"Hic..."
Su Meng held the glass bottle in both hands and burped with an unsatisfied look, with a little green juice at the corner of her mouth.
Several people looked towards her instantly.
Luo Hongyan's face turned cold, and she frowned and said, "Aren't you afraid of being poisoned to death?"
"It's so delicious! I can't stand the smell, I just want to drink it!"
Su Meng opened her eyes wide, licked the remaining green juice from the bottle mouth, and said regretfully: "It's just too little."
She looked eagerly at Li Jie who was gradually going away. She wanted to ask for another bottle but was too embarrassed to ask.
"Lucky girl."
Li Jie first muttered, and then said without turning his head: "You should enter the City Lord's Mansion as soon as possible, and don't delay outside any longer."
Zhou Qingchen was about to ask him a few questions when his expression suddenly changed.
He squinted his eyes and felt, secretly practicing Hongshan's cultivation method, and gained insight into the abnormalities in his body.
In just a moment, bits of gray-black dirt began to seep out from the exposed pores of his skin.
The impurities deposited in his flesh and blood were forcibly removed from his body by a cool force in a very short time!
Deep in the Cenji Mountains, due to Hong Tai's strong pressure, he was eager to achieve success and broke through the marrow cleansing realm ahead of schedule, using a set of marrow cleansing materials that had not yet been gathered.
He had originally prepared the marrow cleansing materials for Han Duping, but they were not yet complete.
In fact, he himself knew that if he used that marrow cleansing material to break through the realm, his body would never be cleansed completely.
Afterwards, he still needed to go to the Red Mountain in the third realm to undergo bone-cutting and marrow cleansing again.
But just now, the dirty impurities that had not been removed from his body were actually expelled from the body surface under the power of the green juice!
Zhou Qingchen looked at Li Jie who was walking away in shock.
Unfortunately, the young man whose behavior was strange has long disappeared.
After a moment of shock, Zhou Qingchen suddenly came to his senses and asked hurriedly, "Su Meng, do you feel anything?"
Su Meng shook her head and said, "I feel a little cool in my stomach, but nothing else."
"The effect of the medicine will last for a long time. When she advances to the Marrow Cleansing Stage, it will still benefit her body."
The last words left by the missing Li Jie came from the main gate of the City Lord's Mansion.
Zhou Qingchen did not hesitate any longer and said softly, "Senior Sister Jiang, drink that bottle of green juice!"
Jiang Li didn't understand, but looking at his expression, she knew that the green juice was not poisonous, so she drank it as he said.
"No wonder that man keeps drinking."
Jiang Li, who was drinking the juice, did not forget to make a comment, with a look of joy on her face.
"Senior Sister Jiang, the green juice in the bottle can help you complete the early stages of marrow cleansing. When you advance to marrow cleansing, the impurities in your body will be cleansed away by the juice, allowing you to directly temper your bones and internal organs!"
Looking in the direction where Li Jie disappeared, Zhou Qingchen's eyes were filled with excitement, and he said in a deep voice: "This guy has an extraordinary origin!"
"What? That green juice can even work during marrow cleansing?!"
Han Duping stamped his feet in great annoyance.
He has now cultivated to the late stage of Tongmai Realm, and he only lacks some materials for Xisui before he dares to advance to Xisui Realm.
Unexpectedly, a bottle of green juice that Li Jie casually gave him could help him achieve the most critical step and complete the important stage of bone-cutting and marrow-cleansing.
"Pang Jian!"
Han Duping suddenly came to his senses, looked at Pang Jian hastily, and pleaded: "You are still far from the marrow cleansing realm, why don't you, uh..."
"What?"
Pang Jian put down the empty glass bottle and asked vaguely.
He poured the green juice into his stomach in one breath.
After drinking the green juice in a hurry, he only felt a slight chill in his stomach and abdomen, which was completely different from the spicy and hot wine.
