They had tried it before when they retreated. The nine phoenix palaces in the flesh-and-blood city wall area were full of strange power. They would reappear when they were close, and they would decay when they were far away.
The changes there are determined by who comes.
But if the distance is too close, unpredictable things will happen, causing people to fall into a distorted state, and time will pass unknowingly.
"Little Ah Qing, do you remember that you just said you were familiar with that place? Is it very strong?"
The captain suddenly spoke.
"Very strong." Xu Qing nodded.
"In that case, do you think it's possible? We've explored this place too many times in the past three days."
"Although I also feel familiar, it's very slight. So is it possible that every time I explore, you go in? So your sense of familiarity is stronger than mine?"
The captain looked at Xu Qing.
Xu Qing narrowed his eyes and spoke softly.
"If this is the case, and we did not receive the command sword message just now and noticed the passage of time, then according to the subsequent development, I will ask Senior Brother to help me. I may use the protection of the severed hand to integrate myself into it and let you remove the severed hand.
Throw your hand in."
"In this case, there is a high probability that I can pass the restriction, and within the flesh and blood city wall, I can walk out of the severed hand and explore the Phoenix Bird Palace."
After Xu Qing finished speaking, he looked at the severed hand, trying to find evidence from it, but this severed hand had the ability to recover, and looking at it at the moment, it didn't seem to have changed much.
However, some traces of newly grown flesh and blood can still be seen in subtle details. This discovery made the two of them stare at each other.
There was a glint in the captain's eyes.
"So, you have indeed explored it many times, but you obviously can't remember what you saw inside... Junior brother, please think about it carefully and see if you can recall it."
Xu Qing pondered and recalled carefully, but there was no flaw in the memory in his mind. Everything was connected perfectly and no flaw could be found.
Xu Qing frowned. This was indeed similar to the Ding 132 he had experienced before, but there were differences.
Ding 132 has two levels of phenomena, one external and one internal.
Due to the influence of luck, there is a relative balance there, which makes what normal people see as external appearances.
However, the inner truth exists all the time and is right in front of you. It's just that most people can't see it, but its influence is still there. This is also the reason why the previous guards outside have met with misfortune.
And once someone wakes up due to various accidents and sees the truth under the external appearance, his cognition will be changed when he leaves and he will forget everything.
As for the reason why it keeps happening again and again, Xu Qing wakes up inside every day, and every day he loses his cognitive memory after waking up.
This gave rise to the feeling of something happening over and over again.
As for the phoenix palace in front of us, it seems that it is not divided into two layers: inner and outer. It is just one layer, forming a cycle of its own.
Xu Qing analyzed it from the bottom of his heart, and then the poison-forbidden elixir in his body began to circulate silently, and the Ghost Emperor Mountain erupted. The power of heaven filled the air at the same time, and the power of Ding Yi San Er spread.
In an instant, his status rose. Amidst the turmoil around him, the captain who saw this scene for the first time also had a strange look in his eyes and was a little bit speechless.
Xu Qing didn't pay attention to the captain. At this moment, with his status constantly improving, he looked towards the Phoenix Palace.
Everything is business as usual.
Xu Qing was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it, the spirit's body moved, trying hard to make the golden threads inside flow. A golden light shone in his eyes, and he looked again.
This time, there are some differences.
The Fengniao Hall was revealed, but it was blurry, shrouded in a purple light, and that light seemed to be illusory, giving people a feeling of being between true and false, and as if the passage of time had existed.
Everything of this kind is just feelings, which are difficult to explain clearly.
After a while, Xu Qing stopped everything, sighed softly, looked at the captain beside him, and shook his head.
"Can't remember."
The captain sighed.
"But senior brother, I have a way to get the purple vial inside with a high probability." Xu Qing suddenly said.
The captain's eyes narrowed.
Xu Qing raised his right hand, and as his body vibrated, the stone lion and its head were taken out at the same time. After falling to the ground, his head learned to be smart this time, and he quickly put on a flattering look and spoke loudly.
"Greetings to the great and supreme guardian whom I respect!"
The stone lion had no head and could not speak, but its tail swayed rapidly as it crawled on the ground.
The captain had seen the head, but not the stone lion. After seeing it now, he showed interest and looked at it a few times.
"Junior brother, these are your friends, right? I've seen that head before, and I thought it was a bit interesting at the time. And this lion looks very good. I smell the scent of a cloud beast on it. Besides... you
These two friends are very strange. Not only are they blessed with luck, they are also cursed. These two forces seem to be in balance with each other."
