Chapter 84

The ruins of the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace were immense. Even in the previous life, the cultivators of the Congyun Sea spent more than a decade exploring without being able to fully explore the whole picture.

Not to mention now, the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace was shrouded in thick fog everywhere.

The cultivators who woke up from the stone statue of Qin Tang soon split into several different factions.

Some felt that this Cloud Water Heavenly Palace was extremely dangerous. It was very lucky to survive from Qin Tang's hands. If they continued to explore, it would be absolutely dead.

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

The majority of people chose to leave. And the remaining people thought that just a stone statue at the entrance of the ruins had such an opportunity. What kind of fortune would there be in the inner part of the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace, where there were alchemy rooms, transmission halls, and sect treasuries that were essential for ancient sects?

Once greed arose, it quickly swelled in their hearts and could no longer be suppressed.

So, these people, like possessed by demons, disappeared one after another into the fog.

So, when Li Fan caught up from behind, he found that he had lost track of all the cultivators. If it weren't for the Invisible Killing Intent that had locked on Sikong Yi and his companion in advance, he would have lost them.

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

They were able to find a way out from seemingly dead ends in the fog gaps. They had a clear goal along the way, bypassing one building after another shrouded in fog, and went deeper inside.

Was this the reason why Sikong Yi was able to snatch the Cloud Water Picture Scroll in his previous life?

He knew the secrets of the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace because of his simulated experience in his previous life.

But how did Sikong Yi know?

Li Fan's heart suddenly surged with strong interest.

At the same time, he became more alert. These two people obviously had a lot of secrets!

His figure and breath became more hidden, and Li Fan followed them closely.

Suddenly, their movements stopped.

They paused for a moment, then Sikong Yi and Baili Chen separated and ran in opposite directions.

"Dividing troops? Did they find me?" Li Fan narrowed his eyes and hesitated for a moment, but still followed Sikong Yi's direction.

He went deep into the fog and reached a building like a tower.

Sikong Yi stopped suddenly at the bottom of the tower, looked back in Li Fan's direction, and showed a provocative smile.

Then he went straight into the tower.

"Interesting, do you want to use the absolute place in this Cloud Water Heavenly Palace to kill me?" Li Fan looked at this tower that was looming in the white fog and exuded a weird aura. The memories of his previous life emerged in his mind.

The Demon Refining Tower, one of the most dangerous areas in the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace.

In the first ten years of opening of the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace, no cultivator could come back alive from the Demon Refining Tower. Therefore, it was once regarded as an absolute place by the cultivators of Congyun Sea, and it was absolutely impossible to explore.

It was not until 21 years later that a master of alchemy risked his life and entered it, and finally cracked its weird rules.

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

As soon as he entered, he felt cold winds blowing and a smell of decay and stench came on his face.

The bottom floor of the tower was a row of cells.

But it seemed that too much time had passed, and there were only piles of weird bones left in the cells.

Li Fan continued to go up. The second floor of the tower was also like this.

He came to the top of the tower all the way.

He heard a babbling voice from afar.

"My senior brothers and sisters are fighting on the front line, and I can't help much."

"I have to refine more pills so that I can increase their strength as much as possible."

"For every pill I refine, my senior brothers have a greater chance of surviving."

"But all the demons in this Demon Refining Tower are dead. There are no alchemy materials left. What can I do?"

A man with messy hair and wearing a large blue robe was sighing and at a loss.

Next to him in mid-air, three figures were bound by invisible ropes.

One of them was Sikong Yi.

The other two were also cultivators who entered the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace together this time, but they didn't know why they appeared here.

The two of them were pale, and their lips kept moving. They didn't know what they were saying.

Li Fan hadn't had time to do anything, but felt that his hands and feet were suddenly tied by ropes and couldn't move.

He was then pulled into mid-air and fixed, just like the other three.

He was not surprised by this encounter, and Li Fan was not panicked.

At this time, he heard clearly what the two people were talking to themselves.

"How could this be? Didn't I clearly choose to leave here directly? How come I was tied up here after a blink of an eye..."

"I'm doomed, I'm doomed. I clearly got out of the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace, but I was caught back..."

...

"Ah, it's time to refine pills!" At this moment, the man in the robe suddenly woke up from his babble.

"Refining pills, refining pills..." The man reached into his large robe and moved around. After a while, he took out two black pills.

"The pills are refined, but I don't know how the medicinal properties are." The man scratched his hair, seeming a bit troubled.

Then he slapped his thigh: "Right, didn't I just catch a few bugs back? Just use them to test the pills!"

As he said, he looked at the three people who were tied in the air, and his eyes kept moving: "Which bug should I choose?"

The three people who were stared at by the man felt a chill for no reason.

They didn't dare to move and held their breaths quietly.

"Just this one." The man in the robe looked for a while and his eyes stopped on one of them. He immediately reached out and grabbed it.

The person saw this and couldn't keep calm anymore.

But his struggle was obviously futile, and he couldn't make a sound.

His body flew towards the man in the robe, and his body gradually shrank along the way.

