After Xue Kong understood all the formations in the Palace of the Earth, these formations no longer posed a threat to him. In fact, as long as he wanted, these formations were still under his control and became his means.
"It's a pity that the formation here cannot be taken out, otherwise, I would be second only to the first person in Jingwu Kingdom and above everyone else." Xue Kong thought about it, and suddenly shook his head and laughed. He was really too greedy.
Being able to improve your formation skills here is already a great fortune.
How could I possibly take away the formation left behind by this Nascent Soul cultivator? This is simply wishful thinking.
Having understood all the formations, Xue Kong had nothing to worry about. As he walked, he came to a huge door. The door was made of ice and emitted a thick cold air.
Looking at it, Xue Kong's expression became more solemn than ever before: "Behind this door is where the treasure is hidden, but... this is a door of death. I can't take the risk of opening it."
"I don't know how long it has been since I came to the Underworld. There must be cultivators in the outside world who haven't left yet."
Xue Kong's solemn expression relaxed slightly. Although he couldn't open the door himself, he could ask someone else to do it. So, Xue Kong turned around and left.
Before leaving, he closed all the formations in the Underground Palace, then walked out of the Underground Palace and stood in the snow.
He took out a blank jade slip from his storage bag, placed it between his eyebrows, and with a thought, he clearly imprinted the existence and location of the Underworld Palace on the jade slip.
The Heavenly Sword carried Xue Kong high into the sky.
Galloping away.
The wind was howling in the sky covered with snow.
A foundation-building monster with long wings was looking for food. Suddenly, it saw a cultivator coming towards it. It immediately showed a ferocious look and opened its bloody mouth, ready to swallow Xue Kong to fill its stomach.
Xue Kong raised one hand and pointed at the monster. The huge pressure suppressed the monster and made it unable to move.
Immediately afterwards, Xue Kong held the Heavenly Sword and cut a bloody wound in the abdomen of the demon beast in the early stage of foundation building. Ignoring its desperate struggle, he stuffed the jade slip into the wound.
Xue Kong clasped his hands together and cast a bright spell on the wound, preventing it from healing. Moreover, under the spell, the wound and the jade slip inside it emitted a bright light.
"Go." After doing all this, Xue Kong let the monster leave.
Xue Kong followed the same method and captured more than a dozen monsters in a row. He hid jade slips in their abdomens and cast spells on them, making them fly to various places on the Demon Island.
As long as someone encounters the monster and sees the jade slip in its belly, they will come here.
After doing all this, Xue Kong returned to the outside of the Underworld Palace. Under the snow, he used the earth escape technique to escape hundreds of meters underground. He sat cross-legged, waiting for the arrival of the cultivator.
Deep underground, Xue Kong took a deep breath and scanned the storage bag with his spiritual sense.
During this period of time, he killed many cultivators and robbed their things. Now he has accumulated quite a few treasures and spirit stones. As for the miscellaneous items, Xue Kong threw them away casually.
A blood-colored cauldron was taken out by Xue Kong.
The cauldron was the size of a palm and looked bloody in color, but in fact, it did not have any bloody smell.
This is the furnace used by Gu He to make elixirs.
Xue Kong felt the scorching heat on this alchemy furnace. He imprinted his spiritual consciousness on it and immediately established a connection with it in his heart.
"A second-grade alchemy furnace isn't considered a valuable treasure, but besides refining pills, it also has an offensive method... Unfortunately, my cultivation has reached the late stage of foundation building, so this offensive method seems a bit weak to me."
Xue Kong shook his head slightly. This blood-colored furnace was of little use to him.
He knew nothing about the art of alchemy and had no intention of spending time on it in the future. With his natural talent, he hardly needed any elixirs and could quickly improve his cultivation.
And once the time comes when you have to take the pill, just go and grab it.
Xue Kong devoted himself to the path of immortality, and he no longer cared much about the words benevolence, righteousness, and morality. He could even ignore any life other than his own.
As long as it is beneficial to longevity, he will take it and use it for himself.
After putting away the blood-colored furnace, Xue Kong took out another magic weapon, which was a giant axe. It belonged to the bald body-refining monk and was no longer of much use to him.
Xue Kong casually threw it into the corner of the storage bag.
After scanning the storage bag, Xue Kong finally realized that the magic weapons he could use were really limited.
After all, his cultivation level improved too quickly, and the only magic weapons suitable for his late foundation-building stage were the three mid-grade earth-level Heavenly Swords.
"The highest level of the Smoke and Cloud Heavenly Creation Method can be used to refine a Heavenly Supreme Grade Magical Treasure. I have learned it and can indeed give it a try. Unfortunately, I lack important refining materials. I can only search for them in the Heavenly Palace. Perhaps I will find something."
Just as Xue Kong was about to look away, he suddenly saw a purple pill in the corner of the storage bag, which made him feel very familiar.
"Is this... the Good Fortune Pill?" His eyes lit up. He had swallowed one before, so he was very familiar with it.
After thinking about it carefully, he even forgot from whose storage bag he got this Creation Pill.
But that doesn't matter.
"Now is not the best time to swallow it, let's put it aside for now." Xue Kong put the Creation Pill away. He is now in the late stage of foundation building on the seventh level of the Taoist platform.
If he absorbed all of the Creation Pill, he felt that he could condense the eighth-level Dao Platform, but he was not sure how long it would take.
He simply took out some spirit stones, sat cross-legged on the ground, closed his eyes and slowly breathed in and out.
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and the days pass by.
Xue Kong sat under the snow for three days and absorbed hundreds of spirit stones, but no cultivator arrived. He even began to doubt whether there were other cultivators on this Demon Island besides himself.
"The Gan Mansion is exposed. It's impossible for them all to leave..."
"I've captured over a dozen demonic beasts in a row, so it's impossible that I haven't encountered a single cultivator. Yet, I haven't seen anyone yet. What's going on?"
"Huh? Are you here?"
Xue Konghuo raised his head, his sight seemed to be able to penetrate the earth and snow, and see the scenery in the sky. In his sight, there was a long rainbow rushing towards him in the distant sky.
In the long rainbow, a young monk in Taoist robes was flying. In his right hand, he was holding a jade slip with dried blood stains.
"This should be the place. I wonder who placed this jade slip under the belly of the monster. Although I don't know its meaning, I'm afraid no one would have thought that the Demon Lord Baofu has more than two caves on this Earth Demon Island!"
The young man's eyes flashed, and a smile spread across his eyes. "That Gan Mansion is too dangerous. According to those who were scared away by the first level, those who enter will almost die. It doesn't seem like a place where treasures are hidden at all."
"Thank goodness I was cautious enough, otherwise I would have turned into a skeleton by now."
"Is this new cave called... the Earth Palace? I'll go in and take a look myself. If it's as dangerous as the Dry Palace, I'll leave immediately. If it hides treasures like the Branch Palace, then it's heaven's help!"
The young man galloped forward and soon saw a snow palace in the snow ahead that was almost blended into the snow.
He immediately became excited and rushed over at a faster pace, his eyes bright: "It is exactly the same as in the jade slip!"
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