"However, although you have now mastered the ninth level of Xuan Gong, your cultivation level is not enough. If you were to confront Di Kuang head-on, you would definitely be at a disadvantage." Li Sheng changed the topic and said.
"Indeed, I am still far away from the White Ape Ancestor back then. However, with my current level of cultivation, breaking through the bottleneck cannot be achieved overnight. The current situation is forcing us to wait for no time..." Shi Mu said this, frowning tightly. frown.
"I have a method here that may help you break through the bottleneck. Are you willing to give it a try?" Li Sheng looked at Shi Mu and asked.
"What's the solution?" Shi Mu heard this and asked quickly.
"Open the passage to the underworld, attract the water of the Styx River to infuse the Qian Yang Yue Nether Formation, and pour all the accumulated sun essence and moon brilliance in the Cang Yue Secret Realm for thousands of years into your body, which may help you break through the shackles of cultivation in one fell swoop." Li Sheng said with a twinkle in his eye.
"I'm willing to give it a try!" Shi Mu thought for a moment and said.
"Although this method is feasible, it also carries great risks. I need to inform you first." Li Sheng said.
"What's the risk?" Shi Mu asked.
"Because there is this ancient Cangyue tree in the Cangyue Secret Realm, it can absorb the essence of the sun and the moon between the heaven and the earth to a great extent. I can't predict how much energy it has accumulated over the past thousand years. Therefore, once this power breaks through If you exceed the limit that your body can bear, you may explode and die." Li Sheng looked at Shi Mu and explained.
"It doesn't matter, I'm willing to give it a try and hope that my senior will succeed." Shi Mu said with great confidence as he cupped his hands.
Now that he is immortal, he is quite confident in the endurance of his body and is not too worried.
"Okay, even if you have made a decision, just follow me." Li Sheng nodded with satisfaction and said.
He led Shi Mu out of the palace, passed through the ruins of a building, and came to the edge of a flat, green grassland.
Shi Mu looked back in the direction of the palace and saw the huge crown of the Cangyue Ancient Tree, still towering in the sky.
The terrain of the grassland in front of us is slightly lower than that of the surrounding areas, and it is slightly basin-like. The terrain becomes lower toward the center.
The grassland is more than ten miles in diameter, with knee-high wild grass growing on it. It is green and full of vitality.
There is also a lot of fairy grass mixed in among the wild grasses, which exudes a faint medicinal fragrance and is very refreshing.
Shi Mu glanced over and saw a series of white stone platforms scattered among these lush plants.
These white stone platforms are no more than knee-high, no more than ten feet wide, and only ten feet long. They are slightly arc-shaped and distributed in a semi-circular shape along the grassland terrain, hidden among the green grass.
Shi Mu watched it for a while, feeling secretly surprised.
Surrounded layer by layer, these white stone platforms actually formed a formation that could condense the vitality of heaven and earth, which was why many elixirs were produced on this grassland.
Li Sheng saw the surprised expression on Shi Mu's face, smiled, and led him towards the center of the grassland.
In the center of the grassland, where the terrain is the lowest, there is a circular stone platform with a radius of ten feet. It is densely engraved with various runes, and many mottled cracks and dents eroded by wind and frost can be vaguely seen.
Many cracks are glowing with dark green color, but a lot of moss has grown.
At Li Sheng's signal, Shi Mu jumped up, landed on the stone platform, and sat down cross-legged.
"I will personally preside over the formation. All you need to do is hold Yuan Shouyi and try your best to integrate the essence of the sun, moonlight and the vitality of heaven and earth into your body." Li Sheng instructed.
Shi Mu nodded, put his hands in front of him and sat down holding the element, gradually entering a state of meditation.
When Li Sheng saw this, his sleeves and robes shook, and he rose into the air, flying over Shi Mu. He waved one hand, and a red round mirror the size of eight palms flew out and hovered in the sky.
The eight-sided round mirror is made of red copper. Many strange runes are engraved on the surface of the mirror, and eight kinds of ugly and strange beasts are engraved on the back.
Li Sheng looked at the eight bronze mirrors, clasped his hands, and typed out several weird spells, while silently reciting the mysterious formulas.
As bursts of Sanskrit-like chanting sounded, a red light lit up on the eight red copper round mirrors, connecting towards the two adjacent round mirrors to form a red ring with a radius of ten feet.
A dark curtain of light appeared in the middle of the ring, and eight ugly alien beasts appeared one after another. They roared and crowded together, filling the small ring.
The eight-headed alien beasts struggled with each other, looking eager to rush out of the ring. They stuck their heads out of the ring, but no matter how hard they struggled, they were always bound by a force and could not break free.
come out.
After several struggles, the eight-headed beast finally stopped forcing its way out and instead rushed towards the dark screen of light inside.
With this rush, the pitch-black light curtain suddenly burst, revealing a long tunnel.
"Rumble..."
A loud sound like the roar of a pack of animals came from the tunnel, causing Shi Mu to open his eyes and look up into the sky.
I saw red light surging in the ring surrounded by eight red copper round mirrors, and a bloody wave surged out from it, falling down like a bloody waterfall.
"Wow!"
