Chapter 176: Offering Blood-Food

Jiulong Island? Yang Ming?

Cheng Xinzhan's heart was shocked.

Jiulong Island was an immortal island in the legendary dojo of Lingbao Tianzun, where many great beings lived and cultivated. And this Yang Ming, if Cheng Xinzhan remembered correctly, the secular name of the Northern Envoy of the Plague-Suppressing Envoy under the Plague-Suppressing Emperor was Yang Ming, an ancient god conferred during the Shang-Zhou era.

This was actually the place where he once refined elixirs.

And the tone of calling himself an alchemist on the note also confirmed that it was that period.

Cheng Xinzhan was a bit trance-like, feeling that the distance between the ancient gods and himself had suddenly narrowed.

The last time Cheng Xinzhan had this feeling was with the Ginseng Fruit.

He looked at the furnace again. The sulfur honey fat inside was only a shallow layer, sticking to the bottom wall of the furnace, not even half an inch. The poisonous elixirs inside had long since been dissolved.

He looked at the elixir bottle again. There was a red strip on it, which read,

"Heavenly Yellow Detoxification Pill".

He opened the bottle stopper and poured out a pill to look at it, finding that it was exactly the same as the one in Sanmei's hand.

He smelled it and was very surprised. It had been over ten thousand years, and the medicinal properties were still there. However, the elixir bottle was just an ordinary jade bottle and had long since lost its spiritual energy. He figured it could only be because of the sulfur smoke here.

And sulfur smoke could extend medicinal properties, which hadn't been seen in previous elixir books. After returning, he would inform the fellow disciples of Danxia Mountain, and it would definitely make them happy.

In addition, this Envoy Yang said that the toxicity had not been dissolved, do not move the furnace. Now that the toxicity had been dissolved, could the furnace be moved?

Cheng Xinzhan put away the "Heavenly Yellow Detoxification Pill." This was a sacred medicine for detoxification and would definitely be useful in the future. As for this furnace, it was still as good as new after ten thousand years of underground fire roasting and sulfur baking. Without thinking, he knew it was a rare treasure.

He looked at the furnace again. This was a giant object. Each furnace foot was thicker than a person, and the furnace wall was two feet thick, looking like some kind of red copper cast. The outside of the furnace wall was embedded with golden Suanni decorations, and the inner wall was carved with fire dragons, looking heavy and majestic.

This furnace wall was airtight, without as many hollow smoke outlets as an elixir furnace, so it could also be used as a tripod for cooking.

Sanmei seemed to like this furnace very much, climbing and jumping on it.

He covered his palms with water-attribute magical power to push the furnace.

"Sss—"

White smoke and a sizzling sound came from where his palms touched the furnace, and a scorching feeling came from his palms. With Cheng Xinzhan's second-realm strength, this furnace didn't move a bit.

It seemed that he had to refine it first before he could put it away.

Cheng Xinzhan thought so.

So for the next few days, he continued to refine "Youdu" on the island with his physical body, while the bamboo body refined the furnace under the island.

Cheng Xinzhan had always used the "Three-Layer Treasure Refining Prohibition" taught by Wen Sukong to refine treasure vessels. It described blood refining, Dharma refining, and god refining methods, and had its own secret essentials for forming prohibitions. He had used it very smoothly for so many years.

Cheng Xinzhan used Dharma refining for the furnace. After about seventeen or eighteen days, his magical power had permeated every corner of the furnace. There was no longer the imprint prohibition of the Plague-Suppressing Envoy inside. Perhaps the Envoy only used this treasure as a furnace for burning poisonous elixirs and didn't seriously refine it.

After the refining was completed, he moved his mind, and the furnace rose. Finally, it spun in the air and shrank to the size of an ordinary bowl, falling into Cheng Xinzhan's hands.

He held it in his hands and looked at it carefully. After flipping it over, he found that there were even characters engraved on the bottom of the furnace.

There were two big characters at the top, which were: Swallow Poison.

It seemed that this was the name of this furnace.

Below the two big characters was a paragraph of fly-head small characters. Cheng Xinzhan read it carefully, and his heart was filled with joy. This was actually an elixir prescription, which was the prescription for the "Heavenly Yellow Detoxification Pill."

