The Fate of Eternal Life

Chapter 27: Ancient Green Gold Pagoda

Ning Qingyi stood on the barren land, and in front of him was a piece of red soil. Reddish-brown rocks were scattered sporadically on the vast ground, as if they were debris forgotten by time.

The earth was desolate and silent, without a single sign of life, save for the occasional bare rocky mountain dotting the horizon.

Ning Qingyi's gaze swept across the barren land, knowing that this seemingly lifeless land actually hid countless secrets. His steps were firm and powerful, and he soon arrived at the foot of a rocky mountain.

The stone mountain wasn't high, but its shape was bizarre, as if deliberately carved by some force. Its surface was covered in strange lines that shimmered faintly in the sunlight, like some ancient rune.

Ning Qingyi observed these patterns carefully, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes. He raised his hands, and divine power drew mysterious patterns in the air, forming a profound array pattern of heaven and earth.

He shouted softly, and the array pattern merged into the void like a flexible silk thread, echoing with the patterns on the stone mountain.

As time passed, his hands moved faster and faster. Finally, when he cast the last array pattern, the entire stone mountain seemed to have triggered some kind of mechanism. The earth began to shake slightly, and a hole as tall as a person appeared in the void in front of him, with a completely different scenery in it.

On what should have been an empty expanse, a multitude of stone houses, built from the rocks, appeared. They were arranged in a staggered pattern, resembling an ancient village. Between the houses, figures loomed, some busy, some chatting. Nearby, vast mines lay beneath, revealing the true treasures of this land.

Ning Qingyi had infiltrated the area, and for the past month, besides gathering information and searching for his target, he had also been working to crack the formation of the Yaoguang Holy Land's source mine. After all, he wasn't one of the Thirteen Bandits, so he couldn't just attack openly.

He used his telepathy to confuse several miners and sneaked into the miners' team. Just as he was about to go down, he heard a terrified sound coming from the front.

"The mine ahead is haunted!"

"Something ominous was dug up, and many people who went in died."

I saw an evil aura coming out of the mine not far ahead, as if something was about to rush out.

Two Yaoguang disciples who were guarding the mine rushed in. Both of them were at the Dao Palace level. They stood beside the mine, frowned, and grabbed a miner who had just run out.

One of the disciples asked, "What happened down there?"

The captured miner's face was filled with fear: "I don't know either. It seems someone dug out a bloody source deep down, and after it accidentally collapsed, many people died!"

A miner who was running faster added, "Gods, this well is haunted! I've been mining for five or six years. This is very ominous!"

The two disciples looked at each other and waited at the mine entrance for a long time, but saw no changes. After hesitating for a while, they made up their minds.

"Let's go down and have a look!"

"Well, be careful, I don't think anything will happen."

Despite comforting each other, the Yaoguang disciples still couldn't stop worrying on their faces.

The source mine is in chaos, this is a very bad omen!
The two men jumped down. Ning Qingyi attached his spiritual consciousness to the two of them and used his telepathy to silently watch what was happening below.

Down in the mine, dim lights illuminated the mottled rock walls, and the air was filled with a damp and eerie smell. The mine tunnel, though winding, was not narrow. Faint lights flickered on the walls on both sides, reflecting the source's light.

Two Yaoguang disciples explored the way cautiously, one holding a sharp sword, the other holding a bronze bell, and even a few talismans flashing in their hands. It was obvious that something was not going well, so they quickly ran for their lives.

Fortunately, the ominous sign in the cave seemed to be only temporary. When we reached the end, we only saw the corpses of a few people and nothing else.

The two disciples breathed a sigh of relief.

"It looks like it was just an accident. Let's go back quickly."

"Just tell the elders that."

Obviously, Yaoguang's disciples were also afraid of going down into the mines, after all, anything could happen in the mining area.

After the two disciples came out of the mine, they comforted the miners, ordered them not to spread rumors, and then flew away.

Upon seeing this, Ning Qing hesitated among the many miners and finally locked onto a source mine that had the most strange things happening recently. Then he secretly went down the well and used the Five Elements Escape to disappear in the mine.

He used the Luofu Ding to disappear under the earth. Even though his invincible golden body had shrunk, he did not dare to move around at will. If he bumped into the corpse of a great king, a semi-saint, or even a saint, he would most likely be seriously injured or even die.

"A sudden impulse can penetrate the secrets of heaven. Fuxi's Eight Trigrams span the past and present."

Although Ning Qingyi does not have the means of seeking the source like Master Yuan Tian, ​​with the many heavenly skills and treasures he has now, especially the blessing of the small destiny technique, he is able to do many incredible things.

