Heaven's Formula

"Just to give an example, alchemists are alchemists because they can do things that ordinary people can't do. What the Privy Council needs are alchemists, not gangsters who win by numbers." Luo Qingqing said frankly, "Now I get it, what makes us unique, or the essence of this exam."

"Fight against... evil spirits?" Luo You'er asked tentatively.

"More than that. Remember what I said, what is the duty of the Privy Council? It is to maintain the order of the world." She shifted her gaze to the panicked crowd in the square, "If this is not an exam... the alchemist of the Privy Council should How to do it?"

"Well, first notify the local government, disperse the people, and then stop the spread of the wild night?"

Luo Changtian followed her gaze for a while, and suddenly showed an expression of disbelief, "Could it be that you mean—"

"That's right, I think collecting spiritual fire is just a cover on the surface, the core of the exam is the talents here - all the participants are conducting a deduction of evil events, but it's not the local residents who play the role of the people, but the It's the examinee himself." Luo said softly against the late summer morning breeze.

The seemingly calm words exploded in the hearts of the disciples of the Luo family like a thunder!

"We will remind and evacuate candidates who are afraid of risks and fear of facing evil spirits; we will resist the coming evil night. No matter how difficult the situation is, maintaining order is still the primary task of alchemists. It has nothing to do with the number of people. There is no distinction between aristocratic families and scattered families, and those who dare to stay are all with our help. Jianghu sects can't do this, and neither can the local tyrants."

Luo lightly rolled up the disheveled hair on his forehead, and said word by word, "This is what alchemists can do, and it is our irreplaceable proof!"

"Wow," Luo You'er was the first to sigh, "When you say that, I feel like my whole head is blown!"

"That's why the invigilator chose Qingshan Formation as the test site... So that's what happened."

"As expected of a genius among the Luo family's new generation of disciples!"

Luo Changtian and Luo Tang also praised.

Luo Fengqing was speechless for a while, looking at the woman standing facing the wind in front of him, he was clearly close at hand, but he felt that she was getting farther and farther away, and even had the illusion that he could only see her back.

When did this change start?

He remembered that when Luo Weiwei became a blockbuster before, he was very happy for it from the bottom of his heart.

"Well, I agree with what you said, if it's just to grab the spirit fire, the aristocratic family's advantage is indeed greater." Luo Fengqing took a deep breath, "But this is not the same as you blocking the hotel lobby and taking people up the mountain without telling me What is the connection?"

"Excuse me, I have no comment." Luo blinked slightly.

"Junior Sister, you—"

When Luo Fengqing was about to say something more, a burst of hasty shouts disrupted his questioning.

"No, it's not good!"

A candidate stumbled into the square and shouted out of breath, "The big thing is bad, we are trapped in this town!"

"What does it mean to be trapped?"

"Don't just talk halfway! What happened?" A new round of commotion broke out in the already restless crowd.

"After I found out that the townspeople were missing, I wanted to check the situation over the suspension bridge. I didn't expect, I didn't expect...the bridge was cut off!"

"What did you say!?"

The news was like a thunderbolt, which stunned the candidates present.

Only the disciples of the Luo family maintained a calm demeanor.

"Sister."

"Luo Qingqing."

Luo You'er, Luo Changtian...and other Luo family members all looked at Luo Qingqing in unison.

Luo Qingwei knew that no matter what she did next, she would get their full support.

She took out the third amplification note and boarded the long table again.

"Don't panic, there is more than one way out of the town! Between the ridges of Spiritfire Land, we found two grottoes, in which were stored several large wooden kites. It works! What we have to do now is to build the flying platform and prepare for the evacuation. If anyone is willing to help me, come with me now!"

"Come with us!"

"Together with the Luo family!"

The other Luo family disciples chimed in one after another.

The expanding chaos in the square was contained.

Although there are still many people arguing, at least at this moment, everyone has a temporary goal to follow-like the straw in front of a drowning person, no matter whether it is effective or not, they will want to try it.

Some people started to move towards Qingshan, and the one who walked in the front of the line was the disciple of the Luo family in blue robe and double feathers.Completely different from the situation three days ago, the Youzhou family has now become the leader of the crowd.

Chapter 21 Master of the Green Sword

"What are you going to do?"

Beside the broken bridge, Wei Wushuang asked Xia Fan.

"To be honest, I don't know." Xia Fan squatted in front of the rift, looking at the opposite cliff - the visual distance between the two sides is about 15 meters, which is not an impassable moat.When everyone found out that Luo Qingqing's words were true, and that there was really a wooden kite in the cave, their mentality eased a lot, at least not as manic and restless as before.

After all, saving one's life is the most important thing. Although it is a pity to fail this time, there are those who have repeatedly failed in the imperial examination, so there is no need to force to pass the scholar's examination. At worst, come back in three years.

