Chapter 229 Cooperation is not a lie
Ruan Xing closed his eyes and rested.

Oscar, who was covered with fire-avoiding talismans, had fallen into the entrance of the volcano.

It was pitch black inside, hot and stuffy, and the soil seemed to be burnt and crispy.

The cave entrance was very deep, and it took him a while to step on the ground. The ground was covered with soft volcanic ash, and his foot sank down to his calf.

There were still unextinguished flames in the volcanic ash, which instantly burned Oscar’s legs. Dozens of fire-avoiding talismans only lasted less than a few seconds before being burned to ashes.

Oscar quickly circulated the Yin energy in his body to block the burning of the earth fire.

Fortunately, the burning speed of the flames slowed down, and Ruan Xing optimistically estimated that Oscar could probably move for another two or three hours.

There was no lava flowing inside the cave, and because Oscar was a puppet, he did not attract the blood corpses in the distance to attack him.

He walked in the cave. The bottom of the cave was bumpy and of varying depths. From time to time, there would be an abyss-like crack, so he needed to be extremely careful.

While Ruan Xing was exploring with her spiritual sense, she was directing Oscar through the mind link to move in the direction that was blocking her spiritual sense.

When he finally got there, she saw through Oscar’s eyes that it was a magma lake at the center of the earth.

There doesn’t seem to be anything special.

Ruan Xing was a little confused. This small world was filled with large amounts of flowing magma, with the charred land being only a minority. Her spiritual sense could see through all the magma outside the volcano.

You can even see how the blood corpse is formed in the magma and how it melts.

Is there anything else special about this magma lake in the earth’s core?
Ruan Xing asked Oscar to walk around the magma lake at the center of the earth, but found nothing unusual.

But at this time, an hour had passed, and the Yin energy in Oscar’s body was almost exhausted.

If this continues, the inextinguishable earth fire on his body will burn through his puppet essence.

The essence of his puppet is the soul-nourishing wood, which is afraid of fire.

Ruan Xing thought about it, called Oscar back, and went to the second active volcano.

During the three hours, Xizui and Xie Feng were basically of no use. It was all up to her and Oscar to visit the five unusual active volcanoes.

Fortunately, these five active volcanoes are not currently erupting, so Oscar can visit all of them in his limited life.

However, these five active volcanoes are also very monotonous. There is nothing inside them except the unextinguished magma fire, the inner magma lake, and a large amount of volcanic mud.

But their positions are strange, each active volcano is the same distance away from the two nearest active volcanoes.

She pointed her fingertips into the air and drew a line connecting the active volcanoes. “If you connect them all, does it look like a five-pointed star?”

She was somewhat sensitive to this pattern and immediately associated it with it.

Xie Feng sneered when he heard this, “What five-pointed star? You might as well say it’s the Five Elements Altar, it looks more reliable.”

Five Elements Altar?
Ruan Xing was stunned.

The correlation among the five elements in this world is relatively weak.

Everyone’s innate spiritual bones are only divided into different levels of qualifications, but there is no attribute affiliation.

In other words, when everyone first started practicing the basic Qi Refining Technique, their spiritual power attributes were all zero.

Not biased towards any one of the five elements.

Only a very small number of people, such as Ruan Xing, whose spiritual bones have been transformed and improved by Hanshan Snow Marrow, will cultivate spiritual power that tends to be cold and yin.

The puppets in her hands, Jian Lai, and ghost cultivators like Cui Yurong, all have cold yin energy in their bodies.

However, some cultivators may have spiritual power that is more masculine due to different techniques or some chance encounters.

But this is just the division between yin and yang.

Only magic techniques are divided into five elements.

For example, there was a small five-element technique that Ruan Xing had practiced before.

There are also five elements in the formation, but she has not studied the formation specifically and only knows a little about it.

The Five Elements Altar that Xie Feng mentioned is one of the applications of the formation.

“What you said does make some sense.” Ruan Xing thought, “But this doesn’t look like it was arranged by humans, but rather formed naturally.”

With such a large active volcano and such powerful core fire, it is a waste of resources to build a Five Elements Altar that has no apparent function.

In contrast, Ruan Xing believed that this was something derived from the small world consciousness for the development of its own world.

But the problem now is that we can’t find the small world consciousness.

If this small world is the home of the small world consciousness.

So the three of them had already broken into a private house and were walking around there unscrupulously for most of the day.

In a free country, it would have been enough to empty the magazine long ago.

But now, the owner of the house is still hiding in a corner and refuses to come out.

“Could it be that it is hiding from you?” Xizui guessed, “If its consciousness and intelligence are higher than that in the previous small world, it may have the instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm.”

“That’s also possible.” Ruan Xing thought of a phrase: A cunning rabbit has three burrows.

Among all the active volcanoes, only these five cannot be detected by her spiritual sense, so the consciousness of the small world must be hiding in one of them.

