Chapter 335 Tragedy in the Alley
It's the scent of wood charm.
This strange fragrance came so fiercely that it immediately covered up the fragrance of the elixirs in the alchemy furnaces of other alchemists present.
Moreover, this fragrance is extremely aggressive, not only robbing people of their sense of smell, but also trying to corrode other elixirs. It was like a piece of mouse droppings falling into the soup, instantly turning the competition venue into a puddle of muddy water. Alchemists like Su Ziyi who had already finished refining it and had a fair temperament were not affected much, while other alchemists who were weak-minded and had a headache from refining Yunzhi Powder were overwhelmed by the fragrance and were completely ruined.
Suddenly, the whole venue was filled with the sound of explosions.
With a move of Su Ziyi's hand, the elixir in the elixir furnace fell steadily into the porcelain bottle. It looked like a top-grade elixir. Although it did not meet Su Ziyi's expectations, the result was enough.
After putting the elixir away, Su Ziyi raised his head and looked at the middle-aged alchemist.
At this moment, everyone in the entire venue was looking at that person.
Although the scent of wood charm is strong, it is not pungent, so there are still many people who like it. Therefore, when the scent swept through the entire venue, many people had expressions of enjoyment on their faces, and their eyes were filled with joy. It's intoxication. The alchemists who were frustrated by the fragrance of Mu Mei glared at each other, their eyes turning red.
Perhaps the latter's gaze was too resentful. The middle-aged alchemist, who was still immersed in the world of elixirs, had a subtle look on his face after meeting the gazes of those who wanted to peel off his skin and drink his blood. expression.
He blinked and said warmly: "I'm so sorry, fellow Taoists. I didn't expect that the accessories arranged for me this time would be Mu Mei." He said apologetic words in his mouth, but there was no expression on his face. There was no apology, not even a hint of helplessness. Instead, there was a trace of schadenfreude hidden in the twinkling eyes, which made those alchemists who exploded the furnace feel choked in their chests.
The other party has already apologized and said that this was Dabi's arrangement. What can they do?
Rush up and start a fight? With so many people around watching, not to mention whether they can win the fight or not, it would be disrespectful to get angry over this matter. If it falls into the mouths of those who don't deal with them, it will be another story.
Therefore, in the end, there was nothing they could do but tolerate it.
But the middle-aged alchemist seemed unable to see their humiliation. After seeing the clenched fists and livid faces of those alchemists, he pretended to be considerate and said in a light tone: "Everyone Fellow Taoist, time is running out. If you can still continue to open the furnace, you'd better hurry up." This tone sounded awkward.
In an instant, there were more resentful looks on him.
Su Ziyi casually glanced at the things on the opponent's table, and when he saw the extra colorful moth scales, he couldn't help but frowned. Colorful Moth Scale is a commonly used elixir flavoring agent, especially elixirs like Yunzhi Powder are used a lot, but only a small amount is needed. Using too much can easily lead to the failure of elixir refining and trigger the elixir. The medicine is uncontrollable, so alchemists generally use it with caution.
And this person -
apparently added a large amount of colorful moth scales, which caused the rue to emit such an exaggerated smell.
Su Ziyi didn't know whether the other party meant to cause trouble. At this moment, he just felt that this middle-aged alchemist was indeed what he thought, and his methods were unusual. After adding so many colorful scale moths, it is still possible to ensure that the Yunzhi Powder Pill is completed. This method is not something that ordinary alchemists can use. It is estimated that the opponent is at least a seventh-grade alchemist.
When he thought of this, Su Ziyi's eyes couldn't help but flash.
In the end, the accident caused by Mu Meixiang had an irreversible impact on the entire game. When the white moon rose high and a large number of stoves and lanterns were set up in the venue, the alchemists who had not refined the elixir finally used up all three materials in their hands and sat on the ground with expressions of mourning. Know what to think.
In the end, except for Su Ziyi, only eight alchemists including the middle-aged alchemist entered the third round.
The promotion of the middle-aged alchemist is like a thorn in the eyes of other alchemists. Regardless of whether those people have the ability to refine Yunzhi Powder, or the reason why they failed to refine it, at this moment they are all Attributing it to the middle-aged alchemist, the look he looked at the middle-aged alchemist became extremely fierce.
But the middle-aged alchemist didn't care at all about the eager eyes here.
When Su Ziyi stood next to him, she even noticed that the corners of his mouth turned up in a sarcastic way.
The other party also noticed Su Ziyi's gaze at this moment, and looked over slightly, causing Su Ziyi to be stunned. Then, after seeing that there were no other emotions in Su Ziyi's eyes, he turned his head and nodded to Su Ziyi. Su Ziyi also blinked and returned the favor.
