In the middle of the night, in the wilderness, a despondent figure walked on a dark path with the help of a walking stick. He mumbled something from time to time, "I'm sorry.
"God's stone, my god's stone!
"A god's stone worth millions of immortal stones!
"Damn it, you'll die a horrible death for stealing my god's stone.
"The god's stone is mine, no one can take it away!"
This was the second son of Du, who had lost the stone during the day. He had now been renamed Lame Du by the people in the market.
In his village, he was also famous for being lazy, ignorant, and incompetent. He had a seemingly honest face, but in reality, he would do anything and everything under the sun.
He had picked up the stone and the junk from the bodies of the dead. He wanted to rely on these things to make a fortune without putting in any effort. He wanted to enjoy a life of luxury and wealth, living in a high-rise building with beautiful wives and concubines.
Unfortunately, everything that had happened today had completely shattered his beautiful dream.
His god's stone was stolen and his legs were broken. Forget about making a fortune, he even lost half of his life.
This was how people were. If the stone had been snatched away before today, he would at most curse a few times and then continue to pick up trash to sell. However, after experiencing the experience of almost selling this stone for 100,000 immortal stones during the day, he had already determined that this was a real God's Stone.
Look, even the two lords from the market were willing to pay 100,000 immortal stones for this stone. If it wasn't a god's stone, what was it?
They didn't buy it in the end because they wanted to bargain. This must be it. He had seen this kind of trick many times. As long as he was willing to give in, he might not be able to sell it for 100,000 immortal stones, but he would definitely be able to sell it for 80,000 immortal stones.
This was a god's stone, a real god's stone!
"Give it back to me, my god's stone!"
"That's mine!"
"I curse you! You should go to hell! Boiling oil! Give me back my god's stone!"
Lame Du, who was walking on the country road with his walking stick while cursing, did not notice that the sound of insects around him had completely stopped. The world was eerily silent.
The cold moonlight sprinkled a cold silver frost, and a black figure slowly appeared in the sky.
It wasn't floating, nor did it fly over. It was a figure that suddenly appeared in the sky. He was wearing a black Daoist robe, and there were five claw marks on his Daoist robe. The whites of his eyes couldn't be seen at all. They were completely black.
At this moment, Lame Du raised his head and cursed.
"Those bastards …"
Halfway through his words, Lame Du was stunned.
Is there someone in the moonlight?
What was that?
All of a sudden, Lame Du's whole body shivered as he recalled the legend of the man-eating evil ghost that had been circulating in the village. He was alone in the wilderness without any companions. Wasn't he the one who was eaten by the ghost in the story?
"Pa!"
The walking stick fell to the ground and Lame Du scrambled to escape. He didn't even care about his injured leg that had just been fixed by Apothecary.
Unfortunately, this was destined to be futile. The black shadow that appeared in the sky casually grabbed Lame Du's entire body into the sky. A huge black claw extended from the back of the black shadow and firmly grasped Lame Du's limbs.
"Is this the Blue Dragon Mountain Range?"
The black shadow's voice sounded very gentle, but it gave off a creepy feeling. It was as if a lot of insects were croaking.
"Yes, yes … Lord … This is the Blue Dragon Mountain Range, and Blue Dragon College is over there. You must be the lord heading to the college … I … I will lead the way for you." Lame Du's three souls and six spirits were scared out of his wits, and he started to stutter.
"You, want power?"
The black shadow's deep black eyes stared at the flustered Lame Du, as if it could see through the thoughts of this insignificant person.
"Haha … Lord … What are you saying … I … I am just a cripple." A trace of grief and indignation flashed in Lame Du's eyes.
Of course he wanted power, and he wanted to become a high and mighty cultivator like those two big shots during the day.
He only slightly raised the price of his god's stone, and those two cultivators turned around and left. In the end, his leg was broken, and his god's stone was stolen by those scoundrels.
If he had power, he wouldn't have been tricked like that.
If he had power, he could step on whoever he wanted, and he could do whatever he wanted. Those bastards who stole his god's stone would all die a horrible death.
"Very good, it is good to have desires."
"Only people with desires can achieve great things."
"Since you desire power so much, then give it a try."
"If you can endure it, your life will be completely changed."
One, two, three black threads flew out from the black shadow's huge claw and entered Lame Du's body.
"Ahhhhhh!"
An extremely tragic roar resounded in the silent forest. It was the final scream of a person who was at the end of his rope, and it was the scream of someone whose flesh and blood started to melt like mud.
The black shadow looked at this scene quietly without any expression. Instead, the black claw that extended out from his back spoke.
"Ghost Crab failed. If I knew this would happen, I wouldn't have given him the road sign."
