Sister, I don't want to be a furnace anymore. I'm about to become an immortal.

Chapter 47: A strange conspiracy

After hearing his words, everyone finally understood why Xiao Yichen was the only one injured so badly. The others were facing monsters with similar strength to themselves, but he was the only one facing a powerful enemy that was one level beyond his own.

Zhang Yang sat down next to him, slapped him on the back, and said jokingly with a smile: "Little Junior Brother, you are amazing! Not everyone can fight against an enemy of higher level."

Lin Qingxue also slowly walked to his side and looked him up and down, as if she wanted to see through him.

"Okay, now that we've rested enough, let's go clean up the monster corpses outside the village."

Everyone stood up and slowly walked out of the village. Xiao Yichen followed at the end of the team. When he passed the place where he had killed the monster before, he found that there was nothing on the ground except blood.

"? It's cleaned so clean?" Xiao Yichen looked at the place with some confusion. Apart from the blood soaked into the ground, there was not even a trace of flesh.

However, when they all returned to the battlefield, they found that all the bodies of the monsters had disappeared. If it were not for the traces of battle and blood on the ground, they would have thought that they had just had a dream.

Xiao Yichen ran to the front and saw such a strange scene. The uneasiness in his heart became more and more obvious. Suddenly, as if he thought of something, he said to the senior brother who was temporarily leading the team:

"Brother, can you ask the sect to check the casualties of the villagers here?"

Although the senior brother was a little confused, he still took out the sound transmission stone and sent the message. After a while, he turned to look at Xiao Yichen with a strange expression and asked, "Did you find anything?"

Xiao Yichen didn't know why the other party asked this, so he shook his head. He saw the senior brother with a puzzled look on his face and continued, "The villagers were just like us. There were no casualties. They all ran away after the monsters entered the village, and the monsters didn't chase them."

Upon hearing the news, Xiao Yichen frowned even deeper. At this moment, a few people flew over from the sky in the distance. When everyone saw them clearly, their faces showed joy.

"It's the eldest brother and the others who are back."

When the few people landed, everyone surrounded them. After a long time, Chu Qingtian walked up to Xiao Yichen and looked him up and down. After confirming that he was fine, he gathered everyone together and prepared to return to Qingfeng Pavilion first.

Just like that, all the disciples rushed back to the sect with doubts in their minds. On the way, Zhang Yang and Lin Qingxue sandwiched Xiao Yichen on the left and right, asking him questions all the time.

"Junior brother, aren't you just at the Body Tempering Stage? How can you use magic to fly, and even surpass your level?" Lin Qingxue asked with some confusion. Zhang Yang was also waiting for his answer with great interest. In response, Xiao Yichen simply shook out the necklace on his chest, waved it towards them, and said:

"Master, because I performed meritorious service in the Spirit Sword Sect last time and was seriously injured, rewarded me with a magical treasure, this necklace. It allows me to temporarily utilize the spiritual energy within. He also gave me a pill that strengthens my physique. So, even though my cultivation is only at the middle level of the Body Tempering Realm, I can still fight against a high-level Body Tempering Realm cultivator."

This was something he and Xuanqing had discussed. Now, in the entire sect, or even in the entire world of immortal cultivation, apart from Xuanqing, only Liu Sha from the Lingjian Sect knew his true strength, but he probably had already believed that Xiao Yichen died in that terrifying pool of water.

And Xuanqing told him that anyone who asked him something he couldn't explain could just throw it at his head.

Sure enough, when the two learned that it was the magic weapon given by Elder Xuanqing, they all looked enlightened. Zhang Yang curled his lips and said with some jealousy, "How come I only met such a generous person? My master is so stingy every day that he almost asks us disciples for the apprenticeship fee."

Soon, the group returned to Qingfeng Pavilion. Everyone returned to their respective residences, except Xiao Yichen, who was taken to the sect hall by a senior brother. He walked to the center of the hall, looked at the elders in front of him, and after a slight salute, he heard an elder in front say:

"Tell me about what happened to you."

Xiao Yichen repeated his previous answer. Seeing the solemn expressions of the three elders in front of him, he didn't dare to say anything more. He could only wait quietly for the other party to ask questions.

