Chapter 19: Machine Spirits
"Flame is a fire-attribute instrument spirit, and it is already a great risk to venture into the Heavenly Pool through that short-distance teleportation array, but once it is discovered by a cultivator with a slightly higher cultivation, it will inevitably be destroyed. The girl stroked the beast's long, crimson whiskers.
"I ordered it to go out and bring you in this time, because I need your help. The girl stood up again, patted the beast, and then stretched out her small, delicate hand, beckoned to the pool of fire, and another wave of hot lava gushed up.
And there was a gadget out of the magma, and Wu Lu couldn't see what it was when he stood far away, but felt that it was something like a wrench.
The gadget flew out of the lava and landed right above the palm of the girl's outstretched hand, hovering out of thin air.
After a long time, it seemed to wait for the object to cool. The girl pinched the gadget and put it on her thumb, and it was really a wrench.
The girl recited a few words to the beast with her thumb on the wrench, and the beast stood up, yawned, and shook its head, turning into a red light and rushing into the wrench on the girl's thumb.
Wu Lu was stunned as he watched from the sidelines, the situation in front of him was beyond his cognition, even if Pei Lingyun was present, he was dumbfounded.
"Yan Yan was the fire unicorn of Flame Island before his death, and he was hunted by Yuan Xingpei, the great monk of the Yuan Infant Stage of Langya Gate, and made the instrument spirit of this fire spirit ring, I have been dependent on it for so many years, you must treat it well in the future. The girl actually took off the wrench as she spoke, her expression revealed reluctance, and then she threw it to Wu Lu.
Wu Lu hurriedly took the wrench, and said a little incredulously: "Senior, what are you doing?"
"How can you help me get out of trouble with your current cultivation? Although I don't know the origin of this Fire Spirit Ring, it has been tempered in the earth fire of this refining room for thousands of years, and I have absorbed enough fire attribute heaven and earth aura, and wearing it is like having a superb spirit stone on my body, which can increase your cultivation speed extremely quickly. ”
"In addition, it also has some storage functions, it can also be regarded as a storage ring, you remember these few words, you can communicate with your divine sense, store items, and even call out the fire unicorn to kill you and save your life if necessary. With the current ability of the Fire Qilin, it is still not a problem to kill the Qi cultivation period cultivators. ”
The girl taught Wu Lu how to use this fire spirit ring with her hands behind her back, and at the same time recited the mantra so that Wu Lu firmly remembered it in the sea of knowledge.
Wu Lu looked at the ring, which was like a dark red copper, the ring was very small, and it was worn on the girl's thumb like a wrench, and when it came to Wu Lu's hand, it was worn on the ring finger.
After remembering the mantra that the girl told him, Wu Lu tried to use his divine sense to explore the Fire Spirit Ring, only to think that it was an ordinary ring. But when he finished reciting the mantra silently, as soon as his divine sense came into contact with the ring again, Wu Lu suddenly discovered that there was actually a space similar to the size of a stone house in the ring, and the ring spirit fire unicorn was rolling comfortably in the ring space, wantonly enjoying the rich fire attribute heaven and earth aura in the space.
The girl didn't bother Wu Lu to study the Fire Spirit Ring, she walked to a stone platform at the edge of the stone room, and looked at Wu Lu quietly.
After a long time, Wu Lu reluctantly withdrew his divine consciousness from the Fire Spirit Ring and put the ring on the ring finger of his left hand.
He looked at the girl sitting on the stone platform, took a deep breath, stepped forward and said: "The seniors have gone to great lengths to bring me here and give me a heavy treasure, and the juniors will definitely repay me wholeheartedly! It's just that the juniors need to understand the ins and outs of what the seniors said, otherwise they will have doubts, and they are afraid that they will miss the big things of the seniors!"
The girl shook her hand and said, "You don't need to call me all the time, although I used to be a monk with high mana, but now that my mana is gone, plus I have lost my physical body, and now I am just a machine spirit like the fire qilin." ”
Wu Lu was shocked, and only then did he finally believe that the girl in front of him was not alive.
"Although I have lost my physical body and cannot cultivate, after such a long time, I have returned my divine consciousness strength cultivation to the level of the early stage of the Divine Spirit, and I know everything within a radius of ten miles with Tianchi as the center, including Pei Lingyun in the early stage of foundation building and Hu Xiaoling in the ninth layer of the Qi cultivation period, as well as your group of spiritual root owners. I have to say that the qualifications of you spirit root owners are not bad, but there is no fire attribute heavenly spirit root owner I want, so I can only retreat to the next best thing and find your wood and fire dual attribute spirit root. ”
"In the early stage of the Dan Dynasty, the strength of the divine consciousness can cover the surrounding ten miles!" Wu Lu's heart fluttered when he heard this, he originally came into contact with Pei Lingyun, a monk in the early stage of foundation building, Wu Lu was shocked, but he didn't expect to be able to contact a monk at the level of the Dan stage, although it was only the strength of the divine consciousness that reached the Dan stage.
"Okay, I can tell you where I came from now, so that it will be beneficial for us to work together in the future. The girl continued.
