Chapter 20 Secret Treasure in the Secret Room
As soon as Xu Fu stepped into the secret room, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.
This secret room is very open, with no compartments divided into small rooms. The four walls are filled with densely packed jade boxes, which shine with a different kind of brilliance in the dim light of night pearls.
For alchemists, this kind of brilliance is very attractive. After all, only those things with spiritual energy will be preserved in jade containers, which can minimize the loss of spiritual energy.
Xu Fu was completely attracted by these jade boxes at this time. He hurriedly stepped forward to open the nearest one, and saw a palm-sized dry tree root glowing with a faint yellow light in the box.
"Eternal roots."
Xu Fu could smell the strong smell of the elixir without having to lower his head, and his face showed excitement. This was exactly what he needed.
Xu Fu worked hard to identify spiritual objects. Xu Fu knew almost every book in Li Danxin's collection that explained the world's spiritual objects. Although he had never seen most of them, as long as he saw the appearance and smelled the smell, Xu Fu could still identify them. Zi thought of the description in the book.
Xu Fu closed the jade box with some reluctance, and opened the one next to it. It was a yellow fruit with faint black spots on it.
"Leopard's courage!" Xu Fu exclaimed in surprise. This is even rarer than the longevity root, and it is already top-grade among the fourth-grade elixirs.
"Ghost hand vine!"
"Green Mountain Milk!"
……
The names of the elixirs came out of Xu Fu's mouth one by one, full of surprises. These elixirs that were originally only recorded in books now appeared in front of him, which made Xu Fu excited. It was like a drunkard seeing fine wine or a beggar seeing delicious food. Inextricable.
At this time, Xu Fu completely forgot about his surroundings and was immersed in the surprise of opening the jade box. It took him a long time to realize that he had lost his composure. Looking at the elixirs in the secret room, Xu Fu couldn't help but sigh: "How wonderful it would be if they were all mine! "
Xu Fu could only think about this idea, not to mention whether Xu Fu could afford the price. Even if he wanted to buy it, he would definitely not sell it. If he wanted to sell it, why waste time and effort on building this underground medicine warehouse.
Miraculous medicines are rare, and the ones in front of you must have been collected by the Yuntian Gang for who knows how many years. From this point of view, the previous common medicinal materials were just a cover-up.
"Can I take these too?" Xu Fu turned around and looked at Zhu Ye, asking with some uncertainty. As the leader of the Yuntian Gang, he must know the value of these elixirs.
In this dark underground chamber, the man in black has disappeared and is missing. Zhu Ye still has the same smiling face, but under the reflection of the night pearl, it looks a little weird.
"It's natural." Zhu Ye said with a smile: "One family does not speak the same language as the other. I also told Brother Huang directly that this place is the top secret of the Yuntian Gang. Only a few leaders of the Yuntian Gang know about this place. Now I regard Brother Huang as one of my own."
"Then I'll thank the gang leader first." Xu Fu said and stretched out his hand.
"Brother Huang, don't worry yet." Xu Fugang just grabbed a jade box when Zhu Ye stopped him.
Xu Fu put down the jade box with some confusion and thought to himself: "Repenting so soon?"
"Brother Huang, don't blame me. Although the Yuntian Gang is not a big gang, it still has rules."
Zhu Ye said as he took out a jade bottle from his body, poured out a white pill, and said with a slight smile: "This is the loyalty pill. As long as Brother Huang takes this pill, he will be my brother of the Yuntian Gang from now on. This secret The elixirs in the room can be used at will.”
Xu Fu took the elixir and saw that it was white, round and shiny, exuding a faint sweet fragrance. For a while, Xu Fu couldn't figure out what kind of elixir it was.
As an alchemist, he would naturally not take pills he has never seen before. Xu Fu looked at it carefully, his face remained calm, and with a slight exertion of force with his two fingers, the elixir immediately split into two halves.
