Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

The hall was filled with numerous and cluttered furnishings, appearing shadowy and hazy, making it difficult to discern what they were. After a few more glances, one would feel dizzy.

"Indeed, someone has entered this place. At least two people, otherwise, the Corridor Labyrinth wouldn't have opened!" Ding Ling quickly deduced after a brief inspection of the surroundings.

"Corridor Labyrinth?"

"It's a labyrinth like a corridor where people are randomly teleported to different places once they enter. So, even if there are many people, there's no advantage."

"Oh, so whoever passes through the labyrinth first gets the keepsake first?"

"Hehe, kid, you're still too naive. It's not that simple. Those who enter the labyrinth will eventually meet, but only one person can truly exit the labyrinth!"

"This, isn't this something the Hou Tu Sect left for future generations? Why set up such a cruel formation?"

"Cruel? Did I, your lord, say it was cruel! Only one person can leave the labyrinth, but it's not like the others have to die. They might be teleported away! The Corridor Labyrinth is just to determine the ownership of the keepsake, not necessarily to have people kill each other."

The Corridor Labyrinth has no specific entrance or exit. Once you enter the first-floor hall, you're in the labyrinth. Once you reach the third floor, you've exited the labyrinth, and the keepsake is stored on the third floor.

Following Ding Ling's instructions, Zhang Yuanjing first retrieved the stone man, then randomly chose a direction and took a few steps forward. The surrounding scenery spun and changed rapidly, causing dizziness. By the time he adjusted, he was already in a white mist, with buzzing sounds rising and falling around him, making him feel very annoyed.

He endured the discomfort and summoned the stone man again, controlled by Ding Ling. The stone man went ahead, and he followed behind, heading towards the denser part of the white mist.

"The Corridor Labyrinth can transform into hundreds of scenes, presenting a certain number of scenes based on the number of people entering the labyrinth. Only those who have experienced all the scenes can ultimately leave the labyrinth. Generally, if two people enter, there will be at least ten scenes. Three people will increase it to twenty scenes. Four people will be thirty. The more people, the more scenes are added. Alas, these are all popular maze designs from the past, the most troublesome and time-consuming!"

The white mist was a scene, with nothing but fog and monotonous buzzing sounds.

This was a test of one's Dao heart. Those with shallow cultivation would go crazy just walking here. Without Ding Ling's protection, Zhang Yuanjing's Foundation Establishment cultivation level would hardly last more than twenty breaths.

Ding Ling controlled the stone man, leading Zhang Yuanjing for a few steps, then grabbed him and placed him on its shoulder, taking large strides and accelerating forward.

After about a quarter of an hour, his eyes finally lit up, and he entered another scene—a desert.

This desert was not large, only about twenty or thirty miles in radius, and the end was visible at a glance.

However, in the desert, there stood a person, squinting and staring at the suddenly appearing stone man and Zhang Yuanjing on its shoulder.

This person was Wen Songnan.

Zhang Yuanjing was naturally not in his eyes, but the giant stone man, with its imposing aura, was frightening.

He had painstakingly entered the Mustard Seed Space, but only obtained an ordinary disciple token, and was chased by Ling Xiao and others, so his gains were minimal. His annoyance and disappointment were considerable.

Now, seeing Zhang Yuanjing, he couldn't help but feel happy. According to his speculation, Zhang Yuanjing was likely to have obtained a true inheritance token and acquired many good things.

"This little Daoist friend, we meet again. Did you obtain the true inheritance token? If so, we can be considered fellow disciples of the Hou Tu Sect!" Wen Songnan quickly approached, standing thirty feet away from the stone man, and said with a friendly smile.

Zhang Yuanjing ignored him and whispered to Ding Ling, "Senior, this is the Nascent Soul cultivator who claims to be a direct descendant of the Hou Tu Sect, probably got an ordinary disciple status."

"Oh, so he's a good-for-nothing, not worth mentioning! What does he want by trying to get close to you?"

"Junior guesses, he probably wants to snatch the inheritance I obtained!"

"Hehe, what good calculations, trying to snatch what others have when he can't get it himself. However, for the sect's inheritance, those without the corresponding qualifications are useless even if they get it!"

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Zhang Yuanjing muttered "secrets" to Ding Ling. Wen Songnan, as a Nascent Soul cultivator, naturally heard every word Zhang Yuanjing said.

He sneered inwardly, made a judgment about the relationship between Zhang Yuanjing and the stone man, and came up with a plan. He smiled and said, "Senior Stone Man, this junior is Wen Songnan, a descendant of the direct line of the Wen family of the Hou Tu Sect. I wonder if you know my Wen family ancestors?"

"Oh, so you're a descendant of the Wen family. However, I only know those surnamed Yun. Your Wen family is not high enough on the list!" Ding Ling was quite disgusted by Wen Songnan's attempt to get close and said disdainfully.

