Chapter 84: The Taoist Refiner of Demonic Insects

The ruins of Yunshui Tiangong are huge. Even in the last life, monk Cong Yunhai has not been able to fully explore the whole picture after more than ten years of continuous exploration.

Not to mention now, Yunshui Tiangong is shrouded in thick fog.

The monks who woke up from the Qin Tang stone statue quickly divided into several different camps.

Some felt that the Yunshui Tiangong was extremely dangerous. It was already very lucky to survive Qin Tang's men. If they continued to explore, they would definitely die.

And they thought they had memorized several exercises. As long as they could go back alive this time, they would make a lot of money. So they decisively chose to leave Yunshui Tiangong directly.

Most people chose to leave. The rest thought that there was such an opportunity just for a stone statue at the entrance of the ruins. Then how much good fortune would there be in the legendary alchemy room, law transmission pavilion, and sect treasure house inside Yunshui Tiangong, which were necessary for the ancient sects?

Once greed arises, it quickly expands in the heart and can no longer be suppressed.

So, this group of people, like possessed, disappeared one after another in the fog.

So, when Li Fan caught up from behind, he found that he had lost the trace of all the cultivators. If it weren't for the Wuxiang killing intent that had already locked Sikong Yi and the others in advance, I'm afraid they would have been lost.

However, strangely, Sikong Yi and Baili Chen seemed to be very familiar with the layout of the Yunshui Palace.

They could always find a passage through the gaps in the fog that seemed to be a dead end. With a clear goal all the way, they kept bypassing the buildings shrouded in fog and went deeper inside.

Is this why Sikong Yi was able to win the "Yunshui Tulu" in the previous life?

It was because of the simulation experience in the previous life that he was able to know the various secrets in the Yunshui Palace.

But how did Sikong Yi know this?

Li Fan suddenly became very interested.

At the same time, he became more alert. These two people obviously have a big secret!

The figure's breath became more concealed, and Li Fan hung closely behind them.

Suddenly, the two stopped moving.

After a pause, Sikong Yi and Baili Chen separated and rushed in two opposite directions.

"Dividing the troops? Did they find me?" Li Fan narrowed his eyes, hesitated for a moment, and chased in the direction where Sikong Yi left.

Going deep into the fog, he arrived at a tower-like building.

Sikong Yi suddenly stopped under the tower, turned back to the direction of Li Fan, and showed a provocative smile.

Then he went into the tower.

"It's interesting, is this trying to use the Jedi in Yunshui Tiangong to kill me?" Li Fan looked at the tower in front of him, which was looming in the white fog and exuding a strange breath, and the memory of his previous life could not help but emerge in his mind.

The Demon Refining Tower is one of the most dangerous areas in Yunshui Tiangong.

In the first ten years after the opening of Yunshui Tiangong, no cultivator had ever returned alive from the Demon Refining Tower. Therefore, it was once considered by monk Cong Yunhai to be a Jedi in Yunshui Heavenly Palace, and it must not be explored.

In the previous life, it was finally anchored for 21 years, and a master of Dan Dao risked his life to enter it, and finally cracked the strange rules inside.

"If this is your idea, I'm afraid you will be disappointed." Li Fan sneered and followed into the Demon Refining Tower.

As soon as he stepped into it, he felt a gust of cold wind, and a smell of decay and stench came towards him.

The bottom of the tower was a cell.

It seemed that too much time had passed, and there were only piles of strange and weird bones left in the cell.

Li Fan continued to go up, and the second floor of the tower was the same.

All the way to the top of the tower.

A chattering voice was heard from afar.

"My brothers and sisters are fighting on the front line, and I am the only one who can't help."

"We must refine more pills, so that we can improve their strength as much as possible."

"Every time I refine a pill, the possibility of my brothers surviving is greater."

"But all the demons in this demon tower are dead. There are no materials for refining pills. What should I do?"

A man with messy hair and wearing a loose blue Taoist robe was sighing and looking helpless.

In the air next to him, three figures were bound by invisible ropes.

One of them was Sikong Yi.

The other two were also monks who entered Yunshui Tiangong together this time, but I don't know why they appeared here.

The two people had pale faces and their lips kept opening and closing. I don't know what they were saying.

Before Li Fan had time to make any moves, he felt that his hands and feet were suddenly tied by ropes and couldn't move.

Then he was pulled into the air and fixed, just like the other three.

Li Fan had expected this encounter, so he didn't panic.

At this time, he could hear the two people talking to themselves.

"How could this happen? Didn't I choose to leave here directly? How come I was tied up here when my eyes blurred..."

"My life is over, my life is over. I have already left Yunshui Palace, but I was caught back..."

...

"Oh, it's time to make the elixir!" At this moment, the man in the Taoist robe suddenly woke up from his mumbling.

