Refining Qi starts from repairing the panel.

Chapter 223: The traces of the Qi-refining master, the Nine-orifice Golden Pill

The howling wind and violent airflow swept in all directions, instantly stirring Chu Zheng's nerves.

Chu Zheng raised his eyes and saw a giant claw nearly ten feet in size coming straight towards his forehead. The tip of the claw was like a blade, reflecting a cold light, enough to cut gold and jade.

In an instant, Chu Zheng pulled out the dragon bone spear, a cold light flashed across the tip of the spear, and he raised his hand and stabbed it straight into the center of the claw.

hum-

A gust of wind blew up, the giant claws were retracted, the black shadow flew into the air, and suddenly retreated.

Only then did Chu Zheng see the full appearance of the wild beast. It was a ferocious bird covered in gray feathers. According to the information given by his spiritual eyes, it was a third-level wild beast, and its strength was not much different from his.

"Wow—"

The high-pitched long cry echoed between heaven and earth. Although the attack missed, the ferocious bird did not leave, but continued to hover around Chu Zheng.

A wild beast of this level already possesses a high level of intelligence. The reason it chose Chu Zheng as its prey is probably because it discovered that Chu Zheng did not have a strong bow in his hand and posed no threat to it.

Without magic power, only a strong body, even a fifth-level strongman like Lie cannot fly in the air. He needs the help of flying birds or totems such as divine birds to fly.

Chu Zheng put away the bone spear and took out a strong bow from his storage bag.

At this moment, his storage bag was already filled with talisman weapons and magical instruments he had made himself, just to be prepared for any eventuality.

Seeing the powerful bow suddenly appear in Chu Zheng's hand, the ferocious bird in the air showed a trace of obvious panic, turned around, and flapped its wings to fly away.

Chu Zheng took a deep breath, suppressed the magic power surging in his body, and pulled the bowstring with the strength of his physical body. He drew the bow and shot several arrows in an instant.

A shrill sound of breaking through the air was heard, followed by bursts of whistling sounds. Before the sound arrived, the arrow had already pierced through the body of the ferocious bird. The tremendous force exploded, tearing out huge bloody holes.

Blood rained down from the sky, and the ferocious birds fell to the ground, smashing heavily into the wasteland, splashing up a cloud of dust.

When Chu Zheng’s archery skills have reached this level, they can no longer be described by accuracy. As long as his strength is strong enough and the arrow speed is fast enough, he will hit the target with one shot and there is no possibility of missing.

This ferocious bird has a wingspan of more than twenty feet. Without a strong bow in hand, ordinary totem monks have no way to deal with it at all.

Chu Zheng stepped forward and cut open the chest of the ferocious bird, took out the still warm and faintly beating heart, absorbed a trickle of blood from the heart, and merged it into the totem behind him.

The totem bathed in the beast's blood, and felt a warm sensation, registering the breath of this ferocious bird.

Then, he took out the molten bead, sucked the blood of the ferocious bird dry, and turned and left.

Although Chu Zheng came for the magical bones of the Tianling tribe during this beast hunting event, it would naturally be better if he could get some rewards along the way.

Chu Zheng looked around and saw no human figure. He immediately summoned a flying sword, flew into the air, and plunged into the depths of the wasteland.

He had been in seclusion for several years, and a lot of calamity energy had accumulated around him. Experiencing more fighting could help dissipate some of the calamity energy and reduce the possibility of causing trouble to the Wangshan tribe.

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In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed.

Chu Zheng went deep into the hunting grounds, regardless of his own losses, and hunted hundreds of wild beasts. He soon entered a desolate land.

In addition to the skeletons of wild beasts, there are also many human corpses here, which should be left by previous beast hunting expeditions. Many of the human corpses are covered by the skeletons of wild beasts. They are incomplete and mixed together, and it is obvious that they have become food.

Along the way, Chu Zheng found quite a few fragments of talisman weapons, all of which he collected. Among them were several talisman weapons of grade as high as sixth level, making it a fruitful harvest.

However, the wild beasts active in this vicinity have become significantly stronger, basically ranging from level three to level four, with most of them being level four.

A fourth-order wild beast is not something Chu Zheng can deal with at the moment. If he goes any further, his current strength will be a bit stretched.

In addition to the corpses, Chu Zheng also saw quite a few totem monks, who were basically the elite of each tribe, and their cultivation was around the fourth level. Their battlefield had already advanced here, and they had engaged in an extremely bloody fight with the wild beasts, resulting in casualties on both sides.

