Chapter 124 Iron Fire Ants! Refining Crystals! The Shocked Xuan Gu Demon Ancestor and Yuan Qing Old Demon!

In the direction of the giant mountain, red and blue lights suddenly bloomed.

The mountain wall near the entrance of the canyon was shaken by a sudden tremor, and two narrow passages were opened, which seemed to lead directly into the interior of the canyon.

Outside the entrances of the two passages, a stone tablet about three or four feet high appeared. One says "Xuanjing Road", the other says "Lava Road" and several other ancient characters.

Suddenly some of the closest monks walked over first.

But just outside the passage of the lava road, before anyone entered, there was a dizzying hot wind blowing in the face, making people immediately feel thirsty.

Outside the Xuanjing Road, there is white icy air constantly emerging from the inside, and there is a faint sound of strong wind and howling, which makes people feel chilly just looking at it.

People from both the righteous and evil paths also walked to their own sides tacitly, with no intention of acting together with the other side.

Li Mufeng has set his sights on Lianjing, the legendary refining material, and the lava road is naturally his only choice.

Refined crystals are the best auxiliary materials for strengthening magic weapons.

Because as long as any magic weapon is mixed with some of this material, not only will its power increase a lot, but the solidity of the magic weapon itself will immediately rise to an unimaginable level, and it will be difficult to be easily cut off or destroyed by anything.

Such good stuff is considered the top-level refining material even in Dajin.

As soon as Li Mufeng stepped into the lava road, a gust of hot wind blew towards him.

The passage was only about two meters high, not very tall, but the dazzling red light faintly overflowing from the front was a bit shocking.

With every step I took, I felt the temperature of the air around me grow a little higher.

He had only walked twenty or thirty steps, but the high temperature around him, plus the occasional gust of hot wind, was enough to make the Jindan cultivator's skin feel slightly painful, and he could no longer resist with his flesh and blood.

The red rocks, the yellow-red land, the red vegetation, the dark red and blurry sky, everything is the color of fire.

High temperature and hot wind are extremely terrifying for Jindan cultivators, but they are extremely easy for Yuanying cultivators like Li Mufeng.

When Li Mufeng was walking on the lava road, he suddenly stopped and turned his head to look somewhere.

Because one group of people did not prepare treasures, they ambushed another group of monks and robbed their ice-attributed treasures. However, because the number of treasures was not enough and the spoils were not evenly divided, they started fighting among themselves.

In the end, out of the dozen or so Jindan cultivators, only three survived.

Bu Xu is a monk with earth-fire spiritual roots in the middle stage of elixir formation. Only a cultivation career of less than three hundred years has led to his current cultivation level, which has made him famous in the local area for being proud of several sea areas.

Even many people nearby believed that he was one of the most promising monks to be promoted to the Nascent Soul stage in the Luan Xing Sea in the past hundred years.

Bu Xu enjoyed the awe, envious eyes and praise from others very much.

But Bu Xu himself was very clear about his family's situation.

If he had not found an ancient "Yuan-dividing Pill" in the stomach of a level 4 demon beast by chance during his travels, saving him more than a hundred years of hard training, he would probably still be stuck in the foundation-building stage.

But it was this elixir that made him taste the sweetness of the ancient elixir. Therefore, he had long been eyeing this trip to the "Xutian Palace".

He also bought a fire dragon insect at a high price while no one else was paying attention.

To be honest, if he was a little afraid of the ghost fog and the "wonderful illusion" in the next level, he didn't take the ice and fire principles seriously at all, and never doubted that he would not be able to pass this level.

Because the martial arts he practiced was the "Taiyang Jue" which was quite famous in Chaos Star Sea.

This technique is a top-level technique that can be ranked among the top ten fire techniques in the Chaos Star Sea. He used the Taiyang True Fire in this technique to turn countless enemies into ashes and send them into the endless abyss. Therefore, he was naturally confident in the way to ward off fire and felt that it was a piece of cake.

