It is said that although Xu Dao trusted You Bing, he even told You Bing everything that happened in the Baiguguan camp.
But the Immortal Fruit is precious, so he has to keep it in mind.
His physical body is now in the cave. If You Bing has evil intentions, she only needs to kill Xu Dao's physical body, and she can take the Immortality Fruit as her own.
Logically speaking, based on Xu Dao's understanding of You Bing, the other party would never do this.
But after all, it is difficult to know the heart when it comes to knowing a person's face. Faced with treasures such as the Immortal Ascension Fruit, Xu Dao cannot guarantee that his judgment will be accurate.
Now is the perfect opportunity to test You Bing.
Haosheng lay down in the corner, calmed down his mind, controlled his breath, and pretended that he had not returned to the cave yet, quietly watching the scene in the cave.
the other side.
You Bing suddenly opened her eyes, her eyes regained their vitality, and her thoughts quickly recovered.
The first thing You Bing did after waking up was to turn around and look at Xu Dao beside him.
She found that Xu Dao's physical body was still sitting stiffly, with his head hanging down, and she immediately judged that Xu Dao's Yin Shen had not returned to his physical body. You Bing's brows suddenly furrowed, and she didn't know what he was thinking about.
Buzz! Then You Bing raised her finger, and the storage bag immediately jumped into her hand.
Gently opening the opening of the storage bag, a green fruit in the bag was spit out and suspended in front of her.
This fruit is clearly the Immortal Fruit.
It has been almost an hour since I picked the Immortal Fruit, and the fruit is still full of energy and vitality, no different from before.
It's just that the green smoke on the top of the fruit no longer spurts out, but surrounds the whole body of the fruit, like a horse being trained, and like a shackle, cuffing the fruit, making it deep-seated and unable to escape.
Looking carefully at the current appearance of the Immortal Fruit, You Bing did not show any surprise in her eyes. She had obviously noticed the changes in the Immortal Fruit a long time ago.
It was precisely because half an hour after picking it off, the vision of the Immortality Fruit no longer appeared, You Bing could concentrate on the second half of the journey, so he returned to the cave in about an hour.
Xu Dao, who was hiding and peeping at the side, didn't understand the scene before him, but he looked at the Immortal Fruit in surprise. After thinking for a moment, his trust in You Bing suddenly increased.
"If the Ascension Fruit no longer attracts attention halfway, and You Bing wants to swallow the fruit for himself, he can hide the Ascension Fruit somewhere first, and then use the Yinshen to directly return to the body."
In this way, You Bing can return to the cave a lot in advance to prevent accidents.
But You Bing didn't do this? Instead, he returned honestly carrying the storage bag and the Immortal Fruit as promised. Most likely, he didn't have any greed.
Sure enough? You Bing opened the opening to check the Immortal Fruit, then threw it back into the storage bag and pinched a red pill next to the storage bag.
The whole body of the red pill is a cinnabar snake. It is crystal clear, but it contains vitality. If you look inside through the light, you can still see a small figure hovering in the red pill.
This object is Huo Chilian's snake egg, which, together with the storage bag, was also brought back to the cave by Xiaoying.
Holding the red snake egg, a trace of tenderness flashed in You Bing's clear eyes. But she looked at Xu Dao's body beside her, which was still motionless, and her brows furrowed again.
At this time, Xu Dao already knew why You Bing frowned. The woman was probably worried about his safety.
With a slight warmth in his heart, Xu Dao immediately wanted to move the Yin Shen and return to his body to comfort You Bing.
But he still held back and continued to lie in the corner of the cave, organizing words in his heart and waiting for time.
What if you return to your physical body now? Wake up immediately.
First, it was too much of a coincidence. You Bing is also a smart person? She might guess that Xu Dao would test her, which would harm the relationship between the two.
The second is for Xu Daode to think about it for a while, think of words to say, and make up for the blank experience after returning to the cave, so as not to make You Bing suspicious.
A quarter or two passed.
You Bing stayed in the cave, sitting cross-legged on the ground, her brows furrowed, and there was a hint of anxiety on her face.
Finally, when You Bing stood up again and walked around the cave, Xu Dao saw that the other party was about to die of anxiety. As soon as the thought in his mind fell, he immediately flashed towards the physical body.
The next moment, Xu Dao's eyes trembled slightly. He pretended to empty his eyes, then focused his gaze and raised his head.
"Xu Dao!" A shout rang out, and a figure immediately rushed in front of Xu Dao.
The other party did not jump directly into his arms, but placed his hands on the stone altar, raised his face, and stared at Xu Dao closely.
You Bing looked moved, her lips parted, and her face was obviously filled with surprise.
She murmured a few times, then her eyes darkened in surprise, and asked: "But what happened?"
Xu Dao had a solemn and palpitating expression, but as soon as he heard You Bing's worried words, he exhaled and turned to smile and said: "Fellow Taoist, are you worried about me?"
