novelapdf Chapter 1951: Tower of Disappointment
Chapter 1951: Tower of Disappointment
Chapter 1951: Tower of Disappointment
Even though Luo Hong had used the Mahakala Thunder to refine his heart, he still gradually felt exhausted after dozens of heartbeats.
So, he stepped on the ground with his right foot, leaving a black lightning array on the spot, and then flew at full speed towards the giant tower in front of him with colorful light flowing.
In less than three breaths, Luo Hong had arrived under the giant tower. He saw that although the gate of the tower was sealed with gray crystal, it was not very thick.
It just so happened that Luo Hong still had a little bit of his poisonous spirit robe left on him, so he rushed forward without saying a word.
With a "sizzle" sound, the poisonous spirit clothes on Luo Hong's body were completely shattered, but he also successfully passed through the gray crystal and came to the inside of the giant tower.
After coming in, Luo Hong's first feeling was that the heartbeat in his ears had weakened a lot.
Even if he did not activate Mahakala's Thunder Heart, he could still fight against it with the power of his own laws.
Of course, if a cultivator who practices ordinary laws were here, he would have to have at least Daluo cultivation to be able to resist.
The crisis was resolved. Luo Hong looked around and saw that the giant tower was a hollow structure with a skylight in the center that led directly from the first floor to the top floor.
There are circular pavilions on the outside of each floor. It is not clear what the upper floor is like, but there are wooden racks on the first floor with a large number of jade slips placed on them. It looks like a scripture library.
After testing for a while and confirming that there was no restriction, Luo Hong casually picked up a jade slip and took a look at it. He found that it was a profound poison skill and he had an idea in his mind.
"Purple eyes."
"Junior is here."
"Take a look at this group of divine thoughts. They are the inheritance of the ancient way of poison."
As he spoke, Luo Hong took out the soul-nourishing bottle that contained the Purple-Eyed Nascent Soul and threw the divine consciousness containing the poisonous skill into it.
"'Explosive Spirit Blood Art'! Yes, this is indeed an ancient poison art, and it is of a very high grade. I have heard of its power many times in the poison cultivation circle!
Senior Luo, I didn't expect you to receive the inheritance so quickly. I really can't help you much."
Zi Jing said with some shame that he had wanted to repay the favor in this way, but unexpectedly he didn't play any role at all.
"That's enough. You can continue to sleep. Luo will call you if there is anything."
As the saying goes, plans cannot keep up with changes. Luo Hong did not feel that Zi Jing had taken advantage of him. After saying that, he put the soul nourishing bottle away again.
Looking at those jade slips again, Luo Hong suddenly had an epiphany.
Obviously, this place is the gathering place of all the ancient poison inheritances in the Ten Thousand Poison Caves. Those inheritances in various caves are nothing more than replicas of the jade slips here!
"Ah Zi, go and look through them and pick out some inheritance that suits you."
Luo Hong lowered his head and looked at the sleeve of his right arm.
"Azi obeys your command!"
As a clear female voice sounded, a purple light shot out from Luo Hong's sleeve and landed between the shelves.
The main purpose of Luo Hong's trip was to find an ancient poison inheritance for A Zi, but at the moment he didn't feel like he had accomplished it at all.
It’s because there is a Taoist relic on his head, and it doesn’t look like some kind of first-grade poison.
"Could it be that Sima Lei's real goal is this heart?"
Luo Hong couldn't help but make such a guess at this moment, but after thinking about it, it seemed a little wrong.
After all, if this is true, Sima Lei would not be able to enter here without another poisonous spirit robe in his hand.
"It's better not to make random guesses. Let's investigate the situation on the upper level first."
Luo Hong shook his head, stood up and flew to the second floor.
There are no wooden frames or jade slips here, only one exquisite mural after another.
Luo Hong admired them and found that they all seemed to be describing a person's life.
"Huh? This person was born into the demon royal family. There must be some hidden secret behind this!"
After this discovery, Luo Hong quickly thought of what Shi Chuankong said, about the taboos of the royal family members about the Ten Thousand Poison Cave, and vaguely grasped a bit of the truth.
Then, Luo Hong began to examine the subsequent murals more carefully, hoping to find more clues from them.
Before that, when the Five Immortals and others had just crossed the Gray Mirror River, they suddenly arrived at a huge square.
With a quick glance, the Five Immortals Patriarch found the figure of the Golden Rhino King here.
"Thank you for your hard work, fellow Daoist Jinxi. I will never break my promise. Have you found anything?"
After giving the assurance, the Five Immortals Patriarch asked with excitement on his face.
"If what Jin guessed is correct, what the Five Immortals Daoist wants should be in the Eight Kings Sky Cover."
