Immortal Refiner

Rumble!

Within the Bronze Ruins, as Li Qing continued to unearth the bronze stones, he had already acquired eight pieces of ancient bronze artifacts.

Gradually, people joined this space, competing with them for the bronze stones within these ruins.

Seeing that the number had increased to sixteen or seventeen, even if the Bronze Ruins were vast, they inevitably felt somewhat strained.

The speed at which bronze spikes evolved into bronze stones could no longer keep up with their mining.

“Digging further will only decrease efficiency. It would be better to explore other spaces for other opportunities.”

“However, before leaving, I can make a big score.”

Li Qing stopped excavating the bronze stones and surveyed the existing bronze stones in this ruin.

A resolute look flashed in his eyes, deciding to do something before leaving.

Instantly, a round of brilliant golden sun appeared behind him. Li Qing raised the Great Sun Golden Flame with both hands, and the mana in his body poured out violently.

Boom!

Li Qing slammed the golden sun in his hand down. The dazzling sun burned with wisps of golden flames. Before it even fell, the patches of bronze stones and bronze spikes in the ruins melted and were destroyed together.

On the other side, the red-skinned Yaksha's movements were not slow either. Jagged bones burst from his body, and a large amount of scarlet blood gushed out from his body surface, directly causing a rain of blood in this space.

“These two little beasts actually want to destroy this place!”

“Stop it! How can you do such a thing as killing the goose that lays the golden eggs!”

“Beasts! I am only about thirty bronze artifacts away from touching the threshold of the late stage of Refining Void. I hope to survive the next Great Heavenly Tribulation!”

“I won’t spare you two!”

One after another, voices of shock and anger echoed in the Bronze Ruins, wishing they could kill Li Qing and the red-skinned Yaksha kid quickly.

But the next moment, patches of clear light emerged.

This was a sign of the appearance of ancient bronze artifacts. The combined attack of the two had almost destroyed most of the Bronze Ruins.

Seeing this, Li Qing did not hesitate to grab the nearest ancient bronze artifacts. His movements were extremely fast, and he immediately seized at least twenty ancient bronze artifacts.

Those who were scolding also closed their mouths and began to scramble for the other bronze artifacts that appeared in the ruins.

“Thirty-four bronze artifacts, almost enough to save more than a hundred years of closed-door meditation, not bad.”

More than a hundred years of closed-door meditation can increase his mana a lot, but it will take at least five thousand years to break through to the middle stage of Refining Void.

Li Qing did not intend to use the opportunity of the bronze artifacts here to directly step into the middle stage of Refining Void, which was simply unrealistic.

In just a few breaths, the bronze artifacts that had just exploded in the field were snatched away. Everyone's movements were very fast, and they almost all harvested more than ten bronze artifacts.

But these people did not intend to appreciate it. They believed that if it weren't for Li Qing and the red-skinned Yaksha, they should have been able to harvest more!

Such a safe opportunity is rare in this Profound Heaven Divine Palace.

Some people showed anger, and their sharp eyes glared at Li Qing and the red-skinned Yaksha, as if they were planning to demand an explanation.

Li Qing was not in a hurry to leave. He stood with his hands behind his back with a calm expression, not worried about being retaliated against at all.

If anyone really couldn't think straight and attacked him, he wouldn't mind taking the bronze artifacts excavated by these people as a reward.

Most of the people present were cultivators in the Refining Void stage, and only a few were in the Transformation God stage, basically unable to pose any threat to him.

However, Li Qing stayed here not to wait for their revenge. He quietly stared at the center of the ruins.

The red-skinned Yaksha was also the same, staring straight at the center of the Bronze Ruins, as if there was something hidden there.

“Tsk, is it because there weren't enough explosions that it hasn't appeared yet?” The red-skinned Yaksha whispered.

Hearing this, Li Qing knew that the other party had also discovered the anomaly here.

