I am cultivating immortality in the chaotic world.

Chapter 117 "It doesn't sound like something I can handle."

"That's all right."

Chen Lu sat on the roof of the temple and shook his head. As long as there were no hidden injuries, it would be fine. Being attacked with all force by a powerful man at the fourth level of the Golden Core Realm, it would be great to be alive. This little bit of pain didn't matter.

He was worried that because his sea of ​​consciousness was damaged, it would cause some hidden injuries, preventing him from forming a tenth-grade golden elixir.

Then he would really be so angry that he would kill someone.

This is completely acceptable now. Fortunately, he did not choose the "unbearable pain" option which increased the pain, otherwise he would probably have died from the pain now.

He didn't want to stay here any longer, so the important thing was to quickly go to the "Xing Dou Sect" to ask for medicine.

After a pause, he looked down at the temple below, and the shopkeeper, who had not yet recovered from the shock, said hoarsely: "Shopkeeper, how about we go to another place to stay and I'll let you out after a while?"

Then he waved his hand and sucked the shopkeeper into the small world, and the shopkeeper did not resist.

In Chaotian Sect, in a clean disciple dormitory.

The shopkeeper suddenly appeared in this dormitory, still in shock. Before he could look around, a familiar voice came to his ears.

"Boss, thank you for staying in this house for a while."

"I will let you out after the storage ring is cracked."

"Thank you for your hard work, boss. I will give you double the reward this time."

Just when Chen Lu was waving his hand to signal the scholar to prepare to go to the "Xing Dou Sect", he suddenly saw the golden elixir of the leader of the Ten Thousand Poison Sect handed over by the scholar. He was stunned for a moment. He, who was originally suffering from a headache and dizziness, suddenly felt a little more energetic, and even couldn't help shaking his head and laughing.

"Second-grade golden elixir?"

"Yeah." The scholar couldn't help but laugh: "Brother Lu can be regarded as a blessing in disguise this time. The second-grade golden elixir is not easy to find, but it was delivered to my door."

"really."

Chen Lu also nodded and took out a wooden box from his arms. He had many of these wooden boxes, all of which were the boxes blessed by Heaven that contained Heavenly Dao cultivation pills. He placed the second-grade golden pill in front of him in the wooden box and then placed it in the warehouse of the small world.

Now there are three second-grade golden elixirs.

Only six left.

One third of the progress of the nine second-grade golden pills has been completed. If you count it this way, I feel that I haven't suffered a big loss from this attack.

Then he glanced at the scholar's flying sword and saw several cracks on it. He frowned and said, "I remember this flying sword is your natal spiritual treasure, right?"

"Ah."

The scholar nodded and then shook his head helplessly, "Yes, it was damaged a little. My natal spirit treasure is closely related to me, and I have been hurt a little, but it's not a big problem. I can still use it. As long as it's not completely broken, I can always find a way to repair it in the future."

"Shall we set off now, Brother Lu?"

"Let's go."

When passing by Fufeng City, he left his scholar brother in Fufeng City.

Chen Lu and the other two went to the "Xing Dou Sect" to ask for elixir, so that if any accident happened, they could quickly retreat to Fufeng City through the blood entries of the scholar and his brother.

The entrance to the Xingdou Sect’s mountain gate.

"It shouldn't be a big problem."

The scholar lowered his voice and said, "This Xingdou Sect has always had a good reputation. It has never attacked anyone who came to ask for pills. The Dan Sect is generally a neutral sect. It treats evil cultivators, demon cultivators, or righteous cultivators equally."

"Ah."

Chen Yu nodded and looked towards the Xingdou Sect's mountain gate in front of him.

The Xingdou Sect is located on a high peak. The sect site is at the top of the mountain, and the mountain gate is built halfway up the mountain. Two ten-foot-high stone pillars engraved with strange patterns stand halfway up the mountain without a roof. This is the mountain gate.

Anyone who sets foot on the territory of Xingdou Sect from other places will be regarded as a hostile invasion.

At this time, two disciples guarding the mountain were standing at the mountain gate, looking them up and down.

"But you came here to ask for the elixir? Do you have any elder's recommendation tablet?"