The blood-colored waterfall flew straight down, rushing into the grassland under Shi Mu, splashing large red water splashes, and soon, most of the grassland was submerged.
The originally green weeds were submerged in the blood-red water, swaying from side to side like water plants.
As the bloody waterfall continued to pour in, the water level on the grassland continued to rise, and soon it was submerged up to Shi Mu's chest.
Shi Mu felt a chill all over his body, and an indescribable weird feeling came from his body, as if all the pores on his body were being stretched by the cold water.
At this moment, Li Sheng's hands suddenly glowed with light, and he patted down Shi Mu below.
When Shi Mu saw this, he was slightly shocked, but he still held back, neither resisting nor escaping.
I saw a piece of golden light shining down and falling into the circular stone platform under Shi Mu.
"Boom"
The stone platform suddenly shook violently, and the various runes engraved on it lit up with golden light. Golden light patterns flew out from the stone platform and flowed into the surrounding ring-shaped stone platform along with the water flow.
I saw circles of arc-shaped white stone platforms, lit up by golden light patterns one after another, and they all lit up with golden light.
"Wow!"
There was a sound of surging water, and the water surface around Shi Mu began to fluctuate violently.
The huge arc-shaped stone platforms made waves of trembling sounds, and one after another, they rose up and flew out from the bottom of the water.
The outermost arc-shaped stone platform rose very quickly, and soon it flew into the sky hundreds of feet high.
A circle of arc-shaped stone platforms further inside also flew into the sky, but its position was slightly higher than it by several feet. The further to the inner arc-shaped stone platform, the lower the height it rose.
An irregular and huge funnel is formed between these arc-shaped stone platforms.
At the bottom of the funnel is Shi Mu and the circular stone platform still immersed in the red underworld water.
Li Sheng saw that the Qian Yang Yue You formation had been activated, so he moved and flew out of the formation range.
Shi Mu was sitting cross-legged on the round platform. The surrounding water of the Styx had reached above his head, submerging his entire body. The entire grassland basin had turned into a medium-sized red lake.
The water of the Styx looked like flowing water, but it was actually different. Although Shi Mu was underwater, he did not feel any discomfort, and even his breathing was not affected at all.
He opened his eyes and looked around, and saw the weeds on the bottom of the water swaying gently with the unique rhythm of the water waves.
Suddenly, a bright golden light lit up in the weeds. It looked like a firefly. It floated to Shi Mu's side, touched his arm lightly, and did not merge into his body in a flash.
Shi Mu suddenly felt a warmth seeping into his body along his pores, feeling extremely comfortable.
Immediately afterwards, clusters of bright lights under the water continued to light up, dots distributed like stars at night, reflecting the grassland in the water very beautifully.
Shi Mu looked at this strange scene and felt as if he was in a sea of stars.
There was a soft sound of "hoo".
The stars in the water suddenly started to move under the surging waves, like a flowing river of stars, rushing towards Shi Mu.
I saw balls of light possessing Shi Mu, disappearing as if the ice and snow were melting, and all merged into his body.
When a ray of light enters the body, it feels warm. When a thousand rays of light enter the body at the same time, it is not a pleasant feeling.
Countless rays of golden light poured into the body, immediately lighting up Shi Mu's body, making his skin and bones appear as if they were transparent.
Shi Mu felt as if his body was on fire, and he let out an extremely painful roar.
Li Sheng was outside the formation and couldn't help but frown when he heard Shi Mu's roar.
He raised his eyes and looked worriedly at the arc-shaped stone platforms suspended in the sky. He saw that those stone platforms were shining with golden light and spinning leisurely.
At this moment, a "buzz" sound sounded.
The arc-shaped stone platforms suspended in the sky suddenly trembled and stopped rotating. The runes on them seemed to come alive, flickering brightly and dimly.
The entire Cangyue Secret Realm suddenly started to vibrate slightly, and the frequency was exactly the same as the runes flashing on the stone platform.
I saw the Cangyue Ancient Tree in the distance, the huge crown of the tree shining with light, separated from it by clusters of dazzling spots.
Immediately afterwards, there was a violent oscillation of the vitality of the nearby heaven and earth, and countless bright light spots emerged densely from the surrounding rocks and trees. Even in the white clouds high in the sky, spots of light continued to light up, like snowflakes. Sprinkled below.
These ancient Cang Yue trees have absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon scattered throughout the Cang Yue Secret Realm for thousands of years, and suddenly turned into dots of light, which filled the entire world. At a glance, it seemed that there was no end in sight.
I saw these light spots, attracted by the Qianyang Yueyue formation, flying towards the funnel-shaped formation.
At first, the speed of the light points was not very fast, but as more and more light poured into the formation, bursts of whistling sounds began to be heard throughout the Cangyue Secret Realm.
In the secret realm, there are rivers formed by light points gathering everywhere, surging and rushing into the formation, and then all merge into the blood-red lake.
At this moment, Shi Mu's whole body was extremely bright, but his eyes had been closed again. He sat cross-legged on the stone platform at the bottom of the lake and fell into meditation again.
As little bits of light continued to pour in, the aura on Shi Mu's body also began to slowly increase. This increase was very weak and almost imperceptible, but it was increasing continuously.