Lei Gong took Li Yuanba, Palace Master Feng and Great Monk Ren Mu and used space movement to escape from the closed crater.
After leaving the crater, we returned to the area separated by countless restrictions, which was enough to trap any peak monk.
But Lei Gong is not a top-level great cultivator. His ability has reached the half-step great power level, which makes the restrictions he faces here extremely weak.
Lei Gong moved through space several times and forcibly led the three people out of the area with dark sea water.
Palace Master Feng and Great Monk Ren Mu only felt that the spiritual power in their bodies was no longer suppressed and their strength was back. This feeling made them feel relieved.
The loss of the strength that they were proud of made the two of them extremely uneasy.
"Feng Fairy, did you succeed?" Li Yuanba asked Palace Master Feng.
He was so focused on saving people that he didn't even bother with the secret treasure. He only remembered it at this moment.
"This is a fire-type secret treasure. If Fellow Daoist Li needs it, I am willing to give it to him!" Palace Master Feng took out the secret treasure and held it in front of Li Yuanba with both hands and said.
She really wanted to do so. If Li Yuanba had not intervened, she would have fallen into the crater by now.
You have to know that at that time she had used up all the powerful things that could save her life, and she was only one step away from death.
"Please put it away. I hope we can all become powerful!" Li Yuanba waved his hand and said with a smile.
The Phoenix Palace Master smiled slightly and put away the secret treasure.
With this secret treasure, she had more confidence in her promotion to a powerful being.
"What is this ancient relic used for?" asked Master Ren Mu, looking at the dark sea area.
This is undoubtedly an ancient relic, but this ancient relic is too strange. Even though there are three top monks from three super powers who have access to very high-level classics, they still cannot figure out the purpose of this ancient relic.
"Friend Li, Friend Ren, do you plan to stay and explore, or leave?" Palace Master Feng got the treasure she wanted, but she didn't want to take any more risks, so she asked.
You can't blame her. The danger just now left her with lingering fears. This was the closest she had ever been to death.
As a female cultivator, and a female cultivator from the Luanfeng Palace at that, she encountered very few dangers in the world of immortal cultivation.
"I'm afraid that except for Fellow Daoist Li, neither the fairy nor I have the ability to explore this ancient relic!" Great Monk Ren Mu said with a wry smile and shook his head.
He still had self-knowledge. The ancient ruins were fine before they were activated, but after they were activated, the level of danger was so great that he was not able to explore it.
He has a very clear mind about what can be done and what cannot be done. It is precisely because of this clear understanding that he has been able to survive to this day.
"I'll let Lei Gong go in and take a look at the situation!" Li Yuanba said after thinking for a while.
The ancient ruins are right before our eyes, and we would be sorry if we didn’t explore them.
In today's world of immortal cultivation, it is extremely rare to find ancient ruins that have never been explored.
Moreover, even if ancient ruins appeared, the monks who discovered them would treasure them for themselves. How could they make them public?
"Lei Gong, is it taken from the name of Lei Gong in mythology, or is this the Lei Gong?" Palace Master Feng looked at Lei Gong and then asked Li Yuanba.
Lei Gong stood there, his body exuding aura of thunder and lightning without any concealment.
When Palace Master Feng heard Li Yuanba call him Thunder God, he thought of the Thunder God in mythology.
It’s no wonder that she suspected that this Thunder God was the Thunder God in mythology. A Thunder God at the half-step great power level, if placed in mythology, is high enough to be called a god.
"I named it Lei Gong!" Li Yuanba explained vaguely.
When Palace Master Feng heard that Li Yuanba did not want to mention Lei Gong in detail, she closed her mouth and did not ask any more questions.
"Please keep it a secret for me. I don't want to get into trouble because of Thunder God!" Li Yuanba then bowed slightly to Palace Master Feng and Great Monk Ren Mu and asked.
"This is what we should do. If it weren't for the intervention of Thunder God, we would all have died here!" Palace Master Feng and Great Monk Ren Mu agreed without any hesitation.
"Thank you both very much!" Li Yuanba said with a smile.
Lei Gong did not need him to control him with his mind. The real body Li Shiming in the distance separated a brain and controlled Lei Gong personally.
