Mu Jingyu, who suddenly fell out of the mechanism, had no time to think about the changes that happened outside.
The moment he fell, Mu Jingyu was slightly panicked, but after just a few breaths, he forced himself to calm down. Qi naturally emerged from the soles of his feet, and he performed air-control flight, and then slowly stopped his falling speed.
"Unexpectedly, I accidentally broke into the Alchemy Demon's secret room." Mu Jingyu looked up at the entrance, which was getting smaller and smaller, and said to himself.
Despite his young age, he has seen several secret rooms, large and small. How can I not know where I am at this moment?
"I don't know what happened to Master and Senior Qi Jue? Have they been discovered by the spirits outside? If Master knew that I was disobedient and messed up the organization without permission, I'm afraid I would be locked up here again. You’re going to scold me.”
When Mu Jingyu thought of this, he couldn't help but blame himself secretly. However, there is no regret medicine to take now. Now that the Alchemy Demon's hidden alchemy room has been found, the top priority is to find the elixir quickly.
Following the vertically falling dark passage, after falling a few dozen feet, a faint light finally appeared below the originally dark dark passage.
Along with the faint light, a bit of cold wind blew straight up from below, and the frozen Mu Jingyu couldn't help but tremble. Then I discovered that there was the sound of gurgling water coming from the surrounding stone walls.
Mu Jingyu immediately stopped and approached the stone wall that exuded a cold atmosphere.
"Is this... the stone wall wrapped in ice?" Wherever the palm touched, the cold feeling went straight into the bone marrow.
According to visual inspection, this layer of ice is probably no less than seven or eight inches thick and feels extremely smooth. And close to the stone wall, countless small streams flowed from top to bottom, flowing along the stone wall to the depths of the cave.
Thinking about it, this trickle should be the melted ice and snow at the top of Danchan Mountain, and it flows straight down the stone wall. After tens of millions of years, the coldness in the cave condensed and turned into this thick layer of ice.
Mu Jingyu couldn't help but pour his true energy into his fingers, trying to break the ice. But after trying it several times in a row, not even a crack was left, let alone punctured.
The further down you go, the wider the passage becomes, and the cold feeling becomes more intense. Mu Jingyu was so embarrassed that he poured his true energy into his whole body to be able to withstand the cold feeling.
After falling another hundred or two hundred feet, Mu Jingyu finally saw the ground.
The place where he fell was a cave completely wrapped in ice. Above the cave, hundreds of colorful ice picks hang upside down, and from time to time, little water droplets fall from the tips of the ice picks.
And under each corresponding ice pick, there is also a corresponding icicle. Every drop of water fell on the icicle, slid to the bottom, and was frozen solid.
Mu Jingyu secretly smacked his tongue after looking at it. He didn't know how many years it took for these countless ice picks and icicles to condense.
"Unexpectedly, the Alchemy Demon actually found such a place at the bottom of Danchan Mountain. Although it is extremely cold, it must be a great help for alchemy."
In Jiuhua Mountain, he had listened to Qin Yunchuan talking about the art of alchemy all year round, and he also knew some of the methods. Refining alchemy requires blazing high temperatures. If you are not careful and fail to control the heat, the elixir that you have worked so hard to refine will turn into a ball of ashes.
However, if you can add some things that are cold in nature and like coldness, you can greatly reduce the occurrence of this kind of thing.
Alchemy Demon has been immersed in alchemy for decades, so he naturally knows these things well. If he made elixirs in this place formed by thousands of years of ice, he would naturally get twice the result with half the effort.
After passing these ice picks and icicles, an ice door completely carved from solid ice blocked Mu Jingyu's steps.
"Where should the mechanism here... be?" Looking at the ice crystal wall in front of him, Mu Jingyu frowned and found nothing suspicious.
Now I tried to push the ice door with my hand, but it opened unexpectedly. Mu Jingyu held the sword in one hand and carefully stepped over the ice door with one foot, guarding against possible hidden weapons.
