Chapter 92: Holy Spirit of Tianzhu Town

The area covered by black fog is 200 miles long.

It took Li Zhi and the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi three full months to cross that area and arrive at the foot of the Tianzhu Divine Mountain.

During this period, the two fought hundreds of battles.

There were more than ten life-and-death battles, so that five of the life-saving magic objects on the body of the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi were broken, leaving only one life-saving talisman.

Li Zhi was not much better off. In order to kill the enemy, he blew up thirteen exquisite magical instruments that intertwined Taoism and Principle, and spent all his collections unearthed from the archaeological excavations of the Five Elements Palace, the Illusion Palace, and the Wanjie Sect.

He even used the Phoenix Regeneration Technique, which consumes a lot of life essence, no less than twenty times. You can imagine how bad the situation he encountered was.

If he hadn't carried a large amount of life-saving spring water with him, he would have collapsed long ago.

This is the situation Li Zhi faced after the Holy Maiden of Yao Chi became the main fighting force and attracted most of the firepower.

It is conceivable how fierce the attack was on the two in the black fog area.

Those attacks came one after another, seemingly endless.

The two men were like targets, and no matter which direction they moved, they would be attacked.

There were several times when they were about to retreat after being besieged.

But looking back, I realized that I had gritted my teeth and persevered through the road I had traveled.

The originally sacred and fairy-like temperament of the Holy Maiden of Yao Chi also became fierce at this moment, and the fairy clothes on her body were replaced with a battle suit made of the divine iron of light.

Holding a sword of light in her hand and with a holy white jade tower on her head, the Saint of Yao Chi looks extremely sharp. There is no trace of the celestial aura of a Yao Chi fairy at all. She looks more like a female war god who has experienced hundreds of battles.

It was as if she had transformed from the vase-like fairy Chang'e into the fairy Yao Ji, the goddess of war in heaven.

The white armor was now covered with scars, and the power of light had become extremely dim.

The Taoist robe on Li Zhi was also tattered, like a beggar's clothes.

The whisk in his hand had long been destroyed.

The broken wooden poles that were struck by lightning were used to attract lightning to kill the enemy, and finally turned into ashes.

The three thousand whisks even "ascended" together with a group of female ghosts.

Fortunately, although the two looked a little embarrassed, their momentum was very strong and sharp.

The force of life is full of vigor and vitality, without any sense of decline.

This state is, of course, due to the key role played by the large amount of life-giving sacred spring water stored in their bodies.

The seven free-hand fighting styles that Li Zhi had learned before were also used by him to perfection.

The strength of the physical body increased significantly during the fierce battle.

The foundation of the road that originally needed to be consolidated also became extremely solid.

The next Taoist temple's treasure can be opened at any time.

The Holy Maiden of Yao Chi is even more amazing, as if she has touched the true meaning of the secret realm of dragon transformation.

When dragons fight in the wild, their blood is black and yellow.

Fighting, only by fighting continuously can you go faster, deeper and more solidly in this secret realm.

Perhaps, this is why we have to wait until we reach the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm to have a clear understanding of how strong a genius’s combat power is.

Whether a young genius possesses the combat power of five prohibitions, six prohibitions, or even seven prohibitions, or eight prohibitions is often measured when he enters the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm.

The so-called "several forbidden" combat power refers to the ability to cross several small realms and defeat the opponent when entering the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm.

For example, if a young genius who has reached the first level of the Dragon Transformation Realm defeats a veteran cultivator who has reached the ninth level of the Dragon Transformation Realm, then he will possess the eight forbidden combat power in the general sense.

Of course, there is a very wide range among the combat power of each ban.

For example, even if they all have the same combat power of the Eight Forbidden Realms, there is still a clear gap between different cultivators.

However, from this method of dividing the combat power of cultivators into several "forbidden combat powers" starting from the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm, it can be seen that the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm is a secret realm full of battles.

The Nine Transformations of a True Dragon will not occur without reason. Only when the current means are insufficient when facing the enemy will change be needed.

Perhaps this is the true meaning of the Nine Transformations of the True Dragon in the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm.

