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

Although Xu Fu was trapped in his inner demons, he was still able to recognize Yang Ling, because Yang Ling gave him a power far greater than that of his mother and others.

"Master..." Seeing the person in front of him clearly, Xu Fu excitedly grabbed Yang Ling's sleeve, "Master, I didn't steal anything, it was someone else who framed me. Mother doesn't believe me, so don't believe me either!"

"I believe you, come back with me now." Yang Ling patted Xu Fu's head and said lightly.

His expression was calm, and his tone did not sound like words spoken to a person on the verge of collapse. However, it was these words that calmed Xu Fu down immediately. He tightly grasped Yang Ling's sleeve and followed him back, as if as long as this person was there, even the Avici Hell ahead would not be scary.

Yang Ling led Xu Fu to the woman's mask and bent down to pick it up. This action seemed normal, but in Xu Fu's eyes, it was like Yang Ling holding his mother's hand, and his mother was holding a whip to whip him.

"No... don't come over, Master, save me..." Xu Fu stared at the mask in Yang Ling's hand. He took a step back every time the other party took a step forward, his eyes full of fear.

"Don't move, tear off this mask." Seeing Xu Fu retreating continuously, Yang Ling couldn't help but frown and ordered.

Xu Fu heard his master's voice again. This voice was so powerful that he dared not resist. However, the content of the order made Xu Fu hesitate to act.

"Master, I can't do it. I can't beat her..." Xu Fu stood there, his legs trembling, fear revealed in his voice.

"Don't be afraid. Look at it. It's just a mask. Everything in the past is gone." Yang Ling walked forward, handed the mask to Xu Fu, and said in a deep voice, "Tear it off!"

As Yang Ling approached step by step, countless painful memories of his childhood suddenly emerged in Xu Fu's mind, including the sarcastic faces of those women and the countless painful experiences of being beaten with sticks, like a tide.
"Keep an eye on her, overcome her, and from now on, this person will no longer be able to control you. Xu Fu, I'm always here to support you..."

Although Yang Ling's voice was light, at this moment, it was like a strong light that penetrated the darkness in Xu Fu's heart and instantly broke his predicament. Xu Fu's hands clenched unconsciously, as if he wanted to grab that mean face.

"Kill! I'm going to kill you!"

Xu Fu suddenly looked at the face and roared angrily. With a "whoosh", the face was torn apart by him.

After the faces of the mean women were torn apart, their original appearance could no longer be recognized, but Xu Fu did not stop until he had completely crushed those faces.

After his face was torn apart, Xu Fu seemed to have lost all his strength and sat dejectedly on the ground. Yang Ling was lightly bumped but did not move, because at this moment, only when Xu Fu touched him could he feel at ease.

Yang Ling casually threw the faces of Ying Zheng and Fusu on the ground. He did not look at them for long. He just raised his hand and gently placed it on Xu Fu's head, stroking it gently.

Xu Fu had just overcome his inner demon, and his aura was extremely unstable. If he was stimulated at all, he might go crazy. Yang Ling's aura surrounded him, allowing him to sense Yang Ling's presence.

However, this alone was not enough. Sensing his presence did not mean understanding his position, so Yang Ling gave him the opportunity for physical contact and took the initiative to comfort him.

As expected, this move was very effective. In less than half an hour, Xu Fu's breath stabilized and the power around him even became stronger.

"Master, I..."

Xu Fu stood up and was stunned for a moment. He could hardly believe his own change.

"No doubt about it, you have made a breakthrough!"

Yang Ling withdrew his hand and responded calmly.

After tearing off his face, Xu Fu absorbed the spiritual energy from the top of Donghuang Mountain and achieved a breakthrough without realizing it.

"Thank you Master!"

Hearing Yang Ling's affirmative response, Xu Fu was extremely excited. He immediately knelt down in front of Yang Ling and kowtowed respectfully.

"This is your own good fortune, no need to thank me!"

Yang Ling glanced at Xu Fu and said calmly.

The inner demon was Xu Fu's, Yang Ling just helped to guide it out, and the breakthrough was also Xu Fu's own efforts, and outsiders could not help. It can be said that Xu Fu's breakthrough this time had little to do with Yang Ling.

"It is only because of Master that I can accept this opportunity. This is indeed Master's credit. I should be grateful!"

As Xu Fu spoke, he kowtowed twice, respectfully and piously, as if he was facing the god in his heart.

