Chapter 255: An Old Man's Youthful Madness
Suddenly, Liu Bihen's face turned red, and she came to her senses. She seemed to be too close to her senior brother.
At this moment , her clothes were tattered, her underwear was exposed, and she was held in the arms of her senior brother. A sense of embarrassment she had never felt before made her a little flustered, and her eyes drooped slightly.
Li Daoxuan was stunned for a moment when he saw her cheeks blushing, then he immediately reacted. He took the initiative to let go of her hand, took off his cloak, and put it on his junior sister to cover her body.
"Junior sister, I just had to act in an emergency, please don't mind it."
After all, Liu Bihen was a genius with a clear mind for swordsmanship. She adjusted herself in a short moment. She wrapped her cloak tightly around her and said with a smile, "Brother, we are children of the martial arts world. We don't have to be so rigid."
Li Daoxuan nodded, turned and looked at the old locust tree monster, but was surprised to find that the other party had actually escaped.
The locust tree forest was reduced to a scorched earth, and the towering tree had become empty and nowhere to be found, with only a bottomless pit left in its place.
Li Daoxuan shook his head. He actually had no intention of breaking the contract. He just wanted to ask Huai Yao some more questions. However, he did not expect that the other party was too scared and ran away directly.
…
Li Daoxuan activated his magical power of summoning clouds and took his junior sister to find his senior sister, and then the three of them flew towards Yinshan Mountain.
There were no ghosts or monsters blocking the way, and the journey was very smooth. After a while, everyone arrived at Yinshan Mountain.
When he saw his master again, Li Daoxuan was shocked.
I saw that the master at this time was no longer as vigorous as before. Instead, he had a head full of dry white hair, his face was full of wrinkles, and even had age spots. He looked very haggard and old.
Zhang Qianyang looked at his apprentice and Liu Ningyan, smiled and said, "What are you looking at? Everyone gets old, I just got older a little earlier."
As he was speaking, he suddenly started coughing violently and even coughed up blood.
“Master!”
"Feng Jiao!"
Liu Ningyan threw down the sword in her hand, ran over, touched the old face, her fingers trembling slightly.
When Xu Qingxuan saw this scene, he sighed softly, his eyes full of sadness, feeling sorry for his old friend.
"This guy used a secret method, at the cost of his life, to forcibly return to the Yang God Realm and fight with Xu Du. Although he won't die for the time being, he... won't have much time left."
Xu Qingxuan turned his back and pushed his hat down to cover his slightly red eyes.
After this battle, Zhang Qianyang was exhausted. Without external help, he would not be able to hold on in a few months at most.
Li Daoxuan looked at his master deeply, and then entered the cave silently without saying a word.
The lady in green was constantly urging the Samadhi True Fire, and the aroma of medicine gradually began to waft from the Xuanyuan Ding, and a faint golden light bloomed.
Li Daoxuan didn't dare to disturb her. He found a corner and sat down quietly.
He felt a little ashamed and a little scared.
The Supreme Golden Liquid can heal the Master’s injuries, but can it restore his lifespan?
If not, how should he face his aunt and uncle?
The reason they were willing to follow him and take risks was to help the master heal his injuries, but in the end, they caused the master's injuries to flare up prematurely?
What Li Daoxuan was even more afraid of was that he had killed his master, the first person in the world who treated him as a family member.
While refining the elixir, Lady Qing also noticed Li Daoxuan's abnormality.
She was very smart and quickly guessed what was on Li Daoxuan's mind. After hesitating for a moment, she said, "The Supreme Golden Liquid cannot directly increase one's lifespan, but..."
Hearing this, Li Daoxuan's eyes lit up and he looked at the Empress expectantly.
"But the Supreme Golden Liquid can allow Zhang Qianyang to recover his Yang God cultivation, and after entering the Yang God realm, his life span will be extended."
“How long can it grow?”
"About sixty years."
Li Daoxuan breathed a sigh of relief. A sixty-year period is sixty years. Sixty years is enough time for him to cultivate to a higher level.
Moreover, with the help of "The Book of Exorcising Demons", you may be able to obtain more elixirs, such as the peaches of the Queen Mother and the golden elixir of Laozi, which are all magical objects that can greatly increase your lifespan.
In a word, as long as Li Daoxuan is given time, he has the confidence to change his fate!
After hearing what the empress said, Li Daoxuan's heart knot was immediately untied a lot, and his whole body regained his spirits. He bowed to the empress with great gratitude, and then stepped aside, sat cross-legged and meditated, guarding quietly.
He did not rush to announce the news, but wanted to wait until the Supreme Golden Liquid was refined and everything was settled before announcing it.
Time passes by little by little.
Outside the cave, everyone fell into a kind of calm after the great battle.
Everyone sat together, mainly Zhang Qianyang and Xu Qingxuan were talking. No one knew what the two were talking about. Sometimes they laughed wildly with their white hair flying, and sometimes they argued until their faces turned red and they beat their chests and stamped their feet.
Liu Ningyan looked at them quietly, smiling without saying a word.
Liu Bihen was wrapped in Li Daoxuan's cloak, recalling the battle time to time, she would gesture in the air with her fingers. Only occasionally, she would come to her senses and look into the cave, as if she was worried about something.
Junior fellow apprentice Wu Wei was cleaning his River-Turning Sea Stick. During this process, everyone stayed away from him, but he didn't care. He just stared at the stick and grinned foolishly, as if he had opened the door to a new world.
