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Chapter 1136: Sigh, Inhale (6k, two-in-one)

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"Bao Jiaxiang! Don't dawdle, I ask you, where is last month's list?"

Five fingers tightly buckled the wooden shelf, Kuang Chen's forehead veins bulged, small snakes twisted, dissatisfied to the extreme.

"I'll look for it, I'll look for it, last month, oh, the Small Treasure Vault consumed a total of First-Rank blood treasures..." Bao Jiaxiang didn't dare to face Kuang Chen's anger, quickly flipped through the pages, and seeing Lao Yingtian hadn't moved for a long time, turned his head to look, discovering he was actually still behind, hurriedly greeted, "Yingtian, come over to register, what are you dazing for."

"Coming!"

Lao Yingtian withdrew his gaze and shouted, the hoarse voice echoing in the treasure vault. Not only Bao Jiaxiang, but even he himself was startled.

At this moment, Lao Yingtian suddenly realized that his heart was pounding, his muscles were stiff as iron, his lips were dry and cracked, his saliva was sticky, and it seemed that even the actions of breathing and blinking had to be controlled personally. He forced himself to calm down, using one heart for two purposes, moving his legs, silently counting his own breaths.

A quarter-hour!

A quarter-hour is one hundred and fifty breaths.

One hundred and fifty breaths, he could at most drag it to two hundred; Elder Yu must return.

"Why are you so stiff? So nervous?" Kuang Chen suddenly spoke, narrowing his signature phoenix eyes again, like a fox, "You wouldn't have stolen things from the treasure vault, would you?"

Lao Yingtian's expression didn't change, he moved his steps, and raised his voice: "Everything in the treasure vault is sect property. Lao dares not have such thoughts. It is just that Cao Shixiong rarely cares about fellow disciples on weekdays, rarely comes to the Department of Revenue and Expenditure to work, and is unwilling to recruit more disciples,"

"leaving us to toil day and night in the department, inevitably a bit fatigued."

Kuang Chen's brows opened, twisting into a 'chuan' shape. He never expected Lao Yingtian to dare to speak to him like this.

Even after just knocking over the super-grade blood treasure, at least he pretended to be terrified in his words.

He put down the registration accounts in his hand and slowly walked toward Lao Yingtian.

Brother Lao is awesome!

Bao Jiaxiang screamed in his heart, frantically giving a thumbs up. He hadn't seen it on weekdays; Lao Yingtian was actually this brave?

"One hundred and forty-seven breaths—"

Lao Yingtian faced Kuang Chen, silently reciting in his heart.

The Great Snow Mountain King shook his large shell, carrying everyone, swimming into the sea, swinging ripples.

The water surface flowed, Liu Jingxuan looked at his reflection.

"Ling Xuan, are you sure it's here? What is special here?" Chi Erlan's fingertips broke the water, looking around in confusion. Suo Yuqin was also puzzled: "Master, the dark stakes on Jie Se Ren Qin Gongbu Mountain haven't been dealt with yet, why not send people to guard them, and instead come to Blue Lake? Are there new dark stakes?"

"Because it doesn't matter for a moment. If there is no problem today, the dark stakes are already useless, and we won't need to waste years in the future." Ling Xuan stared tightly at the clear blue water surface.

"What do you mean?" Everyone didn't understand.

"Could it be that the imperial court has decided?" Zhe Dan's expression was tense,

"To open the gates of hell and take the fruit in one fell swoop?"

"No, none of that." Ling Xuan shook his head, "Marquis Baron Xingyi came to seek me once yesterday."

"Marquis Baron Xingyi came yesterday? Then is it that Sister Eying is coming?"

"No, he said—" Ling Xuan spat out a breath, which condensed into white mist and scattered in the wind, "He wants to pick the fruit today."

"What?!"

"Sigh!"

"One hundred and forty-six breaths!"

The yellow leather bag was bulging.

A total of one hundred and eighty-two super-grade blood treasures, one thousand one hundred First-Rank blood treasures!

