Chapter 508: Yin Fire Stone, Fish That Slipped Through the Net (Combined Chapter)

After fighting for a while, seeing the yin energy on this Golden Core Ghost King suddenly rise, and he wanted to turn into a ghost thing to escape again, Song Song Qingming, who had been prepared, immediately cast a spell to control the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror," releasing the purple light divine ability in the mirror to firmly control the Ghost King, who had already turned into ghost mist, in mid-air, making it difficult for him to escape.

Seeing that his method of escape was already difficult to be effective, this Golden Core Ghost King was also panicked and had to be forced to reveal his figure again, falling back into Song Song Qingming's encirclement.

Song Song Qingming had also made some preparations before coming to deal with the Golden Core Ghost King. His hand moved slightly, and he took out the magic treasure "Mo Bai Sword" that he had just refined not long ago, and added a few second-tier ghost-repelling talismans brought by Song Song Xinyu from the sect to it.

Under the blessing of the talismans, the original black and white color of the "Mo Bai Sword" in Song Song Qingming's hand immediately had an extra layer of golden light, and its momentum increased by a few points instantly.

Seeing the powerful "Mo Bai Sword" appear, this Golden Core Ghost King also immediately revealed a trace of fear, but at this moment, he had no other way to escape, so he could only bite the bullet and frantically urge the yin energy in his body to roll toward Song Song Qingming.

The two fought in mid-air for about the time it takes to burn a stick of incense. In the end, Song Song Qingming still relied on his own powerful strength to easily kill the other party, ending this battle without suspense.

Shaking the ghost king's primordial spirit to pieces with one sword, after the soul of this Golden Core Ghost King completely dissipated between heaven and earth, Song Song Qingming then safely controlled the "Mo Bai Sword" to collect the black round ball the size of an egg that finally fell from him into his hand.

This black round ball was precisely the ghost core on this ghost king just now. Although the value of this item could not compare with the monster core on a monster beast, it was also a very useful rare spiritual item.

The ghost core of a Golden Core Ghost King is condensed from the pure yin energy of heaven and earth. This item is also a good material for refining various yin-attribute magic treasures or pills.

Besides this, the biggest function of the ghost core is that it can be used to refine Golden Core corpse puppets. This spiritual item can be equivalent to the external avatar technique of a Nascent Soul cultivator. Corpse puppets of better quality even have combat power not inferior to ordinary cultivators of the same tier, and are much more powerful than ordinary puppet beasts of the same tier.

When Song Song Qingming arrived, he found that Song Song Qingyu and the two guarding the cave entrance were desperately intercepting the ghosts that wanted to escape from inside. Because of the successive departures of Song Song Qingming and the Golden Core Ghost King, many low-tier ghosts had also followed and wanted to run out from inside.

Seeing that Song Song Qingyu and the two were somewhat overwhelmed because more and more ghosts were running out of the cave entrance, Song Song Qingming hurriedly cast a spell to quickly help them kill these many ghosts gathered at the entrance.

"Husband, so many Yin Fire Stones, it seems that there is a very high possibility of a Yin Fire Stone vein underground. How should we deal with this place?" Huang Huang Siyuan looked at Song Song Xinyu on the side and asked Song Song Qingming on the side softly.

After eliminating the group of ghosts that were entangled with Huang Huang Siyuan and the others, Song Song Qingming then led the crowd into the depths of the mountain cave, and before long, found a place full of various white bones, a place of yin spirits.

With the addition of Golden Core cultivator Song Song Qingming, under the "Mo Bai Sword" killing in all directions, these Foundation Establishment ghost things were soon unable to withstand a single blow, and turned into bursts of yin energy and disappeared between heaven and earth one after another.

Hearing Song Song Qingming's reminder, the few people who entered the cave put away the smiles on their faces one after another, nodded, and responded.

Seeing these "Yin Fire Stones," Song Song Qingming finally understood a little bit why there were so many ghosts gathered here and why a Golden Core Ghost King could be born.

Although the Xiaoyao Sect did not have the technique to refine corpse puppets, many sects in the cultivation world had inherited this technique, and there were also sects in the vicinity of the Fuyun Mountain Range that mainly cultivated this technique.

