467: Chapter 467 Stealing the Fire Source

The nine incomplete blood moons in the sky emitted an eerie red light, illuminating the entire barren gobi desert like Hell.

Cao Yun sprinted across the gobi desert.

The flight Restriction here was extremely strong; forcefully flying in the air not only consumed true essence, but also easily attracted the strangulation of spatial turbulence.

He could only rely on his legs to travel.

Fortunately, he also cultivated his Physical Body. As his legs exerted force, the entire person turned into a stream of light, and his speed was not much slower than flying.

The further forward he went, the more frantic the fire-attribute Spiritual Qi permeating the air became.

That scarlet red pillar of fire soaring into the sky was like a lighthouse, attracting all living beings around it.

"Stop."

In his Sea of Consciousness, the ancient Bing Fire remnant soul suddenly spoke out to remind him.

Cao Yun's feet came to a sudden halt, plowing two deep gullies on the ground.

Hundreds of zhang ahead, a large patch of thick red mist was like a high wall, firmly blocking the way forward.

The red mist churned violently, and shrill screams and the sounds of Magic Treasures shattering faintly came from within, making one's scalp tingle just to hear them.

"Ancient Illusory Killing Formation."

The remnant soul's voice carried a hint of apprehension.

"There are such natural traps everywhere in this Immortal Tomb. After entering, the five senses are completely lost, and even the Divine Sense will be shielded. Those screaming inside are probably the unlucky bastards who randomly teleported and fell in just now. Detour, at least it will take half a day longer."

Cao Yun did not move.

If he made a detour, half a day would pass, and I'm afraid not even a scrap of the fire-type Origin over there would be left.

He folded his hands in his sleeves and quietly circulated the Mingxin Mirror.

Deep within his eyes, a trace of dark golden fire light slightly jumped.

Under the vision of the Mingxin Mirror, that bearing and clawing red mist instantly stripped away its disguise.

The originally turbid and unclear mist turned into crisscrossing energy threads. These threads, like sharp blades, constantly cut and wandered in mid-air, mincing several Loose Cultivators who strayed into them into flesh paste.

And in the middle of these dense threads, there was a hidden blank passage leading directly to the opposite side of the red mist.

"This Divine Ability is indeed easy to use."

Cao Yun chanted silently in his heart and directly stepped into the red mist.

"You are crazy!" the remnant soul shouted.

Cao Yun turned a deaf ear.

He shuttled through the red mist as if taking a stroll in a courtyard.

Taking a step to the left, he avoided a sweeping Law thread.

Taking two steps back to the right, he dodged the killing Formation patterns that suddenly rose beneath his feet.

Occasionally, he even had to bend down to drill through the middle of two intersecting energy nets.

His movements looked comical, eccentric, and without any pattern, but those Formation threads sufficient to strangle Golden Core Cultivators didn't even touch the corner of his clothes.

In less than half an incense stick of time.

Cao Yun walked to the edge of the red mist unscathed.

By the way, he also looted three bulging Storage Rings from several remaining corpses next to the passage.

"You brat..."

The remnant soul held it in for a long time, squeezing out an exclamation.

"Being able to see through the path of survival of the Ancient Illusory Killing Formation at a glance, it's truly a waste of talent for you not to go be a tomb robber."

Cao Yun stuffed the Storage Rings into his bosom, didn't reply, and exerted force with his feet again, running wildly in the direction of the fire pillar.

...

Two hours later.

The temperature in the air had reached an extremely terrifying degree.

Cao Yun stopped in front of a huge black ring-shaped mountain.

That scarlet red pillar of fire soaring into the sky was erupting from the crater of this ring-shaped mountain.

The surrounding black rocks were baked until they were somewhat soft, and stepping on them emitted direct blue smoke.

Cao Yun restrained all his aura, and like a gecko, he stuck behind a huge weathered rock, poking out half his head to look in the direction of the crater.

On the outer periphery of the crater, a large group of people had already gathered.

There were about more than twenty of them, all wearing uniform moon-white long dresses and holding various musical instrument Magic Treasures.

The female Disciples of the Heavenly Sound Valley.

The leader was not Su Qinghan, but a beautiful woman in a palace dress with a cold and stern expression.

With Golden Core Perfection cultivation, her aura was extremely profound, and she even faintly touched the threshold of the Dao Embryo Realm.

Besides the people from the Heavenly Sound Valley, on the other side of the crater, there were also more than ten Loose Cultivators in various attires standing there.

These Loose Cultivators had ugly expressions, obviously being forcibly detained here by the people of the Heavenly Sound Valley.

"Elder Liu, the Formation of this crater is too solid."

A female Disciple of the Heavenly Sound Valley put away the jade flute in her hand and reported pantingly to the beautiful woman in the palace dress.

"We have tried three times, and the sonic wave attack simply cannot pierce through that layer of fire shield. If we forcibly break the Formation, I'm afraid it will trigger the backlash of the earth veins, and everyone will suffer then."

Elder Liu furrowed her brows tightly, looking at the upside-down scarlet-red Formation light shield above the crater.