In the end, it really turned into a small flying insect and fell into the palm of the man in the robe.

The head of the flying insect vaguely still looked like a human face, with an expression of horror on his face.

The man in the robe gently pinched it and held a black pill in his other hand.

The pill was much larger than the flying insect, but it was stuffed in so hard.

The human-faced flying insect struggled painfully and forcibly swallowed the pill into its abdomen.

Its belly swelled many times and became a huge ball.

The flying insect's breath gradually weakened, but its suffering had just begun.

After the pill entered its abdomen, it seemed to be digested and began to shrink in size.

But there was a buzzing sound like a swarm of mosquitoes suddenly sounded.

The human-faced flying insect's body suddenly began to twitch uncontrollably.

One by one tiny black dots drilled out of its abdomen one after another.

Looking closely, those black dots were clearly newly born flying insects.

After drilling out of the body, the flying insects did not fly around, but stopped on the human-faced flying insect and ate greedily.

Soon, the human-faced flying insect was eaten so that there was no residue left.

The man in the robe shook his head and looked regretful.

"It seems that the test failed. It should be that the medicinal properties are too strong."

As he said that, he opened his mouth and sucked the black mist of flying insects into his stomach.

  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 troubled.

  "How about trying 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 that, the man opened his mouth and threw the black elixir in casually.   

  After swallowing the elixir, 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 tied up in the air.

  Among the three survivors, Li Fan remained silent.

  Sikong Yi's face was expressionless.

  The remaining man 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.

  Everyone's life and death depended 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?"

  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 could rely on to lead him into this desperate situation.

  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 pill, he turned directly into a puddle of green water.

  Sikong Yi is dead!

  "What's going on? What happened? Could it be that in this life, because of my tracking, things developed differently from the previous life?" "No,

  this Sikong Yi clearly seduced me to come to this demon refining place. Ta's. 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

  as Li Fan fell into endless doubts, he suddenly sensed something. What, 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." "

  But once you are targeted by me, the secret will no longer be a secret."

  Li Fan's induction, Sikong Yi He and Bai Lichen continued to go deeper into Yunshui Tiangong.

  "If there is a 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." However,

  the actions of the man in the robe have their own rules, and Li Fan cannot control them, so 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 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 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, Li Fan was the only one left in the Demon Refining Tower.

  The Taoist-robed man 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?"

The man named Chong suddenly stopped his hand and nodded subconsciously: "Yes, I don't have enough alchemy materials."

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

Chong's words stopped, he stared at Li Fan for a while, and saw the clothes he was wearing, and suddenly became a little flustered: "It turns out to be Senior Brother! I thought it was a bug!"

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

As Chong spoke, Li Fan felt the bondage on his body loosen and regained control of his body.

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 always like this. I can't refine pills well, and my cultivation progress is very slow. I drag everyone down..."

Li Fan walked up to him, pressed his shoulder, and said softly: "Don't say that, Junior Brother Chong. The pills you refined are very effective, and everyone likes to eat them."

Chong heard this and suddenly raised his head, his eyes full of surprise: "Really, Senior Brother. Everyone likes to eat the pills I refined?"

"How come, you don't believe Senior Brother's words?" Li Fan put on a stern face.

Chong shook his head quickly: "Of course I believe Senior Brother's words."

Then he said dejectedly: "But I don't have any alchemy materials left. I can't refine any more pills that everyone loves to eat."

Li Fan touched Chong's head and whispered: "It's okay, I'm still here."

"Refine me into a pill. That way, everyone will have pills to eat again."

"Senior Brother, you..." Chong seemed to be shocked by Li Fan's words. He widened his eyes and looked at Li Fan.

Li Fan just sighed and continued: "Although I started early, but my talent is not enough, and my cultivation is very low. Senior brothers and sisters are fighting on the front line, and I can't help much."

"Every time I think about this, I feel very sad and hate my own incompetence."

"So, refine me into a pill. That way, I can still help a little bit."

Li Fan grabbed Chong's hand and said excitedly.

Chong looked at Li Fan blankly, as if he was deeply moved.

"It turns out that Senior Brother is the same as me."

"But Senior Brother is much more noble than me. He would rather sacrifice himself to help the senior brothers and sisters on the front line."

"And me, I just escape. I just hide in this tower."

Chong grabbed his hair painfully.

"No, I can't just watch Senior Brother sacrifice himself."

He seemed to think of something suddenly and said excitedly to Li Fan: "Senior Brother, I can refine pills for you! As long as you eat the pills I refined! Your strength will definitely not be low then. You can also go to the front line to help!"

Chong seemed to have found a goal to strive for: "Refining pills, I want to refine pills!"

He reached into his large robe and moved around.

After a while, he took out two golden pills.

"Senior Brother, these are the pills for you."

Chong held them with both hands, with a smile on his face, and handed the pills to Li Fan.

Li Fan didn't take the pills, but instead untied Chong's robe.

Only to see...

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

On the skeleton, there was only a little bit of invisible flesh left.

Chong was using his own flesh and blood,

to refine the pills.