To the north of Qingshan Stream, there is a mountain temple.
Yue Guangsui and Ji Rong walked into the temple from outside and looked around.
"Old Ji, are you sure this is where the people of the Blood God Sect have settled?"
Yue Guangsui asked while lighting a torch to check.
The firelight illuminated his face, flickering as the flames burned.
The two of them explored several areas and large towns near the south of Qinghe County for several days. Ji Rong finally found a breakthrough with a gangster and found this place.
"If you find that mark, you can't go wrong."
Ji Rong held the knife, looked around and said.
"here!"
"It's true!"
Ji Rong whispered excitedly.
Yue Guang then came over quickly after hearing the words, and the light of the torch immediately illuminated Ji Rong's eyes.
In front of the corner wall, Ji Rong inserted a knife into a gap and flicked it.
A door suddenly appeared on the wall, and then opened silently, revealing a dark entrance inside, like a monster's huge mouth trying to swallow everything.
Ji Rong's eyes flashed slightly and he said, "There should be no one inside."
Yue Guang then nodded and agreed with Ji Rong's point of view. If there were people inside, there would definitely be light, but now that it was so dark inside, it was obvious that no one was there.
Ji Rong held the knife, looked sharply at the dark entrance, and said, "I'll explore the way in front, you follow behind."
With that said, he stepped in without hesitation.
"Be careful."
Yue Guang then quickly followed Ji Rong inside holding a torch.
We quickly followed the steps to the bottom.
It's a big space.
In the center of this space lies a huge sarcophagus.
What surprised Yue Guangsui was that the sarcophagus was dark blue and covered with bloody patterns, which was very strange.
"Old Ji, are you sure that the foothold of the Blood God Cult here is not that of the Corpse Refining Sect?"
Yue Guang then held up the torch and looked at the sarcophagus carefully and asked.
"Of course!"
Ji Rong said behind him.
Yue Guang was a little surprised that Ji Rong was so sure, and was about to turn around to ask.
At this moment, a knife instantly penetrated his back and reached his chest.
Yue Guangsui's chest felt cold and his face suddenly turned pale. He held up the torch and turned his head with difficulty, staring at Ji Rong.
"Why?"
The firelight shone brightly and dimly on Ji Rong's calm face, but at this moment, his equally calm voice was piercingly cold.
"Because the Lord needs your blood."
After that, he suddenly pulled out the knife.
The strange thing is that when the knife was drawn like this, blood did not spurt out from Yue Guangsui's back chest, but instead sprayed towards the dark blue sarcophagus on his chest.
After the blood spattered on the sarcophagus, the blood-colored patterns on the sarcophagus suddenly became full, like tentacles stretching out from the sarcophagus, grabbing Yue Guangsui tightly and binding him to the sarcophagus.
The torch fell to the ground and was picked up by Ji Rong.
Yue Guangsui's eyes on the sarcophagus protruded, and his bones creaked loudly as they were imprisoned by the bloody tentacles. The blood on his body surged into the sarcophagus.
There was a faint sound of comfort coming from the sarcophagus.
"This is the Blood God Pill to reward you."
A hoarse voice came from the coffin.
Then, a blood-red pill appeared in front of Ji Rong out of thin air.
Ji Rong looked overjoyed and quickly caught it, "Thank you, Lord!"
After saying that, he immediately stored the blood-red elixir in a porcelain bottle and carefully carried it in his arms.
"With this Blood God Pill, I can finally successfully enter the fourth-level divine treasure realm!"
"Go." A hoarse voice sounded from the sarcophagus.
"yes."
Ji Rong held the torch and left quickly.
As he left the passage, the door on the wall of the mountain temple closed quietly and tightly. From the outside, it was impossible to tell that there was a door here.
Taking advantage of the darkness, Ji Rong quickly left the mountain temple.
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Nanping Town.
Guan family.
In the living room, Guan Shuntong, the head of the Guan family, sat in the first place, and Ji Rong sat in the guest seat.
The servant brought a tray.
Guan Shuntong opened the red cloth on it and revealed what was inside.
"There is nothing good in this small town. This is a 300-year-old ginseng tree. It is of some use to those of you who practice martial arts. Please don't dislike it, Master Ji."
Ji Rong's eyes lit up.
