The geocentric fire vein was actually very large. The passageway that led directly to the underground rock river was, in a sense, just one of the countless passageways leading to the geocentric fire vein. It was just that it was the largest, longest, and the place it led to was the most spacious, which made it suitable for building smelting rooms.
In addition to this main wide passageway, there were other passageways, big or small, that were as dense as honeycombs on the walls of the passageway, which also led to the underground rock river. However, these passageways were too narrow, or the places they led to were too heavy with Evil Qi and heat, so they were abandoned or not taken seriously.
It should be known that the geocentric fire vein had two most important functions. One was for smelting families like the Wu's to forge Secondary Heavenly Weapons in batches with the help of the rock flows in the geocentric fire vein. The other was for people like Junior Leopard, who practiced the Fire Way Cultivation Method, to condense Evil Qi into Gang and improve their cultivation.
After all, there were very few influences in the world that were qualified to build smelting rooms in the geocentric fire vein. Now there were only four families in the Great Jin, and they had been assigned here. Although there were many people in the martial arts world who practiced the Fire Way Cultivation Method and needed the Spiritual Energy of Fire, only a few of them were qualified to enter this fire vein. Even if they were qualified to enter this fire vein, if their strength was not enough, that is to say, if they could not reach Level Three, they would be poisoned to death by the fire poison inside.
Some people whose strength was above Level Three and wanted to use the geocentric fire vein to improve their cultivation were not qualified to enter the geocentric fire vein. Therefore, there were people like Junior Leopard who sneaked in stealthily like this.
However, there were very few people like this. The Great Jin and the four smelting families were not so easy to deal with. In addition to the guards outside the door, there were also experts from the four families on duty in the main passageway. Therefore, even if Junior Leopard let go of the guards outside the door, it was still impossible to enter the depths of the main passageway.
After all, there were very few people in the world whose cultivation was above Level Seven, and those who cultivated the Internal Qi of Fire were even rarer. These people were also the targets of the Jin and other superpowers, so there was no need to worry about the lack of geocentric fire veins. Therefore, it was enough for the four families to arrange some masters in the main passage.
Originally, with Junior Leopard's current status, if he wanted to practice in the geocentric fire vein, he only needed to inform the Wu Family, and the Wu Family would naturally arrange everything. Junior Leopard was not only an Elder of the Wu Family, but also the strongest combat capability of the Wu Family. No one doubted that his combat capability had already surpassed the First Elder of the Wu Family, Lyu Yiyue. For the Wu Family, it was also a desirable thing for him to do closed-door training and improve his strength.
However, Junior Leopard didn't think of this at all. He also didn't want to disturb the Wu Family because of this matter. Therefore, he came directly. He didn't expect to meet the disciples of the Wu Family on duty.
Walking along the geocentric fire vein passage, Junior Leopard found a passage with the densest Spiritual Energy of Fire among the forked passages on the cave wall and drilled in.
This passage had very few passages. The height was only up to his shoulder, and the width was about the same as his body. Therefore, when Junior Leopard entered, he drilled like a mouse.
Like a mouse, he crawled into the passageway. As soon as he entered the passageway, the strong Spiritual Energy of Fire, along with the fire poison, rushed toward him.
"What a dense Spiritual Energy of Fire! It seems that I chose the right place this time!" Junior Leopard thought to himself. The Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire Technique, which was a Body Immortal, was operated. A faint red stripe wandered around his body, devouring the incomparably dense Spiritual Energy of Fire.
This was the second state of the Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire Technique. In today's world, there was no one who could practice the Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire Technique to this level except for a few reclusive Elders of the Tian Long Taoism.
For others, the fire poison would kill them. But for Junior Leopard, the surrounding Spiritual Energy of Fire was a great tonic.
The entrance of the passage was very narrow. Junior Leopard was ready to be a mouse. However, after drilling for a while, the passage ahead gradually widened. Soon, he could even straighten his body and walk in the passage.
