Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

Chapter 417 The Power of Fourth-Order Frost Flame, Teng Feng's Doubts

In the sky.

Sensing the giant scale eagle leader's intention to retreat, Li Ping shook his head slightly.

By comprehending the Dao of Arrays through the Tree of Inheritance, he will be trapped in an illusion for several days, during which time he will be completely powerless against danger.

Although compared to when he was in the Western Wilderness Inheritance Array Path last time, he now has two third-tier combatants, the Wildfire Sparrow and the Earth Spirit Rat, which greatly improves his safety.

Even if they joined forces, they were still no match for the late-stage Tier 3 giant scaled eagle leader before them.

Moreover, the Demon King is very attached to its nest. Even if he forces the Giant Scaled Eagle leader to leave now, it might return before long.

If this happens, Li Ping is likely to be in danger.

Therefore, he would not allow the giant scaled eagle leader to leave unscathed; he had to keep it behind in order to receive the third-tier superior array Dao inheritance with peace of mind!

His previous battle with the giant scaled eagle leader, wielding the Dragon Slayer Guillotine, was primarily to test his own strength!

After all, even with two spirit beasts and a puppet working together to attack him using conventional methods, it would be difficult to defeat this late-stage third-tier flying demon king.

Even the Wildfire Sparrow couldn't keep up with the Giant Scaled Eagle leader's speed, except for Li Ping himself!

To kill the giant scaled eagle leader, he has no choice but to use his trump card!

Having thought this through, and seeing that the giant scaled eagle leader seemed about to escape, Li Ping no longer hesitated.

brush!

With a slight flap of his blood wings, he transformed into a streak of blood, flashing rapidly through the void. Accompanied by a strong smell of blood, he pounced directly towards the leader of the giant scaled eagles.

The provocative intent was blatantly revealed.

When the giant scaled eagle leader saw the wildfire sparrow and earth spirit rat arrive, he hesitated and wondered if he should retreat first.

But now that it saw Li Ping rushing over, looking like he didn't take it seriously, it couldn't stand this humiliation. It immediately let out a sharp cry, its wings vibrated rapidly, turning into a gust of wind, and its claws slammed down on Li Ping.

That terrifying aura seemed to be about to tear Li Ping into a pile of mangled flesh!

"Boom!"

A violent impact, the clash of claws against the dragon-slaying guillotine!

The giant eagle leader initially thought that Li Ping would be knocked away by it again, just like it had done several times before, but suddenly it realized something was wrong.

The golden guillotine of that short human was now covered with a layer of silvery-white flames, which surged and burned like dancing sprites.

The giant scaled eagle leader knew about fire and that food tasted better when cooked over flames.

But the flame on the guillotine in front of it was completely different from any flame it knew.

The silvery-white flames were clearly burning and leaping, but they emitted not high temperatures, but extreme cold!

At that moment, the leader of the giant scaled eagles vaguely sensed that something was wrong.

It frantically flapped its wings, trying to escape, but it was too late!

Following the point of contact between the Dragon Slayer Guillotine and its claws, a small ball of silvery-white flame wrapped around its claws.

Based solely on its intuition, the giant eagle leader knew that being touched by the flames was extremely dangerous. It frantically shook its claws, trying to shake off the flames.

But the cold flames clung to it like a bone-deep infection, impossible to shake off.

And then, "click!"

The eerie silver-white ice rapidly spread from its claws, freezing it into a crystal-clear silver-white ice sculpture in the blink of an eye.

"Squeak~"

"Chirp chirp~"

Just then, the Wildfire Sparrow, carrying a bald bird no smaller than itself, flew to Li Ping's side along with the Earth Spirit Rat.

They looked at the silvery-white ice sculptures floating in the sky, and a hint of barely perceptible fear appeared in their eyes.

But the mouse quickly realized what was happening and let out a soft chirping. The message coming from its mind was clearly that it was shouting "Master is mighty!"

Li Ping couldn't help but smile.

His gaze first fell on the bald bird held by the Wildfire Sparrow, which was the remaining early-stage Tier 3 Giant Scaled Eagle. At this moment, all the feathers on the Giant Scaled Eagle's body had been burned off, revealing the gray scales covered by its wings.

Faintly, Li Ping could also smell the aroma of roasted meat wafting through the air.

Considering that the Wildfire Sparrow's forte was fire magic, its death was quite cruel.

Turning his gaze away, Li Ping looked again at the silvery-white ice sculpture floating in the air.

The power of the fourth-order Taiyin Cold Flame was indeed extraordinary, equivalent to a strike from a Nascent Soul cultivator. It froze the Giant Scaled Eagle leader, whose strength had reached the late stage of the third order, before he could even react, extinguishing all his life force.

Of course, unleashing a fourth-order cold flame attack almost exhausted all of Li Ping's mana and even depleted a significant portion of his own essence.

If he didn't have a second Golden Core as a backup, and could restore his original essence through the Nourishing Life Technique, he wouldn't have dared to use the fourth-order spiritual flame at all.

