Hunyuan Immortal Sect

Chapter 287: Divine Consciousness Restraint
The two men carefully observed their surroundings and made sure that there was nothing suspicious before stepping into the inner room and slowly walking to the fire snake tree.

"This dark green pool water should be some kind of spiritual liquid. The fire snake tree uses it as nourishment, so it can grow so lush." ​​Han Yuan looked at the dark green pool water in the pit under his feet. He first carefully tested it with a magic tool, then scooped some with his hand and brought it closer to observe carefully before drawing a conclusion.

"In that case, this pond should have been filled with spiritual liquid, but now there is only this little left. It seems that it has all been absorbed by the fire snake tree." Song Xian took over the conversation and picked a fire snake fruit.

Looking closely, the entire Fire Dragon Tree produced fifteen Fire Snake Fruits, which posed a problem: how to distribute them.

Now that He Zhi and An Daoquan are dead, there are only two people left. Among these fifteen fire snake fruits, some people will definitely get more and some will get less.

Just as Song Xian was about to speak, Han Yuan's voice came over: "Fellow Daoist Song, I have a suggestion."

"Fellow Daoist Han, please speak."

Song Xian was always on guard against him, paying attention to his every move and trying not to turn his back on him.

He was really worried that this guy would secretly attack him, especially after discovering the Fire Snake Fruit. Such benefits were enough to turn friends against each other, not to mention that the two of them did not have a deep friendship, and this guy had a bad reputation.

Although the two had worked together before, it was Apu who acted as the middleman.

But now there are only two people left here, no bystanders, and no restraining party. As the saying goes, it is better to be safe than sorry. People have no intention of hurting the tiger, but the tiger may hurt people's hearts.

Therefore, it is necessary to be on guard.

He could also feel that Han Yuan was secretly watching his movements at all times, which made him more alert. He didn't know whether Han Yuan was on guard or looking for an opportunity to attack him.

"I have some knowledge of alchemy and a recipe for a second-grade, lower-grade Soul-Replenishing Pill, but I've never had the chance to try it. If you trust me, could you please let me keep these Fire Snake Fruits, and once they're refined into Soul-Replenishing Pills, we'll split the profits fifty-fifty."

Song Xian did not respond immediately. He certainly would not agree to this condition. What if Han Yuan ran away with the Fire Snake Fruit? Where would he find him?

In addition, he was also wondering how credible Han Yuan's words were.

The second-grade low-grade soul-replenishing elixir is not an ordinary elixir. He really doesn't believe that he has the ability to refine this level of soul-replenishing elixir. This requires an alchemist with extremely superb skills.

Han Yuan is a casual cultivator in the early stage of foundation building and has no resources. The probability of him not only having the recipe for a second-grade low-grade spiritual nourishing pill, but also knowing how to refine it is too small.

If Han Yuan lied to monopolize the Pitaya fruit, and this plan failed, would he turn against him and forcibly seize the Pitaya fruit?
Considering this person's previous reputation, Song Xian thought more and more that it was possible.

He was alert in his heart, but replied calmly: "Fellow Daoist Han also knows the art of alchemy?"

“I know the basics.”

"Since fellow Daoist said that he has a second-grade low-grade pill formula, I wonder if you could show it to me?" Song Xian didn't want to fall out with Han Yuan at this time.

He saw his strength, but was not sure that he could defeat him, so he proposed to check the recipe of the elixir, hoping that the other party would give up.

The other party is a casual cultivator, there is no way he can hide the recipe somewhere else! He must be carrying it with him. If he can't produce the recipe, then his previous words are false.

Unexpectedly, Han Yuan flipped his hand and actually took out an ancient black book. It was a square book, one foot square, with the words "Compendium of Alchemy" written on it.

Han Yuan did not hand the book to him, but opened it and turned to one of the pages, then stood the book upright.

That page contained the recipe for refining a second-grade, inferior elixir. Song Xian was not far away, so he could naturally see it clearly.

He didn't expect that Han Yuan really had this recipe. It seemed that what he said was true.

However, handing over all the Fire Snake Fruits to him is an absolutely unacceptable condition.

Whether he has the elixir formula or the ability to refine the second-grade low-grade elixir formula has no necessary connection with whether he will eat the fire snake fruit alone.

In fact, it was precisely because he knew how to refine the second-grade inferior spiritual elixir that he wanted to keep the Fire Snake Fruit for himself, because it meant that the Fire Snake Fruit was more valuable to him.

"Since Fellow Daoist Han knows how to refine this pill, there's no problem in handing over the Fire Snake Fruit to him. However, just in case, it's better for us to keep these Fire Snake Fruits separately. As the saying goes, don't put all your eggs in one basket. If we keep them separately, if something happens to one of us, at least half will be left, so that others won't take them all. This also prevents us from being like Fellow Daoist He and Fellow Daoist An, who suffered accidents and had everything reduced to ashes."

