Chapter 819: The Fifth Secret Treasury: The Treasury of the Witch

Time passed, and seven days went by.

The fluctuations in the Mountain-Sea Domain, due to the resealing of the Nine Li Prohibition, had also subsided. The fierce beasts within no longer wailed; the struggle from their souls and bloodlines gradually dissipated, and beastly nature took over completely.

However, the hearts of the Yan Yue Profound Heaven cultivators who participated in the Great Hunt could not remain calm; various speculations surged in their minds.

Most of them had learned the source of the fluctuations in the Mountain-Sea Domain through different means, so they avoided the area, unwilling to go near the Nine Li.

Even the mountain range where Xu Qing was hiding, though some distance from the Nine Li Prohibition, saw few passersby during these seven days.

Coupled with the fact that he was well-hidden and the gray mist had been completely absorbed by the purple crystal, no one had noticed him.

This allowed Xu Qing to immerse himself wholeheartedly in the refining of the Nine Li Witch Treasury during these quiet seven days.

To fully control the Nine Li and make it a part of his body, he had to refine it into a Witch Treasury.

But this step was not so simple.

First, what needed to be done was not to fuse the nine lanterns floating outside his body into himself one by one, but to first shape a foundation for the secret treasury within his sea of consciousness to contain the lanterns.

This foundation for the secret treasury was particularly important; on one hand, it had to be able to withstand the fusion of the Nine Li, and on the other, it was closely related to whether Xu Qing could truly fuse with the Nine Li in the end.

Therefore, after pondering, Xu Qing made a decision: flesh and blood as the base, white bones as the mountains. During these seven days, he continuously consumed his own flesh and blood, causing it to gather in his sea of consciousness and spread out the foundation of the secret treasury.

This process required such a massive amount of flesh and blood that, in a normal state, even if Xu Qing buried himself, it wouldn't be enough.

Thus, he thought of the White Wind in the Green Sand Desert of the Sacrifice Moon Domain.

That was a terrifying wind where flesh, blood, and bones grew in a disordered manner. Back in the Green Sand Desert, anyone blown by the White Wind would become flesh-deformed until they turned into a mountain of meat and died without pain.

He had studied this phenomenon back then and experimented on others, once creating a formula for an anti-curse elixir. At the same time, he knew very well that this flesh and blood growing out of him truly belonged to himself. So, after much thought, Xu Qing gritted his teeth and swallowed the remaining elixir containing the White Wind in his storage bag. His body immediately began to grow in a disordered manner.

Seven or eight arms, dozens of legs, and multiple skulls all grew out frantically, and his physique became even more bloated and massive.

With the help of this newly grown flesh and blood, and through Xu Qing's consumption, the foundation of the secret treasury in his sea of consciousness gradually took shape.

During this period, he swallowed quite a few elixirs containing the White Wind, and the disordered growth of his body gradually reached an exaggerated degree, turning into a mountain of meat many times.

A sense of weakness appeared frequently.

Fortunately, with the recovery of the purple crystal, he managed to barely persist.

In the end, a ten-thousand-foot-large land of flesh and blood was formed.

This was his limit.

This ten-thousand-foot flesh and blood was entirely his own; using it as the foundation of the secret treasury was naturally of the same origin as him.

Additionally, on top of this ten-thousand-foot land of flesh and blood, Xu Qing's bones also continuously piled up, forming several bone mountains.

These nine bone mountains were all skulls. It was exactly the layout Xu Qing had shaped according to his memory of the Nine Li core a thousand feet down; the land was his flesh and blood, and the bone mountains were his bones.

The moment it was formed, Xu Qing opened his eyes under the mountain range.

His face was pale, his body was weak, and the luster in his eyes had dimmed significantly; the consumption was truly too great.

Yet, his eyes still contained a glow.

"The foundation of flesh and bone is complete. Next, it is time to fuse!" Xu Qing raised his head and looked at the nine lanterns floating around. He raised his right hand and pointed at one of them. The moment his finger fell, the lantern trembled and headed straight for Xu Qing.

The moment it touched his finger, the lantern fused into him at high speed. The next instant, it disappeared from before Xu Qing, and when it appeared...

It was shockingly in his sea of consciousness, falling fiercely toward the skull mountain that belonged to it on top of the ten-thousand-foot flesh and blood. In the blink of an eye, the lantern collided with the bone mountain, and the gray mist within erupted, fusing into the skull mountain along with the lantern.

When it was completely fused, this skull mountain trembled. Under the coverage of the gray mist, flesh and blood manifested, and two balls of black fire rose in the originally hollow eye sockets.

Subsequently, a roar like that of an ox came from within the skull. Immediately following that, a fierce beast with the form of an ox but possessing a full body of golden armor and a dragon head manifested within, roaring toward the sky and emitting a low sound like the murmurs of a god.

"Witch Fate Prisoner Ox!"

Its appearance was imposing, and Xu Qing's sea of consciousness surged endlessly; the connection between it and Xu Qing also became one at this moment.

This made Xu Qing immediately realize that this beast named Prisoner Ox was one of the Witch forms of the Nine Li back then.

"Nine skulls, nine different Witch forms!"

Seeing that it was effective, Xu Qing's spirit lifted. While pinching a seal, he fused the second lantern. Very soon, on another skull mountain on his flesh-and-blood foundation, the second fierce beast manifested.

That was a fierce beast with the body of a jackal and the head of a dragon, its whole body exuding a ferocious and cruel intent, bloodthirsty, giving people a feeling of death upon seeing it.