Because he had not truly broken through to the Marrow Cleansing Stage, he could not experience more of the wonders of the juice like Zhou Qingchen did.
"nothing."
Han Duping sighed, thinking that if he had known that the little fat sheep had a lot of rare treasures and was generous, he should have tried to curry favor with him.
Now even the last bottle of green juice was swallowed by Pang Jian in one gulp, and his hope of quickly advancing to the Marrow Cleansing Realm was cut off.
Pang Jian's expression suddenly changed, and he shouted, "Go to the City Lord's Mansion!"
He threw the glass bottle away, gripped the dragon-patterned spear tightly, and walked forward first.
"The darkness is invading again!"
Luo Hongyan also reacted. She saw that the dark frenzy that was blocking the street entrance and stagnant was beginning to spread towards the square.
Everyone's color changed, and they finally understood why Li Jie asked them to speed up, and they hurried to catch up with Pang Jian.
"The light released from the city walls and the stone floor was extinguished first, allowing the darkness to spread."
Pang Jianren led the way and told everyone the details he had observed, saying, "It seems like there is a force that converges the light into the walls and the ground, deliberately making the darkness slowly approach, and driving everyone into the City Lord's Mansion."
Hearing this, everyone felt even more depressed, as if there was an invisible evil hand controlling everything.
They quickly disappeared from the back door of the City Lord's Mansion.
It was also at this time.
The street corner, which had been surging with darkness before but had calmed down due to Li Jie's arrival, was now surging abnormally again.
The strange object, which had been hiding for a long time and deep in the darkness, seemed to be approaching the City Lord's Mansion with the darkness.
…
Pang Jian came back to the main gate of the City Lord's Mansion and found that the open front door was now empty.
There are only corpses slowly disappearing on the ground.
On the smooth stone floor, there were dozens of miserable corpses scattered around, but not a trace of blood.
But Pang Jian clearly remembered that there was a pool of blood when he came here last time.
Only a short time passed in the journey back and forth, and the stone floor, as white as jade, seemed to have become a sponge that could absorb blood.
Pang Jian was just about to tell everyone that this place was weird, but when he turned around, he saw endless darkness spreading rapidly.
“Go in quickly!”
He no longer dared to hesitate and was the first to walk towards the City Lord's Mansion. After passing through a dark stone path, he arrived at the spacious courtyard inside the mansion.
In the courtyard, surrounding the large central pond, is now filled with practitioners from all walks of life.
The water in the square pool is so clear that you can see the bottom. A dazzling light is coming from the air and is slowly shrinking towards the bottom of the pool.
At the four corners of the pool, there are four protruding platforms, like four stone pillars.
On the high platform, everyone was sitting quietly, facing the pool.
The existence of the four platforms seems to be for the people on them to clearly see the rare treasures floating in the pool.
"Dong..."
As soon as Han Duping came in, he saw a familiar figure and almost screamed.
The man sat upright on a high platform with his back to them, and the murder weapon Ghost Chant was placed next to him.
As soon as they saw the murder weapon's ghostly roar, Pang Jian and the others who walked in naturally guessed his identity.
"Dong Tianze!"
Su Meng gritted her teeth and stared at the figure that she dreamed of getting rid of, her petite body trembling uncontrollably.
She hated and feared Dong Tianze.
Luo Hongyan curled her lips first, then looked at Pang Jian with interest, and whispered: "It's true that enemies meet on a narrow road."
Pang Jian frowned and said nothing.
Of course he had thought about meeting Dong Tianze in Bagua City, but he didn't expect that Dong Tianze had been in the mansion the whole time.
This also shows that this person had fought his way out of the cruel Bagua City early on and gained the qualification to enter it.
"I'm going to go check out the pool."
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Luo Hongyan hesitated for a moment, pointed at the monks who were blocking the way, and said, "Aren't you curious about the strange treasures in the pool?"
"I'm not in a hurry." Pang Jian said indifferently.
