out of time

Chapter 3 Wishing... Rest In Peace

"This thing..."

There was a strong light in Xu Qing's eyes, and the intact corpse before the amethyst was taken away appeared in his mind.

"Can the corpse be left intact, and the wounds of the living can be healed quickly?"

Xu Qing grasped the purple crystal in his hand, and looked around quickly while his heart was beating fast.

Although he knew that there should be no other living people here, he was still vigilant instinctively because he had obtained the treasure.

At this moment, he no longer stopped, but galloped at full speed, heading straight for the cave where he was hiding.

On the way, he faintly noticed that not only did his injuries heal quickly, but even his physical fatigue seemed to have decreased a lot.

In the past, when he ran like this, he needed to slow down for about half an hour, but now half an hour has passed, and he feels warm all over his body, and his physical strength seems to be still abundant.

He even caught a fallen bird on the way back.

Instead of killing it, it was stunned, since live things last longer.

Even after doing this, the time for him to return to the cave has been shortened a lot.When it was still some time before the night, he had already seen his own burrow in the distance.

Xu Qing's mood improved like never before, but he did not become negligent.

Because he knew that perhaps because the gods opened their eyes and the restricted area was first formed, in this area at night, in addition to the awakening of strange beasts, some strange existences would appear.

He heard it from people in the slums, and he knew that in the world, many places with a lot of deaths would form this kind of weirdness.

For example, the laughter coming from outside at night is caused by this kind of existence.

As for this kind of heterogeneity, it is generally accepted that don't look at it, don't touch it, and don't meet it.

Although he had experienced before, those existences appeared at night, but Xu Qing was not sure whether they would appear occasionally during the day.

So his speed didn't slow down at all, and he was very close to the cave, and after he entered in a flash, he blocked the cracks in the cave.

Then he sat cross-legged and opened his tightly clenched hands.

The purple light spread out from his palm, reflecting the small hole in the ground, under the light, Xu Qing's face and eyes were also rendered purple.

He stared intently at the purple crystal in his palm.

The crystal was long and about the size of his finger, and there seemed to be some flocs inside, and the purple light was emitted by those flocs.

"Heal the wound..." Xu Qing observed for a long time, then unbuttoned his clothes and looked at the wound on his chest, and found that the wound had healed [-]%.

Now the remaining part, it seems that it will not take too long to fully heal, and even the surrounding scars are dissipating.

Reminiscent of running all the way back, feeling much less tired than before, Xu Qing already has a preliminary judgment on the purple crystal in his heart.

The function of this thing is obviously recovery.

Heal your injuries, restore your strength, and restore your vitality!

"I don't know if there are other effects." Xu Qing murmured, thinking in his eyes.

He didn't know if the purple crystal was related to the opening of the eyes of the gods, but it was probably so.

But no matter what, this is a treasure. At least since Xu Qing was a child, he has never heard of any item that can have such amazing resilience.

Keeping such an item by your side is like a second life for its own help.

But Xu Qing is very clear that he can own this thing now because there is no other living person in this city except himself.

And once the blood rain is over and he walks out... such a treasure, he may not be able to protect it.

So the only way is to hide this purple crystal...

Xu Qing pondered for a while, glanced at the unconscious bird caught by him, and raised his hand to fetch it.

After pinching the beak to make it unable to make a sound, he pulled out the dagger on his calf and directly cut a wound on the bird.

During the struggle of the birds, Xu Qing stuffed the purple crystal in.

Then watch closely without blinking.

I saw that the bird was still struggling at first, but soon there was an undercurrent surging around.The psychic energy seemed to be attracted, even much more than the psychic energy that emerged during Xu Qing's cultivation, and went straight to the bird's body.

And the strength of this bird's struggle was suddenly much stronger than before. Compared with Xu Qing's strength, it seemed that he couldn't grasp it.

This scene made Xu Qing's eyes shine brightly.

In the past, the neck of a bird could be crushed with one hand, but now he pinched it several times before breaking it.

