ah?The palace fighting system can also cultivate immortality

Chapter 191 Finding the Altar
"Thank you, I declined."

Du Xinghe should just step back and let Chen Bu Ran keep it for his own use. There is no need to be so sharing-minded.

After she declined, she couldn't help but feel curious: "What are you going to do with it? Do you have a secret method to refine the inner elixir?"

Swallowing the inner elixir of one's own kind will bring backlash.

This is like a prion, a foreshadowing engraved in the meridians by the Heavenly Dao to prevent cannibalism.

"Well……"

Chen Bu Ran seemed to be playing with the two blood-stained inner pills in his hand without any intention. The brilliance of the inner pills did not dim at all because of the death of life. The light was stained with blood and spread out, revealing a mysterious red light. He flipped his hand and put the two inner pills back into the storage ring. Then he said, "Feed the spider, and use the rest as candles. They can nourish people better than the light of the night pearl."

He had a smile on his face, but his dark eyes were as deep as the ocean.

Du Xinghe asked: "Since you said it nourishes people, then is it good for cultivation to light the inner elixir as a candle?"

Chen Bu Ran was stunned, as if he didn't expect her to ask this:

"Not really. I thought the ancestor would accuse me of being an evil cultivator."

"Since it is of no benefit to cultivation, then you are just a cultist, not an evil cultivator."

Crossing the Star River.

Chen Bu Ran was speechless after hearing her words in a dull tone. After a while, he smiled and said, "You can't scare the old ancestor."

"But I really can't compliment your taste in decoration."

Du Xinghe walked out.

With a single thought, she knew where her three disciples were.

Chen Bu Ran followed her and asked her, "If I tell you there are benefits, will the ancestor want it?"

"Correct."

"I thought the ancestors would be very resistant."

"Just think of it as lighting a lamp with gallstones."

In the mortal world, there is a saying about gallstones and gallbladder stones, which are caused by the accumulation of damp heat in the liver and gallbladder. Chen Bu Ran understood it immediately and laughed, "The inner elixir is the condensation of the essence of the cultivators, but it was compared to useless things like gallstones by our ancestors. I don't know what kind of treasure could have caught the eyes of our ancestors."

Du Xinghe paused.

The interior of the Spider Temple was winding and the corridors were dry and cold. Paper lanterns that never went out were hung on the stone walls. When she turned around, she saw Chen Bu Ran's face, which was like an ink painting, slightly illuminated by the light. His cold eyes looked at her through the warm colors.

"Do you understand now?" she asked.

Chen Bu Ran raised his eyebrows.

The two people with cold personalities were illuminated by the dim light with a harmonious warmth.

And her eyes reflected his figure -

Only a "treasure" like him could catch her eye.

Of course, Du Xinghe's original intention was to let him say less, and then give her his golden elixir - oh, there is no golden elixir in the Spirit Transformation Stage, so he would peel off his primordial spirit and give it to her to activate.

Lifting the spider curtain, the two came to a martial arts training ground inside the temple.

"Hello, Master!"

As soon as Chen Bu Ran walked out of the shadows, the disciples in the martial arts training ground stopped what they were doing and saluted him and Du Xinghe.

He lifted his robe and stepped into the training ground. On the four high walls were wall-to-wall shrines, enshrining the bodies of spider Gu. A strange Gu incense was burned in the temple all year round, which was spicy with a hint of sweetness. The eight-legged furnace in the field was burning with wisps of white smoke that seeped up. Disciples who first came to the Spider Temple would feel dizzy if they were not used to the smell, but after getting used to it, they would feel more energetic the more they smelled it.

"Master!"

With a clang, Xinyue's sword fell to the ground, and then she quickly stepped forward and called out "Master" happily.

Du Xinghe saw that she missed him very much, so he teased her: "You seem to be doing well in your training at the Spider Temple, so why not leave you here and take you away when I come back from the altar."

The high hanging light fell on Xinyue's head. She had high brow bones and her eye sockets were shadowed. Her lychee eyes were wide open in the shadows.