But the current situation is far beyond his expectations.

I'm regretting it so much that my intestines are about to break.

Soon after entering this place, he discovered that although Taiyang Jue was indeed very effective in warding off fire, at the same time, if he did not want to be roasted dry by the high temperature around him in a short while, he had to keep Taiyang Jue running at full capacity.

This was completely different from what he had initially imagined: he could ignore the harsh environment by consuming a little bit of mana.

When he was outside, he only needed to practice 10% of the Taiyang Jue technique to completely avoid being directly burned by ordinary flames.

Obviously, the high temperature emitted by the lava road is very different from the ordinary fire outside. It must be because of the restriction that there is some restraint on the fire-based skills.

This made Bu Xu, who had already walked for several hours, feel flustered.

Because at the rate at which his mana was being consumed, even though he held a spirit stone in each hand to continuously replenish his spiritual energy, it could only last for about half a day at most, and then he would turn into ashes due to the exhaustion of his mana.

Bu Xu naturally didn't want to die in this battle. He ran nervously while looking around.

But the surroundings were quiet, without a single person in sight. This made his idea of ​​killing other monks and snatching the fire-proof treasure die in his womb.

But at this moment, Bu Xu suddenly discovered a guy dressed like a Taoist priest in the early stage of Jindan. The Taoist robe on his body emitted a gentle green light that resisted the terrifying high temperature around him.

Obviously it is not an ordinary treasure.

The Taoist saw Bu Xu's anxious look and walked over with kindness.

"Fellow Daoist, I am Song Wen, may I be of any help to you?"

"hey-hey!"

Bu Xu saw that Song Wen actually took the initiative to offer himself to him. If he didn't take it, he would be blamed!
Immediately, his right palm condensed Taiyang True Fire.
Somewhere on Lava Road.

A man dressed like a Taoist priest appeared beside the two monks.

The two monks, a man and a woman, seemed to be a couple.

"Fellow Daoist, I am Song Wen, is there anything I can help you with?"

At this time, the two monks saw that there was a third person appearing here, and they immediately showed joy on their faces.

"Fellow Daoist, do you have any elixirs with icy properties? The two of us are willing to pay spirit stones to buy them."

Hearing this, the Taoist nodded and immediately handed the two of them a bottle of elixir emitting white mist.

After receiving it, the Taoist couple were excited, paid the spirit stones and expressed their gratitude to the Taoist who suddenly appeared.

Then the three of them set off together.

Along the way, the Taoist priest walked in front, leaving his back to the two people behind him.

"Ying'er, do you think we should?"

Behind, the man asked the woman via voice transmission.

"No, please don't!"

After receiving the man's message, the female cultivator hurriedly tried to dissuade him.

"It was so difficult for both of us to get here, but this Taoist priest did it so easily. He is obviously not an ordinary person."

"Then maybe the other party has some special treasure?"

The man still seemed unwilling to give up.

"Whatever special treasure he has has nothing to do with us. When it comes to our own lives, we'd better believe it exists than not."

The female cultivator still refused to let the man take action.

After hearing this, the male cultivator finally nodded.

In a strange forest, Li Mufeng was feeding a group of small flame spirit beasts with spirit-feeding pills. When they were full, he waved goodbye to them and parted ways.

In addition, he also obtained a lot of Flame Spirit Fruits and some cultivators' storage bags from these Flame Spirit Beasts.

Needless to say, the monk's storage bag contains many skills, spirit stones, and magical instruments.

The Flame Spirit Fruit is no longer useful to Li Mufeng now, but it is very useful to some cultivators who practice fire-attributed techniques.

After leaving the strange forest, an endless black desert appeared in front of Li Mufeng.

Yes! Black sand, black sand dunes.

At this time, in the center of this black desert, there was a strange black horse.

If there were other human monks here, they would be horrified to find that this black horse was made up entirely of tens of thousands of fire ants, and there was also a human figure on this black horse.