After obtaining this ghost core, Song Song Qingming's mood was also very good. Being able to obtain this spiritual item, he could be considered not to have wasted this effort in this battle.

"Seventh Brother is right. It's better not to worry about these Yin Fire Stones for now. The top priority is to find out where Song Changze is. This child has been trapped here for so long, I'm afraid the situation will be somewhat bad. Everyone, hurry up and search separately to see if he is actually here!"

"Seventh Brother, how was it? Did you catch that ghost king?" Seeing Song Song Qingming return safely, Song Song Qingyu hurriedly stepped forward and asked with a smile.

After Song Song Qingming looked at the "Yin Fire Stones" scattered among these white bones, he also fell into deep thought. It was not until he heard Huang Huang Siyuan's question that he came back to his senses, shook his head, and said: "This place is deep in Mount Mount Yunwu, and there are monster beasts everywhere. Even if it is really a vein, it is not so easy to mine. This matter still needs to be discussed after going back. Everyone, don't spread the word after going back."

After putting away the black round ball in his hand, Song Song Qingming hurriedly took out the "Phantom Boat" and turned around to return to the cave entrance.

Song Song Qingming nodded slightly, then led Song Song Qingyu and the two directly into the mountain cave, and soon found Huang Huang Siyuan and the others who were still fighting fiercely with several Foundation Establishment ghosts in a corner of the cave.

Hearing Song Song Qingyu's shout, everyone hurriedly walked up. Seeing a piece of "Yin Fire Stone" pressed among these white bones, they also showed expressions of shock one after another.

"This is, Yin Fire Stone! Seventh Brother, come and see quickly, there are so many Yin Fire Stones here." Song Song Qingyu, who was walking in front, saw the stones emitting a trace of white firelight among the white bones on the side, and hurriedly shouted at Song Song Qingming beside him.

"Yin Fire Stone" is a special mineral that exists in the dark underground. Because the yin fire attached to the mineral is very strong, it is also a high-tier mineral that can be used to temper magic tools. So many "Yin Fire Stones" gathered here, and over time, it was very easy to form a place of yin spirits. It was no wonder that a Golden Core Ghost King could be cultivated in the cave.

"Hmm! However, it is just a ghost thing with missing intelligence. How could it escape from my palm? Are you two okay? You were injured by the yin energy released by the Ghost King just now."

In this ghost cultivator cave, besides the yin spirit place leading to the deepest part, there were also several small branch caves along the way. However, after walking to the end, they were all dead ends. Everyone checked and did not find any other exits or secret rooms.

After everyone returned to the place of yin spirits to gather and were somewhat helpless, Song Song Qingming took out his magic treasure "Qingliu Sword" with a calm expression and gently cut his finger, squeezing out a trace of fresh blood from it.

"Husband, what are you doing? Why do you want to hurt yourself?" Seeing Song Song Qingming deliberately hurt himself with his magic treasure, Huang Huang Siyuan, who did not understand Song Song Qingming's intention, hurriedly stepped forward and asked with a look of concern.

Song Song Qingming explained with a smile: "This trip to the State of Wu, I learned a secret technique for finding people from an old friend, and I just happen to see if it can come in handy. You don't need to worry, I'm just taking a little of my own essence blood for casting spells."

Hearing Song Song Qingming say this, Huang Huang Siyuan and the others suddenly realized, and stood on the side waiting for Song Song Qingming to cast the spell to find someone.

This time in the State of Wu, he met Wang Wang Mengxiao, who helped him find his third brother Song Song Qingze many years ago. In his spare time, Song Song Qingming exchanged the "Bloodline Spirit-Seeking Technique," which he had been very interested in many years ago, from his hands with some spiritual items on him.

Facing this small request from Song Song Qingming, a guest Golden Core elder of the sect, Wang Wang Mengxiao also agreed on the spot. After all, it was just a secret technique on his body and not a very important thing. Being able to use it to please Song Song Qingming, a Golden Core elder of the sect, Wang Wang Mengxiao was naturally extremely willing in his heart.

