Fire Monster

Chapter 262 The Missing Immortal

The surroundings returned to normal. The woman's body did not turn into ashes. She just lay there, with a purple fire burning silently in her chest. The imperial oil lamp was dimly lit, shining with warm light, as if a hand was caressing her.

The little flame inside is a little happy and a little sad.

After a while, Zhao Guanshan's injuries gradually stabilized, but the blood-recovering jade pendant shattered again with a snap.

But it doesn't matter, because he still has six green leaf spiritual weapons on him, and the blood-restoring effect is the same as this blood-restoring jade pendant.

He can't die.

There's no way he's fighting alone.

On the contrary, this woman must have been alone for a long time.

Zhao Guanshan picked up the imperial oil lamp. It was a little hot and a little warm.

However, he did not study it too much and hung it around his waist. Then, he pulled the dagger off the big shield and found that it was indeed a spiritual weapon with a +10 enhancement.

But the other spiritual weapons on this woman were very weak. It seemed that she was trapped here, unable to get out or develop, and was in constant pain. After finally escaping, she attacked Zhao Guanshan frantically for some reason and then killed him.

At this moment, Qin Wuyuan's voice sounded outside the crack.

"Old Zhao, are you still alive? This time, I'm indebted to you. Advancing to the sixth-level spirit body is just around the corner. Hahahaha!"

"He's still alive, but there's a woman hiding here. Come in and take a look."

"Woman, yes, woman. I did see a woman in the memory of this spirit demon. This woman was very strong. She fought with this spirit demon for at least a thousand years and finally ended up in a stalemate here. To be honest, this spirit demon is not at its peak yet. We are really lucky."

Qin Wuyuan said this as he staggered into the crack. He looked very abnormal. Not only had he gained weight, but there were also strange symbols moving wildly on his skin.

"Don't be surprised. Don't do anything. I'm fine. I just absorbed too much memory from the spirit demon. I can't use it all up in a short while. We can achieve mutual success. I used my memory to seduce it and restrain it. That's why you have the opportunity to destroy its body."

"Anyway, the game we're playing is a winner-takes-all game. If I lose, all my memories will be given to it, and if it loses, all its memories will be given to me. Hahahaha, if I can digest it all, not to mention advancing to a sixth-level spirit body, a seventh-level spirit body would be no problem at all. Wait, this woman! Hiss, hiss, hiss!"

Qin Wuyuan suddenly gasped.

"Who is she? Do you recognize her?" Zhao Guanshan asked in a deep voice, but he was always on guard, ready to chop Qin Wuyuan to the ground at any time.

"Mei Xun is one of the five immortals who established the Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace. She is the old lover of your Zhao family ancestor Zhao Fengxiao. Mei Xun! Yes, it is her. There is a portrait of her in the Taoist Palace."

Qin Wuyuan said affirmatively.

"Meixun?"

Zhao Guanshan was stunned. It was Zhao Fengxiao’s old lover. That’s right. The ancestor of the Zhao family did say that if there were any difficulties, he should go to Mei Xun. However, there was no one with the last name Mei in the Taoist Palace of Linjiang Prefecture, at least not among the Qi Refiners.

"Yes, it was Mei Xun. However, more than a thousand years ago, due to some disagreements, Zhao Fengxiao was injured, and then he became possessed by the devil and died. The Zhao family also declined from then on. At that time, Mei Xun was responsible for guarding the spirit world. Yes, it was in this Skull Mountain. At that time, the demon hunters of Linjiang Taoist Palace were still very powerful."

"As a result, after Mei Xun heard about Zhao Fengxiao's death, she was very angry and the consequences were serious. She personally went to the house to fight against the two immortals, killing Xiao Wangyan on the spot and seriously injuring another immortal, who was the ancestor of my Qin family, Qin Shanruo. Of course, she herself was also seriously injured. Her physical body was destroyed, and her spirit escaped to the spirit world and has been missing ever since. The Mei family was also basically wiped out that time."

"I never thought that she had been hiding here."

Qin Wuyuan sighed, "Old Zhao, why did you want to kill her? She was your ancestor's old lover, and she was also your great grandmother. You are really committing treason."

"She wants to kill me, what can I do?"

"Wait, why would she want to kill you? This doesn't make sense. Didn't you say your last name was Zhao?"

"how could I know?"

"Hey, that's true. But the strange thing is that Mei Xun has at least cultivated a ninth-level spiritual body. Logically, it's impossible for you to kill her so easily. Look, her spiritual body won't be annihilated. This is the characteristic of cultivating a ninth-level spiritual body."

Qin Wuyuan kept talking on and on, and seemed a little bit insane.

"No, I can't bear it anymore. I have to stay in seclusion for a while. Lao Zhao, please help me protect the law. I will do you a favor!"

After saying that, Qin Wuyuan rushed out.

After thinking about it, Zhao Guanshan looked at the corpse in the crack. The purple flame was still burning on its chest.

Then, he had an idea and took off the sealed oil lamp from his waist and moved closer to the purple flame. As he expected, the purple flame was taken away in an instant, and Mei Xun's spirit was annihilated like sand in the wind. No ashes were left, but only a blue soul armor piece.

Zhao Guanshan wanted to pick it up, but when his fingers touched it, it turned into blue snowflakes again, circling around him, and finally condensed into a new scalene, covering his forehead and fitting in with the original scalene.