But the ice door was opened, and nothing abnormal appeared: "It seems that I have been worrying too much. The Alchemy Demon has no mechanism here anymore."
In the ice room in front of you, there are several ice chairs carved purely from ice. It is probably where the Dan Demon entertains distinguished guests. There are three other ice paths leading to the rest of the place.
Mu Jingyu walked around the ice room and found that there was no place to store the elixir. It must be deep in the other three ice passages. Take a step now and walk towards the ice path on the left.
This ice tunnel is all carved out of ice. There was a burst of warmth from under the feet. Looking down, I saw a thin stream flowing under the ice, and occasionally hot steam came out. Thinking about it, this trickle is caused by hot springs under the ground that emerge from the ground.
After walking a few hundred feet, my eyes suddenly became brighter. I saw a huge cave with a height of several hundred feet and a width of one mile appeared in front of me.
Unlike other ice caves, this cave was not covered by ice. Instead, it was preserved in its most primitive state. The light that came from nowhere illuminated the entire cave slightly.
Mu Jingyu took a quick glance and found that the difference between this cave and the other ice chambers was that the ones hanging above were not ice picks hanging upside down. Instead, there were hundreds of cicada pupae wrapped in silk, suspended above the cave ceiling by an almost transparent silk thread.
From the outside, it looks like a person is wrapped inside! This silent cave added a bit of a terrifying atmosphere.
Mu Jingyu stretched out his hand and gently touched the cicada pupa. It feels smooth and delicate at the beginning, with a somewhat sticky feeling. I pinched it with two fingers and felt that the object wrapped inside was very elastic. It is 99% similar to the guessed body.
"Could it be that... the Dan Demon really kidnapped hundreds of human beings in this secret realm hidden deep in the Dan Chan Mountain and wrapped them in cicada pupae?"
Although Mu Jingyu had this guess, he was not sure that the Alchemy Demon would really risk the world's indifference and secretly kidnap these people and use them to make alchemy.
Just as he was about to open it to see what was going on, he remembered that his urgent task now was to find the Soul-shaking Spirit Locking Pill, meet up with the drunkard and the Qi Jue scholar, and then leave the realm of Demon Hades Palace.
After working hard, I just walked to the entrance of the cave and couldn't help but look back at the cicadas. He stamped his feet and said: "Hey! Mu Jingyu, Mu Jingyu, if there are really hundreds of lives wrapped up in these cicada pupae, wouldn't you have become a cold-hearted person if you didn't come to rescue them today? !"
With this thought, Mu Jingyu stopped thinking about the elixir and returned to the cave. He turned his left hand into a knife and tried to cut off the hanging thread.
But after trying it several times, he found that the thread was extremely flexible, and he could cut it with just his fleshy palms. He turned around and looked at the cicada chrysalis wrapped in humanoid flesh in front of him. He was about to use his hands to tear it apart with brute force, but he was afraid that it would damage the thing inside, so he had to stop.
"It's empty here. There are no useful weapons. How should we open this layer of cicadas?" Mu Jingyu glanced at the cave, but couldn't find anything suitable.
He slapped his forehead fiercely, thinking of the ice cones outside, and couldn't help but laugh at himself: "Mu Jingyu, there is so much ice outside, wouldn't it be useful to polish it and use it as a dagger?"
Thinking of a solution, Mu Jingyu returned to the ice cave he entered first and found an icicle four to five inches high. First, he used his gas sword to slash hard at the bottom of the icicle.
What I didn't expect was that although the icicle was made of ice, it was extremely hard. After trying several times in a row, he still couldn't cut it off, so he had to use the spiritual energy in the Jiuyaoxuan Light Chain to condense the cultivation level of Guiyuan Realm, and then he was able to cut off the icicle by its roots.
"This thing is so hard, it can at least withstand the Qi of the Guiyuan realm. It can be used to cut off those threads. I still don't believe it can't succeed!"
Mu Jingyu stroked the icicle and muttered confidently. Then he injected the spiritual energy from the Jiuyaoxuan Light Chain into his left hand again, and after dozens of efforts, he finally whittled it into the shape of a dagger.
