Chapter 209 Palace Tower Array Gate

The behavior of the Earth Rock Rat fell into the eyes of several monks present.

The two fake alchemists didn't care much.

They repeatedly explored every corner of this path and found very little, confirming that nothing was missing.

Tsk~

The rock rat raised its paw and lightly scratched half of the wall, and heard a tooth-gripping sound.

There is a shallow crack left on the wall of the ancient building.

The hardness of the wall exceeds that of ordinary magic weapons.

Seeing this scene, Tan Zhenren's eyes flashed with a hint of sarcasm.

"The ancient building materials in this ruins are relatively hard. But they are not high-grade materials. They are the result of quenching and compressing low-grade mineral materials and casting spells."

Hu Zhenren explained slightly impatiently.

"Um."

Lu Changan has long seen this.

The buildings here, including the floor materials, are simply hard, lacking in actual grade, lack spirituality, and are not suitable for weapon refining and secondary use.

"I trust the rock rat's sense of smell."

Lu Changan smiled slightly and walked to half of the wall of the ancient building.

In fact, what the Earth Rock Rat did just now was secretly instructed by Lu Changan.

Lu Changan took out a magic weapon and a pickaxe, used his magic power, and pointed it at the wall to dig.

Seeing this, the rock rat also waved its paws and started flapping them.

Bang bang! Bang bang!

One man and one mouse were tapping and tapping rhythmically in front of the wall.

The walls are peeling and cracking bit by bit.

Tan Zhenren and the five monks had expressions that were either weird or disdainful.

Until a certain moment.

Lu Changan's magical pickaxe couldn't knock somewhere on the wall. Instead, it was shaken so hard that his palms were slightly numb.

The same goes for ground rock rats.

One person and one mouse avoided this small area.

"Huh?"

Hu Zhenren had a strange expression. He carefully explored the area with his spiritual consciousness and finally found some clues.

Preliminary judgment shows that the material of the wall is much stronger, and even the late second-level monsters cannot be hurt at all.

In addition, that area has a certain shielding effect on spiritual consciousness and can easily be ignored.

Lu Changan and the Earth Rock Rat sped up and knocked down all the walls around that area.

Soon, a piece of gray-white stone as big as a basin fell into Lu Changan's hands.

Parts of the gray and white stone reveal a dark metallic texture.

"What material? Can it actually block this real person's consciousness?"

Master Tan squinted his eyes and stared at the stone in Lu Changan's hand.

"This is [Shadow Stone]! It can cover spiritual energy and shield spiritual consciousness. It is an excellent material for making concealment and shadow magic weapons."

Miss Wei, who was wearing a gauze skirt with long hair, suddenly lost her voice in surprise, her pretty eyes flashing with light.

"It's actually [Shadow Stone]?"

"The lowest grade of this stone is the third grade. This stone can deceive us many times. I am afraid that it has reached the third grade and can be used to create a mid-grade magic weapon."

Master Tan and Master Hu looked at each other with emotions in their eyes.

"Little friend Lu, it is still unknown whether this object is a [Shadow Stone]. Let me identify it."

Master Tan's eyes flickered, he raised his hand and said.

"It is indeed [Shadow Stone] without a doubt. No identification is needed. This Miss Wei is very knowledgeable. She actually recognized it at a glance."

Lu Changan smiled.

"Show it to me for a look." Master Tan said solemnly.

"Haha! This thing must be related to Lu."

Lu Changan put away the [Shadow Stone] and ignored the fake elixir spiritual pressure emanating from Master Tan.

Master Hu held Master Tan's arm and winked.

"Master Tan, please don't be impulsive. Although the [Shadow Stone] is rare, its appeal to fake elixir cultivators like us is far less than that of true elixir cultivators."

After hearing the message, Master Tan suppressed his dissatisfaction.

The fake elixir master can only barely use the lowest level magic weapon, and cannot yet exert its true power.

Common magic weapons in the world of cultivating immortals, like magic weapons, are divided into low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade and top-grade.

Applicable to Jie Dan Zhenren and most of the Nascent Soul stage.

Low-grade magic weapons, fake elixirs are mostly used by real people and real elixirs in the early stages.

Middle-grade magic weapons are generally used in the middle and late stages of true elixirs.

Therefore, the attraction of this third-grade high-grade [Shadow Stone] to the fake elixir master is mainly its value and scarcity, and it can be traded with the real elixir monk.

