Chapter 291 Heavenly Official Sends Evil
The Wu Sect is not the Luo Yun Sect, but the Tuodan Sect. The location of the sect is not a famous mountain or a magnificent place, and it is not very glorious. It is a gloomy and evil node, and it is not very grand. Instead, it has a spooky atmosphere.

The sect is not big, with only a dozen monks. Although there are not many people, they are all good at alchemy.

Wu Zong's master Li Danyang rummaged through the medicine box and gourd, took out a few medicinal ingredients and put them into the alchemy furnace. Now the fire in the furnace was burning brightly, and a pool of medicinal liquid was rolling in the furnace.

The creatures in this world are neither born nor dead, and all of them have immortality. Although the natural materials and treasures are wonderful, they have to compete with the sky, the earth, and people. If you are not careful, you will get nothing. Is there any medicinal material in this world that is easier to obtain than people? It is large in quantity and easy to obtain. It is really good and cheap. If there is a successful monk, it is even better!
Li Danyao watched the carefully ground medicinal ingredients blending with the elixir in the boiling true fire, emitting waves of strange fragrance, and couldn't help laughing: "The Taoist ones should be steamed with clear water, they are fat, tender and soft and easy to eat raw, the Buddhist ones should be cooked with hot oil, fried and crispy, the demonic ones should be skinned alive, their essence and blood are fragrant, the mortal ones have no taste and need to be pickled, soaked and dried three times and served as a soup."

He shook his head in the midst of the fragrance of the elixir and said, "My fellow Taoists, please help me become an immortal."

Under high fire, the elixir liquid gradually dried up, and the liquid turned into a pill. The pill turned into a dragon and tiger. The whole room was filled with the fragrance of medicine. A hint of gray golden light pushed open the lid of the furnace, revealing a pill.

Li Danyang threw out his dirty sleeves and rolled up the pill. Not caring that the pill was scalding hot, he blew on it carefully and wiped it again and again.

"Hehehe, with this Yin Ding Treasure Pill, I am a little closer to the Shenzang Realm. After I digest the medicinal power, I should start refining the precious herbs I have raised!"

He held the precious elixir in one hand and grasped the candlestick beside the elixir furnace with the other. He applied a little force and a stone door with a mechanism inside slid open, revealing a dark space.

The space was not small, with twenty stone pillars standing there, twelve of which had people tied to them, with iron chains entangled around them and long hooks piercing their scapulas. They were all unconscious and unable to move.

Li Danyang walked forward, took out a medicine bottle from his arms, and shook it under the mouths and noses of the bound people one by one, observing the skin reaction while shaking.

When they arrived at the seventh pillar, there was a middle-aged man with an honest face. Li Danyang took a few glances at him and suddenly laughed, "Zhou Ziqi, my good disciple, you have been with me the longest. You can hide the dosage from others, but not from me."

As soon as he finished speaking, the middle-aged man tilted his head and remained silent. Li Danyang was not in a hurry and waited silently. After dozens of breaths, the man raised his head and opened his eyes: "Alas, I still can't hide it from Master."

“Hehe, you bunch of little wolves, I have to guard against you several times, otherwise I would have become medicine long ago, and I wouldn’t be so free and easy like I am now.” Li Danyang tapped Zhou Ziqi’s brow.

Zhou Ziqi had a miserable look on his face. "Master, my dear master, you picked me up and brought me back to the mountain when I was little, and raised me with your own hands. I will never forget your kindness. I am extremely respectful and filial to you on weekdays. Your kindness in raising me is greater than heaven. I have always cared for you, and I will be the one to take care of you in your old age and see you to the end of your life. Yet you want to throw me into the furnace. Are you so cold-hearted?"

Li Danyang looked at the precious pill in his palm, his face calm and collected: "What a great old age and funeral! I was born an immortal, how did I end up being taken care of by you? Do you really think I can't see through your little tricks behind your back?"

