I just want to be a quiet man

With a flash in his mind, Pei Ling confirmed that he had nothing to omit, and asked a few more questions about the plague. Seeing that Sun Mu was not too clear about it, he ended the sound transmission.

After that, without the slightest hesitation, he immediately packed up his things and set off with Yu Xuezhao.

Chapter 15: The Plague.

According to the direction Sun Mujian pointed, Pei Ling re-transformed a face with [Blood Faceless] on the way, and changed into a gray robe. After seven days and seven nights of flying, he finally arrived at Zhenmo Pass.

At this moment, the atmosphere in Zhenmo Pass is chilling, and the investigation is strict.

Fortunately, Pei Ling had Sun Mu's endorsement and quickly passed the review. He also heard that he was an alchemist who went to Chezhou to save mortals. Everyone in Zhenmo Pass respected him in awe. He leads the way.

"How's the situation now?" Pei Ling asked on the way to Chezhou.

The disciple of Jiuyi Mountain said worriedly: "The situation is very bad now. Only top-grade and above-grade evil spirit pills can be effective in this plague. However, the war broke out suddenly and the stock was insufficient. Moreover, the demon gate raided the convoy transporting the pills the day before yesterday, and most of them were destroyed. Dan, there is a shortage of elixir at present, every city will carry out hundreds of people almost every day..."

"At present, all kinds of methods have been tried. Except for the top-grade evil spirit pills, alchemists can only use vitality-type pills to forcibly hang the lives of the creatures."

"It's just that mortals are weak and cannot be replenished. This method cannot last long."

"The alchemist is willing to come to Chezhou at this moment, I am grateful."

Pei Ling frowned slightly as she listened.

He asked again, "Do you know the specific situation of this plague?"

"In this kind of plague, mortals first have high fever, chills, headaches, vomiting, shortness of breath, and rapid heartbeat, and soon become unconscious and delirium." The disciple of Jiuyi Mountain said, "If there is no treatment, the next Just chest pain, cough, coughing up blood..."

"If you leave it alone, you will die of exhaustion within two or three days."

"After death, the whole body was bleeding, showing necrosis and cyanosis."

"Therefore, the alchemist of the imperial dynasty temporarily named this plague 'cyanotic plague' [Note]."

Cyanosis...

Pei Ling murmured, "Evil Resisting Pill above top grade?"

My own alchemy is the best, as long as the problem that the elixir can solve, it is not a problem for me.

But I heard the disciple of Jiuyi Mountain say again: "Master, the Miao city that I sent you to this time has my sect's true biography sitting in the city. After you arrive, just deal with the plague, and the demon sect's affairs, I have my own sect's true biography to deal with it. "

Pei Ling nodded. No matter what, we got to the place first and looked at the actual situation before talking.

In short, within the scope of his ability, Pei Ling is willing to save as many people as possible...

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Miao city.

This is one of the dozen or so largest cities in Chezhou.

It used to be bustling and lively.

But right now, at noon in the sun, the whole city is as quiet as death, no chickens or dogs are heard, only a few sporadic crying sounds, which lasted for a short time, as if exhausted and depressed.

The gates of the four sides of the city were closed tightly, only the south gate was opened a little bit. Several Jiuyi Mountain disciples were guarding here with vigilant expressions, wearing poison-proof beads and evil-suppressing talismans.

The sound of the pulley came, and a group of puppets pushed a cart, gathered from various places in the city to the long street, and finally lined up in a long line, intending to leave the city to be burned and buried.

"Son..." A shrill cry suddenly sounded, a woman with disheveled hair, bare feet, staggered and ran on the gravel road, ignoring the bloodstains left by where she walked, trying to catch up with a certain cart, "Why isn't Wei Niang the one who went...you left, how can you live as Wei Niang?"

"This little aunt." The cultivator accompanying the funeral procession stepped forward, pulled the woman back, and tried to persuade her, but when the woman turned around, she spit out all the pink blood on the cultivator. Hoo hoo sound, soon limp on the ground.