After walking for a while, the surroundings became increasingly hot. The number of golden red stripes around Junior Leopard's body had increased to three, but he could still feel the bursts of heat attacking him.
"Now I'm almost at the position of the underground rock river under the main passage!"
Junior Leopard silently calculated his position.
This passage was very straight and steep. Junior Leopard was not slow. Therefore, after a little calculation, he found that he had gone very deep into the ground. Looking at the still deep passage ahead, Junior Leopard frowned slightly. "The underground rock rivers are all connected. Why can't I see any trace of the rock river until now?"
This time, his main purpose in coming to the earth's core was to find the underground rock river. He needed the Earth Fire Yuan Essence in the rock river to temper his muscles and bones, connect his fist intent, and condense his Internal Qi.
For others, the Earth Fire Yuan Essence was an extremely rare thing because it was hidden under the rock flows of the geocentric fire vein. Ordinary martial arts masters, even Level Nine experts, did not have the ability to go deep into the geocentric rock flows to collect the Spiritual Energy of Fire. Only by chance and in some very special places could they find the highest grade of the Spiritual Energy of Fire.
But Junior Leopard did not have this problem. His Black Sun Fist Intent had the ability to lure the Earth Fire Yuan Essence out of the geocentric rock flows. Therefore, he only needed to find a geocentric rock flow and launch his Black Sun Fist Intent. He could get as much Earth Fire Yuan Essence as he wanted. Then, he would use the Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire Technique to guide the Earth Fire Yuan Essence into his body to refine his body, Qi, and fist intent. This was his plan. Unexpectedly, after walking for a long time, he still could not find the underground rock river. He could not help feeling a little depressed.
"Damn it, I remember it said in the book that these passages in the geocentric fire vein all lead to the underground rock flows!" Because of this, Junior Leopard chose a passageway with the strongest Original Energy of Fire. In his opinion, the path with the strongest Original Energy of Fire was naturally closer to the rock flows. Otherwise, why would the fire burn so fiercely?
Unexpectedly, not only was it not the closest, but it might even be the furthest.
"That's not right. Since it's so far away, why is there such strong Spiritual Energy of Fire in this passage? I've condensed five Fire Dragons now, but if I don't reach the rock flows, I'm afraid the five Fire Dragons won't be able to withstand the roasting of so much Spiritual Energy of Fire! "
Junior Leopard's cultivation was high, but he was also a human being. The Spiritual Energy of Fire in this passage was getting thicker and thicker, which made him a little unbearable. Only he could hold on for such a long time. If it were someone else, even a Level Seven expert who had practiced Gang Qi, it would be too much for him to bear.
With a thought, a layer of faint cyan light flashed around Junior Leopard's body. He operated the Jade Original Power Gang Spirit that he had just practiced. At this time, the Blue Sword also turned into a cyan spiritual color and wandered around his fingertips, blocking all the boundless heat outside.
He came here to practice, not to suffer. The three golden-red Fire Dragons flying around him seemed to be full of the Spiritual Energy of Fire. Their whole body flashed with golden-red luster, and their scales, horns, whiskers, and five claws became clearer. They looked no different from the real ones. It was impossible to tell that these three Fire Dragons were condensed by Junior Leopard's Internal Qi.
Surrounded by a faint green light, Junior Leopard walked down for another four to six hours. His expression suddenly changed, because not far in front of him, the direction of the passageway had changed. Standing here, he couldn't see the real situation after the passageway turned a corner, but he could feel a huge pneuma, enough to melt iron and gold, gushing out from the mouth of the passageway. Among this pneuma, there was actually a large amount of Earth Fire Yuan Essence mixed in.
"No way! Does this passage lead to the bottom of the geocentric rock flows? Only this place has the Earth Fire Yuan Essence. Am I really that lucky?!" Junior Leopard muttered in his heart. The natural Earth Fire Yuan Essence could only exist in one place, and that was the bottom of the rock flows.
