Chapter 936

Xu Que did not know how large the interior of the Refining Moon Palace was.

But after these few days, he had thoroughly figured it out.

This Refining Moon Palace was truly not as simple as it looked on the outside; at the very least, the idea he had previously entertained of smashing it to pieces with the Five Elements Mountain was impossible!

For several full days, their group had been moving forward at a very fast speed, and based on the distance covered, it had already far exceeded the total length of the Refining Moon Palace's exterior by countless times.

Clearly, the size and scope of the Refining Moon Palace's interior were difficult to estimate.

Along the way, Xu Que had overcome obstacles and hacked through thorns, easily breaking through all sorts of mechanisms, traps, and even array restrictions.

But as they reached the second half of the journey, the difficulty began to rise.

Just as Elder Yu had said earlier, because everyone's cultivation realm was different, they would encounter challenges of varying difficulty after entering the Refining Moon Palace.

Among Xu Que's group, Bai Cailing's strength was the most formidable; her existence as a Human Immortal caused them to encounter the highest-intensity array mechanisms.

Every place they reached, there was always a powerful array blocking their path.

Fortunately, Bai Cailing's own strength was solid, and she had traveled this path before, so all the arrays were successfully broken.

Finally, on the tenth day of entering the Refining Moon Palace, the group arrived at their destination—a huge hall filled with countless tombstones.

"Is this the place where the Three-Pattern Spirit Dao Stone is hidden?" Xu Que asked, curiously looking around.

This hall was filled with tombstones, looking like an indoor graveyard. All the tombstones recorded the epitaphs of the deceased, but because of the long passage of time, most of the writing on them had long since blurred, making it impossible to tell what exactly was written.

What made Xu Que feel uncomfortable was that a very strange aura permeated the hall. As soon as they walked in, they felt as if someone was watching them in the dark, and it wasn't just one person, but a group of people!

"Awoo, that's not right. Why does it feel like someone is peeking at this Divine Venerable's heroic posture? Who is it, who exactly is it?" Er Gou shouted out directly, using a pair of sharp and vigilant eyes to scan everywhere.

Clearly, it also had this feeling of being observed, and it was very unhappy.

"I have this feeling too!" Elder Yu also nodded, looking around with a grave expression.

The remaining Li Ye Sect disciples also cautiously huddled together to prevent being ambushed or caught in an ambush.

"Your feelings are correct; there is indeed someone observing us, but they are not people, they are souls!" At this time, Bai Cailing responded, very calmly.

A hundred years ago, she had been here and had long known about the strangeness of this place. Now that she had returned to the old place, she didn't find this situation strange at all.

"Souls? You mean the souls under these tombstones?" Xu Que immediately reacted and looked dumbfoundedly at the dense tombstones around him.

"Correct!" Bai Cailing nodded.

Xu Que's expression immediately tightened, and he put his palms together and shouted: "Good, today let this old monk transcend them!"

After speaking, he made a move as if he were about to strike, wanting to kill a batch of souls to see if he could gain experience points!

"Stop!" Bai Cailing immediately called out to stop Xu Que, solemnly saying: "Do not harm them. The consciousness of these souls has long since dissipated; now they are just wisps of unconscious remnant souls and will not pose a threat to us. Moreover, whether we can obtain the Three-Pattern Spirit Dao Stone depends on them!"

"Oh?" Xu Que couldn't help but be stunned.

A group of unconscious remnant souls could still control the ownership of the Three-Pattern Spirit Dao Stone?

"The reason I need your help is because there is a restriction in this place that is fused with all the remnant souls. If the remnant souls perish, the restriction will also disappear, along with the Three-Pattern Spirit Dao Stone inside the restriction. So I need you to awaken all the remnant souls, open the restriction, and take out the things inside!" Bai Cailing said, looking at Xu Que.

Xu Que immediately reacted: "You want me to use music to awaken them, or even control them?"

Previously, when he was at the Dong family, Bai Cailing had said that she had chosen him because she saw his musical talent, and only later discovered that he was also a cultivator.

Now, combining these current circumstances, Xu Que instantly guessed the reason, and his Musician skill itself came with an effect that had a doubled influence on the divine soul; wanting to awaken these remnant souls was not difficult.

"Correct, your music is very unique and might be able to awaken them. However, I hope you can perform the music you are most proficient in and that is the most profound, so that the success rate will be higher." Bai Cailing nodded.

In fact, she had high expectations for Xu Que, but she thought the hope of Xu Que succeeding was very slim.

When she came in with others a hundred years ago, there were people with extremely high attainments in music, even more powerful than Xu Que, but they ultimately failed, only awakening half of the remnant souls, and the restriction was only half-opened before it immediately closed.