Quickly took out the purple crystal from his body and wiped it, he closed his eyes and thought.

"The bird didn't die, but spiritual energy poured in, and the strength of the bird suddenly became extremely strong...it should be fine."

After a while, Xu Qing opened his eyes, with determination in his eyes, and directly stuffed the purple crystal into the wound on his chest that was about to heal completely.

The process of stuffing it in was a bit painful, but Xu Qing gritted his teeth and endured it.

There is no safer place than hiding in your own body.

And he has also simply verified that it seems that the effect will be better if this thing is placed in the body.

As the purple crystal merged, as his chest wound healed, before Xu Qing took a closer look, there was a roar in his body.

A more majestic spiritual energy than the force attracted by the birds before roared towards him directly from all directions, through the soil.

This psychic power was so amazing, Xu Qing's body instantly turned a light blue color, and an indescribable ice-cold permeated his whole body.

This is caused by too much heterogeneity in psionic energy.

But Xu Qing had been prepared for a long time, and without any hesitation, he directly executed the Sea Mountain Art.

With the operation, the psionic energy pouring into his body was suddenly separated into a large amount of heterogeneity.

The remaining pure spiritual energy flowed through the meridians of his whole body, causing Xu Qing's body to make a thumping sound at this moment.

It was as if some stagnant places in the body were instantly opened, and the flesh and blood were nourished and refined at this moment.

The mandrill picture visualized in his mind seemed to come alive at this moment, posing in various poses on its own.

Although Haishan Jue is a cultivation method, it is not a method of cultivation, but a kind of body training.

It is divided into ten layers, corresponding to the ten layers of the gas condensing environment.

There is a clear introduction to it on the bamboo slips, each layer can increase the power of a tiger for the practitioner, and five tigers make one mandrill, and two mandrills make one leader.

It is said that the mandrill can move mountains, and the mandrill can move seas, so it was named Haishanjue.

At this moment, the purple crystal buried in his chest was like a vortex, continuously sucking and withdrawing, and the spiritual energy came like an empowerment.

Xu Qing's cultivation speed also increased dramatically.

I don't know how long it has passed, the pounding sound in his body suddenly became stronger, and a large amount of impurities in his body flowed out from the pores of his whole body.

A foul smell also permeated the cave.

And as the impurities flowed out, Xu Qing's body became quite crystal clear, and the face covered by dirt became more and more delicate at this moment.

After a while, Xu Qing's eyes suddenly opened as the sound in his body and the influx of spiritual energy gradually disappeared.

There was a flash of purple light in his eyes.

After returning to normal, Xu Qing was stunned for a moment.

The pitch-black burrow actually became a little clearer in his eyes at this moment, and he quickly lowered his head to check himself, his expression gradually showing disbelief.

"This feeling……"

With a hint of excitement on his face, Xu Qing stood up and punched out, which caused a sharp wind.

Because the hole was very small, he couldn't try his speed, but the feeling of raising his leg and punching let him know that he had improved amazingly in all aspects compared to before.

Then he immediately rolled up the sleeve on his left arm.

When he saw a black spot the size of a fingernail appeared on his forearm, Xu Qing took a deep breath to suppress the excitement in his heart.

"It turns out that this is the Qi Condensation Layer!"

According to the description on the bamboo slips, this black spot is the alienation point. The alienation point of the Sea Mountain Art is on the left arm, and one is added for each layer.

Touching the alienation point on his arm, Xu Qing was more excited about his obvious strength at the moment, so he looked up at the entrance of the gap, thinking in his heart to wait for dawn to try his speed.

But soon Xu Qing looked surprised, approached the entrance of the gap, and listened carefully.

The outside world was obviously still pitch black, but there wasn't even the slightest abnormal sound.

This is something he has never encountered in the many days he has been here.

In the past, even after dawn, there were no strange beasts and strange sounds, but the sound of rain existed all the time.

But now the sound of rain is gone.

