Chapter 522 Ancient Demon
Inside the wooden courtyard of Hidden Immortal Valley.
Qi Xiaoyu invited Qin Ming into the house and offered Spirit Tea.
Daoist Friend Qin surveyed the furnishings in the house. Most of them were books and materials related to Array Formations. On the shelves were also Placed many Formation Plates of various kinds that had been refined.
Just from a glance, he could tell that these Array Formations were not simple.
"Daoist Friend Qin must have seen it as well. Qi Xiaoyu has unspeakable secrets and is already a dying man, which is why I have been refusing to see guests," Qi Xiaoyu said with a wry smile, pouring a cup of Spirit Tea for Qin Ming as he explained.
Qin Ming asked with some doubt, "Judging by Daoist Friend Qi Xiaoyu's Core Formation time, it shouldn't be long. How could your Lifespan only have a few years left?"
"Alas! This matter is related to something that happened Several Decades ago. In order to refine Array Formations, Qi Xiaoyu went to a dangerous place to gather materials and encountered a Fourth Rank Poison Beast. Although I managed to escape with my life, I also paid a great Price, losing most of my Lifespan." Qi Xiaoyu, thinking of himself as a dying man, did not hide anything from Qin Ming and told him the truth.
Immediately after, he sized up the Devouring Heaven Rat beside Qin Ming and said, "I didn't expect Daoist Friend Qin's pet beast to be so gifted, able to break the Illusory Shadow Mirage Formation that Qi Xiaoyu set up."
"Even a Late Nascent Soul Stage Great Cultivator would not be able to easily break this Formation."
"By the way, Daoist Friend Qin has come from afar. What important matter brings you to Qi Xiaoyu?"
Qin Ming did not directly answer the other party's words, but instead asked:
"With Daoist Friend Qi Xiaoyu's Array Art Proficiency, joining a Faction and seeking some Life-Extending Spirit Medicine should not be difficult, right?"
"Life-Extending Spirit Medicine… All the Life-Extending Spirit Medicine that Qi Xiaoyu could find has already been found. Unless it is the legendary Fourth-Rank Life-Extending Pill 'Heaven-Extending Pill', it might be possible to continue Qi Xiaoyu's Lifespan," Qi Xiaoyu said in a dejected tone.
Qin Ming did not directly answer the other party's words, but instead said, "Could Daoist Friend Qi Xiaoyu take me to see the Array Formations you have refined?"
"Naturally, that is possible."
Subsequently.
Qi Xiaoyu pushed his wheelchair, leading Qin Ming to the storage room to view his Formation works.
Not long after.
"This set is a Fourth Order High Grade Attack Killing Array, the Ten Directions Heaven-Burning Annihilation Grand Formation. It can unleash the Divine Ability power of the Late Core Formation Stage, but it requires thirty thousand High-Grade Spirit Stone to activate."
"This set is a Fourth-Order Top Grade Defensive Spirit Formation, the Boundless Universe Chessboard."
"This set is Qi Xiaoyu's work from Several Decades ago, a Fourth Order High Grade Nine Stars Spirit Gathering Formation. It can gather powerful Spirit Qi to create a Cultivating environment."
"The Eight Extremes Teleportation Grand Formation, refined by Qi Xiaoyu with a hundred years of effort…"
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After Qi Xiaoyu's one-by-one introductions, Qin Ming also witnessed many high-level Array Formations that he had never seen before.
It could be seen that Qi Xiaoyu's Array Art Attainment was so high that it had already surpassed those Array Formation masters in the large Sects and Great Sects outside.
Moreover, through his Exchange with him, Qin Ming discovered that this person and Su Yuqing were the same kind of people, that is, people with special talents in some kind of Immortal Cultivation Arts.
"Daoist Friend Qin, it's not that I'm boasting, but if it weren't for the fact that I don't have Fifth Order materials on hand, I'm afraid Qi Xiaoyu would already be a Fifth-Rank Formation master," Qi Xiaoyu said with considerable pride.
Qin Ming did not doubt at all that the other party indeed had such ability.
