"Boil water for bathing."
Duan Zhen fiddled with the firewood, scooped the water from the water tank into a large boiler, and began to wait for it to boil.
At the last moment, he had lived in a modern civilized world for six or seven years, but now he has returned to this kind of society that is almost slash-and-burn.
Not counting slash-and-burn farming, at least the standard of living is approximately equal to ancient China.
The difference in contrast was so great that even he was stunned before he remembered that he had to chop wood and boil water for a bath.
The smallest things are often the little things in life.
At this moment, he missed the convenience of the technological age.
At least you don't have to boil water yourself...
Duan Zhen closed his eyes and began to perceive a unique power in this world.
That was something I had not been able to perceive in the past thirteen years.
The aura of heaven and earth!
He put on an air of having five hearts pointing to the sky, and the Xuan Yuan Ding Qing Jue in his mind was running wildly.
As soon as the method was activated, the alien energy that had tortured him for more than ten years suddenly emerged.
This energy is completely silent in the world of dragons and snakes, and seems to not exist at all.
But as soon as he returned, the slightest movement spread again.
The eight extraordinary meridians, five internal organs, four tips and seven orifices seemed to be on fire in an instant.
Like being cut into pieces by a thousand knives, pain like bone-cutting cramps suddenly hit me.
When the pain ignites, it is extremely hot, like a furnace exploding inside the body.
But it was so hot that it turned into a freezing cold that penetrated deep into the bone marrow.
It's as if there are two extreme forces fighting in the body.
His body was sometimes red and sometimes purple, changing rapidly.
"As expected..."
Suffering such sudden pain again, Duan Zhen didn't even frown.
The previous thirteen years were bearable, let alone now?
He steadily operated his Xuanyuan Dingqing Jue, and light began to shine through between his brows.
At the age of thirteen, the body had not yet had any cultivation, but as soon as the magic formula was turned, invisible and qualityless power began to be produced.
That extremely subtle but extremely pure spiritual power instantly enveloped the whole body.
Shrunk into an extremely small point, the impact peeled away the raging alien energy.
"Whirring whirring!"
As the spiritual power began to spread, the invisible but real light energy around him was finally pulled and attracted.
The air flow swirled and was gradually sucked into his body.
A feeling of gentleness, warmth, and clarity suddenly arises.
"This is spiritual energy."
Duan Zhen sighed. At this moment, he was finally able to actively absorb these spiritual energy.
This has never happened before.
Before entering the world of dragons and snakes, he practiced this technique for more than ten years.
Every time there is a slight progress, the alien energy will explode, and there is no possibility of further progress, let alone stimulating spiritual power.
You can't practice martial arts, you can't enter the mysterious method, and naturally you can't absorb a trace of spiritual energy.
But this time it was completely different.
Even if he doesn't unfold the Holy Fetus, he can still control the method and stimulate spiritual power.
As for the pain that had to be endured with all one's strength before, it seemed that it was nothing now.
As soon as that spiritual power was born, it was nourished by spiritual energy and grew crazily.
All the processes are natural and reasonable.
The burning and cold feeling in the body subsided instantly and was gradually suppressed.
"In less than a month, all the alien energy will be removed."
Duan Zhen nodded. If he didn't go to the world of dragons and snakes, it would probably take him decades to reach this level.
Regardless of any willpower or martial arts, it would be difficult for him to get started with the Xuanyuan Dingqing Jue alone.
In the past, it was difficult for him to complete even a small circle of heaven in the one-hour daily practice.
But in the world of dragons and snakes, he had long been proficient in Xuanyuan Dingqing Jue, and he no longer had any obstacles in various levels.
Now it is just a re-cultivation. With the nourishment of spiritual energy, the spiritual power grows even faster.
After pondering for a long time and feeling his body gradually recovering, Duan Zhen picked up the boiling kettle, mixed some cold water with it, and washed his body.
On earth, when people return home from a distant place, they always have to have their hair cut and take a bath. It can be considered that he has not returned for a long time now.
When he opened the door and walked out, a cloud of smoke floated in.
It's finally night.
"Longchuan City..."
Duan Zhen looked at the pedestrians walking on the street, as well as a towering lighthouse that was faintly visible two streets away, and felt as if he was in another world.
The lighthouse is where the Su family is located, not far from his current cabin.
He turned around and entered the house, started to light a fire to cook again, and ate and drank enough.
After that, he waited in front of the window, watching the red light gradually appearing on the sky, and thought slightly in his heart.
It's dark and weird, so don't go out of the city.
This is the sentence he has heard the most in more than ten years in this world.
Longchuan City is a city within the boundaries of Qingyuan, located in the middle of the Dahuang Mountains.
The city has been built for at least a thousand years, and its main purpose is to suppress the monsters and weirdos in the Great Wilderness Mountains.
Monsters and weirdos, these are two different categories.
The former is barbaric and cruel, while the latter is strange and inexplicable.
Fortunately for the demon clan, they are one of all creatures and spirits, so they are not difficult to deal with.
And the weird ones are so weird that I don’t even know if they are living things.
I don’t know why it appeared, and I don’t know how it died.