The monk was startled, and subconsciously took out the pill, intending to feed her, but the woman took advantage of the situation to break away from him, scrambled onto the cart, and hugged a small body: "Thank you, Immortal Master, But I have been a widow for many years, and I just want to think about such a little flesh and blood, now that he is gone, I don’t want to live anymore, so I don’t need to waste the immortal master’s medicine.”

The monk was still hesitating, but the woman fell down limply. He was startled, and went forward to pull it up to check, but saw a long hairpin, which had been quietly inserted into the woman's heart at some point.

She killed herself.

"Why didn't the few here die from the epidemic?" The monks in charge of guarding the gate of the city were indifferent to the scene in front of them. They had seen too many life and death in the past two days, and they were numb at the moment. Has been unable to express any intense emotion.

Only when the hand holding the weapon trembled slightly, could it be revealed how restless these disciples who used to be in the mountains who only meditated were in their hearts.

According to the sect's regulations, one of them used spells to detect every corpse that left the city, and suddenly let out a "huh" and pointed to five corpses piled up on one of the carts.

"Oh, that's a family of five." The monk who accompanied the funeral procession swept away the woman's vomit, glanced at it, and said calmly, "In fact, they didn't get infected with the plague, but looking at the situation in the city, my heart Terrified and unbearable, the whole family hanged themselves from the beam."

"..." There was silence at the gate of the city, and after a while, a monk said, "No problem, let's go."

After a pause, "I heard that there are still some materials in the warehouse, and the higher-ups also promised to dispatch an alchemist who can refine high-grade evil spirit pills as soon as possible?"

"Yes."

"Do you know when it will come?"

"It's hard to say... everyone is applying for alchemy now..."

"Miaocheng is a big city with many creatures, so it should be given priority here..."

"However, the living beings in other places are also living beings, and I'm afraid the higher-ups are also in trouble... oh..."

"Why do you say that a family of five is necessary? Maybe it will be fine in two days..."

"Ugh……"

"Don't think about it, let's defend the city... Turn back and turn a few tanks of nourishing pill water to keep one alive, at least let them last until the alchemist arrives."

While the monks were whispering, suddenly a figure flashed in front of them, and a green shirt appeared not far from them.

"Senior Brother Dou!" The monks were startled and hurriedly saluted.

However, Dou Dai didn't care about these juniors and sisters at all, and stepped out again, directly appearing tens of feet outside the city, and bowed to the sky: "Jiuyi Mountain's true biography, Dou Dai, lives on behalf of Chezhou and Daimiaocheng, thank you master Gao Yi!"

Before he finished speaking, a flying boat slowly landed in front of him.

After the cabin door was opened, the disciple of Jiuyi Mountain who led the way said: "Master, this is Miao City, and the one outside is my brother Dou Dai, the true biography of Jiuyi Mountain."

"I still have responsibilities, so I will send the master here."

"Thank you." Pei Ling nodded, and took Yu Xuezhao off the flying boat. Soon, the flying boat flew into the sky again and went away in a while.

Dou Dai took a look at Pei Ling, and saw that he was covering his head and tail, and there was a woman beside him who was also dressed in a secretive way, and he didn't care. After bowing his hands, he said in a deep voice: "Master, it's not too late, please Follow me into town."

【Note】The prototype Black Death.

Chapter No.16: Alchemy.

Pei Ling nodded: "Okay."

While talking, the two of them walked towards the city gate at a fast pace. After entering the city, they saw that the city was deserted and deserted, and the occasional crying and shouting seemed weak.

The guarding disciples, as well as the patrolling monks along the way, all stared at Pei Ling quietly from behind some doors and windows. Among those gazes, some were hopeful, some were apprehensive, some were worrying about gains and losses...and numbness.

Feeling their gaze, Pei Ling frowned slightly.

Soon, Dou Dai brought Pei Ling to an alchemy room.

The alchemy furnace, alchemy fire, alchemy formula, and medicinal materials are all ready here. The door just opened, and the system has automatically gone online: "Ding dong! An unfamiliar alchemy formula has been detected, and the system is recording it for you..."