He no longer considered it further, and handed the Image Recording Jade Slip to the other party, saying, "Daoist Friend Qi Xiaoyu, this is an Array Formation that Qin discovered in a certain place. Some parts of it are incomplete. Can you see if there is a way to repair it?"
"If it is possible, in exchange, Spirit Elixirs and Panaceas for extending Lifespan, Qin can find a way to get you one or two."
Qi Xiaoyu took the Jade Scroll, also quite Unexpected Event.
He thought Qin Ming, like those Great Power, had come to him to seek rare Array Formations.
"Daoist Friend Qin, you are not aware, but Third Order Life-Extending Pill, as well as Life-Extending Item, all that I could find have already been used. You also know that these Life-Extending Item, often their effectiveness greatly diminishes after being used once."
"Now only Fourth Rank or Fifth Order items can nourish Qi Xiaoyu's origin. Otherwise, everything will be in vain."
"Alas! Daoist Friend Qin's rumored deeds, although Qi Xiaoyu has been out of Mountain Valley for a long Time, I have actually heard of them for a long Time. You are an inspirational legendary Cultivator in the Southern Wilderness Cultivation World, making me admire you greatly."
"Since it is an Ancient Formation, I am also interested in studying it. There is no need for Daoist Friend Qin to pay Compensation. Qi Xiaoyu will naturally do my best to help Daoist Friend Qin repair it. Of course, whether it can be repaired within my remaining Lifespan depends on fate."
Qi Xiaoyu also did not decline, and directly agreed to this matter.
However, when he browsed through the Image Recording content in the Jade Scroll, his face suddenly changed.
"It's actually Ancient Tai A Runes. This must be at least tens of thousands of years of history. Spirit Rune Restriction of this kind have already become extinct in the Cultivation World today," Qi Xiaoyu said in surprise, "Daoist Friend Qin, this Array Formation is not an ordinary Formation. It is an Ancient Era Super-Distance Teleportation Formation. As for the destination of the other end, it is not known."
Qin Ming was also surprised by Qi Xiaoyu's Array Art Attainment. He did not expect that he would see the Crucial Point of this Array Formation at a glance, and also recognize the complex Ancient Formation Patterns within, indicating that there was still hope for repairing the Formation.
Therefore, he said to Qi Xiaoyu, "Daoist Friend Qi Xiaoyu, if you can help Qin restore this Array Formation, then the matter of the 'Heaven-Extending Pill' will be left to Qin."
Regarding this matter, Qin Ming was still quite confident.
Qi Xiaoyu also did not expect that before his death, he would suddenly see a glimmer of hope, and immediately agreed.
"If Daoist Friend Qi Xiaoyu has any progress, you can entrust someone to send a message to the Southern Wilderness. I will be able to receive it," Qin Ming Immediately Exchanged a few words with him.
Considering that Qi Xiaoyu had already taken Primordial Qi Spirit Peach and Longevity Fruit Pill, these two items were of no use to him.
After Exchanging with the other party for half a day.
Qin Ming then Took Leave and left.
Qi Xiaoyu saw him off from Hidden Immortal Valley, his Attention deep, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Young master, are you confident in repairing this Ancient Formation?" The maid behind him draped a robe over him.
"Do your best and listen to fate," Qi Xiaoyu sighed leisurely, and was Immediately pushed back into the house in his wheelchair by the maid.
…
Qin Ming also felt that this Array Formation was quite important, so he spared no effort to try to repair it.
Perhaps there would be some Unexpected Event Gains.
As for the Alchemy recipes of this "Heaven-Extending Pill", Qin Ming indeed had them here. They were recorded in the *Source Dao Pill Scripture* that Su Yuqing had given him before.
However, as a Fourth Order High Grade Life-Extending Pill, its materials were quite difficult to find.
When Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island, he instructed Mo Lingwei and Hua Tian Xiong to start helping him search for the Spirit Material needed to refine this Pill.
After all, Star Moon Market has now become the number one Immortal Market in the Southern Wilderness. As long as they paid Attention, they would more or less be able to gain something.
Qi Xiaoyu's Lifespan only had five years left, so the collection of these Spirit Material was naturally the sooner the better.
…
On the other side.
