Night without Borders

Chapter 72 Thunder Fire Alchemy Palace

In the Thunder and Fire Alchemy Hall, Qin Ming's body was shaking violently. He felt like there were huge waves crashing against the shore, and he was just a small boat in the sea. If it weren't for the crowded place, he might have really fallen to the ground.

In this golden palace engraved with the texture of time, the surging emotions were so strong that he could hardly bear it and was dizzy from the impact.

"No, I still want to live. I can't die here!"

"Alan, when I go back to marry you, I can withstand the erosion of the skylight!"

"I am one hundred and twenty years old, and my life has come to an end. I long for the light of heaven to enlighten me and to step into a higher realm to prolong my life, but it is ultimately impossible."

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In an instant, Qin Ming resonated with dozens of emotions, all of which were extremely strong, carrying the unwillingness and resentment before death, all rushing over him at once.

Moreover, there were even more emotions stirring behind it, like waves, one after another, crashing towards him.

If it was an emotion, he could observe the other person's life and savor it slowly, but now there were so many of them, it was simply a torrent, and he really couldn't bear it.

Qin Ming exited the resonance state immediately. If he continued like this, he was worried that his mind would collapse from the shock.

He naturally understood what the situation was. Over the thousand years in the Thunderfire Alchemy Palace, countless people had died. Every one of them was desperate and painful before dying, and they were extremely unwilling. It was really scary when all those emotions came together.

Qin Ming rubbed his temples to relieve the discomfort, but his heart was restless and full of ups and downs.

In addition to the secret book that records the efforts of the predecessors, a place like the Thunder and Fire Alchemy Palace can actually allow for spiritual resonance. For a moment, Qin Ming's thoughts were up and down, and he thought of a lot of things.

Then, he stared at this thousand-year-old temple. Throughout the ages, has there been any newborn whose mental fluctuations before death involved certain secret techniques?

He shook his head. It was probably difficult to find people with such strong will. They all used special methods to fight before death. It was estimated that more than 90% of people spent their last moments in fear, pain and despair.

Qin Ming tried again cautiously and quickly came into contact with more than twenty strong emotions. As he expected, they were all negative.

In his perception, those chaotic emotions were like a black sea. He was a little unwilling and wanted to fish out some "treasures" from the sea.

“I’ll try next time.”

It is definitely not possible now, because the Thunder Fire Alchemy Hall is full of people. Qin Ming is being swept forward and is about to leave this ancient hall.

"I will never join in the fun again." Wu Zheng said with a sad face when he returned to the inn. He also lost his other shoe and came back barefoot on the snow.

Even though he was a freshman with a strong physique, he still couldn't handle it. Later he took off his coat and wrapped his feet.

"I didn't even get to see what Chixia Mountain and the Thunderfire Alchemy Palace looked like!" Wu Zheng felt very wronged.

Xu Sheng smiled and said, "In a while, there will be an early spring outing. Are you really not going to go? The ladies of all families will go out at that time. Don't you want to go and take a look?"

Wu Zheng hesitated: "This... we'll talk about it later."

Qin Ming asked: "Brother Xu, according to the current situation, spring thunder may appear in a few days. If you want to catch the light of day, do you have to go up the mountain and wait in advance? Otherwise, you will definitely miss it."

Xu Sheng became serious and said, "You really want to go? To say that you risk your life is not enough to describe the danger there. You are still young, don't gamble your life because of a momentary impulse."

Wu Zheng also advised: "Brother Qin, don't be impulsive. We are not yet 20 years old, and you are a freshman in the golden age group. Why are you in a hurry?"

Xu Sheng naturally strongly opposed it and did not allow him to take the risk.

Qin Ming had no choice but to reveal some information, saying, "When I was in Black and White Mountain, I accidentally fell into a special node with skylight and managed to survive."

He felt that if anyone wanted to check him, these were not secrets at all because the locals knew about it.

Wu Zheng suddenly realized, and said: "Oh, by the way, when you came to my house to read books, my grandfather seemed to have mentioned this matter, saying that you have a tough life."

"You were still an ordinary person at that time, and you were indeed lucky to survive. However, the density of the skylight in the Thunder Fire Alchemy Hall increased by who knows how many times, and you simply couldn't bear it."