"Forget it, leave this to him for safekeeping for a while."

Master Tan quickly figured it out.

For the two fake elixir masters, the greatest hope in the ancient ruins is the opportunity to take the fake elixir one step further.

This kind of opportunity is rare in today's world of immortal cultivation, and it requires the cooperation of True Lord Nascent Soul.

However, in the ancient times of the world of immortality, the opportunity to take fake elixirs a step further was relatively easier to obtain than it is now.

…

"Little friend Lu, it's your luck that you found this [Shadow Stone]. I won't pursue it for the time being. If the treasures are later obtained by jointly breaking the ban, they will be distributed according to the level of cultivation and effort."

Master Hu stepped forward and reminded.

"Thank you Master Hu for your adult beauty."

Lu Changan cupped his hands and said.

He was already prepared for Master Tan to force him to hand over the [Shadow Stone].

If that's the case, Lu Changan actually doesn't care. The worst he can do is leave it to the other party to keep it for a while.

Before forming the elixir, [Shadow Stone] had little effect on him.

However, the [Shadowless Needle] and [Shadow-Split Sword] made of this stone as the main material, including some hidden magic weapons and props, are very suitable to Lu Changan's appetite.

In his previous life, when Lu Changan was in the late stage of pill formation, he spent a lot of money to obtain a piece of [Shadow Stone], which was also a third-level high-quality piece, but it was not as heavy as this one.

Because he had dealt with the [Shadow Stone] before and was familiar with its characteristics, Lu Changan discovered the clues when he scanned it with his spiritual sense just now.

According to Lu Changan, the highest-grade [Shadow Stone] recorded in the world of immortal cultivation can reach the fifth grade, which is called Shadow Stone Essence, and can even be used as the material for refining the legendary spiritual treasure.

"Go search nearby."

In view of Lu Changan's gains, Master Tan and Master Hu stopped and led three foundation-building cultivators to explore the nearby area.

"There used to be an iron smelting and refining workshop in the ancient buildings nearby."

"The [Shadow Stone] that Lu Changan found may have been hidden by the refiner in the workshop."

The two masters analyzed it very well.

But in the end, there was no gain, only a few worthless refining scraps were found in the underground ruins.

"Could this rat demon spirit pet of Lu Xiaoyou have the blood of the treasure-hunting rat?"

Master Hu looked at the rock rat with a smile, and felt a little jealous.

That [Shadow Stone] was so hidden that it hid from the real person's consciousness, but the ground rock rat could find abnormalities.

The ground rock rat shuddered and hid in the corner of the ruins, ignoring him.

"Maybe it was a coincidence."

Lu Changan said perfunctorily.

The ground rock rat was just a cover, and it took his instructions to do the action just now.

Otherwise, if Lu Changan himself discovered the [Shadow Stone], it would easily arouse the vigilance of the two real people, and they would be more wary and defensive against him.

...

Then one-third of the explored path.

Lu Changan and Master Fairy, still stopped and checked.

Master Tan and Master Hu became very patient and never urged them again.

Occasionally, the ground rock rat stretched out its claws to touch somewhere, which would attract everyone's attention.

There was no decent discovery for the rest of the journey.

Finally, the group reached the end of the explored path.

Stopped in front of a bridge.

On the other side of the bridge, the light of the formation and the hidden restrictions were faintly visible.

Those ruins were shrouded in mist, hazy and like a mirage.

Lu Changan smelled a hint of danger.

"Have you ever come into contact with the fourth-level ancient formation here?"

Master Hu asked.

"Strange! I didn't pass this bridge last time, but encountered a garden where there were relatively obvious formation loopholes. In the end, we spent a long time before we luckily passed through."

Master Manrong looked at the bridge in surprise.

"It's normal. Formations above the fourth level are beyond common sense and can easily move the geographical environment. Some legendary formations can even distort the scale of space."

Master Hu looked thoughtful.

"Little friend Lu, please release the puppets and explore the location I said."

"Okay."

Lu Changan set out this time to overcome the formation restrictions in the ruins and prepared some worthless cannon fodder puppets.

With the life experience of his previous life, Lu Changan knew that puppets were not omnipotent in exploring formations.

The puppets will not trigger certain formations and restrictions, and if a cultivator sets foot in them, they will be in danger of death.

With a "bang".

An invisible orange flame ignited and spread on the puppet's body, and quickly exploded.