To use a fourth-tier spiritual flame freely, one must have at least the cultivation level of the late Core Formation stage.

With many thoughts flashing through his mind, Li Ping took a step forward and arrived in front of the floating silver-white ice sculpture. He pressed it down with one hand, and the ice sculpture instantly melted and disappeared.

To Li Ping's surprise, at the same moment the ice sculpture melted, the giant scaled eagle leader, which was frozen inside, suddenly turned into dust with a "poof" and disappeared without a trace.

Demon core, claws, tail feathers—all the highly valuable Tier 3 superior spiritual materials were destroyed by Tier 4 cold flames.

"Forehead----"

Li Ping was slightly taken aback, and a bitter smile appeared in his eyes.

Although he killed the leader of the giant scaled eagles in this battle, he gained nothing and even lost a magical shield. He also suffered a great loss.

The main reason for all this was that he hadn't expected the power of the fourth-order Taiyin Cold Flame to be so outrageous.

It instantly annihilated the late-stage third-tier demonic bird, and didn't even leave behind its corpse.

He shook his head, his gaze falling on the corpse of the third-tier low-grade giant scaled eagle that the Wildfire Sparrow was carrying.

brush!brush!brush!

Several sword lights flashed and instantly extracted the useful materials from its body. Then, after thinking for a moment, he also collected the materials from the corpse-separated demon bird in his storage bag.

Then he threw the two demon bird corpses to the two beasts, Wildfire Sparrow and Earth Spirit Rat, who had made contributions.

The flesh and blood of third-tier demonic birds contain abundant spiritual energy, making them their favorite food.

He was about to fly down to check the third-grade high-quality spiritual vein, but when he saw the two beasts still staring at him longingly after they had divided their food, their eyes filled with desire and flattery.

Realizing the two beasts' intentions, he couldn't help but be speechless: "You want demon cores, huh? —"

Unlike human cultivators, demonic beasts can enhance their cultivation by directly devouring the demon cores of other demonic beasts. The Earth Spirit Rat and the Wildfire Sparrow had their eyes on the two demon cores in his hand.

Realizing that keeping the demon core wouldn't be of much use to himself, he decided to give it to the two spirit beasts to refine, which would allow them to advance quickly.

Without further hesitation, Li Ping flipped his hand, and two demon cores, one large and one small, appeared in his palm.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

The larger demon core landed in front of the Wildfire Sparrow and was swallowed in one gulp, while the smaller golden core flew directly into the belly of the Earth Spirit Rat.

"Come find me after you finish eating!"

After feeding the two spirit beasts their demon cores, Li Ping gave them a few instructions and then headed directly towards the direction from which the late-stage third-tier giant scaled eagle leader had come.

A moment later, Li Ping appeared at the top of a small mountain that was about 100 feet high.

The mountaintop was not large, less than ten acres. After carefully sensing it, his gaze finally settled on a thick spirit tree.

Whoosh!

Li Ping flew to the spirit tree and, after a careful examination, a smile appeared in his eyes. "This spirit tree is actually a third-grade, high-quality Cloudwood."

Although Cloudwood is not a particularly precious spiritual material, since it has reached the third-grade superior level, its value is naturally considerable.

Leaving the roots behind, Li Ping wielded the Dragon-Slaying Cleaver to cut the spirit wood and put it into his storage bag, then stood there silently.

If he guessed correctly, this Cloud Tree was the dwelling place of the Giant Scaled Eagle leader, and its location was precisely the spiritual eye of the third-grade superior spiritual vein on the Spirit Island.

After a moment's thought, Li Ping did not rush to pass on the art of array formation.

Instead, he waited for the two beasts to finish eating and return, while sitting cross-legged to recover his magical power with the help of the local spiritual veins.

Having just used the Taiyin Cold Flame to deplete his magical power, he naturally needs to adjust his condition before inheriting the legacy.

After all, once the inheritance is passed down, the spiritual veins will be absorbed by the Tree of Inheritance.

If he wants to restore his magical power, he will either have to use up the large amount of spirit stones he carries, or he will have to find another mid-grade third-level spiritual vein and find a way to drive away the demonic beasts that inhabit it.

Why not use the existing spiritual veins?

He must be out of his mind to inexplicably create trouble for himself.

After meditating for several days, Li Ping finally recovered his depleted magical power.

At the same time, the Wildfire Sparrow and the Earth Spirit Rat had already swallowed the two third-tier demonic birds, one large and one small, and landed in front of Li Ping, looking like they had eaten and drunk their fill.

Of course, both the spirit-filled flesh and blood of the demonic bird and the two demonic cores containing pure primordial energy require them to spend a lot of time refining them.

It would be best if Li Ping took the initiative to put them into his storage bag and let them digest their harvest while they slept.

However, Li Ping plans to inherit the third-tier high-grade array method, at which time he will be trapped in an illusion. The two beasts will have to shoulder the heavy responsibility of protecting their master, so they can only postpone their own cultivation for now.

