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Chapter 653: The Human Puppet, the Essence of Fire

After leaving the Qin family's land.

Qin Ming and his companions turned into stunning rainbow lights and fell towards a nearby mortal world.

In just half a day, they arrived at the tomb where the ancient monk's cave was discovered.

The mortals around had long been expelled, and only the monks from the Four Nations Alliance were stationed here.

They saw several powerful figures falling towards them from the sky, and they immediately took full precautions.

When they saw clearly that it was Hua Tianxiong and others, they immediately gave way.

And when they saw Senior Hua from Wangyue Island and the young leader looking like he was following their lead, they couldn't help but be surprised.

You know, this Senior Hua in front of you is a genuine Yuanying Zhenjun.
What kind of person is he that even he treats him with such respect?

This place is called Fuli Mountain. It has beautiful scenery, tightly locked mountains and many openings. The dragon comes like an emperor leading an army in person, and nations from afar come to pay homage to the mountain. Just from a glance, it is obvious that it is a top-notch feng shui dragon vein pattern.

Hua Tianxiong led the way and took Qin Ming to a tomb. A layer of red ancient formation restriction appeared in front of them, and a scorching heat wave suddenly hit them in the face.

The surrounding space was illuminated red by the light curtain of the formation.

"Master, this is the place."

Qin Ming immediately used his spiritual sense to investigate, and was shocked to find that this was actually a fifth-level restriction.

"Huh? This formation is still operating after such a long time, which means that the owner of this cave is extremely powerful." Even he was surprised.

Hua Tianxiong immediately took out a jade box and handed it to Qin Ming. There was some fine orange sand inside, and he explained:
"Master, these crystals with extremely strong fire properties were found near the cave entrance. They are quite similar to the Taihao Divine Stone you are looking for, but I am not sure."

Qin Ming took the jade box and observed it for a while, then showed a hint of surprise:
"Well, although this thing is not the Taihao Divine Stone, it has bred a trace of extremely strong fire spirit essence. It seems that there is an extremely yang thing in the cave. Maybe it really exists."

Immediately, he released the Sky-Devouring Rat and let it start to break the restrictions of this place.

The Sky-Devouring Rat's eyes showed excitement, and it immediately revealed its true form of a gray rat. It spit out a forbidden mysterious light towards the layer of red light curtain, and began to use both soft and hard methods to corrode the restrictions of the formation.

After so many years of refinement, its innate bloodline magical power is now able to break through some special fifth-level restrictions.

Qin Ming watched quietly from the side, in case anything unexpected happened in the cave.

Another whole day passed.

Click! !
There was a crisp sound of shattering, and with the unremitting efforts of the Sky-Devouring Rat, the outer restriction was finally broken.

"Oh my! I am so exhausted. This formation is quite strange. It can repair itself. It cost me a lot of magic power."

But the next moment.

Whoosh! !

A scarlet streak shot out from the cave and hit the people outside, accompanied by a violent aura of spiritual pressure from the God Transformation level.

After the Sky-Devouring Rat broke the restriction and was about to take a breath, it sensed an extremely terrifying breath coming at it, and the whole rat was frightened to the point of having its hair stand on end.

"What the hell?"

Before it could react, Qin Ming took the lead in picking it up and threw it directly into the small spiritual realm.

next moment.

The Blue Ice Fairy stood up and waved her white hand towards the rushing red light, sweeping out a piece of icy magic light, instantly freezing the flames in place.

Qin Ming looked carefully and vaguely saw a human figure inside.

Click!
The icy power only lasted for a few breaths before it dissipated. The scarlet flames inside once again swept over like a torrential rain, trying to devour the people in front of them.

The beautiful eyes of the Blue Ice Fairy focused, and she immediately used her spatial magical power to slash at the figure wrapped in flames.

In the void ahead, several terrifying void cracks suddenly appeared, like extremely sharp blades, cutting through the nearby void.

puff!

The fierce flames were immediately cut into several pieces and scattered, revealing the figure inside.

Qin Ming also frowned and looked at it, only to see a completely unrecognizable humanoid puppet in the early stage of transformation.
The moment this puppet appeared, Qin Ming could feel a strong poisonous fire coming towards him, which was similar to his own ancient poisonous flame.
Hua Tianxiong, who was standing by, saw this terrifying thing suddenly appear with his own eyes, and was so frightened that his scalp went numb. He almost couldn't stand under the pressure of the humanoid puppet.

Qin Ming immediately threw him into the Xiaoling realm to prevent him from being affected and losing his life.

