Ya Qianxue found a place to start healing his wounds.
Yan Liehuo crushed the secret technique scroll and left the True Demon Forbidden Land.
He had been severely injured by Ya Qianxue and would not recover completely as quickly as before. If he continued, he would surely be in trouble.
Although he did not know how many warriors were in the Death Gate, there were definitely more than one. If he encountered others in this state, it would be disastrous.
Those who could enter the Death Gate were certainly not ordinary people.
Of the six treasures, one had been sold by Ling Xiao to Ying Wuya, and one had been desperately obtained by Yan Liehuo.
Four remained, and at this time, behind the Death Gate, there were still Ling Xiao, Feng Yaorao, Ya Qianxue, and Li Youdao—four people.
…
About an hour had passed.
This damned place seemed close in distance but was actually like a maze. Even though Ling Xiao had the Mountain River Map and proceeded carefully according to it, it still took a lot of time.
Finally, he arrived at the location of another treasure.
Here was a volcano, and it was an erupting one.
Needless to say, this was a scene created by an array formation. It was no different from a real volcano, and its power was equally terrifying.
Above the volcano floated a huge fireball. From within the fireball came strong energy fluctuations.
These energy fluctuations were identical to those from the previous secret manual.
“I hope it’s a fusion stone!”
Ling Xiao took a deep breath.
He did not need anything else right now; what he most hoped to get was a fusion stone.
He could not see what was inside the blazing fireball, so he could only hold this expectation.
Moreover, he had a feeling that the six treasures here corresponded to the six people who had entered.
When the True Demon Empire trained generals back then, they must have chosen treasures more suitable for those generals; otherwise, unsuitable treasures would be meaningless.
The current situation was the same.
What Ying Wuya got and the Scarlet Flame Spear that Yan Liehuo obtained were both items suitable for them.
So Ling Xiao felt that among these six items, there must be one suitable for him.
Even if it was not a fusion stone, it would certainly be something he could use.
“No matter what it is, I’ll get it first!”
Ling Xiao looked at the blazing fireball and casually picked up a stone to throw over.
Puff!
The stone exploded midway, turning into fragments with sparks on them.
“As expected, there are indeed mechanisms here.”
Ling Xiao smiled faintly and began to dismantle the mechanisms.
Mechanisms were just the prototype of array formations and simpler to crack than arrays.
It took only two or three minutes for Ling Xiao to solve the problem.
Then he leaped into the air and plunged towards the blazing fireball. Such temperature naturally could not harm him at all.
Bang!
Just as he leaped, a point of golden light shot towards him rapidly. It was a golden small insect, extremely ugly in appearance.
But it was very dangerous.
Before it even approached, Ling Xiao’s entire body felt a huge threat; his muscles contracted fiercely, preparing to face this terrible sneak attack.
Facing the sudden attack, Ling Xiao did not even look. He just reflexively shot out a qi sword, and then his body continued flying forward, shattering the blazing fireball.
Inside the blazing fireball was not a fusion stone but a “Heavenly Vein Pill”.
This pill could only be used by Heavenly Vein warriors. It could accelerate the generation of heavenly veins and thereby completely convert true essence into heavenly essence.
One must know that Ling Xiao had only used a trace of heavenly essence to instantly kill a growth-stage Heavenly Vein warrior. If all his true essence were converted to heavenly essence, he was confident he could defeat a First Line Heaven realm warrior.
Grabbing the Heavenly Vein Pill and throwing it into his storage ring, Ling Xiao then turned to look at the one who had sneaked up on him.
“Li Youdao, you’re courting death!”
Ling Xiao’s eyes were ice-cold, with strong killing intent in his pupils.
When he fought Tang Jiu before, this Li Youdao had said he wanted to kill him, but that was just words, and he had not taken it seriously.
But this time, Li Youdao actually used a Golden Silkworm Gu to deal with him. This clearly meant to kill him.
If not for his soul power being strong enough to sense the Golden Silkworm Gu in advance, even if this strike could not kill him, it would definitely severely injure him.
Then he would fall directly into the boiling magma, ending up with no remains.
“Heh heh heh, you’re about to die, yet you’re still so arrogant. Don’t think that sneak-killing Tang Jiu makes you truly invincible! Hand over the Heavenly Vein Pill, and I can leave you a complete corpse! I can even turn you into my gu puppet to serve me!”
Li Youdao showed a ferocious smile.
Although Ling Xiao had just broken his sneak attack with one strike, he was not surprised.
In that strike, to avoid Ling Xiao noticing, he had used only twenty to thirty percent of his true essence.
It was just to knock Ling Xiao into the volcano, saving him the effort.
Now that Ling Xiao was not dead, he still had confidence to make Ling Xiao die.
“Heh, your tone is quite big. Why should I give you what I’ve obtained?”
Ling Xiao was amused by Li Youdao’s words.
“Because I’m stronger than you!”
Li Youdao seemed full of confidence. Before entering the True Demon Forbidden Land, he really had not taken this kid Ling Xiao seriously. Now that this fellow’s cultivation had improved a bit, he was so rampant.
It seemed that if he did not teach this kid how to behave, he, Li Youdao, would have lived in vain.
“Give it up, and you die but can keep a complete corpse!
Don’t give it up, and you still die, but you’ll be bitten to rot all over by my bugs, or become my human puppet. Choose yourself.”
Li Youdao secretly began accumulating power. He said this deliberately to make Ling Xiao careless; he did not believe Ling Xiao would agree to such harsh conditions.
“Aren’t you worried I’ll use the secret technique scroll to escape?” Ling Xiao asked with a smile.
“If you dare escape, after I get out, I’ll specifically hunt down people from your Moon Flower Sect and kill until your sect has no one left!”
Li Youdao threatened sinisterly.
“Alright, since you’ve said that, you won’t leave alive today either.”
Ling Xiao disliked others using his sect members to threaten him.
Li Youdao not only wanted to kill him but also his sect members, which made him very unhappy.
The consequences of unhappiness were very serious.
“Since you won’t cooperate, don’t blame me for being ruthless!”
Li Youdao had already accumulated full attack power and had been eyeing Ling Xiao covetously. Now he was just releasing the accumulated move.
“I killed Tang Jiu before; perhaps you’re not convinced. Then I’ll kill you too and completely cut off the southern three sects’ delusions towards our Moon Flower Sect!”
When going to the Northern Han capital before, Ling Xiao had known that the southern three sects colluded with Northern Han Crown Prince Zhao Yu, plotting to exterminate the Moon Flower Sect and the Beast King Palace.
