Please be my partner.

The seventh floor of Jinding Mountain is inhabited by semi-immortal masters and core disciples who have taken refuge in Jinding Mountain.

When Mellen and Spike entered this floor, hundreds of caves were projected on the core disciple token, and Spike could choose one as his residence.

It is worth mentioning that the caves of the Pengtian Demon King and several powerful demons were also among the choices.

However, these caves are not so easy to choose. You must know that the practitioners in the Mountain and Sea Realm are often accustomed to arranging various formations when building caves. Although these caves are prepared by Jinding Mountain, the strong people living in them will usually use their best skills to arrange them.

Therefore, although Melen did not know why the Jinding Mountain lineage disappeared overnight, he was certain that even though the caves of those powerful men were ownerless, the formations inside them must still be functioning.

After a brief contemplation, Melen fixed his gaze on a cave on the top of the mountain. This was the former residence of the Pengtian Demon Emperor.

Core disciples have many privileges, but this does not mean that they can do whatever they want without restraint. Some basic rules must still be followed, such as not trespassing into other caves without permission, even if those caves are ownerless.

Therefore, if Melen wants to maximize his benefits, he needs to choose a cave that once had an owner, and then crack the means left by the cave owner and inherit his legacy.

So, which great man left the richest legacy?

Melen didn't know. He only knew that there was at least one Ten Thousand Demons Order in the cave of the Pengtian Demon Emperor as a backup. This was information that the demon clan had clearly confirmed.

In addition, the Pengtian Demon Emperor is one of the most powerful people under the command of the Golden Peak Immortal.

Thinking of this, Mellen no longer hesitated and signaled Spike to choose the cave on the top of the mountain.

After making their choice, they were teleported to the top of the mountain.

Looking back, the golden sea of clouds rolls like fish scales. The vastness and boundlessness as far as the eye can see makes people feel relaxed and comfortable.

Because this is already Spike's cave, the original layout of Jinding Mountain is completely under Gou Zi's control.

But just as they expected at the beginning, there were still arrangements made by the Pengtian Demon Emperor. Although time passed, with the support of Jinding Mountain, these arrangements still remained effective.

Mellen and Spike first took a rough look around and determined that there were three areas covered by additional formations: a medicine garden, a quiet room, and a bedroom.

It is worth mentioning that because the Golden Summit Immortal is a human, as the saying goes, what goes up must come down, so big monsters like Pengtian Monster King usually transform into human form to live in their caves.

After staring at each other for a while, Mellen and Spike summoned Nasus and Xiaoyin's clone. As a practitioner of the same immortal system, Xiao Liuli originally wanted to help, but after staring at these formations for a while, its eyes began to spin in circles, and it had no choice but to give up.

Nasus and Xiaoyin said that although these were very sophisticated, they could also be cracked, but it might take longer.

Melen thought about it, and asked Nasus and Xiaoyin to write down the characteristics of these formations separately. Then he took them to the library to look for relevant formation books. As expected, he found them.

With the formation book as a reference, it was equivalent to an open-book exam. The progress of cracking the formation suddenly became countless times faster. It only took seven or eight days to solve the three formations one by one.

Melen was a little disappointed with the quiet room. There was nothing there except a futon.

But it is normal. After all, the quiet room is where people practice in seclusion on weekdays. Even if there are no precious things in it, it is natural to set up an extra layer of formation.

The medicine garden gave Melen a pleasant surprise. It had been expanded to a space of hundreds of kilometers in length and width. Various rare and precious medicines that were tens of thousands of years old were everywhere. Moreover, these tens of thousands of years were only the limit for those ordinary medicinal materials. There were also more than a dozen rare plants that were hundreds of thousands of years old.

And just when Mellen opened the medicine garden, a streak of light suddenly rushed out and tried to escape, but was caught by Spike. It turned out to be a ginseng doll with eyebrows and eyes and intelligence.

Ignoring the ginseng doll's pleas for mercy, Melen became even more excited about the bedroom.

Chapter 532 Great Harvest

The bedroom of the Demon King Pengtian is very spacious, but not as gorgeous as Melen imagined. It can only be said to be okay.

Melen understood the whole situation at a glance. He collected the treasures in the room and finally got a token, a mirror, a small pagoda, and a book.

The token was naturally the Ten Thousand Demons Order that the immortal longed to obtain. Melen played with it for a while and felt the spirituality contained in it, but no matter how much power he injected into it, the Ten Thousand Demons Order showed no reaction. He then asked Xiao Liuli and Nasus to try it, and the same thing happened. He realized that it must be because of the bloodline.

