Immortal weapon refiner

Chapter 654: Red Palace

In the end, Li Qing decided to secretly follow these corpses deeper into the cave to see what was going on.

The aura made even Daojun Bailing feel slightly familiar, and he was very curious in his heart. Could it be another residual soul or obsession left over from ancient times?

With this curious thought in mind, Li Qing tried his best to completely conceal his own aura.

"Stay here and don't go anywhere, and don't act rashly!"

"I'll be back as soon as I go!"

After saying that, Li Qing followed Cao Xiu's slightly worried gaze into the passage where the five corpses had just entered.

The next action is likely to be somewhat dangerous, and may even involve a battle at the Jindan stage.

So he didn't plan to let Cao Xiu follow him. After all, the latter was just a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage with weak means and could hardly help him.

If a battle really breaks out, we will have to take his presence into consideration, which will easily drag him down.

So Li Qing asked Cao Xiu to stay, and then come back to find him after the matter was resolved.

Along the way, he avoided a large number of ferocious fire jade bees, silently followed behind several corpse puppets, and moved forward quietly.

With his current level of cultivation, he can do everything easily.

As for the Fire Jade Queen Bee in the Ruby Beehive, Li Qing decided to return later to subdue her.

After all, we don’t know whether these corpse puppets will suddenly return, so we should first figure out who is controlling these corpse puppets.

Just like that, Li Qing walked through the twists and turns of the passage inside the Fire Cliff Cave, and did not forget to secretly leave the seeds of the Netherworld Cold Fire along the way.

Finally, several corpse puppets stopped in front of two half-covered huge stone doors.

In the center of the two stone doors is engraved a circle of mysterious patterns, which looks like a strange flame pattern.

One of the third-level corpse puppets put down the stone basin in his hand, then stretched out his hand and completely closed the two stone doors.

boom!
With a loud muffled sound, the stone door closed completely, and the flame pattern in the center also closed at this moment, forming a complete pattern.

The next moment, the engraved patterns glowed with red light. Under the flow of the light, these corpse puppets disappeared in front of the stone gate out of thin air, and the stone basins filled with fire slurry they were holding also disappeared.

Li Qing, who witnessed all this, felt shocked in his heart. This kind of restriction was really magical. It could actually teleport people in out of thin air.

This is the first time in Li Qing's life that he has seen such a strange restriction.

"This kind of restriction method is extremely rare even in ancient times. It is indeed not simple." Bailing Daojun said in amazement.

Even Daojun Bailing made such an evaluation, and Li Qing understood even more clearly the extraordinary nature of the restriction before him.

"Why do I feel a sense of familiarity too? When the restriction was activated just now, I felt that the magic power in my body also produced a faint resonance, as if I had seen it before." Li Qing frowned slightly, constantly looking at the pattern engraved in the center of the gate.

At this moment, there was no trace of any corpse puppets in front of the stone gate. It was obvious that they had been teleported in through the restriction in front of the gate.

After a long while, the stone gate in front made a dull roar and returned to its previous half-covered state.

"That's a good trick. This semi-covered state is used to confuse unsuspecting intruders."

"There are two kinds of restrictions here, one visible and one invisible. The pattern in the center of the stone door is the visible teleportation restriction. Only by closing the stone door can we trigger this restriction and enter the space behind the stone door."

"And in the gap of the dark stone door, there is a killing restriction. If you push open this stone door without knowing it, you will be attacked fiercely."

When Daojun Bailing said this, Li Qing felt a slight chill in his heart.

He thought that the person who set up these two bans was extremely insidious, and could be said to have calculated people's hearts to the extreme.

If a normal person came here, he would subconsciously push the door and want to see what the scene was behind it.

But if you do that, you will be ambushed by the secret restrictions and may very likely die.

But if you want to take a peek at what's behind the door, you have to do the opposite, close the half-covered door tightly, and merge the pattern in the center into a whole.

"Boy, what should we do next? Do you want to take the risk and go in to take a look?"

"Maybe there's a huge fortune waiting for you inside!"