"I want to follow Master, Master, please don't leave me behind,"

She paused, then asked again, "Master, are you going to leave me alone and only take my junior sisters and brothers with you?"

Shujiuqing, who was walking slowly beside him, felt his hair stand on end.

This is a life-threatening question asked by my senior sister!

What was lost was her and Shenshui’s life!

Shu Jiuqing's eyes turned and she said, "If that's the case, Senior Sister is also treated uniquely in Master's heart."

Senior sister likes to hear others say that she has a special status in Du Xinghe.

Sure enough, Xinyue's expression eased slightly.

Du Xinghe said that was not the case: "If you want to stay, you will definitely stay. I treat you all equally."

I was sweating profusely during the coldest days of winter.

She realized that it was not appropriate to stay here for long, so she said, "Master, since you have come out of retreat, I will go and call my brother over for you."

After Du Xinghe nodded, Shu Jiuqing slipped away.

If she left a moment later, her senior sister would kill her.

There was a slight breeze in the temple, and the candlelight flickered. The deeper one went into the mountains, the colder it became.

Shujiuqing had long heard of the bad reputation of the Spider Temple. She could not learn the calmness of her senior brothers and sisters, and felt uneasy every day she stayed there. Even if Senior Sister Xinyue was cold to her, she would follow her closely, as she felt the sense of security was given by her.

As for Senior Brother Shenshui...

There was also water flowing in the hollowed-out mountain, which was ingeniously built into a courtyard. After passing through the gate with hanging flowers swaying in the wind, there was another world inside. The combination of artificial mountains and real water created a fascinating spring scene. However, the slowly flowing stream was green, which must have been caused by the cultivation waste dumped into the upstream by the Spider Temple people, polluting the water source.

There is a corner pavilion in the courtyard, and next to the pavilion stands an unusually tall peach tree.

Shen Shui in the corner pavilion looked up to admire the flowers. A disciple of the Zhixing Temple beside him hooked his hand, and a spider silk hung on the tree branch, pressing the peach blossom branch down for Shen Shui to enjoy. The peach blossom branch made him look more lively and agile, and he looked like a girl.

The action of the disciple from the Spider Temple made the beautiful woman smile.

Peach blossoms weighed down the branches. Shenshui opened her lips and took the petals into her mouth, squinting her eyes and savoring them slowly. The scene of a beauty eating flowers fascinated the male disciples who practiced hard in the temple all day long, and they were all stunned.

Just the temperament in his every move is enough to study love for three years.

She kept her mission in mind and stepped forward to break the good atmosphere: "...Shanshui, Master has come out of retreat and is looking for you."

Seeing that everyone was watching so intently, Shu Jiuqing didn't call him senior brother.

"Ok?"

Shenshui was stunned for a moment, then he said goodbye to everyone with a smile and left with Shujiuqing.

When crossing the hanging flower gate, Shu Jiuqing was curious: "Are peach blossoms delicious?"

"It's not tasty, it's bitter," Shenshui smacked his lips. "What a pity, it's not the season for it to bear fruit. The peach trees on Xiaoyun Mountain are very juicy. I've never eaten such good peaches since I left Xiaoyun Mountain... You saw Master just now, what did Master say to you?"

She then repeated the conversation she had had with her master: "Senior sister was in a bad mood, so I used the excuse of looking for you to sneak out... Senior brother, please think of a solution."

As they talked, they returned to the training ground.

Xinyue had already picked up the fallen sword, holding it in her hand, and looked at the two of them from a distance with cold eyes.

Shenshui took a breath and said, "For now, I suggest that you change your name to avoid disaster."

"Change it to what?"

"Junior sister changed her name to Shujiu Ming, because nine lives are more difficult to kill."

"Brother, your suggestion is very good. Don't make the same suggestion next time."

Xinyue glanced at them:
"What are you mumbling about?"

They both shook their heads and pretended nothing happened.

After the five people gathered, Chen Bu Ran picked out a trusted man to accompany him, and then boarded the miniature flying boat again.

……

East of Bayounanling Mountains.

For a cultivator, the journey was just a blink of an eye. Du Xinghe tried twice to inquire about the news of the witch clan's altar from the will of "Gu Shen Jue", but received no response.

