At last, Li Mu decided to stay in the room and see what would happen next.
After taking many elixirs, Li Mu felt a little full.
The elixirs went into his body and turned into energies of different properties, constantly colliding in his meridians. Gradually, his meridians were clogged. Li Mu felt that he was bloated and was suffering from excessive internal heat. His nose even started bleeding.
His primitive natural qi was still sealed in his body and could not be activated.
Therefore, Li Mu had no way to refine these elixirs. The energy of these elixirs could only be stored in his muscles and blood.
Li Mu felt that his feet were as light as a feather. The feeling was quite surreal as if he were walking on clouds.
About two days later.
Li Mu finally ate up all the elixirs in the Elixir Room.
He had never taken eating elixirs as a painful task, but now he began to think so.
Because when he was taking the last few elixirs, his five organs were filled with the aroma of elixirs. Every time he opened his mouth and burped, the Spiritual Qi in the elixirs floated out… Well, even when he farted, it was mixed with the aroma of elixirs.
“The old guy is really generous. These elixirs… Burp.” Li Mu lay on the ground, rubbing his belly, as though he had dined and wined to satiety. He burped again and said, “I’ve had too much. I’m about to suffer from indigestion.”
“Rumble!”
The stone door of the Elixir Room opened.
Several cultivators of the Tianyi Palace at the peak of the Mortal Realm came in, carrying a big golden bronze cauldron with two loop handles and three legs. They placed it on the star-patterned tactical deployment at the center of the Elixir Room.
Feng Zhen, with his long sleeves fluttering, came in with the air of an old immortal.
“It’s time to get started.”
He picked up Li Mu and tossed him into the bronze cauldron.
“I’ll give you a shower first to wash away the filth in your body.”
He laughed out loud, then, took out a precious gourd and muttered incantations to himself.
The gourd spat out a stream of blue spiritual liquid, which was quite fragrant. It pouring into the bronze cauldron with two loop handles and three legs. In the blink of an eye, the big cauldron that could hold four or five people was filled up.
“This is the Blue Spiritual Liquid. It is originated from the Blue Star. You can’t find any in the market even if you have the money. It’s comparable to the spiritual liquid in the gold-colored fairy crystal. I’ve collected the liquid for half of my life. That’s why I’ve had so much… Tut-tut, you’re really lucky to take a bath in this liquid.”
Feng Zhen laughed smugly as he activated the star-patterned tactical deployment beneath the bronze cauldron.
The fire power of the Earthveins began to flow and gather under the bronze cauldron.
With the heavy shackles weighing on him, Li Mu was drowning in the cauldron and unable to make it to the surface. He felt that the blue liquid was like a living snake or a worm, constantly sneaking into his body through his pores.
A kind of bone-chilling coldness came along with the liquid as if it were going to freeze all the blood in his body.
As the fire power of the Earthveins grilled the bronze cauldron, the coldness was gradually replaced by heat.
“Bubbling, bubbling!”
The blue liquid in the large cauldron began to boil.
Under the effect of a strange force, the liquid madly poured into Li Mu’s body and seeped into his pores, mouth, nostrils, ears, and other openings. In the end, the blue liquid seemed to have suddenly been brought alive and rushed into Li Mu’s mouth, nose, and ears.
Feng Zhen the Bloodless Sword continued muttering.
He conjured hand seals and pitched them into the bronze cauldron one after another.
“Holy cow, why do I feel like I’m being cooked alive?”
Li Mu felt nothing but heat and irritation. The blue liquid began to neutralize and merge with the elixir force stored in his body. As if two armies in a battle, the two kinds of power began to compete in Li Mu’s body.
This process was rather agonizing.
Even so, this kind of pain was not a big deal for Li Mu, who had been accustomed to the pain of his body being torn apart little by little when he practiced the Zhenwu Boxing.
In the end, the blue liquid in the large cauldron was all sealed into Li Mu’s body by Feng Zhen with a secret method.