At least through the changes in Yao Chi Saint Maiden, Li Zhi could feel that the activity and solidity of her mana had more than doubled. Although the amount of mana had not changed significantly, the quality had undergone a complete transformation.

From the battle between her and the two zombies at the beginning to her ability to easily kill a group of zombies of equal strength in the end, we can see how her strength has grown.

Finally, the two ended the endless battle when they arrived at the foot of Tianzhu Divine Mountain.

Rather than describing it as the foot of a mountain, it would be more appropriate to describe it as a stone wall towering into the clouds.

What surprised them was that there was no black fog within ten feet of the stone wall.

There are no monsters or ghosts either, as if they can only live in the black fog area.

The two walked around the cliff and found that it was a huge stone pillar with a circumference of nearly 100 miles.

Similar to what they saw in the carvings inside the burial tomb.

The diameter of Tianzhu Mountain is nearly thirty miles.

There is a mysterious gravity field around Tianzhu Mountain, which seems to be the main reason that isolates it from the invasion of black fog.

Although the gravitational field was strong, Li Zhi and the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi were still able to withstand it with their physiques.

Looking up, the black fog seemed like a sky curtain, supported by the Tianzhu Mountain.

The black fog seemed to be connected to the sacred mountain at the top of the mountain.

Li Zhi and the Holy Maiden of Yao Chi used their heavenly eyes to observe the movements at the top of the sacred mountain.

There were surprising gains.

It seemed as if the black fog came out from the top of Tianzhu Mountain and then sprayed over an area of ​​hundreds of miles in radius, like a sprayer.

The Saint of Yao Chi, who was dressed in battle clothes, said confidently and firmly: "If you want to leave this place, you can only have a chance if you climb to the top of the mountain."

The reason why the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi said that they should climb up instead of flying up was because the two of them had tried it before. They flew up along the Tianzhu Divine Mountain. The higher they flew, the greater the pressure they would bear.

With Li Zhi's magical powers, he could only fly a hundred meters high and could no longer fly any higher.

Although the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi was slightly stronger than him, she was only a dozen meters taller.

As for flying up in the black fog outside, it has never been an option for the two of them. There are too many unknown dangers in the black fog.

In comparison, it is more cost-effective to climb up along the nearly vertical cliffs of Tianzhu Mountain.

Under the observation of the Eyes of Living Beings, the black fog outside the Tianzhu Divine Mountain seemed to have a regular flow, constantly gushing out from the top of the mountain, then falling into the black fog area, and then sinking into the earth and disappearing.

Moreover, Li Zhi also discovered that the amount of yin and death energy mixed in the black fog in the sky seemed to be very small, far less than the dense yin and death energy in the black fog close to the ground.

"Could it be that the negative and deadly energy was absorbed by something underground?" Li Zhi thought to himself.

Just as he was thinking, the Holy Maiden of Yao Chi suddenly raised her sword and chopped towards the Tianzhu Mountain, as if she wanted to cut the mountain in half.

"Dang, Dang, Dang."

Three consecutive sword strikes produced the sound of metal colliding.

As expected, Tianzhu Mountain was intact.

Seeing this, Li Zhi volunteered, "Sister Yaochi, let me try to climb up first."

The Saintess of Yaochi put away her magic sword, nodded and said, "Be careful."

Afterwards, Li Zhi soared into the sky. After reaching a height of one hundred meters, he grabbed the protrusions on the surface of the rock wall and began to climb up.

After climbing nearly 20,000 meters, Li Zhi finally couldn't bear the tremendous pressure and fell directly from the rock wall.

The Holy Maiden of Yao Chi used her magic power to catch him from below, preventing Li Zhi from falling directly to the ground.

After standing firm, Li Zhi shook his head and said, "Sister Yao Chi, the gravity above is too strong. After climbing over 10,000 meters, it's like carrying a mountain on your shoulders. The higher you climb, the more weight you have to bear. With our current strength, there is no possibility of reaching the top."

Li Zhi roughly estimated how high this Tianzhu Mountain was, and it was almost 100,000 meters high.