"Make the elixir, make the elixir..." The man reached into his wide Taoist robe, moving his hands, and soon, he took out two black pills.

"The pill is made, but I don't know what the medicinal properties are this time." The man scratched his hair, seeming to be a little troubled.

Then, he slapped his thigh suddenly: "By the way, didn't I just catch a few bugs this time, so I can use them to test the medicine!"

After that, he looked towards Li Fan and others who were tied up in the air, his eyes kept moving: "Which insect should I choose?"

Being stared at by a man, I felt an inexplicable chill.

They didn't dare to move, they held their breath and remained quiet.

"Just this one." The man in Taoist robes looked at it for a while, his eyes stopped on one of them, and he immediately stretched out his hand to grab it.

Seeing this, the man could no longer remain calm.

But his struggle was obviously in vain, and his voice could no longer come out.

The body flew towards the Taoist-robed man, gradually getting smaller in the process.

In the end, it really turned into a small flying insect and fell into the hands of the man in Taoist robes.

A human face could still be vaguely seen on the flying insect's head, and the expression on its face was extremely frightened.

Being gently pinched by the man in Taoist robes, the human-faced flying insect kept making a buzzing sound.

But it was all in vain. The Taoist-robed man held the flying insect in one hand and the black elixir in the other.

The elixir was many times larger than a flying insect, but it was stuffed in like this.

The human-faced flying insect struggled painfully and forcefully swallowed the elixir into its belly.

My belly expanded many times and turned into a giant round ball.

The aura of flying insects is gradually fading, but the suffering has just begun.

After the elixir enters the abdomen, it seems to be digested and the size begins to decrease.

However, a buzzing sound like a swarm of mosquitoes suddenly sounded.

The body of the human-faced flying insect suddenly began to twitch uncontrollably.

Tiny black spots came out one after another from its abdomen.

Looking carefully, the black spots are clearly newborn flying insects.

After the flying insect got out of the body, it did not fly around, but stopped on the human-faced flying insect and gnawed greedily.

Soon, the human-faced flying insect was chewed up until not even the dregs were left.

The man in Taoist robes shook his head with regret on his face.

"It seems that the test drug failed. It must be too strong."

As he spoke, he opened his mouth and sucked in the flying insect black mist.

Even though he had already heard about what happened in the Demon Refining Tower and was fully mentally prepared, Li Fan still couldn't help but his eyelids twitching at this moment.

This scene is really terrifying.

The man in Taoist robes looked at the other pill left in his hand and seemed a little distressed.

"Would you like to try this one again?"

He glanced at Li Fan and the others again.

All three of them suffered respiratory arrest.

After a long time, the man in Taoist robes sighed: "Forget it, it should be almost the same if you practice it in one furnace."

After saying that, the man opened his mouth and threw the black pill in.

After swallowing the pill, the man in Taoist robes seemed completely unaffected.

He just became crazy again.

He started mumbling to himself again, saying that there were not enough alchemy materials, completely ignoring the three people who were bound in the air.

Among the three survivors, Li Fan remained silent.

Sikong Yi's face was expressionless.

The remaining person had a collapsed look on his face.

"If I had known, it would be better to die in the hands of Qin Tang. At least I could die happily."

…

Time seems to have no meaning in this demon refining tower.

The life and death of everyone depends entirely on the behavior of the man in Taoist robes.

After an unknown amount of time, the man woke up from his daze again.

He also took out two pills from under his large Taoist robe, but this time they were strangely green.

"Which insect should I choose to test the medicine on?"

The man hesitated for a moment this time, but looked at Sikong Yi.

"Just choose this one!"

Li Fan immediately cheered up. He wanted to see what Sikong Yi had to rely on to lead him into this desperate place.

What surprised Li Fandun was that Sikong Yi didn't use any means of resistance.

After turning into a bug and being forced to swallow the green elixir, it turned directly into a puddle of green water.

Sikong Yi, dead!

"What's going on? What happened? Could it be that, because of my tracking, things developed differently in this life than in the previous life?"

"No, this Sikong Yi clearly lured me to this Demon Refining Tower. How could he die so easily?"

"He knew this was a desperate situation and brought me in just to exchange one life for another?"

…

Just when Li Fan fell into endless doubts, he suddenly sensed something and raised his head.

Outside the Demon Refining Tower, Baili Chen, who was locked with murderous intent, slowly approached.

Next to him, Li Fan felt that the murderous intention that had lost its focus on the target had once again captured the target: Sikong Yi.

Sikong Yi, who was obviously dead, appeared outside the Demon Refining Tower again.

"Puppet? External incarnation? It doesn't even feel like..."

Li Fan stared at the puddle of green water on the ground and couldn't help laughing.