But there seems to be some problems here. According to Changshengxian, the Pengtian Demon Emperor created the Ten Thousand Demons Order to express his gratitude to the Jinding Immortal, which means that this token was actually prepared for the latter.

Given the power and status of the Golden Summit Immortal, the Order of Ten Thousand Demons is just the icing on the cake and actually does not have much effect. The fact that the Order of Ten Thousand Demons was found in the cave of the Pengtian Demon Emperor proves this point in itself.

After ruling out some impossibilities, it means that in addition to bloodline, there should be other ways to control the Ten Thousand Demons Order. Otherwise, wouldn't it be equivalent to slapping the face of the Golden Summit Immortal by presenting a useless thing to the Pengtian Demon Emperor?

Of course, there is another possibility, that is, the Golden Peak Immortal clearly stated that he did not need the Ten Thousand Demons Order and returned it to the Pengtian Demon Emperor, so the bloodline restriction was set up by the Pengtian Demon Emperor afterwards.

These thoughts flashed through Mellen's mind, but he didn't take them too seriously.

The mirror is a demigod-level treasure with the ancient Chinese characters "Guan Tian" written on the back. After being injected with power, it can be used to observe things in the distance. The upper limit of the distance is currently difficult to test. In addition, this "Guan Tian Mirror" has another ability, which is to project power to the observation area through the air. Overall, it is a good treasure.

On the small pagoda are the words "Demon Suppression"...

Seeing this, Melen couldn't help but be speechless. Pengtian Demon Emperor was the emperor of the demon clan in ancient times, but the treasures he created, whether it was the Ten Thousand Demons Order or the Demon Suppression Tower, seemed to be in conflict with the demon clan.

The small town demon tower in Mellen's hand is only its core, and its main body is the tall tower on the sixth floor representing the Pengtian Demon Emperor.

The Demon-Suppressing Tower, as its name suggests, can suppress all the demons in the world. As the types and strength of the demons suppressed increase, the power of the Demon-Suppressing Tower will continue to increase, and it can also produce a special restraining effect when dealing with demons.

Fortunately, the Demon-Suppressing Tower that Melen obtained was not an empty shell of Lv0, but a powerful treasure that had been upgraded to Lvmax by the Demon King Pengtian.

From this, we can also see that when the Demon Emperor Pengtian was able to reach the pinnacle of the demon clan, he did not rely on any peaceful means.

The last book is a summary of the life-long practice of Pengtian Demon Emperor. It is also a treasure in itself. It looks thin, but each page records a vast amount of content.

This book is equivalent to the inheritance of Pengtian Demon Emperor. The various methods in it are applicable to the demon clan, and are even more applicable to the bloodline descendants of Pengtian Demon Emperor himself.

Melen flipped through it casually and then threw it to the dogs to study.

The harvest from Pengtian Demon Emperor's cave this time was quite rich. Not to mention the treasures found in the bedroom, the precious medicines in the medicine garden alone were enough to make Melen very happy.

With the help of the pill recipes in the library, even at the demigod stage, Mellen can replicate the "drug-taking flow" and quickly improve his own strength and the strength of his dogs.

Moreover, Melen has reason to suspect that similar gains may be found in several other caves that were once inhabited by powerful people.

Although the rules of Jinding Mountain clearly state that one cannot enter other caves without reason, rules are dead and people are alive. As the only core disciple of the Jinding Mountain lineage in the contemporary era, Spike, rounding it off, isn't all this his own dog's fault?

Thinking of this, Melen felt at ease.

After sorting out the gains, Melen looked at another extra gain of this trip, the white and fat ginseng doll.

As a treasure born from nature, the ginseng dolls, once they have awakened their intelligence, will definitely be able to hide and move about in secret, with unparalleled escape skills. Even for a semi-immortal, it will not be easy to catch them.

But at this time, although the little ginseng doll had its feet touching the ground, it did not dare to think of running away. Its eyes were full of fear when it looked at Spike, and it curled up into a ball and trembled.

Because the ginseng doll has tried to escape more than once, but was easily caught by the dog monster every time, and the latter caught it by holding it directly in its mouth.

The terrifying experience of being bitten to pieces by teeth at any time was deeply imprinted in the young mind of the ginseng doll, becoming a shadow that would linger for the rest of its life.

Mellen stretched out his finger and poked the little thing that was crouching with its head in its hands and trembling constantly, but the latter trembled even more violently.

Melen looked at his dog, who shrugged with an innocent look.