Hearing Xu Dao's teasing question, You Bing's brows slightly widened. She was mumbling, and when she was about to speak, one of her hands was grabbed by Xu Dao, and her body was pulled over, and she suddenly fell on Xu Dao's body.
"You," You Bing exclaimed and wanted to speak again, but didn't know what to say.
Xu Dao was pleasantly surprised that You Bing did not want to harm him, nor did he want to steal the Immortal Fruit, and his trust in You Bing greatly increased.
His mood fluctuated rarely, and he hugged the other person, feeling very tender.
After the tenderness was over, Xu Dao told the other party what happened after You Bing left, both true and false.
As soon as he heard that Xu Dao's Gu insects had all been absorbed by Fang Guanhai's magic weapon, and almost even the Yin God could not return, the expression on You Bing's face finally became unbearable, with a clear look of worry and self-blame in his eyes.
"Thank you for your hard work, fellow Taoist... If I can help, Xu Dao, you won't have to encounter such danger."
Hearing this, Xu Dao said with relief: "It's a good thing you're here on this trip, otherwise I would have lost both my fruits and my troops."
He grabbed the storage bag and took out the Immortal Fruit from the bag. He looked at it with surprise in his eyes: "Although a hundred thousand earthworms are rare, the Immortal Fruit is more valuable."
Looking at the Immortal Fruit full of inspiration, the worries on You Bing's face gradually disappeared and a smile appeared.
She said: "If you get this thing, when fellow Taoists need to build a foundation, you can directly use this thing to build a foundation."
But after hearing this, Xu Dao suddenly said:
"Foundation building... you and I are only in the early stages of Qi refining, I'm afraid it's still early."
He showed a thoughtful expression and spoke: "In my opinion, it would be better for you and me to directly refine this thing!"
After hearing Xu Dao's suggestion, You Bing was stunned for a moment, but Xu Dao explained it in detail, and she understood and showed approval.
Although the greatest role of the Immortality Fruit in the eyes of Taoists is that it can plant spiritual roots and assist Taoists in building foundations.
But indeed, as Xu Dao said, his and You Bing's levels were still low, far from the level of foundation building.
To build a foundation, a Taoist needs to have practiced Taoism for at least fifty years. Only in this way and with deep magical power can he be qualified to try to cultivate the legal body and plant spiritual roots.
And even Xu Dao himself has only been practicing Taoism for eleven years. He has just entered the middle stage of Qi refining. He is still fourteen years away from the perfection of the middle stage. The twenty-five years of Taoism are still short of the completion of the Taoism. However, the fifty years of Taoism are still short of the completion of the later stage.
It’s a difference of thirty-nine years.
The difference is not huge.
If they keep the Immortality Fruit, firstly the two of them cannot use it recently, and secondly they have to fight when they leave Montenegro. If they accidentally lose it and are robbed, they will suffer a big loss.
Therefore, in Xu Dao's eyes, the two of them now have a liter of fairy fruit. Instead of keeping it for foundation building and using it later, it is better to absorb and refine it now, so that both parties can benefit and it is more fair.
Even if your mana increases greatly, you may still have a chance to obtain the Immortal Fruit when you leave Montenegro.
After the discussion, You Bing immediately nodded to Xu Dao, "It's exactly what fellow Taoist said, I listen to you."
"Good!" When Xu Dao heard this and saw You Bing's support, he immediately raised his hands and chuckled.
He looked at the Immortality Fruit in front of the two of them, his eyes immediately eager to try it. However, they had just returned to the cave and were in poor condition, so they were not in a hurry to start refining it immediately.
It is best to wait until the mana is completely restored, and then see if the Shengxian Fruit can be cut open and made into elixirs, pills, pills and other substances for complete digestion and utilization.
Xu Dao suddenly caught a glimpse of the red snake eggs placed next to the storage bag.
Just now, You Bing played with the object and put the snake egg down again, without directly grabbing it in his hand or putting it in his sleeve.
Xu Dao immediately pinched the red snake egg, then took You Bing's little hand and placed the egg in the other's hand.
He whispered in You Bing's ear:
"I took a red pill from you that day, and I will give you a red pill now, okay?"
As soon as You Bing heard Xu Dao's words, she felt hot and itchy at the base of her ears. A shy look instantly appeared on her cheeks, which turned as crimson as a cloud. The base of her ears and neck were also slightly red.
"Hahaha!" Seeing Nu Guan's shy look, Xu Dao chuckled for a moment, and some of the depression in his heart disappeared.
Suddenly, You Bing tightened her delicate little face, lowered her head, but softly uttered one word: "Yes."
Xu Dao was slightly startled when he heard this.
Immediately, his face was filled with joy, and he quickly put Fang Guanhai and others completely behind him, and hugged Pretty Woman Crown.
