Fire Monster

Chapter 49 Anomalies
Slum Alley quickly returned to normal, with people going to work and school. The deaths of more than a hundred people did not cause much fear among the people living there.

Or maybe, it’s not that we don’t know fear, but that we have become numb and accustomed to it.

At this moment, in the room, Zhao Guanshan placed the psychic sword in a corner, next to which were the damaged spirit supply arrays and all the rune spikes. These were the important materials he had obtained from dismantling the six first-level seal huts.

Although the Chief Secretary cannot take care of it now, he will definitely come to investigate as long as the war is over or when they have time.

There's no way you can get away with something like this.

It’s like the tax bureau of a certain country on Earth. It doesn’t matter if people die, but taxes still have to be paid.

Therefore, Zhao Guanshan had no intention of embezzling the money.

If possible, he would like to forge a spiritual sword by himself. Now he has even prepared the materials, and all he lacks is a spiritual supply array.

The spirit supply array in his psychic crossbow had already been given to Yang Mao. Now that there were serious pollutants outside, it was difficult for him to get it back.

"I don't know how the battle on the Imperial Seal Wall is going?"

Zhao Guanshan was a little worried. If the war situation changed, all the students at level 9 in the Taoist Academy's martial arts department might be forcibly recruited. There was precedent for this.

Although he is not a Level 9 military student and will not be forcibly recruited, what if the evil demons break through the defense line of the Imperial Seal Great Wall?

He had to prepare for the worst.

In the event of an emergency, he would not be allowed enough time to deploy anything.

"So, practice, first improve your practice progress, and increase your vitality as much as possible."

With this thought in mind, Zhao Guanshan no longer hesitated. He took out the remaining marrow cleansing liquid, took it in intervals, and practiced with all his strength.

For two whole days, he did not step out of the room. He really worked hard and advanced from the original fourth week of Qi Refining to the eighth week of Qi Refining in one breath.

All the remaining marrow cleansing fluid was also consumed.

During this practice process, Zhao Guanshan did not deliberately refine the vitality, so it was very fast and easy.

The vitality energy he had refined before brought him too many advantages. The body fire on his left shoulder was extremely strong. In addition, after he visualized the Fire Talisman, it was of great help in this regard.

With all these factors combined, it is not an exaggeration to describe the situation as unstoppable and unstoppable.

At this moment, Zhao Guanshan sat down on the bed, his hands moving slowly, silently forming seals one after another, until he completed sixty-four sets and the seals became one.

At the same time, the vitality in his body was like a fire snake, spontaneously and orderly, circulating over and over again along the eight areas he had opened up, endlessly.

Even without the reflection of the imperial oil lamp, he could vaguely feel that the fire snake transformed from the vitality and the fire on his left shoulder were actually one and the same.

In fact, this vital energy is gathering upwards and in the center.

The most important life fire is located at the top center, which is also the foundation of true cultivation.

Zhao Guanshan seemed to understand something.

He also vaguely understood his own path of cultivation.

At this stage, he is refining Qi. The so-called twelve cycles of Qi refining is to nourish and open up one's own secret treasure house, taking the vital energy and refining it into pure yang energy.

He estimated that when the pure yang energy he cultivated could completely merge with the body fire on his left shoulder, he would enter the next stage.

He even realized that his body fire was not really on his left shoulder, just like his soul fire was not really on his right shoulder. This should be a more mysterious level.

At his current level, he can only see this result.

By the same token, the Life Fire was not really above his head. That should be considered the third stage of the cultivation path...

"More haste, less speed!"

"Also, in this era, cultivation is really difficult."

Zhao Guanshan sighed in his heart.

He didn't feel it before, but in the past two days, after he took all the remaining marrow cleansing spirit liquid and relied on the many advantages he had before, he only completed the eighth cycle of Qi refining. If he wanted to continue practicing and reach the twelfth cycle of Qi refining, he would need at least ten portions of grade 75 marrow cleansing spirit liquid.

And this is under the premise that he does not intend to refine and purify the vitality.

"Even with the magic pills I have in reserve, it's still not enough, not to mention that these magic pills have to be reserved for emergencies."