Next, Zhao Guanshan looked at the small flame in the oil lamp, and he had guessed that the answer should be there. However, he did not rush to reveal it, but walked out of the crack, first collected the ashes in the corners into the ashes bag, and then waited aside, waiting for Qin Wuyuan's retreat to end.

this point is very important.

This place is equivalent to an important port of Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace in the spiritual world. Although Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace is closed and the gods are forbidden, this port will not disappear because of this, which is like covering one's ears to steal a bell.

Therefore, Qin Wuyuan is still needed to guard here, which is also a very important thing for Zhao Guanshan.

It took Qin Wuyuan several days to recover his original state and successfully advance to the sixth-level spiritual body.

"Old Zhao, I have absorbed all the memories of that demon. This is both a good thing and a bad thing for me."

"The good thing is that I can grind away its memory demon soul bit by bit and turn it into my divine will, just like a tonic pill. In the future, I can use it to at least break through to the seventh level of spiritual body."

"The bad thing is, through the memory of this spirit demon, I learned that the evil spirit commander above will be fully recovered in another fifty years. You may not know that the spirit demon we just killed is actually equivalent to an evil spirit commander. It will succeed soon as it can swallow Mei Xun and the Lihuo Daoist School in her hands."

"So, there are only fifty years left of peaceful days. The evil spirit general in his prime is not something you and I can deal with. Therefore, I can only guard here for another thirty years before I have to leave. And you, Old Zhao, don't leave here for your last time. Find a safer place. This place has become extremely dangerous."

Zhao Guanshan was silent for a while, then suddenly asked, "Did you guess it?"

"Hehe, this is not difficult to guess. You are not Zhao Wenyu, but what does it matter? Even I can find your offline location through exploration and investigation. Do you think the more powerful evil spirit master can't do it? Go quickly. This spirit world is becoming more and more dangerous. In addition, through the memory of the spirit demon, I vaguely feel that the evil demon may set off a big wave in the real world that may affect all the Taoist palaces. It's not a good thing."

Zhao Guanshan nodded. He originally wanted to log off here, then return to the statue space, and then go directly to the Cangwu Taoist Palace’s base in the spiritual world from there. After all, this way was too convenient.

It now seems that he still does not fully understand the cruelty of the general trend.

Just as he was about to turn around and leave, Qin Wuyuan suddenly spoke again, "Don't come here next time. In fifty years, this place will become a real devil's cave. Then in one or two hundred years at most, the evil spirit will be able to break through the blockade brought by the forbidden art of sealing the gods bit by bit. It will invade reality and summon the evil demons in the real world to attack from both inside and outside. At that time, unless there is some kind of adventure, the Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace will not be able to withstand it. You'd better take your confidants and leave early."

"Can we take action in advance and kill the evil spirit leader here?"

Zhao Guanshan pondered for a moment and suddenly spoke.

"No, that's too difficult. Do you know how powerful the demon hunters of the Floating Cloud Palace were? They were led by five level seven spirits, with more than a hundred members. The weakest were all level three spirits. There were five spiritual weapons that were strengthened to the tenth level. With such strength, they could only severely injure the evil spirit leader. So don't be wishful thinking. It is an indisputable fact that we human cultivators are gradually losing the initiative and advantage in the spirit world."

"Why else do you think there are conservatives and radicals? Don't they have anything to do?"

"Isn't it because I can't see any hope for the future that I want to cultivate destiny and try another path to see if destiny can extend the life of the human race?"

"That was more than a thousand years ago, and the situation in the spirit world was already like this. Although I have not been to other Daoist palaces' bases in the spirit world, I should be able to guess that most of the Daoist palaces are actually shrinking their defenses in the spirit world. I can even guess that there should be quite a few Daoist palaces that are in seclusion and prohibiting the use of the Conferred God Technique."

"The spirit world is turning into the demon world."

"The future will only be darker and more desperate."

"All we can do is delay it for as long as possible."

"Goodbye, Lao Zhao."

Qin Wuyuan smiled and waved. Zhao Guanshan remained silent. In the end, he could only clasp his fists and leave, walking into the darkness.

After a moment, he walked out of Skull Mountain, then took out the Asking Jade, and continued to expand the search range by consuming spiritual ashes.

This is indeed a good thing. On this jade slip, he can clearly see that the Skull Mountain where he is is accurately marked with the words Linjiang Prefecture. This means that the old guys in the Cangwu Taoist Palace do not exist at all and have never been heard of. Instead, they have been plotting against him from the beginning. His value was not exhausted until he really brought the jade slip back to Linjiang Prefecture.

When the scope was expanded to a radius of one thousand miles with Skull Mountain as the center, Zhao Guanshan successfully found the second Skull Mountain, but there was no mark on it.

This can only explain two situations.

Firstly, there were no witchers stationed on this Skull Mountain anymore. Secondly, something had happened to the real Taoist Palace corresponding to this Skull Mountain.

And these changes include two kinds, either choosing to shut himself up in the palace and practice forbidden divine arts, or being revealed.

So Zhao Guanshan would not go here, it would be a waste of time if he went there.

But just as he was consuming the spiritual ash and continuing to expand the range, when it had reached a radius of about 1,300 miles, a white spot of light appeared in the map formed by the Jade of Inquiry.

This means that there are witchers who are also using the Asking Jade at the same time.

When Zhao Guanshan was hesitating, a calm voice sounded at the same time.

"The second demon hunter team of the Floating Cloud Taoist Palace is here. Fellow Taoists across from you, please state your names."

(End of this chapter)