Wen Songnan's smile did not diminish as he respectfully saluted and said, "So Senior is a consecrated elder of the main sect. This junior is being rude. According to ancient books in the clan, my Wen family and the Yun family of the main sect have been friends for generations, arranging marriages. The two clans have a deep blood relationship. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say we're one family."

"I, your lord, am not some consecrated elder of the Yun family. Don't show off your blood relationship here! I, your lord, hate guys who speak vaguely and are insidiously cunning the most. A glance is enough to tell you're incompetent and worthless! Let me, your lord, test your weight!"

Ding Ling seemed extremely sensitive to the word "blood relationship" and suddenly became violent. It controlled the stone man to wave its hands, and two pillars of mad sand shot up from the ground, directly hitting Wen Songnan.

Wen Songnan originally intended to use his ability to turn harshness into gentleness to persuade the stone man's fake soul, but he didn't expect the other party to be so impatient. He hadn't even said two sentences before they attacked.

In this critical moment, he reflexively summoned the Hou Tu Sword, using the sweeping blade to block in front of him.

The pillars of mad sand crashed into it, rustling. Wen Songnan kept retreating, and by the time the sand pillars were exhausted, he had retreated more than a hundred feet.

"As expected, you're worthless. I, your lord, have sharp eyes and can tell with one look. You couldn't practice the Eight Earth Techniques well, so you had to pick up the worst Hou Tu Sword Technique and even create such a magic weapon to match it. I'm going to laugh to death! Ho ho ho..."

The smile on Wen Songnan's face suddenly froze as if covered in frost.

The Eight Earth Techniques and the Source Stone were the most important things for his trip, but he only hurriedly comprehended three chapters in the Teaching Hall, and the rest were not settled before he was forced to activate the teleportation and come here.

"Forget it, seeing that you are a direct descendant of the Hou Tu Sect, I, your lord, won't hurt you. Get lost and don't get in my way!"

Wen Songnan felt that the stone man was powerful, and the consequences of fighting would be unpredictable, so he glanced at Zhang Yuanjing regretfully and dodged far away.

The Corridor Labyrinth does not force enemies to fight. After a certain amount of time, the scene will automatically change. Of course, if all the scenes have been presented and there are still multiple people alive, they will enter a arena battle.

After the white mist and desert scenes, Zhang Yuanjing successively experienced more than twenty scenes such as the ancient battlefield, the Youhuo Cave, the marshland, the beast cage, and the magma land, but he never encountered other cultivators.

At this time, Ding Ling and he had both judged that there were at least four people in the labyrinth.

In the twenty-third scene, Zhang Yuanjing met another Nascent Soul cultivator—the Heavenly Demon Abyss's True Person Xuan Yi.

This was a beautiful flower field, but beneath the seemingly bright exterior, there was a crisis that was difficult to defend against. Small honey-collecting flying insects called Drunken Bees flew around in groups. They were full of strong hostility towards any living thing that approached their territory, and they would often swarm and attack frantically, even if it meant dying, until they killed or drove away the enemy.

Of course, the labyrinth scenes were all illusions, not real existences. But even if they were poisonous insects created with spiritual power, their lethality was no less.

Ding Ling knew a lot about these poisonous insects. It had swallowed many of them in the past and used them as fertilizer for the soil in the cauldron. Dealing with them was also easy. It simply rolled up gusts of yellow sand to form a protective cover, isolating the Drunken Bees. As long as the time was up, the scene would change on its own.

However, after Xuan Yi appeared, an accident occurred. Although she was a woman, her character was strong. As soon as she saw a cultivator casting a spell, she used the Seven Stars Seizing Profound Formation to break the yellow sand shield and drove a large number of Drunken Bees to besiege the stone man and Zhang Yuanjing.

Of course, it would be easy for Ding Ling to deal with the Drunken Bees, but dealing with Xuan Yi at the same time would consume the power of its origin.

Moreover, it was worried about encountering the Nascent Soul late-stage cultivator mentioned by Zhang Yuanjing, and it did not dare to consume too much of the stone man's spirit stones. Therefore, it had to first use the Earth Crack technique to frequently interfere with Xuan Yi's formation, and then use flying sand to disperse the increasingly gathered Drunken Bees.

The reason why these Drunken Bees obeyed Xuan Yi's command was that she was guiding them with the power of the formation. Once the formation could not be successfully deployed, the Drunken Bees would also besiege her at the same time.

As a result, she was also in a hurry, unable to attend to both ends, and was desperately chased by groups of Drunken Bees.

At this point, Xuan Yi was actually at a disadvantage. She had appeared in this scene later, taking the lead by taking advantage of the stone man and Zhang Yuanjing being besieged by the Drunken Bees, but the stone man was indeed powerful, and its earth techniques were very advantageous in dealing with the Drunken Bees, so it quickly reversed the situation.