Qin Ming saw that Xu Sheng was indeed a good person, and he was really afraid that something might happen to him, so he tried to stop him again and again.

But Qin Ming really couldn't explain to him in detail that he could indeed withstand the erosion of sunlight.

"Brother Xu, you are a good person. Even if you try to stop me like this, I will still go."

Xu Sheng sighed, and finally told him that he needed to go up the mountain in advance, saying: "Then I will go there myself and use the rope to pull you out."

This is obviously a disguised way of saying help him collect the bodies.

Qin Ming said: "Brother Xu, please find someone to pull me out and take me away as if I were dead. Well, I will try to look a little shabbier so that I can't be recognized."

Xu Sheng was stunned and asked, "What are you going to do?"

Qin Ming said, "I'm afraid that I'll be recognized the second time I go. If it's the first time, don't show up. Find someone to take me away. After all, you used to be a traveling merchant and you know a lot of people. If you show up, those people might notice me."

Xu Sheng couldn't believe his ears. What was this kid talking about? He had even thought about the second time. Was he too careless or was he just ignorant and fearless?
"Brother Xu, I'm not joking." Qin Ming saw that Xu Sheng was indeed a nice person, so he decided to ask him for help.

Seeing how confident he was, Xu Sheng actually thought that he had a chance of surviving.

Only afterwards did he come to his senses and feel that he had gone crazy as well. He actually helped Qin Ming find someone to help him "collect the body" when the time came.

The next day, Qin Ming invited Xu Sheng to dinner at the best restaurant to express his gratitude, leaving the latter at a loss for words. Wu Zheng was also speechless.

Because both of them felt that Qin Ming was 90% likely to die on Chixia Mountain this time and they could not persuade him at all. Yet he was still so excited to invite people to dinner.

Qin Ming said, "Actually, I still want to ask Brother Xu for help. I want to see if there are any families in the area whose ancestors were once prosperous but have now fallen into decline. I want to pay to read books and borrow their secret books. The price is negotiable."

Wu Zheng looked strange, feeling "hurt" and offended by Qin. Xu Sheng said, "You are very confident that you can survive in the Thunder Fire Alchemy Hall. You practiced a power method in advance and integrated it into your own Tianguang Power on that day."

This was indeed what Qin Ming meant. He already knew that the combination of spring thunder and otherworldly light would not only give birth to special spiritual substances and give people new life, but also because it was accompanied by rich sky light, its effect was even stronger than that of the tricolor flower.

Those who can survive can improve the total amount and quality of their own heavenly light, and it would be most appropriate to integrate different techniques at that time.

Xu Sheng agreed and said, "I'll ask for you. What kind of power do you need? This is very particular and can't be combined randomly."

Qin Ming wanted to say that any method would be fine, but after thinking about it, he decided to be more low-key and said, "If you don't have a more powerful method, you can try other options."

Recently, he has been practicing the Yellow Mud Palm and has mastered the soft power. It is obvious that this power method is very amazing. It should be a fusion of many kinds of Tianguang power. Now he can just learn one or two more, so as not to waste the opportunity to enter the Thunder and Fire Alchemy Hall this time.

The next day, Xu Sheng brought news that the family was in decline and still had some residual laws from their ancestors. Their current situation was hard to describe.

Qin Ming immediately went there with him. When he saw the dilapidated courtyard wall and the house that was so old that it seemed to be about to collapse, he realized that the family was in complete decline.

Xu Sheng sighed, "The Sun family used to have a big house. Alas, things never go as planned. More than a decade ago, the old man of the Sun family was seriously injured and died not long after. His son also died unexpectedly two years ago, and his daughter-in-law ran away with someone. Now the Sun family only has an old lady raising her three-year-old grandson. It's not easy."

When Qin Ming saw the old lady and the young child of the Sun family, he was immediately touched. The old lady's face was full of wrinkles, and life had long worn away her edges. Her eyes were dull and without any luster. Only when she saw her little grandson would there be some light in her eyes.

It is said that she used to be a rich lady, and she lived a glorious life when she married into the powerful Sun family. But now her old man and son have died inexplicably one after another, the family business has been lost, and she is left with only a grandson to depend on.

Qin Ming felt that if someone was really targeting the child deliberately, then something would happen to the child sooner or later.