She took out five puppets again.

Oscar had just burned out the last bit of fire in his life and went to paradise.

They were now standing in the middle of the Five Elements Altar. She let the five puppets go to the five active volcanoes respectively, and then she commanded the puppets through the mind link.

When all five puppets arrived at their destination and walked the same old route that Oscar had taken.

Ruan Xing’s magical power was suddenly touched.

Where a certain puppet is, there is a line of destiny!

Ruan Xing narrowed his eyes and quickly extended his spiritual sense in the direction of the puppet.

Soon they found the line of destiny hidden in the magma.

There seemed to be something in the magma lake at the center of the earth, burying itself deep at the bottom, and moving back and forth among the five active volcanoes through channels in the underground cracks, avoiding Ruan Xing’s reconnaissance.

But now, five puppets appeared at the same time, and that thing suddenly didn’t know where to hide!

Ruan Xing directly grabbed the line of destiny. The thickness of the line of destiny was like a nylon rope, much thicker than the previous small world consciousness. It must be stronger than the previous one, and contain more Hongmeng purple energy.

However, when she grasped the thread of destiny, a wave of wild and violent thoughts came along the thread of destiny and almost polluted her consciousness!

Ruan Xing secretly thought that this guy also knew how to use mental pollution.

He quickly built a barrier to protect his soul, and used both hands to use his magical powers to press down the line of destiny.

In an instant, the earth shook, the charred land began to shake, and the calmly flowing magma quickly boiled.

Active volcanoes emitted thick black smoke, which rose into the orange sky.

Fortunately, in order to avoid the invasion of blood corpses, they had been flying in the sky.

Otherwise, you will be contaminated by the lava and fire if you are not careful.

Xizui frowned and asked in a panic, “What’s going on?”

“I caught it.” Ruan Xing took the time to respond, and continued to exert force with both hands, trying to use the influence of the destiny line to pull out the main body of the small world consciousness.

Boom——!
Countless mushroom clouds appeared one after another, making deafening noises.

An active volcano erupted!

The scorching magma sprayed out like fireworks all over the sky. Ruan Xing and others quickly flew to the highest point.

But even at the highest point there was terribly choking black smoke, blocking their view.

At the moment the volcano erupted, all five of Ruan Xing’s puppets were killed.

Therefore, Ruan Xing is not clear about the current situation inside the volcano.

The only thing she could do was to hold on to the thread of fate and not let the consciousness of this small world hide again.

The Sumeru Mirror flew out from her clothes, releasing a burnt yellow eggshell that wrapped several people inside.

The occasional splashes of magma and Mars were blocked outside.

However, a few dark yellow spots appeared on the originally clear and bright surface of the Sumeru Mirror, and they kept shaking in the air.

The spiritual weapon has an automatic repair function, but using it in this way made Ruan Xing feel a little distressed.

She cursed in a low voice, “Damn it, if the secret realms in this small world are so dangerous, how did those immortal sects control so many secret realms? And why do so many people flock to the undeveloped secret realms?”

“Of course I’ll pay with my life.” Xizui said, “However, this is a secret space that has developed into a small world after all. Its predecessor was the Guixu place for demon cultivators. The degree of danger is naturally different from those secret spaces that have just been discovered.”

After a pause, he said with some suspicion: “Isn’t it because the envoy knows the secret realm of the Immortal Sect very well that he came to the northern border to look for the small world?”

“When did I say I understood everything?” Ruan Xing replied, “I just have many lives.”

A lot of lives…do you mean the lives of the puppets?

Xizui didn’t quite understand, but now was not the time to ask questions. The eruption of the active volcano became more and more intense. The whole small world was filled with black smoke and magma, as if even the air had become burning fuel.

An enormous fireball flew towards them through the thick black smoke.

The burnt yellow eggshell of the Sumeru Mirror was knocked back a step.

It was as if the space they were in was a balloon floating in the air, which began to stagger upwards.

Ruan Xing also saw what the fireball was.

A huge bloody corpse, with magma forming a thick coat on its dry skin, which was emitting flickering flames as bright as a white ball.

It seemed very angry, but it had no facial features and could not make any sound, so Ruan Xing could only judge it by its behavior.

It is attacking Ruan Xing who is holding its fate line.

But with the Sumeru Mirror there, it can’t do anything to them for the time being.

Ruan Xing crossed his hands and tied a knot on the fate line, then raised his hands provocatively to show the other party, trying to threaten it in this way.

The blood corpse seemed not to see it and continued to attack the eggshells around them frantically.

“It seems to have no consciousness.” Ruan Xing frowned, somewhat incredulous, “Since it has no consciousness and cannot communicate, how did it develop a small world consciousness?”

Could it be that he was once sane and then went crazy?

Ruan Xing made a bold guess.

After all, the world is so big that there are all kinds of strange things.