One of the mountain guarding disciples with a square face looked at Chen Lu and the others and said in a deep voice.

"No."

Chen Yu shook his head and said softly, "No, I heard that Xingdou Sect's medicine refining skills are the best in the Northern Province, so I came here specifically to ask for pills."

Then he waved his hand, and Fei Long at the side immediately took out two storage bags containing ten spirit stones from his arms and stuffed them into the arms of the two mountain-guarding disciples without leaving any trace.

This place is already on the edge of the endless desert.

Standing halfway up the mountain, you can already see the endless desert in the distance. There is no oasis, no springs, no hills, only the endless desert with no visible edge.

It's obviously winter.

But for some reason, he could even feel the heat waves coming from the boundless desert, which was completely different from the boundless ice field.

"cough."

The two gatekeeper disciples took the storage bag handed over by Fei Long seemingly casually. One of the gatekeeper disciples clenched his fist and coughed lightly before whispering, "Have you Taoist friends been fooled?"

"Foundation-building pills can be purchased in the market below. Generally, only the golden elixir-level pills need to be sought in the mountains."

"What we are looking for is the golden elixir, the 'Shen Bu Dan'."

"Spirit-boosting pill?"

The gatekeeper disciple glanced at Chen Lu and the others in surprise. How could a Foundation Establishment cultivator want to buy Spirit Replenishing Pills? These pills were used to repair damaged spiritual consciousness. How could a Foundation Establishment cultivator have the chance to have his spiritual consciousness damaged? His spiritual consciousness would only be damaged when fighting with a Golden Core Master. A Foundation Establishment cultivator would die instantly if his spiritual consciousness was attacked.

But after thinking about it, he guessed that it should be the Jindan Zhenren who came to ask for the elixir on behalf of the person behind him.

He did not dare to neglect it and said seriously, "Follow me."

Then he flew towards the top of the mountain on his sword, and Chen Lu and others followed closely behind him on their swords.

soon--

He entered the interior of the Xingdou Sect, passed through the areas for menial disciples, outer disciples, and inner disciples, and came to the Xingdou Sect's guest reception area, a large tea room with agarwood burning.

Along the way, they met many disciples, and the fragrance of herbs was floating over the entire Xingdou Sect.

Basically, most of the disciples are alchemy practitioners.

It just seemed like the furnace explosion was quite serious. I heard more than a dozen explosions along the way.

"Please wait here for a moment."

The mountain guarding disciple who led them here said seriously, "I'll go report to the elders and come right over."

"it is good."

After the disciple left, Fei Long heard the occasional explosion outside the window and couldn't help but sigh, "No wonder alchemy is expensive. With the speed of furnace explosions, it must cost a lot of money just to buy alchemy furnaces in a year, right?"

"I remember that the mid-level foundation-building alchemy furnace at the auction in Wentianfang City was sold for 200 spirit stones. If the alchemy furnaces that just exploded were all mid-level foundation-building alchemy furnaces, then three or four thousand spirit stones would have been blown up in such a short while?"

"In this day, the furnace explosion alone cost tens of thousands of spirit stones. This is a bit outrageous."

"no."

The scholar looked out the window with a somewhat strange expression, hearing the occasional explosions. "I've been to a pill cultivation sect before, but I've never seen furnaces explode so frequently in any of them. How can this be called alchemy? Are they making fireworks?"

About a cup of tea passed.

A white-haired old man, with eyebrows and beard obviously burnt, strode into the tea room with an anxious and irritable look on his face. After seeing Chen Lu and the others, the irritability on his face subsided, but his voice was still trembling with a little irritability.

"Let me introduce myself. I am the third elder of the inner sect of Xingdou Sect."

"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, my fellow Taoists. I just had a furnace explosion, and then I heard from my disciples that a distinguished guest was coming, so I changed my clothes and hurried over here."

"Just now I heard from my disciple that several distinguished guests need to take the "Spirit-Replenishing Pill" to repair their damaged spiritual consciousness. Could you please tell me the level of cultivation of the person who takes this pill? I can prescribe the right medicine according to the level of cultivation. People with different levels of cultivation can tolerate different levels of medicine."

"The peak of foundation building."

