After becoming a Taoist partner with my senior sister, my master changed

Qiu gathered spiritual power at his fingertips and carefully explored the place where Lin Chuan had just stood, but he couldn't detect even the slightest trace of his remaining breath.

"Not even a trace left? Could it be that it touched some kind of restriction?"

She bit her lower lip, and the panic in her heart became more intense.

"Qiu, Qiu, you are a useless good-for-nothing! If you hadn't been so foolish as to suspect that this relic was related to the young master, and thus let down your guard, how could you have lost the young master!"

Qiu's fingertips pinched his palm tightly, his eyes filled with deep self-blame.

However, this self-blame did not last long.

She took a deep breath and forced herself to suppress the regret that was surging in her heart. The force that her fingertips had pinched into her palm gradually loosened, leaving behind several crescent-shaped blood marks.

"No, now is not the time to blame yourself. The young master's safety is unknown. We must quickly find the control center of this ruin..."

……

In a secret room.

Lin Chuan stood in the center of the secret room, his eyes fixed on the dome, blood flowing from the corners of his eyes.

"With it, is there really a chance to reach a realm above the Immortal Emperor?"

The dome, which looked empty to outsiders, now had a white halo suspended in his eyes, bound by nine golden chains.

That was the origin of the world that Lin Chuan had plundered from the alien world after the tragic victory in the war in his previous life. Since he took it, that world has completely turned into a dead and silent place.

"Did the senior who came up with the idea of ​​reaching a realm above the Immortal Emperor by refining the origin of the world actually reach that level in the end?"

Lin Chuan shook his head, suppressed the surging thoughts in his mind, and took out an ancient stone box from the storage space.

"Buzz!"

The dome suddenly shook. In Lin Chuan's eyes, the golden chains that originally bound the white halo instantly resonated with the stone box, dragging the halo slowly downwards and finally sinking into the stone box.

After doing all this, Lin Chuan breathed a sigh of relief, and the shadows of the sun and the moon that appeared in his eyes slowly disappeared.

"Next, I'll quickly refine the elixir..."

Lin Chuan raised his hand and waved, and the spiritual medicines that he had collected in the ruins were arranged one by one.

Immediately afterwards, a massive alchemy furnace appeared out of thin air in the center of the chamber. Next to the furnace, a water mirror quietly floated, reflecting a pale-faced woman in a yellow dress, eyes closed, walking forward.

……

I do not know how long it has been.

Qiu stopped walking, swaying, and put one hand on the tree trunk beside him, with cold sweat sliding down his temples.

"Damn it, my sea of ​​consciousness is almost dry..."

She retracted her spiritual sense, only to feel a sharp pain in her sea of ​​consciousness, and even the flow of spiritual energy in her body became a little sluggish.

"No, we can't stop yet..."

Qiu took out a small porcelain bottle from the storage space, poured all the pills in the bottle into his mouth, quickly adjusted his breathing for a moment, then endured the discomfort in his sea of ​​consciousness and sent out his spiritual sense again.

"Zheng..."

Just when Qiu was about to set off again to search for the center of the ruins to find Lin Chuan's whereabouts, a melodious piano sound came into his ears without warning.

"Why is there a third person here..."

In her spiritual exploration, she saw a blurry figure sitting cross-legged in the distance, plucking the strings of a zither.

"Never mind, finding the young master is more important."

Qiu used his spiritual sense to observe carefully for a moment, and after confirming that the other party had not made any unusual movements for the time being, he continued to explore forward.

But not long after, she stopped again, suddenly withdrew her consciousness, her body swayed, and she almost fell down, her face paler than before.

"Son..."

Qiu took out another porcelain bottle, uncorked it with trembling fingertips, and was about to pour the liquid into his mouth.

"Zheng..."

The melodious sound of the piano came again, accompanied by a crisp "click" sound, and the porcelain bottle in Qiu's hand suddenly cracked, and the pill inside instantly turned into powder and fell to the ground.

"???"

Qiu looked at the figure playing the piano not far away with an incredible look on his face, his eyes full of surprise and suspicion.

"Sir, is that you?"

She staggered a few steps closer, calling out tentatively with an unconcealable weakness in her voice.

The blurry figure seemed not to have heard anything and continued to play the piano with his head down.

"May I ask, Senior, are you the owner of this ruin?"

Qiu Qiang supported his shaky body and took a few steps forward.

"Zheng..."

The figure's fingertips kept rising and falling, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him.

"..."

Qiu stared straight at the figure, was silent for a moment, and then moved her fingertips slightly. A small stone was wrapped in her weak spiritual power and flew silently towards the figure playing the piano.

However, the moment the pebble touched the figure, it passed through it as if passing through a shadow, and landed on the grass behind it, making a slight sound.

"Shadow? That's not right..."

Qiu stared closely at the shadow playing the piano, and suddenly took out a small porcelain bottle again. Without hesitation, he pulled out the cork and poured the wine directly into his mouth.

However, this time, the pill went down his throat smoothly, and a gentle medicinal effect slowly spread, slightly relieving the burning pain in his sea of ​​consciousness.

In the secret room.

Lin Chuan, who was controlling the black and white flames to refine the elixir, retracted his glance at the water mirror beside him, raised a helpless smile at the corner of his mouth, and shook his head slightly.

"Why are you so cunning?"

……