Devour

Chapter 181 9-aperture Immortal Stone

Cheng Bai looked at the wall of the cabin. There were four doors on the east, south, west and north. The one he had just entered was the west door, which was on the right hand side of the skeleton. The other three doors were closed.

The Smoker said, "They either left through one of the doors or jumped into the ditch below. It's strange, why there is only one passage among the four doors, and it is turning slowly clockwise like a clock."

The words reminded Cheng Bai, and he suddenly realized: "This is the clock time. Could it be that every quarter of an hour, the passage turns to the portal, and then a door can be opened?"

Hei Long was quite impatient after hearing this and suggested, "With our skills, why should we wait here? Isn't it just a ravine? Can't we just jump over it and break in?"

Cheng Bai said: "As warriors and cultivators, they must have thought of this step. Isn't it too easy to crack? It's not that simple. I'm afraid both of them fell for it just now."

He had been carefully observing the skeleton that was suspected to be the captain. Looking in the direction its palm was pointing, he saw a round table with an intricately carved dial of the twelve Earthly Branches. There must be a hidden formation in it.

Cheng Bai thought to himself, "It's a pity that I'm not a formation master. I need Li Tong to analyze it and maybe he can figure out the mystery."

Just as he was about to call out Li Tong to solve the problem, he saw the smoker knocking on the table and asking, "What's on the table?"

It is unbearable to watch such an act of betraying teammates. It would be terrible if the accident like the two people in front happened.

Cheng Bai hurriedly said: "Don't act rashly, it might be a trap."

As soon as he finished speaking, the skeleton beside the table was startled, and its bony hand fell down and touched the Si position. The whole room trembled slightly, and the ground speed between the clocks increased dozens of times. The narrow connecting passage quickly pointed to the north gate and stopped.

The west gate was immediately closed and the north gate was opened. A faint light shone from the depths and a blurry figure emerged from inside.

Lu Miaoting exclaimed: "There is someone inside."

Cheng Bai was quite speechless. The formation mechanism that even the elders of the Tumin Society had failed to crack was accidentally opened by the Smoker.

When good fortune comes, you will surely gain something.

Cheng Bai happily said: "Let's go and take a closer look."

Walking through the passage and into the north gate, this place seems like a quiet courtyard garden. You can vaguely see that there used to be a spring flowing in the stream, and there were green trees everywhere, and it was prosperous. Now everything has withered and died, leaving only dead branches and leaves lying here and there.

There are sixteen fluorescent human-shaped jade statues scattered in the desolate silence, some sitting, some standing, some meditating, some sleeping, each one lifelike.

The figures seen outside the door just now were these jade statues, and there were no other traces of people.

Lu Miaoting sighed: "There are only statues, but still no people."

Hei Long saw the clue and said with a smile: "Don't be deceived by appearances. There is a tribe in the world called the Stone Witch Tribe. Their bodies are similar to jade, but they are actually living beings. Those with high cultivation can switch between flesh and jade at will to adapt to different environments."

Cheng Bai recalled the many stone men he had seen in the past. Among them, those who had awakened their spiritual intelligence were from the Stone Witch Clan, represented by Jiong Huang, whose vitality was extraordinary.

So is there anyone alive in the jade statue?

Hei Long looked around and confirmed, "The Stone Witches are also subject to birth, aging, illness and death, but their lifespan is much longer than that of humans. They appear to have little chance of aging, but once they die, they will turn into stone and their bodies will not decay. They are all dead."

Cheng Bai disagreed. He used his spiritual eyes to identify the life essence and the Phoenix Power to explore deeply. The only female jade statue was wriggling with a weak life fire.

He walked up to him, looked him up and down, and said thoughtfully, "One of them is still alive."

This jade statue is the closest to a human form, with harmonious body proportions, smooth and natural lines, a dignified and noble appearance, and an elegant and moving demeanor, which will make people fall in love with it unconsciously.

She is vaguely surrounded by other stone statues like the moon surrounded by stars, and is obviously in the center, as if she is of special significance. The unusual thing is that her belly is bulging high, as if she is ten months pregnant.

The mysterious fire of life was obscure and warm, and it came from her belly. If it weren't for the continuous improvement of her spiritual eyes and the extremely sharp perception of the Phoenix force, it would have been difficult to distinguish.

Cheng Bai was shocked: "Can a stone man get pregnant?"

After thinking for a moment, he used his hands that could melt gold and break jade to gently pat the surface of the stone statue's abdomen. He peeled off the skin and revealed a stone fetus inside. It had nine orifices and looked exactly like a baby. The tenacious fire of life came from this.

Hei Long was well-informed and asked in surprise, "Nine-aperture Immortal Stone?"

Cheng Bai's spiritual eyes could see more clearly that the surface of this stone was as smooth and delicate as a baby's skin, its color was rosy and vivid, its breath of life was mysterious and extraordinary, and it even contained a hint of immortal spirit. It was truly an eternal treasure.

