Chapter 334 Leaving

The next few days were peaceful.

Except for two hours of accounting at Xia Honghua's place every day, Duan Rong spent the rest of his time practicing crazily without a moment of slacking off.

At noon that day, Duan Rong had just returned from Xia Honghua and was about to start practicing when he suddenly heard Pan Yong calling him outside the cave entrance.

As soon as Duan Rong walked out of the cave entrance, Pan Yong said with a serious face: "Junior brother, Master Shang is looking for us. Let's go over."

After Pan Yong finished speaking, he turned around and walked along the cliff.

Duan Rong frowned slightly. I wonder what tricks Shang Xiangyu will come up with?

But as the saying goes, people under the eaves have to bow their heads.

Although he knew that Shang Xiangyu was looking for them, it might not be a good thing, but he had to follow Pan Yong and walked over step by step.

The two of them, one in front and one behind, crossed the stone fence on Shang Xiangyu's side and came to the big platform.

Shang Xiangyu had turned his back to them and stood on the edge of the platform, looking up at the endless mountains, a vast expanse of mist.

Duan Rong's eyelids trembled slightly. Shang Xiangyu had changed into a brand new plain silk robe, and even his hair was tied up.

Since Duan Rong came, Shang Xiangyu has been wearing the wrinkled and sloppy Taoist robe, but he has never changed it.

Is this... a change of temper?

Duan Rong was surprised, and always felt that something was going to happen.

Pan Yong walked to a distance behind Shang Xiangyu, clasped his fists and bowed his head, and called out.

"Master Shang."

Duan Rong, beside Pan Yong, also called out in a low voice.

The two stood with their fists clasped, but Shang Xiangyu did not look back for a long time. He looked at the mountains, white fog, and dark clouds in front of him, his eyes deep and far-reaching.

Just as Pan Yong was hesitating whether to call out again, Shang Xiangyu suddenly sighed, then turned around and looked at the two of them.

Duan Rong glanced at Shang Xiangyu, his eyes moved slightly, Shang Xiangyu's face was calm, and his face seemed to be faintly ruddy, which was completely different from his pale and somewhat scary face at the beginning.

Shang Xiangyu suddenly said: "Master is going on a long journey, and it is estimated that it will take more than half a year to return to the mountain. During this time, you should practice diligently in the mountains and be careful."

Pan Yong and Duan Rong were both stunned when they heard this. None of them expected that Shang Xiangyu would suddenly go on a long journey. And it seems that he is traveling alone, and neither of them will take anyone with him.

Pan Yong pondered for a moment and said: "Master Shang suddenly went out for so long. Is there anything you want to tell me?"

Shang Xiangyu said: "Nothing. You have followed me for many years, just do what you should do in your daily life. The rest, I will talk about it when I come back."

"Yes." Pan Yong said.

"Okay. People who practice cultivation don't need to be polite. I'm leaving."

Shang Xiangyu finished speaking, and with a flick of his sleeves, he turned around and walked along the cliff...

The two stood there, staring at Shang Xiangyu's figure in a daze, disappearing in the vast white fog, and they hadn't come to their senses yet.

Neither of them thought that Shang Xiangyu would leave as soon as he said he would.

Duan Rong asked tentatively: "Brother, where did Master Shang go?"

Duan Rong felt that Pan Yong had been with Shang Xiangyu for the longest time, and Shang Xiangyu left so suddenly, and for more than half a year, it was really too strange.

Pan Yong said: "Master Shang didn't say it, how could I know? Okay, Junior Brother, you and I just need to follow Master Shang's instructions, practice diligently, and be careful."

After Pan Yong finished speaking, he turned around and left.

Duan Rong stood there, his eyes flickering, his thoughts rolling.

When Shang Xiangyu left, he felt as if a big stone pressing on his heart had been moved away.

According to Shang Xiangyu himself, he will be out of the mountain for more than half a year this time. This gives him plenty of time to make some moves.

He needs to think carefully about whether to continue to stay in Taiyi Sect or take advantage of this time to get out of Shang Xiangyu's control in one fell swoop. After all, although Shang Xiangyu has been away for more than half a year, there will always be a day when he will come back.

However, this matter is not urgent. He can take advantage of this time to find out how the registered disciples leave the mountain and how to get the approval slip from the lower house.

And even if he wants to leave, he must say goodbye to Xiao Yu and Ximen Kankan and explain some things to them before he can leave.

Otherwise, Xiao Yu and Ximen Kankan may look for him all over the world.

And before leaving, he must digest the resources that should be digested.

For example, Duan Rong has already studied the auxiliary medicines of the Taizang Sutra. The auxiliary medicines from the fourth level onwards seem to come from alien species in the space distortion world.

That is to say, once he leaves the sect, it will be almost impossible for him to find the auxiliary medicines of the Taizang Sutra again. These things are not circulated in the secular world at all.

