Volume 17 Chapter 5 Lao Jun’s Help

Chapter 5 Laojun’s help

After Erlangshen left, the king's body suddenly began to shake continuously. It felt like a cramp, but I knew that this was just a reaction before the change, so I decided not to deal with it for the time being, and decided what to do after seeing the situation.

After shaking continuously for a period of time, the king's body suddenly began to emit green smoke, and as time went by, there was a tendency for more and more smoke to appear. This situation didn't seem to be normal. Just when I was about to take measures, a voice suddenly appeared behind me. "How do you let him be demonized in heaven?"

When I turned around, I saw Taishang Laojun standing behind me. "Demon transformation? Have you ever seen this kind of evolution?"

"Evolve? I don't know whether to evolve or not. I only know that this soul body has absorbed too much evil energy. It's a miracle that it didn't collapse. You actually let it stay in a place like this. You must know that Heaven is dedicated to restraining all kinds of evil spirits. Isn't it the same as making candles in a fire if you let them demonize the place where the monsters are? Things will be burned before they are even finished!"

"Huh? Then I'll take him away right away!"

"Don't panic!" Taishang Laojun said calmly: "The aura of Heaven is indeed not good for him, but he won't be in trouble so soon. You don't have to worry. Now even if you take him away from Heaven, you will just let him The demonization process just returns to normal state. If you want him to become stronger, you must go to a very evil place. Only by absorbing the evil atmosphere there can he control the evil spirit in his body and the demonization can be successful. .”

"Since Laojun can give me some guidance, he must know such a place. Please tell me where it is."

"Haha, you are not stupid. Take him with you."

Taishang Laojun led me all the way to his alchemy place. I originally thought he would take me away from the heaven to some mysterious place, but I didn't expect it to be his alchemy room. Moreover, after we entered, he actually left directly. He arrived at the three stoves standing in the middle of the room and opened the door of one of the purple pill stoves. "Put him in."

"Ah? Laojun, aren't you going to make him into a pill?"

"What are you refining for? Don't worry, this is a Yin furnace, not for refining elixirs!"

"Yin furnace?"

"The Yin Furnace is a furnace for purifying materials. It is specially used to purify impure materials. The two furnaces next to it are the ones that actually light the fire. My Yin Furnace is usually used to incinerate demons and strengthen ordinary demons into Taoist beings. The advanced and powerful demon will then be sent to the furnace over there to be smelted into elixirs. I don’t plan to refine them into elixirs now. Putting them here will only make them stronger."

"That's it." I said and stuffed the king into the stove, while Taishang Laojun quickly closed the stove door and put a Taoist charm on the stove. The inside of the stove immediately became a mess. It was dark, as if something was surging inside. I looked at the black gas in the furnace and asked Taishang Laojun: "How long will it take for this to produce results?"

"That depends on the luck of your men!"

"Why?"

"The energy of evil spirits is not a good thing in the first place, but the yin and yang of heaven and earth are complementary things, so extremely bad things can also be extremely good things. The key depends on how you use it. This subordinate of yours is the leader of the battlefield. It is made up of the unyielding souls of the dead warriors. It has a strong and unyielding character. Compared with ordinary wronged souls, his willpower is extremely powerful, so he will not be easily shaken or obsessed. 'Confusion', and the biggest flaw of the evil spirit is that it can make people go crazy. Although it can stimulate the user to gain powerful power, in the end they will eventually exhaust their power and collapse completely due to the crazy venting. But since your men don't If your mind will be affected by it, then you don’t have to worry about going crazy and out of control. In this case, the only question is how much to strengthen. Although my Yin Furnace can help refine the Qi of the Heavenly Evil and make it easier to absorb, it itself is not strong enough for the Qi of the Heavenly Evil. It has the effect of condensation, so how long it takes to come out in the end and to what extent it is strengthened depends on his own luck. If he absorbs it quickly enough, he can grab more of the evil spirit before it condenses. If he absorbs it, If the speed is slow, then only a small amount can be absorbed, and the amount of absorption will determine the degree of his strengthening. As for the time... the faster he absorbs, the faster he will naturally come out."

