Chapter 487 Passage (1/2)

Chapter 487 Passage (1/2)

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Qin Ran withdrew his gaze, but the pair of pure eyes appeared in his mind from time to time. He tried many times, but couldn't get rid of it, so he couldn't help but laugh and sigh. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

He asked the servant leading the way in front: "What's your name, fellow Taoist?" \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Sir, just call me Xiaoqi." The servant replied politely. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"How did you get to the 'Yuan' organization?" Qin Ran asked again. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"No comment, sir."\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"How many years have you been in the organization?"\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"No comment, sir."\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Which island are you from?"\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Xiao Qi hesitated for a moment and replied: "Devil's Island."\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Oh! You are a local?" Qin Ran looked very happy, as if he had met a fellow villager. "Will there be many people from Devil's Island in the Devil's Island branch?"\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

But Xiao Qi did not answer. He seemed to realize that Qin Ran was asking questions, so he kept his mouth shut and walked ahead without saying a word. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Are there people from other places in the organization?"\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Qin Ran was still chattering and asking endlessly behind him,\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Do you have a Taoist partner?"\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"How many alchemists do we have here?"\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Can we cultivate spiritual medicine ourselves?"\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

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But no matter how Qin Ran asked, Xiao Qi no longer replied. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

There was no other way. Qin Ran thought about it and finally asked, "Who is the woman in black in the teahouse?"\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

He asked for a long time but Xiao Qi didn't answer. Only for this question, Xiao Qi didn't even ask "which woman in black". As if he knew who he was asking, he suddenly replied, "That's our saint."\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Saint?" Qin Ran frowned secretly, thinking of those eyes again, the saint of the magic organization, the saint of the organization that trafficked in human beings, "What does she do?"\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Xiao Qi's eyes showed an obsessive look, as if he thought of something extraordinary: "Saint, of course, gives us divine glory, eliminates our suffering, allows us to be saved, and sublimates our souls."\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"What the hell?"\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Looking at Xiao Qi's appearance, like a fanatic, Qin Ran thought about those eyes and had some guesses in his heart. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

But, he still felt it was outrageous... This person was a monk, not a commoner, how could he talk about redemption, suffering, and sublimation? \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Is she so powerful?" he asked, trying to get more words out of him. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

But Xiao Qi suddenly turned around and glared at him, scolding: "Don't be disrespectful to the saint!" \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Qin Ran opened his mouth but didn't say anything. In his heart, he understood the woman in black a little more clearly. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Saint?" \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Except for the saint asking Xiao Qi to say a few words, Qin Ran ignored all the other words. Qin Ran didn't get an answer, and didn't ask any more questions. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

The two walked out of the city. After they got out of the city, Xiao Qi cast a spell to fly up and took Qin Ran to the coastline. After flying for a long time, they came to the edge of a seashore. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Qin Ran walked to the edge and looked down. The cliff was about 50 to 60 meters high. Below were ferocious reefs and turbulent sea water. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

If an ordinary person fell down, he would fall to his death on the reef, then be washed away by the sea water and eaten by the fish in the sea. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Aren't you going to the base? Why are you here?" Qin Ran asked Xiao Qi with a smile. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

He secretly became alert, suspecting that the "Yuan" organization deliberately brought him to this remote place to make it easier to kill and dump the body. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Xiao Qi did not answer, but just looked back at him and said, "Follow me." \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

After saying that, he jumped and jumped down. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Qin Ran did not follow him immediately, but followed Xiao Qi's jump with his eyes. Xiao Qi jumped down from above, fell straight down, fell into the air, and suddenly disappeared. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

He suddenly realized that there must be a formation and a different world below. He then walked to the place where Xiao Qi jumped down and followed him. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Sure enough, when he landed at the place where Xiao Qi disappeared, he suddenly felt a layer of film-like thing covering his face. Then he went down and passed through the film. Suddenly, his eyes changed and he saw a small formation space in front of him. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

The formation space probably includes the trapping formation, the illusion formation, the Qiankun formation and so on. He analyzed it professionally. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Then he looked at this space and found that it was just the gate covering the base. There was a platform on the cliff wall. There was a stone door about five or six feet high where the platform was close to the cliff wall. That was all. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Xiao Qi was waiting for him on the platform. When he saw him, he walked to the gate on the cliff without saying anything. He took out the identity token of the "Yuan" organization, put it into the groove on the door, and then dripped blood on it. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

The gate absorbed the blood and confirmed the identity token, then opened to both sides. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"I need to drip blood every time I open the door..." Qin Ran secretly complained in his heart, "I have to go in and out so many times, won't I get anemia?" \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Behind the stone door is a dark passage as tall as the stone door, which is 50 to 60 feet high and 60 to 70 feet wide. When people walk in the passage, the sound of footsteps echoes, and it feels empty. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Qin Ran followed Xiao Qi into the same passage, and the stone door closed automatically behind him. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

The passage is dark, but the closing of the stone door has no effect on the light in the passage. The passage is still dim, not darker or lighter. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Qin Ran secretly looked around and found that there were array patterns engraved on the walls on both sides. After careful identification, he could find the array patterns used for lighting. So he knew that the light in the passage was a self-contained system. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

The array patterns on the wall were actually quite complicated. With his level of array skills, he couldn't distinguish them clearly at the moment. He could only roughly distinguish that in addition to the lighting system, the array patterns also had the function of strengthening the walls and widening the passage space. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

The two walked in the passage for a long time. At a certain moment, Qin Ran suddenly felt that the air was much more humid. He was startled and looked back quickly. After looking far away, he found that the passage was downwards, with a considerable curvature, which was difficult to be noticed. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