"He was really unlucky to run into that Kennatsu-Ryūhime."
"However, there seems to be the smell of others of the same kind here. This smell is … of the inferior species … Zebra?"
… …
In the Crystal Pavilion, Mei Xue was studying the magical clover that she had obtained during the day.
The clover itself was actually quite ordinary. When Mei Xue was still on Tiantai Mountain, she had planted many of its kind.
However, after the wisp of spiritual light entered the three-leaf clover, the ordinary-looking three-leaf clover gained a trace of indescribable spirituality.
This kind of spirituality should only appear on elixirs that were more than 1,000 years old, or immortal flowers like the Tricolor Viola Emperor.
All things had spirituality, but it was thousands of times more difficult for plants to develop spirituality than for other intelligent life forms.
The reason why the elixirs refined by the Shennong lineage were called "elixirs" was that they could extract this kind of spirituality from elixirs, remove the toxicity, and turn them into elixirs that could assist Immortal Warlocks in their cultivation.
In other words, the elixirs refined by the Shennong lineage truly had spirituality, which was why they were called elixirs.
As for the herb-flavored elixirs sold in the bazaar, they were just tonics with tasty ingredients added.
"What the hell are you?"
Although she had already obtained the wisp of spiritual light, but Mei Xue still didn't know why the Dragon Love Ring reacted to it.
Before this, Mei Xue had tried everything she could think of, such as dripping blood, soaking it in spiritual liquid, and burning it in flames. However, the Dragon Love Hoop had no reaction at all. It was as if the dragon egg sleeping inside could not feel the outside world at all.
Placing the clover in the palm of her hand, Mei Xue quietly sensed the wisp of spiritual light. Unknowingly, the Dragon Love Ring began to emit a cyan light and was about to connect to the wisp of spiritual light.
However, just as Long Lian Huan's light was about to touch this wisp of spirit light, this wisp of spirit light that had been obediently staying in the three-leaf clover suddenly lit up.
In the palm of Mei Xue's hand, the wisp of spiritual light turned the clover into a small green sword, which then pierced through the window of the Crystal Pavilion, tore open the Crystal Pavilion's immortal formation, and disappeared into the night sky with irresistible force.
"Tai Chu!" Mei Xue summoned her little White Cloud, rode the cloud, and chased after it.
On Mei Xue's wrist, the Dragon Love Bracelet was emitting an unprecedented low cry, urging him to chase after the green light that had turned into a sword.
The small green sword flew very fast and disappeared from Mei Xue's field of vision in the blink of an eye.
However, although Mei Xue couldn't see it, the Dragon Love Ring wouldn't lose its aura.
After chasing for 15 minutes, Mei Xue sensed the aura of that wisp of spiritual light again.
However, for some reason, the aura that Mei Xue sensed this time was very chaotic, as if it was filled with fear and uneasiness.
Mei Xue was shocked when he landed from Tai Chu.
In front of him were a few scattered tents, and he could vaguely see the outline of the Blue Dragon Market Square in the distance. It turned out that the wisp of spiritual light had returned to the surroundings of the Blue Dragon Market Square.
However, there were corpses everywhere around these tents.
The way these corpses died was unusual. Some were torn in the middle, some had their heads cut off by sharp claws, and some had their entire spine pulled out, exposing their bloody ribs.
At first glance, this camp seemed to have been attacked by some ferocious beast, but Mei Xue knew this wasn't the work of a beast. There were no beasts that didn't bite and just used their sharp claws to tear apart their prey.
Generally speaking, such a tragic way of dying would only appear in those terrifying mystic realms.
"Ah, no, the stone is in the cabinet, spare me …"
"Hiss!"
The sound of something being torn apart sounded in the night sky, sending chills down one's spine.
"Huala!"
A loud noise sounded in the tent in the middle of the camp, and then a bloody figure laughed.
"God's stone, my God's stone."
"You're mine, no one can take it away!"
"You bunch of idiots, how dare you steal my God's stone, you deserve to die!"
The moonlight illuminated the figure's face, and Mei Xue was surprised to find that this was actually Du Laoer, who wanted to extort 100,000 immortal stones from Huang Fei during the day.
However, at this moment, Du Laoer could no longer be called a human.
A sawtooth-like crack extended from the side of his head to his waist. Sharp teeth could be vaguely seen in it. A large amount of blood was dripping from this sawtooth, and there was also a lot of minced meat left in it.
That face was only a vague outline, and his naked body was like a skinned frog, and his muscles were constantly trembling.
In his palm, a piece of blood-stained granite was glowing, and inside it, a trembling green light curled up inside the granite, like a small animal hiding in its nest.