This person is naturally Li Mufeng.

The iron fire ants were one of his goals in coming to the Xutian Palace.

The refining crystal is a rare material that the Queen Fire Ant will vomit out in her stomach after eating ore every day.

Li Mufeng came here to take the iron fire ants with him, so that he would have an endless supply of refining crystals! Relying on this black horse, Li Mufeng would not be blocked by anything in the black desert.

When he arrived at a sand dune, a huge crystal pillar about twenty or thirty feet high appeared alone on the sand.

This crystal pillar was extremely cold, not only flashing with a faint white light, but also wrapped in an equally tall black giant.

This giant was extremely ugly, with angry eyes and a big bald head, and he was motionless in the crystal column. It was really weird!
With Li Mufeng's powerful spiritual sense, he could naturally see at a glance that the giant was formed by countless black flying ants!

"Oh no! It seems the queen ant has been dealt with by Wan Tianming and his men."

Li Mufeng looked at the crystal pillar on the black giant.

"This is the famous ancient treasure of Wanfa Sect, the 'Xuanhuang Mirror'."

"Any living being illuminated by this treasure will immediately lose its soul, and this crystal prism will appear around its body! After a few days, the body inside the crystal pillar will also disappear."

At this moment, Xuan Gu's voice sounded behind him.

"That guy Yuan Qing suffered a great loss from the ancient treasure back then, and was almost killed by that crazy woman Wan Sangu."

"I didn't see you along the way. I thought you were dead."

Li Mufeng smiled faintly.

"You have subdued the biggest threat in this desert, the fire ants. Where does this threat come from?"

Xuan Gu looked at the black horse under Li Mufeng's seat, his eyes full of confusion and doubt.

He never understood how Li Mufeng did it.

"Speaking of which, those two guys from Xinggong really did something that backfired. They arrogantly released the Black Desert and Iron Fire Ants, but they didn't expect that you would benefit from it in the end."

"You subjugated these iron fire ants in order to have them produce refining crystals for you?"

"Oh? I didn't expect you'd heard of crystal refining."

Li Mufeng looked at Xiao Cha with some surprise. You know, even Wan Tianming, the leader of the Wanfa Sect, didn't know about it.

"Huh! Are you looking down on me?"

Seeing Li Mufeng's surprised look, Xuan Gu snorted disdainfully.

"Xuan Gu, this guy is really a monster. Others are blessed by God even if they get a little bit of refining crystal, but this guy actually wants to produce refining crystal by himself!"

Yuan Qing's surprised voice rang in Xiao Cha's mind again.

"I have lived for so long and have never seen anyone tame spirit beasts and insects so easily. What is going on?"

"And this is a fire ant. Isn't it said that this kind of spiritual insect, whether wild or domesticated, cannot recognize its master?"

"It's not like no one in our time was eyeing the Refining Crystal. They also wanted to target the Iron Fire Ants. As a result, the Iron Fire Ants exploded one after another, without exception."

"How on earth did this kid do it?"

"How should I know?" Xuan Gu replied unhappily.

Li Mufeng wandered in the black desert for a while and collected more than 200,000 fire ants.

But unfortunately, there is only one queen ant. If one wants to cultivate a queen ant, it is estimated that among the more than 200,000 fire ants, not even a quarter will be left.

The environment in which fire ants live is extremely harsh.

Not only do they need a hot lava zone, but they also need a large amount of copper and iron ores nearby to survive. Once they leave this environment, the fire ants will quickly weaken. Before long, their special abilities will completely degenerate, and they will become not much different from ordinary flying ants.

As for finding a place for the fire ants to live, that is not a problem at all. There are many volcanic islands in the Chaos Star Sea alone.

As for copper ore, if there is none, Li Mufeng can just send his men to dig one.

Those monks who wanted to cultivate fire ants had already come up with ways to do it.

And this black desert was also man-made.

