Chapter 653 Ruby Beehive
Red magma erupted, the entire sky was covered in black smoke, and the light suddenly dimmed.
The volcano that just erupted, the dark mountain was covered with hot magma. The magma flowed slowly down, gradually cooled, and re-accumulated into the charred black surface of the ground.
On the snake-headed spirit boat, Li Qing waved his hand slightly, and the magic power in his body rippled away, blocking the hot breath in the air.
After watching the magnificent scene of the volcanic eruption, Li Qing turned his attention to the center of the volcano group.
There is a huge pit surrounded by many volcanoes. It is bottomless inside. If you just look at it with the naked eye, you can't see anything at all.
The entire cave entrance is very large, as vast as a huge mountain.
"Senior Li, this is the Fire Cliff Cave. Once you enter, you will see that the paths inside extend in all directions and are full of dangers." Cao Xiu explained.
After observing for a while, Li Qing nodded silently.
“Well, let’s follow the route recorded on your map and take a look.”
Naturally, Li Qing would not believe the route recorded on the scroll, but entered the Fire Cliff Cave with an exploratory attitude.
But now he is also a monk who has completed the alchemy stage. Even if there is any danger, he is confident that he can easily deal with it.
For example, the hive of the Fire Jade Bee is a fatal danger to other casual cultivators once they encounter it.
But if Li Qing bumps into him, he will definitely try to conquer the Fire Jade Bee Queen!
He is naturally extremely jealous of such spiritual insects. Once he really has control over them, it means that he will have another method that he can rely on in the future.
If he cultivates it carefully enough, even if he becomes a Nascent Soul stage monk in the future, he will be able to play a big role.
In addition to fighting enemies, the Fire Jade Bee also produces a spiritual substance called Fire Origin Slurry, which is of great benefit to monks who practice Fire Dao techniques.
Of course, the fire source pulp is also divided into qualities, which is related to the strength level of the Fire Jade Bee.
If Li Qing can cultivate the queen of the Fire Jade Bee into a fourth-level or even fifth-level spirit insect, then the top-quality fire source slurry brewed by him will definitely be a real world treasure.
In this way, with these beautiful thoughts and ideas, Li Qing led Cao Xiu into the Fire Cliff Cave.
Just as they got close to the edge, the two of them felt a surge of hot air rushing towards their faces.
But fortunately, with Li Qing's resistance, these scorching gases were nothing.
Deeping deep into the Fire Cliff Cave, Cao Xiu took out the scroll he obtained from the secret auction and followed the route recorded above and began to go deep into it.
The darkness around them did not pose much hindrance to the two of them. Li Qing's consciousness was released and he easily absorbed the surrounding environment into his sea of consciousness.
Before he walked very far, Li Qing truly understood how complicated the path inside this fire cliff cave was.
Each passage inside is connected to the other three passages. Once you step into one of the passages, you will find that there are three passages in front of you again.
By analogy, this constitutes the extremely complex route of the entire Fire Cliff Cave. Even monks in the foundation building stage will easily lose their bearings when entering it.
"If there is no clear route, you may even find yourself back at the entrance of the cave you came in while walking." Cao Xiu sighed deeply.
Li Qing did not reply, he touched the surrounding cave walls with his hands.
These cave walls are not simple either. Different from the rough stone walls as imagined, the cave walls here are somewhat smooth, and the texture when touched is like stroking a thick layer of warm jade.
Along the way, neither of them encountered any danger worth mentioning, which meant that the temperature in the surrounding air became increasingly hotter.
It seems that the route recorded in the map Cao Xiu obtained from the secret auction seems to be correct.
While Li Qing was thinking this, suddenly, there was a buzzing sound from the hole below!
Buzz! Buzz!
The sound sounds like a large number of bees flapping their wings at the same time, and the noise is extremely harsh!
"It's the Fire Jade Bee!" Cao Xiu shrank his neck subconsciously, the pain from the fire poison still lingering in his heart.
But Li Qing's eyes lit up. Isn't the purpose of his trip just for these spiritual insects?
So why would he give up?
Immediately, Li Qing strode towards the passage where the buzzing sound came from. He planned to use these Fire Jade Bees to find the location of the hive.
While turning left and right, the sound of the Fire Jade Bee's wings finally became extremely clear.
The next moment, after turning around the passage in front of him, Li Qing found a large group of crimson fire jade bees gathered together, forming a red ball-like thing.
