Chapter 1023: A… Mid-Grade Immortal Artifact

A maze of illusion and demonic realm, testing a person's will and heart.

Among those present, Fang Yu was of course unaffected by anything, and Jiang Lier was the same—after all, she was a woman of the Divine Realm.

As for Qin Yu, he had no reason to fall into demonic obsession, and so he did not fall into it either; instead, within this type of illusion, he raised his own will.

Besides these, True Person Yanxu from the Penglai Immortal Domain was also continuously resisting—this was a cultivator of immortality, whose nature of heart was considerably higher than that of demonic cultivators.

However, when the zither music and flute sounds here changed ever more violently, even this one could not help but fall into demonic obsession, madly roaring toward a certain direction as he ran.

Just ahead in that direction, there was a dark-red circular lake; within the circular lake were countless dark-red viscous liquids, like lava, constantly churning, with bubble after bubble rising to the surface.

Those cultivators who had fallen into the maze of illusion, if they could not wake in time, would enter this great lake that resembled lava and die completely.

This was killing intent, one strike following another.

Fang Yu nodded his head—such a setup of killing intent was actually not bad. If one's nature of heart was poor, there was an extremely great chance of dying and not obtaining the benefits here. If one's nature of heart was poor but one's running speed was slow, and one's luck was a little better, then before the maze of illusion here ended, if one did not fall into the lava, one would still keep one's life.

Among those who came, there was one person whose strength was poor and whose luck was bad—Di Long, the First Prince of the Nine Sha Palace, who died just like that within the dark-red circular lake.

"Ding…"

It was also right after a person died that the maze of illusion and demonic realm vanished. Everyone who had been within the illusion trembled, stood still on the spot, then sprayed fresh blood over a meter high toward the sky, and immediately the whole person collapsed weakly down.

Just that fountain-like spurt of blood a meter high— one could imagine how much blood had been sprayed out.

"This Immortal Ni Yang has gone too far. Setting up this demonic realm was only to test whether the hearts of those entering the Nine Swords Immortal Mansion met a certain requirement. Even so, he should have slowly faded the sound when it ended. Stopping it suddenly at the most intense moment like this—those who fell into demonic obsession must have suffered injuries beyond adding up. It really is too much."

Jiang Lier spoke in a rebuking voice.

"What the senior wishes to do, it seems we have no way. It's not certain that just because we obtain the Jade Sword we can certainly obtain the benefits here."

Qin Yu, on the other hand, did not mind.

"Entering an immortal mansion, people dying is normal. Once I entered an immortal mansion, the number of experts who died was more than several thousand or tens of thousands."

Fang Yu's expression remained unchanged as his gaze sized up the several people. At this time, the four who had arrived—Qing Long, Yan Mo, True Person Yanxu, and Yi Da—all had ashen faces. Qing Long and Yan Mo were moreover covered in fresh blood, clearly having suffered grave injuries within the maze of illusion.

"Haha, you have passed the maze of illusion and immortal realm. I, Ni Yang, shall let you all hear my voice."

A clear, resonant voice suddenly rang out between heaven and earth.

"The maze of illusion and demonic realm is something I thought about for a long time before coming up with. I suppose among you there must be someone who fell into demonic obsession. If your luck was bad and you fell into the Death Flame Lake, then you can only blame your nature of heart for being too poor and your luck for being too poor. Luck, perhaps, is more important than strength."

When speaking this sentence—"Luck, perhaps, is more important than strength"—the voice of Immortal Ni Yang dropped much lower, no longer carrying its previous high-spirited vigor.

Fang Yu, listening to this one's words, was in fact very clear as to why.

This Immortal Emperor Ni Yang was a famously renowned Immortal Emperor of the Immortal Realm, but when venturing into a Secret Realm, he actually fell because he stepped on a bug of the Divine Realm.

His luck was clearly very bad, so when this one set up his immortal mansion's treasure, he placed great importance on things like luck.

"The Nine Swords Immortal Mansion was built by me, Ni Yang, after collecting quite a few precious materials back then. Since you have passed the maze of illusion and demonic realm, you will also obtain some benefits. As for what you can obtain, that depends on your luck and your destiny."

The voice of Immortal Emperor Ni Yang drifted through the void, then gradually faded away.

Fang Yu stepped forward and sensed a great deal of Xu Yuan Qi. This kind of Xu Yuan Qi was an advanced form of the heaven and earth's vital energy—the vital energy essential for cultivators of this realm's Immortal, Demon, and Monster Realms, the vital energy used by Heavenly Immortals and Heavenly Demons and the like to cultivate.

Under normal circumstances, the Mortal Realm did not possess Xu Yuan Qi.

And now, within this immortal mansion, there was Xu Yuan Qi—for any immortal of this realm, it was an excellent treasure.

Fang Yu made a grab with a large hand, catching some Xu Yuan Qi into his palm, and sensed it for a moment.

Indeed, it was vital energy that could be used to cultivate. A single breath could increase a cultivator's strength and lifespan, and brought extremely great enhancement to a cultivator's soul power and the like.

Xu Yuan Qi, a new kind of vital energy, contained many mysteries.

"Exactly how is this kind of vital energy produced?"

Fang Yu's current cultivation base had already reached the Long Life Third Layer Grotto-Heaven realm, and within his body he also possessed a great deal of Pure Yang vital energy. If he were in the Eternal Life Realm, he could moreover absorb boundless Pure Yang vital energy every day to produce five million Pure Yang Pills, but absorbing was absorbing and producing was producing—he himself still could not produce any vital energy that could let others cultivate.

Seeing the Xu Yuan Qi of this world at this moment, he fell into thought, collected some Xu Yuan Qi, and wished to comprehend some mysteries from it.

It was also while Fang Yu was comprehending that Xu Yuan Qi that the group had also arrived within the palace. Looking with their eyes, one could see pavilions and towers everywhere here, with crystalline carvings in every place. The materials used for those carvings, at the very least, were top-grade crystal stones.

And as for the great doors of this palace, they were refined from Xu Yuan Qi stones of the Immortal Realm.

"Big Brother Qin Yu, Xu Yuan Qi stones are crystal stones that store Xu Yuan Qi. Generally, the immortals or demons of the Immortal Realm all rely on Xu Yuan Qi stones to cultivate. Of course, different Xu Yuan Qi stones contain different concentrations of Xu Yuan Qi, and can be divided into all kinds of qualities of Xu Yuan Qi stones—there are low-grade Xu Yuan Qi stones, mid-grade Xu Yuan Qi stones, high-grade Xu Yuan Qi stones, and top-grade Xu Yuan Qi stones. I think the Xu Yuan Qi stones here are very likely top-grade Xu Yuan Qi stones, and moreover this entire palace is one extremely enormous top-grade Xu Yuan Qi stone. Once obtained, even within the Immortal, Demon, and Monster Realms one could rapidly rise to prominence."

Not far away, Jiang Lier was giving Qin Yu a popular science lesson.

She knew many things.

"Heavens, Xu Yuan Qi stones, they really are Xu Yuan Qi stones! These tables, stools, and even the walls are actually all Xu Yuan Qi stones—this is too unbelievable!"

True Person Yanxu from the Penglai Immortal Domain looked here and there, and finally confirmed what the palace here was. His whole person excitedly roared wildly, no longer possessing the calm of a cultivator of immortality.

"Xu Yuan Qi stones, what kind of thing is that?"

The number one person of the Purple Flame Demon Domain, Yi Da, listened and felt somewhat baffled—he had never even heard of a thing called Xu Yuan Qi stones.