Destiny is ashes

Chapter 803: Preaching (4200)

The corrosive rain, along with the strong wind, hit the wall windows of the buildings in the outer city of Xuanye, and the sound was like countless poisonous insects gnawing at rotten wood. Nianquan was sitting cross-legged on the cushion in the alchemy room, pouring the prepared essence of medicinal materials into the new alchemy furnace, when he suddenly heard the door of his house being opened.

This alchemy room located in the lower city was purchased specifically by Nianquan to prevent the residence from being contaminated by failed alchemy. No one else should have known about it, but the other party actually had the key, which meant that the person who came could only be one of the two people.

Nianquan slightly opened his icy blue left eye and glanced at the door, thinking, As expected. Huo Qing was walking towards the alchemy room with a white cat on his head, a large bag of bottles and jars, and a stack of jade books.

"The materials you requested, as well as the spiritual network information."

He was slender and looked very harmless. Although he was very young, his first impression was that of a skinny model employee who had worked diligently for decades and finally died. This was how Huo Qing was seen by most people. But Nian Quan was different. He could clearly see that although Huo Qing looked skinny, he was actually made of refined flesh and blood. His soul was even stronger, and combined with his body, it vaguely formed a constantly flowing and harmonious formation.

——This guy has become a lot stronger. The plants and trees wither and grow back to the hot land. I'm afraid he will become a great man.

Nianquan withdrew his gaze, thinking about something.

Although he was not as good as him, Huo Qing's strength did improve rapidly, especially after he followed An Jing to his hometown and awakened his "fate". Huo Qing's speed of practicing "martial arts" was very fast, which was a world of difference from the practice of immortals.

Martial Arts: The cultivation system of the Anjing world is derived from the immortal way. It gives up the way of prolonging life and focuses on improving combat effectiveness.

The purpose of the immortal path is to live forever and seek the great way. Various fighting skills are just means to protect the path, not the fundamental secret. But the martial arts are different. The purpose of this path is to destroy killing and fight against destruction. They have developed various fighting skills to the extreme, and even directly imprinted them in their bodies and souls, becoming "magic" and "array diagrams", and finally transformed into a unique "inner array world", completely transforming their own existence into a complete form of a certain fighting method.

Nianquan himself also practiced martial arts, and his evaluation of martial arts was: every gesture and movement is a technique.

The battles of immortals require special preparation of magic spells and talismans, as well as magic weapon arrays. But warriors are different. The fists and kicks of warriors are the most powerful magic spells and talismans, and their bodies and souls are their formations and magic weapons.

It was the same even with bare hands. If he really got a magic weapon, his strength would be even stronger. At least for Nianquan, he felt that after practicing martial arts, his fighting ability had improved by leaps and bounds. His classmates and other high school masters who could fight with him before could not survive him even three times.

Even Yan Chengju, the leader of No. 1 Middle School, who originally had stronger strength than Nian Quan, was shocked to find after several sparring matches that even though he had completed the complete form of the Five Spirits Wheel, he was unable to gain an advantage over Nian Quan.

You know, he is the one who has truly benefited from the support of resources at home and gained experience by sparring with many great monks. With so many advantages, why is he still unable to defeat Nian Quan?

Martial arts is so terrifying when it comes to combat.

Just as Nianquan was marveling at the excellence of martial arts in this aspect, he faintly smelled a scent of blood.

As Huo Qing moved in the house, Nian Quan could be sure that the smell of blood was coming from him.

"What happened?"

Nianquan couldn't help but ask curiously: "Is it the blind gang that was ordered around by others again?"

"No." Huo Qing was walking towards the restroom of the alchemy safe house to wash his face. He raised his hand, revealing the blood on the back of his hand, and said nonchalantly, "They are two professional agents. Of course, they are not official, but hired by a private company. They have been following me since I left the house, and later they seemed to want to kidnap Xiaoqing and me."

"I didn't want to kill them, but once a fight starts, it's not a life-and-death struggle. At the end, I thought it would only cause trouble if I spared their lives, so I just crushed them."

Huo Qing's words were plain, but they revealed a strong smell of blood. The big white cat lying on the other's head also meowed, seeming quite angry and agreeing with Huo Qing's choice.

"These people are getting more and more outrageous. If this continues, can we not go out?"

Nianquan didn't think there was anything wrong with Huo Qing killing people. Rather, in his opinion, even a man as good-tempered as Huo Qing had to kill, which was enough to prove how many annoying things the two "agents" had done.

