The wooden Painting Treasure from last time had truly astounded Li Hengsheng. After he had comprehended the humanoid Painting Treasure of a man named Wu Daozi, he couldn’t find the treasure again.
Li Hengsheng was sure he hadn’t lost it, but it had mysteriously disappeared. In the end, he found that the figure of Wu Daozi kept appearing in his mind, as if it had merged into his Divine Soul.
Therefore, he suspected that the treasure would disappear after he had comprehended it. Li Hengsheng didn’t know how to explain such a magical thing. After all, his understanding of Painting Treasures was still superficial. He didn’t know if such Painting Treasures really existed, disappearing after being comprehended once. But Li Hengsheng knew that this thing could definitely be called an absolute treasure.
With that thought, Li Hengsheng opened the lid of the wooden box. However, what appeared in front of him left him completely stunned!
He couldn’t believe what he was seeing! The wood carving was still a wood carving, but what was carved on it truly shocked Li Hengsheng!
He had never seen this thing before, but he had seen it in ancient books, and it was exactly the same as the one depicted in front of him.
“It can’t be wrong…” Li Hengsheng stared blankly at the wood carving in the box. It was a Spirit Beast. Or rather, it shouldn’t be called a Spirit Beast. If it was really what was written in the book, it should be called a Sacred Beast!
Its body was fiery red, with huge wings spread out, as if it was about to let out a phoenix cry that would shake the heavens! It was a phoenix! A Sacred Beast that existed in legends!
Like the dragon, it was almost invincible and rarely walked in the world. Even the depiction of the phoenix appearing in the world in the books was very rare.
Li Hengsheng never thought that what appeared in front of him this time would be such a phoenix. Could it be that the person who painted this Painting Treasure had seen a real phoenix?
Where did Xu Muhai get such a precious thing? He actually gave such a precious thing to himself?
Li Hengsheng couldn’t figure it out. Each feather was lifelike, and it seemed as if a wave of heat was coming at him. Just by looking at it, Li Hengsheng felt as if the phoenix could come to life at any moment.
At this moment, Li Hengsheng suddenly noticed a golden light flashing in the eyes of the phoenix.
“Hmm?” Li Hengsheng instinctively leaned in to take a closer look. However, at this moment, the sound of a phoenix cry echoed in Li Hengsheng’s mind!
Li Hengsheng’s mind buzzed, and he suddenly felt a splitting headache. It felt as if the whole world was collapsing, and he felt a sense of weightlessness, as if he was falling into an abyss, his body constantly falling!
The sky and earth around him were torn apart, and they were burned by a sea of blood-red flames. The flames illuminated the sky and earth, turning everything into a sea of blood.
Li Hengsheng was in the midst of the flames, and the rolling heat waves were almost enough to melt everything in the world. Li Hengsheng was in extreme pain, feeling as if he was about to be swallowed by the flames.
Even his soul seemed to be burned by the flames. Li Hengsheng activated his Sun-Moon Immortal-Demon Divine Body, and the light of the sun and moon enveloped him. It was as if a small world had been torn apart in the flames, and a small figure similar to himself was mixed in the sun and moon. There were also blood lines appearing on his chest, a total of ten!
He opened his eyes wide, trying to resist the flames with his divine body. But no matter how strong Li Hengsheng’s divine body was at this moment, he couldn’t resist the burning of the flames!
When the wave of fire rushed up, swallowing everything in its path, Li Hengsheng’s sun and moon were also submerged in the sea of fire. The small figure’s blood lines collapsed, and with a mournful scream, it disappeared under the flames. The boundless blood-red color instantly shattered Li Hengsheng’s body!
Li Hengsheng was in extreme pain for a moment, and at the same time, a huge phoenix was formed in the vast sea of blood-colored fire!
A phoenix cry shocked the world! It was as if it was showing off its dominance in this world!
“Ah!” Li Hengsheng struggled out of the sea of fire! With a scream, Li Hengsheng found himself sitting up abruptly from the floor of the study.
Then, Li Hengsheng, drenched in sweat, touched his body with his hand, checking if he was still alive, if his flesh was still there, and then he was panting heavily, his eyes full of fear.
Seeing that he was fine, Li Hengsheng finally felt a little relieved, feeling as if he had survived a catastrophe.
What he had just experienced was too real. It was so real that Li Hengsheng took a long time to recover, still feeling a lingering fear, unable to believe that it was just a dream.
It was already dark outside, and Li Hengsheng didn’t know how long he had been unconscious on the floor, nor why what had just happened had happened.
When he wanted to find the phoenix, he found that the statue of the phoenix had disappeared. The box was empty.
