Invincible Bravery

Chapter 31 031, Black Death Valley, Guarding Fort
Five days later.

Black Death Valley, guarding the castle.

Accompanied by an ear-piercing "squeak", an old wooden door covered with decay marks slowly opened, and a stale air that had been accumulated for an unknown amount of time immediately gushed out and rushed towards the face.

Zhao Xiulin took half a step back, covered her mouth and nose, widened her eyes, looked through the gloomy doorway at the damp, dark, musty-smelling room ahead, and looked at the guide who brought her and Ni Kun here in disbelief:
"You let us live in this kind of ghost place?"

The guide was a woman in a black dress with a skin as pale as paper.

She held an oil lamp in her hand, looked at Zhao Xiulin expressionlessly, and said coldly:
"Remember your current situation. You violated the rules of the sect and were punished to serve as guards for atonement. Wherever the senior sister in charge arranges for you to live, you have to live there. Otherwise, do you still want to live in the sky?"

"You!" Zhao Xiulin's eyes were burning, she glared angrily at the woman in black, and gritted her teeth, "I remember you!"

The woman in black who led the way also violated the rules of the sect and was punished to guard the Black Death Valley. Her cultivation was only at the ninth level of Qi Refining, so why should she be so arrogant in front of her, Zhao Xiulin?
"Heh." The woman in black sneered, turned around and left: "You can get through these ten years before we talk about it."

Seeing the woman in black walk away, Zhao Xiulin was so angry that her teeth itch, but she had no choice but to take Ni Kun into the dark and damp room, and after closing the door tightly, she quickly took out a pearl to illuminate it.

Inlaid the pearl emitting bright white light on the roof, Zhao Xiulin hurriedly pleaded guilty to Ni Kun:

"The servant girl's behavior is not thorough, and the master has been wronged by this, please punish the master."

Ni Kun walked around the room with his hands behind his back, inspecting the living environment, and said lightly:
"It's none of your business. I was too impatient. I shouldn't have asked you to buy so many emerald pills one after another in just over three months. Although the place is a bit cold and cramped, it has everything you should have, and it's not too much. uncomfortable."

Although this room has not been lived in for a long time, the floor is full of dust, the furniture is so damp that mushrooms are growing, and it exudes a musty smell, but the living room, bedroom, bathroom, retreat room, and alchemy room have everything that one expects to find, and the conditions are actually not bad .

Of course, there is no comparison with the quiet and elegant environment of Qingzhuyuan.

But the woman in black who led the way was right.

Zhao Xiulin came to atone for her sins, not to enjoy the blessings, so how could she have the right to care about so much?

"Let's clean it up first."

Ni Kun ordered Zhao Xiulin to do something, while he went to the retreat room, sat cross-legged on the futon, and meditated with his eyes closed.

After meditating for a while, he opened his eyes, shook his head, and thought:

"Even the air inside the guarding fortress is filled with evil spirits and death. And there is no other spiritual energy, so it is impossible to practice normally..."

The yin and death aura guarding the fortress is not strong, but it erodes the human body all the time, and erodes into the lungs with the breath, slowly erodes the internal organs, meridians and acupoints, and even wears away the foundation.

If you want to survive here, you must actively urge your spiritual power to resist the erosion of evil spirits.

But for a monk in the Qi Refining Realm, even though the recovery speed of his spiritual power can keep up with the consumption of actively resisting the erosion of Yin evil, his energy has a limit, and there is always a time to take a nap.
Zhao Xiulin, a late-stage Qi-refining cultivator who practiced the magic way of true kung fu, was fine. With the help of spirit stones and elixir, and top-grade or even top-grade magical artifacts to protect the body, he could barely survive after ten years of hard work.

But there is absolutely no luck in the outer courtyard furnace for practicing Qingmu Jue.

"Even if the yin and death energy guarding the fort is relatively thin, a furnace in the outer courtyard with a cultivation base of only three or four layers of qi refining can't last even a year. At most seven or eight months, the cultivation base will be wiped out. The foundation is ruined, and then it should die..."

Ni Kun originally planned to stay in the guard fortress for a year and then "die".

But after the actual experience, he decisively revised the plan and decided to advance the time of death by another three or four months, so as to ensure that his abnormality would not be exposed.

"I can only stay in the Fortress for seven or eight months. But this time is more than enough for me..."

Taking out an emerald pill and putting it in his mouth, swallowing it in one gulp, Ni Kun started "knocking on the pill to prove the way" again.