The cannon fodder puppet, which was as hard as a second-level monster, was reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye.

"Friend Lu, release another puppet."

Lu Changan did as he was told.

Next, it was a long and boring battle to conquer the formation.

If the ancient remnant formation inside the ruins was attacked forcefully, it would cause backlash and even various variables.

This was something that a fake Dan Zhenren could not afford.

Lu Changan speculated that at least a late Jindan major repair was required before brute force could be used to break the formation.

If it was a Yuanying Zhenjun, it would be safer.

Crack!

The second puppet was swept by several arcs of light that appeared out of thin air and fell to the ground in pieces.

"Friend Lu, you are a puppet master and can sense the state of the puppet. If you explore farther, send some specific information over."

Zhenren Hu ordered.

…

Two months later.

Lu Changan scrapped more than 20 cannon fodder puppets.

The bridge of the ruins moved forward halfway.

The last two times, the puppets almost reached the end of the bridge.

"Master, your idea this time is good! Breaking the formation is not a one-way street. Many times, you have to take a detour, or even retreat to advance, to deceive the prohibition in the formation."

Master Hu stroked his beard, his face flushed, and he was in a good mood.

After Master Fairy joined, he conquered the formation prohibition, and had an extra discussant. The collision of each other's ideas generated new inspiration.

The speed of breaking the formation was greatly improved.

Of course, this was because Master Manrong's attainments in the formation were not much worse than Master Hu's, so the effect of one plus one was greater than two.

At the same time, Lu Changan, the puppeteer, provided a lot of convenience for conquering the formation.

Master Tan nodded secretly. The addition of Lu Changan and Master Manrong really helped a lot.

The remaining half of the bridge was successfully conquered in just one month.

Buzz!

A white crack about ten feet long appeared at the end of the bridge.

This was the result of three months of hard work.

Shi Manrong was mixed with joy and sorrow. She had to admit that this time, breaking the formation was far better than her and Master Qi's joint efforts.

Decades ago, Master Qi spent many years to break the formation before getting close to the center of the ruins.

Lu Changan controlled a humanoid puppet, passed through the white crack, entered the other end of the bridge, and walked more than ten feet without any trouble.

The puppet was just a preliminary verification.

"You, go in and explore the way!"

Master Tan's tone was cold and he pointed at the sixty-year-old man in the middle stage of foundation building.

The sixty-year-old man smiled bitterly and was the first to step forward, passing through the crack of white light and entering the interior of the ancient remnant formation.

As a result, no accidents occurred.

The remaining six people entered the other end of the bridge one after another.

The strongest Tan Zhenren is responsible for the rear.

After everyone passes by.

The crack of white light is constantly healing, and will soon be unable to pass through adult humans.

After all, it was through a loophole in the formation, a trick-taking approach, and it did not destroy the foundation of the formation.

At this time, the originally hazy interior buildings of the ruins came into clear view.

The ancient building complex in front of us is majestic and tall, with more exquisite carving details and relatively complete preservation.

Structurally, most of the buildings are residential mansions, commercial and administrative places.

Towards the center, there is a hexagonal palace building with a pair of halos suspended above its head. There is a blue crystal ball in the center, emitting surging spiritual light.

"Friend Lu Dao."

Shi Manrong murmured and made eye contact with Lu Changan.

Lu Changan immediately understood that this should be the place where "Master Qi" fell into the trap of the formation.

"The building of the hexagonal palace is the center of the formation inside the ruins. Judging from the architectural style, it should be left by the original ancient civilization race in the ruins. It was later transformed by the Yuanying-level sects in recent times and used as a refuge. "

Hu Zhenren had a sharp eye and could tell at a glance that the hexagonal palace building was the hub of this ruins.

He had a guess in his mind. Judging from the layout of the formation and the building, it was more suitable to serve as a warehouse and treasure house for the refuge.

…

On the way to the Hexagonal Palace Tower, we passed some ancient buildings, which were all empty.

Of course, it's not nothing.

In some rooms and corners, you can see a small amount of debris. Most of the items left behind have been weathered by time and have little value.

The girl Wei picked up a set of chessboard pieces in a courtyard. After removing the dirt, they turned out to be intact.

This set of chessboards does not look like a magic weapon, but rather like a strange object.

Lu Changan discovered something unusual on the top floor of a pavilion.

The restriction set up in one of the rooms has not been erased to this day, and it continues to exist with the help of the power of the ancient remnants of the formation.

