Mortal: Settled in Mo Mansion at the beginning

Chapter 56 Visiting the Cave

Realizing that something was wrong, Han Li was a little reluctant. After some struggle and thinking, he finally tried to drip green liquid on the golden thunder bamboo.

Trying to spawn new spiritual bamboos, he didn't quite believe that the methods Hu Ming left behind could continue like this.

But what happened next made him feel chilly in his heart.

It took him thirteen years to mature the original three-thousand-year-old Heavenly Thunder Bamboo into six ten-thousand-year-old Golden Thunder Bamboo. However, the newly emerged Spirit Bamboo still had that weird gray magic power. The smell even feels more and more intense.

As time passed, Han Li vaguely noticed that Hu Ming looked at him with a strange look when he chatted with Hu Ming several times.

Thirteen years after Han Li acquired the Thunder Bamboo of that day, one day, Hu Ming sneaked into the Chaos Star Sea again and stopped by Han Li's place.

The lease period he had originally rented to Han Li for the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo had already expired, but Han Li took out another two thousand spirit stones and renewed it for another ten years, saying that he had not yet finished cultivating his magical powers.

Hu Ming asked a few questions and finally accepted the spirit stone.

However, as time went by, he seemed to care more and more about the Thunder Bamboo that he lent to Han Li.

This time, after he came over, he mentioned it again.

The conversation about Lei Zhu that day came up again, and Han Li continued to blur it out as if nothing had happened.

But this time, Hu Ming seemed to be unable to bear it any longer.

"Fellow Daoist Han, are you hiding something from me?" Hu Ming asked suddenly.

"...Well, why did Brother Hu say this? Could it be that he can't trust me?" Han Li said with an incomprehensible look.

"...Actually, the Thunder Bamboo was refined by me for a period of time that day. In order to better refine it into my natal magic weapon, a piece of my natal vitality was planted in it. It was originally hoped that it could make me The vitality of your life is slowly integrated into the growth process of this spiritual bamboo, making it easier to refine it when the time comes." Hu Ming said.

After saying that, he added another sentence,

"I can feel the state of Yi Er's vitality." Hu Ming was silent for a while, and then said.

"..., is there something wrong with this? Could it be that my practice of the secret technique has affected Brother Hu's arrangements?" Han Li was already frightened and panicked in his heart, but he continued to look ignorant on his face. So Ban asked.

"It has affected me. Since I lent it to Brother Han, the vitality has begun to grow rapidly, and it is growing faster and faster. I am afraid that if it continues like this, this vitality will give birth to spiritual wisdom and transform into You are evil, so can you let me see how my Lei Zhu was doing that day?" Hu Ming said quietly.

"Well, Brother Hu should be worrying too much. I think Lei Zhu was still fine that day. By the way, Brother Hu just said that he was going to visit a ruins with a few fellow Taoist monks." Han Li said, "Don't worry, don't worry." , comforted by the appearance of nothing, while trying to change the topic.

"...Well, the other party wants to invite me over to break the formation outside the ancient cave," Hu Ming seemed to hesitate for a moment, but finally followed the lead and avoided it.

"I envy Brother Hu for his good formation skills..." Han Li breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Hu Ming did not continue to pursue the matter, and then continued to avoid the topic.

But at the same time, I also had a terrible headache in my heart.

If he had known earlier that Lei Zhu was refined by Hu Ming that day, he would not have ripened it like this even if he was beaten to death.

However, Hu Ming's method was extremely weird. After he got the Thunder Bamboo, he checked it carefully and repeatedly, but found nothing.

As a result, now he doesn't know what to do.

He had tried to destroy the Thunder Bamboo that was infected by gray mana before, but as soon as he did it, the gray mana aura began to form a faint formation light curtain.

The intensity of the formation light curtain was quite powerful. At the same time, he had a feeling that if he dared to touch the formation light curtain, Hu Ming would probably feel it.

In the past ten years, in order to solve the matter of the gray mana and the strange formation, he had studied a large number of classics and Taoist formations, but in the end he could only vaguely see the formation that appeared on the Thunder Bamboo that day. It seems to be some kind of powerful ancient formation, and it seems to be vaguely related to the legendary ancient formation cultivator.

But as for how to solve it, a relatively stable solution has never been found.

