Chapter 642: Immortals Point the Way, Lead the Divine Fire?
Chapter 642: Immortals Point the Way, Lead the Divine Fire? (Two in One)
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"Mana?"
In the only remaining front hall of the imperial city, Chi Lian was surprised and doubtful when he heard Li Yuan's question about magic power. After hesitating for a moment, he answered:
"Three elements combined into one, the Earthly Evil and Heavenly Gang-level divine patterns, and the True Form Diagram, only when the three are combined into one can magic power be refined, and none of them can be missing."
"Ha~"
Before Chi Lian could finish her words, she was interrupted by a sneer. The spirit turtle sitting cross-legged glanced at her sideways:
"How much magic power do you have? How dare you teach others to practice magic?"
"you!"
Chi Lian glared angrily.
The old turtle didn't care and turned to look at Pang Wenlong and Li Yuan in the hall:
"The Poison Dragon Academy has five veins and six gates. The five veins are gold, green, yellow, red, and white. The six gates are 'auditing', 'entering the room', 'outer door', 'inner door', 'true teaching', and 'Daozi'."
"This girl's talent is not bad, but she must have never cultivated any magical power, otherwise, she wouldn't have been sent out, right?"
At the end, he glanced at Chi Lian again, whose face flushed but could not refute.
"What's wrong with what she said?"
Li Yuan only cares about this.
"Yes, and no. However, before answering your questions, I would like to discuss the price first."
The old turtle forced a stiff smile and stated his request directly without beating around the bush:
"I just want to get out of this."
Li Yuan looked at Pang Wenlong, who nodded calmly:
"I can let you go, but I have to wait until you take Li Yuan to Tianshiyuan."
"He's going to Tianshiyuan?"
The old turtle frowned, hesitated for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and agreed.
"I can lead the way too!"
Li Yuan had no objection, but Chi Lian was anxious: "This old bastard is extremely treacherous and cunning. If we let him get away, we will be retaliated. You two must not respond to him!"
"you!"
The old turtle was furious.
"enough!"
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Pang Wenlong frowned immediately, and released and then retracted his true energy. The man and the turtle groaned, and their faces turned pale.
"go ahead."
Pang Wenlong flicked his sleeves, took the cushion and sat down. He was also very interested in "magic power".
Li Yuan nodded and continued to ask:
"Senior Turtle, what's wrong with what Chi Lian said just now?"
"The three conditions she mentioned are indeed necessary for refining mana, but even if these three conditions are met, it does not necessarily mean that mana can be refined."
The old turtle calmed down and glared at Chi Lian fiercely before answering:
"The law of mana is the law of the laws of heaven and earth. Therefore, mana can be used to refine magic treasures and to activate supernatural powers... There are tens of millions of disciples in the Poison Dragon Academy, but only two or three out of ten can refine mana."
"Is that so?"
Li Yuan nodded thoughtfully.
Pang Wenlong suddenly spoke up and asked, "Can those who have forged a divine palace still cultivate mana?"
"This……"
The old turtle said tactfully: "The method of making up for the lack of foundation is not uncommon, but I don't have such a method, but the Poison Dragon Academy must have it..."
'Damn you old bastard!'
Feeling Pang Wenlong's gaze, Chi Lian cursed inwardly and quickly replied: "There are such secret methods in the academy, but I don't have this method."
"Ah."
Pang Wenlong did not ask any more questions, but just glanced at Li Yuan:
"Can the health furnace still be used after the troops are united?"
"Naturally."
Li Yuan nodded, already understanding what he meant.
It is naturally difficult to make up for the foundation from top to bottom, but there is no problem in rebuilding by oneself. Pang Wenlong has obtained most of the Tianyun Xuanbing, so he naturally understands the use of the Dragon and Tiger Health Furnace.
But he couldn't help feeling a little touched.
The path of spiritual practice is truly like walking on thin ice. Without the guidance of predecessors, it is very easy to make mistakes. For people like Pang Wenlong, if he had known the conditions required to refine magic power, why would he need to kill himself and start over again?
It is true that with his talent and foundation, he could cultivate much faster than ordinary people, but the round trip would at least waste several decades of time.
