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Chapter 522 Ancient Demon
Hidden Immortal Valley, inside the courtyard of the wooden house.

Qi Xiaoyu invited Qin Ming into the house and served him spiritual tea.

Qin Ming looked around at the furnishings in the room. Most of them were books and materials related to formations. There were also many refined formation plates on the shelves.

Just by taking a look, he could tell that these formations were not simple.

"I believe that Fellow Daoist Qin has also seen that Qi has a secret that he cannot reveal. He is already dying, so he has been keeping the door closed and not seeing visitors." Qi Xiaoyu smiled bitterly, poured Qin Ming a cup of spiritual tea and explained.

Qin Ming asked in confusion, "I have seen that Fellow Daoist Qi has been in the Nascent Soul stage for a short time, so how come he only has a few years left to live?"

"Alas! This matter is related to something that happened dozens of years ago. In order to refine an array formation, Qi went to a dangerous place to obtain materials. He encountered a fourth-order poisonous beast. Although he escaped with his life by chance, he also paid a huge price and lost most of his life span." Qi Xiaoyu said to Qin Ming without hiding anything when he thought that he was a dying man.

He then took a look at the Sky-Devouring Rat beside Qin Ming and said, "I didn't expect that Fellow Daoist Qin's pet is so gifted that it can actually break the Shadow Mirage Formation set up by Qi."

"Even a great cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage cannot easily break this formation."

"By the way, Fellow Daoist Qin has come all the way here to see me. What is the important matter?"

Qin Ming did not directly answer the other party's question, but asked:
"With Fellow Daoist Qi's talent for formations, it shouldn't be difficult for him to join a faction and find some longevity elixirs, right?"

"I have already searched for all the life-extending elixirs that I could find. Only the legendary fourth-tier life-extending elixir 'Xutiandan' can possibly extend my life." Qi Xiaoyu said dejectedly.

Qin Ming did not answer the other party directly, but asked: "Fellow Daoist Qi, can you take me to observe the formation you have refined?"

"Of course that's possible."

Subsequently.

Qi Xiaoyu pushed the wheelchair and took Qin Ming to the storage room to see his formation works.

Soon after.

"This set is a fourth-level high-quality attack and killing formation, the Ten Directions Burning Heaven Annihilation Formation, which can unleash the power of a late Nascent Soul. It just requires 30,000 high-quality spirit stones to activate it."

"This is a fourth-level top-grade defensive spiritual formation, the Miro Zhoutian chessboard."

"This set was created by Qi several decades ago. It is a fourth-order, top-grade nine-star spirit gathering formation that can gather a powerful spiritual energy training environment."

"The Eight Extremes Movement Formation took Qi a hundred years of hard work to create."

……

After Qi Xiaoyu's introduction one by one, Qin Ming also saw many high-level formations that he had never seen before.

It can be seen that Qi Xiaoyu's attainments in formations are so high that they have surpassed those formation masters in the big sects outside.

And through communicating with him, Qin Ming discovered that this person and Su Yuqing were the same type of people, that is, people who had special talents in some kind of immortal cultivation art.

"Fellow Daoist Qin, I'm not trying to brag to you, but if I didn't have fifth-level materials on hand, I would have already been a fifth-level formation master." Qi Xiaoyu said proudly.

Qin Ming had no doubt that the other party did have such ability.

He did not think about it any more, handed the jade slip to the other party and said, "Fellow Daoist Qi, this is a formation that Qin found somewhere. Some parts of it are broken. Can you see if there is a way to repair it?"

"If possible, in exchange, I can find a way to get you some elixirs that can prolong your life."

Qi Xiaoyu was also quite surprised when he took the jade slip.

He thought that Qin Ming, like those big forces, came to him to ask for rare formations.

"Fellow Daoist Qin, you don't know that I have already used all the third-level life-extending pills and life-extending items that I can find. You also know that the effectiveness of these life-extending items often decreases significantly after being used once."

"Nowadays, only fourth- or fifth-level objects can nourish Qi's essence. Otherwise, everything will be in vain."

"Alas! Although I haven't left the valley for a long time, I have heard about the rumors and deeds of Fellow Daoist Qin. He is an inspirational and legendary cultivator in the Southern Wilderness Immortal Cultivation World. I admire him very much."

"Since it is an ancient remnant formation, I am also interested in studying it. Fellow Daoist Qin does not need to pay me. Qi will do his best to help Fellow Daoist Qin repair it. Of course, whether it can be repaired within the remaining life span depends on God's will."

Qi Xiaoyu did not shirk his responsibility and directly agreed to the task.

However, when he finished browsing the contents of the photos in the jade slip, his expression suddenly changed.