So, before he leaves, should he also achieve the fifth level of the Taizang Sutra?

There is a black blood fruit on the two black blood vines deep in the cave, which is the auxiliary medicine for the fifth level of the Taizang Sutra, and it is almost ripe.

This place is remote, and Shang Xiangyu lives alone on a mountain. He is ready, so he can kill Pan Yong, plunder all the resources here, and then leave.

When Shang Xiangyu comes back, even if he is furious, where can he find him in such a big world?

Duan Rong thought of this, and prepared to practice more crazily and improve himself in the next period of time.

After all, the biggest obstacle to all his plans is actually Pan Yong.

He had already used his spiritual sense to check Pan Yong's Dantian, and his true energy seemed to be slightly better than his. It would be best if he could make up for this shortcoming before taking action, so as to avoid any accidents due to insufficient strength.

Duan Rong thought so and decided to return to the cave to practice immediately.

But as soon as he arrived in the cave and sat cross-legged, Pan Yong came to find him again.

Duan Rong walked out of the cave and looked at Pan Yong with suspicion.

Pan Yong said: "Junior brother, Master Shang is not here, let's go together to clean up Master Shang's stone room, what do you think?"

Duan Rong's eyes moved, and he said: "Senior brother, this is a good idea."

Pan Yong's idea was exactly what he wanted.

The two then carefully cleaned up Shang Xiangyu's messy stone room.

It took more than an hour to finish cleaning up, and they actually cleaned up a large sack of discarded debris.

Duan Rong wiped the sweat from his forehead, picked up the bulging sack in his hand, and said, "Brother, I'll take these discarded debris out and throw them away."

Pan Yong glanced at Duan Rong and said, "Then I'll trouble you, Junior Brother."

Duan Rong then picked up the sack and walked out.

Pan Yong looked at Duan Rong's back and thought to himself: Junior Brother Duan Rong is a man who works without sparing any effort.

Duan Rong led the sack full of discarded debris and went straight back to his cave.

He walked to the depths of the cave, put the sack on the ground, and sat on the ground himself. Then Duan Rong took out a missing corner of the inkstone from the sack and said to himself, "Read the spirit of the instrument."

In the dark cave, a set of data appeared in front of Duan Rong. Duan Rong had no time to look at the specific content of the data, so he said to himself, "Swallow."

Because he was not going to swallow one or two spirits of the instrument, he was going to swallow the spirits of the sack, so where was the time to look at them one by one?

Then, Duan Rong took out a bald brush, and then a hairless whisk...

Duan Rong spent more than half an hour to devour a sack of weapon spirits.

His head was swollen, as if it was filled with something, but Duan Rong still struggled to put the discarded debris on the ground back into the sack.

He carried the sack, walked out of the cave, tied the mouth of the sack, and threw it into the valley outside the cave where white fog rolled.

Duan Rong returned to the cave with a dazed mind, fell on the stone bed, and fell asleep instantly. He slept until noon the next day.

This sleep seemed to have a very long dream. In the dream, he seemed to have experienced Shang Xiangyu's entire half-life...

After waking up, Duan Rong sat on the stone bed. In the dark cave, his eyes flickered like stars.

"This... Shang Xiangyu actually has an incurable disease?!"

"Blood Spring Pills can't cure it either, they can only delay it..."

"Where is he going this time? It takes more than half a year?"

Duan Rong jumped off the bed and paced back and forth in the cave.

"He must be looking for a way to cure his source of exhaustion?"

"Then...what is it?"

A perfect poem, a post, a content, a book, a bar!

Duan Rong suddenly felt cold all over. He thought of a possible place for Shang Xiangyu, but this answer was too shocking!

In the next few days, Duan Rong didn't comb his hair all night, and just practiced hard in the cave.

Until this morning, Duan Rong practiced hard all night. Seeing that it was already bright, he still sat cross-legged on the stone bed, refining the remaining pills in his meridians. At this moment, he suddenly heard Pan Yong calling him outside the cave.

Duan Rong frowned, got off the stone bed, and walked slowly outside the cave.

Pan Yong was slightly stunned when he saw Duan Rong. It had only been a few days since they last met, but he saw that Duan Rong's appearance had changed greatly. Not only was his face exhausted and haggard, his eyes were bloodshot, but his face was also untidy and his hair was very messy.

Pan Yong asked: "What have you been doing in the cave these days? Why did you look like this?"

Pan Yong only knew that Duan Rong had been stuck in the cave these days and rarely went out, but he didn't know that he had become so sloppy.

Duan Rong touched his untidy and prickly chin and said lazily: "I have been studying a martial art these days, so there is no need to make a fuss, brother."

Pan Yong's eyes moved, and then he remembered that when Duan Rong killed Chen Hu, he had many powerful methods, including leg techniques, knife techniques, and body techniques.