Tracking, peeping, stealing personal belongings, sudden attacks, attempting to kidnap people close to them... All I can say is that these people's deaths were definitely not unjust.

Of course, Nian Quan also understood very well that this was just a test by the major companies on them, or on their future stability.

Ever since An Jing wiped out the Yekan Gang and displayed his prowess, the name 'An Xuan' has become famous in Xuan Ye, and he has attracted much attention from all major forces for displaying his 'immortal roots'.

At first, it was just a cooperation intention, followed by negotiations. The big company was very interested in An Jing's body, but An Jing refused every time and was unwilling to provide relevant physical blood data.

For this purpose, some large companies even offered a high price of hundreds of thousands of good deeds just to obtain a portion of An Xuan's flesh and blood fragments for subsequent research.

It shouldn't be like this.

No matter how anxious they are, major companies will never target a genius so simply and directly, because there must be a powerful force supporting every genius.

If you insist on asking him how strong he is and ruthlessly explore the secrets of his bloodline, most of the time you will get nothing and make an enemy for nothing.

Not to mention, An Jing has the support of the internal groups of Xuanye City headed by Sanzhong. They are all family, so there is no need to tear each other apart.

However, faced with this rather excessive "silence" and "probing", everyone, including the officials of the Third Central Committee, turned a deaf ear and a dumb ear.

Nianquan knew that they were waiting.

Waiting for the real power behind An Jing to take action and prove its existence.

There is no doubt that An Xuan is indeed the heir of a certain wilderness force, but this force has never demonstrated its strength positively.

Xuan Ye City did not think that this force did not exist, because the qualities and cultivation methods displayed by "An Xuan" were all possessed by the disciples who were fully cultivated by the big forces - but even if Dongtian took action, they could not find any trace of this force.

In this case, there are only two possibilities.

First: Although this force exists, it is extremely weak and is on the verge of collapse due to various reasons. An Jing is the last heir and he has gone far away to look for a chance to survive.

Second: This force is not in the Tianyuan Realm at all, but is similar to the ancient ruins of the immortals... Because of the rotation of the Great Void, it accidentally came into contact with the Tianyuan Realm. The former needs no further explanation. If the background behind An Jing is really not that great, then what the big forces in Xuanye City have to do next is naturally a set of procedures such as "treating, beheading, and accepting as a dog". Through various soft or hard means, An Jing will be completely worn away from all edges and peculiarities and become a part of their own system.

The latter is much more complicated... At present, the various major forces are trying to test the bottom line of "An Xuan" and the forces behind him, and find channels to contact them.

Huo Qing and Nian Quan, as An Jing's companions, are naturally one of the "bottom lines".

They were actually on the bounty list, but with their strength, it was easy for them to deal with those ordinary bounty hunters, and the stronger bounty hunters would rarely go crazy and bother with these two young people, so so far, both Huo Qing and Nian Quan had dealt with several waves of bounty hunters and agents without encountering any real danger.

But this is only temporary. As time goes by, the plans for the 'disappeared An Xuan' fail again and again, and the disappointed major forces will definitely not mind paying a sum of resources that are just numbers to them, so that Huo Qing and Nian Quan can also enjoy top treatment.

"I don't know when An Jing will come back."

After washing off the bloody smell on his body, Huo Qing came to the door of the alchemist's room. Wisps of fresh white mist seeped out from the gap in the door. He felt refreshed after taking a breath. This was a sign that the elixir was rapidly taking shape. He opened the door and said, "Nianquan, isn't it bad for you to make elixirs and take pills every day to practice? You make several furnaces of elixirs every day, and take them one by one while practicing. Your body can't stand it, right?"

"If you can't bear the bitterness of the elixir, you will soon have to bear the bitterness of life."

Picking up the jade box and putting the pills in the pill furnace, Nianquan took one pill and said calmly, "I have the relevant pupil technique, which can remove most of the poison in the pills and decompose the harmful substances in them. I can take many more pills than ordinary people."

"Since I have this talent and skill, plus the spiritual materials provided by An Jing, the cost of my alchemy can almost be said to be negligible. With this advantage, it would be a waste not to make the alchemy."

"Our current realm is not high. As long as we take a handful of Qingling Powder, Ningqi Pills, Tongmai Pills and Xueqi Pills every day, we can achieve twice the result with half the effort whether it is Qi training or martial arts training, and we can quickly improve our strength."

