The body-protecting green smoke of the Immortal Fruit was bitten by earthworms, and it did not fail to resist again.
It seems to have turned into the roots and branches of the Immortal Fruit, waving around and spreading its teeth and claws, trying to knock down all the earthworms that are clinging to it.
Xu Dao watched, feeling a strange feeling suddenly arise in his heart.
He blinked and looked at the Immortal Fruit, and suddenly found that the fruit that was originally full of energy and vitality suddenly became gloomy and evil.
In a daze, Xu Dao thought he was hallucinating. Because when he looked carefully again, the Immortal Fruit still looked like the spiritual object it had been at the beginning, without any change.
But the strange feeling in his heart did not disappear.
You Bing, who was meditating next to her, also opened her eyes. Her heart was beating slightly, and she looked at Xu Dao with doubtful eyes and said, "Why am I suddenly uneasy..."
Hearing You Bing's words, Xu Dao suddenly knew that the strange feeling he noticed was not an illusion, and the scene he just saw was probably not an illusion either.
He didn't answer aloud, but calmly motioned for You Bing to look at the Immortal Fruit.
The two of them stared at the fruit together. After ten breaths passed, their expressions slowly changed.
As the earthworms gnawed away, the green smoke of the Immortal Fruit was eliminated, and it lost its aura and became green, like water plants, and squirming and twitching like tentacles.
The appearance of the whole fruit has also changed. It has developed from the shape of a live baby full of energy to a dead baby or a drowned baby. Its color is blue and purple, its appearance is wrinkled, and its skin is like plucked chicken skin or rough grain.
bark.
When Xu Dao and You Bing were even more frightened, a black-red aura rose up from the Immortal Fruit, illuminating the entire cave and making it look like blood was pouring from it.
You Bing couldn't help but say: "Is this the Immortality Fruit? Why is it so resentful, like a resentful baby?"
Xu Dao's eyes also became solemn. He seemed to have thought of something and said: "It seems that the so-called Immortality Fruit is not a good thing."
When entering Black Mountain, Xu Daozeng inadvertently raised his head and glanced at the large locust tree in the lake. The lush locust tree at that time turned into a ghost tree in an instant.
The Immortality Fruit in front of me was bitten by earthworms and changed from a spiritual fruit to a ghost fruit. There should be an inseparable relationship between the two.
Walking in the cave, Xu Dao circled around to look at the changed Immortal Fruit, and said as if recalling:
"The Black Mountain God Banquet is a banquet to worship the mountain god? More than two thousand Taoist disciples entered this place to compete for thirty Immortal Fruits, and there are rumors that more than half of them were killed or injured. The Immortal Fruits will appear."
"What does this mean? Everyone should be well aware of it, but I thought it would just be a business. Everyone gets what they want, but now it seems that this Immortal Fruit has obviously been manipulated."
Hearing what Xu Dao said? You Bing's beautiful eyebrows also frowned. She stared at the Immortal Fruit in front of her, her heart trembling slightly.
If this weird and evil fruit is used to build the foundation, it is uncertain what the Taoist disciples who build the foundation will look like. Even if it is harmless? It will most likely be controlled by the hands of others.
Xu Dao and You Bing were surprised and confused.
But the earthworms under Xu Dao are gnawing even harder? One by one they gather on the surface of the fruit. Every time they swallow a bit of smoke, they will quickly crawl to the ant king and produce blood honey for the ant king to drink.
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The green smoke of the Immortal Fruit seems to still be an extremely pure spiritual energy, but its nature is sinister and treacherous.
Xu Dao's heart moved, and he immediately ordered other weak crickets to crawl forward and start swallowing the green smoke of the Immortal Fruit.
After a while, just a moment? More than 3,000 Qi-refining level earthworms actually grew in the cave. This speed shocked Xu Dao.
The ant king on the side even lay down directly in the blood and honey. He devoured it in big mouthfuls. The demonic energy accumulated bit by bit. It became thicker at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his Taoist behavior actually increased by as much as half a year.
After the green smoke outside the fruit is swallowed up by the earthworms, new green smoke will immediately seep out of the ghost-infant-shaped Immortal Fruit, surrounding it to protect the integrity of the fruit.
Such a scene fell in Xu Dao's eyes, making him worry about it in his heart:
"This Immortal Fruit looks somewhat similar to the innate infant energy in Guo's ancestral hall, and the Black Mountain is weird. The so-called mountain god needs to sacrifice soul, flesh and blood, and Taoist disciples. It is more like a demon than a god... This Immortal Fruit,
It might be the leftovers from the sacrifice."
Xu Dao momentarily remembered the secrets he had heard in his previous life.
Some factories that raise chickens, ducks, pigs and cows will grind roosters, offal, beef bones, etc. into meat paste powder, and then make livestock and poultry feed to feed chickens, ducks, pigs and cows. This will not only save costs, but also reduce the livestock consumption.
