong was protected by the Dragon Spirit Flag. Before the power of the three flags was exhausted, he could calmly remain calm, which also shocked the three people on the opposite side.
After more than ten breaths of time, I saw that the sharp energy on the other side was almost completely filed away.
Only then did Lu Zhong suddenly launch a counterattack.
First there was a "thunder swamp" that had been brewing for a long time. Suddenly there was a loud rumble, and a violent sea of thunder suddenly appeared in the sky, separating the bald man in yellow robe to prevent the other two from coming to rescue him.
"Run away!" Gongsun Yu saw Lu Zhong's plan at a glance and hurriedly reminded Kan'er.
Although this person is a guest minister, he is also a real alchemy monk and cannot be discarded casually. As far as the current situation is concerned, if this combat power is missing, they may not be able to defeat Lu Zhong.
But as soon as he finished speaking, a headless body fell from the air.
Lu Zhong swung his sword to wipe away the blood stains on the green glass sword, and then looked coldly at the two remaining people in the field. Without saying a word, he stepped forward to kill the two Gongsun monks.
The fight lasted only a few rounds.
Gongsun Rou's Jihuo sword was knocked away. At this moment, when he saw Lu Zhong's sword slashing straight at him, but his magic weapon was too late to come back, his face turned pale.
In the distance, Gongsun Yu hesitated for a while.
In the end, he gritted his teeth, raised one hand and let out several whistles, sending seven or eight green shadows towards Lu Zhong's side, all of which were poisonous fire snake nails.
Unexpectedly, this wave of attacks was instantly blocked by Xiaojiao, with no effect at all.
Seeing this, Gongsun Yu turned around and flew away without hesitation.
Gongsun Rou stared at this scene blankly, as if a basin of ice water had been poured on him, making him feel cold from the top of his head to the soles of his feet. He was filled with disbelief that the head of the family would abandon him and flee.
He resisted for a while, and after a few breaths he fell to the ground seriously injured.
"Huh, you really are like our monks!" Lu Zhong looked at the disappearing light spots on the horizon and knew that he could not catch up with Gongsun Yu, so he looked at Gongsun Rou and said coldly: "Should I ask you to answer, or should I wait until you die?
Wait for me to use soul searching to find the information I want to know?"
"Fellow Taoist, what do you want to ask?" Gongsun Rou was panicking and said with an ugly smile.
"When is your birthday?"
"The twenty-eighth day of the month of Shu in the year of Mao."
Hearing this, Lu Zhong's eyes flashed with disappointment. This woman was nearly two hundred years old. She could not be Li Hejun. She just looked similar.
When I thought about this clearly, I felt relieved.
"Why can you track me?"
"Actually, it's not about tracking fellow Taoist, but the soul of Puhuo in fellow Taoist..." Gongsun Rou explained carefully, feeling even more panicked.
I see!
Only then did Lu Zhong realize that he had encountered a blind spot in his thinking, and it was not the failure of his magical power to change stars. So he secretly warned himself in his heart:
"It seems that in the future, we must pay more attention to this point to avoid being indirectly tracked..."
After getting the answer he wanted, he did not accept Gongsun Rou's condition that he was willing to live for the cauldron, and directly gave her a happy surprise. He cleaned up the scene in a few seconds and left with two storage bags.
...
Less than half a year later.
In the quiet room.
"call!"
"Finally refined!"
Lu Zhongchang exhaled a breath of dragon-like turbidity, looked at the refined storage ring in front of him, and finally a smile appeared on his face. After making sure that no other limbs were left on the ring, he would use a trace of magic power.
Gradually, the Kongming Stone once again gave off a misty glow, and at the same time, a connection came to my mind.
"What's in it?"
He was full of expectation and probed his consciousness inside.
The volume of this Kongming Stone storage ring is much larger than what Lu Zhong initially estimated. It is a full 10,000 square meters. There are a lot of things in the storage ring.
In addition to the Lingshi Hill worth more than 300,000 Lingshi, there is also a pile of magic materials, including iron essence, copper mother and other main magic materials, as well as various types of auxiliary materials for refining weapons.
"This saves a lot of money." A smile appeared on Lu Zhong's face.