I saw him moving back and forth, twisting and turning, sometimes up, sometimes down, suddenly to the left, suddenly to the right, but eventually he drilled deeper and deeper, and finally came to hundreds of kilometers under the earth.

Boom!
As soon as Ning Qingyi came out of a layer of barriers, he found himself in a pitch-black cave. There was only a dim light source not far ahead.

As soon as he thought about it, the golden heart lamp of Daojie floated above his left shoulder, emitting bright light.

After experiencing several heavenly tribulations in the Four Extremes Realm, this heart lamp has become more and more extraordinary. Among the burning flames, one can even hear the low sound of thunder.

The Dao Jie Golden Heart Lamp ignited, instantly illuminating the entire cave. Then, a chilling aura rose to the sky, chilling his heart. The Dao Jie Golden Heart Lamp suddenly blazed brightly, and the flames from the Fire Realm emitted an astonishing temperature, as if burning something.

Ning Qingyi finally saw the true face of the entire void.

The lower part of the cave is very flat, and the ground is paved with hard rocks. It is several miles in radius. There are also huge stone pillars on the edge, reaching directly to the top of the cave, which complement the stalactite rock pillars.

In the center of the stone ground stood a metal pyramid, over a hundred meters tall. Its entire structure was cyan, gleaming with a metallic sheen, devoid of any trace of rust. Its surface was engraved with images of the sun, moon, and stars, like some ancient and powerful rune, emitting a mysterious glow.

Ning Qingyi breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that he had not found the wrong place.

With a serious expression, he used the secret of word combination to confirm that this lapis lazuli pagoda was constantly absorbing the essence of the earth with the support of this foundation and was trying its best to maintain its existence.

"As expected, this ancient treasure is indeed the core of a formation, otherwise it would have been destroyed long ago."

In this universe, except for the emperor's weapons that can absorb the essence of heaven and earth on their own, the power of the other many magical weapons will gradually fade without anyone to continuously nurture them, and they may even become ordinary weapons after a long time.

The lapis lazuli pagoda before us has been preserved from the ancient times to this day. If it were not for the support of this true formation, it might have "died".

Ning Qingyi walked forward, kept a safe distance, and looked carefully at the ancient lapis lazuli pagoda.

He soon discovered something strange. On the surface of the ancient lapis lazuli pagoda, traces of feathering appeared, resembling the beautiful long feathers of a phoenix, catching everyone's eye. He was astonished: "Just feathering lapis lazuli?!"

Feathered blue gold!

This is one of the nine divine golds, and is the most mysterious, along with the Daojie Gold and Shenhen Purple Gold in his hands.

Throughout history, numerous imperial weapons forged from Feathered Green Gold have held renown, the most renowned of which is the Heaven-Measure Ruler of Demon Emperor Xue Yueqing. If the outside world were to learn of such a massive Feathered Green Gold Pagoda, it would undoubtedly cause catastrophic consequences.

"No, it's just mixed with some Feathered Green Gold, and the main body is still mixed with other divine irons."

Ning Qingyi was a little disappointed, but he quickly cheered up. Even if the main body was not Yuhua Qingjin, with such a large area here, it would be at least as big as a fist.

He began to plan and soon came up with a plan.

He was seen moving around quickly, casting array patterns at many key nodes of the foundation and integrating them into them. Then he took out the array flags that he had built earlier and quickly arranged them throughout the cave, even placing a lot of them above the cave.

"rise!"

As soon as Ning Qing used the secret of word formation, enormous divine power surged out of his body. Then many formation flags surged, echoing the heaven and earth formation patterns he had cast before.

The next second, the direction of the spiritual energy in the foundation changed! The foundation no longer supported the ancient lapis lazuli pagoda, but instead merged with the formation flag, transforming into another formation!
"The Heavenly Dragnet, refine it for me!"

Ning Qingyi changed the seal in his hand, and many formation flags merged together, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the cave. Suddenly, the cave was misty, and gray air currents spread out, and then merged to strangle the ancient lapis lazuli tower.

The ancient lapis lazuli pagoda suddenly vibrated and emitted a trembling sound.

"go with!"

The Daojie Golden Heart Lamp on his shoulder flew up and merged with the Heaven and Earth Net Formation, and flames shot up into the sky in an instant!

The five-colored cloud flames drawn from the Fire Domain instantly filled the void and fiercely burned towards the Ancient Blue Gold Pagoda. The Ancient Blue Gold Pagoda immediately emitted a large green halo, which consumed the five-colored cloud flames.

