Chapter 2037
byIt was dark all around. Yang Kai only felt that his body was constantly falling downward, as if there was no end. Looking up, there was no trace of light.
Yang Kai’s brows furrowed slightly. Although he was a little surprised by his current situation, he wasn’t too panicked.
The things that happened in the stone chamber before made him understand one thing.
Those stone tripods should all be the media to trigger the mechanism, so he couldn’t detect any clues with his spiritual sense at all. Only when they were touched would the mechanism trap in the stone chamber be activated.
Thinking about it this way, the people of the Blazing Fire Palace should also have fallen into such a trap, so the stone chamber above was empty.
He just didn’t know if Kang Siran would also come down, and he didn’t know if there were still martial artists of the Blazing Fire Palace below.
He didn’t dare to be careless. A strand of strength circulated quietly in his body, ready to kill at any time if he found something wrong.
Not long after, a glimmer of light suddenly appeared below. Yang Kai quickly released his spiritual sense and swept it towards the bottom. After a while, his expression became strange.
Because the bottom was still a stone chamber, but it was a little different from what he had imagined. There were no martial artists of the Blazing Fire Palace in the stone chamber, and it was also empty.
After a while, Yang Kai landed in this stone chamber. Looking around, the stone chamber was empty. There wasn’t even a stone tripod here.
Before Yang Kai could observe carefully, an unusual energy fluctuation suddenly surged in the stone chamber. Immediately, in the center of the stone chamber, a thing in the shape of a stone platform suddenly emerged.
The stone platform rose slowly, making a rumbling sound. Yang Kai watched vigilantly. It was not until the stone platform was completely stable that no danger was found.
He frowned and slowly walked towards the stone platform.
Came to the front of the stone platform, stepped up the steps, and soon reached the top of the stone platform.
“Formation？” Yang Kai raised his eyebrows and looked at the extremely mysterious pattern emerging on the flat surface of the stone platform in surprise. And from this pattern, he faintly felt a fluctuation of spatial power.
“Teleportation formation？” Yang Kai was greatly surprised. However, in this way, he could be sure that if the formation on this stone platform was activated, it should be able to teleport him to another place.
However, this teleportation formation was very different from what he had learned, so Yang Kai did not dare to act rashly. Instead, he paid close attention to it, hoping to see some clues from it.
After such a careful look, Yang Kai actually found that there was a line of small words under the formation of the stone platform, which was obscured by dust.
He carefully reached out and brushed away the dust, and the line of small words immediately came into view.
“Inject fire attribute power into the formation to activate it！” Yang Kai murmured, and his frown couldn’t help but frown.
This was obviously a teleportation formation, but why did it need to inject fire attribute power？ This made Yang Kai a little confused. Moreover, what was the significance of such a special formation appearing in this stone room？
After thinking for a while, Yang Kai couldn’t figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it.
He did possess fire-attribute power. Whether it was the fire of spiritual consciousness or the sword qi of fire, they both belonged to fire-attribute power. However, he didn’t rashly activate this array but stood there quietly waiting.
He wanted to wait for Kang Siran and act together when he came down.
But to Yang Kai’s disappointment, he waited in the same place for half an hour, and there was still no sign of Kang Siran.
He had definitely seen the scene where he triggered the mechanism of the stone cauldron and fell down before. With Kang Siran’s character, he shouldn’t have ignored him. So Yang Kai was sure that he would definitely go and trigger the mechanism of that stone cauldron too.
But since he still couldn’t see Kang Siran, there was only one explanation – Kang Siran had fallen into another stone chamber.
There should be more than one stone chamber here. Otherwise, when he fell down, he wouldn’t have been unable to see any disciples of the Blazing Fire Palace.
Perhaps all the people who fell down were separated and couldn’t act together at all.
Of course, this was just Yang Kai’s speculation based on the current situation. Whether it was true or not, he couldn’t verify it either.
Since he couldn’t wait for Kang Siran, then Yang Kai could only act alone. Thinking of this, he doesn’t hesitate any longer. He reached out and probed the array in front of him and activated the fire-attribute power in his body, pouring it in.
A scorching breath emerged, and the entire stone chamber suddenly trembled. The array circuit on the stone platform suddenly lit up.
Seeing this, Yang Kai knew he was right. This array indeed needed to be activated with fire-attribute power. Immediately he crazily drives his own fire-attribute power.
Rumble… After a series of sounds, the array on the stone platform flickered with a dazzling light enveloping Yang Kai entirely. When the light dissipated, Yang Kai had disappeared.
“This is…” Yang Kai turned his head and looked around, only to find that the place where he was now was still a stone chamber. If it weren’t for the feeling of being teleported just now, Yang Kai might have thought that he had never moved.
“What on earth is going on here！” Yang Kai’s brows furrowed, and he couldn’t figure it out no matter how hard he thought.
