Chapter 369
Hui Zeng Becomes a Demon
His legend was not over yet. At the age of thirty-seven, he passed the fourth-grade alchemist assessment and became the only alchemy genius in ten thousand years who achieved the status of a fourth-grade alchemist before the age of fifty, shocking the world.
In that year, an alchemy competition that shocked the entire Western Region happened to be held. As the only fourth-grade alchemist in the field, he swept all the contestants and easily won the championship.
After the competition, a stunning girl walked up to him. The girl had delicate features, skin as white as snow, and bright eyes that seemed to be able to speak.
Hui Zeng immediately recognized that she was a contestant in this alchemy competition. She was quite talented in alchemy, but it seemed that she had only been learning alchemy for a short time and eventually stopped in the finals.
"I am Qin Yuyou, the Xiyue Princess of the Yanting Empire. We are from the same country. I often go to the Big Buddha Temple to burn incense. May I ask you for advice on alchemy from time to time?"
The girl blinked and gave him a playful smile.
Hui Zeng put his hands together and smiled, "Of course you can. If you don't mind, I can accept you as my disciple."
"Hmph! I don't want to be your apprentice." The girl gave him a coquettish look and ran away with a smile.
The two met at an alchemy competition. This was their first encounter, and since then, a person entered his life.
The girl would break into the Big Buddha Temple from time to time to ask him questions about alchemy, and their contacts began to become more frequent.
The two of them made elixirs together and went to the mountains to collect herbs together. Perhaps because of their time together, they began to secretly fall in love with each other.
When he was meditating, the girl would cover his eyes with her slender little hands from behind him and laugh.
When he fell asleep, the girl would touch his nose with dogtail grass and then run away laughing.
But truth cannot be hidden forever, and as time went on, bad rumors about the two began to spread in the Buddhist temple.
One day, the abbot called him to the Buddha statue and said with his back to him: "You should know the Buddhist prohibitions. You have violated the precepts."
He clenched his fists, said nothing, and after a long silence, he finally left.
But from then on he ignored the girl.
When he was meditating, the girl covered his eyes and he said nothing.
When he was sleeping, foxtail grass tickled his nose, but he remained indifferent.
The girl came happily every day, but left disappointed.
Neither of them spoke a word for a long time.
One day, the girl ran to him crying.
"Monk, there was a war between the Yanting Empire and the Huiyue Empire. Many people died, and my brother also died in the war, wuwu..."
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"Monk, our country has been defeated in the war, and the emperor wants to send me to marry a foreign princess, wuwu..."
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"Monk, the marriage will be held in ten days. How about we elope? I only like you!"
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"Monk, I'm going to get married in five days, and you won't even open your eyes to look at me again. You have such a cruel heart. I hate you! I won't come here again."
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That day, the Buddhist beads in his hand shattered to the ground and he vomited blood. He opened his eyes from his meditation and his heart was in turmoil.
That day, all the abbots of the Buddhist temple came to him together.
"Hui Zeng! When your master was away, he was ambushed by his abandoned disciple who had been expelled from the sect many years ago. When we arrived, it was already too late."
"Your master has passed away now. He knew that you had an extreme personality and many extreme thoughts, so his last wish before his death was for you to practice the 'Erqing Corpse Slashing Technique', abandon all distractions, and focus on saving the demons."
After the old host finished speaking, he held a book in front of him with both hands.
Hui Zeng clenched his fists and his expression gradually became ferocious.
"Eradication of all evil! Eradication of all evil! This is the price of cutting the grass without removing the roots! The Buddhist concept of not killing is wrong!"
Hui Zeng roared like a madman, snatched the "Erqing Corpse-Slaying Technique", turned around and walked away.
"Don't worry! I will fulfill my master's last wish and master the Erqing Corpse Slashing Technique. I will let you see a different me."
Hui Zeng's voice came from a distance, and his figure gradually disappeared from everyone's sight.
When he reached an uninhabited cliff, he recalled his master's last words and howled to the sky:
"If I save the devil, who will save me?"
"If Buddha doesn't save me, I will become a demon!" "If I can't kill demons after becoming a Buddha, then I won't be a Buddha!"
His master died because of his good deeds. At this moment, he seemed to have a sudden enlightenment. He looked towards the imperial capital with tenderness in his eyes. He clenched his fists and said, "Yuyou, wait for me..."
At this moment, he finally realized his own heart. He no longer wanted to be bound by the pedantic Buddhist precepts. He just wanted to be himself and leave here with the person he loved most.