Taoist Master Xuancheng was scolding Lu Chunliang, but seeing how hungry and haggard he looked, he couldn't help but took out a big chicken leg from his storage ring and handed it to him.
Lu Chunliang gnawed on a chicken leg and cried as he ate, saying that he would practice well when he returned and would never leave the mountain without permission again.
…
Finally, after an unknown amount of time, the Xuanyuan Ding in the cave made a muffled sound, and wisps of tempting medicinal fragrance wafted out, which made people feel invigorated as if their souls were joyful.
Everyone looked at each other with some excitement in their eyes, and they hurried into the cave.
The lady in green raised her jade finger, and the lid of the tripod slowly flew up, emitting a brilliant golden light. It was a ball of golden liquid, about a dozen drops in total, which was very viscous and kept flowing.
“Done…done?”
Li Daoxuan asked excitedly.
The lady in green frowned slightly and said, "After nine breaths, if it is still golden, it will be successful. If it changes color, it will fail."
Li Daoxuan and his master looked at each other, then held their breath and looked at the golden liquid.
One breath, two breaths, three breaths...
Until the seventh breath, it was still golden, and it seemed that the chance of success was very high.
However, before Li Daoxuan could be happy, after the eighth breath, the golden liquid began to dim and turn gray. By the ninth breath, it had even turned dark black and became extremely black.
The original medicinal fragrance immediately dissipated, replaced by a strong stench, as if all the impurities in the world had gathered here.
Even looking at the flowing darkness can make people feel terrified, as if facing the deepest evil in the world.
Failed...
Li Daoxuan felt as if struck by lightning, and was completely dazed. He didn't even hear his master calling him.
Lady Qing Yi had said before that using the Ghost King Xu Du to refine the Supreme Golden Liquid would only have a 50-50 success rate, because although Xu Du was extremely powerful, he had not yet fully cultivated into a ghost immortal.
Lady in green frowned slightly. She stood there quietly, reviewing the entire alchemy process. There was nothing wrong with her technique.
In other words, it’s really a problem with the empty stomach itself…
But no matter whose fault it was, the alchemy failed in the end, which meant that Zhang Qianyang would not live long.
Perhaps she could only find a way to help Zhang Qianyang become a ghost cultivator, otherwise Li Daoxuan would inevitably fall deeply into self-blame, and it might even become a demon in his mind for cultivation.
Zhang Qianyang walked over, patted his apprentice on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Isn't it just that the alchemy failed? What's there to be depressed about?"
Li Daoxuan was a little afraid to look at his master's old face, and said with a slightly trembling voice: "Master, this time I am refining the elixir for--"
"It's for me."
Zhang Qianyang interrupted him and laughed.
Li Daoxuan looked up in surprise, a little stunned.
"You little brat, do you think you can hide this trick from your master?"
As the person involved, Zhang Qianyang was not depressed at all, but was very relaxed. He patted Li Daoxuan's shoulder and said, "Sit down."
After just standing for a while, Zhang Qianyang felt a little out of breath.
The two men sat on the ground, and Zhang Qianyang took out the wine gourd from his waist and handed it to his apprentice.
"I had guessed this a long time ago. You are not an impulsive person, and Ningyan and Dabao are even less so. But you all chose to go to the Yellow Springs Realm at the same time. I guessed at that time that you were not doing it for yourselves."
Li Daoxuan took a big gulp of the liquor, which flowed into his stomach like a burning knife, but it was not as painful as the sadness in his heart.
"Master, it's all my fault. If I hadn't come to the underworld, you wouldn't have been forced to use the secret method, and at least you could have lived longer—"
Zhang Qianyang shook his head and said, "Bullshit!"
Li Daoxuan was a little puzzled.
"Look at your master. Does he look like someone who would linger on and wait for death?"
Zhang Qianyang smiled proudly. Although he looked old, his eyes were still bright, like the snow on a high mountain.
"I originally planned to take you back to Longhu Mountain. After you learned the wordless heavenly book, I would let you become a master, and then..."
He said with great pride, "Then I will go find a few old monsters who like to harm people, and use my secret method to return to the Yang God Realm. Damn them!"
Instead of lingering in an empty corner, it is better to shine brightly and fight vigorously!
After a pause, he patted Li Daoxuan on the shoulder and said, "Master is very satisfied with this trip to Huangquan."
He smiled proudly and said, "When I go to the underworld to meet my old friends in the future, I can brag to them that I have defeated the Empty Belly Ghost King. Do they dare to do that?"
"Believe it or not, if the master says this, those guys will have to bow down in admiration. That scene, wow, it makes me happy just thinking about it!"
Seeing his master's smug and proud look, Li Daoxuan couldn't help but laugh along, but as he laughed, his eyes became moist.
In this evil underworld, there is flying sand.
"Alright, we cultivators don't have sentimental feelings. When I die, there's no need to bury me, lest someone uses me to turn me into a zombie. Just scatter my ashes into the sea, which is big and spacious."
Li Daoxuan wiped his eyes and was about to speak.
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration came into his mind, and when he connected the various clues of this trip to the underworld, he seemed to have touched upon some terrible truth.
"Master, please say that again!"
He said excitedly.
Zhang Qianyang was a little puzzled and said, "We cultivators don't engage in romantic relationships—"
"No, it's the last sentence!"
"You can scatter my ashes into the sea, which is a large and spacious place."
Li Daoxuan jumped up excitedly and said, "That's it!"
He said excitedly: "So that's how it is. I finally understand why the refining of the Supreme Golden Liquid failed!"
