Chapter 248

Inside the Huang Forbidden, at the place where three trees formed a corner, the three candles had long since burned out, leaving only a patch of wax oil soaked into the trees, which had dried into a thick layer.

Xu Qing stood within the three trees, looking up from afar at the place where the Ghost City had disappeared.

At the same time, his magic power merged into the storage bag, discovering that the items he had purchased were still there.

"Items from the Ghost Market cannot be taken out during the day; they need to be used at the Zi hour of the night."

Xu Qing murmured in his heart. This was the record of the information he had obtained. At this moment, he recalled the scene in the Ghost Market before, and many guesses rose in his heart.

"That monk's head, said Jin Wu?"

"Could it be a foreign race once refined by the Jin Wu?" Xu Qing pondered for a while, left the place of the three trees, looked around, and galloped straight toward the distance.

As for the matter of the Ghost Market, he felt that it was ten to one as he had judged. As for the specifics... when he had the ability, he could naturally explore it.

So Xu Qing stopped thinking about this matter. At this moment, with a flicker, he accelerated in this jungle.

His mission for coming to the Huang Forbidden this time, besides the Ghost Market, also included some beasts containing highly toxic substances and places with plants, which he needed to go and pick.

"If everything goes smoothly, this time I will definitely be able to let the Little Black Insect break through the shackles and begin to grow again. In this way, it will not affect my plan to re-refine the Poison Forbidden Elixir."

Xu Qing's speed became faster and faster, occasionally comparing directions along the way to find the poisonous herbs he needed.

Just like this, one day passed.

The Huang Forbidden during the day was much lower in danger than at night.

And Xu Qing's range was also controlled in the outer area, plus his current cultivation base and combat power, so although he also encountered some fierce beasts, they were all successfully resolved by him.

He also found a part of the medicinal herbs, but it was not completely without danger. At dusk, Xu Qing saw a red grassland from afar, and the feeling it gave him was full of crisis.

He just took one look, and that piece of red grassland squirmed strangely, growing eyes one by one, which opened one after another, gazing at Xu Qing.

A malice emanated from those eyes.

Xu Qing's body shook. He felt his whole body's skin was very itchy. While retreating rapidly, the life fire within his body burned, and the life lamp spread out, only then blocking this malice.

After moving away from this place, he lowered his head to check his whole body. On his arm, Xu Qing saw that at some unknown time, half an eye had grown there.

The reason it was said to be half was because this eye had not fully grown yet and had not reached the degree of opening.

But the eyelids and eyelashes were very clear, looking exactly the same as the eyes on that red grassland.

And this eye was extremely strange. No matter if Xu Qing burned it with malevolent fire or dug it out, he could not remove it. That piece of shadow could only make it briefly float out of his body, but as the shadow moved away, it would grow back on.

And clearly, with the passage of time, this eye was still growing, giving Xu Qing the feeling that it seemed that at most in a few days, it could open.

What the result of opening was, Xu Qing did not want to know, so he controlled the shadow to make it briefly separate, unfolded the Jin Wu Refining Ten Thousand Spirits method, and finally refined and dissipated this half-grown eye.

"This Huang Forbidden is very dangerous."

Xu Qing looked at his arm and checked it carefully again, finally clearing more than thirty eyes from his body.

These thirty-plus eyes were all far from reaching the completion stage, and most were just like seeds. What made Xu Qing have lingering fears was that they did not grow on the surface of the body, but grew inside the five internal organs and six bowels of the body.

One could imagine if he had checked late or was negligent, once they had time to grow and opened, he would definitely be miserable.

Xu Qing took a deep breath. As dusk passed and night fell, he became even more cautious and careful, chose a tree hole, and drilled into it.

"The poisonous herbs are almost enough, next are some poisonous beasts..."

He didn't plan to go out tonight, preparing to wait for dawn before leaving, because the activity time of his next target was mainly during the day.

And he also prepared to try to integrate the extremely yin and evil poison into the Little Black Insect here tonight, so while waiting silently for the Zi hour to arrive, Xu Qing began to set up magic arrays and poison powder outside the tree hole.

After ensuring he was safe, he closed his eyes and sat in meditation.

Night fell, the tree hole was silent, and from time to time, strange calls came from the outside world. Xu Qing listened and listened, as if he had returned to the time when he was in the ruined city back then.

"I don't know when I can become strong enough to... ignore the forbidden areas and forbidden lands." Xu Qing murmured in his heart.

Time passed, and soon the Zi hour arrived. Following the continuous spread of the cold air in the surroundings, white gas emanated from Xu Qing's mouth when he breathed, which made the cold he hadn't felt for a long time appear again.

Xu Qing was afraid of the cold, but ever since he established his Foundation, following the strength of his cultivation base and the improvement of his combat power, he rarely felt cold again.

But today... he felt it again.

"Something is not right." A sharp light appeared in Xu Qing's eyes. Although he also felt the temperature of the forbidden area drop at this time last night, it was far from being as it was now.

Xu Qing's mind stirred. The life fire within his body ignited instantly, and after his whole person entered the Profound Radiance State, he rushed out of the tree hole to check the surroundings, but the next instant, Xu Qing's expression sank.

He saw that in the jungle in the distance, a large amount of mist suddenly appeared. As this mist spread, it shrouded all directions, and that Ghost City from yesterday had actually descended again silently and soundlessly.

And this time, Xu Qing did not go to blow the ghost flute, and he had also checked the surroundings, and there was no one summoning it, which made Xu Qing not hesitate at all, and he galloped toward the distance at full speed in an instant.