This paragraph of fly-head small characters also specially wrote that the Envoy was worried that he would be addicted to refining Plague Elixir. If one day he died of elixir poison, and the elixir poison spread out, harming one side, it would be a waste of killing. Therefore, while refining Plague Elixir, the Envoy had also been studying detoxification elixirs and engraved the detoxification elixir prescription on the elixir vessel he often used, which was also convenient for others to find.

This was the heart of an ancient benevolent person!

Cheng Xinzhan sighed, flipped his hand again, and the furnace was put into his body and placed in his heart mansion.

He looked at the cave. This place had underground fire, main material sulfur, and was very secret. After thinking about it, he sacrificed the "Fire Refining Chixiao," transformed it into an elixir furnace shape, placed it on the underground fire, and then began to study the prescription of the "Heavenly Yellow Detoxification Pill" and started refining it.

This "Heavenly Yellow Detoxification Pill" could dissolve various epidemics and was a priceless treasure pill. Mastering it earlier and storing it earlier, being prepared, was the right principle.

After five or six days like this.

"Gurgle—"

A huge sound like thunder rolled over the Dadu Sea.

So everyone knew that Tuo Wang had woken up. This was the sound of the King's stomach making a noise.

"Virtuous brother, come to the ice cellar quickly!"

Immediately after, Huang Yunying's voice reached Honglu Island.

In the cave, Cheng Xinzhan waved his hand, and Sanmei jumped down from the elixir furnace. He hurriedly rescued the semi-finished products in the elixir furnace, packed them up, then put away the elixir furnace, transformed into a flying mosquito, and returned to the ground.

On the ground, the physical body had already stood up and was waiting, and the bamboo body Cheng Xinzhan transformed into a point of spiritual light and merged into it.

And Sanmei had eaten elixir smoke in the Danxia Mountain of the sect for a long time, and after coming overseas, it had drunk enough sulfur gas. The Suanni bloodline in its body was further stimulated, and it finally understood the transformation technique. Sanmei shook its body, golden smoke rose, transformed into the size of a fist, and jumped into Cheng Xinzhan's arms.

Cheng Xinzhan stepped into the air and left Honglu Island, heading straight for the ice cellar island where the blood-food was stored.

Arriving at the ice lake, he found that Huang Laoxian and Huang Yunying were already there.

"Greetings, Immortal Master."

After Cheng Xinzhan landed, he bowed to Huang Laoxian, and then nodded to Huang Yunying to signal.

"Brother Bie Lu is here. Tuo Wang has woken up. We are going to offer the blood-food now. Brother Bie Lu, come with us."

Cheng Xinzhan said yes.

The magic tools used by Huang Liu Island to take blood-food were ten or so huge boats. At this moment, the people in the Huang Liu water area were gathered here. Except for Huang Laoxian, Huang Yunying, and Cheng Xinzhan, the rest had gone down to the lake to take blood-food and then moved it to the boats.

"Faster!"

Huang Yunying scolded.

Finally, in less than half a stick of incense, after sixty years of storage, the entire lake of blood-food was salvaged and placed on the boats, filling thirteen boats, probably no less than several hundred thousand catties.

Huang Laoxian's method was indeed wonderful, and the mysterious ice from the North Sea was indeed magical. The corpses soaking in it were no different from the moment before death. Cheng Xinzhan saw the sea snakes he had killed, the blood holes on their heads were still bright, and the flesh and blood seemed to be still jumping.

The sea breeze blew, and there was only a bloody smell, without any strange smell.

"I will stand at the bow of the boat, Yunying you go to the stern, Brother Bie Lu you guard in the middle. Be careful on the road. Some people have less blood-food stored, so they don't want to see your blood-food be more. Understand?"

Huang Laoxian said in a deep voice.

Huang Yunying and Cheng Xinzhan both nodded and said yes. Thinking about it, the road would not be peaceful.

Immediately, Huang Laoxian operated his magical power, and the thirteen giant boats began to rise slowly into the air at the same time. The three stood at the front, middle, and back positions, and another twenty or thirty minions followed behind.

After the giant boats left the ground, they flew higher and faster, flying toward the center of the Dadu Sea, where the residence of Tuo Wang, Banyue Island, was.

Banyue Island was in the center of the Dadu Sea, with four leaders each in one direction. Huang Liu Island was in the southeast, and Qinghao Island was in the southwest. The fleet traveled all the way to the northwest, and after traveling about a hundred miles, trouble came looking for them. A saber qi descended from the sky, splitting the clouds, as if it wanted to cut the fleet in two.

