Chapter 802

When he first encountered Ma Wuchen on the deserted island, because this place was very close to the Song Guo territory, ordinary Golden Core demonic cultivators would not choose to hide in such a dangerous place.

Song Qingming had thought that Ma Wuchen was just passing by by chance and happened to run into them, and he was not sure if the cave dwelling where the other party was hiding was near that "deserted island."

It was not until he dug out all the secrets on Ma Wuchen through the soul-searching just now.

That he learned that this demon had actually betrayed his master, the "Red Blood Old Demon," and had been hiding near Song Guo for more than twenty years.

Most demonic cultivators who are willing to degenerate into practicing demonic path techniques are people who will stop at nothing to achieve their goals, and the "Red Blood Old Demon's" sect is also mostly composed of treacherous and cunning people.

In order to prevent his disciples from rebelling and to control these people for his own use for life, the "Red Blood Old Demon" has planted some restrictive means on them.

Not only can he monitor their location at all times, but he can also control their life and death at critical moments, making them afraid to have any thoughts of rebellion.

Ma Wuchen, who had followed the "Red Blood Old Demon" for many years, had already cultivated to the ninth layer of Golden Core for many years and had long since reached the time when he could impact the Nascent Soul realm at any time.

But Ma Wuchen, who already longed for the Nascent Soul realm, also knew well that his master, the "Red Blood Old Demon," could absolutely not sit by and watch him break through to the Nascent Soul realm and thus escape his control.

On the surface, he showed respect to his master, the "Red Blood Old Demon," but Ma Wuchen had long had thoughts of rebellion in his heart.

Therefore, while he was collecting methods to break through to the Nascent Soul realm over these years, he was also racking his brains on how to remove the harmful restrictions planted by the "Red Blood Old Demon" that could threaten his life at any time.

Finally, more than twenty years ago, Ma Wuchen found a technique that could temporarily seal the restrictions in his body, and while the "Red Blood Old Demon" was in seclusion, he escaped his control and hid near Song Guo.

After Ma Wuchen hid in Song Guo for many years, seeing that the "Red Blood Old Demon" had not been able to find the vicinity, he finally felt completely relieved.

So he found a more hidden cave dwelling in Taiyue Lake near the "deserted island" where Song Qingming fought him, and hid there, painstakingly planning his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul.

In order not to let others disturb his seclusion and breakthrough, Ma Wuchen also used his divine abilities to control some nearby demonic beasts to patrol the waters around his seclusion cave and attack and drive away human cultivators coming and going.

The "Eight-Legged Demon King" that Song Qingming accidentally killed when he found the deserted island that day was one of the demonic beasts controlled by Ma Wuchen.

It was also because this demon was suddenly killed that Ma Wuchen knew that a high-level cultivator had come nearby.

Feeling the danger, he came out to investigate, and as a result, he ran into Song Qingyu and the others on the "deserted island," and after a great battle, he finally fell into Song Qingming's hands.

Through the soul-searching of Ma Wuchen just now, Song Qingming also successfully found the location of his hidden cave dwelling, which was on another small island less than a thousand miles away from that "deserted island."

The location of this cave dwelling was already close to the depths of "Taiyue Lake," and the surroundings were not only full of demonic beasts but also very hidden, and it was usually difficult for cultivators to dare to approach there.

Not having found any good things on Ma Wuchen, Song Qingming also placed his last hope on his cave dwelling, and naturally, he had to go there next.

After completing the soul-searching, Song Qingming's magic power moved, and his life-bound magic treasure, the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror," immediately flew out and arrived in mid-air.

Subsequently, several white flames shot out from the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror," directly wrapping Ma Wuchen's soul.

"No, fellow Daoist, spare my life!"

Hearing only a very harsh scream, Ma Wuchen's soul was directly burned into a light ball of white smoke by the Profound Yang Blazing Flame released by the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror."

And just at the moment Ma Wuchen's soul was annihilated, in a deep mountain underground cave extremely far from "Xufengdao," an old man wearing a wide black robe who was sitting in meditation with his eyes closed suddenly opened his eyes.