And behind him, in the mid-air of the Ghost City that had descended, the monk's head tied by chains transformed by countless arms turned slowly, gazing at the direction Xu Qing was fleeing, and the sound, like heavenly thunder, echoed again.

"Jin Wu refines my race, Jin Wu must die!"

Amidst the words, this head actually jumped out fiercely, flying very high directly, and the arm chains that tied it were also pulled very long, but it could not stop it.

After this head jumped up, its strength was immense. When it fell fiercely, it smashed directly onto the jungle outside the Ghost City. Amidst the collapse of a large area of trees, this head rushed forward fiercely, actually rolling forward like a sphere, chasing toward Xu Qing!

Its rolling speed was very fast, and a large number of trees collapsed along the way, and the arm chains behind it were also pulled long and distorted, and even that Ghost City was roaring, as if it were about to be shaken.

All of this made Xu Qing's eyes shrink, and a crisis rose in his heart. He unfolded all his life lamps and life fires, and the Jin Wu behind him materialized to add support, exchanging for extreme speed, and fled toward the distance like lightning.

But the huge head like a mountain behind him was still rolling and chasing.

At the same time, from the Ghost City, a sharp sound came at this moment, and countless ghost hands stretched out from inside, chasing toward the head.

Looking from afar, Xu Qing was in front, the head was chasing, and the chains connected it and limited its speed. At the same time, those ghost hands stretched out from the Ghost City were also chasing it.

"Jin Wu..." During this chase, the head was still somewhat confused, emitting a violent roar.

"Must..."

"Die!

!"

For the last two words, it jumped into mid-air again, shouting them out when it smashed toward Xu Qing in the distance, but the chains on its body had reached their limit at this moment, causing the speed of the head falling in mid-air to suddenly pause.

Seeing that those ghost hands behind it were about to arrive, this head smiled strangely, and its body actually exploded on its own with a bang, turning into countless small heads that landed, and while jumping, chased toward Xu Qing!

Those small heads had no chain restrictions, and their speed was even more astonishing. In an instant, more than a dozen rolled and jumped, approaching Xu Qing, opening their big mouths, just about to bite.

A murderous intent flashed in Xu Qing's eyes. He turned his head fiercely, the Jin Wu materialized behind him, swallowed toward them, and the black iron slip flew out, heading straight for these heads.

In an instant, the Jin Wu hissed, sucked fiercely, and the black iron slip also arrived rapidly. Amidst the echoing roaring sound, those few small heads collapsed and turned into fly ash.

But not a bit of substance was sucked out.

It was as if these heads were just illusory and did not exist.

And the scattered fly ash gathered again, forming again, unscathed. Especially one head actually appeared beside Xu Qing's foot, biting directly toward his lower leg.

The life fire within Xu Qing's body spread out suddenly, and the surrounding heads rolled back, still unscathed. At the same time, they were all chewing, emitting a blurred sound.

"Delicious, delicious, delicious"

"Weak, weak, weak, weak, weak!"

Xu Qing's expression was gloomy. He knew it wasn't that the Jin Wu was weak, but that wanting to display the extreme power of the Jin Wu was not something his current cultivation base could achieve.

He lowered his head and glanced at his lower leg, where a piece of flesh had been bitten off by the other party.

In the past, it was always him sucking others; this was the first time he had encountered being bitten.

At this moment, that small head flickered, licked its tongue, revealed a strange smile, and was just about to rush over, but it was grabbed by an arriving ghost hand and dragged directly back to the Ghost City.

And other heads, however, avoided the ghost hands and bit toward Xu Qing again.

Xu Qing's expression was ugly. He discovered that the life fire power was also ineffective against them. Seeing another head smashing over ferociously, a cold light appeared in Xu Qing's eyes.

The shadow sensed Xu Qing's thought and instantly pounced over, fiercely absorbing the alien quality of the head. The Jin Gang Sect Ancestor was not to be outdone and flew through rapidly again.

And that head was also cruel, actually not dodging at all, biting toward the shadow and the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor.

Amidst the tearing and biting, this head collapsed, and countless small insects flew out from its eyes.

These were Xu Qing's Little Black Insects, which had been released by him when fleeing, and were now taking action together with the shadow.

But it was still ineffective.

Destroying one, another would form, and there were more in the surroundings, boundless and endless, pouncing from all eight directions.

Xu Qing's expression was ugly. He knew that entanglement with them was useless, so he turned around, his cultivation base erupted, and he accelerated to go far away.

Just like this, one night passed.

But at this moment, he did not know that on the Seventh Peak, the Seventh Master was sitting there, looking down at the Criminal Division of the 176th Port with great interest.

Behind him, the Captain was squatting there, holding an apple in his hand, eating one bite after another.

On the side, the Third Prince was holding a fruit basket, smiling and handing one fruit after another to the Captain.

"Old Third, how did you seduce that little girl from Taishi? Teach your senior brother!"

"It's nothing, maybe it's because I have charm." The Third Prince was all smiles.

"Bullshit, no matter how much charm you have, can you be as charming as Little Ah Qing? I remember now, back then the old man went to the Eastern Wanggu Continent, and less than half a year after he came back, you were sent over from the sea holding a white token. It's been many years. At that time, you were only thirteen or fourteen years old, and you were already at one fire, and your eyes were full of hatred. You kid, you wouldn't be from the Eastern Wanggu Continent, would you? It seems something big happened in the Taishi Immortal Sect back then..."

The Captain looked at the Third Prince with a smile that was not a smile.

The Third Prince's expression was as usual, and he spoke with a smile.

"Sure enough, nothing can be hidden from the Senior Brother. However, Junior Brother is really curious, Senior Brother, how many times... have you recultivated?"

The Captain blinked and said with a smile.