Chapter 187 Yuan Dongxing

"Are you an alchemist?"

After guessing the possible identity of the other party, Qin Shaochen immediately changed his mind.

"It used to be..., or twenty years ago," the man couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief when he saw Qin Shaochen coming back, "But now, I'm just a Dannu!"

"What does Danu mean?"

"They are slaves who specialize in making elixirs for others." The man spoke with a sad voice, "Since you are interested, I will tell you about my affairs."

Then, the man sat directly on the ground and motioned for Qin Shaochen to sit down opposite.

Qin Shaochen hesitated for a moment, then followed the man's wishes and sat down on the grass.

However, he was still wary of that person, as the distance between them was more than five feet.

The man didn't take it too seriously. Seeing that Qin Shaochen was willing to stay, there was a hint of joy on his face.

"Maybe it's God's will that you come here! Maybe God sent you here because he saw how pitiful I was...!"

"If I want to escape this sad fate, I may... need your help!"

Qin Shaochen nodded calmly, without comment.

"I'd better... tell you my tragic experience first," the man sighed and began to tell about his past...

"My name is Yuan Dongxing. No one may remember this name now, but twenty years ago, the three characters Yuan Dongxing were famous in Huainan Prefecture."

"I was born into a small cultivation sect, and my master is the leader of that sect. He is also a well-known alchemist."

"My master often told me that the thing he is most proud of in his life is that when he became the leader, it was not that he had mastered some amazing elixirs, but that he had accepted a disciple like me who was extremely talented in alchemy."

"After master discovered my talent, he not only taught me with all his heart, but also gave me his only daughter, and publicly stated that after his death, I will be the head of that small sect."

Speaking of this, Yuan Dongxing's eyes were filled with nostalgia and memories. He paused for a while before continuing to speak.

"I have lived up to Master's expectations. When I was in my thirties, my alchemy skills far surpassed Master's, and I am famous throughout Huainan!"

"At that time, I was so high-spirited. Every day, people came to my door and begged me to make elixirs for them. In those years, there was an endless stream of people who came to me to make elixirs, including local wealthy families and large sects. Among them, the famous elders and so on...

"But I didn't expect... alchemy would bring me endless glory and wealth, but it would also bring me terrible disasters and disasters."

At this time, Yuan Dongxing's eyes twitched a few times, as if he recalled something terrible, and he paused again before speaking with difficulty.

"One day, a beautiful female spiritualist came to my sect, took out three medicinal materials, and asked me to refine a beauty elixir for her."

"The Beauty Pill is a third-grade elixir. The required medicinal materials are very precious and it is extremely difficult to refine. But at that time, I was very arrogant. I knew that there was little chance of refining it, but I was greedy for that female spiritualist. Given the sky-high price, I still accepted the business.

"But, after all, I miscalculated. It took three days and three nights, and all three medicinal materials were exhausted. I... still couldn't refine the elixir after all."

"When the female spiritualist saw that I failed in refining the alchemy, she immediately turned against me and asked me to compensate for all the losses."

"The medicinal materials of the Zhuyan Pill are very expensive. If I were to compensate for the cost, I would spend all my money to pay for it. Of course I won't. I just said that it is common for the alchemy to fail. I will not charge the alchemy fee and refuse to compensate for the medicinal materials."

"The female spiritualist just sneered a few times without saying a word, but just waved her hand and imprisoned me and took me away."

"At that time, I realized that that person... was actually a real Jin Dan."

"But it's too late to regret. That real person captured me in her sect and locked me in one of her cave magic weapons."

"Then... she forced me to be her Danu and refine pills for her every day."

"Of course I refused, but... I am a Foundation Establishment Spiritualist, how can I be the opponent of a real Jin Dan. After several tortures, I quickly gave in."

"This alchemy... took a full fifteen years."

"At the beginning, I was still thinking...whether master would come to save me."

"But as time went by, I finally gave up on that idea. The highest cultivation level of my small sect is only in the middle stage of foundation construction. How can it be able to deal with a golden elixir monk."

"I thought that this was the end of my life. Unexpectedly, five years ago, suddenly no one came here to look for me anymore. Even the refined elixirs, no one came to pick them up."

"That's when I realized that something might have happened to that Jin Dan master."

"But, no one came, and no one gave me food. Fortunately, the last time I made elixirs, there were a lot of Bigu Pills. I lived on those elixirs, and at the same time, I used the unused herbs. , planted in the medicine garden behind the cabin.”

"Over the years, I have survived by swallowing the Bigu Pill I refined every day. Unknowingly... I have been living on my last breath for five full years."

"I'm seeing... I can't hold on any longer. Unexpectedly, little brother, you suddenly appear..."

Qin Shaochen was already surprised when he heard this.

"Senior Yuan, didn't you say you were trapped in a cave magic weapon? How come you are locked up here again?"

Yuan Dongxing smiled bitterly and said, "Don't you understand that this is a cave magic weapon?"

"This is... a magic weapon?"

Qin Shaochen was stunned and couldn't understand it!

"I have lived here for twenty years, how could I not know where this place is?"

"The internal space of this cave magic weapon is very large, almost thousands of miles in range. Of course, you can't detect it in a short time."

"So it is... like this!"

Qin Shaochen was still a little skeptical.

After a long while, he asked again.

"Senior, since no one has come to find you in the past five years, don't you have a way to escape by yourself?"

"You guessed right, I really have no way!"

Yuan Dongxing raised his hand and shook it, and the chain on his hand jingled.

"Don't look at this chain because it's thin. In fact, it's a spiritual tool of the Lingbao level."

"If you want to break it, you must have another Lingbao as a tool.

"But spiritual tools of the Lingbao level are so rare. Even ordinary foundation-building spiritualists can't do it."

Yuan Dongxing stared at the chain in his hand and shook his head.

"If I want to leave here, I have to cut off my hands and feet."

"But without hands and feet, I can no longer make pills. What's the point of living?"

After sighing for a while, Cai Dongxing suddenly became energetic and looked at Qin Shaochen with a sharp gaze.

"Little brother, the reason why I tricked you into the water just now was not because I was tempted by money, but because I was afraid that you would reveal the news that I was here... "

"Once other people know that there is an alchemist trapped somewhere, they will definitely find ways to control him and make me a new pill slave."

"I don't want to become someone else's slave again after just seeing a little hope of freedom."