Chen Yu had been in pain for a long time, so his voice was a little tired as he said softly, "I took it, but something went wrong and my consciousness was damaged, so I came to your sect to ask for the elixir."

"you?"

A trace of doubt flashed in the old man's eyes, and he subconsciously said, "Nonsense, how could a person at the peak of foundation building have his consciousness damaged?"

In most cases, damage to spiritual consciousness is due to unfortunate damage during the battle with a Jindan master. However, the sea of ​​consciousness of a foundation-building cultivator is in a chaotic state and is completely defenseless. It is impossible to be damaged. Once attacked by spiritual consciousness, there is only one way out, which is to be completely destroyed.

There is no chance of damage.

"and many more--"

At this moment, the old man looked Chen Yu up and down, and suddenly took out a portrait from his arms. He looked at the portrait and then at the old man, with a flash of surprise in his eyes: "Are you the Chen Yu who has become famous recently?"

"The most powerful magic cultivator in Daxia, Chen Lu?"

"Weren't you in the Endless Ice Field? Why did you suddenly come to the Endless Desert?"

Then he suddenly realized, and a hint of admiration appeared in his voice: "If it's Chen Yu, then it's understandable. I heard that you once killed a Jindan master above your level. I guess the damage to your consciousness must have been left behind at that time, right?"

"No wonder you were born in Fufeng City. Why did you go to the Endless Icefield? There are the most alchemy sects in Nanzhou. You must have gone there to ask for alchemy. It seems that you returned empty-handed."

"But unfortunately, Xingdou Sect has no solution."

"The Soul-Replenishing Pill is a low-grade Jindan elixir, specially designed to repair the damaged Jindan consciousness. Even if the medicinal power is adjusted to a weak level, it is not something that a foundation-building cultivator's consciousness can withstand. Not only will it not be able to repair the damaged consciousness, it will even aggravate the damage."

"Foundation-building cultivators cannot take the Spirit-Replenishing Pill at all."

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Chen Yu frowned and remained silent for a long time before he reluctantly asked again, "Is there no possibility at all?"

"No."

The Third Inner Sect Elder shook his head regretfully: "If you had said this a few months earlier, there might have been some solution, but there have been some accidents in the sect in recent months, and it seems that this accident cannot be solved in a short time."

"What accident?"

Chen Yu opened his mouth and asked.

As long as there is a glimmer of hope, he is unwilling to give up. The damage to his sea of ​​consciousness means that it will be difficult for him to form a tenth-grade golden elixir. It will not have any impact if it is repaired, but if your sea of ​​consciousness is 90% destroyed, you still want to form a tenth-grade golden elixir? This is just a dream.

"This"

The old man hesitated for a moment, as if he wanted to say something but stopped talking. After a moment, he said, "Wait here for a moment. I will go and ask the elder for instructions."

"it is good."

Soon the old man was followed by an older man who looked even older. This old man had dark green hair and beard, which looked like the color of Laba garlic. However, like the third elder behind him, his beard and eyebrows were burnt, and it was obvious that he had just been in an explosion.

"This is the great elder of our Xingdou Sect."

As soon as the great elder sat down, he looked at Chen Yu with a serious face and said word by word: "Fellow Daoist Chen, what I am going to tell you next are the most core secrets of Xingdou Sect. I hope that after knowing it, no matter whether you can help or not, you will try not to spread it to others."

"I have only told you, Daoyou Chen, this news."

"And the Shen Bu Dan that you requested, Fellow Daoist Chen, is also closely related to this matter."

"it is good."

Chen Yu nodded seriously and listened patiently to what was said next.

"Ugh."

The Great Elder sighed for a long time before he slowly said, "Since ancient times, most of the alchemy sects have been in the Southern Continent. The spiritual energy there is more abundant than in the Northern Continent, so it is naturally suitable for alchemy sects."

"But the reason why Xingdou Sect established its sect in the northernmost part of Xuzhou near the boundless desert is because of this."

"It's because hundreds of years ago, our forefather discovered that there was a "underground fire" flowing like an underground river under the boundless desert. That constantly flowing underground fire made the boundless desert extremely hot even in winter."