Peng! Peng!

Lu Changan sent two puppets one after another to test, but before they even touched the door, they were crushed to pieces by invisible forces.

"Don't waste time, you can't break that restriction."

Master Tan said in a deep voice.

The two real people were attracted by the Hexagonal Palace Building, guessing that there was a great opportunity there as the formation center of the ruins.

The surrounding buildings are at best relics of low value, and the risks are not proportional to the rewards.

Lu Changan basically agreed and gave up this place for the time being.

In fact, he has a high-quality taboo-breaking talisman in his hand, and even a taboo-breaking talisman.

This is one of the reasons why he dares to enter the ancient ruins.

Not long after, a group of seven people arrived in front of the hexagonal palace building that was twenty to thirty feet high.

On the surface of the hexagonal palace building, there was an obvious formation of light, emitting powerful spiritual pressure, and neither of the two real people dared to approach easily.

"Six gates? The formation here happens to have six gates? Does it correspond to six different entrances..."

Nearly ten feet apart, Master Hu was observing around the hexagonal palace building, staring at the gold and bronze gates.

Above the six gold and bronze gates, there is an array gate that only an array master can understand.

"Little friend Lu."

Hu Zhenren looked behind him.

He frowned slightly and found that Lu Changan was actually standing behind everyone?

If it weren't for the fact that after the bridge broke through the formation, the cracks in the formation had overlapped and there was no way out, the two real people would not have let this happen.

"clear."

Lu Changan took out another child-sized cannon fodder puppet and, under the instruction of Master Hu, came to a gold and bronze gate.

The cannon fodder puppet touched the door with his hand.

Instantly!

A blue thunder streaked across, leaving behind a piece of charred remains.

The two real people were shocked.

Even if the power of the ancient remnant formation is only 10% to 20% of its peak power, the True Pill cultivator cannot block a single blow.

Lu Changan glanced at Shi Manrong doubtfully.

How did Master Qi temporarily break open a formation gate back then?

Although Master Qi is also an array master, he is only a second-level formation master, and his attainments are far inferior to Master Hu.

Shi Manrong shook his head slightly, also puzzled.

…

"Choose this formation gate."

Hu Zhenren and Shi Xianzi discussed for a long time and found one of the formation gates where the power loss was the most serious.

The array gate is just above the bronze gate.

Time passes little by little.

Lu Changan occasionally controlled the puppets to cooperate in conquering formations, and even did not forget his daily practice.

Another month has passed.

Until this day, Lu Changan's cannon fodder puppets were exhausted.

Several other monks also scrapped some spare magical weapons.

After some methods of breaking the formation, the loopholes in the formation gate expanded, and the power of the formation was slowly weakening.

"Too slow! The other five formation gates are connected to it and will transmit the power of the formation to help it recover."

Hu Zhenren was not satisfied.

Now the Liang Kingdom’s Immortal Realm has become a battlefield. The longer it takes to conquer this ancient ruins, the more variables there will be.

"Little friend Lu, you are a well-known talisman master in Liang Elementary School. Do you have a high-quality forbidden talisman in your hand?"

Mr. Hu spoke in a gentle tone and turned back to negotiate with Lu Changan.

"It is too difficult to practice the forbidden talisman and it is very rare. Lu only has a few second-level and high-grade forbidden talismans, and he bought them in the fairy city."

Lu Changan said in embarrassment.

"Okay, everyone activate the forbidden-breaking talismans in your hands and attack according to the time nodes I said."

Hu Zhenren arranged for a moment to ensure that everyone had something to break the forbidden.

Hu Zhenren had a forbidden-breaking bead, which was a sharp weapon for breaking the forbidden, better than the forbidden-breaking talismans of the same level.

Tan Zhenren had a quasi-third-level forbidden-breaking talisman.

The rest of the people had at least a second-level upper-quality forbidden-breaking talisman.

Puff, bang!

The distorted light transformed by those forbidden-breaking objects, from weak to strong, hit the nodes of the array gate in turn.

Above the golden bronze gate, white phantoms overlapped and shook for a while, until a moment suddenly collapsed.

"Open!"

A strong wind came towards them, knocking several foundation-building cultivators to the ground.

The two fake Dan Zhenren stabilized their bodies and looked at it carefully.

The golden bronze gate, which was originally as stable as a mountain, slowly loosened, revealing a gap, illuminating a pearl-like faint light.