A certain hidden underground cave, about an acre in size, with the top of the cave over a hundred feet above the ground covered with cone-shaped reddish-brown stalactites, which are translucent, strangely shaped, and of varying lengths.
Suddenly, there was a muffled sound from the ground, and a ball of yellow light broke out of the ground. Han Changming, Ye Xin and Ye Xue crawled out from the ground.
They fled for more than 100,000 miles, constantly changing direction. Liu Huan was seriously injured and should not catch up.
The stone man then came out, strode towards the stone wall, and drilled into the stone wall to protect Han Changming.
Even if an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator uses his spiritual sense to scan the stone wall, he will not find the existence of the stone spirit. After all, it is a strange stone that has become a spirit and is itself a stone.
"Husband, just focus on healing! We will protect you."
Ye Xin said solemnly that Han Changming's injuries were too serious and he needed to be treated and recuperated immediately to avoid any future troubles.
Han Changming nodded and walked towards a small cave not far away. His injuries were serious and he needed proper treatment.
The cave is only about ten feet wide and a bit narrow.
A yellow light flashed at the entrance of the cave, and a yellow stone wall suddenly appeared, blocking the entrance. It was the work of the stone spirit.
Ye Xin and Ye Xue began to set up the formation. They wanted to protect Han Changming. Shi Ling was the last line of defense and also the backup.
This time they were able to escape thanks to the stone man's petrification ability.
Han Changming took out a light golden pill with nine dan patterns on it. It was the top-grade Jinlu Pill.
He refined a mid-grade Jinlu Pill, and then used the Taiyi Hualing Gourd to upgrade it to a top-grade one, which had a very good healing effect.
Han Changming threw the Golden Dew Pill into his mouth. The pill melted in his mouth, and a warm and cool air rose in his abdomen and slowly spread to his limbs and bones.
He quickly used his internal energy to guide the warm and cool energy to flow through his body, circulating continuously.
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At the entrance of the Immortal Burial Ruins, Zhao Yuanliang flew out with a panicked look on his face.
Liu Huan went to chase Han Changming and his wife and the other two. Zhao Yuanliang didn't know whether Han Changming and his wife and the other two were alive or dead.
"Let's hurry back to Haoran City first. I hope Fellow Daoist Han is safe and sound."
Zhao Yuanliang said to himself that when he was in the most difficult time, it was Han Changming who helped him refine the elixir at the risk of offending the Nascent Soul cultivators. Zhao Yuanliang has always kept this favor in his heart.
As long as he returns the Millennium Seven-Star Soul-Nourishing Grass to Haoran City and hands it over to True Man Lingxiao, he will be considered to have made a contribution.
Embezzling the thousand-year-old Seven-Star Soul-Nourishing Grass? Not possible. The Seven-Star Soul-Nourishing Grass can neither assist in reaching the Nascent Soul Stage nor improve mana. It is only used to refine some unpopular elixirs. Zhao Yuanliang has no reason to embezzle the thousand-year-old Seven-Star Soul-Nourishing Grass.
Zhao Yuanliang thought this through and turned into a ray of light, disappearing into the sky.
An hour later, a clear bird song was heard from the sky, and a blue light appeared in the sky.
Not long after, the blue light stopped near the entrance of the Immortal Burial Ruins. It turned out to be a giant peacock.
The peacock has a light body, long blue feathers, a pair of fiery red eyes that shine like gems, and a colorful fleshy crest on its head, which is extremely gorgeous.
Six monks, five men and one woman, stood on the back of a blue peacock. Judging from their attire, they were monks from the Wanfa Sect. Leading them was Li Hong, the sect's guardian elder.
A slender middle-aged woman stood beside Li Hong. She had a plump body, a pair of charming peach blossom eyes, and was wearing a pink water-sleeved dress. Her aura was comparable to Li Hong's.
Zheng Ru, the elder of Wanfa Sect, and Li Hong are both in the middle stage of Nascent Soul.
"The Immortal Burial Ruins has opened again. I hope I can get that thing this time."
Li Hong said in a deep voice, his eyes solemn.
