Chapter 22: Smelting the Forbidden Egg
Chapter 22: Smelting the Forbidden Egg
"It's done!"
"But why does this process feel like ordering takeout?"
Li Yu sat cross-legged on the bed, holding the mechanical fox that felt great in his arms. He couldn't help stroking it and muttering to himself at the same time.
It's no wonder he thought this way. He initiated the transaction first, and the other party prepared and arrived after a certain period of time. As a senior takeaway delivery expert in his previous life, Li Yu was very familiar with this routine.
And the so-called face-to-face transaction means “leaving the take-out at the door”.
What made him feel relieved was that the salesman who accepted the reward was not Meng Shenji.
Half an incense stick of time passed in a flash.
In the Jiao family courtyard, Li Yu and Hongdou, who had regained her human form, were silently waiting for something.
Suddenly, both of them sensed that there was a knock on the door. A rather obscene and hoarse voice came through the crack in the door and into their ears.
"I... am Shi Dazhu!"
"The fire essence and the basic alchemy furnace are here. Do you want to inspect them?"
After hearing this, Li Yu nodded to Hongdou, and the maid immediately threw a heavy cloth bag in her arms over the door.
With a dull sound, a cloth bag containing nearly a thousand taels of silver fell into the hands of a man.
The short and fat shadow weighed it and smiled with satisfaction. Amid the sound of thin and dense steam, the man rode some strange mechanical riding gear and disappeared into the night.
Not long after, the Jiao family's door suddenly opened.
Hongdou jumped out, and with a strength that was totally inconsistent with her appearance as a delicate girl, she carried a huge package into the yard.
……
The next morning, in the most remote smoking and smoking house on the main street of Tianjifang, there was still a constant stream of customers.
A skinny guy was putting things like cinnabar, mica, saltpeter, hematite, gypsum etc. into an exquisitely crafted wooden box, and also added some strange pipes, glass tubes, red copper lamps and other things.
At the same time, he kept introducing and promoting:
"These are all top-quality minerals, very pure. As long as you use my 'Qi Transformation Set', you can transform them into pure smoke and Qi, refine your blood, flesh and internal organs, and experience the most wonderful feeling in the world. This is how the Qi refiners in ancient times practiced."
"But your master does have strong tastes, and he only chooses strong medicines."
"Of course, it's not fierce enough."
"I have a lot of better stuff at home. Let your master come over and experience it in person someday. I guarantee he will be thrilled, hehe."
"Thank you!"
Hongdou, who was fully armed and covered tightly, frowned slightly after listening to the waiter's words, then paid, took the items, and turned away without any hesitation.
If it was the red beans from before!
In fact, it is impossible to complete the operation of going out to buy things.
Now, not only could she, she could even show a hint of disgust towards the fellow who tried to seduce his master into depravity.
She was seen carrying a wooden box, walking through the busy main street, cleverly avoiding the gazes of all neighbors, entering a shabby alley, and suddenly jumping over a wall.
When he landed again, he was already in the elegant and secluded Jiao family courtyard.
The storage room that was used as a mysterious transaction place last night was now wide open.
The hardwood round table and official hat chairs were removed and replaced with a two-meter-tall bronze alchemy furnace equipped with a complex steam boiler and instrument panel.
Li Yu was standing in front of the alchemy furnace, debugging and familiarizing himself with it.
I don’t know what he went through so early in the morning. He was holding his stomach while moving.
His brows were furrowed, and a look of pain occasionally appeared on his face.
Seeing his maid return, Li Yu still did not show much joy in his eyes, because of the terrifying song that kept echoing in his ears.
Vegetable song!
That’s right, even if Li Yu did not borrow the power of the vegetable man.
The symptoms started to appear last night and are getting worse.
At the same time, the forbidden eggs that should have been sleeping in the abdomen seemed to be waking up, and the millions of egg filaments in the body were constantly wriggling.
With every breath, he felt differently.
In addition to the realistic scenes of cannibalism that come to my mind along with the song "The Vegetable Man".
His ears could hear all kinds of subtle sounds around him, including the movements of the couple next door in bed. His eyes could see all kinds of horrible and disgusting microorganisms in the air. When his hands touched the alchemy furnace, he could feel the pain of tiny burrs scratching his skin... His five senses were being amplified madly.
If ordinary people were to encounter this kind of "torture", they would either become addicted or go crazy.
Li Yu, however, gritted his teeth, pinched a yellow gourd, and frantically poured the Soul-Locking Pills with a faint stench into his mouth.