"Does that mean the sooner he comes out, the better the effect will be?"

"That's exactly what it means."

"Then I hope he can come out as soon as possible!"

I prayed nervously next to the stove, and a storm seemed to be blowing inside the stove. Through the transparent observation port on the stove door, I could see a large amount of lightning flashing inside, and there were also groups of dark clouds rolling and surging. It felt like It's as if there is an independent world inside the stove. I was fascinated by the lightning, when Taishang Laojun suddenly patted me from behind. "You don't have to stare at the stove like this, right? Even if your subordinates are extremely qualified, they won't be able to get out in less than three to five days."

"Huh? It takes so long?"

"Hahahaha... I will refine a furnace of elixirs, which can last from a few months to a thousand years. Can't you wait in three to five days?"

"Oh, are you a god? My life is not as long as yours!"

"Haha, that's right. By the way, if you feel bored waiting, you can go do your own thing first, and I will let you know when he comes out. Or if you want to stay here, that's fine. If you feel bored, I can also give you some advice. You have a fun and useful thing to relieve your boredom.”

"What does it mean to be fun and useful?"

Taishang Laojun smiled and stretched out a hand, then waved the whisk, and an extremely delicate incense burner immediately appeared in his hand. This incense burner is slightly smaller than an ordinary water cup. The body of the burner is black and does not reflect light. Six dragon-shaped burner legs support the burner body full of runes. There is also a dark red incense burner with a Bagua formation on the top. 'Color' furnace cover.

"This object is called Gu Bell, and its function is just as the name says. It can fuse the creatures in it by refining Gu. If you are interested, you can find some powerful creatures to put in it, and then jump in to participate in the killing. As long as you can win in the end, you can get part of the power of those creatures, how about it? Isn't it fun and useful?"

"Does it really have such a function?" I took the small incense burner and looked at it again and again in disbelief.

Taishang Laojun said: "Is there any benefit to lying to you?"

I shook my head myself, then looked at the stove and asked: "I always feel that this thing is full of problems. If I catch a lot of low-level creatures and put them in and kill them slowly, I can't gain unlimited experience and raise my strength to the sky." Is it possible that this thing is so powerful?"

Taishang Laojun smiled and explained: "Don't underestimate this thing. No matter what you put in it, the combat effectiveness of that thing will be improved when you fight it. The level of improvement will change according to your strength. Generally speaking, The Council guarantees that your strength will be equal to yours, which means that no matter how strong you become, the success rate of challenging the creatures inside will only be 50% at most."

"Is there any penalty for failing the challenge?"

"Of course there will be punishments. If you fail, you will be deducted a little bit of strength, but the proportion is not large, so as long as you fight seriously, it will probably be beneficial. Also, the battles here are very interesting. , It’s different from ordinary battles.” When Taishang Laojun said this, he actually changed his usual serious style and smiled so hard, it felt like he was saying something very obscene.

"Is that so? It doesn't matter if you play with it. How do you activate this thing?"

"There's no need to start it, just put the things in and jump in yourself. Don't worry, it doesn't look small on the outside, but it's big on the inside!"

After hearing what Taishang Laojun said, I wanted to go in and take a look. Anyway, I was idle, but I couldn't find a suitable creature to challenge for a while. In the end, Taishang Laojun helped me find it from his alchemy materials. He found a centipede nearly a hundred meters long as his opponent before he started the stove. Seeing that such a big centipede was sucked in, I was sure that the inside of this thing was indeed big enough, so I put the incense burner on the ground and jumped in.

Because the centipede was put in first, I was afraid that I would be attacked as soon as I entered, so I was prepared for a sudden attack when I jumped in. Who knew that after entering, I actually fell onto a strange grassland? The big centipede was lying quietly on the grass not far from me, but there was nothing strange about it. The strangest thing was that there was a horizontal line made of small stones in front of us, and there. Behind the horizontal line made of stones are two rows of closely arranged red flags extending into the forest in the distance. It looks like a runway, and the line made of stones in front is clearly the starting line. Just after I saw these things clearly, a simple voice suddenly sounded above my head. "The speed competition begins now. Participants can start after seeing the stone formation in front of them disappear. During the running process, they must not exceed the range of the red flag, otherwise they will be directly judged to have failed. No auxiliary props are allowed in the competition, flying is not allowed, and traps can be set Or attack each other to slow down the opponent, and cannot call helpers. The winner is the one who reaches the finish line first, and other situations will not be taken into consideration. Next, the game begins."