"No matter what, I can't damage the origin."

"Unfortunately, the battle on the Imperial Seal Great Wall is bound to be fierce and dangerous, with powerful evil demons emerging one after another. With my strength, it would be useless. I can't even kill monsters and level up." "Or, can I try to hunt down those wandering evil demons in Linjiang Prefecture?"

A bold idea came to Zhao Guanshan's mind, but there was no other way. It was basically impossible to take advantage of the Taoist temple again and prepare a batch of marrow-cleansing liquid.

It is easy to prepare the marrow cleansing solution, but without an operating table, forget it.

This is even more difficult than assembling and manufacturing psychic weapons.

From now on, if he wants to get the marrow cleansing elixir again, he can only buy it from those workshops that have corrupted the heart, liver, spleen and kidneys.

Therefore, it is most appropriate to hunt down wandering evil demons.

Taking advantage of the time when the evil demons were attacking the city and the order in Linjiang Prefecture was in chaos.

Just as he was thinking this, there was a sudden knock on the door, which scared him and he almost thought that his crime was exposed.

When I got up and opened the door, I saw Li Guangyu standing outside the door with a strange man behind him.

Li Guangyu quickly gave Zhao Guanshan a look and stepped aside without saying a word, seeming to be very afraid of the strange man.

Zhao Guanshan looked over calmly.

The man was about forty years old, with a dark complexion and a beard. He looked very tired, with bloodshot eyes. He was wearing a third-level imperial armor, with an imperial oil lamp embedded on each shoulder, a square imperial helmet on his head, and a unique emblem on his chest.

It was the Chief Secretary’s man.

He was also looking at Zhao Guanshan.

"Are you Zhao Guanshan?"

"it's me."

"I am a third-level clerk in the 15th Office of the Provincial Government, responsible for recovering ownerless imperial seal huts. According to the testimony of relevant people, it was you who dismantled six ownerless first-level imperial seal huts."

"Yes, but it was an emergency and I had no choice but to do it."

Zhao Guanshan answered calmly, because this matter was not against the law at all.

"You don't have to explain this to me. We are only responsible for recycling. Among these six imperial seal huts, three are separate, and the other three are made up of two huts joined together. So there should be a total of nine Gui-level spiritual laws and five hundred and forty rune spikes. Are there any missing?"

"No."

Zhao Guanshan turned around quickly and handed over the spirit supply array and rune nails that had been prepared long ago, including the psychic sword.

"This is a relic of a deceased person. The situation was urgent, so I had to replace the spiritual offering array..."

"This is not our responsibility. The relevant departments of the Demon Suppression Division will come to collect it."

As the man spoke, he took out a small box and pressed it lightly. Then a stream of black smoke rolled past and a ghost appeared. With a flick of his hand, all the spiritual arrays and rune spikes were collected. Zhao Guanshan only had time to see a pair of strange blood-red eyes before the box was closed.

"Where's your belt?"

The man reached out to take Zhao Guanshan’s ID badge, took out a document of peculiar texture, pressed it, and the matter was over.

But after returning the identity badge, the man suddenly asked, "Did you notice anything unusual when the strange fog was spreading?"

"Abnormal? What is considered abnormal? Isn't the strange fog abnormal enough?"

Zhao Guanshan was stunned and asked subconsciously.

The man smiled upon hearing that. "It seems that there is nothing unusual. Young man, you can think of using psychic air explosion to disperse the strange fog. That's great. Do you want to come to our Fifteenth Yamen? We have a job vacancy there. The monthly salary is three coins, and the subsidy is one coin. It includes one meal a day, round-trip fare, and a first-class imperial seal hut. Even if you want to get married, we can ensure that you are well-matched."

"what?"

Zhao Guanshan blinked. This was something he didn't expect.

However, the monthly salary allowance only added up to four coins, which was really a bit too little. Although he was only a half-baked Qi-refining master, he would not bow down for this.

"Please allow me to consider this, sir."

Zhao Guanshan did not refuse directly.

The man smiled indifferently, said nothing, turned around and walked away.

(End of this chapter)