"Mi'er, what does he mean?" Hai Mianyi asked, not understanding.
Hai Mi'er shook her head. Hai Mianyi then looked at Ao Zihua and Ming Zhi Tian. "Do you know?"
Ao Zihua whispered, "Heh, if we become living dead, we naturally won't need to eat."
"Huh?" Hai Mianyi was stunned.
After leaving the Eastern Ancient City, a group of masked bandits blocked their path. Six people faced them. The Madman stopped and said, "Do you know who I am?"
The masked bandits were clearly some of the people from the auction house, so they dared not show their faces. They muttered and calculated, "To be able to spend five million yuan in one go, and only buy a broken herb, this person must be incredibly wealthy."
"I don't care who you are! If you want to pass here, leave behind a million in toll!"
The Madman wasted no words with them. He stomped on the ground. As the six masked bandits thought he was bluffing and laughed, they heard a "Bang!"
The sandy ground beneath the bandits' feet immediately caved in. What a feat of striking from a distance, channeling shock force into the ground and controlling the intensity to shatter the sand beneath the six people. What immense power this must be.
The bandits were buried by the sand, with only their heads exposed. The Madman loosened one of the chains binding Ming Zhi Tian and then swung it towards the six heads!
"Clatter... clatter..." The heads of the six were instantly smashed like pumpkins.
The bloody scene made Hai Mianyi and Hai Mi'er too scared to even look.
Although they had coveted the Madman's wealth, alas, they died without knowing they had provoked a formidable being.
After traveling for a day and a night, the Madman was extremely impatient, eager to refine medicine immediately and turn these four into medicinal people. The four were already starving and weak.
For ordinary people, they would have starved to death or died of thirst after a few days. Fortunately, they were martial artists.
The Madman took them to Moyue Pavilion, a place rarely frequented by humans. He opened a mechanism and descended into a secret passage that led directly to the cellar. This was his lair.
The place was brightly lit. The four were tied to pillars by the Madman with chains. He took out the box containing the Tianse Li Xiang from his embrace and placed it on the table, then went to prepare the medicine.
They watched him pick up pile after pile of unknown herbs, grind them with a pestle, and then mix them with other piles, grinding again...
It seemed like one ingredient was missing. He went out to get it, and before leaving, he looked at the four "seedlings" with satisfaction. "Hmm, hmm... not bad, not bad. Don't worry, I'll be right back. You'll be free then. After using my medicine, you can be as strong as you want, hahahaha..."
Despite the anger boiling in Hai Mianyi's stomach, she could not express it. Because compared to getting angry, she wanted to fill her hungry, pathetic stomach first.
After the Madman left, Hai Mianyi felt as if she had been granted a reprieve. She looked at Ming Zhi Tian, "Hey, you dummy, hurry and find a way to escape before the old weirdo comes back. Do you all want to be made into medicinal people?"
"Hey, are you listening to me? Do you have a plan?"
Ming Zhi Tian shrugged. "No. But I can break the chains with my strength. But what does that matter? If the old man catches me, I'll die."
Hai Mianyi said resentfully, "Only you can break them? That means only you have a chance to escape. Then the three of us are doomed? Sob sob sob... I don't want to die, I haven't even gotten married yet!"
Ao Zihua said happily, "That's not necessarily true. If one knows the bone-shrinking technique, it's still worth a try, hehe."
Hai Mianyi almost cursed, "I'll shrink your mother... Wait? It seems Mi'er can!"
She immediately looked at Hai Mi'er, "We're saved, we're saved! Mi'er, quick! Use your body-softening technique that you've always practiced to slip out of the chains, quickly!"
Hai Mi'er nodded. "Okay, okay, I'll try."
As she spoke, she began her performance. The three of them watched intently. They saw her two small jade-like hands slowly become soft, and then, slowly... slowly, they began to slide out of the chains, bit by bit.