Zhu Tian: A journey of spiritual practice starting from Joy of Life

Chapter 290 Looting the Stone Chamber by the Giant Flaming Bird
At the same time, the third clone formed hand seals, and a bright blue halo burst forth from his hands, disappearing into the bronze giant's body under his control.

Suppressing Spirit Technique - Formless Dharma Ring
The clones thought they could use the power of the Formless Ring to dismantle the talismanic power on the bronze giant.

Unexpectedly...

"click"

The sound of the mechanism turning echoed throughout the stone chamber. At the same time, a blazing red halo emanated from the bronze giant's body, forcing out the Formless Dharma Ring.

"How can it be!"

Even Leng Feibai, who was far away in another courtyard, was startled. The Formless Dharma Ring had never been defeated since its successful research, so how could it have failed this time...?

Seeing this, the other clone multiplied his efforts, raising his hand to draw a time-space stagnation talisman while simultaneously causing the world to lose its color and cover the entire stone chamber.

With both ultimate techniques used simultaneously, the entire stone chamber instantly turned black and white.

Apart from Leng Feibai's clones, nothing else could move an inch.

The other five clones secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then gathered their offensive methods, preparing to forcibly break the bronze giant.

The five clones simultaneously pressed their hands to their temples, and at the same time, their eyes condensed into multicolored light, which shot out as beams of light. However, upon closer inspection, a faint black light was revealed within the multicolored light.

Five Elements Destruction Ray
Five beams of light struck the upper body of the bronze giant, and the clones thought they could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

But in the next moment, the mechanical clone broke free from the control of the colorless sky and the talisman, its upper body spinning rapidly, actually deflecting the rays shot out by the five clones.

Upon seeing this, the clones instantly reassembled.

One of his clones raised his hand and quickly sketched, and a deep yellow talisman immediately appeared in front of him.

Tongtianlu·Tiandi Xuanhuangfu
As soon as the talisman was activated, dense Xuanhuang Qi immediately gathered around the six clones, instantly condensing into a protective shield that firmly protected the six of them.

One of the clones couldn't help but curse, "Damn it, what is this copper lump? How can it block the destructive ray?"

"It's probably because it still has a lot of runes and inscriptions that can cause reflection and mirroring, otherwise it wouldn't have been able to withstand our combined attack."

"It wasn't entirely useless; the beam destroyed many of the talismans and inscriptions on that guy's body."

Another clone took the opportunity to use its clairvoyance to investigate the bronze giant's situation, but noticed a protruding button on the crown on the bronze giant's head, which immediately caught its attention.

Before the clone could say anything, Leng Feibai suddenly transmitted his voice to the six clones, "Use the Divine Refinement Technique to see if we can temporarily control it using the methods of material transformation and manipulation!"

Upon hearing this, the clones exchanged glances and nodded in agreement.

At the same time, the bronze giant stopped spinning, raised its arms, and its two huge fists shot out like meteor hammers, smashing towards the shield.

"boom"

Two heavy punches landed on the protective shield, creating ripples.

However, the defensive power formed by the Xuanhuang Qi was extremely strong, and it was something that this guy's fist could not break through at all.

At that very moment, the six clones burst out of the protective barrier. Five of them rushed out in the directions of front, back, left, and right, and at the same time activated the Divine Mechanism Hundred Refinements, each releasing a burst of true qi to cover the bronze giant's body.

In an instant, the bronze giant seemed to be an iron man entering a house filled with magnets, and was unable to move due to the powerful attraction.

Seeing this, the last clone leaped up and rushed to the top of the bronze giant's head, raising his hand to press a protruding button on the crown.

"Crack!"

A slight sound came, and something suddenly popped out from the back of the bronze giant's head, wedging itself into the wall behind him.

In an instant, a crackling sound came from the bronze giant's body, and his entire body collapsed to the ground.

Upon seeing this, Leng Feibai issued another order.

"Bring that guy back. I'll take a good look at him. If he's too big to fit in my bag, I'll disassemble him into parts and bring them back..."

Before Leng Feibai could finish speaking, the bronze giant's face suddenly split into three pieces, and a scroll of animal hide fell out from inside.

Upon seeing this, one of the clones stepped forward and picked up the animal hide scroll.

Since it's a clone, there's no need to worry about the scroll being soaked in any poison or anything like that.

Upon seeing the animal hide scroll, both the clone and Leng Feibai's eyes immediately turned strange.