Behind the two of them, Han Duping stood on tiptoe and raised his head, searching around for Li Jie.
Han Duping wanted to beg shamelessly to see if he could get another bottle of green juice from Li Jie.
Unfortunately, no matter how he looked left and right, he saw unfamiliar practitioners from all walks of life around him, and he did not see Li Jie.
Zhou Qingchen, who came in last, found that everyone's attention was on the pool. There were crowds of people in front of him and he could not see anything.
But he knew that Qi Qingsong must be there, and it was most likely someone on the podium.
So, he asked Jiang Li in a low voice: "Who is Qi Qingsong?"
Jiang Li shook her head sadly, grabbed his arm, and whispered, "Junior Brother Zhou, no! Please don't take risks for me!"
Zhou Qingchen also shook his head and pushed her away. He stood at the entrance at the edge of the courtyard and screamed at the inside: "Who is Qi Qingsong?!"
All the people whose attention was focused on the pool were startled by the roar and started cursing and glaring at Zhou Qingchen.
Zhou Qingchen was not afraid at all.
"Pang Jian!"
When Dong Tianze turned his head, he saw Pang Jian and screamed loudly.
His face and his eyes were instantly filled with distortion and madness, which scared many people behind him so much that they quickly moved away.
A narrow path suddenly appeared between him and Pang Jian.
Leng Yuan was secretly surprised. She had never seen Dong Tianze suddenly go crazy like this before.
Since following Dong Tianze, all she had seen was Dong Tianze killing people calmly, with almost no emotional fluctuations.
Dong Tianze, who was obviously out of control at this moment, made her feel unfamiliar.
She glanced at the young man with a spear standing at the main entrance, and became more and more confused.
Because of the young man's tall and lean figure and cold expression, his cultivation level does not seem to be very high.
Leng Yuan asked in a puzzled voice: "Junior Brother Dong, is there anything special about this person?"
Dong Tianze snorted coldly and ignored her completely, his violent eyes fixed on Pang Jian.
Pang Jian tightened his spear, looked up at Dong Tianze who turned around, and said nothing calmly.
His eyes wandered around because of Zhou Qingchen's actions, searching for the man named Qi Qingsong.
He clearly remembered that when Zhou Qingchen learned that Jiang Li had one arm chopped off, he asked him to help him kill Qi Qingsong with red eyes.
No matter what Qi Qingsong's status and position are, or what level of cultivation he has achieved.
He replied "OK" at that time.
That was his solemn promise!
Now, he finally stood here. He kept in mind the promise he made and temporarily ignored the grudge with Dong Tianze, and just kept searching for Qi Qingsong.
"Ignore me?"
Dong Tianze prepared to stand up with cold eyes.
"I am Qi Qingsong."
The man in blue opposite Dong Tianze was looking at the pool leisurely. When he heard someone roaring and shouting his name, he felt a little puzzled and said in surprise: "Mr. Dong, please move aside and let me see who is calling me."
Pang Jian and others were behind Dong Tianze. Sitting on the high platform, he could not see past Dong Tianze and Leng Yuan to see who was yelling his name.
Dong Tianze, who was planning to settle accounts with Pang Jian immediately, glanced at him, then looked to the left and right. The other two guys didn't even raise their heads when they heard the roar.
After hesitating for a moment, Dong Tianze actually moved sideways so that he could see clearly who was shouting.
He then stood up from the stone pillar, looked curiously at Zhou Qingchen and the others beside him, and asked in confusion: "Big fool, why are you calling me? It seems we have never met before."
"What about her? Do you remember that you cut off half of her arm?"
Zhou Qingchen growled and pointed at Jiang Li.
Qi Qingsong was surprised, looked at Jiang Li seriously, rubbed his forehead and said lazily: "I seem to have some impression, but I have killed too many people, so I don't remember it clearly."
He killed too many characters like Jiang Li along the way, and some of them survived, but he really didn't have any impression of them.
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(End of this chapter)