This muffled voice was instantly recognizable as Yang Xu's.
Among Xiao Zhi's group, Yang Xu had just passed through the tribulation and became the Demon Lord. He was the weakest and had the smallest number of spiritual stones stored in the storage ring.
"I still have some here. I'll get some for you." This was Shi Chong's voice.
"Thank you, Lord Shi." Yang Xu said in a muffled voice.
"No need, you are already a Demon Lord now. From now on, you and I will just call you fellow Taoists." Shi Chong's voice said.
After a few brief exchanges, silence returned to the surroundings.
Xiao Zhi continued to study the soul-killing technique.
This Soul-Slaying Technique only has tens of thousands of words. With his current memory, it is very easy to memorize these tens of thousands of words without missing a word, but it is not so easy to study it thoroughly. Easy, it takes a lot more time than just writing it down.
Time continued to pass, and he didn't know how long it had passed. Xiao Zhi vaguely heard Yang Xu's muffled voice again: "I'm almost out of spirit stones."
"I don't have many spiritual stones left." This was Shi Chong's voice.
"Old Ghost Shi, how many spirit stones do you have left?" said the cold voice belonging to Venerable Kui.
"There are less than 1,000 pieces left." The voice belonging to Shi Chong said.
"So few?" said the cold voice belonging to Venerable Kui.
"Old Ghost Kui, it's not like you don't know that I have been in seclusion for a long time and the spiritual stones in my body have been almost exhausted." The voice belonging to Shi Chong said.
"I still have more than 3,000 spirit stones with me, and I will give you 1,000." The cold voice belonging to Venerable Kui said: "Xu'er, you also take 1,000 spirit stones."
"good."
"Yes, Master."
"Fellow Daoist Li, do you have any spiritual stones on you?"
"No." The voice belonging to the demon Li Kuo said.
In order to resist the terrifying high temperature in the Dutian Xuansha Furnace, everyone's energy consumption is very large, but this consumption is continuous.
The spiritual stone crisis is already emerging.
'Fortunately, I still have more than 30,000 spiritual stones in my body. With these spiritual stones, we can still sustain ourselves for a while...' Xiao Zhi thought to himself.
At this time, Dutian Xuansha was outside the furnace.
This is the edge of Cangzhou Road, a stretch of green hills.
There is dense vegetation in the green mountains, and above a relatively flat rock, a bronze alchemy furnace more than ten feet high is floating in the sky.
This bronze alchemy furnace is slowly rotating, emitting cyan light.
Next to the alchemy furnace, Taixuzi was sitting in the air, stretching his hands forward and pressing them forward, continuously injecting true energy into the alchemy furnace.
Around Tai Xuzi, there were still several people standing in the air. These people were all wearing black and gold embroidered Shenmen Venerable clothes, and they were all staring at the alchemy furnace.
They have been staring at this alchemy furnace for a long time.
At this time, a stream of light flew past in the sky not far away, flying from north to south.
This is a golden elixir monk, but he turns a blind eye to the abnormalities below, because there is a barrier in this area. This barrier was arranged by Taixuzi himself, let alone a mere golden elixir monk. Even ordinary Yuanying monks can't see through it.
Killing fellow sect members is a taboo of the sect and must be done secretly, without letting outsiders know.
Therefore, those who can appear here are all Tai Xuzi's confidants, but there is no Venerable Shenmu among them.
Venerable Shenmu used to be Tai Xuzi's confidant, but since he came into contact with Xiao Zhi, and after a while of flirting, Tai Xuzi no longer trusted him.
"Master, it has been three hours, and still no one has come." A middle-aged monk wearing a black embroidered gold Taoist uniform said softly.
"No one will come. In this Tianxuan Evil Furnace, no one can send messages to the outside world. No magical power or any means will work." Tai Xuzi said calmly.
Another Shenmen venerable wearing black and gold embroidered Taoist uniforms said: "Tai Xuzi, when you first started to use this divine furnace to refine Xiaozhi, there was some movement inside, but now there is no movement at all. Could it be that they have been refined by the divine furnace and turned into coke and fly ash?"
"It's not that bad." Tai Xuzi said calmly: "They should still be alive, but when they tried all kinds of methods and couldn't break through the wall, they knew that doing so was just a waste of their true energy, so they stopped. In order to reduce the consumption of true energy, save true energy, and survive."
If Xiao Zhi had been present, he could have heard clearly from what Taixuzi said that Taixuzi should have only scratched the surface of how to control the Dutian Xuansha Furnace, so he could not accurately judge what was inside the furnace. A person's life and death can only be determined by guessing.
Another Shenmen Venerable wearing black and gold embroidered Taoist uniforms smiled lightly and said: "It's definitely not safe in just a few hours, but with the power of the divine furnace, it should be possible in three days at most. Turn this Xiaozhi into coke."