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In the days that followed, Xu Dao and You Bing once again stayed in retreat in the cave and tried every means to refine the Immortality Fruit.
The reason why I say I tried every possible means is because the green smoke surrounding the Immortal Fruit is really like a shackle, imprisoning the spiritual energy inside the fruit. It not only protects the fruit and prevents the spiritual energy from escaping, but also allows Xu Dao and the two to escape.
Hard to start.
Not to mention directly cutting open the fruit with a knife and refining the elixir, even if You Bing used the alchemy method, fire method or water method to refine the fruit, he could not shake the green smoke at all.
Even Xu Dao tried to directly bombard the Immortal Fruit with spells, but still could not break the green smoke shackles.
This suddenly caused the two people's refining progress to get stuck before it really started.
At the same time, Xu Dao and You Bing also realized why there had never been any rumors in the temple that someone would directly build a foundation in the Black Mountain, or "spoil" the Immortal Fruit, not using it to build a foundation, but directly refining the fruit.
It turns out that it’s not that no one wants to do this, but that it’s impossible to do it.
Xu Dao estimated that only a Taoist priest in the foundation-building realm could untie the green smoke on the Immortal Fruit.
In this way, any Taoist disciple who obtains the Immortality Fruit will have to take out the fruit and ask for help from the Taoist priests in his sect.
While Xu Dao was thinking about it, You Bing was using the method of combining water and fire to constantly wear away the green smoke on the Immortal Fruit, trying to have some effect, but in the end it was still useless.
"What can be done?" He had to stop his movements and looked at Xu Dao with a frown.
Xu Dao heard this and looked up at the green smoke.
This green smoke wraps around the Immortal Fruit. After being touched by an external force, it will quickly spread all over the fruit and turn into the shadow of a strange plant.
Xu Dao looked at this phantom and felt that it was similar to the demonic locust tree he saw when he entered Black Mountain.
"Sophora japonica, wood ghost, ghost wood, this fruit is masculine, do we need to start with ghost energy and yin energy..." He racked his brains to think, but like You Bing, he made no progress.
Xu Dao sighed softly, and suddenly felt that his mind was dizzy with thinking. He had to stop thinking, empty his mind, and let his brain get a temporary rest.
The two of them looked at each other in silence, their hearts heavy.
"Is it possible that I can only go out with this fruit and ask the Taoist priests inside to take action?"
They have been trying hard for most of the day, and there are still seven days left before leaving Montenegro, so there is not much time left.
If they spend all their time on the Immortal Ascension Fruit, it will be harmful to the two of them but useless. But sitting guarding the treasure without being able to refine it makes them unwilling to accept it.
If when they leave Montenegro seven days later, the Immortal Fruit is accidentally snatched away by someone, and they get it and then lose it, then they will be stunned to death.
Xu Dao felt a little irritable because of this. He got up from the stone altar and walked around the cave to relax. You Bing, who was standing by him, sighed slightly when he saw it, and then sat cross-legged, closing his eyes and recovering the mana he had just consumed.
Suddenly, Xu Dao looked at a small group of Qi-refining grade earthworms in the cave and raised his eyebrows slightly.
This Qi-refining grade worm was newly born recently. It has grown to its limit and cannot continue to devour spiritual objects to grow. Instead, it continuously secretes blood honey to feed the Nanke worm ant king.
The ant king lay lazily in the cave, happily consuming blood and honey to increase his demonic aura.
The ant king's spiritual wisdom was created by Xu Dao's thought, and its every move can be understood by Xu Dao at any time.
Xu Dao's heart moved: "The earthworms collect flesh and blood, and the spiritual things are brewed into blood honey. This method is similar to refining elixirs. Let them try again to see if they can refine the Immortal Fruit."
Then with a thought in his mind, he caused all the newly grown Qi-refining worms to gather in front of the Immortal Fruit, and made vigorous movements to use the Immortal Fruit as spiritual food and devour it.
If it had been before, Xu Dao might have been worried that the earthworms would damage the Immortal Fruit and reduce the effectiveness of the fruit, but in the current situation, he didn't care about this at all.
If a swarm of earthworms can grind open the Immortal Fruit, even if most of the fruit's spiritual power is lost, it will still be worth it.
But a scene that shocked Xu Dao appeared.
As soon as the cockroach came close to the Immortal Fruit, it bit the green smoke on the outside of the fruit, just like eating leaves, and immediately made a rustling sound.
Click, click, click! The ants swarmed up, and just a hundred or so earthworms actually wiped away a layer of the green smoke from the Immortal Fruit.
Buzz! The shadow of the locust tree revealed by the green smoke of the Immortal Fruit has become much dimmer.
Seeing this scene, the thought popped into Xu Dao's mind, "The biography of the governor of Nanke, the great Huai Anguo, the earthworms shaking the big trees..."
He was instantly overjoyed: "Can the earthworm defeat the locust tree?"