sjar Chapter 464: When He Was a Child
Chapter 464: When He Was a Child
Finally, Zhu Jiu licked the bite wound twice. After it healed, she stood up, moved away from Yue Shangxian, and leaned against him quite contentedly.
A light red mark was particularly obvious on Yue Shangwan's cold white neck.
So were Zhu Jiu's obviously bright red lips.
Chu Yi just thought that the two were kissing. The more he looked at them, the more irritating it became. He asked sarcastically, "You guys do this kind of thing in the Demon Hunter Guild?"
Zhu Jiu was still unsatisfied, and said in a lazy voice, "So what? Are you going to complain to Jian Shou?"
Still complaining, do you treat him as a child?
Chu Yi was extremely upset, but he said expressionlessly, "I just think you shouldn't do such immoral things in such a solemn and formal place."
"Stop wasting time, it's time to move on to the next step."
The next step is to brand the demon seal, which is what Zhu Jiu cares about most.
Hearing this, she perked up and said, "Let's go."
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The layout of the branding area is finally different from the first three processes, and the inspection is more stringent.
After many twists and turns, he took the cloud ladder and went three feet deep into the ground. After passing through three inspection gates and walking through a long and narrow corridor, Chu Yi was tired of walking until the dark green mechanism interlocking door of the branding process finally appeared in front of him.
The toothed door moves to the sides after the required authority is reached, like a monster slowly opening its huge mouth.
The rumbling sound is transmitted into the ears through vibration, making people feel solemn.
A few people stepped in, walked dozens of steps to the end, turned right, and the scene in front of them changed suddenly.
I was shocked by the scene in front of me at first sight.
A huge bronze furnace stood suspended in the center of the empty area. An eight-sided thigh-thick Nine-Sky Black Iron chain was connected to the furnace mouth, and the other end was embedded in the wall.
The baking furnace is three meters high and two meters wide. It has a tripod cover with four ears on top and four supporting legs at the bottom. There are openings in the front and back of the belly. The body of the tripod is engraved with hundreds of demon patterns, which are ancient and look like sacrificial patterns.
When they joined together, they seemed to be a flowing, hazy magic array, exuding a dangerous and sinister aura.
The magic fire ignited by the precious magic stone was burning fiercely in the pool below the furnace. Black mist rose into the sky from the furnace. The spiritual consciousness could see a demon holding his head and wailing in pain.
Because of the visual effect caused by the rising mist, its body seems to be distorted.
The walls of this branding room are arc-shaped, and on the walls are space observation platforms carved out. Magical light flashes from time to time on them. They are protective and isolation formations.
Zhu Jiu and his companions were on one of the observation platforms.
The scene before my eyes truly reflected the words “sinking into hell” when the moon is waxing.
Occasionally, there would be three or two people wearing black armor on other observation platforms. Their strength was all at the Void Refinement Stage or above, and they were much more refined than the mixed group of people in the previous three processes.
They should all be the backbone of the trade union.
This shows how important this place is.
When they saw Chu Yi and his companions appear, they all bowed to them.
Yue Shangxian's cold and sharp gaze lingered on these people for a long time, and he didn't even look at the furnace.
Because the murderer he is looking for may be among these people.
Unfortunately, these people looked normal and no one showed any sign of abnormality.
Shuai Guo's voice rang out on time.
"This is the branding furnace. All demons that have passed the taming process will be temporarily stored in the secret room, and then transported here via the special ladder above the furnace and put into the furnace."
"Demons have demon cores. The Demon Hunters Guild discovered through early research that the demon core is like the human dantian and heart. It is the most important part of the demons. Controlling the demon core is equivalent to controlling the life and death and will of the demons."
"The Demon Sealing Seal is a great holy-level formation created by the Demon Hunter Guild. By carving the seal into the demon core, it can completely seal the nature of the demon, and its master can easily decide its life or death, and can also convey orders through thoughts."
This is the most fundamental guarantee for the coexistence of humans and demons. No matter how well they are tamed before, they may rebel over time. The first three steps are only to temporarily suppress them, making it easier to carry out the demon-sealing brand.
In other words, every demon that comes out of here must be as well-behaved as a kitten and go east instead of west.
When Zhu Jiu saw this, dark hostility surged in his eyes, mixed with tremendous anger.
The Star Lord, whose perception was deceived, asked curiously in her soul: "What exactly does it look like? Why don't you show it to me?"
There was hatred in Zhu Jiu's eyes, but his voice revealed a lingering fear.
"It's the same as before. The main reason is that these demons are too miserable. In order to care about the health of young people, I won't show it to you."
"That's it? I've seen everything. Do you look down on me?" Xing Jun made a few noises and Zhu Jiu responded with jokes, preventing him from realizing what was going on.
Zhu Jiu's spiritual consciousness had already penetrated here first. After seeing the internal appearance, the first thing he did was to prevent the Star Lord from seeing it.
Because the Star Lord spends a considerable amount of time in the alchemy furnace.