Cheng Xinzhan raised his head and then immediately looked at Huang Laoxian. This was the method of the third realm.

Huang Laoxian also reacted immediately, sacrificing a yellow miasma. Playing with miasma was originally the most adept method of the Southern Demonic Sect, and the Huang Liu Island where Huang Laoxian was located was also uniquely endowed by nature. The "Fire Poison Sulfur Miasma" he had refined over a hundred years was also quite famous in the Dadu Sea.

The miasma was like substance, and the saber qi that broke the clouds and waves failed to cut it open.

"Hehe, Qing Laosi, the King is hungry and is waiting for us to send blood-food to satisfy his hunger. You don't hurry to rush over, what are you doing coming to me?"

Huang Laoxian said with a fake smile.

"You yellow-haired rascal, you still have the face to talk to me about blood-food. You secretly spoiled how many of my good things. Today, hand over half of the blood-food, otherwise, your Saint Grandfather will peel your skin!"

A roar came from the sky. Cheng Xinzhan only saw a green figure on the clouds appearing and disappearing in the clouds, truly like a green dragon. Then he saw a giant crescent saber sixty or seventy zhang long slashing down from the sky.

On the fleet, Cheng Xinzhan saw the giant saber that spanned heaven and earth falling, and ran away without saying a word.

Huang Yunying at the stern of the boat was dumbfounded, "Brother Bie Lu, you!"

!

Cheng Xinzhan didn't look back, jumped directly into the sea, and disappeared.

Huang Laoxian also seemed to be caught off guard, and his move was half a beat slow. Only to see him pinching the formula in his hand, the poisonous miasma hovering in the sky twisted and changed, turning into a yellow dragon, soaring into the sky, and biting the saber in one bite.

The dragon and the giant saber were still struggling, while Cheng Xinzhan was using water escape in the sea, traveling all the way west. He had the sea map of the Dadu Sea and knew how to go from Qinghao Island to Banyue Island.

After leaving that line of sight, Cheng Xinzhan rushed out of the sea surface, flew to the high sky, and then fully operated the "Nine Yang Returning Form Elixir Pupil" and "Passing Nether Illuminating God Green Pupil" to look to the west. Only to see the red light in his eyes like a torch, and the dark light like the moon.

Soon, he saw a place where the demon energy was soaring to the sky, and at the same time, the corpse energy was rolling.

That was it.

He flew over quickly and saw a fleet from afar. This fleet was floating on the sea surface, and there was blood-food on the boats, but looking at the quantity, it was only half of Huang Laoxian's. But the number of people guarding the fleet was nearly fifty, and vaguely, many giant snake shadows could be seen underwater.

Cheng Xinzhan used his Dharma eyes to look closely and saw an acquaintance, who was Wu Badao.

He sacrificed "Youdu," transformed it into a white bone needle, and submerged it into the sea water, without even splashing a drop of spray. Besides that, he also sacrificed the newly refined Gu insects, which also folded their wings and transformed into snake shapes, drilling into the sea.

He controlled them with his thoughts, and the bone sword and Gu insects traveled rapidly under the sea. Soon, they arrived under the fleet. The bone sword pierced through the heads of one giant snake after another. These demon objects didn't make a sound, one after another died, and slowly sank from back to front.

Wherever the flying sword passed, the frost froze the blood, and not a trace of blood melted into the sea water. Even the bloody smell didn't float out.

The Gu insects following the flying sword immediately landed on these snake corpses. The Gu insects that had been hungry for a hundred years finally had the opportunity to have a full meal.

The flying sword descending to the lower realm was like this, killing people as easily as taking things from a bag.

Until only the few big snakes in front were left, someone on the fleet discovered that something was wrong. Looking at this, they found that there were only five or six out of dozens of big snakes.

"Enemy attack!"

Someone shouted loudly.

Wu Badao was shocked and looked back, seeing the snake shadows sinking one by one under the sea.

This familiar scene!

Wu Badao immediately sacrificed two long sabers and held them in his hands, shouting,

"Thief! Come out!"

Cheng Xinzhan didn't speak upon hearing this, just blindly driving the sword to kill the demons.

