Refining divine pills, controlling divine beasts, and the useless lady is so cool

Chapter 447: Seizing the Key

Everyone's eyes instantly fell on Mu Qingli. Mu Qingli knew what they were thinking, which was that they wanted him to explore the way.

Mu Qingli didn't care. Instead, he took a few steps forward and came to the old man's side. His face was full of interest. "Dead people? I've never seen so many dead people. I really want to see what's inside."

The old man was not alerted by her approach, and Mu Qingli seized the opportunity to snatch the key from his hand.

The old man's face suddenly turned gloomy, darker than it could be, and his withered fingers reached out to grab Mu Qingli's neck.

Everyone gasped at his actions. Seeing this, Xiao Lingyi and others immediately stepped forward to help Mu Qingli.

The old man failed to catch Mu Qingli the first time, and now surrounded by so many people, he no longer had the kindness he had at the beginning, and his voice was a little cold: "Give me back the key! I can forgive you this time, otherwise don't blame me for being rude!"

The others watched all these changes quietly, standing there in a daze.

Mu Qingli held the key in her hand. When the old man was about to catch up with her, she threw it to Xiao Lingyi. The old man walked towards Xiao Lingyi again, and Xiao Lingyi threw it to Luo Yu...

After a few rounds of chasing, the old man got a little tired of it. Even if he was faster, he couldn't beat more than a dozen people together. He instantly became furious and looked at the group of people watching the show. He thought of a good idea:

"Don't you want my approval? It's simple. Whoever gets the key, I'll take him to see the Phoenix!"

No one dared to step forward, but their eyes fell on Mu Qingli and the others. Some of those with weaker strength kept their heads down and didn't even dare to look.

However, there were also a few who relied on their own strength and were ready to make some moves.

Seeing that no one came forward, the old man gritted his teeth and dropped another bombshell: "In addition to going to see the phoenix, I will also tell you a secret about the phoenix. With this secret, it is very simple to contract the phoenix."

Now, those people who were ready to make a move could not bear it any longer and joined the battle for the key one by one.

Mu Qingli watched the scene become more and more chaotic, and a smile flashed across his face, but disappeared in a flash.

Of course, the more chaotic the better. While they were scrambling for the keys, Mu Qingli winked at them.

So, Mu Qingchen slipped and threw the key directly to another person. The other person was surprised, but before he could say anything, the key he had just got was gone again.

His mood fluctuated drastically in an instant, and he once again joined the battle to grab the key.

No one noticed that the people who had thrown the keys at the beginning had quietly retreated. In addition to Mu Qingli and his friends, Leng Tao and several of his friends were also there.

The bearded man had been watching the fight from the side but did not join in. When he saw Mu Qingli and the others taking action, he took his friends and headed towards them.

Mu Qingli also noticed him, but didn't say much. He took out the key and opened the door of the secret room while the chaos was going on.

The old man's eyes were always on the keys being thrown around, and he didn't notice Mu Qingli's actions.

When he realized something was wrong, the bearded man behind him had just entered the door of the secret room.

The old man yelled in horror, "No!"

No sooner said than done, his body rushed towards the secret room, and just when his hand was about to touch the door, the door slammed shut.

Mu Qingli slapped a talisman on the door, and no matter how hard the old man knocked and pushed, he couldn't open it.

The old man screamed in fear and pounded on the door of the secret room with his hands, as if this would make Mu Qingli and the others come out.

The remaining group of people who were fighting for the key stared blankly at the key, then looked at the opened secret room, with confusion on their faces.

A cultivator at the eighth level of Spirit Emperor shot a stream of spiritual power at the key, and the key instantly turned into a spiritual stone.

"Fool, we have all been deceived!"

The man said this with gritted teeth and threw what he had in his hand away fiercely.

The old man had no intention of paying attention to them at this time. He did not guard the door. If Phoenix knew about it, he would surely die!

A thousand years ago, he accidentally broke into this place. The phoenix was still asleep at that time. He secretly recorded it with the memory fruit, thinking of showing it off outside. This was the scene he just showed to everyone.

Unexpectedly, just as he put away the memory fruit, the phoenix suddenly woke up. The phoenix was extremely angry and felt that he had disturbed it. He had to work very hard to get the phoenix to let him go.

He also swore that he would never let anyone disturb it again, and if he couldn't do it, he would die as a sinner. For this purpose, he specially found a lock and locked the door leading to the Phoenix's habitat.

The Phoenix also restricted his freedom and imprisoned his soul, and he could not walk more than ten meters away from the Phoenix Palace.

This was the first time someone had come here in a thousand years. He had wanted to viciously kill all these people, but he had unexpectedly backfired.

The others noticed his expression and ran madly out of the Phoenix Palace in fear. He wanted to chase them, but he was so scared that he was powerless and could only watch these people in front of him run away.

He barely managed to catch up to the Phoenix Palace's gate, but they were no longer in sight. Dejected, he returned to the Phoenix Palace and collapsed to the ground...

He thought for a long time and slowly opened the first door. He avoided the heat wave and reached out to grab the snake's tail when it slapped out.

This door did not exist originally. He built it himself after spending so much time here. The snake inside is his contracted beast.

"Wanmang, it's me."

The snake's tail stopped tangling and twisted slowly, and its entire body moved out of the room, looking at the old man quietly.

"I'm sorry, I want to live..."

After the old man finished speaking, he slapped his contracted beast with his palm, switching his soul with his own.

Pain is painful, but being alive is more important.

He had thought about switching out his soul before, but after finding that his life was not in danger, he did not do such a thing to his contracted beast.

But now it’s different. Between his own death and the death of his contracted beast, he chose the latter.

The python seemed a little bit unable to believe that its owner would do such a thing to it, and did not even struggle at all.

Apart from saying sorry at the beginning, there was no trace of guilt on the old man's face.

As the souls of the man and the snake were successfully switched, the old man showed a hint of joy on his face. Without even looking at his contracted beast, he hurriedly fled out of the Phoenix Palace.

The python looked at its master who did not stop at all, and curled up on the ground, without any of the cruelty that had just rolled the man to death.

Mu Qingli and his companions who entered the secret room also encountered some trouble. They looked at the pile of huge rocks in front of them and fell into deep thought.

"Can these stones... be moved easily?"