Although with the Blood God Pill, there is no problem in breaking through to the fourth level of martial arts, but with these three hundred years of ginseng, his foundation will be further consolidated and his energy and blood will be more abundant.
The fourth level of martial arts requires the development of the five sacred treasures of the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys. Each time a sacred treasure is opened, the strength will be greatly improved.
Opening up the divine treasure requires very high energy and blood.
Because he once injured his internal organs in a battle with a demon, his foundation was damaged, and his energy and blood could never be filled.
This is also the main reason why he has been unable to break through to the fourth level of martial arts.
That's why there are people who don't hesitate to betray their teammates to the Blood God Cult to obtain the Blood God Pill.
With the Blood God Pill to strengthen his energy and blood, he can successfully break through.
But now with these three hundred years of ginseng and the effect of the Blood God Pill, he can even break through to the Second Divine Treasure in one go.
Ji Rong did not refuse the Guan family's overtures.
Although Guan Yulong is the deputy commander of the city defense army, and he and the Demon Suppression Department are two departments, they all work for the imperial court, and it is normal for everyone to take care of each other when something happens.
He put away the hundred-year-old ginseng in the tray on the table, cupped his fists and said, "Thank you very much, Master Guan, for your kindness, but I'm being disrespectful."
Guan Shuntong stroked his beard and said with a smile: "We are all friends, no need to be polite."
"In the evening, Quanzi prepared some water and wine at Baihua Tower to help Mr. Ji catch the wind and wash away the dust. He also asked Mr. Ji to give him a favor."
Ji Rong nodded, "It cost the master of the house. I will be there next night."
After saying that, he stood up, clasped his fists and said, "I still have something to do, so I'll take my leave now."
"please."
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Patrol room.
Ji Rong's face was indifferent, and Zhang Hu and three others stood in front of him.
Appointed by Wei Fuguang as the administrator of Nanping Town, Ji Rong came to the patrol room for the second time.
He just made a brief inquiry and learned that the head was missing. He asked about the cause and effect and stopped paying attention.
If you lose it, just lose it, no big deal.
Even Jiang Changkong didn't come because he was practicing swordplay, so he didn't care.
There is nothing more important than his breakthrough right now.
"Okay, that's it, don't look for me these days."
After that, he left.
Ordinarily, as the Black Armed Guard of the Demon Suppression Department, it should be safest to break through in the patrol room.
But he was afraid that swallowing the Blood God Pill would cause some strange phenomena and cause unnecessary trouble if he was discovered, so he rented a private house in Nanping Town early with an underground darkroom below.
Practicing in a darkroom is foolproof.
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…
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
Jiang Changkong swung his sword, and the energy and blood in his body successfully reached a point.
As if the shackles were opened, his cultivation suddenly broke through and he stepped into the third level of martial arts!
The third level of martial arts is in the blood refining realm. Because Jiang Changkong has the sword essence in his body, he not only tempers his blood, but also uses the sword essence to temper his bone marrow.
This caused his blood to transform more completely, and his physical body became stronger under the tempering of Jian Yuan.
What surprised him was that at the same time that his cultivation had reached the third level of martial arts, the transparency of the sword's heart and his sword's intention had all broken through.
All reached the second level.
A comprehensive breakthrough in strength!
Jiang Changkong was overjoyed.
The first thing he did when he entered the third level of martial arts was to ride his horse to the Yaosi Town of Qinghe County to meet Wei Fuguang.
Qinghe County.
Department of Demon Suppression.
Wei Fuguang was surprised and happy.
In just a few days, Jiang Changkong broke through to the third level of martial arts, confirming that Jiang Changkong was a peerless genius!
How lucky he was to meet such a genius!
Without any nonsense, Wei Fuguang immediately replaced Jiang Changkong's trainee black guard with the official black guard brand.
Since then, Jiang Changkong finally succeeded and officially became a member of the Da Chu Kingdom's Demon Division.
Wei Fuguang even brought out ten blood-clearing pills from the warehouse of the Demon Suppression Department, each worth one hundred taels of silver.
However, Wei Fuguang told Jiang Changkong that this kind of elixir was not sold to the outside world in the Demon Suppression Department, and if you want to buy it, you need to contribute points to purchase it.
One Blood Purifying Pill is one contribution point, and ten is ten contribution points.
