Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 134 Lava Underground Palace
The puppet leads the way, exploring and walking a little bit at a time.

Although the progress is indeed a bit slow, it is relatively safe.

This lava cave may just be a path opened up by Xu and Ma on their own in order to get closer to the lava underground palace.

After walking a little further, there is no other danger except that you need to be careful to avoid the scorching heat of the ground.

Until Li Ye once again sent out a team of puppets to explore beyond the limit of his own spiritual sense's detection range.

Not long after, he suddenly felt that a wisp of his spiritual consciousness was annihilated. As his sea of consciousness felt a stinging pain, Li Ye's expression became solemn.

"This distance... doesn't match the information left..."

"Is it that the formation restriction of this lava underground palace has expanded again, or are Xu and Ma misleading us from the beginning...but can they really cooperate so well?"

Li Ye's eyes flashed, and he immediately stepped back a distance, waiting for the puppet to return.

Soon a tiger-leopard puppet and a humanoid puppet rushed back, but the flying bird puppet that went with them had disappeared.

According to the assigned task, the bird puppet is to fly in the front as a scout.

Li Ye immediately recalled his spiritual consciousness and the poisonous insect, and checked the situation ahead as usual.

However, when he absorbed the information contained in the differentiated spiritual consciousness and watched the projected image, his expression changed on the spot.

"How could this happen?!"

In the image projected by the insect, the flying bird puppet flew in front of the other two puppets. It seemed to be harmless, but after it passed by, a restriction was suddenly activated, trapping it.

Immediately afterwards, the power of the restriction exploded, burning it on the spot!

And if it were just this, it would not be enough to make Li Ye lose his composure.

To his surprise, as the flying bird puppet was destroyed, a fire beast wrapped in flames and shaped like a cat flashed by in the recorded image and carried away the remains of the flying bird puppet!

"The fire beasts...didn't they break through some formation restrictions, penetrate a little deeper, and gain some benefits before alarming these things?"

"If their records aren't false...how come not only are the formation restrictions clearly expanding outward, but even these fire beasts are moving outward with them?"

Li Ye's face was gloomy, and he had a bad feeling.

If the information left by Xu and Ma was not false, then this situation means that the secret realm of the lava underground palace may have been triggered and affected by the activities of the two of them, breaking the tranquility and causing changes!
According to current information and estimates, the formations and restrictions of this entire secret realm are already chaotic. Once a chain reaction occurs, and with fire beasts mixed in, it is not impossible for the reaction to spread to the ground!
By then, this secret lava underground palace will not only be a huge danger in itself, but will also be exposed to the public eye, attracting the covetousness of various forces!

The Chidi Mountains are a no-man's land formed by the special terrain at the junction of three countries.

But the premise is that there are only some scattered spiritual veins here, there are only one and a half second-level spiritual veins, and there are no precious resources produced.

This way, we won't attract any powerful forces to interfere too much in the situation here.

Only top forces like Pingyang Mountain, which have established a foundation, could have interest exchanges with other forces in the other three countries in the past.

But if something strange happens to this lava underground palace and it cannot be covered up... then everything will be different!
The barren mountains will inevitably become the target of public criticism!
"Damn it... have I been tricked by two dead people?"

Li Ye cursed and suddenly felt a little ridiculous.

"It's just a slight expansion. Things may not necessarily develop in the worst direction. Let's take a closer look..."

Exhaling, Li Ye ordered the two puppets to continue exploring the way ahead, while he himself followed from a distance and walked towards the location where the flying bird puppet had triggered the formation ban.

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"It's getting hotter..."

As he went deeper, Li Ye's body was thick with spiritual light, trying to isolate the external heat as much as possible, but the effect was not so good. Even with his strong physique, he couldn't stop the sweat from dripping down and felt a burning sensation.

Wood-based skills are really at a disadvantage in this environment.

He had already loosened his robe, revealing his crystal-clear and strong chest, and cast cold breath talismans one after another to lower the temperature around him.

At this moment, he paused, his eyes flashed, and his spiritual sense was used to the maximum extent to explore the formation restrictions that were vaguely visible not far in front of him.

"Damaged, unstable... and seemingly capable of chain expansion..."

Muttering to himself, Li Ye felt more and more uneasy.

At this point, he could already see the tip of the iceberg of the lava underground palace.

The buildings that seemed to be made of obsidian were either broken or intact, roughly connected as one, half-immersed in the lava like an isolated island.

Within the forbidden area of the formation, faint red lines could be seen flickering, appearing unfathomable.

If you observe further, you can find that among those dilapidated buildings, there seem to be places for refining medicine and weapons...

If there are still magical instruments and elixirs from ancient times left... what an amazing opportunity that would be!
"But I'm afraid I'll be able to get it but not return alive!"

Li Ye laughed at himself and suppressed the heat in his heart.

In fact, he no longer had any intention of going in to investigate himself.

This formation restriction is obviously disordered, but perhaps because this lava underground palace has a profound foundation, the formation restrictions are profound and messy, and many parts are difficult to see clearly even with Li Ye's attainments in formations.

Moreover, in addition to the temptation of those dilapidated buildings, he also saw traces of fire beasts frequently.

If you really enter in person, even if you can gain something with a little attainment in formation and luck, you may be severely trapped by a seemingly harmless formation restriction due to misjudgment the next moment!
Li Ye has plenty of life left now, and many opportunities can be gradually obtained by just relying on time. Why should he work so hard on something he doesn't know the full extent of?
of course!

He would never be willing to leave like this.

Whether it's to explore the specifics of this underground palace or to find some opportunities outside, it's worth a try...

But just let the puppet come, and Li Ye himself can be spared!
Li Ye simply completed the arrangements on the two puppets.

He then released a firebird puppet and a humanoid puppet wearing heavy armor and holding a shield.

Then he separated his spiritual consciousness and continued to control them to move towards the area covered by the formation that was flickering and lava was emitting from time to time, and walked towards the underground palace.

Although these puppets are only at the first level, they are truly vulnerable in the face of this forbidden formation.

Because of the attachment of spiritual consciousness, the spirit stones embedded in the puppet can also provide spiritual power, and it does not hinder the use of storage bags, talismans, etc.

These puppets have already been decorated with various talismans, some passive and some active, which will be activated if the situation is not right.

It can even be used in conjunction with some formation tools to break the formation.

Not counting other puppets, this heavily armored defensive puppet, with its combined means, has a chance to withstand two or three foundation-building level attacks.

As long as he can remotely control the puppets and break the restrictions along the way as much as possible, it should not be a problem for this team of puppets to walk to the edge of the underground palace and pick up some scraps.

"But the formation here is so restrictive that even a single move can affect the entire body. If you can avoid it, it's best to avoid it..."

Li Ye murmured, his eyes focused, and he had already put all his energy into the team of puppets.

　I don't know if I overestimated my recovery speed, or if the side effects of the medicine I'm taking are too great, or if I feel drowsy and can't concentrate all day. I'll take a day off. My throat is feeling better now. I'll stop taking the medicine tomorrow. If there are no more problems, I'll start updating four times a day.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)