If I asked Chen Bu Ran, he was clueless: "If the Gu Spirit hadn't told you, we Wu people would have thought that the altar had long been transformed into a secret realm. We didn't expect there would be two altars... Our Wu people's coming of age ceremony is to enter the secret realm to pass the test and obtain the natal Gu worm given by the Gu Spirit."

"The miasma to the east of the Bayounan Ridge is too heavy, and the Wu people won't go there."

"Aren't all members of the Wu clan Gu practitioners? Are you afraid of poison?" Du Xinghe asked.

Chen Bu Ran raised his eyebrows: "Aren't you sword cultivators afraid of being struck by swords?"

Du Xinghe thought so too.

After sailing to the east, the flying boat was eroded by miasma and was forced to land in the mangrove forest.

"Please change into them."

Xizi, who had disappeared in the flying boat, appeared silently, holding four brocade boxes in his hands and presenting them.

When he opened the brocade box, he saw four white clothes inside that were well-tailored and easy to move in.

Xizi said: "This is a spider robe, it can block some of the miasma, and the rest you have to circulate your spiritual power and use your Qi to protect your body."

"It can only block some miasma, but what if the Qi can't protect it either?"

Shenshui took out the spider clothes and asked while looking at them carefully.

Under natural light, the spider's clothing has a delicate pearlescent texture and feels as smooth as silk, but if you pull it hard, it will become as hard as steel.

Xizi answered seriously: "You will die."

He was stunned as he was trying to fit the spider robe on his body, and looked at his master with tearful eyes.

Du Xinghe comforted him: "I have prepared a lot of antidote pills."

"Master, won't you change?"

Seeing that the master had not put on the clothes yet and just put the brocade box aside, Xinyue asked with concern.

"Me? I don't need it. My jade bone robe is a defensive magic weapon that can prevent poison."

This poison-avoiding effect was added later.

Du Xinghe applied to the palace fighting system for the ability to avoid poison, on the grounds that she was afraid of being poisoned and sterilized. The system originally stipulated that only sterilizing poisons could be avoided, but she pointed out that corpses could not get pregnant, so the lethal poison was actually a disguised sterilizing poison, and then she convinced the system.

After filtering out a layer of the jade bone clothes, the remaining ones are nothing to be worried about, and can even be used as a snack for Xiaopang.

While Shenshui was still envious, Shujiuqing took the opportunity to ask, "Since Master doesn't need it, can I wear Master's too?"

She withstood her senior sister's deadly gaze and worked for her own benefit.

After all, she is the weakest among the four. She can only ask for more survival guarantees. What does face matter?

Xinghe nodded: "If you like it, take it."

He put on two layers of spider clothes. Because of the difference in height between the two, the one originally customized for Du Xinghe was bigger, making Shu Jiuqing look like two layers of small cakes. In the world of immortal cultivation, he also experienced the fashionable effect of layering clothes.

The flying boat left here crushed a part of the mangrove bushes.

After stepping out of the flying boat, everyone found that the surrounding environment was worse than expected. The thick miasma almost condensed into a dark purple cloud that even spiritual consciousness could not penetrate. They could not use the sword-flying technique either, and could only walk on foot.

Fortunately, the miasma pool was not deep, barely covering the calf, and there was a soft layer of mud underneath.

The miasma pool automatically avoided Chen Bu Ran's body, but the rest of the people did not have such good treatment. They experienced the pain of mortals walking in the mud - Xinyue was a farm girl, Shenshui was a monkey, and Du Xinghe was the one who was least afraid of hardship. The three of them adapted well, but Shu Jiuqing was the only one who was sweating profusely.

The more she thought about it, the more something was wrong.

That's not right. Isn't she here to curry favor with others?
Why is life worse than before?
But the mud in the miasma seemed very suitable for drawing arrays, so she bent down and secretly took out a handful of soft mud and wanted to put it into the storage ring. However, as soon as her hand touched it, it was grabbed by another hand, while the people in front and behind her were clearly walking normally, with their hands swinging naturally beside them.

