Chapter 405: The abyss of the earth and the sea of fire is about to start
After some chatting, Zhao Sheng dropped his smile and said sternly: "Now the 'Mingyan' has been maintained for more than a year. I wonder how effective it is?"
Zhao Fuji raised the corners of his mouth and grinned: "Look at the growth of these Qiong Shenhua flowers. They are indeed stronger and more vigorous than the same period. According to my calculations, their growth rate has at least doubled."
Zhao Sheng heard this and estimated: "In other words, the thousand-year-old Qiong Shenhua will only take four to five hundred years to grow?"
"This is indeed true from a long-term perspective, but you can't just look at one aspect and calculate the labor costs. In the end, it's a profit or a loss. It's still two different things!"
Zhao Sheng looked at the red-robed golden elixir not far away, nodded in agreement and said: "Yes, it seems that the 'Mingyan' method needs to be greatly improved."
"Good things come in hard times! By the way, I must congratulate you. Congratulations, you can now be called the grandmaster of the established sect. You will definitely leave your name in the immortal history in the future. To be honest, I also envy you." Zhao Fuji said at the end.
, his face was full of envy.
"Fuzu, where do you start talking about this?" Zhao Sheng's heart moved and he couldn't help but ask.
Zhao Fuji glared at him and said in a sour tone: "Don't say that you kid can't figure it out. With the infinite potential of the 'Fate Flame' method, there will definitely be more middle and low-level people with similar characteristics in the future.
If the magic continues to develop normally, maybe the first fire spirit farmer in the Tianzhu world will come from our Nantian Zhao family."
"There should be quite a few fire spirit farmers in the Tianzhu Realm. Fu Zu is exaggerating a bit."
Zhao Sheng still wanted to hide his clumsiness, but Zhao Fuji seemed to have eaten gunpowder and shouted angrily: "You kid is deliberately pretending to be confused. Can the two be confused? You just relied on an unprecedented ripening method.
, you kid can call yourself the Grand Master openly and honestly. It won’t take thousands of years for the fire-moving spiritual masters to become popular in the world."
"Also, don't be too busy refining treasures. Improve the Life Flame as soon as possible, and then simplify it as soon as possible to deduce more spiritual spells. You must know that this is the real big deal!"
Zhao Sheng saw that the other party was serious about what he said, so he could only nod and agree: "Fu Zu taught you the right lesson. After I return, I will immediately try my best to improve the Mingyan Taoist method."
After finishing speaking, he called the red-robed golden elixir over and asked him carefully about his feelings.
Half an hour later, based on the feedback, Zhao Sheng once again differentiated thousands of spiritual thoughts and began to make various subtle adjustments to the Taoist structure.
An hour later, after Zhao Sheng listened to Ancestor Fu's description, he started again...
This process of continuous correction and fine-tuning lasted for three days and three nights.
Early on the fourth day, following Zhao Fuji's order, twenty-two fire element foundation-building monks from Shenlong Valley rushed to Wanyao Garden to report.
Zhao Sheng released twenty-two rounds of "suns" in succession in the medicine garden, and then taught the foundation-building monks step by step how to use their spiritual consciousness to connect with Taoism and how to keep the life flame alive.
On the fifth day, Zhao Sheng returned to Binghuofeng Cave, immediately hung up the retreat sign, and started a new round of retreat.
The reason for the retreat is, on the one hand, to deduce Taoism, and on the other hand, the Baiyan Cauldron has just been completed, and it still needs continuous nourishment and sacrifice day and night.
After that, every two or three months, he would go out of seclusion and go to Wanyao Garden to communicate with Zhao Fuji and a group of fire element foundation builders, and then based on the feedback, he would correct the minor flaws in the Mingyan Taoist method.
As time went by, the commotion in Wanyao Garden became louder and louder, not only attracting the attention of many senior Zhao family members, but also all the Yuan Ying ancestors were alarmed.
After just one trip to the medicine garden, a group of Nascent Soul Ancestors immediately realized the importance of the Taoist "Life Flame", so they immediately issued a hush-hush order to all insiders and blocked the information from the outside world.
However, it's too late by this time!
Shenlong Valley is the core location of the Zhao family in Nantian, and there are countless spies from other forces lurking in the valley.
The changes in Wanyao Garden in the past year have already alarmed those secret spies with keen sense of smell, and the news has actually been leaked out long ago.
As a result, the top leaders of the Zhao family in Nantian quickly discovered why in recent months, more and more "friendly" forces had sent people to Shenlong Valley under the guise of visiting and communicating.
Most of the visitors were alchemists, and they established friendships with the Zhao family's alchemists one after another. They exchanged their experiences on alchemy and medicine cultivation in various ways, and during this period, they spied on the Wanyao Garden in various ways.
Fortunately, the Zhao family was well prepared and had already covered the "experimental field" with a phantom formation barrier, completely blocking out the prying eyes of outsiders.
But how can this method stop those who are interested?
Among all the visiting forces, the Dong family of Weaver Girl was the most shameless. The Dong family relied on the marriage with the Zhao family for generations, and the two parties had a close relationship. They actually shamelessly shouted, hoping to participate.