The scroll contained rows of text and a map drawn with dried blood.

The characters on the scroll were actually the Small Seal script, which had been promoted by the Qin state for many years.

Looking at the scroll in his hand, Leng Feibai felt something was amiss. The animal hide was clearly an old artifact, but why was it written in Small Seal Script, a script that had only been introduced a few years ago?

Thinking of this, Leng Feibai used the clone's eyes to carefully examine the writing on the animal skin scroll.

"Aren't you curious why the characters written on the animal hides are the Small Seal script that you recognize..."

Leng Feibai remained calm, showing no inner turmoil, and continued reading.

"Thanks for using divination to deduce the writing system of this time period. Otherwise, if I had written a bunch of ancient Chinese characters, whether you could even recognize them is another matter! Alright, enough of the nonsense. You must have found this place by collecting all seven broken boxes I left in the Central Plains and finding all the map fragments inside!"

Upon seeing this, Leng Feibai raised an eyebrow and continued reading the following text.

"It's a pity you made a wasted trip. The elixir of immortality and the divine skills I left behind in this world have been placed in another place. And that place is in the northeast of the island..."

Upon seeing this, the clone immediately glanced at the new map below.

On the left side of the map, there is a picture of the Big Dipper, along with an arrow-shaped icon pointing to the position of the star Alioth in the Big Dipper.

On the right side of the map is a more detailed diagram of where to enter the cave.

Leng Feibai looked at the star map, a strange look flashing in his eyes.

But just then, the exclamations of the other clones reached his ears.

"The guy who designed this bronze figure is truly a genius!"

Upon hearing this, Leng Feibai frowned, and with a thought, transferred his consciousness to another clone.

One of the clones exclaimed in surprise, "Three thousand six hundred talismans are engraved all over his body, and they have been combined into a special talisman array, which has multiplied the effect of the talismans by dozens of times!"

Upon hearing this, Leng Feibai immediately turned his gaze to the bronze giant and began to carefully study the bronze inscriptions on its body.

Many of the talisman inscriptions on the bronze giant were recorded in the Talisman Encyclopedia that Leng Feibai obtained in the world of Joy of Life.

Leng Feibai was immediately curious. What was the background of the guy who forged the Azure Dragon Seven Constellations and this bronze giant? How could he operate the talisman to such an extent?

The clones then dismantled the bronze giant into a pile of fragments and put them into the spatial artifact that Leng Feibai had given them.

After dealing with the bronze giant, the group walked around the stone chamber again, helping the main body in Sanghai City to copy the talisman inscriptions engraved on the wall. Then their gazes turned to the floor beneath their feet.

They hadn't forgotten that during the battle just now, an energy source had surged from beneath the floor to fuel the Bronze Giants' fight.

After some effort, the group quickly dug out the iron plates on the floor one by one, revealing the empty space underneath.

Below them, a snow-white, wondrous stone, its entire body radiating spiritual energy and its size comparable to the diamond Yang Jian had obtained, came into view. "Such abundant spiritual energy!"

Even Leng Feibai, who was still in Sanghai City, couldn't help but swallow hard when he saw the stone.

If he had such a large spirit stone to help him from the beginning of his transmigration, he probably would have been able to ascend to immortality back in the year of Joy of Life.

Thinking of this, one of his clones jumped down and put the giant spirit stone into his spatial artifact.

Perhaps with the help of this spirit stone, the original body will be able to break through the boundaries of the five internal organs and completely refine the remaining ten percent of the internal organs.

The clones then searched the stone chamber again, and after confirming that there were no hidden mechanisms or secret passages, they left the chamber.

After a few breaths, the clones flew to the northeast of the island.

The northeastern part of the island consists of seven mountain peaks surrounded by forests, and when viewed from the sky, those seven peaks look exactly like the Big Dipper constellation depicted on a map.

"Yuheng Star is that mountain peak, hmm..."

The clones looked down at the mountain peaks below, a strange glint in their eyes, but they wasted no time and landed on the peaks in unison.

As soon as they landed, everyone looked around, and one of the clones even used the Emperor's Qi Observation Technique to carefully examine the surroundings.

“It’s true!”

The clone muttered to itself, "I was wondering why this forest had such a strange feeling. Normally, forests filled with spiritual energy should have wood-attribute spiritual energy, but the spiritual energy in this forest is actually fire-attribute spiritual energy."

After saying that, the clone punched the nearest tree, which was about the size of a bowl.

