Chapter 3: May ...... rest in peace
"This thing ......"
Xu Qing's eyes revealed an intense light, his mind conjuring up the corpse that was intact before the amethyst was taken away from him.
"It can make a corpse intact, and it can make a living person's injuries heal rapidly?"
Xu Qing gripped the purple crystal in his hand and looked around quickly as his heart beat fast.
Even though he knew that there should be no other living people here, he was still instinctively wary of obtaining the most precious treasure.
At this moment is no longer stay, but full speed speed, straight to the hole in the ground where he hid.
On the way, he vaguely realized that his injuries are not only rapidly healing, but also even the body's fatigue, seems to be a lot less.
In the past, he ran like this, about half an hour on the need to slow down a little, but now has long passed half an hour, he felt warm all over the body, physical strength seems to be still abundant.
Even on his way back, he grabbed a fallen bird of prey by hand.
Instead of killing it, he made it unconscious, as living things are preserved for a longer period of time.
Even after doing all of this, the time he took to return to the underground cave was still reduced by a lot. When there was still some time left before darkness set in, he could already see his ground hole from afar.
Xu Qing's mood was better than ever, but he wasn't negligent.
Because he knew that perhaps it was because the gods had opened their eyes and the forbidden zone had first become a reality, this range would have some bizarre existences appearing during the night, in addition to the awakening of foreign beasts.
He had heard from people in the slums and knew that between heaven and earth, many places where deaths were predominant would form this kind of weirdness.
Such as the laughter that came from outside during the night, it was from this type of existence.
And for this kind of alien, recognized as do not see, do not touch, do not meet.
Although he had experienced before that those existences appeared at night, Xu Qing wasn't sure if they would occasionally come out during the day.
So his speed didn't decrease at all, and he soon approached the hole in the ground, and after drilling in with a flash, he blocked the cracks in the hole in the ground.
He then sat down on his knees and opened his clenched palm.
Purple light spread out from his palm, reflecting the tiny hole in the ground, and under that light Xu Qing's face and eyes were also rendered purple.
He couldn't take his eyes off of it, gazing at the purple crystal within his palm.
This crystal was long and strip-shaped, about the same size as his finger, and there seemed to be some flocculent material within it, and the purple light was exactly what was emitted by those flocculent material.
"Healing wounds?......" Xu Qing observed for a long time, unzipped his shirt to look at his chest wound, found that the wound has healed ninety percent.
Now the remaining part, it seems that it won't take too long before it can be completely healed, even the scars around it are dissipating.
Then associating the fact that he had run all the way back, feeling much less tired than before, Xu Qing had roughly made an initial judgment of this purple crystal within his heart.
The function of this item was obviously recovery.
Recovering from injuries, recovering physical strength, and recovering vitality!
"I wonder if there are any other effects." Xu Qing muttered, his eyes revealing contemplation.
He didn't know if this purple crystal was related to the gods opening their eyes, but the odds were that it should be.
But no matter what, this was a supreme treasure, and at the very least, Xu Qing had never heard of any item that had such amazing restorative power since he was a child.
Such an item placed by his side would be equal to a second life in terms of its own help.
However, Xu Qing knew very well that the reason he could possess this item himself now was because there were no other living people in this city other than himself.
And once the blood rain is over and he walks out ...... such a treasure, he is afraid that he is unable to protect it.
So the only way is to hide this purple crystal ......
Xu Qing pondered for a long time, looked at the unconscious bird of prey that he had captured back, and raised his hand to take a handful of it.
After pinching its beak so that it couldn't make a sound, he drew out the dagger on his calf and directly opened a wound on the flying bird's body.
In the midst of the bird of prey's struggles, Xu Qing stuffed the purple crystal inside.
He then paid close attention without blinking an eye.
Only to see that the bird of prey was still struggling at first, but soon there was a dark current surging around it. Spiritual energy seemed to be attracted to it, even more than the spiritual energy that had surged during Xu Qing's cultivation, and it went straight into this flying bird.
And this bird struggling strength, actually also instantly than before a lot of strong, Xu Qing's force and its comparison, seems to be some can not catch.
This scene, let Xu Qing eyes light greatly.
In the past, a hand could crush the neck of the bird of prey, at the moment, he pinched several times before he pinched it off.