It turned out that this girl was originally a mid-stage cultivator of the Yan Kingdom of the Cultivation World at the other end of the Ancient Teleportation Array on Kunlun Mountain, named Jiang Mei. Yan State, like Zhao State, is also a medium-sized country, separated from Zhao State by some small countries. But the difference between the Yan State and the Zhao State is that the Yan State has seven large Xiuzhen sects and hundreds of small Xiuzhen sects and Xiuxian families, while the Zhao State has only two large Xiuzhen sects.
Jiang Mei, as an elder of the Yan Kingdom's primary Xiuzhen sect, followed Liu Yanjing, one of the seven major factions of the Yan Kingdom, and a group of more than ten monks in the Yudan period to sneak into various secret realms in Zhao Kingdom to find cultivation materials.
In the Langya Secret Realm, the monks accidentally discovered the Ancient Teleportation Array. In order to keep the secret of the Ancient Teleportation Array, Liu Yanjing had evil thoughts and strangled all the monks in the early stage of the Jiedan, and Jiang Mei teamed up with another mid-stage monk to block Liu Yanjing's attack, and finally reached a settlement, and the three of them went to the abandoned dojo star in Langya Gate through the Ancient Teleportation Array together.
However, this dojo star has been abandoned for many years, and the three of them have been searching for several years without yielding, until they found the Earth Fire Refinery Room hidden under the Tianchi of Changbai Mountain.
The Great Monk of the Yuan Infant Stage of Langya Gate built a huge refining room inside this active volcano, which was specially used for refining weapons with the help of earth fire condensed by fire spiritual energy.
Perhaps this great cultivator of the Yuan Infant Stage of the Langya Sect accidentally fell in order to fight against the Kunyue Sect and the Tianlan Sect, and the cultivation materials and treasures of this refining room were divided among the three of them.
However, just as he was about to take away the last heavy treasure fire spirit ring in the fire pool, the forbidden formation of the refining room suddenly broke out, countless earth fire flames emerged from the fire pool, and the earth fire formed by the violent fire attribute aura emerged from the fire pool, and most of the entire refining room was destroyed, and now this stone room is just a remnant of ruins.
Among the three, only Liu Yanjing escaped with his profound mana and took advantage of the fire to break through the ban and be seriously injured, while Jiang Mei and another mid-stage monk of the Jiedan both fell here.
But fortunately, Jiang Mei, as an elder of the Afterlife Sect, carried the treasure of the town sect with her, and used the sect's unique exercises to return to the yang before her death, cultivating her soul into a tool spirit, and living in the afterlife mirror to survive to this day.
But for some reason, Liu Yanjing never came back after he escaped, and Jiang Mei lived in the afterlife mirror and was trapped in the ruins of this refining room for I don't know how many years passed, until more than 100 years ago, the spiritual consciousness awakened, relying on the body of the instrument spirit to cultivate the divine sense to reach the level of the Dan period, and had a soul body, but it could only maintain the image of a five- or six-year-old girl. Coupled with the prohibition of the refining room formation, the soul body can still only be trapped in this ruin.
And she found Wu Lu in order to let Wu Lu dive into the depths of the fire pool, find the formation center that fell into the magma pool, and close the formation ban, so that she could escape the shackles of the ban and regain her life.
Wu Lu was a little puzzled: "If you just sneak into the depths of the fire pool to close the formation ban, the seniors can go down by themselves, why do you want me, a nobody who has just reached the Qi cultivation period, to do it for you?"
The girl named Jiang Mei sighed, and did not explain, but walked to the edge of the fire pool and stretched out her right hand, the magma surging in the fire pool splashed a little spark, and a tiny spark fell on her arm, and then something shocked Wu Lu happened, only to see the girl's arm like a broken porcelain began to crack, and continued to spread to the girl's body.
Jiang Mei took a deep breath, and the Dan Qi gushing out of her abdominal cavity finally resisted this cracking trend, and began to repair her arm continuously.
"See, now I understand why I didn't go down and close the formation myself. ”
Jiang Mei smiled bitterly: "Originally, I also expected to tame the Ring Spirit Fire Qilin in the Fire Spirit Ring and let it go down and close the formation. But the Fire Qilin is a beast in the end, it has no spiritual intelligence, and ordering it to go out and bring you has already reached its limit, and it can't be expected to have the wisdom to close the formation at all. ”
Wu Lu was silent for a moment before continuing to ask, "Since the senior and the fire qilin are both machine spirits, how can it go out through that short-range teleportation array, but the senior can't?"