"Fortunately, the Taoist has always been cautious, so he didn't have to be chopped off by the sword."
Li Yuan changed his mind, but did not delay in listening to the old turtle fairy talk about the various issues that need to be paid attention to in refining magic power. He felt that he benefited a lot.
"Only two or three out of ten disciples of the Poison Dragon Academy have cultivated magical powers, but none of them have great luck. Old Dragon Head, Taoist Master Long, Taoist Master Nie, I'm afraid every one of them will have to commit suicide and start over..."
Master Li Dao felt a little annoyed, and felt that his previous decision not to practice recklessly in order to achieve a breakthrough was the right one.
"...The level of mana is related to the True Form Diagram. One mana refined with the 'Nine Flames True Form Diagram', 'Bright Moon True Form Diagram', or 'Kunpeng True Form Diagram' is enough to equal several mana refined with lower-grade True Form Diagrams like the 'Devil Rhino True Form Diagram'..."
The old turtle fairy racked his brains and told everything he knew. After getting Pang Wenlong's permission, he even raised his hand and released a magical power.
hum~
It was a rainbow of light that was half black and half blue, moving around its body, and the sound of gurgling water could be faintly heard.
"Turtle's talent is not high, and the 'Spirit Turtle True Form Diagram' I learned is incomplete. I practiced for three hundred years before I could obtain twenty-four spiritual turtle powers..."
The Turtle Immortal raised his hand slightly, and his magic power flowed through his fingertips like water, and finally transformed into a lifelike dark-colored pocket-sized turtle.
"The power of the turtle..."
Li Yuan concentrated on sensing the difference between mana and true energy, and only after changing the weapon that enhanced the five senses did he see the difference:
"A combination of divine patterns. No, according to Tian Shiyuan, this is a divine ban."
After his perception was heightened, Li Yuan could clearly sense that there were divine patterns flowing in the magic power of the spirit turtle, which were roughly three divine prohibitions, clearly distinguished and yet echoing each other.
Together they constitute this magical power of the spirit turtle.
"call!"
Pang Wenlong suddenly raised his hand, grabbed the magical turtle in the air, and played with it. The old turtle's face twitched, and he forced a smile to explain:
"Turtle's talent is not high. Among my magic powers, I only have two Earthly Evil Divine Forbidden Arts and one Heavenly Gang Divine Forbidden Arts. Together, these three are low-grade magic powers. Compared with the unparalleled true qi condensed by the seniors, they are far inferior..."
"Your Excellency does not need to be too modest."
Pang Wenlong played with this magical power and told Li Yuan what he had learned:
"This mana is indeed not as strong as mine in terms of concentration, but it is much stronger than your Taoist master Long. There are three kinds of mysteries in it. I am afraid that even if we put them together, we will not be his opponent."
"This mana is more lively in nature."
Li Yuan naturally would not comment on his elders and just pretended not to hear them. He reached out and took the spirit turtle that was transformed by magic power. If one looked with the naked eye, it was almost a living creature.
"As long as the divine prohibition is not broken, the magic power will not dissipate."
Chi Lian finally seized the opportunity and spoke before Turtle Immortal:
"Twenty years ago, I once listened to the Red Vein Taoist preaching. At that time, he released his 'Red Dragon Magic Power' and said that if the divine prohibition within it could not be broken, his magic power would be able to exist in the world even if it left the body."
"Red Vein Daozi, Ying Xuanlong?"
Li Yuan concentrated and sensed this power, then looked at the old immortal Turtle: "Senior, how long can this power last after leaving the body?"
"The Red Dragon Power is one of the thirty-six high-grade powers of the Poison Dragon Academy. It is said that it requires the smelting of the 'Twenty-four Earthly Fiends' and the 'Twelve Heavenly Fiends' to be cultivated. It is far beyond the reach of me."
The old turtle's smile became even more forced: "If the divine prohibition cannot be broken, my magic power should last for 1,200 years."
"amazing."
Pang Wenlong praised.
True Qi can also remain thousands of miles away from the body, but if there is no one to maintain it, it will dissipate in sixty years at most. Even if there is someone to maintain it, it will never last for a thousand years.
"Your Excellency is too kind."
