Daqin arrests alchemists, what does it matter to me as a qi refiner?

Before meeting Yang Ling, Xu Fu was just a swindler who would run away in fear when encountering strange things. He would never take the initiative to seek solutions like he does now.

Since becoming Yang Ling's disciple, Xu Fu has indeed witnessed many grand scenes, but following Yang Ling, the scenes he saw were always more grand. Even if he was brave, he could not avoid being a little slow, not to mention that he was timid to begin with.

Yang Ling knew Xu Fu's character well, so he did not blame him.

When the Firefly Art approached the ground, Yang Ling and Xu Fu couldn't help but gasp. Xu Fu was so scared that he even extinguished the Firefly Art in his hand.

"Master... Master, what... what was that just now?" Xu Fu was so frightened that he couldn't even finish his words.

"Human face." Yang Ling understood what Xu Fu wanted to ask and answered directly.

As Firefly Technique approached the ground, a clear outline appeared, and at a glance, they saw a vivid human face.

“Ah——” Hearing Yang Ling’s confirmation, Xu Fu jumped up in fright. After landing, he quickly ran to hide behind Yang Ling and said in a trembling voice: “Master, I didn’t mean to offend the seniors here. I really stepped on it accidentally. I won’t dare to do it again!”

Xu Fu was really scared. He held Yang Ling's arm tightly, shaking like he had a cold, and didn't even dare to open his eyes.

Normally, Xu Fu would never dare to do such a disrespectful thing. Not to mention that Yang Ling might kick him away, for him, it was wrong to offend his master, so he would never take the initiative to do so.

Yang Ling knew that Xu Fu was unreliable, so he took out the tinder and blew twice to light it. He brought the tinder close to the ground, and the face that Xu Fu had stepped on before reappeared.

This face is indeed vivid, as if it is a person sleeping in the ground, and it seems that it has just lay down not long ago. At first glance, it even seems like it is still breathing.

But soon, Yang Ling confirmed that this feeling was wrong, because he reached out and felt the breath of the face and found that there was none.

He wanted to see more clearly, so he prepared to change his position. However, as soon as he moved, the light from the tinder illuminated other places, revealing four or five more faces of different shapes.

The people beside him were still shaking, and Yang Ling's arms were also shaken. The fire starter in his hand was easy to extinguish, and it was shaken continuously like this, so the fire went out before he walked over.

Yang Ling quickly kicked Xu Fu, and before Xu Fu could react, he said, "Either stand still, or I'll bury you too!"

"Master..." Xu Fu's voice was filled with grievance, but he didn't dare to say another word. He stood there and dared not move.

Yang Ling blew the fire stick again and squatted down to check the newly discovered face.

These faces gave him a feeling of familiarity, but he couldn't remember where he had seen them before. He examined them one by one with a tinderbox, but still couldn't remember when and where he had seen these people.

Seeing Yang Ling holding the fire starter with one hand and supporting himself with the other, Xu Fu felt a little ashamed. His master couldn't even use his spiritual power, but he dared to check each one so closely. He, who could deploy a spiritual power shield, was so scared that he hid aside. It was really outrageous.

Thinking of this, Xu Fu looked up at Yang Ling and asked, "Master, let me help you! The light of the fire stick is not as strong as the Firefly Technique!"

He overcame his fear a little and wanted to go over to help, but he didn't dare to act without Yang Ling's permission.

Yang Ling didn't expect Xu Fu to come and light him up, and when he looked up, his eyes were full of surprise. Xu Fu felt even more embarrassed when he saw Yang Ling's expression.

"Come here." Since Xu Fu had already used the Firefly Technique and offered to help, if Yang Ling didn't let him come over, it would seem that he was making a fuss out of nothing.

"Yes, Master!" Xu Fu was as happy as a child who got candy and walked towards Yang Ling.

"Seniors, my master and I have no intention of offending you. Please don't blame us. After we go back, we will definitely burn more paper money for you so that you can live a good life over there. Seniors, please don't be angry. Xu Fu would like to thank you..."

It was only two steps away, but Xu Fu kept muttering for a long time. If Yang Ling didn't want to stand up for the time being, he would definitely kick him again.

But even though the kick didn't go out, Yang Ling showed an unhappy look and said, "Say one more word and I'll throw you out of here!"

The people on the ground looked younger than Yang Ling, and certainly not older than Xu Fu.

The era of spiritual energy revival had just arrived not long ago. Before and after they entered Kunlun Mountain, they were invincible in the territory of Daqin.