"Then why do you want to ask about the casualties of the villagers?" another elder asked.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yichen also expressed his inner thoughts: "I think there may be someone behind this incident. The fact that the villagers were not injured or killed proves that the original intention of the person in the dark was to lure us disciples there, most likely to test the strength of those strange monsters. Other than that, I can't think of any other possibility."

After hearing Xiao Yichen's answer, several elders in front lowered their heads silently, as if thinking about something. Not long after, one of them waved at Xiao Yichen, signaling him to go out first.

After leaving the hall, he walked straight towards his residence without thinking about the previous incident. He was just a small cultivator in the Body Tempering Realm. Even if he wanted to investigate, he didn't have the ability. When he thought of the black mass of iron-ball-headed monsters in the sky before, he felt a chill all over his body. If their target at that time was their group of disciples, their end would be quite tragic, just like the carpet bombing in the previous world.

"Keep practicing hard. Your current strength is still too low." Shaking his head, he continued to move forward.

He returned to his room, sat cross-legged on the bed, and the next moment he entered a state of cultivation, continuing to practice the Guiyuan Jue.

The days passed one after another. Apart from taking time out every day to practice Guiyuan Jue and Insight Technique, he spent most of the rest of his time receiving physical training at Elder Xuanqing's residence.

There was a cliff outside Qingfeng Pavilion. Xuanqing was lying on a recliner flipping through the books in his hand. On the cliff below, Xiao Yichen was climbing up with fear in his heart. He was asked not to use the energy in his body. Every time the strong wind blew, he almost fell down. After finally climbing to the shore, he threw the heavy clothes on his body aside, splashing dust, and then lay on the ground and breathed heavily. Even though he was in the middle stage of the Tempering Body Realm, he was exhausted after such a tossing and turning.

"Not bad, it's much faster than the previous few days." Xuan Qing closed the book in his hand and looked at Xiao Yichen with satisfaction. For more than a month, he had been squatting in the Sutra Library every day, trying to find the source of the mysterious energy in Xiao Yichen's body, so as to formulate a training plan for Xiao Yichen. But in the end, he had read all the books he could find and still had no clue, so he decided to start with his physique first. There was some effect, but it was a bit slow.

"Yichen, tell me again how you got that energy in the first place." Xuanqing said slowly. Xiao Yichen opened his eyes, sweat dripping from his head. He took a deep breath and said, "How else could I have gotten it? I was struck by lightning once, and then I got it inexplicably."

Hearing this, Xuan Qing placed his hand on his forehead, and a trace of spiritual energy penetrated into his body. When it reached his dantian, looking at the colorless energy that looked like a pool of stream water, Xuan Qing's face was full of sighs. After taking the spiritual energy back, he said helplessly, "How about we find a thunderstorm day and try again?"

"Master, please stop teasing me. I was almost struck to death before." Xiao Yichen said helplessly as he slowly sat up.

"Well, if you don't want to, then forget it. It's just that your master hasn't found a way to let you practice normally yet. I'm afraid you have to be mentally prepared to keep your cultivation at the Body Tempering Stage." Xuan Qing sighed lightly. He thought that he was not a competent master.

Hearing the sigh, Xiao Yichen didn't know what to say. Although he also wanted to improve his strength quickly, he really had no way to do so at the moment.

When other disciples are in the Body Tempering Realm, they only need to keep training and tempering their bodies, and they will gradually reach the threshold of the Qi Training Realm and break through.

But he is different. His body despises ordinary spiritual energy. As soon as he absorbs spiritual energy, he will be repelled by that energy. It doesn't matter now, but when he reaches the peak of the Body Tempering Realm, he wants to use this energy instead of spiritual energy to impact the Qi Training Realm. First of all, the amount of energy in his body cannot meet the requirements for breakthrough. I am afraid that the energy will be used up halfway through the breakthrough. If he can't find a way to increase his energy, he may really have to stay in the Body Tempering Realm for the rest of his life.

Suddenly, he remembered the time when he absorbed the magic crystals before, and asked desperately, "Master, do you have any high-quality magic crystals?"