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

After fighting for a while, seeing the yin energy on this Jin Dan Ghost King suddenly rise and wanting to turn into a ghost thing to escape, Song Qingming, who had long 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 no longer effective, this Jin Dan Ghost King was also panicked and was forced to reveal his figure again, falling into Song Qingming's encirclement once more.

Song Qingming knew that he had to deal with a Jin Dan Ghost King before coming, so he also made some preparations. 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 spiritual talismans brought by Song Xinyu from the sect to it.

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

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

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

With one sword, he shattered the Ghost King's primordial spirit. After the soul of this Jin Dan Ghost King completely dissipated between heaven and earth, Song Qingming then safely controlled the "Mo Bai Sword" and collected the black ball the size of an egg that finally fell from him into his hand.

This black ball was the ghost core of this Ghost King just now. Although the value of this item cannot be compared with the monster core on a monster, it is also a very useful rare spiritual item.

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

Besides this, the greatest role of the ghost core is that it can be used to refine Jin Dan corpse puppets. This spiritual item can be equivalent to the external avatar technique of a Nascent Soul cultivator. A corpse puppet of better quality even has combat power no less than that of an ordinary cultivator of the same tier, and is much more powerful than ordinary puppet beasts of the same tier.

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

Seeing that Song Qingyu and the two were somewhat overwhelmed because more and more ghosts were running out of the cave entrance, Song Qingming hurriedly cast spells to quickly help them kill these ghost cultivators 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 Siyuan looked at Song Xinyu on the side and asked Song Qingming on the side softly.

After eliminating the group of ghost cultivators who were entangled with Huang Siyuan and the others, Song Qingming led the crowd into the depths of the mountain cave and soon found a place full of various white bones and yin spirit.

With the addition of Song Qingming, a Jin Dan cultivator, under the "Mo Bai Sword" killing in all directions, these Foundation Establishment ghost things were soon vulnerable, and they turned into a burst of yin energy and disappeared between heaven and earth one after another.

Hearing 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" in front of him, Song Qingming finally understood somewhat why there were so many ghost cultivators gathered here and why a Jin Dan Ghost King could be born.

Although the Xiaoyao Sect does not have the technique of refining corpse puppets, many sects in the cultivation world have inherited this technique, and there are also sects that specialize in this technique around the Fuyun Mountain Range.

After obtaining this ghost core, Song Qingming was also in a very good mood. 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 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 really not here!"

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

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

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

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

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

"This is, Yin Fire Stone, Seventh Brother, come and see, there are so many Yin Fire Stones here." Song Qingyu, walking in the front, saw the stones with a trace of white fire light among the white bones on the side and hurriedly shouted at Song Qingming beside her.

"Yin Fire Stone" is a special mineral that exists in the dark underground. Because the yin fire attached to the mineral is very rich, it is also a high-tier mineral that can be used to quench magic tools. So many "Yin Fire Stones" gathered here, and over time, it is naturally easy to form a piece of yin spirit land. It is no wonder that a Jin Dan Ghost King could be cultivated in the cave.

"Hmm! But it's just a ghost thing with missing wisdom, how could it escape my palm? Are you two okay?"

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

Hearing Song Qingyu's reminder, everyone came back to their senses. The original purpose of everyone coming here was to find Song Changze. They hurriedly left this place of white bones and began to search everywhere. What made everyone somewhat strange was that they turned around in the cave several times, but still did not find Song Changze's figure.

Song Qingyu smiled and shook her head and replied: "Don't worry, this little injury will not affect daily practice. It will be restored after recuperating for a few years. Seventh Brother, Sister-in-law and the others are still inside, let's hurry over and join them!"

Just when everyone returned to the place of white bones to join, and was somewhat helpless, Song Qingming took out the magic treasure "Qingliu Sword" on his body with a calm face and gently cut his finger, squeezing a trace of blood from it.

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

Song Qingming explained with a smile: "This time I went to the Wu Kingdom and learned a secret technique for finding people from an old friend. It just so happens that I can see if it can come in handy. You don't need to worry, I just took a little of my own essence blood to cast the spell."

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

This time in the Wu Kingdom, he met Wang Mengxiao, who helped find his third brother Song Qingze many years ago. In his spare time, Song Qingming exchanged for the "Bloodline Spirit-Finding Technique" that he had been very interested in many years ago from his hands using some spiritual items.

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

After taking out a drop of his essence blood, Song Qingming immediately 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 Qingming dripped the essence blood he had just taken out onto the talisman paper.

Not long after, a fire suddenly ignited, and the talisman paper in 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 Qingming led the crowd to walk slowly to a cave that was relatively close to the cave entrance according to the guidance. Looking at the cave in front of him that showed no abnormality, Song Qingming's face revealed a look of solemnity.

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

"It doesn't matter! Whether there is a situation or not, just go in and take a look."

After leading several people directly into the cave, Song Qingming followed the blue smoke guidance remaining on the spiritual talisman in his hand and soon walked to the end of the cave, finally blocked by a giant stone that looked like it was naturally formed.

According to the direction indicated by the "Bloodline Spirit-Finding Technique," Song Changze should still be behind this giant stone. It's just that the end of the cave was completely pathless as Song Xinyu said. From the surface, everyone couldn't see how people could hide behind the stone.

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

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

"Be careful above!"

