Chapter 324: A long journey to deliver a head, an unexpected surprise
"Wait a minute!"
"Li Dingguo, how about we write this off?"
"I am Kang Siding, the richest man in the three northwestern provinces. People call me Kang the Millionaire. I can't spend all the wealth of my Kang family in my lifetime."
"If you can let me go this time, I swear to heaven that I will send your Renaissance Army three high-quality treasure ships filled with third-grade spiritual rice to thank you for your generosity."
"I can use my own life essence and blood to swear an oath. You don't have to worry about whether I will go back on my word."
At this critical moment of life and death, Kang Siding only felt his heart pounding with fear, and a strong sense of crisis of death surged into his heart. Holding on to a glimmer of hope, he hurriedly shouted to Li Dingguo.
The opponent has a level five peak golden eagle and two innate divine artifacts that can restrain him. I'm afraid he will not be able to escape today.
But who would want to die if they could live?
Especially a genius like Kang Siding who has a bright future does not want to die.
As long as there is a glimmer of hope, we will fight for it even at a huge cost.
"Let you go?"
"Ha ha……"
Li Dingguo sneered, "When you brought people here specifically to murder me, why didn't you think of letting me go?"
"Stop talking nonsense and die!"
"Xuan Huang Chaos Bell, go!"
The other party must have been frightened and confused, or even mentally disturbed, to the point of saying such ridiculous words?
Even if he lets this enemy go, will he stop plotting against him in the future? Will he continue to kill people and steal treasures by any means possible?
That is impossible.
Unless Li Dingguo himself is a fool, he would not let the other party go.
Li Dingguo is not stupid, and he has never let go of any enemy, let alone a talented enemy who can pose a fatal threat to him.
"Dong dong..."
His companion artifact, the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell, continued to ring as he once again used all his strength to activate the passive magical power of this artifact!
Having had this experience once before, he froze the opponent's body for a moment, then with a thought, the Human Emperor Cauldron, with unparalleled power, rushed head-on towards the opponent's golden innate artifact!
"when!"
After a crisp sound of divine weapons colliding, both of their divine weapons were knocked ten feet away!
Although the grade of this treasure bowl is far inferior to that of the Human Emperor Cauldron, its seal has been unlocked to the fifth level, and Kang Siding's cultivation is one small realm higher than Li Dingguo.
Therefore, when the Human Emperor Cauldron activated by Li Dingguo collided with the innate artifact Cornucopia, it showed a trend of being evenly matched.
"Die!"
"Boom!"
Taking advantage of the excellent opportunity that Kang Siding temporarily had no innate divine weapon to protect him, Li Dingguo used all his strength to activate the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell and crashed directly into him with lightning speed!
"what……"
"Oh!"
Kang Siding punched out with all his strength at the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell that was hitting him head-on, but not only did he fail to repel this extremely powerful innate artifact, but his entire body, including his arm, was blown up on the spot by the unparalleled force!
The blood mist that his entire body had turned into had not yet dissipated when it was burned up by a golden and red flame that suddenly emerged from the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell, leaving not even a trace of ash!
After this innate artifact, the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell, was combined with Li Dingguo's life-saving method, it became his companion artifact, gathering most of his energy and spirit into it. It could also stimulate the use of spiritual fire, just like he did himself.
Li Dingguo has always been of the opinion that if he does not take action, then it is fine. But once he takes action, he will wipe out the enemy completely. Of course, he will only be able to feel truly at ease after such a dangerous enemy is wiped out.
To avoid the other party cultivating some weird magical powers, and seeking revenge on me after dying and coming back to life, and staging a series of bloody dramas, which would make me sick to death.
"Human Emperor Cauldron! Go!"
Even after killing the powerful enemy who called himself Kang Baiwan, the battle is not over yet.
Li Dingguo's mind suddenly turned, and he scooped up the large golden basin that had been stagnant for a while after losing its owner, and took the opportunity to put it into the tripod.
He knew that there would most likely be something fishy inside this kind of artifact, and he would not touch it personally until he had dealt with the hidden dangers.
In the past, I was lucky to have encountered the Human Emperor Cauldron and the Chaos Bell, two innate artifacts that were completely ownerless. I did not encounter any accidents and successfully refined them into my own natal artifacts.