Especially since it was entirely black, the killing intent was monstrous, rendering Xu Qing's mind as if a peerless fierce weapon had descended into the world!

The Ji Dongzi that Xu Qing had seen back then already had astonishing killing intent, but compared to this fierce beast, the gap was too large.

At this moment, as the killing intent surged, there was a faint low roar echoing: Witch Fate Yazi!

"Such killing intent..." Xu Qing's heart was shaken, and he even felt a sense of being intimidated.

After a long while, he calmed the fluctuations in his sea of consciousness and then raised his right hand, pointing at three lanterns. As the three lanterns fused, they fell toward the third bone mountain, the fourth bone mountain, and the fifth bone mountain respectively.

The sea of consciousness that had just calmed down set off an unprecedented storm.

Seeing the moment the lanterns fused into the bone mountains, the three fierce beasts of different forms shone simultaneously, their intent to swallow mountains and rivers erupting like a landslide.

Xu Qing's body vibrated violently, almost unable to bear it. He had to use the purple crystal to recover and also released soul threads, directly transforming into the third god-spirit state, only then managing to persist.

When looking into his sea of consciousness, those three fierce beasts had monstrous momentum.

One figure was blurry; at first glance, one couldn't distinguish the specifics, only sensing that its speed exceeded imagination. Only by relying on the series of afterimages formed during multiple shifts and leaps could one see its lizard-like form with wings.

There was even a whistling wind accompanying it, emitting a sharp sound.

"Witch Fate Chaofeng!"

As for the fourth one, it was dragon-like, relatively smaller in size compared to the other fierce beasts. When it appeared, it floated there, very quiet. But the moment Xu Qing's spiritual sense fell on this beast, the little dragon suddenly raised its head, opened its mouth, and actually emitted a huge roar like the opening of heaven and earth.

"Witch Fate Pulao!"

Once this sound came out, Xu Qing's body boomed, and even his third god-spirit state became unstable, almost cracking from the shock. He quickly formed the fourth god-spirit state to stabilize his body.

And the fifth fierce beast was even more astonishing!

Its form was like a lion, its whole body exuding an incense-fire aura, floating above the fifth bone mountain, exuding vast majesty, as if it could suppress everything—be it heaven or earth!

Surrounded by the curling incense smoke, it was like a true god.

A low sound echoed in all directions.

"Witch Fate Suanni!"

Xu Qing sensed these five fierce beasts, and his mind seemed to have countless heavenly thunders exploding; the waves in his heart surged ten thousand feet high.

Too strong!

Although he didn't know their specific functions yet, judging from their auras, any one of them was more terrifying than the Ghost Chariot Xu Qing had seen before.

After a long time, Xu Qing's eyes revealed anticipation. He calmed his sea of consciousness, and after all the fluctuations dissipated, he raised his hand and pointed at the other lanterns.

Immediately, the sixth, seventh, and eighth skull mountains successively revealed ghostly fires, manifesting different beasts.

One had the form of a dragon head and turtle body, its whole body exuding a domineering aura that shook heaven and earth, and its physique was even more astonishing. The moment it appeared, Xu Qing's sea of consciousness was stretched quite a bit.

"Witch Fate Baxia!"

One had the form of a tiger and dragon head, with huge teeth. When it appeared, a sense of sealing spread from its body, affecting Xu Qing's mind and spreading to his whole body, reaching the outside world, causing this mountain range area to directly appear blurry. In all directions, everything was in a sealed state. In this seal, murmurs echoed.

"Witch Fate Bi'an!"

One had a body that also resembled a dragon, but it was slender and gave people a sense of elegance. As it danced, it emitted countless blue light spots, nourishing the sea of consciousness and even making Xu Qing's soul appear cool, accompanied by a sense of weight, as if it had draped a peerless armor over his soul. This was a blessing to the soul; it descended silently.

Xu Qing's eyes revealed a strange light. He felt this blessing very clearly, and its effect... was extremely astonishing.

"Like a god's blessing!" As Xu Qing realized this, the voice from this beast echoed softly.

"Witch Fate Fuxi!"

Immediately following that was the last lantern!

As Xu Qing fused it, this lantern appeared on the ninth skull mountain. With the vibration of this mountain and the ghostly fire flashing inside the skull, above it, a dragon-headed, lion-bodied, fish-tailed form shockingly appeared.

Its appearance didn't have any earth-shattering momentum, nor any shocking strange changes, but the moment it appeared, the instant its gaze touched Xu Qing's spiritual sense, Xu Qing's physical body vibrated significantly.

He felt the injuries he had been continuously recovering from instantly complete. Not only his physical body, but even his soul threads were the same, as if they had all been blessed.

What made him feel most strange was that the fluctuations in his sea of consciousness caused by the previous fusion of the Nine Li also recovered to normal at this very instant!

As if all negative states dissipated under the gaze of this beast.

"Witch Fate Chiwen!"

Nine Li, nine heads; they fused with Xu Qing's flesh and blood, using Xu Qing's bones as a carrier, and all the Witch Fate forms appeared.

The next instant, the flesh-and-blood heart foundation where they were located suddenly caved in, and the booming sounds, along with the roars of the nine heads, converged together, as if igniting a vast furnace.

Boom!! The fifth secret treasury was formed!

The Witch Treasury, formed!

The aura of the Witch Treasury's Great Perfection could not be controlled and erupted monstrously from Xu Qing's body! ===== CHAPTER 820 =====