Quick Travel to the Clouds

Chapter 430: 1 Road to Immortality 21

Yun Chu's gaze fell on the copper-like plant with metallic-shimmering leaves. A sudden thought formed in his mind: "It's a gathering of the essence of fire spirit, and it has lava and stubborn stone as its foundation... Its roots are not afraid of the earth's fire, but instead use its essence as nourishment."

Yun Chu formed seals with her hands, her posture suddenly changing as she performed a complex yet naturally vibrant wood-based spell. Emerald green light streamed from her fingertips. While not as powerful and overbearing as ice-based power, it possessed a gentle, resilient quality that moistened everything in its path.

"Use wood as a guide, harness fire for vitality... entangle!"

As she shouted softly, the surging wood-type spiritual power did not rush directly towards the earth fire essence or the lava lake, but like an invisible silk thread, it silently merged into the air and accurately covered the lava wall where the fire lotus fruit was growing!

A magical scene happened!

In addition to the fire lotuses, there were also many heat-resistant mosses and hyphae on the huge rock wall that could not normally survive in such an extreme environment but unexpectedly existed.

At this moment, under the forceful stimulation and guidance of Yun Chu's pure wood spirit power, these creatures that were almost unnoticed on ordinary days suddenly grew wildly as if they had eaten a tonic! The hyphae were the most obvious!

Countless tough, dense mycelium networks filled with wood-type spiritual energy, as if they had gained intelligent life in an instant, spread and entangled along the cracks in the rock wall at lightning speed, their target being the solid lava crystals that protected the roots of the fire lotus fruit plants!

Snap! Sizzle...

The tenacious mycelium, empowered by the wood spirit, forcibly burrowed into the hard lava crystals, emitting a subtle yet distinct cracking sound. Like the finest roots, they instantly "anchored" the plant's solid foundation!

At the same time, some wood-type spiritual power seeped into the fire lotus plant's copper-like roots, cleverly stimulating the plant's inherent vitality and fire resistance!

The entire plant was instantly covered with a light emerald green film!

The plant was "protected" and "stimulated" by this, and the light of the fire lotus fruit on the top suddenly became more introverted, as if all the essence had automatically shrunk back into the depths of the core, leaving only a crystal clear but no longer so "eye-catching" shell.

"rise!"

Yun Chu shouted softly, and the wood-type spell suddenly changed! The tenacious mycelium wrapped around the base of the rock wall suddenly exerted force!

Bang! Crash!

The massive block of rock, covered in layers of lava crystals, was torn from the lava wall by the surging mycelial network! Along with the fire lotus plant growing on it! The entire process was lightning-fast, but the resulting vibration was a "physical stripping" rather than an "energy attack" targeting the Earth Fire Spirit!

Buzz——?!

The two Earth Fire Spirits instantly sensed the "movement" and "condensation" of their target. They let out a piercing cry, resembling a high-temperature gas eruption. Their massive molten bodies shook violently, and the lava lake beneath them rolled up into a monstrous crimson wave!

But their consciousness seemed to be somewhat chaotic. The fire lotus had originally been a marker within the range of their power, but now, along with the rock supporting it, it had been "moved" away, its aura suddenly weakened and its position and direction changed.

These two giant monsters without complete intelligence seemed to have lost their target for a moment. The violent energy rolled around in a daze, and their scarlet "eyes" instinctively swept towards the equally churning magma bubbles in the lava lake, as if trying to determine what went wrong.

In this fleeting moment of chaos—

Yun Chu's figure had already vanished from the spot like a ghost. She didn't rush towards the top of the lava lake. Instead, at the moment the rock was peeled away, she used the slight traction transmitted by the wood spirit thread and her own ghostly footwork to sprint out, sticking to the scorching ground!

A light and shadow interwoven with light blue and emerald green passed by.

The fire lotus fruit that was hanging on the top of the red copper plant, with an aura as restrained as that of ordinary red jade, was cleverly pushed by the last swing of the emerald green wood spirit thread and fell into a wooden box that had been prepared long ago, which was made of warm jade and the inner wall of which was engraved with spirit gathering array patterns!

The lid of the box closed instantly, perfectly sealing the extremely tempting fire spirit essence! Yun Chu then put it back into the storage ring.

Woo——! ! !

It was not until the moment when the spiritual fruit was completely collected that the two earth fire spirits finally locked onto their target - the green-clothed figure that had appeared on another huge rock at the edge of the lava lake!

They let out earth-shaking furious roars, and their molten bodies raised huge lava waves dozens of feet high, which slammed into the area where Yun Chu was with a heat that could destroy everything!