So, who grabbed her hand?
"Master, Senior Sister... there is a hand grabbing me in the miasma pool."

Shujiuqing asked for help with a sad face.

Xinyue only glanced at her with her peripheral vision, and with a flash of sword light, she cut off the hand that was holding her in the miasma pool. "Thank you, Senior Sister. Your swordsmanship is really good. You have inherited all the true teachings from Master."

"...Don't talk nonsense. I have only learned a little bit from my master."

Xinyue said coldly, but her tone rose slightly as if she was pleased.

Shu Jiuqing followed closely in the footsteps of her senior sister.

In front, Du Xinghe asked: "Can this miasma also restrict you?"

Chen Bu Ran shook his head.

"So you're still hiking with us?"

"I have nothing else to do."

Chen Bu Ran's tone was casual. As soon as he spoke in this tone, Du Xinghe knew that he could not get the truth out of him, so he simply stopped asking. He strolled leisurely in the miasma pool, which made the others look even more miserable, especially Shu Jiuqing. The invasion of miasma was beyond her tolerance. Her face gradually turned blue. She had to take out the cinnabar pen and draw a simple magic circle to drive away the poison on the snow-white spider clothes to take a breath.

Seeing that the magic circle was effective, she drew one for the senior sisters and brothers in front and behind her.

Chen Bu Ran, who was walking in front and walking side by side with Du Xinghe, said with a smile: "The materials your apprentice used to draw the magic array are all inferior products. It really makes me sad that our ancestor's apprentice lives in such poverty in Pingyun Continent. Xizi, go back and get some high-quality materials from my temple to give to her."

"Okay, Master."

Xizi responded in a serious tone.

With the "Gu Shen Jue" in hand, Du Xinghe can sense a different aura in the dense forest.

It was a feeling that was both thrilling and attractive to her to explore.

Following this increasingly strong sensation, Du Xinghe and his group came to the depths of the east side of Bayou Nanling. Soon, the originally low and dense forest suddenly opened up, and a tall and deep temple entrance appeared in front of them.

The miasma pool surrounding the temple was darker in color, so purple that it was almost black. No plants could be seen around the entrance. The plants in the humid and hot Bayou Nanling Mountains were particularly lush, but here there was not even any moss. Only the thick dust on the ground proved that this place had been abandoned for a long time.

"This is it,"

After Du Xinghe finished speaking affirmatively, he asked, "Senior Chen? Have you ever been to a similar temple?"

She turned around and looked into Chen Bu Ran's dazed eyes.

"Senior Chen?"

Her call again brought him back to his senses.

He shook his head: "I have seen it, but not when I was awake... You should know that the life-saving Gu worm of us Gu cultivators will become stronger as our cultivation level increases, right?"

"nature."

"During the hundred days of my breakthrough to the Nascent Soul stage, I stayed with my Spider Queen in my dreams. It led me in my dreams. I walked a very long way, which was more tiring than walking today. Every step I took required me to mobilize all my spiritual power... Ancestor, you don't have to look at me like that. We Gu cultivators have cultivated our trust in our natal Gu insects since we were young. It would not harm me. It led me to the same temple."

Chen Bu Ran fell into reminiscence of the past, a hint of regret appeared in his dark eyes: "Unfortunately, it is probably because I am not the one chosen by the Gu Shen Jue. I can only meditate on the steps in front of the temple, and I can't open its door."

"On the tenth day of my meditation, the candles on the altar outside the temple lit up. As they lit up, the dust on my altar was swept away in an instant."

"Then, I succeeded in breaking through and woke up from the dream."

The five people listened quietly to him finish talking about this mysterious experience.

"Then this seems to be the witch clan's altar," Du Xinghe thought, "If you are afraid, wait outside the door."

The three of them naturally said they were not afraid.

Shu Jiuqing was a step slower. She was not as bold as them. Before she met Du Xinghe, she had never lived a life on the edge of a knife. She preferred to practice honestly and collect second-hand materials to draw formations.

In other words, it is the life of an ordinary monk.

He happened to board a ship that was rushing forward at full speed.

