An alchemy furnace fell from the sky

"Your mind is in turmoil."

Taotie's slightly desolate voice sounded again.

Xu Fu suddenly looked up and saw that the "hill" had cracked again at some point.

That huge red eye seemed to be able to see into people's hearts.

"How long have you been here?"

Xu Fu asked Taotie with some curiosity. At this moment, he was looking at this huge and ferocious beast, and inexplicably felt a sense of "sympathy".

"do not know."

Taotie's tone was very low.

"Why can I hear your voice?"

"I am communicating with you through my spiritual consciousness."

"There's no water here right now, why don't you just say it with your mouth?"

"I can't move."

Xu Fu was shocked when he heard this. He didn't expect that Taotie's situation was even worse than he imagined. Not only was he trapped in the dark seabed, but he couldn't even do the most basic action like opening his mouth!

Day after day, it feels like a year!

Xu Fu could hardly imagine how painful this was. It was truly more painful than death.

"So you don't need to eat?"

Xu Fu asked another question that had been bothering him for a long time. Even if he reached the supreme realm, Xu Fu knew that he would never be able to go without food and drink.

"You can refine your original spiritual power to maintain it."

"Original spiritual power?"

Xu Fu took a deep breath when he heard this. He knew about this original spiritual power. It also had another name...

Innate energy.

This is the purest and most original spiritual power that all things possess when they are born.

Xu Fu could not sense this spiritual power, so naturally he could not mobilize it. It is said that human breathing, heartbeat, and the generation of spiritual intelligence are all due to this innate Qi.

Xu Fu didn't know what the consequences of refining this innate qi would be, but without the innate qi, people would certainly not be able to survive.

"Then... aren't you hungry?"

Xu Fu hesitated for a moment and asked a somewhat naive question.

Taotie did not answer, but his huge red eye trembled slightly, as if touched by Xu Fu's words.

"this is for you."

As Xu Fu spoke, he took out a piece of bacon from his Qiankun bag and handed it to Taotie's mouth.

"My mouth...can't open."

Taotie's answer made Xu Fu feel even more pitiful that the ferocious beast had fallen into such a state, so he simply tried to rip Taotie's mouth open.

But this time, no matter how Xu Fu pulled, he could only pry open the flesh on Taotie's mouth. The tightly locked teeth seemed to be grown together and could not be separated no matter what.

There was no way to stuff the meat in, so Xu Fu simply picked up the jar of wine left by Hu Wangshuo and poured half of it into the Taotie's teeth.

Taotie closed its eyes. Xu Fu could not see the changes in its eyes, but he could feel that its whole body was trembling slightly.

After a long time, the trembling finally stopped.

"Thank you!"

Taotie's voice came again.

"I haven't tasted anything in so long!"

"anything else?"

Xu Fu shook the wine jar and found that at least half of it was still full.

"Can you do me a favor?"

Xu Fu heard a hint of pleading in Taotie's voice.

But Xu Fu frowned. He had been deceived by Taotie once before, so he was not so forgetful.

Moreover, he fed Taotie wine simply because he felt a little sorry for it. This does not mean that he is the kind of goody-goody who will save anything.

Xu Fu was about to refuse, but Taotie's words made him tremble.

"Kill me!"

"What did you say?"

Xu Fu turned his head to look at the giant eye of Taotie, his brows twisted into a knot.

"Kill me!"

Taotie's tone was very firm.

Xu Fu did not respond, he had never heard of such a request.

"Kill me, and this magic circle will be lifted, and you can leave this place!"

"But……"

"I know full well that my sins are grave and unforgivable, and only death can atonce me. If I were not unable to move, I would have committed suicide long ago to atone for my sins. Please do not refuse this matter!"

Taotie's tone was so heavy and sincere that Xu Fu couldn't even think of a reason to refuse.

"How can I kill you?"

Xu Fu thought about it for a while and finally asked.

Just as Taotie said, he had stayed in this ghost place long enough. What's more, he still had to find Li Wuzhi's earth soul, so he couldn't stay here any longer.

"This is my only remaining life force. I just need to disperse it!"

As Taotie spoke, a light red tear slowly flowed from that giant eye. After the tear flowed, it instantly turned into a fist-sized bead and fell straight to the ground.

Xu Fu first sensed it from a distance, then walked over cautiously. After testing it for a while, he found nothing unusual, so he picked it up carefully.

There is a hint of warmth when you touch it, and it feels like holding a newly laid egg.

The outer layer of the bead is transparent, and you can clearly see a dark red aura ball inside.

The ball of spiritual energy was like a beating heart, expanding and contracting in a very regular manner.

"Grateful!"

Taotie's voice had become a little weak at this time.

Xu Fu did not move at all, but just kept looking at the bead.

“It’s not the Taotie Pearl.”

This was the conclusion Xu Fu came to, and he clearly felt that after the bead flowed out of Taotie's eyes, the oppressive feeling on its body disappeared.

"Is this really my life force?"

Xu Fu was still not too reassured. He had guessed that this life energy should be similar to the inner elixir of a monster, and was the essence of Taotie's whole body. However, without the inner elixir, the monster's cultivation would be greatly damaged. And according to Taotie, if this life energy was destroyed, Taotie would die!

"Why don't you let Dean Hu kill you?" Xu Fu asked.

"He doesn't want to kill me. He just wants to refine my spiritual power and use it for cultivation." Taotie replied.

Hearing Taotie say this, Xu Fu suddenly thought, no wonder Qinglong Shanglingyuan was in chaos, it turned out that the source was Hu Wangshuo's attempt to refine Taotie's spiritual power.

"The gluttonous aura must have leaked out during the refining process!"

Xu Fu guessed, but he was not worried. After all, President Hu had already gone out, and he should have a way.

From the moment he entered the magic circle, he sensed that Hu Wangshuo's cultivation had fully recovered, and it seemed to be much deeper than before he was injured. This also made Xu Fu full of confidence in Dean Qinglong.

"The magic circle is still there. Even if you don't believe me, where can this life force go?"

Taotie's last words made Xu Fu completely let down his guard. Just as Taotie said, he didn't take the magic circle out anyway. In this magic circle that separated the heaven and the earth, why should he be afraid of it doing something strange?

"Do you have any last words?"

Xu Fu held the natal pearl tightly.

"Good things will be rewarded with good, and evil things will be punished with evil!"

After Taotie said this, he seemed to be relieved. At the same time, the huge red eye slowly closed.

Looking at the natal Yuanzhu in his hand, Xu Fu breathed a sigh of relief and exerted a little force with his right hand.

There was a crisp sound like a shell breaking, and Taotie's natal pearl was crushed by Xu Fu.

After the shell was crushed, it immediately turned into spiritual energy and disappeared without a trace, and the life energy contained in it also scattered.

Xu Fu felt a little disappointed, and suddenly felt his palm getting hot. When he raised his hand, he saw a dark red ball of spiritual energy sticking to his palm, and the next moment, it actually drilled into his palm.