Chapter 552: Budding

Master Shu Li hurriedly appeared in the central hall of his kingdom. At this moment, the entire hall was shaking, the monsters in the legion made uneasy low sounds, and all the Shamans in the kingdom, whether resting or cultivating, all looked up in astonishment, looking toward the direction of the hall.

As Shamans who had lived and cultivated in the kingdom for a long time, they could clearly perceive Master Shu Li's anger.

In several of the darkest corners of the kingdom, huge wills began to awaken, silently paying attention to the movement of the hall.

Master Shu Li's incarnation flew out of the hall and roared at the followers in the hall: "Where is Shengxin! Call him to see me!"

At this time, Shengxin's soft and calm voice sounded: "Lord Master Shu Li, what happened? You look like you are in a very bad mood."

Looking at Shengxin's clean, calm face that seemed to be unaffected by anything, Master Shu Li suddenly felt that he was unprecedentedly ugly and somewhat disgusting.

Master Shu Li reached out a large hand, grabbed Shengxin's neck, and lifted him up. Lady Hui Xin beside him was taken aback, hurriedly grabbed Master Shu Li's arm, and shouted: "Lord Master Shu Li! Let's talk nicely! What exactly happened?"

Master Shu Li's hand tightened, and he asked: "Do you know what Little Wei Yuan is doing?"

Shengxin was very calm and said: "Lord Master Shu Li, this is your kingdom; if even you don't know what Little Wei Yuan is doing, how would I know?"

Master Shu Li stared at Shengxin, and Lady Hui Xin desperately shook his arm, but the arm was as stable as a rock and did not move at all.

After confronting for a moment, Shengxin said calmly: "Lord Master Shu Li, instead of suspecting me here for no reason, why don't you tell me what exactly happened."

Master Shu Li slowly let go, and Shengxin landed.

"He has been continuously active under the Nether Mountain, and the growth formation I arranged on the top of the mountain has been disturbed. I don't know what he is doing below, but what is certain is that he has never given up."

Shengxin said: "Lord Master Shu Li, if you were trapped under the Nether Mountain, could you escape?"

Master Shu Li shook his head.

Shengxin said: "I can't either. Since we can't do it, why do you think Little Wei Yuan can do it? Or do you have any way to move the Nether Mountain so we can go down and find out what's going on?"

Master Shu Li frowned and said: "My Nether Realm growth formation has existed for eight hundred years; once opened, it will be destroyed and needs to be rearranged. Moreover, the Nether Mountain is one of the three major formation eyes of the kingdom and cannot be moved lightly."

Shengxin pondered and said: "The price for this is indeed a bit high. Can you feel what activities he is doing below?"

Master Shu Li's face was very ugly, and he said: "I don't know, but I can feel that there is a vacancy in the Nether Mountain. The vacancy amount is already close to a year's growth!"

Shengxin pondered for a moment and suddenly said: "I heard that Lord Master Shu Li has been concentrating on preparing a magic weapon with great power; the original embryo wouldn't be this Nether Mountain, would it?"

Master Shu Li's face was somewhat unnatural, and he said: "Of course not. But this mountain does have other uses and cannot be moved lightly."

Shengxin's face was different: "Could this mountain be the formation eye for suppression?"

Master Shu Li exhaled and said: "... one of the formation eyes."

Shengxin became serious and said: "Then we must take it seriously. Can we dig a passage from the edge of this mountain and dig to the center to see what happened?"

Master Shu Li shook his head: "The soil layer around this mountain has long been compacted, and the part under the mountain is likely to have crystallized. Only a Great Shaman can dig it; even if I mobilize all the Great Shamans who can be mobilized in the kingdom now, it will take at least ten years to dig such a passage."

Shengxin smiled slightly and said: "Isn't this it? It will take us more than ten years to dig, so how long will it take Little Wei Yuan to dig it out? Fifty years, or a hundred years? By the time he digs it out, Lord Grandmaster Hongye will have already leveled Qingming."