"Click"

The tree trembled and turned into ashes, scattering in all directions. In mid-air, a bright red bead, about the size of a walnut, smooth and round, appeared and fell directly into the clone's hand.

"It possesses some fire-attribute spiritual energy, but the quality is low and it's not very useful!"

The clone muttered to itself, "At most, I'll collect some to make rings and earrings for Haitang and the others!"

"Hey, what are you doing there!"

The other clones yelled at him, "We've found the entrance to the cave, aren't you coming over?!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the clone immediately came to his senses, dropped the bead in his hand, and quickly chased after him.

Before long, a cave that had been forcibly blasted open came into his view.

The entrance to the cave was no different from the previous one; the mechanism to open the door using those seven broken boxes still existed nearby.

However, this time, because the gate was more obvious, the other clones simply blasted the stone gate open.

As soon as the six entered, a scorching heat hit them. Enduring the intense heat, they quickly walked in and soon arrived at the end of the cave, on a huge stone platform.

The six looked around and their expressions changed.

The interior of this mountain was actually the interior of a volcano, and beneath the stone platform at their feet, steaming lava was slowly flowing.

"I never imagined this place was a volcano?"

As soon as one of the clones finished speaking, it feigned surprise and said, "Do you think a fire phoenix might fly out of here later?"

"No way!"

Another clone said irritably, "We're in Qin's Moon, not Feng Yun. That Xu Fu is an elder of the Yin Yang School, not that brain-dead Di Shitian who messed himself up."

As soon as those words were spoken, the surging magma below suddenly began to surge wildly and agitate.

The several clones' expressions hardened, and they all looked down.

Accompanied by a bird's cry, a mutated giant bird, its entire body crimson and faintly glowing with fire, comparable in size to the giant bird Bai Feng, emerged from the lava and appeared before the six people, flapping its wings.

The six people were taken aback, and a hint of amusement flashed in their eyes.

This giant bird is indeed quite powerful, even far surpassing the strange beasts outside.

But any one of its six avatars can subdue it.

The giant bird looked at the six unmoved people, a hint of anger flashing in its phoenix eyes. Then it flapped its wings, and beams of blazing red light shot out from its shoulders, heading towards the location of the six people one by one.

The six people dodged aside and simultaneously hovered in mid-air.

"interesting!"

One of the clones laughed, "Why don't we test this guy on Earth Swamp Twenty-Four? What do you guys think!"

The other five nodded. They weren't in a hurry anyway, so they figured they might as well stretch their muscles.

In an instant, five figures flew out and surrounded the giant bird in the middle, according to the number six.

Seeing the actions of the people in front of it, the giant bird did not understand what was going on, but it still spewed out a ball of flame from its mouth and shot it toward the figure in front of it.

The clone, however, paid no attention. In an instant, several black holes appeared around it, from which beams of multicolored light shot out and towards the giant bird.

Five Elements and One Qi

The burst of energy instantly dispersed the giant bird's flames and struck the bird itself.

The giant bird retreated slightly, barely managing to regain its footing.

But before it could react, the six people around it also made their move at the same time and directly activated the second level of the Twenty-Four Earthly Marsh.

In an instant, six different beams of light—cyan, red, brown, dark blue, white, and black—rose up and quickly transformed into a spiraling tornado, enveloping the giant bird within.

The giant bird let out a sharp cry, and with another flap of its wings, it struck the tornado directly.

The tornado remained completely unharmed, but for some reason, the lava below was unaffected by the tornado and continued to flow freely.

But no one was paying attention to these things at the moment. The six people maintaining the formation were carefully watching the giant bird in front of them, in case it found a chance to break the formation and escape.

The giant bird was dizzy from being hit by the four seasons and the black and white energy. Its anger rose up and it suddenly shook its wings, causing its whole body to burst into flames.

The six clones exchanged glances, their hands forming and changing hand seals in rapid succession.

In an instant, the six auras within the formation condensed into six colorful swords, which shot towards the location of the giant bird.

Sensing the approaching longswords, the giant bird suddenly flipped over, its wings propelling it towards the six colorful swords, barely managing to deflect them.

Upon seeing this, one of the clones ceased maintaining the formation, suddenly leaped up, and a multicolored sphere suddenly appeared in its palm.

"ah"

The clone roared, and the sphere in its hand flew out, exploding in mid-air and turning into countless flying needles that shot towards the giant bird's location.

Five Elements Destruction Divine Needle
(End of this chapter)