Chapter 212: The Mysterious Gourd Vine
Chapter 212 - Mysterious Gourd Vine
"Little thief! How dare you--"
Real Tan bellowed in awe, wary of Lu Chang'an.
The needle-shaped talisman treasure that Lu Changan had killed Realist Hu was comparable to the False Dan level in terms of power, suitable for a surprise covert attack.
If it was unleashed head-on, or if the target was on guard, it wasn't much of a threat to a False Dan Realist, let alone a top-level False Dan Realist like Realist Tan.
Real Tan flew to the treasury space and immediately activated his body shield to protect against the needle-shaped talisman treasure.
In his eyes, Lu Chang'an was that kind of sinister person.
A turtle's shell, not easy to gnaw on, and good at shooting cold arrows.
However, Lu Chang'an's strike this time was completely beyond his imagination.
It was like a fierce beast, pouncing on him head on.
Whew!
A black shadow flashed in the field of vision, Lu Chang'an's speed was one step faster than the False Dan Realist, curling up a strong wind, his legs flashing green wind waves.
His body shape is vaguely taller, exuding a beast-like pressure of qi and blood, and in the blink of an eye, he kills close to the front.
"Your Excellency is a False Pill Realist, can you take a sword from Lu."
Lu Chang'an hand holding the black and gold scimitar emitting magic treasure level spirit, as a close combat weapon, in the horror of strength and speed, with the addition of Evergreen mana, the momentum of a thunderous sword cut out.
In a flash.
The dazzling half-moon shaped black and gold blade awnings filled the pupils of Tan Zhenren's eyes.
Peng! Ka snort!
The body shield that was confident that it could take a blow from the talismanic treasure shook violently, and its spiritual light dimmed sharply before it broke through a crack.
"You......"
Tan real face horrified, the powerful impact, let his blood churning, his body towards the ground backward flying back.
"Terrifying!"
The two Late Foundation Establishment stages who were also flying towards the large hole in the formation gate couldn't help but have their scalps numb.
"A single slash cuts back a False Dan Realist? Is this Lu Changan a heavenly pride of the world?"
The high nosed young man at the peak of Foundation Establishment broke out in a cold sweat, that he had struck out at such a character before.
While being surprised, Miss Wei was secretly glad that she had avoided clashing with Lu Changan before.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The two Late Foundation Establishment stage people didn't dare to linger, let alone take a closer look, and without looking back, they took the opportunity to fly into the healing hole in the formation door.
The two of them wished that Lu Chang'an and Tan Zhenran would fight, so that they could delay for a while longer, creating time for them to take the treasure.
......
"Lu Chang'an, you're hiding so deeply, a mere turtle talisman master, but you've cultivated the Body Refining Art to the Quasi-Third Stage!"
Real Tan let out a low roar, his body surged with a flood of Dan Li blue radiance, and his tall figure mustered out of thin air.
Buzz!
He opened his mouth and spat out an ebony-colored ruler, which surged more than ten feet into the wind, condensing majestic deep blue light, and slapping at Lu Chang'an with a ruler that was like crashing thunder.
In order to guard against Lu Changan's other secret moves, Tan Zhenren offered up a blackened, extremely high-grade magic weapon iron shield, surrounding his body.
"Hehe, if you don't have some self-protection ability, how can you live up to the name of 'Turtle Rune Master'."
Lu Chang'an let out a light laugh.
Seeing the ten-odd feet of magic ruler slapping at him, his legs generated wind, just like a phantom shadow residual wind, flying back at great speed.
At the same time, he retreated.
The black and gold curved sword breaks through the air to chop, and the dark-colored treasure ruler hard to shake a blow, only adhere to one or two breaths, will be darkly defeated back.
The difference between a prototype magic treasure and a real magic treasure, between a late stage Foundation Establishment and a False Dan real person, is hard to make up.
Lu Changan took advantage of the situation to get out of the attack range of the magic treasure ruler, and with the help of the surrounding ancient buildings, he kept moving around to avoid the battle. If Real Tan was an ordinary False Pill Realist, Lu Changan wouldn't mind relying on his body refining and spell attainments to have some fun.
But this person was a top False Pill Realist, so it was unnecessary to fight with him.
