"call!"

Immediately afterwards, a white flame, even more terrifying than the black flame, erupted from the core of the Dragon Ball.

"Master, be careful!"

"This...this is a chaotic flame rarely seen in the world!"

"It is a blazing flame that was born at the same time as the Chaos Stone, created by heaven and earth."

"This has transcended the essence of fire!"

The spirit medicine, who was not far away, immediately noticed something amiss.

He quickly reminded Ning Qi.

"oh?"

"So, am I lucky or unlucky?"

Ning Qi smiled upon hearing Yao Ling's words.

At this moment, he showed no fear whatsoever.

On the contrary, I felt very excited.

"Master, this may be related to your refining of the Fire Origin and your use of boundless evil energy!"

"Most importantly, you used my master's original Crimson Fire Immortal Technique!"

"This might be a key that, when combined, summons the almost extinct Chaos Flame."

Upon hearing Ning Qi's words, Yao Ling immediately began to analyze the situation.

"Never mind all that, since we're here, let's leave it here and let it be refined by me!"

Ning Qi waved his hand, and water ripples immediately began to spread around him.

They remained completely calm in the face of the white flames.

They immediately began refining it.

At first, the white flames were able to hold out against him for a while.

However, the water ripples continuously refracted its flames.

Its flames couldn't harm Ning Qi at all.

After several attempts, Ning Qi had become a master at utilizing water patterns.

He deliberately refracted the stronger part of the flame fluctuations to other places, while the weaker part...

It reflected back without fear, allowing him to continue refining it.

In this way, the white flames posed no threat to him whatsoever.

And so they continued their unbridled refining.

As he refined the flames, the white flames before him gradually weakened.

Time began to pass slowly.

After an unknown amount of time, Ning Qi had completely refined the Dragon Ball.

"call!"

He took a deep breath, and even that breath carried a hint of flame.

Flames also surged within his eyes.

Slowly stretching out his legs from the void, he turned his gaze to the black dragon beneath his feet.

"Come!"

Ning Qi simply waved at the black dragon's corpse.

The entire dragon suddenly swayed and floated up.

At a speed visible to the naked eye, it rapidly vanishes into nothingness.

Streaks of black starlight began to converge into Ning Qi's hands.

In the blink of an eye, a thousand-foot-long black dragon completely merged into Ning Qi's palm.

"come out!"

Immediately afterward, Ning Qi waved his hand, and a white dragon, only a few inches in size, reformed from his palm.

"Master, this is..."

Yao Ling had no idea what Ning Qi had done to condense a white dragon.

"The black dragon before was formed from the essence of fire."

"However, I believe that before this, the true form of the source of fire should have been this black dragon."

"Now that I have refined the source of fire, it naturally belongs to me."

"Now that I've also refined the Chaos Flame, it has naturally turned white!"

Ning Qi patiently explained to Yao Ling, then sighed and looked ahead.

At this moment, a passage appeared in front of them.

A ray of light descended from above.

Clearly, the light was shining down from upstairs, signaling him to go to the second floor.

"Master, should we still go?"

Yao Ling was already having second thoughts.

Just one layer is already difficult to deal with; if we go up there, who knows what other troubles might arise.

"Go! Why don't you go!"

"I've already had such a great opportunity on the first floor, what if I get an even greater opportunity if I go up?"

Ning Qi, on the other hand, was also very curious about the second floor, and as he spoke, he sped off towards the second floor.

In the blink of an eye, they had arrived in the glow of the sunset.

"Whoosh!"

Then, with a loud bang, Ning Qi disappeared from the spot.

When they reappeared, they were already on the second floor.

"call!"

He took a deep breath and looked at everything on the second floor.

Unlike the first floor, it has been a while since I was teleported here, but there is still no sign of me being teleported to the trial grounds.

"What happened?"

Not only Ning Qi, but even Yao Ling found it very strange.

Surprisingly, I wasn't teleported out after I came up.

"We can't teleport anymore. Look at this teleportation array; it's clearly been destroyed!"

Ning Qi quickly noticed something amiss and pointed to the teleportation array on the ground.

