There must have been several fierce battles last night. Li Xuan and Xia Ruixue only needed to follow the remains of living corpses on the ground to accurately follow the path of those guys.
This route goes all the way into the mountains. The deeper they go into the mountains, the lower the temperature becomes. Even if the two of them are in better physical condition than ordinary people, they still can't stand the cold.
Fortunately, not all living corpses are present in this masterless plane, and occasionally there are some long-haired beasts.
The two encountered several wild beasts on the road, killed them, skinned them, and simply made two fur coats, which finally solved the heating problem.
After walking like this for another day, when it was time to rest at night, Xia Ruixue couldn't help but ask: "Li Xuan, what are you looking for in the jungle when you look around all the way?"
Li Xuan smiled and took out a bunch of things from his pocket and said: "Princess, this is a treasure land, especially for alchemists, there are good things everywhere!"
"These are the good things you said?"
Xia Ruixue looked at the messy things that Li Xuan laid out. There were grass blades with dirt, smelly mud, and even a pool of disgusting green mucus. It looked like a giant dragon coughing up a cold.
The sticky phlegm! What Xia Ruixue couldn't bear the most was that Li Xuan actually took out the bottle seriously and carefully put away the green mucus.
She couldn't help but ask: "Li Xuan, what are you doing collecting all these rags?"
"These are not rags, my princess, these are treasures."
Li Xuan said seriously, "For example, these green slimes, aren't they a bit disgusting?
But if you take it to the medicine shop, I guarantee you can exchange it for hundreds of thousands of spiritual stones."
"this one?"
Xia Ruixue firmly refused to believe that someone was willing to spend hundreds of thousands of spiritual stones to buy a bottle of sticky phlegm.
"This is called ghost crying blood, and it is the bark secretion taken from a tree called ghost dead tree.
The ghost dead tree can only secrete a small amount of ghost crying blood every year, which is very precious."
Li Xuan said.
"Then can you tell me what this thing is used for?"
Xia Ruixue asked.
Li Xuan scratched his head and said: "This is one of the main materials of the Natural Disaster Pill. I have collected eight materials now, and there are still three left to refine the Natural Disaster Pill."
"Natural Disaster Pill... Do you know about pills?"
Xia Ruixue suddenly remembered that Li Xuan used many kinds of elixirs during this breakout.
If Li Xuan was not an alchemist himself, this approach could be regarded as extravagant waste and bankruptcy! "Know a little bit."
Li Xuan nodded.
"You actually know about elixirs!"
Xia Ruixue suddenly jumped up and looked at Li Xuan with strange eyes.
"What's weird?"
Li Xuan was happily fiddling with the pile of "harvests" in front of him and asked casually.
"Isn't it weird enough?"
Xia Ruixue said angrily, "Isn't it strange that you, a Qigong practitioner, can summon human beings?
Isn't it surprising that you are only twenty years old and can refine high-level immortal talismans?
Isn't it strange that you can write poems, more than a dozen at a time, and each one is very nice?
You can actually make alchemy, can you tell me, what is it that you can’t do?"
"There are so many... giving birth to a child is definitely not possible."
Li Xuan said.
"You..." Xia Ruixue really wanted to smash the bottle of blood on Li Xuan's head. If Li Xuan could even learn how to give birth, he would no longer be a human being, but a monster more terrifying than a living corpse!... "Whoops..."
"The ember of the sun burned at Li Xuan's fingertips, releasing a heart-warming power in the faint flame light.
Seeing the fire, Xia Ruixue finally believed that Li Xuan knew how to make elixirs.
She stared at Li Xuan with the eyes of a monster for several minutes, until Li Xuan felt embarrassed and then took a long breath and said: "I will not let you go."
"Your Highness, what do you mean?"
Li Xuan was shocked. How could he provoke her?
Could it be that I drank a few too many mouthfuls of mushroom soup in the morning?
"I won't let go of a talent like yours.
After you get out of here, you can either be my guard or be killed by me, your choice!"
Xia Ruixue said in a strong tone, seeming to have forgotten that this was not the Yunteng Empire, but an uninhabited and ownerless plane.
Li Xuan said helplessly: "Your Highness, it seems that you still don't know one thing. In fact, I am already your subordinate..." He told the story about the regent's coercion and inducement to accept the task, and finally said: "
I am now a member of the Six Doors, so I can be considered your direct subordinate, right?"
Xia Ruixue obviously didn't know about this and was shocked when she heard it.
After being silent for a long time, she said: "If that's the case, you can indeed be regarded as my personal guard... But your mission was directly assigned by the regent. I'm afraid you need to complete the mission before you can return to the six doors.
Li Xuan, you don’t want to die, you must come back.”
Li Xuan said: "Your Highness may have misunderstood. I am here to pick up girls, not to be an assassin..." "Do you think that pursuing the butcher Roten's daughter is not life-threatening?"
Xia Ruixue said with a half-smile.
Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help cursing the regent in his heart. Why didn't you tell me earlier that picking up girls was life-threatening? There were mushrooms and some edible moss boiling in the small pot. The moss looked a bit disgusting, like purple.
The woolen stuffing has a natural umami flavor, and when boiled together with the mushrooms, it tastes really good.
The two of them were cooking soup and chatting casually.
Xia Ruixue did not ask why Li Xuan knew how to make alchemy, so Li Xuan wisely changed the topic.
Everyone has secrets, and these secrets grow with them.
Just like Lai Cang, his revenge is definitely not a sudden thought, but he has been working hard for this goal for many years.
Xia Ruixue knows this, so she won't mind her own business.
After dinner, they wrapped their bodies in fur a little tighter, and the two of them looked at each other.
With the furs, it seemed that they no longer had to stay close to each other to keep warm like they had in the past few days, but for some reason, both of them felt a little disappointed.
The first half of the night was relatively quiet. Except for the "whining" sound of the night wind blowing through the forest, which was like a hungry ghost crying in my ears, there was nothing unusual.
In the second half of the night, while Li Xuan was drifting off to sleep, a huge roar suddenly sounded in the mountains, shaking his body from the ground.
"What happened?"
Li Xuan woke up with a start and heard Xia Ruixue's exclamation in his ears.
The two of them looked into the depths of the mountains in surprise. Behind the mountains not far in front, a black light rose into the sky, blocking half of the sky.
Under the black light, the sky becomes even more ghastly red, like the blood flowing from the dying person, while the howling of the sinister wind is like the shrill scream before death. The scene may give people the illusion of the end of the world.