Seeking Immortality

After Xu Qingfan's investigations over the past few days, he finally found some clues about this green skull that seemed to be made of jasper, but he was not sure. It was not until then that he saw that although Xiao Hei was absorbing a lot of death energy, there was no change, and the death energy contained in the skull was strong and endless, but extremely pure, without any evil spirit, that Xu Qingfan finally felt relieved.

According to Xu Qingfan's guess, this skull should be part of the "Purgatory Staff", the treasure of the "Corpse Refining Zhong Family".

Zhong Ling, the ancestor of the "Corpse Refining Zhong Family", originally became a corpse driver in the mortal world just by relying on some understanding of corpses. Corpse drivers are a relatively magical profession in the mortal world. They know a lot about corpses and can control the corpses to move slowly, but they have no other magical powers.

In the mortal world, many people die in foreign lands for various reasons, but it is very inconvenient to transport corpses back over long distances, and there are various taboos during the process. In addition to being able to control the movement of corpses, corpse drivers also have means to keep corpses from rotting, and can smoothly bring dead bodies back to their hometowns. Therefore, this profession is also prosperous in the mortal world. Although they cannot get rich from it, they have no worries about food and drink.

But this Zhong Ling is an alternative. He accidentally got an incomplete cultivation method. He actually reached the Jindan stage with his own talent without the support of the sect. Because he has been dealing with corpses for many years, he has realized the magical power of refining corpses. Since then, the "Zhong Family of Corpse Driving" has begun to prosper.

And the No. 2 that Xu Qingfan met before is likely to be a descendant of the Zhong family, or he accidentally obtained the secret technique of the Zhong family. Because the "corpse refining technique" started with the Zhong family.

But Zhong Ling had no communication with the immortal world since the beginning of his cultivation. Although he had the strength to cultivate immortals, he did not have the mentality to cultivate immortals. In the final analysis, he was just a mortal with the means to cultivate immortals. Later, the Zhong family became more and more powerful, and began to interfere in the affairs of the mortal world, which violated the taboos of the immortal world. In the end, they were suppressed by the major sects at that time, and their strength was greatly damaged.

But Zhong Ling was a radical person. He believed that the major sects in the immortal world at that time were doing this purely to suppress his increasingly prosperous family, and his proud corpse refining technique was about to collapse under various immortal methods. However, Zhong Ling attributed his failure to the fact that he did not have powerful weapons like those of the major sects, and the corpses he refined were not strong enough.

In the end, Zhong Ling did something that made people's eyes pop up. He actually attracted the dead air in the corpses of millions of people to gather in his body, and refined a magic weapon with his body, which was the "Purgatory Staff" mentioned above, with his spine as the staff body. With his skull as the staff head, his life soul as the guide, and the dead air of countless corpses as the energy, he finally refined this unprecedented strange magic weapon - "Purgatory Staff".

In Zhong Ling's imagination, this "Purgatory Staff" will have an extremely powerful attack power with the powerful dead air contained in it, and there is still no means in the world of immortal cultivation to resist dead air. Not to mention that this magic weapon can greatly increase the ability of the Zhong family to refine corpses.

As long as he has this magic weapon, although Zhong Ling died, his descendants can make the Zhong family more prosperous and invincible in the entire world of immortal cultivation.

Zhong Ling's idea. It finally succeeded, but it also failed. Under his genius or crazy idea, the "Purgatory Staff" was finally refined successfully, and its power was not even inferior to those legendary magic weapons in the world of immortal cultivation. But this idea also failed in the end, because Zhong Ling overlooked one point, that is, dead air is not something that living beings can control. The death energy contained in the "Purgatory Staff" is even more powerful. Although it was successfully refined, the descendants of the Zhong family were unable to master it. With a slight contact, the body would be invaded by the death energy and turned into dry bones in a moment.

In this way, the Zhong family fell into an embarrassing situation where the head of the family died, and the magic weapon he left behind was extremely powerful, but no one could use it. In the end, it was inevitably defeated under the suppression of the major sects in the world of immortal cultivation, and the treasure "Purgatory Staff". In the end, the whereabouts of the treasure were unknown.

Xu Qingfan didn't care about this history at first, but when describing the "Purgatory Staff". He mentioned that under the refining of the death energy, the "Purgatory Staff" was all green, with a skull on the top and bloodshot eyes. The powerful death energy contained in it was very similar to the skull in Xu Qingfan's hand.