After staying in place and resting for a quarter of an hour, Mu Jingyu recovered from his panting. Holding the ice dagger upside down in one hand, he came to the cave again.
The ice dagger was indeed sharp, and Mu Jingyu cut off the thread effortlessly. Holding the fallen cicada pupa with one hand, he gently placed it on the ground. Then he carefully scratched the cicada pupa on the surface, revealing what was inside.
"Ah! This pill demon really has someone hiding in it!"
As the cicada pupa was opened, a girl's face was revealed inside. Judging from his appearance, he is roughly between twelve and thirteen years old. Mu Jingyu put his hand between her nose and felt a slight sound of breathing, and then felt relieved.
Presumably, after the pill demon kidnapped these people, he fed her the secret medicine and put her into a coma. I don't know what it was used for.
Mu Jingyu recalled Qin Yunchuan's appearance and wanted to use massage to wake the girl from her coma. But with his skin, how can he crack the elixir of the elixir?
"Forget it, I'd better rescue these people first. If there is a chance, let Master and Senior Qi Jue come and see if they can be rescued."
Mu Jingyu knew how hard he was, and seeing that his efforts for a long time were of no use, his efforts were not in vain. After taking a look at the cicada pupae hanging all over the cave, he held the ice dagger and went to save another person.
After slicing open seven or eight cicada pupae in a row, Mu Jingyu discovered that there were boys and girls between the ages of eighty-nine and fourteen or fifteen years old. And judging by the appearance of his clothes, he could actually find them from all over the country. I think the pill demons were kidnapped from all over Kyushu.
"Hey, I don't know how long it will take to rescue these hundreds of teenagers."
Mu Jingyu wasted less than half an hour to save these dozens of teenagers, and felt a little discouraged. I remembered that I had more important things to do and wanted to stop. But seeing hundreds of teenagers hanging in the air, I couldn't bear it.
At this moment, a slight groan suddenly came from the entrance of the cave. In this silent and empty cave, it seemed particularly deafening.
"Who!" Mu Jingyu paused in fear. After staying in the cave for so long, this was the first time there was an unusual sound. Immediately, he held the ice dagger tightly and walked towards the place where the sound came from.
Passing through the dozen cicada pupae blocking the way, I saw a cicada pupa near the cave appearing in front of me. Different from the other hundreds of cicada pupae, this slightly larger one did not hang quietly upside down. Instead, he kept twisting his body, trying to break free.
"Wu~~~Hmm~~~"
Along with the twisting, moans came from the cicada chrysalis again. Mu Jingyu stopped in front of him and looked carefully, confirming that it was coming from here.
However, he did not immediately use the ice dagger to cut open the cicada pupa. Instead, he tightened his steps and circled the cicada pupa several times.
It's no wonder that Mu Jingyu was so careful. The cicada that suddenly made a sound was not only larger than the rest of the cicadas, but was also shaking constantly.
The person wrapped inside was obviously an adult, and judging by his voice, it was almost certainly a young girl.
"Forget it, no matter who is in it, I'll rescue him first and then talk about it." Mu Jingyu thought in his mind that since the girl was trapped in the cicada, she must have been captured by Dan Mo and his men, so he still Let’s rescue him first and then talk about it.
"Hey, this... girl, I want to rescue you now. Don't move around, be careful that the sword without eyes will hurt you."
Mu Jingyu first warned, and the cicada pupa obviously heard his voice. First he stopped struggling, then curled up and made a nodding gesture, which was regarded as an agreement to Mu Jingyu.
Mu Jingyu first cut off the twining silk, then hugged the cicada, and after helping the girl inside to stand firm, he tightened his grip on the ice dagger and slit the side of the cicada.
As the cicada pupa on one side of her cheek opened, the face of an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl was revealed from inside.
When Mu Jingyu saw the profile of his face clearly, he couldn't help but feel his heart pounding. The ice dagger in his hand fell to the ground with a clang, and he exclaimed: "Senior Sister Su! How did they get you here!" "