"Eh! After hiding for so long, you actually died just like that. You really are a piece of trash!

Master is just lacking a Nascent Soul puppet, and I originally wanted to wait for you to break through to the Nascent Soul realm before going to clean you up. This really makes me a bit disappointed.

Let Master see, who exactly is it that has the ability to kill you!"

After the "Red Blood Old Demon" whispered a word, a powerful blood light suddenly erupted from his body, and then he took out a spiritual talisman and covered a ball of blood light beside him with it.

At this time, on Song Qingming's side, just as he breathed a sigh of relief for completely annihilating Ma Wuchen, a somewhat eerie black energy suddenly emerged from the white smoke, and then a somewhat creepy human face suddenly materialized in mid-air.

"This is... the Red Blood Old Demon!"

Seeing this human face materialized by black energy, which was exactly the "Red Blood Old Demon" he had seen in the "Heaven-Reaching Tower" back then, Song Qingming was shocked and showed a look of surprise.

Could it be that this was the restriction left by the "Red Blood Old Demon" in Ma Wuchen's body, and it was actually hidden in his soul? He was really a bit careless.

"Little brat, good ability, you actually have the ability to annihilate my disciple. I don't know whose descendant or disciple you are, dare you report your name to this old man."

Back then in the "Heaven-Reaching Tower," although Song Qingming had seen the great battle between this demon and Huo Feng through the help of "Senior Profound Heaven," the "Red Blood Old Demon" had never seen Song Qingming.

Therefore, seeing this somewhat strange green-robed man before him, the "Red Blood Old Demon" did not recognize Song Qingming's identity and thought he was a Golden Core disciple of some Nascent Soul sect in the Floating Cloud Mountain Range immortal cultivation world.

Seeing the human face materialized by the "Red Blood Old Demon" suddenly appear, while Song Qingming was surprised, he did not intend to talk to the other party, directly manipulating the "Profound Yang Blazing Flame" to step forward and wrap around the human face materialized by the black energy.

Soon, this human face that had just been materialized was burned to ashes by the "Profound Yang Blazing Flame" just like Ma Wuchen's soul, directly dissipating between heaven and earth.

As the black energy disappeared, the spiritual talisman in the hands of the "Red Blood Old Demon" in the seclusion cave dwelling also instantly burned to ashes without fire, gradually disappearing before him.

"Hmph! It's really interesting. This person looks young and vigorous, but he is really too cautious, and has no manners at all."

"Regardless of who you are, daring to destroy the plan I have been plotting for many years and annihilating my disciple, this old man will find you sooner or later!"

After the "Red Blood Old Demon" muttered to himself, the appearance of Song Qingming surfaced in his mind again, and then a very fierce look erupted in his eyes.

And at this time, Song Qingming, who had just annihilated the human face materialized by the "Red Blood Old Demon," saw the black energy gradually dissipate and leave no trace, and he also breathed a sigh of relief.

However, although he had successfully erased the human face, Song Qingming still couldn't help but feel a lingering fear in his heart, not knowing whether he had been targeted by the other party.

The "Red Blood Old Demon" is a great demon at the peak of the mid-stage Nascent Soul, and even Huo Feng couldn't deal with him back then, let alone Song Qingming, a small Golden Core cultivator.

Once targeted by such a Nascent Soul-level demonic cultivator, just relying on Song Qingming and the Song family, which only had a few Golden Core cultivators, it would be absolutely difficult to contend with him.

However, although he was very worried, Song Qingming had also confirmed that the "Red Blood Old Demon" had not recognized his identity just now, and he certainly wouldn't be able to find him in the short term.

Although he knew that the other party wouldn't be able to find him for a while, this hidden danger could now be considered planted! If Song Qingming cannot break through to the Nascent Soul realm in the future, once the "Red Blood Old Demon" comes to his door one day, no one will be able to contend with him, and I am afraid that he and the entire Song family might suffer.

After standing in place and pondering for a long time, Song Qingming sighed slightly, and his complexion gradually returned to normal.

Since this grudge has been formed, regardless of what will happen in the future, if he wants to hide, he certainly can't hide, and he can only face it calmly.