And what made him extremely uncomfortable was that not only the formation light curtain appeared on the first golden thunder bamboo, but also the formation light curtain appeared on the new spiritual bamboo.

It seems that this array of light curtains comes from the magic aura.

This strange situation gave Han Li, who had just started studying the formation, a headache. He felt somewhat helpless with these Heavenly Thunder Bamboo.

Although Hu Ming was fooled once again, he still didn't have any good ideas on how to solve the trouble.

Anyway, it is not possible to continue ripening. According to the current situation and what Hu Ming said, if he continues to ripen, the new Thunder Bamboo will be infected even more severely.

Just when Han Li had a severe headache, Hu Ming suddenly made a note before leaving,

"I planted the Qianyuan Taboo in the Thunder Bamboo that day. This is a ban formation left by ancient formation cultivators. I have improved it. It doesn't have the late-stage magic power of the pill formation, so it's best not to touch it."

"...I will pay attention when I practice the secret method." Han Li was silent for a moment and returned.

Then Hu Ming left without staying any longer. Han Li watched as the green ashes that Hu Ming turned into disappeared into the distance, and his heart sank deeper and deeper.

He had seen something about the Qianyuan Ban before when he was flipping through some formation books.

It seems that it was a famous existence in ancient times, but it is said to have been lost now. At this time, Hu Ming didn't know where he found it and improved it. No wonder he looked at the restriction before and it seemed to be the same as the ancient formation. The law seems somewhat specious.

Now that he knew this, Han Li realized that with his ability, it would probably be impossible to unlock it within a few decades.

He was already regretting his original greed.

At the same time, I was thinking about whether I should just run away at this time.

But naturally he was a little unwilling to do so, and he was still thinking about whether there was any way to circumvent Hu Ming's restrictions and get such a thunder bamboo seedling that would have no future problems.

It was because Hu Ming only showed his mid-stage pill-forming cultivation, which made this guy think that even if the incident happened, he would not be unable to deal with it.

In addition, Hu Ming seemed to be quite easy to talk to, so that gave him a little hope.

And this guy was extremely courageous when it came to practicing and seizing treasures. At this time, he had a headache, hesitated, and continued to waste away.

On the other hand, Hu Ming didn't pay much attention to Han Li's incident.

What was fatal to Han Li was just a casual temptation to him.

It was equivalent to loosening the soil for leeks and checking the situation. The result still needed follow-up observation, so he could only remain patient.

At this time, he only followed Jin Qing to the ruins of the ancient cave. Over the years, Hu Ming has basically made friends with all the alchemy cultivators in Tianxing City, and Jin Qing is one of them.

And this Jin Qing was also a character that Hu Ming had some impression of. He seemed to be the guy who originally led Han Li to the copy of Master Xuan Gu.

However, I was not sure. I kept waiting for Hu Ming to arrive at the place and saw the so-called ancient cave ruins. He broke through the outer formation and found a spirit-sealing pillar inserted there. At the same time, a group of human beings were surrounded by the spirit-sealing pillar. A rare winged evil beast.

At this point, he was certain that this was where the Jiyin Ancestor and the sealing master, Master Xuan Gu, lived.

Squinting his eyes slightly, a circle of thoughts went through his mind, and the movement of breaking the formation paused.

"What? Did Senior see something?" Shi Die, the foundation-building mage who was helping to break the formation, saw this and asked.

"Well, that pillar looks a bit like a spiritual sealing pillar. It seems that this is not an ancient monk's cave, but a sealed place. I just don't know whether the sealed thing is a powerful demon or a spiritual creature. ." Hu Ming said casually.

On the side, after thinking for a moment, he started to throw out array flags in his hands without any slow movement, and shot out a series of auras, as if looking for loopholes in the formation in front of him to advance the progress of breaking the array.

But visible to the naked eye, more and more formation flags were thrown from his hands.

Hu Ming's explanation for this was to surround and suppress the evil winged beasts that flew out after the formation was broken.

And his method certainly seems to be that way.

On the side, Shi Die looked at the various formations that Hu Ming was randomly swaying in his hands, and the techniques to break them, admiration appeared in his eyes, and he just followed behind him like a little girl.

This Shi Die's appearance can only be described as average, and his personality is not very good.

However, he still had some talent in formations. Hu Ming saw that it was of some use to him, and at the same time, he was more sensible and wise, so he easily accepted it.