"It's actually the ancient Tai'a pattern. It must have a history of at least tens of thousands of years. Nowadays, this kind of spiritual pattern prohibition has disappeared in the world of immortal cultivation." Qi Xiaoyu said in surprise, "Fellow Daoist Qin, this formation is not an ordinary formation, but a super-distance teleportation formation from the ancient times. As for the purpose of the other part, it is unknown."

Qin Ming was also amazed at Qi Xiaoyu's attainments in formation. He did not expect that he could see the key points of this formation with just one glance, and also recognized the complicated ancient formation patterns in it. This showed that there was still hope of repairing the formation.

So he said to Qi Xiaoyu: "Fellow Daoist Qi, if you can help Qin Hua restore this formation, then the matter of the 'Continuation of Heaven Pill' will be handed over to Qin."

Qin Ming is still quite confident about this matter.

Qi Xiaoyu didn't expect that before he died, he suddenly saw a glimmer of hope, and he immediately agreed.

"If Brother Daoist Qi has any progress, you can ask someone to deliver the news to Southern Wilderness. I will receive it." Qin Ming then communicated with him.

Considering that Qi Xiaoyu had already taken the Yuanqi Lingtao and Shouguodan, these two things were of no use to him.

After communicating with each other for half a day.

Qin Ming said goodbye and left.

Qi Xiaoyu escorted him out of Hidden Immortal Valley with a dim look in his eyes, and no one knew what he was thinking.

"Young Master, are you sure you can repair this ancient formation?" The maid behind him put a robe on him.

"Do your best and leave the rest to fate." Qi Xiaoyu sighed slowly, and was then pushed back into the house by his maid in a wheelchair.

……

Qin Ming also felt that this formation was quite important, so he spared no effort to try to repair it.

Maybe there will be some unexpected gains.

Qin Ming actually has the recipe for the "Xutian Pill", which is recorded in the "Yuan Dao Dan Jing" that Su Yuqing gave him before.

However, as this elixir is a top-grade fourth-grade longevity elixir, its materials are quite difficult to find.

When Qin Ming returned to Wangyue Island, he instructed Mo Lingwei and Hua Tianxiong to help him search for the spiritual materials for refining the pill.

After all, Xingyue Market has now become the largest market for cultivating immortals in the Southern Wilderness. As long as you pay attention, you will be able to gain something more or less.

Qi Xiaoyu only has five years left to live, so the sooner these spiritual materials are collected, the better.

……

the other side.

The northern cold world of immortal cultivation, inside Yuanji Mountain.

"Alas! It's really bad luck. I should have stopped listening to your nonsense and believing your lies, old Jackdaw, and came to Yuanji Mountain to search for treasures." Tianjizi of the Kuzhu Sect in the Xiyou Immortal Cultivation World complained to Master Jackdaw beside him with a depressed look on his face, "Now, let alone obtaining the secret treasure, even how to get out alive is a problem."

"Didn't you say that with the Yuanji Order, entering and leaving Yuanji Mountain would be as easy as eating and drinking? Why doesn't it work now?"

"It's all your fault!!" The young man in a green robe, Master Jackdaw, was so upset after hearing Tianjizi's complaints and nagging that he started to curse:

"I didn't force you to come here. As soon as you heard about the spiritual treasure, you wanted to sell out the sect. It's all your own fault!"

"Okay, stop arguing, both of you. Think about how to leave this damn place. I didn't expect such big changes have taken place inside Yuanji Mountain." Master Wanbao was still relatively rational and sober, and interrupted their quarrel.

In fact, the three of them didn't know what exactly happened in Yuanji Mountain.

But when they came in and were excitedly preparing to make a big move and get the treasures from deep inside, something happened that was beyond their expectations.

After a violent tremor erupted in Yuanji Mountain, countless dark demonic auras gushed out, mixed with the power of Yuanji. Even a Yuanying cultivator would be corroded and contaminated if he was touched by a little bit of it, and would die after his magic power was exhausted.

The place where the three of them are now is located underground in an unknown mountain range in Luotian Dao Palace.

When the Yuanji Mountain was shaking suddenly, it created a crack where the three people were, and they fell into it.

It was also by some coincidence that Master Jackdaw and his two other companions managed to save their lives.

However, the crack was surrounded by demonic energy, and the space inside was not very large. Once the spiritual energy inside was exhausted, there was a high possibility that the three of them would be trapped to death here.

Even the Yuanji Order that Master Jackdaw had traded from Qin Ming lost its effect under the influence of these evil spirits and ghost fogs.

"Alas! Fellow Daoist Qin's advice was indeed correct. This Yuanji Mountain is indeed extremely dangerous. We are trapped to death here before we even get to see the treasure." Master Jackdaw said with a depressed look on his face.

……

Not far from the three of them was Yuanji Mountain, where the Fangxian Taoist Palace was located.

In a space shrouded by sky-high gray fog, Demon Lord Bailin and Mu Qingzi were completely frozen and imprisoned in a wall of ice.