Qin Ming is now very powerful and has basically no rivals at the same level. Naturally, he is not afraid of the puppet in front of him.

And Qin Ming didn't even need to take action. Fairy Blue Ice immediately displayed all kinds of magical powers and fought with the puppet in front of her that was wrapped in poisonous fire.

"Fairy Lan Bing, please don't break him. This puppet is quite strange. I want to study it."

He was quite interested in this puppet. He didn't expect that in such a place, there was such a high-level humanoid puppet sealed up. It not only had a trace of independent consciousness, but was also extremely flexible.

It was obviously made by an ancient high-level puppeteer, and it has a sense of ingenuity.

After a while.

No matter how powerful the incarnation puppet was, it could not defeat the Blue Ice Fairy who had the blood of two true spirits. It was quickly subdued by her and frozen into an ice sculpture on the spot.

Qin Ming immediately walked over and took a look, and found that inside its core, there was a ball of extremely hot heaven and earth energy flickering, and even he began to be moved.

It was this ball of flame that burned and swayed above his purple palace spirit platform, transforming into an endless source of power to keep the puppet running.

This is enough to allow this puppet to cross such a long period of time and still unleash terrifying combat power.

Qin Ming only took one look and determined the origin of the spiritual fire. He could not help but say with emotion: "This is the ultimate of the five elements, the essence of the innate fire!"

He had previously obtained the essence of innate thunder element, so he naturally had some understanding of this ultimate thing among all the elements.

“It is actually the essence of the innate fire. It is a waste of resources to use such a spiritual object of heaven and earth to refine a puppet in the God Transformation Stage!” The old demon Qingyang couldn’t help but say.

Qin Ming immediately stretched out his hand and grabbed with his five fingers. A powerful force burst out, trying to separate the innate fire essence from the humanoid puppet.

But the next moment.

The humanoid puppet that was frozen in ice suddenly opened its empty eyes again. Its aura surged, and the surrounding flames became more powerful, raising its level to the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm.

Qin Ming's expression changed, and a green vertical pupil opened between his eyebrows and swept towards the human puppet.

However, he discovered that near the group of innate fire essence, there was a trace of a spirit soul.

However, it is estimated that because the time is too long, the spirit body's soul seems to have been attacked by fire poison, and has lost its sanity and fallen into a state of madness. Only a violent and violent aura remains, and whenever it encounters a living thing, it will subconsciously start killing.

Unfortunately, the person he met this time was Qin Ming.

His eyes suddenly opened, and in an instant a powerful divine power suddenly burst out!

boom!
The divine thoughts in the void became real, and the God-Destroying Spear pierced towards the core of the divine human puppet.

Under his attack of divine consciousness comparable to the perfection of the incarnation, the soul hiding behind the fire essence was instantly defeated, screaming and then turned into an idiot. Qin Ming did not hold back and immediately exerted force again, directly invading the spirit body to search its soul.

The remnant soul obviously could not withstand the invasion of his powerful spirit and disintegrated in an instant.

Without the core control, the human puppet froze in place and lost the ability to move.

Qin Ming searched the soul and found some fragmented information.

This ancient cultivator was named 'Reverend Dayan'. He was the leader of a large sect in the human world at that time and specialized in the art of puppetry.

After this person advanced to the stage of Divine Transformation, he accidentally obtained an innate fire essence and prepared to refine an extremely powerful puppet.

But who would have thought that when he obtained this fire essence, he was unknowingly infected with fire poison, and suffered the backlash during his practice. He almost died, and when he was dying, he actually refined himself into a puppet. He wanted to live a miserable life and find a way to revive later.

However, as time went by, the remaining spiritual sense of Venerable Dayan gradually disappeared.
Before he died, in order to prevent his human puppet from bringing disaster to the world of immortals, he cast a spell to seal up this cave, intending to keep it locked away forever.

But who would have thought that the construction of the imperial mausoleum ten thousand years later would actually make this long-buried place reappear in the world.

Qin Ming directly absorbed the innate fire essence from the human puppet's purple mansion spirit platform, placed it into a special container and sealed it.

"This way, I have two extreme things."

"I didn't expect that I could come across such a magical creature just by trying my luck."

After he dealt with the matters outside, he immediately entered the cave.

This Venerable Dayan is indeed an ancient cultivator who is obsessed with the art of puppetry. Most of the furnishings in the cave are related to the art of puppetry.

Qin Ming searched through it, but most of the things were buried in the dust of history and turned into rotten earth.