"Being able to achieve a balance with luck means that this curse most likely comes from the gods... Junior brother, have you ever heard of a word called a talisman? That harem means a ghost. It is said that people who are bitten to death by tigers will turn into a kind of evil spirit."
There are special ghosts surrounding him, and you two friends are just minions!"
The captain smiled half-heartedly.
When the stone lion heard these words, he suddenly trembled, his head widened and his eyes widened. He quickly glanced at the captain, feeling startled and suspicious. This was the second time they encountered someone who could detect abnormalities at a glance.
The first one is Xu Qing, and the second one is the person in front of me.
"He calls Demon Xu his junior brother. They are from the same sect. Sure enough, they have a good relationship with Demon. They are both evildoers!" His head was palpitating. He had been summoned by Xu Qing before and was immediately trampled to pieces. After he recovered, he was taken back instantly.
At that time, my attention was focused on that terrifying existence, so I didn't take a closer look at this second person. At this moment, I couldn't help but activate my ability to take a closer look.
After seeing this, my head suddenly screamed and my eyes suddenly exploded.
"Mouths, countless mouths, iron chains, iron chains from Jiuyou... seals, endless seals, my God, what is this I see, divine skeletons, countless divine skeletons!"
The head exploded with a bang.
Xu Qing looked at the captain, who looked innocent.
The stone lion trembled even more.
After a while, his head came back to life, and he trembled and quickly lowered his head. He was extremely well-behaved and full of flattery. He didn't dare to look at it, and the ultimate wailing echoed in his heart.
It remembered the third person it had seen when it was summoned by Xu Qing.
Although Xu Qing quickly took it away at that time, it trembled for a long time inside Ding Yi San Er. He really felt that the third person was too scary, so scary that it did not dare to activate its own abilities.
"These are three great horrors!"
Xu Qing was also curious. Even though he knew that the captain had many secrets, his head's reaction was too much. However, he also knew that this was not the time to ask questions, so he looked at his head coldly and spoke calmly.
"You two, go and get the purple vial there. If you behave well, I will commute your sentences as appropriate."
"Great Lord Guard, it doesn't matter whether the sentence is commuted or not, as long as..." Head quickly spoke, but before he could finish his words.
The stone lion on the side had already raised its two front paws, stepped hard on the ground, turned around and charged.
Seeing this, the head immediately became anxious and quickly rolled away. It even flew up and landed on the neck of the stone lion, heading straight for the decaying land covered by the flesh-and-blood city wall.
Xu Qing observed closely, and the captain also narrowed his eyes.
"Can they do it?"
"They are all prisoners of Ding 132. If they have been immersed in Ding 132 for a long time, it should be fine." After Xu Qing explained the principle of Ding 132, the captain's eyes were filled with excitement.
"There is such a magical place in the Prison Department!"
After saying this, the captain saw a hint of gloom on Xu Qing's expression, knowing that he remembered the life of the Prison Department, the Palace Master, and the peace he once had, so he sighed in his heart and patted Xu Qing's shoulder.
, and then pointed to the distance.
"It's really good!"
Xu Qing looked up. At this moment, the stone lions were approaching the flesh-and-blood city wall with their heads on their heads as they ran quickly. They jumped up. It seemed that because of their special existence, the restraining power here had no effect on them.
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Xu Qing saw with his own eyes the stone lions leaping quickly into the flesh-and-blood city wall, circling continuously inside, as if looking for it, but it was clear that the purple vial was not far away from them, but they could not find it.
Xu Qing frowned.
But soon things got better. It seemed to be the brain's idea. They separated from each other, and then collided hard together. They shattered and fell to the ground.
Soon, they resurrected each other, ran forward energetically for a certain distance, and then crashed to death again. Repeatedly, they gradually approached the purple vial.
"These two things are quite clever. They use the moment of death and resurrection to use the luck and curse in their bodies to blend together to explore the surroundings." The captain laughed.
Xu Qing nodded.
After they witnessed the death of the stone lion and the head more than ten times, they finally came to the purple vial. Without any hesitation, the head opened its mouth to grab the vial, and the stone lion and the stone lion returned quickly.
As they left, the half-statues that existed in the decayed area began to blur until they turned into fly ash and dissipated.
Then the surrounding walls of flesh and blood swarmed up and completely covered the place.
During this process, the stone lion and the head also ran back wildly until they returned to Xu Qing. The head let go of the purple vial hanging in his mouth and was about to continue to please, but Xu Qing put them away with a wave of his right hand.
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The captain knelt down and picked up the purple vial. The moment he touched it, his body trembled visibly. When Xu Qing paid close attention, the captain recovered, his expression was full of disbelief, and he took a breath.
"This is...the bottle of time!"
