Chapter 56: Red Lotus Qi Sea

Leaving the sight of the crowd and far away from the Herb Valley, Master You ran his light-body technique, stepping on the branches and leaves as light as a swallow, and ran rapidly toward the South Mountain.

Seeing this, Hua Changxi knew that Master You wanted to test her. After hesitating for a moment, she still used the Lingbo Micro-steps to catch up.

Before this, she had intended to develop low-key.

Facing Master You's test, she could choose to hide her strength, but what about next time?

Next time she encounters a similar thing, does she also have to hide?

Having obtained the opportunity for cultivation, she should have more confidence to face various situations, and her conduct should be more free and easy.

If she is timid and afraid of this and that every time she encounters something, then the opportunity for cultivation is not her sharp weapon, but her shackles.

Thinking this way, Hua Changxi's speed under her feet became faster and faster. Afterward, she kept a distance of about ten meters from Master You.

Ahead, Master You saw that Hua Changxi caught up with him easily. No matter how he accelerated, she could maintain a stable distance from him. In his heart, not only was there no heaviness, but he was very happy.

The stronger the ability Hua Changxi revealed, the greater the value of the secret on her.

West Chi Mountain, East Chi Mountain, South Chi Mountain, are not isolated high mountains, but continuous mountain ranges with crisscrossing gullies.

As she kept running in the South Chi Mountain, Hua Changxi could clearly feel that the fire spiritual energy in the air was becoming more and more dense.

An hour later, Hua Changxi followed behind Master You, deep into the hinterland of the South Chi Mountain range. In a narrow area between two peaks, a huge winding rift valley appeared in the sight of the two.

The rift valley was deep. Looking from top to bottom, one could vaguely see the red light flashing at the bottom of the rift valley.

Master You jumped down. Just as Hua Changxi was about to follow, "Chirp~", a piercing bird cry attacked, and then Hua Changxi saw a fiery red figure fly out from the rift valley, rushing toward Master You rapidly.

That was a very huge red eagle, with wings spread out, a full five or six meters wide.

Soon, Master You and the red eagle fought together.

Master You was a Grandmaster after all, could avoid the red eagle's attack, and could suppress the red eagle at the beginning, but when the red eagle sprayed a flame more than ten meters long, Master You was burned by the flame and fell directly to the ground.

"Chirp~"

Master You fell to the ground, and the red eagle immediately dived down, its cold-glinting eagle beak stabbing toward Master You like a sharp arrow.

On the crown of a giant tree, Hua Changxi looked at this scene, her expression somewhat struggling.

The place of the fire spirit mine was probably in the rift valley. She had already achieved her goal, and if Master You died, she wouldn't have to expose her secret.

But just watching an old man die under the red eagle's beak, she couldn't bear it.

In the end, the value system that human life was paramount defeated reason. Hua Changxi's spiritual energy gathered in her hand, forming a fire blade. Then, the fire blade attacked the red eagle with a whistling sound.

Just when the eagle beak was two or three meters away from Master You, the fire blade pierced through the red eagle's body.

"Boom~"

The red eagle's huge body hit the ground heavily, stirring up rolling dust and smoke.

When the red eagle dived down, Master You had already closed his eyes in despair. Feeling the red eagle's body hit him, his heartbeat stopped.

After a few breaths, finding that he was still alive, Master You opened his eyes rapidly and then saw Hua Changxi, who had jumped down and landed a few meters away.

Master You looked at the motionless red eagle on his body, climbed out of the red eagle with difficulty, stood firm, and still had lingering fear on his face.

He had killed many fierce beasts before, but he had never encountered one that could spray fire.

The flame attacked, and he didn't even have time to release his Gang Qi before he was burned by the flame.

Getting rid of the life-threatening danger, Master You then felt the burning pain all over his body. Looking down, he found that his limbs were burned to a bloody mess, the flesh and clothes were stuck together, and the pain was unbearable.

"Why save me?"

Master You looked at Hua Changxi, his eyes full of confusion. With the cautious personality that this girl had revealed before, she should not be willing to let people know that she had a secret.

Hua Changxi was stretching her head to look at the bottom of the rift valley. Hearing this, she turned her head to look at Master You: "A human life, I cannot turn a blind eye."

Master You didn't expect to hear such an answer at all. Since embarking on the path of a martial artist, even if he was not bloodthirsty, killing was unavoidable. After killing many people, he had no awe for human life.

Unexpectedly, today he was saved because he was a human life.

Master You looked at Hua Changxi, his expression complex. Sure enough, she was still a child, not yet polluted by this sinister red dust.

"I found the red crystal in this rift valley."

Master You saw Hua Changxi looking inside the rift valley and followed her gaze.

"I discovered this rift valley three years ago. At that time, I could still go to the bottom of the rift valley to explore, but now, standing on top, it makes me feel quite strenuous."

After a while, Master You felt sweaty all over. The sweat crossed the wound, the burning pain on his body became worse, and there was a feeling of being burned inside.

Looking at Hua Changxi, who was still refreshed and unaffected, Master You was somewhat eager, endured the burning pain on his body, and asked for advice humbly:

"Young Lady Hua, you have no internal energy in your body, but you can catch up with me and easily kill this evil beast. Can you tell me how you did it?"

