Chapter 751: Fourth-tier Magic Treasure, The Third Fragment (Seeking Monthly Votes)

Seeing that this gale was so powerful, a spiritual light moved in Song Qingming's hand, increasing the magic power injected into the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" in front of him, and then he shrank the shield created by his natal magic treasure a bit before lifting his legs to continue walking forward.

After stubbornly supporting the shield and walking forward for several dozen zhang, Song Qingming suddenly felt that the gale around him had weakened significantly. His heart was filled with joy, and he immediately quickened his pace.

After walking another dozen steps, it was just as Song Qingming had expected; he passed directly through the obstruction of the restriction and arrived outside the gale.

After breaking through this restriction, the location where Song Qingming was situated also arrived in a very archaic circular main hall.

This main hall was much smaller than the outermost one, only about five or six zhang in length and width. Around the main hall stood more than a dozen stone statues, each carved with various monster heads.

Located in the center of the main hall was a high stone platform, on which was placed a wooden box about half a foot long and very archaic.

Seeing this wooden box, Song Qingming's eyes suddenly lit up, thinking that there must be something good inside.

Just as he wanted to take a step forward to take the wooden box, Song Qingming suddenly felt a strange sensation coming from his body, causing him to stop his steps with an unexpected look on his face.

"Could this be... how could it be such a coincidence?"

After Song Qingming exclaimed in surprise, he quickly reached out and gave a light wave to his chest, taking out the archaic fragment that had been sewn onto his chest all along.

Feeling that the fragment in his hand, without the coverage of magic power, was actually actively emitting a faint spiritual light and becoming very restless, Song Qingming's face was also filled with shock.

Ever since he obtained this fragment back then, when he didn't actively use it to absorb spiritual energy, it was no different from an ordinary piece of broken cloth and had never changed.

The only time such a change occurred before was when he and Huo Feng were in the "Taiyuehu" secret realm and happened to find another fragment.

Seeing the abnormal reaction of the fragment in his hand, Song Qingming immediately reacted. It was highly likely that another identical fragment was hidden in this main hall, and his heart couldn't help but become somewhat excited.

As his greatest secret, ever since he knew the special function of the fragment, Song Qingming had never stopped wanting to know what kind of treasure the fragment in his hand was over these years.

It is just a pity that even though Song Qingming had successfully formed a Core and become a high-and-mighty Jin Dan cultivator, he still had not been able to learn any information related to the fragment from various classics in the cultivation world.

Back then, he found another similar fragment, which seemed to have some connection but could never be pieced together. Song Qingming had also studied it countless times over these years but had never gained any harvest.

If he could find another fragment this time, perhaps he would have a chance to let him solve the secret of the fragment on his body. How could this not make his heart excited for it?

After putting away the fragment in his hand, Song Qingming scanned the surroundings of the main hall again, then cast a spell to summon "Jin Feng," commanding it to walk toward the stone platform step by step.

Just as he walked to the edge of the stone platform, and just as "Jin Feng" was about to take the wooden box on it, a sound suddenly came from above the main hall. Above the originally empty stone platform, a white light shield suddenly appeared out of thin air, covering the wooden box below.

Immediately afterward, from above the heads of the stone statues all around, golden sword lights that were incomparably sharp shot out, heading straight for the location of "Jin Feng."

"Sure enough, there is still a restriction!"

Seeing this scene, Song Qingming, who had been prepared, immediately controlled "Jin Feng" to release a protective spiritual light to resist the flying sword lights, and then retreated rapidly along the original path.

Although he retreated in time, "Jin Feng" was also beaten somewhat miserably by those golden sword lights. Not only were the clothes on its body tattered, but several bloody holes were also left on its body.

Fortunately, "Jin Feng" was only a corpse puppet after all. This kind of injury was not too serious for it, and it only needed to recuperate for a period of time to recover as before.

Knowing that the restriction guarding the wooden box was somewhat powerful, Song Qingming did not dare to be careless again. After carefully observing the surroundings, he directly waved his hand to take out a set of formation flags, and then set up the "Tiangang Five Elements Formation" on the spot.

After using this formation to cast a set of protective spiritual light, Song Qingming cast a spell to release his natal magic treasure, adding an extra layer of protection inside, before taking steps and taking "Jin Feng" to walk toward the high platform again.

By the time Song Qingming arrived near the high platform, just like "Jin Feng" just now, he soon triggered the restriction, causing the surrounding stone statues to launch an attack on him.

However, Song Qingming's cultivation was not something that "Jin Feng" at the fifth layer of Jin Dan could compare to. Plus, he had already set up the "Tiangang Five Elements Formation" in advance, so the defensive power on his body at this moment had almost reached the peak of a Jin Dan cultivator.

