Chapter 86: The Man in the Cauldron (1/2)

Late at night, on a small mountain road, several men in black escorted more than 200 people slowly forward.

"Hurry up!"

"Stop dawdling!"

A man in black cursed and whipped with a whip in his hand.

No matter how fast or slow these people walked, they were whipped one by one, because they were used to whipping.

Er Gouzi had his hands tied behind his back with a rope, and was strung together with other people in a long line, like grasshoppers strung on a rope.

His plan was indeed successful. He was caught by the Black Mountain King yesterday, and was only beaten and detained for one day.

The Black Mountain King was frugal and didn't want to eat him, but kept him until tonight and exchanged these 200 people for a pill.

Er Gouzi followed these men in black and walked more and more remotely. After walking for most of the night, he finally arrived at a desolate mountain.

There is an inconspicuous cave here. The entrance of the cave is blocked by some trees. If you don't look carefully, it is still difficult to find.

After entering from the entrance, I found that there is a different world inside.

The further you go inside, the wider the road becomes, and the more forks there are.

Er Gouzi followed the team, carefully remembering every fork along the way, for fear of getting lost.

The man in black led the two hundred people, and after circling around in the forks of the cave, he finally locked them in a large stone chamber.

"Bang!"

The man in black closed the stone door and left.

Er Gouzi sat in the stone chamber and did not act rashly for the time being. There was no light inside, and it was pitch black. His consciousness passed through the stone door and kept looking outside.

The door of the stone chamber was made of heavy stone slabs, which ordinary people could not push. There was a man in black guarding near the door.

This guard should be responsible for a very wide area, walking back and forth around it, and occasionally stopping to rest.

The man in black was not strong, and he could be killed with one sword, but it was easy to alarm others.

There were also the two hundred people in the same team in the stone chamber. When I leave later, will they make trouble?

It's no problem for everyone to be locked up here and wait for death, but if one person can escape, it's hard to predict what the others will do.

But he can't protect himself now, and he can't alert the enemy...

Er Gouzi had a murderous intention in his heart.

He wanted to kill all these 200 people to eliminate future troubles.

After a while, he still didn't make up his mind and shook his head.

They are all ordinary people who have nothing to do with him. It's better not to kill them if you can.

Thinking of this, the bound hands exerted a little force, and the ropes tied to both hands were broken.

He stretched out a hand and tapped the neck of a person next to him lightly, and the person fainted immediately.

The noise he made was very small, and the stone room was dark, so no one noticed it.

Then, he knocked out the people he was traveling with one by one, and then walked to the side of the stone door.

He pushed the stone door open a crack, and there was an iron chain hanging outside to lock the door. He took out the heavy sword from the gourd and waited quietly.

The black-clothed guard had been walking back and forth aimlessly in the cave.

After waiting for a long time, the man in black finally walked to the stone gate where Er Gouzi was.

At this moment, a sword light suddenly flashed from the heavy sword in Er Gouzi's hand, and with a whoosh, the sword light pierced the heart of the man in black.

Seeing the man in black fall to the ground, Er Gouzi stretched out his hand from the crack of the door, broke the iron chain, and dragged the body of the man in black into the stone chamber.

Wiped off the blood on the ground and closed the stone door again.

At this time, two yellow talismans appeared in his hand, one was an invisibility talisman, and the other was a breath-retaining talisman.

According to the talisman seller, after using these two talismans at the same time, even a great master in the late stage of Qi training cannot be discovered with spiritual consciousness.

But there is also a disadvantage. When using talismans, you must never use the true qi in your body at the same time.

As long as the true qi moves, the invisibility effect of these two talismans will be exposed.

For this, Er Gouzi didn't care too much. Anyway, he had brute force and could do a lot of things without true qi.

After pasting the talisman paper, his figure disappeared, and the aura emanating from his body was also condensed in his body.

He put the two talismans into the gourd, and the spiritual energy was improved a little. I don’t know if it’s because the concealment effect has become better or the use time has become longer.

I have never used it like this before, so I have no experience and cannot compare.

Er Gouzi walked slowly in the cave. There was a row of stone doors here. He walked outside each stone door and looked inside with his spiritual sense.

Behind these stone doors, there were also some people with low spirits, probably exchanged for elixirs.

After looking at several stone chambers, there were at least one or two thousand people, but Sima Yi was not found.

Er Gouzi could only search randomly in the cave, and met many men in black along the way. He was like a transparent man, and no one could find his existence.