Even though the secret room was dark, Xu Fu could still see something the size of a rice grain embedded in the elixir at a glance. Upon closer inspection, he found that it was an unhatched insect egg!
"Gang Leader Zhu, what does this mean?" Xu Fu recognized the insect eggs, his face changed drastically, and he asked coldly.
"This can be regarded as imitating the blood alliance of our ancestors. However, this pill is not harmful. Brother Huang can just take it without worry." Zhu Ye replied very casually.
"It's harmless? If I admit it correctly, this is a Gu pill!"
Xu Fu was very dissatisfied with Zhu Ye's attitude. He remembered clearly the description of Gu Dan in the book.
Gu Dan is native to Miao territory in southwest China. The mountains and forests there are densely covered with miasma. In the early years, the local Miao people raised various kinds of Gu insects to treat diseases and eliminate miasma. Later, a strange person combined the method of raising voodoo insects with the art of alchemy, and this was how voodoo pills were created. It's a pity that most of the methods of treating diseases and saving people with Gu Dan have been lost, but the harmful methods have been passed down from generation to generation.
Fortunately, Gu Dan is unique to the Miao territory and has never been spread to other people. The Miao people rarely move around in the world, so very few people know about it. Xu Fu also learned from the Dan Yuan Baohan that Li Danxin personally handed over to him that there was such a kind of elixir. The mysterious and dangerous aspects of it were not detailed in the book, but there was also a slight explanation. When the insects come out, they are stored in the blood and five internal organs. If there is no poison to suppress them, the insects will eat the essence, blood, brain and marrow, suffer from headaches, go crazy and die.
"Brother Huang has such insight at such a young age. It seems that he is not an ordinary alchemist!" After Xu Fu discovered the poisonous pill, Zhu Ye's expression changed slightly, and then his smile returned. He did not feel nervous because Xu Fu had revealed it.
"I wonder what kind of poison Gang Leader Zhu wants to put on me?" Xu Fu had woken up at this time and secretly cursed himself for still wondering whether he should really join the Yuntian Gang to obtain these elixirs. Now it seems that there is no free meal in the world. .
"Brother Huang, don't worry, as long as you don't betray the gang, this poison will never attack."
"I'm afraid I have to obey orders and become the eagle dog of the Yuntian Gang, right?"
"We are all brothers of the Yuntian Gang, and it is right to work for the Yuntian Gang. And with a talented man like Brother Huang, he may not have the opportunity to sit in my seat in the future."
"Thank you, Gang Leader, for your love. I'm a man from the mountains. I'm used to being free and loose. I can't be restrained the most. It seems I'm not blessed to enjoy Gang Leader Zhu's kindness." After Xu Fu said this, he raised his feet and wanted to go out.
He had just taken two steps when he felt a chill on his back. He had no time to use his footwork and quickly twisted his body to avoid the fatal blow.
I saw a black-edged dagger passing through Xu Fu's ribs, cutting a gash in his coat, and it missed Xu Fu's flesh by just a hair.
Xu Fu was about to capture him, but the assassin missed the target and immediately retreated without any delay. Xu Fu's grasp was also missed. Xu Fu knew without guessing that it must be the shadowy man in black. do.
"Is Gang Leader Zhu going to kill people and silence them?" Xu Fu quickly leaned against the wall, searching for traces of the men in black around him while questioning Zhu Ye.
"Brother Huang now knows the top secrets of our Yuntian Gang. If he leaves like this, how can Zhu feel at ease?"
Zhu Ye walked aside as he spoke, opened a jade box, looked at the elixir inside and sighed slightly: "Brother Huang, it's better to think about it carefully. These elixirs have been accumulated by the Yuntian Gang for more than ten years. Wouldn't it be a pity to be covered in dust here? "
Seeing that Xu Fu was silent and just focused on looking for the man in black, Zhu Ye said again: "Brother Huang doesn't know something. With Lord Black Blade's stealth assassination technique, even the seventh-grade Martial Lord in this vault is not him. I think Brother Huang doesn’t need to bother looking for his opponent.”
