Hunyuan Immortal Sect

Chapter 286 Golden Strange Fire
After putting away the puppet, Song Xian rose up and headed towards the other two places where the battle was taking place. Not long after, he saw Han Yuan, He Zhi and An Daoquan besieging a puppet from afar.

As for the other puppet, he didn't know where it had gone. Before he could reach it, the puppet had been dealt with.

Looking at the puppet falling straight down, he was slightly shocked. He didn't know what method the three people used, but it seemed that they got rid of the puppet very easily.

Soon, he landed in front of several people and looked at the puppet. He saw that there were no major scars on its body, only a slight dent on the chest and cracks on the surface of the skin. This was of no concern to the puppet.

But the doll lay there motionless, and the red light in its eyes had disappeared, leaving only two empty holes.

"Fellow Daoist Song, how is the situation over there? Has the human puppet been dealt with?" An Daoquan asked.

"It's solved. Fellow Daoist An, how did you manage to subdue it? It doesn't seem to have any injuries on its body, so why is it lying there motionless?" Song Xian looked at the three people.

"This puppet's weakness lies in its eyes. It turns out that within its eyes lies a residual soul that controls its actions. As long as we attack with our spiritual sense and eliminate the residual soul trapped within its shell, the puppet will be effectively dead. This was discovered by Fellow Daoist Han."

Song Xian became even more curious: "What do you mean? Fellow Daoist Han, how did you find out?"

Han Yuan had a blank expression on his face. "I'm just guessing. This human puppet is obviously a dead thing. Without anyone controlling it, how could it move freely and even chase out of the nest to attack us?"

"I suspected there must be some consciousness controlling its body. Considering the strange red glow in its eyes, I thought there might be something fishy going on, so I tentatively attacked its eyes."

"But neither the magic nor the physical attack worked, so I tried the spiritual attack method, and it really worked wonders."

"After this human puppet was attacked by the divine consciousness, the red light in its eyes kept jumping. I immediately felt that there was a soul hidden in its eyes resisting the divine consciousness attack."

"When my spiritual attack destroyed the resisting spirit, this human puppet lost its ability to move."

"So that's how it is." After hearing this, Song Xian suddenly realized and couldn't help but admire Han Yuan's meticulous mind and rich experience.

Indeed, without the control of spiritual consciousness, this puppet would not be able to move on its own.

He had the same doubt at the time, but he didn't think about it any further.

He had never imagined that this puppet actually contained a spirit that controlled its movements. He was also ignorant and had never encountered such a thing.

He Zhi continued, "Fellow Daoist Song, you were able to deal with this human puppet even without discovering the secret. This shows how powerful you are. This guy is not easy to deal with. Fellow Daoist An and I couldn't take him down even with our combined strength."

"Although this human puppet is quite powerful, it has no intelligence and is just thick skin and flesh. In the final analysis, it is still a dead thing. The martial arts I have practiced can just restrain it." Song Xian said perfunctorily.

The four of them took the Qi-recovering pills, recovered their depleted spiritual energy, and then stepped into the building again. After a while, they came to the three stone coffins. They saw that the coffins were engraved with dense patterns. Apart from that, the coffins were empty and there was nothing else.

After a while of groping, they soon found the stone door mechanism.

With a loud heavy noise, the stone walls moved away to both sides, revealing a huge open space in front of them, like an open-air square. At first glance, there was nothing.

After experiencing the incidents in the fire mercury insect nest and the sarcophagus doll passage, the four of them were extremely cautious. Each of them condensed a defensive spell to protect himself, keeping their eyes and ears open in all directions, not daring to be careless in the slightest.

After walking for more than a hundred feet, they saw a huge stone wall blocking the way ahead, and a huge golden portrait was engraved on the ground.

It was a golden three-legged crow, looking lifelike. The ground there was obviously different from other places. The floor was paved with golden stone bricks, covering an area of ​​several dozen feet. There was a three-legged crow painted on the golden bricks, and dense runes were engraved around it.

The four of them stopped far away, not daring to move forward. In the entire pipeline building, only that part was paved with gold bricks, and the rest were cast with black stone walls. This alone seemed unusual, not to mention the three-legged golden crow engraved on the gold bricks and the dense runes around it.

It's almost as if it were written explicitly, there are some big weird words here.

"Fellow Daoist Song, is your puppet still usable? If it is, take it and investigate the situation." An Daoquan said.

"The puppet has been damaged and cannot be used."