Poultry raised in captivity are fat and strong, and can easily grow meat.
"Isn't it true that the so-called Black Mountain God Banquet is also like this?"
Thoughts floated through his mind, and he became even more depressed as he looked at the increasingly ghastly and terrifying Immortal Fruit in front of him.
Although You Bing next to you didn't know what Xu Dao was thinking, she also felt resistant to the Immortal Fruit. She paused and asked, "Can I still take this fruit?"
You Bing looked at the earthworms around him and said, "It's better to feed them all to the worms. It won't be a waste." Apparently she no longer dared to take the immortal fruit in front of her.
You Bing knows how to make elixirs, and her knowledge of medicinal materials is broader and deeper than Xu Dao's. Since she said this, it means that even if the two of them can cut open the Immortal Fruit and make elixirs, You Bing is not sure that they can.
"Extract the poison" from the fruit to expel the evil spirits and evil spirits inside.
But after Xu Dao heard this, he thought for a moment and said, "Not necessarily."
"Huh?" You Bing made a confused voice.
I saw Xu Dao turn to where the ant king of Nanke was lying. After thinking for a while, he suddenly stretched out a finger, dipped it in the blood honey brewed by the ants, and took it into his mouth.
After closing his eyes and sipping for a few times, Xu Dao immediately sat down cross-legged and used his true energy to melt the blood and honey that entered his body, refine and disperse it, turn it into spiritual energy, and then smelt it into true energy.
After the new energy came out, he calmed down and combed it carefully again and again to confirm that there was no change in the obtained energy and that there was nothing wrong with his physical body.
You Bing looked into Xu Dao's heart and probably guessed what Xu Dao was doing.
Since the Shengxian Fruit is poisonous and the effect after swallowing is unpredictable, the two of them can not take the Shengxian Fruit directly, but use methods to only ingest the spiritual energy in the fruit, and then use the spiritual energy to increase their Taoism.
It's just that this step is easy to say, but extremely difficult to perform.
You Bing boasts that she has mastered some rudimentary alchemy skills, but let alone things like the Immortal Fruit, even if it is ordinary corpse energy and yin energy, if she wants to turn this kind of energy into ordinary spiritual energy and swallow it, she can only turn on the power.
I can barely make alchemy in the furnace.
But because of the presence of the Nan Ke Ping Fei, there was a turning point.
The earthworm is born to eat spirits. There is almost nothing that cannot be eaten. Whether it is elixir, spirit wood, or spiritual minerals, flesh and blood, as long as it contains vitality and aura, the earthworm can bite it into pieces, swallow it in its belly, and turn it into aura.
Enhance yourself.
Even if some poisonous substances can easily poison a beetle to death, as long as the number of beetles is sufficient, the Nanke beetle can still eat it.
The steps are for the living to devour the dead. It only takes a certain amount of time and a certain amount of time to turn the poison into a common ration for the swarm of earthworms.
Although Xu Dao had only paid attention to this point before, thinking that earthworms were easy to feed, but after discovering that Qi-refining grade earthworms could brew blood honey, he secretly had this in mind.
Blood and honey are what the ant king eats. How could he not eat them?
Just now Xu Dao answered You Bing "not necessarily" because he had already passed through the body of the ant king to sense whether there was anything bad about the blood honey made from the green smoke of the fairy fruit.
The result is that from the perspective of the ant king's body, not only is there nothing wrong with this blood honey, but it is also top-quality food. The more the better.
So after a slight hesitation, Xu Dao personally stepped forward and tasted and refined the blood honey of the Immortal Fruit. Indeed, as he felt in the body of the Ant King, this blood honey was not harmful.
After thinking for a moment, Xu Dao said to You Bing:
"The Immortal Ascension Fruit is weird and cannot be refined directly. However, you can first temper it with your hands and then swallow it."
He was worried that You Bing had doubts, and elaborated: "Blood honey is the spiritual liquid used by mature crickets to feed the ant king. It is condensed from the excess spiritual power of the crickets. Although it is similar to the nectar collection of bees, it is not something special.
Objects are raw materials, refined to the extreme, and are just a breath of spiritual energy.”
Although You Bing was surprised when she heard Xu Dao's explanation, she did not doubt what Xu Dao said. She walked up to the ant king, picked out a little bit of blood honey with her fingertips, and put it into her mouth.
After a little refining, You Bing suddenly opened his eyes and said to Xu Dao: "It is exactly what fellow Taoist said, this spiritual liquid is quite pure and melts in the mouth, almost like spiritual energy liquefying."
You Bing looked around at the beetles, with surprise in his eyes, and said: "The effect of turning poison into spirit is close to the superior alchemy method. Fellow Taoist, you can raise a good beetle!"
Hearing You Bing's praise, Xu Dao smiled, shook his head and said modestly: "I can just barely turn waste into treasure."