The Burial Ruins of Immortals is a famous dangerous place in the outer sea, and also a famous treasure land with countless rare treasures.
"We are well prepared this time. Passing through those restricted areas is not a problem. We are just worried about encountering other Nascent Soul monsters. There are many hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the outer sea. It will be difficult to face those monsters who have been famous for a long time."
Zheng Ru's tone was serious. The Wanfa Sect was quite powerful and had a relatively strong presence in the South China Sea's immortal cultivation world. However, the Wanfa Sect's power in the outer seas was not yet strong enough to cover the sky with one hand.
"We are here to find that thing, so there should be no conflict of interest with them. Even if there is a conflict of interest, we are not made of clay."
Li Hong's voice was cold.
The blue peacock let out a clear cry, spread its wings, and flew into the Immortal Burial Ruins.
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Seven days passed quickly.
In the underground cave, Han Changming sat cross-legged on the ground with his eyes closed and his face slightly pale.
After a while, Han Changming opened his eyes and let out a long breath.
The effect of the top-grade Golden Dew Pill is really good, and he has almost recovered.
Han Changming stood up and walked outside. A stone wall suddenly collapsed and Han Changming walked out.
"Husband, how do you feel?"
Ye Xin and Ye Xue's faces were full of concern, and the two women looked at Han Changming carefully.
"It's all right now. I wonder if Fellow Daoist Zhao has escaped. Let's leave here and return to Haoran City as soon as possible."
Han Changming planned to leave the Immortal Burial Ruins as soon as possible. He did not have a second demon-transforming talisman, so it would be better to leave this place as soon as possible.
A yellow light flashed on the bodies of the three people, and they disappeared into the stone wall.
A steep green mountain. A yellow light suddenly appeared at the foot of the mountain. Han Changming and his wife and two others emerged from the stone wall.
The sky was clear and cloudless, and they were situated among the mountains.
Han Changming took out a piece of green animal skin and looked at the map carefully, his brows furrowed.
There was no record of this place on the map, so they had obviously entered an unknown area, which was not a good thing.
Considering Liu Huan's presence, Han Changming and the other two could not leave along the previous route and had to take a detour.
Han Changming released the Purple Crystal Flying Scorpion and a Soul-Eating Earthworm to let them explore the way.
The Soul-Eating Earthworm suddenly let out a strange hissing sound, and quickly crawled away at an extremely fast speed. The Amethyst Flying Scorpion let out a cheerful hissing sound and followed it.
This was the first time that Han Changming saw the Soul-Eating Earthworm and the Amethyst Flying Scorpion like this. He probably discovered poisonous plants or poisons.
Not long after, they appeared in a vast green bamboo forest. The Soul-Eating Earthworm stopped and the Amethyst Flying Scorpion hissed excitedly.
A few hundred feet away, in an open area, there was a human skeleton on the ground. The skeleton was wearing a tattered robe and a green storage ring on the index finger of his left hand.
Han Changming's eyes lit up when he saw the storage ring.
Generally speaking, Jindan cultivators will use storage bags, and Yuanying cultivators will use storage rings. The space in a storage ring is larger than that in a storage bag and can store more things.
Could it be that the skeleton was a Nascent Soul cultivator in his lifetime? A Nascent Soul cultivator must have a lot of property.
More than ten feet away from the human skeleton, there grows a palm-sized Ganoderma lucidum with colorful lines on its surface. A blood-colored grass is entangled with the five-colored Ganoderma lucidum. The leaves of the grass are diamond-shaped, with a row of sharp thorns on the edge of the leaves.
"Thousand-year-old five-colored ganoderma, blood vine grass!"
Han Changming recognized these two spiritual medicines. They are in a companion relationship. The thousand-year-old five-color ganoderma is the main ingredient for refining a variety of detoxifying pills. It also has a certain detoxifying effect when taken raw. The effect is better when refined into pills. However, this spiritual medicine will emit a strange fragrance after growing for five hundred years, which can easily attract monsters. The blood vine grass has a certain aggressiveness and is highly toxic. This spiritual herb needs to absorb enough blood to grow.
