Chapter 334: Chapter 82: The Change in Fengyuan

Two years ago, Master Hu Kui and his two friends,

Song Clan Elder and Fake Pill Cultivator Song Yuheng, along with Profound Cloud Sect Fake Pill Elder Xuan Feizi, set off on a treasure-hunting journey to Fengyuan.

Among the three,

Master Hu Kui was the strongest, possessing four Quasi-Third Tier Puppets and a large number of Tier Two Puppet Beasts, offering combat power comparable to ordinary True Pill Cultivators.

Puppet Beasts had the characteristic of being fearless and relentless, making them ideal for pathfinding.

Song Yuheng was a Quasi-Third Tier Array Master, exceptionally skilled in breaking Restrictions, indispensable when encountering ruins.

Xuan Feizi, meanwhile, was a Body Cultivator with remarkable escape speed and owned a rare Magical Treasure Level Flying Ship, allowing him to swiftly flee from danger.

The trio’s combination proved to be highly effective in Fengyuan.

In just two years, each of them had acquired treasures valued at tens of thousands of Spirit Stones.

Master Hu Kui further gained materials sufficient to refine two more Quasi-Third Tier Puppets.

With such a haul, the trio was naturally content, deciding to head back, moving by night to reduce their exposure.

On this day, they were resting in a secluded valley.

“Hmm, what is this?”

Xuan Feizi, upon landing, immediately sensed something amiss.

He saw on the rock wall in front of him, about ten or more feet away, ripples appearing, resembling a shattered lake surface.

The exclamation naturally drew the attention of the other two.

“What happened!” Master Hu Kui quickly summoned a Quasi-Third Tier Puppet Beast to shield himself.

After all, this was Fengyuan, a place rife with danger.

Even at the Core Formation Stage, they were not absolutely secure, as there were entities within that they dared not provoke.

“It’s a Restriction; there’s a partially collapsed Restriction here!” Song Yuheng, being a Quasi-Third Tier Array Master, naturally recognized it at once.

Hearing this, Master Hu Kui breathed a sigh of relief, then showed a smile of joy.

Fengyuan was once a thriving hub for Cultivators, but after a great battle,

a vast amount of Spirit Veins were damaged, and Spiritual Qi tainted with impurities, making it unsuitable for human habitation. Thus, it gradually became a deserted land.

Only a few strange Demon Beasts and Ghost Spirits could survive here.

But because of this, the land had left numerous Cultivator ruins, and Fengg Country had nurtured cultivators whose profession was treasure hunting.

“This place is truly blessed; this is already the third ruin we’ve encountered, isn’t it!” Xuan Feizi laughed heartily.

In this region, any ruin that still remained was left by at least a Core Formation Stage Cultivator, equivalent to a substantial harvest.

Their previous major findings were primarily from those two ruins.

Besides, there were also rare Spirit Ores and Demon Beast materials.

“We’re relying on you again!” Master Hu Kui immediately assigned a puppet to fly outside the valley for vigilance.

“No problem, just watch!”

Song Yuheng smiled slightly, and with a slap to his Storage Bag, a Spirit Light flew out, landing in his hand.

It was none other than the Cultivation Realm’s renowned array-breaking Magical Treasure—the Array-Breaking Cone!

Song Yuheng formed a hand seal, and mana surged from his fingertips, turning light cyan, before wiping over his eyes.

He scrutinized the Restriction before him, carefully investigating the flow of Spiritual Power within.

“Now’s the time!”

After a while, his expression brightened with a pleased shout,

“Go!”

The Array-Breaking Cone suddenly expanded to about a foot in size, transforming into a blur, striking a point on the rock wall ahead.

“Boom!”

A series of sounds echoed as the Restriction was breached,

revealing an entrance about one foot wide on the rock wall.

Seeing this, they were delighted, and Master Hu Kui sent in a Tier Two Low-Grade Puppet Beast to investigate.

A moment later, the puppet returned safely.

Master Hu Kui was visibly pleased.

“How is it?”

Song Yuheng immediately inquired.

“No danger!”

Upon hearing this, the trio employed their defensive methods and proceeded into the entrance.

Inside the tunnel, about ten or more feet forward, there was a corner.

Curiously, after the corner, the temperature within began to rise conspicuously, increasing as they advanced further.

If they hadn’t been Core Formation Stage Cultivators, with bodies much sturdier than ordinary humans, they would have been unable to bear it long ago.

After a short tea break’s time, the passage began a descent, and the temperature grew even more intense.

The trio had no choice but to activate their Mana Light Shields, keeping the heat wave at bay.

After descending over a thousand feet, the rock wall ahead suddenly cast a crimson glow, revealing a massive stone hall about a thousand feet across.

The hall was nearly filled with scorching magma, with only a foot-wide stone platform in the center.

On it grew a flower, entirely crimson—a Fire Lotus!

“This Fire Lotus looks familiar, do either of you recognize it?”

“Could it be the Red Fire Lotus?” Song Yuheng speculated.

“Impossible, the Red Fire Lotus is merely a Tier Three Low-Grade Spirit Medicine, the Spirit Medicine before us is emanating brilliance with ample Spirit Charm, definitely not comparable to Tier Three Low-Grade Spirit Medicine!”

“Even Tier Three High-Grade Spirit Medicine falls short!”

Xuan Feizi shook his head.

“Could it be a Tier Three Top-Grade Spirit Medicine!” Song Yuheng rejoiced!

If this indeed was such a Spirit Medicine, it would undoubtedly be their greatest find on this expedition.