Jiang Mei shook her head and said: "This is also my incomprehension, although I have studied this fire spirit ring for more than a hundred years, I still can't figure out its origin, and as a machine spirit, the fire unicorn has heard of it, it is a demon beast unique to the Flame Island of the Xuanwu Kingdom, and I have even heard that the cultivation has reached the seventh level, which is equivalent to the demon beast of the Yuan Infant Stage." And the owner of this refining room is Yuan Xingpei, a great monk of the Yuan Infant Stage of Langya Gate. There is also a record of the sect classics circulated by Yuan Xingpei and I in the Afterlife Sect, and he is one of the few monks in the late Yuan Infant period who is most promising to break through to the Transformation Stage in the Zhao State Cultivation Realm in the past ten thousand years, and this is the kind of person who actually fell from fighting with the monks of the same level. ”
"Presumably, the formation prohibition designed by such a great monk must have its mysteries, and the Fire Qilin, as the instrument spirit of the Fire Spirit Ring, was able to avoid the formation prohibition for a short time was also deliberately designed. ”
"Even if the Fire Qilin can leave for a short time, it will still be restricted by the Fire Spirit Ring, and it will have to return to the Fire Spirit Ring to recuperate in less than an hour. Jiang Mei explained: "So then you don't want to drive the Fire Qilin out of the Fire Spirit Ring, of course, with your current humble cultivation, you can't drive it." ”
"Then can I take this Fire Spirit Ring and leave this refining room through that short-range teleportation array?" Wu Lu asked again.
"Naturally, it is possible, but the machine spirit just can't be separated from the sojourning magic weapon for a long time. Jiang Mei smiled.
"Then can I leave with the Death Mirror of my seniors? The seniors only need to continue to live in the Death Mirror, so that I can escape from here?" Wu Lu's eyes lit up, and then he proposed.
Jiang Mei's face stiffened slightly when she heard this, but she quickly shook her head and said, "It won't work, I once asked the Fire Qilin to hold the Afterlife Mirror and try to get out through that short-distance teleportation array, but I couldn't get out at all." ”
"I see..."Wu Lu sighed regretfully, but he was secretly more vigilant in his heart, this machine spirit called Jiang Mei is always a little untruthful, so you still have to pay attention to it, otherwise you won't know if you are sold by this old Wang Ba, who has lived for hundreds of years.
Wu Lu walked to the edge of the fire pool, looked at the hot lava under his feet, and couldn't help but feel a sudden suddenness in his heart, and then asked, "Senior, what kind of cultivation do I have to achieve before I can go down and close the formation?"
"According to the magic weapon rune seal I prepared for you, you only need to reach the ninth layer of the Qi training period for you to sink into the magma and stay for about half an hour, and half an hour is enough for you to find the formation hub and close it. Jiang Mei replied with a smile.
"The ninth layer of the Qi training period!" Wu Lu was scared for a day, but he still remembered that when he met Pei Lingyun for the first time, the other party said that his cultivation in this life could only hover around the eighth or ninth layer of the Qi training period, and the titular master Hu Xiaoling also spent thirty years of cultivation to reach the ninth layer of the Qi training period, did he have to cultivate for thirty years to help this Jiang Mei get out?
After Wu Lu expressed the doubts in his heart, Jiang Mei smiled and said: "I have handed over the Fire Spirit Ring to you from the beginning, and the fire attribute heaven and earth aura stored in the Fire Spirit Ring is enough for you to cultivate to the late stage of foundation building with the fire attribute exercises, plus with me, a monk who was in the middle stage of the Jiedan, to guide you in your cultivation, I am confident that for up to three years, I can let you break through to the ninth layer of the Qi cultivation period." ”
Wu Lu's doubts immediately disappeared, it seems that this Jiang Mei has already planned it well, although there are still a few doubts, but he still waits for it to go out and think about it carefully.
"After you go out, there are still two things you have to do, that is, you have to cultivate the Hidden Qi Decision. This is an auxiliary exercise, which can naturally conceal the spiritual power in the dantian, and is the most suitable exercise for monks to hide their true cultivation. After all, if you rely on the fire attribute heaven and earth aura in the Fire Spirit Ring, if you break through to the ninth layer of the Qi cultivation period in just three years, it will inevitably arouse the suspicion of the foundation building stage monk, in order to avoid trouble, you must hide your true cultivation, and once I cultivate to the fullest, I can make the monks below the Yu Dan stage unable to detect your true cultivation. Therefore, after you go out, you can first cultivate the fire attribute exercises without hurrying, and first cultivate this "Hidden Qi Technique" to Dacheng, and the auxiliary exercises do not rely on the big and small Zhou Tian Qi training, so you can cultivate very quickly, and with your qualifications, it only takes two months to cultivate to Dacheng. ”
"In addition to cultivating the Hidden Qi Technique, you also have to learn the formation, after all, after you have practiced the ninth layer of the Qi cultivation period, you will have to go down to the fire pool to find the formation center and close the formation prohibition. If you don't know anything about the formation, how do you close it?"
I have to say that Jiang Mei was really thoughtful, and soon eliminated the two doubts in Wu Lu's heart.
Jiang Mei took out two jade slips out of nowhere, and said: "These two jade slips contain the "Hidden Qi Recipe" and the "General Formation Strategy", in order to avoid others from coveting, these two jade slips cannot be given to you, but you can enter the content into your sea of knowledge, and you will study it carefully in the future." ”
Just as Wu Lu happily stepped forward and half-squatted down to accept the entry, Jiang Mei hesitated for a moment and said, "With the strength of your divine consciousness at the first level of the Qi cultivation period, the process of entering the sea of consciousness will be a little painful, so you can endure it." ”
When Wu Lu heard this, his face couldn't help but turn pale.