"Haha, don't worry, Junior Sister. Since Fellow Daoist Luo knows how to try, he is somewhat sure.
Moreover, my intuition tells me that Fellow Daoist Luo will definitely succeed, after all, he made the impossible possible many times when he was in the human world!"
Compared to Yuan Yao's worries, Yanli had inexplicable confidence in Luo Hong and was very optimistic at the moment.
"Perhaps I am thinking too much, but I always feel that the way out that my husband mentioned is related to my mother-in-law and their current plans.
Even the Demon King at the combined level has to be fully prepared to enter this place. No matter how powerful my husband is, he will definitely not have an easy time!"
Yuan Yao was not relieved when he heard this, he shook his head and still looked sad.
"Junior sister, why do you think so? Did Fellow Daoist Luo say something to you before he left?"
Yanli was also shocked by Yuan Yao's guess at the moment, but thinking about the other party's habit of often making big troubles, she felt that this was probably what happened!
"My husband didn't say anything in particular. He just told me not to worry if he doesn't come back for a long time. But I think with my husband's magical power to kill the turtle beast, the only thing that can stump him is the level of the Demon King!"
Luo Hong has always been extremely confident, but Yuan Yao has never seen such preparations.
"I think so. If that place wasn't extremely dangerous, how could Fellow Daoist Luo specially give us the Yin Fire Demonic Pill to help us quickly improve our cultivation!"
When Yuan Yao said this, Yanli immediately started to think about that. She actually guessed Luo Hong's intentions.
"Okay, senior sister, it's useless for us to think about it here. We should collect the puppets quickly and go back to practice!"
Yuan Yao is not a weak person. He knows that only when his cultivation level improves, he will be able to share Luo Hong's worries in the future instead of just waiting.
So, she immediately cheered up and said.
"Okay, I know you're impatient, but you have to wait, right? You're lucky, the underworld wind suddenly became weak!"
Yanli looked at the center of the circle in surprise and found that the wind force had suddenly weakened by half.
However, just when the two women were about to cast a spell to collect the skeletons, the eyes of the two puppets suddenly flashed with blood!
Seeing this scene, the two women were immediately stunned, and then they looked at each other with pale faces.
At the same time, deep inside the Blood Flame Palace, two men in blood robes were refining the spiritual materials needed to make the puppets.
But suddenly, two bloodshot threads emerged from the ground, and without saying a word, they each got into the palm of a blood-robed man.
Immediately, a look of astonishment appeared on both of their faces. Almost at the same time, they stretched out their hands and took out a blood wood token from the void.
I saw that one of the two tokens was engraved with the word "blue", and the other was engraved with the word "six".
But just when they were about to cast a spell to activate, they didn't know what they thought of at the same time, and they all stopped.
After looking at each other, the two men in blood robes immediately saw the unabashed greed in each other's eyes!
A few days later, in the Netherworld Cave, Luo Hong held a freshly baked magic talisman between his fingers. He nodded with satisfaction, then moved his eyes to look at the three-eyed old demon huddled in a pile of wine jars and said:
"Senior, the puppet talisman is ready, let's try it."
"Ah, is it so fast?"
The three-eyed old demon was stunned when he heard this, and then asked in surprise while slowly taking two steps back.
"Haha, this talisman is related to a secret technique learned by Luo, so of course it is fast.
Seniors, don't be afraid. After applying this talisman, you will only feel like you have slept well and will not feel any discomfort.
Could it be that we don’t even have this little trust between you and me?”
Luo Hong smiled and took two steps closer. The opponent was the only experimental subject he could use on the seventh floor, so he couldn't be allowed to escape before the battle!
"I've been sleeping too much lately, can you try again after a while?"
Obviously, the three-eyed old demon does not trust the talisman that Luo Hong refined in half a day.
Speaking of waking up, he woke up four months ago, and then discovered that Luo Hong had opened a "hole" nearby and seemed to be exploring a small space.
He was very curious about this, but with Xiao Jin guarding him outside, he didn't dare to get close.
Moreover, the three-eyed old demon realized from the previous events that he and Luo Hong seemed to have some conflicts. As long as he got close, he would definitely be unlucky.
Therefore, in the past four months, he has been exploring the seventh level with the gray desert as the center, collecting heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and filling his pockets emptied by Luo Hong.
However, since there were not many safe places on the seventh floor, he would go back to the gray desert to repair it every once in a while.
As a result, just half a month ago, Luo Hong came back from that small space at some point and found him again.