Now I finally know why Taishang Laojun said that the battle in this thing is very strange. I originally thought that I would come in and fight the centipede spirit for 300 rounds, but who knew that it would actually be a running race with others. However, it seems that during this competition, you can attack each other, so it is not really about speed. The key is to look at overall strength.

As soon as the beep disappeared, the stone starting line in front of us suddenly disappeared, and the nearly 100-meter-long giant centipede next to me jumped out like a rocket. Before I could react, It was already a few hundred meters away, leaving me in a daze with my mouth open. "Damn, having more legs and more explosive power is really an advantage!" After sighing, I quickly ran as fast as I could. Fortunately, although the dead centipede was fast, it was still a little behind me. When I reached the outskirts of the forest, I Already caught up with it.

Once the runway enters the forest, it becomes more complicated. A series of traps such as fallen trees and sudden quagmire appear one after another. If you are not careful, you may suffer disaster. I relied on my perfect body control to fly on the ground, and suddenly a fallen dead tree appeared in front of me. However, the trunk did not fall completely, but one end was placed on the tree next to it to form a triangle. It's not impossible to jump over, but it will affect my speed. I lowered my head decisively, and I slipped through the gap under the tree trunk like a fish. However, I didn't expect that there was a large piece of mud behind the tree trunk. In the end, I could only plop. I fell in. Fortunately, I was fast enough. Due to inertia, I didn't sink. Instead, I floated on the surface of the quagmire and flew across the quagmire. I didn't care about the mud on my body when I got up, and continued to run as hard as I could. There was a loud bang behind me, and the centipede was like a derailed train rushing through the forest. The big tree I had just avoided was smashed by its head, and the rotten trunk instantly turned into Debris scattered all over the sky. The centipede that broke the rotten tree also encountered a similar problem to me, but the size of this guy was too big. Although many of its legs were stuck in the mud, it was more than a hundred meters long, and most of its body was in the back. They were still on the ground. As soon as the legs in the back pushed the body in front, they immediately got out of the quagmire and rushed over easily.

When the centipede spirit rushed through the quagmire, I had already reached the bottom of a cliff. Since there were flags as road signs, there was no way for me to detour. In normal times, I could fly and use grappling hooks. This kind of cliff would not be a problem at all, but now I have no choice but to climb with my bare hands, because the rules have clearly stated that no auxiliary tools are allowed.

Halfway through my hard-fought climb, I saw a rumbling sound in the forest coming from far away. The big centipede that I had flung far away in the forest section finally rushed under the cliff. Different from my strenuous climb, this guy climbed the cliff just like walking on the road. He swam directly up the cliff wall. The most disgusting thing was that when he passed by me, the dead centipede actually used the big pincers on the back of his butt. Attacked me, causing me to almost fall. However, the centipede also seemed to know that victory depended on speed, so it didn't waste any time with me and concentrated on its way as soon as it missed a hit. Originally, I thought that the centipede must have gone far away by the time I climbed up. Who knew that as soon as I climbed up, I found that the situation was completely different from what I thought. Only in front of me was a long gentle slope, and the slope was covered with thick layer of snow. Although the centipede spirit has become a spirit, centipede creatures are not born to grow in ice and snow. When encountering such a snowy slope, it is simply worse than me who just climbed the cliff. Although there are many of its thin legs, the tips are too thin and cannot bear weight on the snow. Compared to the size of its body, its legs are too short. Every step requires effort to pull the legs out of the snow and move them. At that time, due to excessive vibration, the snow on the slope slid down, and I slid down with it. I finally climbed out more than ten meters and was washed back seven or eight meters by the snow.

"Hahahaha, it turns out that you also eat turtles sometimes!" I stood on the edge of the cliff and laughed proudly. Who knew that this laughter would lead to trouble!