Flying quickly, he took out the purple crystal from its body and wiped it down as he closed his eyes in thought.
"The flying bird didn't die, instead, there is spiritual energy pouring in, and the flying bird's strength has suddenly become extremely great ...... It should be unharmed."
A few moments later, Xu Qing opened his eyes, eyes with decisiveness, directly this purple crystal, stuffed into the chest will soon be completely healed within the wound.
The process of stuffing it in was somewhat painful, but Xu Qing gritted his teeth to endure it.
There was no safer place to hide it than inside his own body.
And he had briefly verified that this object seemed to work better when placed inside his body.
As the purple crystal was incorporated, as his chest wound healed, without waiting for Xu Qing to take a closer look, a roaring sound came from within his body.
A spiritual energy that was even more majestic than the force attracted by the flying birds before, directly came roaring towards him from all directions, piercing through the soil.
This spiritual energy was so astonishing that Xu Qing's body instantly turned a light green color, and an indescribable icy cold filled his entire body.
This was the result of the heterogeneous quality within the spiritual energy being too dense.
However, Xu Qing had prepared for this, and at this moment, he directly operated the Hai Shan Technique without hesitation.
As he did so, the spiritual energy that surged into his body was suddenly separated from a large amount of foreign matter.
The remaining pure spiritual energy flowed along his entire body's meridians and throughout his body, causing Xu Qing's body to emit a thumping sound at this moment.
It was as if some of the blockages within his body were instantly opened, and his flesh and blood were nourished and refined at this moment.
The elf diagrams that he was visualizing in his mind also seemed to come to life at this moment, assuming various poses on their own.
The Hai Shan Technique, although it was a cultivation technique, it was not a cultivation technique, but a type of body refining.
It was divided into ten layers, corresponding to the ten layers of the Qi Condensation Realm.
There was a clear introduction to it on the bamboo slip, each layer allowed the cultivator to increase the strength of a tiger, while five tigers were a mandrill, and two mandrills were a kui.
It was claimed that a mandrill could move mountains and a kui could move the sea, which was why it was named the Sea and Mountain Skill.
At the moment, the purple crystal buried in his chest within his body was like a vortex, constantly sucking and withdrawing down, spiritual energy arriving like an infusion.
Xu Qing's cultivation speed also skyrocketed.
After an unknown amount of time had passed, the thumping sound within his body was suddenly intense, and a large amount of impurities within his body flowed out along the sweat pores of his entire body.
A fishy odor also filled the ground cave.
And as the impurities flowed out, Xu Qing's body actually became quite crystalline, and his face, which was covered by dirt, was more and more clear at the moment.
Until a long time passed, as the sound and influx of spiritual energy within his body gradually disappeared, Xu Qing's eyes snapped open.
There was actually a flash of purple light in his eyes.
After returning to normal, Xu Qing's expression froze for a moment.
The pitch-black hole in the ground had actually become a little clearer in his eyes at the moment, and he hurriedly lowered his head to check himself, his expression gradually revealing incredulity.
"This feeling ......"
Xu Qing's expression carried a hint of excitement as he stood up and punched out, actually setting off sharp wind sounds.
Since the hole in the ground was very small, he was unable to try out his speed, but the feeling of lifting his leg and punching out let him know that he had gotten an astonishing boost in every aspect compared to what he once was.
He then immediately rolled up the sleeve on his left arm.
Upon seeing a black dot the size of a fingernail cap appear on his small arm, Xu Qing took a deep breath and suppressed the excitement in his heart.
"So, this is the first level of Qi Condensation!"
This black dot, according to the description on the bamboo slip, was the Alienation Point, and the Alienation Point of the Hai Shan Technique was on the left arm, increasing by one per layer.
Touching the alienation point on his arm, Xu Qing's heart at the moment was still more exhilarated at the fact that he was obviously getting stronger, so he looked up towards the entrance of the crevice, mentally pondering about waiting for the day to brighten up and going to try out his speed.
But soon Xu Qing looked startled, and approached the entrance of the gap, listening carefully.
Outside, it was clearly still pitch black, but there wasn't a single abnormal sound.
This was something he had never encountered in the many days he had been here.
In the past, even if there were no more foreign beasts and weird sounds after dawn, the sound of rain was ever-present.