When he saw the child, he felt a little moved, as if he saw himself as a child.

The three-year-old child, whose clothes had many patches on them, was practicing some kind of martial arts without saying a word. He was very stubborn.

Qin Ming had seen in that faded memory that he had a very hard and poor childhood, and was raised alone by the old man who should be his grandfather, who taught him the magic in the silk book.

"Take it and have a look. It has no value anymore. It's always been snatched away and is completely damaged. I usually give it to children who want to learn for free." The old lady said, taking out a secret book.

She and her grandson lived a hard life, and her neighbors often helped her. She gave this book to others to read as a way of repaying them.

Qin Ming took it and found that only the cover was old. The dozen pages of paper inside should not be antiques. The new method was very fragmentary and incomplete, the description of the power method was not detailed enough, and the handwriting was rather sloppy.

Whether it is the animal skin cover or the paper, there are strong emotional fluctuations.

After receiving it, Qin Ming thanked the old lady, sat on the tattered chair and began to study it seriously with great concentration.

In an instant, he saw some truth.

"Xinyi Hall, you are too cruel. My Sun family has fallen into decline, and it is indeed no longer viable for my generation, so you want to snatch my family's secret book. Ge Qianxun, I treated you as a brother, but you tried to kill me."

An old man kept coughing up blood and was severely injured by the people from Xinyi Hall. The secret book was taken away from him, and he only held one page of the cover in his hand.

At this time, he leaned over the table, trying to write down the contents of the lost secret book, but he was no longer able to do it. After writing more than twenty pages, he became weak and finally died of vomiting blood.

Apparently, something happened later and the remaining book was reduced to just a dozen pages.

"This should be the truth behind the bloody incident more than ten years ago." Qin Ming sighed. He believed that the death of the old lady's son was most likely related to the Xinyi Hall.

Afterwards, he concentrated his mind once more, resonating with the emotions in the leather cover, and obtained the complete contents of the secret book.

This is a hammer technique, which is quite extraordinary. It contains two kinds of Tianguang force methods, hammer force and whip force. Only after practicing both of them can the true power of this hammer technique be brought into play.

This book is not as good as the Yellow Mud Palm and the Heaven-Cutting Sword Intention, but Qin Ming is still very satisfied with it. Having two more methods of power will be of great help to him at this critical moment.

He looked at the pitiful grandparents, as if he saw his past life with his grandfather. He took out thirty pieces of day gold and flicked them into the ground one by one in front of the old lady. He said, "Old man, I don't mean to be disrespectful. I'm just afraid that bad people will cause trouble for you. Whenever you need it, just quietly take out one. In the future, if I succeed in the hammering method, I will write a new book for you to improve this method."

Then he took out a few silver coins, put them in her hand, and turned and left without waiting for her to speak.

Xu Sheng, who was waiting in the courtyard, asked, "Did you finish reading it so quickly?"

"Okay, take a look. Let's go." Qin Ming nodded.

The old lady chased after them, but found that they were walking very fast and she definitely could not catch up with them. Finally, tears welled up in her old eyes and turbid tears fell silently.

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The ground was steaming, the weather was getting warmer day by day, the light and rain were dancing in the mountains and forests, and the snow was melting quickly. Qin Ming had already climbed up Chixia Mountain. Over the past few days, the place had finally become much quieter and no longer crowded.

On Chixia Mountain, there is a mountain temple that is very popular. Seeing that there are quite a few people who have settled on the mountain in advance to receive the baptism of the skylight, a pilgrim couldn't help but ask: "Do you have to queue up even to die these days?"

When Qin Ming heard these words, he didn't get angry, but couldn't help laughing.

This time, he had the opportunity to appreciate the scenery of Chixia Mountain.

When spring comes and flowers bloom, the whole mountain here will be a fiery red, and all the grass and trees will be mainly red. At present, you can only appreciate the cliffs, strange rocks and other wonders.

In the next few days, he entered the Thunder and Fire Alchemy Hall with its bright and shiny tiles every day, enduring the impact of various resentments, carefully searching for something.

He wanted to fish out treasures from the black ocean of chaotic emotions and never gave up.

Boom!

On this day, spring thunder first began to sound, making a dull sound in the distance.

Qin Ming looked up suddenly. Is it finally coming?
(End of this chapter)