A Top Scholar in Everything

Chapter 1268: Chapter 1254: The Mysterious Old Taoist

After Baiyu tidied up his room a bit, he prepared to make the Daoist Temple his home.

Seven days.

In the blink of an eye, they would pass.

As long as those cultivators didn’t come looking for him, he wouldn’t have any problems. Of course, he also needed to be wary of any issues within this Daoist Temple.

Baiyu’s intuition over the years told him.

There were significant problems within the Daoist Temple, and that old monk was definitely not simple.

Night quickly descended.

After Baiyu had a light dinner, he prepared to go to bed, because in this Profound Origin Realm, the Spiritual Qi was thin, and cultivating would be useless.

Besides.

Baiyu was already at a bottleneck.

And the opportunity for breakthrough that Alfred mentioned had yet to arrive, and Baiyu didn’t believe those silly prophecies.

However, behind Alfred was the Scar God.

This fellow.

Was still trustworthy.

Otherwise, Baiyu wouldn’t have listened to Alfred’s deceit, coming to this Sea of Myriad Islands region.

No progress in Blood Qi.

And in the Extraordinary Realm, his Nightmare Task remained unfinished, and he didn’t have the chance to advance to the next sequence.

Now Baiyu absorbed Spiritual Qi.

It was just a habit developed over years, and his body needed basic Spiritual Qi to sustain itself.

In the absence of other matters.

Baiyu fell asleep early.

However.

In the middle of the night, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked outside the window.

Not a soul in sight.

Yet Baiyu trusted his intuition; he was absolutely certain, he had just heard a noise, right in the courtyard of the Daoist Temple.

He got up and went to the window.

The window paper was long deteriorated; Baiyu poked a small hole through it and looked outside through that small space.

The result was startling.

The old monk from earlier was holding a hoe, swinging it at a spot in the courtyard, as if he was digging something. Watching him tirelessly moving his limbs, with sweat pouring down like rain from his forehead, one could tell the old monk was working extremely hard.

Baiyu had no idea what was buried in the courtyard.

However.

He soon realized he misunderstood. After digging a large pit in the courtyard, the old monk took a golden-yellow seed from his bosom and threw it into the soil.

After tossing in the seed.

The old monk refilled the pit with soil, then leveled the ground, and finally stamped it down firmly, thus concluding his activity.

At that moment.

His eyes suddenly looked towards the room where Baiyu resided.

Under the dark night sky.

The old monk’s eyes were blood-red, resembling a bloodthirsty demon, looking at him just once would cover one’s heart with a layer of bloodthirst.

He displayed a puzzled expression, arriving at the door to Baiyu’s room.

Quietly pushed open the door.

Baiyu lay on the bed, sleeping soundly.

Seeing this scene, the old monk turned and left.

Soon after, the old monk completely disappeared, halting his surveillance on Baiyu.

Baiyu furrowed his brow.

Lying on the bed, he felt a bit uneasy.

The Daoist Temple was becoming increasingly sinister, and Baiyu didn’t want to probe into what was buried.

After all, the more you know.

The more dangerous it becomes.

Who knows if that old monk buried a timed bomb underneath?

Baiyu intended to go back to sleep.

But before long, suddenly a massive explosion echoed from the main hall.

At once.

Baiyu couldn’t stay seated.

His brows furrowed, he got out of bed, cautiously heading towards the main hall.

Arriving outside the main hall.

He discovered half of the main door had been blown away, charcoal, gunpowder, and some unidentifiable biological flesh scattered on the ground.

Baiyu could ascertain.

This flesh had nothing to do with humans.

He stepped into the main hall, the deep dark hall adding to the frightening atmosphere of silence.

The candles that were lit before.

Were now all extinguished.

Baiyu arrived at the back of the giant statue he saw during the day, which was where the explosion sound originated.

Here, Baiyu found a large Pill Furnace, nearly two people high and four people wide, oval in shape, crafted from bronze, engraved with delicate patterns.

At this moment, the lid of the Pill Furnace had flown out, deeply embedded in the adjacent beam.

And on the furnace body.

There was a huge gap.

Did the furnace explode?

Who was refining alchemy in the middle of the night?

A hint of doubt flickered in Baiyu’s heart, when suddenly, the Pill Furnace began to shake, and a head emerged from the furnace.

It was precisely the old monk he saw during the day.

His head covered in coal dust, his face was pitch-black as he looked at Baiyu: "Master, wandering around so late at night is very dangerous.

I told you before.

There are many mischievous spirits around the Daoist Temple, and inside there are places set with prohibitions. If you wander and trigger a prohibition, I may not be able to save you."

Baiyu furrowed his brow.

The old monk, who was digging and sweating heavily with blood-red eyes in the courtyard, now had attire different from when he was in the Pill Furnace.

Even if he were as fast as lightning.

He couldn’t possibly have gotten from the courtyard into the Pill Furnace so quickly.

Moreover.

Most importantly.

The two old monks had different auras.

All these doubts flashed in Baiyu’s mind as he raised an eyebrow: "Daoist, what are you doing here? It’s so late, and you’re not resting..."

The old monk laughed: "Refining alchemy! Do you know about the Supreme Longevity Pill? Legend has it that the Immortal Qingding took 999 years to refine one Supreme Longevity Pill, that upon consumption, allowed Ascension in daylight. I’m following in the footsteps of Immortal Qingding."

"Alchemy?"

Seeing the blood on the old monk’s face, Baiyu frowned, speaking in a deep voice: "But Daoist, why would you put yourself into the Pill Furnace for alchemy.

Isn’t this.

A bit inappropriate?"

"Hahaha, master, that’s where you misunderstand. This is the practice for the Supreme Longevity Pill, using people as the pill, and the pill for immortality.

When the pill is formed.

One can also achieve an immortal body!"

As the old monk spoke, madness flickered in his eyes.

Suddenly.

He looked at Baiyu, his eyes flickering: "Master, you suddenly appear here, aren’t you trying to snatch my Dao Fruit, steal my Elixir?

Humph.

Seems I’ve been too kind-hearted, trusting you!"

The old monk’s emotions suddenly heightened, and then the Pill Furnace exploded; his lower body was completely pitch-black like ink, mixed with some sticky herbs, resembling a ghost crawling out of Hell.

Baiyu’s right hand pulled.

A Blood Qi Long Blade materialized, slashing towards the front.

Snap.

The old monk was struck head-on by the Blood Qi Long Blade, his entire body thrown out like a ball.

But then.

After landing.

He charged at Baiyu again, with undeterred momentum, his body turning red, like a bomb ready to explode at any moment.

To avoid further complications.

Baiyu instantly employed the Golden Power, striking the old monk.