477: Danchen, fell

The Pill Slave was tied down by Song Qi and could not come over.

Pill Minister wept as he cursed, "Useless, useless..."

After a few curses, he looked at Jiang Ning, his eyes filled with seventy percent fear and thirty percent anger. "Don't kill me... don't kill me..."

He propped himself up with his hands, dragging his numb legs as he crawled forward.

A red trail was dragged across the ground.

As Pill Minister crawled, he suddenly stopped moving.

He saw his honest and simple parents; they opened the courtyard gate and looked at him with smiles.

"A Sheng, why are you only back now? Hurry and wash your hands to eat. I made your favorite pig skin today..."

"Father, Mother..."

Pill Minister's eyes were hazy with tears.

It was as if he had returned to the fields he loathed the most, rolling up his pant legs and planting rice seedlings into the mud one by one.

Though it was hard work, this kind of tranquility was something the Cultivation World could never provide him.

Pill Minister missed the identity he had hated, the land... and his hometown.

The courtyard gate was still open.

Pill Minister broke into a smile. He wanted to go home; he didn't want to cultivate anymore, and he didn't want to perform Alchemy.

He didn't like Alchemy at all.

He wanted to return to the fields, to work at sunrise and rest at sunset with his parents.

Just as he was about to crawl to the doorway,

He heard a crisp voice in his ear.

"Father, Mother, I'm back!"

A boy wearing straw sandals ran into the courtyard, took his parents' hands, and walked into the house.

His parents were drifting further and further away from him.

The fields were gone, replaced instead by a cold hall.

When he chose to loathe his past, the past was destined to leave him.

Pill Minister's eyes were open as he muttered to himself.

"Elixir Patrol... harmed me..."

He stared wide-eyed ahead, as if there were a courtyard there with an open gate and someone calling for a child who hadn't returned.

Pill Minister was dead.

With a flick of Jiang Ning's finger, a Golden Core flew out from Pill Minister's Qi Sea.

Jiang Ning checked its quality, smiled, and sent it directly into the Small World to feed Xiao Hui.

Xiao Bai wouldn't even eat something of this quality; only Xiao Hui would treasure it.

Upon Pill Minister's death, the Pill Slave's contract expired.

The Pill Slave, who was fighting Song Qi, came to a halt.

"No more fighting..."

Song Qi looked at the dead Pill Minister and realized, "As a Pill Slave, you actually harmed your master?"

The Pill Slave asked in confusion, "How did I harm my master? I obeyed all his orders; I did whatever he told me to do. I didn't set a trap to harm him."

"Nor did I contact you to kill him."

"Just now, I was even fighting a Half-step Integration Realm Cultivator to save him."

"Where does this talk of harming my master come from?"

Song Qi smiled.

He didn't expose him.

Indeed, everything appeared unrelated to the Pill Slave; the Pill Slave had simply not been careful enough, leaving behind a few traces, and had been powerless to escape his grasp to save Pill Minister.

It would have been one thing if he hadn't known the Pill Slave's capabilities before.

But now that he knew, Song Qi was certain that Jiang Ning being able to find Pill Minister was definitely because the Pill Slave was holding back.

This was the limitation of a Pill Slave.

They had established a contractual relationship; although the Pill Slave was a servant, there was still some room for maneuver.

It wasn't like being a slave, which was a total master-servant relationship where the master held the servant's soul blood; if the master died, the servant couldn't hope to live either.

Song Qi crossed his arms. "Yes, yes, it has nothing to do with you. Now, you need to give me an explanation. Tell me, how can you stay alive?"

By this time, Jiang Ning had refined Pill Minister's corpse into a Medicinal Pill and fed it to Xiao Hui in the Small World.

He stood beside Song Qi, looking at the one-armed Pill Slave.

The Pill Slave had strong confidence in his ability to survive. He said, "I can help you obtain the Legacy here."

As he spoke, the Pill Slave looked at Jiang Ning. He knew that the true decision-making power lay in the hands of this young Cultivator.

Jiang Ning raised an eyebrow. "Tell me how you'll find the Legacy. Do you know that in that hall right now, Cultivators are in the middle of a chaotic battle?"

"I know."

The Pill Slave nodded and said seriously, "They won't get the Legacy because the Peerless Daoist they believe in is a fake."

"My Law is vision; I see things very accurately."

"I don't know the Peerless Daoist, but I can see that those two sets of remains belong to two different people."

"I suspect that before the Peerless Daoist fell, he refined a body refining Cultivator and an ordinary Cultivator into Puppets and placed them on the throne in the hall."

"It was all to mislead everyone."

"I can take this opportunity to lead you to the true Legacy."

After speaking, he added, "I can only do my best; I can't guarantee that we will definitely find it."

Hearing this, Jiang Ning actually felt more at ease.

If the Pill Slave had said he would definitely find it, Jiang Ning would have been suspicious instead.

If he spoke too confidently, there would surely be a catch.

Jiang Ning looked at Song Qi. "Brother Song, how about..."

Song Qi nodded.

"I won't get involved in the matter of the Legacy, but regarding Pill Minister, you must swear a Heart Demon Great Oath."

Before Song Qi could finish, the Pill Slave briskly swore a Heart Demon Great Oath, stating that he would absolutely not reveal that Pill Minister's death was the work of someone from the Spirit Pill Hall.

This Pill Slave was surprisingly sensible!

The Pill Slave said, "I only ask for one thing: I hope you all can return my freedom. The days of being a slave to others are too hard; they are beyond human endurance."

"If I must continue to be a servant to others, I would rather kill myself!"

Jiang Ning agreed to the request.

Song Qi placed a mark on the Pill Slave openly, not caring if the Pill Slave found it, because with the Pill Slave's strength, he wouldn't be able to erase it in a short time.

He still had things to do and needed to pick up Yun Qingqing and Lin Xiner, so he couldn't accompany Jiang Ning.

This mark was the greatest deterrent to the Pill Slave.

After Song Qi left.

The Pill Slave led Jiang Ning quickly through the Immortal Cave.

Finally, he stopped at the entrance of a large hall.

Jiang Ning recognized this hall; back then, Pill Minister had even slapped the Pill Slave because he wanted to search this very hall.

The Pill Slave said, "Fellow Daoist Jiang, I suspect the Legacy is within this hall."

He entered the hall and said, "Others might not see it, but with my vision, I can feel that every detail of this hall contains the Concept of separation and union."

"There is certainly something extraordinary here."

"However, with my Comprehension Ability, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to unravel its mysteries."

"You will need to go yourself..."

At this point, the Pill Slave stopped speaking.

What he said was true, but others might not necessarily think so.

Hearing this, Jiang Ning stepped forward to observe every detail of the hall.

In his mind, a proficiency panel appeared.

There was a name on it that shocked even Jiang Ning.

"Divided Soul Yuan-Gathering Dao-Merging Method!"