After taking out a drop of his essence blood, Song Song Qingming hurriedly took out a yellow talisman paper and placed it in his hand, and then began to cast the spell. It was not until the talisman paper in his hand lit up with spiritual light that Song Song Qingming dripped the essence blood he had just taken onto the talisman paper.

Not long after, a fire suddenly ignited, and the talisman paper in Song Song Qingming's hand slowly turned into a pile of ashes, and then a wisp of blue smoke emerged.

After carefully looking at this wisp of blue smoke, Song Song Qingming, according to the guidance, led the crowd and slowly walked to a cave that was relatively close to the cave entrance. Looking at this cave that showed no abnormality in front of him, a trace of solemnity appeared on Song Song Qingming's face.

"Seventh Uncle, I also carefully checked this cave just now and didn't find anything unusual." Seeing Song Song Qingming's gaze fixed on the inside of the cave, Song Song Xinyu hurriedly asked.

"No problem! Whether there is a situation, just go in and take a look."

Leading a few people directly into that cave, Song Song Qingming, according to the guidance of the blue smoke remaining on the spiritual talisman in his hand, soon walked to the end of the cave, and finally had their way blocked by a giant stone that seemed to be naturally formed.

According to the direction indicated by the "Bloodline Spirit-Seeking Technique," Song Song Changze should still be behind this giant stone. It was just that the end of the cave was completely roadless as Song Song Xinyu said, and everyone couldn't see how anyone could be hidden behind this stone from the surface.

After carefully looking around the giant stone, Song Song Qingming suddenly remembered something, his face changed, and he shouted loudly toward the front: "Don't get close to there, hurry back!"

Hearing Song Song Qingming's warning, Song Song Xinyu and Huang Huang Siyuan, who were checking by the giant stone, hurriedly took a few steps back. Just as the two of them were about to stay away from that giant stone, a strange phenomenon suddenly occurred. A black vortex suddenly appeared out of thin air above the giant stone, directly sucking Song Song Xinyu and Huang Huang Siyuan toward it.

"Be careful above!"

Feeling that something was wrong, Huang Huang Siyuan and the two hurriedly supported their magic power protective shields to resist this suction, but found that with their Foundation Establishment cultivation, they were still somewhat difficult to resist this huge suction, and their figures were still slowly sucked toward the black vortex.

Seeing this, Song Song Qingming, who had no time to think, hurriedly flew up, lifted the two, and retreated backward, pulling Song Song Xinyu and Huang Huang Siyuan back again.

After Huang Huang Siyuan and the two returned to their original positions and the crisis was lifted, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. When they turned to look again, they found that the pitch-black vortex above the giant stone had suddenly disappeared again.

Song Song Qingming looked at this giant stone, frowned, and said: "There should be an ancient array here. Everyone, be careful and don't get too close for now."

"It's actually an ancient array. Seventh Brother, do you have the confidence to break it directly?" Song Song Qingyu asked anxiously.

Hearing that what was blocking the way in front was an ancient array, everyone showed a trace of surprise on their faces. No wonder Song Song Xinyu couldn't see any clues when he came in to search earlier.

The way ancient arrays are arranged is quite different from many arrays commonly used now. Not only Song Song Xinyu, but even Song Song Qingming, a second-tier top-quality array master, didn't see anything wrong with this giant stone at a glance when he first came in.

"Don't worry, I seem to have seen a similar ancient array, it shouldn't be difficult to break!" Song Song Qingming looked at the giant stone in front with a somewhat complicated expression and replied to Song Song Qingyu on the side.

The power of an ancient array is generally much greater than that of a current array. If he hadn't seen these runes, even if Song Song Qingming could see this array, it would be somewhat difficult to break it.

Fortunately, he could identify most of the runes on it and could use the clever method of an array master without spending a lot of effort to force the array. Precisely because of this, Song Song Qingming had some confidence in his heart that he could break this array soon.

After carefully groping around the ancient array, Song Song Qingming directly took out the array flags he carried and began to break the array.