It should be known that the depths of the earth's core were mysterious and wonderful, no less than the bottom of the sea. Most of the rock flows led directly to the earth's core, but sometimes there were some holes under the rock flows. These holes were like the river tunnels and undersea tunnels in Junior Leopard's previous life. They might pass through people, but they were full of terrible fire poison. Even an expert of Level Eight or Nine might not be able to survive in such a place.
So Junior Leopard stopped.
The cyan light on his body shone brightly. Then, as if he had thought of something, the cyan light disappeared completely. He raised his hand, and five golden-red Fire Dragons flew out from his fingertips, rushing directly to the hole at the turn. At the same time, Junior Leopard raised his hand again, and three golden flames flashed. Finally, they turned into a Suanni completely made of flames, rushing to the hole.
"Hiss!" After the five Fire Dragons and the Suanni rushed over, Junior Leopard gave a long hiss. He felt a steady stream of heat flowing into his body through the Fire Dragons and the Suanni. The Mysterious Fire in his Dantian was beating. The Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire Technique and the Bright Moon Deifying Technique were running violently at once, crazily absorbing the huge energy under the ground.
After a long time, the five Fire Dragons and the Suanni flew back from the hole and drilled into Junior Leopard's body. A layer of faint golden-red light appeared on Junior Leopard's skin and wandered.
Junior Leopard suddenly opened his eyes. He took out a small white porcelain bottle from his bosom, poured out three white pills, and put them into his mouth.
Tendon-Changing Pill!
It was the Tendon-Changing Pill!
With the improvement of Junior Leopard's strength and status in the Wu Family, he got a lot of resources from the Wu Family. Moreover, the Anyuan Store also grew stronger and stronger with his strength. Now it not only dominated the shipping on the Luo River, but also started a business of medicinal herbs.
Although the medicinal herbs of the Tendon-Changing Pill were hard to find and rare, Junior Leopard did not use these rare medicinal herbs to make soup. He used them to refine elixirs, which did not need many medicinal herbs. Therefore, although it was not easy, after he returned from the Northern Prairie, the Anyuan Store had collected the medicinal herbs for refining elixirs. Although the quantity of the rarest medicinal herbs was very small, it was enough for him to refine a bottle of Tendon-Changing Pill.
After swallowing the three Tendon-Changing Pills, Junior Leopard immediately operated his cultivation to dissolve the medicinal efficacy. After the medicinal efficacy was dissolved, the three icy and bone-chilling energies merged into one and began to travel between his tendons and bones. The icy power was like an ice thorn, fiercely piercing into his tendons, tendons and bones, freezing his tendons, tendons and bones.
Junior Leopard was now under the geocentric rock flow. The boundless heat was scattered around, but he still could not resist the cruel and boundless chill.
He suddenly stood up, spread his legs, and opened his stance. The bones all over his body made a cracking sound with his movements. It sounded a little bitter, like the sound of hard soles stepping on ice in winter.
But after a while, the bitter sound of bones began to become mellow.
"Ka, ka, ka, ka — ka … dang, dang … ding, ding —!"
In the change of the sound, Junior Leopard's movements were sometimes fast and sometimes slow. One moment, he was using the Moon-evil Painted Skin Punching Skill, and the next moment, he was using the Blood Evil Painted Skin Punching Skill.
Slowly, his movements suddenly became slow. Looking at the speed, it seemed that he was practicing Tai Chi very seriously, but his movements were mixed with the methods of the Blood Evil Painted Skin Punching Skill and the Moon-evil Painted Skin Punching Skill.
The sound of Junior Leopard's bones was getting smaller and clearer.
Ding, ding, ding, ding —
It was like pearls falling on a jade plate, crisp and sweet.
Swish, swish, swish, swish —
Suddenly, in this crisp and sweet sound, there was a wave of waves.
Swish, swish, swish —
At the beginning, the sound was not loud, and could not be heard clearly. It was also disjointed. As time passed, Junior Leopard's punching speed became slower and slower, and the sound also became louder and louder. It became more and more regular, just like the ebb and flow of the sea.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh —
At this moment, Junior Leopard's entire body seemed to be filled with mercury. Every movement would cause the qi and blood in his body to churn. It evolved like a tide, and in the end, it was like the waves in the sea, making a whistling sound.