After hearing Zhu Ye's offensive words, Xu Fu didn't have much trouble in his heart, but he just thought he was too noisy. After he took the Qixin Pill, his ears and eyesight became clearer. Although the basement was dark and his eyes were blocked, his hearing was not affected at all. When Xu Fu listened carefully just now, he noticed a vague sound of breathing, which must be The killer named Black Blade hides in the darkness.
Xu Fu originally thought that he would pretend not to sense the black blade first, and then surprise him when he showed up to take action.
But Zhu Ye really talked too much, and at this moment he was still trying to persuade himself to join the gang. His voice echoed in the secret room, completely covering up the sound of Hei Ren's breathing, and Xu Fu could only complain secretly in his heart.
After persuading for a while, Zhu Ye already felt a little thirsty, but Xu Fu remained calm, just leaning against the wall of the secret room, fully prepared to be assassinated by the black blade.
Seeing this, Zhu Ye sighed, shook his head helplessly, turned around and walked out, obviously giving up on recruiting Xu Fu.
This turn allowed Xu Fu to seize the opportunity he had been waiting for for a long time. He exerted force on his feet and rushed towards Zhu Ye like an arrow. The place of defeat.
Xu Fu's fingertips were about to touch Zhu Ye's back, and he felt happy.
Suddenly, Zhu Ye spread his arms to both sides, and his large robe seemed to be filled with wind. It swelled up like a ball. Xu Fu's outstretched right hand was pushed away by a strong force, and he took a few steps back. Stand firm.
Xu Fu was startled by this weird technique, and he was unprepared for a moment. He only felt a chill on his neck, and a dagger was pressed against his throat.
This black blade is indeed a master of assassination. Xu Fuzhen caught it as soon as he showed some flaws.
"If I didn't have some skills, Zhu would have died so many times." Zhu Ye said with a slight smile. As he spoke, the robe seemed to deflate, slowly retracting and fitting him again.
Turning around and looking at the restrained Xu Fu, Zhu Ye took out the jade bottle from his arms and said with a slight smile: "As long as you take this poison pill, you can survive."
"It seems that this is the only way." Xu Fu hesitated for a moment, then stretched out his hand to Zhu Ye.
"Brother Xu is still aware of current affairs."
Zhu Ye looked happy, or was worried about Xu Fu's attack, so he didn't come near, he just raised his hand and threw a poison pill over.
Xu Fu reached out to take it. The moment he retracted his outstretched arm, he quickly leaned back and hit the person behind him hard with his elbow.
Xu Fu originally thought that if he surrendered, Heibian would relax his vigilance and subdue him with this sudden blow, but he did not expect that Heibian would react very quickly. When he was hit by Xu Fu's elbow, the dagger in his hand was still cut.
"It hurts!"
This was the first time I felt such strong pain after taking the Qixin Pill. He must have been injured.
But Xu Fu had no time to check the injury at this time, but went straight to the black blade. Although the black blade took a step away very quickly from the blow just now, he was still hit by Xu Fu's elbow.
Several ribs of the black blade were broken. He did not expect that Xu Fu would be so desperate. What shocked him most was that the dagger, which was as sharp as clay, did not cut Xu Fu's throat?
Could it be that he misjudged that this young man is a master who has mastered the skills of copper skin and iron bones? Black Blade doubted his own vision. Although he was seriously injured, he did not surrender. Just when he was about to retreat to the dark place, hide his figure, and look for another opportunity, Xu Fu didn't care about the wound on his neck and pounced on him like a hungry tiger. The black blade had no time to dodge. , simply hold the dagger with both hands and stab it in the chest.
The dagger came very quickly, and Xu Fu jumped forward again. It looked like Xu Fu was jumping on the dagger.