At this time, he followed behind the two men in black, who walked and talked without noticing at all.

"I'm lucky today. I got a stone of corn. I can finally change my taste."

"Yeah, I'm tired of eating two-legged sheep every day."

The two talked as they walked into a large stone room. There were dozens of people crowded in it. It turned out to be the place where the men in black ate.

Er Gouzi walked around inside and found nothing.

It's a pity that he didn't have rat poison or something, otherwise he could add some food for them.

It seems that he will have to carry some with him in the future.

However, he still poured a lot of chili water into the big water tank of the men in black.

Even if he couldn't poison these people to death, he had to make them suffer.

After Chaotian Gong pepper was put into the gourd and enhanced, its spiciness increased many times.

Now even a little bit of it on the skin is burning and painful.

Er Gouzi is not familiar with the situation in the cave.

Instead of walking around, it is better to listen to their conversation here, maybe he can find useful information.

He listened for a while, and they were talking about irrelevant things, which were of no value.

At this time, a middle-aged man with a pockmarked face walked in from the door, carrying a gourd almost as big as him on his back.

When Er Gouzi saw this man, his heartbeat also accelerated a bit. This man has at least the strength of the fifth or sixth level of Qi training.

Fortunately, after this man came in, he glanced at the hall and did not find the existence of Er Gouzi.

This man should have a very high status in the cave. At this time, everyone stopped eating and looked at him in awe.

The pockmarked face ignored everyone and walked straight to the water tank, untied the big gourd on his back, and filled a full gourd of water.

Er Gouzi saw that it must be a big fish, so he quietly followed the pockmarked face and left.

The pockmarked face turned around and around in the cave, completely confusing Er Gouzi, and finally came to a stone wall.

He stretched out his hand and pressed under the lamp, and a door slowly opened on the stone wall.

The pockmarked face walked in, and Er Gouzi hurriedly followed.

It turned out that there was a secret room hidden here, which should be a place to store items.

Seeing the bottles and jars placed in it, Er Gouzi's hands were itchy again. It seems that the bad habit of stealing things can't be changed for a while.

The pockmarked face didn't know what he was looking for, so he rummaged around in it.

Er Gouzi followed behind, using his spiritual sense to look at them one by one, and found a large jar filled with Pei Yuan Gu Ben Pills.

He stretched out his hand and gently touched the large jar, and his spiritual sense wrapped the jar. With a thought, the large jar filled with Pei Yuan Gu Ben Pills disappeared.

The next moment, the jar returned to its original place, but it was empty.

Although he was not short of Peiyuan Guben Pills, he still felt itchy when he saw them. This was probably because he had been a thief since he was a child.

If he didn't eat them himself, he could take them back to feed the geese or give them to his subordinates.

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While stealing a large jar of Peiyuan Guben Pills, his consciousness had already discovered the next target.

In a white jade box, there was a light green spiritual herb.

He knew this spiritual herb. He had learned it in the inheritance of Baihe Zhenren. It was called Qiye Xugucao.

But the one in the jade box only had three leaves, which was obviously an immature spiritual medicine.

It seemed that these men in black were really crazy. They dug up the spiritual herbs before they were mature, and their value was greatly reduced.

Alas! What a waste.

Er Gouzi shook his head, stole the spiritual medicine, and put the jade box back to its original place.

At this time, the pockmarked face seemed to have found the items he needed.

He walked out of the secret room with a small wooden box in his arms.

Now it was important to find Sima Yi. Er Gouzi didn't want to cause trouble, so he could only follow the pockmarked face out of the secret room.

At the last moment of leaving, he stole another small wooden box without even looking at it.

The pockmarked face held the wooden box and turned a few more forks. The front was getting hotter and hotter, and the rolling heat wave hit him.

Facing the heat wave, the two finally walked to a particularly large stone room.

In the middle of this stone room, a ball of ground fire rose up, and above the flames, a five-foot-high cauldron stood.

There were eight stone pillars around the cauldron, and a dying person was tied to each pillar.

One of them had his head drooping and his hair was white as snow. He was Sima Yi.

A steel needle of unknown length was pierced into the Yongquan acupoint on Sima Yi's foot, and blood kept dripping from the needle tip.

The ground was engraved with dense runes, extending all the way to the foot of the five-foot cauldron.

The blood dripping from the Yongquan flowed slowly along these runes to the foot of the cauldron, and then flowed up along the patterns on the cauldron and into the cauldron.

