Chapter 84: Demon Purging Worm Taoist

Chapter 84 – Demon Bug Refining Daoist

The Cloud Water Heavenly Palace ruins were immense. Even in his previous life, the Cong Yunhai cultivator still hadn’t been able to fully explore the whole picture after more than ten years of non-stop exploration.

Not to mention now, all parts of the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace were shrouded in thick mists.

The group of cultivators who had awakened from the stone statue of Qin Tang quickly split into several different camps.

Some felt that this Cloudwater Heavenly Palace was truly treacherous within. It was already a great fluke to have survived Qin Tang’s men. If they continued to explore further, it would definitely be ten deaths without a chance of survival.

As for them, they thought that they had already memorized several techniques, and as long as they could go back alive this time, it would be a big profit. So they decisively chose to directly leave the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace.

Those who chose to leave were the majority. The remaining people, on the other hand, thought that just a stone statue at the entrance of the ruins was such a chance. Then just how great a creation would there be inside those legendary ancient sects’ necessary alchemy rooms, method transmission pavilions, and sect treasuries inside the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace?

Once greed arose, it rapidly expanded in the heart and could no longer be suppressed.

Thus, this group of people, as if possessed, disappeared in the mist one after another.

Therefore, when Li Fan rushed up from the back, he realized that he had already lost track of all the cultivators. If it wasn’t for the Phase-less Killing Machine that had long ago locked the Sikong Yi duo in advance, I was afraid that they would have to be lost like this.

However, strangely enough, Sikong Yi and Baili Dust seemed to be extremely familiar with the layout of this Cloud Water Heavenly Palace.

Every time, they were able to find their way through the misty gaps that looked like a dead end. With a clear goal in mind, they continuously bypassed a building shrouded in mist and headed deeper in.

Was this the reason why Sikong Yi was able to win the Cloud Water Illustration in his last life?
He himself was able to learn all the secrets in the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace because of his simulated experience in his previous life.

But how did this Sikong Yi know?

Li Fan’s heart immediately surged with intense interest.

At the same time, he became more and more vigilant. These two people obviously had no small secrets on them!
The silhouette’s aura became even more hidden, and Li Fan hung tightly behind them.

Suddenly, the duo’s movements stopped.

After a pause in place, the duo of Sikong Yi and Baili Dust separated and sped off in two opposite directions.

“A plan to split up the troops? Is this discovering me?” Li Fan’s eyes narrowed slightly, and after hesitating for a moment, he still chased after Sikong Yi in the direction he left.

Deep into the mists, all the way to a tower-like building.

Sikong Yi suddenly stopped at the bottom of the tower and turned back towards the direction where Li Fan was, revealing a provocative smile.

He then dove headfirst into the tower.

“A bit interesting, is this trying to kill me with the help of the Jedi in the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace?” As Li Fan looked at the tower in front of him, which was hidden in the white mist and had a demonic aura, the memories of his previous life could not help but surface in his mind.

Demon Purging Tower, one of the most treacherous few areas in Cloud Water Heavenly Palace.

In the first ten years of the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace opening, no cultivator had ever been able to return alive from the Demon Refining Tower. As a result, it was once considered by the Cong Yunhai cultivators to be a Jedi in the Cloudwater Heavenly Palace, which should never be explored.

In his previous life, it was ultimately in Anchor 21 that a dan dao master risked his life to enter it before finally cracking the bizarre rules within it.

“If that’s what you’re thinking, I’m afraid I’ll have to disappoint you.” Li Fan laughed coldly and followed suit as he entered the Demon Refining Tower.

When he stepped inside, he felt a gust of gloomy wind and an odor of decay and stench greeted him.

The bottom floor of the tower was a cell.

It just seemed that too much time had passed, and all that was left in the cells were piles of oddly shaped demonic bones.

Li Fan continued upwards, and the second level of the tower was the same.

All the way to the top of the tower.

A rambling voice could be heard from afar.

“Elder brothers and sisters are all fighting on the front lines, and I’m the only one who can’t do much to help.”

“Be sure to refine more pills so that we can increase their strength as much as possible.”

“With every additional elixir I refine, the greater the possibility of my senior brothers and sisters surviving.”

“But the demons within this Demon Refining Tower are all dead, and without the alchemy materials, what can we do?”

A man with disheveled hair and wearing a wide blue Daoist robe was sighing and at a loss.

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

One of them was none other than Sikong Yi.

The remaining two were also cultivators who had entered the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace together this time, only that they had somehow appeared here.

These two had pale faces and their lips were constantly opening and closing. It was unknown what they were saying.

Before Li Fan had time to make any movements, he felt as if his hands and feet were suddenly bound by ropes, unable to move.

Immediately afterward, he was pulled into mid-air and fixed, just like the rest of the three.

Having anticipated this encounter, Li Fan did not panic.

And it was only then that he heard the two men talking to themselves.