This is an extremely simple stone hall, with an area of ​​fifty to sixty feet wide and about seven or eight feet high. In addition to a teleportation array in the middle, there is a huge bluestone door several feet high on each of the four sides.

At this time, all the doors were closed tightly, sealing the place into a large prison cell.

There are also a large number of stone tables and benches of various types and shapes in the stone hall, dozens of them.

On these stone benches, five or six monks with different expressions were sitting sparsely.

All the monks who passed through the Ice and Fire Road have arrived.

The Black Desert and the Blood Ice Forest naturally pose no threat to Nascent Soul cultivators like Ji Yin.

But for the Jindan cultivators, it was a very difficult experience.

But this time, quite a few Jindan cultivators walked out of the lava road.

Among them was Han Li. He touched his head in some surprise. Wasn’t it said that the lava road was extremely terrifying?

That's how it feels.

The demon monk looked at the righteous monk with some surprise.

Feeling the appearance of the demonic monks, Wan Tianming was also very confused. The iron fire ants in the black desert are not so easy to deal with. Why are there so many Jindan monks passing by?

Could it be that the people from Xinggong really didn’t do anything?
The two old men from Xinggong were also completely confused when they saw that the number of people coming out of the lava road was far more than that from the Xuanjing Road.

They had released restrictions such as the Black Desert and the Fire Ants, but there were still people who came out.

"Could it be that because the time is too long, the ban has lost its effect?"

As the time of Ice and Fire Road came to an end, the teleportation array in the middle of the stone hall suddenly disappeared.

The stone doors on the four walls rose up automatically with a roar, revealing deep bluestone passages.

"Three of these four passages lead to an attic respectively. The things in each attic are different. They are "ancient treasures", "elixirs", "gong techniques" and other things left by ancient monks."

"But each one is sealed with a restriction. Anyone can only take one item once. Once you get it, you will be immediately teleported to the next level, 'Extreme Fantasy Land'."

"As for the last passage, it leads directly to the next level. Anyone who enters it can only consider themselves unlucky and has made a wasted trip. The restrictions here are a bit strange, and the places the passages lead to are not fixed. Once you enter one, you cannot exit by the same route."

"If you don't want to enter the wonderful fantasy world, just don't think about going to these attics to take treasures. After staying in this stone palace for a period of time, you can automatically leave the Xutian Palace. I hope you can do it on your own!"

When the kind-looking elder in white saw the passage appear, he did not stand up, but just sat cross-legged and slowly explained.

But this time the others listened and just looked at him coldly, and no one paid any attention to him anymore.

When the Star Palace elder saw this, he looked as usual and didn't care at all. He smiled slightly and closed his eyes again.

Li Mufeng walked in without any hesitation.

Neither martial arts nor ancient treasures were of any use to him. The only thing that was somewhat useful was the elixir.

But what can just a few bottles of pills do?

So no matter where he is teleported to, it doesn’t matter to Li Mufeng.

After a flash of white light, a white jade bridge about tens of feet long appeared in front of Li Mufeng, floating in the air.

This bridge is extremely exquisite, with dragons and phoenixes carved on it. One end is connected to a square exit, and the other end leads to a four-cornered pavilion floating in the middle of the space.

This pavilion is more than thirty feet high and is divided into two floors. It is made entirely of beautiful jade and sparkles in the air like a fairy palace.

Above the entrance of the pavilion, there hangs a golden plaque about ten feet in size, on which are inscribed three large ancient characters - "Baoguang Pavilion".

After discovering that this place was Baoguang Pavilion, Li Mufeng smiled slightly. Isn't this a coincidence?

Sure enough, not long after, an ordinary young man came over.

"Brother Feng?"

Han Li was a little surprised when he saw Li Mufeng.

"Let's go and take a look together. This seems to be where ancient treasures are stored."

Li Mufeng smiled slightly and walked towards the Baoguang Pavilion, and Han Li hurriedly followed.

(End of this chapter)