The sunshine at sea is strong, not only in the near sea, but also in the distant sea, or even worse.
Sometimes when the hot light shines on the skin, you will feel a burning sensation.
But when the dazzling and hot sunlight above the East China Sea passed through the outermost layer of phantom formation, and then passed through the two layers of formation films of the Heling Hunyuan Formation, only mildness remained.
Just under this gentle sunshine, two figures rushed out from a building, with some blood stains on their bodies.
One of them stopped and glanced back with lingering fear. Then he spoke to the person next to him:
"I didn't expect to encounter such a group of ghosts inside!"
He spat blood on the ground and raised his hand to wipe his mouth. The other person replied:
"Fellow Daoist Wu, do you think what we encountered is the rumored puppet beast?"
These two people were Wu Kongtong and Sun Yimiao who chose the second area from the left.
Hearing Sun Yimiao's question, Wu Kongtong withdrew his gaze, glanced at him, and then said while calming the fluctuations of spiritual energy around him:
"If nothing else happens, it should be. But... this thing should be more popular in the central part of the continent. I have never seen it before, but I didn't expect to encounter it here this time."
"But having said that, these puppet beasts are quite sparse and common. When picked out individually, they only have the strength of the early or middle stages of foundation building. But I never expected that there were so many! If you hadn't discovered it earlier, Fellow Daoist Sun, I'm afraid you would
If the two of us cannot wait to enter the medicine garden behind this mountain peak, we will die in advance!"
As if he had just experienced the aftermath of a disaster, Sun Yimiao also sighed a little and said in a low tone:
"Yeah, thanks to us not being greedy, we chose to evacuate in time..."
Having said this, Sun Yimiao showed a hint of disappointment and continued:
"It's a pity that we didn't even have time to take a look at those things."
Wu Kongtong and Sun Yimiao are both monks in the middle stage of foundation building, and their strength is not bad among the monks of the same level. To make them so embarrassed, the number of puppet beasts they would encounter is by no means what Li Xuangang encountered, only a mere handful.
There are four heads, and one of them is malfunctioning.
After taking a short rest, after a brief discussion, the two of them decided to go to the meeting point first. As for the things they haven't obtained in this area, I'm afraid they can only wait until the trip to the medicine garden is over and join forces with the rest of the people to get them.
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After making a decision, the two of them took out their magic weapons, held them in their hands, and jumped into the next building.
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On the other side, Lu Pingchuan was strolling in a large hall, looking at a mural painted on the wall with interest.
Behind him, corpses of unknown creatures lay scattered everywhere, looking a bit like a kind of monster.
And these monster-like creatures are without exception, they all look like mummies, their necks are more or less covered with blood holes, and there is still some vague corpse energy in them!
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Among the four areas, the rightmost area.
Zhong Yuke found a hidden compartment in a building alone and fiddled with it casually. A passage to the ground suddenly appeared under the hidden compartment.
He went down this passage, and soon a slightly excited whisper came from the dark environment.
"It's really here!"
About a quarter of an hour later, Zhong Yuke came out of the passage, with a trace of joy that could not be concealed on his face.
He walked to a corner of the hall and waved his hand to remove a formation.
When the formation used to isolate the outside world was lifted, a figure appeared inside.
She is wearing a goose yellow dress, has a pretty face, bright eyes and white teeth. She is none other than Shen Liuyue who chose to go with Zhong Yuke before.
But for some reason, she was in a coma at this time.
After putting away the formation disk, Zhong Yuke squatted down, changed his expression, and called softly:
"Fellow Daoist Shen, Friend Daoist Shen..."
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Li Xuangang didn't know the situation of the others and didn't care much. He was in an ecstatic mood at the moment.
Because he had used up the power of Nine Bulls and Two Tigers, he finally forcibly broke the formation that locked the three alchemy furnaces.
The alchemy furnace is a relatively rare magic weapon:
On the one hand, the demand is not high due to the scarcity of alchemists.
On the other hand, the requirements for refining an alchemy furnace are too stringent for both the refining master and the refining materials.
There are a little more low-level alchemy furnaces, and you can always find them with a little effort and some spirit stones.
But the alchemy furnace of level 3 or above is different. This is a magic weapon that you may not necessarily be able to buy with spiritual stones.
In the entire city on the eastern border of Chaoyang Continent, there are very few of them, so the vast majority of third-level alchemists are actually still using second-level alchemy furnaces to make alchemy.
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After opening the formation, Li Xuangang first circled the three alchemy furnaces several times to check if there was any damage on their appearance. Then he opened the furnace cover and looked inside.
Mysterious runes are all over the furnace body, and the materials used for refining are extremely rare.
If not for the limited time, Li Xuangang would have planned to use them to refine a batch of elixirs on the spot to see what the difference would be compared to when he refined it using the Tianqianhuan Earth Furnace.
Standing in front of the alchemy furnace, my eyes never left them for a moment. For an alchemist, the alchemy furnace is indeed very attractive.
Moreover, there is a third-level alchemy furnace inside that can be encountered but cannot be found.
Taking one last look, Li Xuangang summed up in his mind:
"If I can successfully bring this third-level alchemy furnace back to Taiqiu Mountain, then my eighth uncle's rate of refining Wanfeng Dan will increase! And when I want to break through to a third-level alchemy master in the future, It will definitely play a big role in promoting it.”