"Could it be..."

Xu Qing was shocked, and a guess surfaced in his heart.

Waiting silently, until a beam of dazzling light shone in through the gap in the entrance of the cave, reflected in Xu Qing's dark eyes, as if lighting up his world.

The moment Xu Qing saw the light, Xu Qing visibly trembled.

He raised his hand, slowly approached the ray of sunshine, put it in, and held the sunshine in his palm, the long-lost warmth slowly awakened his sleeping soul.

"Sunlight……"

After a while, Xu Qing's eyes showed a bright look, he pushed away the sundries blocking the gap, and as more light beams embraced him, he slowly got out.

The moment he leaned out from the exit, he raised his head, and what he saw was no longer the thick and dark clouds, but the bright and brilliant sun.

It seems that the old man in the morning light, after being seriously ill for many days, regained his vitality, slowly opened the prelude, and brought freshness to the world again.

"Rain, stop."

Xu Qing took a deep breath of the sunny air, silently looking at the city under the morning glow.

Everything in the city seemed to glow with a different brilliance under the dazzling red sun.

The bright red morning glow in the sky shines down from the gaps in the clouds, like countless whales spouting golden waterfalls, washing away the haze and mist that filled the city little by little, revealing mottled scars.

The collapsed houses, the bluish-black corpses, and the shocking blood-colored puddles all seemed to remind Xu Qing of the catastrophe that happened here.

There was a hint of complexity in Xu Qing's eyes. He had lived in the slums outside the city for six years, and he had also seen this city for six years.

Although he didn't come in many times, this place was the place he most wanted to live in during the past six years.

"I obtained the cultivation method here."

"I got the purple crystal here."

"Here I... survived." Xu Qing murmured, silent.

After a long time, he sighed softly, walked to a blue-black corpse, looked down for a while, picked it up on his back, and walked forward.

After walking all the way to a nearby square, he put down the corpses, then turned around, and carried the second, third, fourth...

Some corpses were scattered on the street, and some were under the rubble.

Until he carried all the corpses in the vicinity to the square, the corpses here were piled up like a mountain, some intact and some incomplete.

Xu Qing stood there and lit a fire. Perhaps it was because of the heterogeneity, the flames burned more and more intensely, and thick smoke rose...

In the thick smoke, Xu Qing watched for a long time, walked away silently, and went to the second area. Soon, another thick smoke rose, more and more...more and more...

In this way, on the first day when the sun shone into the ruined city, besides the light, there was also thick black smoke from the cremation of the corpses in the city.

The black smoke rose into the sky one after another, covering the sun, and the morning sun was also at this moment, full of powerlessness, and turned red, as if hiding a deep sigh.

It seems that the thick smoke has become its tears.And the reflections formed on the ground seem to have turned into tears of the earth.

The last tear mark is where Xu Qing found the purple light.

There, Xu Qing put down the corpse of the old man from the pharmacy, and as the flames of the pile of corpses burned, heat waves blew across his face. He stood silently beside the fire, and the billowing flames reflected in his dark pupils, shaking constantly.

Her long, disheveled hair was also bent due to the pervasive heat wave. After a while, Xu Qing's body was also bent, and she bowed her head.

"I wish...rest in peace."

At this moment, the flames burned violently and became more and more intense, emitting countless dandelion-like flames, which drifted away with the wind.

It's just that the thick smoke curling up into the sky still carries the unwillingness and regret of the deceased that cannot be melted away, and the wind cannot blow it away.

It rose higher and higher, like a few scars on the sky.

Insignificant, full of helplessness.

……

After a long time, accompanied by the sound of chaotic footsteps, a strange voice came from a distance behind the young man.

"I said why I didn't see the corpse all the way. It turned out that there was such a fool who didn't hesitate to waste his physical strength and moved the corpse here to be cremated."

"Forget it, since you are so nostalgic, then I will help you and throw you in to be with them."

Xu Qing turned around suddenly.

(End of this chapter)