Liang Qu quickly calculated the time, jumped into the Tongtian River with the yellow leather bag on his back. He didn't dare to travel between Yin and Yang under the Heaven Fire Sect, but 【Water Travel a Thousand Miles】 couldn't carry things not belonging to his own body. Only using 【Water Travel】, a lot of time would be wasted.

There was only one way left.

Splash.

Pulling out a thin thread to tie the yellow leather bag tightly, Liang Qu used Ruyi, expanded into a five-zhang Blood Ape, opened his large mouth, and stuffed the entire bag into his mouth! Swallowed it into his own belly!

The throat was stretched open, like a python in the middle of eating.

More than a thousand blood treasures, together with boxes and bags, had a diameter exceeding one meter. They violently stretched open the throat, blocked the trachea, scratched blood marks, and didn't wait to slide into the stomach.

【Water Travel a Thousand Miles】!

Figures crisscrossed.

One hundred and forty breaths.

Ten thousand miles away!

"Splash!"

With a forceful collision, Liang Qu traveled to the Yang world. The Blue Lake was vast, the sky and earth were the same blue. He felt a piece of flesh being rawly scraped away in his belly.

Looking back.

More than three hundred First-Rank blood treasures remained in the crevices.

No time to pick them up.

Reaching into his throat, he grabbed the flowing bag opening and rawly pulled it out!

"Ugh!"

The bulging neck suddenly contracted, breathing became smooth.

Saliva couldn't be controlled from flowing out of his mouth, coughing violently, forcibly suppressing the conflict of dry heaving, Liang Qu's golden eyes exploded with flames.

Boom!

The colors of heaven and earth twisted and changed. The moment the blood treasures appeared in the Yang world, the evil spirit and disaster energy of heaven and earth gathered and rolled over. In a place invisible to others, a gray vortex with a diameter of ten miles suddenly emerged!

Unpacking the yellow leather bag.

Vortex water turned into countless tentacles, rolled up the blood stones, and unpacked the treasure boxes. He had practiced countless times in the little Mirage Dragon's dream, almost turning into instinct. All super-grade and First-Rank blood treasures, with Liang Qu as the center, quickly spread out, each in its place, forming a mysterious array.

"Zhou Tian Qi Luring Array!"

Super-grade as the center of the array eye, First-Rank as the deputy, resonating with each other.

The ten-mile gray gas vortex surged to fifteen miles!

The clear sky

suddenly turned dark.

Dark clouds gathered, the Blue Lake surged, water vapor steamed, and wisps of water vapor drifted onto his face.

Blood light shone brightly!

One hundred and thirty-five breaths left.

"Marquis Baron Xingyi picking the fruit? How is he going to pick it?!"

"What method is Marquis Baron Xingyi using?"

Everyone was shocked and lost their voices, simply knowing a shocking secret.

"Don't know." Ling Xuan shook his head.

"Then if it takes too long, what if it attracts the Lotus Sect? Is it foolproof?"

"A quarter-hour."

"What?"

"Marquis Baron Xingyi said he had measured it, one hundred and twenty to one hundred and thirty breaths, and the fruit can be lured out." Ling Xuan's eyes collided with light, his words like a cannon, "I also measured it repeatedly. The location of the lure is within our Great Shun territory, in the center of Blue Lake.

For this location to explode with aura, for the Lotus Sect at the peak of the Snow Mountain to know, it must last at least one hundred and fifty breaths or more.

In other words, it is highly likely that the matter can be handled quietly. Even if it exceeds one hundred and fifty breaths, the Lotus Sect will need time to discuss the charter and then rush to Blue Lake. It will also need time. Taking a ten-thousand-step retreat, before someone chases, the safe time is over two hundred breaths! A full half-quarter-hour, plenty of margin!"

The fruit is different from long energy. Before refining, they all belong to physical entities!

