The inside of one of Zheng Xingfan's legs was a hazy red, which formed a sharp contrast with the normal skin color of his body.
The red color soon reached the lower abdomen, and the bright red area then split, with a red line continuing to spread upward from the abdomen.
On the other side, the red flames beneath a layer of human skin, in a blurry and swaying state, went down along Zheng Xingfan's other thigh...
Zheng Xingfan wanted to die immediately, but he couldn't get what he wanted. Even fainting was impossible.
He knew that the other party must have used some method on him to prevent him from fainting, but to make him suffer great pain all the time.
Even later on, Zheng Xingfan didn't know whether he was really in a coma or in a purgatory-like hallucination.
As long as his golden elixir is not broken, he will not die immediately.
In fact, the whole process was not very slow. In less than thirty breaths, Zheng Xingfan's face remained at a specific twisted angle and his body stopped shaking.
His facial features were five black holes with bursts of green smoke coming out. He was lying on his side on the ground with his skin completely red. He was a large human-shaped lantern.
Only in the purple viscera of Dantian, there was still a faint flickering ball of fire.
At this time, Li Yan waved his hand, and a pale yellow round grain the size of a soybean broke out of his stomach and was grabbed by him.
Li Yan was still squatting there, staring at the thing in his hand, like a devil looking at a favorite doll. It was a light yellow golden pill.
At this moment, there was still some flames flickering on the golden elixir, and there was a painful and blurred human face vaguely on the surface of the golden elixir, which was Zheng Xingfan.
When he saw Li Yan, he forced a weak smile and begged for mercy.
“This… this fellow Taoist, I have no disrespect towards Wan… Venerable Wan… As long as you…”, as he spoke intermittently, a trace of resentment flashed across the depths of his eyes.
Li Yan held the golden elixir in his hand and just glanced at it a few times, as if he didn't hear what Zheng Xingfan said.
As he slowly stood up, the spiritual power in his hands surged out. With a "puff" sound, a very small scream was heard in the cave, and the golden elixir in Li Yan's hand had turned into a pile of powder.
With the golden elixir shattered, Zheng Xingfan completely disappeared from this world.
Then Li Yan looked around. His seemingly casual action frightened the beautiful woman who was pretending to be unconscious in the distance.
She held her breath tightly, she didn't know where this person came from or why he suddenly appeared here.
But from his simple words before, this person seemed to hate the monks who defected to the demon clan.
"Could it be that his sect was implicated or destroyed when searching for the 'Boundary Breaking Pearl', so he did this to the two of us..."
The beautiful woman had some guesses in her mind, and her heart was beating like a drum. She became more anxious. The more anxious she became, the louder her heart was beating. The devil would immediately come over here.
It's not like the beautiful woman hasn't seen monks who like to torture and kill, in fact she's seen quite a few of them, some of them were several times more vicious than the man in gray in front of her, but this man in gray made her feel boundless fear.
Not only was this person a first-rate poisoner, he also had a tendency to kill people cruelly. His heart was as cold as ice, and he treated Zheng Xingfan in a way that was countless times more vicious than "lighting a sky lantern".
Zheng Xingfan's physical body was being destroyed bit by bit right before his eyes. At the same time, he seemed to be indifferent to other people's golden elixirs.
Logically speaking, an evil cultivator like this would be very keen on refining the golden elixir into medicine. The man in gray didn't even want to listen to the conditions offered by Zheng Xingfan and made him disappear from this world completely.
Everyone knows that when one's life is in the hands of others, especially a Jindan cultivator, he must be very wealthy.
However, middle and high-level monks usually do not carry all their wealth with them, but hide it in a secret place.
When facing death, Zheng Xingfan will definitely tell where he has hidden his treasure and save his life at all costs.
By then, the man in gray could still make a fortune, but he killed Zheng Xingfan without hesitation, which was very cruel and decisive.
As soon as the beautiful woman thought about the methods that would be used on her soon, her lower abdomen began to swell, and then she felt a slight heat under her body. She was so scared.
This made her feel embarrassed and upset, and she almost fainted. With her level of cultivation, she had never thought that she would end up making a fool of herself like this.
For a moment, she didn't even dare to cross her legs, for fear of making any noise and attracting the other person's attention.
In fact, the beautiful woman knew in her heart that she would have no way to escape from this kind of person who had no desire to communicate at all.
When the man in gray swept his eyes across the cave, he immediately saw two storage bags next to the clothes. He stretched out his hand and took the two storage bags in his hand.
Seeing that the man in gray seemed to be interested in her and Zheng Xingfan's storage bags, the beautiful woman couldn't help but curse in her heart.
"Since you knew you had to take the storage bag, why didn't you listen to Zheng Xingfan's conditions for saving his life? Even a pig can figure out what's important!"
She only dared to curse in her heart, this man is a lunatic, the beautiful woman just hoped that he would leave quickly and stay away from here.
Li Yan picked up Zheng Xingfan's storage bag, on which there was still some of Zheng Xingfan's consciousness remaining. To break the restriction on the consciousness of a dead person, even if he was in the middle stage of the Golden Core, it would be useless.
What's more, Li Yan's spiritual awareness was comparable to that of a Jindan cultivator, so he opened the other party's storage bag almost effortlessly.
