Are you crazy? Who asked you to hunt for treasures in the emperor's harem?

Chapter 373 Corpse Stink and Corpse Spots

at noon,

The sun is shining,

The vast majority of the Xuan practitioners had already finished refining medicine, and many of them left dejectedly without waiting for the elders of Cuilin Pavilion to come and judge.

Not long after Liu Mengying and Lei Yu finished refining the medicine, a loud male voice resounded throughout the medicine refining square, "The time for refining the medicine is up, please put away your profound energy!"

"Hi~Hi~"

"Hey!"

"Hey!"

..........

The loud male voice fell, and there was another sigh. Many people put away their profound energy, some turned around and left, and many more remained where they were...

"Lei Yu is really talented in alchemy... In less than five days... He has made great progress..."

Looking at Lei Yu, who was sweating profusely and looked quite excited in the square, Ye Fan couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Judging from the profound energy of the participants in the square just now, the Xuanyuan Pills, Yangqi Pills, and Huayu Pills made by Liu Mengying and Lei Yu should be able to enter the top ten... and Lei Yu is slightly better...

"Lei Yu... has the same name as General Lei Zhentian's grandson... It's a pity that Lei Yu made a big mistake..."

Hearing Ye Fan's words, Qiao Changqing couldn't help but feel emotional.

"The man refining medicine in the square is Lei Zhentian's grandson!"

Ye Fan continued the conversation lazily.

"What? The man in the square is General Lei's grandson? Wasn't he exiled to the frontier and imprisoned? Why is he here?"

Qiao Changqing looked at the dark-skinned burly man in the medicine refining square again, "That's not right... That man is similar to Lei Yu in height, but nothing else like him..."

"It's a long story... Lei Yu and a bunch of prisoners were used to transport Xuan Qi Stone or perform some missions with a high mortality rate..."

.........

An hour later, Cuilin Pavilion finally finished judging this alchemy conference, and the practitioners in the square gradually dispersed.

"Ye Fan, I really made it to the finals!"

Lei Yu, who came to Ye Fan, looked very excited, and his voice was trembling a little.

"Well, congratulations!"

Ye Fan nodded and turned to look at Liu Mengying, "Little Bean Sprout, your ranking doesn't seem to be very high...that oil-paper umbrella..."

"Brother, those who entered the finals will definitely participate in the finals, but I won't participate... In this case, I will be the first place winner who didn't participate in the finals. According to what is said on the notice board, the reward I get is the oil-paper umbrella and some money!"

Liu Mengying answered quickly.

"Oh, that's good~"

After Ye Fan finished speaking, Lei Yu, who had calmed down a little, finally noticed Qiao Changqing. He looked surprised and asked, "Qiao Changqing? Why are you here?"

"Well... let's go eat first... and talk while we eat..."

...........

Half an hour later,

In a rather elegant hotel,

"Chang Qing, so you came here to buy medicinal herbs and Pei Yuan Dan?"

After listening to Qiao Changqing's explanation, Lei Yu finally understood why Qiao Changqing appeared in Cuiling Pavilion, thousands of miles away from the capital.

"Medicinal materials are only part of it. The most important thing is the Yuan-nourishing Pill. This is also the purpose of many sects coming to Cuilin Pavilion this time!"

Qiao Changqing said as he picked up a piece of braised pig's trotter for Lei Yu, "Lei Yu... your life-threatening experience is really tortuous... If you hadn't met Ye Fan... you would probably be a corpse now..."

"really!"

Lei Yu nodded and picked up a piece of grilled lamb chops for Ye Fan. He remembered that Ye Fan liked to eat this. "To be honest, when I was in that dense forest, I thought I was dead..."

Ye Fan said nothing. He picked up the fragrant grilled lamb chops and started eating them in big mouthfuls. Suddenly, he frowned.

He put the lamb chops down, sniffed it hard, then stood up and started walking around, still sniffing as he walked…

Soon, Ye Fan stopped beside Qiao Changqing. He sniffed at the edge of Qiao Changqing's neck, then frowned tightly.

"Brother, what's wrong?"

Liu Mengying looked puzzled, because Ye Fan had really acted a little weird just now.

Lei Yu also cast a questioning look at Ye Fan, while Qiao Changqing felt a chill down his spine. He felt uncomfortable when Ye Fan sniffed at him.

"The smell of dead rat I smelled earlier... came from you, Changqing!"

Under the gaze of the three people, Ye Fan slowly spoke.

"The smell of a dead... dead rat? I... I bathe and change clothes almost every day... I haven't come into contact with anything like a dead rat recently?!"

"And I don't seem to smell the smell of dead rat..."

Qiao Changqing sniffed himself hard, looking puzzled.

"Brother, I don't smell a dead rat either!"

Liu Mengying walked up to Ye Fan and Qiao Changqing, twitched her nose, and spoke.

Lei Yu came close to Qiao Changqing, almost sticking to him, sniffed hard, and then shook his head.

"Because the smell is very subtle..."

Ye Fan exhaled lightly, "And the smell of a dead rat that I just mentioned is actually not quite accurate. To be more precise, it's... the stench of a corpse!"

"Corpse...corpse odor?"

Liu Mengying was really surprised to hear Ye Fan's words, and Qiao Changqing and Lei Yu were also extremely surprised.

"Brother, the stench of corpses... doesn't it only appear after a person dies?"

Liu Mengying looked at Qiao Changqing, then at Ye Fan, with a puzzled look on her face.

“This is also what makes me strange…”

Ye Fan frowned again, "When I was watching you guys refining medicine in the square stands before, I smelled it vaguely... but it disappeared quickly. There were a lot of people at the time, so I didn't pay much attention... I didn't expect the corpse odor to come from Chang Qing!"

"This corpse stench is quite strange... Logically speaking, this kind of thing shouldn't appear on a living person..."

Ye Fan stared at Qiao Changqing and observed him carefully. Suddenly, his expression changed slightly. "Changqing, the lower right side of your neck..."

"What's wrong with my neck?"

Qiao Changqing turned his head nervously and pulled at the clothes around his neck to check, but found nothing unusual.

Lei Yu put down the chicken leg in his hand and walked over. He followed Ye Fan's line of sight and his expression suddenly changed, because he found a bruise-like mark on Qiao Changqing's neck...

"Lei...Lei Yu, what's wrong with my neck?"

Qiao Changqing noticed the change in Lei Yu's expression and couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

"It's corpse spots! Although it's lighter... but it's corpse spots!"

Lei Yu, who had experienced many life and death situations, said affirmatively. He swallowed and said, "Chang Qing...what on earth happened to you?"

“I…I don’t know either!”

Qiao Changqing thought anxiously for a while, then said slowly: "I... I have always been quite normal... I have never encountered any attacks from masters or monsters..."

"I'm not sure about the corpse spots, but as for the corpse odor, you didn't have it when you were in the capital... Changqing, think carefully about what happened to you after you came to the capital, what people or objects did you come into contact with..."

Ye Fan thought for a moment and replied.

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