Seeking Immortality

Hearing Li Qingwu's scream, all the elders of Jiuhua were shocked. Turning their heads, they saw that Li Qingwu had already fallen to the ground trembling all over. His face was covered with wrinkles that represented the passing of time. Anyone could clearly feel the loss of vitality in his body.

Li Qingwu was terrified. He barely got up from the ground and then sat cross-legged in meditation, as if he wanted to use his power to stop the rapid loss of vitality in his body. However, it was not very effective. The wrinkles on his face were still getting denser and denser, and his figure was getting more and more withered. In just a moment, Li Qingwu's face, which was originally like a young man, had become like an old man.

Seeing this scene, everyone was shocked. Just when they wanted to investigate, they heard two more screams of fear. Turning their heads again, they saw that the faces of the two elders were gradually covered with wrinkles like Li Qingwu.

And these two elders were the ones who followed Li Qingwu into the tunnel before.

Then, in just about a cup of tea, most of the elders who entered the tunnel had aged as fast as Li Qingwu, as if they had spent more than a hundred years in this cup of tea.

A feeling of despair began to spread among the crowd.

The remaining elders, however, had already reached the Jindan stage, or the skills they practiced belonged to the fire system, which was immune to all poisons. They stood there in shock, at a loss.

Xu Qingfan looked at the changes in front of him, and then thought of the sudden chest tightness when he entered the tunnel before. He was shocked. He whispered: "This tunnel is poisonous!!"

As he said, Xu Qingfan hurriedly sat behind Jin Qinghan, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground at this time, with a rare panic on his face, trying to stop the loss of vitality in his body, but it was not very effective. At this time, Jin Qinghan's old face, even though Xu Qingfan had known him for nearly a hundred years. He still didn't dare to recognize him.

Before, Xu Qingfan also felt chest tightness when he entered the tunnel, but it almost disappeared under the operation of "dead air" and "living air", so Xu Qingfan judged that these two spiritual energies of his might be the nemesis of the poison in the elders, but because "dead air" is too harmful to the human body, Xu Qingfan did not dare to use it easily, so he quickly transferred the "living air" in his body into Jin Qinghan's body.

But he didn't know what kind of poison was in Jin Qinghan and others, and there was no abnormality at all. After Xu Qingfan transferred "living air" into Jin Qinghan's body, he didn't feel anything abnormal. But in just a moment, Jin Qinghan had stopped losing his life, not only that. I saw that the wrinkles on Jin Qinghan's body were gradually flattened, and his body, which had gradually withered, had become full again at a visible speed.

After finishing the exercise, Xu Qingfan hurriedly asked, "Brother Jin, is the vitality in your body still being lost?"

Jin Qinghan closed his eyes and carefully sensed it, then bowed slightly to Xu Qingfan and said, "It has returned to normal, thank you, Brother Xu."

Xu Qingfan didn't bother to be polite with Jin Qinghan, but turned and walked towards Dongfang Qingling. In fact, Li Yuhan was closer to Xu Qingfan, but Xu Qingfan found that Dongfang Qingling was aging faster in comparison, which should be due to his lower skill.

Xu Qingfan walked in front of Dongfang Qingling and was about to use his skills to drive the poison out of Dongfang Qingling. But he saw that the elders were still stunned. They just stared at Xu Qingfan blankly, their eyes full of confusion. Xu Qingfan frowned slightly and shouted, "What are you still standing there for? All cultivators who practice fire-based Taoism or masculine skills, go and expel the poison from the poisoned people. Because of your skills, you are not afraid of this kind of poison. Save those with lower skills first, because their vitality is lost faster."

Speaking of this, Xu Qingfan looked at those elders who were not poisoned by the poison because they had reached the Jindan stage, although the attributes of their skills were not masculine, and shouted again, "Help other cultivators slow down the loss of life and wait for others to expel the poison."

