My Daoist partner helps me cultivate immortality

Lin Ye clapped his hands: "Good, there's a reward!"

Upon receiving the bag of spirit stones, the young Taoist in blue robes' eyes flashed with joy.

......

He played with the white fragments of the fallen god in his hand, which resembled both scales and wings.

Smaller than the fragments of the Crimson Emperor, but appearing more lifelike, like scales peeled from a living creature, it exudes a terrifying and dazzling pressure.

This characteristic is quite obvious, belonging to the metal-elemental fallen god [Huangtian].

"Why would fragments of Huang Tian's remains end up in this secret realm? Or rather, did he die inside... but how is that possible?"

Lin Ye glanced at the secret realm portal and gently tapped on the fragments of Huangtian.

Don't rush in, be prepared... After all, this is a unique entrance to a secret realm.

Let's also find some cannon fodder and find out what's going on inside before making any decisions.

In addition, we need to interrogate the Red Emperor to find out if he knew about this.

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Chapter 147 Alchemist Xiao: Strange Fire, Right?

Lin Ye certainly wanted to collect the fragments of [Huangtian].

However, this secret realm sounds very strange, and it's time for the mech exploration team to be dispatched.

If this secret realm is so bizarre that it can contaminate inorganic matter, well! Then Lin Ye really should sell the teleportation portal.

In addition, human cannon fodder is also necessary.

Lin Ye needed to know the extent to which these strange phenomena could affect cultivators.

That afternoon, Lin Ye spoke with Kun Zhengqing about it.

“No problem!” Xiao Pengwang readily agreed: “I’ll transfer a batch of death row inmates from the clan’s territory. You can use them as you like.”

"If it's used for cultivating demonic arts, it should be done discreetly; I'm afraid of angering the Li Sect..."

Lin Ye nodded: "Thanks!"

The Great Wilderness is a unified dynasty, and the death row inmates sent by the Kunpeng Clan are unlikely to be involved with any hostile forces, so they are very safe.

Moreover, the atmosphere during the Dark Ages was indeed quite open...

Even if it's something as legitimate as refining souls or human pills, as long as you're targeting wild, independent cultivators, almost no one will care.

This is also why independent cultivators often choose to be affiliated with a sect's territory. After all, that territory is also considered sect territory, and if they can't afford the rent and are kicked out, their fate will be terrible.

The only major power that manages demonic cultivators outside its own territory is the [Li Sect].

The style of the Li Sect is very much like the righteous immortal sects of the Golden Age. If the demonic cultivators cause too much trouble, they will attract the Li Sect cultivators to attack them.

In addition, they also harbor deep hatred towards cultivators with the bloodline of alien beasts.

The cause of it all lies with Old Deng, who taught the secret method of burning blood to cultivators all over the world a thousand years ago. He was a cultivator with the bloodline of a strange beast.

The Li Sect also harbors great hatred towards the Great Wilderness Royal Court!

.......

In a strange and mysterious place.

The mech legion, as densely packed as a raging flood, swept across the land, completely surrounding a temple.

The mech soldiers and the cultivators stared at each other, both finding the other strange.

"Stop." Lin Ye was monitoring the scene in real time: "Zoom in, let me see if these cultivators are human or ghosts... Holy crap."

Lin Ye's pupils contracted sharply as he realized that none of the monks in front of him looked like human beings.

The man dressed as a senior monk was half-blackened, his skin peeling off, curling, and carbonized, as if he had just come out of a fire.

His face was unusually free of burn marks, but the flesh and blood on his chin had mysteriously disappeared, revealing half of a shiny set of teeth. Near his throat, however, flesh and blood reappeared, and a scarlet cross-section could be seen.

The disciples behind them were also burned, their faces contorted in pain, but there were no signs of treatment.

"Senior Brother, what are these things? Moving iron blocks... and so many... monsters!" a young novice monk screamed.

"Don't panic! Where in the world is there a walking iron block? It must be an illusion!" The eldest brother, who had no chin, spoke in a muffled voice.

"Subhuti, what do you think...? With the Buddha's wisdom, he knows all about this person, and sees all about this person..."

The eldest brother closed his eyes and chanted scriptures. When he opened his eyes again, the mech soldiers were still in front of him.

He frowned, and bits of charred skin scattered slightly: "My chanting can't dispel it? The only one stronger than me at Lingjue Temple is the abbot, so these can only be... the abbot's inner demons! But how could I possibly see the abbot's inner demons? And how did you manage to see them?"

"I understand now... It turns out that we all have inner demons." The eldest brother looked up at the sky slightly.

"We've been possessed by demons!"

As he spoke, the senior brother suddenly opened his eyes wide with rage, his large eyes bulging with blood vessels, and actually swung his stick high at his junior brother next to him!

laugh!

Despite his charred and stiff body, he possessed considerable strength, and actually used a wooden stick to behead his junior brother.

"Senior Brother has gone mad...Senior Brother has fallen into demonic possession! Run for your lives!" The young monks screamed and ran away.

Have all the cultivators in this secret realm gone mad?

With Lin Ye's experience, he wasn't alarmed. He said in a deep voice, "Control yourself."

Soon, the riot police swarmed forward and pinned the senior brother to the ground. His skin crumbled and fell off with just a slight touch.

He quickly stopped struggling, his eyes wide with surprise, and a hissing sound like a broken bellows came from his bobbing throat.

"Demons...inner demons...they could never touch me. If they do, they are your inner demons! I haven't fallen into demonic possession; it's my fellow disciples who have!!!"

