Begin the path of immortality from mortals

Xuanji Cave, in an inner hall.

After a period of dual cultivation, Mu Qing, who had just passed the tribulation and was still a little tired, had a flushed face and fell into a deep sleep.

On the other side of the jade couch, Lu Tian felt the majestic power of Yuan Yin in his body and couldn't help but sigh secretly:

"Both of them are at the peak of fusion, but Mu Qing's Yuan Yin power is more than twice that of Jin Yue. This is quite a surprise to me!"

In fact, since practicing with the women, Lu Tian had already discovered that due to the difference in the power of their bloodlines, the Yuan Yin of the women at the same level was stronger or weaker. For example, Bing Feng and Ao Shan, who had the True Spirit bloodline, had stronger Yuan Yin than the human women who were also at the early stage of Refining Void.

Although Bai Ning, who possesses the blood of a true spirit, was only at the initial stage of fusion when they practiced dual cultivation, her Yuan Yin power was even stronger than that of her cousin Yu Shu, who was at the middle stage of fusion.

As for Jin Yue, who also has Kunpeng bloodline, needless to say, her Yuan Yin power is much stronger than that of an average female cultivator in the late stage of fusion.

But now, after practicing dual cultivation with Mu Qing, the Yuan Yin power sealed in his dantian is more than twice that of Jin Yue. This shows that Mu Qing, a spiritual creature of heaven and earth, has accumulated extraordinary Yuan Qi and Yuan Yin in his body for tens of thousands of years.

And with the help of Mu Qing's huge Yuan Yin power, Lu Tian was confident that his body training would soon advance to the seventh level of success.

After this thought flashed through his mind, Lu Tiandu sat cross-legged and began to refine the Yuan Yin power.

After several hours, Mu Qing slightly opened her beautiful eyes, stretched her arms, and looked at Lu Tiandu who was still practicing with a lazy look on her face.

"He is my man from now on!"

For some reason, Mu Qing did not feel awkward at all when she saw Lu Tiandu practicing quietly. Thinking of her own changes in the past three months, she began to look forward to her future practice career.

A moment later, Mu Qing also put on a veil and started practicing.

The time was short before, and she had not yet completely refined the two supernatural treasures. Moreover, she also needed to practice the two magical powers of the Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder and the Golden Magnetic Spirit Field.

As for the upcoming journey to the River Styx, with two people working together and three spirit slaves, as long as they can find the Divine Milk of the River Styx, they will surely be able to capture it easily.

It took a full day for Lu Tiandu to begin to refine the Yuan Yin power in his body.

At this moment, Mu Qing sensed that Lu Tiandu had woken up, so she stopped practicing and opened her beautiful eyes to look at Lu Tiandu lovingly.

"Thank you so much, Sister Mu!"

Lu Tiandu smiled slightly, and while speaking, he had already come to Mu Qing and embraced the beauty in his arms.

"Lu Lang!"

Mu Qing didn't say much, just called out softly.

"Now that we have enough time, why don't you and I discuss the great principles of yin and yang?"

Lu Tiandu stroked the flexible waist of the beauty in his arms and said meaningfully.

"whee--"

Mu Qing chuckled, and his eyes instantly became moist.

Obviously, she also had a taste of the sweetness.

Time flies, a few days later.

On this day, the two of them tasted the spiritual wine brought out by Lu Tiandu, the wood marrow wine brewed by Mu Qing himself, and the Yinsha tea that enhances spiritual awareness in the Xuanji Cave Mansion. During the casual chat, Lu Tiandu asked:
"Sister Mu, do you have any detailed information about Lan Guipo and Zhu Yuan? Do you think it's possible for these two to be subdued?"

Not to mention the demon cultivators in the early stage of fusion in the Earth Abyss, each of the five demon kings in the middle and late stages of fusion would be a powerful elder if placed in the outside clans.

If the five demon kings join forces, powerful forces among the human and demon races like Tianyuan City can be easily wiped out.