Lei Gong's figure flashed and entered the dark sea area again. Looking at the dark sea area from the outside, nothing could be seen at all.
However, once you enter the dark sea area, you can find activated ancient ruins. Countless ancient rune restrictions have formed a huge ancient rune restriction in the sea water.
Even though countless tens of thousands of years have passed, this ancient relic can still completely suppress the top monks.
I just don’t know how powerful the restrictions here were when this ancient relic was in its heyday.
That is to say, Lei Gong's realm is too high and he is not suppressed by the ancient ruins, so it is possible to explore this place.
Without a half-step powerful being to take action, even if there were hundreds of peak great monks, they would not be able to play any role here.
Once entering the ancient ruins, the only difference between a peak great monk and an ordinary mortal is the difference in physique. However, for a peak great monk without spiritual power, the difference is only a few more bites for the guarding beasts of the ancient ruins.
Lei Gong took a look and finally chose the crater.
All the restrictions are carried out around the crater, which may be an important node.
Lei Gong used space movement, constantly flashing in the restriction, and soon returned to the crater.
The crater is still closed because of the loss of the secret treasure.
Lei Gong walked downward along the crater. After walking a hundred meters, he could faintly see the fiery red magma below. With the light of the fiery red magma, he could see a transparent section of the walls of the volcano's exit passage.
In this section of the crater passage with transparent walls, underground facilities built around the crater can be vaguely seen.
Lei Gong came to the transparent wall and reached out to touch it. He could determine from his perception that this was also constructed through ancient prohibitions, which could block the high-temperature sea water from the crater.
Lei Gong's hand was blocked, and it seemed that this transparent restriction did not allow any life to pass through.
But such a ban cannot stop the Thunder God at all.
Lei Gong's figure flashed, and he moved directly to the other side of the transparent wall.
The temperature around was a little chilly, no longer as hot as before in the crater passage. Even though the hot crater was close at hand, there was not a trace of heat coming from the crater.
Lei Gong released his senses and observed the environment he was in.
The ground was paved with a fourth-grade spiritual jade with complex patterns painted on it.
Li Shiming, who controls Lei Gong, lets IBM z15 record the complex patterns on the ground into the database.
This is a genuine ancient rune. Although he doesn't know much about ancient runes, it is still very rare to find such ancient runes without any protection in the ancient ruins of the immortal world.
In places where ancient runes are normally engraved, the ancient runes will be hidden, or more complex runes will be added to make the real ancient runes hidden.
Through Lei Gong's perception, he knew what the ancient runes on the ground were for.
The ancient runes engraved on the fourth-grade spiritual jade on the ground are used to extract energy from the magma.
Lei Gong sensed that in the energy channel constructed by the ancient runes on the ground, a steady stream of energy was being drawn from the crater and input into the ancient ruins.
To be honest, the ancient runes on the ground alone make this harvest worthwhile.
It is different from the current world of immortal cultivation. The large-scale formations set up in the current world of immortal cultivation all need the help of spiritual energy to be set up.
Generally speaking, large-scale formations are arranged on spirit veins, so that they can continuously draw spiritual energy from the spirit veins to meet the consumption of the large formation.
Although small formations do not require spiritual veins for support, they do absorb spiritual energy from the void through the formations to support their consumption.
However, this ancient relic uses the power of nature to transform energy. The ancient runes engraved on the fourth-grade spiritual jade have this function.
If one really studies the ancient runes here thoroughly, one can completely use the power of nature to supply the operation of large formations in places where there is no spiritual energy.
There are many applications for this technology, but it still requires a lot of research.
It didn't take much time to record the ancient runes on the ground.
After finishing his inspection of the ancient runes, Lei Gong's attention was focused on a portal.
Lei Gong came to the gate but did not choose to destroy it violently.
Previously, it was because the Lord of Feng Palace took the treasure of heaven that this ancient relic was activated.
Lei Gong didn't know whether it would cause greater trouble if the portal was really destroyed.
Lei Gong looked at the portal carefully. There were also ancient runes on the portal, but they were only faintly visible. This showed that anti-cracking operations had been done. At least the current IBM z15 did not have a sufficient database to support the cracking of the ancient runes.