On this day, he practiced the "Two-Clear Corpse Slashing Technique", but he did not force out all the evil thoughts from his body. Instead, he broke the rules and forced out all the good thoughts from his body. On this day, he was completely possessed by the devil...
On the day of the imperial marriage, he stood in front of the wedding procession and carried away the tearful bride in full view of everyone. The emperors of the two empires were furious and sent countless masters to hunt him down.
Under the pursuit of endless powerful people, he finally stopped hiding his trump card and used the power of the Demon-Swallowing Gu in full view of everyone. Without a trace of kindness in his heart, he began to kill those who were pursuing him.
The pursuit was bloody and countless Gu Kings died in this battle between the two empires. Both sides suffered heavy losses.
Although he escaped from the pursuit of the two empires, the beauty died in his arms.
He knelt in front of a barren mountain, in agony...
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Recalling this memory, he couldn't help but shed tears.
I don't know whether it came from the little medicine boy or Duan Tianwu.
"What do you think of my proposal?"
At this time, Qin Manyuan walked into the cave, looked at his back and spoke.
"I want the female cultivator who looks like Yu You. This is my only condition." Duan Tianwu said.
Qin Manyuan thought for a while and said, "No problem, I will convince her. Even if she disagrees, it's up to her. You should recover here first, and don't reveal your identity when you go to participate in the alchemy competition."
Duan Tianwu smiled disdainfully: "No one can see through my disguise, and no one can snatch the championship from me."
"Anything else? If nothing else, you can leave now."
Qin Manyuan didn't say anything else and slowly walked out of the cave, and the cave fell into silence again.
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At the same time, Long Xuan was afraid that something major might happen here again, so he headed north and quickly headed towards the Tianfeng Empire.
At this time, in the Toad Space of the Swallowing Heaven World, Long Xuan looked at the Evil-Repelling Bamboo that had already sprouted out of the soil, and he nodded with satisfaction.
Normally, it would be difficult for him to make the seeds of the evil-repelling bamboo take root and sprout using normal means.
But under the influence of the medicinal liquid, the seed was forced to sprout. Once the seed germinated, the survival rate was greatly improved.
Yao Gu is best at growing elixirs. With Yao Gu's careful care, he believes that nothing unexpected will happen to this evil-repelling bamboo and it will surely thrive under Yao Gu's care.
However, occasionally, the Jie Gu is needed to provide some nutrients for the Exorcist Bamboo. The Exorcist Bamboo needs thunder as nutrients, which are nutrients that the Medicine Gu cannot provide.
He can only trouble Jie Gu for this matter. He can only release Jie Gu when the World Tree produces thunder fruit.
After successfully planting the evil-repelling bamboo on the wooden island, he walked back to the main island along the suspension bridge and found the location of the knife Gu.
At this moment, it was feasting on the corpse of a poisonous insect.
The mantis's diet consists of all kinds of insects, and the knife Gu's armor-piercing ability requires it to devour all kinds of insects. It requires its master to collect the corpses of all the poisonous insects and spirit insects in the world for it.
Thinking about how to enhance the knife Gu's abilities, Long Xuan got a big headache.
How difficult is it to collect all the insect species and poisonous insects in the world? Many powerful and top-grade poisonous insects have unique poisonous recipes, so how can he collect them just because he wants to?
During the years that he had run his shop in the City of Sin, he had been frantically collecting all kinds of poisons and the corpses of various poisonous insects. Although he had collected quite a few corpses of poisonous insects, not many were powerful ones.
There is no shortcut to collecting the corpses of top-grade poisonous insects. You can only grind them bit by bit over a long period of time. This is destined to be a long task.
"Have you finished eating? If you have, come over and transform."
Long Xuan took out the Soul Sealing Pearl from the storage ring. With the communication of soul power, a powerful sword intent soon floated out from the Soul Sealing Pearl.
Seeing this free and easy sword intent, Dao Gu's eyes suddenly lit up. He didn't even bother to eat the insect corpse in his hand. He threw away the half-eaten insect corpse and quickly flew towards the sword intent.
Long Xuan only felt a silver shadow passing by in front of his eyes, and the Xiaoyao sword intent had disappeared.
The knife Gu that swallowed up Xiaoyao's sword intent flew to the World Tree and fell asleep on a thick branch.
For some reason, many of his poisonous insects like to make their home on the World Tree.
Long Xuan smiled, and finally turned and left... (End of this chapter)