I'm in Yellow Maple Valley, and I have one equipment slot!

Chapter 356 You want the treasure we just got? You're so shameless!

"Come on, come with me, and subdue your three companions as well."

Zhou Yuan called out to Mu Kui.

Then, he turned around and walked back into the area of ​​Arctic Primal Light. With the Yang Ring protecting him, the Arctic Primal Light had no effect on him.

When he stepped out of the Kunwu Palace again, the sight before him made him smile.

Outside the main hall, more than a dozen golden magnetic spirit trees had been cut down, revealing a barely passable path.

Ye Tianhua, the second elder of the Ye family, was standing by the path with a bitter expression on his face, holding a jade flying sword in his hand.

He was clearly forced to work as a lumberjack.

Behind him, the lion-like beast, the silver-winged yaksha, and an ugly, vengeful woman were all glaring at him menacingly, their eyes clearly saying—"Hurry up and chop! Don't slack off!"

When they saw Zhou Yuan walk out of the main hall, the eyes of the three of them instantly focused on him!

They could clearly sense that their vital life-bound tablets were on the human cultivator in front of them!

"He's out!"

"I can sense the aura of my natal amulet on him!"

"Me too!"

Both the silver-winged yaksha and the ugly woman who had transformed from the black rock tortoise showed expressions of anxiety and apprehension.

Although the lion-beast was not yet fully intelligent, it instinctively sensed the threat and let out anxious screams.

Zhou Yuan walked up to the three spirit beasts and, without wasting words, took out their three life soul tablets. He repeated what he had just said to Mu Kui: "Submit to me and serve me for a thousand years. After a thousand years, I will give you your freedom and return your life soul tablets. Otherwise, I will send you on your way now."

At this moment, Mu Kui silently walked behind Zhou Yuan, demonstrating his stance through his actions: "I have already submitted to him."

The ugly woman, who had transformed from the Xuan Yan Turtle, exchanged a glance with the Silver-Winged Yaksha, both seeing helplessness and compromise in each other's eyes.

Even the most mysterious Mu Kui has admitted defeat, so what can the other two do?

Faced with the threat of death, dignity and freedom seem less important.

Moreover, it's only a thousand years.

"I—I am willing to submit." The ugly woman, with the strength of a level ten demon cultivator, was the first to lower her head.

"I'm willing too."

The Silver-Winged Yaksha also put away its arrogance and lowered its proud head.

Although the lion-beast could not speak, it sensed the change in atmosphere and lowered its head in submission.

Zhou Yuan nodded in satisfaction and carefully put away the life tablets of the three spirits.

At this point, he had subdued all four guardian spirits of Kunwu Mountain!

Ye Tianhua, standing to the side, was dumbfounded, his heart filled with envy, jealousy, and hatred.

He never expected that Zhou Yuan's trip to Kunwu Palace would not only yield the palace's treasures, but also allow him to subdue four terrifying spirit beasts with strength comparable to the late Nascent Soul stage!

This luck, this method, is simply unbelievable!

"Fellow Daoist Zhou—now that these four have all submitted to you, may I leave?"

Ye Tianhua asked cautiously.

He had been threatened by these three spirit beasts to cut down trees, but now that they were all under Zhou Yuan's command, he naturally wanted to leave this troublesome place as soon as possible.

"Please go ahead, Fellow Daoist Ye." Zhou Yuan smiled and nodded, not making things difficult for him.

Ye Tianhua felt as if he had been granted a pardon and immediately turned around, wanting to leave this place that had dealt him such a blow.

However, after taking only two steps, he suddenly stopped, turned around, and with a look of embarrassment and difficulty on his face, cupped his hands to Zhou Yuan and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhou—there is one more thing—"

"That—before, your subordinate Xuan Yan Turtle, taking advantage of my unpreparedness, stole my Ye family's prized treasure, the Mi Tian Bracelet."

"I wonder if Fellow Daoist Zhou could do me the favor and have this senior return the treasure to me?"