After trying several times to communicate normally without success, Melen deliberately said, "I thought you were someone I could chat with to relieve boredom. Since you can't even speak, let's just stew you and make soup."

The ginseng doll immediately screamed and shouted, "Don't eat me! Master, don't eat me! I'm not tasty! Not tasty at all!!"

Mellen smiled, then his face turned serious and he said, "Whether it tastes good or not is not up to you to decide, but if you can answer my questions truthfully, I don't have to eat you."

The ginseng doll kowtowed repeatedly and said, "Master, please ask whatever you want. I will tell you everything I know!"

Melen asked, "Have you ever seen the owner of this cave?"

The ginseng doll said, "Master, no, you are the first person I have seen."

"Ever since I gained spiritual intelligence, I have been in the medicine garden. At first, I wanted to leave the garden, but there was no way. As time went by, I gave up the idea and focused on taking care of the precious herbs in the garden, hoping that another one would gain spiritual intelligence so that it could be a companion."

Melen nodded slightly, his brows gradually furrowed. He had originally wondered whether this ginseng doll was raised by the Pengtian Demon Emperor. If so, he might be able to get some information about Jinding Mountain from the latter, such as why Jinding Mountain has become what it is today, but now it seems that it is impossible.

Suddenly, Melen's eyebrows twitched, as if he had discovered a hidden slip-up in the words of the ginseng doll.

Melen looked at the ginseng doll with a serious expression that was a little scary. Seeing this, the ginseng doll curled up into a ball again and trembled even more violently than before.

Noticing his own expression, Mellen softened a bit, and tried to slow down his tone as much as possible before asking, "You just said that you've been taking care of the precious herbs in the medicine garden since you were born? So, what would happen to those precious herbs in the medicine garden without your care?"

The ginseng doll replied tremblingly, "Master, if the precious herbs are left unattended, the spiritually powerful ones will continue to extend their roots, snatching the living space from the other precious herbs. Over time, there will probably only be a few precious herbs left in the entire medicine garden. The rest will wither because they cannot absorb enough spiritual energy and nutrients."

"When I awakened my spiritual wisdom, the medicine garden looked pretty much like that. I also spent a lot of time tending to it and took out the precious medicinal seeds sealed in the garden, which is how it got to its current state."

When he said the last part, the ginseng doll seemed to forget its fear for a moment and unconsciously showed a look of pride.

Melen felt a little helpless, because it seemed that even if there were medicine gardens in other caves, they would probably not be as prosperous as the medicine garden of the Pengtian Demon Emperor.

He asked with some reluctance, "If those precious medicinal herbs absorb more spiritual energy and nutrients, will they grow better and become more valuable?"

The ginseng doll shook its head and said cautiously, "Master, even if it's a rare and precious medicine, there's a limit to the amount of spiritual energy it can absorb and release at any given moment. Fighting for more spiritual energy is just its instinct. In a medicine garden, only a very small area is needed. Any more will be wasted."

Melen nodded slightly with an expressionless face, and his heart finally died down. Unless there happened to be precious medicines in other caves that awakened spiritual wisdom, it was highly likely that he would not be able to harvest precious medicines from a large medicine garden again.

Melen looked at the ginseng doll with a hint of suspicion and scrutiny in his eyes, and asked, "So, your spiritual intelligence was born in the medicine garden, and you haven't communicated with anyone else before?"

The ginseng doll blinked in confusion and said, "Yes, sir."

Mellen asked, "But judging by your words and actions, it doesn't seem like that?"

The ginseng doll immediately said, "Master, I was born with natural intelligence and naturally possessed a lot of knowledge and memory after I was born."

Mellen nodded slightly. If it was a blank sheet of paper, it would be impossible to communicate normally from the beginning. But if there was a mechanism similar to blood inheritance, which could directly obtain relevant knowledge, it would make sense.

Melen looked at the ginseng doll with a scrutinizing look.

The ginseng doll seemed to understand that the time had come to decide its own fate, and it shouted in a sudden inspiration, "Master, Master! Don't eat me! I'm very useful! I can help you take care of the herb garden. I have the natural ability to speed up the growth of precious herbs, and I can also help you heal your injuries!"

As if afraid that Melen wouldn't believe it, the ginseng doll took a deep breath and then exhaled a light green gas. The gas was flashing with a strong spiritual light. Just seeing it made people feel full of vitality.

Before the light green gas floated to Mellen, Spike had already touched it with his claws. Although the possibility of the little thing in front of him hurting the boy was very small, Spike understood one thing: as long as he didn't gamble, he would never lose.

Feeling the rich vitality contained in the light green gas, Spike nodded slightly to Mellen.

