Chapter 342: Top of Kunwu Mountain
The ochre-colored hill rose into the air again, quickly shrank, and turned into a fist-sized seal, spinning in the air, and then returned to Ye Changsheng's hand.
"Pingshan Seal?!" The old man surnamed Fu and the beautiful woman in black exclaimed at the same time, looking at the small seal emitting a warm and shiny luster in Ye Changsheng's hand with some disbelief.
A big hole was smashed directly into the white jade steps at the place where the Pingshan Seal hit, and the things that were hit inside looked horrible.
The blood shadow was just as the old man surnamed Fu had expected. After being hit by the Pingshan Seal, although its body was smashed into pieces, a ball of blood light soon gathered together again.
However, this blood shadow has now become an empty shell, without the support of spiritual consciousness.
Because, the Blood Demon Pearl containing the Nascent Soul of the old demon Qian was smashed into pieces by that blow.
Naturally, the old demon's Nascent Soul was easily killed by Ye Changsheng.
The blood shadow had just recondensed and lasted for less than ten breaths before it collapsed. Without the physical body supported by the Nascent Soul, it directly turned into balls of blood light and dissipated in all directions.
At the same time, a bunch of magic weapons fell from it, among which a black flag was particularly conspicuous.
Yin Luo Banner!
That was the most precious treasure of the Yinluo Sect. However, when facing Ye Changsheng, this old demon didn't even have the chance to use the magic weapon and was killed directly.
The five devils roared, and after losing their master, they flew in all directions, trying to escape.
At this time, a small green tripod appeared in front of Ye Changsheng. The lid of the tripod opened. After a clear sound, countless green hairs emerged from it, entangled the Five Heart Demons, and pulled them back into the tripod.
Then the lid of the cauldron closed, shrank rapidly, and returned to Ye Changsheng's body.
Ye Changsheng put away the Pingshan Seal in his hand, walked forward with a faint smile on his face, and collected all the things that Old Demon Qian had dropped on the ground.
Behind him, the old man surnamed Fu and his junior sister looked at his back with awe in their eyes.
"It turns out that Brother Ye was the one who bought the Pingshan Seal at the auction that day. I was wondering how such a master suddenly appeared in the world!" the old man surnamed Fu thought to himself.
"Killing this old demon can be considered as solving a hidden danger!" Ye Changsheng thought so in his heart at this moment.
He knew very well what was sealed in Kunwu Mountain.
If we let in a reckless demon like Old Demon Qian, once he enters the Demon Sealing Tower, he will most likely immediately rebel against the human world and join the demon clan.
After all, the temptation of having demonic energy fill the body, entering the state of spiritual transformation, ascending to the demon world, and gaining immortality is beyond words for these demon cultivators.
Even the big-headed monster from the Ye family, who was not considered a cultivator of the devil's way, was tempted, let alone the old devil Qian.
By killing the old demon Qian here, Ye Changsheng eliminated a possible bomb that might explode in advance.
Of course, another reason was that he had his eyes on the other party's Five-Hearted Demon.
Ye Changsheng had always wondered what kind of changes would occur if he refined his Five Bone Demon Hammer and Five Heart Demon Hammer together?
He saw clearly the combined power of the five demons just now, and they had the strength of a great cultivator.
If we could find a way to refine these two things together, we would most likely be able to create an incredible magic weapon.
After packing up the things here, Ye Changsheng looked at the people behind him, smiled faintly, and said: "Everyone, let's continue to go up the mountain!"
The four people present naturally obeyed his words, so the five of them quickly left the area and walked up the stairs.
After a while, when their figures disappeared, the light curtain above the stone pavilion changed again, and five figures squeezed out from it at the same time.
"That old demon is so fast!" The middle-aged monk with green lines on his face complained immediately after coming out.
These five people are none other than the five Nascent Soul cultivators of the Poison Saint Sect.
After they came out, they immediately used their spiritual sense to scan the surrounding situation, but soon discovered that their spiritual sense was suppressed.
Everyone's face sank, and then they looked around, but didn't see anyone.
"Is Old Demon Qian running so fast?" Hua Wuji muttered to himself. Suddenly, when his eyes fell on the place where the battle had just taken place, his expression suddenly changed.
"The aura here... there was a battle just now!"