Facing the golden sword lights that were shooting over rapidly and continuously, Song Qingming did not change his expression. Seeing that the grand formation could defend against these attacks, he directly braced against the sword lights and approached the high platform location.

Then he directly cast a spell to transform his natal magic treasure, the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror," into five bronze mirrors, shooting several five-colored spiritual lights toward the light shield on the platform, wanting to destroy this protective shield in one fell swoop and get the wooden box inside.

Unexpectedly, the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" attacked for a long time, but the light shield did not show the slightest weakening, which also made Song Qingming somewhat surprised.

Although the "Tiangang Five Elements Formation" could defend against the attacks of the golden sword lights outside, it also needed to consume the magic power in Song Qingming's body at the same time.

Plus, he still had to control his natal magic treasure and "Jin Feng" to attack the white protective shield on the high platform together. In just a quarter of an hour, more than half of the magic power in Song Qingming's body had been consumed.

Seeing that this did not seem to be a way, Song Qingming immediately changed his idea of taking the treasure and looked directly toward the top of his head.

When the restriction was activated just now, there was clearly a sound coming from above, which also indirectly proved that the mechanism controlling these restrictions was highly likely to be above.

Now that he couldn't open the protective shield for a while, Song Qingming could only give up the idea of taking the treasure head-on and try to see if he could break this final restriction that was blocking him from other directions.

After retracting his natal magic treasure, the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror," Song Qingming flew directly to the top and searched carefully at the dome position. Before long, he saw an unusual ancient rune pattern.

"It should be here!"

After Song Qingming whispered to himself, he waved his hand and threw out three formation flags, fixing them around the rune, and then took out a third-tier sealing talisman and stuck it directly on the rune.

"Success or failure depends on this one move. Stop for me."

With a loud shout from Song Qingming, the sealing talisman above the rune immediately emitted a burst of golden light, directly integrating into the rune.

Song Qingming also used the method Bai Yunhua used to break the formation before, but the sealing talisman he took out was much more advanced than Bai Yunhua's, and in just a moment, he sealed the entire rune.

Not long after completing the spell, Song Qingming immediately felt a lightness on his body, and the golden sword lights that were constantly attacking him around him suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Seeing that the white protective shield on the high platform below also disappeared, Song Qingming's heart was filled with joy, and a smile appeared on his face. He hurriedly fell from the air and walked toward the high platform location.

After successfully obtaining the wooden box, Song Qingming immediately opened it.

Unexpectedly, the thing inside was not the fragment he had imagined, but a cyan jade bottle magic treasure the size of a palm.

"Eh! What is going on again?"

Although this "Cyan Jade Bottle" magic treasure was not a common object, its quality had reached the fourth-tier low-grade, which was more powerful than any magic treasure on Song Qingming's body.

However, not finding the fragment he wanted most in the wooden box, Song Qingming's face was still greatly disappointed at this moment. After putting away the "Cyan Jade Bottle" in his hand, he immediately searched around the stone platform.

The fragment on his body had always had an abnormal reaction, clearly sensing that there were other fragments in the vicinity, but Song Qingming searched a circle, and the surroundings were empty, and he did not find any other places where spiritual objects were hidden.

Seeing that his anxious search was of no use, Song Qingming took a deep breath and slowly calmed down, then took out the original fragment from his body again.

It was still the same as before; the fragment emitted a faint spiritual light, and the spiritual energy on it was also very restless, as if it had encountered something calling it.

Song Qingming pressed the fragment tightly against his chest again, then closed his eyes and released his spiritual sense. After his spiritual sense covered the entire main hall, he slowly moved his steps and began to walk around in the main hall.

By virtue of his powerful spiritual sense, Song Qingming had already been able to capture the subtle changes in spiritual energy in all corners of the main hall, wanting to use this to find if there was anything unusual hidden in this main hall.

After walking around in the main hall a few times like this, Song Qingming suddenly walked back to the side of the stone platform, opened his eyes, and searched carefully above the empty stone platform.

He had not found any unusual spiritual energy in the surroundings just now, but he discovered that the further he stood from the stone platform, the reaction of the fragment on his chest also weakened somewhat.

The change in this was very small. Song Qingming had not sensed it before, and it was only when his spiritual sense was fully open and focused on searching the surrounding spiritual energy that he accidentally noticed this situation.

After searching a circle on the stone platform, it was empty and had no patterns or rune markings, nor did it look like there were any hidden mechanisms or messages.

After standing in place and pondering for a moment, Song Qingming retracted his gaze, waved his hand, and directly took out a golden ring, cast a spell to enlarge it several times, and then smashed it directly toward the stone platform.

"Since there is no way to find it directly, then I can only use extraordinary means."

Under the powerful strike of the "Golden Radiance Treasure Ring," a loud noise came from above the entire stone platform, and then a large cloud of dust rose all around, and countless broken stones began to shoot toward the surroundings.