“How could this happen, didn’t I clearly choose to leave here directly? How come when my eyes blinked, I was tied up here ……”

“My life is over, my life is over. It’s clear that I’ve already left the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace, yet I’ve still been captured back ……”

……

“Oops, time for alchemy!” Right at this moment, the man in the Daoist robe suddenly came to his senses from his ramblings.

“Alchemy, alchemy ……” The man reached his hand into his wide Taoist robe and moved it around, and within a short time, he pulled out two black pills.

“The Dan is refined, it’s just that I don’t know how the medicinal properties are this time.” The man scratched his hair, seemingly a little troubled.

Then, he slammed his thigh: “Right, didn’t I just catch a few bugs back this time, it’s just the right time to test the medicine with them!”

After saying that, he looked over towards Li Fan’s several people who were tied up in the air, his sight kept moving, “Which bug to choose?”

Being stared at by the man, inexplicably, he felt a vicious chill.

They did not dare to move around and held their breath to keep quiet.

“Just this one.” The dao-robed man looked at it for a while, his gaze stopped on one of them, and immediately reached out his hand to grab it.

Seeing this, that person could no longer remain calm.

But his struggles were obviously futile, and his voice could no longer be uttered.

His body flew towards the dao-robed man, and his body gradually became smaller in the process.

In the end, it really turned into a tiny flying insect and fell into the palm of the dao-robed man’s hand.

The head of the flying insect could still vaguely make out the appearance of a human face, and the expression on its face was extremely frightened.

Being gently pinched by the dao-robed man, the human-faced flying insect continuously emitted a buzzing sound of vibrating wings.

But everything was just futile, the dao-robed man pinched the flying insect with one hand and held the black elixir in the other.

The elixir was many times larger than even the flying insect, but it was just shoved in so hard.

The human-faced flying insect struggled in pain as it forcefully swallowed the elixir into its stomach.

The stomach swelled many times and became a giant orb.

The flying insect’s breath gradually declined, but the suffering had just begun.

After the elixir entered the belly, it seemed to be digested and its size began to decrease.

Yet there was a mosquito swarm-like buzzing sound that suddenly rang out.

The human-faced flying insect’s body steeply began to twitch uncontrollably.

One by one, tiny black dots drilled out from its abdomen forward and backward.

Looking closely, that single black dot was clearly a newly born flying insect.

After drilling out of the body, the flying insects didn’t fly around, but stopped on the human-faced flying insects and greedily nibbled on them.

Soon, the human-faced flying insect was gnawed to the point where not even crumbs remained.

The dao-robed man shook his head with a look of regret.

“It seems like the test medicine failed ah, it should be that the medicine is too strong.”

With that, he opened his mouth and sucked the flying insect black mist into his belly.

Even though he had long heard about what happened in the Demon Refining Tower and was already well prepared, Li Fan still couldn’t help but have his eyelids jumping at this moment.

This scene was simply too horrifying.

The dao-robed man looked at the other remaining elixir in his hand and seemed to be somewhat distressed.

“Should this one not be tried again?”

He glanced at Li Fan’s trio again.

All three of them stopped breathing.

After a long time, the dao-robed man sighed, “Forget it, if it’s practiced in one furnace, it should be similar.”

After saying that, the man opened his mouth and casually threw in the black elixir. After swallowing the elixir, the dao-robed man was all but unaffected in general.

It just turned demonic again.

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

Of these surviving three, Li Fan was silent.

Sikong Yi was expressionless.

The remaining one already had a broken face.

“If I had known earlier, I might as well have died at the hands of that Qin Tang, at the very least, I could still die a quick death.”

……

Time seemed to have no meaning of existence in this Demon Refining Tower.

The death or life of the crowd depended entirely on the behavior of that dao-robed man.

After an unknown amount of time, the man came out of his demonic daze again.

Again, he touched out two pills from under his wide dao robe, only this time it was a bizarre green color.

“Which bug should I choose to try the medicine on?”

The man hesitated for a moment this time, but his gaze was directed towards Sikong Yi.

“Just pick this one!”

Li Fan was instantly energized, he wanted to see what this Sikong Yi had to rely on that he dared to lure him into this Jedi.

What made Li Fan immediately feel dismayed was that this Sikong Yi actually did not use any means of resistance.

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

Sikong Yi, dead!

“What’s going on? Where did the change occur? Could it be that this life, because of my stalking, caused things to go in a different direction than the last?”

“No, this Sikong Yi clearly seduced me to this Demon Refining Tower. How could it die so easily?”

“He knew that this place was a Jedi and lured me in just to exchange one life for another?”

……

Just when Li Fan was in endless doubt, he suddenly sensed something and raised his head.

Outside the Demon Refining Tower, Baili Dust, who was locked by the Phase-less Killing Qi, slowly approached.

And next to him, Li Fan sensed that the Phase-less Killing Machine, which had lost its lock on the target, had once again captured the target: Sikong Yi.

Sikong Yi, who had clearly died, just appeared outside the Demon Refining Tower again.