Standing at the door, Dou Dai said in a deep voice: "Master, there is currently a shortage of high-grade evil spirit pills in the city. Remember, as long as the top-grade pills are used, the middle-grade and low-grade pills will have no effect on the epidemic! Right now, the magic gate is everywhere blocking the transportation of the pills and medicinal materials. , the stocks in the city are all here.”

"So when the master is refining alchemy, he would rather be slow, and must try his best to ensure that the alchemy becomes top-grade..."

Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of something, and asked, "By the way, may I ask if you have ever been to the Liugai Dynasty, or can you tell me, your alchemy is about a few rank alchemists?"

"The next fifth-rank alchemist." Pei Ling said, then took out the jade pendant of the fifth-rank alchemist of the Dynasty, and handed it over.

Fifth rank alchemist?

There are only a handful of fifth-rank alchemists among casual cultivators, each of whom has a good reputation, but who is the other party?

Dou Dai was slightly startled, and immediately took the jade pendant for inspection, and after confirming that the jade pendant had not been faked and that the aura sealed inside was exactly the same as that of the monk in front of him, his expression gradually relaxed, and his tone became more respectful: "Master You Lao , Master’s great kindness and virtue, Jiuyi Mountain and Miaocheng will never be forgotten.”

He asked again, "Does Master have any other orders?"

"No more." Pei Ling shook his head and said, "I'll start alchemy now."

Dou Dai was in charge of guarding a city and was busy with everything, so he said his thanks and left in a hurry.

Before leaving, he took out a sound transmission talisman and handed it to Pei Ling: "Master, if you have any orders, just contact me."

Watching Dou Dai leave, Pei Ling ordered Yuxue to protect the dharma outside, walked into the alchemy room alone, glanced at the alchemy furnace and the alchemy fire, both of which were of the seventh rank, but their quality was not as good as that of his alchemy in the alchemy ceremony. get rewarded.

So Pei Ling flicked the sleeve of his robe, pushed both the alchemy furnace and the alchemy fire into the corner, took out the tortoise, crane, auspicious elephant, and Taiping Wannian furnace, secretly injected a mana into the cassock, and said silently in his heart: "System, I want to make alchemy, One-click hosting [Evil Repelling Pill]."

"Ding dong! The intelligent cultivation system will serve you wholeheartedly! One-click trusteeship, smart upgrade! Now start trusteeship training, intimate reminder: During the training period, the host will lose control of the body, please don't panic..."

Accompanied by the system's notification sound, Pei Ling's expression quickly faded away. He summoned Nanke Menghuo expressionlessly, lit the pill furnace, and began to refine the pill...

The evil spirit pill is just a elixir for the Qi training period, and the system can be refined very quickly, coupled with his current cultivation level, he has already refined a batch of top-quality evil spirit pills in less than a stick of incense.

Under the control of the system, Pei Ling opened the pill furnace, took out the pill, and then refined the second furnace.

He glanced at it, and there were about three or four hundred top-grade evil spirit pills in this furnace.

Since it was the first time refining evil spirit pills, Pei Ling didn't know how long it would take to refine one furnace.So a lot of mana was input into the vestment just now. At this moment, before the vestment is effective, the system was not interrupted by external force, so the furnace was restarted and continued to refine the next furnace.

In this way, when the fourth furnace was halfway through refining, Pei Ling felt three stabbing pains in his back. Along with the system's notification sound, the trusteeship was interrupted.

"This kind of evil spirit pill, I can refine a furnace in less than a stick of incense." Pei Ling looked at the pill furnace that was already emitting black smoke in front of him. The materials for this furnace have been discarded, but there is no way things.

He shook his head, checked the remaining medicinal materials, and after estimating the approximate time, injected a certain amount of mana into the vestment again, and then continued to use the system to manage alchemy.

In half a day's time, all the medicinal materials in the alchemy room were refined into top-grade evil spirit pills.

