On the way here, Scholar Qi Jue had already given the general situation of Danchan Mountain, its guards, and the detailed experts to Jiugui and Mu Jingyu. In order to avoid encountering some unexpected situations after entering Danchan Mountain.
Ever since Dan Mo retreated here with Demon King Bai Ze, he found a barren mountain to the northeast of Demon Underworld Hall and lived alone. This barren mountain seemed to have never been inhabited, but after careful inspection, Dan Mo discovered that there were countless caves connected inside for some reason, including some decent stone chambers.
Judging from its age and scale, it has existed for at least several thousand years. Some ancient utensils are still preserved in some of the stone chambers. The Alchemy Demon has been immersed in alchemy for decades, and he discovered at a glance that these utensils were all used for alchemy. In some larger stone chambers, there are still some medicinal residues left by alchemy.
It doesn't take much thinking to know that this nameless barren mountain must have been the place where a certain senior who was also well versed in this art refined elixirs in the ancient times thousands of years ago.
While the Alchemy Demon was overjoyed, he also searched the surrounding areas, trying to find out the origin of this nameless barren mountain. But this place is located in a barbaric land, and there are not many residents who have lived here for generations. But after Demon King Bai Ze led his people to retreat here, they all ran away, allowing the Dan Demon to run all over the surrounding areas for hundreds of miles. Within the scope, I couldn't find a single human village, so I asked.
In desperation, the Alchemy Demon had no choice but to give up and use this barren mountain as his alchemy location, naming it Dan Chan Mountain. He also asked Bai Ze Demon King for more than ten little demons to help him rebuild this place. Later, Demon King Baize took his life and returned these dozen little demons to the Dan Demon. On the one hand, he is at his disposal, and on the other hand, he can guard the mountain gate for him.
Among them, the three spirits with the highest cultivation level are the Moon-Watching Eagle Envoy guarding the mountain gate, the Sun-Wang Bald Envoy guarding the inner gate, and the Star-Watching Eagle Envoy who is out and about.
Regarding these three spirits, Scholar Qi Jue specially gave the two of them a few words. The Moon-Watching Eagle Envoy and the Sun-Watching Bald Envoy stay in Danchan Mountain to guard them all year round and rarely move outside. Therefore, he is not very familiar with the other spirits in Yaoming Palace.
As long as Jiugui and Mu Jingyu didn't reveal too many flaws, they wouldn't be able to find out that they were disguised. Only the Star-Watching Eagle had frequent contact with other spirits because he had to go out frequently. As long as you don't run into him, you don't have to worry about being exposed.
As the stone door slowly fell, the back of the Moon-Watching Eagle was also isolated. The three of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, looked at the slowly brightening light in the stone passage, nodded to each other, and walked towards the hinterland of Danchan Mountain.
This stone path slopes downward all the way and is about five or six miles long. There is not a single stone chamber excavated on both sides. They must all be in the hinterland of the mountain.
Although there were no monsters guarding him along the way, Mu Jingyu still carefully discovered that every few hundred feet, there were some hidden weapons that were difficult to detect. I thought that once a foreign enemy invaded, they would all be opened.
After walking for a quarter of an hour, this stone path finally reached the end. A stone gate with mottled colors and a faint dark red color appeared in front of you.
Next to the stone door, a small stone chamber was dug. The person who was meditating inside was the bald envoy guarding the inner door.
Presumably, the Moon-Watching Eagle Envoy had already informed the Sun-Watching Bald Envoy of the arrival of the three people by secret means. After briefly checking the Wuyuan copycat tokens in the hands of Jiugui and Mu Jingyu, he opened the stone door and let the three of them in.
When the stone door opened, Mu Jingyu couldn't help but open his eyes. Behind the stone gate, there is a large open stone square. Its area is almost as large as the Jade Flute Terrace on Tianjue Peak in Jiuhua Mountain.