The old turtle immortal lowered his head and looked pleasing.
Magic power is naturally stronger than true energy, but not to mention that he has only cultivated low-grade magic power, even if he has cultivated medium-grade magic power, the possibility of escaping from this indigenous temple is not great.
As for the top-grade magic power, he had never seen it and had no way of guessing it.
“Now I know how vast the universe is.”
Pang Wenlong sighed deeply, raised his hand and knocked the old turtle fairy unconscious, then looked at Chi Lian, whose whole body was tense:
"If we calculate it now, will it still be a case of both sides being destroyed?"
Woo~
The front hall suddenly became quiet, and an invisible energy filled the room. Even Li Yuan felt a sense of oppression, and Chi Lian felt that it was difficult to breathe.
"Reply, reply, senior."
Chi Lian took a deep breath, not wanting to show her embarrassment and anxiety, and tried her best to remain calm:
"Before Senior came, I had calculated it many times, and all of them ended in failure..."
"Everyone will perish together."
Pang Wenlong's expression remained unchanged, he just turned to look at Li Yuan: "The difference between martial arts and magic and Taoism lies in the divine patterns. She used magic to predict the future. In a sense, is it asking the heaven and earth?"
"There is such a saying."
Li Yuan nodded. He collected a lot of scattered information from the general knowledge ball, including some about magic.
"Now it seems that the word 'burn' is going to fall on that blood phoenix?"
Pang Wenlong had a solemn expression. He had also caught a glimpse of the Blood Phoenix through the Xuanbing and knew how terrifying it was.
"It could also be the three suns above my head."
Li Yuan thought more.
The sudden arrival of the Blood Phoenix posed a huge crisis, but so did the countless seekers who came in pursuit of the Blood Phoenix, and the true disciples of the several great clans in the holy lands.
Moreover, he was very worried that Dong Twenty-three would open the Bafang Temple ahead of time.
"This……"
Pang Wenlong's face also changed a little.
"Just a guess."
Li Yuan felt heavy-hearted. He raised his hand and knocked out Chi Lian, who was full of doubts and wanted to ask questions but didn't dare to. He also woke up the spirit turtle:
"Senior Turtle, I heard that the Fudian Spirit Turtle Clan is well versed in divination. Could you please do some calculations for us?"
Daoye Li was suspicious by nature, so he would not easily believe what Chi Lian said. After asking the spirit turtle, he would also ask Huang Longzi...
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After getting a divination result from Turtle Immortal that was almost the same as Chi Lian's, Li Yuan went straight to find Huang Longzi.
In the Divine Capital, outside the Imperial City, in a sixteen-story restaurant.
When Li Yuan arrived, Huang Longzi had already ordered a table of food and wine, as if he had anticipated his arrival.
"This is 'Yunling Wine', a specialty of Yunling Pavilion. It contains eighteen kinds of spiritual rice and has the effect of strengthening the body and nourishing the soul. How about trying it, Fellow Daoist Li?"
Huang Longzi stood up and poured the wine.
Li Yuan did not refuse, he raised the cup and drank it, he felt a warm current entering his internal organs and then spreading throughout his body, just this one cup, was worth several elixirs:
"It is indeed a good wine."
"Then drink a few more glasses."
Huang Longzi smiled and continued pouring wine.
He knew why Li Yuan came, but pretended not to know and just drank with him. Li Yuan had something on his mind, but he was also calm and insisted on drinking three big pots of wine with him.
'This kid is really patient.'
Huang Longzi was really impressed. He drank a few more cups. Seeing that the boy remained calm, he sighed slightly and took the initiative to speak:
"May I ask, Fellow Daoist Li, is the Blood Phoenix still here?"
"good."
Li Yuan put down the cup and sighed, "The blood phoenix is still lingering in the Netherworld, which makes me worried."
"With the evil god out there, who can feel at ease?"
Huang Longzi also sighed: "To be honest with you, fellow Daoist Li, I just returned to the inn and immediately started fortune-telling. Until now, I have been calculating nine hexagrams..."
As he spoke, he pointed to his graying temples, his heart aching: "According to this divination, I will lose at least 200 years of my life!"
