The villain has been playing badly for ten years

At the first light of dawn, a bluestone path winds its way to the top of Qianluo Mountain, with towering ancient trees on both sides, their branches and leaves intertwined, blocking out the sun.

A medicine pavilion stood there, vines hanging from the window frames on all sides, and a strange man squatted at the door. He was wearing thick armor, covered in thorns, and had arms as long as an ape, with dark and extremely developed muscles.

Behind him was the heavy bronze door of the medicine cabinet, which was now closed and locked tightly.

A butterfly flew through the vines and into the window frame.

The room was simply furnished and somewhat dim. In the center stood a bronze alchemy furnace, its lid carved with a pattern of a dragon swallowing a pearl. Beneath the furnace was a blazing charcoal fire.

Ning Xiusu was inside the house, having already changed into new clothes.

He raised his eyes to look at the window frame, and the butterfly flew away in an instant. In the breeze, a faint sunlight penetrated, and the veins of the leaves could be seen.

Counting the days, I've been trapped here for about a day and a half. As for what kind of weird recipe to use to make medicine...

It's not Sanjiu, what kind of medicine are you making?

Ning Xiusu paced around the room and saw the pile of medicinal herbs on the pear wood table.

The prescription written on the deerskin paper was quiet and looked like a statement of life and death.

He sighed, and his memory went back to more than ten years ago. When the original owner of the villain was young, he studied under the Shangqing Taoist Sect, but he was eager for quick success and practiced the evil magic of the Tongshan Taoist Temple.

In order to escape from the plot, I gave up Taoism, so I had no entanglement with these people at all.

As for Yun Qun, she did have some conflicts with the original owner.

However, these are none of his business. After all, most of the sorcery and spiritual skills have been returned to his grandmother's family.

Making ice pills is not difficult, but if you want to use alchemy techniques to refine Bai Luofu, how do you do it?

He frowned and thought, trying to recover some memories.

At this tense moment, there was a noise outside the bronze door.

At this time, a ray of Xihe penetrated, making the white clothes also glow.

A sharp air current blew across the window frame, making a noise and knocking the pill formula to the ground. He bent down to pick it up.

The man walked closer step by step in black boots embroidered with gold edges. The sunlight from the door framed the man's figure with a red edge. Ning Xiusu found it really dazzling, but he didn't even look up.

"Master Fuyu, the deadline hasn't arrived yet. You seem to have come a little too early."

Yun Qun was wearing a scarlet robe woven with gold threads, which was very dazzling in the sunlight. Her fox eyes seemed to want to eat people, and the mysterious totem under them looked even more terrifying.

"The fire in the furnace is almost out. Are you refining the elixir, or are you just trying to stall for time?"

Ning Xiusu uttered an "Oh" before adding some wood to the charcoal fire. But the art of alchemy was the most fundamental aspect of spiritual cultivation. When had this person become so unfamiliar with it?

Yun Qun sarcastically said, "You are indeed different from what you were a decade ago. Now you look like a pool of mud."

Hearing this, he didn't get angry: "Times have changed, and ordinary people have ordinary ways of living."

Yun Qi let out a cold sound from his nose.

Ning Xiusu then glanced at him and actually started chatting:

"But speaking of it, I still don't quite understand."

Yun Qunnan lost her patience and uttered a few words in a wicked manner: "What do you want to ask?"

"Since your Tongshan Daochang has revived and occupied the mine, it's like occupying Nanzhao and directly rebelling against Dayan. Why are you still refining pills?"

Under the light of the fire, Yun Qi said coldly, "You claim to be very smart, so why don't you try to guess?"

Ning Xiusu looked at the medicinal herbs on the table and seemed to have thought of something.

"A few years ago, a village in Dayan was struck by a plague. The source remains unknown. The Ice Pill was introduced as an antidote, but in the end, nothing was done about it. This remains an unsolved case."

Ning Xiusu's gaze shifted from the table to Yun Qun's face:

"Since then, the Song family's recipe has been circulated throughout the world, attempting to tell the world that Bingdan is a miraculous medicine."

Yun Qun listened to his long speech and then a low, cold voice rang out: "It seems that you have read a lot of the Privy Council files."

Ning Xiusu lowered his eyes and guessed, "So, the Song family is cooperating with you?"

He sneered and laughed, almost mockingly:

"How could those self-proclaimed alchemy practitioners possibly cooperate with me? Ning Xiusu, ah Ning Xiusu, you've been a useless person for too long, your brain isn't sharp anymore."

"If it's not the Song family... then who is it?"

Yun Qun raised the corner of his mouth evilly: "Guess!"

Ning Xiusu couldn't guess, so he put the question aside and said, "If you add Bai Luofu to the Ice Pill, it will become a Gu, right?"

"Yes."

"So you want to use this ice pill to turn people into monsters. The mine in Nanzhao is just your trial base."

As Ning Xiusu spoke, he threw the medicinal ingredients in the pill recipe into the furnace.

