Chapter 120: Mist Sea's Lost Pearl
In the thick, paste-like mist of the East Sea, Lu Qingyang sped along the dragon bone wreckage, with three Nascent Soul Auras clinging to him like maggots.
The Three Pure Bells in his sleeve suddenly chimed, and the tightly sealed mist surprisingly split open into a centipede-shaped crack, revealing a jet-black reef island.
Among the crooked thousand-year-old ironwood trees on the island, half of a broken coiled Dragon stone pillar was faintly visible—its mottled pattern was seven-tenths similar to the hidden pattern of the Stealing the Heavens and Switching the Sun Talisman in Mr. Lu's embrace.
"This is quite a geomantic treasure land!" He smiled slightly, revealing a barely perceptible grin, as if quite pleased with the place before him.
He gently raised his right hand, his fingertips vaguely tracing over the multi-treasure pouch hanging at his waist, which contained thirty-six Formation Plates he had stolen from various places.
Just then, with a thunderous roar, the dragon bone crashed into the blood-red beach on the east side of the island like a falling meteor.
In an instant, dust flew and sand and stones scattered.
At the same time, three bronze coins engraved with the character "Xuan" shot out like meteors, accurately embedding themselves in the Xun, Li, and Dui directions.
As these three bronze coins fell, the originally dilapidated Zhou Tian Star Array seemed to be infused with new vitality, instantly activating.
Lights flickered within the Formation, runes flowed, and a powerful Formation energy erupted in an instant.
In the mist, the crystal coffin that had been pursuing him crashed into the Formation wall by surprise.
With a loud "bang," the unique moon-hua pattern of Guanghan Palace on the coffin lid was corroded into countless honeycomb-like holes, as if it had been eaten away by strong acid.
Seeing this, Leng Yuehan's expression changed slightly, and she made a hand Seal with her delicate fingers, muttering incantations.
As her incantations sounded, an extremely cold Qi surged from her body, instantly condensing into a chain made of Nine Yin Profound Ice.
This chain, like a roaring giant Dragon, shot directly towards the Formation eye.
However, at this critical moment, Lu Qingyang suddenly grinned, revealing a set of pearly white teeth.
He unhurriedly took out a Gu-feeding Jade Slip from Insect Master Valley from his embrace, and the Spirit-Devouring Golden Cicada sleeping within the Jade Slip seemed to sense something, suddenly flapping its wings and flying up.
This Spirit-Devouring Golden Cicada was extremely fast, like lightning, and instantly gnawed Leng Yuehan's ice chain into a thousand holes.
As it gnawed, the ice chain continuously emitted crisp "crack, crack" sounds, eventually unable to bear the weight, breaking into countless segments.
"Fairy Leng's 'Ice Soul Dragon Lock' move is truly marvelous!" Lu Qingyang shook the Jade Bottle in his hand, his smile becoming increasingly playful, "It's just a pity..." He deliberately drew out his words, "The Saintess of Insect Master Valley once said that what this golden cicada loves to eat most is thousand-year profound ice dregs."
A hundred-zhang whirlpool suddenly exploded at the bottom of the sea, and Yin Jiuyou's burial sky coffin, carrying a foul, putrid Qi, broke through the waves.
Lu Qingyang calmly tore open his clothes, and on the Guanghan Palace Map tattoo on his chest, a line of vermilion characters was conspicuously added: "Jiazi Year, Twelfth Lunar Month, Third Day, Leng Yuehan's Changing Clothes Time."
The moment the corpse Qi touched the tattoo, it strangely condensed into an ice lotus that floated towards the crystal coffin, causing the two Nascent Soul Auras to collide with a roar in the air.
Taking advantage of this gap, he hunched over and darted deep into the ironwood forest.
A fragment of a bronze cauldron half-buried in the rotten leaves caught his attention; in the mouth of the taotie pattern on the cauldron's ear, precisely the missing "Greedy Wolf Star Sand" from the Stealing the Heavens and Switching the Sun Talisman was held.
When he brought the Talisman close to the cauldron's body, a rumbling sound of gears turning suddenly came from underground, and the entire island began to spin like a top, with seventy-two bronze pillars inscribed with ancient Seal script breaking through the earth.
"It's actually the Immortal Cave of Old Monster Xuanji!" Lu Qingyang's pupils suddenly contracted, and a storm raged in his heart.
He never expected that he would accidentally stumble into this legendary Immortal Cave.
Five hundred years ago, Old Monster Xuanji, a Soul Transformation Cultivator who entered the Dao through Formations, sealed all his lifelong treasures within this "Mist Sea's Lost Pearl" before his demise.
And now, this secret had been inadvertently triggered by Lu Qingyang's breaking of the Restriction.