In that green halo, an ancient aura as vast as the universe swept in, mixed with many images.

There are thousand-year-old ancient trees rising from the ground to form a primeval forest, there are falling crystal sources that seal the fallen powerful creatures in amber-like source stones, and there are also jade-like humanoid creatures that can split mountains with one hand.

Ancient lapis lazuli pagodas and ancient temples in the shape of Taoist temples stand in disarray, with various alien guardians standing quietly in front of the temples. Bronze totems and star patterns flow on the mottled stone walls, conveying a sacred pressure that transcends time and space.

This is the ancient times, when all races fought for supremacy.

Ning Qingyi's mind was shocked, but he soon calmed down. Under the wear and tear of the formation and the five-colored cloud flames, the ancient sapphire pagoda quickly lost its power to resist, then dimmed and no longer glowed.

He stopped immediately, used Fuxi Bagua to divine again, and then slowly walked in.

The god of the ancient lapis lazuli pagoda is sleeping. There is a passage on each side to enter. Ning Qingyi walked along the passage and found that there were various pictures carved on the passage of the lapis lazuli pagoda, which were obviously different from those of humans.

Soon, he reached the end of the passage, which was the intersection of four passages, forming a tomb chamber inside the tower, in which was placed a green copper coffin!
See the bronze coffin again!

Ning Qingyi's pupils shrank, and thinking of the previous scene, he suspected that this might be the ancestral temple of a destroyed tribe among the ancient myriad clans, and that the tribe's peerless masters were buried there.

"We can't stay long, let's go early."

Ning Qingyi withdrew from the ancient lapis lazuli tower and used the Heaven and Earth Net Formation again. Under the refining of the formation, the entire ancient lapis lazuli tower shrank again and again, and finally became as big as a baby's fist and fell into his hand, dim like a pearl covered with dust.

He placed the ancient lapis lazuli pagoda into the sea of ​​suffering, then took away the formation flag. Just as he was about to use the Five Elements Escape to leave, he noticed a sudden tremor of the heavens and the earth, and discovered that there was great magic power in the surrounding stone walls.

Immediately afterwards, soil and rocks flew everywhere, caves cracked, the earth's crust within a radius of several miles moved violently, and the entire foundation continued to rise.

Ning Qingyi's pupils shrank, knowing that someone was performing a powerful magical power that could move mountains and fill the sea. Apparently, someone at Yaoguang Holy Land had discovered him?!
Is it the first heaven of Xiantai? Or the second heaven?

If it is the former, Ning Qingyi still has a chance to escape with his own strength. If it is the latter, he will probably have to rely on the Luofu Ding to save his life.

"Don't worry about alarming others, let's go first!"

Ning Qingyi used Fuxi Bagua again, and after finding out that the east was the way to survive, he directly used the Five Elements Escape and dived directly to the east.

The divine power exerted on the entire foundation immediately felt the change, and a huge roar was heard from the sky.

"It's indeed different! Leave it to me!"

Ning Qingyi felt the divine power in the soil suddenly become thicker, but he just snorted coldly, and the divine power burst out from his body, directly penetrated through it, then sneaked on the ground for a distance and rushed out of the Yaoguang mining area directly.

But just as he felt the freshness in the air, he saw an old man with white hair and beard rushing towards him from the horizon.

The Yaoguang Elder's eyes were like lightning. He locked onto Ning Qingyi, who was fleeing, and shouted, "Stop!"

He used the Yaoguang killing technique, the Holy Light Technique. In an instant, the sky and the earth were covered by light, which suddenly spread over him.

Ning Qingyi didn't even turn his head, but just stimulated the divine power in his body, and the invincible golden body started to operate automatically.

boom!
The Holy Light hit his back, but it only caused him to feel great pain, without him even spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Ok?
Ning Qingyi realized something was wrong. This divine power was completely unlike the divine power that had just sealed the earth. The one chasing him was just a dragon-transforming cultivator, and he had not yet reached the great perfection of dragon-transformation.

His expression changed, and he deliberately slowed down to feel the attack again. This time he was finally sure that the one chasing him could only be an opponent who had transformed into a dragon seven times!

In this case.

Ning Qingyi's eyes shone brightly. He slightly adjusted his flight trajectory, then pretended to be defeated and fell towards a rocky mountain in his sight. When the next attack of holy light came, he simply fell into it.

Elder Yaoguang, who was in pursuit, was overjoyed upon seeing this. He burned his divine power and used the peerless steps of the Yaoguang Holy Land, transforming into a long rainbow and falling into the stone mountain!

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