Chapter 124: Refining Human Pills and Controlling the Statue
At this moment, Xue Rengui really admired Li Daoxuan to the extreme and was shocked by his beauty!
In his opinion, the master can control flying swords, induct thunder, open his third eye, and make the earth crack with a snap of his fingers. With such magical powers, what is the difference between him and a god?
He even suspected that the gentleman was not as young as he looked, but was a god playing in the world and had lived for countless years.
Li Daoxuan looked at the wreckage and frowned .
Because the Demon-Subduing Book did not respond at all, he initially thought that the mountain god statue could be restored, but after waiting for a while, he found that there was no movement.
An idea came into his mind.
Perhaps the mountain god statue itself is not weird, what is really weird is the person who is hiding behind the scenes and manipulating the mountain god statue?
Thinking this way, everything suddenly became clear.
Because the manipulator behind the mountain god statue was not killed, the Demon-Subduing Book did not give any reward.
"Yang Er..."
Li Daoxuan murmured to himself, it seems that he must be found as soon as possible.
"Brother Xue, Sister Yu, let's go to the backyard to find Yang Er!"
The three of them stepped over the remains of the mountain god statue, passed through the empty temple, and entered the backyard.
The backyard was not big, with only a few dilapidated houses. There was some dried meat hanging outside the yard, but it was impossible to tell what kind of meat it was.
As soon as she walked in here, Chen Ziyu immediately said, "There is someone in the room on the far right."
Li Daoxuan and Xue Rengui looked at each other and immediately walked towards the room.
Pushing open the door, there is a simple room.
A figure was lying on the bed, covered with a quilt. It was the dwarf Yang Er I saw this afternoon!
To Li Daoxuan's surprise, Yang Er was actually sleeping.
He was lying on the bed, soundly sleeping. I don't know what sweet dream he was having, but he was also licking his lips.
Xue Rengui walked up to him and patted him.
Yang Er slowly opened his sleepy eyes and was shocked when he saw three people breaking into his house.
He wrapped himself tightly in the quilt, trembling as if in fear, and asked, "Who are you, and why did you break into my house in the middle of the night?"
As a temple priest, he lived in the temple all year round, and the backyard of the mountain temple was his home.
Li Daoxuan slapped the gourd, and a flame spurted out, landing on the candle on the table and lighting it.
Yang Er also saw the appearance of the three people clearly.
“It’s you!”
He was a little scared and a little angry and said, "I knew that you outsiders came here with bad intentions!"
"Get out now, or I'll go and call the folks!"
His expression and behavior were quite natural, with almost no flaws.
Li Daoxuan watched his performance quietly and couldn't help but admire him: "It's a pity that you were born in the wrong era, otherwise you would have won an Oscar for your acting skills."
Yang Er was stunned and didn't understand what Li Daoxuan meant.
Li Daoxuan sneered and said, "Yang Er, let me ask you, where is that red-haired monster hiding now?"
"Why is there an old woman imprisoned in the secret room of the temple, and there are so many toad skeletons on the ground?"
"Why did the mountain god statue move on its own and want to kill the three of us?"
Hearing Li Daoxuan's three questions, Yang Er's eyes flashed with murderous intent, but he hid it well. He pretended to be confused and said, "What are you talking about? I don't understand!"
Li Daoxuan shook his head and said with a smile: "You are so stubborn, do you really think your acting is flawless?"
Li Daoxuan pointed at the quilt on his body and said, "It's summer now. Even if it's a little cooler in the mountains, you don't need to cover yourself with such a thick quilt. You have been wrapped tightly in this quilt from beginning to end. Is there something you don't want us to see?"
Hearing this, Yang Er's eyes showed a trace of panic.
"Brother Xue, help him take away the quilt!"
Xue Rengui stepped forward and said loudly, "Yes, sir!"
His hands were like eagle claws, grabbing the quilt on Yang Er.
Yang Er was obviously anxious. He kicked his feet, stretched out the quilt, and kicked Xue Rengui's chin hard like a rabbit kicking an eagle.
But Xue Rengui was very skilled in martial arts. He sneered, dodged slightly to the side, and then moved as fast as lightning, holding down the opponent's knee with the grappling technique. His palm slipped, and there was a click. Yang Er screamed, and his leg was broken.
Xue Rengui reached out and pulled back the quilt.
When he saw the scene under the quilt, his pupils constricted and a look of deep horror appeared in his eyes!
Even Li Daoxuan and Chen Ziyu were surprised.
I saw that Yang Er's other arm was broken in half and wrapped roughly with sackcloth, the bottom of which was soaked with blood.
Xue Rengui was shocked and said: "You, are you..."
Li Daoxuan's eyes flashed as he stared at his broken limbs and a few strands of red hair on the bed. It was as if the fog in his mind had been cleared away as he understood the truth.
"So that's how it is, Yang Er, there is no such thing as a mountain god, that red-haired monster is you!"
Seeing that his identity was exposed, Yang Er suddenly stopped struggling.
He lay powerlessly on the bed, looking at Li Daoxuan with eyes full of resentment and jealousy, and said: "What red-haired monster, that is the immortal Dharma body I cultivated!"
Li Daoxuan looked strange and said, "Immortal Dharmakaya? This is the first time I've heard of it. Is there any immortal whose Dharmakaya is a man-eating red-haired monster?"
"shut up!"
Yang Er scolded Li Daoxuan, "A cultivator like you who comes from a big sect is born with the guidance of a master and has many Taoist secrets. How can you understand the pain of a casual cultivator like me?"
Perhaps knowing that he could not escape, Yang Er, who had been holding it in for a long time, just wanted to vent his grievances.
"Because of my deformed body, my parents abandoned me in the mountains when I was young. They wanted to feed me to wild animals. Fortunately, I was not destined to die. I met my master, who was a priest of the mountain temple. He took pity on me and adopted me."
Xue Rengui couldn't help but say, "You were a child during the end of the Sui Dynasty. Many people died in the war. You were lucky to be adopted by the master."
"Lucky?"
Yang Er laughed loudly and said crazily, "At first I thought I was lucky, but soon I found out that the old man had no good intentions!"
"At first, he was very concerned about me, until one day, I accidentally heard him talking in his sleep, and then I learned his secret!"
"He didn't really want to take me in as his apprentice. Instead, he wanted to raise me until I was nine years old, and then refine me into a human pill while I was still alive, saying that it would prolong my life!"
Yang Er sneered and said, "The old guy has been lonely all his life and never knew that he had the habit of talking in his sleep. Soon, his wishful thinking was clearly understood by me!"
Li Daoxuan was silent. Yang Er's experience was indeed miserable. He was first abandoned by his biological parents, and then he finally met a master who cared about him, but found that the other party was going to refine him into a human pill to increase his lifespan.
Yang Er's eyes showed a hint of murderous intent, and he said, "Of course I would not surrender. After I learned the method of refining the human pill, one night I killed the old guy with a knife, and then used him as a medicine to start refining the pill!"
Li Daoxuan felt a chill in his heart. If he were in that old man's shoes, he would also choose to kill that old guy, but he would never use his corpse to make pills.
Yang Er continued, "I successfully refined a red pill and swallowed it. I don't know if there was something wrong with the old man's recipe. After taking the pill, I soon fell seriously ill!"
Yang Er suddenly laughed crazily and said, "Just when I thought I was going to die, God didn't abandon me, Yang Er. Not only did I gradually get better, I also found that I had some kind of mysterious connection with the mountain statue. As long as I am within a hundred feet of the statue, I can control it to move!"
