Chapter 75: On Green Bamboo Peak, Earth Fire Rises!
The matter at Demonic Cloud Ridge had already passed for a month.
Nowadays, the Nine Heavens Holy Land had returned to its former trajectory. Those disciples stationed in the cities outside Demonic Cloud Ridge had also only discovered a few sporadic demonic beasts, all of which were low-level demonic beasts that could not pose a threat.
However, something was different. The disciples of the Inner Sect Artifacts Peak had actually captured several airships of the Demon Race, as well as some formation altars and pill furnaces left behind by the Demon Race. Because the Demon Race's airships were driven by demonic energy, the numerous disciples used brute force to push them into the Nine Heavens Holy Land, docking them on Artifacts Peak.
In terms of artifact refining, the Demon Race was indeed superior to the Human Race. Moreover, regarding artifact refining in the Nine Heavens Holy Land, only one mountain peak was specifically established.
After getting their hands on these airships, the Artifacts Peak disciples all began to take an interest in the large objects. Furthermore, two elders of Artifacts Peak joined the research team, wanting to replicate an airship driven by spiritual energy.
Within this month, Lin Xuan had actually soared directly from the Second Heaven of the Void Cauldron Realm to the Fifth Heaven of the Void Cauldron Realm.
He had respectively drawn a Twin Dragon Earth Fire Cauldron used for alchemy in the early stages of his previous life's game. Although its grade was Tier Six, because it had fused with a thread of Extraterrestrial Meteor Heart Flame, after activating that thread of flame, the power of the Earth Fire Cauldron could be increased by two grades.
There was also a Purple Sky Artifact Refining Record, which recorded ten thousand kinds of artifact refining techniques. Its origin was from the main account in his previous life's game, where he killed an artifact refiner of the Extraterrestrial Indestructible Realm. Any one of the artifact refining techniques recorded within it could instantly kill the top-tier artifact refiners of the Demon Race's Heavenly Demon Palace.
Finally, he had drawn a Tier Six spirit medicine, Phoenix Spirit Grass, but Xiao Yu forcibly snatched it away, making it something in her belly.
Within the Nine Heavens Holy Land, on Green Bamboo Peak where purple bamboo grew everywhere, at a flat place halfway up the mountain.
Lin Xuan, clad in a Golden Yang Robe, stood tall and straight in place. Looking around and searching in a circle, he was actually very satisfied with this place.
A hundred steps away, someone who had just swallowed the Phoenix Spirit Grass was sitting cross-legged on a giant rock covered in moss, staring at Lin Xuan with great interest. She had seen Lin Xuan over the past two days quite strangely searching for something everywhere on Green Bamboo Peak.
"Big liar, what are you up to these few days? Are you finding a location to build a new residence for yourself?"
Xiao Yu asked suspiciously.
"You answered half correctly. I now advise you to walk a bit further away; something bad will happen in a while!"
Lin Xuan reminded her.
"Heh, I just love watching the excitement!"
Xiao Yu puffed up her small face and said with great interest in her clear and crystal eyes.
"Then just watch from the side over there!" Lin Xuan said.
Lin Xuan chose a flat place, and his spiritual sense submerged into his storage ring.
Buzz, buzz, buzz...
The void suddenly trembled, and iron needles reaching a length of ten feet appeared from all directions centered on Lin Xuan, totaling eighteen in all.
These eighteen Fire Drawing Needles were all refined by Lin Xuan using the Spirit Fire of the Great Treasure Refining Art, combined with a common artifact refining technique from the Artifact Refining Record. Their grade reached Tier Four!
The material for each Yin Fire Needle was merely Deep Sea Black Iron of the Second Tier. Lin Xuan casually spent one hundred thousand contribution points to get a mountain-sized amount of Deep Sea Black Iron, emptying the Deep Sea Black Iron in the Treasure Pavilion's warehouse.
"Fall!"
Lin Xuan casually struck out a seal.
These eighteen Fire Drawing Needles, as if having received some command, suddenly fell to the ground.
According to Lin Xuan's arrangement, they fell extremely accurately onto the regular positions of the formation.