No one had been in the study. Li Hengsheng also searched the study, but he couldn’t find any trace of the phoenix.
At this point, Li Hengsheng was able to confirm that this phoenix was the same as the figure of Wu Daozi, both had disappeared.
But what impact did this phoenix have on him? Could it have changed his roots?
Li Hengsheng’s eyes lit up. Could this treasure really do such a heaven-defying thing? So Li Hengsheng sat cross-legged and began to refine the internal energy in his body, wanting to see how much faster his cultivation speed was.
However, to Li Hengsheng’s disappointment, after half a day of cultivation, his speed was the same as before, and he was still a waste.
Meanwhile, in the Yan family in Changting Town, Li Changqing pushed open the door and walked out, looking at the distant sky.
Just as the carving disappeared, Li Changqing felt a response in his heart. It should be that his son had refined that thing.
This was a treasure that Li Hengsheng had carved out with great effort. Feeling that the phoenix had been refined by Li Hengsheng, Li Changqing felt a little relieved.
At this moment, a figure flew in the sky. Li Changqing looked up and found that it was a snow sculpture, and standing on it was Xue Qianbai.Xue Qianbai looked down at Li Changqing from high above, then without stopping, he flew straight towards the outskirts of Changting Town.
“Why is he here?” Li Changqing muttered to himself, then he also drew out a sword, stepped on it to soar into the sky, and flew towards the outskirts of the town.
When he flew about ten miles outside the town, he found Xue Qianbai waiting for him in a pavilion.
“Why did you suddenly come?” Li Changqing landed and walked into the pavilion to ask.
“Clang.” Xue Qianbai took off his Acceptance of Rings and threw it on the table, then said seriously, “Do you know what this represents?”
“What does it represent?” Li Changqing was taken aback, “Does it mean you don’t like this style?”
“The space in your Acceptance of Rings is a full thirty cubic!” Xue Qianbai said with a particularly serious expression.
“Ah.” Li Changqing looked at Xue Qianbai’s serious expression, but he didn’t understand what Xue Qianbai meant, so he could only say, “I can’t make a bigger one, why don’t you just make do with it for now.”
“It seems you really don’t understand.” Xue Qianbai sighed lightly, and then explained the matter of the Acceptance of Rings in the Cangyuan Realm to Li Changqing.
This did surprise Li Changqing. A normal Acceptance of Rings is only half a cubic? Even a larger one is only a few cubic?
And it’s already a rare treasure? The more Xue Qianbai said, the more Li Changqing understood why Xue Qianbai had come to find him.
Indeed, the Acceptance of Rings he made was too big! This was beyond the comprehension of normal people. If it was accidentally exposed, he feared that the entire Yan family would face a catastrophe.
Such a treasure, and if there were many of them, this was not something a Grandmaster could deter. He feared that by that time, even Tianhai City would be provoked.
Li Changqing took a deep breath, he had made a pile of time bombs. He had previously thought about selling them.
Sell my ass. If he sold this thing, wouldn’t it be asking for trouble? Even the smallest seven cubic ones couldn’t be sold.
“Thank you.” Li Changqing looked at Xue Qianbai gratefully at this time. If Xue Qianbai really had a mind to harm him, he would have been dead by now.
“Surviving in the Cangyuan Realm is not as simple as you think.” Xue Qianbai said leisurely. Li Changqing nodded, indeed, if he was not careful, he could easily get himself into trouble.
“I heard you became an elder of the Zhanhe Residence?” Xue Qianbai looked at Li Changqing at this time. Xue Qianbai was also surprised when he heard this news. The Qinglian Sword Sovereign had become an elder of the Zhanhe Residence and was to lead the disciples to participate in the Ghost Devil trial.
Who the Qinglian Sword Sovereign was, Xue Qianbai naturally knew, but he didn’t expect Li Changqing to suddenly get involved with the Zhanhe Residence.
“It’s a coincidence, this way I can go to the Ghost Devil trial.” Li Changqing said with a smile.
“I’ve heard some things about the Zhanhe Residence. Sima Yan was injured, so Tianhai City came to audit their trial qualifications. Sima Yan found you and wanted you to become an elder of the Zhanhe Residence, and then protect their disciples’ trial qualifications, right? Who came from Tianhai City this time?” Xue Qianbai asked curiously, he didn’t know who specifically came, he hadn’t received this information.
Because the information from Tianhai City, not many people dared to leak it out.
“Lin Qingyi.” Li Changqing said, “A very interesting person.”
“Is it him?” Upon hearing this name, Xue Qianbai’s face became serious, “You have to be careful of this person, he is not a kind person. As one of the most trusted confidants of the Lord of the Cangyuan Realm, Lin Qingyi has his own methods and is a very difficult person to deal with.”