At this level, there weren’t many of such Spirit Medicines in the entire Eastern Wilderness.

“It should be!” Xuan Feizi nodded.

“If it weren’t for the fact that no Tier Four Spirit Medicine has appeared in our Eastern Wilderness for thousands of years, I would almost consider this medicine to be at Tier Four level!” Xuan Feizi said slowly.

“No matter what, we should pick this medicine and take it back. Once we’ve exchanged it for treasures, the three of us can distribute them again. Fellow Daoists, what do you think?”

“That’s fine, just as Daoist Hu Kui suggests!”

Xuan Feizi had no objections.

Such spirit medicine, once picked and brought back, only the Profound Cloud Sect in the entire Fengg Country has the strength to handle it.

Immediately afterwards, Master Hu Kui took out a Tier Two Fire Lizard Puppet Beast and controlled it to fly towards the stone platform at the center, preparing to pick the Red Fire Lotus.

Just as the Fire Lizard approached the stone platform, a flash of fire appeared out of nowhere.

Boom!

An instant blast of bright yellow flames engulfed the Fire Lizard, and in a moment it was nowhere to be seen.

“It seems obtaining this Red Fire Lotus isn’t quite so easy!” Master Hu Kui said with a frown.

His Fire Lizard Puppet Beast was a Tier Two Puppet, made with meticulous materials, and being of the fire attribute, it had higher resistance.

Yet, it still turned to ashes in just a few breaths, indicating that the restriction on the stone platform was indeed not ordinary.

“Daoist Song, we’ll have to rely on you next!”

Song Yuheng nodded and once again used the Spirit Eye Technique, with a faint cyan light emanating from his eyes.

“Tier Three High-Grade Restriction!”

A moment later, Song Yuheng said with a difficult expression.

“Can it be opened?” Xuan Feizi asked hurriedly. If they came all this way only to be blocked by the restriction and couldn’t take the treasures on Treasure Mountain, he couldn’t accept it.

“It can be, but it will take some time!”

Song Yuheng nodded.

“No problem, let’s just spend a bit more time here. Luckily, it’s very concealed here, so we don’t fear being discovered!” Xuan Feizi said.

None of the three had any objections.

In the time that followed, the three remained in this stone hall, working on breaking the restriction on the stone platform.

…

Meanwhile, in a peculiar valley millions of miles away from this place at the depths of Fengyuan, there was a bizarre valley.

The valley spanned hundreds of miles, barren of vegetation, with no trace of life, and the exposed ground even showed a faint gray-black, giving off a sense of death.

Seven gigantic peaks stood around, arranged in the formation of the Big Dipper, piercing into the clouds, each several thousand feet high.

On this day, the valley suddenly began to undergo changes.

At the bottom of the valley, eerie black light started to flicker, and then, out of nowhere, slim cracks appeared.

Next, wisps of black mist began to seep out of the cracks.

At the same time, the number of cracks continued to increase, and their width grew larger.

Gradually, the mist began to spread.

As time went on, it occupied the entire valley and started to slowly extend outward.

If someone approached, they could faintly hear ghostly wails or laughter emanating.

At this moment, the seven peaks seemed to sense something, emitting a soft white light, trapping the black mist within the valley with no leakage.

At the same time, if someone looked down on the entire Fengyuan land, they would discover that hundreds or thousands of black dots suddenly appeared and began to spread in all directions.

One of those black dots was located a thousand miles from the valley where Xuan Feizi and the others were.

…

In the stone hall, the three had been here for over two months.

To break this restriction, Song Yuheng set up an array to isolate the heat in the surroundings.

The three of them took turns attacking the Tier Three High-Grade Restriction, wearing down its spiritual power.

“Brother Song, we have cracked two of the three restrictions. How long until we can crack the last one?”

Master Hu Kui said with a slight smile.

During this time, his quasi-third-tier puppet had made the greatest contribution.

As long as there were enough Spirit Stones, there was no worry about the expenditure.

In order to break through this restriction, he had already consumed seven or eight High-Grade Spirit Stones!

“Daoist Brother Hu Kui, are you perhaps distressed over your Spirit Stones? Rest assured, for this endeavour, consuming them is a shared cost among us!” Xuan Feizi laughed heartily.

Now that breaking the restriction was close at hand, all three of their moods were quite relaxed, even joking with each other.

Just then, Master Hu Kui’s expression changed.

“Not good, the puppet I arranged to the south has lost contact!”

“What!”

Upon hearing this, both Xuan Feizi and Hu Yuheng’s expressions changed.

To prevent unexpected situations, Master Hu Kui had specifically arranged three puppet beasts for vigilance, and now that they were out of contact, something had indeed gone wrong.

Without hesitation, the three employed their techniques, disregarding the Red Fire Lotus in front of them, and rushed straight out.

Once outside, they were dumbfounded.

Just a few miles away, streaks of black mist were sweeping towards them.

“This is, Ghostly Mist!” the three exclaimed in shock!

The Ghostly Mist was the most terrifying natural disaster of the Land of Fengyuan, leaving no grass behind its path.

Even more frightening was the presence of a peculiar creature within the mist known as Ghost Spirits, which were extremely troublesome.

“Go!” Xuan Feizi acted decisively, flicking open a storage bag, from which Spirit Light emerged, forming a flying ship over ten meters long suspended before them.

It turned out to be a Magical Treasure Level Flying Ship.

“What about the Spirit Medicine?”

“Never mind it, saving our lives is the priority!”

At that moment, dozens of shadows suddenly appeared in front of them, surrounding them entirely.

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