Seven people were also tied to the other seven stone pillars, and a line of blood flowed from each person's Yongquan acupoint into the cauldron.

Er Gouzi checked with his spiritual sense and found that these eight people were all immortal cultivators with a certain level of cultivation.

The pockmarked face walked to the front of the cauldron and opened the lid of the cauldron. It turned out that there was a naked person sitting in the cauldron with his skin roasted red.

Er Gouzi secretly thought that he was lucky. Fortunately, he did not act rashly. The strength of the man in front of him was at least the sixth or seventh level of Qi training.

He would not gain an advantage by head-on confrontation, but now that he had not been exposed, a sneak attack might be possible.

"Captain!"

The pockmarked face bowed respectfully to the person in the cauldron.

"Ah... I'm dying of heat, hurry up and bring me some water!"

"This method of moving blood and refining evil spirits can really increase your cultivation quickly, but it's too hot to bear..."

The pockmarked face quickly took off the big water gourd on his back and handed it to the captain.

The captain opened the lid of the gourd, raised his head, and drank it all over his mouth.

"Ah..."

He exhaled to the sky. Perhaps it was too hot, but he still didn't feel a bit of coolness.

He continued to drink...

"Gulp gulp gulp..."

"What kind of water is this? Why do I feel hotter and hotter the more I drink? It's so hot and scorching?"

After drinking most of the pot of water, the captain didn't feel cool, but felt hot all over.

Finally, he realized that something was wrong. He checked carefully and found that there were still some chili flakes floating in the water.

"Evil creature!"

"How have I ever been bad to you!"

"How dare you murder me like this!"

The captain suddenly became furious and slapped the pockmarked face.

The pockmarked face was suddenly hit and was still confused.

"Captain, calm down. I have always been loyal to you."

"What a loyal man!"

The captain in the cauldron was already mad with heat, and now he drank half a pot of chili water, which made him even more irritable.

He jumped out of the cauldron without even having time to put on his clothes, and punched and kicked the pockmarked face.

The pockmarked face was beaten without knowing what was happening, but he didn't dare to fight back. This was his basic quality as a subordinate.

But he didn't dare to fight back, so naturally someone would fight back for him.

This was a rare opportunity!

Er Gouzi quietly slipped to the side, raised his fist, and hit the helmsman's head with a heavy punch.

Unfortunately, he couldn't use his true energy, so the power of this punch was a little bit weak.

The helmsman's head was buzzing after being hit.

"Okay, you dare to fight back."

"I'm going to clean up the mess today."

At first, it was just to vent his anger, but this time he was completely murderous.

The way to control subordinates is to make every subordinate tame and obedient, not fight back when beaten, not talk back when scolded, and let the spit in their faces dry.

Anyone who dares to talk back and fight back must be cleaned up.

The pockmarked face also noticed the murderous intent on the helmsman's face, and quickly got up and wanted to escape.

But the two of them were several levels apart in cultivation, so how could they escape?

The helmsman had blocked him in front of him, grabbed his neck, and punched him hard.

Er Gouzi got another chance to sneak attack, and punched him hard from behind, hitting the helmsman's waist.

The helmsman gasped again in pain, but fortunately he was strong, and he survived after a while.

But the helmsman was even angrier.

The pockmarked face didn't want to sit and wait for death, and finally started to fight back.

Er Gouzi seized the opportunity and punched the helmsman again and again.

The two of them, one openly and one secretly, teamed up to beat the helmsman. The helmsman was beaten and took out all his anger on the pockmarked face.

Finally, the pockmarked face was beaten to death by the helmsman. The helmsman was hit by too many invisible punches and finally collapsed to the ground.

Until then, the heat in his body was not so uncomfortable, his head was clearer, and things seemed to be wrong.

Er Gouzi knocked the helmsman down, and then walked over and carried Sima Yi down from the pillar.

After a quick check with his spiritual sense, Sima Yi's blood had all drained out, and his breathing was intermittent. He might die in the next moment.

Er Gouzi checked the steel nail on Sima Yi's Yongquan acupoint again, and slowly pulled it out. It was more than a foot long.

"Who are you?"

Although the helmsman did not see Er Gouzi's figure, he saw Sima Yi floating down from the pillar, and he knew it in his heart.

"Who are you?"

"I'm your grandfather!"

Er Gouzi walked over and kicked the helmsman again.

He picked up the gourd on the ground and poured all the remaining chili water into him.

"Tell me! How can we save him?"

"If you can't save him, I'll make you live a life worse than death!"