[Additional Chapter 15!]
With the Crimson Flame set hidden in his body, Ye Xing's breathing quickened.
Although the Crimson Flame set was powered by mid-grade Astral Crystals and had strength equivalent to Exalted Nine Stars, using this strength in battle still required Ye Xing's strength.
This was akin to an ordinary person obtaining an extremely powerful weapon. With this weapon, he could kill someone much stronger than him.
However, this did not mean that he did not need to expend his strength. At the very least, using this weapon to attack others would expend his strength.
If the weapon was very heavy, he would also feel exhausted after killing his opponent.
The Crimson Flame set was like a heavy and powerful weapon. Ye Xing could even kill Exalted Nine Stars when using it in battle, but he would also expend a great deal of his strength in a battle.
As Ye Xing hurriedly took a deep breath, he used his Black Hole Astrological Form to devour Fire Cloud Sect Master's Fire of Destiny.
Fire Cloud Sect Master had a Seven Star Yellow Fate. It was one star higher than his son, Yun Tianhao.
The higher the Heavenly Fate, the smoother one's cultivation would be. It would be easier to break through the barriers of one's cultivation realm. Ye Xing naturally did not mind having a higher Heavenly Fate.
After a while, the Fire of Destiny in Fire Cloud Sect Master's mind dissipated. As for Ye Xing's mind, the Fire of Destiny went from six to seven.
Ye Xing's Heavenly Fate had reached a Seven Star Yellow Fate!
A Seven Star Yellow Fate meant that one was destined to cultivate to the seventh level of the Astral Constellation realm. Such a Heavenly Fate was very rare in the entire True Mystic Region. Among warriors of the same generation, there were typically only one or two of them.
Ye Xing took off Fire Cloud Sect Master's storage ring and produced a blob of astral fire. He burned Fire Cloud Sect Master's corpse and quickly reduced it to ashes.
Ye Xing observed his surroundings. The valley was in a mess. The stone house had been reduced to ruins and the coffin had been reduced to fragments. Tian Fen's corpse had been buried by the collapsed rubble.
There were several cracks on the ground, all caused by the collision between Ye Xing and the two fire snakes. One of the large cracks divided the ruins of the stone house into two halves.
Ye Xing could clearly sense that the Yin Qi here had dissipated and returned to normal. It seemed that the battle just now had destroyed the mouth of the spring here. From now on, this place would no longer be a good place for the dead.
Who knew how long Tian Fen, who was buried under the rubble, would have to wait before he could become a Corpse Dao Cultivator. Ye Xing only thought about it casually and ignored it.
Ye Xing sat down on a rock and studied Fire Cloud Sect Master's storage ring.
Superior-grade storage rings were typically only owned by Supremacies. As the sect master of a superior one-star sect, the Fire Cloud Sect Master still used a medial-grade storage ring.
However, when Ye Xing wiped away the Fire Cloud Sect Master's astral mark and probed the interior of the ring, he was alarmed.
He saw that there were more than ten medial-grade storage rings in the medial-grade storage ring, as well as a large number of inferior-grade storage rings.
"With so many medial-grade storage rings, it's unlikely that they were given to him by others. They were probably obtained after he killed others."
Ye Xing thought to himself. For example, he had obtained Fire Cloud Sect Master's storage ring after killing him.
Ye Xing took out all the storage rings and checked them one by one. He discovered that Fire Cloud Sect Master's wealth was in no way inferior to his.
In terms of Astral Crystals, Ye Xing naturally had more. Ye Xing only found more than a hundred thousand medial-grade Astral Crystals and more than a million inferior-grade Astral Crystals in the storage ring.
However, there were many other treasures in Fire Cloud Sect Master's storage ring. There were large numbers of pills, various ores and array formation materials. They were all piled up in a large space.
Most importantly, there were a few martial arts manuals that were superior-grade Spirit Martial Arts.
Superior-grade Spirit Martial Arts were extremely valuable. They were not of much use to Ye Xing, but the Meteor Sect's future discoveries could not be lacking in martial arts.
The items in the storage ring were most useful to Ye Xing. They were all array formation materials. Ye Xing's array formation skills had improved very quickly, but he was lacking in array formation materials.
"Oh, there's also a mask!"
Ye Xing found a human-skinned mask in an inferior-grade storage ring.
"The mask that Exalted Wu Yu gave me can no longer be used because I offended Long Xiao. However, this can be used. If I were to show my true face to others, I would only dare use my trump card when I encounter danger. If I wear the mask, no one will know who I am. I can then use the Crimson Flame set at any time. I can even use the Black Hole Astrology or Sagittarius Constellation Astrology!"
Ye Xing put the human-skinned mask on himself. After leaving this place, he would wear this mask and continue to search for corpse jades in the Sky Corpse Mountain Range.
Wearing the Crimson Flame set to search for corpse jades, he could even kill high-level Astral Realm corpse martial artists. In the area where superior-grade Spirit Jade was produced, there were no corpse venerables. Ye Xing was basically invincible. As long as he found a Spirit Jade, he could snatch it from the corpse martial artists.
Ye Xing sorted out the items in the storage ring and put all the storage rings into his middle-grade storage ring.
Then, Ye Xing continued to comprehend the array formation knowledge in his mind.
A trap formation was not something that one could walk out of just by seeing the formation. Only by becoming a Level 3 Array Grandmaster could one leave a Level 3 trap formation.