Although he didn't know why Liang Qu said he had a probability of being able to cover the aura, and what method it was, even if it couldn't be covered, with a margin of fifty breaths, he could run back by relying on running. He had two cards for maneuvering in his hand!

Zhe Dan's eyes were proof: "Does our dark stake processing end like this?"

How many years had it been? They plunged into the wild mountains and boundless lakes, far away from parents and relatives, carefully processing and covering up one dark stake after another, trembling with fear, afraid that if they didn't process it well, it would attract the attention of the Lotus Sect. "Rest assured, the rewards promised by the imperial court still remain."

"What if the Lotus Sect knows? Will they urge the dark stakes in advance? We only processed thirty percent, this is still a trouble." Hu Lixin couldn't help but worry.

Everyone turned their heads in unison, staring quietly at Hu Lixin.

"What's wrong—"

"Are you stupid or is the Great Snow Mountain stupid?" Zhe Dan ridiculed, "Have you been away from handling cases for too long, and your brain has become stupid?

Or do you feel that our efforts for so many years were all in vain?"

Hu Lixin didn't understand, turned his brain, and suddenly understood, awkwardly scratching the back of his head, self-deprecating: "I was stupid. I've been here for many years and forgot why the Lotus Sect deployed dark stakes."

The Lotus Sect deployed dark stakes, polluting the Huai River, causing chaos, and it was even more to create evil spirits, lure out the Drought Demon, and then rely on the Drought Demon to obtain strategic advantages in the chaos.

Dark stakes are the means, the fruit is the purpose.

Their efforts for so many years had long suppressed the dark stakes to a certain extent.

If the Drought Demon were picked away in advance, the Lotus Sect would explode the dark stakes, causing a large number of civilian casualties upstream. Besides disgusting the Great Shun, inducing intense internal resistance and struggle emotions, they couldn't shake the overall situation, and couldn't obtain any strategic advantages.

Harming others without benefiting themselves.

At that time, chaos would be everywhere, and they would have to bear the anger of the Great Shun, becoming the target of public criticism.

The Southern Frontier, Northern Court, Snow Mountain, and other forces always maintained a static state precisely because no one wanted to be the first bird.

It was never that whoever exerted more effort would get the biggest benefit,

but whoever preserved the most strength afterward would get the biggest benefit!

"The wind has risen."

Ling Xuan looked up.

Suo Yuqin raised her hand: "It's even raining."

Fine raindrops drifted down, falling on her cheeks, narrow strips, like narrow knives.

One hundred and twenty breaths!

"Take the fruit, lure the Southern Frontier Mountain Snake God to serve it, water and drought clash, and it can cause the pseudo-dragon method to fall short of success,

take advantage of its weakness, burn and kill it, both extinguishing its prestige and obtaining the Green Maiden. Two birds with one stone. If you can handle this matter, this middle-grade fruit will be yours."

The rain poured down.

Thunder dragons roamed in the clouds, millions of tons of water fell from the darkness, and the reservoir opened the gates.

Liang Qu's fingers couldn't help but twitch, pointing at the air quickly, his mind involuntarily recalling, recalling the time when he was promoted to Perfected Form, what he said when he climbed the Wangyue Tower with the Holy Emperor.

Memories from several years ago vividly emerged in his mind, as if climbing the tower again, facing the Holy Emperor again.

His index finger pointed violently.

Cultivating to the current realm, this situation shouldn't have appeared, but under intense nervous emotions, it inevitably affected his body.

He was like sitting on a huge gunpowder barrel, with a simple timer tied to the gunpowder barrel, with red and blue lines on it.

Even if he had practiced countless times, knowing which one to cut was correct, the moment he sat on it to time, he still couldn't help but panic.

The Blue Lake was vast and white.

Water mist steamed, rain curtains blocked.

A branch-shaped lightning flashed in the darkness, and a loud explosion sounded in his ears.

The red light of the blood treasures was suppressed by the dark clouds.

The only thing clearly visible was a pair of molten golden eyes.