At this moment, Junior Leopard's entire body was immersed in a mysterious atmosphere. The Blood Evil Painted Skin Punching Skill, Moon-evil Painted Skin Punching Skill, as well as the other punching skills that the strange man in the thunder imparted to his mind, all merged into one in his mind, and there was no longer any distinction between them. And the thing that glued all these punching skills together was the Tai Chi.
Boom, boom, boom — —
After an unknown period of time, bursts of muffled thunder-like sounds came from his body. The slower his movements, the louder the muffled thunder.
"Phew, I can't take it anymore, just a little more!"
Junior Leopard's movements suddenly sped up. His arms suddenly extended, like an ape stretching its arms. His body somersaulted uncontrollably in the air, and landed on the ground. His feet actually seemed to stagger.
Straightening his body, Junior Leopard's eyes slightly narrowed. Without thinking, he stepped straight towards the corner of the passageway.
"It's still a little short. Although there is a lot of Earth Fire Yuan Essence here, it still doesn't meet my requirements. If I force myself to break through the Bone-Forging Realm at this time, it will affect my future development. I need more, more refined Earth Fire Yuan Essence. I need to go deeper into this passageway!"
Junior Leopard thought in his heart. His feet did not relax at all, and directly stepped into the corner of the passageway.
"Phew — —!"
A violent heat wave hit his face, and almost blew Junior Leopard backwards. Junior Leopard clenched his teeth, and a golden-red light appeared on his body. He suddenly rushed in.
"It's this place!"
Finally, after the corner of the passageway, Junior Leopard felt relaxed after passing through this extremely hot underground passageway.
He was extremely lucky because this passageway was not long. After passing through this passageway, the passageway began to go up, and the boundless heat also weakened a lot. The influence on Junior Leopard was not as great as in the passageway. After turning a few more corners, Junior Leopard finally saw his goal this time, the geocentric rock flow.
The rolling lava was like lava, emitting a huge amount of heat. The golden-red light illuminated the entire underground space.
This was a place where the underground rock flow passed through, and there was also an underground cavity. But compared with the underground cavity that the main passageway of the geocentric fire vein led to, this one was much smaller, but at the same time, the heat here was much stronger.
However, compared with the previous tunnel, which was mixed with a large amount of heat from the Earth Fire Yuan Essence, the situation here was much better.
"Here, finally here. I just need to be here … What is this?"
Junior Leopard secretly chuckled, and was ready to use this place as his practice place. Suddenly, he was stunned.
Because he saw a strange thing. In this geocentric rock flow, there was a rock.
The geocentric rock flow was actually similar to the river on the ground. The difference was that the river flowed with water, while the rock flow flowed with magma.
Therefore, the flow of the geocentric rock flow would also be hindered in the process. The materials that constituted the magma were different. Some special materials might accumulate in the process of the flow of the rock flow, just like the sand and stones in the river on the ground. Over time, some small islands, stones, and the like would also be formed in the rock flow.
Generally speaking, these islands and stones would not exist for too long, because no matter how hard the materials were, they could not withstand the erosion of the rock flow day after day, year after year.
Now the rock flow in front of Junior Leopard was not wide, and the golden-red magma flowed very smoothly. The only unusual thing was that there was a small island in the middle of the rock flow. In other words, the rock that protruded from the rock flow was not an island at all. At most, it was a slightly larger rock, an obstacle.
What surprised Junior Leopard was this obstacle. On this black, seemingly ordinary rock, Junior Leopard felt spirituality.
From Junior Leopard's feeling, this rock was not a dead object at all, but a living creature. Such a strong spirituality was much stronger than the spirituality of the material used for his Emerald Pearl Sword, and also stronger than the spirituality of his Demon Devil Needles.