Master Shu Li thought about it, and it seemed to be the case, and his face finally looked better.

Shengxin smiled and said: "It seems Lord Master Shu Li is not so worried anymore, then I will say something off-topic. Lord Master Shu Li, we can talk like this now because we are different in realm. But relying on just one incarnation, you can't win against me. It would be about the same if all three came up, but it's a pity that you can only mobilize two at most now.

So, before you refine the fourth incarnation, you had best be polite when talking to me. If something like what just happened happens again, I will take action. Although you have Lord Grandmaster Hongye supporting you, I don't lack clan elders as backers behind me."

Master Shu Li's face turned iron-blue instantly, he snorted heavily, and turned away.

Shengxin didn't care, and seeing Master Shu Li walk away, he greeted Lady Hui Xin: "Let's go, let's go play in other kingdoms."

Lady Hui Xin didn't understand and asked: "We finally got familiar with this place; wouldn't it be a waste of half a year of cultivation to change kingdoms?"

Shengxin said: "If we don't leave now, we won't be able to leave."

"You mean..."

"I didn't say anything." Under the Nether Mountain, a space of two zhang square had already been dug out, the ground became a complete iron plate, and there were four pillars at the four corners. Two furnaces were running at full capacity. A dozen people were squeezed into the small place, plus two furnaces, and it was difficult to even turn around.

Fortunately, the furnace came with a formation that could constrain the heat from leaking out, otherwise, no one here except the Dragon Eagle and Little Wei Yuan could stay.

But even so, the Dragon Eagle's Southern Brightness Separation Fire and the True Fire of the two Dharma Form cultivators made the space hot enough to boil water out of thin air. Little Wei Yuan had to lay down another barrier to isolate the heat so that the Dao Foundation cultivators could move.

A small part of the Nether Iron dug down was used for structural construction, and most of it was sent into the Human World Renjian Yanhuo. At the same volume, Nether Iron was seven or eight times heavier than ordinary iron, so the Nether Iron sent into the Human World Renjian Yanhuo didn't look like much, but in reality, it was already twenty million jin.

Strictly speaking, these were not real Nether Iron; there were still two percent impurities inside that needed further refining. But it was enough for use as a support structure in the Nether Cold Realm.

At this time, Han Li and Long Wushuang were carving formations in a corner of the space, and Dao Foundation warriors appeared one after another, building the refined Nether Iron blocks, and gradually a portal took shape. It was just that these Dao Foundation warriors couldn't bear it after staying for half a cup of tea, and the better ones could only last for a cup of tea.

Han Li and Long Wushuang seemed to be competing secretly; the two appeared and rested almost at the same time, and then continued to work.

Little Wei Yuan watched for a while and wanted to help, but this kind of formation was really not his specialty, and he was even less good at carving formations while building, so Little Wei Yuan could only let them do it and just wait to accept the results.

After a tense hour of work, a door framed with Nether Iron was finally built, and the door frame was covered with dense and exquisite formation patterns. Han Li and Long Wushuang looked at each other, and sparks collided in their eyes. In this round of formation inscription, the two tied again.

The door was built, and it was finally Little Wei Yuan's turn to appear. What he had to do was very simple: activate the portal spell, open the portal within the door frame, and then the formation on the door frame was activated, and the portal could exist stably without relying on extracting Little Wei Yuan's magic power.

Little Wei Yuan observed the stability of the portal for a while, and his figure suddenly disappeared like a water bubble, having returned to Qingming. But this portal still existed, and Han Li and Long Wushuang could come and go freely after entering and exiting several times.

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Subsequently, the Dragon Eagle came over and replenished the magic power for the door frame formation.

At this time, Little Wei Yuan's figure reappeared, and he returned to the Nether Cold Realm. As soon as he came back, Little Wei Yuan asked: "Can it be used?"