But now the sound of rainwater, too, was all gone.
"Could it be that ......"
Xu Qing's mind shook, and a guess surfaced in his heart.
Silently waiting, until there was a dazzling beam of light that shone in along the entrance gap of the hole in the ground, reflecting into Xu Qing's pitch-black eyes, as if lighting up his world.
At the moment he saw the light, Xu Qing's body visibly shook.
He raised his hand and slowly approached the ray of sunlight, placing himself in it and holding it in his palm, the long-lost warmth slowly awakening his sleeping mind.
"Sunshine ......"
After a long time, Xu Qing's eyes revealed a bright gleam, pushing away the clutter that blocked the gap, and as more beams of light embraced him, he slowly drilled his way out.
In the instant he poked his way out of the exit, he raised his head and saw what was no longer a dense and gloomy cloud, but a bright and brilliant sun.
It was as if the old man in the morning sun, after being sick for many days, had rejuvenated himself and pulled back the curtain, bringing freshness to the earth once again.
"Rain, it's stopped."
Xu Qing took a deep breath of the air that contained the sunlight, silently looking at the city under the cover of the rising sun.
Everything within the city seemed to have a different luster under the eye-catching red sun.
The bright red sunset in the sky, shining down from the clouds, like countless whales spouting golden waterfalls, washing away a little bit of the city's hazy fog, revealing mottled scars.
The collapsed houses, the greenish-black corpses, and the shocking blood-colored puddles seemed to be reminding Xu Qing of the havoc that had occurred here.
Xu Qing's eyes revealed a touch of complexity, he had been living in the slums outside the city for six years, and this city, he had been looking at it for the same six years.
Although the number of times he had come in was not many, this place, was the place he had once longed to go and live in these six years.
"I obtained the cultivation technique here."
"I obtained the purple crystal here."
"I survived here ......." Xu Qing muttered, silent.
Until for a long time he let out a light sigh, stepped to a greenish-black corpse, looked down for a long time, carried it on his back, and walked forward.
All the way to a nearby square before he put the body down, then turned around, back the second, third, fourth ......
Some of the corpses, scattered in the streets, and some pressed under the rubble.
Until he had carried all the corpses in this nearby area, behind the square, where the corpses were piled up, some intact, some mutilated.
Xu Qing stood there and set a fire, perhaps because of the heterogeneous nature, the flames burned more and more fiercely, raising thick smoke ......
In that thick smoke, Xu Qing looked for a long time, silently walked away, went to the second area, soon, another thick smoke rose, more and more ...... more and more ......
In this way, on the first day that the sunlight was reflected into this ruined city, there was nothing but light inside the city, but also the black smoke from the cremation of the corpses.
This black smoke rises one by one, covering the sunlight, the morning sun also at this moment, full of powerlessness, turning dim red, as if hiding a deep sigh.
It seemed that the thick smoke became its tears. And a reflection formed on the ground, as if it had transformed into the tear tracks of the earth.
The last tear trail was the place where Xu Qing had discovered the violet light.
There, Xu Qing put down the corpse of the old man from the medicine store, and as the flames of the pile of corpses burned, waves of heat brushed against his face as he stood silently beside the fire, the rolling flames reflecting in his pitch-black pupils as they continued to shake.
His long, withered and disheveled hair also bent due to the pervasive heat wave, and after a long time, Xu Qing's body bent as much as he did, bowing his head in obeisance.
"May ...... rest in peace."
The flame at this moment, violently and violently burned, getting stronger and stronger, scattering countless as if dandelion-like embers, drifting away with the wind.
Just that curls of smoke rising into the air, still with the deceased can not dissolve the unwillingness and regret, the wind can not be blown away.
Higher and higher, such as a few wisps of scars on the dome.
It is insignificant and full of helplessness.
......
For a long time, accompanied by the sound of disorganized footsteps, a yin and yang voice, in the distance behind the teenager, suddenly came.
"I said how come I didn't see any corpses all the way here, it turns out that there is such a stupid kid who doesn't spare his own physical strength and actually carries the corpses here to be cremated."
"Just as well, since you're so attached to it, then I'll do you a favor and throw you in to accompany them."
Xu Qing abruptly turned around.