Daoist Master Bailing said to Li Qing with a smile, and his words showed that he hoped Li Qing would go in and explore.

But Li Qing is not a fool. Maybe it is really as Bailing Daojun said, there is a huge wealth waiting for him.

However, nothing in the world is absolute. This enormous wealth may contain an unimaginable crisis!

If you go in rashly, you will be irresponsible for your beautiful life!
"Senior, you are joking. If I rashly activate the teleportation ban and go in, I'm afraid I'll be beheaded before I see the great wealth." Li Qing laughed dryly and coughed lightly.

After these words were spoken, Daojun Bailing became a little bored.

"You have no sense of adventure at all, it's really boring."

"I don't know who you learned this from, to be so cautious and careful."

"If it were me, I would have been teleported in with those puppets. I would have wanted to find out for sure whether there were immortals or ghosts in there!"

So now you are just a remnant of obsession in the world, and I am still alive and well!

Li Qing silently complained in his heart, then shook his head and said:
“That’s a bit inappropriate.”

In fact, Li Qing also wanted to know what was happening behind the stone gate, because when the restriction was opened just now, the true energy in his body actually produced a slight resonance.

This made him very concerned, as if there was a cat's claw scratching his heart.

"Senior, I remember that your attainments in puppetry have also reached a very high level!"

"I do have a second-level spirit puppet made of spirit gold in my hand. I got it from another domain in my early years. However, I know nothing about puppets, so I have never paid attention to this puppet."

"Senior, do you think it's possible to do something with my puppet and then blend it in with the corpse puppets?"

The spiritual gold puppet that Li Qing mentioned was naturally the one he obtained when he opened the black market in the Great Wilderness.

Later, as his cultivation level continued to improve and his methods became more complex and diverse, he put this spiritual gold puppet away in his bottom drawer.

Now it seems that perhaps it is time for this spiritual gold puppet to play a certain role.

"Take it out and show it to me first." Bai Ling Daojun said. Without saying anything, Li Qing took out the spiritual gold puppet he got from the Great Wilderness.

This spirit puppet has a cold metallic texture, a hard appearance, and a heavy puppet body.

"You are really something. You have already reached the Jindan stage of cultivation, but you still have this kind of junk in your hands." Daojun Bailing couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and say sarcastically.

To him, this spiritual gold puppet was indeed a bit shabby.

Not only was the refining technique extremely crude, but even the core parts had been erased a lot.

"This puppet is too crudely made!" Bailing Daojun continued to comment.

Li Qing did not make any comment on this. He was not familiar with puppetry and had tried to control this puppet before, but he could never get it right.

Now that he took it out, his idea was very simple, that is, he planned to use someone else's trick!
He let his spirit gold puppet follow the corpse puppets and sneak into the back of the stone gate to see what the situation was inside.

If this puppet was destroyed because of this, he would not feel any heartache. After all, it was just a second-level puppet.

It would be great if we could find out some useful information through this.

Finally, Dao Lord Bai Ling said, "It's not impossible. We just need to slightly modify the core part of this puppet."

"But I have to remind you that the method used to refine this puppet is too crude. Even if it is repaired, it will not have any combat power."

Li Qing had never had any extravagant hopes for this. After all, when he was in the Foundation Establishment Stage, he could easily erase the imprint of the puppet's spiritual consciousness and defeat it.

"It doesn't matter. The most important thing right now is to find out the situation behind the door. As long as we can do this, it doesn't matter even if this spirit gold puppet is damaged inside!" Li Qing had already made up his mind.

After hearing this, Daoist Master Bailing didn't say anything more. His illusory body actually directly possessed the spiritual gold puppet.

In this way, after waiting for a long time, Bailing Daojun slowly floated out from the spiritual gold puppet.

"Okay, now just plant your spiritual imprint into this puppet."

Li Qing did as he was told. His powerful spiritual sense spread out and easily planted his own spiritual imprint in the core part of this spiritual gold puppet.

After doing all this, he tried to sense the imprint of his own spiritual consciousness.

