Chapter 2040

After thinking for a while, Yang Kai solemnly put away the jade slip.

His temperament is quite free and easy. He knows that it’s useless to agonize about the matter of the Ku Hun Seal now so he simply doesn’t think about it anymore.

He cast his gaze back onto the small pot of medicine soup.

According to the information left in the jade slip, this small pot of medicine soup is the Ten Thousand Treasures Medicine Soup that Gongsun Mu spent the rest of his life’s efforts to boil. What materials were used to boil this Ten Thousand Treasures Medicine Soup and what magical effects it has Yang Kai has no idea at all.

But since this medicine soup is a compensation for the Ku Hun Seal, then it is believed that taking it will definitely be beneficial.

Moreover, Gongsun Mu’s cave residence has existed for thousands of years, and the time since his death is definitely not short. In other words, this small pot of medicinal soup has been decocted here for at least one or two thousand years！

Fortunately, there is a magic array to draw the power of the underground fire and continuously decoct it here. Otherwise, this pot of medicinal soup would probably have become a waste product long ago.

Yuanding Mountain has always been extremely desolate and has never attracted the attention of martial artists. This should be Gongsun Mu’s intentional doing. It is not difficult for a strong Emperor Senior Stage to slightly display some means to isolate the leakage of spiritual energy from Yuanding Mountain and create a little disguise making people mistakenly think that this is a barren mountain.

The vision of the glow blooming and the strange fragrance diffusing appeared, which attracted the martial artists who saw this scene here.

And that vision was obviously caused by this pot of medicinal soup.

When the heaven-defying natural treasures mature, there will be celestial phenomena. When extremely high-grade secret treasures and spirit pills are successfully refined, they may also cause celestial phenomena！

The vision of Yuanding Mountain is obviously because this pot of medicinal soup has been successfully decocted.

Since it has been successfully decocted and is of great benefit to himself, Yang Kai naturally has no reason to let it go.

He sat cross-legged in front of the small pot, released several forces, cut off the power of the underground fire drawn by the magic array, and then reached out and picked up the small pot, bringing the pot of Ten Thousand Treasures Medicinal Soup in front of himself.

Looking at it closely, Yang Kai discovered that this pot of medicinal soup was extremely thick, yet crystal clear. There were no impurities in it at all, and one could see the bottom at a glance. The multicolored bubbles rising from the bottom of the medicinal soup continuously were rather miraculous.

A strong aroma assaulted his nose, making Yang Kai feel refreshed and invigorated.

He simply didn’t know what kind of language to use to describe the aroma at the tip of his nose. This strange fragrance couldn’t even be compared to the body fragrance of the purest and holiest virgin. Yang Kai had never smelled such a memorable fragrance before.

All the way along, having cultivated to the Void King 3-layer Realm, Yang Kai hadn’t indulged in the desires of the tongue for a long time. With his strength and powerful physical constitution, he didn’t need to eat anything anymore. However, after this aroma entered his nose, he actually rarely had a feeling of being eager to eat, as if he had been hungry for many days and hadn’t eaten a meal, and couldn’t wait to swallow even this small pot.

Gritting his teeth, Yang Kai brought the small pot to his mouth, opened his big mouth, and gulped it down.

Strangely enough, although this pot of Myriad Treasures Medicinal Soup seemed extremely hot, it wasn’t scalding at all when it entered his mouth. Instead, the temperature was just right, and it was full of fragrance in his mouth, more delicious than anything Yang Kai had ever eaten.

The Myriad Treasures Medicinal Soup, which was only in the amount of a bowl, was drunk by him with the bottom of the pot facing the sky in one go, without leaving a single bit.

Moments later, Yang Kai let out a resounding belch, and multicolored rays of light spewed out from his mouth.

Before he could carefully savor the taste of this Myriad Treasures Medicine Broth, his lower abdomen suddenly became scorching hot, and streams of heat, as if tangible, centered around his abdomen and quickly shuttled through his limbs and bones, bringing with it a numbing and itchy pain.

Yang Kai’s expression changed, and he quickly stuffed the small pot in his hand into the Space Ring. Closing his eyes and concentrating, holding his breath, he silently circulated his profound energy.

And just ten breaths after Yang Kai took away the small pot boiling the Myriad Treasures Medicine Broth from its original position, the entire Yuan Ding Mountain suddenly trembled with a humming sound, and the rumbling sound was deafening. The ground shook, rocks rolled, the mountain peak tilted and the entire Yuan Ding Mountain suddenly split into countless pieces and quickly sank downward.

Inside the mountain, in the countless identical stone chambers, the surviving martial artists all changed their complexions.

Just as they were suspicious and didn’t know what was happening, the teleportation arrays in all the stone chambers were activated. In an instant, the surviving martial artists disappeared from their original positions.

The next moment, more than ten miles outside the periphery of Yuan Ding Mountain, figures emerged strangely one after another, and the expression of each person was uncertain and doubtful.

“Brother Lian, you were also teleported out？” Zong Qing, the deputy hall master of the Blazing Fire Hall, swept his eyes and immediately saw Lian Yuming with a frown, and quickly shouted.

Hearing the shout, Lian Yuming turned his head and looked at Zong Qing. Finding that the other party was also here, after being surprised, he nodded and said, “That’s right. It seems that you were also teleported out？”

“Exactly！” Zong Qing’s face was solemn. Looking at the violently shaking Yuan Ding Mountain in the distance, he said suspiciously, “What exactly happened inside? Why was everyone teleported out?”