The fire spiritual energy in the rift valley was very dense. Hua Changxi, bathing in it, felt like she had returned to her mother's womb, refreshed all over. Hearing Master You's question, she thought for a while and said:

"Martial artists exercise their bodies, practice internal energy, practice Gang Qi, and stimulate the potential of the body. Its essence is still consuming the foundation of the body."

Master You nodded, very much agreeing with this. Grandmaster was considered the highest realm of martial artists, but after aging, combat power would also decline with the decay of Qi and blood. When the Qi and blood were exhausted, they would die.

Hua Changxi looked at Master You: "I am not a martial artist. I don't consume the foundation of my own body. I take the power of heaven and earth for my own use."

Master You's expression was shocked, and he said eagerly: "Then how to take the power of heaven and earth for one's own use?"

Hua Changxi smiled: "Master You, you brought me to this rift valley, which can only exchange for one piece of information. I have already told you that I and martial artists are not practicing the same path."

"Now that you already know there is such a path, as for how to step on this path, you have to rely on yourself to find it."

Master You frowned, pointing to the red eagle on the ground that had no breath: "I also trouble the young lady to solve a puzzle for me. Is this evil beast on the same path as you?"

Hua Changxi nodded: "Yes."

This red eagle could no longer be considered a fierce beast; it should be considered a monster beast.

Master You's expression changed greatly: "In recent years, there are more and more fierce beasts in the mountains. Will those fierce beasts also become like this evil beast and be able to spray fire?"

Hua Changxi's expression also became somewhat serious: "It is highly probable."

Humans can cultivate, and animals and plants can certainly do so too.

Master You couldn't imagine how much threat it would pose to the human race if there were fierce beasts like the red eagle everywhere in the mountains and forests.

However, at this moment, he couldn't care about thinking about these things. The burning pain on his body made him unable to think. Standing at the entrance of the rift valley again aggravated the burning pain, and he couldn't hold on now.

Hua Changxi saw his painful expression: "Master You, you go back to heal your wounds first."

Master You looked at Hua Changxi, knowing that she might want to go down to explore the inside of the rift valley, and nodded: "Be careful. When I came last time, I didn't encounter this evil beast."

"This evil beast either came from somewhere else or suddenly increased in strength."

Hua Changxi: "Okay, I will be careful."

The rift valley was not straight down. There were protrusions and buffer zones on the rift wall. After Master You left, Hua Changxi loaded the red eagle into the Shennong Cauldron, jumped down, and used the protruding wall as steps, going down step by step.

After going deep for about a hundred meters, light red crystals appeared on the rift wall. The further down, the deeper the color of the crystals, and at the same time, the fire spiritual energy became more and more dense.

"This is really a fire spirit mine!"

Hua Changxi was both excited and encouraged. Last month, she was still anxious about the lack of cultivation resources. Now, not only did she discover the spiritual plants at the bottom of the stone cliff, but she also discovered this fire spirit mine of considerable scale.

She was going to get rich!

At the bottom of the rift valley, it was like a riverbed washed by water.

The red light seen above the rift valley was all emitted by bright red and transparent red crystals.

Hua Changxi went all the way down. When she reached the bottom of the rift valley, she collected four kinds of crystals.

One kind was fire spirit stones with light color and turbid luster, the size of a walnut. Holding it in her hand and absorbing it, she found that it could increase one spiritual energy point.

One kind was red crystals with deep color and many granular spots, which could increase ten spiritual energy points after absorption;

One kind was red crystals with deeper color and a few thread-like patterns, which could increase one hundred spiritual energy points after absorption;

The last kind was pure red crystals without a trace of impurities, which could increase one thousand spiritual energy points after absorption.

Hua Changxi didn't know how others distinguished spirit stones. After seeing these four distinct types of fire spirit stones in the rift valley, she directly divided them into low-grade spirit stones, medium-grade spirit stones, high-grade spirit stones, and top-grade spirit stones.

Encountering a fire spirit mine, Hua Changxi naturally wanted to collect spirit stones.

Top-grade spirit stones only existed in the one-meter-long belt at the center of the bottom of the rift valley where the red light was the strongest.

With top-grade spirit stones, Hua Changxi naturally didn't look at other spirit stones and went straight to that one-meter-long belt.

Fortunately, in the Shennong inheritance, the Wind Control Technique was taught. Hua Changxi gathered spiritual energy, waved a wind blade, and used the wind blade to cut the fire spirit mine.

Hua Changxi dug forward happily all the way, and all the dug top-grade fire spirit mines were put into the Shennong Cauldron.

Being too focused, she dug deep into the depths of the fire spirit mine without noticing.

"Hiss~"

A low, inaudible hissing sound made Hua Changxi return from the joy of harvest. Only when she looked up did she find that everything in sight was fire spirit mine, and she couldn't see the sky above her head.

She had gone deep into the hinterland of the fire spirit mine!

This discovery made Hua Changxi vigilant. The next moment, her hair stood on end.