Now that Mu Qing is his own, Dixue cannot escape the fate of being completely refined into a spirit slave, so Lu Tiandu has the idea of ​​recruiting the other three for his own use.

In addition, the news of his and Youluo's appearance in the Styx must not be known to the Mayfly Clan. Therefore, if Lan Guipo and Zhu Yuan cannot be subdued, Lu Tian is prepared to force them to be refined into spirit slaves.

As for Liu Zu, although he was confident that he could kill it, if he wanted to seal it, You Luo would still have to do it. In addition, after sealing it, he was afraid that he would not be able to refine it into a spirit slave for the time being, so he could only wait and see.

"This Sister Lan is a rare high-level ghost cultivator. Although we five demon kings do not trust each other, the relationship between the two of us is relatively good."

"His skills in refining various mysterious ghosts are also extremely advanced, so he is very suitable to be recruited as a subordinate. According to my guess, he should not be a creature originally from the Earth Abyss. He should be similar to the Earth Blood, and came to the Earth Abyss by chance."

“Like other demon kings, Sister Lan’s greatest wish is naturally to advance to the late stage of fusion or even Mahayana. However, she practices the way of ghosts. Although she has amazing magical powers and has condensed her ghost body to be the same as that of an ordinary person, facing the thunder tribulation of the late stage of fusion or even the heavenly tribulation of advancing to Mahayana, she probably doesn’t have much chance of advancing…”

Mu Qing talked in detail about his views on the Blue Ghost Lady.

Ghost cultivators are naturally restrained by heavenly thunder, and the difficulty of their tribulation is even more terrifying than that of spiritual plant creatures like her.

She has now successfully advanced and can hope to reach the Mahayana realm in the future. Without a great opportunity, it may be difficult for Blue Ghost Po to advance to the late stage of fusion.

"In that case, I have thought of a way to make him surrender."

Lu Tiandu seemed to have thought of something and spoke a few words to Mu Qing.

Sure enough, after hearing Lu Tiandu's plan, Mu Qing was also surprised and agreed repeatedly.

"As for this Daoist Zhu Yuan, his true form seems to be some kind of spirit ape. He is also one of the few demon cultivators in the Earth Abyss who has complete intelligence and has cultivated to a high level on his own. And if my guess is correct, he should have inherited the true blood of some powerful ape spirit."

"But this person has a rather unruly personality. Because of his extraordinary magical powers, he sometimes doesn't even give Liuzu face. It is rumored that he and Liuzu had a battle, but the winner was not decided. I don't know whether it is true or not. However, if it is a real life-and-death battle, Dixue with only two evil demon bodies is probably not a match. He is currently ranked second in strength among the Diyuan Demon Kings."

"So even if we can subdue him, we must be careful about him rebelling in the future."

Mu Qing further elaborated on his views on Zhu Yuan.

"In that case, we'll see what happens when the time comes."

Lu Tiandu nodded.

Now he understood why this person was the one who died in the first trip to the River Styx in the original plot.

I'm afraid that the five of them will eventually join hands to enter the "Divine Pool" where the Mayfly Clan collects the Styx Divine Milk. This person is proud of his amazing magical powers and wants to gain benefits first, so he breaks into the palace where the divine milk is collected. However, he did not expect to be killed by a "Nether Thunder Beast" with the peak cultivation level of the fusion.

As for Liu Zu and others, it is unknown whether they helped at that time.

And from the second trip to the Styx, the four six-legged men did not know that in the depths of the divine pool there was a pair of Nether Thunder Beasts at the peak of their combined power guarding the Divine Milk of the Styx. This meant that the four did not actually go deep into the divine pool the first time.

It is roughly speculated that after Zhu Yuan was killed by a Nether Thunder Beast, the four people were frightened and chased by the Nether Thunder Beast, so they fled from the Divine Pool, and later accidentally discovered the existence of the Demon Tomb.

This was the second time that the other three people except Liuzu fought for the treasures in the Demon Tomb outside the Styx Divine Milk.

