Chapter 127: Closing the Door and Not Letting Go!

Ning Zhuo cherished every exploration of the Immortal Palace.

To this day, the environment he was in made it difficult for him to explore freely.

Mainly because more and more people had reached the third-layer peak of Qi Refining cultivation, and Ning Zhuo had to hide among them so as not to be so conspicuous.

In the first room, he assembled his body and met with the people from the Zhou and Zheng families, allowing his big treasure, the Golden Blood Battle Ape, Dasheng, to make a public appearance.

In the second room, Ning Zhuo ordered Dasheng to repel all his companions and was thrown into a mechanism trap in public.

In this way, he didn't need to explain; the people from the Zhou and Zheng families would tell the Ning family why Ning Zhuo returned his soul to his body so late.

Ning Zhuo first reset the mechanisms, then cleaned up the battlefield with Dasheng, digging out all the spirit stones from the puppets and taking them away.

When pushing open the second portal, Ning Zhuo selected mechanism parts.

He did not use the Buddha-Heart Demon-Seal to retreat.

The reason was that he had already collected all the reward spells for passing the second room. There were only two spirit stones, so Ning Zhuo abandoned the spirit stones and was more willing to save as much soul power as possible.

Drawing on a wisp of the Buddha-Heart Demon-Seal’s power consumed soul power.

The further the level, the more soul power was consumed when retreating.

The third room, which was Meng Chong’s record limit.

There were numerous mechanism puppets here.

Seeing Ning Zhuo appear, they immediately pounced.

Dasheng let out a low roar and blocked at the front. Ning Zhuo cast several spells in turn, freezing all the kung fu puppets.

To this day, he had received the leaderboard rewards many times and gained a huge amount of spell-casting experience, allowing him to reach the level of proficiency in casting these spells.

Passing the third level, Ning Zhuo arrived at the preparation room.

Under the leaderboard, he received the rewards for his first place on the five leaderboards.

The number of spirit stones skyrocketed by hundreds!

Looking at this alone, the spirit stone rewards from the previous portals were simply pitifully sour.

It is worth mentioning that the insights brought by the spells he received now had very little improvement for Ning Zhuo, far less than at the beginning.

"I now possess a divine ability prototype; can I use the Buddha-Heart Demon-Seal to take my name off the leaderboard directly?"

"Or simply hide the leaderboard stone pillar?"

Ning Zhuo tried it, but it didn't work.

Passing through the preparation room, he entered the fourth room.

Ning Zhuo cast spells in turn and obtained more than a dozen mechanism parts, such as Flying Swim Hands, Gas-Releasing Rings, etc.

He was fully armed in one go.

Fifth room, sixth room, preparation room.

Seventh room, eighth room, ninth room.

Ning Zhuo and Dasheng joined hands, and their overall combat power underwent a qualitative change, which was much easier than breaking through alone.

Dasheng’s own spirituality did not like using spells. With it fixed at the front, attracting and dragging the enemy, Ning Zhuo was at the rear, taking the opportunity to attack and casting various spells to his heart’s content.

After passing through the preparation room for the third time, Ning Zhuo entered the transit hall and saw the Buddha, Dao, and Demon gates again.

His highest record was relying solely on Dasheng, biting the bullet, ignoring the consumption, and breaking through the three levels of the Buddha gate, entering the transit hall again, and seeing the new three gates.

By contacting the portals, Ning Zhuo obtained the fourth to sixth layers of the Mirror Platform Spirit-Communication Technique, Five Elements Qi-Law Technique, and Demon-Staining Blood-Tendon Technique.

Now, his Qi Refining cultivation had reached the late fourth layer, his Essence Refining cultivation was at the peak of the fourth layer, and his Spirit Refining cultivation was unique, reaching the early sixth layer.

Such cultivation meant that Ning Zhuo’s best choice was to use the Buddha gate as the main breakthrough route.

Ning Zhuo pushed open the Demon gate first and obtained the blood energy gifted by the portal.

With the increase in blood energy, Dasheng’s strength greatly increased.