Seeing that there was no danger outside, the Sky-Devouring Rat immediately ran out of the Small Spirit Realm. It arched its extremely sensitive nose, and its pair of small, round eyes turned around, revealing an excited look as it said, "Master, there is a secret chamber underneath here. Maybe that's where the old immortal hides his treasures."

"Oh? Try to break the restriction. If that's the case, I will remember you as a great merit." Qin Ming said with a look of surprise.

Because he had just used his divine sense to scan the entire cave and found nothing.

All we can say is that this person's attainments in formations and prohibitions are extremely high.

Upon hearing this, the Sky-Devouring Rat immediately used its magical powers once again, spitting out a black forbidden light from its mouth and sweeping it towards the ground in front of it.

hum~
Suddenly, a wave of purple light echoed in front, and a rune of a formation restriction appeared on the ground.

Qin Ming walked over and took a look, and recognized that this was a restriction of a short-distance teleportation array. After all, he was also a descendant of the Fire God, so he could see some clues about the ancient restrictions.

He thought about it for a moment and then stood up.

The next moment, a burst of purple light submerged him and the Sky-Devouring Rat, and they were instantly teleported to a space deep underground.

When Qin Ming expanded his divine sense again, he saw that at the core of the ground, there was an orange crystal the size of a fist, suspended in mid-air, emitting extremely pure yang power, which was continuously providing energy to the cave, like a little sun.

Affected by this stone, even some orange crystal gravel appeared on the surrounding stone walls, exactly the same as what Hua Tianxiong found outside the cave.

"Taihao Divine Stone!"

Qin Ming recognized it immediately; it was exactly the spiritual object of heaven and earth that he needed.

His mood also experienced rare ups and downs. He didn't expect that something that was hard to find even in the spiritual world could be found here.

As for the secret method of obtaining this substance, there are also detailed records in "The God of Fire's Heavenly Craftsmanship".

Next.

Qin Ming used the treasure refining technique to take this rare treasure into his bag.

He also collected some books about puppetry in this secret space, including the book on puppet refining by Venerable Huoyan, which embodied his life's hard work.

After searching the place and making sure that nothing was left out, Qin Ming took Hua Tianxiong away and returned to Wangyue Island.

……

Inside the cave.

Above Qin Ming's palm, an orange Taihao divine stone was quietly floating, emitting an astonishing temperature, but it could not cause any harm to him.

"I didn't expect that there are so many good things in the human world, I just don't know about them."

He took out the Taihao Nine Lights Absolute Immortal Array and immediately mixed in the Taihao Divine Stone to enhance the formation and began to refine it.

For a moment, all kinds of mysterious runes were floating around, and the breath of scorching heat filled the entire cave.

A few months later.

Seventy-two mini black pillars circled around Qin Ming. Over the past few days, he has melted the Taihao Divine Stone into this fifth-level formation.

As the carving of the last restriction in his hand was completed, an obscure wave erupted from the deep-sea black iron pillar, and the golden runes swirled and sank into it, completely advancing to the level of a fifth-grade superior formation.

Qin Ming raised his hand and put the seventy-two black iron pillars into the formation.

"With this formation, I will be more confident when I go to Xuxuanyuan to collect the treasures from the Immortal Mansion."

……

After a few days of recovery.

Qin Ming was almost ready, and he immediately summoned the Blue Ice Fairy, who transformed into an Ice Crystal Bird and flew towards the East China Sea.

Not long after.

The Ice Crystal Bird tore through the void and sneaked into the Xuxuan Abyss silently without alarming anyone.

In the endless turbulence of the void, the huge floating island appeared in front of Qin Ming.

Qin Ming had been here twice before and was now familiar with the place.

The outer restrictions were of no use to him. Qin Ming quickly passed through the outermost Sumeru Spirit Garden and came to the inner core restrictions.

In the endless turbulence of the void, the huge floating island appeared in front of Qin Ming.

Qin Ming immediately followed the secret method in "The God of Fire's Heavenly Craftsmanship", made hand gestures, drew talismans in the air, and outlined a series of mysterious restrictions.

Afterwards, all these restrictions were placed into the inner protective formation in a specific order.

All of a sudden.

He saw the yellow light curtain in front of him suddenly burst into a violent wave, and the void in front of him twisted, revealing a hole that was big enough for people to pass through.

Qin Ming cheered up and asked Fairy Lan Bing to follow him. The master and servant walked one after the other and entered the inner area of ​​the treasure of this fairy palace.

(End of this chapter)