It was confirmed that the restriction on the portal could not be broken, at least not in a short period of time.
Lei Gong no longer hesitated. His figure flashed and he used space movement again. This time, Lei Gong moved a very short distance and appeared inside the portal.
The white floor, the white walls, the transparent partitions, and the golden energy chains in the partitions locked up a spirit beast that had never been seen before.
The portal through which Lei Gong passed turned into thick stone pillars, supporting this white space.
Lei Gong walked around the thick stone pillar and found that there was such a partition every ten meters. There were densely packed in the entire space, with a total of 108 transparent partitions.
The transparent partitions were arranged according to the Heavenly Branches and Earthly Branches, forming a seemingly chaotic but orderly formation around the thick stone pillars.
Through the perception of Thunder God, Li Shiming was surprised to find that the spirit beasts in the 108 transparent partitions still had life breath.
Looking closely at these spirit beasts, they are all worm-like spirit beasts.
The grades of these spirit beasts are all late fourth grade. After discovering this, Li Shiming felt his scalp tingling.
One hundred and eight fourth-grade late-stage spiritual beasts, and who knows how many tens of thousands of years they have existed.
Any spiritual beast here could cause a lot of trouble if released outside.
Lei Gong's realm is too high, so even though he doesn't have 'divine eyes', he can detect subtle energy fluctuations just by relying on perception.
It discovered that the spirit beasts in the 108 transparent partitions were having their vitality drained away.
The life force extracted from the bodies of one hundred and eight fourth-grade late-stage spirit beasts was transported upward through one hundred and eight energy transmission channels.
Although we don't know the species of these 108 fourth-grade late-stage spirit beasts, one thing is certain, that is, the vitality of these fourth-grade late-stage spirit beasts is extremely strong.
He even had a guess as to whether this fourth-grade late-stage spiritual beast might be immortal.
Otherwise, after tens of thousands of years of having their vitality drained away, these one hundred and eight fourth-grade late-stage spirit beasts still would not have died.
Or maybe there is a method that can automatically replace a fourth-grade late-stage spirit beast. After the vitality of a fourth-grade late-stage spirit beast is exhausted, it will be automatically replaced.
But this would be more complicated, as we would also need a system to cultivate fourth-grade late-stage spirit beasts.
"Let's see where the vitality is being supplied to first!" Li Shiming thought to himself, controlling Lei Gong to perform space movement.
In this ancient relic filled with various prohibitions, even an ordinary half-step great power who comes here can only honestly find the correct passage.
But Lei Gong is different. Lei Gong, who is at the half-step great power level, is naturally able to control the power of space. He can ignore most formations and restrictions when he uses space movement.
This is not surprising. With the spatial control ability of a half-step great power, isn't it normal to ignore the restrictions of only the peak great monk level?
Lei Gong used spatial movement to force his way through the ceiling and partitions above his head.
It appeared in a huge formation, and just by coming here, it felt the rich breath of life force.
What flows in the huge formation is not normal energy, but life force.
In the center of the huge formation, there is a crystal bed, on top of which a monk is sleeping.
The reason why it is called a cultivator rather than a corpse is because the life force in the huge formation is constantly nourishing the crystal-bound cultivator, making the cultivator's body always have a vague vitality.
As long as the monk has vitality, he is alive. This applies to any living thing or plant.
Lei Gong did not rashly disturb the monks in the center. Now he understood the purpose of this ancient relic, which was to keep the monks alive.
Perhaps this was an experiment conducted by some ancient cultivator, and the experiment was successful. He used the vitality of one hundred and eight fourth-grade late-stage spirit beasts to maintain his own vitality.
Lei Gong sensed the formation, and at the same time IBMz15 began to analyze and study the formation.
Even though the ancient formations are different from the current ones, the inheritance of the formations has not been completely cut off, and we can still judge the situation of the formation through some details.
After a period of analysis by IBMz15, it was concluded that the function of this formation was to utilize other life forces to nourish the monks, allowing their bodies to achieve immortality.
Extracting the vitality of other lives to maintain one's own vitality is somewhat like a method of magic, but in fact, whether it is magic, Taoism or Buddhism, they all have similar methods.