In fact, Xu Fu had already regarded Yang Ling as the only god in the world. Not to mention that Yang Ling was extremely powerful and was the best in the world, just talking about what happened just now, at the moment when his face was torn open and his inner demons were broken, Yang Ling had already firmly established himself as a god in Xu Fu's heart.

Xu Fu did not have a happy childhood. He had a stepmother who beat and scolded him, depriving him of the opportunity to succeed in life and cultivating his bad habits of stealing and not doing his job properly.

These experiences have always been an indelible shadow in Xu Fu's heart. He once thought that he would just live his life in a muddle and never thought about the future.

After meeting Yang Ling, Xu Fu embarked on the path of cultivation and was fortunate to serve Yang Ling. From then on, he wanted to hide all his shortcomings and pretend to be a noble person, so as not to be looked down upon and abandoned by his master.

However, the rats could not get rid of the stench, and he would be awakened by it every night. His childhood experience and his determination to get back on the right track became Xu Fu's biggest demon.

Now that Yang Ling had helped him eliminate his inner demons, Xu Fu had nothing else to ask for. He just wanted to stay by Yang Ling's side and work for his master.

Yang Ling could sense the changes in Xu Fu, but he didn't care about them, because everyone had their own karma, which could not be easily changed by outsiders.

Yang Ling would naturally be happy if Xu Fu could have a good change; but if there was a bad change, he would not show mercy.

“Master, when I ran out just now, I seemed to see the stream from before, but I’m not sure if it was an illusion or real!”

Xu Fu suddenly remembered something, looked at Yang Ling and said.

"Where did you see it?"

Hearing Xu Fu's words, Yang Ling raised his hand and said, "Take me to see it!"

"Yes, Master!"

Xu Fu did not dare to be negligent. He responded respectfully and then bent down to lead the way.

The distance he ran was not too far, but not close either. The two of them walked for an incense stick of time before they stopped at the end of the forest.

The stream is right here, but the originally clear water has turned into thick and disgusting blood water, with countless black maggots wriggling in it.

"No, Master, this place wasn't like this when I came here before!"

Xu Fu frowned, and as soon as he finished speaking, the ground under his feet began to shake.

“Boom... Boom... Boom..." The sound of boulders rolling was heard on the top of Donghuang Mountain, and the foot of the mountain also began to shake violently.

Yang Ling and Xu Fu, who were at the top of the mountain, subconsciously grabbed the dark forest trees on both sides to stabilize their bodies. However, before they could stand firm, the dark forest disappeared and the two fell to the ground. Strangely, they did not feel the pain of falling to the ground, but instead felt as if they were hit by something.

Yang Ling felt as if someone had poked him in the lower back with a stick. The electric-shock-like pain went straight to his head, causing him to frown and turn his head to look at the thing that hit him.

You won't know until you see it. It's shocking. There are bones piled up all around them, like a mountain, and they are lying in the pile of bones.

There was no doubt that it was these bones that had hit Yang Ling's lower back. Xu Fu was also buried in the bones, but he had no time to care about the pain in his body. He directly used his spiritual power to fly out of the pile of bones.

Yang Ling was still sitting in the pile of bones, holding his waist. Xu Fu immediately walked over with a guilty look on his face: "Master, I'm sorry, it was my fault that I was careless and failed to protect you in time!"

In the past, such a change would not have affected Yang Ling at all, let alone hurt him. Now Yang Ling could not use his spiritual power, and finally when Xu Fu could protect him, he failed to react in time, and Xu Fu felt very uncomfortable.

Yang Ling stood up with the help of Xu Fu, and felt a burst of spiritual power on his lower back massaging the swollen area. This feeling made Yang Ling a little uncomfortable, and he pushed Xu Fu's hand away and said calmly: "Let's go to the blood river and take a look!"

The surrounding illusion disappeared, and the true appearance of the top of East Wasteland Mountain was revealed. All the scenes they had seen before were false.

I don’t know if it was because the two of them broke the human face illusion, which in turn broke other illusions, or for some other reason, but the East Wasteland Mountain now feels real.

The East Wasteland Mountain was still shaking, and with the dark clouds in the sky, it felt like the end of the world was coming. But the blood river was not affected at all and was still flowing slowly.

The black maggots in the blood river continued to multiply, faster than when they first arrived, as if they were multiplying madly as if they were completing a mission.

Yang Ling narrowed his eyes, a bad premonition welling up in his heart, but he couldn't tell why he had this feeling for the time being.