In the three levels after the Demon gate, Dasheng tried its best to absorb the blood energy of the kung fu puppets and accumulate it to its own limit.

Like the Buddha gate, there was no reward for the second level, but after the third level, it sent out a lot of reward information.

What Ning Zhuo paid more attention to was one of the mechanism parts—the Blood Oil Bottle.

Using this mechanism part, one could collect various blood energies, mix them, process and refine them, and finally form an oily substance with the texture of blood.

Blood oil could not compare to pure blood energy, but to some extent, it could be used as a substitute.

"Blood-Transforming Pool, can consume living beings with blood and decompose them into countless blood."

"The Blood-Transforming Pool and Blood Oil Bottle mechanism parts are matched, which can allow the mechanism puppet to support war with war and greatly increase the duration of fierce fighting."

Ning Zhuo chose the Blood Oil Bottle and obtained a part.

He pushed the door out, arrived at the transit hall again, and saw the second set of three gates.

These three gates required at least the peak of the sixth layer of cultivation to be pushed.

Thus, Ning Zhuo looked at his own side and found the first Buddha gate and Dao gate.

He came to the Dao gate and pushed and pulled the door, but it didn't move at all.

Buddha-Heart Demon-Seal!

Ning Zhuo opened the door and walked in.

The mechanism puppets in the third level of the Dao gate heard the movement and turned their heads. After discovering Ning Zhuo, they pounced one after another.

Ning Zhuo pointed his hand, and Dasheng roared out, blocking at the front.

The mechanism puppets in the three levels of the Dao gate were surrounded by five elements, and their spell-casting was endless.

Under the siege of various spells, Dasheng immediately fell into a disadvantage.

This was the advantage of spell cultivators—their short-term attack power was very strong, and they had enough explosive power!

Ning Zhuo immediately attacked, and various spells followed.

His spirit stones were abundant, and he soon helped Dasheng stabilize the situation.

Once in a stalemate, Dasheng could rely on its excellent individual combat ability to smash the spell puppets one by one.

When the number of spell puppets dropped to a certain level, Ning Zhuo ordered Dasheng to slow down its attack, and he himself cast spells to freeze these spell puppets.

"I can move them to the third room and let Meng Chong have a taste."

Thinking about it, "Better move them to the sixth room."

Since being defeated by Dasheng, Meng Chong had never projected his soul into the Immortal Palace again.

However, the City Lord’s Mansion’s modification team had been recorded by the monitoring mechanism hidden by Ning Zhuo, and they had explored many times.

Ning Zhuo had a strong premonition—when Meng Chong appeared again, he would definitely have a brand-new look, and his combat power would increase by at least one grade!

In this case, no matter how many spell puppets there were, they wouldn't be of much use.

Only an existence like the Golden Blood Battle Ape, Dasheng, could deal with Meng Chong.

Even Ning Zhuo himself, relying on his full armament, would find it difficult to resist Meng Chong, who could unleash the Rushing Thunder.

Ning Zhuo started from the third level, pushed back to the second level of the Dao gate, the first level of the Dao gate, and finally arrived at the first transit hall.

This was his first time breaking through the three levels of the Demon gate and Dao gate.

Overall, the level designs of the two gates were much the same, like the Buddha gate; the two gates had no rewards in the second level. They all concentrated the rewards on the third level.

Among the rewards of the Dao gate, Ning Zhuo chose the Five Elements Chaotic Qi Technique.

This method targeted the five elements of magic power, which could directly disrupt and scatter the five orderly magic powers in the magic power, causing them to operate chaotically, contradict and conflict with each other, thereby causing internal disorder in the mechanism creation and making it unable to move.

"The blood tendons of the Demon-Staining Blood-Tendon Technique and the five elements of magic power are both strengthening the control of mechanism creations."

"I will start from these two aspects. In the future, if Dasheng loses control again, I will have a means of checks and balances."

"Perhaps this is the original intention of the Three Sects Masters. He created spiritual mechanism arts and therefore designed three types of cultivation methods to be used in conjunction with mechanism creations."