But within a breath, Shu Jiuqing made a decision: "I want to follow Master."

Having endured the hardship of walking through the miasma pool, she had to go into the heart of the Gu cultivators today to see if there was any opportunity.

If a cultivator like her with five useless spiritual roots follows the path of an ordinary cultivator, she would probably never make any progress in her entire life.

Following Du Xinghe, the path to immortality will be very different!
After hearing her answer, Du Xinghe calmly looked away without any extra fluctuations.

"Then follow me in."

Du Xinghe walked up the steps and put his hand on the door handle.

The door that Chen Bu Ran had been unable to open no matter how hard she pushed in her dream, opened with just a light push.

The smell of decay wafted out from the crack in the door.

Behind the door was pitch black.

Chen Bu Ran walked ahead without any hesitation. Wherever he saw, there was a sudden flash of light.

Although it looks like an old and dilapidated temple from the outside, there is a whole new world behind the door.

The bronze statue in the center of the temple is the weird appearance of the Gu spirit.

"By the way, the Gu Spirit didn't tell me how to rescue it... Wait!"

The light originally lit by Chen Bu Ran went out in an instant.
The view became pitch black, the bronze statue lit up again, and everyone looked around with caution as if they were facing a great enemy.

After a few breaths, the ground beneath their feet became soft, and in an instant, a huge suction force came, sucking them all in. Chen Bu Ran tried to grab Du Xinghe's wrist. The two were clearly less than an arm's length away. He stretched out his hand, but still couldn't touch it. He could only sense from the fluctuations in space that the distance between the six of them was separated by the power of the temple.

In a split second, the two of them made their own judgments:
"Catch my life insect!"

"I give this order by the Gu God. No matter where we are or what form we take, my servants and I will be attracted to each other and be affected by our goodwill!"

The scarlet spider was thrown in front of her by Chen Bu Ran. He had left an inconspicuous spider silk on her body, and it was that spider silk that led the red spider over. As soon as she stretched out her hand, the red spider turned into a scepter and was held in her palm.

——According to Du Xinghe's rich experience in exploring mysteries, the power behind the temple wants to separate them and break them into pieces, which must bring corresponding dangers. Whether it is confusing illusions or complex terrain, the rules she temporarily established can give them an extra layer of protection and help them find each other.

Purple light emanated from her body, and the rules were established.

The next moment, she fell into a cave.

The cave is spacious and is covered with antique murals on all sides. In the long scroll, a millipede is depicted, and in the painting there are countless tiny people worshiping it.

"Where did you send this to me..."

As soon as she stood up, a strong wind blew against her ears.

The snow name flew out of the sheath and landed in her hand. She dodged the attack from behind by leaning sideways and blocked it with her sword...

"Terracotta Warriors?"

After seeing clearly what attacked him, Du Xinghe was stunned.

In the secret realm of the altar, the creatures that attacked them were either snakes or spiders, or at least something related to poison.

But these twenty or so terracotta warriors do not look like the Wu clan.

The cave was closed by a huge stone door, and the twenty-seven terracotta warriors almost packed the cave, and their targets were very clear. The swords shining coldly in the darkness would only point at Du Xinghe.

Is this the test of "Gu Shen Jue"?

Without leaving her much room to think, dense swords and sabers attacked her in unison, blocking all her escape routes.

But Du Xinghe was no pushover either. She didn't need to think too much and just drew her sword and started fighting with them.

After a brief confrontation, she discovered that—

These terracotta warriors are invulnerable to swords and knives. If you cut a hole in them, it will heal in the blink of an eye.

Using poison was even more useless. As soon as the poisonous fog fell on the terracotta soldiers, they became even more energetic, as if they had been injected with hormones.

They were all plain and simple attacks, but they seemed to be designed to wear her out to death.

"cough!"

After fighting for half an hour, the back of one of the terracotta warriors’ blade hit Du Xinghe’s back, causing her to cough up blood. The terracotta warriors looked ordinary, but every strike was accompanied by spiritual vibrations. “No wonder the Gu Spirit told me not to die before reaching the Golden Core stage.”