The level of this ancient array was not very high, about the same as the second-tier top-quality array that Bai Bai Yunhua repaired back then. With the help of the Song family, after finding the right method, Song Song Qingming only spent half a day to successfully break this ancient array in front of him.

As the spiritual energy in the ancient array slowly dissipated, the giant stone blocking the front also directly turned into a piece of white mist and disappeared directly.

"Okay! The array has been broken, we can go in."

Song Song Qingming looked at the front and nodded with satisfaction, then led the Song family crowd through the cave entrance that was originally blocked by the giant stone and entered a semi-circular cave.

After walking in and scanning around, everyone soon found a figure lying on the ground with his back to them in a corner of the cave.

"Look, it's Song Changze!", seeing that this person was wearing the unique attire of the Song family cultivators, Song Song Qingyu hurriedly shouted.

"Don't worry, you guys wait here first. I'll check the situation first. There might be an ancient repair array here, and there might be other dangers. Everyone, don't be careless."

Song Song Qingming reminded the crowd, then directly cast a spell to take out a second-tier puppet beast from his body, controlled it to slowly approach the target, and a moment later, the Chi Feng Beast carried the still unconscious Song Song Changze back.

"Fortunately, he is fine, just planted with a restriction by someone in his body. After it is unlocked, he should be able to wake up!" Song Song Qingming checked Song Song Changze by casting a spell, and then smiled and comforted the crowd.

Seeing that Song Song Changze was fine, the hearts of Song Song Qingyu and the others, which had been hanging for so many days, slowly let go.

"It's strange, there is no one else here. Who exactly planted the restriction on Song Changze? Could it be done by those ghosts outside?" Huang Huang Siyuan scanned the surroundings and asked the doubt in her heart to the crowd.

Song Song Qingming nodded slightly when he heard this and said: "First help Song Changze unlock the restriction in his body, and then ask him directly later to see if he knows what exactly happened."

"That's fine!" After Song Song Qingyu responded, she took out a spiritual talisman and stuck it on Song Song Changze's forehead, starting to cast a spell to unlock the restriction in his body. Huang Huang Siyuan and Song Song Yuanli and the others carefully held the array flags in their hands and guarded Song Song Qingyu's side.

Seeing that they were already working on unlocking the restriction on Song Song Changze, Song Song Qingming then felt relieved to continue controlling the Chi Feng Beast and began to search carefully in the cave.

The Chi Feng Beast searching the cave was also exchanged by Song Song Qingming from the front line of the State of Lu back then. It had been with him for a long time. Although it didn't help Song Song Qingming much, it didn't do less of this hard work of opening mountains and exploring roads.

The range of the cave where Song Song Changze was trapped was not very large, only ten or twenty zhang in radius, and one could see the edge at a glance. When Song Song Qingming and the others came in, besides the unconscious Song Song Changze, there were also several rotten monster beast corpses and a pile of messy broken white bones lying in the cave.

These white bones were of all sizes, and they were basically left behind after the monster beasts that haunted the vicinity of Mount Mount Yunwu rotted. After searching among these white bones, Song Song Qingming also accidentally discovered a human skeleton that had long been broken.

In such a hidden place, plus there was an ancient repair array covering it, it was obviously not something that ordinary people could enter. This skeleton that had already rotted was also very likely the owner of this cave dwelling.

The area of the cave where Song Song Changze was trapped was not very large, spanning no more than a dozen zhang, and could be seen at a glance. When Song Song Qingming and the others entered, besides the unconscious Song Song Changze, there were also several rotting beast corpses and a pile of messy, broken white bones lying in the cave.

It was just that what made Song Song Qingming somewhat unable to figure out was that the degree of decay of the white bones in the cave, some of which had existed for at least a thousand years, and this ancient repair array had been running perfectly until now after so many years, which was truly beyond his expectations.

Carefully walking to the side of that white bone, Song Song Qingming swept his gaze around, and actually saw a purple cloth bag pressed under the white bone.

"Could this be a storage bag?"

Just when Song Song Qingming's gaze was attracted by the purple cloth bag in front of him, the white bone on the ground suddenly raised its right arm and shot a green light directly at Song Song Qingming's forehead.