But it was precisely because of that half that was opened that they discovered the wooden box and learned of the Three-Pattern Spirit Dao Stone inside the box, which led to infighting.

Everyone wanted to keep the secret of this wooden box and take it for themselves, not letting others bring this information out, thus unfolding a situation of mutual calculation and slaughter.

In the end, it was very tragic; Bai Cailing was ambushed and seriously injured, fleeing the Refining Moon Palace and landing on the Taijin Continent.

The others also perished in the Refining Moon Palace, leaving only a few people who survived by joining forces. The pair of Human Immortal-level man and woman who were killed by Xu Que were two of them.

Bai Cailing stood in place, her expression complex, telling Xu Que and the people present about the situation that happened back then.

Everyone present was silent. Although they didn't know what the Three-Pattern Spirit Dao Stone was used for, Xu Que heard another layer of meaning.

Bai Cailing was clearly using this matter to tell him that he must do his best to have a possibility of opening the restriction.

"Miss Cabbage, aren't you worried that we will also have infighting? After all, this is the Three-Pattern Spirit Dao Stone!" Xu Que said with a grin.

Bai Cailing shook her head: "The Three-Pattern Spirit Dao Stone is of no use to you. Even if you get your hands on it, you have to wait until you reach the Human Immortal realm to activate it, but the Dao Rhyme contained in the Three-Pattern Spirit Dao Stone is too powerful. If you obtain it, it is equivalent to enticing countless Human Immortals to kill you!"

Speaking of this, she paused, her expression grave: "Believe me, having this Three-Pattern Spirit Dao Stone in your hands will only do more harm than good. And I need it very much right now. If you open the restriction, everything except the Three-Pattern Spirit Dao Stone can be yours, and I can even take out other treasures to compensate you."

"Hehe, that's not necessary!" Xu Que immediately smiled and waved his hand: "We people of the Exploding Heaven Gang keep our word. Since you need the Three-Pattern Spirit Dao Stone, then I'll give it to you!"

Previously, he had indeed thought about snatching the Spirit Dao Stone, but along this journey, Bai Cailing's impression of him was not bad, especially Bai Cailing's act of gifting Jiang Hongyan a jade token—this act of cherishing talent made Xu Que have a rather good impression of her.

But in the final analysis, the most critical reason was that the Spirit Dao Stone was indeed of no use to him.

It wasn't because of the cultivation realm problem, but because his own Dao Rhyme was an unprecedented Dao Rhyme, and the path he walked completely defied the will of Heaven, fearing nothing, doing as he pleased.

The Dao Rhyme contained in the Spirit Dao Stone also originated from other cultivators who had condensed it before they died. Xu Que had once asked the system about this, and the system responded that he could not absorb any Dao Rhyme from others.

In the end, his domineering and flamboyant Dao Rhyme could only rely on himself.

"In that case... thank you very much!" Bai Cailing nodded, and the look she gave Xu Que was much softer than before.

"Haha, no problem, no problem, mutual benefit, besides..." Xu Que said with a smile, his mind thinking of that IOU again.

"Besides what?" Bai Cailing asked curiously.

"Nothing, nothing, come, let's start, can I just sit here and start playing music?" Xu Que immediately waved his hand and changed the subject.

"En, you can start directly." Bai Cailing didn't think too much and nodded.

Whoosh!

Xu Que didn't talk nonsense, immediately waved his big hand, took out a huge speaker from his crotch, and placed it on the ground.

At the same time, he prepared a drum kit, a piano, a microphone... all kinds of musical instruments, and took them all out in one go.

Everyone in the audience was dumbfounded, looking surprised.

Their First Domain highly respected music, but they asked themselves that they had never seen these strange musical instruments, and they were really surprised and curious.

Even Bai Cailing widened her eyes slightly, looking at the instruments.

"This guy probably wants to play something flamboyant again!" Xu Feifei said speechlessly, directly guessing Xu Que's thoughts.

Jiang Hongyan stood to the side, silent, her eyes shining, thoughtful, as if recalling the past, and she couldn't help but raise a smile at the corner of her mouth.

She remembered when they were at the Five Elements Mountain in the Fire Origin Kingdom, Xu Que fought against the Fire Emperor and pulled out the souls of the dozen or so generations of Fire Kingdom Emperors in the Fire Kingdom Imperial Mausoleum to sing and dance.

Now in this place, Xu Que was still Xu Que, and the instruments were still these instruments, the only difference was that the souls here... had increased!

"Everyone, next, it is time to witness a miracle!"

At this time, Xu Que, sitting in front of the drum kit, picked up the drumsticks, a smile flashing across his face.