Taichu Yandao: Starting from the Villain

The cold sea surface has no end in sight, only sparkling waves rolling continuously.

Zhao Rui's eyes were blurry, but he continued to slide his arms.

I don't know how much time passed, but he finally ran out of strength and sank into the sea.

The cold sea water took away the last bit of heat, and his body fell like a block of lead.

In the dark seabed, there are countless strange fish, some of which look like sword blades, some like spears, and some are covered with sharp thorns.

Countless strange fish stared at Zhao Rui with wide eyes.

"Help!" Zhao Rui wanted to shout, but as soon as he opened his mouth, sea water rushed into his mouth.

After a while, the surging sea water formed a whirlpool.

The speed of the vortex became faster and faster, flowing like light, until the entire ocean disappeared in his mouth.

"The sea water is gone, where did the strange fish go?" Zhao Rui thought, and suddenly felt pain all over his body.

Looking inside, he saw that all the strange fish in the ocean had entered his body along with the sea water and were destroying his body crazily.

In the bone marrow, the knifehead fish nibbled away, making crunching sounds;

In the blood vessels, the sharp-spined fish continuously stretched and retracted its body, piercing every blood vessel;

In the muscles, the swordfish rampages, severing all tissue;

"It hurts! It hurts so much! It hurts so much! Ah..." Zhao Rui woke up from the nightmare with a groan.

It’s just that the deadly pain is no different in dreams or in reality.

He struggled to open his eyes, but everything in front of him was blurry, with only a faint light.

"Is the torture over? But why does it still hurt so much?"

Zhao Rui tried to move his body, but as soon as he moved, even more intense pain came like a mountain torrent.

His eyes went dark and he fell into coma again.

I don’t know how much time passed before Zhao Rui woke up again.

The cold earth and rocks, the dim light, he seemed to be thrown into a half-man-high earth hole.

The air was filled with the smell of earth and sweat, which was extremely unpleasant.

Zhao Rui supported himself with his hands and tried to stand up, and immediately felt a piercing pain in his back.

He remembered that when he was tortured before, the other party whipped him ninety times and then tied him to the evil pit.

Afterwards, he remembered nothing except the pain.

It seems that after the torture, I was thrown here.

Zhao Rui thought about it, stopped struggling, took a deep breath, and tried to circulate his magic power.

In the meridians, the cold and evil energy is everywhere, almost freezing everything.

Zhao Rui sighed, and had to slowly gather his remaining magical power to force out the evil spirit bit by bit.

I don't know how long it had passed, but I could faintly hear the sound of a gong outside the cave.

After a while, a pair of feet wearing cloth shoes appeared at the entrance of the cave.

"He actually woke up!" A man in his thirties squatted down and said, "Daoyou, your skills are of a very high level!"

The person who was speaking had a square face, was wearing a short shirt, and was holding a half bowl of rice porridge in his hand, with a little steam still coming out of it.

Zhao Rui's lips were dry and cracked, and his throat felt like it was on fire. When he saw the hot porridge, he immediately asked, "Is this for me?"

"The rule of Team Six is ​​that after being punished, you will have to eat half a bowl of rice when you wake up." Guo Zi said.

"Thank you, fellow Taoists from Team Six..." Zhao Rui said, and suddenly remembered that when distributing porridge before, Chen Wenhe said that he would not give Team Six food for three days, so he asked:

"I don't know how long I was unconscious. If I remember correctly, Team Six was implicated and had no food for three days."

The square-faced man sighed and said, "It's already the fourth day. A low-level cultivator in the team starved to death, so you were assigned here."

Zhao Rui was startled and asked, "It's been four days! I have a junior fellow student, I wonder if he was also assigned here?"

"It's in the cave next to you, but he hasn't woken up yet."

Zhao Rui felt relieved and asked again, "How could someone starve to death? Since this is a mine, shouldn't everyone be well fed so they have the strength to mine?"

The square-faced man smiled bitterly and said, "Mining, what kind of mining? This mountain has been hollowed out a long time ago. There are only cattle and horses here."

Zhao Rui was full of confusion and asked, "Cows and horses? I wonder what this means."

"Oxen and horses pull mills. If they eat too much, they won't have the heart to work. The Chen family strictly controls food because they want to squeeze the cultivators here to the maximum extent and provide them with spiritual stones continuously."

"Didn't you say that the mountain has been hollowed out? How can we provide spiritual stones?"

The square-faced man explained, "So-called cultivators, no matter what kind of skills they practice, are nothing more than sitting in meditation and breathing, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and then improving their cultivation. But what if the absorbed spiritual energy is not used to improve cultivation, but transferred to other places?"

"Transfer to another place? What do you mean?" Zhao Rui was still confused.

The square-faced man took out a spirit coin, placed it in front of Zhao Rui and said:

"Fellow Daoist, you have used spirit stones to cultivate, right? After the spiritual energy inside is used up, the spirit stones will turn into spirit coins. Since cultivators can absorb spiritual energy from spirit stones, can they also force the spiritual energy back?"

Zhao Rui was stunned. He had always thought that spirit stones were mined and had never thought that they could be artificially made. So he said:

"According to you, mining is just an excuse to imprison us and use us as a tool to make spirit stones."

The square-faced man nodded and said, "Daoyou, according to the rules, you will have to start paying spirit stones the day after you wake up, which is tomorrow. According to your realm, you need to pay four low-grade spirit stones."

Zhao Rui was startled and said, "My body has not recovered yet, and I don't know how to restore the spirit coins into spirit stones. How can I hand them in tomorrow?"

The square-faced man took out a thin booklet from his chest and said, "The method of nurturing spirit coins is in it. You will know it after reading it. As for handing over spirit stones tomorrow, this is the rule set by the Chen family. They don't care whether we live or die. Without spirit stones, we will have no food to eat."

Zhao Rui was extremely helpless. Seeing that the half bowl of porridge was almost cold, he said, "Daoyou, could you please help me sit up?"

The square-faced man nodded, then grabbed Zhao Rui's arm and dragged him out of the cave.

“Gently…gently…” Zhao Rui grimaced in pain.

After a lot of trouble, Zhao Rui finally sat up, but he was already sweating profusely and his lips were purple.

The square-faced man brought the porridge to Zhao Rui's mouth and said, "Daoyou, I'm not urging you, but you must recover as soon as possible."

Zhao Rui nodded, opened his cracked lips, and drank the wine with gulps.

After just two or three mouthfuls, the porridge was gone.

Zhao Rui then shook his head, signaling the other party that it was okay.

"My friend, this is such a waste!" Guo Zilian raised the stone bowl, opened his mouth wide, and shook it continuously.

After a while, a few drops of porridge fell into the square-faced man's mouth.

The square-faced man stuck out his tongue until there was no more drop left, then he smacked his lips in satisfaction.

Then he stretched out his index finger and scraped the stone bowl. Finally, he put his finger into his mouth and licked it clean before stopping.