"Who is your Peach Blossom Evil prepared for, after you collected the red pills of hundreds of virgins and are only one step away from training? Who are you trying to protect yourself from by deliberately running away from my mountain, thousands of miles away?"

He made a circle with his fingers and said, "You disciples are all ungrateful wolves. If I don't take the initiative, I will be the one tied to the stone pillar waiting to be eaten. None of us are upright people. We just rely on our own means."

Zhou Ziqi put away his simple and honest expression and revealed a cold look: "Master accepted us with bad intentions, and he wanted to refine the human elixir. How can you blame us disciples for resisting? Do we have to throw ourselves into the elixir furnace to open the way for you, the master, to ascend to immortality?"

"I worked so hard to raise you and taught you the techniques and alchemy. If it weren't for me, you would have turned into dry bones on the roadside. You owe me a life, and now I am just asking you to pay me back what you owe me."

“Just wait for your junior brother to come back, gather the thirteen main ingredients, and refine the Thirteen Yuan Jing Huan Yin Pill to help me become an immortal. It will also be considered as your good deed,” Li Danyang shook his head and tossed the pill. Then the next second he frowned and looked at his empty palm.

"Which Taoist friend came here to joke with me? If you like the Yin Ding Dan, feel free to take it. It will be considered a good relationship between you and me."

He looked around as he spoke, but found nothing. Even though he was reluctant to give up the pill, he was submissive in his words.

"Usually, I am devoted to alchemy and seldom go out. It is a great honor for my humble abode to have you here, fellow Taoist." Li Danyang thought that since he had not been out for a long time, the only reason someone came to visit him was because of his troublesome and unkind disciple!

"If any of my disciples have offended you, please allow me to kill them so as to avoid damaging the harmony."

As he spoke, he took out a bunch of items from his arms: "I have incense for praying to gods and offering sacrifices to immortals, banknotes for accumulating good deeds, and high-quality elixirs. Fellow Taoist, please take them all as an apology."

There were several bundles of incense on the ground, just like the incense in the Sanguan Temple, with black spots in the grayish white, but the incense that Li Danyang took out contained more black.

There are many strange gods in this world like the Three Emperors. People use this kind of incense when worshiping gods. It is called evil incense. It is made of strange and evil relics. It can be lit as an offering to attract the attention of the gods.

There were also underworld banknotes with imperial edicts written on them and several porcelain bottles, all three of which were piled together.

Baochao is used to accumulate good karma and is actually currency. With Baochao, one can exchange it for magical powers and treasures from the gods, but it is not certain whether the worshiper can afford it.

The debris on the ground disappeared suddenly under Li Danyang's gaze. He was surprised and relieved at the same time. He was surprised that he did not find any fluctuations under his close observation, as if there was an empty space there. However, the man should be more polite after collecting the things. Li Danyang was not afraid of giving up some external things. As long as he was alive, everything would be fine.

Li Danyang felt relieved and a trace of pain flashed across his face. Then he smiled and then froze. In his consciousness, a figure appeared and a faint chanting came. Then the figure became brighter and brighter, and Li Danyang's consciousness gradually stagnated.

"Immortal, it's an immortal, the immortal strokes my head, I will be immortalized, the immortal strokes my head, I will be immortalized, immortal, immortal!"

He shouted loudly, and his facial expression gradually froze in ecstasy, mixed with a hint of panic and satisfaction.

Logically speaking, after Gu Qingyuan accepted the gift, he should have done his job and let it go. Unfortunately, he has no morals.

A group of people from the cave ascended to heaven, and Li Danyang and his disciple were reunited. Gu Qingyuan withdrew his hand and brought back a group of gray worms. He looked at the gray worms and spoke softly.

"You are all so blessed. Fortunately, this Heavenly Official personally bestows blessings, punishments, and death upon you. This is truly the merit gained through nine lifetimes of cultivation!"

(End of this chapter)