Chapter 47 Obtaining the Fire Cloud Pendant

Xiao Lin regained consciousness again and found that he had indeed entered the spiritual wood space again.

He heard a triumphant laugh in his ears: "Haha, I didn't expect that I had been in the Fire Cloud Pendant for five years, and finally I had a chance to come out. Eh? Where is this place?"

Xiao Lin looked at a ball of red spiritual light floating two feet away from him in silence. It was shaking constantly and seemed very excited. After the excitement, he saw the environment he was in and immediately uttered a surprised sound.

"If I'm not mistaken, you are Fu Rong, right?" Xiao Lin couldn't figure it out. His son died in his own spiritual wood space. Why would he foolishly set this trap for himself and let his father take over his body? Isn't this a joke to his father? This made Xiao Lin really confused.

However, Xiao Lin was not worried. In this spiritual wood space, no spirit could harm him. The strange sapling in the middle had the ability to devour spirits. As expected, as soon as Xiao Lin finished speaking, the tender buds on the top of the sapling in the middle suddenly trembled. Fu Rong's soul immediately screamed as if he had seen a ghost, and avoided the sapling from a distance, sticking to the light shield outside. If he had a body, he would probably be horrified now.

"What... what is this place? How could that sapling devour my spirit?" Fu Rong cried out in fear.

"Who is Daoyou? How do you know I am Fu Rong? Why am I here?" Fu Rong seemed to see Xiao Lin after the panic. At this moment, Xiao Lin was looking at him with a smile.

"It was your son who told me where your Fu family's treasure was hidden, so I came here." Xiao Lin said lightly.

"Fu Chuan? Where is he?" Fu Rong asked.

"He has died here."

Hearing Xiao Lin's words, Fu Rong was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly started to curse, scolding his son for nothing. This made Xiao Lin speechless. He didn't know what deep hatred there was between the father and son, but there was one thing Xiao Lin was very clear about, that is, Fu Rong in front of him had already understood that he was tricked by his son Fu Chuan.

This is not difficult to understand. Fu Chuan knew that his father's soul was hidden in the Fire Cloud Pendant. After being transmitted to the strange space by Xiao Lin, he encountered a strange sapling that could devour the soul. Before he died, he told Xiao Lin about his treasure hiding place. On the one hand, it was naturally to please Xiao Lin and hope to save his soul. On the other hand, he had a malicious mind. If Xiao Lin really went to get the treasure in the future, he would naturally encounter Fu Rong who wanted to take over his body. Then the end would most likely be the same as his own. Even if he succeeded in taking over his body, it would be a revenge for himself, which could be said to kill three birds with one stone.

Obviously, Fu Rong was very smart and figured out the key to this at once. Xiao Lin was naturally not stupid either. After figuring this out, he couldn't help sweating in his palms. It turned out that there was no one in this world of cultivation who was easy to deal with. If he was a little careless, he might not know how he died.

"I have no grudges against you. Although my son offended you, he died at your hands. Moreover, we have already severed our friendship and father-son relationship. We have no connection at all. Please let me go." After cursing for a long time, Fu Rong finally calmed down. After analyzing the situation, he said to Xiao Lin solemnly.

"Oh? Let's talk about this later, but I'm very curious about what kind of deep hatred you have with your son Fu Chuan that makes him hate you so much." Xiao Lin's face was full of playful expression.

After a moment of silence, a voice came out from the red light ball: "There is nothing wrong with telling people about this matter. I am a cultivator who has reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining Stage, and my wife is a cultivator of the eighth level of Qi Refining Stage. My husband and I were accidentally plotted against during a trial in Chixia Immortal City. My wife was killed on the spot. With the help of this Fire Cloud Pendant, I finally escaped from my soul. After returning here, I was exhausted and on the verge of collapse. My son happened to covet this Fire Cloud Pendant and sneaked into the secret room. I was confused for a while and actually thought of taking over my body, but he found out and made my plan fail. After that, I begged him to find me a low-level cultivator with spiritual roots so that I could take over my body and be reborn, but he kept threatening me with the condition that I teach him the control formula of the Fire Cloud Pendant."

"Threatened?" A strange light flashed in Xiao Lin's eyes.

However, Fu Rong obviously didn't notice it. He paused and continued, "That time I was plotted against and all my cultivation was wasted. But I know that beast very well. After my body was destroyed, he would definitely want to kill me and take the Fire Cloud Pendant. Although I shouldn't have the intention to take over my body, he will no longer trust me after this incident. Even if I give him the formula, he will just kill me in advance. Keeping this secret can help me live longer. As long as I can live, I will naturally have hope, and the road will not be cut off." Hearing this, Xiao Lin was speechless. It was strange that the father and son got along like this. For the sake of their own immortal path, they actually used their closest relatives as wedding clothes. Xiao Lin asked himself that he would never do such a thing. "Don't you know the formula for driving the Fire Cloud Pendant? Can you tell me?" "This..." Hearing that Xiao Lin was also interested in the secret treasure, Fu Rong's tone suddenly hesitated, and he looked like he was weighing the pros and cons. After a while, the voice came out again from the light ball. "Now that I am in this state, it is useless to keep this formula. It is not a bad idea to give it to you, but can you agree to the next condition?"