He said that he was asked to help test a secret technique, and he was offered many benefits that were difficult to refuse, but he still did not agree.
After all, he had a bad premonition that began to linger in his mind ever since Luo Hong appeared.
But just because of Luo Hong's subsequent words, he still appeared in the opponent's cave magic weapon.
"Senior, time is of the essence. Luo is willing to wait. Are Earth Blood and the others also willing to wait?
Don't forget, the four demon kings made such a big noise in the abyss one by one, all because of the treasure under the River Styx!
Senior, as long as you help Luo figure out the secret of the underworld water, you will naturally have a share of those treasures."
Luo Hong immediately tried to persuade him with good words.
It's not that he doesn't want to use force to coerce, saving time and effort, but this puppet talisman can only work if the other party is willing, so he can only endure his temper and fool this three-eyed old demon.
In the Land of the Styx, the four demon kings all covet this treasure!
The three-eyed old demon was so excited that he trembled with excitement when he first heard it. He forgot all the hardships he had suffered around Luo Hong in the past.
But when he thought about the function of the puppet talisman, he couldn't help but hesitate.
"Fellow Daoist Luo, is it true that this talisman will only temporarily seal the spiritual intelligence, and will return to its original state immediately after being removed?"
The three-eyed old demon asked again.
It turns out that the function of this puppet talisman is to seal spiritual intelligence and turn people into trees, earth and rocks.
During this process, the person receiving the talisman cannot make any resistance, otherwise it will fail!
However, this is just an easy-to-understand version of Luo Hong's explanation to the three-eyed old demon. In fact, this talisman also contains a lot of instructions, which allows people to still act after their intelligence is blocked.
And the reason why he created this talisman was to deal with the water of the Styx.
"Hey, senior, I don't want Luo Mou to speak harshly. There is no need for me to lie to you. After all, you have no potential, no gold to beat, and even no Azi to eat. Luo Mou really doesn't covet you!
"
No matter how patient Luo Hong was, he was annoyed by the three-eyed old demon's repeated questions, so he simply prescribed strong medicine.
Upon hearing this, the three-eyed old demon's face suddenly darkened, but he also realized that Luo Hong's politeness to him had reached its limit.
If I hesitate any longer, I'm afraid something bad will happen.
"Okay! Come on, I will leave this body to you!"
The three-eyed old demon suddenly felt his heart skip a beat, raised his chin and said as if he was about to kill him.
Luo Hong couldn't help rolling his eyes when he saw this, and with a flick of his wrist, he took out the puppet talisman on his fingertips.
I saw that as soon as this talisman touched the body of the three-eyed old demon, it sank into it smoothly, and then the superfluous expression on his face gradually disappeared.
In just a moment, the cunning temperament of the three-eyed old demon disappeared. At this moment, his face was expressionless, his eyes were as clear as water, and he exuded a ruthless aura without blood or tears from the inside out.
"It's done! The spiritual intelligence has been successfully suppressed, and now the soul of this old demon is extremely close to my ghost incarnations!
Next, is the final verification!”
As he said that, Luo Hong moved his gaze to a dark pool not far away.
After half a year of research, Luo Hong discovered that the reason why those thin needle-like monster fish were not affected by the water of the Styx was because their cultivation path was very different from the normal path in the outside world.
Under normal circumstances, immortal cultivators take the path of integrating soul and mana. Although they may not all be able to refine Nascent Soul due to different racial talents, there will not be any difference in essence.
However, the creatures of the Styx, represented by the strange fish, all take the path of integrating the soul with the physical body, and this also allows them to absorb the air of darkness, that is, the turbid air of heaven and earth to practice, but they will not be able to integrate with the seven layers of the earth and the abyss.
Those monsters have lost their intelligence.
Of course, the spiritual intelligence of these Styx creatures is not too high, it can only be said that it is not completely absent.
The magical power of the water of the Styx is able to sweep away the soul of the immortal cultivator. According to Luo Hong's own experience after the experiment, as soon as it touches this water, the soul will suddenly receive a huge suction force, and it must be
Use mana to counteract it so that you won't leave the body immediately.
Obviously, the creatures of the Styx rely on the high degree of integration between the soul and the physical body to be able to ignore this power.
But just knowing this is not enough to meet Luo Hong's needs, because he cannot copy it exactly.
In that case, his cultivation will be ruined!
Therefore, Luo Hong can only continue to explore the deeper reasons behind these phenomena.
