Reaching the pinnacle from Doupo

Chapter 409 Ancient Forest
With the blue ice flame protecting their bodies, neither the magma nor the blue fire pillars ejected from all around could pose any threat to Lin Yuan and his group.

Today's Qianlan Ice Flame is a natural nemesis for most fire-attributed environments.

Without paying attention to these insignificant attacks, Lin Yuan controlled the fire shuttle to rush forward while releasing his vast soul power, spreading it in all directions - especially towards the magma below.

After walking for a few minutes, Qing Lin's delicate voice suddenly sounded from behind Lin Yuan: "Master, this passage seems to be a trap! The exit is not in front, but below..."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yixiang and Zi Yan were both a little surprised.

Their eyes slid across the boiling magma below and fell on Qinglin's face beside them, only to see that the latter had a serious look on his face, with a faint green light flashing in his emerald eyes.

Lin Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly, but he was not surprised at all.

In terms of detection, the ability of the Green Snake Three Flower Pupils is unparalleled, not inferior to Lin Yuan's soul perception, and even better.

Without any hesitation, Lin Yuan waved his sleeves and slightly adjusted the direction of the flame shuttle. The ice-blue flame enveloped everyone and fell straight into the hot magma below, continuing to dive rapidly.

A minute later, there was a slight muffled sound, and the flame shuttle passed through the magma and landed on the ground below.

The ice flame dissipated, revealing the figures of four people.

The four of them looked up and saw that dozens of feet above their heads, red magma was hanging in a ring-like shape, twisting and turning like giant pythons.

Seeing this, Zi Yan couldn't help but click her lips: "Tsk tsk, the family that built this ruins... the senior is so cunning... smart, he actually put the entrance right below." She remembered Lin Yuan's warning... after entering the ruins, you must never say bad things about the owner of the ruins.

Seeing this, Xiao Yixiang and Qinglin looked at each other and chuckled at the same time.

Beside the three women, Lin Yuan was looking around while exploring the terrain with his soul power.

Not long after, the result was found out quickly.

At this moment, the four of them were in a rather spacious boulder passage. In the distance where the passage extended, they could vaguely see a square.

"Let's go. There's a big square ahead. The real entrance is there!"

After saying that, Lin Yuan tapped the ground with his toes, and his figure turned into a blurry shadow, flying towards the square in the distance. Xiao Yixian and others quickly followed.

The passage was not too long, and after about a few minutes, the four of them arrived at the square.

As soon as he stepped into the square, Lin Yuan's sight stopped at the end of the square, where there was an extremely heavy stone door. In front of the stone door, ten figures as straight as guns stood.

The skin of these ten figures was a brilliant silver, their eyes were hollow, their faces expressionless, like ancient corpses.

The little medical fairy raised her eyebrows slightly: "Lin Yuan, this is not yours..."

“Yes!” Lin Yuan took over the conversation and chuckled, “It’s an Earth Demon Puppet, and it’s an Earth Demon Puppet at the peak of the Ten Dou Zong level. It’s an unexpected gain!”

Although this kind of strength is of little use to Lin Yuan now, after it is slightly refined with the Qianlan Ice Flame and enhanced with Dan Lei, it can be sent back to Canaan College to add a good foundation to the college.

Thinking of this, some interest appeared in his eyes - these earth demon puppets seemed to be able to perform a set of combined attack formations, thereby exerting the strength of a two-star Dou Zun.

However, Lin Yuan did not want to satisfy his curiosity here, so there was no need to waste time.

He took a step forward, his mind moved, and the soul power of the peak spiritual realm surged out from his eyebrows, transformed into thousands of threads, and attacked the puppet that was emitting silver light.

Lin Yuan has refined and modified the Heavenly Demon Puppet many times and is very clear about the weaknesses of this puppet.

Inside the body of the demon puppet, there is a soul imprint that it uses to control them. As long as the soul imprint is erased and then one's own imprint is left, they can be easily controlled.

This kind of mark is usually hidden very deeply. If Lin Yuan was not also good at it and had not had time to do it several times, it would probably not be easily detected.

Even so, the process of subduing these ten earth demon puppets was surprisingly smooth.

It may have taken a long time to erase the mark in the puppet, or it may be because the Saint of Creation had no interest in a mere Dou Zong puppet and was too lazy to leave even a trace of the soul mark. How could ten demon puppets not have a trace of soul mark?

It took less than a minute for Lin Yuan to establish contact with these puppets and then put them into the storage ring.

