Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 180 Selling Tickets
"Go down through the underground fire tunnel to explore?"

Upon hearing this, Li Ye immediately waved his hands and smiled bitterly, "Brother Deng, do you think I've never tried it?"

"Oh? What's the result?"

Deng Tiancheng immediately asked, showing a different interest in this matter.

Li Ye saw this, but his face became even more helpless.

"Ever since Luo Feibai broke through the foundation-building stage and established a solid foundation, I teamed up with him to find a seemingly more stable passage to explore inside..."

"The deeper we go, the denser the fire beasts become. At first, there were only a few more first-level fire beasts, so it didn't take much effort... Occasionally, a second-level fire beast would appear, but it only made us a lot of money..."

"But as the underground fire grew hotter, the frequency of second-level fire beasts increased, until we encountered five at once. We were so overwhelmed that we had no choice but to flee!"

Li Ye seemed to still be in a state of fear when he said this. "If it weren't for the fact that most of the fire beasts seemed unwilling to easily leave the environment with abundant earth fire and didn't catch up with us, I'm afraid at least one of us would have died in there!"

This is not false.

After the fire beasts appeared more and more frequently and became difficult to suppress, Li Ye deliberately attracted everyone's attention and took Luo Feibai to explore inside for a while.

He used some tricks to attract a group of fire beasts, pretended to be defeated and fled, and was witnessed by many monks on the spot.

Although it somewhat undermined his dignity, as Luo Feibai disclosed the situation below at his instruction, everyone no longer cared about such trivial matters and became terrified about the situation below the red mountains.

It’s like living in the crater of a volcano where you never know when it will erupt!
At this time, Li Ye took action directly and set up a blockade formation at all the external passages to prevent the fire beasts from protecting the monks on the ground.

Although there are still many fire beasts that run out from some inconspicuous places, this greatly alleviates the crisis of fire beasts wreaking havoc when there is an opportunity to hunt fire beasts for profit.

Immediately, it caused cheers and admiration among the barren mountains!
Li Ye thus cleared himself of the suspicion that he had known a lot about the underground situation early on.

He continued to speak, his tone was quite bitter.
"The power of the Fire Beast tribe is almost unfathomable. It's truly beyond my ability to handle... Now all I can do is set up formations in various passages to block them as much as possible. Perhaps once they lose interest in the world above, this calamity will be alleviated..."

"It's actually like this..."

Deng Tiancheng murmured, his expression becoming serious. "Brother Li, you should know that the conditions for the birth of a creature like the Fire Beast are very special. Now that there is such a large group of Fire Beasts underground, I'm afraid there are other ancient relics in the underground lava..."

"Whether it's an ancient battlefield or somewhere else, there must be some great opportunities..."

"Such a good thing has appeared in the spiritual land under your command. Don't you have any ideas?"

coming!

Li Ye couldn't help but sneer in his heart.

The large-scale appearance of fire beasts has attracted the attention of many foundation-building cultivators and forces.

He simply used the second-level crystal core to refine the Fire Cloud Pill, which attracted many people to come and help with the hunting and clearing.

The increasingly active fire beasts were suppressed, and at the same time, the speed at which the abnormalities in this place became known to the public was greatly accelerated.

It was only a matter of time before people realized the specialness of the fire beast and associated it with more things.

If Deng Tiancheng thought of the underground treasure, there might be many people who knew about it, but he was the first one who could put it forward to Li Ye with such confidence!
Thoughts raced through his mind, and Li Ye showed some hesitation.
"With so many dangers lurking down here, even if there were treasures, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to explore them..."

That’s what I’ve been waiting for!

Deng Tiancheng was delighted and said seriously,
"If Brother Li trusts me and Senior Brother Fan, why don't you and I gather a few more fellow Taoists and we go down there together to investigate..."

"This place is your territory, if there is any harvest, you should take the lion's share!"

"Is that so..."

Li Ye seemed to be a little moved, but he immediately shook his head.

"Fellow Daoist, you should know that my spiritual awareness in the Dao of Alchemy and Formation is much stronger than that of ordinary cultivators. When I was attacked by the five beasts in the passage that day and was fleeing, I still vaguely sensed more danger..."

"Thinking about it now, I still feel a little scared. I really don't want to go in and explore again..."

Deng Tiancheng's expression changed slightly, but it wasn't because of the danger Li Ye mentioned.

His cultivation has now reached the middle stage of foundation building. He believes that if he does not give Li Ye the opportunity to set up the formation, he will be able to completely suppress him in the fight.

The danger that Li Ye thought was insurmountable might not be so for him.

But Li Ye himself was unwilling to go down, so what reason could he have to go down to the underground fire channel to seize this great opportunity?

He immediately gave two encouraging words:
"Brother Li, can you really give up this opportunity that has fallen in front of you..."

But at this moment, Li Ye thought about it and said,
"How about this..."

"Since Brother Deng believes that the fire beast's lair within the underground fire vein is likely an ancient relic, and I'm reluctant to go down..."

"I'll simply open up the array's permissions. Any fellow cultivator can exchange a second-level fire beast crystal core or something of equal value for a chance to penetrate the array's blockade and explore inside. If the exploration fails, the formation will serve as a backup..."

"This way, I can gain something. Whatever gains or losses you have down there have nothing to do with me. What do you think, fellow Daoist?"

Anyway, no matter whether he imposes restrictions or not, sooner or later someone will sneak into the underground and discover the secret of the lava palace.

Instead of doing this, it would be better to take advantage of the situation to gain some benefits and make the situation more controllable.

Maybe even if the golden elixir is really attracted by then, he can avoid some trouble?

Deng Tiancheng's expression changed several times, and he couldn't help but say strangely,
"Brother Li, are you planning to use the possible existence of underground relics as a gimmick to sell tickets?"

"A gimmick?"

Li Ye shook his head, "Didn't you bring this up yourself, Brother Deng?"

"Since you can think of it, other Daoists might not be able to… Rather than having someone sneak in and cause trouble for me, it's better to set a clear price. This will keep things under control and avoid unnecessary covetousness and conflict…"

"I can also gain something from this, so I won't feel resentful because of a missed opportunity due to a moment of prudentness. It can be said to be a win-win situation for me and my fellow Taoists!"

"Brother Deng...what do you think?"

Seeing Li Ye's meaningful gaze, Deng Tiancheng forced a smile.

"Since you, Brother Li, are so magnanimous, I support you as well... I'll buy your ticket!"

According to Li Ye's plan, even if there is a secret underground, I'm afraid it cannot be shared by just a few people.

In this case, he can only strive to be the first to try it.

"That's great!" Li Ye's smile grew even wider.

Others may not know, but he knows exactly what's going on down there.

Chaos and danger, there are formation restrictions from the second to the fourth level...

There are endless first-level fire beasts, second-level fire beasts are lining up, and third-level fire beasts appear from time to time...

And the unknown spiritual treasure sealed in the dilapidated casting pavilion...

If Li Ye could have found a way to gain more benefits from it, he would never have done this.

Anyway, the fire beast is now wreaking havoc and is almost out of control. It has to be suppressed by the formation, since a group of people are interested in the relics below.

Then let them go down and help clear out the fire beasts!

After he had been picking up trash for several years and had almost swept a large area of the periphery, Li Ye would accept whatever good things they could find!

　Thanks to Wuchitian for the 500-point reward, thank you for your support!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)