And in his hands, the formation was dismantled very quickly. Before the weird flower basket ancient treasure that was originally going to appear had time to come back, Hu Ming started to dismantle the formation.

The Fengling Pillar was also easily pulled out and put away.

Some of the alchemy fellows nearby were also interested in the sealing spirit pillar, but at this time they saw that the formation was open and they hadn't explored much inside yet, so they didn't say anything.

Just follow Hu Ming and walk down a dark passage under the sealing pillar.

Inside is a small underground cave. In the center of the cave is a pool that exudes moving spiritual light. On the pool, a three-color lotus is swaying and growing.

The three-color lotus has an extraordinary appearance. It has not yet opened its buds, but there is already a colorful glow on it.

Seeing such an appearance, Hu Ming had already completely determined his goal.

"Qixia Lotus! That's right, it's definitely this thing..." A casual cultivator named Hu named Hu, who is considered a relative of Hu Ming, suddenly said, looking at the colorful lotus with blurred eyes.

"Really? If it is really Qixialian, our trip here will be worthwhile," Hu Ming said with a smile, holding the array plate in his hand and stepping forward.

As for Qixialian, the forgery was quite good, and even he was somewhat concealed.

It's no wonder that he was able to deceive the Xuan Gu Demon back then.

However, a fake is a fake after all. If he knows the situation in advance, he will naturally find flaws easily when he looks at it again.

At this time, Hu Ming's spiritual consciousness swept through, and he quickly saw through its hidden true face, and even a highly venomous mutated demon-crowned snake.

I was thinking about it, but I paid attention to the mysterious old demon hiding aside.

However, nothing appeared on his face. He only took out the array disk and stepped forward calmly.

The sight of several casual cultivators around him changed their eyes slightly, but when they saw Hu Ming stepping forward to explore the formation, they couldn't stop him.

After Hu Ming stepped forward, he threw out the formation disk in his hand, and then threw out a few formation flags. Auras of light shot out from his hands, as if he was exploring the formation, but soon, Shi Die behind him realized that something was wrong. , and even a few guys at the back who didn't understand the formation began to realize something was wrong.

Because the formation flags in Hu Ming's hands were thrown out one after another, and gradually, the posture became larger than before when he was breaking the formation outside.

"Senior, is there any powerful formation in this pool?" Shi Die asked suspiciously first.

"Oh, there is no formation, but there is a guy hiding on the side waiting to hurt people with hidden arrows." Hu Ming said with a smile.

As he said that, he flicked his fingers towards the colorful lotus on the pool and shot out a small fire bird.

This firebird is only about the size of a fist, has a restrained power, and looks inconspicuous.

But the next moment, the firebird flashed onto the colorful lotus, swooped lightly, and then turned into a golden red sun, burning away the glow on the colorful lotus. The next moment, in the pool There was a piercing scream, and Cailian suddenly shrank down and retracted into the pool.

Then, without waiting for anyone to react, a black shadow shot out from the pool, but as soon as it left the pool, it was covered by a large net of spiritual light that suddenly appeared.

At this time, everyone could clearly see that it was a demon-crowned snake, but the horns on the demon-crowned snake's head had been refined into the appearance of Qixialian.

At this moment, the colorful lotus-like flesh horns were burnt black, and hung on the head by a slender flesh thread. It no longer looked as attractive as before, but looked a bit weird.

And this demon-crowned snake was woven into a large net by spiritual light threads, but it naturally refused to sit back and wait for death.

Immediately, he spit out a seven-color demon pill, screamed twice, and spit out a seven-color poisonous mist. But in the blink of an eye, the seven-color demon pill was tied up by blue-gray spiritual power threads, and the seven-color poisonous mist , it was quietly, as if it had been swallowed up by something, without any power being revealed.

Seeing this, the Demon Crowned Snake, which had obviously given birth to some intelligence, became a little panicked.

However, there was nothing that could be done in front of the spiritual power threads that kept appearing and winding up layer by layer. In the end, they were tied into a large blue-gray cocoon.

Strange runes suddenly appeared on the big cocoon, and then a burst of spiritual light changed, finally condensing into a gray ball and falling into Hu Ming's hand.

Also captured were the gray beads wrapped in the demon crown snake's seven-colored demon elixir.

(End of this chapter)