"No, this smell of blood... is that of the old devil Qian?!" Hua Wuqi exclaimed.
"What? It's Old Devil Qian? Did he die here?" Another middle-Nascent Soul cultivator next to Hua Wuji exclaimed.
"I don't know if he died here, but what is certain is that Old Demon Qian definitely suffered a great loss!"
“I just don’t know who those people are who attacked him? Were they cultivators from the Ye family? Or were they other people?” Hua Wuqi said solemnly.
"No matter who it is, we have to be careful next time!"
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When Ye Changsheng killed the old demon Qian and the group continued to move up, a group of cultivators from the Ye family had already reached the top of Mount Kunwu.
After breaking through layers of restrictions, more than a dozen stone steps of varying sizes appeared in front of them, leading to different places on the mountain.
Every stone step was shrouded in the same white mist in the distance, making it impossible to tell where the end of the steps led to.
This made many cultivators of the Ye family hesitate.
"What should we do? Even if we each explore one place, we will never be able to explore all the places." A Yuanying elder let out a light breath, turned to the Confucian scholar and smiled bitterly.
"Don't be nervous. This means that we have entered the core area of Kunwu Mountain. That's why there are so many branches. This is a good thing."
"But it's definitely not possible to act separately. Once our manpower is insufficient, we won't even be able to protect ourselves. Which way should we take? Let's go to the platform over there and see if there are any signs." The scholar said calmly.
At the same time, he pointed to a platform in front of them. It was called a platform, but in fact it was a white jade square. It was only a few miles away from them and looked very huge.
The dozen or so steps extend from this White Jade Square, which is the starting point of every step.
Hearing what the Confucian scholar said, the Ye family monks flew towards the white jade square one after another.
This square is over a hundred acres in size, and the ground is paved with crystal white jade of the finest quality. There are ten-foot-high white jade pillars standing around it.
In front of each stone staircase extending from the square, there is a tall jade stele with place names such as "Jinshi Pavilion", "Xiangyun Hall" and "Qilingyuan" written on them.
"There's no need to ask about the Jinshi Pavilion, it must be the place to store materials. The name of the Xiangyun Hall sounds a bit vague, it's probably some kind of place for meditation..." A cultivator from the Ye family looked at them and slowly analyzed the approximate uses of these places.
The others listened and nodded, thinking it made a lot of sense.
“So the most likely places where the Tongtian Lingbao is stored are only these three. One is the Kunwu Hall in the middle, one is the Lingbao Pavilion next to it, and the other is the Demon-Suppressing Tower on the side.” The Ye family cultivator finally selected three paths.
The Confucian scholar and the big-headed monster didn't say anything, but they were silent, obviously thinking about whether what the Ye family elder said was correct.
"It goes without saying that Kunwu Hall is the core of this mountain, and Lingbao Pavilion is where the ancient monks stored their treasures. As for the Demon Suppression Tower, it should be the place where the ancient monks suppressed the demons."
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The monks of the Ye family discussed it one after another. The main purpose of their trip was to find the Tongtian Magic Treasure.
There is a possibility that spiritual treasures may be found in Kunwu Palace, Lingbao Pavilion and Demon-Suppressing Tower. The Ye family is short of manpower, so they can only split into two teams to explore, and are unable to take care of all three places.
Although the Ye family has sent nine Nascent Soul cultivators including the ancient demon this time, they are likely to encounter danger on Kunwu Mountain if there is no great cultivator leading the team.
You know, when the Ye family cultivators first appeared in front of the Wanxiu Gate, they encountered an ancient strange beast - the lion beast!
This level ten monster is stronger than the average late Nascent Soul cultivator.
With such an existence watching from the dark, the eldest elder of the Ye family did not dare to let an ordinary Nascent Soul elder form a team alone.
The plan of the eldest elder of the Ye family was that he and the big-headed monster would each lead a team of elders from the Ye family to explore a place separately.
Then, after exploring, they return to explore a third place.
But the big-headed monster had a different opinion. He believed that the three places must be explored at the same time. Otherwise, if there was a magical treasure in the third place that they had not explored, later people might get there first.
After some controversy, the great monk of the Ye family who was hiding in the dark finally volunteered to take the ancient demon with him to explore the Demon Suppression Tower.
