FS-novel #226 - Who is setting off firecrackers and disturbing people’s sleep?
#226 - Who is setting off firecrackers and disturbing people’s sleep?
The next day, as the morning sun rose.
Ling Yunzi had already begun collecting the pills.
Xu Chengxian and Ling Xiao were guarding the process as usual.
At this moment, they suddenly sensed the aura of a great demon approaching.
The opponent was holding a strange-looking large umbrella.
It seemed they were also attracted by the commotion of the pill refining.
However, just as they were about to get close, they seemed to recognize them and immediately changed direction.
"Looks like they saw us出手 at the imperial mausoleum before," Xu Chengxian thought to himself.
To dare to fight against a demon general, and as a trio of siblings.
The great demon who had been approaching clearly had no intention of causing trouble for themselves, so they wisely retreated.
If all the demons who approached afterward had such awareness, that would be for the best.
It would save them trouble.
Looking again at the direction the demon came from and was going, they must have retreated from the main island with the True Dragon Hall and were heading elsewhere.
They were likely looking for a place with a teleportation array.
Normally, each island in the secret realm had one or several one-way teleportation arrays.
The teleportation range was only from the Azure Dragon Secret Realm back to the imperial mausoleum.
But some arrays could no longer be used.
Some had fallen into disrepair over the years, and some had been destroyed.
The latter was unknown whether it was intentional or affected by battle.
Before, of the several islands they had passed, the teleportation arrays on two of them had been destroyed.
The appearance of this great demon immediately put Xu Chengxian on alert.
He and Ling Xiao tacitly defended one direction each.
Fortunately, until the second batch of pills was refined and collected, no other demonic auras approached.
So, what they needed to deal with were still those sea beasts.
"I'll go!"
As the turbulent waves surged and attacked, Xu Chengxian turned and said.
And in the next moment, he took the initiative to meet them.
Bang!
Splash!
He simply released his original form and plunged into the Chaos Sea.
As a water-avoiding snake, he naturally had water control talent and had awakened the battle skill—Five Elements Technique.
Facing a group of sea beasts, he was simply unstoppable.
After a round of slaughter, he harvested a rich supply of ingredients.
He even felt a little regret that he hadn't encountered a very powerful opponent.
To let him stretch his muscles and bones.
This remark drew a disdainful snort from Big Black.
This black sheep was dissatisfied because it had only managed to get one thousand units of blood energy to satisfy its hunger while collecting debts.
"The Azure Dragon Secret Realm has a barrier, powerful sea beasts can't get in." Perhaps because they were about to part, Ling Xiao was actually giving his big brother face, explaining to him why the sea beasts here were not very strong.
As he spoke, he gave him three more jade bottles.
"Is Yunzi going to refine more pills next?" Xu Chengxian took the pills and looked up at the mountain peak.
Ling Yunzi's eyes were slightly closed, his five hearts facing the sky.
He was currently meditating in a meditative state.
After each pill formation, this guy would summarize his experiences and insights.
He also said, 'The art of pill refining is about striving for perfection.'
So, some people's success is almost inevitable.
Even a smooth refining process without any setbacks should be reviewed and deduced.
Such caution and perseverance are also qualities that ordinary people do not possess.
Anyway, Xu Chengxian never looked back at the test paper when he did well on exams before.
"Yes." Ling Xiao nodded, "He wants to refine all the spiritual materials he brought and the spiritual plants he obtained this time into pills as much as possible."
Once they left the secret realm, there might not be such a safe environment for refining pills.
Among the demon race, various forces and groups were deeply intertwined.
"Before, we were in the edge of the land and hardly came out."
The time they had been great demons was also short, and they had not had the opportunity to enter the sight of some people.
They had not encountered the situation of being courted by multiple parties.
"But this time out, it's different."
The improvement of their cultivation base and the strength revealed by their actions would inevitably involve them in some unnecessary disputes.
And they were not in the mood to participate in these matters.
"Ling Xiao and I have to find a way to escape from the demon race." Ling Xiao frowned. "The best way is to declare seclusion to the outside world."
If so, it would not be possible to start refining pills or weapons again.
The commotion was too great, and it was almost impossible to hide.
What's more, the more pills refined, the better, the easier it was to attract attention.
"I know."
Xu Chengxian nodded.
He understood what Ling Xiao meant.
If they wanted to escape, it was best to fade out of everyone's sight as much as possible and then leave silently.
So as not to attract attention, and it was best if few people mentioned it afterward.
So as not to expose their identity.
"There was a demon race passing by just now." He turned to say, "General Si might also appear, should I have Big Black activate the Red Blood Array Flag formation?"
"Alright." Ling Xiao said, "Although without the array flag, he may not have other magical weapons that can cross the sea, but it is indeed necessary to guard against him."
"I wonder if Jin Hong has come." Mentioning General Si, Xu Chengxian thought of another guy who should have died long ago, "Currently, the most incomplete thing for us is that we couldn't kill this guy."
Hopefully, they would have a chance to meet again.
After the two said a few words, they went to cultivate separately.
Ling Xiao returned to the mountaintop.
Xu Chengxian, having eaten his fill, tied himself to the mountainside.
He swallowed the pills and fell asleep.
… …
Another half month passed.
As soon as Xu Chengxian opened his eyes, there were two more jade slips in front of him.
Inside were the insights and cultivation experiences of the female emperor sister and the Dao Lord brother during this half month.
He now understood what it meant to win by quantity.
Then, Ling Yunzi opened two more furnaces of pills.
After that.
Every half month, he would open a furnace of pills.
Until three months later, all the spiritual materials were exhausted.
And from this day on, the time interval between Xu Chengxian's awakenings also changed from once every half month to once every month.
Each time he woke up, there would be two more jade slips in front of him.
He would swallow these insights into his stomach and then go to find food.
Then he would come back, while sleeping to increase his blood energy and refine the pills, and while sleeping, he would distract himself to read the jade slips given by the two.
Studying and deducing the contents within.
With the reading of the jade slips, especially the first two—the understanding of the cultivation methods of Ling Xiao and Ling Yunzi, combined with the information he had heard from the two before.
Xu Chengxian had a more systematic and comprehensive understanding of cultivation.
Then he was surprised to find that his current state was very interesting.
In the jade slip given by Ling Yunzi, he saw a kind of profound skill of the Daoist sect.
—Sleep Kung Fu.
Cultivating this skill could correspond to the changes in different stages since he obtained the system.
This made him very interested.
So he separated a trace of divine thought to study it.
He did not give up studying Ling Xiao's method either.
Both methods were the Daoist traditions of the top sects in the human world, and the Daoist meaning within was as vast as the sea.
Once he calmed down, he had a feeling of being unable to extricate himself.
Six months passed in such a hurry.
… …
Rumble!
Rumbling!
On this day, Xu Chengxian was drowsy and suddenly heard bursts of roaring.
He couldn't help but think: "Huh? These cannon sounds are quite loud, whose family is getting married with such a big show?"
But in the next instant, he suddenly widened his eyes.
This was not setting off firecrackers!
Someone was undergoing tribulation!