"That underground fire is extremely docile. It took our ancestor decades to lead a wisp of underground fire to the foot of this mountain. Using this wisp of underground fire, the success rate of the pills refined by our sect's disciples is extremely high, and the cost is extremely low."

"Especially because the ground fire is extremely mild, we can control its temperature at will, and thus refine some elixirs that other sects cannot refine."

"For example, the 'Spirit-Replenishing Pill' that you requested, Fellow Daoist Chen, is a pill that can be taken by people at the peak of foundation building. No sect in the entire Great Xia can refine it. Only our Xingdou Sect can refine it with the help of the earth fire." "Some time ago, the earth fire was as mild as before."

"But a few months ago, for some reason, the underground fire suddenly became extremely violent and it was impossible to refine pills. We tried countless times but failed. The underground fire became more and more violent. We were ready to give up."

The great elder of the Xingdou Sect suddenly looked at Chen Yu with a serious expression and said sincerely, "I didn't expect that you, Fellow Daoist Chen, would suddenly come to visit me. You are currently the most powerful magic cultivator in Daxia. If there is only one person who can solve this earth fire problem, that person must be you."

"As long as I can help Xingdou Sect solve this underground fire problem."

“Not only can we refine the Shen Bu Dan for Fellow Daoist Chen for free, we will also give him a large sum of money as a reward, and Fellow Daoist Chen will gain the long-term friendship of Xing Dou Sect.”

"I?"

Chen Yu frowned and said, "It doesn't sound like something I can solve."

"you can."

The Great Elder of Xingdou Sect looked at Chen Yu with great trust and said seriously: "We all watched your battle on the boundless ice field. If you want to go deep into the underground fire to see what happened, you must activate the protective spiritual energy at all times."

"But the underground fire is too deep."

"We have even invited the Grand Elder who has reached the peak of the Golden Core stage, and is also the founder of this sect. However, even with the founder's level of cultivation, he cannot reach the depths of the underground fire before half of his spiritual energy is exhausted."

"It's even more impossible to tell what's happening underneath the underground fire."

"It even caused our ancestor to get hurt, shortening his already limited remaining life span."

"Fellow Daoist Chen, based on the image on the stone the sect master saw, the amount of spiritual energy contained in your body is believed to be even greater than that of the founder. If fellow Daoist Chen is willing to help us, perhaps we can find the reason why the underground fire is so violent, and then we can find a way to prescribe the right remedy."

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After a moment of silence, Chen Yu said softly, "Take me to see it."

"it is good."

Led by the Great Elder, Chen Yu and his party came all the way to the back mountain of Xingdou Sect. In the center of a house protected by a formation, there was a well.

A large amount of flames that flowed like substance continued to gush out of the well, and those flames flowed along the ditches dug on the ground to every corner of the Xingdou Sect.

The whole house was filled with scorching heat.

With the naked eye, one could see that the flames were filled with a violent aura, and were far from being gentle.

"It's here."

The Great Elder said with a complicated expression: "Although we really want to solve the underground fire problem of Xingdou Sect, I must remind you, Fellow Daoist Chen, that the underground fire below is more numerous and deeper than you think."

"A Jindan Zhenren can leave a trace of spiritual consciousness at the mouth of the well, so that when the spiritual energy is almost exhausted, he can return along the original path of the spiritual consciousness."

"But Fellow Daoist Chen, you are at the peak of foundation building and cannot leave your body. Once you fall into the fire below, you will instantly lose your sense of direction. There is a high possibility that you will not be able to come back until your spiritual energy is exhausted."

The Great Elder did not say the rest of the words.

But the meaning is obvious.

After the spiritual energy is exhausted, staying in this spiritual fire which is obviously not ordinary fire and can corrode the spiritual energy, the ending will definitely not be too good.

"I will go with you."

The scholar looked at Chen Lu.

"Ah."

Chen Lu nodded. With the scholar around, he was no longer worried about not being able to return. As long as he was within ten thousand miles of the scholar's brother, he could return to his brother's side in an instant.

"No problem."

Chen Lu was unwilling to delay any longer. Since he had almost understood the situation, there was no need to delay any longer. The spiritual energy suddenly surged out, drawing Fei Long and the scholar into it, and he immediately stepped into the fire well in front of him.

