Chapter 5 Laojun’s Help

After Erlang Shen left, the king's body suddenly began to shake continuously, feeling like cramps, but I knew this was just a reaction before the change, so I decided not to deal with it for the time being and decide what to do depending on the situation.

After shaking continuously for a while, blue smoke suddenly began to rise on the king's body, and it was changing more and more over time. This situation did not seem to be a normal situation. Just when I was about to take measures, a voice suddenly appeared behind me. "How did you let him demonize in the Heaven?"

When I turned around, I saw the Supreme Laojun standing behind me. "Demonization? Laojun has seen this kind of evolution?"

"Evolution? I don't know whether to evolve or not. I only know that this soul body absorbs too much evil energy. It is a miracle that has not collapsed. You actually let him stay in such a place. You must know that the Heavenly Court is a place that specifically restrains all kinds of demons and monsters. Isn't it the same as making candles in the fire when you let him demonize here? It's burned up before the things are done!"

"Ah? Then I'll take him away right away!"

"Don't panic!" The old man of the Supreme Court said slowly, "The breath of the Heavenly Court is indeed not good for him, but it is not so fast and there will be trouble. You don't have to worry. Now even if you take him out of the Heavenly Court, it is nothing more than to restore his demonization process to normal. If you want him to become stronger, you must go to an extremely evil place. Only by absorbing the evil aura in it can he control the evil aura in his body and successfully transform it."

"Since Laojun can give me some advice, he must know such a place. Please tell me where it is."

"Haha, you're not stupid. Take him with me."

The Grand Lord led me all the way to his alchemy place. I thought he would take me out of the Heavenly Court to some mysterious place, but I didn't expect it to be his alchemy room. After we entered, he actually walked directly to the three stoves standing in the middle of the room and opened the door of one of the purple alchemy stoves. "Put him in."

"Ah? Laojun, don't you want to refine him into a pill, right?"

"What are he doing for refining him? Don't worry, this is a Yin Furnace, not for refining alchemy!"

"Yin Furnace?"

"The Yin Furnace is a furnace for purifying materials, which is specially used to purify impure materials. The two furnaces next to it are actually ignited. My Yin Furnace is usually used to burn demons, strengthen ordinary demons into powerful demons with profound Taoism, and then send them to the furnace over there to melt them into pills. I don't plan to refine him into pills now, and putting it here will only make the more you practice it."

"So that's it." As I said, I stuffed the king into the stove, and the Taishang Laojun quickly closed the furnace door and put it on the stove. The inside of the stove immediately turned black, as if something was surging inside. I looked at the black gas in the stove and asked the Taishang Laojun: "How long does it take to be refined before the result will be produced?"

"It depends on your subordinates' luck!"

"Why?"

"The qi of the Heavenly Evil is not a good thing, but the yin and yang of heaven and earth are complementary things, so extremely bad things can also be extremely good things. The key is how you use it. Your subordinate is the unyielding soul of the dead warriors on the battlefield. He has a firm and unyielding personality in it. Compared with ordinary souls, his willpower is extremely powerful, so it is not easy to be shaken or be confused. The biggest flaw of the qi of the Heavenly Evil is that it will make people crazy. Although it can stimulate users to gain powerful power, it will eventually be exhausted due to crazy venting and completely collapse.

Since your subordinates will not be affected by their minds, you don’t have to worry about being crazy and out of control. In this way, there is only a question of how much strengthening is left. Although my Yin Furnace can help refine the qi of the Heavenly Evil to facilitate absorption, it has a condensation effect on the qi of the Heavenly Evil, so how long it takes to come out and what degree it strengthens depends on his own luck. If he absorbs it fast enough, he can grab more before the qi of the Heavenly Evil Condensation. If the absorption speed is slow, he can only absorb a little bit, and the amount of absorption will determine his strengthening degree. As for the time... he absorbs it quickly and naturally comes out quickly."

"That is, the sooner he comes out, the better the effect will be?"

"That's exactly what it means."

"Then I hope he can come out as soon as possible!"

I was praying nervously by the stove, and it seemed like a storm was blowing in the stove. Through the transparent observation port on the stove door, you could see a large amount of lightning gathered in it, and there were dark clouds rolling and surging. It felt like there was an independent world in the stove. I was watching the lightning, and the old man of the Shang Dynasty suddenly slapped me from behind. "You don't have to stare at the stove like this, right? Even if your subordinates are extremely qualified, they will definitely not be able to figure it out if they are not in three or five days."

"Ah? It's going to take so long?"

"Hahahaha... I will make a furnace of elixirs from a few months or more, but you won't be in a hurry after three or five days?"

"Oh, are you a god? How can I live as long as you do!"

"Haha, that's right. By the way, if you feel bored, you can do your own business first. I will notify you when he comes out. Or if you want to stay here, I can also give you something fun and useful to relieve boredom if you feel bored."

"What is fun and useful?"

The Grand Lord smiled and stretched out a hand, then waved the whisk, and immediately added an extremely exquisite incense burner in his hand. This incense burner was slightly smaller than an ordinary water cup, and the body was black and not reflective. The six dragon-shaped furnace legs supported the furnace body full of runes, and there was also a dark red furnace cover painted with the Bagua array on the top.

"This thing is called Gu Bell, and its function is as the name says. You can integrate the creatures in it by refining Gu. If you are interested, you can find some powerful creatures to put in, and then jump in and participate in the fight. As long as you can win in the end, you can gain some of the power of those creatures. How about it? Isn't it fun and useful?"

"Is there such a function?" I took the small incense burner and looked at it again and again without much belief.

The Grand Lord said, “Is it good to lie to you?”

I shook my head myself, then looked at the stove and asked, "I always feel that there are many problems with this thing. If I catch a lot of low-level creatures and put them in and kill them slowly, wouldn't I be able to increase my strength without limits? This thing can't be so powerful, right?"