After saying that, the captain instinctively looked around quickly, then grabbed Xu Qing and left quickly.
Xu Qing's heart was full of questions, but he saw the captain's seriousness, so he held back and did not speak until he and the captain completely left the place. After reaching a relatively safe place, the two squatted in the severed hand. The captain was breathing heavily.
There was a strong light in his eyes.
"Elder brother, what is the Vase of Time?" Xu Qing asked.
The captain hissed, checked the surroundings again, made sure there was no problem, and arranged some seals. After covering the place, he was extremely excited and spoke immediately.
“Little Ah Qing, I’ve made a lot of money this time!!”
"The Time Vase, I have seen descriptions in some ancient books. It was something that only the royal family could use during the time of the Ancient Emperor Xuanyou. The quantity is very small. Any one that comes out will attract the attention of the royal family. Those
If a non-royal person hides it secretly, he will be exterminated, which is a serious crime."
"But it is said that when the ancient emperor Xuanyou left this world with his royal family and some human races, he took all the time bottles with him. How can there be one here!"
Seeing Xu Qing's confusion, the captain spoke in a low voice.
"The origin of the Time Vase is unpredictable. Not many people know its true origin throughout the ages, but the ancient emperors who have unified the ancient world have collected them.
"Legend, and it's just a legend, the Time Vase contains the huge secret of the formation of the ancient world. Some people say that it contains the method for the ancient emperor to break through his own shackles."
"Some people even say that the Time Vase contains a supreme inheritance."
"Everything is possible, but the number of Time Bottles is one for each era, and one will be born on its own."
"In short, it is mysterious and is regarded as something exclusive to the royal family."
"However, for countless years, no one seems to have really cracked the secret inside. However, this bottle can intercept time on its own, and at the same time, it also functions as a container, making items incorruptible."
"Junior brother, I know why that area was mysterious before. It was because for a period of time, it was trapped by the time bottle and continued to spread out, repeating the cycle over and over again."
When Xu Qing heard about this thing for the first time, he was very surprised. He instinctively thought of the wish box and the sound-catching bottle, so he asked about it.
"The wish box and the sound-catching bottle? In fact, those two things are imitations of the time bottle. One imitates its immortal effect, and the other imitates the power of intercepting time!"
After the captain finished explaining, he took the purple vial in his hand and shook it.
"There's something inside. Listen to the sound, it's liquid!"
The captain's eyes brightened even more. He smelled it and looked intoxicated.
"It's very fragrant. I don't know what it is, but it feels edible. Junior brother, how about we eat it?"
The captain looked at Xu Qing, licked his lips, and handed the bottle to Xu Qing.
"Smell it."
Xu Qing took it, put it in front of his nose and smelled it. A strange fragrance penetrated his nose and turned into breath and flowed throughout his body. It did not cause any reaction from the spirit body, but the four life lamps in his consciousness trembled violently.
It reveals endless longing, as if this object is extraordinary for a life lamp.
The Twelfth Heavenly Palace, which has not yet completed its concretization, is also shaking. Obviously, the contents of the Time Vase are also of great help to the concretization of the Heavenly Palace.
Xu Qing was moved.
But there was still some hesitation in his heart. After all, the liquid inside was unknown and had existed for too many years. However, Xu Qing finally chose to believe in the captain as to whether it could be eaten.
"Let's eat!" Xu Qing nodded heavily.
The captain chuckled, took the bottle, shook it, and poured it into his mouth. Suddenly, a drop of transparent but extremely viscous liquid slid down the mouth of the bottle.
There was another drop behind. Before it could fall, the captain placed the vial in front of Xu Qing.
Xu Qing opened his mouth, and the next moment, a second drop of viscous liquid fell into his mouth.
The next moment, everyone closed their eyes and began to digest.
Xu Qing felt as if his body was about to explode at this moment. An earth-shattering breath exploded from his mouth, poured into his body along his throat, spread throughout his body, and gathered in the sea of consciousness.
The heavenly palace transformed by the four life lamps of his sea of consciousness trembled violently, just like the previous reaction after the Poison Forbidden Pill sensed the divine essence, exuding the ultimate desire.
Obviously, they have all dried up in these long years, and it is extremely difficult to find this kind of nourishment. After all, although they are in Xu Qing's body and are blessing him, they are not formed by Xu Qing's blood.
After each absorbed it at this moment, the life fire burning on it became brighter than ever before. The fire light was overwhelming and reflected in all directions. Even the fog of the sea of consciousness became clear under this light.
As for the four life lamps, the aura of the four lamps also increased a lot in the surge of fire. Their shapes vaguely changed, and each seemed to have a shadow of a little person sitting cross-legged and meditating, forming in the wick.