Inside the light shield, that soaring pillar of fire was gushing crazily, emitting a pure fire-type Origin aura.

"This is the Six-Combinations Fire-Locking Formation."

Elder Liu snorted coldly, her gaze full of greed.

"It's a Formation used by ancient Cultivators to lock the fire Qi of the earth veins. The thing inside this fire pillar is definitely a top-quality Fire Spirit Crystal. If we can get it and present it to the Valley Master, our Heavenly Sound Valley can have one more Dao Embryo Realm expert."

She turned to look at that group of Loose Cultivators, her voice suddenly raising, carrying an irresistible coercion.

"You few, stop standing there. This Six-Combinations Fire-Locking Formation needs to attack six array eyes simultaneously to make the Formation stop rotating for three breaths. Our Heavenly Sound Valley is short-handed. Since you have come, contribute some effort."

The leading Loose Cultivator was a bearded big man. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and barely squeezed out a smile.

"Elder Liu, the backlash power of this array eye is extremely great. With our meager cultivation, I'm afraid we won't be able to hold on..."

"Even if you can't hold on, you must!"

Elder Liu didn't give him any chance to explain at all, her fingers fiercely plucking the strings of the guqin in her arms.

"Zheng!"

A visible sonic wave blade roared out, directly splitting a thin, small Loose Cultivator next to the bearded big man into two halves.

Fresh blood splashed all over the bearded big man's face.

"Either die now, or go break the Formation. Choose for yourself."

Elder Liu looked at them expressionlessly, as if she had just crushed an ant.

The Loose Cultivators trembled all over with fear. Compelled by the tyranny of the Heavenly Sound Valley, they could only grit their teeth and brace themselves to walk toward the crater.

Cao Yun hid behind the rock, watching this scene, calculating inwardly.

"Attacking the array eyes by force? Will this method work?" Cao Yun asked the remnant soul in his Sea of Consciousness.

"Extremely stupid."

The remnant soul scoffed.

"The Six-Combinations Fire-Locking Formation is a live Formation, and the array eyes change at any time. If they bomb it hard like this, it will only force the power of the Formation to become stronger and stronger, and in the end, everyone will be roasted into cooked meat by the earth fire together."

Cao Yun did not completely believe the remnant soul's words.

He quietly circulated the Mingxin Mirror, and his vision crossed a long distance, directly landing on that huge crater.

Dark golden fire light leaped in the depths of his eyes.

Under the mirror of the Mingxin Mirror, the internal structure of that scarlet-red Formation light shield and the pillar of fire soaring into the sky instantly became extremely clear.

Cao Yun looked for a while, and his expression suddenly became somewhat peculiar.

"What's wrong?" the remnant soul asked.

"These people have been fooled."

Cao Yun lowered his voice, his tone carrying a trace of mockery.

"That pillar of fire is not any fire-type Origin at all. That is just an exhaust vent used by the Formation to discharge waste gas."

"What?!" The remnant soul was stunned.

Cao Yun carefully stared at the energy flow trajectory of the Formation.

He discovered that the pillar of fire, which seemed mighty in momentum and exuded a rich Origin aura, actually had extremely miscellaneous internal energy, all of which was violent fire poison and waste gas from the depths of the earth veins.

The real energy core was not inside the crater.

Instead, it quietly flowed along the earth veins to the mountainside of the ring-shaped mountain!

Cao Yun's vision followed the trajectory of the energy flow all the way down.

Finally, it locked onto an extremely inconspicuous black rock crevice on the mountainside.

That rock crevice was blocked by a few cluttered gravels, and there was no Spiritual Qi fluctuation on the surface, looking just like an ordinary mountain crack.

But in the vision of the Mingxin Mirror.

In that rock crevice, a crystal only the size of a fist, dark red all over, and beating like a heart was quietly lying there!

That was the real fire-type Origin!

Cao Yun retracted his vision and twitched his lips.

"The ancient Cultivator who set up this Formation is an old schemer."

Making the waste gas look mighty in momentum and placing it on the surface as bait to attract everyone's attention.

The real treasure was hidden in the crevice of the mountainside, without even any Formation protection, relying entirely on darkness under the lamp.

If not for the Mingxin Mirror, who would have thought that the bottom of that soaring fire pillar was an empty shell?

"Good opportunity."

Cao Yun patted the dust off his body, his muscles tightening slightly.

"Let them fight to the death up there, and I will go pick the peaches down below."

At this time, the battle above the crater had broken out.

Elder Liu commanded the female Disciples of the Heavenly Sound Valley, plus those dozen helpless Loose Cultivators, dividing into six positions, and began a crazy bombardment of the Formation light shield.

Various sonic Spells and Magic Treasure lights exploded in mid-air.

The momentum was mighty.

Attacked by the attack, the Formation immediately launched a violent counterattack.

Large patches of scarlet-red fire meteorites peeled off from the light shield, smashing toward the surroundings like rain.

The female Disciples of the Heavenly Sound Valley and the Loose Cultivators resisted in a fluster, having no time to care about anything else.