Taishang Laojun smiled and explained: "Don't underestimate this thing. No matter what you put in, the combat effectiveness of that thing when you fight him will be improved. The improvement level will change according to your strength, and will generally ensure that it is on par with your strength. In other words, no matter how strong you become, the success rate of the creatures in the challenge is at most 50%.

"Is there any punishment for failure in the challenge?"

"Of course there will be punishment. If you fail, you will be deducted a little of your strength, but the proportion is not large, so as long as you fight seriously, it will be beneficial. Also, the battle here is very interesting, different from ordinary battles." When Taishang Laojun said this, he changed his usual serious style and smiled very much, and felt like he was talking about something very vulgar.

"That's it? It's nothing to play with. How to start this thing?"

"There is no need to start it up. Just put the thing in and jump in by yourself. Don't worry, don't look at it's small outside, but the inside is big!"

After hearing what Taishang Laojun said, I wanted to go in and take a look. Anyway, I was idle, but I couldn't find a suitable creature to challenge. In the end, Taishang Laojun helped me find a centipede spirit nearly a hundred meters long from his alchemy materials to start the stove. Seeing that such a large centipede was sucked in, I was sure that the inside of the thing was indeed big enough, so I put the incense burner on the ground and jumped in.

Because the centipede was put in first, I was afraid that it would be attacked as soon as I entered, so when I jumped in, I was ready to deal with the sudden attack. Who knew that after entering, it fell on a strange grassland, and the big centipede lay quietly on the grass not far away from me. But it was nothing strange. The strangest thing was that there was a horizontal line made of small stones in front of us. Behind the horizontal line composed of stones were two rows of closely arranged red flags extending into the forest in the distance, which looked like a runner.

The line composed of the stone in front is clearly the starting line. Just after I saw these things clearly, a simple voice suddenly sounded above my head. "The speed competition begins now. Participants can only start after seeing the stone formation in front of me disappear. They must not exceed the range of the red flag during the running process, otherwise they will directly determine that they have failed. No auxiliary props are allowed in the competition, they are not allowed to fly, they can set traps or attack each other to slow down their opponents, and they cannot summon helpers. The competition is based on the winner who reaches the finish line first, and other situations are not included in the consideration. Next, the competition begins."

Now I finally know why the battle in this thing is very strange. I thought I would come in and fight the centipede demon for 300 rounds, but who knew that I was actually racing with someone. But it seems that this competition process can attack each other, so it is not really a speed comparison. The key is to rely on the overall strength.

As soon as the prompt sound disappeared, the starting line of the stone in front of us suddenly disappeared, and the giant centipede nearly 100 meters long beside me jumped out like a rocket. Before I could react, I had already reached a few hundred meters away, leaving me in a daze with my mouth open. "Damn, I have more explosive power, it's really a good deal!" After sighing, I quickly ran out of force. Fortunately, although the dead centipede was fast, it was still one step worse than me. When I reached the periphery of the forest, I had already caught up with it.

After entering the forest, the runway began to become complicated. A series of traps such as the fallen trees, the sudden mud and other traps appeared one after another, and they might suffer if they were not careful. I relied on my perfect physical control and ran on the ground. A dead tree suddenly appeared in front of me, but the trunk did not fall completely, but formed a triangle on the tree next to it. Jumping over was not impossible, but it would affect the speed. I bowed my head decisively, and the whole person was like a fish, and I passed through the gap below the trunk, but unexpectedly there was a large piece of mud behind the trunk. As a result, I could only fall in with a plop. Fortunately, my speed was fast enough, because of inertia, I didn't sink.

Instead, it drifted over the surface of the mud and flew through the mud. When I got up, I didn't care about the mud on my body and continued to run wildly. A loud bang came from behind me. The centipede rushed around in the forest like a derailed train. The big tree I dodged just now was broken by it, and the rotten trunk instantly turned into fragments all over the sky. The centipede that broke the rotten trees also encountered similar problems as me, but this guy's size was too advantageous. Although many legs were trapped in the mud, it was at least one hundred meters long, and most of the body behind it was still on the ground. As soon as the legs were hardened, the body in front immediately broke out of the mud and rushed over easily.

When the centipede spirit rushed through the mud, I had already reached a cliff. Since there were flags as signs, I could not take a detour. I could fly normally and use a grapple hook. This kind of cliff was not a problem at all, but now I could only climb with bare hands, because the rules have clearly stated that auxiliary tools are not allowed.

When I was halfway through the climb, I saw a rumbling sound in the forest from afar. The big centipede that I had been thrown away from a distance in the forest section finally rushed to the bottom of the cliff. Unlike my hard-working climb, this guy climbed the cliff like walking on the main road, swam up the cliff wall directly. The most disgusting thing was that when I passed by me, the dead centipede actually attacked me with the big pliers behind my butt, which almost fell down. However, the centipede seemed to know that victory depends on speed, so she didn't waste too much with me, and immediately focused on her journey without a single blow. I originally thought that the centipede spirit must have run away when I climbed up, but who knew that it would be a big shot when I got up.

The situation is completely different from what I thought. There is only a long gentle slope in front of me, and the slope is covered with a thick layer of snow. Although the centipede spirit has become a spirit, the centipede is not born to grow in ice and snow. When encountering such a snow slope, it is even worse than me who just climbed a cliff. Although its thin legs are numerous, the tips are too thin and they do not bear weight on the snow surface. Compared with the size of the body, its legs are too short. It takes effort to pull out the legs from the snow every step. Moreover, due to the excessive vibration, the snow on the slope slides down, and it will slide down with it. After finally climbing out more than ten meters, it is washed back by the snow seven or eight meters.
Chapter completed!