Chapter 3465: 琉璃玉笼果

Beneath a sea of white mist, a magnificent red palace was visible. Its beams were carved, its rafters painted, and its upturned eaves and elaborate brackets were striking. The palace gate was tightly shut, adorned with a lifelike carving of a red Qilin.

Above the palace gate hung a square golden plaque. Four profound golden characters, radiating astonishing spiritual energy, were inscribed on it in immortal script, spelling out "Nine Blazes Immortal Palace."

Inside the Crimson Qilin Immortal Palace, the main hall was spacious and brightly lit. Eighteen massive red stone pillars supported the entire hall. Each pillar was engraved with a lifelike crimson Qilin, and from the mouth of each Qilin, a stream of red flame erupted, converging onto a crystal-clear red jade flute.

Judging by the scene inside the hall, someone had set up a formation to refine a treasure.

On the stone wall to the right, a mural depicted a handsome young man in a red shirt standing high in the sky, hands clasped behind his back, a confident expression on his face. A red jade flute hung from his waist, and a colossal nine-headed lion stood opposite him.

Beside it were seven large characters. Any cultivator proficient in immortal script would undoubtedly understand them: "Nine Blazes Immortal Venerable Subduing Demons."

Based on the immortal script on the plaque and the mural, this appeared to be the traveling palace of an immortal.

From a vast, boundless red forest, a series of deafening explosions echoed, accompanied by multicolored spiritual light shooting forth.

In an open clearing, a man and a woman from the Multi-eyed Race stood. The burly man in the golden shirt had a powerful aura and numerous golden eyeballs covering his body.

Five red mantises lay lifeless on the ground, their bodies riddled with holes.

In the distance, a Seven Blazes Golden Peach tree bore seven Seven Blazes Golden Peaches. A light cyan energy barrier enveloped the entire tree.

"A Seven Blazes Golden Peach tree! Haha, our Multi-eyed Race's opportunity has arrived! If a Mahayana cultivator emerges among us, we won't have to endure the Spirit Fire Race's bullying anymore."

A gracefully built young woman in a purple dress said with a laugh. Whenever the Multi-eyed Race's strength increased, the Spirit Fire Race would conscript their Body Integration cultivators for dangerous missions, thereby weakening the Multi-eyed Race.

"It's a pity we arrived too late. Many Seven Blazes Golden Peaches were eaten by the Blaze Devouring Mantises. If we had waited longer, an eighth-rank Blaze Devouring Mantis might have appeared."

The burly man in the golden shirt exclaimed, his expression excited.

"Regardless, it's excellent that we managed to obtain seven Seven Blazes Golden Peaches. This is our great fortune." The young woman in the purple dress said with a smile.

"Allow me to correct you," a chilling female voice interjected. "This is our human race's opportunity, the Seawatch Palace's opportunity."

The moment she finished speaking, a mound of earth bulged from the ground, and countless yellow grains of sand emerged, forming the figure of Chen Yueying, her expression icy.

She had not expected to encounter the Multi-eyed Race; it was a pleasant surprise.

"Oh no, a Mahayana cultivator!"

The expressions of the burly man in the golden shirt and the young woman in the purple dress changed drastically. Just as they were about to flee, the ground shook violently. They felt their bodies sink, as if a mountain weighing millions of tons had settled on their shoulders.

A hazy yellow axe blade swept towards them. The eyeballs on their bodies glowed brightly, shooting out several thick beams of light, but it was useless; they could not block the yellow axe blade.

With two muffled thuds, their heads were sliced off. The moment their two miniature Nascent Souls emerged from their bodies, they were enveloped by a yellow glow and swept into a yellow jade bottle, vanishing from sight.

Chen Yueying broke through the cyan energy barrier and carefully harvested the seven Seven Blazes Golden Peaches. Just as she was about to transplant the fruit tree, a deafening roar came from high in the sky.

She turned her head to look up and saw an entirely red Fowlbird appear high in the sky, its body bleeding profusely.

The void rippled, and a gigantic black hole suddenly appeared. From it, an enormous Tiger-Phoenix Butterfly flew out.

"An eighth-rank Tiger-Phoenix Butterfly!"

Chen Yueying was scared out of her wits. A yellow light flared around her, and she sank into the ground, vanishing.

The Tiger-Phoenix Butterfly gently flapped its wings, causing thick, long cracks to appear in the void. These cracks swept past the red Fowlbird's body, instantly dismembering it into countless blood clots.

The Tiger-Phoenix Butterfly sprayed a burst of colorful light, enveloping the blood clots, then rolled them into its mouth and swallowed them. It flapped its wings and departed.

A vast, endless snowfield stretched out. A heavy snowfall descended from the sky, and the temperature was terrifyingly low.

A lion's roar, echoing through heaven and earth, resonated, accompanied by a tremendous rumbling sound. A golden light and a white light flared high in the sky, intertwining.

Two golden lights fled, revealing Sang Yu and Luo Xiao. Their eyes were wide with terror, as if they had encountered something dreadful.

A gigantic phantom of a lion appeared high in the sky. This nine-headed lion phantom was precisely the True Spirit Nine-Headed Ice Lion.

Each of the Nine-Headed Ice Lion's nine heads unleashed a different magical art: white sound waves, white flames, white glows, white light pillars, white ice spears, white lightning, and other spells, all shooting directly towards Luo Xiao and Sang Yu.

The void above them rippled, and a colossal white lion's paw materialized out of thin air, striking Sang Yu.

With a scream, Sang Yu plummeted rapidly from the sky. A white beam of light struck him, causing his body to instantly freeze and transform into a massive ice sculpture.

A white sound wave swept past the ice sculpture, shattering it into pieces. A miniature Nascent Soul flew out from the remnants.

"Run!" the miniature Nascent Soul shouted.

A bright golden light flared around Luo Xiao's body, and he fiercely flapped his golden fleshy wings, vanishing from his spot.

A stream of white glow descended from the sky, enveloping the miniature Nascent Soul, then swept into the mouth of a burly young man in a white shirt, where it vanished. Judging by his aura, he was a mid-Mahayana cultivator.

"It's been a long time since I tasted a Nascent Soul; truly delicious," the young man in white muttered to himself. With a flick of his incantation gesture, the nine-headed ice lion phantom above his head vanished. He flew down next to Sang Yu's corpse and found a golden storage bracelet. Sweeping his divine sense over it, a joyful expression appeared on his face. "Lucky you ran fast," he remarked.

The young man in white put away the golden storage bracelet, consumed Sang Yu's corpse, and returned to a colossal ice cave. In the lower right corner of the cave stood a white fruit tree over ten zhang tall. Its leaves were large and thick, and it bore more than twenty oval-shaped white fruits that glowed from within, resembling miniature white lanterns, emitting a peculiar fragrance.

"Lapis Lazuli Jade Cage Fruit! Once this fruit ripens, my next Great Heavenly Tribulation will be significantly easier."

The young man in white mumbled to himself. He possessed the bloodline of the Nine-Headed Ice Lion and had, by fortuitous coincidence, transformed into human form. After obtaining the legacy of an ancient cultivator, he unexpectedly discovered a Lapis Lazuli Jade Cage Fruit tree and settled there.

The Lapis Lazuli Jade Cage Fruit was one of the ten most extraordinary fruits, possessing miraculous efficacy in healing injuries caused by lightning strikes. According to ancient texts, it was the main ingredient for refining the Lapis Lazuli Jade Pill. As long as one was not struck dead by a lightning tribulation, consuming this pill would ensure rapid recovery. However, this pill was only miraculously effective for injuries caused by lightning; it offered little benefit for injuries from other types of attacks.