Mellen smiled and said, "Very good, it seems you are indeed very useful. I just need a garden manager who can help me take care of the herb garden."

The ginseng doll immediately raised his hand and said, "Master, please leave this matter to me!"

Mellen nodded with a smile.

Next, Melen instructed Xiaoyin to split and cooperate with the ginseng doll to create an environment suitable for the growth of precious medicines in the fairy tale kingdom, and to transplant the precious medicines in the medicine garden of Pengtian Demon Emperor's cave to the fairy tale kingdom one by one.

Melen himself began to record the various books in the library, ranging from various cultivation classics, miraculous skills and secret methods, to immortal cultivation miscellaneous arts, and strange talks and wild interests.

It is worth mentioning that although core disciples can read the martial arts books in the library at will, the most core and fundamental martial arts of the Jinding Mountain lineage, "The Golden Book and Jade Book", is an exception. This requires the personal approval of the Jinding Immortal.

In addition, you can only choose one core skill.

After careful consideration, Spike chose a technique called "Kai Tian Lu".

It is said that "Record of Creation" was inspired by the master of the Golden Summit Immortal after he created the world of mountains and seas. It is a method of creation. If one practices it step by step, as long as he reaches the realm of semi-immortal, he can open up a small world in his body.

After that, you just need to continuously complete the "Tao" in the small world. When your merits and deeds are complete, you can ascend to heaven in broad daylight and become a true immortal.

Unfortunately, it is so difficult to complete the "Tao" in the small world. The master of the Golden Peak Immortal is a true immortal. He just uses the answer to write the process, so he naturally doesn't think there is any problem.

However, if an ordinary person practices the "Record of Creation" and wants to comprehend the "Tao" of his own small world in the vast universe, even with the long lifespan of a semi-immortal, he may not be able to complete even one hundredth of it in his lifetime, let alone become a true immortal by this righteous way.

Although Spike has an infinite lifespan, he does not intend to follow the path of "Kai Tian Lu". He just plans to learn from the methods in it and continue to improve his own "Tao".

As time went by, the three thousand entrants found their own opportunities in the secret realm of Jinding Mountain, and the real geniuses among them began to stand out.

Following the guidance of the elders of the clan, a young demon who had gained a lot of benefits from the tomb of an ancestor climbed to the sixth floor with high spirits. Although there were already some people on the sixth floor at this time, except for two or three young geniuses who were as famous as him, he did not take the rest seriously.

The young demon boy didn't intend to pay attention to others. He planned to complete the test of his ancestors in one go, and then go to the ancestors' cave to retrieve the sacred object that originally belonged to their clan.

Looking out, the demon boy saw the scenery before him many times in the tribe's trial illusions. Although it seemed a little off, it didn't matter. As long as...

Suddenly, the demon boy fell into a daze. He glanced around in confusion, then glanced again, and then glanced again...

But no matter how many times the young demon boy looked around, he could not see the tower belonging to his ancestor, the brilliant and talented Pengtian Demon Emperor, the actual ruler of the ancient demon clan.

"See, I knew this birdman would be dumbfounded when he comes up."

"Anyone would find it hard to believe something like this happened. Wasn't it the same when we two came up here before?"

The young demon suddenly turned to look at the person who had spoken, and said through gritted teeth, "Tai Shi Guang, Long Qi, you..."

Taishi Guang was dressed in a black robe. Although demonic energy was surging around him, there was no trace of evil in him. Instead, he was filled with a sense of emptiness and clarity. He spread his hands and said, "Peng Tianxiang, this has nothing to do with us."

Long Qi was playing with a rune in his hand, smiling without saying a word.

Peng Tianxiang took a deep breath, suppressed his annoyance, and asked, "What happened? Why did my ancestral tower disappear?"

Taishi Guang sneered and said, "If you can't guess this, then you are really stupid!"

Peng Tianxiang was silent for a moment, and then he uttered a sentence through gritted teeth: "It's him! That core disciple?!"

Chapter 533 Name and Transaction

Speaking of which, it has been a long time since Melen was like this, not asking about anything else and simply immersing himself in the ocean of knowledge.

Melen counted on his fingers and realized that two years had passed since he entered the secret realm of Jinding Mountain. Excluding the year he spent on the fifth floor, that is to say, he had been immersed in the library for about a year.

Until recently, the imbalance problem has become increasingly serious, but Mellen is not worried at all because he can solve the problem immediately.

Closing the book in his hand, Melen stood up and stretched. It was time to leave the secret realm of Jinding Mountain and find a place outside to meditate.