Chapter 70: Clueless
Half a month has passed since the rebellion in Lingchuanfang City, and Xiao Mian at this time has already returned to Huoyunling with Ye Qingguo - despite the raging floods outside, Xiao Mian only cares about being at ease on the grassland near the northern frontier of Nanyue Prefecture.
On the same day, with the help of the ghost head, Xiao Mian threw the storage bag containing a wisp of the ghost head's soul thought to Xiao Xuanzi, and then at a critical moment, the ghost head used the soul thought to temporarily control Xiao Xuanzi's actions.
After receiving Ye Qingguo in the small mountain village where Ye Qingguo was placed, Xiao Mian took one of them back to Huoyunling, and walked through the red maple forest to the edge of the prairie.
Out of consideration for the secrecy of the place where the bones of the Fire Light Beast clan were buried, Xiao Mian did not bring Ye Qingguo into the phantom array, of course, the abyss in the phantom array did not even have bath water, I am afraid that even if Ye Qingguo chose by herself, she would not be willing to stay inside.
After discussing it with the ghost head, Xiao Mian himself didn't plan to stay inside, anyway, the refining body could be refined anywhere, as long as he regularly went back to the abyss to see if there were any accidents in the Fire Light Beast, Huangquan Youtan, and the 10,000-year-old spirit grass in the Cold Pool.
In this way, Xiao Mian and Ye Qingguo built two simple wooden houses with huge red maple trees at the border between the red maple forest and the grassland, which were used as shelter from the wind and rain.
In fact, before returning to the grassland, Xiao Mian had asked Ye Qingguo, anyway, Wei Laohei, who coveted her now, was dead, if Ye Qingguo was willing to return to Lingchuanfang City, Xiao Mian naturally didn't mind less trouble, but Ye Qingguo's girlish nature had long been a little tired of the deception in Fangfang City, and now that she saw the colorful world outside, where would she be willing to return to the cage in Lingchuanfang City?
In desperation, Xiao Mian had no choice but to take her with him.
But soon, Xiao Mian was glad for this decision: whether it was laundry, cooking, or cleaning up housework, Ye Qingguo was a good hand, especially that cooking, which made Xiao Mian, who tasted fresh for the first time, bite his tongue, feast and be addicted.
Now that he has rested for half a month, Xiao Mian's mental and physical strength have returned to their full state, and he feels that it is time to start practicing the "Ten Thousand Poisons Entanglement Curse".
"Ten Thousand Poisons Entanglement Mantra" is divided into four steps, the first step was omitted by Xiao Mian, the second step lasted ten months to practice, and now it is time to start cultivating the third step - poison refining marrow!
"Ghost Elder, I thought it was strange before: why don't you need to buy demon beast meridians when refining veins in the second stage, but you need demon beast bones in the third stage of refining marrow?"
Before starting his formal cultivation, Xiao Mian asked his own questions.
The ghost head seemed to be very useful to Xiao Mian's "ghost old man", and he was fluttering for a while before explaining.
"The purpose of refining the veins is to make the meridians more broad, strong, and tough, and it is to develop in the general direction;
Seeing Xiao Mian's humble appearance, the addiction of the ghost head as a good teacher came up again, and he explained endlessly.
"After the second stage of the cultivation of the poison quenching vein, your erysipelas has been excluded from the meridians and stored between the flesh and bones, now what you have to do is to wrap your own bones with these erysipelas, and refine the bone and marrow with poison to make it more condensed and firm, and after it is reduced in size, there will definitely be a gap inside the bone, and then the bone marrow of the purple-pupiled golden gibbon will be refined into your body in the same way, then the marrow valve body can be washed until there is no longer any excess bone marrow inside your bones, and the third stage of poison refining marrow will be completed!"
"I see!"
Although Xiao Mian read through the whole "Ten Thousand Poisons Entanglement Mantra", his understanding was not as profound as that of the 10,000-year-old ghost, after listening to the ghost head's explanation, Xiao Mian was very determined, and after holding his breath at the moment, Xiao Mian began to practice according to the "Ten Thousand Poisons Entanglement Mantra".
It's just easier said than done, at the beginning, Xiao Mian didn't even understand how to control those erysipelas that were free between flesh and bones - after all, erysipelas were in the meridians at the beginning, but now they are in the flesh and blood of the whole body, the scope is much larger, and the difficulty has increased accordingly.
For half a month, Xiao Mian was always clueless, which reminded him of the difficult process of perceiving the qi in his body when he first entered the cultivation.
Besides, in the month since Ye Qingguo left Fang City, in the first half of the month, because he first arrived in the prairie, everything was fresh, and Xiao Mian didn't feel lonely before he started to cultivate;
But every day when he saw Xiao Mian's expression, his brows were tightly locked, and Ye Qingguo didn't dare to speak easily.
On this day, Xiao Mian ended his cultivation early, and Ye Qingguo finally couldn't help but talk to Xiao Mian about his request.
Xiao ...... Brother Xiao, don't you need to cultivate today?"
"One piece and one relaxation, the way of civil and martial arts, some things can't be achieved by penance alone. By the way, do you have something to do with me?" In addition to eating on weekdays, Ye Qingguo usually does not take the initiative to greet him, but now it is obviously not the time to eat, so Xiao Mian will have this question. Ye Qingguo plucked up his courage and asked in a low voice: "Brother Xiao, you see, I'm really idle and boring, you can cultivate for two or three days, and I don't even have anyone to talk to!"
"Oh! This is my negligence!" Originally, Xiao Mian was cultivating alone, where would he pay attention to Ye Qingguo's existence, but now that he couldn't hold back the little girl, Xiao Mian asked funny: "Then what do you want to do?"
"I want to make alchemy!" the little girl was not shocked, and she was endless.
Xiao Mian frowned when he heard this, but when he thought that Old Man Ye was a well-known alchemist in Lingchuanfang City, Xiao Mian was also relieved - at the beginning, he was even ignored when Wei Laohei went to ask for pills! Thinking about it, Old Man Ye taught Ye Qingguo a lot on weekdays, and Ye Qingguo must have been quite obsessed with alchemy, so he asked Xiao Mian.
"So what do you need to prepare for alchemy?" Xiao Mian really didn't know, but Ye Qingguo thought that Xiao Mian was testing her, and her little face raised slightly, not at all like the shy appearance on weekdays, but talked eloquently: "Alchemy needs an alchemy room, an alchemy furnace, a Danhuo, Herbs and the most important alchemist, the alchemist is me; there is no need to prepare special preparations in the alchemy room, and no one disturbs here anyway; the Danhuo can't control the cultivation of my Qi cultivation period now, so don't do it; as for the herbs, I still have some left by my grandfather; now I lack an alchemy furnace!"
"Alchemy furnace, I'll look for it!"
Saying this, Xiao Mian took out several storage bags on his body, rummaged through them one by one, and finally found something that looked a bit like an alchemy furnace in Wei Laohei's storage bag, looked at it over and over, and Xiao Mian threw it to Ye Qingguo.
Unexpectedly, Ye Qingguo's expression changed greatly after taking the alchemy tripod, and he stroked the alchemy pill with both hands, full of grief and nostalgia, obviously knowing this alchemy tripod.