It appears to be a huge cavern with rough and scorching rock walls.

Sha Li looked left and right, but he didn't find a passage that allowed people to enter and exit. And above the head, there is also an impermeable rock top.

Underneath, there is churning magma, bubbling red from time to time. The bubbles shattered, and an unusually pungent smell escaped, filling the cavern.

And in the center of the magma sea, there is a stone pillar sticking straight into it. The bottom of the stone pillar is thinner, and the higher you go, the thicker it becomes, and from a distance, it looks like a large-headed iron nail. On top of it, a wide stone platform is formed.

The stone platform is almost the size of the entire cave, and the Suzaku that Sha Li saw as soon as he entered the cave was lying on this stone platform.

The size of the Vermilion Bird was extremely large, and Sha Li roughly estimated that it was about the same size as the land occupied by the entire Zhuge Mansion.

The huge Suzaku has its wings outstretched, its legs stretched out to the sides of its body, and its slender and ornate tail hanging down against the ground.

On the two outstretched wings, there are four thick pillars of light on the left and right. The pillar of light leads upwards to the top of the cave.

In addition to the wings, this Suzaku also wears a pillar of light on its neck and tail.

The whole ten pillars of light are like nailing this Suzaku firmly to this wide stone platform.

"The location of these pillars of light is none other than ......"

Sha Li looked at the position where these pillars of light passed through Suzaku's body, and remembered the six murals he had seen in the Suzaku Hall tonight.

The circular blanks that appeared on Suzaku on the mural corresponded to the pillars of light in front of him. Moreover, no more, no less, exactly ten.

"The arrangement of the light pillars on the pair of wings seems to correspond to the eight vermilion pillars at the main gate of the Zhuge family, and the position of the tail one seems to correspond to the location of the Vermilion Bird Palace. ”

In Sha Li's sea of knowledge, the layout of the Zhuge family's mansion flashed one by one. Gate, Suzaku Hall......

"And that pillar of light on the neck...... Octagonal Shadow Wall?"

"That's right, the pillar of light you see in front of you echoes the artifacts on the ground.

Together, they form the 'Three-Talent Soul Locking Array' that has supported me to this day. ”

Familiar and unfamiliar voices echoed through the cavern. But this time, Sha Li didn't panic. Because he knew very well that this voice could only come from the Suzaku in front of him.

"The predecessor is the Suzaku body, right?"

Although Sha Li was trying his best to restrain himself, he had to say that he was still a little excited. After all, what you see in front of you is an ancient divine beast. And it is one of the four holy beasts.

Although he had already seen that the Suzaku in front of him seemed to be a little abnormal, the sense of awe at the first sight of the divine beast was still difficult to suppress.

"My ontology? My ontology has long since faded through the years. ”

Shali: "......"

This sentence made Sha Li feel a little familiar.

"In this world, there are no Suzaku anymore. What you see now is just a drop of soul blood on the deity's body back then. ”

"What? The predecessor is the drop of Vermilion Bird soul blood in the mouth of the Zhuge family?"

Sha Li was a little confused. The Zhuge family has always claimed that a drop of Vermilion Bird soul blood is sealed in the Vermilion Bird Stone, but before that, Sha Li has learned from the Vermilion Bird's divine sense that what is sealed in the Vermilion Bird Stone is just an ordinary drop of Vermilion Bird blood.

Therefore, he took it for granted that the Vermilion Bird Soul Blood might not exist at all.

Who would have thought that he would see the Lord in this place?

"Your name is Shali?"

"How can the seniors be famous for the juniors?" his name was known to the holy beast, and no matter what, Sha Li was a little happy. However, he quickly reacted, "Is it because of the divine sense that the predecessor lodged on the Vermilion Bird Stone?"

"It's kind of smart. ”

Before Sha Li was sucked into the octagonal shadow wall, the wisp of Vermilion Bird Divine Consciousness in the sea of consciousness merged into the shadow wall. Sha Li thought that it had dissipated between heaven and earth, but he didn't expect it to return here.

"Why are my predecessors here? and why are they like this?"

This is the question that Shali wanted to ask when he first entered this cave.

"Because only in this way will I not disappear in the long river of time. in order to preserve the last remaining memory of the deity. ”

"The younger generation is stupid. ”

"Don't worry. I've been waiting for 10,000 years, so I'm going to tell you everything. ”

The remnant soul of the Suzaku was silent for a moment, as if thinking about where to start.

"I am a drop of essence blood condensed from the body of the deity, and I have been immortal because I have sealed a wisp of the remnant soul of the deity.

Ten thousand years ago, by chance, I ended up on this isolated island. ”

Sha Li wondered in his heart: "Lonely island?"

Later, I met a young Yuan, his name was Zhuge Li.

Although this Zhuge Li's cultivation talent is mediocre, he is quite talented in the formation process.

With my help, his cultivation improved by leaps and bounds, and he broke through to the Returning Yuan Realm in a very short period of time. This shocked this isolated island. ”

Although the Suzaku remnant soul said that there was no emotion in his words, Sha Li still heard a little reminiscence of the past.

It's just that, why is this Zhuge Li's cultivation only reaching the Returning Yuan Realm, and not being able to continue to break through? With the ability of the Vermilion Bird, even if it is just a remnant soul, it should be able to do this easily.

