Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 239 Reverse Swallowing
"Boom! Boom!"

With two muffled thuds, Ren Shuangfei knocked Gu Jingnian and Ying Yao to the ground.

They were already exhausted, and this heavy blow made them even weaker, causing blood to be forced out of their bodies and condense into pills.

Ren Shuangfei had long realized that he needed physical strength and energy to last longer in this furnace, so he pretended to be asleep after waking up to conserve his strength. He only got up when he estimated that Gu Jingnian and Ying Yao were no longer as strong as him, and because he was worried that they would not be able to get out.

Now, all he needs to do is swallow the pills he obtained from refining the two people, and he can break through the crack and leave, which makes him overjoyed.

He was about to strike the two again to speed up their refining process, but before he could move, he realized something else and said, "Senior Meng, don't rush to control me."

Meng Xiaopo angrily said, "You want to kill all of us."

Ren Shuangfei said, "The only way to get out now is to acquire their cultivation and break this furnace. There is no other way."

After a slight hesitation, Meng Xiaopo simply said, "Quickly."

Ren Shuangfei was overjoyed and immediately lit the furnace fire to burn Gu Jingnian, Ying Yao, and Hu Jingnan.

Of the three, only Hu Jingnan was still able to move. Upon seeing this, she immediately dodged, her figure fluttering like a butterfly as she evaded the furnace, leaving only a faint afterimage.

Gu Jingnian was quickly engulfed by the flames.

He was not afraid of fire, but the heat forced the blood out of his body.

He will surely die even before he bleeds out completely.

Yingyao, who was beside him, was in the same situation, or even worse.

Although Yingyao is now very powerful and has said she would protect Gu Jingnian, she is still naive and inexperienced, so it is actually Gu Jingnian who should protect her.

Gu Jingnian failed to do so.

He lay there, thinking about how he had not only failed to protect Yingyao, but also failed to rescue Gu Caiwei and her daughter, as well as his companions who trusted him and entrusted their lives to him.

Ultimately, he was still too weak.

He was treated like a medicinal herb his whole life. He wanted to fight against this fate, but it was clear that he couldn't fight it with just his anger and rebellious nature.

In a world where the strong prey on the weak, those who eat grass are easily devoured by those who eat meat...

Ren Shuangfei was clearly a carnivore; his eyes were filled with nothing but a desire to become stronger.

He never thought about morality or self-restraint; he only hunted prey by any means necessary and lived as he pleased.

"It's done?" Ren Shuangfei murmured. "With the fire burning both inside and outside the furnace, I refuse to believe we can't refine it."

He didn't notice that because he was too focused on dealing with Gu Jingnian and Ying Yao, and also afraid that he would be trapped in the furnace and unable to get out, and eventually be refined by Liu Yuchuan, he was anxiously thinking, "Faster, faster!" But the more anxious he became, the more blood beads appeared on his forehead, as if he were sweating.

Strangely, despite the fire burning so fiercely and Gu Jingnian and Yingyao bleeding so much, they did not become lighter or separate from the pills like the Red Spider.

suddenly.

A roar echoed from within the flames.

Ren Shuangfei was overjoyed, thinking that Gu Jingnian was finally about to be refined.

However, the next moment, a person rushed out of the fire and pounced directly on Ren Shuangfei.

The man's skin had been burned through, revealing charred flesh and bone underneath, making him look extremely gruesome. He could only be vaguely identified as Gu Jingnian.

Gu Jingnian didn't use any special abilities; he pounced on Ren Shuangfei in the most clumsy and instinctive way.

Ren Shuangfei then unleashed an even more intense burst of flames, pushing him backward, but Gu Jingnian quickly pounced on him again.

At this moment, because he was so fierce and ferocious, Ren Shuangfei, who was already anxious about being trapped in the furnace, was momentarily stunned.

In addition, Ren Shuangfei was used to using his superpowers. Seeing that the fierce fire had failed to push Gu Jingnian away and that zombie-like figure was approaching, he actually forgot that he could use his hands and feet.

Since gaining his superpowers, he hasn't fought anyone using his strength in a long time.

In the blink of an eye, Gu Jingnian pounced on Ren Shuangfei like a wolf and bit his neck.

This attack could not cause any real damage to Ren Shuangfei. He struck out with two palms, shattering Gu Jingnian's internal organs, but he could not push Gu Jingnian off him.

Ren Shuangfei couldn't help but wonder if Gu Jingnian was already dead, and that what was rushing at him now was some kind of monster that had been resurrected from a corpse.