Lian Yuming thought for a while and asked, “Brother Zong, after you went in, did you encounter one stone room after another？”

“That’s right. They were all some strange tests, seemingly related to alchemy. By the way, Brother Lian, you are proficient in the art of alchemy. Those tests should not be difficult for you, right？”

Hearing this, Lian Yuming slowly shook his head and said, “I just passed the fifth stone room. I don’t know what benefits there will be after passing all the tests. However, it seems that the owner of this cave should be an alchemist.”

Hearing this, Zong Qing thought for a while and nodded, saying, “What Brother Lian said makes sense. If so, we can ask other disciples if they have obtained any benefits.”

While speaking, Zong Qing turned his head and looked around. After finding that only a small half of his own elite disciples were left, his face changed.

Suddenly, his gaze was fixed on a figure not far away, and he said in surprise, “It’s you？”

Not far across, Kang Siran had a helpless expression on his face.

The moment there was movement in Yuan Ding Mountain, he was also teleported out and happened to be caught in the middle of many disciples of the Blazing Fire Hall. He didn’t dare to make any rash moves for fear of causing misunderstandings. Now that he was noticed by Zong Qing, he could only offer a fawning smile and said with a bow, “Kang Siran, the shopkeeper of the Spirit Pill Workshop in Fenglin City, greets the two deputy hall masters.”

“Spirit Pill Workshop？” When Lian Yuming heard this, his eyes shrank. “The Spirit Pill Workshop of the Purple Source Chamber of Commerce？”

“That’s right.” As Kang Siran nodded, he let out a sigh of relief in his heart. Revealing his identity and background at this time was really a last resort. After all, his fists were not as big as others’, so he could only use the name of the Purple Source Chamber of Commerce to intimidate the other party.

Sure enough, after learning of Kang Siran’s background, Zong Qing and Lian Yuming looked at each other and restrained the original hostility. The former said, “Zong knows about the Spirit Pill Workshop. It turns out that you are Shopkeeper Kang of the Spirit Pill Workshop. Nice to meet you.”

Deputy Hall Master Zong is too kind. Kang Siran replied calmly.

“Shopkeeper Kang, do you know what exactly happened inside Yuan Ding Mountain？” Zong Qing asked in a deep voice.

Kang Siran shook his head and said, “Kang is also completely confused and doesn’t know.”

“I remember that Shopkeeper Kang had a friend by his side before. Where is that person now？” Lian Yuming asked thoughtfully.

Hearing this, Kang Siran’s complexion darkened. He looked in the direction of Yuanding Mountain and sighed, “Since Brother Yang didn’t appear here, I’m afraid he met with some misfortune inside. I see that your hall also seems to have lost quite a number of disciples. The test inside Yuanding Mountain is actually not simple.”

He really thought that Yang Kai had fallen inside Yuanding Mountain. After all, even two powerful dao source realm experts like Zong Qing and Lian Yuming had been teleported out. The fate of those who weren’t teleported out was naturally conceivable.

For a moment, Kang Siran couldn’t help but feel a bit sad and mournful in his heart. On the one hand, it was because he failed to search for the dao source pellet he needed inside Yuanding Mountain. On the other hand, it was naturally because of Yang Kai’s unexpected fall.

Zong Qing and Lian Yuming looked at each other and nodded slightly.

They didn’t see any falsehood in Kang Siran’s expression, so they didn’t have the idea of entangling with him anymore. Zong Qing said, “Since that’s the case, Shopkeeper Kang please accept our condolences and take care. Please go back now. After all, Yuanding Mountain is within the sphere of influence of our Blazing Fire Hall. We still need to search it again.”

Such an obvious order to leave, how could Kang Siran not hear it? With a long sigh, he clasped his fists at Zong Qing and Lian Yuming, turned around, and flew towards the direction of Fenglin City.

A moment later, accompanied by a earth-shattering crash, the entire Yuanding Mountain completely collapsed.

After everything had calmed down, Zong Qing and Lian Yuming led the remaining disciples of the Blazing Fire Palace to search the ruins of Yuan Ding Mountain. Unfortunately, they searched here for a full two months and almost emptied the entire collapsed mountain, yet still found nothing.

They did, however, find the dead bodies of several disciples!

Two months later, the people of the Blazing Fire Palace had to evacuate this place.

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Dozens of zhang underground, within the karst cave, the hoarse roars of Yang Kai, like that of a wounded beast, continuously rang out. If anyone were able to hear it, they would probably flee this place in terror.

The medicinal power of the Myriad Treasures Medicine Broth was powerful and continuous. Once it entered the stomach, it transformed into pure and refined strength, pounding against Yang Kai’s flesh, blood, and every limb and bone.

After the meridians and flesh in his body were eroded by this medicinal power, they continuously became tougher and stronger. The meridians were widened, and the flesh was remolded. Yang Kai’s entire body trembled violently. Every inch of his flesh, every inch of his skin, even his internal organs and bones, all came a numbing and itchy sensation as if being bitten by countless ants or suffering the most painful torture in the world!

The skin on his body cracked little by little, and golden blood flowed out from within, gradually coagulating into blood scabs.

Outside the blood scabs, it was once again covered by the newly flowing golden blood.

Gradually, Yang Kai seemed to be wrapped in a golden blood cocoon. From the outside, his figure couldn’t be seen at all, and only the strong and powerful sound of his heartbeat could be heard, pounding like a war drum.

No one knew how long this situation lasted. It seemed like countless years, yet also like just a moment.

And as time passed, the roar of Yang Kai coming from within the blood cocoon gradually weakened and finally disappeared as if he had become accustomed to this painful transformation.

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