For Xia Fan, three years means that it will take a long time to understand the world, not to mention that he has already obtained a bottle of spiritual fire source, and he can pass the test if he persists for two more days. If it is not a last resort, he does not want to give up .But the problem was that he couldn't judge whether it was a "last resort" moment.

What is the manifestation of the Great Desolate Night, what are the dangers and what are the ways to deal with it? The information he knows is too little, so that it is difficult to make effective analysis and judgment.

One thing is for sure, the scholar examination is set up to screen outstanding talents, and it is by no means a "death game" where ten deaths and no lives are lived. This means that there are means or methods in the town that can safely survive the night.But does that require a few people to work together or is it just a single person?What are the requirements for talents and spells?If you insist on staying without knowing anything about it, you are undoubtedly handing over your life to the heavens to decide.

He has never forgotten that the Privy Council is a department that takes high risks, and it sounds reasonable to have a quota for casualties in the exam.Even Master Cheap has repeatedly warned that dealing with evils is a serious matter, and Dahuang Shaye is probably not the evil among evils, so it would be perfectly normal to get caught in it without paying attention.

"Brother Xia...how about you quit with me too." Wei Wushuang hesitated and said, "I know that brother's ability is much higher than mine, and it is only a matter of time before he is admitted to the Privy Council. Three years is nothing, look at the children of those aristocratic families, they are not all planning to hold on."

Judging from the people who follow Luo Qingqing, there are about two hundred candidates who are inclined to give up. Counting the hundreds of people who were eliminated before, the number has exceeded three-quarters of the reference candidates, and there are many disciples from aristocratic families.In the remaining quarter, there must still be many hesitant people, which means that most people chose to avoid the possible Great Desolation Night.

I have to say that this is the common thinking of normal people-examinations are not worth risking your life.

At the same time, it also implies a possibility: not only is there a risk on the last day of the examination, but the risk is not small, making it impossible for the three families to shelter all the reference disciples, otherwise they would not have arranged for the same sect to evacuate.After all, in terms of understanding of the Great Desolate Night, none of the people present should be better than the Luo family, and their decision-making can explain many problems.

But thinking about it the other way around, the number of people who are determined to stay in Qingshan Town is less than half. Based on the pass rate of close to [-]% in the past, it means that as long as they stay, the possibility of passing the doctoral examination will be doubled.

This really put Xia Fan in a dilemma.

"Let me think about it again," he let out a sigh of relief after thinking for a long time, "It will take at least half a day to build a flying platform, and it won't be too late to make a decision tomorrow. You can line up first and try to get there as soon as possible."

Seeing this, Wei Wushuang couldn't continue persuading him, so he nodded silently.

Xia Fan knew very well in his heart that even if he wanted to leave, he had to wait until there was no one around and leave quietly - after all, besides him, there was a fox demon in the room who couldn't move.If he took the fox demon with him in full view, he might be greeted by the prison of the Privy Council.

After leaving his hometown for a while, Xia Fan returned to the hotel.

Opening the door of the room, he couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

The candle was lit at some point, and there was a sitting figure beside the bed.

Li woke up.

……

"If I were you, I wouldn't move around before the serious injury has healed."

Xia Fan walked to the bed and noticed that the other person's face was flushed, and there was fine sweat on the forehead. Obviously, a simple action of sitting up had exhausted her a lot of energy.

"I'm a demon, not a human being, and I'm not as fragile as you..."

The tone was still as mean as before, but the weak tone revealed the actual condition of his body.

Xia Fan pouted, climbed onto the table and opened the window, bright sunlight flooded into the room immediately.

The fox demon subconsciously covered her head, "What are you doing?" There was a rare trace of panic in the voice.

"Let the air circulate. A ventilated room is more suitable for patients to recover." He looked at the other party with great interest—it was obviously those pricked ears that Li just blocked, considering that he already knew her identity, This is undoubtedly a conditioned reflex action. "It's not the first time I've seen it, so there's nothing to hide. Besides, I think it's interesting, at least it's not ugly."

Li slowly let go of his hand after he realized it, and frowned dissatisfiedly, "What nonsense are you talking about."

"It's true, believe it or not."

Xia Fan lifted the quilt while talking to check the other party's injuries, but this time the fox demon did not show any resistance.Compared with close contact, she seemed to care more about her appearance.

There were spots of blood oozing from the bandage, which should be caused by her moving her body without authorization, but compared to the wound across the abdomen, this amount of bleeding is not worth mentioning at all.If it's not the kind of bleeding that can soak through clothes, it's good news.

It took only one and a half days to regain consciousness and restrain the expansion and deterioration of the injury. What Li said before was not a bluff.

If it were a human being, it would have been too cold.

"It's okay, don't move around, just lie down and rest." Xia Fan pressed her body again, "I will reapply the medicine at night, and change the bandage by the way. Of course, the pain is inevitable, but you can't even get stitches." If you can persevere, it shouldn’t be a problem to change the medicine—”

"Why?" Li interrupted him in a low voice.