"How dare you!"

The ugly woman was furious when she heard Ye Tianhua complaining to Zhou Yuan in front of him!

It did indeed steal Ye Tianhua's Heavenly Bracelet, intending to keep it for itself.

I never expected this guy to be so tactless, daring to ask for it in front of his master!

It roared and prepared to attack, ready to kill this foolish human.

"stop!"

Zhou Yuan stopped the Xuan Yan Turtle in time. He looked at the Xuan Yan Turtle calmly.

Zhou Yuan's gaze made the Xuan Yan Turtle uneasy, and it dared not hide anything. It quickly and honestly spat out a silver-white bracelet with exquisite cloud patterns and faint spatial fluctuations from its body. It was the imitation of the spiritual treasure, the Mi Tian Bracelet.

Holding the bracelet with both hands, it respectfully presented it to Zhou Yuan: "This is the Heavenly Bracelet—"

Zhou Yuan took the Heavenly Bracelet, scanned it with his divine sense, and sensed its power.

This Heavenly Bracelet is indeed a rare treasure, with remarkable effects in trapping and capturing enemies.

He naturally wouldn't return it to Ye Tianhua.

He looked at Ye Tianhua and smiled, "Fellow Daoist Ye, since this Heavenly Bracelet was offered by my subordinate, it can be considered my spoils of war. Go back and give my regards to Elder Ye Tianshi."

Upon hearing this, Ye Tianhua's face turned pale and then red, though he was extremely unwilling.

But faced with Zhou Yuan's unfathomable strength and the four menacing beasts behind him, they dared not utter another word.

They could only turn around and leave dejectedly.

"Master, I feel that—since I came to this mountain, I've been having more and more memories popping up in my head—"

Just as Zhou Yuan was preparing to leave this area with the four newly subdued Kunwu spirits.

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A clear, melodious voice, tinged with a hint of confusion and complexity, suddenly resounded in his heart.

The one speaking was none other than Silver Moon, who had transformed into the spirit of the Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yuan paused slightly, understanding dawning on him. As a transmigrator, he naturally knew the true origins of Silver Moon.

She was a renowned queen from ancient times, though only a fragment of her soul.

Because of the severe trauma he suffered back then, he has suffered serious memory loss and has been in a dazed state ever since.

Now that she has come to Kunwu Mountain, which seals her true self, or rather, is closely related to her true self, it is only natural that she would begin to awaken some of her long-sealed memories due to the stimulation of the special environment and atmosphere of this place.

"Oh? What have you remembered?" Zhou Yuan asked in his mind.

"It's chaotic—lots of scenes—but I can sense that if there's one place in this mountain most likely to hold the true treasure, it's definitely the Demon-Suppressing Tower!"

Silver Moon's voice carried a hint of certainty and longing, "There, it seems, something is calling to me—"

"The Demon Suppression Tower—" Zhou Yuan stroked his chin, but did not immediately change direction.

He shook his head and said, "No rush. The Demon Suppression Tower isn't that simple, and the things inside aren't easy to get. Let's grab all the benefits from other places first, then we'll consider it."

He paused, his gaze sweeping across the magnificent mountain, and said, "Let's go to the Spirit Forging Hall first."

He remembered very clearly that in this Kunwu Mountain, besides those heaven-reaching spiritual treasures and rare materials, there was also an extremely important place called the Spirit Casting Hall!

It is said that the core methods and resources for refining and cultivating the spirituality of magical treasures by the predecessors of Kunwu Mountain are stored there, and there may even be an extremely precious "Taiyin True Fire"!

That flame can be used to cultivate magical treasures, and it can also be used with the essence of the sun to refine the legendary Yang-restoring water.

Having made up his mind, Zhou Yuan planned to take the four spirits back to the white jade square with more than a dozen branching paths.

However, at that moment, a shuttle of gold and silver suddenly appeared in front of them.

The shuttle stopped, revealing two figures!