Before Li Qing could make a move, these Fire Jade Bees pounced directly on Li Qing.
"So ferocious, stinging everyone?"
After seeing this, Li Qing raised his eyebrows slightly, and was also shocked by the temperament of these Fire Jade Bees.
But he was not panicked, but calmly stretched out his left hand.
From Li Qing's palm, clouds of cold, blazing white fireworks erupted, instantly forming a white wall of fire in front of him.
All the Fire Jade Bees were like moths to the flame, turning a blind eye and rushing toward the wall of fire formed by Li Qing's release of Netherworld Cold Fire.
Li Qing originally thought that these Fire Jade Bees would be burned to pieces immediately, but the result was far beyond his expectation.
Every fire jade bee stayed in the wall of fire, and actually began to absorb the cold fire of the netherworld!
Soon, he thought of the records related to the Fire Jade Bee in "The Record of Strange Insects of Heaven and Earth".
This bee feeds on spiritual objects containing fire essence, and the true essence of monks who practice fire techniques is its favorite nutrient.
"It's interesting. It seems that these Fire Jade Bees have a strong restraint effect on the monks who practice the fire technique."
Li Qing muttered to himself, then sneered:< br>
"But this is not an ordinary ordinary fire, but a cold fire from the underworld that can directly kill the spiritual body!"
After finishing his words, Li Qing held it with one hand.
boom!
The wall of fire formed by the cold fire of the netherworld suddenly shrank, and its temperature and atmosphere became a bit colder.
Immediately afterwards, there was a crisp sound from the ground, like big beads and small beads falling on a jade plate.
Crackling!
All the Fire Jade Bees that had just swallowed the cold fire of the netherworld fell to the ground, and they could no longer die.
The spiritual fire of heaven and earth is not so easy to refine. After the cold fire of the underworld was swallowed up by it, it has not completely disconnected from Li Qing.
And Li Qing immediately activated these cold fires from the underworld to directly target the spirit bodies of all the Fire Jade Bees, instantly wiping out the consciousness of all the Fire Jade Bees.
Just like this, a large number of Fire Jade Bees with their bodies intact were lying on the ground, but they were motionless. They were dead and could no longer die.
Li Qing casually picked up the body of a Fire Jade Bee, and then exerted slight pressure on his fingertips.
Click!
The jade-like body of the Fire Jade Bee was instantly shattered.
After all, they are just some low-level spiritual insects. No matter how magical they are, their bodies can only be broken by a touch.
"It seems that the Fire Jade Bee Queen in the hive is just a second-order spiritual insect, otherwise the Fire Jade Bee will not be so weak after hatching." There are some rumors. The powerful Fire Jade Bee Queen can even lay some eggs that can hatch into the Fire Jade Queen Bee. Each one has extremely strong combat power and can even rival third-level monsters.
But if you want to cultivate it to that level, you have to spend a lot of resources, and let the queen swallow a lot of high-quality fire elf creatures.
After feeling slightly relieved, Li Qing continued to go deeper into the cave with Cao Xiu behind him.
"The road in front of Senior Li has deviated very far from the route recorded on the scroll," Cao Xiu said with some anxiety. He was worried that the two of them would get lost on the road.
However, Li Qing chuckled and said:
“The reason why it is so easy for people to get lost in the Fire Cliff Cave is because the strange cave walls here will make all spiritual power disappear. The marks are all assimilated into one, and any spiritual marks left will disappear immediately."
"But just now, I discovered that the cave wall here will not assimilate the fire I left."
Snap!
After speaking, Li Qing snapped his fingers.
With this crisp sound of snapping fingers, on the road passing behind them, blazing white flames suddenly lit up, like white lights hanging along the way.
These are the cold fires of the underworld left by Li Qing. As long as his thoughts are activated, these fires will burn spontaneously.
After all, it is the spiritual fire of heaven and earth. No matter what, it will not be assimilated into one body by the strange environment in the Fire Cliff Cave.
Looking at the road behind him that was illuminated by white spiritual fire, Cao Xiu's eyes widened, and he felt even more in awe of Li Qing in his heart.
Pop!
Li Qing snapped his fingers again, and the cold fires behind him were extinguished again, causing the passage behind him to return to darkness.
Afterwards, as long as they follow the passages illuminated by the cold fire of the netherworld, they can return to the route clearly recorded on the previous map.