The spiritual power in his hand surged, and with a "hissing" sound, a large pile of things appeared on the ground. Seeing the gray-clothed man effortlessly open Zheng Xingfan's storage bag, the beautiful woman lost her cultivation. Although she could not detect the other party's realm, she was sure that this person must be a cultivator above the Jindan level.
There was a pile of spiritual stones, elixirs, a magic weapon, and many talismans and spiritual treasures on the ground.
The man in gray took a look and then reached out to pick up the magic weapon. It was a light golden walnut. After picking it up, the man in gray pinched the light golden walnut between two fingers and looked at it again and again in front of his eyes.
The man in gray did not try to use spiritual power to activate the pale gold core. He just looked at it for a short while and then put it into the storage bag around his waist.
Then he casually picked through the spiritual stones, pills, and talismans on the ground, and finally took out a dozen jade slips, and then he picked them up one by one and stuck them on his forehead.
The beautiful woman knew what the man in gray was doing. This man must be very interested in the light golden magic weapon, so he must be looking for the corresponding mantra.
After searching for a while, the man in gray seemed not to have found the corresponding jade slip. So if he wanted to use the pale golden walnut, he would need to spend some time studying it.
The beautiful woman saw the man in gray throwing the jade slips aside in dissatisfaction, looking a little annoyed.
Finally, the man in gray finally locked his eyes on the beautiful woman's storage bag. The beautiful woman sighed in her heart, thinking that it seemed that the two magic weapons she treasured could not be kept.
This gray-clothed man is very strange. He doesn't seem to care much about elixirs, spirit stones and talismans. He only likes finished magic weapons.
The beautiful woman herself didn't know that while she was worrying about her life, she was also thinking about her storage bag. This might be a common problem among monks.
Some stubborn monks would rather sacrifice their lives than let others take away their cultivation resources in critical moments.
Just as the man in gray was about to pick up the beautiful woman's storage bag, he suddenly paused, stopped his hand movements, turned his head sharply, and looked towards the cave entrance.
Then, the man in gray flashed to the cave entrance like a ghost in the dark night. At this time, even the beautiful woman lying on the ground heard a sound of breaking through the air outside the cave, and it was approaching here rapidly.
The beautiful woman couldn't help but feel pleasantly surprised.
"Could it be that the scouts in the surrounding area reported that something was wrong here?"
But she didn't dare to let her breath become heavier, for fear that the other party would kill her first to silence her.
As for who was coming and what would happen if others saw her like this, the beautiful woman believed that as long as she was not as unreasonable as the man in gray in front of her, she would be able to handle it all.
Just as the man in gray approached the cave entrance, something strange happened. Suddenly, a shiny tubular object pierced in.
The man in gray also reacted quickly. When he felt something was wrong, he quickly dodged to the side, and the thing almost brushed past his ear.
Even though the beautiful woman had lost all her spiritual power at this time, she could still see clearly that it was the sharp beak of some monster.
The man in gray dodged and slapped the sharp beak with his palm, seeing that the monster was also agile after failing to launch a sneak attack.
With a light "swoosh" sound, the sharp beak retracted. How could the man in gray give up? While the opponent was retreating, he flashed and chased after him with the black energy surging on his body, and he didn't even care about the beautiful woman in the cave.
Then, several strong winds intertwined outside the cave, but it was only for a moment, and there was a sound of breaking through the air and flying away. Then, the beautiful woman heard two more sounds of breaking through the air, following closely.
"It's not the scout down the mountain or the other two Jindans, damn it!"
Seeing that the fight between the two sides was extremely light, without even a word being uttered, he fled far away without making any move, obviously fearing to alert the people around him.
The beautiful woman began to regret that the place she and Zheng Xingfan had chosen was a bit remote.
Especially with ill intentions in mind, they each told their subordinates that he (she) would patrol the area personally, and for a while this place became a forbidden area.
The mountain peak suddenly fell into deathly silence again. The two sides had just fought for less than two breaths before they chased each other away.
In the cave, the beautiful woman lying on the ground waited for more than ten breaths but still could not hear any sound. She was happy and scared at the same time. The good thing was that she began to feel a glimmer of hope.
What they are afraid of is that the man in gray will come back. Even the people who fight with the man in gray may not be good people. If any of them comes back, their hope of survival will be unpredictable.
"Could it be that they were chased here from the battlefield ahead, so the people who came later didn't know that there were other people in the cave.
Perhaps while chasing the man in gray, he had already confirmed that the man in gray had no companions, so he ignored the situation in the cave.
If I heard correctly, the two who came over just now should be a man and a beast. In this case, if the strength of both sides is almost the same, it is no wonder that the gray-clothed man was defeated by the pursuer in a head-on fight. "
As for why the people who were chasing her didn't call for help even if they were from the demonic cultivator's group, the beautiful woman had no doubt at all.
When she was hunting down Su Hong, she didn't want anyone else to get involved, and she wanted to take something from the other person for herself.
On the contrary, if that person really had such a goal and knew of her existence, then the chances of her death would be even greater, as he would kill her to silence her.
The beautiful woman was thinking all this in her mind, but unfortunately after she was poisoned, she couldn’t even use her spiritual consciousness. She could only rely on her senses to distinguish everything and analyze the situation in her mind.
After a while, the beautiful woman became more and more anxious, fearing that just when she had hope, this deadly unknown poison would take her life at any time.