No matter in age or strength, there are no seniors here.

What Xu Fu said sounded extremely stupid to Yang Ling. If it weren't for the fact that this guy had changed a lot recently, his heart had become sincere, and he had become a better person, Yang Ling really wanted to throw him off the mountain.

"Master, I won't say anything more!" Hearing Yang Ling's words, Xu Fu quickly shook his head in response.

No matter when, the person he feared the most was Yang Ling. If Yang Ling was unhappy, Xu Fu would not be truly happy no matter how happy he was.

Yang Ling did not respond, and extinguished the fire in his hand. Xu Fu reached out tactfully, closer to the ground, so that Yang Ling could see the faces buried deep underground.

In fact, when Xu Fu realized that he shouldn't have been watching, Yang Ling had already seen the faces of these people clearly with the help of the fire stick, and found nothing unusual on the surface.

That's why he decided to dig up the faces and see what was beneath the ground.

Yang Ling is a man who does what he says, especially when encountering such a strange thing. If he doesn't make a prompt decision, unexpected changes may happen in the next moment.

After he decided to dig out the faces, he went straight to the ground and was even prepared to dig out the faces with his bare hands.

Xu Fu stood by and watched in amazement. When he realized what was happening, he quickly tried to stop Yang Ling and said, "Master, what are you doing? They've already been buried. It would be a shame if you dug them out!"

If you move the body of a deceased person or disturb their resting place at will, the deceased person will be noticed and will cause certain consequences.

Even ordinary people understand these things, so how could Yang Ling, who has long been in the cycle of cause and effect, not know? But it is precisely because he knows that he wants to dig out these faces to see what is underground.

Yang Ling's biggest problem now is the bottleneck brought about by the secret realm of Kunlun Mountain. If he cannot break through this bottleneck, he can't do anything. This barren mountain is where Yang Ling came to following the guidance in his heart. He is sure that the hope of breakthrough lies here.

Compared with the cause and effect of the breakthrough, Yang Ling didn't care about the cause and effect of the strange human faces on the barren mountain. He always felt that these human faces would not bring him any cause and effect, because they were all fake.

But he couldn't explain this matter clearly to Xu Fu, and he couldn't force others to believe his intuition, so he never explained it.

"This is my karma and has nothing to do with you. If you step back, it won't be affected." Yang Ling waved his hand and asked Xu Fu to step back.

Yang Ling's words were easy to be misunderstood, and Xu Fu misunderstood them directly. He thought that his master misunderstood him and didn't want to be involved in karma, so he blocked him.

In order to prove that he had no such intention, Xu Fu directly used his spiritual power to dig up the surrounding soil.

After a layer of soil in the dark forest was dug up, what should have appeared in front of the two people were the bodies of those human faces, but what they saw was only soil that was yellow to black.

"Master, what's going on?" Xu Fu also noticed something was wrong and stood up and asked Yang Ling who was standing beside him.

"Look at these faces. Are there any familiar ones among them?" Yang Ling did not answer Xu Fu's question, but pointed to the faces on the ground and asked.

Xu Fu looked in the direction Yang Ling pointed, his eyes swept across the nine human face masks that were carefully arranged on the side. Three of them were particularly familiar to him, but his memory seemed to be shrouded in fog and he could not clearly recall their origins.

"Master, the third, seventh and last pictures from the north seem familiar to me, but I just can't remember where I have seen them." Xu Fu expressed his feelings frankly.

Hearing this, Yang Ling quickly picked out the three human face masks and put them together. "Take a closer look, can you remember anything?" He said as he pushed the mask towards Xu Fu, his eyes full of expectation.

Xu Fu looked carefully again, but still found nothing. He shook his head helplessly, and his hand unconsciously touched the back of his head: "It feels the same. I can't remember it even if I change the position."

Yang Ling's eyes flickered slightly, as if he had realized something, and he adjusted the position of the mask again.

This time, instead of simply placing them side by side, he cleverly overlapped the three masks to form a new face.

These masks are as thin as paper, and even when overlapped, they can still vaguely reveal the characteristics of the underlying layer.

Xu Fu stared at this new face with a frown on his face, feeling more familiar, but still a little bit wrong. He involuntarily walked closer and picked up a mask from the remaining ones and covered it on top.

Instantly, a slightly stern woman's face appeared. Xu Fu involuntarily took a step back and whispered: "Mother..."

"What did you say?" Yang Ling didn't hear Xu Fu's whisper clearly and couldn't help asking.