"Creak, creak -"

After the ten puppets were put into the ring, there was a sound of mechanisms turning, and the heavy stone door guarded by the puppets slowly opened a crack.

The stone door gradually opened, and a desolate and ancient atmosphere slowly drifted out.

"Let's go." Lin Yuan greeted lightly, and then his body moved, turning into a blue light, and flew towards the ruins behind the stone gate like lightning. Afterwards, the three girls of Little Medical Fairy also followed quickly.

After the four of them quickly rushed into the stone gate and stopped for a moment, what appeared in front of them was a huge palace that looked like a behemoth.

People standing in the hall seem particularly small.

There are many very deep corridors around the hall, and no one knows where they extend to.

This is just the entrance to the huge palace. It must be even more complicated inside. There is no doubt that this is an extremely complicated maze.

After scanning these endless passages for a while, Lin Yuan turned around and said to Zi Yan behind him: "Zi Yan, you have the ability to find treasures. Let's go find the location of the spiritual medicine first, and you try to determine the location below."

"Finding medicinal herbs is easy...just watch me!" Zi Yan smiled proudly and said confidently.

Then, she closed her beautiful eyes, moved her pretty nose slightly, and after figuring out the direction, she said "Follow me", and then flew towards a passage on the left side of the hall.

Seeing this, Lin Yuan and the other two quickly moved and followed closely.

The passage of the huge palace was quite spacious and long, with occasional attics on both sides. Lin Yuan and his four companions broke into a few rooms and did not get anything useful, so they calmed down and followed Zi Yan, hurrying forward.

After flying in the corridor for more than ten minutes, Zi Yan in front finally stopped.

What appeared in front of them was an extremely ancient stone door.

On the stone gate, there is a lot of moss climbing up, and the green color makes people feel the passing years.

"This is it, the place with the strongest smell of medicinal herbs." Zi Yan pointed at the stone gate, her eyes full of anticipation, her tone unable to conceal her excitement: "The smell is so strong, hehe, there are a lot of good medicinal herbs in here..."

"Step back!" Lin Yuan walked forward slowly, checked it, and found no traps or mechanisms, so he gently pushed the stone door open.

With a low sound, the heavy stone door cracked slightly.

A thick medicinal fragrance that had been hidden for countless years suddenly burst out from the gap, lifting everyone's spirits.

Smelling the fragrance, Lin Yuan's eyes lit up with joy, and then he exerted more strength on his hands and pushed the stone door open completely.

The moment the stone door opened, a dazzling and brilliant light shot out from it, causing Lin Yuan and the other three to narrow their eyes slightly. They quickly took two steps back, and the fighting spirit in their bodies quickly circulated, ready to take action to deal with any emergency at any time.

After a while, the light gradually dimmed, and everyone opened their eyes. What came into view was a forest - an ancient forest full of rare medicinal herbs!
The vast ancient forest is filled with strange fragrance. A light mist shrouds the forest. Occasionally, small animals flash out. The atmosphere is peaceful and it looks like a fairyland.

After countless years of evolution, this ancient forest has become a small world of its own.

Although he had expected it, when Lin Yuanzhen saw the scene with his own eyes, his heart still trembled involuntarily.

This ancient forest is a natural treasure land with extremely rich energy. Here, the medicinal herbs that have just grown after countless years... are of various types, of perfect quality, and of abundant energy.

To put it bluntly, if all the medicinal herbs here were harvested once, it would be no less than harvesting the medicinal mountain in Xiaodan Tower several times.

There is no doubt that this is a terrifyingly huge fortune.

"The work of the ancient fighting saint is truly amazing!" Lin Yuan's throat rolled and he couldn't help but sigh again.

Then, he took a deep breath, collected his thoughts, and looked at the shocked women beside him: "Zi Yan, continue to sense the most precious things; Qing'er, release your relatives and quickly collect all the medicinal herbs here."

After hearing Lin Yuan's words, the three women immediately came to their senses and acted according to his instructions.

There was a flash of green light in Qinglin's eyes, and hundreds of magical beasts emerged from behind her. Then, led by a dozen seventh and eighth level magical beasts, they began to quickly harvest the medicinal herbs here.

Zi Yan reluctantly withdrew her gaze, and after a brief pause, she led a few people into the depths of the forest.

This ancient forest was not small in size. Even at their speed, after traveling for nearly ten minutes, they still could not see the end.

During the journey, they encountered many ferocious monsters, many of which were of ancient bloodline and had considerable combat power.

