An hour later.
Ji Liao and Gudu stood at the gate of Daro's mansion.
Before entering, you can see the tiled roof of the Qionglou that looks like a royal palace from the wall.
After a while, a young man with blue scales on his face and something like a fin on his neck came out.
"My lord calls you in."
"Hey, thank you for letting me know, brother." Gu Du smiled and thanked, and then he and Ji Liao walked towards the mansion inside.
Ji Liao looked around along the way and saw that the mansion was huge and there were many servants in it. Even the clothes of the servants were much better than those in the ancient capital where he was the elder of Gushi Village. This showed that Daro was paying homage to Darrow. Tiancheng's status is not low.
It's just that, once he catches this demon named Daro, things will be much easier for him in the future.
Walked all the way to the backyard.
Darrow, who was wearing a mask, was still sitting on the pavilion. When he saw Gu Du and Ji Liao approaching, his eyes behind the mask flashed. When he saw Ji Liao behind Gu Du, his eyes actually showed a little fiery. color.
After walking up to the pavilion, Ji Liao slightly sensed the aura emanating from Daro. His face remained calm, but he smiled softly in his heart.
Gudu raised his hand to Daro and said, "Master Daro, I brought the red bird to you."
"Yeah!" Darrow nodded.
Just point.
However, he heard the sound of hula-la-la, and a dark chain shot out from his cuff, coiling and locking Ji Liao in a flash.
"Elder, what are you doing?" Ji Liao immediately looked at the ancient capital and asked.
At this time, Gudu lost the kindness he had shown before, and his face turned cold, "From now on, you will be Lord Darrow's slave. Whether you kill or behead him is entirely up to Lord Darrow."
"What! Elder, did you sell me out?" Ji Liao's face was full of disbelief.
"Hmph, it's just a low-level transformed monster. What's the use of staying in our Ancient Stone Village?" Gudu said.
"Elder, what you did has chilled my heart, Chi Yu." Half of Ji Liao's words were false, but half of them were true.
He had a good impression of Gushi Village. The folk customs were simple and not so fancy.
Ji Liao asked himself that he still had some discernment when it came to reading people. He understood that handing him over to Daro was decided by the elders and clan leaders of Gushi Village. Small characters like Horned Dragon and Gu Lin were not qualified to participate.
But saying this still made Ji Liao's little good impression of Gushi Village disappear. From then on, whether Gushi Village lived or died because of this matter had nothing to do with Ji Liao.
"Is your heart cold? Humph! Who do you think you are!" Gudu sneered, "At best, you can only exchange for some magic crystals."
Darrow didn't want to listen to what the two of them were talking about, so he didn't say much. He threw it away and a cloth bag fell on the table in front of him.
"Take these magic crystals and get out."
Gudu's face immediately showed ecstasy, he quickly put the bag away and bowed to Darrow repeatedly.
"Thank you, Lord Darrow, for the reward. Thank you, Lord Darrow, for the reward."
"Yeah!" Darrow hummed casually and waved his hand impatiently.
The ancient capital bowed its hands, stepped back, and walked away.
After Gudu left, the expression on Ji Liao's face changed, and he put on a relaxed smile.
Darrow looked at Ji Liao, his eyes behind the mask moved, "How can you still laugh after being betrayed?"
"It's a shameful life. It would be nice to exchange it for some magic crystals. You may say yes or no."
"Hahaha, that makes sense. You have more backbone than that ancient capital." Darrow first praised Ji Liao and then continued, "But there is no shortage of people with backbone in the world. With backbone, there is no support. If you have the strength of character, you will still be the fish and meat, and I will be the swordsman, and you will still end up being slaughtered by me."
"Yes, that's true." Ji Liao still agreed with a relaxed expression, and with a twitch of his eyes, he asked again, "Senior, what is the purpose of buying me?"
"Alchemy!" Darrow replied briefly.
Ji Liao smiled and remained silent.
Darrow stood up, put his hands behind his hands and walked towards the outside of the pavilion.
"follow me."
After passing through several corridors, Daro led Ji Liao to the foot of a low mountain.
The mountain is not high and has an earthy color. There is an arched mark below, but it is a stone gate.
Darrow pinched a few spells in his hand and flicked his fingers at the stone door.
The stone gate immediately buzzed and split to both sides, revealing a dark cave.
Darrow stepped in.
Ji Liao followed closely behind.
The entrance is a stone staircase that winds downward.
A faintly burning lamp hangs at regular intervals on the stone walls on both sides.
The flames flickered, illuminating the corridor dimly and brightly. No. 6
After walking about a hundred feet, a stone door appeared again at the end of the stairs.
When the two of them got closer, the stone door opened silently, and a bright space appeared.
"Go in." Daro stood at the door and said to Ji Liao.
Ji Liao didn't say anything and walked in directly.
