Chapter 201 Mystery
Although both are secret realms of caves and heavens, the value of the ancient ruins is far greater than that of ordinary secret realms.
An ordinary secret realm contains nothing more than some rare herbs and minerals.
In theory, anything can be obtained from ancient ruins, including various ancient elixirs, talismans, magical instruments, and precious ancient martial arts inheritances.
After seeing the obviously man-made buildings in the fog, Li Yu immediately walked over.
However, just as he approached a palace, he seemed to have touched something and was suddenly pushed away by a gentle force.
"Array?"
There was a slight flash of light in Li Yu's eyes, and he activated the Qi-gazing technique and saw a thick protective formation outside the palace. What surprised him even more was that Li Yu was not familiar with this formation.
Not only did he not recognize it, even using the Qi-gazing technique, he could not see the core of the formation.
It’s not that the Qi-gazing technique has failed, but that the formation is so integrated that there is no center at all.
Although Li Yu's attainments in formations are not high, his knowledge in formations is very broad.
There is almost no formation in the current world of immortal cultivation, no matter whether it is commonly used or unconventional, that he does not know. Most of the formations in the current world of immortal cultivation are inherited from the previous era. The characteristic of the formations of the previous era is that no matter how strong or weak the formation is, every formation has an eye.
The formation in front of us is a seamless whole, without any weaknesses. If we want to enter the formation, we can only break it by force.
Li Yu used all his magic power to circulate and bombard the formation.
This time, the recoil force from the formation was even greater.
All the strength that Li Yu used to attack the formation was returned to him.
The power of the Nine Transformations of the Five Spiritual Veins Golden Elixir is enough to kill any Golden Elixir-stage cultivator in the current world of immortal cultivation. Even Li Yu himself could not bear it. His figure flew backwards dozens of feet. After landing, the blood in his body was still surging, and an abnormal blush appeared on his face.
There was a hint of surprise in his eyes.
Not only does this formation have no eye, it can also rebound any attacks it receives. It has far surpassed the formation level of today's immortal cultivation world and is most likely a product of the previous era, or even earlier.
However, this more ancient relic has hardly been discovered in this era, which has also led to the fact that the current cultivation world knows very little about things before the previous era.
After just one test, Li Yu realized that this formation could not be broken by him alone.
If you want to break the formation violently, you need a stronger force.
Either he could find a way to meet up with the demon girl first, and then the two of them could try it together, or he could wait for Wu Tong and Chen Ming to lead the disciples of the Sun and Moon Sect over. Only those below the Nascent Soul stage could enter this place. Before entering this secret realm of the cave, Li Yu had already informed Wu Tong that they should be on the way.
Li Yu tried to contact the demon girl and could feel that she was very far away from him, at least more than a hundred miles away.
This ancient relic is terribly large, the largest of all the secret realms Li Yu has ever seen. Even the Kunlun Cave Heaven and the Tiandao Secret Realm are not so large.
A distance of a hundred miles is nothing for a Jindan stage cultivator, but this place is filled with thick spiritual fog, and you can't see anything beyond ten feet. I don't know what dangers are hidden, so it's better to be careful.
Without notifying the witch, Li Yu gently stretched out his hand and touched an invisible barrier.
The martial arts energy in his body circulated, and with the added power, the formation remained motionless.
With his strength, he had no way to deal with this flawless formation. Just when Li Yu was planning to go somewhere else to collect elixirs, the Qiankun Furnace in his body suddenly produced a strange fluctuation.
Li Yu's heart moved slightly, and he input his magic power into the Qiankun Furnace.
This furnace has been repaired for more than half and has not shown any abnormalities, but it has a special reaction to this formation.
Li Yu continuously inputted magic power. At a certain moment, a force was fed back from the Qiankun furnace and entered Li Yu's body.
As the power poured in, Li Yu's body shook and he actually entered the formation directly.
He looked forward and the formation was still there.
Just now he came directly from outside the formation.
Li Yu stood inside the formation and stretched out his hand, touching the barrier again. He sent his magic power into the Qiankun furnace. After a moment, when the strange power appeared, he came out of the formation again.
After going in and out several times, Li Yu finally confirmed that the power pouring into his body from the Qiankun Furnace had the effect of directly passing through the formation without destroying it.
Although I don’t know how it did it, the most important thing right now is to see what is inside this palace protected by the formation.
From this formation, we can guess that this ancient relic should have existed before the last era. Generally speaking, a lot of good things can be found in such places.
Outside the formation is misty spiritual energy.