The situation was critical at this time. It was unknown when a Jiuhua elder would die of exhaustion of life, so Xu Qingfan did not care about being polite. His tone was full of orders. Facing those old-generation elders in the Jindan stage, he did not use the usual respectful words.

But at this time, all the elders were at a loss in the face of the sudden change. They didn't care about Xu Qingfan's tone, and didn't care about it. After Xu Qingfan's continuous shouting, they reacted and hurriedly followed Xu Qingfan's command and took action. Even Jin Qinghan, who had just recovered with the help of Xu Qingfan, did not hesitate to use his power to help Lu Qingshang resist the loss of vitality, but he didn't care that he might be poisoned again.

Under Xu Qingfan's command, the poisoned elders finally began to recover slowly with the help of other elders. Although it was chaotic, it was much more effective than doing nothing.

Xu Qingfan turned his eyes to Zhang Hualing not far away in confusion. At this time, the reason should be Zhang Hualing's command, but the strange thing is that since the mutation occurred, Zhang Hualing has been standing there, motionless, and silent.

Just now something strange happened. It is understandable that the other elders, who usually only practice in seclusion, were caught off guard and didn't know what to do. However, considering Zhang Hualing's knowledge and temperament, it was inappropriate for him to be as dazed as the other elders.

But when he turned around, Xu Qingfan was shocked to find that Zhang Hualing's eyes were bloodshot, full of madness and murderous intent, but at the same time his face was full of pain and struggle, his body was shaking, as if he was forcibly resisting being controlled by this crazy killing.

Xu Qingfan was shocked, but he remembered some information mentioned in the secret methods left by Liu Huaxiang before. Once there was a slight mistake in the operation of these secret methods, the mind would be affected by the powerful resentment of the wronged souls, and Zhang Hualing's appearance at this time was exactly the way his mind was affected by resentment.

After chatting with Zhang Hualing several times before. Seeing that Zhang Hualing was sober and clear-eyed, he was lucky that although Zhang Hualing secretly learned the secret method, his mind was not changed by the secret method. But the situation at this time shows that Zhang Hualing was inevitably affected by the transformation of the secret method.

On the other side, Gongsun Huasuo was looking at Zhang Hualing with bloodshot eyes in horror. He always looked up to Zhang Hualing. Seeing Zhang Hualing's abnormal changes, the horror in his heart was more serious than the collective poisoning of all the elders in Jiuhua.

After Xu Qingfan hurriedly expelled the poison for Dongfang Qingling, he ignored Dongfang Qingling's words of thanks and walked to Zhang Hualing's side quickly, using a large amount of "life energy" to transfer to Zhang Hualing's body. With the help of Xu Qingfan's "life energy", the blood color in Zhang Hualing's eyes gradually faded, and his eyes gradually recovered.

Seeing that Zhang Hualing had recovered, Xu Qingfan did not say much. He just looked at Zhang Hualing deeply, and then turned around and walked quickly towards the next elder who needed to be expelled.

After Zhang Hualing recovered, his eyes first showed a blank look of thinking. Then he seemed to think of something, turned his head and looked at Xu Qingfan who had already left, his eyes were full of complexity, and the emotions contained in them were incomprehensible to anyone. Compared with Xu Qingfan, Zhang Hualing was much more experienced after all. After returning to normal, Zhang Hualing acted as if nothing had happened, commanding a group of elders who were not poisoned or had recovered to detoxify and heal the other elders. The scene gradually became orderly from the original chaos, and the efficiency was much faster.

Finally, with the concerted efforts of everyone, all the poisoned elders have recovered, but fortunately no one died. Instead, the other elders who had been helping them detoxify were full of fatigue, and the spiritual energy in their bodies was almost exhausted.

After thanking the elders who helped them detoxify. These elders who escaped death collectively walked in front of Zhang Hualing and Xu Qingfan. They all bowed and said in unison: "Thank you, Master and Deacon Xu, for saving my life."

