Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 136 Second Level
Swish!Swish!
Two arrows were shot in succession, one of which pierced the head of a fire beast, killing it on the spot.

The bird-shaped fire beast dodged the other shot nimbly and rushed forward with a long roar.

At this time, several cold spells were cast from all directions, causing the surrounding temperature to drop sharply. At the same time, they hit the firebird, causing the flames on its body to dim greatly, and even its speed was slowed down.

An agile figure jumped up from the ground, and its sharp metal claws flashed with cold light, knocking the firebird to the ground, and its big mouth bit its head into pieces.

wow——

The two fire beast corpses turned into black ash and disintegrated. Li Ye manipulated the puppet familiarly to collect the exposed crystal cores, and hesitated for a moment while sensing from a distance.

It has been about a quarter of an hour since this team of puppets entered the building island.

In this short period of time, he attracted as many as four or five fire beasts, one of which even had the combat power of the late stage of Qi training.

If the puppets were not equipped with sufficient means to deal with the enemy, I'm afraid one or two of them would have been lost!

Of course, although the puppet is very valuable, Li Ye is not too concerned about it considering his wealth.

The fire beast crystal cores he harvested alone were enough for him to refine a batch of pills, earning him a considerable profit!
What really made him feel something was wrong was the density and activity of these fire beasts!
"Could it be that all the disciples of the sect that originally belonged to this lava underground palace were killed here? This is just a dilapidated building at the very edge, and there are so many fire beasts active here..."

He calculated silently, and his expression was a little strange.

"If that's the case, considering the vastness of this place and the number of built-up islands, there must be tens of thousands of low-level fire beasts alone!"

"And this is a conservative estimate based on the fact that I haven't even explored this entire building yet, and I'm still unsure whether there are any foundation-building or higher fire beasts, and how many there are!"

Considering the level of restrictions vaguely revealed here, the possibility of the existence of a golden elixir fire beast in the main body of the lava underground palace is quite high!

At this moment, Li Ye felt the astonishing value of the treasure, but was also frightened by the terror hidden behind it that could easily swallow him up.

The only thing that made him feel somewhat fortunate was that he had been here for quite some time, and had triggered many restrictions along the way when driving the puppets, but none of them had caused any major reaction.

The expansion of the formation ban, which worried him the most, did not undergo any obvious changes during this period of time.

"Maybe it's not so bad after all?"

Li Ye pondered, "After all, my method of breaking the formation is not comparable to Xu and Ma's crude manipulation... Perhaps what I saw this time was because they over-interrupted the formation in their original attempt to obtain the treasure?"

Thinking of this, his expression became much better.

Although further observation is needed, if his guess is correct, he may have considerable time to slowly discover the treasures here.

If he only relies on the puppet to explore, the danger to himself is quite low, so he cannot give up such benefits.

Even if you can't find the secret treasures, elixirs or even inheritance in this lava underground palace, you can still get considerable benefits just by hunting fire beasts!
At least it shouldn't be a problem to gather the skills, inheritance, and medicinal seedlings he needs for his foundation-building practice!

But if that's the case, then the Ma family will have to make other arrangements...

A cold light flashed in Li Ye's eyes.

The puppet team's exploration continues.

However, perhaps it is difficult for these outermost building fragments themselves to contain anything of value.

After searching almost the entire island of ruined buildings, Li Ye only managed to find fragments of magical instruments. These were already damaged and had been subjected to the prolonged heat of this place, their spiritual power had been completely lost. Not to mention repairing them, even selling the materials wouldn't be enough to cover their cost!

"But it seems that this lava underground palace did indeed experience a great battle back then... But I don't know exactly when it happened, and there's not a single rumor left in these red mountains..."

"Even the fragmentary map that the Ma Ying relied on was quite old, and the information was extremely fragmented. They only found this place by chance and made some progress through joint exploration with the local snake Xu Pingyang..."

After writing down the information and synthesizing it briefly, Li Ye felt that there was a deeper mystery hidden in this place.

"The damage to the puppets and talismans isn't too great, so we can investigate further..."

He used the flying bird puppets to return the spoils to himself one by one, and let several puppets exchange the spirit stones that were about to be exhausted.

Relying on this small building island where the formation restrictions had been discovered, they headed towards another larger building island nearby which had a formation restriction of similar strength.

Even with the help of the puppet secret technique and the Thousand Thoughts Divine Art, the distance he could control the puppet had been greatly extended, and he could even leave certain basic instructions to his clone to make it cooperate in the action.

But this has its limitations after all.

But now Li Ye has already explored an area of the outer formation and cleared a path, which can be said to have reduced the danger to a minimum.

He can then try to enter the discovered building island, shorten the distance between himself and the puppets, and continue to lead the advancement of the puppet team.

"But this is still a bit risky. We still need to gather enough fire prevention methods and become more familiar with and even master the forbidden formations here before we can truly put it into practice..."

"Even if we do this, we can't go too deep. Let's first clear out the many dilapidated buildings on the periphery that are only covered by the first-level forbidden formations one by one!"

Li Ye thought very steadily.

Even if he could only collect some fire beast crystal cores, it would be quite rich for him, so there was no need to be too greedy in this matter.

Unless he reaches the late stage of foundation building... No! Golden Core!
Otherwise, even if he could only pick up trash outside, he would never consider getting close to the main body of the lava palace!

While I was thinking about it, the exploration of the second building island was far less smooth than before.

The changes in the formation restrictions are only secondary. No matter how things change, the essence remains the same. Li Ye has gained a considerable understanding of the outer formation restrictions after breaking through them.

What really surprised him was that just after he had dealt with several fire beasts.

Suddenly, three fire beasts in the late stage of Qi training emerged from the surrounding lava.
If it were just this, with the cooperation of several puppets and the help of talismans, it could still be suppressed.

But just when he was about to kill one of them.

The other fire beast suddenly attacked its two companions, devoured them, and then madly absorbed the surrounding fire spirit energy. It was promoted to the foundation-building stage on the spot and transformed into a three-headed fire beast!
If Li Ye had not reacted in time and noticed something was wrong, he would have controlled the heavily armored puppet to rush forward to block the attack and immediately activated the second-level talismans left on several puppets.

While the power of these three-headed fire beasts has not yet been fully stabilized, we should use a saturation attack to eliminate them. I am afraid that once these beasts start to make trouble in this chaotic formation, things will be troublesome!

Fortunately, although the talisman was used, it did not have much impact on the forbidden formation, and the building island remained stable.

However, this situation was indeed somewhat unexpected. Li Ye planned to stop here today and see whether the previous battle would have any impact on the formation ban.

After taking back a few puppets, Li Ye looked at the crystal core in his hand that was emitting a scorching flame and was as big as a walnut, and a look of joy appeared on his face.
"This should be considered a second-level crystal core, right? It's enough for me to refine a batch of pills..."

(End of this chapter)