Inside the formation, the view is very clear.
Under Li Yu's feet was a ground paved with jade of the same specifications. The ground was spotless and Li Yu could even see his own shadow clearly.
It is unknown how many years this relic has existed, but because of the protection of the formation, everything here looks like it was newly built.
Within this large protective formation, there are dozens of small palaces. Outside each palace, there is a separate formation. These formations are also integrated and have no flaws.
Li Yu passed through the formation and walked into a palace-like building.
He first walked into the main hall in front of him, which was obviously a residence. Inside was a jade bed, a screen, a cabinet, etc. On the jade bed, there was an undone brocade quilt. On the screen were hung women's clothes, including a pink bellyband and a pair of hollow lace panties.
This is obviously a woman's boudoir. Judging from the style of the bellyband and the lace panties, women of that era not only had extremely high aesthetic standards, but also had more open-minded ideas than they do now.
It is hard to believe that this hall, which is so clean and tidy, is a relic from tens of thousands of years ago.
It seemed that a quarter of an hour ago, there were still people living in the temple.
As Li Yu walked in, a breeze blew.
As the breeze blew, everything in the hall, including the jade bed, screen, cabinet, and brocade quilt, quickly became decayed and then turned into ashes. In an instant, only the empty hall and the dust on the ground were left.
It seemed as if in just a moment, tens of thousands of years had passed here.
After being stunned for a moment, Li Yu walked into the hall and found that there was nothing in the .
He went to take a look at a few side halls. The scenes there also looked like people had lived there not long ago. However, as long as Li Yu got close, the slight fluctuations in the air would destroy everything here.
Everything here has existed for too long. Beneath the seemingly bright appearance, it has long since decayed into ashes. Any disturbance will lead to the current result.
Li Yu spent almost an hour to tour all the palaces here.
He gained nothing in this hour.
He did see some magic weapons and fairy clothes in some palaces, but as long as Li Yu got close, those things would shatter into ashes. Even these magic weapons from ancient times could not withstand the ravages of tens of thousands of years without special means of preservation.
An hour passed, and Li Yu's mind was full of mysteries.
Where have all the people here gone?
From the situation in these palaces, it is not difficult to see that the female cultivators living here left in a hurry. They did not even fold their quilts. Some of their underwear was randomly scattered everywhere. They left in a hurry without even having time to put them away, and never came back...
If it was just one person, it could be explained as an accident.
But these dozens of palaces, without exception, are all in a similar situation.
What happened tens of thousands of years ago that turned this mountain into an uninhabited place?
No one could give him an answer.
After coming out of the formation, Li Yu, who had gained nothing, planned to look somewhere else.
He vaguely felt that this secret cave might be hiding a secret from two eras ago.
At this moment, in the cave shrouded in misty spiritual energy, countless Jindan powerhouses were busy.
This secret cave realm, which was discovered for the first time, is extremely rich in resources. A large number of precious spiritual herbs and medicines are growing everywhere like weeds. These foreign Jindan powerhouses are madly absorbing spiritual energy of this place while harvesting these spiritual herbs and medicines.
Some people also discovered ancient ruins hidden in the fog. They were overjoyed and began to attack frantically to break the formation. However, not only did they fail to break the formation, they were hurt by it instead.
Of course, what is happening in this cave at this moment is much more than just this.
On a certain plain, a Jindan demon cultivator and a disciple of the Soul Refining Sect had a fierce battle over a rare spiritual medicine.
Although this demon cultivator was stronger, the Soul Refining Sect's Jindan stage genius, who was assisted by a spirit ghost comparable to the Jindan stage, was quickly defeated and could only escape into the spiritual mist.
The genius of the Soul Refining Sect picked the elixir, but before he could put it into his storage ring, he suddenly lowered his head and a bloody hand stretched out from his lower abdomen.
In that palm, there was a blood-stained golden pill.
He turned around with difficulty and looked at the figure behind him, his eyes wide open, but quickly all the light in them disappeared.
The figure put away the golden elixir, took a deep breath, and sucked the spirit ghost that was about to escape into his body. He closed his eyes for a moment, then slowly opened them and walked in a certain direction...
In a valley somewhere, a dazzling white light shot out from a silver mirror in the hand of a young man. Wherever the white light passed, a golden elixir demon cultivator instantly disappeared into the void, leaving only a demon elixir with five lines on it, falling to the ground.
The young man waved his hand, and the demon pill flew into his hand.
The young man put away the demon pill and said to himself: "I don't know where Li Yu was teleported to. Don't let others kill you first..."