“It doesn’t seem to work this way. We can’t look for the Hongmeng Purple Qi right under its nose.” Xizui said, “Its body is not strong. Even without using magic weapons, I can cut its body into several pieces and temporarily destroy its mobility. But the flames on its body are too unusual and cannot be extinguished. People dare not touch them. Why don’t we use Sui Lingzhu to go back and brainstorm to see what to do. Maybe Saint Demon Lord will know the origin of this flame and how to deal with it.”

Fortunately, they are now in the sky. The other blood corpses cannot fly, and only the real body of this blood corpse can come up.

Otherwise, the scene of a group of bloody zombies surrounding the edge of the eggshell and rushing towards it would be quite like a zombie siege at the end of the world.

It’s a disgusting and horrifying image at the same time.

“It doesn’t matter. The situation is still under control for the time being.” Ruan Xing said while looking at the Sumeru Mirror.

She is a person who values ​​her life the most. If there is any danger, she will definitely run away first.

But we are not there yet.

If the tricky flames can be blocked by the Sumeru Mirror, then what else does she have to be afraid of?

“I’ll go downstairs to look for the Hongmeng purple energy first. You guys just stay here and don’t run around.” Ruan Xing said.

Without waiting for the two to reply, she teleported to the interior of the active volcano below.

The eruption of the active volcano has gradually subsided, and all that remains in the magma lake at the center of the earth is the smoking charred ground.

She saw an orange-red light coming through the cracks under the volcanic mud.

That is the location of the rift abyss.

Ruan Xing summoned the White Jade Sword and asked Cai Jiao to widen the gap a little more, then used the art of stealing to grab the orange-red Hongmeng purple energy into his hands.

The next second, she teleported back to the burnt yellow eggshell in the sky with the Hongmeng purple energy.

The active volcano where she had just been had been hit by a huge fireball, and the hollow mountain began to collapse.

“You destroyed your own house just to catch a thief?” Ruan Xing sighed with a complicated expression, “What an irrational behavior.”

Xizui was somewhat surprised and asked, “Has the messenger obtained the Hongmeng Purple Qi?”

Ruan Xing shook his head. “This is just part of it.”

The ball of primordial purple energy in her hand was too little, not even one-third of that in the previous small world.

Judging from the blood corpse’s behavior, there is a high probability that the Hongmeng purple energy is hidden in the five active volcanoes.

Speaking of which, she should thank the blood corpse. It was so angry that it sprayed out all the magma in the active volcano at once, making it easy for her.

Otherwise, she would have to carefully obtain the Hongmeng purple energy from the active volcano.

Another huge fireball flew up.

Ruan Xing looked for an opportunity and teleported to the next active volcano destination.

Several unskilled tactics of luring the tiger away from the mountain completely angered the consciousness of this small physical world.

Its two arms completely turned into long whips of fire, tightly wrapping around the burnt yellow eggshell.

“Now, our problem comes.” Ruan Xing looked at Xizui, “I have already obtained the Hongmeng Purple Qi. How can we return safely?”

Xizui opened his mouth, but couldn’t come up with any useful suggestions.

Ruan Xing said: “Its consciousness is different from the last small world. It is very likely that it will bring these magma fireballs into the passage with us. It is also possible that the fireballs will be thrown into the passage at the moment I put away the Xumi Mirror. I may be able to protect myself, but the underground palace may be destroyed. What about the other demon cultivators in the underground palace? What about Xie Yao and Xie Huai?”

Xizui trembled all over, “You, what are you talking about?”

There were countless doubts and shocks in his cloudy eyes.

“Aren’t you worried?” Ruan Xing continued, “If the magma flows into the underground palace, every vine will be a pain in the heart for Xie Yao. If the underground palace is burned down, how painful will Xie Yao be? Even her plan to attack Zhongzhou, which she has been preparing for many years, will be ruined.”

“Aren’t you worried? Xie Huai went through so much trouble to return to the Northern Territory from the Southern Province, but now he is locked up in the underground palace, practicing all day long, feeling depressed. He has not yet obtained the power and status he wants, and he is about to die in the underground fire. Sigh, I don’t know if you, the elder, really care about him.”

Ruan Xing looked at Xi Sin meaningfully.

“What do you want to do!?” Xizui screamed tremblingly, “Why do you know so much? Are you threatening me?”

“Do you think that you can hardly be of any help to me in the small world, so why have I never raised any objections?” Ruan Xing smiled complacently, as if the red sky outside the eggshell and the falling fire could not leave any trace in her eyes.

“It’s to give you and Xie Feng a chance to meet.

So that you can die here reasonably.”

“Why…?” Xizui asked palely, “The Fengling Yueying Sect hasn’t even crossed the river yet, so you’re going to tear down the bridge? Is the cooperation with Saint Demon Lord just a lie of yours?”

“Cooperation is not a lie, but killing you is my wish.” Ruan Xing said softly, “Because you have killed me, although you don’t know it.”

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