Zhao Xiulin's plot to "smuggle" Jade Pills was exposed, but under Ning Feiyan's mediation, the two hundred Jade Pills she bought in the early stage were not recovered and confiscated, but she was not allowed to sell them outside and could only keep them for her own use.

As for whether she can use up so many Emerald Pills...

Isn't she going to suffer in the Black Death Valley for ten years?

After ten years, not to mention two hundred emerald pills, even three hundred emerald pills will be completely consumed, and there will be no improvement in cultivation. The spiritual power replenished by emerald pills will all be used to resist the erosion of evil spirits .

The two hundred emerald pills were all thrown into her hands, and she couldn't improve her cultivation level even if she consumed them all, and she couldn't repay the foreign debts she was carrying, so she was told to fetch water from a bamboo basket in vain...

From the perspective of Xingtang, this is just a small incidental punishment for Zhao Xiulin, who poached the corner of the sect and smuggled the elixir.

But no one knew that Zhao Xiulin was actually buying the panacea for Ni Kun, a humble furnace in the outer courtyard.

Ni Kun has the magical resistance of "Dry Rong Twins", the detoxification of "Hundred Flower Pill", and the entry-level "God Eater and Heavenly Ghost" physical supernatural power.

He also has the ability to "knock pills to prove the way", since there is no extra consumption, the existing jade pills on Zhao Xiulin's body are enough for him to rush to the sixth level of refining Qi in a short time.

In this way, relying on the spirit pill, Ni Kun quietly practiced in the guarding castle, and his cultivation was increasing day by day.

Zhao Xiulin would go out every once in a while to perform patrol duties.

The mission generally lasts for three days, one day on duty to guard the fort, and two days out of the fort to patrol.Come back and rest for seven days after you're done, and then proceed to the next round of missions.

Regardless of whether they are on duty or patrolling, there will be other inner disciples who violated the rules of the sect to act together, especially when patrolling out of the fort, there will be disciples from the upper court who have established the foundation to lead the team, so safety can be guaranteed.

But the environment outside guarding the fort is much worse than inside guarding the fort.

According to Zhao Xiulin's report back, in the Black Death Valley, the sun is not seen all year round, and the yin and death energy has gathered into a gray and black mist. picture.

And that gray-black mist erodes the body extremely violently.

Every time Zhao Xiulin went on tour, she not only had to mobilize her spiritual power to resist with all her strength, but she also had to sacrifice magical artifacts to protect her body, so as to ensure that she would not be eroded by evil spirits.After two days of patrolling, she was always exhausted, her face was pale, her eyes were dull, and she looked drained.

After only three rounds of patrolling, Zhao Xiulin lost weight at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The beautiful demon girl who was originally as delicate as a flower gradually became as pale and thin as the female disciple who led the way back then.

But in Ni Kun's view, this is actually a good tempering for her.

Zhao Xiulin had taken too many shortcuts, and her foundation was vain, so that when Ni Kun was refining the fourth level of Qi, she was able to bully the weak and subdue her with a sneak attack.

But now this tempering can not only purify her cultivation and consolidate her foundation, but also sharpen her will.

As long as she can persevere successfully, the future Yaoyao Zhao will probably be grateful for the ten years of suffering.

Zhao Yaonv served her sentence hard and suffered a lot, but Ni Kun couldn't be completely idle.

With his meager cultivation, he is naturally not qualified to go out on patrol with his "master".

However, there are still many miscellaneous tasks in the guarding castle, such as cleaning, transporting, repairing, etc., which the guarding witches naturally disdain to do, so it falls to the furnaces in the outer courtyard.

There are many furnaces in the guarding fort.

The little half is the portable stove brought by the witches.Most of them are pitiful people who have been squeezed to the point of exhaustion, completely out of human shape, and disgusted by dogs.

When Ni Kun was doing chores in the guarding fort, he saw many furnaces that had run out of oil and burned out.

All of them are skinny, with withered hair, slow movements, numb expressions, and empty eyes, like walking dead.

Such a cauldron may collapse and die on the spot at any time.

Every day, many fallen corpses are transported out of the guarding fortress, buried in the Black Death Valley, and allowed to slowly erode them into zombies.

Every day, I can see with my own eyes the cruel end of the furnaces who are like ants and can't live in peace after death. Ni Kun has a deeper understanding of the vicious style of the Xianyin School.

He is extremely disgusted with this demonic sect with a bright and beautiful appearance and "fairies" like clouds.

If there is a chance in the future, he will never mind using demons to control demons, using the "Six Paths of the Demon Heaven" to swallow up all the demons in this family.

[Ask for a ticket~! 】

(End of this chapter)