Despite his strong physique and abundant reserves of magical power, he could only climb one-fifth of the way before he could no longer climb.

The Holy Maiden of Yao Chi was unwilling to give up, so she also tried to climb once, but she did not climb higher than Li Zhi. She could not withstand the terrible pressure and fell off the cliff.

Then, Li Zhi stared at Tianzhu Mountain again and again and said, "Perhaps we can try to climb to the top of the mountain from the inside."

Since the black fog suddenly erupted from the Yao Chi Fairy Lake, there must be something like a spring on the top of the mountain.

Yao Chi Saintess frowned and said, "This Tianzhu Divine Mountain is indestructible. How can we enter its interior?"

Li Zhi pointed to the root of the mountain that pierced the earth and said, "This is easy. We can enter the interior of the sacred mountain from the other end underground. According to my observation, the black fog outside is gushing out from the interior of Tianzhu Mountain. After completing a big cycle between heaven and earth, it will re-enter the interior of Tianzhu Mountain."

The black fog circulates between heaven and earth, and the Tianzhu Divine Mountain is like a large magnet with two corresponding "magnetic poles", one end absorbing the black fog and the other end spewing out the black fog.

Li Zhi knocked on the hard ground under his feet and said, "Sister Yao Chi, the ground here is extremely hard, but we can follow the edge of the hard ground and go deep into the earth to find the other end of Tianzhu Divine Mountain. Perhaps we can enter the interior of the mountain from there."

The Saint Maiden of Yao Chi also felt that Li Zhi’s idea made sense and agreed with his suggestion.

Afterwards, the two of them drove Li Zhi's life coffin into the earth, and walked down along the hard soil. They didn't know how deep they went under the earth. After passing through two layers of magma sea, they finally reached the other end of Tianzhu Mountain.

Deep in the earth, there is a huge cavity area, which is covered with a colorful crystal forest.

It was as if when this sacred mountain fell to the ground, the earth could not withstand the huge squeezing force, thus forming crystal forests and underground spaces.

Moreover, in those colorful crystal forests, there are black rivers of the underworld, carrying huge amounts of yin, death, and ghost energy, which flow into a huge underground lake.

The black lake water exudes a terrifying aura, as if it could devour a person's soul.

The two approached the underground lake cautiously, but when they were still three hundred feet away from the lakeshore, the face of the Saint of Yao Chi suddenly changed drastically, and she warned, "Be careful, there is the breath of the Holy Spirit here."

Li Zhi immediately used the Wheel Sea Vision to call upon the power of the sacred mountain in the other world to sense the surrounding environment.

In an instant, all situations within a radius of fifty miles were fed back to his mind.

He did not sense the breath of the Holy Spirit, but on the other side of the Dark Lake, he sensed a lake with a radius of ten miles that exuded a rich life essence.

Moreover, the concentration of life essence in the lake is comparable to that of the water from a sacred spring.

Li Zhi quickly said to the Saintess of Yao Chi: "Sister Yao Chi, there is a fairy lake on the other side of Ming Lake."

Yao Chi Saintess was a little surprised and said, "I sensed a strong breath of the Holy Spirit there."

That is to say, she had used the almost perfect blood of the Holy Spirit to baptize her body, which gave her a keen sense of the breath of the Holy Spirit.

Although the underground lake is large, it is not boundless.

Li Zhi and the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi quickly bypassed the Dark Lake and came to the Fairy Lake that Li Zhi sensed.

The water of the fairy lake with a radius of ten miles in front of us is not clear and transparent, but presents a bright red color similar to blood, like a blood lake.

However, the rich essence of life rose above the lake, forming a rich fairy mist of life.

Li Zhi did not sense any evil spirit from the lake, and thought that this was a pool of the purest and special holy spring water.

After observing the blood lake for a while, Yao Chi Saintess said in surprise: "This is actually a large lake of holy spirit blood."

Li Zhi was also shocked and said, "Sister Yao Chi, you are not mistaken, the lake water here is the blood of the Holy Spirit?"

