Chapter 278: Heavenly Offering Mural, Savage Beast Vermillion Fruit (First Update)

Seeing Jiang Minghe enter the cave, Li Qing took advantage of the situation and surrendered: "The two Taoist brothers are very skilled in chess, which is well known in the immortal city. It is common sense that I will lose."

Jiang Minghe shook his head and laughed: "After building the foundation, you will live for three hundred years. If you don't cultivate some interest, how can you live this long journey to immortality?"

Li Qing put away the "Lingxiao Alchemy Sutra" beside the chessboard: "I have my own entertainment. Planting various spiritual plants and refining elixirs, isn't it more interesting than the two of you playing chess?"

Zhou Hanguang laughed loudly: "That's true. With your spiritual cultivation and alchemy skills, you can also earn spiritual stones. It is indeed more satisfying than playing chess..."

Jiang Minghe took his seat and the three of them chatted again.

Li Qingjiang expressed his doubts: "Since we are trying to save Zhu Guo, why do we need to set a two-year period? Wouldn't it be safer to let me come earlier?"

Zhou Hanguang sighed helplessly: "That secret realm was not very open before, and there is still a risk of falling. I only anchored it last month."

"At that time, your Earthly Immortal Dharma Realm was just established. It was the time to consolidate the foundation. How could you delay your important event?"

Li Qing nodded slightly and said: "Since Friend Jiang Dao has returned, why not go to the secret realm first? I am also very curious about the thousand-year-old red fruit tree."

Zhou Hanguang said with a smile: "I also said that I would hold a banquet for you first to wash away the wind and dust. Now it seems that it is more suitable for you to take you to enjoy the fruit trees first."

So the three of them left Tanyuan Immortal City without any further delay and flew north against the wind.

When approaching a mountain, Jiang and Tuesday took Li Qing and made themselves invisible. After evading a wave of pursuers, they flew eastward.

After so many rounds of questioning, they finally stopped in front of a deep stone pool.

Although the stone pool is illuminated by light, it appears blue because it is too deep.

"This is where it is. Fellow Daoist Li, you must master the water-proofing technique, otherwise it will not be easy to get through." Zhou Hanguang reminded.

Jiang Minghe said: "The bottom of the pool is extremely cold and can even freeze the true essence. Fortunately, you are an alchemist and have spiritual fire to protect you, so you are not in danger."

Li Qing did not dare to neglect, and while using the water-repelling technique, he secretly protected himself with Nirvana: "Please lead the way."

The three of them used the water-proofing technique to protect themselves, naturally integrated into the pond, and began to explore the secrets.

The stone pool is deep, and after diving for a hundred feet, the water channel suddenly becomes extremely narrow, allowing only one person to pass sideways.

Moreover, there is no daylight here, and there is darkness all around. It seems that even the consciousness can be obscured. Even if the imperial emissary's true energy shines, it can only illuminate a small area in front of him.

"Before, there were monsters guarding this place. As long as there was a little light, they would be bitten crazily. Fortunately, we have cleaned it up." Zhou Hanguang said through the message.

In addition to the darkness, there is also the cold.

At this point in the swim, the water in the pond gradually became cold to the bone. Even with the water-preventing technique, it could not withstand the encroaching cold air.

Li Qing hurriedly summoned the Nirvana and covered it with a shallow layer along the body surface, which made him feel better.

In front, on the waists of Jiang and Zhou, a pair of red jade pendants glowed faintly, flickering on and off, dispelling the chill.

After walking like this for another hour, a little bit of light gradually appeared in front of them.

"Not far from the exit!" Jiang Minghe reminded softly.

Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief.

Soon, the cave turned twice more, and the skylight projected from the front finally illuminated the last part of the journey.

Li Qing looked around and found many abstract patterns painted on the cave walls submerged in the water.

The pattern probably talks about wizards offering sacrifices to gods, but the sacrifice they use is a kind of red fruit.

"Could the fruit above be the red fruit?" Li Qing guessed.

"Crash..." The three of them pushed away the water and emerged from the other side of the stone pool.

As soon as he landed, Li Qing keenly discovered that there was no sun in the sky, but a white orb shining.

He secretly used the "Tianwei Gate" small magical power, and sure enough he found an extra secret realm brand that could be activated and left at any time.

"Have you entered a secret realm now?" He was very surprised. "Why did you swim all the way without feeling anything?"

Zhou Hanguang said: "Actually, the road we just walked was a pilgrimage into a secret realm. It was essentially a ritual similar to moving a magic circle."

Li Qing did not ask in detail, but looked around: "What about the Zhuguoshu?"

Jiang Minghe pointed to the back left, where there was a hill about a hundred feet tall: "On the back of that mountain, it hangs on the cliff wall."

Li Qing couldn't wait to fly by the wind, and he saw a strange fruit tree branching out from the rubble on the cliff.

The fruit tree was about one foot tall, all red, with branches as crystal clear as jade. It looked like coral, but it had emerald green leaves that rustled in the wind.

Among the red branches and green leaves, there are light red fruits, the size of dates, with a bit of green flavor, obviously not yet ripe.

There was only a fist-sized fruit growing on the top of the tree. It was red and purple, and glowed with a pale golden light under the skylight.

"Look, fellow Taoist, the top one is the red fruit that has been burning for thousands of years." Zhou Hanguang flew to Li Qing's side, "The rest of them have only recently grown."

Li Qing was a little puzzled: "Why did you keep this one alone?"

Zhou Hanguang pointed to the bottom of the cliff, where something seemed to have blasted a crack about a hundred feet long and three feet wide.

Near the cracks, there are countless holes, large and small. It can be seen that there have been fierce battles in recent years.

He explained somewhat happily: "This secret place was once occupied by two wild beasts, who regarded this red fruit as a forbidden treasure."

"Whenever a batch of these red fruits matures, they eat most of them, leaving a few. This is how we have these thousand-year-old red fruits."

Li Qing's eyebrows jumped: "This wild beast that grew up eating Zhuguo, I'm afraid it has the strength to form a pill?"

Jiang Minghe was a little complacent: "Of course not! Fortunately, they are not smart enough, so we used a little trick to provoke them to fight each other, and in the end both were injured, so we got the advantage."

"It's a pity that the fight between the two beasts was the disaster of the Zhuguo tree. The fruits originally hanging on it were almost destroyed. Only this thousand-year-old one was left."

Li Qing was a little envious when he heard this: "Does the wild beast still have remains? There are two pills in the "Lingxiao Pill Sutra" that require this precious spiritual material. "

Zhou Hanguang said with some regret: "Maybe it's a problem with the secret realm. As soon as the two wild beasts died, they disappeared into thin air, without even a drop of blood."

"That's a pity." Li Qing nodded and looked at the red fruit tree, "Then I wonder what's wrong with this tree, do you want me to help?"

Zhou Hanguang took him closer: "The problem is the root veins under the fruit tree. It was damaged by the two wild beasts and is now losing its vitality."

Li Qing leaned over to take a look, and there was indeed a dark red root as thick as an arm extending out, drooping on the stone wall, dripping crystal juice.

It can be seen that Jiang and Zhou have also taken many measures, but to no avail.

But the two of them were also smart, and simply hung a few small jade bottles below, so that the precious liquid dripping from the red fruit tree was not wasted at all.