In an ordinary cave of an ancestor, there are many forbidden arrays arranged which is also understandable. There is no martial artist’s cave that doesn’t arrange these things. But the cave in front of him is a bit strange. There are many identical stone chambers, and the first stone chamber he passed through only needed to pour fire-attribute power into the array to pass safely. There was no difficulty at all, and there was no danger either. He just didn’t know what was the particularity of this stone chamber.
Just as he wasfeel uncertain, the familiar humming sound rang out again. The next moment, Yang Kai discovered that in the center of the stone chamber, a stone platform exactly the same as the previous one slowly emerged.
He frowned and could only adopt the attitude of taking things as they come and slowly climbed onto the stone platform.
Looking around, Yang Kai couldn’t help but let out a soft eh.
Because this time, there was no array pattern on the stone platform. Instead, there were many grooves.
In those grooves, there were different kinds of medicinal herbs placed.
These medicinal herbs were preserved by a special method. They had actually remained for thousands of years without rotting, and their medicinal properties were still intact. They looked just like they had just been picked.
Yang Kai took a look and found that these medicinal herbs were all extremely rare and strange. He could only recognize two or three out of ten, and he didn’t recognize all the others.
Immediately, he shifted his attention to the bottom of the stone platform. Sure enough, he saw a line of small characters there. Brushing away the dust, Yang Kai stared at the line of small characters and read it out loud： “Select fifteen poisonous herbs from them, and the formation can be activated！”
“Select fifteen?” Yang Kai was shocked. He then carefully counted the number of medicinal herbs on the stone platform and found that all the medicinal herbs added together were only twenty-five. In other words, more than half of these medicinal herbs were poisonous.
What on earth did the owner of this cave want to do？ He actually gave himself such a difficult problem. Yang Kai was full of doubts in his heart.
Shaking his head, he could only immerse his mind and focus on looking at the twenty-five kinds of medicinal herbs in front of him.
Although the small characters on the stone platform didn’t explain what would happen if he chose wrongly, Yang Kai also knew that he couldn’t easily try. This cave, whether it was the cave left behind by Gong Sunmu or not, was definitely the property of a strong Emperor Senior Stage before his death.
Yang Kai simply couldn’t fathom the methods of an Emperor Senior Stage cultivator. Once he made a wrong choice, he might end up perishing here.
He didn’t dare to joke around with his own life and death, so his expression was extremely solemn.
“Hmm, this Heavenly Heart Orchid is poisonous, and this Yin Pollution Grass is also…” After looking for a while, Yang Kai first took out the few herbs he recognized from the grooves and placed them aside.
During the entire process, he was also extremely cautious. However, after taking out those herbs, he didn’t trigger any restrictions, which meant that he seemed to have made the right choices.
In a short while, he had selected three poisonous herbs from them.
As for the remaining herbs, he didn’t recognize any of them. On the one hand, it was related to his shallow knowledge of the products in the Star Boundary. On the other hand, it was also related to the rarity of the herbs placed here.
Even if an alchemist native to the Star Boundary came here, they wouldn’t dare to say that they could recognize all of these herbs.
However, as an alchemist, Yang Kai naturally had some research on herbs. The pharmacology and properties of various herbs had their own laws and characteristics. Therefore, even though he didn’t recognize most of the herbs, it didn’t prevent him from judging whether these herbs were poisonous or not.
Leaning closer to those herbs and carefully sniffing them, Yang Kai quickly selected several more poisonous herbs from them.
The toxicity carried by these medicinal materials is very subtle. Ordinary people simply can’t tell by the smell. Only alchemists who deal with medicinal materials all year round or those who have studied medicinal materials can have such ability.
After some messing around, Yang Kai selected another seven or eight plants but there was still more than half the number of fifteen kinds.
However, the remaining medicinal materials couldn’t be judged whether they were toxic by the smell.
Yang Kai thought about it and felt that he could only taste them personally and judge by the feeling of his tongue and his own body.
Thinking of this, he didn’t hesitate any longer. He reached out and pinched a little from the petal of a light blue flower and put it into his mouth to chew.
The next moment, Yang Kai’s complexion changed, and his face suddenly turned pale. At the same time as he chewed the petal, a bone-chilling cold suddenly spread out from his mouth, almost freezing his tongue.
In a hurry, Yang Kai quickly circulated his strength and barely resolved it.
“Although it’s very powerful, this one is not poisonous！” After a while, Yang Kai looked at the light blue flower with a look of fear. He didn’t know what kind of medicinal material this flower was, and it actually contained such a huge amount of coldness.
Since it was determined, he could only turn his gaze to the next medicinal material.
Doing the same thing as before, he picked off a little and stuffed it into his mouth. Moments later, Yang Kai sat cross-legged, his face turning green and purple in turns, and his entire expression was distorted to the extreme, as if he was suffering from great torture.
It was only after a full stick of incense that he opened his mouth and spat out a jet of pitch-black blood, and his entire aura also weakened a lot.
“The toxicity is so fierce！” Yang Kai had a lingering fear on his face. He had only chewed such a little bit and was poisoned like this. If he really swallowed that herbal medicine completely, he was afraid that he would die immediately.
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