“Mu Qingzi, this is completely different from what you said at the beginning! Now, I haven’t found the spiritual treasure, and I am completely imprisoned here.” Bai Lin Demon Lord said in a voice transmission, “I didn’t expect that after living for tens of thousands of years, I would die in this damn place.”

"If it was someone else, I could still accept it, but when I think about being with you, I feel it's not worth it."

Mu Qingzi was like an ice sculpture, unable to move in the ice wall. He smiled bitterly and said:

"I have made all kinds of plans, but I never thought that the old fellow, Venerable Qingdi, would leave such a trick here to lure me into the trap."

at this time.

The sound of chains colliding echoed in the gray fog, and a teasing female voice was heard:

“I didn’t expect that after I’ve been sealed in Yuanji Mountain for so long, there would actually be two little guys who would come to keep me company. Now that you’re here, don’t even think about getting out, hahahaha!”

Upon hearing this, Demon Lord Bai Lin and Mu Qingzi's faces suddenly turned extremely ugly. The huge commotion in Yuanji Mountain before came from here.

The two of them were also trapped here by the special means used by this demon.

Mu Qingzi thought for a long time, "I didn't expect that there are still ancient demons that survived the great war."

"I believe that your cultivation level is definitely not that of a human being. I wonder which demon ancestor among the three ancient demons who came down from the demon world are you?"

"What's the connection with that Qingdi guy? How could you agree to let him set a trap here?"

The words fell.

Crackling.

The sound of chains colliding continued to be heard in the gray fog, followed by the vague appearance of a huge dark figure.

It’s just that Demon Lord Bai Lin and Mu Qingzi were trapped in the ice wall and could not use any magical powers, so they couldn’t see the face clearly.

"You are the second Yuanying of that Qingdi guy, right? My ancestor is immortal, how can I be killed by a mere human cultivator like you? It's simply a foolish dream."

"But I have to admit that Qingdi is indeed a very talented person among the human race. Who else in the human world can trap me here except him? He should have become an immortal in the spirit world by now, right?"

"Since I can't find him, I can only find his Second Yuanying to settle the score first, hahaha!"

Arrogant laughter echoed in the gray space. After hearing the other party's words, Mu Qingzi's expression became even uglier.

"I didn't expect that the Venerable Qingdi had dug a big pit, waiting for me to jump in."

Bai Lin Yao Zun hesitated for a moment, still somewhat unwillingly said:

"You are also sealed here. We are all on the same side now. Why should you be so proud?"

"Can you break free of the chains and kill both of us?"

The woman in the gray mist said, "In the past, this Saint Ancestor naturally knew that it was impossible to escape the constraints of this star chain, but now, it is not certain."

"This Saint Ancestor has observed that among the cultivators who have entered Yuanji Mountain this time, besides you, there should be some demon cultivators, right?"

"It seems there are two more demon cultivators in the Spiritualization Stage."

"It is not impossible for me to lure one or two people here to remove the shackles from my body."

After the giant dark figure finished speaking, he said no more, and the entire dark space fell into silence.

……

The Southern Wilderness Immortal Cultivation World, Moon-Watching Island.

Inside the cave on the main peak, the ancient poisonous flame illuminates the surroundings into an environment of three interwoven colors.

Qin Ming was controlling the spiritual flame, and the alchemy formula in his hand was constantly firing into the Spirit King Cauldron.

After several months of running around and searching, Hua Tianxiong and his team went to the East China Sea to purchase spiritual materials.

Qin Ming finally collected all the spiritual materials needed to refine the "Xutian Pill" and began to refine the pill.

Now, refining the fourth-grade elixir is not too difficult for him, a fourth-grade top-quality elixir king.

In addition, in the "Yuan Dao Dan Jing", Su Yuqing conducted research and annotations on this kind of longevity elixir.

After refining several materials, a green light bloomed in the cave and a strange and rich elixir fragrance wafted out.

A clear sound was heard from the Lingwang Cauldron, and three azure spiritual pills suddenly came out of the furnace.

Qin Ming stretched out his hand and took the three "Xutian Pills" into his hand. He saw a layer of vitality and vitality lingering on them.

"The fourth-grade, top-grade Xutian Pill is rare in the world of immortal cultivation nowadays."

The higher the level of the longevity elixir, the more fatal its temptation is to the old monsters above the Nascent Soul stage.

After taking Xutian Pill, one can extend his life by as much as two hundred years at a time.

For those Nascent Soul cultivators who have been stuck in a bottleneck for a long time, it is undoubtedly a beacon of light in the darkness.

The extra two hundred years of lifespan would give them time to find an opportunity to break through and thus climb the path to the future.

Isn't it for this reason that those old Yuanying monsters who are facing the end of their lifespan are willing to take risks?
(End of this chapter)