The gray vortex expanded continuously, from fifteen miles to fifty miles, taking only five breaths, the vortex dragon connecting heaven and earth, frantically absorbing the water vapor, evil spirits, and disasters between heaven and earth—like a prisoner who hadn't drunk water or eaten for thousands of years, extremely thirsty!

Liang Qu sensed the water vapor disappearing rapidly, flowing into nothingness, but also making up for it from other places. His lips cracked and peeled, and he felt a thirst. He looked up at the sky, and raindrops hit his lips.

"Crack!"

Branch-shaped lightning fell on the water surface, white and bright ancient tree forks, growing from the black wasteland into the clouds.

The rain was heavier.

One hundred breaths left.

Sixth Treasure Vault, Kuang Chen grabbed Lao Yingtian's collar, Bao Jiaxiang tried hard to persuade them to fight, trying to separate the two.

"Cao Shixiong Kuang, Cao Shixiong Lao, everyone is a fellow disciple of the Heaven Fire Sect, if you have something to say, say it well, don't move weapons!"

"Kuang Chen, besides having a good father and earning the title of First-Rank disciple, what other ability do you have!"

Bao Jiaxiang's pupils dilated.

Crazy!

This guy is crazy!

"Lao Yingtian! I think you don't know the seniority!" Kuang Chen was angry to the extreme, bumping Lao Yingtian against the treasure vault wall.

"Did I say anything wrong?" Lao Yingtian remained unmoved, still mocking as much as he could.

"Stop arguing, stop arguing, Cao Shixiong Kuang, you usually love to make things difficult for Brother Lao, and Brother Lao is also confused.

Everyone has problems, the key is that it is noon now, the elders have mostly returned from the banquet, everyone go out together, wait until they return, Master sees we haven't returned, it will definitely cause misunderstandings, everyone will eat the blame!" Bao Jiaxiang was crying without tears, and for a moment, he actually gave birth to some courage, "scolding" the two.

Hearing the blame.

The treasure vault was silent, the light of the patterns flickering on the shelves, rising and falling like breathing.

Kuang Chen endured and endured, smashed Lao Yingtian heavily against the wall, and finally let go of the collar, coldly saying: "Come over to register!"

Lao Yingtian patted his collar and smoothed his clothes.

Ninety breaths left.

Blue Lake flood waves rose and fell, wind and rain swayed.

"The water level of Blue Lake is dropping!" The Great Snow Mountain King suddenly spoke.

"Water level?" Ling Xuan looked down.

"Just now I walked on the bottom, the top of the shell was still more than ten zhang away from the water surface, now it is shaved by half a zhang, all surging to one place!"

"Dropping so fast?"

"Is it already luring out the fruit?"

Everyone exclaimed.

Deep in the dark clouds, thunder and lightning flashed.

Ling Xuan stood up to look, his clothes fluttering.

River wind rolled, the lead-gray lake surface rose and fell, as if a water beast was about to break the water and pounce out.

Eighty breaths.

"Crack, crack, crack."

Flood waves surged, freezing into ice crystals in an instant, and then shattered.

Heaven and earth phenomenon, ice crystal sea!

Seventy breaths.

Tide sounds echoed, vast and leisurely, not coming from the water, but like a Gobi stone forest.

Another phenomenon, stone forest tide sound!

Sixty breaths.

A corner of the dark clouds shattered, collapsing, the bright moon shed bright light, like a long river of mercury, flowing into the Blue Lake.

Another phenomenon, no, two!

Blue sky bright moon!

Heaven river pouring to the ground!

Heaven and earth phenomena that ordinary people couldn't seek, appeared all at once within a few minutes, and were still increasing!

In the sky, fish shadows appeared, dancing all over the sky, icebergs floated suddenly, and then quickly collapsed and dissolved. The moonlight and the pitch-black dark clouds entangled, and the dark sunlight scattered.

Heaven and earth were chaotic, various phenomena were like mall discounts, all thrown out at once!

