Chapter 453: Going south to revisit the old place and getting an unexpected surprise
"Duh!"
Above the island in the middle of the lake, Li Dingguo raised his hand and threw out the Human Emperor Cauldron, which was suspended in the air.
As he thought about it, three hundred and sixty points of luck disappeared instantly.
"Buzz..."
The magical power of the golden finger was displayed, and a thick dark yellow fog emerged, instantly covering the entire island in the middle of the lake.
Under Li Dingguo's astonished gaze, this blessed land, which had grown to an area of ten thousand miles in radius, was stripped from the void by the dark yellow fog, and then turned into a floating island hundreds of feet in size, sinking into the Human Emperor Cauldron.
The dark yellow fog suddenly retracted and enveloped the natal divine artifact, the cauldron. The fog rolled continuously for about three hours before it calmed down. The dark yellow fog sank into the cauldron and disappeared.
"Whoosh..."
The Human Emperor Cauldron transformed into a stream of dark yellow light and entered Li Dingguo's sea of consciousness. This time the cave relocation operation ended here.
Li Dingguo's mind sank into the sea of consciousness, and he saw that the interior of the large cauldron, a space artifact, had turned into a cave space that was exactly the same as the cave space on the lake island in the outside world.
At the edge of the space with a radius of ten thousand miles, the sky was a chaotic color, with a faint chaotic airflow surging, but it was isolated by the thick dark yellow light shield and could not cause any adverse effects on the artifact space.
The interior of the magical artifact, which has been upgraded to become a cave world, is filled with rich innate spiritual energy, and the five-colored sacred tree appears to be increasingly vibrant.
A piece of information flooded into his mind, which was a basic description of the situation in this small cave world.
"This cave world inside the cauldron can actually upgrade with the continuous growth of my life spirit root, the Five-Colored Divine Tree, and transform into a large world or even a small world..."
"As the five-colored sacred tree continues to grow, it will be able to continuously expand the innate spiritual veins of the cave world from the chaotic void!"
"Well... these 360 points of luck are totally worth it!"
After receiving this message, Li Dingguo was overjoyed.
The potential of his natal artifact, the Great Cauldron, and his natal spiritual root, the Five-Colored Divine Tree, is unlimited, and they will naturally continue to give back to their master.
This kind of invisible benefit alone has made Li Dingguo's foundation increase dramatically again.
Now, due to the influence of the seal of the rules of heaven and earth in this big world where Jiuzhou is located, and the fact that Li Dingguo’s current cultivation level is not high, the benefits of this invisible welfare cannot be truly reflected.
But this undoubtedly gave him an unparalleled foundation, which was very beneficial for the future.
After properly placing the magical unknown spiritual root of the Five-Colored Sacred Tree, Li Dingguo finally felt at ease and looked towards the source of the Jialu River where the island in the middle of the lake had been lost.
All I saw was that the whirlpool formed on the lake surface after the island in the middle of the lake disappeared had been filled up by the lake water.
Since the island in the middle of the lake had always called itself a paradise, its disappearance did not leave much impression on the outside environment.
This spiritual lake is still a mid-level spiritual place, but it will no longer be the base camp of the Renaissance Army.
More than half a year ago, after the Fuxing Army captured Chang'an City, the military headquarters originally located here moved south. The area around Daling Lake has become sparsely populated and has become a stronghold for the Fuxing Army to settle ordinary residents outside the Great Wall.
Li Dingguo looked around in the sky with mixed feelings, then he quickly jumped onto the back of the big golden beast that had been waiting for a long time. Then he turned into a stream of golden light and flew towards the south.
……
A golden light flashed out from the void above the Longmen Gorge, a thousand miles north of Yumen Ferry.
The visitors were none other than Li Dingguo and the Great Jin.
Taking advantage of this rare free time, he decided to take a look at the place covered by black fog.
Two years ago, Li Dingguo discovered that there was an area covered by black fog in the Longmen Grand Canyon. However, due to lack of time, he gave up on exploring it.
At that time, he felt that his own innate divine weapon, the twelfth-grade Karma Fire Red Lotus, was restless.
This natal artifact, which had already been unsealed five times, had not yet been further unsealed, and had become a source of worry for Li Dingguo.
Now that I have returned from the northern prairie, while inspecting the various areas under the jurisdiction of the Fuxing Army, it would be a good idea to take some time to come to Longmen Canyon for a check-up.
"Dajin, fly over and take a look."
He said to the sitting golden eagle, "We both have the protection of the inner energy, and with the protection of my life artifact, we can directly enter the black fog-filled vortex at the exit of the canyon with a huge drop in height. There is no need to worry about any danger."