"Let me do it." He Zhi took out the spirit beast bag from his waist and patted it lightly. A fiery red fox jumped out from it. The spiritual power fluctuations around it were about the level of a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining.

After the fire fox crawled out of the spirit beast bag, it leaped a few times and landed on the golden portrait. Just as its feet stepped on the golden bricks, a dazzling golden light burst out. The three-legged golden crow carved on the golden stone slab seemed to come alive, broke away from the image, and rose up with flapping wings.

Then the golden floor tiles exploded one after another.

"Let's go." Seeing that the situation was not good, An Daoming immediately shouted.

Before he finished speaking, the three-legged golden crow suddenly let out a soft cry, flapped its wings, and golden flames immediately engulfed the entire space, turning an area of ​​several hundred feet in radius into a golden sea of ​​fire.

And beneath the golden floor, golden flames gushed out like molten lava. Almost in an instant, the fire fox was melted by the golden flames.

The fire stream condensed around Song Xian's body was covered by the golden flames and melted visibly with the naked eye. As far as the eye could see, the entire hall was covered by the golden flames.

The blazing golden flames gushed out from the ground like the fire of hell, ready to melt everything in the world.

Seeing that the fire cover was about to be burned through by the golden flames, Song Xian had no time to think about it. With a thought, the Netherworld Cold Flame broke out of his body, and a ball of dark green fire appeared between his palms.

Under his control, the Netherworld Cold Flame rose into the sky, and the dark green flames grew, enveloping him completely.

The golden flames and the dark green flames intertwined, making crackling sounds like firecrackers.

Behind him on the right, Han Yuan transformed into a golden peacock the moment the golden flames burst out from the ground. He flapped his wings and radiated brilliant five-colored light from his body, rippling outwards like ripples.

Then the peacock's figure flashed and disappeared. The next moment, it appeared thirty feet away.

The peacock's body was wrapped in five-colored light, and after a few flashes, it quickly disappeared.

Song Xian did not choose to escape, but instead used the Xuantian Ronghuo Jue. Although the origin of this golden flame was unknown, it was obvious that it was not an ordinary flame, but some kind of strange fire.

With the protection of the Netherworld Cold Flame, it was not difficult for him to escape from this golden sea of ​​fire, but if he left at this time, it would be difficult to predict what would happen next.

For example, will this strange fire disappear? Will it burn everything in this building to ashes?

In either case, it would be a huge loss for him.

If he allowed the golden flames to spread and burn everything inside, then his trip would have been in vain.

Besides, strange fire is something that can be encountered but not sought after. His Xuantian Ronghuo Jue is the nemesis of all kinds of fire. After absorbing the strange fire, he can not only drive it to fight against the enemy, but also enhance the power of fire attribute. He is worried that he can't find it!
Now that the strange fire is right in front of him, how could he miss the opportunity like this?

As the Xuantian Ronghuo Jue was performed, a ball of red light condensed between his palms. At this time, he heard shrill screams one after another. Judging from the voices, it should be An Daoquan.

Song Xian was shocked, but he couldn't care about anything else now. He could only continue to activate the Xuantian Ronghuo Jue. The red light in his palm became stronger and stronger, and soon it enveloped him completely.

With a thought, the Netherworld Cold Flame retracted into his body, and the golden flames, as if attracted by something, surged towards him. The golden flames merged into the crimson light, like ice melting into water, and were slowly absorbed.

If there were outsiders present, they would see the three-legged golden crow moving little by little towards Song Xian. It seemed to have an instinctive resistance, but was also constrained by some kind of force, so it looked extremely reluctant.

At this time, Song Xian no longer cared about what was happening in the outside world. He only focused on activating the Xuantian Ronghuo Jue.

In the process of absorbing the golden flame, he also felt great pain, as if he was in boiling molten lava, and every part of his body was boiling.

His skin gradually turned from fair to red, and his whole body emitted a burning heat, as if he was about to spontaneously combust.

He clenched his teeth, unlike the last time he attracted the Netherworld Cold Flame.

This time, he was fully conscious.

As time passed, the golden flames in the hall were absorbed by the crimson light ball surrounding him.

Only the three-legged golden crow was still resisting stubbornly. This was the real body of the strange fire. After being absorbed by the red light, it was still struggling, as if trying to break free from this bondage.

At the same time, Han Yuan, who had already escaped, was standing at the entrance, looking inside.

Seeing that the three people had not come out yet, he pondered for a long time and finally decided to go back into the inner room to check the situation.

In his mind, the three people had not escaped for such a long time, and they must have been swallowed by the golden flames.