"Conditions?" Xiao Lin frowned slightly, showing a little impatience on his face.

"Don't misunderstand, I have nothing else to ask for now. I only ask you to let my soul leave. As long as I can leave here safely, I will give you the Fire Cloud Pendant and the driving formula. This Fire Cloud Pendant was accidentally found by me from an ancient relic. It is not something in our Tianlu Mountains. The magic is even better than some secret arts."

"Forget it, I tell you the truth, it is impossible to leave here, but if you tell me the driving formula of the Fire Cloud Pendant, I can keep your origin and re-enter the reincarnation. Although the reincarnation theory is illusory, there is at least a glimmer of hope. Otherwise, I don't bother to care about it. Let you be destroyed here. As for the Fire Cloud Pendant, I have time to study it slowly later." Xiao Lin said lightly.

After a moment of silence, a sigh came from the red light ball: "Well, it doesn't matter. After a decade of cultivation, it's nothing but a mirage. Let's do as you said. I just hope you don't kill my old servant of the Fu family. He has been with me for more than 40 years. I hope he can live out his life here."

"Of course, I don't like killing mortals." Without thinking, Xiao Lin replied.

"Okay." After saying that, the voice stopped abruptly, and Xiao Lin also showed a thoughtful expression, as if listening to something?

Half a day later, Xiao Lin appeared in the secret room again. He still held the Fire Cloud Pendant in his hand, but his face showed a touch of surprise. It turned out that this magic weapon was not an attack-type magic weapon, but an auxiliary-type magic weapon. It can increase the power of the spell or increase the escape speed by absorbing the blood and qi in the body of the cultivator, and the increase is even more terrifying. When hearing this function, Xiao Lin couldn't believe that there was such a perverted magic weapon in the world.

In other words, the spells cast by Xiao Lin can instantly double their power through the amplification of the Fire Cloud Pendant. Just thinking about it makes Xiao Lin feel incredible, but the Fire Cloud Pendant also has a limitation, which will decrease with the increase of the spell level. Only the basic spells are amplified by 100%, and the amplification of the primary spells is only about 60%. This is the conclusion drawn by Fu Rong through experiments. As for intermediate spells and even advanced spells, that is unknown, because Fu Rong has never practiced intermediate and higher-level spells, and naturally does not know the amplification ability of the Fire Cloud Pendant.

This limitation is naturally no problem for Xiao Lin now. The practice of intermediate and advanced spells is too far away from him. With this Fire Cloud Pendant, Xiao Lin's strength has increased a lot.

The only regret for Xiao Lin is that the activation of the Fire Cloud Pendant requires more blood and qi, which consumes 10% of his blood and qi at a time, and a person's blood and qi will endanger his life as long as it loses more than 40%. In other words, although the Fire Cloud Pendant is abnormal, he can only cast it four times at most. If it exceeds four times, it will be suicide.

Despite this, Xiao Lin happily put the Fire Cloud Pendant into his storage bag. Although it was not used many times, it could at least save his life.

Xiao Lin looked at the shelf and picked up the last jade bottle. In the jade bottle was a pill called [Tongmai Pills]. This pill was used by secular warriors to practice martial arts and open up the meridians of the whole body. For warriors, if they can open up the meridians of the whole body, they can enter the innate realm. Even if their skills are completely perfected, it is useless to Xiao Lin because after he practiced to the fourth level of Qi Refining, all the meridians in his body have been opened. However, he still threw it into the storage bag.

After doing all this, Xiao Lin was silent for a moment. He suddenly came to the spirit tablet again, looked at the spirit tablet carefully, and then walked out of the stone room.

When he came to the stone room outside, Xiao Lin saw that the old housekeeper was still waiting inside. When he saw Xiao Lin come out, he said nothing, but Xiao Lin looked at him with interest.

"What are you looking at, Immortal Master? Is there something on my face? Hehe." The old man felt a little uncomfortable when Xiao Lin looked at him. He forced a smile on his face and said awkwardly.

"Hehe, I don't know whether I should call you the old housekeeper? Or should I call you fellow Daoist Che Huan?" Xiao Lin asked with a smile.

The old man's face changed when he heard this, and he replied with surprise: "Master, you are joking. I have been the housekeeper of the Fu family for forty years. My mistress died five years ago, and the old man is a man."

"Man?" Xiao Lin sneered: "Of course you are a man, but unfortunately your spirit is not. I was not very sure at first, so I asked him a question. As far as I know, after Fu Rong came back from being injured, he went directly into the secret room, and even the housekeeper didn't know. Fu Chuan had something to do with Fu Rong, so he naturally wouldn't reveal this to the housekeeper. The reason why you know this is only one reason, that is, the car ring did not disappear, but possessed the old housekeeper."

The old man's face turned pale and bloodless when he heard this, but after a while, he sighed softly: "Daoyou is indeed meticulous and observant."