Fortunately, he knew the origin of the land of Styx, so after some verification, he found out that the Styx was actually transformed by the energy of darkness.
To be precise, it is a kind of heavenly material and earthly treasure formed by the gathering of ultra-high concentration of dark energy.
To use an analogy, the entire River Styx is actually a "stone" in Rahu's body, formed by the accumulation of the turbid air from heaven and earth that he swallowed.
According to some previous speculations, Luo Hu practices the law of death, and the dark energy in the abyss has no magical effect.
Therefore, the turbid air of heaven and earth will become death air only after being refined.
Swallowing the turbid air of heaven and earth is equivalent to eating for Rahu, but the underworld water cannot be digested by him, so it accumulates more and more, becoming the giant river it is today.
After figuring out the relationship between the dead energy, the turbid energy of heaven and earth, and the water of the underworld, Luo Hong immediately had a guess.
The turbid air of heaven and earth has been proven to corrode spiritual intelligence, so the reason why the underworld water that was born out of it exerts such a strange attraction on the soul is also because of spiritual intelligence?
When he thought of this, Luo Hong threw a ghost incarnation into the deep pool without saying a word.
As a result, this impulsive move predictably went wrong.
The ghost incarnation was melted away as soon as it came into contact with the underworld water, and the scene was very tragic.
Obviously, regardless of whether there is spiritual intelligence or not, the soul cannot directly contact the underworld water.
And in the entire seventh layer of the abyss, among the beings with both spiritual intelligence and physical bodies, except for a few on Luo Hong's side, there is only the three-eyed old demon!
"Senior, jump down."
At this moment, Luo Hong controlled the movements of the three-eyed old demon through instructions.
Immediately, the three-eyed old demon turned around numbly, walked to the edge of the pond in a few steps, and jumped in!
There was only a "pop" sound, and because Luo Hong did not give any subsequent orders, he immediately sank like a stone.
At the same time, no spiritual light appeared on him.
Seeing this scene, Luo Hong's eyes immediately lit up and his face showed joy.
Because he set it up in the command, as long as the soul showed signs of leaving the body, he would immediately activate mana to resist.
So at this time, the three-eyed old demon has no aura on his body, which means that his soul has not been affected by the underworld water, which proves that the puppet talisman can indeed resolve the magical power of the underworld water!
"Great! With this method, as long as I give myself sufficient instructions, I can physically cross the River Styx. I don't have to wait another three hundred years to ride on the east wind of the four demon kings!"
Although it is extremely dangerous to seal his own intelligence and go deep into dangerous places, Luo Hong has a command system that can handle most situations, and secondly, he has the Silver Fairy who is not afraid of the underworld as insurance.
At a critical moment, she is fully capable of getting Luo Hong out of danger.
Therefore, the worst result is to return to the seventh floor, and the possibility of success is very high, so it is totally worth a try!
In addition, another gain from this research made Luo Hong even more delighted.
The attraction of the underworld water to normal souls is very similar to the relationship between the spirits of life and death. Obviously, some characteristics contained in the underworld water are in opposition to the spiritual wisdom in the soul.
In other words, if follow-up research is conducted on Ming Shui, Luo Hong's understanding of spiritual wisdom will definitely be greatly improved, and he can even touch the essence of the soul.
By then, he may not be able to create a method comparable to the art of divine refining!
Of course, you can't think too much about these now, you have to finish the things at hand first.
So, with a thought, Luo Hong took the three-eyed old demon and escaped from the Netherworld Cave.
Compared with half a year ago, the River Styx has not changed at all, and the calm river surface does not seem to be dangerous at all.
Although Luo Hong's experiment on the Xiaotan he ingested was successful, for the sake of caution, he decided to try throwing the three-eyed old demon into the River Styx.
I saw that Luo Hong casually added a spiritual shield to the three-eyed old demon and ordered him to sneak into the River Styx.
After the sound of entering the water, there were no unexpected changes, including the strange fish, and the result was very gratifying!
Afterwards, Luo Hong did not let the three-eyed old demon escape from the River Styx immediately, but kept soaking in it while he held the Sky-Breaking Spear and stood guard above the river.
After three full hours, Luo Hong didn't see a tentacle or a pincer limb sticking out of the darkness.
Obviously, crossing the river in this way will cause very little movement, and it will not attract a large number of Styx creatures to attack like the four demon kings.
This undoubtedly greatly increased the possibility of him successfully crossing the river again!