"Three days? Fellow Taoist still underestimated this Xiaozhi. According to the message from fellow Taoist Xuancheng, this Xiaozhi forcefully took away many spiritual treasures and storage rings of Nascent Soul monks. He probably harvested a lot of spiritual stones. Some With these spiritual stones, as well as Old Ghost Kui and Old Ghost Shi, I estimate that Xiaozhi may be able to survive for seven days." Another Shenmen venerable from the Taixu lineage said.
"Seven days?" Tai Xuzi smiled faintly and said, "Seven days is too little. To be on the safe side, I will use this furnace to refine it for seven or forty-nine days before I give up."
"Seventy-nine days?" The Nascent Soul monks present had expressions of surprise on their faces.
Tai Xuzi's move can really be described as being as steady as an old dog.
A Nascent Soul monk from the Taixu lineage said in a rather sighing tone: "On the 77th and 49th, even if there is a god in the furnace, it will probably be refined alive, right?"
All the Nascent Souls laughed when they heard this.
Time continued to pass minute by minute.
In the Dutian Xuansha Furnace, the temperature has already reached an ultra-high temperature of tens of thousands of degrees Celsius.
Here, let alone ordinary copper and iron, even treasure soldiers cannot withstand such high temperatures and will be burned instantly.
Even if the spirit treasure is exposed to such terrifying high temperatures, it will probably be refined away.
Although the temperature inside the furnace is high, it seems unusually quiet.
The four Nascent Soul-level combat powers, Venerable Kui, Shi Chong, Demon Demon Li Kuo and Yang Xu, are huddled together, using the laws of their respective fields to build a powerful force in this closed space that is more terrifying than hell. A small space with a radius of less than one foot was created, a small pure land.
Outside there is a terrifying high temperature of tens of thousands of degrees, but inside this small piece of pure land, the temperature is neither cold nor hot, very pleasant, and even ordinary people can survive.
The four Nascent Soul-level combat powers of Venerable Kui are sitting cross-legged in the four corners, with Xiao Zhi sitting in the center.
Because Venerable Kui and the others tried their best to free up the space, the place where Xiao Zhi sat was quite spacious and did not seem crowded.
At this moment, Xiao Zhi slowly opened his eyes.
As Xiao Zhi opened his eyes, Venerable Kui and the others, who were sitting cross-legged in the four corners, all opened their eyes as if they were feeling something.
"Brother Zhi, how are you doing with your soul-killing skills?" Yang Xu said in a muffled voice, with a trace of expectation in his eyes.
When others looked at Xiao Zhi, there was also a trace of expectation in their eyes.
Now Xiao Zhi has become the hope of everyone present. If Xiao Zhi succeeds in killing the soul, they can break through the furnace wall with Xiao Zhi and escape. If they are lucky, they can also take revenge on Tai Xuzi and kill him. Got this Tai Xuzi.
If Xiao Zhi fails to kill the soul, then everything will be over, everyone will die here, and will be refined to death by this terrible Dutian Xuansha Furnace, with no bones left!
Under the expectant gazes of Master Kui and others, Xiao Zhi showed a smile on his face and said: "Successful, I have completely mastered this soul-killing technique."
As he was speaking, he saw a golden light suddenly appear in front of him.
Everyone looked closely and found that it was a golden short blade that was thinner than a hair.
This golden short blade looks like a flying knife, more like the kind of scalpel that Xiao Zhi has seen in the real world.
Xiao Zhi opened his mouth and explained: "This is the soul-cutting knife that I condensed through the soul-cutting technique. I can use this knife to cut off the soul by myself, cleanly and neatly, without breaking the connection."
In fact, more than an hour ago, Xiao Zhi had already thoroughly understood the soul-killing technique that Zhenlan Cannian taught him.
The reason why he only opened his eyes now is because Xiao Zhi is cautious by nature. He has studied and understood this soul-slaying technique several times. He is sure that there is nothing unclear and nothing is missing. He has completely understood it. Just give up.
"What a magical sword, Brother Zhi. This soul-cutting sword is probably condensed from your soul." Yang Xu said.
"Well, it is my soul that condenses this soul-cutting sword." Xiao Zhi nodded.
"If fellow Daoist Xiao succeeds in killing the soul, can you teach me this soul-killing technique?" Venerable Kui suddenly said in a cold voice.
"Of course." Xiao Zhi said with a smile: "As long as someone from my Yuxu lineage reaches the point of killing souls, I can teach them this soul-killing technique!"
With a thought, he called up his character attribute panel, glanced at it, and found that there was no trace of the [Soul-killing Technique] at all.
That was the case before and it is still the case now.
One possibility is that Zhen Lan left it behind, and the [Soul-Slaying Technique] passed on to me may have errors or omissions, or may be incomplete.