Although protecting two more people would consume more protective spiritual energy.

But to him, it didn't make much difference.

He was not very reassured about leaving Feilong alone in Xingdou Sect.

The three of them immediately disappeared from the spot.

at this time--

A middle-aged man with a square face and a dignified expression strode into the room, glanced around the room and said in a deep voice: "Where is Fellow Daoist Chen?"

"metropolitan."

The Great Elder looked at the entrance of the fire well with a complicated expression: "They have already gone down."

"Has it gone down yet?"

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then he sighed: "Well, let Fellow Daoist Chen give it a try. Since Shu Yingren is known as the peerless magic cultivation genius of Daxia, he must have some outstanding qualities."

"only."

"I haven't had time to tell him yet that the underground fire below has become more violent, and the loss of spiritual energy will be more serious."

"I hope you return safely."

"You guys should go down and pack up first and prepare to move to Nanzhou. The underground fire is getting more and more violent. It will erupt in large quantities within a month. By then, the entire sect will be covered by the underground fire and it will be difficult to survive."

"Already." The Great Elder was stunned for a moment, and looked at the Third Elder in disbelief, "Has it come to the point where we have to move the sect?"

"Ah."

The middle-aged man was silent for a long time before he said in a hoarse voice, "The ancestor has just passed away. Don't spread the news. The ancestor didn't have much time to live, and he was injured in the underground fire. He didn't make it."

At this time, Chen Lu had already brought Fei Long and the other two deep into the depths of the underground fire.

At a glance——

The surroundings were filled with countless and endless earth fires, which flowed like liquid, corroding his body's protective spiritual energy all the time, even though the spiritual energy capacity in his body far exceeded that of cultivators of the same level.

But it couldn't last more than thirty breaths.

The underground fire is too corrosive to spiritual energy.

The entire underground seemed to be hollowed out, with nothing but underground fire, like a large underground sea of ​​fire composed of flowing liquid flames.

"Walk."

Chen Lu felt the heat waves from all around seeping into his body without saying anything. Spiritual energy poured into his arm armor and countless sharp needles pierced into his body, restoring his spiritual energy while allowing him to teleport repeatedly within the sea of ​​fire.

He didn't know whether this was feasible.

But now this is the only way to go. He doesn't know what happened under the underground fire that made the originally gentle underground fire become violent. He can only rely on continuous teleportation to find the abnormal point if the timeline is stretched long enough.

that's it--

Two hours passed in the blink of an eye.

Chen Lu was still teleporting randomly in the depths of the sea of ​​fire without any thoughts, but he was not irritated. He looked around calmly. With the two experiences on the Forbidden Sea, it had only been two hours and there was no ripple in his heart at all.

"I never knew that there was a hollow underneath the endless desert, and that there was so much underground fire."

The scholar's expression was complicated as he felt the distance between him and his brother: "I can feel that my brother is getting farther and farther away from us, which means that we are going deeper into the boundless desert, but we are just underground in the boundless desert."

"And it has already penetrated more than ten miles deep."

"If nothing unexpected happens, there may be a whole sea of ​​fire flowing under the boundless desert, and the area of ​​this sea of ​​fire is even many times larger than Xuzhou. No wonder the founder of the Xingdou Sect was unable to detect the end of the sea of ​​fire."

"The spiritual energy of heaven and earth here has already merged with the earth fire. Absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth here will make your body hot and unbearable. Absorbing too much may even cause your meridians to spontaneously combust. Here you can only use the spiritual energy in your own body."

"The spiritual energy stored in the body of a peak Jindan cultivator is not enough to explore this sea of ​​fire."

Chen Lu glanced around, but he hadn't seen anything special so far. He just felt that the heat waves around him were getting hotter and hotter, and the speed at which his spiritual energy was corroded was also increasing, which meant that the temperature of the underground fire here was even higher.

Star Dou Sect.

Next to the fire well in the house, the Star Dou Sect's Sect Master, who had been waiting by the fire well, had a complicated look in his eyes. Two hours had passed, and Fellow Daoist Chen still showed no sign of returning.