Any monster that wants to devour the thousand-year-old five-colored ganoderma will be attacked by the blood vine grass. After the blood vine grass kills the monster, it will absorb the blood in the monster's body as nutrients.
The leaves of this blood vine are bright in color, its rhizomes are thick, and it is growing well, obviously sucking enough blood.
The strange thing is that there are no corpses of any monsters nearby.
Han Changming's gaze fell on the human-shaped skeleton, and his eyes suddenly lit up with a golden light.
In front of the golden eyes, a corpse naturally could not stop Han Changming's investigation.
He could clearly see that there was a green storage bag around the waist of the skeleton. The storage bag was tattered and badly damaged. There was a group of black scorpions underground. The stingers of these black scorpions were golden, and each had a pair of golden thin wings on its back. Their bodies were pitch black. They hid underground, guarding near the five-colored ganoderma.
"The Golden-Tailed Soul-Grabbing Scorpion is actually this kind of strange insect."
Han Changming recognized this strange insect. The Golden-tailed Soul-stealing Scorpion ranks higher than the Purple Crystal Flying Scorpion, ranking 40th on the List of Strange Insects in Heaven and Earth. It likes to eat poisonous plants and poisons, and can spray out soul-stealing forbidden light to hurt the enemy invisibly. If a cultivator is hit by the soul-stealing forbidden light of the Golden-tailed Soul-stealing Scorpion, all three souls and seven spirits may be taken away by it.
The Golden-Tailed Soul-Grabbing Scorpion is ranked much higher than the Amethyst Flying Scorpion, but its flaws are also obvious. As long as it is not hit by the Soul-Snatching Forbidden Light, it will not pose much of a threat.
"Madam, there is a group of golden-tailed soul-stealing scorpions under the skeleton. There is no fourth-level golden-tailed soul-stealing scorpion. Use magic to attack them and don't let them get close."
Han Changming said softly and stomped his right foot hard on the ground.
With a dull rumbling sound, a long crack suddenly appeared on the ground. A row of sharp earth spears broke out of the ground, lifting up the human skeleton. Two five-meter-long golden-tailed soul-stealing scorpions emerged from the ground, and hundreds of smaller golden-tailed soul-stealing scorpions lay on their bodies.
Two third-grade top-quality golden-tailed soul-stealing scorpions and hundreds of low-grade golden-tailed soul-stealing scorpions.
A strange and noisy sound was heard, and hundreds of smaller golden-tailed soul-stealing scorpions flew up and pounced on Han Changming and his wife.
Ye Xin and Ye Xue made hand gestures at the same time, and a large amount of white cold air emerged from their bodies. After a blur, it turned into hundreds of white ice balls and smashed towards the opposite side.
With a dull thud, the white ice ball hit the golden-tailed soul-stealing scorpion and suddenly exploded. Cold air rushed out and the golden-tailed soul-stealing scorpions were quickly frozen and fell to the ground one after another.
The Amethyst Flying Scorpion hissed excitedly and emitted a stream of purple light, which covered the frozen Golden-tailed Soul-Grabbing Scorpions and rolled them into its stomach. The Amethyst Flying Scorpion hissed happily.
Two third-grade, top-quality golden-tailed soul-stealing scorpions let out a shrill hissing sound and spewed out a black glow, covering Han Changming and Ye Xin.
This is the soul-binding forbidden light, which ignores most defensive means such as protective aura or light shield. Physical defensive means are more effective, such as shields.
Han Changming was prepared. A yellow earth wall over a hundred feet high rose from the ground and blocked their way. The soul-catching forbidden light hit the yellow earth wall, but it remained unscathed.
The two golden-tailed soul-stealing scorpions missed their target and flew up, pouncing towards Han Changming and his wife.
At this moment, the ground suddenly produced a strong gravity, and the two golden-tailed soul-stealing scorpions fell to the ground uncontrollably.
A purple poisonous fire swept over and hit their bodies, causing their fur to rise into a puff of green smoke. They hissed in pain and wanted to escape, but their bodies were unable to move.
There was a loud whistling sound, and two white cold winds over ten feet high swept over and hit them accurately.