After the game, Su Ziyi went straight to play with Bian Qing and Su Yulang to go home. As a result, before leaving the door of the lounge, I heard several alchemists who were eliminated in the second round talking together. While talking, they turned their heads and looked behind Su Ziyi, their eyes full of malice. .
Su Ziyi looked back and found that it was the middle-aged alchemist walking behind him.
Although he didn't know what these people were going to do, Su Ziyi had never been a nosy person, so after seeing the middle-aged alchemist still looking like an old god, he sighed in his heart and stepped away. Not long after he left, the middle-aged alchemist also left the lounge with his belongings, but behind him, some people followed quietly.
Because it was getting late, the three of the Su family did not go back to eat today, but chose to eat out.
Although there were not many alchemists participating in today's two rounds of competition, the intensity of the competition was evident. After dinner, Su Yulang was still talking excitedly about what he had learned, while Su Ziyi kept walking beside him, talking from time to time. She answered his question in a low voice. For a moment, the atmosphere between the three was quite harmonious.
But just when they took a shortcut and walked into a small alley, a faint smell of blood floated into their nostrils.
Instantly, their footsteps paused, and before they could react, there was a sound of footsteps not far away. There were a lot of people coming, and there were many and mixed noises. There was also the sound of rolling carriage wheels. Listen to this sound, it means they are coming this way. Immediately, Su Ziyi pulled Bian Qing and Su Yulang to stand aside and gave up the middle position.
The visitor was indeed coming in their direction.
They appear to be members of several powerful factions. They wear several styles of clothes and have their own sect emblem embroidered with embroidery thread on the cuffs. These people looked anxious and walked in a hurry. Although they were only disciples in the Qi refining stage, the aura coming from them was not intimidating at all, and they must have had a lot of experience on weekdays.
When they passed by the three people of the Su family, their expressions changed, but they didn't say anything and continued to rush in.
After all these people walked in, Su Yulang wrinkled his face and asked quietly: "Father, what's going on?" The smell of blood lingering at the tip of his nose became stronger and stronger, and he never let out his consciousness. Su Ziyi just leaned over there slightly at this time, but the next moment, his whole expression became stern.
Two miles to the east is a relatively low-rise house. Although the people living there are still cultivators, they are just low-level cultivators with shallow wealth, so their living environment is not very good. The gap between the houses was filled with darkness, which made people feel a little chilly just looking at it.
And in this small alley, there were four or five corpses lying in random directions at the moment.
These corpses died in extremely miserable conditions, with bloodstains all over their bodies, and these bloodstains did not seem to have been scratched out by others with sharp tools, but rather like being picked out by living people with their fingernails. Looking at the corpse's fingernails, even the fingers were bloody, and there were even scraps of flesh in the fingernails. At a glance, you could tell who made the blood marks all over the body. This article is compiled by Youyu Dujia of Beigang
. Such a state of death is really miserable.
The wind was quite strong tonight, so from such a distance, cultivators with sensitive senses could still smell the blood. Of course, this was also related to the tragic scene. Su Ziyi only used his spiritual consciousness to explore it for a moment, and all he could "see" was blood everywhere in the alley. Those dead people seemed to have all the blood drained from their bodies.
But this situation didn't make Su Ziyi change his face. What really made him lose his temper was that
he had seen all these people.
——It was the alchemist who was eliminated in the second round of Danbi today, and these were the ones who gathered together and whispered against the middle-aged alchemist when Su Ziyi left the lounge.
In an instant, a not so good idea flashed through Su Ziyi's mind.
Although these alchemists were eliminated today, there are still no big problems with their own cultivation. Except for one or two practitioners who are still in the Qi refining stage, the others are basically practitioners in the early stage of foundation building. Although it is not the top strength, it is enough, but I didn't expect that all these people would be lost here.
Looking around, there were no signs of a fight. It was obvious that he was knocked down by the other party at once.
Such a method sounds a bit appalling.
Su Ziyi considered the death conditions of these people and felt that these people must have been poisoned, and the poison was quite overbearing, leaving these alchemists unable to fight back. When he thought of a poison master with such ability entering Xuan Cang Sect, Su Ziyi felt a little more wary.
However, no matter how vigilant he is, the most important thing he should do at this moment is to take Bian Qing and Su Yulang away from here.
As for the scene, there were already several foundation-building practitioners who had restrained their momentum standing there, waiting for the follow-up people to deal with it.
Chapter 336 Qin Sikai
The tragedy in the alley did not cause many ripples in Xuancang City.
