Killing God - Chapter 96

Chapter 96 Crisis
There are many buildings in Qingyu Island, As one of the biggest halls under Lingxiao Sect, Naturally, they also had their own territory here. It was called the Bright Furnace Palace. Apart from assigning some tasks to rookies, there were also quite a few Origin Condensation disciples stationed here. The purpose was to discover rookies with talent in alchemy in time and recruit and impart some basic alchemy techniques to them as soon as possible.

Over the past five years, Bright Furnace Hall was bustling with activity day by day, Because this was the only place on the Bluefish Six Islands where a pill refining furnace was set up, The rookie disciples were short of money. After paying a small amount of spirit crystals, you can use the large and small pill furnaces in the mourning hall to refine pills, Of course, if he could own a pill furnace, it would definitely be better. In fact, every pill furnace had a very subtle difference in the mastery of various temperatures. If he could get used to a pill furnace alone, it would be very important for an alchemist to master the temperatures of pill refining. Apart from that, he could also try to refine pills anytime and anywhere.

The Bright Furnace Hall was named after the pill furnace. It opened up a territory at the back of the hall. There were thirteen pill furnaces of all sizes in rows of stone chambers. Although they were all of average grade, the cultivation of newcomers in Qingyu Island was just like that. There was no need for a high-end Heavy Treasure Pill Furnace.

That morning, Zhong Qinglu arrived at the back of the Bright Furnace Palace. She held a square box in her hand and looked at the row of pill furnace stone chambers in front of her. Her expression was slightly gloomy, and her eyebrows furrowed slightly.

Beside her was a woman who looked slightly taller than Zhong Qinglu. She was a direct disciple of the Origin Condensation Realm from the Pill Hall. Her name was Gui Shuyun. At this moment, she showed some concern for Zhong Qinglu and whispered, “Junior Sister Zhong, don’t you look happy?”

Zhong Qinglu forced a smile, but her expression was still unhappy.

Gui Shuyun sighed softly. She actually knew a little about this junior sister’s thoughts. Ever since the pill furnace that Zhong Qinglu bought back was accidentally damaged, Zhong Qinglu did not intend to buy a new pill furnace. Instead, she chose to come to the pill furnace stone room of the Brightness Furnace Hall to refine pills.

From the beginning of the Qi Nourishing Pill until now, Gui Shuyun had watched Zhong Qinglu’s talent gradually reveal itself. It was also the first time she had strongly recommended this rookie disciple to the elders of the Pill Hall on Golden Rainbow Mountain. Only then did Zhong Qinglu begin to attract the attention of the upper echelons of the Pill Hall.

In many cases, Zhong Qinglu and Gui Shuyun could be considered sisters.

Over the past few days, Zhong Qinglu had come here many times to refine the Origin Cultivation Pill, and Gui Shuyun had also seen it. However, as she had expected, there were few geniuses who could obtain it without any effort. Although Zhong Qinglu’s talent was outstanding, she still failed one after another after another when she began to refine the Origin Cultivation Pill, and this was clearly constantly hitting this young girl.

Apart from that, Gui Shuyun could also imagine how high the cost of the Origin Cultivation Pill would be for a rookie disciple at the Qi Refining Realm. Therefore, she was indeed worried about Zhong Qinglu. After pondering for a moment, Gui Shuyun walked over to Zhong Qinglu and said softly, “Qing Lu, if you feel that you are not in good spirits today, it might not be too late to refine the pill in a few more days.”

Zhong Qinglu remained silent for a moment before shaking her head. The corner of her mouth curled up slightly, as if she was grit her teeth. Then she turned around and nodded to Gui Shuyun, saying, “I’m fine.”

Gui Shuyun took a deep look at her and didn’t say anything else. Alchemy had always been based on countless failures. As long as one’s mental willpower didn’t collapse, nothing else would matter.

She slowly took a step back. Zhong Qinglu smiled at her. She held the box in her hand that contained the Origin Cultivation Pills and other spirit materials. Her fingers tightened slightly and she strode towards the middle of a row of pill furnace stone chambers.

This was the best pill furnace in the Bright Furnace Hall. Gui Shuyun was in charge of this pill furnace and had a good opinion of Zhong Qinglu. He would always leave this pill furnace for her to use. Before entering the stone room of the pill furnace, Zhong Qinglu’s footsteps paused slightly. She couldn’t help but raise her head to look at the sky. The sky above Qingyu Island was boundless blue. Under the same blue sky, perhaps that person should have arrived at the dangerous demon island and continued to fight against the ferocious demon beasts, right?

Although Zhong Qinglu had told herself many times that it was just a deal, for some unknown reason, she had often thought of Shen Shi these past few days. Especially after failing to refine the Origin Cultivation Pill, Zhong Qinglu felt that she was somewhat sorry for him.

At that moment, she seemed to be in a trance for a moment.

However, she immediately woke up, took a deep breath, and refreshed herself. It was useless to think too much. Now, if she wanted to make herself feel better, she could only refine this Origin Cultivation Pill. When he finished refining a batch of high-value Origin Cultivation Pills and personally handed it to that fellow, he would probably be overjoyed after being dumbfounded!

Without any reason, Zhong Qinglu suddenly felt a little better. The corner of her mouth also revealed a trace of a smile. Then, she pushed open the door of the stone room and walked in.

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On the Demon Island, in the dense forest.