At this point, Nianquan looked at Huo Qing, raised his hand, and threw a box of pills that had been sorted into different categories to him: "If we don't do this, the No. 1 seeds cultivated by those big companies will also take pills every day. Their cultivation progress will surpass ours, and then they will leave us behind."

"It's not just me who has to take it. Once the effect is confirmed, you have to take it too. Although I think An Jing must have a better pill, or even doesn't need a pill at all, if he's interested, I will also make pills for him."

Taking the medicine box, Huo Qing found it difficult to refuse.

In fact, in his opinion, if one wants to practice martial arts and cultivate the body, one must take elixirs.

To train the muscles, bones and skin externally, one needs to take a medicinal bath; to train the breath internally, one needs the support of elixirs. As a martial artist who does not consider immortality, taking elixirs to speed up practice is perfectly normal. Martial artists who practice the "food method" also absorb elixirs very quickly with very little waste. Even if the elixir is poisonous residue that the body cannot digest and eliminate, it can be consumed by the internal array realm without having to worry about sequelae.

The reason why he didn't do this was simply because Huo Qing had no money before.

"Alas, I don't know if this is the right thing to do..."

Huo Qing was in mixed emotions. He took out a crystal clear pill from the medicine box. It was emitting a light green glow and was full of vitality. It could accelerate the body's self-healing and was extremely helpful for body training. "According to the classics I have read, it basically says that taking too many pills will damage the foundation of cultivation."

Nian Quan remained silent, he didn't know how to answer this question - these two people were essentially low-level practitioners in the lower city area of ​​Xuan Ye City. Even though they had now become outstanding students of the Third Middle School and had a solid foundation in professional knowledge, they still had many gaps in common sense of practice and some common sense that the higher-level practitioners in the inner city area took for granted.

"We can only wait for An Jing to come over." He sighed softly: "I don't know what happened in his hometown. We haven't contacted him for such a long time... He is also having a hard time."

"Yeah." Huo Qing rubbed the head of the white cat in his arms, looked out the window where the acid rain was pouring down with some melancholy, and sighed: "What should we do...wait?"

Halfway through his words, he suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked out the window in astonishment: "Ah Nian, look, that direction, isn't it... your home?"

Nianquan was originally tidying up the alchemy furnace, preparing to refine the next batch of pills, but after hearing Huo Qing's words, the young man stood up and looked, and was immediately stunned: "Ah?"

The wind was surging, the thunder was roaring, and with Nianquan's large flat in the inner city as the core, dark tornadoes and spider-web-like lightning networks were spreading across the sky and mid-air. This scene was extremely familiar to Huo Qing, because... this was what An Jing had once taken him to see -

Heavenly Tribulation!

"Heavenly disaster!"

[Heavenly Tribulation?!]

[Why, why is there a catastrophe in the city?! ]

At this moment, not only Huo Qing and Nian Quan were stunned, but all the spies from the big companies who were secretly observing Nian Quan's residence, the school leaders of No. 3 Middle School, and the real people and real masters of Xuanye City all pulled their eyes away from many trivial matters and looked in astonishment at the direction shrouded by the heavenly tribulation: [What happened? ]

[Could it be... because of An Xuan? ! ]

It's not An Xuan. But it can't be said that it's not at all.

At this moment, An Jing, who had just traveled to the Tianyuan Realm, was also confused: "Heavenly tribulation? Why? Huaixu struck me, which is fine. I lead a group of people to practice Yuhua Dao, and it is indeed a bit deserved, but why did the Tianyuan Realm strike me?"

"Could it be because I led people to smuggle? But that's not the case!"

[No, this is not a punishment calamity, but a 'calamity of enlightenment']

Cheng Guang and Chen Yinzi were both asleep, and only Xi Tianjun was conscious. He could tell at a glance that this seemingly powerful thunder tribulation actually did not have any intention of destroying or punishing anyone.

On the contrary... this mighty thunder tribulation seemed to carry a hint of joy, anticipation and a sense of formal solemnity.

If I had to say it, it's a bit like...

Welcome salute!
As a celestial monarch who had merged with the Zhulong battle armor, He quickly realized the reason for everything and laughed out loud: [An Jing, hurry up, call out your Taibai battle armor! ]

[This world is the birthplace of the Way of Ascension. Now is the time to reward you for your great merit in spreading the Way of this world to the outside world! ]

(End of this chapter)