Chapter 46

Hui Ku lost the Twenty-Four Celestial Arhats Formation and was invaded by the most evil and filthy blood. In a fit of rage, he actually resorted to a method of mutual destruction, using the secret Buddhist power of Nirvana Cycle to drag Lin Feng down with him.

Lin Feng had been on guard all along, always paying attention to Hui Ku's movements. Seeing that the big monk disregarded the blood's invasion and withdrew his protective magic, he immediately knew that the other party was going for a desperate move.

The Northern Pole Heaven Magnetic Sword immediately struck, releasing a powerful bolt of lightning that killed the big monk before his spell was fully unleashed.

With Hui Ku dead, the black hole above his head instantly lost control, becoming chaotic.

Lin Feng felt the spiritual energy in the underground palace suddenly become disordered, and his expression changed slightly as he shouted to his two disciples, "Be careful!"

Before his words were even finished, the black hole exploded, mixing with the chaotic spiritual energy in the underground palace, creating an effect similar to a teleportation array, shifting space.

Under the influence of the spatial turbulence, Lin Feng felt dizzy, and the scene before his eyes kept changing, from a surging river of blood to a pitch-black cave.

In just a second, the scenes in Lin Feng's line of sight changed several times.

It felt like an incredibly long time had passed, but in reality, it was only a few seconds. Dizzy and disoriented, Lin Feng fell heavily to the ground.

Lin Feng shook his head, taking a while to regain his senses. Looking up, he found himself in a tunnel, not knowing how far he had been teleported. He could no longer hear the roaring of the Netherworld Blood River, indicating he had been teleported a great distance.

His two disciples were also not by his side, apparently having been teleported to other places in the spatial turbulence.

Lin Feng smiled bitterly, "This is a bit troublesome."

However, it wasn't all bad.

Lin Feng weighed the storage bag in his hand, a smile appearing on his face. In the chaos, he had quickly grabbed Hui Ku's storage bag, and the monk's savings were now his spoils of war.

Of course, the most important spoils were the twenty-four relics.

In Hui Ku's storage bag, Lin Feng found the formation diagram of the Twenty-Four Celestial Arhats Formation, a thick booklet with many diagrams. The first few pages had numerous corrections, indicating that Hui Ku had often studied and continuously improved the formation, leading to its current power.

With this formation diagram and the twenty-four relics, the Twenty-Four Celestial Arhats Formation could be set up.

However, Lin Feng needed to first refine the relics, removing Hui Ku's magical imprints and adding his own, to use them freely.

In addition to the formation diagram, the storage bag contained Hui Ku's practice of the Immovable Wisdom King Sutra. Lin Feng looked it over and found that it was indeed the complete text, except for the introductory section.

Lin Feng smiled, as the upper half of the text he already had, combined with Hui Ku's, formed a complete version of the Immovable Wisdom King Sutra.

There were also several other pills, which, although needed by Lin Feng, were not particularly attractive.

After all, the Great Thunder Sound Temple had been destroyed for twenty years, and even if Hui Ku had brought any valuable pills from the temple, he had already consumed them.

The only noteworthy items were two pill formulas that Hui Ku had brought.

One was the Great Thunder Sound Restoration Pill, a world-renowned healing pill of the Great Thunder Sound Temple, highly effective in treating physical injuries, reviving the dead, and regenerating flesh.

The other made Lin Feng's mouth water: the Barrier-Breaking Pill, specifically designed to help cultivators break through their cultivation bottlenecks. For minor realms, taking the Barrier-Breaking Pill would immediately break through, advancing from the Qi Condensation stage to the Foundation Establishment stage, and from the Foundation Establishment stage to the Golden Core stage, significantly increasing the success rate.

However, the materials needed to refine these two pills were extremely precious, and the success rate was low.

Lin Feng, who neither knew how to refine pills nor had the materials, could only look at them with envy.

"Put them away, and let Xiao Yan that kid study them slowly. The system says he has a talent for alchemy, so it's not just talk." Lin Feng put away the pill formulas: "First, I need to find a way out and meet up with the two kids, then go find Zhu Yi."

"Zhu Yi, sigh, I wonder how that kid is doing now."

