A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 427 Black Fire Lotus

Wu Shidao then took out the brocade bag and handed it to Duan Rong.

Duan Rong took the brocade bag, clasped his fists, and said, "Thank you, Senior Brother Wu."

Wu Shidao smiled and said, "You and I are from the same sect, so you don't have to be polite, Junior Brother."

Duan Rong's eyes moved, and he said, "By the way, Senior Brother Wu, where did the statue of Acala in our training room come from? It looks a bit strange to be alone there."

Wu Shidao's heart skipped a beat. This guy really had a lot of questions. However, he still smiled and said, "The statue of Acala was originally there. There was originally a secret room there. As for the secret room for the disciples to practice, it was rebuilt on the basis of the original secret room."

As expected, Duan Rong looked clear and continued to ask, "When I was testing in the Valley, I also saw the statue of Acala. However, I remember that there were four statues in the Valley, standing in four dimensions. This place should have been like this originally, right? Since it was rebuilt, where are the other three statues?"

Wu Shidao replied: "The other three were naturally placed in the improved secret rooms for cultivation. Two of them are in the remaining two empty secret rooms, and the other one is in Senior Sister Fan's secret room for cultivation."

"I'm just a little curious. Thank you, Senior Brother Wu, for answering my questions." Duan Rong said with a smile.

Wu Shidao said: "Little Junior Brother, you are not only a hard-working person, but also have a strong desire to get to the bottom of things. You will surely be a leader of our sect in the future."

"Brother, thank you for your compliment! I will not bother you any more! I will return this geomancy map to you after I have studied it."

"There's no rush. Junior brother, you can take your time and look at it. It's okay."

"Thank you, senior brother! Goodbye!" Duan Rong clasped his fists and turned to leave.

Duan Rong was walking in the corridor, and he started to grumble. The two empty training chambers were not so bad, but there was still one statue in Fan Hongjiao's training chamber, which was a bit troublesome. There was no difference between missing one statue and missing three statues, because they were both incomplete and could not be trained at all.

Duan Rong thought so and took the brocade bag back to his room in the pavilion. The scroll of strange beasts and the ancient feng shui map in the secret room for training had also been taken out by Duan Rong.

Sitting in front of the desk, he unfolded the ancient feng shui map and the map he had just taken from Wu Shidao, and compared them together.

Over the past month, Duan Rong has been concentrating on his training and has not even looked through the feng shui map.

At this moment, just a quick look was enough to make one shocked.

This dark underground forest is nearly a thousand miles in radius, which is almost as vast as the endless mountains of Changliu Mountain Range.

“This is simply an underground world!”

Duan Rong looked at the map spread out on the table in front of him with a look of astonishment.

Now it seems that the place they entered last time was just the edge of the edge, the outer edge of the outer edge.

Duan Rong then discovered that Wu Shidao's soft animal skin map was less than one-tenth of the entire map. It was located in the southwest corner, extending outward from the crash point of Yunfu Peak.

Duan Rong prepared the ink and paint, and moved all the markings on Wu Shidao's feng shui map to his own ancient map.

Wu Shidao's annotations were quite detailed, and Duan Rong only copied down the most important information.

As he was copying, Duan Rong's eyebrows suddenly jumped.

"Black Fire Lotus?!"

The lotus seeds of the Black Fire Lotus are the auxiliary medicine for practicing the twelfth level of the Taizang Sutra.

In fact, as a disciple of the elder, with such a status, the sect should also provide such medicine. But if he obtains it through the sect, wouldn't it expose the fact that he has cultivated to the twelfth level of the Taizang Sutra?

Therefore, Duan Rong had already decided that he would get the seeds of the Black Fire Lotus himself. However, before he had time to collect information in this regard, he did not expect to get this key information on Wu Shidao's geomancy map.

Judging from the information marked by Wu Shidao, where the black fire lotus grows, there are also fire toads and fire weasels. Both of them are low-level Yuan beasts, and they all feed on the black fire lotus.

Next to Wu Shidao's information, there was a note saying "difficult". Wu Shidao was a warrior at the cyclone level. If he found it difficult, then these two beasts would be really difficult to deal with. Moreover, the two-legged mad python was also a low-level Yuan beast, and it almost killed Wu Shidao.

It seems that the matter of obtaining the black fire lotus seeds will have to be put on hold for the time being. He has not even achieved the first level of Yuan Qi Realm yet. Even if he has the means to suppress the Yuan Beasts, if he goes so deep into the dark forest and has to face two difficult Yuan Beasts, there is a high probability that he will die.