Seeing this scene, Xu Qing's mind was stirred up greatly. He knew what that villain was.
That’s Nascent Soul!
Although it is still virtual and has not really formed yet, it seems that the speed of transformation is not far away.
This is indeed the case.
As the ancient liquid in the drop of time bottle continued to erupt, the life fires in Xu Qing's four life lamps became more intense, as if they had been dripped with lamp oil.
The little man inside the wick became clearer and clearer, exactly the same as Xu Qing's face.
More than ten breaths later, the black umbrella life lamp that was the first to follow Xu Qing suddenly burst out with light. After a powerful force surged inside, the villain inside turned from illusion into reality.
In the flames, it became extremely clear, and its eyes suddenly opened, touching Xu Qing's consciousness across the life fire, as if looking at each other.
Xu Qing's mind was shaken, and the aura of his cultivation fluctuated accordingly, exuding a power that surpassed the previous ones.
At the same time, a canopy also transformed above Xu Qing's head.
Different from before, the canopy that appeared this time had a more obvious color and looked more real. Under its reflection, Xu Qing, who was sitting cross-legged and meditating, really looked like a young ancient emperor.
Full of majesty.
But all this was not over yet. Soon his colorful wind chanting lantern reverberated with melodious whistling sounds, and the little man inside the wick opened his eyes.
The second canopy appears!
Then the Nascent Soul was formed in the Nether Spirit Blood Wing Lamp, and then the Nascent Soul was formed again in the Broken Immortal Devouring Magic Lamp!
Xu Qing is sitting cross-legged and meditating under four canopies, with colorful lights flowing all over his body. The black umbrella is the top, surrounded by seven colors, and the blood wings are behind him, and his breath is killing evil.
Coupled with his handsome appearance, this scene, if exposed to the outside world, would definitely shock countless people. If they did not know his identity, they would probably think that he was the descendant of the human race prince.
The four Nascent Souls appeared one after another, causing Xu Qing's cultivation level to rise again and again. At this moment, the fluctuations were shocking, and terrifying power circulated in his body, exploding on his five Nascent Souls, including the Golden Crow Nascent Soul.
At the same time, a sense of imminent calamity also emerged in Xu Qing's heart, but it was still a little bit worse. He needed to have a stronger feeling before he could attract it.
At this moment, there is still a trace of the liquid power in the time bottle left. Under the guidance of Xu Qing, it goes straight to the long-awaited Twelfth Heavenly Palace.
This heavenly palace is now more than half concretized. During its absorption, the concretization is accelerating, and soon it reaches 80%, then 90%, and finally reaches 99%!
The Twelfth Heavenly Palace shines with brilliant light and keeps shaking.
All it takes is one suppressing object to be completely complete!
Xu Qing opened his eyes and saw the captain in front of him looking at his canopy with a somewhat regretful expression.
The captain's aura has obviously increased significantly compared to before. Like Xu Qing, he is emitting the fluctuations of the Nascent Soul, but the specific power of the Soul is difficult to see.
"Little Aqing, the Nascent Soul born from the Life Lamp in your body is close to attracting the power of the First Tribulation!"
Noticing that Xu Qing was awake, the captain took a deep breath with some regret on his face.
"The life lantern is a treasure, but unfortunately, we don't have the bloodline of the ancient emperor, so we can't produce the life lantern ourselves. After all, the foreign life lantern cannot be fully integrated with our own blood, so we can't be like those legendary ancient emperors.
As a descendant of the Lord, he turned the life lamp into an oven for the realm of spiritual treasures, placed it in five secret treasures, burned them continuously, and refined everything into the foundation of his own secret treasure."
"This is also the reason why those major cultivators who have reached the Lingzang level don't have much desire for the life lamp. It's not that the life lamp is not good, but that we can't use it later, alas."
Xu Qing was silent. Although he didn't know that the life lamp could be turned into a furnace in the spiritual treasure trove, he also realized that with the improvement of his cultivation level, the blessing of the life lamp was about to reach its end.
"Is there no way to completely integrate it with my own bloodline?" Xu Qing asked.
"This is a way that everyone has wanted to find throughout the ages, but unfortunately, it cannot be done. Only when one's own cultivation reaches the realm of the Ancient Emperor's domination can everything be reversed and the bloodline become a life lamp, so that the bloodline of future generations can also have this blessing.
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The captain shook his head.
Xu Qing nodded, not having too many regrets. After all, in the realm of Nascent Soul, the life lamp can still be blessed, and Xu Qing felt that the life lamp should be the embodiment of the strongest state in the realm of Yuanying.