"I wonder what the hexagram means?"
Li Yuan naturally ignored the second half of the sentence and asked about the hexagram.
"Great disaster! An unprecedented omen of great disaster!"
Huang Longzi's face twitched, and he replied in a low voice: "I saw the Blood Phoenix breaking through the realm in the dark. With just one cry, it burned a hundred thousand miles of mountains and rivers and swallowed the star cores of this world!"
"So fierce?"
Li Yuan knew that what he said was untrue, but his eyelids still trembled: "May I ask if Brother Huang Daoist can see where there is hope?"
"Difficult, difficult, difficult!" Huang Longzi shook his head repeatedly. After Li Yuan repeatedly questioned him, he finally revealed the method to break the calamity:
"I have put in all my efforts, but I have only barely seen three places of hope."
"Appreciate further details."
Li Yuan's expression became serious.
"The first place is fellow Taoist."
Huang Longzi's face was solemn. "I am willing to make an exception and teach you the method of my Poison Dragon Sacrifice. You can escape from the Eight Directions Temple and perform a sacrifice to invite the Poison Dragon God to descend. A mere Blood Phoenix can be destroyed with a snap of a finger."
"What about the rest of life?"
Li Yuan continued to ask.
"This kid has a deep misunderstanding of my Poison Dragon Academy. No, he is just too wary..."
Huang Longzi frowned secretly, but on the surface he still looked gloomy: "The second place to survive is the Eight Directions Temple. Daoist friend has the Eight Directions Order in hand. If you are not afraid of the power of the Blood Phoenix, you can send all your old friends and relatives to the temple for refuge..."
“That’s not impossible.”
Li Yuan pretended to be thoughtful, but he knew in his heart that Huang Longzi had not told the truth at all.
In the past few years, he has sent people into the Eight Directions Temple countless times with the Eight Directions Order in his hand. Why would he need Huang Longzi to remind him?
"This method is extremely dangerous!"
Seeing that Li Yuan was somewhat interested, Huang Longzi quickly said: "The Blood Phoenix has the ability to 'swallow the sky'. If you dare to escape into the dark realm, you will be swallowed up in an instant!"
"How could Li not know that?"
Li Yuan nodded upon hearing this, but then he sighed deeply:
"But if things are impossible, we can only fight to the death."
"..."
You really don't consider my Poison Dragon Academy at all?
Huang Longzi felt speechless, but still managed a smile: "Instead of taking the risk of returning to the Netherworld many times, why don't you try to offer a great sacrifice to my Poison Dragon Lord?"
He said sincerely, "The Poison Dragon Lord is the most well-known benevolent god among all the gods. Once he descends, he will not bear to see the lives of the people suffer, and will definitely help save this world."
Li Yuan looked hesitant, but in his heart he was ready to leave.
Before he obtained the General Knowledge Ball, he had great fear of the Poison Dragon God. Which benevolent god is named after the Poison Dragon?
After obtaining the General Knowledge Ball, even if the information about the gods in the universe will be erased by the [General Knowledge of All Realms], a lot of information can still be confirmed from the side.
The poisonous dragon god and the good god cannot be said to be tens of thousands of miles apart, but they are completely unrelated.
"Friend Li..."
"Rong Limou will go back and think about it."
Li Yuan stood up and said goodbye. If he had not asked Pang Wenlong before and knew that Huang Longzi had a secret treasure on him and was difficult to capture, he would have planned to capture him first and then question him.
"Fellow Daoist Li, please stay."
Seeing that Li Yuan was really leaving, Huang Longzi's heart tightened.
"No need."
Li Yuan waved his hand without stopping.
"Friend Li!"
Huang Longzi stepped forward and stopped him: "Fellow Daoist Li, don't you want to hear about the third place of life?"
"Ok?"
Li Yuan was a little surprised, but he reacted immediately: "Yes, although Huang Longzi has a secret treasure to protect himself, he can never escape the magic power of the evil god."
"Fellow Daoist, you know that within three days, the Blood Phoenix will surely descend!"
Huang Longzi smiled bitterly and let it go, not daring to hide it anymore.