Immortal energy is an extremely special spiritual essence, transcendent, unpredictable, infinitely useful, and inestimable value. When a cultivator obtains it, his life can leap, break through the limit, and become an immortal. When a monster obtains it, it can make its species evolve, transform, grow, and be promoted to a higher grade.

The wonderful life hidden in the stone womb was also watching Cheng Bai silently, like a sleeping king who was born and raised by nature and lived in peace with the world, majestic without being angry.

Black Dragonfly walked closer to take a closer look and warned: "This stone contains the true spirit, and it is born with a holy fetus. It has great potential for refining tools and is enough to create a supreme treasure. But if it is allowed to develop, once it breaks out of the shell and is born, it will surely cause a huge change in the world and cause ghosts to cry and gods to tremble."

Cheng Bai thought to himself, "To be able to give birth to the Nine-Aperture Immortal Stone, this woman from the Stone Witch Clan must have been an extraordinary person in her lifetime, and she must be higher than Jiong Huang. The other fifteen people are clearly important members of the Stone Witch Clan, and each of them is extraordinary."

He then took out the Nine-Aperture Immortal Stone, which was extremely heavy in his hand, as if it weighed a mountain weighing millions of pounds. He didn't know how to store it safely in the belly of the stone statue, so he temporarily put it into the Shengjin Pagoda and placed it in the Twelve Palaces of the Earthly Branches on the fifth floor.

The twelve palaces in the City of Promotion are no longer empty. Cheng Bai uses them to feed the blood-sucking insects that have just emerged from their pupae. From now on, he will continue to harvest the pupae of the blood-sucking insects for use as medicinal materials. At the same time, he will use the blood-sucking insects' habit of protecting their nests to collect some rare treasures.

Nothing else of value could be found between the stone carvings, so Cheng Bai led the team to explore deeper into the secret realm. There was a spiral staircase on the north side, and they followed the path to a higher level.

This place is equally spacious. There are many huge discs floating in the air in the room. They have regular shapes, simple and rounded lines, and a luster as soft as clouds.

They seem to be attracted by a mysterious force, moving slowly according to a certain pattern, getting closer, circling, and then quietly separating, repeating the cycle over and over again, as if interpreting the movement of stars in the sky, hiding wonderful principles.

Cheng Bai watched curiously for a moment, identified the source and said: "Use cloud stone and Moyun beast blood to refine star gold, the result is called 'cloud steel', it is as light as a feather and never rusts, and is refined into 'Thunder Cloud Disk'. It is the pinnacle of small flying boats, with permanent anti-gravity technology, light flying, much better than the cloud shuttle, and worth learning."

Hei Long said: "The Thunder Cloud Disk is an outstanding achievement of the Thunder God Clan's civilization. We were lucky to have been able to preserve so many of them."

It is rare that this batch of brand new equipment has not yet fallen into the hands of the Slaughter Society.

"My lord, are those things floating in the air treasures? I'll go and try and take them down." After saying that, the Smoker jumped onto the disc and stood firmly.

The Leiyun Puhua Disc sank slightly, got used to its weight in an instant, and then lifted it up gently, still moving repeatedly along the original trajectory.

The Smoky Man then flew all over the sky, feeling quite happy, jumping around on many flying saucers, and for a moment he forgot how to take them away.

Cheng Bai summoned the Four Symbols Cauldron and took in the Thunder Cloud Disks one by one. After careful inspection, there were a total of 180 of them, which were stored in the City of Ending in the Shengjin Pagoda.

Without the thunderclouds and flying saucers, the terrain between the flying saucers is flat, spacious and clean, which is hard to find anywhere else.

Cheng Bai controlled the Four Symbols Cauldron to explore the surrounding reactions and instructed: "The spiritual energy in the Death Boat is rich, and many people have died here. There are many soul fragments, which makes it difficult to gather spirits, but opportunities are rare. Why not do some research here and refine the Green Spirit Armor."

He first carefully selected the best quality parts of the Basah King's scales, and with the help of the power of the Four Symbols Cauldron, cut them into sixteen equal parts, and spread them flat on the ground for later use.

Then dozens of taels of green gold were put into the cauldron to melt and processed into thin gold threads to serve as a tough and flexible armor skeleton. The sixteen Long Bo inner pills obtained by Xianhua Pavilion were all put to good use.

With the help of assistants and the Four Symbols Cauldron, progress was smooth and treasures were completed one after another.

More than an hour later, sixteen sets of green spirit armor came out freshly. Each one was a top-grade spiritual weapon, more precious and rare than the Thunder Fury Armor.

This magic weapon can protect you from cold, darkness and acid, and can increase your strength. It is light and comfortable to wear, making it the perfect daily equipment.