Other False Dan real people can only control a magic treasure, Tan real people can also control a very high quality magic weapon defense.
"Lu Changan! What's the point of being a shrinking violet, wasn't it quite impressive just now?"
"Do you dare to fight with Mister Tan head on?"
Real Tan harnessed his magical treasures and artifacts and chased after him, shouting angrily.
Embarrassingly, he couldn't catch up with Lu Chang'an.
Lu Chang'an's Body Refining Technique, which favored speed, coupled with the addition of spells, was that much faster than him.
If he was in the sky, Real Tan would still have a glimmer of hope.
But in the vicinity of the ground, the complex ancient buildings formed a natural barrier.
The building materials in the ancient ruins were so strong that even a real person couldn't do a single blow to the mast.
"Your Excellency, as a False Dan, you have strong magical power and long qi veins. If you chase after me for a while longer, you will be able to exhaust Mister Lu."
Lu Changan laughed.
Real Tan's heart stirred, this is true.
However, he vaguely sensed that something was wrong, Lu Chang'an didn't need to remind himself so kindly.
Suddenly.
Tan Zhenran, who was in flight, stumbled, feeling that his qi and blood were stagnant and his mana was not smooth.
"Not good! When did you get poisoned?"
A trace of green and black blood lines appeared on Real Tan's face and forehead, his breathing was fiery, and his chest was vaguely painful.
"The third-order poison in that medicine storehouse, and I don't know how much toxicity has been lost, it finally kicked in."
Seeing this, Lu Changan sighed and shook his head.
If it wasn't for the poison.
He wouldn't have "manifested himself in front of the people" and cut through the body shield of the False Dan Realist with a single slash.
Lu Chang'an secretly poisoned himself during that gap in his body.
Previously, he went to the medicine storehouse to select items, and the black pot of medicine he obtained was a colorless and tasteless third-order poison.
The normal third-order pills in the medicine storehouse had a very large loss of medicinal properties.
The jar of poison that Lu Chang'an picked could be used as a primer itself. As a second-order elixir master, he was able to identify and confirm that the loss of toxicity was far less than other elixirs.
Over a long period of time, poisons can deteriorate and their toxicity can change in unknown ways.
Lu Chang'an could only judge that it should be effective against fake dan real people, to what extent, it needs to be proven in practice.
......
"Insidious little thief!"
Real Tan rushed his crown and canthus, after confirming that he had been poisoned, he suppressed his anger and didn't dare to chase after Lu Chang'an anymore.
Previously, Lu Chang'an had killed him head-on, and he thought he was going to fight squarely.
As a result, just like Hu Zhenzhen, he was still undermined.
Whoosh!
Real Tan stepped on the recluse and turned around to fly back.
He secretly utilized his magic power to suppress the third-order poison in his body.
"No good, the more I push my magic power, the faster the poison attacks."
The greenish-black blood lines on Real Tan's face expanded further.
He quickly realized that he had been hit by a chronic poison that was initially very subtle and lurking within his body.
After the fight, this chronic poison would expand at an extremely terrifying speed.
Real Tan took a few antidote pills, but the effect was not obvious.
His physical condition is declining, and his blood vessels and internal organs are corroding little by little.
Tan's heart thumped, suspecting that he was hit by an ancient strange poison, must be the right third-order antidote pills, in order to effectively dissolve.
"Huh! This third-order poison has a good effect."
Lu Chang'an showed a strange color and trailed not too far behind.
After applying it in actual combat, he understood the medicinal properties of this poison. Discovered early in the incubation period, forcing it out as soon as possible, or isolating it, there is still a chance of resisting it.
At that time, Lu Chang'an struck head-on, threatening and impacting Real Tan, who did not notice it at first.
Real Tan found a corner to hide in and tried to dissolve the poison in his body.
"Sit down and heal? How can there be such a good thing?" Lu Changan's face contained a sneer, and his powerful divine sense easily found the place where Real Tan's transformed poison was hiding.
He didn't need to do it himself.
He manipulated the puppets from afar, constantly harassing Realist Tan, so that the latter could not feel at ease with the poison.
If Real Tan fought back and used his magic power and magic treasures, it would exacerbate the poison.
