Start with acting, and you'll achieve immortality!

The difference between the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining stages is not as simple as just a few moves.

Li Ping did not focus on the fight between the two.

He stared at the array patterns around the stove.

To activate this formation, the seventeen formation positions must first be connected together.

Now, only the gray-robed man is alive here.

The remaining sixteen locations relied on the blood-red traces and soul imprints left from the past.

This formation is not particularly complete.

The man in black was forcibly opening the door.

If this formation is forcibly activated, then gaps will appear in its structure.

Li Ping's hand went into his pocket.

Inside was a nail used to break the formation.

This was the very one that Pei Xing had returned to him after the incident at the salt warehouse.

The copper nail has cracked.

If you use it again, it will most likely shatter.

But he had no choice.

Shouting loudly

"Su Wan!"

He let out a shout.

Su Wan was being forced to the stone pillar by the men in black, but she didn't turn around when she heard the sound.

But the sword's edge pressed down violently.

The man in black raised his palm to block.

Using this force, Su Wan flipped her body, letting the sword tip graz the iron ring on one of the stone pillars.

It made a "ding" sound!

The iron ring broke

The array patterns dimmed considerably in an instant.

The man in black finally became enraged.

"You're courting death!"

He slapped Su Wan hard on the shoulder.

Su Wan crashed into the furnace wall, and the sword wrapped in gray cloth flew out of her hand.

By this time, Li Ping had already run to the front of the second stone pillar.

He did not nail the array eye.

The key point of the formation is located below that black furnace.

Once this nail is driven in, the gray-robed man will lose his life first.

He drove the formation-breaking nail into the piece of paper that read...

"The character '甲' (jia) is nine, and Chen Rang is mentioned."

wooden sign

A soft hissing sound rang out!

The residual spiritual energy within the wooden plaque was drawn away by the copper nail, flowing backward along the array patterns.

The entire stone chamber suddenly fell into silence.

The man in black turned his head with lightning speed.

"That damned Chen Rang had this trick up his sleeve?"

Li Ping's palms turned white from the heat of the copper nail.

He didn't know either.

However, hidden within the three scratch marks left on the wooden sign was an extremely fine groove.

The direction in which this groove extends corresponds exactly to the reverse veins of the array pattern.

Chen Rang did not passively enter the furnace back then.

He left a thorn in the furnace.

However, this thorn has been waiting for someone to pull it out.

"Break!"

Li Ping slapped the end of the nail with his palm.

A cracking sound was heard.

The formation was broken into two pieces.

The seventeen red lines on the black furnace all rolled back at the same time.

The gray-robed figure at the bottom of the furnace was startled at first, then his eyes widened in horror.

"don't want!"

The spiritual energy that had been poured into the furnace suddenly exploded outwards.

The man in black retreated hastily.

However, Su Wan had already retrieved the longsword from the ground, and the sword light slashed horizontally along the stone pillar.

The second one

This is the third one.

The two stone pillars broke one after the other.

The formation was completely thrown into chaos.

The black stove emitted a dull thud.

The furnace mouth cracked

A charred hand reached out from the gap.

This is not the person in the gray robe.

That hand was withered and bony, yet its five fingers gripped the edge of the stove tightly.

Immediately afterwards, more hands reached out from the cracks in the furnace.

Densely packed, covered with charred flesh and lingering black smoke.

In an instant, all the oil lamps in the stone room went out.

For the first time, the coldness on the man in black's face dissipated.

"Back off!"

He turned his body around and immediately started walking.

Li Ping, however, noticed that a stone brick beside the stove had been shaken open.

Beneath this brick, pressed tightly, was a rather thin booklet.

The booklet's cover was mostly burned, revealing a few words underneath.

"Wenchang's old residence, and Jialu."

He ran quickly in that direction and grabbed the thin booklet with his hands.

The moment my hand touched the booklet

At that moment, a withered-looking hand gripped his ankle tightly.

The cold air climbed up my leg bones

Li Ping gritted his teeth and forcefully drove the short dagger into the back of the hand.