At that moment, Xu Qingfan couldn't help but wonder if this skull was the head of the "Purgatory Staff". If so, it should only contain strong death energy and no other settings, so he let Xiao Hei absorb the death energy inside and gather the spiritual energy in his body at the same time, and stop it immediately if he found something wrong. Although Xiao Hei continued to absorb the death energy contained in the skull, there was no change, and Xu Qingfan gradually dispersed the gathered spiritual energy.

Xu Qingfan was afraid that this skull not only contained strong death energy, but also carried some evil energy, and finally Xiao Hei was unconsciously controlled by the evil energy while absorbing it.

But looking at the way Xiao Hei absorbed the death energy from it, this skull should be the head of the legendary "Purgatory Staff", and the death energy inside was extremely pure, but I don't know where the body of the staff went, and why the powerful magic weapon "Purgatory Staff" was divided into two halves.

This skull is the first magic weapon that Xu Qingfan has obtained after so many years of cultivation, although it is only a part of the magic weapon. Before, Xu Qingfan only had one magic weapon, the "Five Spirit Bell", which failed to be refined. Even so, it is already the most powerful and useful magic weapon in Xu Qingfan's hands.

However, although Xu Qingfan was puzzled, he did not think about it anymore. After observing for a long time, he found that Xiao Hei did not show any abnormality, so he closed his eyes and ran the "dead air" and "living air" in his body. On the one hand, he increased the spiritual energy in his body, and on the other hand, he was familiar with the subtleties of these two energies, preparing for the perfection of "Life and Death Decision" later.

However, before closing his eyes to meditate, Xu Qingfan couldn't help but think: "With this skull constantly supplying death energy, I think Xiao Hei's progress will be much stronger than mine during the twelve years of my retreat, but I don't know how far Xiao Hei will grow in the end.

Thinking about it, Xu Qingfan's consciousness finally completely fell into emptiness and began to concentrate on cultivation.

Just before Xu Qingfan went into retreat, he kept looking for the origin of this skull. In another place in the vast land of China, there was another story.

Since the "Treasure Pavilion" was either destroyed or suddenly disappeared within a short half day, the entire cultivation world was in an uproar, but at the same time, many cultivators rushed to the nearest "Treasure Pavilion" ruins, wanting to get something in the ruins. What benefit? After all, the demand for various resources in the cultivation of immortals is unlimited, and the number of rare treasures collected in the "Treasure Pavilion" is also well known.

But these people came too late. After the "Treasure Pavilion" was destroyed, the treasures inside had been searched away by those purple-clothed people. Later, the Righteous Alliance monks who dared to come took away all the remaining valuable items. Although it was a ruin, it was extremely clean. Except for a few lucky ones who got a few high-level spirit stones, most people went there in vain.

As everyone knew that there was nothing valuable in the ruins of the "Treasure Pavilion", no one came to the once bustling "Treasure Pavilion" anymore. The location of the "Treasure Pavilion" was originally remote, and it was even more uninhabited at this time.

But that night On the other hand, the situation is quite different.

In the ruins of the "Treasure Pavilion" that Xu Qingfan had been to, there were many figures at this time. There were hundreds of monks in black robes constantly searching for something in the ruins, but after a long time, they still found nothing.

And a hundred feet away from the ruins, there were two figures standing there quietly, watching the group of people in black constantly searching the ruins.

I saw these two figures, one of them was of ordinary figure, wearing a purple robe, with three golden patterns on the edge of the purple robe, with a frantic bloody "Ming" written on it, and a jade ring on his finger, but it was engraved with a "Hong" character.

This purple-clothed man was "Hong", who ranked first among the sixteen core members of the mysterious "Ming" organization. ”!!

This “Hong” usually keeps a low profile in the “underworld” and never participates in various fights, but he is very powerful and extremely gloomy, so no one will provoke him.

But at this time, “Hong” looked very panicked, standing respectfully behind the left of another figure, with his hands hanging down.

The other figure was small and thin, with a wide black robe covering his face, and the black air swirling around him made it impossible to see his true face.

The most eye-catching thing about this figure was that the pair of skeleton-like hands extending from the black robe were tightly grasping a green long staff, standing there.

And this green long staff looked like a human spine!!