The eyes of the Saint of Yao Chi flashed with excitement, and she said, "There is no mistake. The blood in the lake is indeed the blood of the Holy Spirit, but it is diluted. But even so, the life essence contained in this lake of blood is enough to be equivalent to the life essence in the water of the Holy Spring."

Li Zhi's eyes lit up and he said, "What are we waiting for? Let's put it away quickly. This is a good thing."

Yao Chi Saintess said quickly: "Wait, the holy spirit blood in the lake seems to be flowing out from the body of the holy spirit that is about to reach great perfection. We should be careful."

The Saint Maiden of Yao Chi was quite puzzled. The concentration of the life essence in the blood was obviously only comparable to that of the holy spring water, but why was there a trace of the breath of the Great Perfection Holy Spirit in it?
Isn't this unreasonable?
The holy blood of the Great Perfection Holy Spirit is comparable to the immortal liquid and far more precious than the water from the sacred spring.

Li Zhi repeatedly used his Dharma Eyes to observe the blood in the blood lake, but did not feel any fluctuations in magic power.

Even after mobilizing the perception ability of the Wheel Sea Immortal Tree, he still could not sense any breath of the Great Dao from the blood. It seemed that the blood in the lake was left with only pure life essence.

It was similar to the feeling given by the drop of Green Emperor's blood that he exchanged from Yan Ruyu, which dissolved all the evil and murderous aura in the blood, leaving only the purest essence of life.

No matter how the Holy Maiden of Yao Chi viewed the blood lake in front of him, Li Zhi was not polite and directly sacrificed the Hundred Herbs Map to collect the blood in the lake.

Although the blood lake is not deep, its deepest point is more than ten meters. With an area of ​​ten miles in radius, how much life essence must it contain?

Seeing that Li Zhi took out a magic map to absorb the holy spirit blood in the lake, the Holy Maiden of Yao Chi also took out a jade bottle and began to collect the lake water.

Although she didn't know why the holy spirit's blood in the lake was so strange, she didn't sense any murderous aura from the blood.

The jade bottle of the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi was soon filled up.

However, Li Zhi's divine map was like a bottomless pit, and began to swallow up all the blood in the blood lake.

Under the surprised gaze of the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi, Li Zhi actually sucked up all the holy spirit blood in the entire blood lake.

Only a puddle the size of a bathtub was left in the lake.

Before this, the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi had seen Li Zhi use this divine map, but she had not expected that the internal space of this divine map was so huge.

It seems that Li Zhi has more secrets than she expected.

After collecting the water from the Holy Spirit Blood Lake, Li Zhi came to the remaining small puddle. It was not that he did not want to collect the remaining lake water, but that he could not.

It seemed as if there was a mysterious force in the puddle that prevented him from continuing to collect.

When he arrived at the puddle, Li Zhi saw a spring gushing out clear water rich in spiritual energy.

And near the spring, there is a crack, and traces of blood and energy are coming out of the crack. After the blood and energy merge with the water of the spiritual spring, they form blood water rich in life essence.

However, the concentration of life essence in the newly-born blood does not reach the level of the divine spring water.

The entire lake of blood water, which is comparable to a holy spring, seems to have been formed by years of contamination by blood energy, which is estimated to be as long as millions of years.

The Saint of Yao Chi caught a glimpse of blood and said in surprise, "This is the holy blood that can only be born from the body of a Holy Spirit that is close to perfection. There must be a powerful Holy Spirit who is bleeding and injured down there."

"The real secret may be underground."

Li Zhi and the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi both realized this at the same time.

Afterwards, the two men sat by the puddle, and a Taoist deity walked out from their respective Taoist palaces.

The two of them chose to use the Taoist gods to enter the deeper underground space through the gap near the spiritual spring.

The gods in the Yao Chi Holy Maiden Taoist Palace are as graceful as fairies and sacred and inviolable.

The deity in Li Zhi's Taoist temple exuded a strong aura of divinity, as if he was a sage who had attained the Tao. Moreover, he was tall and did not look like a child, which made the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi look at Li Zhi deeply.

Afterwards, the Taoist gods of the two people turned into streams of light and drilled into the underground space through the crack.

After passing through a trumpet-shaped crack, they came to a not-so-large underground space.

