Chapter 48 Stone Desert CitySeeing Hai Bodong's attitude change 180 degrees, Xiao Yun had no idea what was going on in his mind and just thought that he was being kind because he had hope of unsealing the seal.
"My name is Hai Bodong. I don't even know your name, young friend. What brings you to me?" Hai Bodong moved a chair, sat opposite Xiao Yun, and said with a smile on his face.
"It would have been great if it had been this way earlier. Anyway, we can be considered as acquaintances after fighting. Just call me Xiao Yun." Looking at Hai Bodong who was smiling like a chrysanthemum, Xiao Yun was somewhat helpless and said, "You are so much older than me, so I will just call you Hai Lao. I came here just for the information about the strange fire."
"It is true. Young friend Xiao Yun is really well-informed. I happen to have some information about the Strange Fire." Hearing Xiao Yun's words, Hai Bodong breathed a sigh of relief. Although he didn't know how Xiao Yun knew that he knew the location of the Strange Fire, he made the right bet after all. He also had hope of getting in touch with this top genius.
"You can ask me to give you this information, but I need you to help me do something." Hai Bodong took out a piece of thin paper from his arms, waved it in front of Xiao Yun, and said with a smile.
"It's to help you break the seal and restore your original strength, right?"
"That's right. I hope that after you get the strange fire and become a sixth-grade alchemist, you can help me refine a pill. In the past few decades, I have obtained a sixth-grade pill recipe. As long as I can refine the pill above, I can break the seal and restore my original strength."
"The method of refining this elixir is extremely difficult. It not only requires a sixth-grade alchemist, but also requires the alchemist to possess a strange fire in order to successfully refine it. Over the years, in order to break the seal, I have lived in seclusion in the desert in order to find the strange fire. Over the years, although I cannot be sure where there is a strange fire, I have recorded several places where the strange fire may appear and drawn a map.
As long as you promise to refine pills for me in the future, I will give you the information about the strange fire!"
Hearing this, Xiao Yun smiled and nodded, saying, "Give me the recipe. According to the rules of the pharmacist, you need to prepare the herbs yourself."
The two reasons why he came here this time were, first, to get the information about the strange fire, and second, to make friends with Hai Bodong. After obtaining the strange fire, he could easily refine a simple Evil-Breaking Pill.
Seeing Xiao Yun nod, Hai Bodong finally breathed a sigh of relief. The smile on his face became even more intense. He quickly took out a pill recipe from his storage ring and handed it to Xiao Yun along with the thin paper in his hand.
"Huh? Where are the medicinal materials?" Xiao Yun looked puzzled. Did this old guy not hear what he said? What did he mean by only giving him the pill formula?
"Um, that..." Hai Bodong laughed dryly, grasping a few strands of beard with his hands, and said awkwardly: "I have gathered most of the medicinal materials needed for the elixir, except for one kind of medicinal material."
"This medicinal herb is called Sand Mandragora, and it can only be found in the Tagor Desert. The higher the temperature, the easier it is to find. But you also know that I practice ice-attributed skills, and there is a seal set by Queen Medusa in my body. As long as I step into the Tagor Desert, she will notice me, so..."
Seeing Hai Bodong's embarrassed expression, Xiao Yun immediately understood and said helplessly: "So you expect me to find him? I am only a Dou Wang, and Queen Medusa is a Dou Huang. Once she finds me, she won't be able to run away."
Hearing this, Hai Bodong smiled awkwardly and said hesitantly: "Actually, I'm not that anxious. I've waited for so many years, so I don't mind waiting for a few more years. How about you break through to the Douhuang level before going?"
"Okay, I'll see if I can trade one with the snake people." Rolling his eyes, Xiao Yun stood up and said helplessly, "Don't open your shop anymore. Come with me to Shimo City. I have something to do there. When I go to look for the strange fire, I will need you to help me take care of someone."