At that moment, that withered hand released its grip and loosened its hold.

Su Wan had already rushed to his side.

"Get out of here right now!"

The two rushed toward the iron gate

The person dressed in black was even faster than them and had already reached the exit of the stone steps.

He raised his hand and smashed an oil lamp placed beside the door.

The entire stone passage collapsed in an instant, scattering a large amount of broken stones.

His intention was to bury everyone deep underground.

Su Wan cleaved the rolling rocks with a single sword stroke.

Li Ping hugged the book tightly with both hands, pressing his body close to the wall.

Run and move quickly upwards.

The black furnace behind him completely cracked

Those withered hands gripped the stone pillars tightly, dragging their already broken and mutilated bodies as they crawled outwards.

The scream from the man in the gray robe only lasted half its length before being completely swallowed up by the black gas.

The moment they successfully escaped the stone steps, the main hall of the house was already shaking violently from the tremors.

The wooden signs fell off one by one and smashed on the ground.

The man in black was standing in the middle of the courtyard, and he made no further attempt to obstruct the way.

He stared at the armored figure in Li Ping's arms, his gaze chillingly menacing.

"Take this thing away from here."

"Put this right under Chen Boyong's nose."

"Ask him if he remembers those good students he sent to the furnace!"

After saying these words, he lifted his foot.

The array plate on the ground was crushed to pieces.

The black light curtain outside the courtyard spread out

The person dressed in black leaped onto the rooftop, and after several jumps and landings...

They vanished into the thick fog.

Su Wan wanted to launch a pursuit at this time.

Li Ping grabbed her.

"Don't chase him. He deliberately let himself escape."

"I see"

Su Wan looked at him,

"Are you just going to let him go like that?"

"Having obtained this document, he had already achieved his goal."

Li Ping spoke first.

"Although this booklet is a very troublesome hot potato, we still have to bring it back."

At this moment, the main hall of the building shook violently once again.

Black gas was already seeping out from the cracks behind the wooden sign wall.

The two of them didn't linger there any longer and climbed over the courtyard wall.

Just as I landed in the alley, a muffled thud came from behind me.

Half of the roof of the old house in Wenchang had completely collapsed at this time.

A large amount of dust and black gas mixed together and were sucked into the air.

The sound of horses' hooves suddenly rang out at the alley entrance.

Gao Min, leading more than ten guards from the prefectural governor's mansion, was rushing towards this place from within the thick fog.

When he dismounted, his face was deathly pale.

Only after seeing Li Ping and Su Wan still standing there unharmed did he seem to finally breathe a sigh of relief.

"What exactly happened inside this room?"

"Enough to dig up all of Mr. Gao's old grievances from twenty years ago."

Li Pingdao

Gao Min's gaze fell on his arms.

"What exactly is that thing you're holding in your arms?"

Li Ping did not immediately hand the item to the other party.

"Record A"

"This is the list that Mr. Gao wrote down in his own hand back then."

Gao Min's face froze instantly.

His outstretched hand froze in mid-air.

"Have you... already gone down there?"

"They've gone down."

Li Ping looked at him.

"I also met Chen Rang, number nine of the Jia class."

"Mr. Gao, when you wrote his name..."

Have your hands ever shaken?

Gao Min's lips trembled slightly.

The wind blew through the alley, making the hem of his gray robe sway wildly.

After a long while, he slowly lowered his head.

Let's leave from here first.

Gao Min spoke up,

"This booklet will take everyone's life."

Li Ping didn't move.

Why?

Gao Min raised her eyes

In those eyes that had always appeared so composed, a hint of barely suppressed fear finally appeared at this moment.

"Those recorded at the end of this book are not the people who are already dead."

"Those who survived the furnace."

He turned his gaze to the collapsed courtyard wall of the old house in Wenchang.

"One of them is someone you're very familiar with."

Gao Min didn't look at the ruins again, but said in a very low voice

Ren Jun

"This person is not dead yet."

"Let's go back to the mansion first."