As he spoke, he glanced at him slightly and said, "But now there are not enough ice pills, or the person who refined the ice pills died in the cave."

Yun Qun sneered, "Yes, you have seen that man's body and found the recipe. This is the fate of the times, you have to accept it."

Ning Xiusu nodded, "So you captured me and made me conspire with you?"

"You guessed right, but you forgot one thing."

Ning Xiusu didn't quite understand, so he listened to his every word: "More importantly, you are a person who has come back from the dead."

"so what?"

"That girl has some secrets I can't figure out yet, and the Tongshan Dojo still needs people like you."

"Heh," Ning Xiusu sneered, "...your way of recruiting people is rather overbearing."

His fox-like narrow eyes looked at me ghostly.

"Everyone who enters the mine has taken the poison, including you."

Ning Xiusu ignored the threat and suddenly said, "We are short of some medicinal materials to refine Bailuofu."

There was a strange totem on Yun Qun's face, and a chilling suspicion flashed in the fox's eyes.

"What do you want to do?"

Ning Xiusu picked up the deerskin and pointed to a spot with blurred writing on it:

"There were actually a few medicinal ingredients written on the back, but they were erased. So you tried to make the Ice Pill before, but it didn't work, right?"

Seeing this, Yun Qun raised the corner of his mouth and revealed a hint of sneer.

"What else do you need? Tell me all at once."

He went to the pearwood table, picked up a dry brush, dipped it in ink, and wrote a few herbs on a piece of rice paper. Yun Qun picked up the rice paper and saw some cinnabar, blood ganoderma, and sky and water jade on it.

These were all potent medicinal herbs. Although he didn't know much about them, he still found them a bit strange.

Ning Xiusu didn't wait for him to ask, and said casually: "Bai Luofu, I will help you refine it. Can you let me meet those friends?"

"impossible."

Ning Xiusu didn't think this person would agree to his request, so he said calmly, "Then return the Nine Domains Order to me, okay?"

Yun Qun's sinister gaze swept over him, as if there was an invisible oppression.

"This belongs to Qi'an, and now it belongs to my dojo."

"You may not know this, but this is Candle Mountain Jade, and it's also a medicinal herb."

"Is this thing still useful for refining ore?"

"Bai Luofu is a mineral with a cold nature and must be smelted with strong medicinal herbs. Zhushan Jade can just balance the effects. As the saying goes, solitary yin cannot grow, and solitary yang cannot produce..."

Yun Qun was unfamiliar with pharmacology, and the Nine Domains Order was indeed bizarre. He hadn't fully understood it, but he figured a useless person wouldn't be able to cause any trouble. So, a moment later, he actually threw the object over, and Ning Xiusu hurriedly caught it.

"There's still a day and a half left. If you can't refine Bai Luofu by then..."

As he spoke, a peacock feather appeared in his hand. The green feathers sparkled brilliantly in the sunlight shining through the window lattice, but the middle part looked like a pupil, which was terrifying.

"I will shave you with my ten thousand feathers and turn you into a human pig!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the peacock feather suddenly slashed across his cheek, its feathers as sharp as a blade. Ning Xiusu was horrified and took a half step back, his foot hitting the ice container and nearly falling.

He only felt a burning sensation on his right cheek. A trace of skin had been cut, and where his fingertips touched there was a faint trace of blood.

When the green peacock feather fell to the ground, Yun Qun had already stepped out of the house, and the bronze door slammed shut.

Ning Xiusu was still in shock and thought that he would really be beheaded.

……

This small medicine shop would open a crack in the copper door at mealtime and push the food in. Around dusk, the few herbs needed were also delivered through the copper door.

There is no way to escape, but... now we have the order of the Nine Categories.

Obviously Yun Qun didn't know the use of this thing.

His gaze fell on the slender green jade token. His thoughts drifted again as he looked at the talisman on it. The problem was, there was no spiritual energy in this place anymore. He wondered if using his evil cultivation methods could gain some opportunities.

You should know that the evil cultivation method is different from the spiritual cultivation method. One is to absorb the self, and the other is to borrow external forces.

Ning Xiusu thought about it, picked up the knife and cut it across his palm.

Drop by drop of blood fell and seeped into the green, and the Nine Domains Order emitted a faint blood-red glow.

He wrote the imperial edict in mid-air with his fingertips, and the faint light dissipated in the air and attached to the small green jade order.

This is the Blood Shadow Technique, which uses one's own blood and energy as a guide, and can then be converted into spiritual power using a spirit storage device.

But this would definitely backfire. Suddenly, my heart began to beat wildly. It was not a normal heartbeat, but a strange one, as if it had been silent for years.

Until he felt dizzy, his steps wavered, and he dared not continue.

Then he picked up the dry brush on the table, dipped it in the dripping blood, and wrote the letter on the rice paper. A moment later, when the light of the Nine Domains Order dissipated, the paper also disappeared without a trace.

This was not enough. He set his eyes on the medicinal herbs at the bronze door and had to prepare some backup plans.