A large number of fish died, floating with their bellies up, their bodies dry when they died, their fish eyes bulging.

Thirsty.

Strange thirst.

Thirsty enough to make people want to drink blood.

Liang Qu was glad he didn't bring his meat body, otherwise, unknown changes would definitely happen.

A large number of heaven and earth phenomena appeared in turn, and the spiritual energy boiled.

Liang Qu, who had always found observing phenomena useless, felt his own energy sea become active as well, boiling and rising on the basis of 6,821 times!

Not only Liang Qu, but Ling Xuan, Chi Erlan, and others a hundred miles away all felt the boiling of their energy seas, experienced the benefits, and quickly sat down to refine.

Ling Xuan's nineteen-fold energy sea quickly filled to twenty!

A corner of the world turned upside down, but because it was too far from the prefecture city, except for those at the center who discovered this amazing scene, no one knew.

Blue Lake monsters were terrified, not knowing the heaven and earth changes, trying their best to escape.

Fifty breaths left.

Center of the vortex.

Liang Qu didn't dare to focus on cultivation, his golden eyes always staring at the gray gas vortex.

Until in the darkness, a wisp of red light emerged!

Boom!

Facing the red light.

Liang Qu saw a sun, the sun hanging in the nine heavens, roasting the earth, cracks spreading, not a blade of grass growing!

Countless bones lay on the roadside, the raised finger bones blocking the cloth strips, the ground wind blew, dry and brittle like withered leaves.

Giant trees turned to powder, the mud turned into yellow sand.

!

Drought!

Even Liang Qu in the soul state, looking directly at the red light, still couldn't help but dehydrate, the cloth burned, his mouth spat out a wisp of green smoke, his skin contracted tightly, sticking to his bones, turning into a dry household!

He wanted to endure, but this was fundamentally not something human power could resist.

"Ah!"

Unbearable scorching heat, skin cracked like red lotus, Liang Qu swayed, screamed, and fell into the Blue Lake.

In his field of vision, bubbles floated.

The vast Blue Lake, pulled out a plug, the flood surged in frantically, no longer a gray gas vortex invisible to ordinary people,

a shocking vortex also appeared in reality.

Boom!

Ten thousand tons of flood evaporated and disappeared.

The red-gold light soared into the sky!

Thirty breaths left.

"Move everything out!"

The number of blood treasures was replenished correctly, Kuang Chen closed

the pages, put everything that needed to be transferred onto the pushcart, from middle-grade to high-grade, a full hundred thousand pieces, stacked like a mountain.

Lao Yingtian didn't move.

Kuang Chen's brows twisted.

"Ah, I'll come, I'll come."

Bao Jiaxiang was terrified, hurriedly acting as a lubricant, taking the work onto himself. When passing by Lao Yingtian,

he found Lao Yingtian's expression very peaceful.

An indescribable strange expression, like a believer worshiping the Great Li God in the sect's Prayer Hall.

Sigh.

Inhale.

Lao Yingtian's chest rose and fell calmly, without waves.

One hundred and fifty breaths.

For the first fifty breaths, he was trembling, sweating all over, every step like walking on thin ice, fearing that someone would discover it.

For the middle fifty breaths, he was almost crazy, like a lamb leg roasted on charcoal, turned by the cook, roasted out of lamb oil little by little with a small fire, dripping onto the red charcoal, dehydrating and turning into coke.

For the last fifty breaths.

Snap!

The coke lamb leg fell, shattering into countless pitch-black fragments.

He accepted the inner peace.

When he was a child eating, his body could never wait for mealtime.

There were few snacks at home. When hungry to the extreme, he couldn't wait for food. His stomach felt like it was burning with fire. After holding the fire, his stomach didn't feel hungry, and he felt that digging for spider lilies with his mouth was a troublesome thing.

The wheels rolled, crushing the bricks.

Bao Jiaxiang didn't dare to say more, pushed the pushcart, walked all the way forward, and came to the treasure vault door.