Shen Shi stood up from the side of a demonic beast and put the spirit materials he had obtained into the little Ruyi Ring in his left hand. His expression seemed to be a little strange. Since he had somewhat enjoyed and relaxed after successfully winning the hand, he had a strange expression of doubt on his face.

The spirit beast that had died in front of him was completely black like a panther. It was another Ghost Shadow Bobcats.

Ever since he entered the Demon Island, Shen Shi’s journey had been smooth. He had already killed four low-grade demonic beasts using the Five Elements Technique and Talisman. With such efficiency and ease, there was probably no one else among the Qi Refining Realm disciples in Qingyu Island.

Until he encountered the fifth demonic beast, This was the Ghost Shadow Bobcats that had already died in front of him. With his quick speed, Only then did it cause a little trouble for Shen Shi. However, Shen Shi, who had been hunting demons on the Demon Island for the past two years, was already experienced in dealing with demonic beasts. Although the Ghost Shadow Lynx was difficult to deal with, it was at most a little more troublesome for him. In the end, he still used the talisman of quick casting to hit the demonic beast’s vital point and kill it.

However, after the battle, when Shen Shi looked at the Ghost Shadow Bobcats, the doubts that he had forgotten before unknowingly surfaced. Why would a demonic beast like the Ghost Shadow Bobcats appear on this demonic island in the daytime, acting unnaturally?

He stood in the leafy forest, frowning slightly and thinking for a while. He went up and flipped over the body of the Ghost Shadow Bobcats, carefully examining it. However, as he had encountered in the past, the demonic beast that had died in his hands did not look strange at all.

Could it be that he was overthinking it?

Shen Shi shook his head and stood up. After pondering for a moment, he finally slowly left this place and continued walking towards the depths of the forest.

As his footsteps gradually faded away, The forest quietly regained its calm. The sunlight above his head cast a thin pillar of light through the gaps between the branches and leaves, carrying a trace of golden light. It was as if he was dancing in this quiet forest. At some unknown time, a faint and hazy mist suddenly floated over from the forest, hiding some of the light in the darkness. The blurry shadows in his trance seemed to be shaking.

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Shen Shi parted his branches in the forest and walked between trees of different sizes. Perhaps it was because the Demon Island itself was an island. This forest also made people feel a little humid. Many branches and leaves that stretched out in a winding manner had a few drops of water hanging on their ends. They looked sparkling and translucent, and they were quite beautiful.

As he walked, Shen Shi’s heart suddenly jumped. It was as if he felt something. He suddenly turned around and saw that there was still a calm forest in front of his eyes. There was nothing strange about it.

Shen Shi frowned and rubbed his eyebrows doubtfully. He muttered to himself, “Why does it seem like he heard something behind him?”

After pondering for a moment, in order to be careful, Shen Shi still searched a bit backwards. However, he saw that there was nothing unusual around him. It seemed that he was overthinking things.

Shen Shi turned around resentfully, but he heaved a sigh of relief in his heart. There were many demonic beasts in this demonic island forest, so it wasn’t too much to say that it was full of dangers. He still had to be careful.

However, at this moment, he suddenly heard a low cry coming from the depths of the forest ahead. This voice was like a bird but not a bird. It was a bit crisp, but also seemed to be whispering. It was very pleasant to hear.

Shen Shi was stunned for a moment. With a roll of his eyes, he quietly touched that direction. Along the way, he tried to hide his body in the shade of the tree as much as possible. He hid for about ten feet. When he peeked out from behind a large tree, he saw a demonic beast appearing on a small clearing in the forest ahead.

This demonic beast’s body was small, and it seemed to be only slightly larger than an ordinary rabbit. Its fur was snow white, and its body was like a mink. Its eyes were scarlet like agate. At this moment, it was pulling out a small pit in the clearing of the forest, as if it was digging through the ground in search of something.

Shen Shi’s eyes immediately lit up when he saw this extremely beautiful and cute little demonic beast. He recognized this demonic beast as the Blood-eyed Ferret, but because of its snow-white fur, it was sometimes called the Ferret. It was a very famous demonic beast in demon hunting missions.

The reason why the Blood-Eyed Ferret was famous amongst the many demonic beasts on Demon Island wasn’t because of how ferocious and powerful it was. On the contrary, the Blood-Eyed Ferret was actually a vegetarian demonic beast. It usually loved to dig for spiritual herbs and wood for food, so it wasn’t particularly aggressive. When it encountered humans, its first reaction was to flee. Apart from that, this kind of demonic beast itself did not produce any particularly valuable spirit materials. Instead, it did not require people to kill this kind of demonic beast. Instead, it wanted to capture it alive.

This was the only demonic beast involved in the demonic beast hunt. The reason was that the Blood-eyed Ferret naturally liked to eat spirit herbs and had a superb feeling for many spirit herbs. Therefore, after a master in the Spirit Beast Hall of Lingxiao Sect studied it, he actually came up with the idea of taming this demonic beast and bringing it to the wilderness to search for all kinds of spirit herbs.

A Blood Eyed Ferret like this was worth a hundred spirit crystals in the Spirit Beast Hall.

Shen Shi’s heart instantly became somewhat eager. He hid behind the tree and thought for a moment. With a gentle wave of his hand, an earthen yellow talisman appeared in his palm. It was precisely the Earth Settling Technique. He was prepared to try to catch this legendary cowardly little thing with extremely quick movements.

However, at this moment, he was completely focused on the Blood-eyed Ferret, but he didn’t notice that a faint mist was quietly floating towards him in the forest, where the branches and leaves were crisscrossed.