Xuan Yi wanted to retreat far away and set up a formation to defend herself. How could Ding Ling easily let her go? It immediately controlled the stone man to lift its foot and stomp on the ground, and large areas of land around Xuan Yi cracked, and groups of silt gushed out of the ground, surrounding her.

Helpless, Xuan Yi had to leap into the air and fly away.

The scene was an illusion, so she couldn't fly too high.

As a result, the suspended Xuan Yi became the focus of all the Drunken Bees. In the midst of the noise, countless large-headed, fat-bodied, and sharp-tailed flying insects gathered around her and shot out poisonous needles from their tails.

Xuan Yi was a master of formations, so she could naturally set up formations in the air. She sacrificed a set of willow-leaf flying knives as thin as cicada wings, totaling ninety-nine and eighty-one, surrounding her body and setting up the Yuanyang Knife Formation, emitting a fierce killing intent. Everything that entered the formation, whether it was a living Drunken Bee or a dead poisonous needle, was all crushed to pieces.

This set of flying knives, named "Willow Eyebrow Knife", also known as "Beauty Knife", was named after its shape resembling a beauty's willow eyebrows. It was a low-grade spiritual treasure, but its overall power was no less than a mid-grade one.

Ding Ling controlled the stone man to protect itself with flying sand, leisurely admiring the beauty's battle with the flying insects, and said lewdly, "This little beauty is quite fierce, her killing intent is really awe-inspiring. Ordinary men can't handle it!"

Zhang Yuanjing naturally didn't dare to tease a Nascent Soul True Person, and didn't say anything, pretending he didn't hear it.

After watching for a while and finding it boring, Ding Ling said with a wicked smile, "This kind of consumption is too easy for the beauty. Let me add some ingredients for her!"

With that, it controlled the stone man to wave its fist as big as a stone roller and smash it on the ground a few times. Thick mud and stone pillars burst out of the ground, shooting straight at Xuan Yi's Yuanyang Knife Formation.

Xuan Yi raised her willow eyebrows, a look of anger on her face, but the magic in her hands accelerated, and the killing intent in the knife formation condensed like water, continuously bombarding the intruding mud and stone pillars, smashing them into ashes.

In an instant, dust filled the sky, covering the cloud-like Drunken Bees, and Xuan Yi in the center and her eighty-one beauty knives.

After a few breaths, under the strong wind stirred up by Xuan Yi's magic power, the rolling dust dissipated. However, Xuan Yi's waterfall-like long hair and delicate face had been stained with a lot of dust, making her look a little embarrassed.

Ding Ling chuckled a few times and repeated its old trick, with a few more mud and stone pillars flying up, destroyed by the knife formation, once again creating dust all over the sky. Xuan Yi had to consume extra magic power to create a strong wind to blow away the dust. In this way, her magic power decreased sharply.

After about a quarter of an hour, Xuan Yi felt a little overwhelmed.

However, through continuous observation, she also discovered some clues.

The greatest mystery of the Corridor Labyrinth is the transformation between illusion and reality. Its essence is illusion, but relying on the support of heaven and earth's spiritual power, it can also become reality. What drives this transformation of illusion and reality is the magic power supported by the cultivator's magic.

For her, the best way to solve the current predicament was of course to directly attack the stone man, preventing it from making a move; the middle way was to cut off the connection between the Drunken Bees and the spiritual power of heaven and earth, causing the Drunken Bees to return to illusion; the worst way was naturally to resist with the Yuanyang Knife Formation and wait for the scene to change.

At this time, since the Drunken Bees were gathered around her, she had the conditions to implement the middle way.

So, she finally made a decision, throwing the Seven Stars Seizing Profound Formation flags on the seven key points of the Drunken Bee swarm: above, left, lower left, below, right, lower right, and upper right, and then forcibly connecting the formation flags out of thin air, setting up a huge Seven Stars Seizing Profound Formation in the air.

At the moment the great formation was successfully deployed, countless Drunken Bees turned into clumps of white light and fell from the air, like a rain of stars, which was very dazzling.

Taking this opportunity, Xuan Yi put away her eighty-one Willow Eyebrow Knives, flashed and flew away, as fast as electricity, and disappeared without a trace.

The seven formation flags, together with the falling white light, slowly descended to the ground, inserted into the soil, and continued to maintain the formation, trapping these Drunken Bees that had returned to illusion.

When Ding Ling first saw Xuan Yi setting up the formation in the air, it underestimated her, thinking that she was just whimsical.

When the formation was formed and the Drunken Bees fell to the ground, it couldn't help but exclaim: Good method!

When Xuan Yi abandoned the seven formation flags and decisively fled, it shouted even louder: What a decisive beauty!