Li Dingguo is now sufficiently vigilant. For any divine weapon he has seized, whether it is innate or acquired, he will use the innate magic array of the Human Emperor Cauldron to amplify his own life essence fire, burn and purify them, and completely eliminate all hidden dangers.
This golden big basin artifact is naturally no exception.
"Whoosh!"
After using his natal artifact, the Human Emperor Cauldron, to store the large golden basin inside the cauldron, Li Dingguo quickly returned to the back of the golden eagle and sat down. He took out a third-grade top-grade recovery pill and swallowed it, restoring the energy he had just consumed.
Today was the first time that he used his own internal energy to fight a powerful enemy at an altitude of thousands of feet, which consumed a great deal of the internal energy in his body.
With his current level of cultivation, he can only hover in the air for about a quarter of an hour at most, and then he will fall to the ground due to the exhaustion of his internal energy.
If you are unlucky, it is possible that you will be killed on the spot.
This is also the reason why Kang Baiwan begged for mercy in despair.
He lost the help of the two level five spirit birds and was besieged by Li Dingguo and the golden eagle. His internal energy would soon be exhausted.
By then, if he didn't die from falling from a high altitude, he would be killed by Li Dingguo.
"Dajin, you continue to fly southwards towards the sky above the Yellow River. I will deal with the two people and two birds that were put into the big cauldron."
Li Dingguo then said to the golden eagle.
In this battle, the Great Jin was completely reduced to a supporting role, without even a chance to fight back. The three men and two birds that attacked were quickly dealt with by Li Dingguo.
If the air advantage of the Great Golden Eagle is excluded, he has become a more powerful being than the Great Golden Eagle.
This is the advantage of having a deep foundation and many hidden cards.
It is rare for a level 5 practitioner to be able to challenge opponents of higher levels, but this will happen frequently to Li Dingguo in the future until it becomes the norm.
The golden eagle, which did not participate in the battle this time, is still in peak condition. It does not need to take third-grade top-grade elixirs to recover and can continue its journey leisurely.
"Chirp..."
Da Jin nodded his big head, neighed softly, then flapped his big wings and continued to fly rapidly towards the south over the river.
Li Dingguo sat leisurely on the back of the giant golden eagle and immersed his mind in the sea of consciousness. He did not immediately interrogate the two level five masters of the Kang family, but allowed the innate formation activated by the Human Emperor Cauldron to trap them tightly.
With a thought, he used his innate fire, whose power had been amplified countless times by the large cauldron artifact, to burn and purify the golden large basin artifact.
As the blazing flames continued to burn, wisps of green smoke continuously emerged from the golden basin, and were quickly burned up by the flames.
These green smokes are composed of impurities, soul imprint power, and life essence hidden in the large basin artifact, and they must be cleaned up thoroughly.
About half an hour later, a faint scream came from the golden basin. Li Dingguo was startled and completely relieved.
Inside this golden basin artifact, there is indeed a mysterious unknown soul hidden in the core magic circle.
Kang Siding had no idea that there was such a hidden danger in his life-saving artifact.
Fortunately, Li Dingguo had a large artifact, a large tripod, which was identified by the golden finger as his own innate artifact. He had enough power to burn and purify it, so as to avoid leaving behind unpredictable huge hidden dangers.
As expected by Li Dingguo, many artifacts handed down from ancient times, except for a few, would have various hidden dangers, whether they were innate or acquired. Li Dingguo was still very relieved about the innate artifacts that were identified by his biggest trump card, the golden finger, and had no hidden dangers.
Although he was not sure about the grade of his golden finger, it was obviously higher than the two innate artifacts, the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell and the Human Emperor Cauldron.
After dealing with the hidden danger in the golden basin artifact, Li Dingguo turned his mind to the two level five masters of the Kang family and began to torture and extract confessions by roasting the bird.
Facts have proved that no man can endure this kind of torture. As he wished, Li Dingguo not only learned a lot of secret information about the Kang family from their mouths, but also learned some secrets about other big Shanxi merchants.
We also learned that Kang Baiwan's golden basin, his life-saving artifact, had appeared in the early Ming Dynasty and was owned by Shen Wansan, the richest man at the time.
