The Devil’s Cave was deep.
But it wasn’t completely dark, and there was a starry light below.
Qin Li leapt down and plunged into the black dust, falling into weightlessness but still descending slowly.
“This place is really filthy!”Qin Li felt a foul-smelling aura that could make a person faint, forcing him to close his nostrils.
The Solitary Old Devil explained, “The earth in this place is decaying, and in the long run, not an inch of grass will grow. One can only say that this group of demonic devil cultivators don’t know how to run a business, and are exhausting themselves in fishing, sooner or later, they will drain the earth of its nutrients and be trapped to death here.”
Qin Li continued to descend.
The Devil’s Cave was bottomless and formed its own space.
The interior was deep with demonic Qi, and there were many broken rocks suspended, similar to the Sinking Realm.
However, the only difference was that there were also many points of light in this world, and when Qin Li got close enough to take a look, it was a huge stone platform inscribed with a few formation patterns, capable of devouring some of the demonic qi and transforming it into spiritual qi.
Old Devil Dugu was a famous name in the Dao of Formations, and saw the doorway at a glance, “This is a part of the Holy Formation, only a remnant remains, completely unrecognisable from its original origins.”
Qin Li flipped through the information, “This was the Green Vault Holy Land’s medicinal garden, specially set up for holy formations to gather ethereal wood aura and cultivate vast quantities of medicinal herbs, with ancient medicines being born every year at its peak.”
“It seems that this stone platform, is the medicine field of yesteryear, you go down some, it means that you can encounter grass and tree elves, after devouring them, the Mori Prison Divine Power will become a small success.”Old Devil Doktor looked at the point of light below and gained insight into the mysteries of Feng Shui.
Qin Li did not hesitate and continued to sink.
Soon!
He encountered some demons.
The further down he went, the layers of demonic strength climbed.
Stones, Filth Devils, Wind Breath Devils, Silver Bell Heavenly Devils, Spitting Heavenly Devils, and Black Mist Heavenly Devils …… all sorts of devils took turns.
One or two ferocious gods and goddesses, also without the need for Qin Li to provoke, a swarm of swooping over, to devour the flesh and blood. The most numerous of them were the wood devils, roughly related to this piece of heaven and earth, all of which ended up as prisoners of hell.
“No, the quality is too low for the Mori Prison Avatar to even look at.”Qin Li pinched a greenish grey crystal stone, this was the Ethereal Wood Essence Crystals obtained from killing the Celestial Wood Devils just now, and was considered to be the best of all the harvests.
“It seems like it’s necessary to continue going deeper ……”
Rumble!
Suddenly the heavens and earth roared.
The surrounding demonic Qi was caught in a riot.
The many stars at the bottom also shook and dimmed in light.
Immediately after that, there was a tidal wave of demonic qi that impacted into waves from the bottom up, trying to wash Qin Li out.
“What is this? It’s not written in the information!”Qin Li split the wave with his sword, nailing himself to the void and not being washed out. The disturbance came and went quickly, subsiding after a dozen breaths.
Old Devil Doktor observed the feng shui and surmised, ”The Qian Yuan’s abnormal movement, even this kind of demonic cave is affected, perhaps it can flush out the treasures bred at the bottom. If you look down, there seems to be an additional Green Star.”
Qin Li looked down.
The stars down below were basically glowing with a pale, dull light.
But now there was an additional green star, vibrantly colourful and brightly crystalline, just like the North Star in the night sky, it stood out from the rest.
“There’s definitely something good, after all, my luck can’t be bad.”Qin Li became more and more grateful for that cup of qi luck, this kind of intangible wealth could be used for a lifetime.
Without procrastinating, he unfurled the wings of the Kun Peng and swooped down.
Straight down seven thousand feet.
Qin Li felt the pressure multiply more and more.
The surrounding demonic aura was so dense that it turned into clouds, any living being that fell into it would have to be assimilated.
Relying on his strong cultivation, Qin Li continued to dive down and finally saw the original face of that green star, which was actually a green jade island.
This jade island was a hundred miles in circumference, nurturing a massive amount of Ethereal Wood Essence, and it was also shrouded in a layer of extremely thin holy light, apparently the formation was still able to operate, shielding the erosion of the demonic energy, and it was also impossible to see the internal scene clearly.
“This should have been the core of the Green Vault Medicinal Garden before, even after sinking into the Devil’s Cave for hundreds of thousands of years, it hasn’t worn down completely and still retains a share of its remaining power.”Old Devil Solitary Mountain surveyed the Jade Island, pondering.
“But how should we enter?”Qin Li looked at the arcane and profound Saint Formation remnant patterns, his eyes dazzled and his scalp troubled, “My cultivation in formation dao is too shallow, I’m not yet able to deal with such a high-level grand formation.”
“I’ll do it!”
Old Devil Dokuro snapped his fingers.
A coloured light burst out, stabbing into the holy formation, like a butcher, travelling through the formation patterns, building bridges and pulling strings, changing at the tangible, mediating out of the intangible, and succeeding in cutting through a gap.
“Wonderful!”
Qin Li marvelled at the old devil’s technique.