Boom! ! !

Amidst a deafening roar like the collapse of heaven and earth, the rock platform was instantly engulfed and melted by boiling magma!

However, the platform was empty.

Yun Chu's figure had already taken advantage of the terrifying high-temperature shock wave and the lava rain splashing all over the sky caused by the attack of the Earth Fire Spirit. Like melted green smoke, with the help of a trace of wind escape technique, he rushed in the opposite direction into the depths of the scorching fork in the road from which he came.

The speed was so fast that it left behind an afterimage that quickly distorted and dissipated in the high temperature.

Three months passed in a blink of an eye. Yun Chu came out of the secret realm and went into seclusion to break through.

It took two months for Yun Chu to successfully break through the foundation-building stage.

After the breakthrough, Yun Chu went into seclusion to make elixirs, draw talismans, and learn formations.

Five years later, Yun Chu (middle stage of foundation building) left the sect and went out to gain experience (in fact, he went out to complete the system task and win the chance to become the hostess).

Qin Yunmeng went around in circles and finally joined the sect from his previous life, Jiutian Palace, two years ago.

Moreover, he also worshipped Huiming Zhenjun from the previous life as his master.

Half a year ago, Qin Yunmeng broke through the foundation-building stage and is now going to Liuyun Mountains for training with her third senior brother Dong Haochen (late foundation-building stage) and fourth senior brother Feng Hao.

In the book, Qin Yunmeng will obtain the alchemy inheritance of an ancient powerful person in Liuyun Mountains.

Because the book did not mention the specific address, Yun Chu had no way to seize the opportunity in advance.

Yun Chu arrived at Liuyun Mountains earlier than Qin Yunmeng and the other two.

After about half a month, Qin Yunmeng and the other two discovered the inheritance cave.

But as soon as they discovered it, the three of them fainted.

The three of them were stunned by the pressure from the Fire Iron Flying Ants.

The Fire Iron Flying Ants helped Yun Chu to forcibly break the restrictions of the formation. After breaking them, Yun Chu entered the cave.

The entrance to the cave is deep and a strange smell mixed with stale and medicinal fragrance hits you in the face.

The cave was not resplendent with gold and jade, but rather had mottled stone walls, exuding a sense of ancient desolation. In the center stood an ancient stone tablet, engraved with mysterious runes and emitting a faint fluorescent light.

As soon as Yun Chu stepped inside, the cave door closed silently, isolating all sounds and breaths from the outside world. A slight chill trembled in her heart, knowing that the inheritance test had begun.

Level 1: Wanyao Void

The scene before my eyes suddenly changed! The stone chamber disappeared, replaced by a strange void.

Countless points of light flickered and flowed in the void, transforming into phantoms of plants of various shapes and colors - all of them were rare or even long-extinct medicinal herbs!

Their medicinal properties, ages, and combinations are constantly changing and distorting, and they even emit bursts of intoxicating or warning fragrances.

It is necessary to accurately identify the nine specific forms of ancient elixirs among the ever-changing and difficult-to-distinguish true and false phantoms of thousands of medicines, and point out their medicinal properties that are manifested at the moment.

Yun Chu stood still, his eyes extremely focused, his cold gaze sweeping across every shadow sharply.

Yun Chu's powerful spiritual sense is like the most sophisticated sieve, filtering out the complex information.

Thanks to her previous life's attainments in alchemy, she could mentally identify ancient herbs that ordinary alchemists might never encounter in their entire lives. She didn't just memorize the forms; she also deeply understood the subtle changes in medicinal properties that varied with environment, age, and combination.

As time passed, the light and shadows in the void became more and more bizarre.

Yun Chu held his breath and concentrated, tapping his fingers repeatedly. His fingertips contained spiritual light, and he pointed precisely at nine specific combinations of light spots that flashed and disappeared almost simultaneously:

"Blood-veined dragon ginseng, seven thousand years old, its fire poison has been eliminated, and it mainly replenishes the essence of qi and blood..."

"The Bone-Eroding Orchid, three thousand years old, grows beside the extremely cold spring. Its toxicity is now restrained, neutralizing the blazing sun's flames..."

"Nine-leaf Tongxuan grass, its shape is like a cauldron and furnace coexisting ecology. The best leaves are from the tip to the third leaf..."

Each time she tapped a target, a shadow would stabilize for a moment, its light converging into a solid imprint that hung in the void. When she announced the ninth characteristic of the "Starlight Tear Vine," the entire Wanyao Void receded like a tide.

The first rune on the stone tablet suddenly lit up, emitting a warm light.