Ning Zhuo pushed open the Buddha gate and entered the coffin room again.

He didn't get any information, tried it, and couldn't select the coffin again to create a second mechanism creation.

Ning Zhuo shook his head with regret and continued on his way.

Seeing him shake his head, the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit was so angry that it ground its teeth.

Breaking through to the last portal, Ning Zhuo did not hesitate when receiving the reward and chose the Illusion-True Lotus Seed.

Seeing this, the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit’s expression relaxed, and it couldn't help but feel happy.

Ning Zhuo pushed the door out.

Buddha-Heart Demon-Seal!

Opened the door and returned, rewarded with an Illusion-True Lotus Seed.

The Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit opened its mouth and laughed.

Ning Zhuo pushed the door out.

Buddha-Heart Demon-Seal!

Opened the door and returned, rewarded with an Illusion-True Lotus Seed.

The Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit lay on the throne, so happy that its dragon legs kicked repeatedly.

Ning Zhuo went in and out, all choosing the Illusion-True Lotus Seed.

The playfulness and mockery on the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit’s face gradually disappeared, becoming suspicious.

It felt very strange!

Every time Ning Zhuo retreated, he needed to consume soul power to trigger the Buddha-Heart Demon-Seal. But he went in and out too many times! This was completely inconsistent with the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit’s impression!

What was going on?

Ning Zhuo’s own cultivation was advancing by leaps and bounds, and he could naturally draw more power from the magic treasure.

More importantly, as the divine ability prototype continued to strengthen, the loss of the treasure seal’s power in the transmission of the Life-Thread dropped sharply!

Therefore, Ning Zhuo’s performance in entering and retreating from the levels was much stronger than before.

The Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit’s eyes gradually widened, and the ominous feeling in its heart grew stronger, even feeling a bit frightened.

It couldn't help but have a terrible guess in its heart, guessing whether Ning Zhuo had already mastered the Life-Thread divine ability!

But it had no evidence after all.

The reason it could use the Life-Thread divine ability was only by borrowing the Lava Immortal Palace. It didn't have this ability itself, nor could it see the Life-Thread.

The persistent Ning Zhuo finally stopped going in and out.

He had reached his limit.

His soul power was about to fall to the bottom, and at this moment he missed Han Ming very much: "After this period of time, Han Ming should have recovered most of it, right?"

"My soul power continues to grow, and I will definitely be able to enter and exit more times and take away all the Illusion-True Lotus Seeds as soon as possible."

At this time, Ning Zhuo still had the last bit of soul power left.

He could have continued to receive another Illusion-True Lotus Seed, but he didn't do so.

He was going to conduct a key experiment.

Ning Zhuo retreated from the level, all the way back to the first transit hall.

He faced the Buddha, Dao, and Demon gates again.

"The Buddha gate and Demon gate are both my flaws!"

"The Demon gate has the Demon-Staining Blood-Tendon Technique, which Dasheng once wanted to display in public, but was caught by Zhu Xuanji."

"If in the future, the Demon-Staining Blood-Tendon Technique is known by others and reaches Zhu Xuanji’s ears, he will inevitably re-examine everything that happened during the Fire Persimmon Festival. And I, who finally got Dasheng’s corpse, will inevitably be the prime suspect."

"The flaw of the Buddha gate lies in the first level!"

"If others get the mechanism creation specially made by the Immortal Palace in this level in the future."

"Then, they will discover that they can freely bring this mechanism creation in and out of the Lava Immortal Palace."

"Dasheng’s positioning will be questioned by them again."

"If I could hide the Demon gate and Buddha gate, that would be great!"

This had been Ning Zhuo’s thought all along.

He hadn't tried it, but previous attempts had all failed.

This time, he still wanted to try it once.

"Because, I have become stronger."

"I have mastered the Life-Thread divine ability prototype."

"My own cultivation has also improved significantly!"

Buddha-Heart Demon-Seal!

Ning Zhuo exerted his full strength, and his soul power plummeted at this moment.

In exchange, the stone wall slowly rose, finally completely covering the Buddha gate.