Taking advantage of the cover of the sky-full of fire meteorites, Cao Yun, like a ghost, silently clung to the outer wall of the ring-shaped mountain and groped all the way to the mountainside.

That black rock crevice was right in front of his eyes.

Cao Yun stopped his footsteps and did not reach out in a hurry.

His gaze fell on the edge of the crevice.

A layer of fine purple powder was attached there. If one didn't look closely, it wouldn't be discovered at all.

"There is fire poison."

Cao Yun chanted silently in his heart.

This thing was colorless and odorless, but as long as a little bit touched it, it could crawl into the Meridians along the pores, instantly igniting the true essence of a Golden Core Cultivator and burning them into ashes from inside out.

"This ancient old schemer is really meticulous."

Cao Yun sneered.

He raised his right hand, and the dark golden flames within his Dantian instantly surged out, completely wrapping his entire palm.

Pure Yang Heart Fire, immune to all evils.

Cao Yun directly reached his hand into the crevice.

The moment it touched that layer of purple powder, the dark golden flames suddenly rolled, making a "chizhi" sound, directly burning the fire poison into nothingness.

Cao Yun's fingers touched that beating dark red crystal.

A violent scorching sensation came along his fingertips.

This fire-type Origin seemed to perceive danger and began to struggle violently, trying to release terrifying high temperatures to melt the intruder.

The surrounding rocks were instantly baked red, faintly showing signs of melting.

"Behave!"

Cao Yun shouted lowly in his heart.

The dark golden flames instantly turned into a large net, tightly wrapping that dark red crystal.

The mutated Pure Yang Heart Fire, carrying a domineering devouring power, forcibly suppressed the resistance of the fire-type Origin.

Cao Yun exerted force with his five fingers and gave a fierce pull.

Po.

With a soft sound.

He directly pulled that dark red crystal out of the rock crevice.

The moment the crystal was in hand, a pure and vast Origin power directly rushed into the Dantian along Cao Yun's arm.

Cao Yun only felt his whole body shake, and the invisible barrier above his Golden Core actually showed a trace of obvious loosening.

However, the very instant the crystal detached from the rock crevice!

The Six-Combinations Fire-Locking Formation originally covering the top of the crater, because it lost the support of the core array eye, not only did not quietly dissipate as Cao Yun expected, but instead triggered an extremely violent earth vein backlash!

Rumble!

With an earth-shaking loud bang, the entire ring-shaped mountain shook violently. That scarlet-red Formation light shield, like a punctured balloon, instantly burst, turning into a sky-full of violent fire rain.

"What is going on?!"

Above the crater, Elder Liu, who was preparing to launch the final blow, was blown away by dozens of zhang by this sudden explosive pressure wave, her blood and Qi surging.

She abruptly stabilized her figure, and her massive Divine Sense swept downward instantly like a storm.

The crater was empty.

But her Divine Sense, at the position of the mountainside, captured a trace of extremely pure Origin aura, and a back view in a black robe stuffing a dark red crystal into a Storage Ring!

Elder Liu's eyes instantly turned red, a blood red intertwined with extreme anger and greed.

"Damn it, we've been tricked!"

Elder Liu screamed sharply, her voice becoming sharp and harsh due to extreme anger, like the crying of a night owl, piercing through the sky-full of fire rain.

"Arrogant little thief! How dare you seize the fortune of my Heavenly Sound Valley! Leave your life behind!"

Cao Yun's scalp went numb.

He underestimated the commotion when this ancient Formation collapsed.

Without the slightest hesitation, Cao Yun didn't even look back, and his feet stepped fiercely.

His whole person turned into a black lightning bolt, following the dark side of the ring-shaped mountain, fleeing wildly toward the depths of the gobi desert.

"Pursue! We must never let him run away!"

Elder Liu was furious with her hair standing on end, and plucking the seven-stringed guqin in her arms fiercely, her whole person turned into a dazzling white light, carrying monstrous killing intent, heading straight for Cao Yun.

Dozens of female Disciples of the Heavenly Sound Valley as well as those Loose Cultivators forced to break the Formation also woke up as if from a dream, like a pack of wolves smelling blood, chasing after him overwhelmingly.

A ten-thousand-li life-and-death chase against time abruptly kicked off on this barren Immortal Tomb gobi desert.

"Little thief! You can't escape! Hand over the fire-type Origin, and this seat will leave you an intact corpse!"

Elder Liu's sharp voice, mixed with profound true essence, exploded dozens of li behind Cao Yun.

Sonic Law, the most terrifying thing about it was its pervasive penetrating power.

Accompanied by Elder Liu's angry roar, a naked-eye-invisible sonic wave blade swept across the ground like a lawnmower.

The weathered rocks along the way, the moment they contacted the sonic wave, didn't even go through the process of shattering, and directly turned into powder.

The dark golden fire light in the depths of Cao Yun's eyes jumped wildly.

Mingxin Mirror fully opened!

In his vision, that invisible sonic wave blade turned into circles of dense light-blue ripples.

The center of the ripples had the strongest lethality, but on both sides, there was a slight energy fault.