They were the two women from the Immortal Transformation Sect.

These two women naturally didn't recognize Zhou Yuan, but they did recognize the Four Spirits following behind him!

"The Four Spirits of Kunwu?"

The two women exclaimed in surprise.

Why are these four spirits following behind a human cultivator like lowly lackeys? "Have you already entered the Kunwu Palace?"

Madam Mu asked Zhou Yuan.

"Um!

'

Zhou Yuan nodded.

"Where are the treasures inside?"

The two women pressed Zhou Yuan for answers in unison.

"Naturally, it belongs to me!"

Zhou Yuan smiled faintly.

The two women finally understood why the four spirits chose to submit: it turned out that this person had obtained the four spirits' life tablets, which allowed him to coerce and control them.

"Could you give us one of the treasures that looks like a seal?" Madam Mu asked.

"That won't do!" Zhou Yuan shook his head.

"We are from the Immortal Transformation Sect—"

Madam Mu frowned.

However, Zhou Yuan showed no mercy.

"In that case, we'll have no choice but to take it by force!" said Madam Mu.

"Overestimating yourself!"

Zhou Yuan unleashed a sharp spike of divine sense, which pierced deeply into Madam Mu's brow. She immediately let out a painful scream and lost her balance.

Her pretty face was filled with shock.

The shock to one's consciousness was no less terrifying than facing a Nascent Soul cultivator.

"If it weren't for Fellow Daoist Xiang's sake, I wouldn't have shown such mercy—"

After saying this, Zhou Yuan left.

The two women were surprised. How did this person know about the relationship between the senior and the Huaxian Sect, and why did he address him as "fellow Daoist"? Could he also be a Huaxian old monster?

"Impossible, I have never heard of such a Nascent Soul expert in the Great Jin Dynasty."

"But why didn't Senior Zhou Yuan himself show up when he informed us of our arrival?"

"If he were here, how could the treasures of Kunwu Palace have fallen into the hands of others?!"

The two women stood there deep in thought, both feeling immense pressure. Only a Nascent Soul cultivator could stop this person's existence. If he wanted to cause any trouble in Kunwu, no one could stop him!

Zhou Yuan soon arrived at the White Jade Square, which had more than a dozen forks in the road.

Ignoring the other tempting road signs, he walked straight to the jade tablet inscribed with the three characters "Zhu Ling Tang" and then quickly ascended the corresponding stone steps.

At the end of the stone steps, a vast and magnificent complex of pavilions and buildings came into view.

However, in front of the complex of buildings, a thick, hazy white light barrier blocked their view. Through that light barrier, one could see a towering blue wall, six or seven zhang high, completely obscuring the view behind it.

Facing the stone steps, a tall monument stands, from which one can faintly see the upturned eaves of the large buildings behind the wall.

At the top of the memorial pavilion, three large, elegant characters are written in silver powder: "Zhuling Hall"!

The entire area was shrouded in a powerful sealing barrier.

Zhou Yuan's gaze sharpened, and without further ado, he pointed his fingers like a sword, unleashing an incomparably condensed golden sword aura that slashed at the hazy white light screen!

"Sizzle!"

With a soft sound, the seemingly indestructible light barrier was actually torn open by the golden sword energy, leaving a crack several feet long!

Zhou Yuan swayed and, with the four spirits, slipped through the crack.

After entering the Spirit Forging Hall area, Zhou Yuan released his divine sense and began to search carefully.

He searched several seemingly important pavilions and found some decent materials and semi-finished magical artifacts, but none of them were what he wanted most.

Finally, his gaze fell upon the deepest part of the complex, upon a stone palace that did not appear particularly remarkable, but was entirely crimson in color, as if a layer of flames were burning on its surface.

The stone hall didn't look very large, perhaps a hundred feet wide, but the scorching and mysterious aura it exuded far surpassed any building he had ever visited before. Above the lintel of the stone hall were three ancient characters—"Hall of Spirit Transformation".