"What?" Xia Fan raised his eyebrows.

"Why...you want to save me?" After a long silence, she repeated.

"What kind of strange question is this? It doesn't take any special reason to save a partner, right?"

He actually said partner?

Li was stunned for a moment, this was the first time she heard a human being call herself that.

"What... do you want from me?"

No, no, she can't be confused by a name. Human behavior is driven by interests. This has nothing to do with the nature of the heart, but the essence of human beings.

"That's too much." Xia Fan shrugged.

This answer also surprised Li, she thought the other party would continue to cover up, but she didn't expect to say it so directly.

Li held back the painful wound and took a breath, "Tell me?"

"It's almost the same as before, mainly for chatting. But I want to continue the cooperation, preferably for a long time. After all, there are so many issues that I want to understand, and one or two days is not enough."

Li was stunned, she doubted her ears for a moment, is this person's head okay?If she understood correctly, a person who aspires to become an alchemist would actually want to establish a long-term relationship with the demon—does this guy know that he is going to serve in the Privy Council in the future?

Considering that he dared to say the absurd words of "use understanding to eliminate prejudice, and then popularize it among the alchemists", maybe his head is really not normal.

"No." She flatly refused.

"why?"

"I want to take revenge on the Privy Council, and you are the alchemist of the Privy Council, we will become enemies sooner or later."

"Revenge for what?"

"My master..." Li's voice dropped, "She was taken away by the Privy Council."

"But you clearly said that you don't have a master." Xia Fan asked curiously.

"Because she has never accepted a disciple, and she doesn't allow me to call her master. In fact, I don't even know her real name. But..." She paused, "After I realized it, I always regarded her as my master. look at."

"Is she human?"

Li nodded.

"Is it because of being with the demon? No..." Xia Fan quickly overturned this guess, "If this is the case, they should give priority to arresting you, but from what you say, the Privy Council is not like It's coming for you."

"No, they don't even know I exist."

"My condolences...after all, death cannot be brought back to life. I understand your desire for revenge, but what would your master think? Does she really want you to take revenge?" Xia Fan decided to use his years of experience of being poisoned to launch a chicken soup offensive for the soul. "After all, your opponent is the Privy Council. It is not too much to describe it as a pebble hitting a rock. Compared with dying at the hands of the enemy, I think your master hopes that you can live well. Even if you succeed in revenge by luck, you will only get emptiness. People live Well, the most important thing is to be happy, do you want me to play for you... Forget it, there is no face here."

"What are you talking about?" Li looked at him strangely, "Who told you that my master is dead?"

"Ahem——" Xia Fan almost choked, "He's not dead?"

"Master has long anticipated this day. He just asked me to forget her and act as if I had never seen her before. The Privy Council will not endanger her life, it will only make her never see the light of day again. As for letting me live well... ...Master also said the same thing as you." She bit her lip, "But how can I forget everything in those years? If I discard this memory, I will be dead, so I want to take revenge on the Privy Council , to rescue Master from their hands!"

Due to his emotional agitation, Li Shuo coughed violently at the end, and a trace of blood froth overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

Xia Fan patted her on the back lightly, and asked after she calmed down, "When was your master arrested?"

"...eight years ago."

That's right, she really has been to the examination room of the scholar's examination more than once.

"Have you ever thought that those might just be your master's words of comfort?" Xia Fan tried to persuade him in a calm tone, "after all, it has been so long, even if he didn't die then, he may not be safe now. The Privy Council must arrest him She, after all, is a feud between the two parties, and since she falls into the hands of the enemy, she will definitely not end well. You know the prison in the yamen? Ordinary prisoners are thrown in, and they will lose their human form in a few months."

"My master is no ordinary prisoner."

"A troublesome prisoner will be even more miserable—"

"Before she met me, she was Qingjian of the Privy Council."

"It's probably hard to escape... Wait a minute," Xia Fan was taken aback, "What are you talking about? Your master used to be a member of the Privy Council? What is the green sword?"

"The Green Sword is second only to Yuyi, equivalent to a second-rank official in six divisions." Li Huanxuan said, "Master did not commit any crimes, she just defected from the Privy Council."

Chapter 22 Ways to Clear

What kind of complicated ethical relationship is this?Xia Fan was very surprised.Qing Jian of the Privy Council adopted a fox demon, and the fox demon wanted to take revenge on the Privy Council in order to get back his master?

Well, considering that the other party was no longer in the government when he adopted Li, it is more appropriate to count it as a personal grievance.

He doesn't know whether defection is a serious crime for the Privy Council, but since it is an internal high-level, it must be handled in the same way as the bottom-level alchemists.She said that the Privy Council would not endanger his life, and perhaps it was possible.