Boom!
Two white cold winds burst out, and rolling cold air rushed out. The two golden-tailed soul-stealing scorpions froze at a speed visible to the naked eye and turned into two huge ice sculptures.
A huge yellow hand appeared out of nowhere and smashed the two ice sculptures into pieces one after another, killing the two golden-tailed soul-stealing scorpions.
The Golden-Tailed Soul-Grabbing Scorpion's attack method is single, and its overall strength is not as good as that of the Purple Crystal Flying Scorpion. However, if a Nascent Soul cultivator is hit by the Soul-Snatching Forbidden Light it spews out, he will not be spared. At the very least, he will lose a part of his soul and his cultivation will stagnate. At the worst, he will become a puppet without a soul.
The Amethyst Flying Scorpion devoured all of their corpses, hissing with joy.
Han Changming used his golden eyes to carefully observe the ground nearby. After confirming again and again that there were no evil insects or restrictions, he walked forward and took off the green storage ring on the skeleton's hand.
Ye Xin put on a pair of gloves that glowed with blue light, carefully dug out the blood vine grass and five-colored ganoderma, and put them into a jade box for safekeeping.
Han Changming flicked his wrist lightly, and after a green light passed by, a large pile of things appeared on the ground, including several pieces of ores, two jade boxes with silver talismans attached to them, a golden jade bottle, three magic weapons, several jade slips and more than thirty medium-grade spirit stones.
There are not many things, but they are of great value, two top-grade magic weapons and one mid-grade magic weapon.
Combined with the storage bag on the waist of the skeleton, Han Changming guessed that this person should be a Jindan cultivator. This person broke into the Burial Ruins of Immortals in search of treasure and obtained the property of a Yuanying cultivator, but unfortunately he failed to leave the Burial Ruins of Immortals alive.
Two top-grade magic weapons, a light green round bead with the words "shelter from the wind" faintly visible on it, a small golden seal with a mini monkey engraved on the surface, and a silver gauze with flashing runes and the two small words "Silver Moon" visible on it.
They carefully examined the three magic weapons and were surprised.
The Wind-Proof Beads are auxiliary magic weapons that can weaken the power of wind-attribute prohibitions and Taoist magic. The golden seal is the Golden Ape Seal, a heavy-duty magic weapon. The Silver Moon Veil is an auxiliary magic weapon that can conceal your body.
He opened two jade boxes, each containing two golden spiritual fruits with some fine lines on the surface.
"Golden Marrow Fruit!"
Ye Xin said in a lost voice, her eyes filled with deep joy.
Cheng Guangbei invited them to the Burial of Immortals Ruins to hunt for treasures in order to pick the Golden Marrow Fruit. In order to find the Millennium Seven-Star Soul-Nourishing Grass, they gave up picking the Golden Marrow Fruit. Han Changming almost died at the hands of Liu Huan. As luck would have it, they got the Golden Marrow Fruit and several magic weapons here.
Han Changming looked excited. He put away two golden marrow fruits, while Ye Xin and Ye Xue each put away one golden marrow fruit.
When he returns to the family, Han Changming will give Han Zhangxiang a golden marrow fruit.
"No wonder so many cultivators want to go to the Immortal Burial Ruins to search for treasures. These things are worth millions of spirit stones."
Ye Xin exclaimed, smiling.
"There is also a golden jade bottle. Could it contain elixirs or spiritual medicines to help with the formation of a fetus?"
Ye Xue said curiously.
"Whether it is or not, you will know when you open it."
Han Changming chuckled and pulled open the cork. A pungent smell rushed out and the Amethyst Flying Scorpion let out an excited hiss.
Han Changming felt dizzy and thought to himself that something was wrong. He quickly put the cork back in the bottle, took out a detoxification pill, swallowed it, and meditated to regulate his breathing.
Ye Xue and Ye Xin also noticed the problem. The porcelain bottle should contain some highly poisonous substance.
Half an hour later, Han Changming finished his practice and let out a long sigh.
"Myriad Poisons, I didn't expect it to be such a magical thing!"
Han Changming said softly, looking excited.