Northern Cold Cultivation World's extreme region, Inner Primal Extremes Mountain.
"Alas! Truly Unlucky, This Old Man should have not listened to your nonsense long ago, and believed Old Devil Cold Crow's ghost talk, coming to this Primal Peak Mountain to search for Treasure," Tian Jizi of the Bitter Bamboo Sect of the West Nether Cultivation World, complained to Venerable Crow beside him with a face full of depression, "Now don't even mention obtaining Secret Treasure, even how to get out of here alive is a Problem."
"Didn't you say that with the Yuan Extremity Token, entering and exiting Primal Peak Mountain would be as simple as eating and drinking? Why is it not working now?"
"It's all your fault!!"
Venerable Crow, a youth in Green Robe, listening to Tian Jizi's complaints and nagging, also had a mental breakdown, and cursed:
"It wasn't This Seat forcing you to come, you Old Guys, as soon as you heard about Spirit-Connecting Treasure, you couldn't wait to sell the Sect, it's completely your own fault!"
"Alright, you two stop arguing, let's think about how to leave this ghost place. I didn't expect such a big change to have already occurred inside Primal Peak Mountain." True Monarch Wanbao was still relatively rational and sober, interrupting the two people's argument.
In fact, the three of them did not know what exactly had happened inside Primal Peak Mountain.
It was just that after they came in, excitedly preparing to display their skills inside, and go deep into it to obtain Treasure, Unexpected Event things happened that were beyond their original expectations.
After a violent tremor erupted inside Primal Peak Mountain, countless pitch-black Demonic Energy spewed out, mixed with Primal Extremes Power. Even a Core Formation cultivator would be corroded and polluted if they touched a bit of it, exhausting the Magic Power in their bodies and dying.
The place where the three of them were now located was in an unknown underground mountain range of the Grand Heaven Dao Palace.
When the Primal Peak Mountain's abnormality vibrated and trembled, it happened to shake open a crack in the location where the three of them were, and Immediately Fall Into it.
It was also by mistake that Venerable Crow and the other two picked up their lives.
However, Demonic Energy surrounded the crack, and the Space inside was not large. When the Spirit Qi inside was exhausted, it was very likely that the three of them would be trapped to death here alive.
Even the Yuan Extremity Token that Venerable Crow traded from Qin Ming's hands had lost its function under the Influence of these Demonic Mist.
"Alas! Daoist Friend Qin's advice was indeed correct. This Primal Peak Mountain is indeed extremely dangerous. We haven't even seen the face of the Treasure, and we are about to be trapped to death here," Venerable Crow said with a face full of frustration.
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Not far from the three of them in Primal Peak Mountain, the location of the Method Immortal Dao Palace.
In a Space shrouded in gray mist, Demon Venerable White Lin and Mu Qingzi were completely frozen and imprisoned in an ice wall.
"Mu Qingzi, this is very different from what you said at the beginning! It's good now, we didn't find the Spirit-Connecting Treasure, and we are completely imprisoned in this place," Demon Venerable White Lin said via Demon Sense Sound Transmission, "I didn't expect to live for tens of thousands of years, but to be planted in this ghost place."
"If it were someone else, This Demon Venerable could still accept it, but thinking of you, I feel it's not worth it."
Mu Qingzi was also like an ice sculpture, unable to move at all in the ice wall, and said with a wry smile:
"This Seat calculated everything, but I didn't expect that Old Guys Venerable Qingdi would leave such a move here, luring me to take the bait…"
Just then.
The sound of chains colliding echoed in the gray mist, and a playful female voice came out:
"I didn't expect This Ancestor to be sealed in Primal Peak Mountain for so long, and there would be two little fellows Offer themselves to accompany This Ancestor. Since you are here, don't even think about going out, hahaha!"
Demon Venerable White Lin and Mu Qingzi's expressions suddenly became Ugly when they heard this. The huge movement inside Primal Peak Mountain earlier was emitted from here.
The two of them were also trapped here by the special means used by this Demon.
Mu Qingzi pondered for a long Time, "I didn't expect that in the Great War back then, there would still be Ancient Demon who survived to this day."