This was also the secret of how Shen Wansan became the richest man in the world at that time.
Unfortunately, Shen Wansan had a very low EQ. He thought the new person in power was a magnanimous and kind person, so he wanted to offer a huge amount of wealth to please him.
He never imagined that the huge amount of wealth that was exposed would bring about a huge disaster for his family, and he was slaughtered like a fat pig by the Taizu of the time and eaten up.
"I didn't expect that this large basin artifact is actually the treasure bowl in ancient mythology. It should be an innate top-grade artifact."
Without refining this treasure bowl into his own divine weapon, Li Dingguo was not clear about its specific information, but that did not prevent him from guessing something through the previous experience of Kang Baiwan manipulating it to fight.
"This special innate divine weapon will play a great role in the future financial freedom of the Renaissance Army. We need to consider it carefully and give it to someone who can be entrusted with the important task to refine it."
Two people flashed through Li Dingguo's mind, but he needed to think for a while before making a decision.
After squeezing out all the surplus value of the two level five masters of the Kang family, Li Dingguo's mind moved, and the scorching fire that was roasting the two men instantly became a hundred times more intense, turning them into nothingness quickly, without even a trace of ash left.
According to Kang Asheng and Kang Younian's confessions, there were more than a dozen level five masters in the entire Kang family. Even if Li Dingguo killed three of them, there were still more than ten people!
"Where did the Kang family get such a huge foundation?"
Li Dingguo was somewhat puzzled.
Logically speaking, the Kang family's rise was not long ago. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the first generation of the family head started out by selling tofu and had no historical background at all.
But the situation now is: even the Fan family, which has a long history and is descended from the famous Fan Zhongyan of the Song Dynasty, is far inferior to the Kang family in terms of its current roots and heritage.
As he thought so, he immediately turned his mind to the two captured level five peak spirit birds, the great goshawks.
When Li Dingguo was pondering whether to burn them to death, his innate divine artifact, the Human Emperor Cauldron, seemed to sense his master's dilemma. On the inner wall of the cauldron filled with mysterious array patterns, a mysterious yellow light suddenly flashed, and two mysterious colorful runes emerged and shot into the brows of the two giant eagles that were firmly bound by the innate array!
A piece of information immediately emerged in Li Dingguo's mind. It turned out that his innate divine weapon, the Human Emperor Cauldron, had awakened a special magical power and had imprinted a master-servant contract on the souls of the two trapped top-level spiritual birds, the Great Goshawk!
This great artifact, the cauldron, finally showed off another ability of itss: it could forcibly contract any spirit beast of the same level that Li Dingguo had taken into the cauldron to become the master's spirit beast!
This means that in the future, as long as Li Dingguo uses the Great Cauldron artifact and captures any level five spiritual beast, he can use it for his own purposes!
Regardless of whether the other party is an adult spirit beast or not, or whether it will betray its old master, under the forced contract of the natal cauldron artifact, it can be used by Li Dingguo.
Li Dingguo was also worried about how to deal with the two level five peak spirit birds that he had captured.
This adult top-level eagle is different from other spiritual birds. Under normal circumstances, it only recognizes one master in its entire life.
Even though Li Dingguo had a top-level talent for affinity with spirit beasts, it would be difficult to recapture it.
Even because Li Dingguo killed their master, even if they are forcibly conquered, there is a great possibility that they will turn against their new master in the future.
With such a huge hidden danger, Li Dingguo naturally would not keep them. He was just preparing to kill them and take out the inner elixir in their bodies for use. He could also eat the meat of the fifth-level peak spirit beasts for a long time.
He never expected that his own natal artifact, the Human Emperor Cauldron, actually had such a function. This undoubtedly solved the selection problem that Li Dingguo was facing now.
Compared to killing them for recycling, the result of obtaining two level five peak spirit birds is of course much better.
The current Renaissance Army is most in need of this top-level spiritual bird.
Now that there are two more top-level spirit birds, their strength has been greatly improved.
Although this was forced into a master-servant contract by its innate divine artifact, the Human Emperor Cauldron, and was different from the top spiritual birds like the golden eagle which were willing to serve it, it did not prevent these two top spiritual beasts, the goshawks, from being used for its own purposes.