The formation has been broken, and even the spirit stones and spirit marrow on it have been taken away.

Clearly, there was no hope for the second level of the trial.

"What a pity."

Yao Ling looked at the destroyed teleportation array and couldn't help but show a look of regret.

But I was actually very happy.

He hated the trials; they were completely disrupting his treasure hunt.

"Let's go check out the third floor!"

"I was hoping to find something on the second floor, but it seems there's no hope!"

Ning Qi sighed and then walked up the stairs to the third floor.

"Master, look what they're saying!"

At this moment, Yao Ling was at the second-floor window, looking down at the doorway through the window lattice.

It was those few people who came up later.

Ning Qi became interested after hearing this and followed him to the window lattice, looking down.

"What do you think is the purpose of this trial ground?"

"Do we need to go in?"

A young man, who had just come out of the treasure pavilion across the street, looked at the Demon Locking Tower and asked a question.

"I don't know. According to the records, this place is actually a trial ground."

"There's a powerful demon on every floor!"

"I just don't know how strong they are!"

"This sect has been destroyed for who knows how long. Even if you pass the trial after entering, there are no rewards anymore!"

The other person shook his head and said, "Let's go, there's nothing left here."

"Then why don't we wait for the person who just came out and ask him what happened, since he's been inside for two hours?"

There was another person who clearly didn't want to leave just like that, and couldn't help but ask.

"I have a feeling that he is very likely dead inside."

The man sighed and continued, "To be called a Great Demon by a sect, one must be incredibly powerful."

"He just went in like that, he'll be skinned alive even if he doesn't die."

"Alright, let's go then."

"There's nothing left to look for here!"

"Yes, let's go!"

"..."

After discussing it, the group decided to leave.

"Master, that black dragon was actually a powerful demon from the first level of the Demon-Sealing Tower!"

"On just one level, there are powerful demons at the level of divine beasts. Anyone who can come here must be exceptionally strong!"

Yao Ling looked at Ning Qi and couldn't help but say something.

"Let's go up and see what's on the third floor."

"If we can win, we'll continue; if we can't, we'll retreat!"

Ning Qi also realized the trickery involved in each of these layers.

The source of fire is just an illusion; the truly powerful one is the black dragon.

If it weren't for a way to control myself, I probably would have had to leave this place by now.

"good!"

Hearing Ning Qi say this, Yao Ling felt relieved.

If you can't win, then retreat; that's the wise thing to do.

After he agreed, Ning Qi went straight to the stairwell.

We quickly reached the third floor.

"call!"

When we got to the third floor, it was still empty.

Like the second floor, the formation had also been destroyed, making teleportation impossible.

"Great! Now we can go to the fourth floor!"

Yao Ling clapped her hands and danced with joy.

"We were just lucky!"

"If we can go directly to the seventh floor, it means that a part of this inheritance will be ours!"

Ning Qi grinned and then turned his attention upstairs.

They continued upstairs with the medicine spirit.

The two quickly reached the fourth floor.

"Master, just like the two floors below, they've all been destroyed."

"Was this done on purpose?"

After arriving, Yao Ling went straight to the teleportation array and found that it, too, had been destroyed.

It's impossible to teleport there; in fact, the damage is even more severe than the two floors below.

"It's a real shame about those people downstairs. If they had joined forces and come up to the whole floor together..."

"Wouldn't it be much easier to climb up now!"

Ning Qi smiled and looked downstairs again.

Those people had already moved far away from the two towers and were heading back the way they came.

"They were just unlucky!"

The spirit of medicine smiled first, then continued, "Master, if the great demons on each level can be teleported, doesn't that mean the flame essence we just devoured... will be taken back?"

"No, I can feel that the power within me is still there!"

"The power of the fire source from just now is still under my control!"

Ning Qi shook his head, then continued, "It's very possible that each person who comes in is teleported to a different place."

"Who cares, as long as it's still there!"

"Why don't we just go down and come right back to check on the situation?"

Yao Ling thought for a moment, then decided to stop worrying about it and pointed upstairs: "Master, let's go. Let's go check out the fifth floor!"