Before the arrival of the Blood Phoenix, he had been thinking about accepting Li Yuan into the Poison Dragon Academy. He was tempted by the prospect of accepting a genius with god-like and demon-like talents into the academy.
After the arrival of the Blood Phoenix, he could no longer ignore Li Yuan, who was holding the Eight Directions Order.
He did not lie to Li Yuan. After learning about the existence of the Blood Phoenix, he came back and immediately started divination. The omen of great disaster was true, but it was not only aimed at this world, but also at him!
Once the evil god-level Blood Phoenix escapes into this world, even if he possesses several secret treasures and escape methods, it will be impossible for him to escape alone.
"Within three days?!"
Li Yuan was suddenly horrified.
"Within three days, this world will be burned to ashes!"
Huang Longzi was relieved and no longer concealed anything. He told Li Yuan all the hundreds of divinations he had done:
“I swallowed elixirs and used secret treasures to help me. I also made hundreds of divinations. Wherever the immortal pointed, everything turned into ashes… There are two kinds of sky-burning fire, one is as red as blood, and the other is bright gold!”
"Two kinds..."
Li Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly.
"This fire either came from the Blood Phoenix, or the Eight Directions Temple was born ahead of time!"
Huang Longzi sighed and cursed those beasts in the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall of the Academy in his heart. He gritted his teeth and said:
"I pointed the way a hundred times, and ninety-nine times it was all ashes. But there was one time, although the sky was also full of flames, it was the same as the previous two..."
"What's the difference?"
Li Yuan's heart skipped a beat.
"That fire is as pale as ice. It is definitely not the fire of the Blood Phoenix!"
Huang Longzi's face twitched and his heart ached. He had a secret treasure to protect him, and his vitality was not damaged after ninety-nine divinations. Almost all of his two hundred years of life were burned up in the last divination.
"Pale as ice!"
Li Yuan looked calm and asked for more details.
Huang Longzi shook his head. He had burned up two hundred years of his life just by seeing a corner of it. How could he dare to look at it again?
But he believes this may be the only chance.
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……
Woo~
A faint light flickered on the gray stone platform, and the starlight from the Weapon-control Scroll illuminated the empty stone platform.
"If people are not burdened by their physical form..."
The moment Li Yuan's consciousness entered the stone platform, he had already sensed the fluctuations coming from the pale divine fire. Ever since he glimpsed the aura of the Blood Phoenix, this fire had been extremely restless.
Li Yuan was very afraid of this fire. In all these years, this was the first time he saw something that could still be restless after entering the military space.
"A force even older than the Divine Dynasty of Origin."
Li Yuan talked to himself, constantly thinking and pondering.
The Origin Era consists of 129,600 years, and the Origin Divine Dynasty lasted for 72 eras. This was a number so large that he had no idea what it was.
A force that is even older than the Divine Dynasty of Origin truly frightened and attracted him.
The ancient ones may not be powerful, but the ancient forces that survive to this day must have a terrifying background that is beyond imagination.
"The fire that Huang Longzi saw in the Immortal's Guide must be this fire. So, among the hundreds of futures he saw, I chose to release this fire that one time?"
"What about the remaining ninety-nine times?"
Li Yuan didn't dare to think about it too much, and was still pondering the many possibilities behind the release of this ball of pale flame.
"After the Duntianzhou transformed, there are four great divine prohibitions. The blessing of the flame spirit can resist all kinds of flames, but can one divine prohibition resist this fire?"
Sensing the many divine prohibitions in the Duntian Boat, Li Yuan expressed his doubts. Compared to the Spirit of Fire, he was more inclined to another way of 'Dunxu'.
Once this divine prohibition from the Tiangang boat is activated, it can allow him to temporarily escape into the void.
"There is too little information to analyze..."
Many thoughts flashed through Li Yuan's mind, but he subconsciously walked to the bronze coffin. After a moment's hesitation, he bowed and saluted: "Junior Li Yuan, please see the senior."
Ever since he had refined the General Knowledge Ball with the help of the Five Dragon Immortals last time, he had come here to pay his respects every now and then, but most of the time there was no response. Only a few times had he heard the cold snort from what seemed to be the bronze coffin spirit.
"Junior Li Yuan, requesting to see you, Senior."