Song Xian pondered for a while and gave an answer. Since there was someone who could refine the second-grade low-grade spiritual elixir, he would certainly not be disappointed, but he also had to be on guard.

"Here are fifteen Fire Snake Fruits. Fellow Daoist, keep eight of them. I'll keep seven. After we leave here safely, I'll give the Fire Snake Fruits to Fellow Daoist to refine. How about that?"

"Okay, then let's do as Fellow Daoist Song said. In addition, I, Han, have a small request." Han Yuan put away the ancient black book. Although the page it unfolded contained the method for refining a second-grade inferior elixir, the complete recipe was several pages long. It was impossible to refine the elixir based on the records on that page alone, so he was not worried about leaking the recipe.

"Fellow Daoist Han, please speak."

"Han wants to take this Fire Snake Tree back for research."

"Of course that's no problem. Fellow Daoist Han, please take it." Song Xian agreed to the request without hesitation.

To him, the Fire Snake Tree had no value at all, because the Fire Snake Tree only bore fruit once in its lifetime. Even if the tree was transplanted to the Tianshan Mountains, not to mention that the conditions in the Tianshan Mountains could not support the tree at all, even if a suitable place was found to feed it, the Fire Snake Tree would not be able to produce Fire Snake Fruit again.

As for why Han Yuan wanted to bring the tree back and what he wanted to study, he was not interested. It had nothing to do with him anyway.

After the two reached an agreement, they picked the fire snake fruits one by one, and then Han Yuan uprooted the entire fire snake tree and put it into the storage bag. Then he collected the remaining dark green pool water.

The fire dragon tree is only four or five feet tall, and the space inside the high-level storage bag is ten feet square, which is more than enough to hold it.

The two continued forward, and soon they reached the end of the building. After some exploration, they found a secret passage and opened it.

A stone door opened on the left side of the stone wall, revealing a secret room inside.

The secret room was only a few feet in size. What came into view was a skeleton sitting upright in a golden robe. It was obvious that the person had been dead for many years, but the robe had not yet rotted.

Other than that, the secret room was empty.

Song Xian stepped into the inner room and looked around, but found nothing.

At this time, Han Yuan had walked up to the corpse and took off the golden robe he was wearing. There were several miniature magic arrays engraved on the robe, but they had all become ineffective because they had been there for too long.

But its material is tough, so the robe has not rotted until now.

After some searching, Han Yuan immediately found a high-level storage bag in his golden robe.

Song Xian had been observing his every move. When he saw him take out the storage bag, he immediately strode forward.

In front of him, Han Yuan took out the items in the storage bag one by one.

First, there were dozens of bottles and jars of elixirs, but because they were too old, the elixirs had lost their efficacy, and some had even turned into a pile of powder.

Secondly, there were more than a dozen talismans, all of which had become ineffective due to age.

Then he took out two treasures from it.

One is a two-foot-long hammer made of gold and silver. The handle is golden and the body is silver, with the words "Thunder Hammer" engraved on it.

There was also a palm-sized, fiery-red feather fan with the words "Fire Pattern Fan" written on it. These two items were obviously extraordinary, because the other items, such as elixirs and talismans, had become ineffective over time and had a noticeable aging effect when they were taken out.

But these two things look like new products, and there is even a faint glow on the surface.

Song Xian was the first to pick up the Thunder Hammer and was about to use his spiritual sense to investigate inside, but as soon as his spiritual sense touched it, it bounced back. After a moment of daze, he immediately showed ecstasy on his face.

Magical instruments do not have spiritual barriers. No matter who gets them, as long as they input spiritual power to unlock the restrictions, they can use them immediately. Only magic treasures have spiritual barriers and need to be refined and leave their own spiritual mark before they can be used.

When his spiritual consciousness entered the Thunder Hammer, it was immediately rebounded, which proved that this object had a spiritual consciousness barrier. In other words, it was a magic weapon.

The same was true for the fire-patterned fan. When his spiritual sense touched it, it immediately bounced back.

These three things are undoubtedly magic weapons. From their names, it can be seen that the Thunder Hammer should be a magic weapon with the power of thunder.

The Fire Pattern Fan is a magic weapon with the power of fire.

Compared with magic tools, magic treasures are not only more powerful, but also possess various natural attribute powers, which can exert the corresponding attribute attacks.

Taking the Thunder Hammer as an example, using this treasure, one can launch a thunder attribute attack. This allows cultivators who do not have thunder attribute spiritual roots to also have the power to use thunder attributes.

While Song Xian was inspecting the two magic weapons, Han Yuan was still taking out items from his storage bag one by one.

Soon, everything was taken out one by one.

Compared to magic weapons, other things are not as valuable, but not everything is worthless.

There are many rare materials in this high-level storage bag, such as thousand-year-old black iron, Yin-blood dates, hundred-jade iron coral, refined gold, and even a demon pill.