The Golden Rhino King pointed toward the center of the square.
The Five Immortals turned around and saw an altar standing alone in the center of the square with hot magma flowing.
This altar is only about thirty feet high, but it occupies a large area. It is completely covered by a black hemispherical light curtain. The color of the light curtain becomes darker as one gets to the top, making it impossible to see the situation on the top of the altar clearly.
The reason why King Golden Rhino could recognize the origin of this light curtain was that it was very famous in the Demon Realm.
"It can even block my spiritual consciousness. It seems that it is really the Eight Kings Sky Cover!"
The Five Immortals' old ancestor's expression darkened, and he actually showed a look of hesitation.
"What! This place is actually related to the royal family, ancestor, what about us..."
Zi Yang Hou's expression also changed immediately. After all, any high-level cultivator in the Demon Realm had heard of the name of the Eight Ancient Kings.
It is said that at that time, the Demon Realm did not have a common leader, but was divided into eight demon kingdoms, which were constantly fighting against each other.
If the human race had not yet fully risen in the fairyland at that time, I am afraid that there would be several fairy palaces in the demon realm today.
Finally, the ancestor of the current demon royal family came out of nowhere and, with the supreme strength of the Space Dao Ancestor, annihilated the eight demon kingdoms and enfeoffed the princes, leading to the current structure of the demon realm.
After the war, the first Demon Emperor used the bodies of the eight demon kings as a base and arranged a super formation around the border of the Demon Realm, which has been protecting the demons until now.
This great formation is called the "Eight Kings Covering the Sky Formation"!
The Eight Kings Sky-covering Shroud is a kind of restriction evolved from this formation. The method of its arrangement has always been a top secret of the demon royal family and has never been passed on to outsiders.
Now that it appears here, it is enough to prove that the Ten Thousand Poison Cave was built by the demon royal family!
"Hmph, now that things have come to this, Fellow Daoist Sima, can you tell me the origin of your inheritance?"
The Five Immortals Patriarch's face turned cold at this time, and he looked at Sima Lei and said.
"To be honest, I discovered this inheritance by chance when I was sorting out the remains of a demon prince who died in my Immortal Prison."
Sima Lei immediately replied with a smile, but his current appearance was extremely horrifying, so his smile was naturally quite terrifying as well.
"I originally thought that you were just trying to protect me from something, so you kept silent about it. Now I understand that you were afraid that I would not dare to come and take the treasure after knowing the truth!"
The Five Immortals Patriarch stared at Sima Lei with increasingly unfriendly eyes.
"Do you dare or not now, fellow Taoist?"
Sima Lei showed no fear when he saw this, but asked in a relaxed tone.
"Haha, it seems that Fellow Daoist Sima really predicted this old man!
That’s right, the opportunity to ascend to the Great Dao is right before my eyes, and I will never let it go!”
Upon hearing this, the Five Immortals Patriarch suddenly laughed, and then spoke in a firm tone.
“Moreover, as far as I know, the ancient Poison Dao Ancestor never claimed that he was from the royal family. He was most likely a prince who failed in his bid for the throne, and later became the Dao Ancestor due to another opportunity.
Such beings certainly have bad relations with the royal family, so you don't have to be shy about it."
The Five Immortals Patriarch then added a few more words to prevent Golden Rhino and Master Zhaogu from backing off.
“I have also heard from Shi Zhanfeng that no one from the royal family can enter the Ten Thousand Poison Cave, as if the Ten Thousand Poison Cave has some special meaning to them.
Now it seems that it is probably related to an ancient royal scandal.”
Zhenren Zhaogu also didn't want the Five Immortals to give up halfway, otherwise his life would be in danger.
"There's not even a royal guard here. It's clearly an ownerless place!"
King Golden Rhino also quickly expressed his opinion. After all, the promises made to him by the Five Immortal Ancestors were all based on the premise of "after the matter is accomplished."
"Okay, okay, then let's start breaking the ban immediately without further delay."
The Five Immortals were overjoyed when they heard this and flew up immediately.
He looked around and then set his eyes on the eight huge pillars with ferocious demon king patterns carved on them standing around the square. Then he made arrangements:
"Sima Dao, Zhao Gu, Jin Xi, the three of you go to the giant pillars in the east, south, and west directions respectively. Your disciple and Zi Yang will immediately go to the altar and wait!"
After saying this, the Five Immortals Patriarch went straight to a giant pillar in the north without mentioning any detailed method of breaking the ban.
But there is really no need for this. After all, although the arrangement of the 80,000 sky-covering covers is extremely mysterious, it is ultimately an ancient prohibition, and the method of breaking the prohibition is now known to everyone.