It seems that this person is a martial arts fanatic, so he can understand many martial arts and practice them simultaneously.

Pan Yong smiled and said, "Junior brother is really smart!"

"Junior brother, it's like this. I've taken a task to earn contribution points in Guangluyuan. I won't be here during the day for the past five days. If you have any questions, you can leave a note at the entrance of my cave. I'll see it when I come back."

Duan Rong said, "Don't worry, senior brother. Nothing should happen. If there is anything, I will tell you."

Pan Yong said, "That's good. Junior brother is here alone, so you have to pay attention to the movements on the mountain. When Shang Shi left, he told me to be careful of the door."

Duan Rong secretly complained about Pan Yong's nagging, but still nodded and agreed calmly.

After Pan Yong finished speaking, he turned around and walked along the cliff.

Duan Rong watched Pan Yong finally walk away and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Duan Rong's eyes condensed, and he followed Pan Yong from a distance. He hid somewhere on the rock wall until he saw a figure sliding along the iron chain into the vast fog.

He suddenly turned his head and looked in the direction of Shang Xiangyu's stone chamber.

The moment Duan Rong walked into Shang Xiangyu's stone chamber, his spiritual sense was instantly released.

Under the divine consciousness, he could see through the wall and the ceiling, and everything was clear.

Duan Rong's eyes suddenly moved, and he stared at a certain place on the side of the stone bed.

Duan Rong walked over and squatted down.

Under the divine consciousness, he "saw" there was a secret compartment there.

That day, he and Pan Yong cleaned the room together, and had used the external divine consciousness to explore the room and found this secret compartment. When Shang Xiangyu was there, he didn't dare to use the divine consciousness casually, but Shang Xiangyu was not there, and this place was very remote, so Duan Rong occasionally used the divine consciousness, and the risk was not great.

But at that time, Pan Yong was there, so even if he found the secret compartment, he couldn't do anything.

And in the past few days, Pan Yong has been in the mountain, and he didn't dare to come to Shang Xiangyu's stone room to explore casually.

But Pan Yong's departure on this day gave him an opportunity.

Duan Rong used his divine consciousness to penetrate and explore, and soon found the mechanism of the secret compartment.

He climbed onto the stone bed, and there was a stone pillow on the stone bed, which seemed to be connected to the stone bed.

Duan Rong climbed to the stone pillow and suddenly used force to break the inner end of the stone pillow. The stone pillow tilted slightly and then bounced back to its original position.

At the same time, Duan Rong heard a rumbling sound in the corner of the stone bed.

Duan Rong jumped off the stone bed and saw that there was a stone slab protruding slightly in the corner. Duan Rong grabbed the top of the stone slab and pushed it hard, and the stone slab opened.

He saw a dark hole in front of him.

The inside of the stone bed was actually hollow.

Duan Rong took a candle and got into the inside of the stone bed.

Although the space inside the stone bed was not small, there was nothing inside.

There were only a few books.

Duan Rong took out the books and sat in front of the table.

The top book was the Five Poisons Gu Insect Technique. The pages of this book were yellow and obviously very old.

Duan Rong felt sick when he saw the name. The insect poison that Shang Xiangyu had given him was obviously from this technique.

There was actually a yellowish human skin scroll in the book of the Five Poisonous Insects Technique. Duan Rong spread it out and saw that it said, Nine Nether Great Collection Technique.

Duan Rong's eyes jumped. He had devoured many of the spirits of the things around Shang Xiangyu. With a lot of information, he had already understood many things about Shang Xiangyu.

He knew that Shang Xiangyu's source of exhaustion was caused by practicing the Nine Nether Great Collection Technique.

This technique is obviously an extremely dangerous method and must not be touched lightly.

Duan Rong took the book away and saw that there were actually several notebooks underneath. They were all some of Shang Xiangyu's experiences in refining medicine and practicing over the years, and many places were recorded in great detail.

"It seems that this person is like Shen Ping, who likes to summarize methods and theories and has the same kind of quirks..."

Duan Rong took Shang Xiangyu's four notebooks and saw that the notebook that Shen Ping left for him was also placed in this stack of books by Shang Xiangyu.

Duan Rong also took away the notebook left by Shen Ping.

At the bottom of the stack of books, there were five more books. Duan Rong looked at the covers one by one, and the more he looked, the more frightened he felt.

These five books were all about the Filthy Blood Religion and the Filthy Blood Divine Art.

Duan Rong had already guessed Shang Xiangyu's thoughts after he devoured and digested the spirits of the discarded debris. Now seeing these five books, it further confirmed what he thought.

Shang Xiangyu left Taiyi Sect to join the Filthy Blood Religion.

He wanted to practice the Filthy Blood Divine Art.

Because only the Filthy Blood Divine Art could cure his source of exhaustion!