Presumably, after the Dan Demon occupied this place, he expanded and repaired it according to the original stone chamber. As for this stone square, the entire hinterland of Danchan Mountain must have been excavated to form such a large scale.
In the center of the stone square, stands a huge furnace with a height of several tens of feet. Wisps of green smoke rose up from it and away from the vertical hole opposite.
More than a dozen little demons were busy going back and forth, putting medicinal materials into the medicine cauldron according to the animal skin prescriptions in their hands.
On both sides of the stone square, there are neat rows of wooden medicine racks, the height of which is even the same as the top. Looking at the densely arranged medicine boxes above, there must be tens of thousands of medicinal materials hidden there.
On both sides of the wooden medicine shelves, there are several stone paths extending. After just a few casual glances, I discovered that on both sides of these stone paths, small stone chambers were carved out every ten feet or so. From the medicinal aroma emanating from it, it is not difficult to tell that this is a pharmacy.
After Qijue Scholar and others came in, these busy little demons just looked at the three of them casually and did not come to ask. Then he got busy and concentrated on refining the elixir.
Scholar Qi Jue didn't look sideways and led the two of them directly towards the opposite side of the stone square. After crossing the huge medicine cauldron, a dark stone path appeared in front of them.
Unlike the stone path they walked along, there was no faint light on the walls of this stone path. Instead, there are round candlesticks inlaid at intervals. It only lights up automatically when someone passes by, illuminating a small area in front of you. After walking past, they were all extinguished again.
After walking in for a while, Scholar Qi Jue whispered: "The stone square we just passed by is where the Alchemy Demon is specially used to study alchemy. And in the several paths on both sides, there are no less than a hundred rooms of various sizes. Yi's alchemy room. It stores all kinds of elixirs that he has successfully refined over the years. The number and variety of elixirs are so large that probably no other sect in the entire Kyushu can compare with them."
After Mu Jingyu said oh, he said doubtfully: "Senior Qijue, since the elixirs are all stored in those elixir chambers by the elixir demons, let's just go and look for them. Why do you bring us here?" "
Scholar Qi Jue smiled and said: "Although there are many pills stored in those pill rooms, they are all ordinary goods. I heard Zhong Kang say that what you need is an ancient pill called the Suo Mai Zhenling Pill. Presumably, the alchemy will not be placed in those alchemy rooms. And the place I am leading you to is a place where the alchemy specifically stores those extremely rare and high-grade elixirs. You can only find them if you look for them."
While talking, the three of them walked to the end of the stone path. I saw three stone chambers dug out on both sides and at the end of the stone path. Among them, on the stone chambers on the left side, the four characters "Zangtian" and "Judi" are engraved. Come to think of it, these two alchemy rooms are where the Alchemy Demon stores extremely rare elixirs and some heavenly materials and earthly treasures. At the end of the stone path, there is also a stone room with the word Dantu engraved on the door.
Mu Jingyu was just about to reach out and push open the stone door of the alchemy room beside him, which was engraved with the gathering place. Scholar Qi Jue stopped him in time: "Don't move, kid. These three alchemy rooms are different from the others. There are some restrictions on them. If you don't know the method, you can't open them."
These three alchemy rooms contain rare elixirs that the alchemy demon has refined throughout his life. Without some powerful prohibition protection, wouldn't it be easy to steal it?
The relationship between the Qijue Scholar and the Alchemy Demon is different. In addition, over the years, he has helped the spirits in Yaoming Palace to brew and brew some rare wines and fragrant teas from time to time. Naturally, some rare and talented treasures are needed. Therefore, the Alchemy Demon has long told these methods to break the restrictions to the Qi Jue Scholar.
And in the entire Yaoming Palace and Jiuzhou, only the Qi Jue scholar knows how to break these restrictions. This shows that Dan Mo has special feelings for Qi Jue Scholar.
As Qijue Scholar softly recited the incantation, circles of yellow fluorescence appeared on the stone door of the alchemy room with the gathering place engraved on it. After the scholar Qi Jue placed his palm on the yellow circle of light in the middle, the stone door lit up and opened silently.