“Haha, I know. You must be suffering now. But, haha, it’s just the beginning. The real suffering is still waiting for you.”
Having finished casting the seals, Feng Zhen burst out laughing.
At this time, Li Mu was already twice his previous size. It looked like he had been blown up.
Now, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that he was Tang Monk.
Li Mu felt that his body was loaded with all kinds of energy. Any piece of his flesh could be regarded as an elixir with precious nutrients. If a mortal ate some, he might become healthier and have a longer life, or even be able to live forever without getting old.
“Your body is indeed the undying body. You even absorbed a hundred kilograms of Blue Spiritual Liquid completely. If it were anyone else, I’m afraid that their body would burst even if their cultivation was in the Soldier Realm. Haha, this is great. You didn’t let me down. Now, you are officially my ‘Elixir Man’. Well, next, we will really get to business.”
Looking at Li Mu who had been blown up in such a short span, Feng Zhen was quite content.
His eyes were full of anticipation.
The door of the Elixir Room was once again opened.
Then, Feng Zhen’s trusted disciples came in with dozens of medicine chests.
Inside the medicine chests, there were all kinds of spiritual herbs, divine herbs, minerals, spiritual crystals, and so on. All of them had been processed with a special method. They were shining brightly and emitting Spiritual Qi, which looked quite appealing.
The trusted disciples then backed out of the Elixir Room.
Feng Zhen took a shower and changed his clothes. He had put on a solemn and earnest look on his face.
Feng Zhen then came to the brass furnace, cautiously worshipped and examined it. After that, he activated the seals with a secret technique, removed the lid, and scooped Li Mu out of the large cauldron before throwing him into the brass furnace.
“Hey, old man, be gentle.”
Li Mu bumped against the walls of the furnace and felt that his brain had been messed up.
The interior of the furnace was much larger than he had imagined. It was pitch-black inside it.
Feng Zhen didn’t say anything. He continued to cast seals with both hands, the types of which constantly changed. One Taoist seal after another began to form on his fingertips.
Meanwhile, the star-patterned tactical deployment on the ground had been completely switched on.
The fire power in the Earthveins was awoken by the tactical deployment. It rose up and turned into faint purple flames that could be seen by the naked eye. The flames were injected into the furnace. Soon, thunder and lightning qi formed on the walls of the furnace. As thunderbolts swirled, the brass furnace vibrated slightly, and then gradually went back to normal.
But what Li Mu saw and heard inside the furnace was lightning flashes and thunder rumbles accompanied by the roars of Taoist patterns. It was quite bizarre and creepy. A sense of danger had permeated the inside of the furnace.
But Li Mu’s intuition nurtured by the Xiantian Skill told him that this kind of danger was not fatal.
He stood up and struggled hard. The shackles were instantly broken, hanging on his body like rags.
The lid had not been put back.
Li Mu detected a kind of oppressive power spreading inside the furnace. Obviously, it was not easy to escape from the furnace, which was probably one of the reasons why Feng Zhen did not care to put the lid back.
Li Mu began to walk about in the furnace, knocking against the walls every now and then and listening to the sound. He thought to himself, “In a while, if I really can’t jump out, I’ll just smash the furnace to get out.”
Li Mu looked up at the opening of the furnace.
Feng Zhen’s wrinkled face appeared over the opening of the furnace.
He threw in several purple stems and said with a sneer, “The Thousand-year-old Purple-Gold King-level Yang Plant is a rare miracle-working medicine. If a martial artist absorbs its power, it will save him 60 years of cultivation… These purple stems are the first guiding drug in the elixir prescription. You, a lowlife rogue cultivator, are really in luck to get to see this magic medicine before you die.”
Li Mu did not speak.
Feng Zhen continued, “I know that you are quite unwilling to give up and want to wait for an opportunity to escape. But you’d better drop the idea forever. Even immortals have no chance to fly out once they fall into my Heaven Wasteland Cauldron. So, be a lamb and accept the refining. Just let me refine you into the Immortal Elixir, haha!”