He flipped his left hand, preparing to blast open the remaining bronze stones that had not been destroyed, but just then, the ground of the ruins suddenly trembled.

Rumble!

Noticing this movement, Li Qing slowly pressed down his left hand, his eyes lit up.

“Sure enough, there are other things under this ruin.”

When he was excavating just now, he noticed that these bronze stones seemed to be controlled by some kind of existence.

The divine powers and spells they blasted out with pure mana, after blasting open the bronze stones, would also flow into the ground.

Therefore, he concluded that there should be some unknown thing that devours their mana under this Bronze Ruin.

Along with the violent roar, from the central area of the ruins, cracks spread out.

“What’s going on? There’s actually something below?”

“Hiss! This Bronze Ruin is really not that simple.”

“What triggered it? Could it be some kind of restriction?”

“…”

Only to see a huge bronze statue rising from under the ground. This statue was clad in bronze armor, holding a bronze spear in its right hand and a bronze shield in its left hand, with a bronze helmet on its head.

Chī!

A burst of white vapor was released from the bronze statue's body, and a large number of bronze fragments fell from the statue's body.

Buzz!

Only to see two beams of light burst out from the statue's eyes, as if it had come to life.

Rumble!

The statue raised the spear in its hand and stabbed it towards the nearest cultivator.

The spear burst out with a sound of piercing through the air, almost piercing through the air, extremely fast.

The next moment, the cultivator in the early stage of Refining Void didn't even have time to react before his body was pierced by the bronze spear.

His expression showed horror. Soon, a gray primordial spirit floated out of his body.

But before the primordial spirit of this cultivator could escape, the bronze statue opened its mouth, and a terrifying suction force appeared. The primordial spirit had no resistance and was directly swallowed into the belly of the bronze statue.

Hua!

The faces of everyone present changed drastically, and they retreated as if they were crazy.

“A puppet comparable to the Integration stage? How can there be such a thing!”

“Who exactly refined this? A puppet at the Integration Stage! How can anyone in this world be so proficient in puppetry!”

“Run! This giant statue kills anyone it sees, there's no room for resistance!”

“Damn it, it's all those two brutes' fault, otherwise I could have quietly mined bronze stones here to increase my cultivation.”

“Escape!”

Instantly, many people present scattered like frightened birds and beasts, completely terrified, desperately running towards the light gate of this space.

Only a few people remained, including Li Qing and the red-skinned Yaksha who had lured out this bronze giant.

The latter looked at Li Qing, revealing a smile that seemed to crack his mouth.

“You actually sensed the hidden opportunity here, your perception is quite sharp.”

“If not for the unique spiritual power of my Yaksha clan, I really wouldn't have been able to discover the whereabouts of these magical powers.”

Li Qing shook his head and said, “It was just a coincidence, luck.”

The red-skinned Yaksha didn't believe it, he chuckled and said, “How should I put it, now there are only five people left, do you think we can deal with this bronze giant?”

“There's no choice, since we lured it out, we can only try.” Li Qing stared intently at the rampaging giant, the armor and weapons on it were definitely bronze!

If they could destroy it, they should be able to take it to the altar for sacrifice to exchange for cultivation.

Moreover, the bronze ware on this bronze giant is quite large, and the harvest obtained from the sacrifice will definitely far exceed the small objects mined from the bronze stones.

Hearing this, the red-skinned Yaksha's smile deepened, he sneered, “I originally thought I could leave more people behind to deal with this giant together, but I didn't expect them all to be cowards, so we can only do it the hard way!”

At this time, the berserk bronze giant rushed towards him, its momentum was extremely terrifying, there was no doubt that few beings below the Integration Stage could withstand its attack.

The skin on the red-skinned Yaksha's body became even redder, as if it was about to drip blood.

He let out a low roar, his eyes completely turned red, as if he had lost his mind.

“Roar!”

In the next moment, his body also swelled up to a rather exaggerated degree, suddenly becoming comparable in size to this bronze giant.