Why take the risk?
Let’s talk about this later.

Duan Rong studied the geomancy map and the book on strange beasts in the room. He sat there for several days.

During this period, Lu Geng and Wang Yue both came to chat with him.

The two soon discovered that Duan Rong was not only madly focused on his practice, but also worked very hard on researching these things, sitting for days at a time.

Such boring stuff, let them do it, but no one can sit still! ?
After a few days, Duan Rong had basically gained a relatively detailed understanding of the terrain near the crash site of Yunfu Peak, as well as the distribution habits of the Yuan Beasts.

That day, Lu Geng came to see him again and brought him a plate of mountain fruits.

Lu Geng smiled and said, "Little Junior Brother, come, eat some fruit and take a rest."

Duan Rong said, "Thank you, Senior Brother Lu." As he spoke, he picked up two fruits from the plate, handed one to Lu Geng, and took a bite of the other, and immediately the juice filled his mouth.

Lu Geng also took a bite and asked, "Junior brother, how is your study of the geomancy map going?"

Duan Rong took a look and said, "It's almost done."

"Junior brother, I'm a little curious, why are you researching this thing? And why are you working so hard on it?"

Duan Rong bit the berry in his mouth and said with a smile: "I said it's a hobby. I just love to study this stuff. Brother, do you believe me?"

Duan Rong's words were not entirely nonsense. Map reading was indeed his hobby, and he had loved doing it since he was a child. If he had to pick one subject among all the subjects that he could describe as something he loved, it would be geography.

Hearing this, Lu Geng was slightly startled and said, "I believe it! Senior Brother Wu is such a person, just like you, studying this thing and sitting for several days. Otherwise, how do you think the geomancy map came out?"

Duan Rong's eyes moved. Indeed, Wu Shidao's geomancy map was extremely detailed, and even some of the information was useless for them to capture the Yuan Beast, but Wu Shidao would still mark it down.

"It seems that Senior Brother Wu is a fellow practitioner!" Duan Rong sighed, and suddenly seemed to remember something. He looked at Lu Geng and asked, "By the way, Senior Brother Lu, do you also have the keys to the other two empty training chambers?"

Lu Geng looked at Duan Rong with a strange look in his eyes and said, "What's wrong, Junior Brother? Do you think the training chamber that Senior Brother picked for you is not good enough? Junior Brother, let me tell you, the other two training chambers all have statues of gods. I specially picked a clean one for you."

"No. Brother, please don't misunderstand me." Duan Rong said, "I saw these four statues when I was testing in the Valley. I am a little curious, why does the sect have these four statues? What are the uses of these statues?"

Lu Geng smiled awkwardly and said, "Junior brother is indeed a person of deep thought!"

Lu Geng had already practiced the Taizang Sutra and achieved the second level, so he naturally knew what the four statues were used for. But at this time, Duan Rong had obviously not been taught the Taizang Sutra, so he didn't want to leak it. Even though Duan Rong was so talented that he would be taught the Taizang Sutra sooner or later, if he told him before he was taught, it would be considered a leak of secrets and he would be severely punished. After all, this matter involved the core skills of the sect, and it had always been dealt with severely. Lu Geng had no idea that Duan Rong said so because he knew that he had practiced the Taizang Sutra.

After a while, Lu Geng handed the keys to the remaining two secret training rooms to Duan Rong.

Duan Rong took the key and went to the back of the hall on the first floor of the pavilion and entered the secret room for training.

He stood there, staring at the other two empty training rooms, one next to his own, and the other between Wu Shidao and Wang Yue's training rooms.

In fact, just by looking at the orientation of the two empty training rooms and the statue of Acalanatha beside him, Duan Rong had basically determined what kind of statues were in each of the two empty training rooms.

Duan Rong walked slowly to the stone door of a secret training room, inserted the key in his hand into an eye hole of the animal pattern on the stone door, and turned it half a circle with great effort.

Amidst the rustling of falling stone chips, the stone door swung open. Duan Rong walked in and lit the candle on the stone wall with a fire starter.

When the dim light filled the secret training room, Duan Rong's eyes had already looked towards a corner, where he saw a statue standing.

The size of this statue is the same as the Acalanatha statue outside.