Thinking about the impact this third-level alchemy furnace will have on the family.
After several breaths, Li Xuangang suppressed the ups and downs in his heart, and specially made a storage bag to put all three alchemy furnaces in it.
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He carefully hung the storage bag around his waist, and when he turned his head to look at the formation restrictions on the wooden frame, Zhengda signaled to him that the seal on the four-headed ape-shaped puppet had been completed.
So after thinking about it for a moment, Li Xuangang walked to Zheng Da's side first. After stopping, he asked:
"Have you found the secret slot where the spirit stone is placed?"
Zhengda leaned out from behind the puppet's huge body and replied:
"Your Majesty! According to the possible locations you mentioned, I have found them in their bodies, but... the spirit stones inside seem to have been exhausted. It seems that the actions of these puppets just now did not come from these spirits. stone."
Hearing this, Li Xuangang let out a soft "Huh", with a look of confusion on his face.
As far as he knew, the vast majority of puppets were driven by spirit stones. Without spirit stones, they would not be able to move at all.
If it is true that the spirit stones in the secret slots of these puppets have been exhausted long ago, as Zhengda said, then how did they act just now?
With such doubts, Li Xuangang walked around the sealed puppets several times, but he didn't see anything weird.
After all, he didn't understand the art of puppetry at all, so it was normal for him to not be able to find an answer to this situation.
After thinking for a moment, he wisely chose to give up.
I'm just guessing that in addition to using spirit stones, these ape-shaped puppets may have other ways to be driven.
Although I don't know the method, these four ape-shaped puppets have now been tightly wrapped in sealing talismans by Zhengda. They have been isolated from the spiritual energy of the outside world, and there should be no more changes.
As for studying their situation and finding ways to restart or repair them, that is something that needs to be considered only after they are brought back to Mount Taiqiu.
After making the decision, Li Xuangang waved his hand and put the four-headed ape-shaped puppet into the storage bag and stored it.
Then they brought Zhengda to the two wooden frames. The two of them spent some time to break the formations on the two wooden frames. Then they found the various jade tubes and the four storage items in the wooden frames.
The bag was revealed in front of them.
Since these things had been there for too many years, Li Xuangang was afraid of any damage, so he was a little cautious during the exploration process.
Gently take one of the jade tubes into your hand, and then use your consciousness as gently as possible.
After his spiritual consciousness soaked into the jade tube and the contents recorded in it were known to Li Xuangang, the ecstasy in his heart could no longer be suppressed and overflowed from his face and eyes.
Although the three alchemy furnaces and four-headed ape-shaped puppets he had obtained before were of great value, they were not indispensable to Taiqiu Mountain.
And if the contents of the remaining jade tubes are the same as those recorded in the jade tube in Li Xuangang's hand at this time, then their value will be immeasurable.
Especially for the Li family in Taiqiu Mountain, which is currently in a period of rapid development!
Zangda stood quietly beside him, watching the changes in the expression on Li Xuangang's face, and a rare hint of curiosity appeared in him.
He also stretched out his hand, took a jade tube in his hand, and then immersed his spiritual consciousness into it to examine it.
A recipe for a second-level elixir called Linggu Dan appeared in his mind.
It turned out that these dozens of jade tubes all contained the prescriptions for many elixirs collected by this ancient sect.
Li Xuangang checked one after another. After a long while, he carefully put down the last jade tube, and the excitement in his heart had calmed down.
Now let’s think carefully about the specific value of these jade tubes.
After checking, he found that the records in these jade tubes were all prescriptions for some elixirs, but the grades were not very high. Most of them were first- and second-order elixirs.
Among them, three of the jade tubes contained prescriptions for third-level elixirs. However, after briefly looking at the prescriptions and the spiritual plant materials needed for elixir making, Li Xuangang discovered that there were several of them that he had never heard of.
And this means that even if these elixir recipes are available, it will be very difficult to refine the elixir according to these elixir recipes, after all, the raw materials are not easy to find.
After spending some time to adjust his mentality, Li Xuangang took out a sufficient number of jade boxes from the storage bag, stored these jade boxes one by one, and put them into the storage bag.
As an alchemy master, Li Xuangang knew very well that even if the elixir prescriptions recorded in these jade tubes could not be refined into elixirs, they were still of great value.
Because figuring out these elixir formulas can also improve the alchemist's alchemy skills, and can also be used to train future generations of the clan.
The most important thing is that it can be used as a foundation for the family to establish a complete alchemist training system in the future.
Therefore, I have to store these jade tubes carefully.
After the jade tube was stored, Li Xuangang fixed his gaze on the four remaining storage bags on the wooden shelf.
Those jade tubes record various prescriptions for elixirs, so what are in these four storage bags?
He picked up one of the storage bags and tried to open it, but then he discovered that the restrictions on it were quite complicated, and he might not be able to open it himself.
Frowning slightly, he thought about it in his mind, and then he collected all four storage bags and put them in his arms.
Since you can't open it yourself, you can show it to your fifth uncle in the future. He might have a way to open it.
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After taking away all the valuable things, Li Xuangang asked Zheng Da to check the hall again. Only after he was sure that there was nothing he could take away, did he choose to leave.
A lot of time has passed, and he and Zheng Da are getting closer and closer to the gathering place agreed with Zhong Yuke.