Sha Li thought of the few cultivators who had cultivated to the highest level on the island at the top of the firmament, the patriarchs of the four major families. Their cultivation is only in the Returning Yuan Realm, is it just a coincidence?

Or is it that there has never been a strong person above the Guiyuan Realm on Qiyuan Island.

"You're in a state of doubt, what are you thinking?" asked Suzaku Remnant.

"Can my seniors hear me?"

Shali was curious. Because the wisp of Vermilion Bird Divine Sense had also heard his heart before.

"All things that exist in the world, whether tangible or intangible, have their own forms of existence and laws of operation.

As long as you have reached a certain level of cultivation, you will naturally be able to grasp these laws, see what ordinary people can't see, and hear what ordinary people can't hear.

This law, you might call it, the Tao.

The so-called cultivators, who have cultivated all their lives, are no more than Doyle.

Everything in this world was born from the endless nothingness, but it must exist and operate under the constraints of various avenues.

There are thousands of ways in the world, but there is also a way that is above all the ways, and you humans call it the way of heaven.

I can hear your heart, naturally I already know some kind of avenue, and I have captured the trajectory of your heart. ”

Although Sha Li's understanding is terrifying, his realm is too low after all. What the remnant soul of the Suzaku in front of him said, he only seems to understand it now.

"I want to ask my seniors, since Zhuge Li has your guidance, why can he only cultivate to the Guiyuan Realm?"

"I have been here for more than 10,000 years on this Qiyuan Island, and the Yuan people who have appeared on this island are like the fine sand in the river, which is innumerable.

Among them, there have been many talented people who can still see the past. But for 10,000 years, none of these many Yuan people broke through the Returning Yuan Realm.

It's as if this Returning Yuan Realm is already the limit of the cultivation of the Yuan Masters of Qiyuan Island, do you know why?"

Although Sha Li was faintly aware of it, after all, his cultivation years were still shallow, so how could he break it, "Please give me advice from my seniors." ”

"If you fish in a ditch, it's no bigger than a palm. And when you get to the big river, there are many palms the size of two hands, but you will never catch a behemoth like the one in the sea.

Do you know why?"

Sha Li pondered for a moment before replying: "Compared with the big river, the deep ditch not only has limited living space, but also has very few resources such as food for the fish to grow. Therefore, the largest fish can only grow to the size of a palm.

The same is true of the great river compared to the vast ocean. ”

"Yes, the same is true of Yuan cultivation. The cultivation space and cultivation resources of Qiyuan Island indeed determined that it was unlikely that there would be a Yuan person who surpassed the Returning Yuan Realm on the island.

But this space and resources are not immutable, perhaps in the dark, there is some kind of rule or force that controls the space and resources of Qiyuan Island. ”

"Senpai, I don't really understand. Sha Li wondered.

"Let's put it this way. The cultivation space and resources of Qiyuan Island determine the upper limit of the cultivation that can be achieved by Qiyuan Island Yuan, and certain rules or powers determine the space and resources that can exist or be reserved on Qiyuan Island. ”

"Senior, you are saying that the reason why Qiyuan Island cannot give birth to a Yuan person above the Yuan Realm is that behind this, it is very likely that someone can control it. ”

"It doesn't have to be human. Of course, this is just a little speculation I have made in the past tens of thousands of years, combined with the cultivation history of Qiyuan Island.

I'm not a deity after all, so I can't know more. ”

Sha Li was stunned, and his heart was also overturned. Even if it was only the remnant soul of the Suzaku in front of him, the height it once was at was unimaginable to Sha Li now.

Since it has made such a guess, it is natural that there are traces to follow. Qiyuan Island is limited by some kind of power or rule?

"Well, that's far from what you can figure out right now. ”

"Yes, the younger generation is willing to continue to listen to the teachings of the seniors. ”

"It is precisely because of the limited resources of this Qiyuan Island that the vitality scattered between heaven and earth is thin. In this form, I couldn't cultivate my vitality by myself, so when I met Zhuge Li, the essence in my body was already greatly depleted.

If it continues like this, it will inevitably be completely wiped out under the invasion of time.

Fortunately, there is such a nascent volcano on this Qiyuan Island. At that time, the volcano had not erupted and was not yet known. The earth fire derived from the depths of its core is the best tonic that can help me continue to survive and prevent the essence from dissipating.

Therefore, I asked Zhuge Li to build the 'Three Talents Soul Locking Array' here. This formation is composed of a heavenly array, an earth array, and a human array.

The heavenly array is distributed at the main gate of Zhuge House to absorb the vitality scattered between heaven and earth.

The array was spread out on the octagonal shadow wall. In the gossip on the shadow wall, the four trigrams of yin face downward, and it is with the power of yin that the essence of the earth and fire under this volcano is fed to me.

The human array is spread in the Vermilion Bird Palace, and Zhuge Li calls it the 'Chiyuan Yang Blood Array', which is just to act cheaply. In addition to borrowing the human yang breath of the Zhuge family to help me preserve the essence of the human array, this human array also has a purpose.

A use that even Zhuge Li didn't know. ”

Sha Li thought to himself that he didn't even know Zhuge Li, no matter how he looked at it, he seemed to be taking advantage of Zhuge Li.

But what did he ask: "I don't know what the predecessors are referring to?"

"The ultimate goal of this purpose is to find people like you. ”