After killing all the sea snake demons, the flying sword flew out of the sea surface again to kill the people on the boats. In order to be discovered as late as possible, Cheng Xinzhan identified them by looking at their energy from afar and killed them from the lower realm to the higher realm.

For these low-realm demon cultivators with low spiritual perception and weak mental power, the flying sword was their greatest nemesis. They couldn't discover the flying sword shuttling rapidly in the air, nor could they dodge it. The needle-like flying sword pierced through the center of the eyebrows, and the sword sha stirred in the brain, then a blood hole covered by frost appeared, which signaled the death of a demon cultivator.

The sword was named "Youdu," which was the most appropriate.

As for the dark green snake-mosquito Gu insects, they were also very much like messengers from the netherworld. Every time the flying sword killed one, several Gu insects would land on its corpse. After no more than ten breaths, these corpses would turn into dried corpses, and all the essence and blood in their bodies would be sucked away.

Finally, there was a small cultivator who didn't know what kind of luck he had had, or if his ancestors had been wealthy, when "Youdu" was about to pierce in from the back of his head, a group of green-gold light suddenly erupted from his heavenly spirit, and a snake-pattern bronze helmet appeared spontaneously, protecting his head.

"Youdu" hit the helmet and didn't pierce through it at the first time. At the same time, it was exposed by the green-gold light.

"There!"

Someone shouted, and many magic weapons were hit over.

Seeing that his tracks were discovered, Cheng Xinzhan no longer hid. He fully operated the flying sword, and the purple-vermilion light suddenly bloomed. The sword sha soared to the sky, instantly blowing the snake-pattern bronze helmet, which looked quite ancient, into powder. Together with it, the head of the small cultivator who thought he had survived was also shattered.

"It really is you!"

Wu Badao roared and looked around, but couldn't find Cheng Xinzhan, who had deliberately changed and hidden himself.

Helpless, he roared and went to intercept the flying sword first.

The flying sword flew through the fleet, and the sha energy on the sword body dripped from time to time. When it fell on the blood-food corpses on the boat, it ignited purple-red sha fire. And under the cover of the sha fire, the Gu insects that had sucked the essence and blood of the demon corpses underwater landed on the blood-food prepared for Tuo Wang and began to feast.

Wu Badao's eyes turned red instantly. It was okay to let him fight for his life, but letting him be a guard was really too difficult for him. He waved his Dharma saber, controlling the sea water to rush onto the boat, attempting to extinguish the sha fire on the blood-food. At the same time, a sharp hissing sound suddenly came from his mouth.

Cheng Xinzhan guessed that this might be asking for help from that Qing Laosi, so he didn't fight for long. The flying sword and Gu insects all submerged into the water and fled rapidly. He himself also restrained his breath and walked back in a circle.

On the way, he saw a giant green snake in the seabed winding and flying in the clouds like a dragon. The direction it was going was exactly the fleet he had just ambushed.

Hiding his tracks all the way, the flying sword and Gu insects also converged with him. In this short ambush, he was pleasantly surprised to find that eighteen Gu insects were sent out, and twenty-six returned. Eight new larvae were added, which made him sigh that this was a Gu insect born for bloodthirst, which reproduced while drinking blood.

"Puff—"

He rushed out of the sea surface, stirred up water splashes, and landed on the fleet again.

"This traitor actually dares to come back!"

A minion saw Cheng Xinzhan return and pointed at him, shouting loudly.

"Slap!"

Huang Yunying hit the person who spoke with magical power from the air, nearly knocking his head off.

"Virtuous brother, did you go to Qing Laosi's side?"

Huang Yunying asked with a smile. Qing Laosi suddenly withdrew without saying a word, and even Old Immortal didn't react to intercept him. Something must have happened.

Huang Laoxian also looked over with a smile. He was becoming more and more fond of this new little demon who had defected. Bloodthirst and love for killing were everywhere in the demonic sect, but there were very few who were quick-witted.

Cheng Xinzhan smiled and arched his hands, "Qing Laosi's generosity allowed the Gu insects that Old Immortal bestowed upon me to have a full meal."

"Hahahaha! Brother Bie Lu, oh Brother Bie Lu, you are truly my lucky star! Go! Continue, go to pay homage to the King!"

Huang Laoxian laughed and drove the fleet to continue on their way.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 177 =====