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Chapter 53 The Black-robed Man in Front of Tianzhen Pavilion

As Xu Huan and Lin Youwei stared intently, Zhen Qiankun's snow-white brows tightened slightly. He controlled the pink liquid extracted from the Jueqi Flower in the corner of the alchemy furnace and carefully moved it towards the golden liquid.

Unlike the previous rapid process of simultaneously burning and purifying multiple medicinal herbs, Zhen Qiankun this time slowly controlled the fusion of the two, bit by bit. Based on the principle of "fire overcomes metal", he gradually neutralized the violent energy contained in the metal-attribute Mind Crystal liquid with the fire-attributed Jueqi Flower liquid.

“Zizi, Zizi, Zizi…”

With bursts of subtle sounds, although Xu Huan and Lin Youwei were some distance apart, they could clearly see that the originally golden liquid, after coming into contact with the pink liquid, gradually retracted the dazzling golden light under the burning of the light purple flame and slowly turned into a soft yellow light.

After eighteen breaths, seeing that the golden liquid and the pink liquid had mostly merged and were about to completely merge together and completely neutralize the violent energy, Zhen Qiankun suddenly felt a slight obstruction between the two liquids.

"Stab~"

Before a strange sound, so subtle that it couldn't be any subtler, was heard, Xu Huan in the distance suddenly felt something was wrong. His tense mind immediately reacted and he dove to the side in an instant.

"Bang~"

At the same time when Xu Huan had just pounced on Lin Youwei, the golden liquid in the center of the alchemy furnace, which had mostly turned into yellow, suddenly burst out with a dazzling golden light and emitted an extremely violent energy, causing the furnace lid to vibrate violently.

"boom!!!"

In an instant, a loud bang exploded in the center of the alchemy room, and a visible golden energy wave, like a huge wave, carried the momentum to destroy everything, sweeping violently in all directions.

Xu Huan held down Lin Youwei's soft body tightly, protecting them both from the incoming energy impact. His eyes were slightly solemn, and he could feel the ground shaking slightly, and a powerful gust of air whizzed past his head.

Fortunately, by the time the energy wave reached the medicine cabinet next to the two of them, its power had been greatly weakened and could not hurt them.

After a while, the air wave completely dissipated. A trace of fear flashed across Xu Huan's face and he slowly stood up.

"Fortunately, brother dodged quickly." Xu Huan chuckled, then reached out and pulled up Lin Youwei, who was pressed to the ground by him, with her cheeks slightly stained with pink.

Lin Youwei turned her sparkling eyes slightly and took a quick look around. Seeing the mess around her, with even the lid of the alchemy furnace stuck to the far wall, she couldn't help but pat her small chest with her hands, frowning and saying, "Alchemy is really dangerous. It's better for Brother Xu Huan not to learn such a dangerous thing~"

"Yeah." Xu Huan nodded heavily in agreement.

The power of this level of elixir furnace explosion does not pose much threat to the stronger Zhen Qiankun, but for those of them with low cultivation, the consequence is either death or injury.

After standing there and straightening his clothes, Xu Huan turned around and his eyes fell on Zhen Qiankun, who was floating in the middle of the alchemy room. Seeing the sullen look on his face, he couldn't help but jokingly said, "Ancestor, you can't do this. You can even blow up the furnace by refining a first-grade pill."

Upon hearing this, Zhen Qiankun's face darkened. He pondered for a moment, recalling his previous alchemy experiences and comparing them to those of his time. "Damn it! Every step matched perfectly, the medicinal properties were identical, there was absolutely no mistake. How could this idiot furnace explode? It's a one in a million chance of bad luck, and I just happened to happen like that! Damn, this is just idiot luck!"

Listening to Zhen Qiankun completely disregarding his own image as a sage and spewing out a string of curse words, Xu Huan couldn't help but smile. It was obvious that this furnace explosion had really made him question his life.

Shaking his head slightly, Xu Huan immediately tried to divert attention and said softly, "Old Ancestor, how can you, a Taoist priest, swear so loudly?"

"Damn! What do you mean I'm a Taoist priest? You kid are the successor of our Wuqi Temple, you are also a Taoist priest! Besides, is our Wuqi Temple an ordinary Taoist temple? Are we ordinary Taoist priests?" Zhen Qiankun was already a little annoyed, and when he suddenly heard Xu Huan's words, he immediately replied angrily.

Although Zhen Qiankun looked like a powder keg, his anger dissipated after he finished speaking. He then waved his hand and curled his lips at Xu Huan, saying, "We emphasize following the natural way, cultivating our minds and tempering our natures, and acting spontaneously. To put it nicely, it's about having a single thought and being free and unrestrained. To put it bluntly, it's about doing whatever we want. Humph!"

Seeing the somewhat vicious look that Zhen Qiankun was giving him, and hearing him classify him as a Taoist priest, Xu Huan couldn't help but roll his eyes in response. He then waved at him and chuckled, "Grandpa, please take your time refining the elixir. Sister Lin and I will go take a nice nap and have some afternoon tea. We'll come back to get the elixir after dinner."

"Go away, don't disturb me while I'm refining the elixir. While you still have time to sleep, sleep as much as you can. I will refine the Five Qi Marrow Cleansing Liquid later. Don't even think about sleeping tonight, tomorrow night, or every night thereafter." Zhen Qiankun waved his hand as if to shoo away a fly.

He stopped looking at Xu Huan and Lin Youwei and went straight to the pharmacy on the other side to choose a new alchemy furnace.

Seeing this, Xu Huan turned his head slightly, shrugged at Lin Youwei, and said, "It seems that the Five Qi Marrow Cleansing Fluid is a 'good' thing that can refresh you."

"Hehe~" Lin Youwei smiled without saying anything, but took the lead, holding Huahua, and walked out of the alchemy room.

Looking back at Zhen Qiankun floating in the distance and carefully selecting the alchemy furnace, Xu Huan followed him away.

……

As night fell and the lights came on, the colorful lanterns in Wuling City gradually lit up, and the number of pedestrians on the road gradually decreased.

Tianzhen Pavilion in the northern part of Wuling City.

Here, however, there is a constant flow of people, and pedestrians are coming in from all directions on the surrounding streets.

On the wide street in front of the main gate to the south of Tianzhen Pavilion, a tall black figure was walking leisurely, slowly approaching from the other end of the street with the flow of people.

To be on the safe side, Xu Huan changed into a new black suit, still all in black, black clothes, black shoes, black gloves, black mask and black headscarf, so that no one could see any exposed skin. For an extra precaution, he even tied a black scarf over the mask, and put on a black hat on his head, with a circle of one-sided translucent black gauze hanging from the brim of the hat.

"I say, kid, do you really need to be so careful?" Zhen Qiankun looked at Xu Huan, who was so eager to wrap himself up like a big rice dumpling for the Dragon Boat Festival. He immediately shook his head and said in a soul-transmitting voice.

(End of this chapter)