And they had been walking for a long time, and they were probably below sea level at this time. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

After walking for a while, Qin Ran found that there were rooms on the walls on both sides. The rooms were not big, with doors and windows. They were stone doors and windows. The doors and windows were very small, and he couldn't see the situation in the room clearly. I don't know if anyone lives there. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

But this layout gave him a feeling of prison. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"'Yuan' organization..." he muttered in his heart. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

They continued to move forward, the sound of footsteps "clacking" was very bright and empty. After passing through several stone doors, when they passed another stone door, the stone door was suddenly knocked from the inside, and someone shouted: "Is there anyone? Is there anyone? Save me, save me!" \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

The sudden sound seemed very loud in the empty and dim passage, which scared Qin Ran. He looked over and saw a man with dishevelled hair flashing through the narrow stone window. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"What happened to him?" he asked Xiao Qi. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"He couldn't make the elixir, so he was restricted from traveling." Xiao Qi replied in a flat tone. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"What kind of elixir is he going to make?"\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Xiao Qi tilted his head to look at the stone door and replied, "Second-grade elixir, he should be an alchemist who makes Qi and Blood elixir."\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Qin Ran looked over and saw two horizontal bars made of jade on the stone door. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Two horizontal bars, second-grade alchemist. Second-grade alchemist, second-grade elixir, golden elixir cultivator...\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"What if he can't make it?" Qin Ran asked. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Then he will be locked up forever and not allowed to come out." \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Until death?" \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Until death." \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"How many chances does he have?" \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"A first-grade alchemist has one chance, a second-grade has two. He is a second-grade alchemist, so he has two chances." Xiao Qi replied, "It seems that he has already failed once, wasting the medicinal materials for a second-grade pill." \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Twice..." Qin Ran muttered. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

He is an alchemist, and he knows a completely unfamiliar pill formula. An alchemist needs hundreds or thousands of failures to learn it. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

What does it mean to learn it? \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

As long as the success rate exceeds 50%, the alchemist can say that he has learned that kind of pill. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

But now, the "Yuan" organization only allows two chances of failure. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

With these few words, he could tell how many alchemists would die here. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

The two continued to move forward. Every time they walked for a while, an alchemist would appear asking for help. They were alchemists who had failed once, twice, or completely failed and were waiting to die. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Why are there so many?" Qin Ran couldn't help but ask again. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Because this is the accumulation of hundreds and thousands of years of the 'Yuan' organization." Xiao Qi replied. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Hundreds of years and thousands of years..." Qin Ran opened his mouth, "Accumulation?" \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

The alchemists here have been treated as objects and have been locked up for so many years. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

The further forward they went, the deeper they went into the sea, the wider the passage, and the larger and more spacious the rooms on both sides. The accommodation conditions for the alchemists living in them were better. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Even after walking a little further, some stone doors were opened, allowing alchemists to enter and exit freely, and some alchemists were sitting outside reading books on alchemy. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

But no one paid any attention to Qin Ran, and they didn't even look at him. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

As they walked, a large space appeared in front of them. The space was several dozen feet high and covered several hundred square meters. In the center, there was a circular altar of more than ten square meters. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Qin Ran didn't know what it was for, so Xiao Qiye didn't explain. He led Qin Ran around the altar and walked straight forward. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

The circular altar was located at another crossroads. In addition to the direction they came from, there were two similar passages on the left and right. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

On the side of the detour they took, Qin Ran looked over and saw the words "Refining Equipment" on the wall over there. He guessed that going over there was the territory of the equipment refiners. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Xiao Qi led Qin Ran forward. After passing the altar, the passage behind was wider and brighter, and the rooms on both sides were getting bigger and bigger. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

If the first one was a prisoner, then now it has become a room in a star-rated hotel. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

The two came to a door decorated with gorgeous decorations. Xiao Qi knocked on the door and said, "Chief, there is a new alchemist." \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

After a long while, an old panting voice came from inside: "Find a place to settle down, don't disturb me!" \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Chief, it's a specially hired alchemist." Xiao Qi said again. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

As soon as the specially hired alchemist came out, the room suddenly became noisy. With a bang, an old man with a naked skinny upper body opened the room, bringing out a strong fishy smell. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

The old man narrowed his eyes, looked over Xiao Qi, and looked up and down at Qin Ran, sneering: "Specially hired alchemist? You?" \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

In addition to the unpleasant smell, Qin Ran also saw two naked breasts and buttocks in the room through the open door. He didn't look at it for long, but clasped his fists and saluted, and replied: "It's me." \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

The old man stared at Qin Ran for a long time before saying: "You are young, but you are very capable. You dare to come to me as a specially hired alchemist." \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

He pointed to a room opposite him and said to Xiao Qi, "Let him live there, and I will take care of him myself." \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Okay." Xiao Qi agreed. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Bang!" \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Then the old man closed the door in a hurry. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Obviously, the pear blossoms in the room began to overwhelm the crabapples again. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

"Wait here for a while." Xiao Qi said, and then turned to get the key from the deeper part of the passage and opened the stone door for Qin Ran. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

He handed the key to Qin Ran and said, "This is your residence. If you don't understand anything, go ask the chief across the street. He is our chief alchemist, and he is responsible for all matters related to alchemy here." \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Xiao Qi didn't wait for him to reply, and left immediately, turning around and leaving the house, closing the door for him. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

Qin Ran could only look at the simple and luxurious stone door and shook his head. \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

He turned around, looked at the spacious and gorgeous room, and pouted: "Master, Master, I have done this for you..." \u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;

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