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Chapter 40 Xuanwu Blood
"Little friend, little friend, wake up." The old man's voice came from next to his ear, Li Bubai opened his eyes, wondering why he always fainted for no reason recently.

He looked around, and in the distance, Sun Fu and Qiao Qiao were unloading things from the boat, some simple daily necessities and food.The old man was squatting beside him with an anxious expression on his face.

"Old man, can you restrain your concerned expression, it makes me feel a little nervous." Li Bubai said.

"Brat, it's good that someone cares about you. There are so many people in this world who die without anyone knowing." The old man curled his lips.

"Mr. Li, it's great that you're awake." At this moment, Qiao Qiao and Sun Fu brought a lot of things over.

"Well, wake up, have we already landed on the island?" Li Bubai asked.

"Yes, already on the island." Sun Fu said.

Li Bubai looked around, there was a thick white mist on the sea, and he couldn't see the outside world.

"Mister, why did I faint just now?" Li Bubai asked.

"Because he is too weak to exert its power."

"what is it?"

"It's just a piece of rotten wood."

Li Bubai tried to stand up, but he didn't have any strength in his body, so he had to be carried by Sun Fu. The food was packed in a box, and Qiao Qiao and the old man carried it away together.

After walking for a while, a few people entered a forest, and all they could see were thick and towering strange plants, nameless insects with enchanting colors, everything looked so unusual.

Passing by a few broken giant trees with mottled blood stains on them, a monk was lying on the grass, his chest was forcibly dug open by some creature, the blood had drained dry, and his heart was gone.

Fortunately, before entering the woods, the old man distributed the "Exorcism Powder" to the people and applied it on their bodies. The monsters they met along the way showed disgusted expressions at them.

Qiao Qiao subconsciously sniffed her hands, only the faint fragrance of exorcism powder.

After leaving the forest, they saw the first village. There were only some plump women and some skinny children in the village, and no men were seen.

These women and children quickly hid in the house after seeing Libo and others.

Soon they came to the second village, and the same scene reappeared.

"Old man, why are the women in these villages so plump, but the children are so thin, and why didn't I see a man?" Li Bubai was still weakly lying on Sun Fu's back at this time, why did he ask the old man These questions are because the old man has been leading the way since he went to the island. It seems that he is very familiar with this place, and Li Bubai thinks that he should know the answer.

"Oh, men, of course, have to work. Women don't have to work. They just have to give birth to children, so they will be plump naturally. As for children, it's good to be alive." The old man's answer was very vague.

After walking for a while, they came to a small town where monks lived. In front of a grocery store, they met the two big monsters, the worm head and the dog head, whom they had seen outside the island before.

The two demons obviously just bought something in the grocery store, and they still had satisfied smiles on their faces when they went out. When they saw Li Bubai and others, they were only slightly taken aback, obviously also seeing that they were not locals, But only when they entered the island later, passed by and walked away.

"This is the only small town on the island, which is only for monks to live in, and this grocery store is also the only grocery store on the island, do you want to go in and open your eyes?" The old man saw that Li Bubai raised his head and wanted to ask again. There is an answer.

"Don't bother, the old man is busy." Li Bubai shook his head lightly.

A trace of regret flashed in the old man's eyes, but it was fleeting. He nodded and led the others to move on.

After a while, I came to the center of the town, and a mage in a blue magic robe was standing in a teleportation array, shouting hard:
"Don't miss it when you pass by. The sightseeing tour around the island once every 60 years only costs 100 gold coins. If you buy it, you will earn it."

"Some places on the island are restricted, and you need to use the teleportation array to get there." The old man explained to the three people who were puzzled.

After speaking, he took out a token from his arms and threw it to the mage.

The sorcerer saw that the old man had thrown a token instead of taking the money, and was about to start scolding, when he saw the big word "ice" on the token out of the corner of his eye, a chill came over his back, how dare he say no, Respectfully, several people were invited into the teleportation array.

With a wave of water light fluctuations, several people disappeared in the teleportation array.

A few minutes later, the token engraved with the word "ice" was placed on a tray made of green wood, and appeared in the small room in the backyard of the grocery store.

The owner of the room stretched out his slender fingers, held the token between his fingers, and threw it back into the tray after only looking at it.

"This old Wu ghost has come to steal Xuanwu tears again."

On the other side, the blue light dissipated, and Li Bubai and the others appeared on a mountain. From here, you can have a panoramic view of the entire island. The central area of ​​the island is a black altar, and outside the altar are some scattered villages. A forest haunted by countless monsters.Presumably the purpose of the existence of these monsters is to prevent mortals from escaping from the island.

The old man led a few people down from the top of the mountain. Li Bubai found that there were all kinds of herbs growing on both sides of the road. The old man stopped suddenly, motioned for Qiao Qiao to put down the basket in his hand, and asked her to pick a bunch of herbs. The herbs on the side can be picked as much as they can be picked.