"Come in." Scholar Qi Jue pushed open the heavy stone door. After letting the two people in, he turned back and closed the stone door. Then he chanted the incantation again and re-installed the restrictions on the stone gate.
Different from the huge stone square outside, this stone room is obviously not made of stones, but is instead made of some unknown tall trees. Waves of fragrance emanate from the walls, making people feel refreshed.
Nine lampstands made of the same wood were pulled by silk threads as thin as spider silk, and were arranged at the top of the wooden room according to their unique orientation.
Mu Jingyu looked carefully and found that the nine lampstands were arranged according to the directions of Kyushu. Presumably, this fits the name of this gathering alchemy room.
"There are probably nearly a thousand elixirs stored in this alchemy room. We have limited time, so let's search separately. If there is none here, we have to go to the other two alchemy rooms to have a look."
Scholar Qi Jue greeted the two of them and stood in front of the surrounding walls. I saw countless pill boxes neatly arranged on the four wooden pill racks that led directly to the roof of the room.
On each medicine box, there is a name of the elixir hidden in it. In this way, it will be easier for the three of them to search. So as not to be like a headless fly with no idea where to start.
The drunkard nodded and flew to the wooden alchemy stand on the left, rummaging through it carefully. The Qijue scholar stood on the innermost wooden alchemy shelf, starting from the bottom and looking through it layer by layer.
The time left for the three of them was only one day and night. If we can't just find it in one day, then the remaining time is too tight.
Qingyun Mountain, Qingyun Village.
In the Yunyin Hall of the village, the leader of Qingyun Village, Jia Jianshan, was sitting on a Taishi chair, listening to the little demon below reporting on the recent inspection.
At this moment, a spirit wearing a navy blue python skin cloak hurriedly walked in from outside Yunyin Hall.
Jia Jianshan glanced at it and waved his hand to signal the little demons who were reporting the situation to shut up. Looking at the spirit that just came in, he asked: "Zang Qing Envoy, have you found out the situation?"
The person who came was none other than Ye Qing, the leader of the twelve secret patrols under Jia Jianshan's seat, the Green Python Jingzang.
Zang Yeqing bowed his head slightly at first, and then said: "After the visit of my subordinates, I have roughly understood what happened yesterday. It's just that there are still some uncertainties about the specific situation, so I rushed back here. Please ask the village leader to make a decision."
Jia Jianshan waved his hand to signal him to stop temporarily, then stood up, pointed to the side hall next to him and said, "If you have anything to say, let's go inside and talk."
The other little demons said goodbye in unison and filed out of Yunyin Hall.
Jia Jianshan took Zang Yeqing to a side hall next to him, and ordered the little demons guarding the place to exit the side hall. After taking strict precautions outside the hall, he motioned Zang Yeqing to sit on the chair at the bottom. .
"Tell me, what did you discover this day and night? Who killed the lynx spirit and the cloud deer spirit?"
It turned out that after the drunkard killed the two spirits, the lynx and the cloud deer spirit, he simply buried their bodies on the spot. Little did he know that all the monsters in the Demon Underworld Palace now have a kind of cyan beetle on their bodies.
Once the host they parasitize dies, they will wake up from their slumber and return to their respective villages to deliver messages. In this way, these village owners will know clearly that their spirits are dead and where they are buried.
Although Drunkard has been famous for decades, he is aware of some situations in Yaowei Palace. But this cyan beetle was secretly distributed to some spirits with advanced cultivation and important positions after King Bei Pluto took over the Demon Hades Palace.
This matter is extremely secretive. Not to mention the outsider like Drunkard, even the vast majority of ordinary little demons in the palace don't know about it. That's why this flaw was revealed.
The Qijue scholar also accidentally got the news from other places. Only after killing the two spirits, the black bear and the green wolf, would they use a domineering technique to shatter them into powder to prevent any green beetles they might have from escaping and exposing the news.