High probability.
The feeling of death is gone.

The ancestor only stayed in the underground fire for half an hour before returning. However, because he did not calculate well, when he was about to return to the fire well, the spiritual energy in his body was exhausted and he had to absorb some spiritual energy from heaven and earth that had merged with the underground fire.

Causing damage to the meridians in the body.

As a result, he didn't last long and passed away prematurely.

An old man at the peak of the Golden Core stage is like a precious yet fragile piece of porcelain.

It breaks when touched.

When another three hours passed.

It was already dark, and there were only two days left until the Tianjiao Ranking Competition.

At this time, Chen Lu, who was deep in the underground fire, had no idea how deep he had gone into the boundless desert. But as the heat waves around him became stronger and stronger, he finally found the source of the violent underground fire.

In the deepest part of the underground sea of ​​fire.

An eight-petal fire lotus that looks like a lotus grows without roots and floats freely in the sea of ​​fire. The eight petals seem to breathe, and they keep shaking up and down. Every shake causes the surrounding fire to become more violent.

This created waves of heat that surged far into the depths of the sea of ​​fire.

The source of the violent fire on the entire ground is the fire lotus growing in the sea of ​​fire.

however--

Chen Lu just stood there and observed for less than a breath. Before he could get close, he had to teleport away from here several times. He had to rely on teleportation to restore his spiritual energy, but this teleportation took him away from the eight-petal fire lotus.

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Chen Lu turned his head to look at the eight-petal fire lotus located dozens of feet behind him, estimated the amount of spiritual energy stored in his body, took out a bunch of energy-replenishing pills from his arms and put them all into his mouth, and then did not activate the arm armor.

He immediately used his protective spiritual energy to hold back the sea of ​​fire, and rushed towards the eight-petal fire lotus deep in the sea of ​​fire!

Then spiritual energy suddenly surged out, rolled up the eight-petal fire lotus and stuffed it into the wooden box. However, the eight-petal fire lotus was made up of flames, and the wooden box was instantly burned to powder. He tried to stuff it into a storage ring, and the storage ring was also instantly burned to powder.

He hesitated for a moment.

Throw it directly into the small world, and it will be safe this time.

This eight-petal fire lotus floated in the sky above the small world, bringing the sun to the originally dim small world for the first time. The dazzling light sprinkled on the ruins of the Chaotian Sect in the small world, and at the same time, a heat wave like a scorching summer swept across the entire small world.

After the eight-petal fire lotus was taken into the small world, the surrounding ground fire, which had been raging and surging, suddenly began to calm down slowly, and the violent aura gradually dissipated.

Seeing that the spiritual energy in the body is about to be exhausted.

Chen Lu led Feilong and the others directly into the small world.

"call!"

In the small world, Fei Long was bare-chested and sweating profusely. He waved the paper fan in his hand vigorously and looked up at the eight-petal fire lotus above his head that acted as a small sun. He looked excited and said, "Brother Shu, I'm telling you, this thing must be a great treasure!"

"I have never seen a flower without roots growing in a sea of ​​fire, and its entire body is made of flames."

"Such a huge underground sea of ​​fire started to rage because of this thing. This thing must not be underestimated. Scholar, do you know what kind of treasure this is?"

"do not know."

The scholar shook his head helplessly: "You overestimate me. Even at the peak of my cultivation, this underground sea of ​​fire is not a place I can come to, and this thing is not something I am qualified to touch."

Chen Lu felt that the temperature was not bad. The three golden elixir ghosts on his back cooled him down quite nicely, so he did not feel very hot. He looked at the eight-petal fire lotus floating in the air and was quite moved.

This is the disadvantage of being a casual cultivator.

I finally came across a treasure, but I have no idea what it is used for. But when I think that even the big sects in Da Xia probably don't know what it is used for, I feel a lot more balanced.

just
He couldn't just let this thing float in the air forever. He had a headache for a moment. How could he know what this thing was used for? He was sure of one thing, this eight-petal fire lotus must be a top-notch spiritual treasure in heaven and earth.

He just doesn't know how to use it. If he had the chance to meet Old Man Cao, maybe he would know.

(End of this chapter)