Facing this sudden green light, Song Song Qingming's face did not show any panic. He smiled slightly, and the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" had already appeared on his forehead a step earlier, blocking this green light, as if he had been prepared.

Seeing that the sneak attack failed, this green light immediately changed direction and headed straight for the cave entrance where Song Song Qingyu and the others were, wanting to escape from the cave. However, Huang Huang Siyuan and the others at the front were also prepared, and the array flags in their hands had already formed an array to block the cave entrance.

This green light just rushed into the array controlled by Huang Huang Siyuan and the others, and was then bounced back by the array.

Before the green light could react, Song Song Qingming snorted coldly from behind and cast a spell with both hands. The "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" quickly shot out several purple spiritual lights, directly trapping this green light in mid-air.

"Hmph! I knew there was a fish that slipped through the net." Looking at the green light trapped in mid-air, Song Song Qingming slowly revealed a trace of triumphant smile.

From the moment he entered this cave and discovered that someone had planted a restriction on Song Song Changze, Song Song Qingming knew in his heart that there must be someone hidden in this cave.

Before controlling the Chi Feng Beast to search the cave, Song Song Qingming had already secretly sent a voice transmission to let Huang Huang Siyuan and the others guard the entrance, ready to form an array to deal with the enemy at any time.

Including when Song Song Qingming checked that skeleton just now, he also pretended to reveal a flaw, but in fact, he had already made preparations to deal with it, just to lure this ghost thing hidden in the cave out.

After controlling this green light, Song Song Qingming discovered that this guy seemed to be a ghost cultivator, but the cultivation base of this ghost cultivator was not very high, only at the peak of Foundation Establishment, and he had not yet condensed a ghost core.

"Fellow Daoist, spare my life! I am also a bitter person. I accidentally broke into this place many years ago and was trapped here before I turned into a ghost cultivator. Please raise your hand high, Fellow Daoist, and spare my life. I am willing to offer all the spiritual items in the storage bag to you." Seeing that Song Song Qingming's expression was unkind and he was ready to cast a spell to kill him, this ghost cultivator actually spoke human words unexpectedly.

Because ghost cultivators have missing intelligence, like monster beasts, they generally have to cultivate to the late stage of Golden Core to complete their own intelligence before they can speak human words. Seeing that this ghost cultivator could already speak human words without condensing a ghost core, Song Song Qingming also revealed a trace of surprise.

"Oh! Who exactly is your Excellency, and why do you want to hide here?"

"Fellow Daoist, you misunderstood. My name is Wen Wen Tianyang, and I didn't intend to hide here. Back then, I was also a Golden Core cultivator. It was only because I accidentally broke into this place and didn't understand the array that I was trapped to death here. Later, for some reason, my primordial spirit could not enter reincarnation, so I confusedly turned to cultivate the ghost path. Over the years, I have been muddled in this cave and don't know how many days have passed."

Seeing that Song Song Qingming seemed to believe his words, this green light hurriedly explained again, and his tone revealed a trace of the sadness and desolation of a Golden Core cultivator.

Hearing the other party's answer, Song Song Qingming's face remained calm and did not change, and he directly asked: "One last question for you. Besides us, has anyone else ever entered this place of yin spirits outside?"

"No, absolutely not! Fellow Daoist, rest assured, although I couldn't go out all these years, I still had ways to know some situations outside through the array. The entrance to this cave is very hidden. Besides these ghosts with incomplete intelligence outside, no one else has been here all these years. If it weren't for you fellow Daoists breaking the array and rescuing me today, I don't know when I would have been able to see the light of day again."

"Hehe! When did I say I wanted to save you!"

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"No, absolutely not! Fellow Daoist, rest assured. Although I haven't been able to leave these past few years, I still have ways to know some of the situation outside through the formation. The entrance to this cave is very hidden. Apart from these ghost cultivators with incomplete intelligence outside, no one else has been here all these years. If it weren't for you fellow Daoists breaking the formation to save me today, I wouldn't know when I would see the light of day again."

"Hehe! When did I say I was going to save you!"

(End of chapter)