Xu Changqing then lived next to the thatched cottage.

He went up the mountain to harvest firewood, made charcoal every day, and provided the old Taoist priests with the needs of alchemy. He gradually became familiar with the two Taoist teenagers, Qingfeng and Mingyue.

I knew they were all orphans and were adopted by old Taoists since childhood. The man was called Qingfeng and the woman was called Mingyue.

After eating his snacks, they would call their brother sweetly, which reminded Xu Changqing of the innocent faces of the children in Xiaozhai Village.

Strangely, after the old man arrived here, he basically said nothing, but only allowed him to eat the diet provided by the two Taoist children.

In this way, half a month passed in a daze.

During this period, he had a few more "companions"!

A scholar in a green shirt, a young Taoist with inverted triangle eyes, and a girl in red.

They also seemed to have come to seek immortality and visit Taoism, and were all taken into labour by old Taoists. The girl "Hongying" among them seemed to be prepared and brought several very precious medicinal materials.

When one of the human face-shaped Polygonatum was entered into the furnace, Xu Changqing seemed to hear a choking sound.

In any case, the arrival of these three people finally freed him from the heavy labor, and the progress of the old Taoist alchemy was accelerated.

While the other party was happy, he would occasionally entrench the mountain rocks and start to talk about the "Tao"!

Although some words are inconsistent, messy, vague and confused... it seems to be unconscious, sometimes, they do talk about some real skills.

The old man asked him to listen to the lectures frequently, saying that although there is no "method", it is beneficial to "entering the Tao".

After persisting for a few days, he even sorted out several talismans that cultivated one's nature and prolonged one's life, captured demons and despised ghosts, which made Xu Changqing feel that this trip was worthy.

...

On this day, Xu Changqing piled up the firewood he had cut. When he saw a red skirt next to him flashing, a silver bell-like laughter came from his ears: "Hehe..."

"Miss Red Infant." He saluted slightly, "The firewood is here today."

"Uh-huh……"

Hongying swept across the pile of firewood casually and looked at Xu Changqing: "Which family are you from? Why did you come so early?"

"Which family?" Xu Changqing was stunned: "I am not from any family. I just heard that there were hidden practitioners in this mountain who came to visit them."

"oh……"

Hongying agreed meaningfully: "No wonder... your name is Xu Changqing? I will call you Xiao Qingzi from now on... but don't die so easily."

"What? Death?"

Xu Changqing was stunned, but saw Hongying leaving without looking back.

He touched his head: "Grandpa, what's going on?"

"That girl is not simple... She should be a real practitioner. She sees that you have magic weapons and come to test..."

Sulu replied.

"Test? What to test?"

"I don't know either. In short, in order to find the opportunity, you must take risks! You can adapt to the situation."

...

In a blink of an eye, another half month passed.

"Oops……"

The old Taoist priest stared at the alchemy furnace in front of him, his face looking ugly: "There is still a lack of medicine, one of the main medicines. If this medicine is lost, it will fail!"

Xu Changqing, scholar, young Taoist, and Hongying were all there, and asked, "What kind of medicinal herbs are it? Let's look for it, there will always be one!"

"A lack of 'human medicine'!"

The old Taoist priest shook his head and said, "I can only find this medicine, you can go down."

He obviously had no mood to preach.

The four of them looked at each other and had to retreat.

The next day, Xu Changqing came to the elixir with charcoal and was stunned to see the old Taoist priest dancing in front of the elixir: "The medicine has arrived, my Tao has been completed!"

"Congratulations to Taoist Master, congratulations to Taoist Master."

His nose moved and he did smell a scent of medicine, which was fragrant and smelled with fishy sweetness. He couldn't help but bow to his congratulations.

"Don't worry, this furnace of elixir is completed, and everyone else has a share."

The old Taoist priest was in a very good mood and made a promise. He ordered the Qingfeng to bring food, but the bright moon disappeared.

By the next day, the breeze disappeared and the fragrance of medicine in the alchemy furnace became even more intense.

Immediately on the third day, the young Taoist priest also disappeared.

"This...what's going on? Grandpa!"

Xu Changqing looked at Hongying who was not anxious at all. Like the scholar surnamed Li who was beginning to become a little worried, and there was no one else. The old Taoist priest who was crazy in front of the alchemy furnace felt more and more wrong.

It seems that I have fallen into a nightmare and cannot extricate myself.

"Don't sleep tonight, just keep guarding that scholar, you will know..." Sulu's voice came.

"good!"

Xu Changqing reached into his arms, held the black finger bones, and responded coldly.

...

midnight.

A temporary thatched cottage.

He deliberately pretended to sleep and slept next to the scholar surnamed Li.

Everything is quiet, only insects are chirping.

When the bright moon came to the middle of the night, the sound of insects suddenly disappeared.

silence!

There is a dead silence around!

A black shadow slowly walked into the cottage, holding a sharp dagger in his hand.

He approached and pointed the tip of the dagger at the scholar.

"drink!"

At the critical moment, Xu Changqing took action suddenly.

He swung a punch, hit the enemy's wrist holding the blade, and kicked it up again, right in the center.

"ah!"

The black shadow fell to the ground and let out a hoarse cry of pain.

"It's you, the old Taoist priest!"

Xu Changqing lit the oil lamp and saw the old Taoist priest with red eyes and crazy expressions.

But, it's too easy.

The battle just now was so vulnerable by the old man who was regarded as a "non-human"?

"ah!"

The scholar woke up suddenly and saw this scene and shouted, "Old Taoist... what are you going to do?"

"He wants to kill you!"

Xu Changqing responded coldly and saw the face of Hongying outside the window.

She was sleepy and yawned: "Xiao Qingzi... You are indeed not a powerful person. You don't even know the 'original origin' here. It was so noisy in the middle of the night."

"Hey... hey... he's going to kill someone!"

Xu Changqing looked at Hongying's back when she went back to sleep, and felt that she was either crazy or this world was crazy.

"Human medicine!Human medicine!"

The old Taoist priest was confused and murmured this sentence.

"You demon."

Xu Changqing was so angry that he came to the elixir furnace and opened the cover.

boom!

Under the red fire, several faces floated and sank in the alchemy furnace.

Among them is the young Taoist, the face of the breeze and the bright moon...

"ah!"

Seeing this scene, the scholar vomited: "I...I don't want to live forever anymore, I want to go home...I want to find my parents..."

He was so scared that he burst into tears, looking like he was about to go crazy.

"Demon! I can't spare you!"

Xu Changqing was furious and fell down with a knife, chopped off the old demon's head and threw it into the furnace.

...

The next morning, he called Hongying and the scholar on the edge of the alchemy furnace: "I am going to send the scholar out of the mountain. Miss Hongying, where are you?"

Hongying twisted her hair and chuckled, "Continue to do odd jobs and make alchemy!"

"Um?"

Xu Changqing was shocked.

Immediately, something even more surprised happened.

The old Taoist walked out of the thatched cottage, with a slight expression, as always: "Today I will refine the alchemy, I will go to find firewood!"
Chapter completed!