This conjecture is not without basis.

Because he felt Gu Jingnian sucking his blood forcefully.

The feeling of having blood drawn out and flowing into someone else's mouth is very strange.

"Freeze him!" Ren Shuangfei shouted, reminding Meng Xiaopo to help him.

As soon as he shouted, Gu Jingnian pushed him against the fireplace, making a "sizzling" sound. In the chaos, he didn't even bother to turn around and see what had happened to Meng Xiaopo, or why she hadn't made a move yet.

It wasn't until now that he realized that superpowers were not as simple and effective as hand-to-hand combat. He tried his best to push Gu Jingnian away, but he felt dizzy as if he had lost too much blood.

Gu Jingnian was desperately sucking his blood.

Just as Ren Shuangfei wanted to plunder Gu Jingnian and Ying Yao's abilities, at this moment, Gu Jingnian, with the same, or even stronger, aggression, was plundering him in return.

"Oh!"

With another loud bang, Ren Shuangfei gathered all her strength and finally knocked Gu Jingnian away.

However, he found himself unable to use his powers, as if his vital energy had been drained away.

Something very heavy was falling inside his body, while at the same time a force came from the top of the furnace, pulling his body upward.

As a result, the gravity within the body began to separate from the body.

A drop of blood the size of a bean spilled from Ren Shuangfei's chest.

This drop of blood was different from the fine crystals that had flowed from his pores before. If the fine crystals in his pores were like impurities, this drop of blood was like a pure pearl after the impurities had been removed.

Ren Shuangfei knew that it represented his entire life's cultivation.

He couldn't believe it, and he didn't understand why this was happening. How could he be refined into a pill faster than Gu Jingnian? Then, he thought of the fruit he had swallowed.

That fruit wasn't meant to improve cultivation; rather, it catalyzed his transformation into a pill.

He could only try to suck the drop of blood back in before it congealed.

As he was working hard, he caught a glimpse of a figure crawling towards him out of the corner of his eye.

Gu Jingnian was also in a sorry state, his skin and flesh were burned, and he crawled on the ground, his bones scraping against the hot furnace wall, like a wild dog covered in wounds.

But he slowly crawled down and eventually reached Ren Shuangfei's feet. He struggled to sit up and reached out to take the drop of blood that had congealed from Ren Shuangfei.

"roll!"

Ren Shuangfei roared, but his voice was hoarse and extremely weak.

Gu Jingnian naturally wouldn't listen to him. The hand that revealed the bone slowly moved upwards, getting closer and closer to the drop of blood that was about to congeal.

"Don't touch me, aren't you against this?"

Ren Shuangfei angrily questioned, based on his understanding of Gu Jingnian, Gu Jingnian had never associated with alchemists.

He had once mocked Gu Jingnian's persistence, but now he felt intense anger and immense fear because Gu Jingnian was about to become like them.

The more panicked and flustered he became, the less he could stop the drop of blood from growing larger and congealing.

Finally, Gu Jingnian's index finger, which was now just bone, twitched slightly and touched the drop of blood on his chest.

Like a ripe melon falling from its stem, the drop of blood fell off at the slightest touch and landed on the ground, whereupon Gu Jingnian began searching for it.

Seeing this, Ren Shuangfei quickly advised, "You can't do that."

Gu Jingnian remained unmoved, continuing his search for the drop of blood.

Ren Shuangfei then patiently continued, "You don't want to become like us, do you? There's no turning back once you start doing this. Think about your principles; you've always insisted on not joining us..."

He paused halfway through his sentence, because Gu Jingnian looked up at him with disdain and mockery in his eyes.

More than anything, it is a cruelty that borders on the wicked.

With just one glance, Ren Shuangfei was stunned. After that glance, Gu Jingqing smiled contemptuously, lowered his head, and searched for the drop of blood on his own.

As Ren Shuangfei said, he had been avoiding and resisting the persecution he suffered at the hands of the alchemists. Because he loathed them, he rejected their actions in order to avoid becoming like them one day.

However, this persistence seemed to be seen as weakness, making them think he was easier to bully.

Today, he is almost broken, and those he cares about are in danger. He finally understands a truth.

Self-imposed moral constraints receive no respect; people will only revere the strong and succumb to bloodshed and violence.

Well.

He granted their wish.

With only bones remaining, Gu Jingnian finally touched the pill. He picked it up, and this time, without any hesitation, he put the pill in his mouth.

From now on, he can also refine them.

(End of this chapter)