Saw a shocking scene.

A hundred-meter-long ochre-colored Qilin, with a pair of stone horns on its head, stands on all fours, with its head raised to the sky, as if it is about to roar like a Qilin at any time.

However, on the back of the Holy Spirit Qilin, there was a thick stone pillar that bent its waist and made it unable to move at all.

The life of the Holy Qilin that was howling towards the sky seemed to be frozen at this second.

What shocked Li Zhi and the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi the most was that between the eyebrows of the Holy Earth Qilin, there grew a mysterious flower that emitted a strong medicinal fragrance. The fragrance was similar to the fragrance of the ripe fruit of the elixir of immortality and was full of extreme temptation.

The mysterious flower had no extra branches and leaves, only a foot-long root rooted on the brow of the Holy Qilin. The flower was only the size of a fist, with 36 petals in bud, and seemed to be about to bloom. Each petal was as crystal clear as black crystal, shining with colorful luster, so beautiful that it gave people a feeling of spiritual ascension.

However, there was a one-foot-long wound on the chest of the Holy Spirit Qilin. Strands of Holy Spirit blood escaped from the wound, then floated upwards, passed through the trumpet-shaped crack and floated to the spiritual spring above.

Moreover, the blood and energy are already very thin, as if the holy spirit blood in the body of this holy spirit Qilin is about to run out.

Yao Chi Saintess said: "This is a holy spirit that was about to reach great perfection, but I didn't expect it to die here."

The two men did not dare to get close, because the corpse of the Holy Spirit that was about to reach perfection could shatter them even with a breath of air.

From a distance, the two of them kept looking at the Holy Spirit Qilin that was suppressed by the stone pillar again.

There is also a magical flower growing between its eyebrows, emitting a mysterious luster.

After thinking for a moment, Li Zhi said, "Could it be that the flower between the eyebrows of this Holy Spirit Qilin is the Holy Spirit Flower?"

Yao Chi Saint Lady shook her head slightly and said, "I don't know."

Afterwards, Li Zhi opened his Dharma Eyes and saw endless Yin and death energy being infused into the body of the Holy Spirit Qilin from its limbs.

Some of the pure death energy even nourished the black divine flower between its eyebrows.

The vitality in the Holy Spirit Qilin's body almost dissipated completely, leaving only pure death energy.

"Is this rebirth from death? This Holy Spirit Qilin died unwillingly?" Li Zhixin thought.

The Feng Shui Burial Sutra has recorded this situation. Some powerful beings, in order to be able to live again, will make arrangements before they die. After death, they will expel all the vitality from their bodies, and then absorb the boundless death energy between heaven and earth into their corpses. In this extreme death environment, vitality will be born, and they will be resurrected.

This is an extremely demanding road.

It is said that as long as one can walk through this path, one can achieve a special kind of Taoist fruit, "the end of death is life, and the end of life is death."

So as to achieve immortality.

However, it is recorded in the Feng Shui Burial Sutra that this road is against the harmony of nature and will cause endless killings, so it must be destroyed when encountered.

However, facing the corpse of the Holy Spirit that was about to reach perfection, let alone destroying it, even if you wanted to get close to it you couldn't.

After only taking two more steps forward, Li Zhi felt that the Taoist temple gods were showing signs of collapse, so he quickly retreated.

The gods in the Taoist palace of the Holy Maiden of Yao Chi also tried to approach the Holy Spirit Qilin, but just after taking two steps forward, the layer of protective fairy light on their bodies collapsed, and they dared not get closer anymore.

The two looked at the surrounding environment from a distance, and the Saintess of Yaochi said, "Let's go. This holy Qilin corpse and that holy flower are not something we can touch. Let's think of other ways."

Li Zhi said somewhat unwillingly: "What a pity."

Afterwards, the gods of the two Taoist palaces drilled out of the underground space along the gap and returned to their respective Taoist palaces.

Li Zhi turned towards the dark lake and said, "Perhaps the clue to leaving is within that dark lake."

Yao Chi Saint Girl nodded and said, "We can only look there."

　Here comes the second update. Good night, everyone.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)