The meatballs, which had been quite effective at the party, now had little effect on the spiritual paralysis of the forbidden egg.
At this moment, Li Yu realized that the last chance to borrow the power of the vegetable man was gone. The forbidden egg had long been one with him and he had an instinctive sense of his own doom.
But this did not stop Li Yu from speaking, and he sneered and cursed:
"That piece of shit finally realized something was wrong... but it's too late."
"red beans!"
"Yes, master." Hongdou responded while standing beside Li Yu. He opened the wooden box, revealing thirty-six kinds of highly toxic minerals sorted into different categories.
"Turn on the furnace!"
As Li Yu shouted, the lid of the alchemy furnace in front of him suddenly opened.
Apparently he had preheated it beforehand, because instantly red steam gushed out from various pipes. At the same time, Li Yu also took something out of his arms.
It turned out to be a strange and bizarre sphere, as if it was made up of a number of scarlet eyeballs forcibly glued together, with red root-like objects extending from the cracks. The surface was mottled, like a miniature version of an extinguished sun.
It felt cold to the touch, but Li Yu clearly felt a burning spirituality.
Without hesitation, he loosened his hands and threw the strange object called "Fire Essence" into the alchemy furnace that had been heated to the extreme.
Next breath!
The sharp screams, like those of a living creature in pain, echoed throughout the storage room.
The fire spirit, which was originally a mineral, seemed to be alive. It squirmed along with the flames, and a roar that was irritating to the eardrums came out of the cracks and holes.
Li Yu's ears, which had been reinforced, were pierced and scrapped.
But he seemed not to feel the pain, and very calmly threw various poisonous minerals into the body of the living fire spirit.
“Real lead!”
"Cinnabar!"
"Mica!"
……
Even though he was in great pain, there was no confusion in the movements and sequence of Li Yu's hands.
As the alchemy is put into the furnace and calcined, amazing changes are taking place.
The swaying and wriggling "fire spirit" accepted all poisonous minerals, regardless of their size, and swallowed them all into its stomach.
During this process, it begins to condense and change into the shape of a pill.
Waves of extremely strong and special aroma began to waft out from the alchemy furnace.
Just one sniff can make a person's energy and spirit burst out completely.
"Dan Tu's secret medicine!"
Li Yu had just shown a look of joy on his face when the maid beside him suddenly issued a strong warning.
"It is detected that the master's secret medicine is about to take shape... There is a certain chance of escape..."
"It has been detected that the host's body is rapidly deteriorating... The parasite has fully awakened... and is about to burst out of the abdomen..."
"Oh!"
"Chucky!"
The terrifying scene appeared without any warning.
Li Yu's belly burst.
But there were no internal organs or intestines inside, only a bloody ball of flesh, and on its surface was a face that was exactly the same as Li Yu's. It was pulling millions of egg filaments out of Li Yu's body, and at the same time, tentacles began to grow from under the flesh ball, trying to drill out of Li Yu's body.
Even some of the egg filaments and tentacles, which were covered with mucus and blood, had already fallen to the ground.
This scene was very similar to childbirth, only much more disgusting and terrifying.
Almost at the same time, a muffled sound was heard from the alchemy furnace, and a red dot as bright as the scorching sun was about to leave the furnace and fly away.
Two sudden and terrifying incidents occurred almost at the same time.
However, Li Yu seemed to completely ignore the pain and went completely crazy at this moment.
From the moment he began to prepare the "Dan Tu Secret Medicine", he entered a state of abnormal concentration that he himself was not even aware of.
At this moment, he ignored his broken stomach, stretched out his hands and grabbed the Dantu secret medicine that had been refined.
With loud "sizzling" sounds, his palms were roasted directly, but he didn't care and stuffed the pill into his mouth.
He chewed and swallowed it, then reached down with his free hands and forced the stunted but extremely ferocious forbidden egg back into his stomach.
During the process, the forbidden egg actually made strange cries like a baby in pain, which was enough to make anyone feel pity.
However, this does not include Li Yu, who has gone mad.
He not only stuffed it in, but also pressed hard against the face that looked exactly like his own, laughing loudly and saying:
"What are you yelling for? Today, either you help me achieve enlightenment, or we die together."
Amidst the crazy laughter, Li Yu crawled directly into the red alchemy furnace.
Before falling into the furnace, he turned around and instructed his maid:
"red beans!"
"Start refining!"
(End of this chapter)