The Romance of the Immortal Cauldron

After returning to the city, Matthew first went to the store to buy a bunch of food, and then went home carrying large and small bags.

After arriving home, Matthew started to make a fire to cook. He was so hungry that his chest pressed against his back after not eating for a day.

Now that he has quit his job, Matthew rarely goes out in the next few days and stays indoors all day.

He did this to observe in secret to see if Liu Xingjian would come back again.

After several days of observation and confirming that there were no strangers nearby, Matthew plucked up the courage to take back the wooden box.

The old man's incident was like a wake-up call, reminding Matthew that he must be extremely careful when doing things and must not be careless.

After returning to the house with the wooden box and closing the door, Matthew carefully opened the wooden box.

"what happened!"

After opening the wooden box, Matthew's expression suddenly changed when he looked at the spirit stones inside.

Some of the twenty spiritual stones that the old man left to him turned into ordinary stones at this moment.

This sudden situation made Matthew's heart almost jump into his throat.

After taking out all the other items in the box, Matthew counted carefully and found that a total of ten spiritual stones were turned into waste stones, while the other ten were safe and sound.

"Someone probably didn't do it on purpose. What's going on?" His thoughts were racing, and Matthew quickly ruled out the possibility of man-made damage.

If someone really found this wooden box, how could they just replace the ten spiritual stones inside with ordinary stones? If they wanted to take it, they would definitely take it all away. No one would do such a stupid thing.

"what!"

Matthew, who was a little upset, turned his head and happened to see the small purple cauldron placed next to him.

He had just taken out the contents in a hurry, but he didn't pay much attention to the small tripod.

Now if you look carefully, you will see that there is a purple ball of air inside the tripod mouth, flashing with light.

He remembered clearly that when he got the small tripod, there was nothing in the mouth of the tripod.

In other words, this air mass only appeared in the past few days.

Thinking of the ten spiritual stones that had turned into waste stones, Matthew's eyes flashed with light.

He reached out and picked up a spiritual stone and put it into the mouth of the tripod.

The moment Matthew let go, the spirit stone fell.

But he stayed within the air mass.

Matthew lowered his head and stared at the air mass.

Under Matthew's gaze, the spirit stone turned into a piece of waste stone and fell out of the air mass in just a few breaths.

Matthew picked up the small cauldron and tipped it down, and the piece of waste stone fell out.

Pick up this piece of waste rock and compare it with ten other pieces of waste rock.

He found that the two situations were exactly the same.

That means that the ten spiritual stones in the box were absorbed by Xiaoding.

But one thing Matthew didn't realize was that there were twenty spiritual stones in the box.

According to the speed at which Xiaoding absorbed the spirit stones just now, all twenty spirit stones should have been absorbed. Why are there still ten left.

With this question in mind, Matthew took out another spiritual stone.

This time he did not throw the spirit stone into the mouth of the cauldron, but held it with his fingers and moved it slowly on top of the mouth of the cauldron.

After testing for a while, Matthew came to a rough conclusion.

Only when it enters the mouth of the tripod will the spirit stone be absorbed. If it is outside, there will be no problem with the spirit stone.

"It should be that when I was walking with the box in my arms, I accidentally dropped ten spiritual stones into the small cauldron, which caused the spiritual energy in the spiritual stones to be absorbed." Matthew is not a stupid person. After some attempts, A conclusion has been roughly drawn.

Although he figured out why the spirit stone turned into waste stone, there was still a bigger question in Matthew's heart.

What is the purpose of this purple air mass?

Next, Matthew tried to put some debris into the small tripod.

Without exception, there was no response.

"Except for absorbing spiritual stones, this air mass seems to have no reaction to anything else." Matthew scratched his head in frustration and muttered to himself.

All possible methods have been tried, and Matthew is at his wits' end for the time being.

In this case, he stopped paying attention to Xiaoding and reached out to pick up the jade bottle.

Open the jade bottle and pour out the marrow-cleansing pill inside.

Looking at the gray-white Marrow Cleansing Pill lying in his hand, Matthew's face showed sadness.

It was precisely because of this marrow-cleansing pill that the old man left him.

After watching for a while, taking a deep breath, and suppressing the grief in his heart, Matthew decided to take this pill first.

Regardless of whether he has spiritual roots or not, the Marrow Cleansing Pill will be of great benefit to him.

The old man offended Liu Xingjian for the Marrow Cleansing Pill, and Matthew didn't want to let the old man down.

Just when he was about to swallow the pill, he heard a series of rapid knocks on the door from outside.

Matthew was shocked, wondering who the visitor was.

He hurriedly stuffed all the things around him into the box, and then placed the box in a secret place in the house.

After confirming that nothing was missing, Matthew walked out of the room.

When Matthew opened the courtyard door and saw the person standing in front of him, he was slightly startled.

"Chen Hu, why are you here?" Matthew asked with some confusion.

The person called Chen Hu was a man in his twenties, with an ordinary face, but a full head taller than Matthew.

This person is very familiar to Matthew. He is a clerk at Baiyao Hall and the nephew of shopkeeper Chen. The two of them usually have a good relationship.

"What's the matter with you? Why don't you do something good?" Chen Hu asked after bypassing Matthew and walking straight into the courtyard.

"I almost fell to death when I went to Dawang Mountain this time. I'm so scared that I don't dare to do it again." Matthew said with a bitter smile after closing the courtyard door.

This is what he said to shopkeeper Chen.

"Yes, my uncle often asks you to do such dangerous things, which makes everyone afraid." Chen Hu nodded to express his understanding.

"You haven't said what you want from me yet." Matthew didn't want to say too much on this matter, so he changed the topic to the original question.

"There is something wrong with the azure flower you brought back. Not only did Master Wang Xian's injury not improve after taking it, it actually got worse." Chen Hu said to Matthew with a solemn look.

"Impossible, I spent half my life picking that azure flower, how could it have no effect!" After hearing Chen Hu's words, Matthew also shouted in disbelief.

However, there was a vague suspicion in his mind.

Recalling the shriveled appearance of the azure flower, and then thinking that the small tripod would absorb the spiritual energy in the spiritual stone.

perhaps. Maybe the spiritual energy in Tianqinghua has been absorbed by Xiaoding.

But he would never tell Chen Hu in front of him about this matter.

"Who knows, maybe the sky blue flower had no effect on Master Wang Xian's injury in the first place. However, now Master Wang Xian is blaming all the blame on you. He has already said that he will be healed after his injury. I came to you to ask for an explanation." After Chen Hu finished speaking, he looked at Matthew with some worry.

"I..." After Chen Hu finished speaking, Matthew was speechless for a moment and didn't know how to answer.

"I advise you to leave Wangxian City as soon as possible. I am afraid of being implicated and have already planned to sell the store. You should make a decision as soon as possible. By the way, I came here to get the rope this time." Chen Hu sighed and patted the horse. Said behind Xiu's shoulder.

After hearing what Chen Hu said, Matthew realized that Shopkeeper Chen's valuable rope was still with him.

He turned around and walked to the corner of the yard, took out the bundle of ropes and handed it to Chen Hu.

"Chen Hu, thank you for telling me this. I will leave Wangxian City as soon as possible." Matthew said solemnly.