Six Realms Immortal Emperor

"Hmph, this kid's pretty alert." Yuan Fei watched his retreating figure, a smile that seemed completely out of place for his age.

However, the next quarter of an hour later, Yuan Fei's expression suddenly changed to one of disbelief. He looked around at his surroundings and said in shock, "How did I get here?"

He was about to turn and leave when he suddenly froze.

"Elder Shou Dan!?"

From the dimly lit corner emerged an aged figure—it was Elder Shou Dan. No one knew when he had arrived.

Elder Shoudan remained expressionless, and with a gentle wave of his hand, the door to the room where the stone statue was kept opened by itself, revealing the dark space inside.

Yuan Fei was startled and sensed something was wrong. Pointing at the room, he asked in a trembling voice, "Elder... this... this?"

"Hehe, just go in. Once inside, you'll get what you want!" Elder Shoudan said with a strange expression.

"Elder, don't kill me!" Yuan Fei shouted, his face pale with fright.

"You know too much. Keeping you around will only cause trouble!" Elder Shoudan remained unmoved.

"I don't know anything, don't kill me!" Yuan Fei shouted desperately.

Although he was extremely unwilling, his legs wouldn't obey him, and he strode towards the room, scaring him half to death. He didn't quite know what was inside the room, but he knew that once he went in, he would never return.

In desperation, Yuan Fei hurriedly pulled out a pill bottle from his robes and said to the elder guarding the pills, "This bottle contains only waste Five Elements Blood Condensation Pills. I'll give it all to you, please let me go!"

To prevent his master from discovering it, he always carried this bottle of waste pills with him.

"Hmph, since you have no use for it, then give it to me!" Elder Shou Dan waved his hand, and the pill bottle flew into his hand.

"Elder, no! No... Help!" Yuan Fei did not stop walking and continued towards that room.

"Hmph, I've already cast a spell to prevent the sound from spreading. Even if you scream your lungs out, no one will hear you," Elder Shoudan said with disdain.

"Help! Help!"

Yuan Fei called out repeatedly, but there was no response in the huge storage room. Only after he entered the room did the door close completely, blocking out his screams, and then there was no more movement.

Elder Shoudan acted as if nothing had happened, walking outside on his own, muttering to himself, "If I weren't nearing the end of my lifespan, I wouldn't have resorted to this drastic measure. To avoid you interfering with my plans, I have no choice but to sacrifice you."

Immediately afterwards, Elder Shou Dan opened the lid of the pill bottle, poured out a few waste pills, and with a pinch of his hand, they turned into powder, and a pungent medicinal smell immediately filled the air.

Elder Shoudan took a few deep breaths and sneered, "Hmph, how can these be called waste pills? You can only blame yourselves for being too incompetent and blind."

He studied them carefully and concluded that, strictly speaking, they couldn't be called waste pills, but rather pills of extremely poor quality. The impurities in these waste pills were harmful to the body. If they were purified to remove the harmful impurities, they could be used, but the effect would be much worse than that of good pills.

"Yes, the Five Elements Blood Coagulation Pill is still better than the Spirit Solidification and Mind Condensation Pill."

Elder Shoudan took a few more deep breaths, and the spiritual energy mixed with the waste gas entered his meridians. Before long, his listless spirit became invigorated, and even his appearance looked much younger than before.

If Xu Jingtian were here, he would definitely notice that Elder Shou Dan's method of absorbing this waste gas was somewhat similar to his own.

The prayer beads on Xu Jingtian's wrist are like a highly efficient converter, purifying harmful waste gases into useful spiritual energy.

Elder Shoudan also absorbed all this spiritual energy into his body, purified it, separated out the harmful waste gas, and then expelled it through breathing.

"Not bad, not bad! But this bottle of waste pills is far too little!"

Elder Shoudan thought this was too slow, so he simply poured all the waste pills in the bottle into his hand, grabbed them hard, and crushed them.

Elder Shoudan closed his eyes, greedily absorbing the spiritual energy. Although he absorbed spiritual energy containing impurities, he exhaled only waste gas, creating a cycle. This cycle repeated itself, and spiritual energy was continuously drawn into his body. During these brief pauses in breathing, the harmful waste gas was separated and expelled from his body.

In just over ten breaths, Elder Shoudan absorbed all the surrounding waste gas. If you looked closely, you might notice that the deep wrinkles on his face had become somewhat shallower.

"Good, good, good! It would be even better if there were more!" Elder Shou Dan gradually straightened his body. He could also clearly feel the changes brought about by this spiritual energy. He exhaled a long breath and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

But as soon as he finished speaking, he felt a sudden pause, his straight body involuntarily bent slightly, and even the wrinkles that had faded returned to their original state.

"Sigh, it seems my time to retire isn't far off. I need to hurry and finalize my selection. That kid from earlier was pretty good..."

As time goes by, some things cannot be compensated for by spiritual energy and elixirs, no matter how high one's cultivation level is.

"It's time to go see that little guy!" Elder Shoudan forced a smile back onto his lips. "This kid is quite clever; he even saw through the flaws in such a sophisticated illusion technique as the Soul Control Illusion Technique."

He casually cast a spell, flicking it lightly into the distance, and an invisible barrier was removed.

Meanwhile, Xu Jingtian, who was on the other side of the storage room, noticed that Yuan Fei was acting strangely. Without any hesitation, he chose to flee immediately.

Xu Jingtian was relieved to realize that Yuan Fei was not chasing after him.

"What's wrong with Yuan Fei? Why would he lie to me and go to that room?"

Could it be because of the few bottles of useless pills in his room? No, based on his understanding of Yuan Fei, although the other party was somewhat greedy, he wouldn't be so heartless as to poison him for a few bottles of useless pills.

Yuan Fei must have other, more important purposes for doing this, or he might be acting under someone else's instructions. Could it be Elder Shou Dan?

The thought startled Xu Jingtian. There were only Yuan Fei, himself, and Elder Shoudan in the storage room. If Elder Shoudan was truly instigating Yuan Fei to do this, wouldn't he be unable to leave the storage room?

With this thought in mind, Xu Jingtian still gritted his teeth and walked towards the door of the storage room. With each step he took closer to the storage room, the pressure on his heart increased.

After turning another corner, he was almost at the stone gate. Xu Jingtian looked nervously in that direction, but strangely, there was no one there. Elder Shou Dan's place was empty. Xu Jingtian quickly walked towards the stone gate, took out the jade token from his pocket, and waved it at the stone gate.

A faint ray of light shot out from the jade tablet and struck the stone door, but the result Xu Jingtian had expected did not occur; the stone door remained completely still.

"What's going on? Is my cultivation level too low?" Xu Jingtian wondered to himself.

He remembered that when he first came to the storage room, the stone gate didn't react to his jade token, and he thought it was because he didn't have any spiritual power in his body. This time, it seems that the stone gate must have other secrets.

"What, in such a hurry to leave?"

Just as Xu Jingtian was at his wit's end, Elder Shou Dan suddenly emerged from a corner.

"Elder!" Xu Jingtian exclaimed in surprise.

"Have all the materials for alchemy been prepared?" Elder Shou Dan still looked old and hunchbacked.

But Xu Jingtian knew that this was just a facade and should not be taken seriously. Faced with Elder Shou Dan's question, he was speechless, because although he was not empty-handed, he was in a similar situation.