Boom!

The giant thrust another spear at the red-skinned Yaksha, who raised his right hand to block it with the bone spurs extending from his elbow.

Clang!

It actually blocked it! The bronze spear did not pierce through the giant red Yaksha, but instead shook him back a few steps.

The frenzied red Yaksha said in a hoarse voice: “If you keep watching the show, no one will gain anything!”

“Hehe, I didn't expect it to be the Yaksha clan's Heaven-Slaying Yaksha, I'm truly impressed.”

A wolf-headed man rushed out, and on the way, he transformed into a silver giant wolf covered in mysterious patterns.

“Awoo!”

This werewolf powerhouse directly attacked the rear of the bronze giant, but the giant's reaction and movements were unexpectedly fast, he raised the bronze shield and swept it behind him.

Clang!

The silver giant wolf slammed into the shield, almost breaking a few of its wolf teeth.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Arrows pierced through the air, shot by a well-proportioned female cultivator, she held a black repeating crossbow, which was actually an Earth-grade spiritual treasure!

Li Qing also stopped holding back, he took a step forward, and strands of spiritual fire rose around his body, forming rings of fire around him.

Boom!

Four fire rings of different colors rose up and directly enveloped the bronze giant.

The scorching spiritual fire seemed to have a special effect on this bronze giant, quickly scorching the bronze armor on its body to a charred black, and some of the armor even began to fall off.

Boom!

The bronze giant turned around and rushed towards Li Qing, who posed the greatest threat to it.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The heavy footsteps shook the ground constantly, although its body was huge, its speed was not slow at all.

“Cover that human cultivator and let him burn this bronze puppet with spiritual fire.” The red Yaksha said in an extremely hoarse voice.

Faced with the bronze giant's charge, Li Qing did not show any fear, a pair of wings covered with black feathers spread out behind him, and with a slight tremor of his wings, he disappeared from the spot.

However, in the next instant, a sharp bronze spear stabbed towards the position where he had stopped, this bronze giant could actually predict his movements in advance.

“Not good!” Li Qing's pupils suddenly shrank, but it was too late to avoid it.

Bang!

The bronze spear fell, but it did not hit Li Qing, but was deflected by a wooden puppet.

“You hide first, I'll hold back this bronze giant.”

The speaker was a frail, skinny young man with sunken cheeks, like a refugee who had been starving for a long time and was malnourished.

“Puppet master?” Li Qing raised his eyebrows in surprise, and then shook his wind and thunder silver wings again, and escaped at top speed.

The pale-faced boy placed his hands on the ground, and with him as the center, a circle of patterns like a formation spread out.

Boom!

A large number of wooden puppets emerged from the ground, and then swarmed towards the bronze giant fearlessly.

“I'll restrain it, you are responsible for attacking.” The young puppet master continued: “Afterwards, I only need to see the puppet core of this bronze giant, I don't want any other gains.”

“Awoo!” A wolf howl resounded, and the silver giant wolf rushed out again, killing the bronze giant.

The red Yaksha also roared, and sharp bone spurs shot out from his body.

These bone spurs were firmly stuck in the joints of the bronze giant, making its movements less agile and swift, becoming much more rigid.

Seeing this, Li Qing formed hand seals, and four spiritual fires spread out under his feet, forming a magic circle.

“Myriad Flames Burning Heaven Formation!”

Boom!

In an instant, a fiery space formed, and the extremely hot spiritual fire entangled the bronze giant like maggots on a bone, rapidly melting its puppet body.

Bang! Bang!

Dull sounds resounded, that was the sound of the bronze armor falling off the giant!

“Good opportunity, increase the intensity!” The female cultivator holding the black repeating crossbow said in surprise, as if she saw the dawn of victory.

Several strangers, even from different races, were about to defeat a giant puppet comparable in strength to the Integration Stage through their combined efforts, which was definitely a feat.

But Li Qing frowned slightly, feeling that things were not that simple.