She was hit by one of the attacks, which slowed her down in dodging for a moment.

The terracotta warriors' tireless and intensive attacks made her exhausted. She could only focus on dodging instead of fighting back for the time being.

To these terracotta warriors, attacks seemed futile.

"No, there must be something I missed..."

Du Xinghe forced himself to calm down.

Her previous thinking was too direct. If something tried to chop her, she would chop it back without any hesitation.

This has also been her creed in her journey through Pingyun Continent.

There is nothing that cannot be solved with a sword.

If you can't solve it, then use another sword.

If we can't solve the problem, we can at least solve the people who create the problem.

However, her violent aesthetics lost their effectiveness in front of the twenty-seven terracotta warriors who could be resurrected continuously.

The sound of swords and knives causing wind to blow was heard frequently in the cave.

When Du Xinghe opened his eyes again, there was a purple glow in his eyes.

Only when the terracotta warriors hit her would their spiritual power penetrate into her meridians and cause shock. Ordinary chopping was no different from the random chopping of an ordinary woodcutter and would not cause any fluctuation in spiritual power. This was also the reason why she had turned off the Purple Wisdom Pupil before to save spiritual power.

This time, she wanted to see if there were any traces in their attack on her.

No matter where Du Xinghe hid, the terracotta warriors could accurately find her position. It seemed that they had no blind spots in their vision, and even had eyes on their backs... However, many monsters did not rely on their eyes to see. For a Jindan cultivator of her size, the protective aura all over her body was like a firefly in the dark night among the cultivators and could not be ignored at all.

Du Xinghe tried all kinds of dodging methods, even jumping onto the heads of the terracotta warriors, but their attacks immediately followed without any delay.

But just as she rolled to the ground, the terracotta warriors around her stopped moving at the same time.

"what?"

Du Xinghe was startled, and while continuing to roll, he touched the calf of one of the terracotta warriors with the tip of his sword.

The next moment, twenty-seven weapons attacked the calf of the terracotta soldier, and even chopped off its calf. The terracotta soldier lost his support, bent his knees and fell to the ground, just in time to meet Du Xinghe face to face.

However, it did not react to Du Xinghe at all. Instead, it turned around and picked up its own calf that was chopped off by its companion, took it back, and stood up again.

They really don't see with their eyes.

So, is it by listening to the sound?

Du Xinghe thought for a moment and threw the jade shield upwards.

She threw it very skillfully and used a little spiritual power to wrap it up, so there was no sound at all. However, the swords of the terracotta warriors still attacked it - this jade shield was the incarnation of Jingxin, and it was so scared that it almost bit the root of its tongue. Fortunately, it was protected by the Zhenwu Incarnation Technique, so it was not hurt. It was just a false alarm, and it fell into the hands of the female devil again.

It seems that it's not just the sound.

Why is the ground a blind spot?

Du Xinghe took the opportunity to take a breath and looked around.

As soon as she was thrown into the cave, she was chased by 27 terracotta warriors, and she had no time to observe her surroundings. This time, her eyes fell on the mural again. Her purple wisdom pupils could not see any spiritual power fluctuations in the mural. It was an extremely ordinary painting.

But, after eliminating all possibilities, the least likely one left is the answer.

Du Xinghe raised the jade shield again and tilted it slightly.

Sensing her intention, Jingxin could no longer restrain himself: "Wait a minute, slow down, let's talk it over -"

Before the terracotta warriors attracted by the sound could attack the source of the sound again, the jade shield had already flown out of her hand and crashed straight into the mural!
She used all her strength, and the jade shield smashed the mural so deeply into the stone that the jade shield sank into the stone wall and could not be dug out.

The mural that was hit let out a sharp scream, but all the terracotta warriors stopped moving.

A huge long worm fell from the mural.

"It's not a terracotta warrior controlled by spiritual power, so I missed it."

Du Xinghe thought about it and remembered this lesson.

Sometimes, the Purple Extreme Wisdom Eyes would delay her from finding the truth.

Jingxin's muffled voice came from the mural: "Wuwu... Can you dig me out first..."