The square-faced monk took three elders to explore the Kunwu Hall in the middle, and the Confucian elder took the remaining two elders to explore the Lingbao Pavilion.
Looking at the big-headed monster's departing back, the scholar narrowed his eyes slightly, feeling a little uneasy.
This seventh uncle, who had been staying outside and only recently returned to the clan, always gave him a strange feeling for some reason.
It seemed as if the other party entered Kunwu Mountain with other plans, which gradually made him feel a little defensive.
The Confucian scholar did not leave immediately with the remaining people. Instead, he watched the strange man and the square-faced monk finally disappear in the white mist at the end of the stone steps before he withdrew .
He turned to an old man beside him and said calmly, "Nephew Feng, how many sets of formation flags and formation plates do we have left?"
"Your Excellency, according to your instructions, we will leave a temporary magic formation on the spot after each restriction is broken. Up to now, except for the Ziwei Seven-Star Formation that we spent hundreds of thousands of spirit stones to purchase, we have no other formation tools on hand." The old man replied respectfully.
"Well, let's set up the Ziwei Seven Star Formation here, and also put the group of hornets and two vampire bats into the formation." The scholar ordered without hesitation.
"Yes!" The old man agreed immediately, stretched out his hand and slapped his waist. A stack of purple formation flags appeared in his hand, and then he strode to one side of the square.
The scholar then turned around and looked down the mountain, his face changing from gloomy to happy, and he was silently thinking about something.
An hour later, the scholar and others disappeared on another stone staircase.
After an unknown amount of time, Ye Changsheng and his group of five appeared in the square. He held a small purple sword in his hand, and a group of golden and silver gold-eating insects were circling around him, eating up all the hornets and vampire bats.
Ye Changsheng slapped his spirit beast bag and summoned back all the circling gold-eating insects.
His eyes looked coldly at the broken formation materials on the ground.
Along the way, they have broken several formations left by the Ye family.
All of these formations are extremely ingenious. Even if a Nascent Soul cultivator encounters one, he will be trapped for a long time.
Ye Changsheng also understood a lot about the principles of formations, but now he didn’t have time to carefully examine these formations and study their weaknesses.
As soon as he saw a formation, he would immediately use a replica of a magical treasure to break it open.
In this way, although a lot of his magic power was consumed, his forward speed was much faster.
When they saw the dozen or so steps ahead and the names written on them , the old man surnamed Fu and others showed excitement on their faces.
"It seems that this is the core area of Kunwu Mountain. No matter which path we choose to explore, we should be able to gain something!" Ye Changsheng said lightly.
Everyone knew what he meant by this. It probably meant that everyone could separate and no matter which channel they took, they should be able to gain something.
This made the old man surnamed Fu excited. If he followed Ye Changsheng and explored a passage, almost all the precious things would be taken away by him.
But if you explore a place alone, you should be able to gain a lot.
As for danger, they are at least at the peak of the middle Nascent Soul stage and are not so easy to be killed.
"But the group of cultivators ahead should have already entered several of the passages. If we go up, we might encounter them!" Han Li calmly pointed out the dangers here.
"What do you think?" Ye Changsheng turned around and asked.
The old man surnamed Fu thought for a moment, and then exchanged glances with the beautiful woman in black. Finally, he smiled and said:
"We brothers and sisters think we have some ability to protect ourselves, so let's go explore alone!"
Ye Changsheng nodded, then looked at Han Li and asked, "Junior Brother Han, what do you think?"
Han Li naturally wanted to explore a road alone, so he looked at the words on the stone tablets.
"Lingbao Pavilion", "Demon Suppression Tower", "Kunwu Hall", "Xiangyun Hall"...
Soon, he made the same judgment in his mind as the Ye family cultivator. If there were any valuable treasures, they would most likely be in places like Lingbao Pavilion and Kunwu Palace.
Han Li's biggest purpose for coming out this time was that he had already obtained the Infant-Nourishing Pill, and he didn't want to get into any more trouble.
Therefore, he immediately ruled out places like Lingbao Pavilion and Kunwu Temple, which would surely be visited by many people.
The Demon-Suppressing Tower, that doesn't sound like a good place!
With his eyes flickering, Han Li said, "Junior brother also wants to explore on his own, so he won't go with you!"