.......

Most of the cultivators in this secret realm have probably gone mad.

"This temple is called 'Lingjue Temple,' but why is it called 'Jue' (meaning 'absolute')...?"

Lin Ye ordered the mech legion to search the scripture pavilion of Lingjue Temple, and found a lot of scriptures in this small pavilion.

At first glance, the description is incomplete.

Almost every sentence is missing a word, and there are even long paragraphs that are completely omitted.

Even Lin Ye, who didn't know much about Buddhist scriptures, could tell something was wrong: "Can one practice with scriptures like this?"

"The cultivators of this world are no longer like evil cultivators; they've gone a step further, reaching the level of demons! Have you found the abbot?"

The abbot has never shown his face, even as the mechanized army surrounded the temple and is now ransacking it.

After searching around, the machine gunners projected their camera onto a scorched old tree in the middle of the yard.

Lin Ye broke out in a slight sweat: "It seems this is the abbot..."

The ground beneath the withered old tree was covered with the filth excreted by the disciples.

The tree was slender and charred, like a Bodhi tree that had been struck by lightning and burned to death, but upon closer inspection, it looked like a person who had been burned to death.

The being, resembling both a person and a tree, has two hands, palms clasped together.

The face, indistinguishable between tree bark and a tightly closed countenance, appeared devout, and the carbonized trunk was bent, as if worshipping something.

The withered old tree, according to the machine gun, had reached the Golden Core stage in terms of power, while the disciples before him were only at the Qi Refining stage at most!

"This world is a bit strange!"

"Should I have the mech legion start collecting fragments of the Fallen God? I don't think there's anything else that would be useful to me... Hmm?"

The mech soldiers' gazes turned toward the direction that Abbot Jiao Ku was worshipping.

That was the highest point in the entire temple. In the ancient temple, a large Buddha statue with an indistinct face was enshrined, while the incense burner in front of it was tinged with a faint flame.

Lin Ye didn't care about the Buddha statue.

His eyes lit up as he gazed at the wisp of flame.

The faint golden flame did not sway in the wind, releasing a faint Buddhist light, and this Buddhist light looked surprisingly normal.

It seems that the Eye of the Candle Dragon will like this.

"This flame looks quite extraordinary, I'll take it!"

"Master! I need to control a mech to make on-site assessments!" Huang Zhou suddenly spoke, sounding somewhat nervous.

"This is clearly no ordinary fire..."

The mechs controlled by Huang Zhou scanned the incense burner, then circled around it, exclaiming in surprise, "It's a strange fire!"

"The extraordinary fires of heaven and earth, listed on the list of extraordinary fires, are the true fires of salvation!"

Lin Ye took a deep breath and said, "The strange fire is so small?"

"Although it was extremely weak, almost extinguished, it was indeed a miraculous fire of heaven and earth."

“Master, not only that, this seedling of the strange fire is connected to the earth's veins, and the fluctuations in the earth's veins indicate that there must be other types of strange fire in this world.”

Lin Ye looked on with great envy and asked, "Are there many more wondrous flames in this small secret realm...?"

"Yes, the downside is that this strange fire is so weak that it needs to be cultivated before it can be used."

"But no matter what, if the master obtains them all, nurtures them to maturity, and then absorbs them into the Eye of the Candle Dragon... the effect will be excellent!"

Lin Ye swallowed hard: "Gulp... Let's bring this strange... strange fire back first."

"Yes."

Boom!

The third-grade magic crystal cannon released a terrifying roar, blasting the charred abbot into pieces before he could even react. Inside the charred bark, there were intact internal organs, but no bones, and flesh and blood were scattered all over the ground.

Then, Huangzhou began the work of absorbing the flames.

Chapter 148 Senior, Don't Play with Food

Half an hour later.

Deep in the lava sea.

The flame was successfully transplanted, and Lin Ye watched it from outside the alchemy furnace with eager eyes.

"I'm about to eat it right now, but I'll wait until the fire gets bigger before I do. You have to eat one bite at a time."

The flame of the [True Fire of Salvation] now occupies only a tiny bit of space in the center of the alchemy furnace, shrunken into a pitiful shape.

This alchemy furnace was set up in the cave where the desolate curse was located, connected to the earth's veins.

The earth's veins can keep the strange fire from being damaged.

"Master, I will now begin setting up the formation to catalyze the wondrous fire!"

Every time Huang Zhou's demonic body saw Lin Ye, it seemed that he could not control his emotions.

The desolate curse clung tightly to Lin Ye, extending its tentacles to wrap around him, its fair and supple legs rubbing against Lin Ye's body.

"Wild Curse, get started... and take your tentacles back," Lin Ye said, arms crossed.

This wisp of strange fire was extremely weak. Although judging from the situation at Lingjue Temple, it didn't seem like it had just been born, it was almost as small as a newly born strange fire.

There is a consensus in the cultivation world on how to nourish newly born magical fire.

First, you need to use any ley lines to preserve it.

Even for high-level ley lines, maintaining them can take hundreds or thousands of years.

The method to accelerate ripening is to use spirit stones for nourishment, and wealth is the number one element among the four elements of cultivation!

It's better to spend money than to work hard. Depending on the quality of the strange fire, wealthy cultivators can greatly shorten the feeding time, and it will mature in just a few months to several decades.

"Luckily I'm a capitalist, otherwise how would I play this game..." Lin Ye thought to himself.

Spirit stones are not fed directly.