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

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

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

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

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

Hearing that what was blocking the way in front was an ancient formation, everyone revealed a look of surprise one after another. No wonder Song Xinyu couldn't see any clues when he came in to search earlier.

The layout of ancient formations is very different from many formations commonly used now. Not only Song Xinyu, but even Song Qingming, a second-tier top-quality formation master, didn't see at a glance that there was anything wrong with this giant stone when he first came in.

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

This ancient formation is somewhat similar to the formation that Song Qingming helped Bai Yunhua repair in the Xiaoyao Sect back then. Although it is clear that this formation and the one in Bai Yunhua's hand are not the same kind of formation, when Song Qingming saw the formation running just now, he did see many familiar runes he had seen before.

Compared with current formations, the power of ancient formations is generally much greater. If he hadn't seen these runes, even if Song Qingming could see this formation, 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 a formation master without spending much effort to break the formation by force. Precisely because of this, Song Qingming had some certainty in his heart that he could break this formation soon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Don't worry, you guys wait here first, I'll check the situation first. There can be ancient cultivation formations here, maybe there will be other dangers, everyone shouldn't be careless."

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 Chifeng Beast carried Song Changze, who was still unconscious, back.

"Fortunately, it's okay, it's just that someone planted a restriction in his body. After it's unlocked, he should be able to wake up!" Song Qingming cast a spell to check Song Changze, and then smiled and comforted the crowd.

Seeing that Song Changze had no major problems, the hearts of Song Qingyu and the others that had been hanging for so many days slowly let go.

"It's strange, I didn't see anyone else in here. Who exactly planted the restriction on Changze? Could it be done by those ghost cultivators outside?" Huang Siyuan scanned the surroundings and asked the crowd a doubt in her heart.

Song Qingming nodded slightly when he heard this and said: "Unlock the restriction in his body first, and ask him directly later to see if he knows what happened."

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

Seeing that they were already working on unlocking the restriction on Song Changze, Song Qingming then felt relieved and continued to control the Chifeng Beast to start searching carefully in the cave.

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

The scope of the cave where Song Changze was trapped is not very large, only more than ten zhang in radius, and you can see the edge at a glance. When Song Qingming and the others came in, besides the unconscious Song Changze, there were also several monster corpses that had already rotted in the cave, and a pile of messy broken white bones.

These white bones were of all sizes, and they were basically left after the corruption of monsters that appeared near Mount Yunwu. After searching among these white bones, Song Qingming also accidentally discovered a humanoid skeleton that had long been broken.

In such a hidden place, plus there is an ancient cultivation formation covering it, it is clearly not something ordinary people can enter. This rotted white bone is also very likely to be the owner of this cave.

Seeing the white bones everywhere in the cave, Song Qingming could probably guess that they should have been actively sucked into the cave by the ancient cultivation formation still running at the cave entrance, and were trapped to death here because they couldn't escape.

It's just that what Song Qingming couldn't figure out is that the degree of corruption of the white bones in the cave has existed for at least a thousand years. This ancient cultivation formation has been running well until now after so many years, which is also somewhat beyond his expectations.

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

"Is this a storage bag?"

Just when 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 straight at Song Qingming's forehead.

Facing this sudden green light, Song Qingming's face did not show panic. With a light smile at the corner of his mouth, the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" had already appeared on his forehead one step ahead, 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 Qingyu and the others were, wanting to escape from the cave. However, Huang Siyuan and the others at the front were also prepared, and the formation flags in their hands had formed a formation to block the cave entrance.

This green light had just rushed to the cave entrance when it plunged into the formation controlled by Huang Siyuan and the others, and then was bounced back by the formation.

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

"Hmph! I knew there would be a fish that slipped through the net." Looking at the green light trapped in mid-air, a proud smile slowly appeared on the corner of Song Qingming's mouth.

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

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

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

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

"Fellow Daoist, spare my life. I am also a bitter person. I accidentally broke into this place many years ago. After being trapped here, I turned into a ghost cultivator. Please raise your hand and spare my life. I am willing to offer all the spiritual items in the storage bag to you." Seeing that 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 wisdom, like monsters, they generally have to practice until the late stage of Jin Dan to complete their wisdom before they can speak human words. Seeing that this ghost cultivator could speak human words without even condensing a ghost core, Song Qingming also revealed a hint of surprise on his face.

"Oh! Who exactly are you, and why do you want to hide here all the time?"

"Fellow Daoist misunderstood. My name is Wen Tianyang, and I didn't intend to hide here. I was also a Jin Dan cultivator back then. It was only because I accidentally broke into this place and, because I didn't understand the formation, I was trapped to death here. Later, for some reason, my primordial spirit could not enter reincarnation, so I muddledly switched to practicing the ghost path. For these years, I have been muddled in this cave and don't know how much time has passed."

Seeing that Song Qingming seemed to believe his words, this green light hurriedly explained again, and a hint of the desolation and sorrow of a Jin Dan cultivator was revealed in his tone.

Hearing the other party's answer, Song Qingming's expression remained calm and unchanged, and he asked directly: "I will ask you one last question. Besides us, has anyone else ever entered this yin spirit land outside?"

"No, absolutely not! Fellow Daoist, don't worry. Although I can't go out all these years, I still have ways to know some situations outside through the formation. The entrance to this cave is very hidden. Except for those ghost cultivators with incomplete wisdom 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 don't know when I would be able to see the light of day again."

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

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 509 =====