So call it weird.
The biggest characteristic of Weirdness is that it cannot be killed.
It is often separated by destruction of bones and hemolysis, and will regenerate from another place after a period of time.
Apart from martial arts and blood energy, the human race has no known means that can effectively suppress it.
The time when this kind of weirdness appears is also very unique. It only appears and appears at night, and it only appears at night.
The night seems to be their cradle, allowing them to come out wantonly.
As soon as night falls, something strange appears.
"Zizzizi!"
Duan Zhen lit the oil lamp while waiting, and the darkness of the hut was dispelled by the light.
"I really want to see what kind of weird tricks you do..."
He glanced outside the window at the strong red light that finally gradually rose as the sky darkened, and his thoughts changed.
Longchuan's life-suppressing formation.
This is the blood energy formation that covers the whole city.
According to Duan Zhen's estimation, the size of Longchuan City is about as big as the entire Demon City plus the Imperial City.
How wide is this layer of blood energy spreading?
It covers Longchuan City and forms a barrier to the outside world. All tangible, intangible and weird objects are inaccessible.
As for the outside of the city, the city gates were closed tightly at night, and no one was allowed to leave the city, and no one would choose to leave the city.
The night outside Longchuan City is extremely dangerous.
"Go to Xiuling tomorrow to get some healing medicine..."
Duan Zhen shook his head and stopped thinking about weird things.
As soon as the power of the Holy Fetus is released, he will become exhausted and dying, and needs to be solved as soon as possible.
Otherwise, wouldn’t all my cultivation be in vain?
He stared at the extremely intense blood light for a long time, until the blood light completely enveloped the whole city, then he closed the window and fell asleep.
...
Outside Longchuan City, the light dispersed, and the ultimate darkness came.
The howling winds were echoing with the terrifying and sharp sounds.
The world seemed to have lost all its light in an instant and entered eternal night.
The wild beasts and plants outside the city seemed to be controlled by an inexplicable force, and gradually separated and dissipated.
The strong wind blew and turned into dust.
Howling wind, piercing screams, and extremely dark night.
This is an extremely horrific scene.
Everything loses its vitality in the dark night.
The strong wind carried a blood-curdling scream and suddenly hit the red-lit city gate.
"Boom boom boom!"
Extremely violent burning and explosion sounds were heard one after another, the red light was unscathed, but the sound of wind suddenly stopped.
There were faint screams coming from the wind. .
The life-suppressing formation can block all visible and intangible weirdness.
At this moment, the sound of wind stopped for a moment, turned around, and headed towards the endless wilderness mountains.
"Hey hey hey..."
A terrifying and inexplicable voice screamed, accompanied by strong winds, and left in the distance.
Everything around him became quiet and calm.
But at this moment, a figure suddenly appeared in the distance and came slowly.
It was a man carrying a red lantern.
He was wearing a dark red robe with little scarlet blood on it.
The blood seemed to be alive and was jumping as he moved around.
He seemed to be alone, in the middle of the night when everything was quiet, at a time when weirdness was rampant, and he passed through the entire wild mountain range that contained infinite dangers.
Along the way, his expression remained unchanged, as if he had lost all emotion.
The lantern in his hand shimmered gently, illuminating an area of one foot and dispersing the boundless darkness.
"I'm back...Longchuan City..."
The man muttered to himself, and finally there was a trace of emotion on his face.
His voice was as if he had just crawled out of the abyss, stiff and creepy, with an extremely biting coldness.
The blood on his robe surged instantly as he spoke and spread to his face.
There were drops of scarlet blood, whether it was someone else's or my own.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
As the blood spreads throughout the body, the originally quiet surroundings start to sound like wind again,
His body began to turn dark black and red, and his face became extremely twisted and terrifying.
This is no longer what humans can look like.
And the next moment, his face changed as usual.
All the blood on the robe disappeared and gradually turned into a set of ordinary robes.
Except for the dark red, there is nothing different about it.
He just waited quietly, and something extremely terrifying seemed to appear around him again as he just spoke.
Howling winds, strange screams, floating corpses, deep coffins made of black wood...
Countless weird things appeared in front of him, but he couldn't find any of them.
It was as if he was in an independent space at the moment and nothing could affect him.
He waited until dawn broke, revealing a hint of fish belly white.
Endless radiance spreads from the void very far and high, illuminating the mountains and rivers and driving away all weirdness.
The bloody red light floating in Longchuan City and covering the entire night gradually dissipated.
The gate of Longchuan City opened.
Gradually, more and more people came in and out of the city, and he followed a group of people filing in.
Before he stepped into the door, a slight stream of air spread from his body and flowed into the bodies of everyone around him.
The eyes of those people flashed red, and they were stunned for only a moment before returning to normal.
He passed the human test crystal, took a drop of blood to verify his identity, and found nothing abnormal.
"Su Chun'an, I'm back..."
As he stepped into the city, a flicker of cruelty and unwillingness flashed in his eyes, but he immediately calmed down and showed no signs of abnormality.
Then, searching for his memory, he walked around for a long time and stayed close to a small house.
...