Hopefully, this day will come later, leaving him a little more time to prepare.

After his thoughts opened up a little, Song Qingming put away all the arrays around the cave dwelling and then strode out of his cave dwelling.

After blowing the cool breeze outside the cave dwelling for a while to calm his mood, Song Qingming turned and came to the outside of the cave dwelling where Song Qingyu was in seclusion.

Li Xiuning, who received Song Qingming's order, had been guarding outside the cave dwelling where Song Qingyu was in seclusion for the past few days and did not dare to leave without authorization!

At this moment, seeing Song Qingming arrive, she hurriedly stepped forward to report the situation around the cave dwelling over the past few days.

Using his spiritual sense to check around Song Qingyu's cave dwelling, seeing no abnormalities and the spiritual energy in the cave dwelling being very calm, he estimated that the time for her to leave seclusion was not far away.

Seeing this, Song Qingming also gradually felt relieved, then instructed Li Xiuning on the side a few more words before feeling relieved to leave the place where the cave dwelling was.

A stick of incense later, a streak of white light flashed in the sky on the west side of "Xufengdao."

Subsequently, a green-robed figure stepping on a flying boat appeared in mid-air, and it was Song Qingming who had just left the cave dwelling.

Although it had only been a few days since the great battle on the "deserted island," Song Qingming was still a bit worried that if he rushed over now, he would run into people from the "Profound Origin Sect."

But right now, the matter of him annihilating Ma Wuchen here had already alarmed the "Red Blood Old Demon," and Song Qingming was even more worried that this demon would find this place in advance.

Therefore, he still decided to take some risks and go to loot Ma Wuchen's cave dwelling first, so as not to let the things inside become cheap for others if he went late.

The cave dwelling where Ma Wuchen was hiding was only two thousand miles away from "Xufengdao" where he was, and half a day for a Golden Core cultivator to make a round trip was about enough.

In order not to attract attention, Song Qingming not only changed his clothes in advance but also brought a bamboo hat to cover his face. After leaving "Xufengdao," under his control, the flying boat first headed toward the territory where the demonic beasts were in the east.

After entering the depths of "Taiyue Lake," he turned to the northwest and then headed straight toward the location of Ma Wuchen's cave dwelling and hurried forward.

Although this would take a detour and spend a little more time, most of the places he passed through were the territory of demonic beasts, and the probability of encountering cultivators on the road would be much smaller, which would be safer for Song Qingming.

However, after the flying boat went deep into the territory of the demonic beasts, Song Qingming still encountered many demonic beasts along the way.

Fortunately, his cultivation and divine abilities were not low, and as long as he didn't encounter those late-stage Golden Core great demon kings, it was difficult for any demonic beasts to keep the current Song Qingming.

After carefully moving forward for more than an hour, a small island full of reefs suddenly came into view, which also made Song Qingming, who had been traveling for a long time, reveal a slight smile at the corner of his mouth.

This small island located in the depths of "Taiyue Lake" was only three or four miles in radius, and it was full of various large and small reefs, not only without any spiritual energy but also without even a few flowers, plants, or trees.

Like this "Reef Island" that was full of barren rocks and grass, let alone cultivators, even the demonic beasts in the surrounding area didn't like to approach this place to forage for food, which was indeed a good place for hiding.

After the flying boat arrived in the sky above "Reef Island," Song Qingming immediately stopped, waved his hand, and retrieved the "Phantom Boat" under his feet into his storage magic tool.

Subsequently, Song Qingming scanned the surroundings, and seeing that there was no movement around, he carefully landed on a giant rock on the west side of "Reef Island."

Relying on the memory in his mind, Song Qingming soon found a cave entrance hidden by an array below the connection between this giant rock and another giant rock beside it.

Because he had searched Ma Wuchen's memory, Song Qingming also indirectly knew the method to break this array, and without much effort, he forcibly opened the array that covered this place.

After entering the stone cave, a damp air instantly rushed toward his face, Song Qingming waved his hand to release a protective shield to protect himself, and then carefully walked into the stone cave.