The pushcart braked suddenly.

The blood treasure mountain peak tilted under force, flowing out like a tide, spreading out.

Successive opposition, successive delays, successive mistakes—

A group of rice buckets!

A bunch of good-for-nothings!

The blood treasure mountain was still tilting, grades mixed, boxes and boxes clashing, occasionally opening, rolling out blood treasures,

clattering against the toes.

Whole rows of high shelves, whole rows of wooden boards.

All the marks were dim, and above the marks, all the super-grade blood treasures, all the boxes containing super-grade blood treasures, were empty!

Blood treasures circled in place, the sound from sparse to dense.

Empty?

How could it be empty?

Not only the blood treasures were empty.

Fingers cramped and trembled, shrinking like chicken claws.

The strangeness from beginning to end, the coincidences from beginning to end, the arrangements from beginning to end—.

Disaster!

Great fear exploded in the minds of Kuang Chen and Bao Jiaxiang.

Sigh.

Inhale.

Another five breaths.

Two

five breaths.

Lao Yingtian counted silently.

"Clang, clang, clang."

The heels and bricks made a harsh friction. Kuang Chen retreated in horror, fell and leaned against the wall. He opened his mouth wide,

pupils trembling, no different from a fish lacking water.

Bao Jiaxiang knelt on the ground, curled up into a quail, shivering.

Dead silence.

Kuang Chen turned his head violently, bloodshot filling the whites of his eyes quickly.

Simply like a fierce tiger, he pounced on Lao Yingtian, grabbing his neck.

"Lao Yingtian!! You! Quick, take the things out, don't play with me, take the things out! Where did you hide them?"

Lao Yingtian was unprecedentedly calm, spreading his arms.

"Search!"

The shouting stopped abruptly. Sweat seeped from Kuang Chen's forehead. He searched up and down, forcefully digging into Lao Yingtian's pockets, wanting to dig out more than a hundred blood treasures and boxes from that palm-sized pocket.

Sigh.

Inhale.

Another five breaths.

Twenty breaths.

"Did you find them?" Lao Yingtian asked.

"Ha, ha, ah!"

The bag was torn into rags, sweat dripped from Kuang Chen's nose onto Lao Yingtian's face. He breathed heavily, unable to breathe, forcefully slapping Lao Yingtian's mouth.

Until the corners of his mouth bled, his teeth were scarlet, Lao Yingtian didn't resist. Even if beaten, his breathing was stable and regular.

Sigh.

Inhale.

Another five breaths.

Fifteen breaths.

"Ah!"

Kuang Chen climbed up from the ground stumbling, fell twice, jumped his feet, his index finger stretched straight, his lungs drummed forcefully, squeezing open the stiff muscles, and three sharp words popped out of his blocked throat,

"You are finished!"

After scolding.

He cried and screamed.

"I am also finished!"

Kuang Chen hugged his head, smashed the wall forcefully, after three times, screamed, and turned violently.

"No, tell Master, you will die! I won't! You will die! I won't!"

Sigh.

Inhale.

Another five breaths.

Ten breaths.

Really fast.

Watching Kuang Chen run out stumbling, Lao Yingtian lowered his head, stared at the ceiling, and closed his eyes again.

Sigh.

Inhale.

Nine breaths.

Sigh.

Inhale.

Shoulder patted by someone.

Lao Yingtian turned violently, seeing the yellow leather bag that appeared out of thin air on the ground!

"Finished, finished—."

Bao Jiaxiang shivered, only able to repeat this sentence, followed by a pain in his buttocks.

Lao Yingtian wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth, kicked Bao Jiaxiang over, and threw the yellow leather bag to the ground.

"Don't shout, don't scream, put the things back together."

The untied bag opening scattered treasure boxes.

Bao Jiaxiang stared blankly at the boxes.

Opened.

Blood light shone through, reflecting red all over his face! ===== CHAPTER 1137 =====

Open it.

Blood light shone through, reflecting red across his entire face!

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