After some consideration, Chu Zheng changed direction and decided to make a detour and then return to the camp.

His current military achievements are enough to exchange for a lot of resources. Those talisman weapons can be exchanged for two magical bones. The original goal has been achieved.

Chu Zheng turned around, walked around, and slowly began to move towards the camp.

After traveling for several days, Chu Zheng stopped in a valley. There were many corpses scattered around the valley, some of them were human and some were wild beasts. Chu Zheng looked at a few of them and found some surprising information. None of the corpses around, whether they were human or wild beasts, were lower than the eighth level.

The essence and energy in these corpses had all been drained away, leaving nothing of value behind. Even though Chu Zheng tried to extract it using his magical power of gathering energy to replenish the sky, he was unable to draw anything useful from these corpses.

Perhaps it is because of this that these bones have been preserved to this day.

Chu Zheng walked around and counted carefully. There were seventeen corpses in total. In other words, nearly twenty True Immortal-level powerhouses died near this ordinary valley.

The message implied in this is quite shocking.

Chu Zheng walked towards the interior of the valley with some caution.

The entire valley had obviously been cleared and was empty. Apart from scattered rocks, there was no useful information.

Seeing this, Chu Zheng did not rush to leave, but began to search the valley carefully. So many powerful beings died here all at once, and all their energy was drained away.

All these strange phenomena are enough to show that there are unknown secrets in this valley.

Chu Zheng dug the rocks inch by inch and dug three feet into the ground, searching for traces left over from who knows how long ago. After spending several days, he finally found some clues.

A broken wall made of half blue bricks appeared in his field of vision.

[Incomplete Temple (Level 1/Incomplete): It originally enshrined a powerful deity, but it was rarely worshipped and has long been abandoned (can be repaired).]

Temple?

Seeing the information given by the spiritual eye, Chu Zheng's eyes suddenly focused. There was actually a Taoist sect of incense gods in the Dongyuan Realm? !

Without hesitation, he operated the repair panel and repaired the entire temple.

In an instant, a blue brick and tile house spanning a ten-zhang square appeared in front of Chu Zheng.

He pushed the door open and stepped into the temple. The altar was empty and the fragments of the statue had not been found yet.

Chu Zheng was not in a hurry to look for the fragments of the statue. He looked around and saw the structure inside the temple. The questioning look in his eyes gradually turned into horror.

The structure of this temple is exactly the same as the ruined temple where he found the golden body of Taoist Patriarch in the Cangyun Secret Realm.

Could it be that the deity enshrined here is the Taoist Ancestor? !
Chu Zheng took a deep breath and began to walk around the temple, searching inch by inch. When a handful of red soil appeared in his field of vision, a piece of information suddenly came into his mind.

[Taozu Golden Body (Level 2/Incomplete): The statue of Taozu lacks incense and offerings, has never been spiritualized, was destroyed in a war, and can be repaired. 】

As the repair panel started to work, a statue appeared in front of Chu Zheng.

Looking at the statue in front of him that looked exactly like him, Chu Zheng couldn't help but take a breath and felt his scalp tingling.

It's actually the Taoist Golden Body? !

There had been Qi cultivators who had been to this world before, but for some unknown reason, they had never passed on their teachings to the humans in this world.

Looking at the golden statue of the Taoist ancestor in front of him, Chu Zheng frowned and pondered for a while, then took a stick of incense from the altar and lit it. After respectfully bowing three times with Taoist etiquette, he offered incense.

Since he was a Taoist practitioner, it was only natural for him to offer a stick of incense when he saw the Taoist Ancestor. What's more, the Record of Eternal True Tribulations that he was practicing now was also the inheritance of the Taoist Ancestor.

Just after burning incense, ripples appeared in the void, and a jade box fell out of the void and landed on the altar.

"This is……"

Chu Zheng was a little confused. He reached out to take the jade box and opened it directly.

A dazzling golden light burst out. Chu Zheng couldn't help but hold his breath when he saw what was in the box. With disbelief in his eyes, he blurted out, "Golden Pill?!"

A round and flawless nine-orifice golden elixir lay quietly in the jade box, emitting brilliant golden light. Within the spiritual orifice, nine phantoms of great magical powers flashed.

There was no breath left on the golden elixir, which was enough to prove that the owner of this golden elixir was dead.

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(End of this chapter)