"Highest grade material, this is the highest grade material for refining celestial devices!" Junior Leopard screamed in his heart, "If I wait for another few thousand years, this rock may develop spiritual intelligence, and a monkey may jump out of it. But now, it is just a rock, a piece of highest grade material for refining celestial devices!"
No one knew how many years this stone had existed in this geocentric rock flow, how many peculiar substances in the rock flow had accumulated, and how many years of refinement in the rock flow had given birth to such a strong spiritual nature.
Encountering such a treasure, Junior Leopard naturally would not be lenient, nor would he let it go. He lifted his fingertips, and the Sword Qi of the Extreme Yang Through Sky Sword shot out and rushed straight into the rock flow. Starting from the place where Junior Leopard felt the spirituality of the rock, he violently cut it.
"Sha — —!"
A strange sound came from the place where the Sword Qi of the Extreme Yang Through Sky Sword cut. Then, Junior Leopard felt a very overbearing force bouncing from the root of the rock, violently hitting the Extreme Yang Through Sky Sword. Fortunately, Junior Leopard used the Extreme Yang Through Sky Sword. If it were something else, whether it was a weapon or a martial arts skill, it would definitely be smashed by this overbearing force.
"It's not a rock!"
After this, Junior Leopard finally confirmed that it was not the black stone that he saw that had such a strong spirituality, but the thing hidden in the stone.
The Extreme Yang Heavenly Sword was incomparably sharp. Although it had received a powerful counterattack, it still stubbornly cut through the base of the rock. A dazzling golden-red light shot out from the bottom of the rock flow. The rock sank and disappeared into the rock flow.
There was no better place to hide than in the rock flow. At this time, the root of the rock had been cut off. Once it sank into the rock flow, it would be like gravel in the river, drifting with the current. God knows where it would go.
Of course, Junior Leopard would not let this happen. Seeing the rock sink into the bottom of the rock flow, Junior Leopard turned his palm into a knife and pointed at the part of the rock flow that was emitting golden red light.
The Space Division Skill!
In an instant, that part of the space was cut and became independent from the surrounding space. Naturally, the rock could not go anywhere.
After the two spaces were separated, Junior Leopard waved his sleeve fiercely. From the separated rock flow, a pitch-black rock flashing with golden red light flew out and flew straight toward Junior Leopard. Junior Leopard waved his sleeve and brushed against the rock. The surface of the rock was broken, revealing the golden endoplasm that was emitting boundless spirituality.
The golden-red, irregularly shaped substance appeared in front of Junior Leopard. It was like gold but not gold, like stone but not stone.
Without thinking, Junior Leopard gently pointed with his fingertips, and a will-o '-the-wisp thought floated toward the strange substance.
This was Junior Leopard's thought.
Junior Leopard knew very well that this kind of Mysterious Object was already psychic. The only thing left was the last threshold. If it was given another thousand or eight hundred years, it could definitely evolve to have intelligence. But now, it was an advantage for him.
This kind of Mysterious Object that was about to evolve to have intelligence did not have any rejection to thoughts. It could even be said that it was already waiting for it. As soon as Junior Leopard's thought was inserted, it immediately blended with this mysterious thing.
Under Junior Leopard's control, the light on the surface of this thing gradually faded, revealing a cold hard shell. Its volume also began to shrink. Finally, it shrank into a black "stone" that was only the size of a fist, like a stubborn stone.
"It's a good thing, but I don't know how to use it. I'd better put it away first!" Junior Leopard thought to himself. Because the size of this thing was very small, it did not take up much space, so Junior Leopard directly threw it into the space that he had divided for the two Big Iron Hammers.
Although the two Big Iron Hammers were big and filled the whole space, it was more than enough to put a fist-sized stone!
After doing all this, Junior Leopard gently breathed a sigh of relief. He undid the Space Division Skill that he had just performed. The Black Sun Fist Intent rose behind him. The originally flowing rock flow in the geocentric core began to boil under the influence of the Black Sun Fist Intent. Fist-sized bubbles emerged from the bottom of the rock flow.
"Well, it's time to practice. Let's see if I can break through this time!"
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