He took out one set of each of the five elements' top-grade third-tier spiritual materials that he had prepared beforehand from his storage bag and laid them out in a row on the ground.

Li Ping instructed the Earth Spirit Rat through his consciousness that after he fell into a deep sleep, the rat would use its earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a technique that allows one to escape into the ground) to carry him and the Wildfire Sparrow directly underground for a thousand feet. They would then find a safe place to dig a hole and settle down, just like they did last time in the Western Wilderness Cloud Mist Mountains.

After giving repeated instructions and confirming that the Earth Spirit Mouse understood his orders, he gave them to the Earth Spirit Mouse.

Li Ping was relieved and stretched out his palms.

Countless transparent tendrils, visible only to himself, spread from his palms, coiling around the five spiritual objects on the ground, as well as the third-tier superior spiritual vein and spiritual eye.

The next moment, Li Ping's vision blurred, and he was already trapped in an illusion.

On the azure sea.

More than ten figures rushed over at great speed. Judging from their speed, these figures were at least at the Core Formation stage.

More than ten figures flew silently. Suddenly, one of them spoke up in confusion, "Fellow Daoist Yuan, if I'm not mistaken, we should be leaving the near sea soon!"

The one addressed as Fellow Daoist Yuan was an old man with a square face and mottled hair. He flew in front of the group, vaguely resembling a leader, and his strength had clearly reached the late stage of Core Formation.

Hearing someone ask a question, he turned around and glanced at the speaker before smiling and nodding: "Brother Tao is right, our mission this time is indeed in the deep sea."

Upon hearing his words, apart from the four Core Formation cultivators who were with him, the remaining eight Core Formation cultivators all showed expressions of horror.

"Fellow Daoist Yuan, the deep sea is not a place we can go."

"I have always had a very pleasant working relationship with your chamber of commerce. What is the meaning behind this?"

Seeing that the eight people were making a fuss, the old man surnamed Yuan was not angry. He calmly said, "This mission of our Chamber of Commerce is top secret. Fellow Daoists, you are all guests of our Yinghai Chamber of Commerce. Only trustworthy people can participate."

"However, my Yinghai Chamber of Commerce will never force you fellow Daoists. It just so happens that I remember there is a third-tier spirit island not far ahead. Let's go there to recover our strength, and I will also explain the details of this mission to you fellow Daoists."

Since the old man surnamed Yuan had said so, the others couldn't say anything more and could only follow him on his way.

Before long, an island appeared in front of them.

A group of Core Formation cultivators flew over the island and simultaneously slaughtered a group of Sea-Gazing Apes who lived on the island, dividing up the island's spiritual materials.

They then found places in twos and threes to meditate and regulate their breathing.

Half a day later, more than ten figures appeared in a cave dwelling opened up by the old man surnamed Yuan. Judging from their positions, they were vaguely divided into two groups.

One group consisted of eight Core Formation experts, while the other group consisted of five elderly men surnamed Yuan.

Seeing the eight people's wary expressions, the old man surnamed Yuan smiled and said, "I didn't tell you the mission location before mainly to keep it a secret. Now I can tell you clearly that we are indeed going to cross the Turbulent Currents to reach the outer sea. If any of you do not want to participate in this mission, I will not force you."

After hearing what the old man surnamed Yuan said, all eight people present hesitated and exchanged glances.

Teng Feng awakened the Nether Bone within his sea of ​​consciousness and asked, puzzled, "Senior, why do I feel this mission is strange? The outer seas are the territory of demonic beasts and sea creatures. What business does the Yinghai Chamber of Commerce have that requires us to go to the outer seas?"

"Heh heh—how would I know about their affairs?" The sinister voice of the Dark Bone echoed directly in his mind: "However, I suggest you don't go to the outer sea."

Teng Feng nodded slightly in agreement with Ming Gu's statement.

The dangers of the open sea are far greater than those of the near sea. Since this fellow Daoist Yuan has allowed them to withdraw, he naturally has no desire to go.

After exchanging glances, the eight people were about to exit the mission together.

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Sensing that the eight people were about to retreat, the old man surnamed Yuan calmly moved his lips and began to transmit his voice to each of the eight people present.

"Fellow Daoist Teng, I heard you're searching for Ghost Jade Gold. I happen to have a piece. If you agree to participate in this mission, I'll offer it as payment. What do you say?"

An aged voice reached Teng Feng's ears.

He was taken aback, for Ghost Jade Gold was a key material for him to refine his natal magic weapon.

It is precisely because of the lack of this material that he has not yet been able to refine his own natal magic weapon and has been using the magic weapon left behind by the Nether Bone.

It must be said that the old man surnamed Yuan's conditions hit the nail on the head.

He did not agree immediately, but looked up at the other seven people and saw that their eyes were all gloomy and uncertain.

Clearly, they were all offered a condition they couldn't refuse.

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