The Journey of Immortal Cultivation-Chapter 337 - 201: Lifespan Extension Pill
The divine power swiftly circulated around her chest once, and only then did she manage to suppress the suffocating nausea. She bent over and patted the youth surnamed Fu on the shoulder: "You have found your father, and now I will take you back to the village."
The youth surnamed Fu gradually stopped crying and climbed up, his eyes still swollen but he earnestly nodded, rubbing away his tears roughly with his sleeves. He wished to give his father a proper burial, but there were no conditions for that at the moment. Since these two nobles had already helped him find his father’s body, he had no right to ask them to carry out a corpse from the mountain cave. He would have to come back for his father when he himself found a way.
Ning Xiaoxian noticed that he carefully avoided getting the precious pelt dirty, she couldn’t help but feel touched: this child is really thoughtful.
They had only taken a few steps back when Tu Jin made a gesture, and all three of them immediately stopped: "Shh, someone is coming." Who else could walk into this mountain cave apart from that "Mountain God"?
Since they had rescued people ahead and upset the "Mountain God’s" plans, they had also decided to get to the bottom of this matter, to avoid the other party striking first and bringing them bad luck.
They slowly retreated into the stone room, Tu Jinqing whispered: "Judging by the footsteps, there are five people coming. Four of them have stiff steps; they must be puppets. In addition, there’s the sound of something heavy being dragged."
After a while, the newcomers walked into the previous stone room, Tu Jin and Ning Xiaoxian peeked carefully, and indeed among the five people, four were puppets, each dragging a human. These unlucky individuals had their hands and feet bound, and were gagged with hemp nuts, barely able to make a sound and completely unable to move.
The person leading them had a hawk nose and deep eyes, and was very tall. Even in this snowy weather, he still wore a wide robe with large sleeves, surprisingly a cultivator.
The "Mountain God" turned out to be a cultivator? If not a demon, why would he capture mortals to extract their Essence, Qi, Blood? At this thought, Ning Xiaoxian glanced at Tu Jin beside her; this guy had also used a secret realm to absorb the souls of mortals, hardly a good bird either.
"Golden Core Early Stage," Chang Tian said lazily, revealing the person’s cultivation realm. Given Tu Jin’s strength, taking down this individual would be more than easy, and Ning Xiaoxian’s journey seemed unlikely to be endangered, which relaxed him considerably.
The four puppets placed the people they captured on the ground, and kicked their knees to force them to kneel. The movements were synchronized and precise, clearly following their master’s directions. The cultivator took out small Liu Li Bottles from his chest, set them up on the ground, then from his storage bag, he fetched a Pill Furnace with a spell, and it grew to the height of a person. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎
The Liu Li Bottles were transparent, and Ning Xiaoxian could see they were filled with a pure gold liquid. A thought suddenly struck her; the color of this liquid was very familiar. She saw the cultivator fuel his Pill Furnace with his Innate True Fire as alchemy fire, then one after another, he took out various herbs, added them into the furnace in a particular order and amount, and began to consecrate his full attention to alchemy.
This was her first time witnessing another cultivator perform Alchemy. Although this cultivator was also using an Immortal Pill Furnace, it was certainly not as miraculous as her Fu Yu Tripod, thus the temperature, the sequence of herbs, and the timing for retrieving the Elixir had to be extremely precise. This cultivator seemed to be a proficient alchemist, or maybe he was just well-practiced in making this particular Elixir, as his movements were smooth and exact.
Chang Tian let out a light "Oh," saying, "Although this person is in the early stage of Golden Core, his alchemy fire is only at the level of the Foundation Establishment Stage? I see, perhaps his cultivation realm fell following a fight with someone?"
Cultivation can fall? She widened her eyes, hearing this for the first time. Chang Tian guessed her surprise and explained: "Cultivation can decline severely from fundamental injuries or the side effects of certain elixirs. However, such cases are rare. This person’s fate can probably be described with the word ’unlucky.’
Just as the timing seemed right, the cultivator gave a low shout: "Open." The lid of the Pill Furnace automatically opened, he took three Liu Li Bottles and poured the pure gold liquid into them.
As soon as he opened the bottle, Ning Xiaoxian smelled a strong scent of blood. She suddenly remembered where she had seen this thing before. The essence blood taken from the sacrifice bodies in the secret chamber under Wen City Lord’s Mansion by Master Fan, was the same. The only difference was that the cultivator before her had further refined it.
