Chapter 7: Tang Gu's Disciple

  It wasn't clear how much time had passed, but Chen Pan slowly came to, his entire body aching, feeling weak and limp. Everything in front of him was dark, and he couldn't even move his hands or feet.

  His grandmother raised bears, I won't cross again. Chen Pan vaguely remembered being hit by a golden brick, the man's shadow was defeated and hopeless, he had no chance of survival, and didn't know where he would be reborn in this life.

  Chen Pan woke up for a while, feeling dizzy and fell asleep again. After an unknown period of time, Chen Pan woke up once more, still with no change, and could only continue sleeping. This repeated back and forth, making Chen Pan feel as if decades had passed, yet there was still no change whatsoever.

  "What kind of creature is my mother, she's raising a bear, how long does she plan to carry me?! Chen Pan was furious and began to vow that this life would definitely be mischievous to the extreme, making his future parents have no good days."

  It was as if decades had passed, and one day, Chen Pan felt a dizziness around him, a bright light appeared on his head, and then a stream of air rose slowly, and he followed this momentum towards the bright light.

  "Is it finally going to be born?" Chen Pan helplessly rolled his eyes and then rushed out of the Bright Portal.

  "Thud!" No one caught him, and Chen Pan fell directly to the ground.

  "Ah!" Chen Pan cried out in pain, then immediately realized that something was off - he seemed to still be in an adult's body? What kind of world is this? Are children born as adults?!

  "Are you still not dead?" A gloomy voice suddenly came from beside him, Chen Pan followed the sound and looked over, his hair standing on end. The terrifying figure was clearly right next to him. The smoke had dissipated, and Chen Pan saw his true face, which was pockmarked and had large purple-black necrotic spots. His body also emitted a nauseating odor. It turned out that he wasn't dead yet, but seemed not far from death either.

  "This disgusting freak can't see the change in his face, only his voice sounds extremely surprised: 'You can stay in the corpse bottle for three years without dying, your luck is really great. It seems that you indeed have a big secret on your body. Now honestly confess, I might consider sparing your life.'"

  It's really an insult to my IQ, I was a disciple of the top physicist Dr. Wang in my previous life, if I really say out the secret, that would be truly fatal. Chen Pan sneered coldly in his heart and said calmly on his face: "If you want to kill, just kill, don't expect me to tell you the secret."

  "Haha, do you think that if you don't speak, I'll have no way to deal with you? The methods of the immortal are not something you can understand. Once I extract your soul, you won't be able to hide any secrets." The person coldly laughed and said.

  "Go ahead and try then!" Chen Pan hummed. As for whether the cultivator had this move or not, he didn't know, but he was certain that this person wouldn't be able to do it yet, otherwise they wouldn't be wasting time talking with him.

  That man realized that Chen Pan had seen through his thoughts, and he was very angry. He raised his hand and released a rope, which tied Chen Pan up with a "whoosh". Then, he gave Chen Pan a heavy slap: "You little bastard, it's none of your business if you don't speak out. From now on, I won't let you speak even if you want to. It won't be long before I get promoted, and by then, you won't be able to say anything even if you want to." After that, he turned around and walked away.

  Before long, the outside transmitted a burst of mournful cries and the sinister laughter of the strange man. Chen felt a chill in the air coming from outside, slowly moving to the window edge, peering through the gap to see what was happening outside.

  It seems to be a small village, that strange person is flying in the air, holding a black cloth banner, surrounded by black fog, and a large number of villagers let out a burst of mournful cries and fell to the ground. The villagers who fell to the ground instantly turned into a red blood bead and a wisp of black smoke. The blood bead flew into the hands of that strange person, and the black smoke was sucked into the banner.

  This red dan should be the essence of human blood, and that black smoke must be the soul of a person. The whole scene made Chen Pan feel a chill run down his spine, now he could think with his toes that this strange person was definitely refining some kind of evil thing.

  That strange man was making a ruckus outside for what felt like half an hour, Chen Pan really wanted to escape, but he was tied up by some unknown thing and couldn't break free. The whole house was also locked tightly, with no way to escape.

  In the following days, this strange person took Chen Pan to kill people everywhere, collecting a large number of blood dan and souls. And Chen Pan also learned some information from this person's words.

  This strange man captured Chen Pan back then, knowing that the news had leaked out, and fearing that the superior of the Northern Wilderness would pursue and kill him, he fled to other places in the first place. Now, where Chen Pan is located is no longer the Northern Wilderness, but has arrived at the Eastern Extreme Xuanzhou on the eastern edge of the Ancient Continent.

  This strange man comes from an unknown evil sect, recently obtained a kind of evil secret method, can increase his own strength by absorbing the essence and blood of living beings. This person's strength in the cultivation world doesn't seem to be very strong, so he came to this mortal realm to slaughter wildly.

  After nearly half a year, Chen Pan felt that the aura of this strange person was getting more and more terrifying. From the means of killing people, his strength had become much stronger than before. Moreover, this person often muttered some things to himself, and Chen Pan knew from the few words he heard that this person was about to cross the heavenly tribulation and advance in rank.

  Seeing this strange person getting more and more formidable, Chen Pan was like an ant on a hot pot, anxious to the point of not knowing what to do. Once this strange person advanced in rank, he might be able to use that evil method to read his own memories, and by then it would be too late. But this strange person stared at Chen Pan tightly, not giving him any chance to escape. He even used an evil method to make Chen Pan's whole body powerless, unable to even bite his tongue to kill himself.

  What's even more depressing for Chen P'an is that his body has somehow changed, and he can survive without eating anything. He can't even starve himself to death if he wants to. Fortunately, this allowed him to survive being trapped in the alchemical furnace for three years without starving to death.

  Now Chen P'an can only pray day and night, hoping that some immortal will discover the evil deeds of this strange person, stop him, and incidentally rescue himself.

  Perhaps Chen P'an's prayers had an effect, this strange person became stronger and more ferocious. At first, he was still restrained, only choosing those relatively remote villages with a population of no more than a few hundred people. Now, even some small towns with a population of over a thousand have started to be attacked. As a result, his trail has finally been exposed. From the information Chen P'an had obtained in recent days, there were already cultivators who had come down from the mountains to investigate this matter. However, that strange person was not afraid at all and continued to act as usual.

  On this day, the strange man laid out his formation in a small town preparing to commit murder. Chen Pan lay beside him with his eyes closed. He had become numb to the deaths of these ordinary people. Although he felt sympathetic towards them, he was also unable to protect himself and was truly powerless.

  The strange man took out the refined banner, ready to summon the thousand ghosts and devour souls. However, as soon as the banner rose into the sky, a large amount of flames flew over from all directions, followed by more than ten men and women wearing red clothes rushing out from the hidden corners of the town.

  "What kind of person dares to ruin this good thing!" The strange man immediately retracted his cloth, with a fierce and sinister roar.

  Among those red-robed men and women, one of them raised his head and shouted: "You are a disciple of Dongji Xuanzhou Tanggu. You are a demon from who-knows-where, how dare you use the art of refining elixirs with human lives."

  These words were like heavenly music, Chen Pan immediately regained his spirits upon hearing them and finally had hope of being rescued.