Li Dingguo coveted the spiritual beasts and birds that had owners in the past, but it was difficult for him to take them back.
In the future, with the special magical power of the Human Emperor Cauldron's sudden revival, once he encounters a level five peak spirit bird like the pair of Saker Falcons killed by Li Dingguo before, he will undoubtedly have another way to deal with it.
At this time, the two level five peak spirit birds, the Great Goshawks, which had just been subdued by the special magical power of the Human Emperor Cauldron, suddenly sent a message to their new master, Li Dingguo.
"what?"
"This Kang family has an ancient spiritual land in the Beimang Mountain in the north of Luoyang City in the Central Plains!"
"Not only are there a large number of spiritual herbs and roots, but there is even a legendary acquired spiritual root Phoenix Blood Fruit Tree at the core of the spiritual land!"
"The nine Phoenix Blood Fruits growing on this Phoenix Blood Tree have reached their harvest season this year, ripening once every ninety years. Can we pick them in March at the latest?"
The message that the two goshawks conveyed to Li Dingguo was simple, but the information it contained was not simple.
Although Li Dingguo has a very magical innate spiritual root, the five-colored sacred tree, he has never seen any acquired spiritual roots, let alone the most rare acquired spiritual root fruit tree of the highest quality.
Whether it is innate or acquired spiritual roots, those of fruit trees are the rarest.
For this kind of spiritual roots, even if you don’t know how to make alchemy, you can still pick the fruit and eat it. It will not affect the magical effect of the spiritual root fruit at all.
Even for Li Dingguo, this acquired top-grade spiritual root Phoenix Blood Fruit tree has huge value.
Putting aside the question of whether the Phoenix Blood Fruit it produces is delicious or not, the fact that it can improve the aptitude of any practitioner is already a huge surprise.
As a practitioner, who doesn't want his or her practice aptitude to be greatly improved?
Although he is already a genius, Li Dingguo would certainly not refuse if his qualifications could be further improved.
After all, in the world of cultivators, the cultivator's own bloodline qualifications are the foundation of everything.
Moreover, the abilities contained in the acquired top-grade spiritual roots are extraordinary and can do more than just improve the qualifications of the practitioner.
As a junior alchemy grandmaster, Li Dingguo guessed that if he could get a ripe Phoenix Blood Fruit to eat, not only would it be very likely that his physique would leap forward to become the legendary acquired spiritual body, he would also be more likely to take this opportunity to break through to the late fifth level of cultivation and become a true master.
In today's big world, only those whose cultivation level has broken through to the late fifth level can be called a clan master.
By then, even if Cao Bianjiao personally led his troops to attack, Li Dingguo would have the combat capability to fight him head-on.
Although it is very likely that he will not be able to defeat Cao Bianjiao, it is still possible to draw with him.
Once the result of the battle with Cao Bianjiao is a draw, the morale of the soldiers of the Fuxing Army will be qualitatively improved.
Especially half a year later, when Huang Taiji personally led a million-strong army to attack, Li Dingguo would have the confidence to face off against Oboi, the top master of the Later Jin Dynasty, and remain undefeated.
If Aobai didn't have his own divine weapon, it wouldn't be impossible to kill him in one fell swoop.
It is easy to imagine that once Li Dingguo killed Oboi, the top master of the Later Jin Dynasty, in a frontal battle, how great a blow it would be to the Later Jin clan who respected the strong!
They could even take advantage of their own morale to defeat the million-strong army led by Huang Taiji in one fell swoop!
If, half a year later, the Fuxing Army fought against the main force of the Later Jin Tartars and defeated them, the whole world would be shocked!
It is entirely conceivable how fast the Fusion Army would grow and develop from then on. It might be a bit of an exaggeration to say that heroes from all over the world would come to join it, but there would definitely be many knowledgeable people who would come to join this rebel Fusion Army.
There will always be such knowledgeable people at the end of any dynasty.
There is no doubt that the news about the acquired top-grade spiritual root Phoenix Blood Fruit obtained from the two big goshawks is definitely a huge surprise.
It is very likely that the nine acquired top-grade spiritual fruits that are about to mature will create a glorious future for Li Dingguo and the Renaissance Army!
This is a major event and it cannot be overemphasized.
(End of this chapter)