Real Tan could only run away in a mess, use talismans to fight back, and keep changing places to heal his wounds.
In order to prevent Tan Zhenran's jade and stone from being destroyed, Lu Changan didn't push too hard and focused on harassing him.
In such a short time, Tan's mana breath has already slipped to a level inferior to that of a normal False Pill real person.
"Not enough to fear."
Lu Chang'an smiled faintly, even if Real Tan managed to cure the poison, his strength would be greatly reduced.
He cast his gaze towards the hexagonal palace building.
Overhead, the seventh formation gate hole that was broken open had already healed.
Lu Changan had previously blocked Realist Tan, and the minimum requirement was that he could not be allowed to enter the Treasure Vault space and affect Fairy Shifu's access to the treasures.
Now that he has poisoned and forced back Real Tan, he has achieved the desired effect.
......
This is the first time I've ever seen a person who has been in a position to do something like this.
The blue crystal ball suspended in the halo above the hexagonal palace building, the spiritual power light flashed.
Buzz!
The hidden formation door opened, a white haze of light shone down, and a familiar voluptuous figure flashed out from within.
"Fellow Daoist Master, how is the situation?"
Lu Chang'an let out a sigh of relief and looked towards the joyful Fairy Shi.
"Fellow Daoist Lu, my concubine has entered a miniature secret space, which is indeed a secret treasure trove left behind by the near ancient sect 'Hearing Sea Pavilion'."
"Within the treasure vault space, some of the treasures were left behind, but they were divided into different grades. With my concubine's token, I can only access one of the items, and the topmost treasures cannot be gotten my hands on......."
"Oh, can there be a chance to form a dan in the secret vault? What item did Fairy Master get?"
Lu Chang'an was not skeptical and inquired.
"There are things of chance for conjugation. However, my concubine chose a formation inheritance."
Shi Manrong said, taking out a jade cylinder.
"Formation inheritance?" Lu Chang'an couldn't help but feel surprised.
"My concubine's choice was not wrong."
Shi Manrong smiled and said, "This formation inheritance, when you look at the Liang Immortal Cultivation Realm, can be considered among the top. With just a little bit of enlightenment, my concubine is confident that she will become a third-stage formation master at the peak of the Foundation Establishment Stage."
"I see."
Lu Chang'an realized that with Fairy Shi's worth, she should have prepared some of the materials for the formation. When she became a Third Order Formation Master, it would be much easier for her to seek the conjugation items.
By then, her status would be no worse than that of an ordinary True Dan cultivator, surpassing that of a False Dan real person.
"This jade cylinder, my concubine took the time to make a copy to give it to Fellow Daoist Lu. If Fellow Daoist Lu doesn't believe what my concubine said, she can search her body."
Shi Manrong said with a straight face.
"No need, you and I have been friends for many years, so there is no need to search your body."
Lu Changan chose to trust Fairy Shi.
The important thing is that he also has a token in his hand, which is a relic left behind by the Yuan Ying True Lord of the Hearing Sea Pavilion.
This token was also obtained by Fairy Shifu when she helped to break the ban.
Now, even if the two of them get their own treasures, Lu Changan can accept it.
"Eh? Why don't we see Mr. Tan?"
Shi Manrong looked around and revealed a surprised look.
"Manservant Tan, he is in the process of transforming the poison, or preparing to try to break the formation to escape from the ruins......."
Lu Chang'an briefly explained the situation of Real Tan.
Master Fairy's expression was wonderful, a pair of clear eyes staring at Lu Changan, her body instinctively tensed, subconsciously wanting to back away.
"What is Shifu Fairy's intention, do you not trust someone from Lu?"
"Fellow Daoist Lu has misunderstood." Shi Manrong forced a smile, "My concubine's heart was too shocked, never thought that the two False Pill real people, were both defeated by Fellow Daoist Lu.........'s divine calculations."
"It was just a fluke, but it was just a special circumstance, those two real people were lightly defeated."
Lu Chang'an said modestly.
"Right, later on, when I go into the treasure vault, Fairy Master will help keep an eye on Realist Tan, and I'll have the Earth Rock Rat assist you." "Concubine understands."
Shifu Manrong happily promised.
Nowadays, Manservant Tan is already a lost dog, and is much less of a threat.