These are extremely rare items. Although their value is not as high as magic weapons, they are not easy to obtain either.

In addition, several books on martial arts techniques were taken out from the storage bag, one of which was called the Secret Record of Human Puppet, which was a method for refining human puppets.

There is also a Nine Nether Ice Soul Technique, which is actually a mid-grade heavenly technique. The restriction is that only cultivators with water-attribute spiritual roots can practice it.

A mid-grade Heavenly Grade spell could be cultivated to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul Realm, and to some extent, was even more valuable than a magical treasure. However, Song Xian already possessed the Mysterious Heavenly Fusion Fire Technique, so this item wouldn't be of much use to him. However, it could be used by Su Zhirou to cultivate, and so he was very happy about it.

In addition, there are two books of magical secrets, one is called the Dragon and Tiger Purgatory Secret, and the other is called the Great Wilderness Dragon Hunter.

The two of them put all the items together. A few books on the secrets of martial arts were easy to deal with, they just needed to make a copy. As for the other rare materials, the two of them could take them according to their needs.

Han Yuan had the right of first choice, so he took the thunder hammer, and Song Xian had to take the fire fan.

The rest of the training items were also divided among the two of them.

After dividing the items, the two left the secret room and looked around carefully again. They did not find any other mechanisms or secret passages, so they left.

As he passed by the road ahead, Song Xian took the bodies of He Zhi and An Daoquan out.

After all, they were companions in treasure hunting. They were fighting together an hour ago, but now they had turned into two piles of bones. Although he was not sad about it, he felt a little sympathetic and could not bear to see their bodies exposed here, so he took them back and buried them.

"Fellow Daoist Song, I plan to continue exploring this secret realm. What do you think?"

Song Xian had the same idea, although An Daoquan had said before that he had explored the entire secret realm and only this place had man-made buildings.

But now that he was here, how could he be content without personally investigating? What if he had missed something? Or perhaps An Daoquan hadn't told him the truth? That wasn't impossible.

The reason why Han Yuan invited him to explore together was that he was worried that if he left alone, he would destroy the strange stone wall that was used for teleportation.

No one knows whether they can leave here if the stone wall is destroyed, so the two of them must stay together to be safe.

The two hit it off immediately, and then they flew up into the air and headed forward.

In the next few days, the two explored the entire secret realm. The space was not large. No matter whether they went east, west, south or north, they would circle back to the original place in two days at most.

Finally, the two returned to the cliff. Han Yuan followed suit and cut his palm, smearing the stone wall with blood. Soon, the stone wall changed, emitting a faint light, and the picture inside flowed.

As his spiritual power poured in, the stone wall shone brighter and brighter, and a picture appeared on it. It was exactly that cave, and one could even see snakes crawling inside the cave.

The two men looked at each other, and Han Yuan entered the inner room first. When his figure disappeared, Song Xian also strode into the scroll emitting dazzling light.

The strange feeling came again, and the body seemed to be wrapped by something soft, as if falling into a bottomless abyss. The next moment, a dazzling white light shone in.

When his vision returned to normal, he had returned to the cave.

Han Yuan was not far away opposite him, looking at the stone wall thoughtfully. Then he changed his shape and turned into a golden giant ape, and smashed the stone wall with his huge golden fist.

Song Xian watched from the side without stopping them. He was also very curious about what was going on with this stone wall.

As the golden giant ape's stone smashed down, the entire cave seemed to shake, but the stone wall was still intact without even a trace of cracks.

The giant ape's fist struck down like a torrential rain, causing the entire cave to fly with rocks everywhere and almost collapse. Finally, a crack appeared on the surface of the stone wall, and then it broke into several pieces like a mirror and fell to the ground.

Only then did Han Yuan stop. He changed back to his original form and first dripped blood onto the broken surface stone, but there was no reaction.

Then he smeared the blood on the original stone wall. This time, the stone wall did not change.

Song Xian couldn't help but touch the broken surface stones of the stone wall. Obviously, this was not an ordinary material, otherwise it would not be able to withstand the impact of such a huge force.

But when he touched them with his hands, he found that these broken stone walls were no different from other rocks.

He picked up one of the broken stones and broke it with his hands, and the stone broke into pieces.

How could this be? The stone wall is made of the same material as the rest of the cave, and it is a seamless whole, not inlaid.

But how could it have been so resilient just now? What force was changing it, and what force gave it the ability to connect to that secret space?
There must be a profound secret hidden in here, but unfortunately, with the stone wall shattered, it is impossible to explore it anymore.

Without the connecting medium, that secret space can no longer be reached.

If it is not destroyed, it would be an excellent hiding place.

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PS: (I have something to do tomorrow, so I'll take a day off.)
　Thanks to the book friend [Zihe] for the reward of 1,000 Qidian coins.

　　Thanks to the book friend [20190605130425491] for the reward of Qidian coins.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)