Song Qingming lifted his hand gently, released a protective shield to isolate the broken stones directly, and then waved a light breeze to blow away the dust in front of him. Then, a black wooden box floating in mid-air appeared before Song Qingming's eyes.

Seeing this archaic-style wooden box, a look of excitement immediately appeared on Song Qingming's face, and he hurriedly commanded "Jin Feng" beside him to take it over. Opening the wooden box, an incomparably familiar beast-skin map soon came into view. After Song Qingming picked it up and took a look, he soon confirmed that this was the fragment he had been thinking about, and a satisfied smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"I really didn't expect to be able to find a fragment here. It seems this thing is really fated with me."

Following Bai Yunhua to this Qinghe cave dwelling this time, Song Qingming originally just wanted to see this ancient cultivator's cave dwelling and take a chance to see if he could gain anything here.

Before coming, Song Qingming did not have high expectations for this cave dwelling and never thought that he could find something related to the fragment inside. How could this not make him overjoyed?

Not only that, just now above the stone platform, Song Qingming also found a fourth-tier low-grade magic treasure, the "Cyan Jade Bottle," which was of high value, and it could be said that the harvest was full, far exceeding his previous expectations.

A fourth-tier low-grade magic treasure, placed outside, could at least be worth more than a hundred thousand spirit stones. Just the value of this spiritual object was not worse than the things Song Qingming harvested when exploring the "Heavenly Corpse Daoist" cave dwelling in the East Sea back then.

After obtaining the fragment, Song Qingming, whose heart was still somewhat excited, couldn't help but start to ponder why this strange fragment appeared here.

The "Cyan Jade Bottle" magic treasure that Song Qingming obtained before was placed directly on the stone platform. As long as someone could get in, it was inevitable that there would be a great chance to take this object away.

However, the fragment stored in the stone platform was hidden more covertly. If it weren't for the fact that Song Qingming had another fragment on his body to sense it, he would certainly not have discovered this object for a while, and perhaps he would have really missed this opportunity.

It can be seen that the owner of this cave dwelling did indeed intend to hide the information of the fragment from others, which is why it was hidden so secretly.

The owner of the cave dwelling in the "Taiyuehu" secret realm back then merely threw the fragment into a pile of messy things, clearly not knowing the true purpose of the fragment.

And the owner of this cave dwelling directly used a fourth-tier magic treasure to cover up the existence of the fragment, which also indirectly proved that he was highly likely to know the value of this thing.

"Could it be that the other two fragments were all passed down from this ancient cultivator's cave dwelling?"

The location of this Qinghe cave dwelling is adjacent to "Mount Yunwu," not far from the place where Song Qingming found the first fragment, probably only a little over a thousand miles away.

The ghost cultivator "Wen Tianyang" back then was highly likely to have found the fragment inside here.

It is just that after he obtained this object, I don't know what happened later, and he ended up falling in the nearby "Mount Yunwu."

And although the "Taiyuehu" secret realm is slightly far from Qinghe County, there is also the "Qinghe" river connecting the two places. It is not impossible for the other party to find this cave dwelling.

"Wen Tianyang" had already reached the Jin Dan stage before his death, and the owner of the "Taiyuehu" cave dwelling was even more likely to be a great Nascent Soul late-stage cultivator. They, like Song Qingming now, were fully capable of entering this cave dwelling to get the "fragment."

Thinking of this, Song Qingming's heart suddenly became somewhat enlightened.

Although these possibilities were all things that happened thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago, Song Qingming could still find some connections from them after some deliberation.

After thinking through these things, this "Qinghe Cave Dwelling" in Song Qingming's eyes also became increasingly mysterious.

If the owner of this cave dwelling was the previous owner of these fragments, then he was highly likely to know the true purpose of these fragments. Perhaps the secret of him solving the fragment was right before his eyes.

After Song Qingming pondered for a while, he took out the other two fragments on his body and put them together.

After looking carefully, he found that the edges of two of them were somewhat similar and could be pieced together, but the remaining one was tried for a while and did not find any similar places, clearly still missing.

"I thought I had collected them all, but I didn't expect there to be other fragments. It seems I must find them all."

After Song Qingming sighed softly, he put away "Jin Feng" beside him, and then put all three fragments in his hand into the storage bag at his waist, intending to leave here first and go to other places to find information about the fragments.

Since one could be found in this cave dwelling, it proved that it was highly likely that other fragments existed. He now had three fragments on his body and could use the point that they could sense each other to find other fragments.

After putting away the fragments in his hand, Song Qingming turned around and walked directly toward the outside of the main hall, wanting to go to the other passages Bai Yunhua mentioned to see if he could find the remaining fragments.

But just as Song Qingming turned around, a white spiritual light suddenly appeared around his body, and it began to flicker constantly.