Apparently these four statues were originally constructed into a mandala for practicing the Garbha Sutra. However, for some unknown reason, this mandala was abandoned and later converted into a secret room for practice.

Before Duan Rong came in, he had already roughly determined that the statue of Vajra Yaksha Mingwang, which was located in the north of the mandala, should be in this secret training room.

However, this empty training room was also covered in dust, especially the statue, which was covered with a thick layer of dust. Even the eyes, nose and some decorations were difficult to identify. Duan Rong could not tell for a moment whether this statue was Vajra Yaksha Mingwang or not.

He walked over slowly and stood beside the statue in the corner. Duan Rong didn't care about the dirt on the statue's surface, and directly pressed his palm on it, thinking to himself: "Read the spirit of the artifact!"

Then, a set of data appeared in front of Duan Rong.

It is indeed Vajra Yaksha King!

Object: Stone statue of Vajra Yaksha

Spirit Level: Level 10

Devouring requirements: Host's mental strength level 10 (satisfied)

Devouring effect: Garbha Sutra 13th level (incomplete), Garbha Sutra 14th level (incomplete), Garbha Sutra 15th level (incomplete)

"Swallow!"

As Duan Rong secretly said in his heart, the data panel in front of him collapsed and disappeared. At this time, for some unknown reason, some of the dust on the statue fell off.

Duan Rong was startled and took a few steps back, looking at the statue in astonishment. The statue of Vajra Yaksha Mingwang was furious and ugly. Some of the dust had fallen off, revealing its true appearance, which made Duan Rong's heart beat wildly.

He never knew that when swallowing a weapon spirit, the weapon would actually react! ?

Otherwise, why would the dust on the statue suddenly fall off?

There can't be any wind in this secret room!

There is only one explanation, that mental power or soul can have a slight impact on the material world, and this impact is so subtle that it is difficult to see, so Duan Rong has never noticed it.

If this statue had not been placed in a closed space for who knows how many years and was covered with thick dust, it would have only shed a small amount of dust at that moment.

It was as if the statue trembled slightly at the moment when Duan Rong was swallowed.

Duan Rong stared blankly at the statue in front of him, and the more he looked, the more frightened he felt.

The statue still looked hideous and ferocious, and something so strange had happened all of a sudden. If one was timid, one would have probably pissed oneself with fear.

Duan Rong looked at it for a while, and when he confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the statue, he felt relieved. This phenomenon could only be studied slowly later. He extinguished the candle and left the secret room.

When the stone door behind him slowly closed, Duan Rong actually let out a long sigh. In his previous life, he had watched many horror movies, and at that moment, he really felt a little terrified.

At this time, Duan Rong calmed down a little. He thought that the phenomenon just now might be a certain reaction when the object and its spirit were separated.

Although the spirit of an artifact is something at the level of the soul, when it is extracted, the artifact itself also undergoes some subtle changes at that moment.

After all, an artifact spirit is also a kind of spirit!

They are just a kind of spiritual existence formed by the erosion of objects by the imprint of human soul, but they do not have independent will.

and many more!

Just because it hasn’t happened doesn’t mean it won’t happen!

Perhaps the highest level of spirit weapon is one that possesses intelligence and independent will, and may even have evolved into some kind of living organism.

At that time, wouldn't Duan Rong's devouring be equivalent to eating the spirit alive?

Although Duan Rong felt a little nervous, he could not give up the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth levels of the Taizang Sutra.

He just suppressed the fear in his heart and walked into another controlled training chamber again. He quickly devoured the spirit of the statue. At the moment when dust was falling, Duan Rong ran out in a panic.

Duan Rong stood there and glanced at the stone door of Fan Hongjiao's secret room. All that was missing was a statue. However, Fan Hongjiao was not in the secret room, so he could only wait for another opportunity.

Duan Rong left the secret training room and returned to his room in the pavilion. He ordered some food and had a hearty meal.

After eating and drinking, he lay down on the bed.

Before entering the dark forest alone, he had to adjust his condition first, at least get a good night's sleep and rest up.

Duan Rong slept until the next day. He got up from the bed at noon. He stretched and felt refreshed. It was obvious that the spirits of the two statues he swallowed yesterday had been digested and absorbed.

Although he had already gathered the spirits of the three statues, only one quarter of the three levels of the Taizang Sutra in his mind were still missing.

However, Duan Rong no longer had the energy to pay attention to this matter. He had to make some preparations and then go down into the dark forest.

(End of this chapter)