Because it was located in a low-lying area, there was stagnant water everywhere in the stone cave, and there were many water algae extending all the way to the walls of the stone cave. Compared with the cave dwellings of other cultivators, the environment in the cave indeed looked a bit poor.

Being able to live in such a place for so long, it can be seen that Ma Wuchen had also taken great pains to avoid the pursuit of the "Red Blood Old Demon" and the surrounding righteous path cultivators.

After walking not far inside, Song Qingming's field of vision suddenly widened, and he soon entered a cave dwelling five or six zhang long and wide.

Compared with the dark, damp, and smelly environment outside, the environment in this cave dwelling was much better. A high-level "Spirit-Gathering Array" in the middle was constantly running, isolating the outside atmosphere from a transparent light shield.

After entering the cave dwelling, Song Qingming, seeing the numerous spiritual items in front, did not rush to continue moving forward, but stopped his steps and cast a spell to summon his life-bound magic treasure, the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror."

After the magic treasure protected his whole body, Song Qingming took out a common stone that had been prepared early from his body and then threw it directly toward the opposite side.

Just as this stone left his hand and flew into mid-air, movement instantly lit up in the nearby stone walls, and then dozens of flying swords broke through the air, instantly cutting the stone in mid-air into powder.

After these sword lights cut the stone into pieces, they did not stop there, but continued to break through the air, until almost all the air in front of the cave dwelling had been cut, before they slowly stopped.

Seeing the sword lights disappear automatically, Song Qingming immediately manipulated the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" in front of him to launch a sword light, and then a sound of explosion came from the mountain wall not far away.

Seeing that a mechanism hidden on the wall nearby had been destroyed by the sword light, Song Qingming was satisfied and felt relieved, and strode forward.

The golden sword light just now was a very powerful trap restriction that Ma Wuchen had deliberately set up in his cave dwelling.

If an ordinary cultivator didn't know the situation and rushed forward to take the treasure after entering this place, what would likely greet him would be a disaster, and he would lose his life in vain.

Even for a Golden Core cultivator with accomplishments like Song Qingming, facing this restriction and wanting to break through forcibly would also have great risks.

Fortunately, Song Qingming had already known about these in advance and didn't spend much effort to break this mechanism restriction.

Otherwise, if it were an ordinary Golden Core cultivator, even if they had a way to break these restrictions, it would take a lot of time to study them before they could walk in.

After successfully entering Ma Wuchen's cave dwelling, Song Qingming's gaze was soon attracted by a flash of spiritual light that kept flickering.

Seeing the mountain of spirit stones piled up in a corner not far in front of him, and the various spiritual items placed on the stone table nearby, Song Qingming's mouth gradually revealed a satisfied smile.

Ma Wuchen was, after all, a peak Golden Core demonic cultivator who had formed his core for many years. In these years, the number of cultivators of the same rank who had fallen at his hands was no less than five or six. Even if many spiritual items among them had already been exchanged by him for cultivation resources, the wealth accumulated was still extremely considerable.

Just by casually scanning it, Song Qingming discovered at least five or six third-grade magic treasures of different quality, as well as various low-level spiritual talismans, spiritual medicines, and a total of about 100,000 spirit stones.

Just adding these things together, they would be worth at least 200,000 or 300,000 spirit stones in the marketplace outside, which was about consistent with the status of this peak Golden Core cultivator.

After a rough scan, he immediately took out a spare storage bag on his body, stepped forward, and stuffed all these spirit stones and various spiritual items, as long as they were useful to him, into it in one go.

The remaining cultivation technique classics, pills, and spiritual items that only demonic cultivators would use were concentrated and thrown to the side, and he burned them clean with a fire, so as not to let any future junior cultivators find them and go astray.

Before long, the various spiritual items left in Ma Wuchen's cave dwelling and that mountain of spirit stones basically all fell into Song Qingming's storage bag.

Most of these magic tools, spiritual talismans, and spirit stones were captured by Ma Wuchen from other cultivators after he killed them. Except for a small part, most of them had not been contaminated with demonic energy.

