The burning flame of pine wood is not as hot as that of lychee wood, but it has the meaning of an inexhaustible wildfire, which is better than lasting.
The fire burned from daytime to black. During this period, no matter how resistant the pine wood was to burning, the yamen added pine wood several times, but the flames were not extinguished.
"This is strange. Why does this pine wood burn so much faster than usual?"
One of the government officials said doubtfully.
"You can ask the lord of the Demon Slayer Department and you will know," someone chuckled.
"I don't dare. If an ordinary person is in this fire, let alone whether he can withstand the temperature. I'm afraid the water in his body will have evaporated long ago and turned into a mummy. But this gentleman has been in the fire for a long time.
Four hours later, nothing happened."
"Of course, even if you didn't go to Zhao Mansion, the hall was directly destroyed into ruins by Mr. Zhou."
Just when the two government officials were communicating in a low voice.
Zhou You’s practice today has reached the most critical moment.
"The Chiji Fire Shield absorbed a wisp of pine fire, and the cultivation progress reached 95% of the second level."
"The Chiji Fire Shield absorbed a wisp of pine wood fire, and the cultivation progress reached the second level of 956."
.......
"Ding!"
"The Chiji Fire Shield absorbed enough flames and began to burn itself, tempering the muscles and bones!"
At this time, Zhou You suddenly felt that his body suddenly turned into a terrifying blazing furnace, with countless flames burning his flesh, flesh, muscles and bones!
"Ahhhh~"
What this burning brought was a wave of pain that almost drowned his consciousness and caused him to faint.
But Zhou You knew that he couldn't faint, and his cultivation had reached the most critical moment.
Chi chi chi~
There was a constant burning sound in his body.
Flesh and blood becomes purer and firmer.
The bones are also tempered by this flame, their density increases and they become more solid and hard!
I don’t know how long it took, but Zhou You could not hold on any longer.
"Ding~"
"The Chiji Fire Shield has been promoted to the third level, and the special effect has been awakened: Iron Bone!"
In an instant, Zhou You felt that his energy and blood suddenly increased by 10%, and his bones were also undergoing some kind of wonderful and incredible evolution.
"Finally a breakthrough!"
Zhou You exhaled a breath of hot white breath and stood up.
Now he is confident that if he fights against the white snake demon again, he will definitely defeat it within fifty moves.
.....
After resting for a night at the Songbai County Yazai, Zhou You, who was completely back to his peak condition, said something to Zhang Baiyun and left Songbai County on his horse.
The case of the female corpse in the well has been concluded, and the white snake demon has disappeared without a trace. He has no reason to stay.
After galloping all the way, we finally returned to the Demon Slayer Department just as the sky was getting dark.
At this time, Tianxing Palace had already closed its doors, so Zhou You could only go back to his house and write a report on what he had experienced in the past few days.
The next day, early in the morning, Zhou You came to Tianxing Temple.
This time, it was still the pretty girl who received him.
When the pretty girl finished reading Zhou You's mission report, she exclaimed: "A demonic force is suspected to have appeared?"
"Yes." Zhou You nodded slightly.
"The emergence of demonic forces is of great importance. I don't have the authority to handle it. I'm afraid you have to wait a moment." The pretty girl first distributed the rewards into her identity tokens and left in a hurry.
After a while, a slender middle-aged man came over.
Coincidentally, this man is also the one I met after completing the Qingniu Village mission last time around.
"I remember you, Xu Ling's disciple." The lanky man nodded slightly and checked Zhou You's mission report.
After a long while, he muttered: "Come in with me."
Zhou You followed the lanky man to a reference room with a calm expression.
"According to the description in your report, it has the head of a human and the body of a snake, with white snake scales. It is suspected that the corpse of a mortal woman was refined..."
"I think it's this guy who is right."
The lanky man placed a yellowed book on the table.
Open the tour.
What comes into view are three large characters that look like sinister twists.
Ten Thousand Snake Cave
Read around carefully.
It turns out that the Ten Thousand Snake Cave is a force formed by the gathering of snake demons, and their scope of activity is in the wild forests of Huangzhou.
There is a secret method in this Ten Thousand Snake Cave that can refine humans into weird snake attendants that are neither dead nor alive.
After this snake attendant is trained, it can become a great help to demons.
Seeing this, you can be sure from traveling around that this white snake demon definitely comes from Ten Thousand Snake Cave!
"According to the records in the book, Ten Thousand Snake Cave mainly operates in Huangzhou. Why does it appear in our Qingzhou?" Zhou You frowned.
"Those who are not kind will not come. They have come all the way to our Qingzhou territory. This Ten Thousand Snake Cave must have some kind of unknown conspiracy."
The lanky man sneered.
He didn't believe that this demon had traveled thousands of miles to Qingzhou just to connect with a snake.
It's just that we don't have enough information to guess.
"You have done a good job on this matter. I will also report the whereabouts of the Ten Thousand Snake Cave." The slender man said calmly.
Zhou You also said goodbye in a sensible manner and left.
"By the way, you have completed two three-star demon slayer missions and have been officially promoted to a low-level demon slayer. Remember to change your identity token when you go out."
The lanky man added.
Zhou You's attention was completely on the white snake demon, and he really forgot about this matter.
"Thank you for reminding me, sir." Zhou Xuan bowed and turned to leave.
Looking at Zhou You's leaving figure, the lanky man sighed: "It's been such a troubled time..."
After returning to the tour of the main hall, I mentioned the matter of changing the identity token to the pretty girl.
The girl also apologized embarrassedly. She was also stunned by Zhou You's report and didn't notice it for a while.
After a while, the girl handed a red token to Zhou You.
This token is made of ruby, with fine carvings and a warm feeling when held in the hand.
On the front is engraved the word Zhouyou, and on the reverse is a lifelike wolf head.
The wolf head is the symbol of low-level demon slayers, the mid-level demon slayer is the goshawk, and the high-level demon slayer is the tiger head.
And the legendary master slayer is a dragon!
"Congratulations, you will officially become a demon slayer starting today!"
"You have completed two three-star tasks so far. If you complete three more three-star tasks, you can be promoted to an intermediate demon slayer."
The girl smiled sweetly.
"What if I complete a four-star demon-killing mission?" Zhou You asked casually.
"Then you can become the fastest person to become a middle-level demon slayer in the history of our Qingzhou Demon Slayer Department." The girl smiled.
She also thought Zhou You's words were a joke.
Ordinary four-star missions are faced with blood-grudge-level demons and treacherous monsters. Without the strength of the True Qi Realm, it is simply difficult to deal with them.
At the same time, only by completing a four-star task can you be promoted to a senior demon slayer.