After saying this, he summoned the Twelve-Rank Karma Fire Red Lotus, which floated above his head. It lowered a layer of red light curtain, covering himself and Dajin.
The place filled with black fog is located at the exit of Longmen Grand Canyon.
The surging Yellow River water rushes down from the valley mouth, and then the river surface rapidly expands several times, forming a magical natural wonder.
In this spectacular scenery, a whirlpool filled with black mist appeared in the middle of the river, which looked strange no matter how you looked at it.
The closer he got to the vortex filled with black fog, the more Li Dingguo felt that the Twelve-Level Karma Fire Lotus began to become more and more agitated.
Obviously there must be something here that attracts it.
Da Jin is now a skilled and courageous bird. He activated his own internal energy to protect his body. Relying on the protection of his master's natal artifact, he flew directly above the vortex filled with black fog, circled for a while, and then dived into the water!
The water flow was isolated by the protective shield activated by the innate divine artifact, and had little impact on Dajin's actions.
With the help of the attraction of the water vortex, it descends at an extremely fast speed.
After sinking about a hundred miles, Dajin and Li Dingguo suddenly felt dazed. The world in front of them suddenly changed and they came to a dark and silent space.
After the man and the bird landed on solid ground, they immediately used their full powers of consciousness to scan the surroundings.
"This……"
Li Dingguo's divine sense was powerful enough to scan an area of 100 miles around, and he discovered that he and Da Jin were actually standing on the head of a giant monster that was completely black!
The size of the monster's head was beyond his divine sense range, so one could imagine how huge the monster's body was! A pitch-black spear with no end in sight seemed to have fallen from the sky, deeply penetrating the head of the pitch-black monster and nailing it to the ground!
Countless black air currents spread out from the connection between the gun tip and the monster's head, completely filling the pitch-black space!
"Buzz..."
The Twelve-Rank Karma Fire Red Lotus seemed to have encountered a rare delicacy. It began to revive on its own and turned into a size of a thousand feet. It swept in countless black air currents and devoured and absorbed them continuously like an insatiable glutton!
"Woooo..."
The power of the Twelve-Rank Karma Fire Red Lotus, which had swallowed up a massive amount of pitch-black airflow, continued to increase rapidly. After a while, a "pop" sound came from the lotus platform, and it actually broke through the sixth seal on its own!
After the sixth seal was released, the power of the Karma Fire Lotus instantly doubled, and the speed at which it swept and devoured the pitch-black airflow became increasingly ferocious!
"What kind of monster is this?"
"Also, the murderous intent emanating from this pitch-black spear is too shocking!"
"If it weren't for the protection of my innate divine weapon, the Fire Red Lotus, Da Jin and I would have been crushed into ashes by the pressure emanating from this monster and the spear!"
Of course, this was just Li Dingguo's illusion.
Even if there was no protection from the Karma Fire Red Lotus that could restrain the black air currents here, he still had his own life-long artifacts, the Human Emperor Cauldron and the Chaos Bell, to protect themselves. It was impossible for him to be crushed to death by a dead monster and an ownerless unknown artifact.
Especially for the Human Emperor Cauldron which has been completely unsealed, its ability to protect its master on its own is estimated to be unparalleled in the world, so protecting its master's safety should have no problem.
This is also the main reason why Li Dingguo and the Great Jin dared to come and explore the secrets with confidence.
They are not stupid, and certainly won't act rashly without support.
After accepting another inheritance from the completely unsealed Human Emperor Cauldron, Li Dingguo already knew that this big world where the Jiuzhou land was located was sealed by the rules of heaven and earth for unknown reasons, and it was impossible for any danger beyond the scope of the Qi Refining Realm to appear before the seal was lifted.
Even the huge black monster in front of him and the black spear were firmly suppressed by the rules of heaven and earth. The aura they exuded did not exceed the range that a Qi Refining Realm practitioner could withstand, but only reached the limit that a peak Qi Refining Realm practitioner could withstand.
Otherwise, this black monster, whose realm before death was obviously far beyond the Qi Refining Realm, could have crushed Li Dingguo and the Great Jin Dynasty into slag even with a hint of pressure emitted after death, without leaving anything behind!
Three days and three nights passed as Li Dingguo and Da Jin watched in amazement. In this pitch-black space, the massive black airflow emitted by the spear and the black monster was finally swallowed up by the Red Lotus of Karma, whose power continued to grow!
In this space of a thousand miles in radius, which was originally pitch dark, the sky finally regained its gray light.
At this time, the Karma Fire Red Lotus had not only broken through all eight seals on its own, but its power had also skyrocketed by who knows how many times!
As the owner of the divine weapon, Li Dingguo could clearly sense the horror of this divine weapon.