There is another possibility, that is, from the perspective of the sentient being system, this [Soul-Slaying Technique] can only be regarded as an experience note related to soul-slaying, and is not qualified to be a 'skill book'.
Of these two possibilities, Xiao Zhi is more inclined to the latter possibility, because if he becomes a god, Zhenlan Cannian will have many benefits.
If Zhenlan's residual thoughts killed him, it would be a hundred harms but no good!
Therefore, Zhenlan Cannian had no reason to harm him.
With these thoughts flashing through his mind like lightning, Xiao Zhi took a deep breath, and with a thought, a crystal clear snow lotus petal appeared in front of him out of thin air.
Before Xiao Zhi could pass the token and contact Zhenlan Cannian, he heard Venerable Kui say in a cold voice: "Fellow Daoist Xiao, I have some understanding of this soul-slaying thing from fellow Daoist Li. This is a very This dangerous process requires extremely high willpower, so I think you might as well take a rest first and wait until you are full of energy before you start killing the soul!"
Xiao Zhi nodded and said, "I think so too, but before taking a break, I still have some questions and I need to ask him."
The person Xiao Zhi mentioned was naturally Zhenlan Cannian.
Zhenlan Cannian was quickly summoned by Xiao Zhi, transformed into the face of a handsome man, and talked with Xiao Zhi.
About a quarter of an hour later, the handsome man's face transformed into a crystal clear snow lotus petal, which was stored in the storage ring by Xiao Zhi.
Xiao Zhi waved his hand, and there was a crash, and countless spiritual stones emerged out of thin air, with spiritual energy and milky white light.
"Fellow Taoist Xiao, what are you doing?" Shi Chong asked.
Xiao Zhi said: "Thank you so much for protecting me. It's just a spiritual stone. I hope you can accept it."
"But this... is too much." Shi Chong said.
He glanced at it and saw that the spiritual stones in front of him had piled up into a hill. There were probably tens of thousands of spiritual stones!
Xiao Zhidao smiled lightly and said: "My soul-killing may take a long time. If the spirit stones are not enough, we will not be able to survive until that time."
Venerable Kui nodded and said in a cold voice: "That makes sense. In that case, we will accept these spiritual stones."
Xiao Zhi smiled and nodded, stretched out his hand and pushed the 10,000 spiritual stones piled into a hill in front of him in front of Venerable Kui.
Venerable Kui was not polite. With a wave of his hand, the pile of spiritual stones disappeared out of thin air and was stored in his storage ring.
Next, Xiao Zhi sent a bunch of spiritual stones to Shi Chong and Yang Xu each.
After doing all this, he took out the Demon Lord's peak-level Mo Jiao dried meat, performed the [Whale Swallowing Technique], ate several large pieces of Mo Jiao dried meat in one go, and took out a jar of clear spring water from the storage ring. , drank happily, and then gave up.
After he had eaten and drank enough, Xiao Zhi sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and began to relax and rest.
I don't know how long I slept this time, but Xiao Zhi was woken up by a faint shout.
Faintly, a voice called him: "Mr. Xiao Zhi, Mr. Xiao Zhi, what is your situation now? Where are you now?"
Xiao Zhi regained consciousness instantly after being awakened by the sound.
After waking up, he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.
In his current situation, there is no way he can return to the real world, and calling him is useless.
Xiao Zhi slowly opened his eyes, and through his mind, he sent a message to the demon Li Kuo: "Brother Li, how long have I slept this time?"
"Master, you slept for a total of two hours this time." Li Kuo replied to Xiao Zhi through his mind.
'Two hours...enough! 'Xiao Zhi thought.
He slowly sat up straight, his eyes shining brightly!
Venerable Kui and the other four people also opened their eyes at this moment and looked at Xiao Zhi.
"Ready to start?" Shi Chong asked.
"Yeah." Xiao Zhi hummed softly.
After sitting cross-legged for a moment, Xiao Zhi thought, and a crystal clear snow lotus petal appeared in front of him out of thin air.
The snow lotus petals soon emitted a shimmering light and transformed into a handsome man's face.
The handsome man glanced around, his eyes fell on Xiao Zhi, and said: "Have you practiced the soul-killing technique?"
"Well, I'm done practicing." Xiao Zhi nodded.
The handsome man's face said: "Wait a moment, I will find a safe place to stay first, and then I will look for you."
"Okay." Xiao Zhi nodded.
The handsome man's face turned into snow lotus petals again, and the light became dim.
Xiao Zhi closed his eyes to rest and began to wait.
He was not made to wait long, only less than half a quarter of an hour passed before the snow lotus petals bloomed again and turned into the face of a handsome man.
The handsome man looked at Xiao Zhi and said, "It's time to start."