Soon, he felt as if he had an extra body. He could drive it with just a thought, and it felt like he was controlling it as if it were his own arm!
In the past, even if he had planted his own spiritual imprint, he would not be able to control it freely!
After being transformed by Bailing Daojun, he could do this easily.

Just when Li Qing wanted to continue trying, a roar came from the stone door at the corner of the passage ahead again.

"It comes out again so soon?" Li Qing was slightly startled, then put his puppet into the storage bag and hid himself carefully.

This time, three corpse puppets came out, all of which were at the top level of the second-order corpse puppets. The two third-order corpse puppets had disappeared.

Li Qing observed carefully and found that these corpse puppets did not come out holding stone basins this time. It seemed that they were not going to the Ruby Beehive to get the fire source juice.

He suppressed his curiosity and did not follow to check the situation. He just stayed in front of the stone gate patiently waiting for the corpses to return.

At that time, he would let his spirit gold puppet sneak in and see what the situation was inside the stone gate.

If he discovered that there was a huge danger lurking inside, he would use all means to escape as quickly as possible.

But what Li Qing didn't expect was that this wait would take a very long time.

There is no specific concept of time in the Fire Cliff Cave, but Li Qing silently estimated in his heart that about two or three days had passed.

Finally, just when he was getting impatient, there was movement in the passage behind him again.

Li Qing's heart trembled, and then his consciousness spread out.

The three corpse puppets that had gone out before returned, but this time they had several more blackened corpses with hideous wounds in their hands!
After seeing this scene, Li Qing was shocked. He didn't expect that these corpse puppets were out killing people.

He was so scared that he thought Cao Xiu had been murdered, but he soon found out that this was not the case. Cao Xiu was not among the corpses.

One of the corpses was wearing somewhat unusual clothing. It was not like the robes commonly worn by cultivators in Qingling Domain and other places. Instead, it was clothes made of animal skins. They were furry and warm, and full of exotic style!

"Prairie people?"

Li Qing muttered something and identified the origin of the corpse from its facial features. Then he watched the three second-level corpse puppets walk towards the stone gate again.

This time, Li Qing did not delay any longer. He directly controlled his spirit gold puppet and approached quietly.

And was not discovered!

This is the case with corpse puppets. If they are not actively controlled by spiritual consciousness, they will only execute rigid commands.

So after Li Qing's spirit gold puppet approached quietly, it did not attract the attention of the corpse puppets.

The moment the stone door closed and the pattern was complete, Li Qing felt a dizziness in his spiritual imprint.

The next moment, what appeared in Li Qing's consciousness was a color of red!
Red sea of ​​fire!
No, it’s not just a sea of ​​fire, but a sea of ​​magma!

After following several corpse puppets through the stone gate, he seemed to have arrived at the magma layer at the center of the earth. The surroundings were red and the temperature was extremely hot.

There is a place to stand only in front of the stone gate. If you take a few more steps forward, you will fall into the rolling lava!

Rumble!
In the red ocean, magma rolled endlessly, splashing waves accompanied by flames.

Before Li Qing could observe further, several second-level corpse puppets moved.

They walked forward stiffly, and just when Li Qing thought they would fall into the sea of ​​fire, a series of stairs suddenly emerged from below and lay under the feet of the corpses.

The stairs led all the way to the sky above the sea of ​​fire. Li Qing controlled the spirit gold puppet and looked up. He saw an ancient suspended palace at the top where the magma was constantly surging!

Right above the temple, there was a red plaque made of unknown material, with three large characters engraved on it in ancient script - Chihuang Temple!

From the moment he saw the suspended Chihuang Palace, Li Qing felt an inexplicable shock in his heart.

It was at this moment that he finally understood what that sense of déjà vu that he had felt before was!

That’s right, it was the martial art he practiced - "Red Glory Burning Heaven Art"!
He was 100% sure that the Chihuang Palace above the lava sea had a great connection with the cultivation method he practiced!
"I see. No wonder the true energy in my body just now produced a faint resonance!"

“Could it be that within this Chihuang Palace, there is the complete inheritance of the Chihuang Burning Heaven Art?!”

(End of this chapter)