Xu Fu followed behind Yang Ling. He didn't care about the blood river, but he was always alert to the dangers around him, fearing that any unexpected situation would occur again and he would miss the opportunity to protect Yang Ling again.

Just now, when he used his spiritual power to heal Yang Ling, he was pushed away. He was just a little bit away from healing Yang Ling's lower back injury. Xu Fu was now staring at Yang Ling's lower back, as if looking for an opportunity to attack again.

"Let's go, follow the flow of the blood river and see where it goes!"

Yang Ling raised his hand and called to Xu Fu who was standing beside him in a daze.

"Yes, Master!"

Hearing Yang Ling's words, Xu Fu immediately stepped forward and supported Yang Ling as he walked forward.

The Blood River was different from the previous streams, and its flow rate was very slow. But this did not prevent them from finding its source, as long as it flowed, they could find its direction.

The blood and black maggots in the blood river flowed towards the west of East Desolate Mountain. After Yang Ling and Xu Fu followed for more than an hour, they finally stopped at the westernmost part of the top of East Desolate Mountain.

The blood river did not stop at this point, but the black maggots did. The blood also flowed underground, still in the west direction, but I didn't know if it would change underground.

The place where the black maggots stopped was a formation. These black maggots seemed to be summoned and crowded into the formation to absorb the power generated by the formation.

Yang Ling had never seen this kind of power before, but he could feel that it was not a good power, at least it would not be good for them.

"Master, what kind of formation is this?"

Xu Fu looked at the strange formation in front of him and couldn't help but ask curiously.

"The runes look like a sacrificial array!"

After hearing Xu Fu's question, Yang Ling's eyes fell on the talismans that made up the formation and responded calmly.

The sacrificial formation is a layout used for offering sacrifices to gods. Anything that enters this formation is regarded as a sacrifice, to be offered to the gods to be prayed for, in order to seek divine help and achieve one's wish.

However, the gods in the world are only legends, and no one can truly invite them, so the sacrificial formations have gradually been lost to the world.

When the two arrived at the strange sacrificial formation, Xianyang City was suffering from the strange "disappearance of human flesh".

At first, the rain over Xianyang City was just like any other, and passers-by all knew that they should go home on rainy days.

But soon, the torrential rain turned into blood red, falling on the earth and dyeing the ground red.

What is even more horrifying is that this blood rain has extremely strong corrosive power. Anyone who touches it will have their skin and flesh rot and disappear instantly, leaving only white bones lying in the blood rain.

And these bones could not survive for long in the blood rain, and soon sank into the ground, disappearing without a trace.

The bloody rain not only affected ordinary people, but also the practitioners in Xianyang City were not spared. Their spiritual power collapsed instantly under the bloody rain.

In the face of the bloody rain, everyone seemed to have turned into fragile tofu, completely unable to resist.

In the palace, Ying Zheng heard the eunuch's report and was worried about Fusu who was out to announce the imperial decree. If he had known that the strange phenomena outside were so terrifying, he would never have let Fusu go.

Fusu had been guarding the city gate, and wanted to wait until the rain subsided before returning to the palace. However, it was already dark and the rain did not subside. Instead, he witnessed people on the street being corroded into blood by the blood rain.

In this situation, Fusu did not dare to act rashly. He ordered all the soldiers guarding the city to hide in the side rooms inside the city wall and the gates were closed tightly. No one dared to go out.

"Master, when will you return? Xianyang City needs you..."

Fusu stood by the window of the ear room, looking towards the direction of Donghuang Mountain, his tone full of worry.

At this time, the person Fusu was talking about was standing in the sea of ​​corpses and blood in Donghuang Mountain.

It is almost certain that the destination of the black maggots in the East Wasteland Mountain is related to the sacrificial formation. However, Yang Ling could not see what power these black maggots had, and no one valued them as sacrifices. What was the meaning of the existence of this sacrificial formation?
The light on the sacrificial formation became brighter and brighter, as if it had really been replenished by some kind of power and began to take effect.

However, they found nothing but piles of bones and thick blood along the way. The blood had obviously been deposited for many years and had no fresh power. Like the black maggots, it had no effect.

Because of this, Yang Ling couldn't understand how the sacrificial formation got replenished with power and was able to operate.

"Master, who is this sacrificial formation for? Are the only offerings these black maggots and blood?"

Xu Fu looked at the formation for a long time but couldn't understand it, so he had to ask Yang Ling again.

"I have never heard of a god who likes black maggots, but there is indeed a god who kills bloodthirsty people!" (End of this chapter)