“Senior, do you have any special techniques for solving formations, could you teach them to me?”
The Doktor Old Devil shook his head, “The Dao of Formation is far more boring than the Dao of Dan and the Dao of Artifacts, there are just those dozens of core formation solving formulas, and after combining them layer by layer, they can be varied in a thousand different ways according to different situations. I really can’t teach you anything, you can only watch more and learn more and ask more.”
The two chatted as they walked.
Entering the Jade Island, there were definitely quite a few obstacles.
Old Devil Dugu solved the formation in front, while Qin Li observed from behind, asking questions from time to time.
Suddenly.
Dokuro Old Devil paused.
Qin Li was puzzled, “Senior, is there a problem?”
The Doktor Old Devil looked in one direction and said, “There’s another group of people breaking the formation, but they’re using ‘Formation Breaking Beads’ type of violent breakthroughs, stirring up considerable ripples that were detected by me.”
“It seems to be the Yin Ghost Demon Sect’s Yin Hemlock.”Qin Li guessed the other party’s origin.
“We have to be quicker.”
The Doktor Old Demon struck several coloured lights one after another.
It was like peeling an orange, disintegrating the Sacred Formation and opening up a gap.
Qin Li crossed the Sacred Formation, only to feel the Ethereal Wood Essence coming over his face, and raising his eyes, he was greeted by rolling turquoise forests that were pleasing to the eyes.
Only that these were not wooden, but hard jade, crystal clear and emerald as spring, each leaf was a unique work of art, as thin as a cicada’s wing, with clear leaf veins, very beautiful.
“Jade Tsubaki Tree!”
Qin Li recognised the origin of this tree:
“This is a rare thing, capable of producing top-grade precious jades, it can only grow one zhang in a hundred years, it’s unusual to see tens of zhang, and hundreds of zhang abound here. It’s too beautiful, transplant some into the Mountain and River Bracelet.”
Clang!
The Killing Sword came out of its sheath.
The Sword Dipper went deep into the ground and cut through the jade.
The jade toon trees were uprooted and thrown into the Mountain River Bracelet, burying the earth and watering the springs.
The commotion wasn’t small, drawing a buzzing sound, and several sharp green and green awns were seen shooting through the holes, aiming straight for Qin Li’s head.
“What is it?”
Qin Li’s perceptions were keen and he turned back to avoid it.
Several green lights hit the air, hovering in the void, revealing their original appearance.
It turned out to be a few dragonflies, small arm-length, carved like emeralds, waving their wings and emitting a buzzing sound. The rest was that the compound eyes of these dragonflies were scarlet red, transmitting an evil character.
“It’s a spirit condensed by the Ethereal Wood Essence, the Jade Dragonfly.”Qin Li said.
Old Devil Doktor nodded and said, “Even though they are guarded by the remnant horns of the Sacred Formation, they have still been infiltrated by demonic qi and tainted with a ferocious nature.”
Swoosh!
The jade dragonflies shot out of their holes.
Just like several flying swords, they killed without blinking.
Qin Li dealt with it calmly, slicing off a few dragonflies with his sword, getting out a few green crystals the size of a soybean, jewel-like and beautiful.
“Some contamination, it’s better to purify it.”Qin Li catalysed the Inferno Prison Avatar, manifesting a Furnace of Separating Flame, forging the Ethereal Wood Crystals, both removing the demonic Qi and crushing the crystals, sinking the Ethereal Wood Essence into the Sen Prison Rune.
“I have a premonition that the Mori Prison will soon become small.”Qin Li strolled through the woods.
On the road.
He encountered quite a few elves.
Emerald butterflies, gemstone bees, glaucous geckos, green-needled foxes ……
Without exception, all of them had scarlet eyes and pounced upon Qin Li when they saw him, wheeling in as nourishment for the Mori Prison Avatar.
“Outsider, you’re too rampant.”
Suddenly.
A shrill voice attacked.
Qin Li’s body shook as he glanced sideways.
On a jade toon tree in the distance stood a roc bird with a human mouth.
It was only about a zhang tall, with feathers that seemed to be carved out of imperial green, sharp claws and a sharp beak like an emerald, and a greenish light shrouding its body.
Although the eyes were scarlet, they were not hostile, but instead flickered with wisdom.
“Divine Spirit!”
Qin Li raised an eyebrow.
A Nirvana-level elf was a divine spirit.
It was a qualitative change that would not only open up wisdom and be able to speak well, but also nurture a small amount of divine substance within its body and be able to draw on the power of incense.
In the ancient novels of gods and monsters, this category was categorised as Mountain Gods and Wild Sacrifices, who lived deep in the mountains, hosted in large fortresses and became guardian gods, accepting the worship of the mountain people and drawing on the power of incense and fire.
There were also a very few who entered the holy dynasty and became city gods, guarding a city.
“Are you the lord of this place?”Qin Li opened his mouth to enquire.
The Green Roc God’s eyes flashed as he scoffed, “Foolish cultivator, this is the territory of the Heavenly Clothes God, and I’m merely his mount, now that you’ve come here to cause chaos, you’ll have to accept the God’s wrath.”