"Presumably with Your Excellency's Cultivation Level Strength, you are definitely not someone from the Human Realm. I wonder which Demon Ancestor among the three Ancient Demon who descended to the Demon Realm back then are you?"
"And what Relationship do you have with that guy Qingdi? To actually be able to agree to set a trap here for him."
As soon as the voice fell.
Crackling sounds.
The sound of chains colliding in the gray mist continued to come, and Immediately a huge black figure faintly appeared.
However, Demon Venerable White Lin and Mu Qingzi, trapped in the ice wall, could not use any Divine Ability, and could not further see clearly the face inside.
"You are that guy Qingdi's Second Core Formation, right? This Ancestor is immortal and indestructible, how could I be killed by mere Human Race Cultivator like you? It's simply a daydream."
"But This Saint Ancestor also has to admit that that guy Qingdi is indeed a person with outstanding talent among the Human Race. In the Human Realm, who else could trap This Ancestor here besides him? He should already be ascending to immortality and becoming an ancestor in the Spirit Realm by now, right?"
"Since I can't find him, This Saint Ancestor can only settle this score with his Second Core Formation first, hahaha!"
Arrogant laughter echoed in the gray Space. After Mu Qingzi heard the other party's words, his face became even more Ugly.
"I didn't expect Venerable Qingdi to dig a big pit, specially waiting for This Seat to jump into it…"
Demon Venerable White Lin hesitated for a moment, still somewhat unwilling to give up, "Isn't Your Excellency also sealed in this place? Now we are all grasshoppers on the same rope, what's so amazing?"
"Could it be that you can break free from the chain seal and kill the two of us?"
The woman in the gray mist said, "In the past, This Saint Ancestor naturally also knew that it was impossible to break free from the shackles of this star chain, but now, it's not certain."
"This Saint Ancestor observes that among the Cultivator who broke into Primal Peak Mountain this time, besides you, there should also be Demonic Path Cultivator, right?"
"It seems there are also two Spirit Transformation Stage Demonic Cultivator."
"At That Time, This Ancestor will lure one or two people here to remove the shackles on This Ancestor's body. It's not impossible."
After the dark giant shadow finished speaking, it did not speak any more. The entire dark Space Immediately fell into silence.
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Southern Wilderness Cultivation World, Moon Gazing Island.
Inside the Abode on the Main Peak, the Primordial Poison Flame illuminated the surroundings into a tricolored intertwined environment.
Qin Ming was controlling the Spirit Flame, and the Elixir Art in his hand did not stop, striking towards the Spirit King Cauldron.
After months of running around searching, coupled with Hua Tian Xiong and the others going to the East Sea Cultivation World to purchase Spirit Material.
Qin Ming Finally collected all the Spirit Material needed to refine the "Heaven-Extending Pill" and began Alchemy.
Now, Fourth Rank Spirit Pill Alchemy was not too difficult for him, this Fourth-Order High Grade Pill King.
In addition, in the *Source Dao Pill Scripture*, Su Yuqing made research notes on this kind of Life-Extending Pill.
After wasting a few portions of materials, a blue glow bloomed in the Abode, and a strange and rich Elixir Scent spread out.
A clear cry sounded from inside the Spirit King Cauldron, and three azure Spirit Pill were impressively produced.
Qin Ming stretched out his hand and summoned the three 'Heaven-Extending Pill' into his hand. He saw a layer of vibrant Life Force Dao Essence lingering on them.
"Fourth Order High Grade Heaven-Extending Pill, now they are also rare in the Cultivation World."
The higher the Rank of Life-Extending Pill, the more fatal the temptation for Nascent Soul Stage and above Old Monster.
After taking the Heaven-Extending Pill, it can extend Lifespan by as much as two hundred years at once.
For those Nascent Soul Cultivator who have been trapped in a Bottleneck for a long Time, it is undoubtedly a beacon in the dark.
Two hundred more years of Lifespan can give them Time to find an opportunity to break through Realm/State, so as to climb the Dao path afterwards.
Isn't this exactly why those Nascent Soul Old Monster facing Lifespan exhaustion would risk everything?
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