Chapter 93 What Are You So Happy About?
Half an hour later.
Lu Li had once again reached the refinement stage of the Scarlet Flame Fruit.
This time, Lu Li absolutely dared not scream anymore. He held his breath and remained calm, steadily gripping the earth fire switch: ten breaths, thirty breaths... three hundred breaths.
Suddenly, his hand trembled!
"Hahahaha, success! Success!"
This hand tremor wasn't actual trembling, but rather the excited act of turning off the earth fire. Afterward, he jumped up and down, holding his stomach and laughing, happy like a five or six-year-old child.
After finishing his laughter, he ran to the doorway and roared toward the courtyard, only then calming down slightly. He walked back and took out that pill that was emerald green with red star-like specks.
"It seems somewhat different from the one eaten before? Could it be poisonous?"
Lu Li remembered that the pill Zhang Song gave them to eat before was dark green, its color far less vibrant than this one. Perhaps he didn't pay much attention at the time, and he also didn't seem to notice any red star-like specks.
Looking at the pill in his hand, Lu Li suddenly hesitated.
After pondering, Lu Li decided to first find an animal to test it on. As for people, forget it. Although he was ruthless toward enemies, asking him to capture people for no reason to test the pill was something Lu Li absolutely would not do.
He took out an empty jade bottle, put the Piercing Acupoint Pill into it, walked out of the Daoist temple, and began searching on Qingliang Mountain.
This Qingliang Mountain was too desolate, with stones everywhere. He searched for a long time, not even seeing a ghost's shadow, and couldn't help but feel greatly disappointed.
At this moment, he was only about a zhang away from the official road at the foot of the mountain, standing on a rough, pitted large stone and scanning all around, thinking that if it really came to it, he would only have to use that big black horse for pill testing.
Thinking of this, he sighed and prepared to return to the summit.
Suddenly, as his gaze swept across, he saw the withered thatch grass patch about two zhang ahead seem to move. His expression brightened, and he instantly leaped over.
Whoosh.
Just as he charged into the thatch grass patch, a large gray creature jumped out from inside, letting out a squeaking scream, and in an instant leaped more than ten zhang away.
"What fast speed!"
Lu Li exclaimed, then exerted a bit of force and chased after it.
Seeing Lu Li chasing it, that large creature leaped up again. Lu Li grabbed at it, only pulling out a handful of gray fur.
Only then did he realize that creature was actually a rabbit as tall as half a person.
With a strange cry of 'You can't escape!', he directly transformed the True Qi within his meridians into wind attribute, Gale Steps activated, and in the blink of an eye overtook that giant gray rabbit.
The gray rabbit was still running wildly, unable to brake in time, and directly crashed toward Lu Li. Lu Li slightly shifted his body, and just as the creature passed by his side, with lightning speed he extended his right hand, grabbed its long ear, and lifted it up.
Squeak, squeak, squeak...
The gray rabbit screamed while struggling.
"Little thing, competing with me in speed, you're still lacking." Lu Li stared at the big gray rabbit and smiled, then flicked its forehead with a finger, directly dazing it. As he spoke, he prepared to return to the Daoist temple.
"Fellow Daoist, please stop!"
Suddenly, an urgent shout came from the official road below the mountain, followed by a white-clothed youth who rushed toward him with a whoosh, landing with a tap on a strange rock above Lu Li: "Dao..."
Before he could finish, the youth's face suddenly revealed ecstatic joy, "Great, I actually ran into you! Truly, finding it requires no effort after all, hahahaha..."
Lu Li raised his eyes calmly and looked at the wildly laughing youth. "What are you laughing at?"
That youth wore the Qingyang Sect formal disciple badge on his chest. Lu Li guessed he had come to apprehend him, but since this person was only at the fourth layer of Qi Refining, Lu Li didn't take him seriously at all.
"Laughing at what?" The youth slightly restrained his smile. "Junior Brother Lu, your matter can no longer be concealed. Will you return on your own... or will this Senior Brother personally invite you?"
"Is that so!" Lu Li's words fell, and the next instant he appeared before the youth.
That youth's heart thumped. Only now did he realize he hadn't carefully examined this 'Junior Brother.' In panic, he could only hurriedly circulate True Qi to protect his body.
Bang!
A fierce punch landed on his chest. He only heard his ribs make a cracking sound, then involuntarily flew backward, crashing heavily into the cluster of strange rocks with a boom.
His expression turned horrified, his chest in severe pain. He struggled to get up, but unexpectedly a foot suddenly descended from the sky, cracking as it crushed and broke his right shinbone.
"Ah!"
He could no longer hold back and cried out in agony, both hands tightly digging into the stone cracks beside him.
All this happened too fast, taking only a few breaths. He hadn't even had time to display his full abilities before becoming crippled. However, now was clearly not the time to consider these things, because he sensed the killing intent emanating from this 'Junior Brother.'
He panicked and struggled to stand up, but his legs simply couldn't exert force. "Fel-Fellow Daoist, this... it's all a misunderstanding... I, I mistook you for someone else, spare me..."
"Huh, mistook you for someone?" Lu Li revealed a faint smile, bending down to look at the youth. "I haven't said I'm going to kill you now, have I?"
"N-not kill me?" The youth was somewhat incredulous, but more than that, overjoyed. "Th-thank you, Fellow Daoist!"
"You're welcome."
Lu Li wore an innocent appearance, casually taking out a jade bottle and pouring out the newly refined Piercing Acupoint Pill. "This is a divine pill I just refined. Shall I feed it to you, or will you eat it yourself?"
"Th-this is?"
Lu Li's face darkened. "You have no right to ask. Either eat it, or die!"
As he spoke, an axe materialized. "You had better think carefully. Even if you die, don't expect it to be painless... I'll slice off all your skin piece by piece, then sprinkle salt on it..."
Hearing this, the youth immediately felt creeped out. He finally understood that Lu Li had no intention of letting him go, and he secretly hated himself for being so excited earlier that it had clouded his judgment, leading him to this state.
Seeing Lu Li's gaze like knives, he didn't dare hesitate further and hurriedly said, "I-I'll eat it."
In his view, since Lu Li was feeding him a poison pill, presumably he still had some use for him. As long as he endured through it, he might still find an opportunity to escape.
"Consider you sensible." Lu Li held the pill and sternly shouted: "Open your mouth!"
Then he flicked his finger, and the pill shot directly into the youth's throat.
The youth coughed violently a few times, but still couldn't spit out the pill.
The pill entered his stomach. The youth initially appeared extremely pained, but moments later his expression gradually became strange, even carrying disbelief and pleasant surprise. That last acupoint he had long been unable to open had actually been breached-he had reached the fifth layer of Qi Refining!
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh heartily, "Hahaha, kid, you're fin-!"
Splat!
Before he could finish, Lu Li directly swung an axe and chopped off the youth's head, saying faintly: "I'm not even happy, what are you so happy about?"
Afterward, he calmly summoned the Blood Soul Banner, sucked him into a dried corpse, and disposed of the body cleanly. Only then did he walk back toward the mountain, thinking: Truly, when sleepiness comes, someone delivers a pillow. Using people for pill testing is much more reassuring than using Demon Beasts.