As soon as he entered, the stone door was immediately closed, but Darrow did not come in.
Withdrawing his gaze, Ji Liao looked around.
This space is not large, about ten feet high, about an acre in size, in a circular shape, and the four walls are polished extremely smooth.
There are many spiritual patterns engraved on the ground, and in the middle of the spiritual pattern wrapping stands a gray pill furnace.
Ji Liao raised his feet, but before he could even stop, he suddenly heard a yell coming from behind the alchemy furnace.
"Gua...Daro, you bastard, let your grandpa go quickly, gua..."
Ji Liao was stunned. He didn't use his spiritual sense to investigate just now. He didn't expect that there was a second person here who could breathe.
Xun Sheng walked towards the alchemy furnace, and when he got behind the alchemy furnace, he saw a blue water prison behind the alchemy furnace. In the water prison, a big toad with colorful stripes on its body was drooling and cursing.
"My dear, you...eh? You're not Darrow!" The big toad wanted to continue scolding, but when it saw that the person coming was not Darrow, it stopped talking.
Ji Liao stared at the big toad and looked at it. After scanning with his spiritual consciousness, he found that the aura emitted by the big toad was very similar to that of a slug-nosed wolf. It seemed that the bloodline was extraordinary.
"What are you looking at? You humble monster. I have never seen such a handsome Tianchan. Gua!"
"What's your bloodline?"
"Why should I tell you?" said the big toad.
"Haha." Ji Liao smiled faintly, but did not continue to ask.
Sitting down on the spot, Ji Liao fell into deep thought.
The chain was not difficult to break free from. He had not taken action against Darrow just now because he was afraid that he would be discovered if he made any noise outside.
He has had the experience of refining alchemy, and he understands that the most taboo thing when refining alchemy is being disturbed.
Thinking that it won't be long before that Darrow will definitely return, and then the restrictions will be fully opened to isolate him from the outside world. By then, it will not be too late for him to take action. This is the safest way.
There was silence in the field. The big toad jumped twice on the spot, and a pair of big eyes scanned Ji Liao's body back and forth.
"You're so weird, aren't you scared?"
Ji Liao gathered his thoughts and looked at the toad in the water prison with a smile, "What are you afraid of?"
"We are going to die, we are going to die! Gua..." the big toad said with its mouth wide open.
"Are you afraid it will be useful?"
Big Toad was so choked by Ji Liao's words that he didn't know what to say.
Looking at each other speechless.
"Crack..." It took a long time for the big toad to cry again.
Ji Liao withdrew his gaze, closed his eyes and meditated, and the venue was silent again.
The big toad jumped back and forth in the water prison. Maybe it had not spoken for a long time. It wanted to talk to Ji Liao, but it didn't know where to start. Finally, it seemed like someone had covered its nose to breathe. It couldn't hold it in anymore, and its cheeks trembled. The drum suddenly started croaking.
Ji Liao was interrupted from his thoughts by the cry, frowning and looking at the toad in the water prison.
"what's your name?"
The big toad's big eyes were darting around Ji Liao's body, and he curled his lips disdainfully, "Didn't you hear that I was singing?"
Ji Liao was immediately amused when he heard this and grinned, "I'm sorry, I can't understand your toad language, and I don't hear any rhythm."
As soon as the big toad heard Ji Liao call him a toad, he immediately became angry. His big eyes widened and he yelled at Ji Liao, "Hey, you bird man, who are you calling a toad? I am the Wanhuan Heavenly Toad, the Sky-Swallowing Golden Toad." The true spirit subspecies, are you blind?"
"Oh? True spirit subspecies?" Ji Liao was really surprised this time. Although he had long seen that this toad had extraordinary blood, he did not expect that this toad was a true spirit subspecies, so he was really blinded.
Seeing Ji Liao's expression, the big toad raised its head and kicked its four claws, extremely proud.
"So, you're scared, but it doesn't matter. I'm afraid you, a low-level birdman, have never seen such an awesome toad like me in your life... No, no, no, no, such an awesome Tianchan, uh... .Quack!”
"You're right. I've never seen such an awesome toad like you."
"Hey, Oucho, you are such a bird. You still dare to call me a toad. Today you are a toad... No, today your Grandpa Tianchan will not let you know how powerful I am."
The big toad screamed and cursed, and his cheeks swelled.
"Quack!"
With a cry, a wave immediately spread out, and the entire secret room suddenly changed.
The light dimmed, and the entire secret room instantly turned into an endless purgatory. The ground turned into a sea of fire, and screams filled the eardrums. Bone claws without flesh and blood poked out of the sea of fire, grabbing Ji Liao and pulling him away under the sea of fire. .
"Psychedelic technique? It's quite interesting." Ji Liao chuckled as his body was pulled by the bone claws.