Even when Su Ziyi stood in the venue, the expressions of the other eight alchemists participating in the competition did not change.
After counting the spiritual materials on the stone platform, Su Ziyi subconsciously turned his attention to the middle-aged alchemist. It had been one day and two nights since the last Danby. Because of the Wooden Mei Yunzhi Powder in his hand, this person's identity was also discovered, and it quickly spread throughout Xuancang City. Even people like Su Ziyi who had not gone out often heard about it.
This man is indeed a casual cultivator.
No one knows who he studied under. They only know that when he appeared in Xuancang City, he used the identity of an alchemist. And because the refined elixir is of good quality and has excellent effects, it is very popular in some circles of practitioners. As for which circle? When Su Ziyi thought about this man's hobbies, a strange look appeared in his eyes.
He had never imagined that the favorite place for such a mature and charming man would be Huajie and Liuxiang.
Xuancang City is considered clean and peaceful under the supervision of the Xuancang Sect, but even so, there are still some brothels and pavilions in the city for ordinary people and practitioners to vent their desires. And this cultivator in the early stage of foundation building, who is clearly Qin Sikai, is just such a "beauty-loving gentleman" who travels to various palaces and pavilions all day long, enjoying life and death with women and children.
When they heard that something happened that night, the Xuan Cang Sect had gone to find Qin Sikai. After all, many people could see the malice they had towards Qin Sikai at that time. However, the disciples who went to investigate had no idea that when they found the person, the person was having sex with a woman and a pair of children between the bed curtains, and they were having a fierce fight.
Such a naked and lewd scene made several decent disciples blush and feel their hearts beating. They felt it was ridiculous and couldn't help but retreat immediately, waiting until Qin Sikai's side stopped fighting.
I don't know if this battle consumed Qin Sikai's physical strength and energy too much. When he finally gave up, the corners of his eyes were red with fatigue, and he yawned one after another. When the disciples of Xuan Cang Sect saw the man's open underwear and the red marks on his skin, they felt more and more that this man was acting too erratically, and his expression became even worse.
As for whether you asked anything from Qin Sikai's mouth in the end?
There must be no such thing.
Because everyone in the pavilion began to testify, as soon as this romantic man left the venue, he went straight to the brothel, mingled with the two guys on the bed, and never left in the middle. It is worth mentioning that the Mu Mei Yunzhi Powder he refined during the competition that day was also given to the people who served him that day as a supplement, which made the other prostitutes jealous for a while.
These prostitutes are ordinary people, and for them, the things that cultivators can achieve are completely out of reach.
Because of this incident, Qin Sikai's reputation was completely spread. In the previous Danby, how many women and Shuang'er were blushing at Qin Sikai and their hearts beating. How many people were looking at him with complicated eyes at this moment, because from the appearance, Qin Sikai didn't look like that kind of immersion at all. For cultivators who are obsessed with lust, this situation is really shocking.
However, his incident really diluted the impact of the news of the death of those alchemists.
After all, fights between cultivators are too common, but Qin Sikai's unconventional gossip is even more interesting.
The other alchemists participating in the competition must have heard about it, so like Su Ziyi, they couldn't help but glance at Qin Sikai a few more times, their eyes full of sarcasm. And Qin Sikai still acted like a normal person. He was the same as he was in the last game, and he was still worried about everything today. He obviously didn't pay attention to other people's eyes.
But when some people's gazes were too unrestrained, he would give them an inexplicable look with a half-smile, causing them to turn their heads unnaturally.
Su Ziyi only glanced at it and then looked away.
Although he has always felt that Qin Sikai is too weird, this kind of thing is not something he should worry about. Therefore, instead of having time to pay attention to who the other party is, it is better to take a look at the content of the third game.
The difficulty of the third game soared again.
After that day's competition, Su Ziyi had already seen clearly the situation of the practitioners participating this time, and roughly thought about it. Even if he didn't get the first place, there should be no problem in entering the top five. So when I unfolded the bamboo slips and saw the name of the elixir on it, I wasn't surprised at all.
The elixir to be tested in the third round is not difficult. It is a fifth-grade mid-level elixir - the Three-Gold Red Heart Pill.
Sanjin Chixin Dan is not a commonly used elixir, because its function is to regulate the body of people who are congenitally weak. It extracts the essence of dozens of spiritual herbs and several spiritual minerals. After being fused together and refined into elixirs, it will provide a gentle power to the human body, harmonize the human body bit by bit, and improve the problem of frailty.
Therefore, these three gold red heart elixirs are not widely used, but for some people they are a common elixir.