Xu Fu turned around and fled into the depths of the forest as if he had seen something terrifying. Yang Ling put down the mask in his hand and hurriedly chased after him, but Xu Fu's figure quickly disappeared from his sight. He was now completely depleted of spiritual power, and even if Xu Fu had not escaped far, he was powerless to catch up.

Yang Ling tried to call upon the power of the jade, but his consciousness was repelled as soon as it touched it. He shook his head helplessly and turned his gaze back to the ground, but was surprised to find that the new face formed by the four overlapping masks had disappeared. He searched everywhere but to no avail, and when he returned, he found that four new masks had strangely appeared on the ground, completely different from the four that had disappeared before.

Yang Ling narrowed his eyes, secretly speculating in his heart that these masks might be the test they were facing. He rearranged the nine masks on the freshly turned soil, ignited the soil with a fire stick, and fused them together.

A new face appeared again, but Yang Ling did not recognize it immediately like Xu Fu did. Countless faces flashed through his mind, including his parents, his Taoist friends when he first started practicing, and Ying Zheng, Xu Fu, Fusu and others in recent years, but none of them matched the face on the ground. He even tried to compare it with his own face, but the result was also fruitless.

The city of Xianyang spent a long dark night and welcomed the first ray of sunshine in the early morning.

However, the barren hills outside the city were still shrouded in darkness. People noticed that there were dark clouds, lightning and thunder, and the deafening sound lasted for a long time, but no raindrops fell.

In the imperial palace of Xianyang City, Ying Zheng and Fusu stood on the Deer Terrace, staring at the barren mountain not far away, their brows furrowed, their faces full of worry. Although they didn't know what happened there, they knew that such a strange phenomenon was by no means a trivial matter.

"The commander of East City reported yesterday that Xu Fu had left the city, and that master seemed to have followed him out as well." Fusu retracted his gaze and reported to Ying Zheng.

"Did Xu Fu go there with the expert?" Ying Zheng couldn't help but confirm upon hearing this.

"The garrison commander only said that Xu Fu was extremely respectful to the person he was traveling with." The garrison commander's words almost confirmed that the person traveling with Xu Fu was Yang Ling, but they were not clear about the purpose of the master and disciple.

"I remember that the master brought back a dragon after he disappeared last time?" Ying Zheng put his hands behind his back, looking in the direction of Donghuang Mountain, as if talking to himself, or asking Fusu.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, what you brought back last time was a little kid." Fusu answered respectfully.

Yang Ling is a person who either stays at home and rarely goes out, or stirs up a storm when he goes out. This time, no one knows what will happen. Ying Zheng and Fusu know that they cannot predict the situation, so they can only wait and see how it develops.

However, the strange phenomenon in Donghuang Mountain spread quickly. As soon as Ying Zheng's order was passed down, Xianyang City was shrouded in dark clouds, and it seemed that the city would be destroyed and people would die. The strong wind rolled up the dark clouds, covering the entire sky in an instant, and heavy rain poured down. Many people were caught off guard and were instantly soaked.

As soon as Fusu led his men to the city gate, heavy rain began to pour down. People on the street fled back home without any notice. The rain was so heavy that Fusu could not return for a while and could only stand at the city gate with the soldiers.

At this time, the East Wasteland Mountain, which was less than a hundred miles away from Xianyang City, was still shrouded in darkness, but the air was extremely dry, with no sign of rain. Yang Ling sat on a large rock, holding two masks in his hands. If Xu Fu were here, he would definitely recognize that the two masks were exactly the same as the two supreme beings in Xianyang City.

Yang Ling repeatedly matched the nine thin masks and finally pieced together the faces of Ying Zheng and Fusu. However, these two masks had no effect on him. Not long ago, he also found Xu Fu, who was squatting not far away and talking to himself.

Xu Fu's performance made Yang Ling understand that these human face masks were for them to piece together the existence that they feared most in their hearts, thereby triggering their inner demons and leaving them forever in the East Wasteland Mountain, turning them into bones. Since they were masks that Yang Ling had found and assembled himself, they had absorbed too much power from the users, and naturally they could materialize the fear in their hearts.

However, this low-level trick had no effect on Yang Ling. He pieced together many faces, all of which were people he had left a deep impression on in his life, but none of them frightened him.

"Mother, I will never steal again, please don't hit me..." Xu Fu suddenly shouted, stood up and tried to escape again.

Yang Ling stood up, blocked Xu Fu's way, and said calmly: "Go back." (End of this chapter)