The boundless space is filled with a gloomy and dark atmosphere.
The dark river meanders silently, with countless ghosts baring their teeth and claws, whispering curses!
It seems as if it is about to break through the riverside and bring despair to the world.
Qi Mingchen's soul was inside, watching all this in a daze...
【You shouldn't have come. 】
The plain tone was deafening in his ears, and he only had time to catch a glimpse of a pair of huge eyes in the sky before he was driven out of this space.
In just a moment, the surrounding environment turned into a familiar forest.
He took two steps back, but before he could recover, a golden energy in his body flowed out from between his eyebrows and passed along the meridians into his internal organs, nourishing and purifying him.
In addition to the golden energy, the untapped medicinal properties that have remained in the body for many years are being released at this moment and transformed into pure spiritual power, which circulates in the meridians with a strange law.
Thousands of silk threads are derived from a single golden thread, and they are slowly twisted into an almost transparent small pill. The small pill is spinning in an indescribable way.
This is...the pill forming period!
The golden warm current returned to his eyebrows, and Qi Mingchen realized that the route of this energy just now was a kind of skill, a kind of skill he had never seen before:
"Wraith Divine Veins!"
He recalled the four words in his heart in horror, and he could feel the extraordinaryness just from the name.
When he moved his limbs, he didn't know when the injury had healed, but with a thought, the Wraith Divine Veins began to circulate in his body, and an unprecedented sense of comfort and smoothness came to his heart.
This is a feeling I've never felt before.
He had reached the peak of foundation building in just half a year. The sect had high hopes for him. In order to awaken his spiritual roots as soon as possible, he was given the highest skill in the sect that only direct disciples and chief disciples could access: the Yellow Level Canglong Skill!
Normally, he should be able to break through quickly, but every time he gathers a little spiritual power, it will dissipate for unknown reasons, and there will also be a sense of disobedience, as if his feet are tied with chains when walking, making it difficult to move.
And now the Wraith Divine Vein was running, breaking the chain, as if it belonged to him from birth.
Comfortable! carefree!
The extraordinary power of this skill has been vaguely revealed, but his current strength has only been glimpsed into a corner.
But...why did this technique appear out of thin air?
At first, perhaps because he was too young, he had no memory before he was picked up by the second elder. Whenever he tried to ask about his life experience, the second elder would only solemnly order him to practice hard and would not reveal anything about his life experience. Other people in the sect just thought he was an orphan picked up by the second elder from outside.
Qi Mingchen suspected that this skill that appeared out of thin air had a deep relationship with his life experience, and it was also his only clue at present.
He opened his hand and clenched it tightly, feeling the power brought by the spiritual power.
"Is this a...blessing in disguise?"
Exhaling a breath, he recalled the life-and-death crisis just now, but his memory only stayed at the time when Liu Zi punched him between the eyebrows.
Looking around, it was almost dawn. Qi Mingchen pinched his eyebrows and prepared to walk back. Within two steps, he suddenly felt something soft under his feet.
Looking down, he froze on the spot.
"Liu Zi?"
Liu Zi, who was ruthless and ruthless yesterday, was now lying on the ground, with all the blood gone from his face, staring ahead in horror.
But when Qi Mingchen looked carefully, he saw that the man's pupils were dilated and his whole body was stiff. His muscles were soft and his skin was cold after being touched. He was obviously dead!
he died?
He murmured in his heart, inferring from his existing memories, an ominous premonition welled up in his heart.
"It couldn't be that I killed someone..."
But this doesn't make sense. He has just broken through the core formation stage, and Liu Zi has obviously been dead for a while. Judging from the state of the body, it looks more like he was frightened to death!
However, the disciples at the first level of Danjie will be scared to death, and no one will believe it. Of course, no one will believe that a person in the foundation building stage will kill someone at the Danjie stage.
Just when he was about to pretend he didn't see anything and leave directly.
Suddenly, a group of imposing disciples wearing black and red robes rushed over and surrounded him.
"Punishment Pavilion?"
Qi Mingchen stood in the center and did not act rashly. The ominous premonition just now came true.
The Punishment Pavilion is a place dedicated to managing and dealing with disciples who violate the sect's rules. It is divided into the main pavilion and the branch pavilion.
And the person who arrested him at this time was the person from the branch, who specialized in managing the outer disciples.
The leader stepped forward and said coldly: "Common servant disciple Qi Mingchen, other disciples reported that you harmed your fellow disciples!"
Then he glanced at the corpse at Qi Mingchen's feet and said, "The evidence is conclusive, do you have anything else to say?"
"I..." He started to say something but was interrupted.
"Forget it, take him away first. If you have anything to say, go tell him in front of the elders!"
All this happened so fast that Qi Mingchen had no time to react. As he was being escorted away, he saw the senior sister who was pretending to be sad not far away, and he immediately understood everything.
He stared at Li Mian for a long time, then closed his eyes and allowed these people to pull him away.
The forest quickly returned to its original deserted state, and a figure walked quietly behind Li Mian and whispered: "You did a good job. From now on, you only need to serve as a witness. It was Qi Mingchen who killed Liu Zi." That’s good.”
Li Mian shrank his neck in fear and whispered: "I understand, but I did see him kill Liu Zi with my own eyes."
The other party snorted coldly. "Qi Mingchen has been a waste for so many years, how could he suddenly stop being a waste? There is a high probability that something went wrong in Liu Zi's cultivation. Judging from his expression after his death, it is very similar to this situation."
After speaking, he threw a bottle out, and Li Mian hurriedly took it, with a flash of surprise in his eyes, "This is it?"
"Marrow cleansing fluid, this was originally intended to be rewarded to that kid Liu Zi. He failed to live up to his expectations. He couldn't even kill a foundation-building waste. And you reported meritorious service. If you fall into the Punishment Pavilion Qi Mingchen, you will definitely die. .”
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"The handyman disciple Qi Mingchen murdered the outer disciple Liu Zi..." The elder of the branch of the Punishment Pavilion sat above him, squinting his eyes and slowly reading out the charges reported on the paper.
The branch elder put down the paper, propped up his chin, and said in a casual tone: "I remember Qi Mingchen. He was the one who had failed to make any breakthroughs in foundation building for many years. He killed the outer disciples?"
He heheyile obviously didn't believe it.
Qi Mingchen's hands were tied behind his back. He said nothing and didn't know what he was thinking.
At this time, a disciple of the Punishment Pavilion walked in outside the door, trotted to the elder, and whispered something.
The elder of the branch was stunned for a moment, then frowned and thought for a while, then slowly looked at the people waiting for trial, with a sharp look in his eyes, and suddenly slammed the table.
"Snapped!"
All the disciples' eyes were focused on the top. The elder of the branch said in a majestic tone: "The handyman disciple Qi Mingchen killed his fellow disciples with cruel methods and the evidence is conclusive. Now I will punish you with seven lashes and imprison you in the back mountain!"
Qi Mingchen raised his head suddenly, unable to remain silent any longer, and looked at the elder of the branch.
"Are you going to put me to death when the evidence is doubtful?"