Contribution points are obtained by completing tasks assigned by the Demon Suppression Department. They are very precious and can be exchanged for any items in the Demon Suppression Department.
The ten blood-purifying pills given to Jiang Changkong were donated by Wei Fuguang out of his own pocket.
Jiang Changkong was very grateful for this.
Of course he could see that Wei Fuguang wanted to cultivate him.
Naturally, Jiang Changkong would not refuse Wei Fuguang, a boss who was generous and interested in cultivating him.
The more thighs like this, the better.
After thanking Wei Fuguang, Jiang Changkong rode out of Qinghe County and returned to Nanping Town.
Returning to the patrol room, Jiang Changkong continued to practice.
Swinging the sword as always...
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
There was a rapid knock on the door.
Jiang Changkong's sword intent spread out and covered the door. Zhang Hu, Zhao Long and Wang Dazhuang were immediately seen outside the door.
But at this moment, Wang Dazhuang's face turned blue, his eyes were dull, his whole body was trembling, and he felt as if he had been struck by something evil.
He was held by Zhang Hu and Zhao Long.
Jiang Changkong stretched out his hand, and the sword intention seemed to turn into an invisible big hand to open the door bolt.
He clearly felt that the intensity of the second-level sword intention was much greater than the entry-level...that is, the intensity of the first-level sword intention.
Not only is it powerful, but it can also be silent and not perceived by others.
The door was opened, and Zhang Hu and Zhao Long hurriedly walked in with Wang Dazhuang on their backs.
But seeing Jiang Changkong still twenty meters away, the two of them couldn't help but be stunned.
Just now they thought it was Jiang Changkong who was behind the door and opened the door, but when the door was opened, they found that it was not.
Will the door... open automatically?
This thought flashed in the minds of the two of them, and then they stopped paying attention.
The most important thing right now is to solve Wang Dazhuang's problem as soon as possible.
"what happened?"
Jiang Changkong looked Wang Dazhuang up and down and asked.
Wang Dazhuang, whose eyes were dull, opened his mouth, but was unable to speak. Even his tongue turned blue, which was very strange.
"Sir," Zhang Hu said quickly, "It's like this..."
Through Zhang Hu's quick narration, Jiang Changkong roughly understood the ins and outs of the matter.
It turns out that Wang Dazhuang and Widow Wang next door have always had an improper relationship between men and women.
Because Wang Dazhuang has no wife or family, Widow Wang is also a loner. Although there is no official matchmaker to marry, they have actually formed a de facto relationship between husband and wife.
Widow Wang works as a day laborer at the home of Li Jinnan, a merchant on North Street, doing laundry, cooking and other chores.
After Widow Wang came back last night, Wang Dazhuang slept with her.
However, when she woke up, Widow Wang was dead. Her death was ugly, her whole body was black and blue, her mouth was open and her tongue was sticking out, as if she had been strangled to death.
And Wang Dazhuang became like this after being frightened.
After listening to Zhang Hu's narration, Jiang Changkong felt that something was unusual.
He turned on the sword's heart and looked at Wang Dazhuang attentively.
I saw a small group of faint black shadows on Wang Dazhuang's chest, and a ghostly face was vaguely visible. You wouldn't be able to notice it if you didn't pay attention.
Jiang Changkong stretched out his finger and shot a sword towards the ghost face.
A faint scream could be heard, and then the shadow disappeared.
What surprised Jiang Changkong was that the ghostly face disappeared and no energy point appeared in the sword code space.
"Is it because the ghost face shadow is too weak to form energy light spots?"
Jiang Changkong was secretly puzzled.
The shadow disappeared, and Wang Dazhuang's complexion immediately improved a lot. Although his body was drained by alcohol and sex, he was still a second-level martial artist after all, and his foundation was still there.
His body stopped shaking and his eyes became brighter. At the same time, the blue color on his face faded and some color returned.
Wang Dazhuang's changes surprised and delighted Zhang Hu and Zhao Long.
Surprisingly, Jiang Changkong solved the problem just by pointing it out.
Fortunately, Wang Dazhuang really recovered.
No matter what, the three of them still have feelings for each other after working together for a long time.
"Where is Widow Wang's body?" Jiang Changkong calmed down and asked.
"Still at her home." Zhang Hu said quickly.
"Take me to see it."
"yes!"