Han Li said: "It can be entered and exited normally. If the magic power is replenished once, it can be maintained..."

He calculated the time of magic power consumption and then said: "... two hours."

Little Wei Yuan was overjoyed; from now on, he didn't have to stare at the Nether Cold Realm every day. Even if he returned to Qingming, with this portal, the Dragon Guards could enter and exit the Nether Cold Realm at any time from the Human World Renjian Yanhuo, continuously digging and continuously transporting gold... no, the Nether Iron mountain.

The Dragon Guards were all born with open wisdom, so the few Dharma Form Dragon Guards only needed to come and replenish the magic power for the portal formation regularly.

There was really nothing for Little Wei Yuan to do here; four Dharma Forms were responsible for mining Nether Iron, Dao Foundation cultivators were responsible for refining iron and making bricks, and then as the mining progress expanded, the base was paved, and every time a piece of area was expanded, the isolation formation was arranged.

At this time, Han Li discovered that the outer edges of the isolation formation and the Wind-Fire formation were fixed, but they were far from the limit upward, so at his suggestion, a group of Dao Foundation cultivators began to build the second floor, and then the Dragon Eagle began to dig and expand upward.

Little Wei Yuan watched for a while and suddenly captured a very subtle fluctuation; it seemed that a wisp of peculiar spiritual energy appeared out of thin air and then disappeared into the Nether Mountain.

Little Wei Yuan's perception was keen, and he immediately cast his gaze to where the spiritual energy disappeared. Looking at it, by comparing the current image with past memories, the Human World Renjian Yanhuo discovered the difference. There was a small piece of Nether Iron the size of a grain of rice here.

Little Wei Yuan dug this grain of Nether Iron down and studied it for a long time, but didn't find any special features, but it appeared out of thin air, and considering the spiritual energy that had just disappeared, perhaps it was condensed directly by special spiritual energy.

This phenomenon didn't know what it was for for the time being, and the first thing to do now was to dig out first.

The Human World Renjian Yanhuo calculated that it would take several months to dig out a passage. By then, the Nether Iron dug out should be over ten billion jin.

Now Little Wei Yuan felt more and more the insufficiency of the traditional measurement method; whether it was Jun or Shi, it was not big enough, so he decided to promote the concepts of gram, kilogram, and ton, mainly ton, in the Human World Renjian Yanhuo and even Qingming from now on.

Seeing that there was nothing to do, Little Wei Yuan prepared to return to Qingming and let the Dragon Eagle and others continue to dig here. Anyway, the Dragon Guards didn't need to sleep, and when they were tired, they could return to the Human World Renjian Yanhuo to replenish their magic power.

The only problem was that the magic power of the Human World Renjian Yanhuo was actually Little Wei Yuan's magic power, and the Dragon Eagle was equivalent to moving Little Wei Yuan's magic power to himself.

So Little Wei Yuan already felt that his magic power was not enough, and prepared to go find Xu Henshui to refine elixirs after returning to Qingming.

Just at this moment, the Immortal Orchid sent an intention, one of which intended to take root and grow in the Nether Cold Realm. Since it was the immortal plant's own request, Little Wei Yuan left a small piece of ground at the edge of the space, exposing the Nether Crystal below, and then carefully moved an Immortal Orchid out and placed it on the Nether Crystal.

The Immortal Orchid's root system quickly pierced into the Nether Crystal; the Nether Crystal that Little Wei Yuan had tried his best to chisel down was as soft as tofu in front of the Immortal Orchid's root whiskers, and it was directly inserted and took root.

This Immortal Orchid then conveyed joy, branches and leaves spreading, and then a circle of invisible realm expanded, replacing the original aura of the Nether Cold Realm.

In the kingdom, Master Shu Li's incarnation let out a roar that resounded through the kingdom and rushed out of the hall. Just a moment ago, he discovered that a small point in his kingdom had lost control. A new bud of a kingdom seemed to have appeared there.

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