The Dan Jun who captured the Star Lord followed the path of using living creatures as medicine. He was very curious about what the world consciousness would become after being refined and extracted, so he captured the Star Lord.
At that time, the Star Lord had already cultivated half of his soul with the help of Zhu Jiu. As long as he continued, he would be able to break away from the scope of world consciousness and become a god.
Such a great opportunity and luck were all ruined in that alchemy furnace.
Zhu Jiu was imprisoned in hell, completely unaware that the Star God would be refined into elixir after 49 days.
By the time she came out, it was already too late to save him, and Xingjun only had a trace of consciousness left.
Zhu Jiu was heartbroken, and when he was at his wit's end, he stole Dan Jun's Soul-Condensing Herb and threw it into the alchemy furnace, thus preserving Xing Jun's consciousness.
But he also became an object without a future, a Danhun.
His function is to heal people by consuming his own soul power.
This is why Xingjun was able to heal the fatal wound when Zhu Jiu entered Yue Shangshuang, who was on the verge of death due to heart injury.
This is also the reason why the Star Lord can help Zhu Jiu relieve the pain of his soul being torn apart.
He is actually a "Dan".
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The formation is not explained by the formation master, and others cannot understand it just by looking at the appearance.
What's more, 99% of the main bodies are inside the furnace that isolates spiritual consciousness, so the union is not worried about leaking core secrets.
But that excludes cheating.
Now that Zhu Jiu is here, the Peeping Tom leader is here.
Zhu Jiu used his spiritual sense to deconstruct the demon-sealing formation on the furnace and discovered that it was indeed an exquisite formation that was completely useless against humans but extremely vicious and restraining against demons.
The person who invented the formation must have studied many magic cores to make it so targeted.
This is a dead formation. There is no eye of the formation. Once the mark is imprinted, it cannot be removed. The only flaw is the connection with the master.
Shuai Guo said that the Demon Hunter Guild has never given up on researching ways to eliminate this loophole.
From Zhu Jiu's perspective, there are many solutions.
Chu Yi looked at the magic stones in the pool under the baking furnace that continuously released magic fire and asked, "The baking furnace is used to engrave formations on their magic cores. What is the function of the magic fire?"
Shuai Guo explained: "Engraving requires a large amount of magic energy, and the magic energy released by the burning of the magic stone is used for this purpose."
"There is a special person to add magic stones to ensure that the furnace has a supply of magic energy for twelve hours."
The functions of magic stones are very similar to those of spirit stones, but the latter have the function of universal currency which magic stones do not have.
The quantity is small and can only be used for magic cultivation.
The reason why he didn't feel any pain when burning here was that Wen Chaoxi discovered a new renewable magic stone mine in the Dark Forest, which solved the problem of energy supply for the baking furnace.
While the few people were observing and talking, the demon in the furnace had been engraved. The furnace was opened, and the demon, which had fainted from the pain, was lifted out by the hook hanging from above and taken out of the furnace room through the passage opened in the roof.
Then, a dark passage opened up on the side, and a Ni Liao demon with a "qualified" stamp on his face was hooked and sent into the furnace.
It looked at the strange environment around it and instinctively sensed the danger. It looked terrified, flapped its limbs, and hit the hook that controlled it with its fangs.
Unfortunately, the hook is made of special Nine Heavens Black Iron, and crystals that seal magic power are mixed in during smelting. Any demon caught in it will only have brute force but will not be able to use magic power or escape control.
The Ni Liao demon was sent into the furnace, the cauldron was sealed, and the engraving began. Black fog filled the sky, and its howls echoed throughout the furnace room.
The magic core is extremely fragile to them, and engraving it is like drawing pictures on the human body with a knife, so pain is inevitable.
The word "qualified" was gradually disappearing, and the screams were gradually weakening. The Ni Liao Mo had finally become a product that people could trust and sell.
Just like the previous demon, he was hooked into the next process and tested while unconscious.
Elder Chu pointed out a question, "What is the mortality rate of this process?"
Asking the core question, Shuai Guo glanced at him and said, "A few magic cores are more fragile than normal ones. They will shatter if they can't withstand the branding. In addition, a very small number of them die in pain. The mortality rate is 10%."
"The president has always been dissatisfied with this conversion rate, so the elders in the oven room have been researching ways to improve it, and half of them agree with the idea of 'printing in accordance with the material'."
Before anyone asked, Shuai Guo took the initiative to explain: "It means adding another screening process before branding, sending those particularly fragile demons into the lightweight oven room, using a lighter imprint, which will reduce the pain."
"Such a branding furnace has been approved by the president and is being built."
This is obviously beneficial to both humans and demons, so why do only half of the people agree?
Shuai Guo sighed and said, "Lightweight branding takes three times longer than regular branding, and requires continuous burning of magic stones. Opening a furnace just for those low-value magics is considered a waste of resources by half of the people. It is more cost-effective to calculate directly based on material loss. After all, there are plenty of high-value demons."
If they hadn't heard the word "magic" here, they would almost think it was talking about the process of picking vegetables, where the rotten leaves are thrown away and the good leaves are put into the pot.