However, in front of Lin Yuan and his companions, they were really not good enough, and ended up either becoming Qing Lin's followers or Lin Yuan's trophies - and also eliminating all possible obstacles in advance for the team that followed to harvest medicinal herbs.

Several people followed Zi Yan and walked forward for half an hour before arriving in front of a clear lake.

In the center of the lake, there is a small piece of suspended land, like an island in the middle of the lake.

And on the island, there grows a small tree with a very strange shape.

The entire body of the small tree is gray-silver in color, with branches intertwined like vines. These branches form a strange arc as they extend and outline. Surrounded by the heavy branches, there is a faint golden light overflowing.

"That's it!" Zi Yan pointed at the golden light and said with certainty: "The things in it are the most precious natural treasures in this ancient forest..."

Lin Yuan tilted his head to look, a hint of joy flashed in his eyes, and he murmured in a low voice: "Soul Infant Demon Tree..."

He moved and flashed above the Soul Infant Demon Tree. After looking at the two golden fruits hanging in it, the joy in his eyes became more and more intense.

The Soul Infant Demon Tree is an extremely rare spiritual plant. The Soul Infant Fruit it produces is like the Spirit Dragon Heavenly Ganoderma, which is one of the very few natural treasures that can repair the original soul energy. In a sense, it is more precious than the strange fire that ranks lower.

"Qing'er, put this away!"

After a brief sensation, Lin Yuan transformed into a giant energy hand, and with a trembling sound, he directly pulled up the island in the middle of the lake, and then put Qing Lin into the space of the Green Snake Three Flower Pupils.

Lin Yuan wanted the Soul Infant Fruit, and he, Lin Yuan, also wanted the Soul Infant Demon Tree.

With the Soul Infant Demon Tree in hand, if one can obtain the Flame of Life or its sub-fire in the future, and combine it with some special cultivation methods, one will be able to harvest Soul Infant Fruits continuously.

However, such a big movement also woke up the owner of this place.

Accompanied by a roar like that of a dragon or a snake, a huge shadow quickly emerged from the bottom of the lake, and finally broke through the water with a "plop".

This is a magical beast in the shape of a dragon with an extremely long body. Its slender body is covered with green scales. On its head, there is a long, pitch-black horn with mysterious patterns winding around it. Faintly, there is a flashing blue light.

Seeing that the island in the middle of the lake had disappeared, a fierce light flashed in the eyes of the dragon-shaped monster, and then it opened its bloody mouth, wanting to swallow Lin Yuan.

Seeing this, Lin Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly and gathered a fierce fighting spirit in his hands.

"It's the Tongtian Jiao... Lin Yuan, don't kill it!"

Just as he was about to kill it, Zi Yan, who recognized the giant beast race, shouted: "This is one of our clan's subordinate races, and it has become extinct in the outside world..."

Before he finished speaking, a purple light flashed in front of Lin Yuan, and the extremely noble dragon power emanated from him.

Tongtian Jiao, an ancient magical beast, is rumored to be a hybrid race of ancient dragons and snakes. A high concentration of ancient dragon blood flows in its body. If it can be cleansed of all impurities with the power of thunder and lightning, it may evolve into a Taixu ancient dragon.

To make an analogy, Tongtian Jiao and Tianyao Huang are bloodlines of the same level.

The Tongtian Jiao in front of him, although his cultivation is only at the peak of the seventh level, but relying on the power of his bloodline and his strong body, it is enough to fight against the powerful Dou Zun.

However, even such a ferocious beast, the moment it came into contact with Zi Yan's pressure, the fierceness in its eyes instantly dissipated, and its huge body quickly shrank back into the water, its violent aura turning into something as docile as a pet...

Faced with the pressure of Zi Yan's royal bloodline, Tong Tian Jiao, a descendant of an ancient dragon of such level and cultivation, could not even muster the slightest bit of resistance.

However, Zi Yan at this moment had no interest in Tong Tian Jiao.

When she released the dragon energy just now, she seemed to be suddenly touched by something, and stared blankly into the deeper part of the forest.

Seeing this, Lin Yuan flashed to Zi Yan's side, tamed the Tong Tian Jiao with the same dragon energy, and then asked knowingly: "Zi Yan, what's wrong with you?"

Hearing Lin Yuan's question, Zi Yan finally came back to her senses and pointed in one direction with a dazed look.

"Lin Yuan, there...it seems like something is calling me, calling my blood!"

(End of this chapter)