Xu Fu's forward attack was very reckless in the eyes of an experienced killer like Black Blade. Even if the opponent was a master of copper skin and iron bones, it was absolutely impossible to block the stab with his body.
Seeing that the dagger was about to pierce Xu Fu, Black Blade suddenly realized that the dagger seemed to be blocked by something hard and could not penetrate any further. Xu Fu had already rushed forward and pressed him under him.
Xu Fu pressed Heibian's chest with his left hand, and then slapped his right wrist, knocking off his dagger.
Xu Fu's arm strength was amazing. Black Blade felt as if his chest was being pressed by a huge boulder. The pain at the broken bone made him numb all over, and his hands and feet twitched due to the severe pain. Just when he was about to raise his hand to shoot the sleeve arrow hidden in his wrist, he saw Xu Fu's fist had already arrived. In front of you.
Before Heibian could take action again, Xu Fu punched Heibian's side face covered in black cloth. After Heibian's head was twisted to a terrifying angle, the whole person stopped moving.
Everything was between lightning and flint. Zhu Ye did not fully see the struggle between the two, but one thing he could clearly see was that the neck of the Black Blade he was relying on seemed to be broken.
Zhu Ye saw Xu Fu raise his head. Although there was a cut on his neck, there was only a few traces of blood seeping out. It was obvious that the injury was not deep enough to be fatal. So he made a quick decision, turned around and ran out. At the same time, his outer robe bulged again, obviously because he was afraid that Xu Fu would come to arrest him again.
Xu Fu couldn't let him go, but he didn't know how to break Zhu Ye's weird method. He picked up the black-edged dagger that fell on the ground and threw it hard.
"boom!"
With a muffled sound, Zhu Ye's outer robe exploded. The dagger did not lose its momentum and was directly driven into Akeno's vest until it reached the hilt.
Seeing Zhu Ye lying motionless on the ground, Xu Fu finally felt at ease, breathing heavily in fear.
In the past few breaths, I was really frightened. The invulnerable body I originally relied on seemed to be unable to stop a real master.
Xu Fu touched the longevity tablet on his chest and secretly rejoiced. If it hadn't helped block the dagger, he would have suffered a big loss this time.
He glanced at the killer named Black Blade again. At the critical moment of life and death, Xu Fu naturally had no time to control his strength. He didn't expect that the killer in black who looked very powerful could not help but beat him.
"Fortunately, I can't help but fight!" Xu Fu secretly rejoiced.
After resting for a while, Xu Fu got up and came to Zhu Ye's side. When he went to get the black dagger, he found that the dagger was inserted directly into the back of Zhu Ye's heart. No wonder he fell down without saying a word.
Pulling out the dagger from Akeno's body, there was no trace of stasis, just like pulling it out of tofu, and there was no trace of blood on it. The black blade was still there in the dark basement, like a poisonous snake hiding in the dark. , choose people to eat.
"Keeping it will also harm people, so let's destroy it."
Xu Fu glanced at the wall beside him, held the dagger behind his back and stabbed hard, trying to break the edge of the dagger.
"Crack!"
With a crisp sound, the stone wall was pierced very easily. The stone wall was much thinner than it looked.
Xu Fu pulled out the dagger in surprise, and a glimmer of light came out from the gap where the dagger pierced.
"What's going on?" Xu Fu curiously used his dagger to dig along the gap on both sides, and found that behind the stone wall about an inch, there was a hidden compartment with luminous pearls inlaid in it.
This black-edged dagger was really sharp. Within a few seconds, Xu Fu dug out a big hole in the stone wall, revealing an exquisite jade box.
This jade box is different from others. It is as white as mutton fat without a trace of impurities. It is engraved with exquisite textures and auspicious animals. It is obviously not an ordinary object.
"It's hidden so tightly. It seems to be a good thing!" Xu Fu guessed excitedly and carefully opened the lid of the jade box.
"This is……"