It was just that these things looked basically like Ma Wuchen's spoils of war. Except for the relatively common spirit stones, other spiritual items were not easy to sell for a while.

If he took them out rashly and they were recognized by cultivators from other sects, Song Qingming would not be able to explain this matter at that time.

He still needed to wait for an opportunity to go out in the future, find a place far away from the Floating Cloud Mountain Range immortal cultivation world, and then find a way to slowly deal with these spiritual items and exchange them for the spirit stones he needed.

After scanning all the spiritual items he could see in the cave dwelling, Song Qingming came to the place in the middle of the "Spirit-Gathering Array" and dismantled the array flags and the array disk floating in mid-air.

As the "Spirit-Gathering Array" was dismantled, the light shield protecting the outside of the cave dwelling instantly disappeared, and the spiritual energy that was originally very rich in the entire cave dwelling gradually began to become thin.

After dismantling this third-grade "Spirit-Gathering Array," Song Qingming did not rush to leave, but carefully pushed a giant rock placed below the Spirit-Gathering Array to the side.

Just after the giant rock moved not far, a pitch-black cave entrance was soon revealed below.

After Song Qingming took a slight look, he jumped down directly and soon fell into a pitch-black cave.

After casting a spell to release a "Night-Shining Pearl," Song Qingming soon saw the scene around him and moved forward to a circular array set up on the ground.

"Could this be the array that Ma Wuchen carefully prepared to assist him in breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage!"

Before, when sealing Ma Wuchen's soul, he kept hearing him say that he had a technique to help people break through to the Nascent Soul stage. Song Qingming thought that this was just a casual lie he made up to set him up to save his life.

It was not until later, when soul-searching his memory and looking for the spiritual items Ma Wuchen hid in the cave dwelling, that Song Qingming inadvertently saw an array he had prepared to use to assist in breaking through to the Nascent Soul in his memory.

Whether it is a righteous path cultivator or a demonic cultivator who practices demonic path techniques, if they want to break through to the Nascent Soul realm, they must gather and refine enough spiritual energy in their Golden Core in their body.

Only then can they conceive a Nascent Soul embryo in the Golden Core, and finally transform into a Nascent Soul and pass the thunder tribulation, stepping to the supreme realm that all Golden Core cultivators yearn for.

And the first key step in this is to refine the spiritual energy in one's own Golden Core.

The time required for this step is extremely long, and some cultivators may need to continue for more than ten years to complete it, which is a great test of the cultivator's own state of mind and endurance.

In the entire cultivation world, almost more than 50% of cultivators who try to break through to the Nascent Soul realm for the first time will eventually fail at this step.

The reason why the former Sect Master of the "Carefree Sect," Yao Qianshu, and Bai Yu failed when they first tried to break through to the Nascent Soul realm was that they could not persist at this step of refining Golden Core spiritual energy.

The array in front of Song Qingming was found by Ma Wuchen in the cave dwelling of a senior Nascent Soul demonic cultivator when he was looking for a way to break through to the Nascent Soul realm over these years.

In the array disk of this array, a top-grade spirit stone that is extremely rare in the immortal cultivation world has been refined, and when it is running, it can help cultivators save a lot of time in refining Golden Core spiritual energy.

It can assist in improving the probability of cultivators like Song Qingming, who are breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm for the first time, finally condensing a Nascent Soul.

However, the core top-grade spirit stone in the array disk of this array will have its spiritual energy exhausted after one use, and it cannot be replenished by external objects, and it will take at least a hundred years to slowly recover automatically.

That is to say, the set of arrays that Ma Wuchen found can only be used once within a hundred years, no matter whose hands it is in.

For some older Golden Core cultivators, once the breakthrough fails, they might not be able to use this set of arrays when they condense a Nascent Soul next time.

Over these years, although Ma Wuchen had this set of arrays, because he had not prepared the spiritual items needed to pass the tribulation and did not have much certainty of passing the Nascent Soul thunder tribulation, he had not had time to use this array.

I didn't expect that he had painstakingly prepared for decades to break through to the Nascent Soul realm, but in the end, he let Song Qingming inadvertently pick up this bargain. (End of chapter)