Although they called them "Master and Deacon Xu", everyone's eyes were all looking at Xu Qingfan. The situation was dangerous just now, and everyone was at a loss. It was Xu Qingfan who reacted first and directed everyone to heal the wounds and expel the poison. If it weren't for Xu Qingfan's timely command, most of the poisoned elders would have died or been injured at the time.

After this incident, some Jiuhua elders who were dissatisfied with Xu Qingfan, the "deacon who didn't care about anything", and even the old generation of elders who had direct conflicts with Xu Qingfan, began to change their attitude towards Xu Qingfan.

Although Zhang Hualing reacted a little slowly, everyone saw his performance afterwards, which was considered to be making up for his mistakes, and everyone couldn't complain.

The only thing was that Gongsun Huasu, who was only in a daze from beginning to end, was full of disdain in everyone's heart after this incident. Even some of the elders of the older generation who usually took Gongsun Huasu as the core, could not help but doubt Gongsun Huasu's ability.

Only Xu Qingfan and Zhang Hualing knew that the reason why Gongsun Huasu was in a daze at that time was not because everyone was poisoned, but because he suddenly discovered Zhang Hualing's change.

Gongsun Huasu didn't know that because of this accidental incident, from now on, he would no longer have the ability to resist Xu Qingfan, because he had lost the trust that he usually supported.

However, because of this incident, all the elders supported Zhang Hualing's decision to destroy this tunnel.

After everything was over, everyone returned to Jiuhua Mountain through the tunnel. The only difference from when they came was that this time the elders were more cautious and frightened, and they set up various flame barriers outside their bodies to prevent being poisoned again.

During this time, Xu Qingfan and Zhang Hualing also directed everyone to leave as usual. Everything was normal between the two of them. Only some people were a little strange. Why did the three leaders of Jiuhua, Zhang Hualing, Gongsun Huasu, and Xu Qingfan, not say a word to each other after this change?

And the strange instruments and materials in the hall under the tunnel were carefully moved to Jiuhua.

After returning to the back mountain of Jiuhua again, everyone breathed a sigh of relief after not finding any abnormalities. Although there was no danger on the way back, everyone felt exhausted as if they had just experienced a war under the suppressed fear.

After returning to the back mountain, several powerful Taoist methods destroyed the Jiuhua tunnel, and several barriers completely blocked the tunnel.

Although they knew that the tunnel was full of poison, they still felt sorry when they saw the tunnel collapse. Jiuhua Mountain has solid rocks. It is about dozens of miles long to dig a tunnel from here to outside Jiuhua. The project is so huge that even a master in the Jindan stage will have to spend decades. More importantly, if you want to hide from the "Nine Extreme Formation" under the sky around Jiuhua Mountain, you must not only be careful when digging the tunnel, but also need a very rare stone to hide it. The special stone consumed in digging this tunnel is worth 100,000 spirit stones. It's a pity to destroy it like this.

Then, Zhang Hualing announced in front of everyone that Feng Qingtian was disobedient and rebelled against Jiuhua Mountain, but he didn't mention the detailed reasons, which caused a chaos among the elders.

When everything was over, everyone dispersed, and Xu Qingfan also flew towards his cave, but he didn't say a word to Zhang Hualing from beginning to end.

After opening the barrier outside the cave, they saw Ting'er, Zhang Ningmei, and Bai Yu playing with Xiaobi. So many things happened in Jiuhua these days, but they didn't know anything about it. They were just innocent.

Looking at the expressions of Ting'er and Zhang Ningmei, it was obvious that after this period of time, Ting'er had untied her knot and the two became close again. I think it was because of Zhang Ningmei's guidance.

Seeing Xu Qingfan, who had been in seclusion for more than half a year, suddenly came back, the three of them showed surprise on their faces, walked up to Xu Qingfan, and bowed to greet him.

After these days of changes, Xu Qingfan felt that this scene in front of him was particularly warm.