This ban is formed by the fusion of the power of eight laws. In order to break it completely, eight Daluo monks who practice different laws must work together.
If there is a shortage of manpower, they can only create some fleeting gaps in the restriction light curtain.
Sima Lei's original plan was for him and Zhenren Zhaogu to act together, and then let his monks be responsible for taking the treasure.
Now because of a series of accidents, with the addition of the Five Immortals and the Golden Rhino King, the chances of success are naturally much greater!
Soon, all six of them arrived at their respective positions.
"Do it!"
Following a command from the Five Immortals Patriarch, the four Daluo cultivators standing on the giant pillars simultaneously activated the power of the laws in their bodies.
This immediately caused different strange phenomena to appear around the four giant pillars, and the noise was extremely terrifying.
After a moment, the carvings of the demon king on the giant pillars under the feet of the four people all emitted different lights, and then came alive, moving their hands and feet.
As they swayed, the black light shield covering the magma altar immediately changed.
The color of the light cover quickly faded, and soon the top of the altar was exposed.
The first thing that caught everyone's eye was a spherical liquid that looked like mercury.
Although it is less than half a foot in diameter, it has already exuded some aura of laws in the early stages of breaking the ban.
There is no doubt that this is the first-grade strange poison that Sima Lei mentioned!
And below this silver liquid ball, that is, on the top of the altar, is a circular pool of fire liquid.
The red Xuantian fire liquid filled the entire pool. Every few breaths, its calm surface would tremble, and then silver spots of light like star sand would fly out.
These light spots are few in number and extremely small. One can imagine how long it would take for them to condense into such a large cluster.
In all likelihood, no one has ever come here to use it since it was set up!
"It's actually the Wanhua Galaxy Water. Hahahaha, I should have thought of it earlier!"
After seeing the silver liquid mass clearly, the Five Immortals Patriarch couldn't help but burst into laughter.
This is because this first-grade strange poison has a magical use, which is that it can be mixed with any highly toxic poison and raise its grade to the first grade.
Originally, the Five Immortals Patriarch was worried about this strange poison. Unlike the Five Immortals Green Spirit Poison he practiced, it was not a cold poison. He had to practice again before he could refine it.
Now, this worry naturally disappears.
The Wanhua Biling Poison formed by the fusion of the two is a first-grade cold poison that can directly increase his strength!
As for why he said that he should have thought of it earlier, it was because the Wanhua Yinhe Water was the only first-grade strange poison that could be artificially refined.
There are two main conditions for refining. One is to collect all the poison laws in the world, and the other is for the ancestor of the poison path to mobilize the power of the avenue and melt it.
Since the former not only had to be complete, but also required a huge amount, it was difficult to gather a complete set even when the Poison Dao was at its most prosperous.
In addition, every time Daozu makes a move to refine it, it will significantly speed up his own integration with the Dao.
Therefore, throughout the ages, only the first ancestor of the Poison Dao in ancient times had ever refined it once!
The Five Immortals' Ancestor now fully understood that this Cave of Ten Thousand Poisons, which was said to be a place of trial and inheritance for future generations, was actually a large poison refining array that used countless poison cultivators as fuel!
However, the ancient ancestor of the Poison Dao who founded him knew very well that only people would rush to do things that could bring them an advantage.
Therefore, when setting up the Ten Thousand Poison Cave, he did not leave any means to persecute poison cultivators, but instead generously gave out many high-level inheritances.
The purpose is to attract a large number of poison cultivators here every time.
The Taoist Ancestor did not need to perform blood sacrifices on these poison cultivators. Instead, he only needed them to take action in the Ten Thousand Poison Cave. The released power of the laws would naturally be absorbed by the hidden restrictions.
"My only question now is what on earth is he trying to do?
There was no way he didn't know that refining poison in this way would take an extremely long time, and even if he waited until he achieved the Dao, he would not be able to produce enough poison.
Moreover, as the ancestor of Taoism, he can use the power of the Great Dao to directly locate the strange poisons of the third grade and above in the world.
If he really lacked a rare poison, he could have obtained it in a simpler way.
What he did was completely making things difficult for future generations!"
The Five Immortals Patriarch cast a spell while frowning and thinking.
As for future generations, judging from Sima Lei's explanation, it is obviously the royal family.
However, judging from the fact that the Taoist Patriarch almost broke with the royal family, and the fact that there is no one from the royal family guarding this place, this is obviously unlikely.
Such contradictory situations are really puzzling to the Five Immortal Ancestors.
Fortunately, the purpose of his trip was not to find out the truth. As long as he could get the Wanhua Galaxy Water, he didn't bother with these details!
(End of this chapter)