Chapter 264

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Chapter 264: Fire of Life

"Mutant demon beast egg!"

After Bai Ze reminded him, Jiang Yun remembered that he had once stolen a mutated demon beast egg in the Unreal-Beast Map.

This mutated demon beast egg had been with Jiang Yun for over a year, just like the Cold Dark-winged Bat, but it hadn’t hatched because Jiang Yun hadn’t created the Blessed Land yet.

Even though Bai Ze said it was a treasure, Jiang Yun didn’t know what exactly would hatch from it.

Now that he had the Blessed Land, Jiang Yun took out the egg, hesitated for a moment, and then placed it on the snow cliff, right above his head, facing the black substance emanating from the Hun Tian Blessed Land.

Oddly enough, as soon as the demon beast egg was placed down, the black substance seemed to react immediately and surrounded it, moving towards it continuously.

It looked like the demon beast egg was absorbing the black substance.

This made Jiang Yun a bit worried and he asked, "Will this black substance harm it?"

Bai Ze immediately responded, "This is the Blessed Land condensed for you by the Taoist Demon, with his identity, he wouldn’t harm you! Don’t worry, it will definitely bring benefits, not harm!"

Jiang Yun also thought there wouldn’t be any harm, and he suddenly had a strange idea, "Can I let the bats enter my Blessed Land too?"

"Living creatures don’t work! But they can be used as storage tools!"

So next, Jiang Yun started to count all the items on his body, especially the spoils of war from the North Mountain expedition.

Of course, it was the storage tools filled with thousands of demon race treasures collected by the Cold Dark-winged Bat in the ice cave.

However, most of the spiritual stones inside had already been used by Jiang Yun in the teleportation array, so there weren’t many left.

Even without the spiritual stones, the things inside still added up to a considerable wealth.

What interested Jiang Yun the most were the medicinal pills.

Unfortunately, the demon race themselves were only at the Blessed Land level, so the medicinal pills they carried weren’t very advanced, and Jiang Yun wasn’t impressed at all.

However, one medicinal pill did catch Jiang Yun’s attention – it was a Dao-building Pill!

The Dao-building Pill is a fifth-grade medicinal pill used for breaking through to the Dao Spirit realm in the later stages of the Sky Reaching Realm!

In the beginning, the shopkeeper Xia Zhongxing from DuoYao Pharmacy in South Star City had a special Dao-building Pill in his possession.

In pursuit of this Dao-building Pill, Du Guirong from Hundred Herbs Valley ultimately met his end at the hands of Jiang Yun.

Jiang Yun suspected that this Dao-building Pill originally belonged to a spirit demon from a secret realm who was killed by the Cold Dark-winged Bat, and now it unexpectedly fell into his hands.

Even though Jiang Yun currently couldn’t make use of this Dao-building Pill, and its quality was only at the lowest Dust-Level, he still wanted to give it a try.

Jiang Yun wanted to identify the materials within the pill, discover the recipe for making Dao-building Pills, and try to craft them himself.

Apart from the pills, the items in these storage artifacts were also diverse.

After carefully examining everything, Jiang Yun categorized and stored them in the Blessed Land because many of these items, such as materials, might come in handy someday.

Finally, a lamp appeared in Jiang Yun’s hand – the very lamp he had snatched from the young master of the Ten Thousand Demons Cave. Unfortunately, it contained a powerful divine sense.

In order to claim the lamp as his own, Jiang Yun needed to erase this divine sense first, but currently, he was unable to do so and, hence, couldn’t use the lamp.

Just as he was about to put away the lamp, Bai Ze’s voice rang out again, saying, "Wait, this lamp seems a bit strange!"

"What makes it strange?"

"This lamp seems to be a Flameless Puppet Lantern, with a life fire puppet burning into a flame!"

Jiang Yun asked in confusion, "What is a life fire?"

"Life fire is the flame of life that every living being possesses. Normally, it can’t be seen at all, only those with incredibly strong divine sense can detect it. The Fire clan themselves are made of fire, so they are not limited."

"With life fire, there is life. Without life fire, there is death!"

Upon hearing this, a cold light flickered in Jiang Yun’s eyes.

He remembered that Huo Duming would always exhale when using this lamp, and then a flame would appear inside the lamp.

Clearly, that flame was the life fire!

Originally, this lamp needs to store life fire inside it, and then when it is used, the life fire can be called out to combine with its own fire-controlling power to unleash various attacks.

So, in this lamp, there are hidden many strands of life fire, and each strand of life fire represents a life!

"You are thinking too simply. Although everything has spirit, not all kinds of life fire from different spirits can be used. The stronger the spirit, the stronger the life fire."

Jiang Yun raised his hand and said, "This lamp is too cruel, it’s of no use to me. Destroy it!"

"Don’t destroy it!" Bai Ze urgently said, "This lamp is a rare treasure with great power. It’s just that the Fire clan demon doesn’t know the true way to use it."

Jiang Yun lowered his hand and said, "No matter how powerful it is, it still requires a cost in lives!"

Bai Ze almost shouted, "Can you let me finish speaking?"

"Although it does require a cost in lives, why not use the life fire of bad people instead? You can store the life fire of the Fire clan demon and those bad people you dislike inside it!"

"On the path of cultivation, it is all built upon countless killings. If you don’t kill, others will come to kill you."

"Instead of killing those people for no reason, it’s better to kill them and send their life fire into this lantern."

"There are also some unjustly deceased people, whose life fire can also be sent into this lantern!"

"The power of this lantern is proportional to the number of life fires inside. I estimate there are at most a few hundred life fires inside now. If you can store tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of life fires, when this lantern is activated, it will make you untouchable!"

After Bai Ze explained this, Jiang Yun’s hand that had been about to fall finally stopped in mid-air. He was really tempted.

Because Bai Ze was right.

Although this Flameless Puppet Lantern needs life fire, but for people like Du Guirong, who you would kill if you see them anyway, killing them and then taking their life fire to put into the lantern is indeed a win-win situation.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yun changed his mind, "Alright, just temporarily, I am unable to erase the divine sense inside the lantern!"

"That’s not a problem at all, you have Li Fire, you can send a wisp of Li Fire into the lantern, allowing it to slowly burn away the divine sense. Even if it’s strong, there will come a day when it will be burnt away."

Following the method taught by Bai Ze, Jiang Yun sent a wisp of Li Fire into the Flameless Puppet Lantern, then put it away, not bothering with it for now, and focused on cultivating.

Three days passed quickly while Jiang Yun was practicing. Xiao Zheng came by a few times but didn’t disturb Jiang Yun while he was meditating.

On the third day at dawn, Xiao Zheng appeared in front of Jiang Yun and asked, "How’s the preparation going, old friend?"

Jiang Yun smiled slightly and said, "I’ll do my best!"

It was true. Jiang Yun had no idea about the skills of the Grand Medicine Sect disciples, so he could only give his all and try to pass the five rounds of the competition. Then he planned to ask the highest-ranking pharmacist in the Grand Medicine Sect to help his Third Martial Brother make the antidote.

"Let’s go then!"