When he sneaked back to his original place, he was shocked by the scene he saw.

The golden flames in the sky had disappeared, and the three-legged golden crow was trapped in the red light ball surrounding Song Xian, gradually merging with him.

Looking at this strange scene, Han Yuan's eyes flashed, and he felt a little restless in his heart, but in the end he held himself back and quietly observed the changes.

After a long time, the three-legged golden crow completely disappeared in the red light ball. Song Xian opened his eyes at this time and immediately sensed Han Yuan's presence. He turned his head suddenly, looking at the invader who broke into the territory with the eyes of a beast.

His mind was completely focused on the Xuantian Ronghuo Jue, fighting against the three-legged golden crow, and he knew nothing about the outside world. He had no idea when Han Yuan was observing him from behind.

Xuantian Ronghuo Jue is his greatest reliance and also his deepest secret. No one knows it except Su Zhirou.

He was not sure what the experienced Han Yuan had discovered, so he looked alert.

Han Yuan nodded at him as if nothing had happened: "Fellow Daoist Song, are you okay?"

"It's okay." Song Xian slowly stood up and looked at the two skeletons not far away. They were the corpses of He Zhi and An Daoquan. Their flesh and blood had been melted by the golden flames, and the clothes and storage bags on their bodies had turned to ashes, leaving only a skeleton.

"How is Fellow Daoist Song doing now? Do you need a rest?"

"I'm OK."

"Let's go then! We should be almost at the end of this building. Let's see what's ahead."

The two continued to walk forward as if nothing had happened.

Song Xian did not ask how Han Yuan escaped from the golden sea of ​​fire, nor when he came back to see him using his power to devour the strange fire.

Han Yuan didn't ask him what kind of martial arts he was practicing.

Both of them maintained a tacit understanding.

As for the fate of He Zhi and An Daoquan, neither of them mentioned it.

We all came here to search for treasure together. Although we are traveling together, we leave life and death to fate. We have been mentally prepared for this. If we can't even accept death and feel sad about the passing of time, we won't take this risk.

When he reached the portrait of the three-legged golden crow, Song Xian bent down and carefully examined the runes engraved on the gold brick.

At this time, the image of the three-legged golden crow on the gold bricks had disappeared, and the originally neatly arranged gold bricks had been partially melted by the golden flames gushing out from the ground.

He guessed that the runes engraved on these gold bricks should be used to seal the golden strange fire. Perhaps because of too much time, the effectiveness of the runes weakened. In addition, the spirit beast fire fox set foot on the sealed land and activated the sealed strange fire, awakening it.

Of course, it is also possible that this is a trap set by the owner of this place to prevent outsiders. Once someone breaks in, the strange fire will surge out and burn the entire building to ashes.

There was another heavy sound, and Han Yuan found the mechanism ahead, and the stone wall turned inward.

What comes into view in the inner room is a huge dark green pond. The water in the pond is dark green and has almost dried up. Only a little bit of water remains in a few potholes. In the center of the pond grows an ancient tree as red as fire, and under its branches hang many fiery red snake-like fruits.

"Fire Snake Tree." Han Yuan's eyes lit up and he blurted out, his expression changing significantly for the first time.

"It's really the Fire Snake Tree, and that's the Fire Snake Fruit." Song Xian was overjoyed and couldn't help but agree.

The Fire Snake Tree is almost extinct in today's cultivation world and can only be found in isolated worlds or secret realms.

The living conditions of the Fire Snake Tree are extremely harsh. In addition to having specific requirements for the distribution of spiritual energy between heaven and earth, it also has extremely high requirements for soil, water, humidity, etc.

I didn’t expect that there would be a complete fire snake tree here.

Logically speaking, this place is not suitable for the growth of fire snake trees. However, the fire snake tree in front of us is not only lush and leafy, but also full of fruits. Look at how round and crystal clear the fire snake fruits are.

The reason why the two were so excited was because the Fire Snake Fruit was the main ingredient of the second-grade low-grade spiritual tonic, which was just right for their cultivation level.

Even one fire snake fruit is worth a lot of money, and there are more than a dozen growing on this tree.

The two of them looked at each other, and even Han Yuan, who usually kept his emotions secret, could not hide his joy at this moment.

However, even so, the two did not let down their guard and rushed directly to the fire snake tree to pick the fire snake fruit.

It is strange that such a lush fire snake tree can grow in such a place.

Not to mention that they have encountered attacks from multiple guard forces along the way.

　Thanks to the book friend [心若辰香] for the reward of 10,000 Qidian coins.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)