With this guarantee, the two of them explored the inside more boldly and confidently.
Finally, the view ahead suddenly became clearer.
This is a node in Huoya Cave. The space is very wide and connected by eight passages.
And in the sky above this node, a honeycomb with a crystal-clear appearance like ruby but with complex holes appeared in Li Qing's sight.
"Yes, I remember this place, the hive of the Fire Jade Bee is here." Cao Xiu said softly, fearing that the louder voice would disturb the Fire Jade Bee swarm.
Needless to say, Li Qing also knew what the red jade hive above was, just because outside the hive, one after another fire jade bees were going in and out of the hive, looking very... Busy look.
Many of the Fire Jade Bees flew up from a downward passage connecting this space, and then returned to the Ruby Beehive.
"The Fire Jade Queen Bee should be inside, right?"
This hive is very large, occupying half of the space above the cave. Obviously, there are a lot of people living in it. Fire jade bee.
Boom!
Just when Li Qing wanted to take action and go to the Ruby Beehive to subdue the Fire Jade Queen, there was a sudden vibration in a passage below.
"Huh?" Li Qing followed the sound.
I saw figures in ancient costumes walking out of the vibrating passage.
However, the movements of these figures are sluggish and rigid, and every step they take is extremely stiff.
“These are corpse puppets?”
Li Qing, who had been in the wilderness, was no stranger to this kind of thing.
Among the puppets, there is a secret method of refining corpses into puppets. The puppets refined by this secret method are called corpse puppets.
The reason why Li Qing was so shocked was because the clothes and clothes worn by these corpses were too ancient.
He silenced his voice, trying his best to conceal his aura fluctuations, and just secretly observed the actions of these corpse puppets.
As for Cao Xiu on the side, there was already a look of fear in his eyes.
Because of the aura exuded by these corpse puppets, he felt waves of heart palpitating pressure.
There are five corpse puppets in total, two of them seem to be at the third level, and the other three are at the peak of the second level.
I saw five corpse puppets, each carrying a stone basin, walking out. They seemed to have received some kind of order and came directly under the Fire Jade Bee hive.
Soon, a large number of Fire Jade Bees seemed to have been stimulated, and swarmed out of the nest, directly attacking the corpses.
But these are insensitive corpse puppets. Not only are their bodies powerful, they are also unable to feel any pain.
The attacks of these fire jade bees are like raindrops to these corpse puppets, causing no harm at all. Even the tail needle cannot pierce the bodies of these corpse puppets.
After several corpse puppets stood still, as if they had rehearsed many times, they stepped on each other's shoulders one after another, like stacking Arhats.
A large number of fire jade bee swarms attack, unable to hinder their actions.
The corpse puppet on the top actually used the stone basin in his hand to pick up a thick reddish liquid from the huge ruby hive.
Li Qing, who was watching all this secretly, recognized it at a glance.
These extremely thick liquids are all fire source slurry!
"It's interesting. These corpse puppets seem to be acting under orders from a certain existence. Are they sending the fire source slurry somewhere?"
After obtaining enough fire source slurry, each An ancient corpse puppet returned to the deep passage just now, holding a stone basin filled with a lot of fire source slurry in his hand.
Li Qing, who had watched all this, fell silent again.
It seems that there are some secrets hidden in this fire cliff cave that he doesn't know about.
"Originally, the queen just wanted to conquer a Fire Jade Bee and left here. Now it seems that the matter is not that simple." Li Qing whispered, his eyes flickering.
Just as he was thinking about what to do next, Lord Bai Ling finally spoke:
"I seem to sense a slightly familiar Qi movement. Come follow me and have a look."
>Li Qing was slightly startled, a qi mechanism that even Dao Lord Bai Ling felt familiar with?
In the depths of this Fire Cliff Cave, is there any old monster that was active in ancient times that has survived to this day?
No!
This is almost impossible. Even a monk in the transformation stage can only live for two to three thousand years. Even if all the methods of immortality are exhausted, it is impossible to live that long in such a heaven and earth environment.
Unless it turns into a being similar to Bailing Daojun, there is only an obsession left in the world that will dissipate between heaven and earth at any time.
After your lifetime wish is fulfilled, this obsession will disappear.
So, do you want to go and see it?
Li Qing thought carefully in his heart.
(End of this chapter)