"It seems that the secret between these two people is bigger than I thought."

"It's just that once you catch my eye, the secret will no longer be a secret."

In response to Li Fan's induction, Sikong Yi and Bai Lichen continued to move deeper into Yunshui Tiangong.

"If there is no murderous intention, we are not afraid of them running away. We just need to get out of the Demon Refining Tower as soon as possible."

But the actions of the man in this robe have their own rules, and Li Fan can't control them. At the moment, he can only choose to wait patiently.

Soon, the third round of trials came.

This time, Li Fan was still not chosen. This made Li Fan a little bit dumbfounded, and he didn't know whether it was luck or misfortune.

The man in Taoist robes took out two pink elixirs and fed them to the flying insects with human faces.

The flying insects turned into a pink smoke screen amid the banging explosion.

In the smoke screen, painful faces emerged one after another.

As the pink mist floated, the human face was pulled and twisted, making it even more ferocious and terrifying.

Li Fan, who was standing by, had goosebumps all over when he saw this scene.

In the end, it was the man in Taoist robes who inhaled the smoke into his body while muttering, and ended this eternal pain.

The man in Taoist robes fell into muttering again.

The fourth round of trials is finally here.

At this time, only Li Fan was left in the Demon Refining Tower.

The man in Taoist robes was about to test the medicine on Li Fan, but Li Fan suddenly spoke.

"Junior Brother Chong, I heard that you don't have enough materials for alchemy?"

Upon hearing this, Taoist Chong suddenly stopped extending his hand and nodded subconsciously: "Yes, there are not enough materials for alchemy."

He said with some guilt: "I haven't been able to refine a new elixir for a long time..."

Taoist Chong's words were paused. He stared at Li Fan for a while and saw the clothes he was wearing. He suddenly became a little panicked: "It turns out to be senior brother! I thought it was a bug!"

"Brother, I'm so sorry! I'll let you down right away."

Following Taoist Chong's words, Li Fan felt the restraints on his body loosen and regained control of his body.

The Taoist Chong covered his head and lowered his head, as if he had no face to face this senior brother.

He just blamed himself and said: "I messed up again. It's like this every time. The alchemy is not done well, and the progress of practice has been very slow. It's because of everyone's hindrance..."

Li Fan stepped forward, held Taoist Chong's shoulders, and said gently: "Don't say that, Junior Brother Chong. The elixir you made is very effective, and everyone likes to eat it."

Hearing this, Taoist Chong suddenly raised his head, his eyes full of surprise: "It's true, senior brother. Do you all like to eat the elixirs I made?"

"What, you don't believe what senior brother said?" Li Fan made a serious face.

Taoist Chong shook his head quickly: "Of course I believe what senior brother said."

Then he said dejectedly: "But I have no elixir-making materials anymore. I can no longer make the elixirs that everyone loves."

Li Fan touched Taoist Chong's head and said softly: "It doesn't matter, I'm still here."

"Let's refine senior brother into elixirs, so that everyone can have elixirs to eat again."

"Senior Brother, you..." Taoist Chong seemed to be shocked by Li Fan's words. He stared at Li Fan with wide eyes.

Li Fan just sighed and continued: "Although I started early, I am not talented enough and my cultivation level has always been very low. My brothers and sisters are all fighting on the front line, and I am the only one who can't help much."

"Every time I think about this, I feel extremely heartbroken and hate my own incompetence."

"So, make me into an elixir. In this way, I can still be somewhat helpful."

Li Fan grabbed Taoist Chong's hand and said excitedly.

Taoist Chong looked at Li Fan blankly, seeming to be deeply touched.

"It turns out that senior brother is just like me."

"But senior brother is much greater than me. He would rather sacrifice himself to help the senior brothers and sisters on the front line."

"And I, and I would just run away. Just hide in this tower."

The insect Taoist pulled his hair in pain.

"No, I can't just watch my brother die."

He seemed to have suddenly thought of something, and suddenly said to Li Fan excitedly: "Brother, I can make an elixir for you! As long as you eat the elixir I refined! Your strength will definitely not be very low, and you can go to the front line even if you don't. Helped!"

The Chong Taoist seemed to have found the goal of his struggle: "Refining elixirs, I want to refining elixirs!"

He put his hand into his large Taoist robe and moved it.

Not long after, he took out two golden pills.

"Senior brother, here is the elixir for you."

Taoist Chong held the elixir in front of Li Fan with a smile on his face.

Li Fan did not pick up the elixir, but untied the Taoist Chong's robe.

I saw...

Under the large Taoist robe, only an empty skeleton was left.

On the bones, only a little bit of invisible flesh and blood remained.

The insect Taoist used his own flesh and blood,

Refining elixirs.