The captain patted Xu Qing's shoulder.
"It's nothing. I'll think of a way. Maybe we can do it with some help. Let's not talk about it for now. Master probably didn't expect us to have the creation of this time bottle before, so he left in a hurry and didn't go into details. So,
Regarding the Nascent Soul, I’ll tell you first.”
"The realm of Yuanying is called differently by different clans. Some are called Tianming Realm, some are called Daoying Realm, and some are called Tianming Nascent Soul Realm. Each name is actually decided and changed according to the previous ancient emperor.
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"After the ancient emperor Xuanyou unified, he gave it a fixed name, called Tianming Dao Ying. In fact, they all mean the same thing. The word Dao was originally added to unify the cognition of all clans."
"As for destiny, it is a kind of disaster."
As the captain spoke, Xu Qing combined his previous understanding of the Destiny Dao Infant Realm, and gradually a comprehensive understanding emerged in his mind.
In fact, in the human race's understanding of the realm of the Destiny Dao Infant, at least one Dao Infant must have experienced the baptism of the Heavenly Tribulation before it can be called the Destiny Dao Infant.
It can be regarded as truly stepping into this realm without experiencing the heavenly tribulation. No matter how many Dao infants there are, they are all false infants in theory.
This was the case in the era of the Ancient Emperor Xuanyou, but as the unity of the human race disappeared, the view also changed.
According to the cognition of different tribes, there are various understandings. Many tribes believe that even if they have not experienced the heavenly tribulation, as long as the Dao Infant appears, they will be in the Nascent Soul realm.
As for the necessary level of the Heavenly Tribulation, it is the shackles of the Nascent Soul Realm itself. Every time a new baby appears, it accumulates the power to face the Heavenly Tribulation. After being baptized by the Heavenly Tribulation, it breaks the shackles.
After all, the Wanggu world is too big, with many ethnic groups and different physiques. For example, there are many people from the Near Immortal Clan whose cognition is completely different from other races. Therefore, it is difficult to have any unified cognition at this stage.
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As for the method of promotion, there are many branches according to different races, so there are strengths and weaknesses.
But in the final analysis, they can be roughly divided into two categories. One is that after the birth of the second Nascent Soul in the body, one chooses to invite the baptism of heavenly tribulation, thereby promoting the destiny.
The second category involves relatively few selective practices, that is, after transforming all the heavenly palaces into Dao Infants, they will experience the catastrophe together and experience earth-shaking changes at once.
The latter is difficult, but once successful, the power of destiny obtained will be stronger, which will be of great help to subsequent spiritual treasures.
After entering the realm of Tianming Daoying, the way of promotion is also different from that of Tiangong Jindan. It requires passing through the calamity of destiny. All Nascent Souls have experienced it once, which is a big promotion.
A total of five times, once you have experienced them all, you will achieve Dzogchen.
It contains dangers, so the Nascent Soul needs to increase its own strength and grow continuously to have the capital to overcome the tribulation. Otherwise, once the tribulation fails, the Nascent Soul will collapse irreversibly and disappear permanently.
The life lamp is indeed the most powerful manifestation at this stage, because even if the life lamp disaster fails, it will not disappear, so you can try multiple times after failure.
Xu Qing realized this and when he looked inside his twelfth heavenly palace, the captain suddenly raised his hand and handed the bottle of time to Xu Qing.
"Place this object in your twelfth heavenly palace as a suppressive object!"
Xu Qing looked up at the captain.
"Although this thing is precious, I have no use for it. My practice is to break the seal." The captain chuckled and blinked at Xu Qing.
"Thank you, senior brother." Warmth arose in Xu Qing's heart. Over the years, he had already regarded the captain and Master Qi as his indispensable relatives.
Xu Qing's childhood experience made him cold-hearted, but deep down he always longed for his family.
As for the captain, the two of them have experienced so many things along the way, and have lived and died many times. In Xu Qing's heart, he has already unknowingly filled his brother's position.
At this moment, Xu Qing took the Time Vase and put it into his Twelfth Heavenly Palace without hesitation.
The Heavenly Palace roared, completely completed, and unlike other Heavenly Palaces, this twelfth palace exuded bursts of power of time. Xu Qing seemed to hear a familiar sigh echoing from the years.
This sigh made him startled.
That was... Zi Xuan's voice.
Xu Qinggang was about to explore carefully, but at this moment, a deafening roar came from the sky, and there were even more cracks echoing, and cracks came from the distant sky, quickly filling the entire sky.
The sky curtain seemed to have turned into a spider web.
A crimson meaning exploded in the sky!
The expressions of Xu Qing and the captain changed at the same time.
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