He had the same premonition as after the Human Emperor Cauldron was unsealed: once he fully activated the power of this innate divine weapon, it would most likely bring about unknown dangers, and it would definitely be the kind that he could not withstand now.
Experiencing this feeling of being like an ant once again, Li Dingguo's face became solemn.
As his vision returned, he finally saw clearly what the monster in front of him was, and couldn't help but gasp.
"This is actually a giant black dragon with nine pairs of large wings?"
"In ancient myths and legends, there is no such rumor about strange beasts. What earth-shattering events happened in that era?"
Li Dingguo was so shocked that his face turned blue and red, and he felt that his cognition had been overturned.
There is no doubt that this strange eighteen-winged dragon with an unfathomable level of cultivation was killed by an unknown strong man using this black spear.
But the strong man who killed this special dragon didn't even take away this powerful artifact spear. It is estimated that his end is not good, and he is most likely to die.
"Human Emperor Cauldron, go!"
Li Dingguo pondered for a while, and with a thought, he activated his own divine artifact, the Human Emperor Cauldron, which flashed out and turned into a thousand feet in size, suspended in the air with the mouth of the cauldron hanging upside down, emitting a magical attraction that took in the thousand-mile-long corpse of the strange black dragon and the pitch-black spear into the cauldron.
After the Human Emperor Cauldron merged with the cave world created by the Five-Colored Divine Tree, not only did its power increase dramatically, but it was also able to accommodate objects that did not exceed the size of the cave space within it.
Although this black dragon is huge, it is nothing compared to the space inside the cauldron today.
As long as he put the dragon and the spear into the cauldron, Li Dingguo would not have to worry about any future troubles.
"The innate formation, start!"
"My own spiritual fire, refine it!"
Li Dingguo breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he had successfully put the dragon and the gun into the cauldron. He immediately sat cross-legged on the ground, shook his hand and shot out a stream of his own spiritual fire into the cauldron, activating the innate formation in the cauldron whose power had increased countless times, and began to burn and evolve the dragon and the gun.
No matter how powerful this giant black dragon with nine pairs of large wings was when it was alive, once it fell into the completely unsealed Human Emperor Cauldron after it died, it would not be able to cause any waves.
The same goes for the pitch-black spear that seemed to have no owner. Now, its owner was firmly bound by the innate formation in the cauldron, and it was also trapped in a jar.
"There are still so many chaotic and negative auras?"
Li Dingguo's divine sense observed that as the innate formation within the Human Emperor Cauldron burned and purified the giant dragon's corpse and the pitch-black spear, a black mist like endless negative energy was pouring out continuously. He hurriedly threw the completely unsealed Twelve-Rank Karma Fire Lotus into the cauldron and absorbed them wantonly.
As Li Dingguo and Da Jin waited anxiously, nine days and nine nights passed before this round of incineration and purification work was finally completed.
The eighteen-winged dragon in the cauldron, which was a thousand miles long and a hundred miles thick, had disappeared, leaving behind a ball of black, shiny liquid about a hundred feet in radius.
This huge mass of liquid was formed by the dead dragon after it was completely burned and purified by the innate formation in the cauldron. It is the condensed essence of its flesh and blood.
The energy contained in it is so vast that it is simply not something that a Qi Refining cultivator like Li Dingguo can refine, not even a trace of it!
Even the little golden dragon living in the cave inside the cauldron came over after hearing the news, but just looked at it with envy and did not dare to take a bite.
Although it is a true top-level divine beast, due to its low level of cultivation, even if it takes a trace of it, it will be burst by the vast energy contained in it!
During the process of the Human Emperor Cauldron purifying the black dragon's corpse, the pitch-black airflow formed by the massive amount of negative energy that spread out was probably enough to burst the cave world inside the cauldron!
Fortunately, the Twelve-Rank Karma Fire Red Lotus, the nemesis of this kind of aura, was continuously absorbing it and did not cause any hidden dangers to the cave inside the cauldron.
It has to be said that the Karma Fire Red Lotus, this innate divine artifact, once again saved Li Dingguo from a big trouble, which was something that neither the Human Emperor Cauldron nor the Chaos Bell could do.
Now that the seal has been completely lifted, Li Dingguo perceives that its power has increased countless times, and is only slightly less powerful than the Human Emperor Cauldron.
Obviously, the Karma Fire Red Lotus is not only an innate top-grade divine artifact, but also a special type of treasure that is an innate top-grade spiritual root. It is not as simple as it seems on the surface and is extremely magical.
At this time, Li Dingguo had a feeling in his heart. He used his divine sense to check the introduction of this special divine weapon on the gold finger panel, and his eyes suddenly brightened...
He really couldn't have imagined that his own golden finger panel would give him more and more surprises as his cultivation level became higher and higher...
(End of this chapter)