Li Yuan bowed again.
Woo~
Inside the dark bronze coffin, the bronze coffin spirit cautiously glanced at the sleeping Five Dragon Immortal, and then looked with disdain at the young man in Taoist robes who was the only one who could be seen clearly in the darkness outside the coffin.
"This damned boy, instead of thinking about how to break through the barriers, comes to harass the Immortal Master every day..."
The bronze coffin spirit was very alert. It had communicated with other Taoist treasures in the Origin Treasury in the past and knew very well that human nature was treacherous. It doubted the boy's intention of currying favor with the Immortal Lord.
Especially since Lord Xian had a good impression of this kid, it became even more vigilant.
"younger generation……"
"okay!"
Seeing that Li Yuan was not giving in, the bronze coffin spirit was afraid that he would wake up the Five Dragon Immortals, so it released a divine light to draw him in.
"this is the last time!"
The bronze coffin spirit gave a low warning.
"Thank you, senior."
Li Yuan felt relieved and quickly thanked him.
"What's the matter with you?"
The bronze coffin spirit spoke in an unhappy tone, thinking that if this kid asked it to do something again, it would never agree. Last time, if it hadn't been for the Immortal Lord's request, it would never have helped him communicate with the Taixu Mirror.
"Senior, do you know about those 'ancient sects' that existed before the founding of the Origin Divine Dynasty?"
"Ok?"
Hearing Li Yuan's question, the bronze coffin spirit's tone changed slightly, and then it became more restrained:
"How did you know about the Weitian Dao Sect?"
Wei Tian Dao Sect?
Li Yuan's mind turned and he wrote down the key points.
"Back to senior..."
Li Yuan answered respectfully, and told the story from the General Knowledge Ball about the bounties offered by many holy places on the Blood Phoenix, and the sudden appearance of this evil god to confront the Eight Directions Temple.
And the slaying of gods involves an initiation ceremony into a sect called 'Tai Huang Tian'... Let's talk about it one by one.
He just concealed the process of how he obtained the pale divine fire. That involved listening to the heavenly sound, so he could not reveal even a single detail.
"Tai Huang Tian..."
The bronze coffin spirit was silent for a long time before saying:
"Don't tell me you still want to join the Weitian Dao Sect?"
Its voice was neither happy nor angry, but Li Yuan's heart skipped a beat. He didn't know whether the fall of the Origin Divine Dynasty was related to these ancient sects, but he never took risks.
"Of course not."
Li Yuan shook his head and denied: "I am just worried about my homeland, I hope you can give me some advice."
"Um……"
The bronze coffin spirit paused, and seeing the boy's reserved expression, he shook his head and scolded:
"If you want to, then you want to. Why deny it? Who in this world who knows about the existence of the Wei Tian Dao Sect doesn't want to join it?"
"I really don't have such thoughts."
Li Yuan answered cautiously.
"With your talent, you may be able to join some of the Wei Tian Dao Sect, but you have neither the power to kill evil gods nor the ability to offer sacrifices to gods..."
The bronze coffin spirit was certain that this boy must want to join the Wei Tian Dao Sect, but he was too lazy to expose him:
"If you want to join the Wei Tian Dao Sect, unless one of the true disciples of the Wei Tian Dao Sect dies outside and leaves behind the Guiding Divine Fire before his death..."
"To receive the divine fire?"
Li Yuan was shocked.
"how?"
The bronze coffin spirit glanced at him and said, "Do you have one?"
"How can a junior have such an opportunity?"
Li Yuan lowered his head, his heart in turmoil.
Before obtaining this pale divine fire, Xuan Daozi's protector mentioned that the parchment carrying this fire seemed to be left behind by a certain existence after its death...
"You don't have to worry. If the Blood Phoenix breaks through the realm, you can just hide in the coffin. Don't say that the bird has lost me and fallen. Even if it is not dead, it can't threaten you!"
The bronze coffin spirit replied and was ready to chase them away.
"I still have some questions..."
Li Yuan hurriedly asked:
"Senior, if, I mean if, if I get a ball of divine fire, how should I use it? Is it dangerous?"
"Um?!"
(End of this chapter)