Zhao Changdu, Zhao Fuji, Qu Feng and others discussed it behind closed doors. After asking Zhao Sheng for his opinion, they simply asked the Dong family, Ziyang Sect, and Ksitigarbha Sect, the closest forces, to join the experiment.
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Of course, these companies also had to pay a large price, including a batch of considerable innate gold essence.
But after realizing the great value of Life Flame, several forces instantly felt that everything was... so worth it!
At the same time, Zhao Sheng gradually became known to people, and many Yuanying ancestors truly remembered this promising Yuanying of the Zhao family.
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Time is like water, and two years have passed in a flash.
On the third day of September, the Shenlong Valley was loose on the outside and tight on the inside. The valley had refused all outsiders three days ago.
The sun rises high into the sky, and the hot sunlight shines on Bixia Peak. It casts a long shadow in front of the mountain, and the shadow falls straight into a magnificent square covering an area of ten miles.
At this moment, in the center of the square, two hundreds of Taoist soldiers formed two neat square formations, standing on the spot with solemn expressions, motionless.
Everyone was silent, and a stream of iron-blooded momentum shot up into the sky, turning into a large area of strong evil energy that filled the square, almost ready to appear.
For thousands of years, the Nantian Zhao family has trained many powerful Taoist legions, but the most elite has always been the Five Elements Taoist legion.
The Five Elements Taoist Army was founded in the early days of the Second World War. It faced the first wave of alien invasions, experienced the long and cruel battle of the Golden Wall, and then was the vanguard of the counterattack against the Shattered Star Sea.
In the thousands of years since the end of the War between the Two Worlds, the Five Elements Taoist soldiers have been tested in many bloody battles one after another, and were beaten to the edge of destruction several times, but they have been tenacious and rebuilt many times.
It can be said that the Five Elements Taoist soldiers have made great contributions to the Nantian Zhao family's current status.
Today, the Five Elements Taoist Army has been renamed the Five Elements Banner. Each banner has at least 200 Taoist soldiers. Those with the lowest cultivation level must also be in the late stage of Qi refining. At least one-fifth of the Taoist soldiers have personal strength comparable to that of Foundation Establishment.
Taking the Houtu Banner as an example, after controlling the specially-made second-level high-grade diamond puppet, each Houtu Taoist soldier's combat power is no less than that of a foundation-building monk.
If a hundred people form a large formation, the Jindan Banner can unite the power of the entire formation and even trap a Nascent Soul Ancestor for a short period of time.
Even facing twice the number of foundation-building monks, the thick-earth army can be easily defeated.
In order to wipe out the Earth Flame Palace in one fell swoop, the Zhao family did not hesitate to dispatch the two banners of Houtu and Lieyang, and summoned more than 20 Jindan Daoist people. Only a few of them were from their own clan, and most of them came from numerous vassal forces.
Summoned here at short notice.
In addition, the Zhao family also sent two Yuan Ying ancestors, the eleventh ancestor Zhou Li and the sixteenth ancestor Zhao Qiongtian.
As the sun gradually rose into the sky, Zhou Li and Zhao Sheng stood on the square, quietly waiting for something.
After a quarter of an hour, the communication jade plates on the waists of the two Nascent Soul Ancestors suddenly flashed together.
Zhao Sheng and Zhao Sheng looked at each other, and their spiritual thoughts simultaneously penetrated into the jade plate.
After Zhao Sheng read it, he immediately said: "The Third Patriarch sent a message, and the Ksitigarbha Sect has just left."
Zhou Li smiled slightly: "The news comes just in time, the troops of Ziyang Sect have also been dispatched. We will set off immediately!"
"Senior Zhou is the one who makes the decision. This junior has no objections." Upon hearing this, Zhao Sheng took the initiative to give up his position.
After a while, a nearly 1,000-foot "Banyue" class cloud boat slowly docked in the square.
Upon seeing this, one after another Jindan Daoist turned into escaping light and flew into the cloud boat, while the Houtu and Lieyang flags also flew into the sky and filed in. Finally, there were the two Nascent Soul Ancestors.
Not long after, this large cloud boat silently broke away from the ground, rose straight into the sky, then broke through the clouds with a rumble, and galloped towards the east with lightning speed.
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In the eastern part of Central Continent, there is an endless group of volcanoes, called the Fire Cloud Mountains. The volcanoes here erupt all year round, leaving scorched earth everywhere and life extinct. The sky above the mountains is always shrouded in thick black clouds, making the sky invisible.
Going down from the volcanic craters to millions of feet deep, there is an endless and magnificent abyss. Here, countless rivers of red magma converge from all directions, forming a vast underground magma sea.
On the vast and boundless sea surface, hot and sticky magma is slowly flowing, covered with a thin layer of red rock shell. From time to time, one can see huge dark red fire bubbles slowly rising up one after another.
It can easily expand to several miles or even dozens of miles in size. From a distance, it looks like slowly moving "hills".