Feeling danger, Hua Changxi immediately gathered spiritual energy in both hands, clenched her fists, and instinctively blasted forward in the full red light.

"Boom~"

A violent collision sound rang out.

Before Hua Changxi could see clearly what was attacking her, she felt her body being entangled by a soft giant object as thick as a bucket.

Hissing sound, entanglement, Hua Changxi's scalp felt numb instantly, and she guessed what it was that attacked her.

Her five fingers became claws, and she grabbed toward the snake body on her body fiercely.

Her fingertips pierced the giant snake's skin and went deep into the flesh. At the same time, spiritual energy gathered at her fingertips, increasing the damage to the giant snake.

The hissing sound increased, the snake body twisted incessantly, and the strength of the entanglement increased.

Hua Changxi was entangled and had difficulty breathing. She had no combat experience and could only hold onto the snake body tightly, continuously increasing the output of spiritual energy.

"Bang~"

The snake body was broken into two sections by her alive.

Even so, the giant snake didn't die and attacked Hua Changxi again.

This time, Hua Changxi saw the glowing snake eyes, dodged the frontal attack, and continuously waved fire blades and fireballs to prevent the giant snake from approaching.

"Whoosh~"

During the fight, the giant snake actually sprayed fire, wanting to burn Hua Changxi with fierce fire.

Fortunately, Hua Changxi was not afraid of fire, so she was not injured.

Finally, when the giant snake lost too much blood and its movements slowed down, Hua Changxi's five fingers became claws and pierced into the seven-inch position of the snake body, killing the giant snake completely.

"Whoosh~"

"Whoosh~"

"Whoosh~"

Hua Changxi sat on the mineral stone and panted rapidly for a while, then got up quickly and loaded the dug top-grade fire spirit stones and the giant snake into the Shennong Cauldron.

It was her carelessness. Now the world she was in contact with was full of danger, and she couldn't act carelessly like before.

Not daring to go deeper, and having dug quite a few top-grade spirit stones, Hua Changxi planned to return home. After turning around and walking a few steps out, she stopped suddenly.

Places guarded by monster beasts usually have treasures.

Hua Changxi hesitated for a moment, turned around, and carefully continued to walk into the depths of the fire spirit mine.

After going deep for about a hundred meters, she smelled a refreshing fragrance.

Having the lesson of the giant snake's attack, even if she guessed there were treasures ahead, Hua Changxi didn't dare to be careless and walked vigilantly in the direction the fragrance came from.

Not long after, at a corner, a red lotus flower sprinkled with red clouds appeared in her line of sight.

Being able to see the red lotus clearly in the full red fire spirit mine was really because the red lotus was too radiant, like a brilliant red firework frozen in time.

Flowing Light Red Lotus!

The top-grade atavistic fruit in the fire-attribute divine ability!

Hua Changxi swallowed her saliva. The fragrance emitted by the Flowing Light Red Lotus was too tempting, but she didn't move.

The "Hundred Herbs Classic Annotation" spiritual plant chapter had a detailed introduction; only taking the lotus seeds of the Flowing Light Red Lotus had the effect of atavism.

At this moment, the red lotus bloomed, the flowing light overflowed, and the lotus seeds were about to condense.

Hua Changxi suppressed her urgent mood, while waiting for the red lotus to bear seeds, while vigilantly looking around, for fear that another monster beast would run out from somewhere.

A quarter of an hour later, the clouds and mist dissipated, the flowing light disappeared, the red lotus withered instantly, and only thirty-six bright red lotus seeds remained on the lotus pod.

Hua Changxi "whooshed" and ran over, picked the lotus seeds rapidly, didn't put them into the Shennong Cauldron, and just ate them like that.

Once the lotus seeds left the lotus pod, the atavistic effect would weaken sharply, unless there was a special storage box.

She didn't have one, so she could only eat them.

Every time she ate a lotus seed, Hua Changxi felt a roar coming from her dantian Qi Sea.

After eating thirty-six lotus seeds, Hua Changxi looked inside her dantian, and her pupils shrank sharply.

Her Qi Sea was surging and boiling, and red lotus flowers emerged one after another.

There was movement in the depths of the spirit mine again. Hua Changxi didn't dare to stay long, returned along the original path rapidly, and returned to the top of the rift valley half an hour later.

At this time, the sky was already dark.

Not daring to spend the night in the deep mountains, Hua Changxi used all her strength and rushed toward the Herb Valley at full speed.

It took more than an hour to come, and it only took a quarter of an hour to go back.

At the entrance of the Herb Valley, the one-armed man was waiting for Hua Changxi to return according to Master You's instructions.

Seeing that the sky was already dark and Hua Changxi hadn't returned yet, the one-armed man was planning to go back to report, when he heard a whistling sound from afar.

Looking in the direction of the sound, he saw Hua Changxi, whose body was burned to tatters.

The one-armed man was somewhat tongue-tied, pointing at Hua Changxi: "You....."

Hua Changxi scanned her body. She hadn't noticed it in the fire spirit mine, but now she found that she was burned beyond recognition by the fire sprayed by the giant snake.

"I'm fine, I fell into a fire pit." ===== CHAPTER 57 =====