"Let's go. Now that we have time, we can go to the fifth floor to take a look at Dixue's collection. I am also very curious about the strange Blood Flame Mountain in Dixue's memory."

After chatting for a while, Lu Tiandu said.

"Well, it just so happens that I will go to the sixth floor to see Sister Lan's progress in refining the black ghost."

Mu Qing said as she performed a secret technique to hide her cultivation level to the middle stage of fusion. However, this time she did not use black light to cover it up. Now that she could temporarily transform into her true form, she could naturally show her true appearance to outsiders.

After leaving the Xuanji Cave, Lu Tiandu put away his personal cave and the purple-blood puppet guarding outside, then stepped onto Mu Qing's Ten Thousand Wheels of Light Array again, and the two of them teleported quickly.

Three hours later, in front of a dark mountain on the fifth layer of the Earth Abyss, a black light flashed on the surface of a teleportation array on a hidden stone platform, and two figures emerged.

It was Lu Tiandu and Mu Qing.

"Is this the Blood Flame Mountain? I can't really tell anything from the outside!"

Lu Tiandu took a look at the mountain which was about four or five thousand feet high and said.

"There is indeed Dixue's Blood Flame Palace in this mountain, but although I have been here several times, I have never been invited by Dixue to take a detailed tour of his cave."

Mu Qing was also a little curious at this moment.

Before, she had collected the blood that was used to make puppets, and she had only come out to collect it, and had not really been invited in.

As for why she simply sent Blood Poison to deliver the materials later, it was probably because during this period, Earth Blood and Blood Poison had an intersection and he was secretly planted with the secret art of the soul, and finally betrayed her.

At this time, Lu Tiandu released the purple blood puppet and ordered:

"Lead the way!"

"Yes, Master!"

At this moment, Dixue's soul was implanted with the slave seal. The master's orders were above everything else. He did not feel anything strange at all and responded respectfully.

When this purple-blood puppet was fully extended, it was a thousand feet tall. Even when it was shrunk, it was still at least ten feet tall. Lu Tiandu and Mu Qing stood up on one of the purple-blood puppet's shoulders without any hesitation.

The next moment, the purple-blood puppet took Lu Tiandu and the other person into the air and headed straight for the mountainside.

An inconspicuous cliff over a hundred feet high appeared before our eyes.

Then, the purple-blood puppet made a gesture with one hand, muttered something, and suddenly raised the other hand.

The entire cliff trembled and made a loud rumbling sound. In the flashing black light, it transformed into an extremely huge stone dragon head, covered with moss and weeds.

The two huge stone eyes on the dragon's head suddenly blinked and opened their eyes, revealing a pair of blood-red eyes.

After the cold light swept across the purple-blood puppet and Lu Tiandu, the dragon's head slowly opened its mouth, revealing a passage glowing white light.

"Yes, the Earth Spirit Clan is quite good at disguising their caves!"

Lu Tiandu looked at this scene and nodded secretly.

The stone dragon head is naturally a kind of stone puppet refined from earth blood. Its full-strength attack can unleash the combat power of a cultivator in the early stage of fusion, and it is very useful for guarding caves.

The passage inside was extremely wide, about four or five meters high. The four walls were made of square black stones. Every few meters, there was a thumb-sized luminous pearl inlaid, and it seemed to go deeper into the belly of the mountain.

After passing through the passage and entering more than a hundred feet underground, seven or eight entrances appeared in a row on an open area in front. The Purple Blood Puppet walked into one of the passages casually without any pause.

Next, forks in the road appeared from time to time, and the whole mountain seemed to be hollowed out. The belly of the mountain was full of criss-crossing passages, like a maze, which made Lu Tiandu and the others sigh that Dixue had put a lot of thought into this Blood Flame Palace.

After all, setting up various restrictions in every passage is not an easy task, and this is not the real Blood Flame Palace.