Lin Feng did not expect that the underground palace would have such a spatial teleportation event, resulting in the loss of his two disciples before he could even get his third.

Damn, wouldn't it be like fifty years of hard work, only to return to the starting point in one night?

"How can I get out of here?" Lin Feng was worried, but suddenly the system's voice sounded in his mind: "The host is approaching the side mission item, the Black Cloud Banner!"

No way?

Lin Feng was taken aback. This was truly an unintended consequence. He had not spent much time on the side mission, but the two spatial teleports in the underground palace had actually brought him to the Black Cloud Banner.

"This Black Cloud Banner is the life-bound magical tool of the Black Cloud Daoist, who is also the one who created this Black Cloud Underground Palace..." Lin Feng's mind raced, and he quickly checked the mission again.

Since Lin Feng was now close to the Black Cloud Banner, the mission description had added an explanation of this magical tool.

The Black Cloud Banner, the life-bound magical tool of the Black Cloud Daoist, was refined using the Black Cloud Daoist's famous spell, "Heavenly Shift." It can perform short-distance spatial teleportation, combining attack and defense, and can carry people in flight, with countless uses.

Lin Feng's eyes lit up: "So that's it. The sudden spatial shifts in the underground palace are probably related to the Black Cloud Banner. If I can obtain the Black Cloud Banner, getting out of this underground palace will be as easy as pie, and it might even help me find the three kids."

Although he had a way out, Lin Feng became even more cautious. The presence of the Black Cloud Banner indicated that the Netherworld Blood River was also nearby, and it was the source of the Netherworld Blood River in the underground palace.

Sure enough, as Lin Feng walked a bit further, he heard the sound of rushing water coming from a distance.

After turning a few corners, the tunnel ended, and at the tunnel's exit, a huge underground lake appeared before Lin Feng.

However, this lake was not filled with water but with the true water of the Netherworld Blood River, emitting a pungent and nauseating odor that almost made Lin Feng faint.

Above the lake, a black crack in the void, a spatial rift, was visible.

The space was like a piece of paper, and other things were like the scenery on the paper. This crack was like a tear forcibly made in the paper.

From the crack, extremely foul-smelling blood continuously flowed out, falling into the lake below like a waterfall.

The surface of the lake was shrouded in a thick, dark red blood mist.

Standing there, even without touching the blood, Lin Feng felt his magical power become sluggish. The heavy blood mist alone was almost enough to taint his magical power.

Lin Feng looked down at the blood lake, thinking that the bottom of the lake must have a passage, and the source of the Netherworld Blood River he encountered earlier with Hui Ku was likely here. However, he wondered where the river flowed to.

The system's voice sounded again, this time directly pointing out the location of the Black Cloud Banner. Lin Feng steadied himself, preparing to collect the magical tool first.

"Boring!"

"Smack!"

Just as Lin Feng was about to take action, a sudden voice rang in his ear.

Immediately following, the sound of a jade object breaking on the ground.

Lin Feng was startled. There was actually someone else here, and he had not sensed them at all?

Following the source of the sound, he saw a young man in white, wearing a green conical hat, leaning against a large rock, holding a delicate white jade cup, with a half-smiling, half-smirking expression as he stared at Lin Feng.

Lin Feng's pupils contracted sharply. Not far from the young man, a pile of white jade fragments lay on the ground, like a small mountain.

Among the crystal-clear fragments, a dark red liquid was quietly flowing, somewhat similar to the foul blood in the Netherworld Blood River.

The young man in the conical hat lifted the white jade cup in his hand, filled with fresh grape wine. He took a sip, smacked his lips, and sighed to the sky, "Boring!"

"Smack!"

Before his words were even finished, the white jade cup and the wine inside it were thrown to the ground, becoming part of the pile of fragments.

Lin Feng's eyes twitched. The pile of white jade fragments and the flowing wine now appeared to him like a mountain.

A mountain built from gushing blood and white bones!

The young man in the conical hat flipped his hand, and a white jade cup identical to the one he had just broken appeared in his palm, already filled with wine.

He swayed the wine glass in his hand, turned to look at Lin Feng, and grinned, the white spots on his face twitching.

"Judging by your appearance, you must be the Daoist who gave the Fire Sword Sect a hard time? You don't look like much."

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