Whenever a huge fire bubble bursts suddenly, it makes a huge roar like a bull's roar. At the same time, it explodes into a sea of suffocating and poisonous gas, which spreads into the sky above the abyss.
After tens of millions of years of accumulation, the sky above the abyss has long been filled with black smoke and filled with extremely high concentrations of highly toxic gases. A mortal would immediately die on the spot after taking one sip of it. Even Qi Refining Realm cultivators would not be able to persist for long in such a harsh environment.
The mountain gate of the Earth Flame Palace is a giant floating island that wanders in the magma sea all year round. Its trajectory is unpredictable and extremely secretive.
It was also because of its "unique" special environment that the Diyan Palace repeatedly escaped siege and suppression, and ultimately allowed its family tradition to continue for nearly ten thousand years.
But this time, will it continue to be "lucky"?
On this day, somewhere in the sea of fire in the abyss of the earth, a thick and straight gray stone pillar protruded from the magma sea. On the top of the stone pillar stood a rough, thick gray stone hall.
Whizzing!
At this time, five or six rays of escaping light suddenly broke through the black smoke and flew into the hall one after another.
Zhao Sheng and Zhou Li took four Jindan masters and just walked into the hall. Zhao Sheng looked slightly startled.
In addition to the Third Patriarch Zhao Changdu, sitting on the main seat of the main hall, there was also a bald old man wearing a Yin-Yang Tai Chi robe. The two seemed to be discussing something in a low voice. There were also many figures wearing Ksitigarbha sect costumes standing on both sides.
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Zhao Zhengzhuo, who was dressed in a luxurious Qing Dynasty robe, stood impressively among the crowd. At this moment, he was next to a stunning girl in a red dress. His eyes never left this girl, as if he belonged to someone.
This girl in a red dress is full of heroic spirit, and her pair of red and phoenix eyes are particularly brilliant. Her eyes are clear and agile, and she seems to be able to see into people's hearts.
As soon as Zhao Sheng and his party stepped into the palace gate, everyone in the palace immediately looked over.
"Meet the Third Ancestor."
“My family doesn’t need to be polite!”
Zhao Changdu waved his hand and motioned for Zhao Sheng and Zhou Li to come to the stage and sit down.
After the two of them sat down, he said with a smile: "Qiongtian would like to introduce to you, this is Huang Yu, Grandmaster Huang, who is well-known in Central Continent as the 'formation master'!"
Zhao Sheng's eyes flashed, and he immediately raised his hands and saluted: "Junior Zhao Qiongtian, I have met Grandmaster Huang."
Zhou Li and Huang Yu on the side have known each other for a long time, so there is no need to be polite.
"Hey, Senior Zhao has given you too much praise. The formations are profound and profound. Huang only understands them a little bit. He would never dare to claim to be a master." The bald old man looked extremely humble.
This person had been living in seclusion in Tianzhu Mountain, working together with the other two formation masters in an attempt to repair the Ascension Formation.
Later, this person was personally invited by Zhao Changdu to come out of the mountain just to break the mountain defense formation outside the Diyan Palace.
Upon seeing this, Zhao Changdu smiled and said to Zhao Sheng and the others: "We haven't arrived yet, so let's wait for the people from the Ziyang Sect. Once everyone is here, let's get down to business."
Zhao Sheng and Zhou Li nodded slightly, then closed their eyes to rest.
The hall quickly became quiet.
About half an hour after arriving, the outside of the main hall was suddenly covered with a layer of purple. The temperature in the hall soared and the air became extremely hot.
At this time, a burst of loud footsteps came, attracting the attention of most people in the hall.
Zhao Sheng looked around and saw three more people walking in at the door as the purple spirit spread across the hall.
The person at the front was wearing a purple robe and a blazing sun robe, with eagle eyes and thin lips. He walked like a dragon and a tiger, showing his domineering attitude. He looked to be in his thirties and was very tall, but his figure was a bit thin and his skin color was scorched.
, as if being burned by fire.
After Zhao Sheng's spiritual thoughts were swept over this person, his pupils shrank slightly.
This person seems to be domineering, but his aura is extremely restrained, like a copper wall, blocking all detections at once.
Behind the hawk-eyed man were two people, one of whom was the handsome and elegant Qu Feng. The other was a delicate and beautiful woman wearing a golden phoenix hairpin and a little flame pattern between her eyebrows.
Although Zhao Sheng doesn't often move around the world, he still recognized the identity of the person at a glance.
"The Ziyang Sect actually sent the most famous Nascent Soul Taoist monks in the sect, Shangguan Longhu and Lingfengqi. It seems that the plan is not small!" He thought to himself.
Shangguan Longhu had a cold face and turned a blind eye to the gazes of the people around him. He led the two of them up the high platform in a few steps, bowed his hands to Zhao Changdu and said, "Longhu and his Taoist companion Fengqi came to join the battle. Fellow Taoist Zhao is polite."
"Okay, everyone is here." Zhao Changdu nodded to Shangguan Longhu and the others, and then stood up.
Seeing this, everyone in the hall fell into silence and their expressions became serious.