Moreover, in these passages, from time to time, one can see puppets of various shapes and sizes, holding various giant blades, walking back and forth inside, inspecting everything.

Some of these puppets are golden and made of metal; some are gray and formed by the condensation of earth and stones; and some are agile and are carved from a whole piece of spiritual wood.

Although there are many of these puppets, most of them are at the Nascent Soul level, and the psychic puppets that exude the spiritual pressure of the Divine Transformation level are only a small part of them.

After the purple-blood puppet turned east and west and flew forward for an incense stick of time, Lu Tiandu's eyes lit up. He finally walked out of the maze, but a red lake appeared in front of him and a hot breath hit his face.

Apparently, the three of them had descended into a natural underground lava cave under the Blood Flame Mountain!
And on this lava lake, there is a blood-red palace floating.

The palace is not too big, but it is more than a thousand feet wide.

The entire palace exuded a strong bloody smell, but it was also built exquisitely. A blood-red crystal several feet in size was inlaid on the top of the palace, emitting a strange bloody glow.

"Hey, why does this feel a bit like the Blood Soul Crystal?"

Lu Tiandu looked at the blood-red crystal above the palace and was slightly stunned, seeming a little unbelievable.

The Blood Soul Crystal is related to the True Spirit. Only a certain kind of top-grade jade that has been fully soaked in the blood of the True Spirit can be transformed into the Blood Soul Crystal, which is one of the top-grade blood spiritual materials.

The crystal on the Tianpeng clan’s Soul Sealing Tower was a very rare Blood Soul Crystal, which also had some benefits for the remnant soul of Kunpeng in the Soul Sealing Tower.

That piece of Blood Soul Crystal is one of the Tianpeng clan's treasures, and even the entire Feiling clan only has a few of them.

Therefore, Lu Tiandu had not yet figured out how to get a piece of it to generate some blood soul crystals for the ancient demon clone to re-refine the Hundred Tribulations Blood Drinking Sword and the Blood River Sword. Unexpectedly, he found such a large piece here in the Earth Blood Cave.

However, in Dixue's previous memory, he had never recognized that this thing was actually a rare blood soul crystal.

“Although the blood-red jade used to build the palace has an extremely faint aura, I can still sense some kind of true spirit aura. Obviously, this object has also been stained by the blood of a true spirit. Even if it has not transformed into a blood soul crystal, it is still a rare blood treasure. Could it be that a true spirit has fallen in this abyss?”

When Lu Tian thought of this, he became confused.

Speaking of the place where the true spirit fell, a fire crocodile had fallen under the Nangen Desert where Youluo obtained the fire crocodile leather armor, but Youluo had never touched a blood soul crystal.

Because this place is surrounded by the Blood Flame Palace, and even the sky is filled with numerous Earth Spirit Clan restrictions, even Lu Tiandu, with his amazing spiritual sense, became a little uncertain at this moment.

After all, such a large piece of blood soul crystal and a huge jade stone that seems to be stained with the aura of true spirit and true blood are really unbelievable in the outside world.

"Is this crystal a Blood Soul Crystal? I seem to have heard of this thing before. This thing and the blood jade used to build the Blood Flame Palace were both obtained by me by chance. It is quite magical. I will introduce it to you later!"

The Purple Blood Puppet heard Lu Tiandu's murmur and said.

"Blood Soul Crystal? What is this?" Mu Qing asked curiously.

"This item is a top-level blood spiritual material related to the True Spirit. It seems to be produced after some top-level ore is fully soaked in the True Spirit's True Blood. It is considered a very rare True Spirit item..."

Lu Tiandu repeated the information about the Blood Soul Crystal that he had seen in Ao Xiao's Sutra Library.

"In that case, could it be that a true spirit has fallen in the Earth Abyss?"

Mu Qing was instantly surprised.

For some reason she suddenly remembered the real blood that Zhu Yuan had.

"I'll confirm this thing later."

Lu Tiandu said as he looked at the purple blood puppet. (End of this chapter)