"good!"

Ning Qi nodded, then led Yao Ling up toward the fifth floor.

When the two returned to the fifth floor, they discovered that the formation there had also been destroyed.

Moreover, this area was the most severely damaged; if it weren't for the walls of the Demon-Sealing Tower supporting it, this entire floor would have collapsed.

"continue."

Ning Qi glanced at it and went straight upstairs.

When I got to the sixth floor, I found that it was the same as the floors below.

Clearly, it was all deliberately sabotaged.

"Master, you mentioned the seventh level. Could it be that the inheritance has already been taken by someone else?"

"This place has been destroyed, and those upstairs are probably in grave danger."

When Yao Ling saw that the sixth floor had become like this, she immediately showed a look of disappointment.

If that's the case, then they've miscalculated.

It would be better to just leave here.

"Not necessarily. Let's go up and take a look!"

"Didn't the seventh floor say back down that no one has ever come up here?"

Ning Qi shook his head, revealing a resolute expression: "I think we need to be prepared this time!"

"Okay! Let's give it a try!"

After Yao Ling agreed, she followed.

The two quickly reached the last floor.

Upon reaching this floor, their eyes lit up.

It's no longer empty.

There is an altar against the wall, and a corpse on one side.

On the other side of the offering table was an ordinary wooden table, covered in dust.

There was nothing else besides that.

"Master, it seems this place is no longer of any value."

"The most valuable part is the first floor."

Yao Ling looked at everything before her and couldn't help but show a look of disappointment.

I never expected that this would be the case when I reached the last floor.

"Not necessarily, we'll have to see how it goes!"

Ning Qi did not give up and came to the offering table to look at the offerings on it.

Only an incense burner remained; everything else was gone.

There was also a broken memorial tablet.

Besides that, there were corpses not far away.

Ning Qi approached the corpse and carefully examined it.

His clothes were tattered and torn, leaving only a pile of bones.

Upon closer inspection, there is also a storage bag at the waist.

Ning Qi's eyes lit up, and he bent down to take down his storage bag.

When divine sense explored it, it was actually pushed out by an invisible force.

He wasn't given a chance to explore at all.

"Huh?"

Ning Qi let out a soft exclamation and once again activated his divine sense to continue exploring its interior.

However, this time he was still pushed out, without giving him a chance to investigate.

"Master, what's wrong?"

Seeing Ning Qi like this, Yao Ling curiously came over to check on him.

"This storage bag has restrictions."

"Let me see what's inside!"

Ning Qi smiled and then began to manipulate the water ripples.

Visible ripples of water began to flow into it, and in a short while, the restriction on the storage bag was broken.

As he explored it with his divine sense, he quickly discovered the clues.

Although there weren't many things in this storage bag, there was an ancient book inside.

Besides the ancient books, there was also a set of armor.

Ning Qi took it out directly.

First, go and read this ancient book.

He discovered that he didn't recognize the character either.

"Look, do you recognize him?"

Ning Qi handed it over to Yao Ling for research, while he focused his attention on the armor.

“Master, this ancient book is about formations and restrictions.”

"They have gathered all the array formations and restrictions in the world and categorized them."

"Once you've mastered it, there won't be any restrictive formation in the world that you can't break!"

"There's even an explanation of this armor set inside!"

Before Ning Qi could figure out what the armor was all about, Yao Ling explained it to him first.

"All the array formations and restrictions in the world?"

Ning Qi became interested immediately after hearing what Yao Ling said.

"Yes, but I need to explain the text to you."

"Give me some time. After I've explained everything clearly, you can watch it!"

Yao Ling nodded, then pointed to his armor and said, "Next, I'll explain the origin of this armor!"

"Alright, you can translate the restrictions later."

"Give it to me all at once after you've figured it out!"

Ning Qi now understands just how useful it is to have an ancient medicinal spirit.

"Okay!"

Yao Ling readily agreed.

He was also happy that he could be of use.

"So, what's the deal with this set of armor?"

Ning Qi pointed to the armor in his hand and then asked. (End of Chapter)