The next moment.
Lin Xuan then took out several hundred spirit stones. Under Lin Xuan's control, they scattered like a group of stars and fell within a radius of thirty zhang, as he subtly manipulated them to fall on specific ground spots.
"The Earth Fire Formation has been set up; only the primer at the core of the formation is missing!"
Lin Xuan looked down at the formation below and sighed in his heart.
As for the primer for the Fire Drawing Formation, he was also prepared. That was the Spirit Fire condensed by the Great Treasure Refining Art.
Although Lin Xuan had just mastered the Great Treasure Refining Art not long ago and was still in a preliminary state, the grade of the condensed Spirit Fire was the same grade as the Earth Fire. It was just that by refining and compressing a ball of Spirit Fire a few times, its power increased from Tier Four to Tier Six!
However, with Lin Xuan's current control, he could only compress and increase it nine times.
"Great Treasure Refining Art!"
Lin Xuan's spiritual sense connected with the Life Symbol of the Great Treasure Refining Art. With a thought, a ball of scorching crimson flame the size of a fist emerged at his right palm. Sky-toppling fire waves rippled out centered on Lin Xuan, reaching beyond a hundred steps.
A hundred steps away.
Xiao Yu, dressed in pink clothes and wearing two small braids, looked at Lin Xuan angrily.
"It's not good to play with anything, but you play with fire!"
Xiao Yu raised her small hand, and a vine wall woven from tree vines emerged from the soil in front of her, blocking her front. This caused her to have to fly and land on a tree ten-plus zhang behind.
And the vine wall she had just summoned also withered rapidly under the high temperature, turning into a puddle of ashes in just a few breaths.
"This power, it's fake, right!"
Xiao Yu's eyes showed shock, looking at Lin Xuan in disbelief.
Before, she had indeed seen Lin Xuan use fire-element techniques a few times, but compared to the current power, it was a difference of heaven and earth; there was simply no comparability!
Several hundred steps away.
Under Lin Xuan's powerful spiritual sense, a ball of fierce flame in his palm was continuously compressed. The originally adult-sized Spirit Fire was compressed to the size of a grain of rice. Although the volume became smaller, the power of the flame did not decrease but instead increased.
This went back and forth eight times!
When it came to the ninth time of compression, the fierce flame in Lin Xuan's right palm had irregular trembling, and the flame began to become unstable. This also caused Lin Xuan's spiritual sense to be consumed extremely quickly!
After the ninth time was completed, Lin Xuan threw out this grain-sized flame.
"Return to position!" Lin Xuan's thought moved, and this grain-sized flame drifted to the center of the formation as if injected with spirituality.
Boom...
The formation eye returned to position, and the great formation operated!
Powerful flame might followed the Fire Drawing Formation and extremely evenly injected fire energy into the eighteen Fire Drawing Needles.
Rumble!
The next moment, the entire ground beneath Green Bamboo Peak trembled faintly.
It was just like a violent beast roaring and charging up from underground, getting closer and closer until it rushed out of the ground.
Crimson Earth Fire!
Like a crimson divine pillar, it rose straight up from the Fire Drawing Formation, rushing straight into the clouds to a height of one hundred zhang!
Immediately after, a wave of incomparably fierce flame heat shrouded the entire Green Bamboo Peak, dyeing the clouds and mist on the sky a patch of red. It was clearly visible within a radius of several tens of li.
"What kind of flame is that? Even thirty li away, I can feel some scorching heat!"
"This feeling, why is it so much like the Earth Fire on Artifacts Peak!"
"That's right, it is Earth Fire. In order to temper my magical artifacts, I used to run to Artifacts Peak over a hundred times, but to this day I haven't even gotten in line for Earth Fire tempering. I've queued for three years already; every time I went, I stared at that Earth Fire eagerly several times!"
"But that direction doesn't seem to be the location of Artifacts Peak. Moreover, the Earth Fire Well, there is only one at Artifacts Peak!"
Several tens of li away, a few inner sect disciples of the Nine Heavens Holy Land looked at each other with puzzled faces.
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