......
After the arrangements were made, Lu Chang'an took out the dark gold token left behind by the Yuan Ying True Lord of the Hearing Sea Pavilion.
This token had a better texture compared to the ancient bronze token that Fairy Shi and True Lord Hu had obtained.
"Fellow Daoist Lu, that hidden seventh formation gate is further loosened, you only need to launch an attack close to that of a False Pill True Lord to break it. At that time, my concubine will then help you cut off the induction node of the trap-killing formation."
Shi Manrong explained.
"Good."
Lu Chang'an rose up in the air and offered up the black and gold scimitar in the form of a prototype of a magic treasure.
Lu Chang'an, because of his strong divine sense and decades of cultivating it with his mana, manipulated this magic treasure prototype with much less consumption than a normal late stage Foundation Establishment.
Thumbs up!
The black and gold scimitar chopped out a half-moon blade awn, hitting the break in the formation gate pointed out by Fairy Shi.
Boom!
The light ripples of the formation surfaced and shattered, presenting an even bigger hole.
Shi Manrong punched out a second-rank upper-grade ban-breaking talisman to help Lu Chang'an cut off the killing formation's ban sensing.
Shi Manrong was surprised to find that the token in Lu Changan's hand did not have the faint red light that it had before.
"Sure enough."
Lu Chang'an was calm and relaxed as he passed through the hole in the formation door and was enveloped by a white haze, his figure disappearing in a flash.
......
Lu Chang'an's body sank, with a sense of imbalance as he fell into the abyss.
"What a rich spiritual energy."
In the next moment, he was in a miniature space that was about a mile in circumference, and to his eyes was a desolate landscape of ancient gardens.
In the middle of the garden space, there was a spirit well several feet wide, gushing with clear spirit springs.
With the well as the center, there are more than eighty stone platforms in total.
Some of the stone platforms are covered by transparent light shields, and floating inside are objects of different light colors.
From inside to outside, there are three circles.
There are only four stone platforms in the innermost circle.
The second circle, sixteen stone platforms.
The third circle, sixty-four stone platforms.
However, most of the stone platforms have no light cover and are empty.
Only one of the four stone platforms in the first circle has a light shield.
The second and third circles combined, there were only a dozen stone platforms with light mask items.
According to Fairy Shifu, the token in her hand could only obtain one item in the third circle.
"Xuanmu Vine...... Yin Yang Water...... Fine Crystal Condensing Dan...... Demonizing Mirror......"
On each stone platform, the name of the item and a brief description of its use were engraved. Lu Changan briefly scanned it, and his eyes were hot and his heart was pounding.
Among them, the "Yin Yang Water" and the "Fine Crystal Condensing Pill", which he was most attracted to, were both in the second circle of stone platforms.
The third circle of stone platforms, there are ordinary magic treasure, dan formation spirit, jade cylinder and other things.
Lu Changan took a deep breath and walked towards the second circle of stone platforms, coming to the stone platform where the Fine Crystal Condensation Pills were located, looking at the jade bottles floating within the light shield.
The elixir contained in this jade bottle was the Fine Crystal Condensation Pill, which he could hardly ask for in his two lifetimes.
Not far away from the neighboring stone platform in the mask of light, transparent crystal bottle, flowing black and white beads of liquid, is the world's rare - yin and yang water.
Yin Yang Water can help cultivators to melt away the fake or real pills and return to the liquid mana of the Foundation Establishment Stage.
On this basis, the quality of the finished dan can be slightly improved when next striking the conjugation dan.
"If I can obtain both the Yin Yang Water and the Fine Crystal Condensation Dan, I have hopes of impacting the Immortal Golden Dan in this life."
Lu Changan's breathing thickened and he operated the Evergreen Technique to stabilize his mind.
At such a critical moment, one must be calm and not take things lightly.
His divine sense communicated with the token in his hand, and a simple message soon came through.
"Take one item from the first circle of stone platforms."
"Items from the second circle of stone platforms, can take two. The third circle can take four......."
This is the experience that Fairy Master had previously groped for.
To retrieve an item, you must touch the stone shield with your token. If you don't, you won't be able to open the shroud to get the treasure.
If you don't have a token and touch the shield, you will be attacked by the forbidden system.