"Ah? But Shimo City is in the Tagor Desert. If I step into it, I will definitely be sensed by Queen Medusa." Hai Bodong hesitated after hearing Xiao Yun's words.
"Oh? Even in the city, she would go out of her way to hunt you down?"
"No, I'm afraid I'll run into her on the way to Stone Desert City with you. With her fierce temper, she won't let us go."
"Is that so?" Xiao Yun touched his chin. He wanted Hai Bodong to accompany him, firstly to help him take care of Qing Lin, and secondly because he was worried that he would get lost in the desert again. After a while, he took out a jade bottle from his ring and said, "There is a fourth-grade elixir in it, the Turtle Breathing Pill. After you take it, it can cover up your breath for a day. In a day, at our speed, we should be able to reach Stone Desert City, right?"
"Okay. If this elixir is as effective as Young Master Xiao said, I won't have anything to worry about." Seeing the jade bottle Xiao Yun took out, Hai Bodong, who was originally hesitant, changed his mind and agreed. Anyway, he had already placed his hopes on Xiao Yun, and if he went with Xiao Yun, maybe he could cultivate the relationship between the two sides.
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At night, a bright moon hangs in the night sky, lighting up the golden desert below.
With a pair of fiery red wings flapping, Xiao Yun flew rapidly in the dark sky. Beside him, Hai Bodong, who was in a strange posture, was held by him with one hand. Fortunately, they were ten thousand meters in the sky and no one else noticed it.
Originally, Xiao Yun was planning to rush there on foot with Hai Bodong in the desert. After all, the latter only had the cultivation level of a Dou Ling and did not have the ability to fly. But even though the old man had taken the Turtle Breath Pill, he was still worried about the existence of Queen Medusa and insisted that Xiao Yun take him flying, saying that the journey was long and flying would save much more time than walking.
After hearing what Hai Bodong said, Xiao Yun felt that it made some sense. Anyway, his fighting spirit was extremely strong, so it was no problem for him to fly with someone. So he simply carried Hai Bodong and flew towards Shimo City.
Time passed by little by little, and as the fiery red sun gradually rose from the east above the sky, the outline of a city that was several sizes smaller than Mo City finally appeared slowly at the end of the sight.
"Is Stone Desert City ahead? Once there, you won't have to worry about Queen Medusa anymore, right?"
Looking at the loess city standing in the wind and sand from afar, Xiao Yun breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.
"That's right, Shimo City is an imperial city. Queen Medusa will not come here unless the snake people want to go to war with the Gama Empire." Hai Bodong responded with a smile in a somewhat strange posture. It was not until he saw Shimo City that he completely relaxed and no longer worried about the appearance of Queen Medusa.
The fighting spirit was surging, and the original flying speed increased again. Like a meteor, it flew directly towards Shimo City.
When they were still a few hundred meters away from Shimo City, Xiao Yun's flying speed gradually slowed down, his body shook slightly, and his fiery red wings turned into a pure fighting spirit and were retracted into his body. The two of them landed in the yellow sand.
"Let's just walk over there. I will need to look for strange fire nearby later, so there's no need to make a big deal about it." Xiao Yun smiled at Hai Bodong beside him, changed out of his alchemist's clothes, put on a black robe, and then slowly walked towards Shimo City ahead.
A moment later, in an inn inside Shimo City, Xiao Yun and Hai Bodong sat at the table, drinking tea and chatting.
"Xiao Xiaoyou, where is the person you need me to take care of?"
"No hurry, Hai Lao, I haven't found this person yet. I'll trouble you to go to the City Lord's Mansion later and ask the people there to help look for him."
Shimo City no longer has the mercenary group established by Xiao Ding and his team, and Xiao Yun doesn't know where Qinglin is. However, he thinks that the City Lord's Mansion has the deepest understanding of Shimo City, so he can rely on them to find Qinglin.
"Hmph, you will order me around then. Well, who asked me to ask you for a favor?" Hai Bodong said helplessly after hearing what Xiao Yun said.
(End of this chapter)
