Chapter 122

As Tie Lanshan's voice fell, the third-grade formation was fully activated!

Above, lightning clashed; below, earth fire surged!

It erupted with extreme destructive power!

Almost all cultivators were struggling to hold on, their external spirit power shields shaking on the verge of collapse.

Wang Ping knew this was only because here there was only a second-grade spirit vein; the Heavenly Thunder Earthly Fire Grand Formation's power had not yet reached its maximum, otherwise a single strike would have left no Foundation Establishment cultivator alive.

Moreover, such an attack could not last long; the third-grade formation's operation drawing heavenly and earthly spiritual qi was too astonishing for a second-grade spirit vein to bear.

Tie Lanshan had estimated for them that once the formation was fully activated, it could only run for half an hour; otherwise it would damage the spirit vein, and if they waited for the true outbreak of heavenly and earthly spiritual qi, even a slight damage might prevent the spirit vein from reaching top second-grade level.

"Wang Dao Friend! Go help Zhang Zuo Dao Friend; I'll take care of here!" Wang Ping said to Wang Ye.

Wang Ye nodded, no longer hesitating, and rushed straight to where Zhang Zuo and the others were.

Below, seeing there was no way out, the recovered Li Hai whispered: "This formation won't run for long; as long as we hold out until it collapses, we can escape!"

"Big Brother!" Seeing Li Hai wake up, Li Shan and the two others hurriedly surrounded him.

"Don't worry, I've already broken through the first stage of the first layer of the Scripture and reached the second stage; now it's merely soul damage. Once we get out, three years of secluded cultivation will fix it!"

Li Hai gestured that they need not worry.

Hearing Big Brother Li Hai's words, Li Shan and the two others showed delighted expressions; although many are qualified to cultivate the Soul Refining Hall Scripture, few can break through the first layer's second stage, but breaking through the third stage qualifies one for soul metamorphosis.

Therefore, in the Soul Refining Hall, anyone who can cultivate the Scripture to the first layer's second stage will certainly receive certain importance from the hall.

Get out! We must make it out alive!

Li Shan and the two others secretly resolved to break the formation and walk out.

"Big Brother! We three, risking soul damage, will reactivate the Converging Flow Ball, set up a late Foundation Establishment-level spiritual sense barrier, and blocking it for an hour is no problem!"

Li Hai pondered a moment, nodded, and said: "Good!"

"Cough cough! No way, we simply can't escape!"

The nearly forgotten Sima Wuming of the Li brothers suddenly transmitted a weak voice at this moment!

"Bullshit! Do you think we're like you? Relying on external force to reach mid Foundation Establishment, yet still get blown away by a stick!" Li Shan glared angrily, then said disdainfully.

"Cough… uh… cough cough… hahaha!" Sima Wuming suddenly burst out laughing.

Li Hai narrowed his eyes, looking at the abnormally mentally disturbed Sima Wuming, his expression suddenly changed, and he hurriedly circulated his full-body spirit power.

"Not good! We've been poisoned!"

Li Shan and the others weren't stupid either; they hurriedly circulated spirit power, discovering that their internal spirit power had seemingly solidified, unable to move at all.

"Damn it, what poison is this! It actually solidified our spiritual power, yet our bodies show no abnormality at all!" Li Shan exclaimed angrily.

Li Hai shook his head; he also didn't know, perhaps it's a special poison of this realm!

"This is the poison famed in the Xichui Immortal Realm: Golden Jade Dew! Those poisoned have their spiritual power completely solidified and can no longer mobilize it! Unless a cultivator two realms higher than us dissolves our spiritual power, otherwise we will spend our lives as merely longer-lived mortals!"

Sima Wuming's voice rang out again!

"It's fine! We still have the power of divine sense we can use, and with the three of us together, even if that azure blue light ring is razor‑sharp, we can hold it off for half an hour! Once we break free, we can send out a distress signal!"

Li Shan and the two others took out the converging bead, about to pour their mental power into it, when three azure sword lights descended from the sky.

The sword lights came with fierce force; left with no choice, the three each retreated, but they forgot they could not use spiritual power at this moment, nor perform evasion techniques; in desperation they simultaneously turned into rolling gourds.

Wang Ping stood in the high sky, extended his hand and summoned; the converging bead was drawn into his palm.

Only then did he look down at the five people below; this marvelous little bead was already in his hand, unwilling to continue the entanglement, he said softly: "Seeing how deep your brotherly bond is, I will no longer let you suffer the torment of being burned by earth fire!"

Having said that, a cyan light ring appeared on his body; this time Wang Ping did not simultaneously fuse divine sense and spiritual power, but merely controlled it with divine sense, howling as he slashed toward them!

Pu! Pu! Pu! Pu! Pu! Five heads fell to the ground.

Deprived of spiritual power protection, they were hardly better than late-stage Qi Refining cultivators; how could they resist Wang Ping's cyan light ring?

Wang Ping flicked his hand, collecting six storage bags; the space of the twelve earth‑fire pillars had already shrunk to within three zhang.

Under the terrifying heat, the corpses of Sima Wuming and his six companions quickly turned to charcoal; Wang Ping, who had already left twenty li behind, suddenly noticed that the thumb‑sized incomplete true sun fire in his dantian suddenly, suddenly began to beat violently.

Even showing a tendency to surge out of the dantian, this abrupt change made Wang Ping halt his stance instantly; his divine sense spread out in an instant, released in all directions, leaving nothing alive within ten li.

Extending further, fifteen li is already his current limit, yet still nothing changed.

Looking around, Wang Ping suddenly thought of something and ran toward the direction where Li Hai and the others had fallen.

Sure enough, as he ran toward that spot, the small cluster of flame in his dantian jumped even more violently!

At his present speed, twenty li is covered in just a few breaths, and he had already arrived.

Wang Ping's figure came to an abrupt halt! Ahead of him, in the midst of the twelve earth‑fire pillars, hovered a goose‑egg‑sized white pearl.

In the terrifying heat of the earth fire, that pearl serenely emitted a faint glow, and even the terrifying temperature of the earth fire kept washing over something.

Wang Ping's eyesight is excellent; he could see that it was a thread of blood aura.

At this moment, the flame in his dantian even leapt out of the surface of the spiritual liquid, wanting to leave the dantian; Wang Ping could sense that it wanted to enter the pearl ahead.

Looking around, Wang Ping knew this was not the time for detailed study; he quickly formed seals with both hands, applying the object‑control technique used in artifact refining; the white spirit pearl trembled, then turned into a white light that fell into his palm.

His gaze fell on the spot where the white pearl had appeared; he remembered that was where Sima Wuming had fallen, and now he recalled Sima Wuming's strange breakthrough in realm earlier—he had thought it some secret technique, but now it seemed related to that white pearl.

Thinking this through, he tried to store the white pearl in his storage bag, but found that no matter how he tried, the pearl would not go inside the bag.

Wang Ping felt astonished; could this pearl possess vitality!

In the immortal realm, there is a common rule for using storage bags: living things cannot be stored!

Thinking this, he temporarily placed it on his person; if it truly is alive, then Sima Wuming probably did not swallow it into his body, right?

Just thinking of this, Wang Ping extinguished the idea of swallowing it into his stomach!