“Puppet? Out-of-body incarnation? It doesn’t feel like either ……”

Li Fan stared at the puddle of green water on the ground and couldn’t help but laugh.

“It seems that the secrets on these two are even greater than I imagined.”

“Only, once I set my sights on them, the secret will no longer be a secret.”

In Li Fan’s senses, the duo of Sikong Yi and Baili Dust continued to go deeper towards the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace.

“With the Phase-less Killing Machine locked on, I’m not afraid of them running away. It’s only necessary to extract themselves from this Demon Refining Tower as soon as possible.”

However, the actions of this dao-robed man had its own pattern, and Li Fan could not control it, so he could only choose to wait patiently at that moment.

Soon, the third round of pill testing arrived.

This time, Li Fan was still not chosen. This made Li Fan cry a little, not knowing whether it was lucky or unfortunate.

The dao-robed man pulled out two pink pills and fed them to the human-faced flying insect.

The flying insect turned into a cloud of pink smoke with a banging explosion.

In the smoke screen, an agonized human face continued to emerge.

As the pink smoke floated, the human face was pulled and twisted again, making it even more hideous.

Li Fan was on the side, and seeing this scene also gave him goosebumps.

In the end, it was the dao-robed man who muttered and inhaled the smoke into his body before ending this eternal agony.

The dao-robed man fell into muttering again.

The fourth round of pill testing finally arrived.

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

The dao-robed man was about to take Li Fan to test the medicine, but Li Fan suddenly opened his mouth.

“Senior Bug Brother, I heard that you don’t have enough ingredients for alchemy?”

Taoist Bug steeply stopped his outstretched hand at the words and subconsciously nodded his head, “Yes, the materials for alchemy are not enough.”

He said with some guilt, “I haven’t been able to refine a new elixir for a long time ……”

The Bug Daoist’s words stuttered as he stared at Li Fan for a while, seeing the clothes he was wearing, he became a little flustered, “So it’s Senior Brother! I thought it was Bug!”

“Senior brother, I’m really sorry! I’ll put you down right away.”

With the words of the bug daoist, Li Fan only felt the restraints on his body loosen and regained control of his body.

The Bug Daoist covered his head and lowered his head, as if he did not have the face to face this senior brother.

He just blamed himself and said, “I’ve messed things up again. It’s like this every time. I can’t refine pills well, and my cultivation progress has been slow, holding everyone’s back ……”

Li Fan walked forward and pressed Daoist Bug’s shoulder and said gently, “Don’t say that, Senior Bug Brother. The elixir you refined is very effective, and everyone likes to eat it.”

Daoist Bug Man lifted his head violently at these words, his eyes filled with surprise: “Really, Senior Brother. Everyone likes to eat the pills I refine very much?”

“What, you don’t believe in Elder Brother’s words?” Li Fan boarded up his face.

Insect Daoist hurriedly shook his head, “Of course I believe what Senior Brother said.”

Then he hung his head and said, “But I don’t have any more alchemy materials. I can no longer refine the pills that everyone loves.”

Li Fan touched Daoist Bug’s head and said softly, “It’s alright, I’m not still here.”

“Refine Senior Brother into an elixir, so everyone will have elixirs to eat again.”

“Elder brother, you ……” Bug Daoist Man seemed to be shocked by Li Fan’s words, his eyes widened as he looked at Li Fan.

Li Fan just let out a long sigh and continued, “Even though I started early, I don’t have enough talent and my cultivation level has always been low. My senior brothers and sisters are all fighting on the front lines, and I’m the only one who can’t help much.”

“Every time I think of this, my heart aches immensely, hating my own incompetence.”

“So, refine me into an elixir. That way, I can still be more or less helpful.”

Li Fan grabbed the Bug Daoist’s hand and said with an excited face.

The Bug Daoist looked at Li Fan in a daze, seemingly deeply touched.

“So senior brother is also like me.”

“But Elder Brother is much greater than me, preferring to sacrifice himself to help his elder brothers and sisters on the frontline.”

“And me, and I would only run away. Will only hide in this tower.”

The Bug Daoist pulled his hair in pain.

“No, I must not stand by and watch my senior brother sacrifice.”

As if he suddenly thought of something, he suddenly said excitedly to Li Fan, “Senior brother, I can refine pills for you! As long as you eat the elixir I refined! The strength will definitely not be very low, and you will be able to go to the front line to help out then!”

It was as if the Bug Daoist had found a goal to strive for, “Alchemy, I want to make pills!”

He put his hand into his wide dao robe and moved it.

Before long, he pulled out two golden pills.

“Senior brother, pills for you.”

The Bug Taoist cupped his hands with a smile on his face and handed the pills to Li Fan.

Li Fan did not bother to pick up the elixir, but instead untied Daoist Bug Man’s dao robe.

Only ……

Under the wide dao robe, only an empty skeleton remained.

On the skeleton, there were just a few remnants of a few invisible flesh and blood.

The Bug Daoist, precisely using his own flesh and blood, was
was refining an elixir.

(End of chapter)