As he spoke, he began to operate the furnace to refine Li Mu.
In the blink of an eye, a day had passed.
Feng Zhen opened the furnace and poked his head inside only to see Li Mu lying inside. The several Thousand-year-old Purple-Gold King-level Yang Plants had disappeared.
“I suppose the efficacy of the guiding drug has evaporated.”
He was quite pleased.
“Next, what should be added are…” Feng Zhen tossed in more than ten types of divine herbs at one go. Then, he closed the furnace and continued to drive the fire power of the Earthveins to refine the ingredients.
Feng Zhen’s swordsmanship was superb, and his alchemy skills were also quite outstanding. He had an ancient elixir prescription at hand, which he got by chance 65 years ago. It was a secret prescription that had been lost for decades, which was specially designed to refine the “Immortal Elixir”.
When Feng Zhen got hold of the elixir prescription at first, he was beside himself with joy.
Because the Immortal Elixir was a legendary elixir at the immortal level. It was said that a single Immortal Elixir could make a mortal ascend to the immortal realm and let a cultivator become an immortal lord. With his cultivation in the Soldier Realm, Feng Zhen believed that if he took it, he would not only enter the General Realm with a stir of his mind but also build a solid foundation for his future entry to the King Realm. Then, the path toward the throne would be all bright and smooth.
Therefore, in the past 60 years, Feng Zhen had traveled all over the Brilliance Immortal Star Region and carefully collected the various materials required by the elixir prescription. And the result was quite satisfying.
No matter how rare and scarce the ingredients were, Feng Zhen found a way to get some. However, the prescription clearly stated that a cultivator with the undying body was needed, which was extremely difficult to pin down. This was something that could only be found by chance. So, this issue had distressed Feng Zhen for a long time.
But now, he finally found one.
“If you have to blame someone, blame your bad luck. You have successfully cultivated the undying body, but then, you ran into me. Well, don’t worry. After you are refined into an Immortal Elixir, I will definitely pour a glass of wine for you to bless your dead soul. Hahaha!”
Feng Zhen was suddenly in high spirits.
He knew that Li Mu was still alive in the furnace and so he could hear him.
On the sixth day of the refining, Feng Zhen opened the furnace again to check.
The fragrance of herbs had filled the furnace. The vapor was swirling, blurring Li Mu’s figure. Although Feng Zhen could not see Li Mu clearly, he could still sense his aura. Clearly, he was still alive.
This was no surprise.
After all, Li Mu had the immortal body. If he were already dead, Feng Zhen would be surprised instead.
Meticulously, Feng Zhen performed the techniques, seals, and formulas according to the instructions of the ancient elixir prescription. Also, he orderly added herbs, minerals, and other subsidiary materials, so as to make sure that nothing would go wrong in this crucial refining.
“Li Mu, the mad killer, is despicable and inhuman. He has slaughtered the innocent and committed unforgivable crimes.”
“Hundreds of merchants on the South Street of Star Wind City were robbed and murdered by that sinner.”
“Having committed murder and robbery, Li Mu shall die a million times to atone for his sin.”
“The tragedy in Star Wind City is the most terrible atrocity that has occurred in the Brilliance Immortal Star Region in the past ten years.”
“The latest footage of the tragedy recorded by the Water Mirror Technique has exposed the devil’s abominable crimes.”
On the official forum about the events in the Brilliance Immortal Star Region on the Immortal Net, eye-catching posts quickly attracted many people’s attention. And in the past six days, the news had prompted hot discussions. The official notice Tianyi Palace released pointed out that on the rainy night a few days ago, Li Mu, the mad devil from the Divine Land, employed the cruelest means to launch a bloodbath on several lanes of the South Street where civilians lived and killed more than a thousand innocent cultivators. The means of the robbery were savage and violent, which was absolutely an outrageous atrocity.
The entire Brilliance Immortal Star Region was appalled by the news.