"What is this...?"

Seeing this, Song Qingming immediately instinctively cast a spell, releasing the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" in his body to protect his side.

However, before Song Qingming could figure out what was happening, the surroundings were already submerged in white light.

Immediately afterward, Song Qingming felt a sense of dizziness, and his whole body seemed to be directly rolled into the air by a spiritual energy vortex, making him unable to control his figure for a while.

After a long while, Song Qingming felt the spiritual energy around him slowly quiet down, and then the white light suddenly disappeared, and Song Qingming fell directly from mid-air.

Although he was still somewhat confused after the dizziness just now, Song Qingming was a Jin Dan cultivator after all, and he soon stabilized his figure from the dizziness and slowly landed on the ground.

Song Qingming, standing in place, quickly checked himself and found that the white light that appeared suddenly just now did not cause him any harm, so he put his heart at ease and observed the surroundings.

But when Song Qingming looked forward, he found that the place where he was now was no longer the original circular palace, and a look of shock immediately appeared on his face.

"Eh! What is going on? Could the white light just now be a teleportation array?"

Seeing this, Song Qingming, who had reacted, immediately flew into mid-air and scanned the surrounding environment carefully, feeling that this place was somewhat familiar.

After flying forward for a distance, a high platform appeared before Song Qingming's eyes again.

Just as he had thought, he had already left that palace and arrived at the main hall outside the passage.

"Senior Song, it is great that you are also fine. I don't know what happened just now, but I was directly sent out by a white light!"

"Eh! Fellow Daoist Bai, you also came out? It seems that I touched some restriction inside just now, which caused both of us to be teleported out."

Just as he arrived in front of the high platform, Song Qingming heard a shout. Turning around to look, he discovered that it was Bai Yunhua, who had been teleported out directly just like him.

"Oh! Senior Song, have you already broken through the gale and entered inside? Did you find anything?" Hearing Song Qingming's answer, Bai Yunhua couldn't help but ask with some excitement.

After parting ways with Song Qingming at the white stone door, Bai Yunhua had been hiding in the formation he set up, waiting for Song Qingming to break through the restriction before taking him in together.

However, Bai Yunhua waited and waited in the formation for a long time, but still did not see the power of the gale outside weaken, and thought that Song Qingming had been blocked by the restriction and failed to break through.

Just as he was somewhat worried about Song Qingming's safety in his heart, he did not expect a dazzling white light to suddenly appear beside him, teleporting him out directly just like Song Qingming.

It is just that the places where the two landed were not quite the same. The place where Bai Yunhua landed was still near the high platform, while Song Qingming was teleported further away, almost to the entrance of the cave dwelling where they came in.

Seeing Bai Yunhua's excited face and his great concern for the things in the circular main hall, Song Qingming nodded with a smile, "Your feeling was right; there are indeed things inside. This object is what I brought out from inside."

After Song Qingming spoke, he directly took out the "Cyan Jade Bottle" he found on the stone platform and held it in his hand.

Seeing this exquisite magic treasure in Song Qingming's hand, although Bai Yunhua could not directly see the specific quality of the "Cyan Jade Bottle" because his cultivation was relatively low, he could still feel that this object was very extraordinary.

After painstakingly researching for decades, he finally confirmed that there were truly spiritual objects hidden in that passage. Bai Yunhua was extremely excited for a while, and with a gratified expression, he bowed to Song Qingming and thanked him, "Fortunately, Senior Song came. This junior has had the honor to see this object in this life, which can be considered as fulfilling this regret of mine!"

"It is indeed very dangerous inside; even a Jin Dan cultivator would have concerns for his life. I also spent a lot of effort to obtain this object. It is just a pity that I only found this one magic treasure."

Song Qingming nodded calmly and put away the "Cyan Jade Bottle" in his hand.

"In that case, this junior can be considered lucky. If I hadn't found Senior Song and brought others along, I fear I would have ended up inside."

Hearing Song Qingming say that it was very dangerous inside, a look of lingering fear appeared on Bai Yunhua's face, and he secretly rejoiced in his heart that he had not rashly gone to find other Jin Dan cultivators from the sect to come.

Otherwise, if a Jin Dan elder of the sect had truly died here, let alone his life, I fear the entire Bai family would have immediately disappeared completely from the cultivation world.

"Fellow Daoist Bai, there is nothing left in that passage before, but I still want to go to other passages to see. Please help me open another one."

"Hehe! I dare not trouble you. Please wait a moment, Senior; this junior will go and open the passage immediately."

Hearing that Song Qingming still wanted to enter other passages, although Bai Yunhua was somewhat surprised, he did not dare to ask more and hurriedly walked toward the location of the mural not far away.

"Eh! Senior, this... these runes seem to be somewhat wrong." (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 752 =====