The killing power of this place is comparable to that of a YuanYing ZhenJun's strike.
According to Fairy Shih, that young man with a high nose at the peak of Foundation Establishment was killed by the forbidden system when he tried to get the treasure, and he was annihilated by the forbidden system, not even a remnant was left.
Lu Chang'an didn't take the treasure at the first opportunity, his eyes swept around this miniature space and faintly said:
"Come out."
"Elder Lu! The young woman has no intention of offending, please raise your hand."
Behind an ancient tree a hundred feet away, a long-haired, cold woman in a gauze skirt crawled out in a sorry state.
It was none other than Miss Wei who had entered not long ago.
"Why aren't you dead?"
Lu Chang'an's tone was cold, and he did not have any good feelings towards Miss Wei, who practiced demonic kung fu.
"I...... I couldn't get out! Without the token in my body, bearing the immense pressure of this space, it won't take long for my body to explode and die."
Wei girl's face reddened, cold sweat dripping, lying on the ground, breathing and talking are difficult.
"Why do you call me Senior Lu?"
Lu Chang'an frowned slightly, his face was in thought.
"My master once unintentionally mentioned you and told us to honor you when we meet......"
"Your master, but Liang Shaotian?"
Lu Changan's eyes flickered as he felt a homologous aura from the demonic kung fu on this woman.
"Yes! I also...... still hope that senior will be merciful and take the late generation out. The youngest daughter is willing to......"
When Miss Wei said the last sentence, her eyes turned white and she fainted, blood seeping out of her mouth and nose.
After Lu Changan's divine sense probed, he walked forward.
After a moment's hesitation, he planted a restriction on Miss Wei's dantian.
Afterwards, he placed the lowest quality second-order talisman on her face, just enough to block her eyes.
"Look at your life."
Lu Chang'an turned back and came to the four stone platforms in the first circle.
......
The token fed back the information that Lu Changan could only take one item from the stone platforms in the first circle.
However, of the four stone platforms in this circle, only one of them had a light shield item.
That was the legendary Heaven and Earth Spirit, the Xuan Mu Vine.
Inside the light shield, there was a withered and yellowed vine planted in the dull five-colored soil.
The hole in the stone platform next to the soil is gushing with water from the spiritual spring, constantly nourishing the withered vine, but it seems to be powerless to return to the heavens.
The withered and yellowed vine only has a small piece of green left, less than one-tenth of it.
Lu Changan also noticed that on the branch sticking out of the withered yellow vine, there was a dead zucchini fruit.
Surveying this gourd vine, Lu Changan inexplicably recalled the branch of peach wood that he had once traded with Daoist Tianshu, consuming his life to help maintain his vitality.
The two seemed to have a similar aura, but there were some differences.
According to Daoist Tianshu, that branch of mahogany was the material used to refine one of the "Nine and Five Treasure Dragon Weapons" created by the Great Jin Dynasty of the Feng Hua Continent.
"Xuan Mu vine, from the mysterious ancient cave, also seems to be the opening of the world's companion vine......"
"Failed to cultivate the Xuan Tian gourd, the vitality of 90% broken. Transplanted again, difficult to survive."
On the stone platform, engraved with a simple description.
"What is the Xuan Tian Gourd?"
Lu Chang'an has never heard of it in his three lifetimes of Immortal Cultivation.
"This withered Xuanmu Vine, even the near-ancient clan 'Hearing Sea Pavilion' is powerless to revive it. Even though my Evergreen Kung Fu is special, I don't know how much I have to pay to save it as a wood magic treasure embryo."
The strength of the Listening Sea Pavilion, Lu Changan surmised from the information in the jade cylinder, definitely far exceeded the YuanYing level forces around Liang.
Because, the YuanYing True Monarchs of the Hearing Sea Pavilion mentioned in the jade cylinder alone were more than three.
Lu Chang'an didn't want to try something that these behemoths couldn't even do.
"That's just it, it's not cost-effective."
Lu Chang'an shook his head and turned towards the second circle of stone platforms.
Compared to the Xuan Mu Vine which had little chance of survival, it was still the Yin Yang Water and the Fine Crystal Condensation Pill that yielded a more secure return.
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