In the entire refining process of Sanjin Chixin Dan, the most difficult part is the material processing. After all, the total amount of zero and zero requires nearly seventy spiritual materials. Any more or less during processing will be fatal to the quality of the elixir. Influence. And if the alchemist is not strong enough and the concentration is not strong enough, after processing so many spiritual materials, the whole person's mental and physical strength will be exhausted, and it is easy to cause mistakes and lead to the failure of alchemy.
Therefore, more attention needs to be paid during the refining process.
And after the Sanjin Red Heart Pill is made into a pill, it is worthy of its nearly seventy flavors of spiritual materials. The appearance is round and transparent, and three different shades of gold are like scales covering the entire pill one by one, making the pill appear in the light. Shining in the light. If you cut the Sanjin Chixindan open from the middle, you will find that there is a piece of red in the middle about the size of a small fingernail, which looks bright red.
This is also the origin of the name of Sanjin Chixindan.
Su Ziyi often refines elixirs for several days without stopping, so even if he has never refined the Three-Gold Red Heart Pill before, his mental strength is enough to cope with it. It doesn't take long for him to process all the materials for the Three-Gold Red Heart Pill and enter the alchemy process. link. The other eight participating cultivators were also very fast, but it may be because this kind of work is usually done by servants or apprentices, so after all the materials were processed, there was already fatigue in their eyes. color.
When Su Ziyi completed refining the Three-Gold Red Heart Pill, there was only one other alchemist in the entire venue who also completed the refining.
Su Ziyi didn't even need to guess, he just wanted to figure out who that person was.
When Qin Sikai saw that Su Ziyi also called the referee over at the same time as him, he looked over in surprise. When he saw clearly that it was Su Ziyi, he smiled at Su Ziyi. There was no other emotion in the smile. He wanted to come over. Su Ziyi's senses are pretty good. But Su Ziyi didn't notice this. When the referee judged that his elixir was a top-grade elixir, he breathed a sigh of relief and meditated on the cushion next to the stone platform to recover.
Two hours later, the alchemist who had used up the last set of materials completed his final struggle.
Although the difficulty of refining the Three-Gold Red Heart Pill was not very difficult, in the end, only five of the nine alchemists refined it, and apart from Su Ziyi and Qin Sikai, only one other refined the top-grade elixir. The other two people only refined low-to-medium quality.
Looking at it this time, the outcome of Danby seems to have been decided.
But Su Ziyi was not so optimistic in his heart. He doesn't know what other people's strength is, but as far as he is concerned, he can only refine fifth-grade high-level elixirs. Sixth-grade elixirs can be tried, but the chance of becoming an elixir is not higher than 30%, so Facing these seniors who had decades or even a century of experience than him, he didn't have much confidence.
However, no matter what, having reached this position, he could only continue to move forward.
And the result of this third round of competition was like a slap in the face to the forces behind the participating alchemists.
It is not easy to train an alchemist. Although they did not send out their most powerful alchemists this time, these people who came out to compete can be regarded as the best among their forces. However, they did not expect that this time they would Lost to two casual cultivators. Even in the end, the person from the Treasure Pavilion also refined a high-grade elixir, but it took him a lot longer than the other two, and the quality was slightly inferior. Anyone with a bit of discernment can tell which one is better. Which one is worse.
Therefore, after the results came out, the expressions in these people's eyes were quite complicated.
Su Ziyi didn't think too much. He knew that the game two days later would definitely be an extremely difficult battle. If he didn't prepare well, he might be eliminated directly in the next game. Therefore, after learning the result of the game, he was ready to leave, but he did not expect that as soon as he walked out of the door of the lounge, he was called from behind.
To Su Ziyi's expectation, the person who stopped him was Qin Sikai.
Qin Sikai still had the same dignified appearance as before, making it impossible to tell what kind of person he was. Su Ziyi was stopped by him, and after a short moment of stunned reaction, he came to his senses and saluted the other party: "Alchemist Qin." Qin Sikai did not return the greeting, but just smiled and said something else: "I wonder if you have the honor to walk with Master Sudan?"
Although he said these words in a questioning manner, the look in his eyes clearly did not give Su Ziyi a chance to refuse. Before Su Ziyi could speak, he took the lead and took the step forward. He led the people out and said, "I watched the elixir refined by Master Sudan today as very good. I couldn't help but want to have a good chat with Master Sudan and exchange experiences on elixir refining."
Su Ziyi, who was left behind by him, opened his mouth and didn't know. What should I say, but seeing that the person had already walked out of the door, I had no choice but to follow him.
That’s all, let’s take a look first and then talk.