“This person is unpredictable and his strength is unknown. If my guess is correct, he should be a Great Martial Sect.” Xue Qianbai slowly said, “I have met this person once, he gave me a dangerous feeling, you should at least not have any dealings with him.”
“I understand.” Li Changqing also nodded seriously, he believed in Xue Qianbai’s judgment, Xue Qianbai’s experience was much richer than his.
And Lin Qingyi was indeed an unpredictable person. If Xue Qianbai knew that Li Changqing had invited Lin Qingyi back to eat chicken when he was about to leave, he would probably scold Li Changqing for being brainless.
“But it’s strange.” Xue Qianbai walked a few steps forward, he walked to the edge of the pavilion, then looked up at the starry sky and said, “For something like an audit, wouldn’t it be fine to just send someone casually? Why did they send Lin Qingyi? Lin Qingyi came to the Eastern Desolate Land, there must be other things, right?”
“Maybe he came to taste the Zhanzhou Chicken Plucking?” Li Changqing said in surprise. Xue Qianbai: “I think you look like a chicken plucker.” Tianhai City, the Endless Prison.
This is where the heavy criminals of the Cangyuan Realm are held. Over countless years, through countless generations of the Lords of the Cangyuan Realm, the number of heavy criminals held here is countless.
The Endless Prison has six levels, the sixth level is the Death Prison, basically those who can be suppressed in the sixth level will never come out in this life.
It has been so since the birth of the Cangyuan Realm. It has never been heard that anyone can come out from the sixth level of the Endless Prison.
This is an endless world, as if there is no time, no light, not even wind, no sound, so silent that you can only hear your own breathing.
The land is black, the forest is black, darkness envelops the world, giving people an endless sense of oppression.
The darkness devours all directions, making this place particularly creepy. At this moment, a door of void slowly opened in this world.
A figure walked out of the void door, wearing a rabbit mask on her face, her figure graceful, from her figure one could tell she was a woman.
She was draped in a silver cloak, on which was painted a large moon symbol. With her arrival, a blood moon appeared in the sky of this endless hell, casting a faint halo over this world. She moved and came to the edge of the black forest.
“You’re here.” A calm voice came, followed by the sound of clinking chains.
Each strange tree in the forest had a small chain, all linked to the center.
The chains thickened, binding a ragged man. His figure was indistinct, but his voice remained clear and audible.
“Brother, you’ve suffered,” the masked woman’s voice wavered slightly.
“Actually, I didn’t want you to come see me,” the man said helplessly. “Because if you came, it must mean there’s no good news.” The masked woman pondered for a moment, then said, “Lin Qingyi has gone to the Eastern Desolate Land. I thought it necessary to inform you.” After she finished speaking, the forest fell silent.
“What for?” The voice asked calmly.
“It’s said to be about the Ghost Devil trial qualification of Zhanhe Residence in Zhan Prefecture,” the masked woman replied.
“Heh, does a mere Ghost Devil trial qualification warrant Lin Qingyi to personally make a trip?” The man laughed. “So, did he go to Minghong Prefecture after Zhan Prefecture?”
“I don’t know. After leaving Zhan Prefecture, Lin Qingyi disappeared. No one knows where he went, and he didn’t return to Tianhai City either.” The masked woman pondered for a moment and asked, “You’re worried he went to find Li Changqing, aren’t you? Perhaps things won’t be as bad as you think.” The man in the forest didn’t respond.
The masked woman took a deep breath. “Brother, why don’t you just admit defeat?”
“Admit defeat? To that old fellow Jiang Tianyun? Hahaha…” His laughter grew louder, as if he had heard something particularly amusing.
One might even say it was a bit manic.
“Even if Lin Qingyi went, it’s impossible for him to trace anything back to Li Changqing. And even if he did find some clues, so what? It’s impossible for me to admit defeat.”
“Qingwu, you should remember a phrase I often used to say…” After he finished speaking, the forest fell silent again.
The masked woman didn’t say anything more, turning to leave the sixth level of the Infinite Prison. She knew that nothing she said now would make a difference.
Because that last sentence reminded her. It made her recall a phrase the man in the prison often used to say.
“I can lose, but I can’t admit defeat. The heavens are vast and heavy, but they can’t bend my back!” As the masked woman left, the sixth level of the Infinite Prison once again plunged into eternal darkness, and the figure in the forest was murmuring to himself.
“Li Changqing… can you handle it?”
“Jiang Tianyun, so what if you’re the lord of the Cangyuan Realm? If you want to fight, I, Yue Hanjun, will accompany you.”