Qiao Qiao did as he said, and pulled up a large herb with both hands. After pulling it up, the old man counted it carefully. There were 75 in total. The old man said that these were the elixir that could suppress the curse. After drying, The medicine is decocted every 20 sticks and used for 20 years at a time. After speaking, I gave Sun Fu a prescription and asked him to take Qiao Qiao along the mountain road until he could find the place where the boat stopped.Qiaoqiao heard that this was the elixir, so she squatted down quickly to try to pull out more, but found that the elixir on both sides of the road was gone, and there was only one road down the mountain.

Sun Fu and Qiao Qiao thanked the old man and went down the mountain.There was still half the food on board, enough for them to get back to shore.

The old man threw Li Bubai, who was weak all over, into the food basket, then passed the hemp rope through the buttons on the basket, and dragged Li Bubai forward with the hemp rope.

"Old man, please let me out, I can walk by myself." Li Bubai struggled to get up from the basket.

The old man stopped and turned around to look at him. Li Bubai gritted his teeth and tried hard to get out of the basket. After trying several times and breaking two bananas, Li Bubai gave up.

Seeing that he was not moving, the old man picked up the hemp rope and put it on his shoulder, and continued to drag him forward.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, they came to a teleportation array, and another monk in a blue magic robe stood in front of the array.

"Master Wu, long time no see." The mage said.

"Go to the altar." The old man didn't talk nonsense, and dragged Li Bubai into the teleportation array.

With a flash of blue light, the two appeared on the edge of a black altar.

At this time, many people have gathered here, including those two big monsters, and several human monks. A shark is swimming.

There is a stone platform in the middle of the altar. On the platform is a transparent vial with half a bottle of blood-red liquid in it. There are several white bones around the stone platform.

"That's Xuanwu blood, the purpose of these guys is that thing." The old man said.

"Dear friends, welcome to Penglai Island. The Xuanwu Altar will be opened in an hour. I wish you good luck." A pleasant female voice came from inside the altar.

"I heard that Master Bing Xin, the owner of Penglai Island, is a rare beauty in a century, why don't you come out and let me admire you." The big monster with the head of a dog shouted towards the altar.

"Bold, how dare you disrespect the island owner!" Several monks stationed at the altar were furious when they heard the words, and wanted to take action to teach this ignorant monster.

"Hehe, this concubine's appearance is unbearably ugly, she doesn't look like a fellow Taoist with a handsome face, so I won't come out to scare everyone." The voice came again.

The dog-headed monster also seemed to think that what the woman said was reasonable, so he stopped talking.

About 10 minutes before the opening of the altar, several human monks began to take pills, mostly to restore physical strength and mana.

The worm-headed monster swiped its hand in the air, and a crack in time and space appeared.

Immediately afterwards, several ugly bugs flew out of the crack and danced around the big monster, and then the crack disappeared.

Others also more or less resorted to some means of blessing.

"Old man, don't we need to prepare?" Li Bubai raised his head and asked.

"Well, I need it. Pass me a banana. I've dragged you all the way. I'm starving to death." The old man stretched out his hand to Li Bubai.

"Eh..." Li Bubai touched a banana from the basket and handed it over.

With a buzzing sound, Li Bubai felt that the surroundings suddenly became much quieter.

"The restriction on the altar has been closed, and fellow daoists can go in. If any fellow daoist can get Xuanwu blood, Xin'er is willing to make a deal with him." The voice of the island master Bing Xin came again.

"Does it include spending a good night together?" the big monster with a dog's head and human body asked excitedly.

"Hehe, then it depends on the skills of fellow daoists."

At this time, Li Yun from Jinyue Kingdom came over. He first glanced at Li Bubai who was paralyzed in the basket, then turned his head and said to the old man:
"Master Wuyin, it's been a long time. It seems difficult to get the treasure this time. Why don't we cooperate?"

"Oh, baby, are you worthy?" The old man was extremely arrogant.

"Hehe, the villain is naturally not worthy, but I think the master doesn't even have a rank now. If he wants to get Xuanwu blood, I'm afraid..."

"Don't worry about it." The old man refused cleanly.

Li Yun was not annoyed either, he cupped his hands and walked away.

At this time, someone started to act. A five-stage swordsman took out a jade pendant from his arms and hung it around his waist, and then a blue shield appeared around his body.

In this way, he walked step by step towards the high platform in the center of the altar.

"Oh, it's Bihanyu, no wonder I dare to be the first person to eat crabs."

The rest of the people watched quietly like this, as if they were not at all worried that the Xuanwu blood would be taken away by him.

Sure enough, when there were still 10 steps away from the high platform, the blue shield began to flash rapidly.Every time he took a step, the color of the shield became lighter. When he was three meters away from the stone platform, the light blue shield was finally overwhelmed and ruptured.The jade pendant around his waist also shattered.

The knife and axeman was also a ruthless character. Seeing that there was no hope of escape, he directly threw the sharp ax in his hand, and the target was the bottle of Xuanwu blood.

"Bold!" The big dog-headed monster shouted.

The sharp ax turned into an ice ax in the air, and fell in front of the stone platform, turning into pieces of crushed ice.And the knife-axe hand first turned into an ice sculpture, and then the ice sculpture shattered, leaving only a skeleton.

(End of this chapter)