But when he heard You Bing's words, his heart moved.
Even things such as the Immortal Fruit can be turned into blood honey and poison into spirits. From now on, whenever he encounters things that have spiritual energy but cannot use them, he can feed them to the Earthworm and squeeze out the spiritual energy without leaving any waste.
Moreover, although the blood honey brewed by Nanke Bengfeng consumes a lot of money, it is far more refined than elixirs such as Zengqi Pills, and at least there is much less erysipelas.
Such effects were something Xu Dao had never seen in books. He couldn't help but secretly thought in his heart: "This creature, the Nanke Pingfly, is indeed a famous and strange insect in the world, and it actually has such an effect."
After thinking about it for a while, he suppressed his thoughts and turned to You Bing and said:
"In this case, we will use the earthworms as a furnace to refine the Immortal Fruit in order to increase our spiritual conduct."
"Listen to what fellow Taoist said." Hearing this, You Bing opened his mouth and agreed.
After a busy day, the two of them first saw the true face of the Immortal Fruit, and then pondered over it, with ups and downs of mood, and finally found a feasible refining method.
Xu Dao immediately ordered all Qi Refining level worms to quickly make blood honey. In addition to maintaining the supply at the Ant King, the rest was sent to the two of them for them to swallow and use together.
The two sat cross-legged on the stone altar in the center of the cave, trying to sit across from each other. There was a stone box in the middle with two medicine spoons. Whenever they needed it, they would take the blood honey in the box and refine it.
For real anger.
Because the essence of blood honey melts in the mouth, Xu Dao and You Bing took it, and their true energy increased very quickly, just like the two of them had swallowed soul nourishing pills before.
By the time the two people's cultivation gradually improved, the output of blood honey could no longer keep up with their refining speed.
Whenever the green smoke outside the Shengxian Fruit will be swallowed up by earthworms, the inside of the fruit will spit out green smoke again, surrounding it.
Repeated several times, the aura of the green smoke seemed to be inexhaustible. After a day, the red light on the surface of the Immortal Fruit was slightly dimmed.
This made Xu Dao secretly sigh that although this object was sinister, it was indeed a magical treasure. There was so much spiritual energy in it that he didn't know how much talisman money it could be worth.
So he directly ordered the other immature earthworms to pounce on them, swallowing the green smoke together, and then brewed blood honey after they grew into Qi-refining level earthworms.
In this way, although the loss of spiritual energy of the Immortal Fruit is greater, the blood honey production will also increase, which can maintain the supply to Xu Dao and You Bing.
The two of them continued to refine blood honey day and night, growing the true energy in their bodies almost crazily.
One day, one night.
Two days and two nights.
Three days, four days...
Gradually, the zhenqi in Xu Dao and You Bing's bodies increased to a certain point, and each encountered a bottleneck.
Among them, You Bing was the first. Although her speed of refining blood honey was not as fast as that of Xu Dao, her Dao skills were also shallow. Dao Xing was the first to reach ten years.
If it continues to increase, you must practice the breathing and breathing method in the middle stage of Qi refining, otherwise there will be too much accumulation of Qi and there is a risk of loss of control.
Therefore, You Bing no longer pursued the pursuit of increasing Taoism, but began to polish Zhenqi in order to eliminate the heat of the new Zhenqi as soon as possible.
Although Xu Dao was a step slower, in a short period of time, his Taoist practice increased from eleven years to twenty-five years, and he had reached the peak of the middle stage of Qi refining.
Like You Bing, Xu Dao only needs to practice the breathing and breathing method of the next level before he can break through to the later level.
And I don't know if it's because Nanke Bengying is his external incarnation. Blood honey is far more essence to him than You Bing, and the new true energy in his body has fire energy.
But there wasn't much anger. He estimated that he only needed to polish it for more than a month before he could control his magic power and cast spells normally, so that others wouldn't notice the slightest clue.
In addition to breathing in and out of breath, Xu Dao and You Bing actually have another way to polish their true energy.
That is the Tanzhong Palm Yin Thunder Method practiced by Xu Dao.
This method can generate electricity through friction, release the energy of thunder and fire, and temper the Taoist's true energy and physical body.
So when Xu Dao also encountered a bottleneck and woke up from refining his energy, the two discussed it for a while and began to practice the Palm Yin Thunder method together.
Since the practice of this technique also requires the consumption of spiritual energy, the two of them continued to practice, and their need for blood and honey was not interrupted.
Fortunately, the Immortal Fruit has deep spiritual energy, and even if tens of thousands of earthworms ate it together, it actually persisted until the seventh day.
When the Immortal Ascension Fruit finally couldn't hold on any longer and could no longer release its spiritual energy, Xu Dao and You Bing leisurely woke up from their cultivation state.
The two of them were close to each other, overlapping each other.
When they opened their eyes, they both saw a deep joy in each other's eyes.