He unhesitatingly slapped and shattered three Formation Plates, and with the powerful Spiritual Qi flow generated by the exploding Formation Plates, his figure shot like lightning towards the nearest bronze pillar.
At the same time, the Stealing the Heavens and Switching the Sun Talisman in his palm had already quietly branded itself onto the "Tianquan" star position.
Just as Lu Qingyang had completed this series of actions, Su Meiniang, who had pursued him to the island, suddenly trembled, and her Lifebound Fox Fire seemed to lose control, surging madly towards the cluster of bronze pillars.
Seeing this, Lu Qingyang was secretly delighted, and he immediately seized the opportunity to throw out the fragments of the Kunlun Mirror.
The fragments, refracted by the pillar Formation, transformed into a sky-filling net of fire, and the blazing flames illuminated the entire Immortal Cave in a fiery red.
"Su Jiejie's Fox Fire is indeed incomparably pure!" Lu Qingyang exclaimed, "It can just help Mr. Lu melt the profound iron lock on this 'Tianji' pillar!"
As the Fox Fire spread, the profound iron lock on the "Tianji" pillar was quickly melted, and the Seal on the pillar's body also shattered under the scorching of the karma fire.
In an instant, a powerful Aura surged from within the pillar, revealing the Xuanji Array Diagram Jade Slip suspended inside.
Yin Jiuyou's Corpse King Claws, like a black lightning bolt, tore through the Void Realm, carrying a fierce Aura, and directly ripped through the fire net towards Lu Qingyang.
However, facing such a fierce attack, Lu Qingyang appeared exceptionally calm.
He just smiled slightly, revealing a cunning grin, and then unhesitatingly tossed the Jade Slip in his hand high into the air.
The moment the Jade Slip left Lu Qingyang's palm, it suddenly burst forth with dazzling light, as if it had been given life.
The Jade Slip spun rapidly in the air, and in the blink of an eye, it unfolded into a giant star map.
This star map was like a microcosm of the Universe, with stars twinkling and scattered, and the twenty-eight constellations were even more clearly visible, as if truly existing in this Void Realm.
As the star map unfolded, the entire bronze pillar Formation also seemed to be activated, its projected light echoing and intertwining with the star map to form a giant Formation.
This Formation was majestic, like a vast starry sky, trapping Yin Jiuyou and his two Nascent Soul enemies within it.
Trapped in the Twenty-Eight Constellations Killing Formation, Yin Jiuyou and the others immediately felt a powerful pressure surge towards them, and their attacks became soft and powerless under the Formation's restraint.
And at this moment, Lu Qingyang, seizing the opportunity, quickly bit the tip of his tongue and sprayed a mouthful of vital blood onto the Stealing the Heavens and Switching the Sun Talisman.
The Stealing the Heavens and Switching the Sun Talisman, upon contact with the vital blood, seemed to ignite, transforming into a stream of light that tightly enveloped the Xuanji Array Diagram.
Immediately after, Lu Qingyang's figure flickered, leaving only a straw-woven substitute Puppet in his place.
This substitute Puppet was made extremely lifelike, not only identical to Lu Qingyang in appearance, but even his characteristic strange laugh was mimicked perfectly.
"Everyone, take your time breaking the Formation!" The substitute Puppet let out Lu Qingyang's unique laugh, "When you come out, Mr. Lu will definitely exchange the Array Diagram's rubbing for your three Lifebound Treasures!"
Before the words finished, the substitute Puppet suddenly spontaneously combusted, turning into a pile of ashes in the blink of an eye.
And the real Lu Qingyang had already taken this opportunity to escape into the underground river of the earth pulse like a ghost.
At the bottom of the underground river of the earth pulse, Lu Qingyang's figure was indistinct.
His gaze was drawn to a half-buried bronze casket in the riverbed's sediment.
This bronze casket looked quite old, covered in mottled rust, but the pair of taotie eyes on the casket's lid were particularly striking.
Upon closer inspection, Lu Qingyang was surprised to find that these taotie eyes were inlaid with an extremely rare material, and this material was precisely the key to the "Too Void Secret Realm" that could cause a bloody storm in the Cultivation world!
A Dragon-like tidal sound came from the end of the underground river, and when Lu Qingyang broke out of the water, before his eyes was a bronze palace suspended in the mist sea.
The shape of the keyhole of the coiled Dragon lock on the palace gate perfectly matched the key in his embrace.
The moment he inserted the key, the mist of the entire sea area suddenly boiled, countless sleeping ancient Restrictions successively awakened, and the town-School Magic Treasures of the major Schools thousands of miles away simultaneously emitted a sharp hum...