Since he didn't have enough storage items on his body, the system threw the alchemy pill on the ground, and the entire ground was piled up with radiant top-grade evil spirit pills.

When the last refining furnace was completed, the furnace lid had not yet been opened, and Pei Ling's vest felt a tingling pain. At the same time, the system sounded: "Ding dong! An external attack has been detected. This is the end of this training. Thank you host Use the intelligent self-cultivation system, one-click trusteeship, and worry-free ascension! Looking forward to sharing your evaluation of cultivation, please give five-star praise if you are satisfied..."

After regaining control of his body, Pei Ling immediately cleared out a storage pouch. With a thought, he took the top-grade evil spirit pills all over the floor into it. After confirming that there were no omissions, he sorted out the next four weeks before taking out the sound transmission talisman and notifying Dou Dai : "Fellow Daoist Dou, all the refining of the evil spirit pill has been completed, please come and take it away."

In the sound transmission talisman, Dou Dai said without hesitation: "Okay, Master has worked hard, I will order people to go."

Pei Ling nodded slightly. Seeing that Dou Dai had finished the sound transmission, he also put away the sound transmission talisman, and then walked outside.

When he got outside the door, he didn't have to wait for a moment before a ray of light appeared in the distance, like a rippling clear wave, at an extremely fast speed, passing by many buildings and protections, and quickly appeared in front of him.

After standing still, a slender figure with a resolute appearance appeared, dressed in the costume of a disciple of Jiuyi Mountain, stepped forward two steps, bowed his hands and saluted, and said in a deep voice: "Mo Yiqian, under the order of Senior Brother Dou, come to get rid of evil spirits." Dan."

"You don't need to be polite, fellow Daoist Mo, the evil spirit pills are here." Pei Ling said calmly, and then handed over the storage pouch.

Right now the situation in the city is critical and there is no room for delay, Mo Yiqian was too polite and immediately took the storage bag.

"Thank you, master!" Mo Yiqian said, turning around and leaving directly. When he came over just now, Senior Brother Dou reminded him that the person in front of him is a fifth-rank alchemy master.

Refining evil spirit pills can be said to be top grade.

Therefore, he didn't need to waste time checking the quality of the pill.

However, seeing that Mo Yiqian was about to leave, Pei Ling hurriedly said, "Fellow Daoist, all the medicinal ingredients have been refined, when will the next batch arrive?"

what?

Are all the medicinal materials refined? !

Mo Yiqian's face suddenly changed. In just half a day, this master used up all the medicinal materials in the city? !

After a short period of shock, he quickly calmed down. Right now, there is a lack of medicinal materials everywhere in Chezhou, and the medicinal materials in the city are exhausted. It is impossible to make up for it in a while...

Thinking of this, Mo Yiqian didn't care about other things, and hurriedly opened the storage bag in his hand. After that, his pupils shrank suddenly, and the entire storage bag was densely packed with evil spirit pills.

Other than that, none of the medicinal pills smelled of the fragrance of pills, these are all top-grade evil spirit pills!

Mo Yiqian was stunned for a moment, and soon after, he revealed a look of ecstasy!

Chapter No.17: The Situation in the City.

North of Miaocheng.

All the private houses and mansions that were originally located here were demolished, and a large open space was quickly leveled out with magic.

At this moment, tents were set up on the open space.

Arrays were set up around to prevent the spread of "cyanosis".

In the formation and in the tent, painful groans came and went, and occasionally there was a sudden burst of crying, and puppets entered the room in a short while, packing up the remains of the new mourners, rolling them up on straw mats, and loading them on a cart, ready to be sent outside the city for cremation .

Pei Ling frowned and walked between the tents. These tents were all the same color and style, except for a rag hanging at the entrance, blowing in the wind.

According to the gatekeeper monks, the red rags represent the male mortals in the tent, the green rags the female mortals, and the blue rags the family.

And one rag means that the condition is not very serious; two means that it needs to be checked from time to time; three means that the people inside may die at any time.