"This should be it." Zhou Yuan thought to himself and pushed open the heavy stone door of the stone hall.

As soon as the stone door opened, a scorching wave of air, mixed with an incredibly dense fire-attribute spiritual energy, rushed towards us!

Inside the vast hall, which spanned several tens of feet, bursts of red clouds shone and waves of heat rolled in!

A dozen thick, crimson pillars of fire stood upright around the main hall, each with a lifelike crimson dragon statue coiled around it!

The heads of these crimson dragons faced the center of the hall. From their mouths spewed out thick streams of red light. This red light condensed and did not disperse, completely enveloping the huge crimson cauldron, which was several meters tall, in the very center of the hall, making the entire hall seem as if it were located in the heart of a volcano!

"What a wonderful place for cultivating the True Yin Fire!"

Zhou Yuan's eyes lit up with joy upon seeing this.

He knew that the giant cauldron must contain his target for this trip—the Taiyin True Fire!

Without further hesitation, he pointed his fingers like a sword and unleashed a sharp sword aura that precisely struck the central array connecting the dozen or so fire pillars within the main hall!

"Snap!"

With a crisp sound, the central structure of the formation was destroyed! The light on the dozen or so pillars of fire flashed simultaneously, and the red glow spewed out by the crimson dragon's head also came to an abrupt halt!

However, Zhou Yuan did not immediately step forward to open the giant cauldron.

He knew that the Taiyin True Fire was a rare fire of heaven and earth, full of spirituality. Once it was freed from the restraint of the formation, it would surely escape immediately! With its speed and power, it would be difficult to catch it again!

He calmly took out a set of array plates that he had prepared beforehand. The plates were a deep blue and exuded a strong water-attribute aura. He quickly set up the array plates around the giant cauldron, and soon a blue water curtain light shield enveloped the giant cauldron and the surrounding space for several feet.

After doing all this, Zhou Yuan walked confidently to the giant cauldron and, with a palm strike from a distance, flipped the heavy cauldron lid off!

"call out-!!!"

Just as the lid of the cauldron was blown off, a blinding crimson light, like lightning, shot out from the cauldron!

With lightning speed, it rushed straight to the top of the hall, attempting to break through the roof and escape!

However, it crashed headfirst into the blue water curtain that Zhou Yuan had set up in advance!

"Bang!"

A muffled thud!

The blue water curtain light shield shook violently, its surface even sizzling and melting a small patch from the scorching red light! But in the end, the light shield withstood the impact steadily and remained undamaged!

The crimson light—the Taiyin True Fire—seemed to be momentarily stunned. It clearly hadn't expected that this seemingly thin water curtain could actually block its path! But it was unwilling to give up, so it immediately changed direction and began to rush around inside the water curtain, trying to find a way out!

"Where do you think you're going!"

Zhou Yuan let out a low shout and attacked at the same time! While manipulating several golden sword lights to nimbly block the path of the Taiyin True Fire, he stretched out his palm, and in his palm appeared a pale flame and azure ice flame that exuded an extremely cold aura!

After being intercepted by Zhou Yuan's sword light more than ten times, the Taiyin True Fire slowed down noticeably, and its spiritual energy seemed to have been greatly depleted. In that brief moment of pause, Zhou Yuan seized the opportunity, his hand, imbued with dry blue ice flames, swiftly reaching out and grabbing the crimson Taiyin True Fire!

"Sizzle sizzle—!"

The Azure Ice Flame and the Yin True Fire, one cold and one hot, two extreme types of flames, clashed fiercely in Zhou Yuan's palm.

The sounds of merging and mixing filled the air!

However, Zhou Yuan, relying on his powerful magic and divine sense, managed to suppress these two forces and slowly sealed the Taiyin True Fire into a red wooden box made entirely of fire jade that he had prepared beforehand!

"call----"

Having successfully sealed the Taiyin True Fire, Zhou Yuan finally breathed a long sigh of relief.