Ye Xing had enough formation materials on him. While he was comprehending the formation, he was also using the formation materials to set up a small formation and conduct experiments.
Practice and theory verified each other. This allowed Ye Xing to comprehend the array formation much faster.
Day by day, time passed.
Ye Xing did not know that the Yin Gathering Twin Springs was a very balanced Feng Shui treasure land. When his Lower Yin Spring was destroyed, the Upper Yin Spring where the Scarlet Flame Venerable was buried was also destroyed.
The Scarlet Flame Venerable had used the powerful Yin Qi in the Yin Gathering Twin Springs to set up the array formation. Now that the Upper Yin Spring was destroyed, the array formation outside the Scarlet Flame Venerable's burial ground naturally had some flaws.
At least, the illusion array that enveloped the burial ground no longer looked real. Even a Level 3 Array Grandmaster could see the problem at a glance.
Although the Scarlet Flame Venerable's burial ground was a hundred thousand miles away from the Lower Yin Spring, it still belonged to the periphery of the Sky Corpse Mountain Range.
Martial artists who entered the Sky Corpse Mountain Range all hurried to the depths of the mountain range. No one would search for corpse jades in the periphery. Therefore, only some martial artists who happened to pass by the Scarlet Flame Venerable's burial ground would pass by.
This probability was very low. Even if there was a problem with the array formation, no one would know since no martial artist saw it.
Nearly a month later, a group of martial artists happened to pass by this place.
Just like Skyblaze's burial ground, the illusion array outside the Scarlet Flame Venerable's burial ground also manifested a flaming mountain peak.
In the past, this flaming mountain peak was very real. However, it now looked somewhat illusory and indistinct. The group of martial artists who passed by immediately discovered the problem.
There were a total of three people in this group. One was a Five-Star Venerable and the other two were Three-Star Venerable.
One of the Three-Star Venerable was the first to discover the problem and pointed out that the flaming mountain peak was not real. The three of them arrived outside the flaming mountain peak.
The Five-Star Venerable observed for a while and said, "This flaming mountain peak is fake. This is an illusion array. The illusory flaming mountain peak is blocking everything inside."
One of the Three-Star Venerable said, "An illusion array? Who would set up an illusion array in the Sky Corpse Mountain Range?"
The other Three-Star Venerable said, "Usually, there is only one possibility. A martial artist who wants to become a Corpse Dao Martial Artist would bury himself in the Sky Corpse Mountain Range and set up an illusion array outside the burial ground when he was alive, so that other martial artists would not be able to discover it."
The Three-Star Venerable was surprised and said, "Are you saying that this illusion array is a martial artist's burial ground?"
The Three-Star Venerable nodded and said, "That's right. In order to quickly increase their cultivation after becoming a Corpse Dao Martial Artist, martial artists would usually collect corpse jades when they were alive and place them in the burial ground. After becoming a Corpse Dao Martial Artist, they could directly absorb the corpse jades to cultivate."
"It seems like there should be corpse jades in this burial ground!"
The Five-Star Venerable at the front laughed and said, "We entered the Sky Corpse Mountain Range for ordinary corpse jades. If there are corpse jades here, why bother going elsewhere? I wonder if the martial artists in the burial ground collected a lot of corpse jades when they were alive. I will go take a look."
After saying that, the Five-Star Venerable rushed toward the flaming mountain peak ahead.
It was just an illusion array, so he did not pay much attention to it.
The Five-Star Venerable directly passed through the flaming mountain peak. This flaming mountain peak was indeed illusory.
However, after a few breaths, a mournful scream was heard from inside. Then, there was no more movement.
The expressions of the two Three-Star Venerables outside changed drastically. The scream had been made by the Five-Star Venerable who had just entered. Judging by the miserable sound, it was obvious that he had met with a mishap.
A Five-Star Venerable had died in an instant. Was this … merely an illusion array?
The two Three-Star Venerables retreated continuously. They were looking at the flaming mountain peak with reverence.
"Senior Brother Di!"
"Senior Brother Di!"
The two Three-Star Venerables shouted loudly toward the illusion array, but no sound came out.
The two of them looked at each other and sensed the fear in each other's eyes. They did not stay and quickly left this place to return to Wu City.
Soon, a piece of news spread.
In the periphery of the Sky Corpse Mountain Range, less than two days' journey from Wu City, a martial artist's burial ground had appeared. It was enveloped by an extremely high-level illusion array.
It was common knowledge that martial artists would collect corpse jades when they were alive and place them in the burial ground. They would be absorbed when they became a Corpse Dao Martial Artist.
Therefore, a martial artist's burial ground would most likely have corpse jades, and there would be a lot of them.
Furthermore, martial artists could also place their lifetime's harvest in the burial ground and bury it with them. An expert's burial ground could be considered a treasure trove.
Therefore, a large number of martial artists headed toward the location of the burial ground according to the news. One after another, people died in the array formation.
It was not until a Level-Three Array Grandmaster heard the news and rushed over that he saw some clues from the broken array formation. There were not only illusion arrays in the burial ground, but also killing arrays and trapping arrays.
Moreover, they were all Level-Three Array Grandmasters!
A martial artist who could set up a Level-Three Array Grandmaster to protect his burial ground must have been a Level-Three Array Grandmaster when he was alive. He must have been an expert with a rich collection. The martial artists guessed that there must be a large number of treasures in the burial ground.
When the news spread, even the experts of the Blue Dragon Empire and the Green Feather Empire were attracted and headed to the burial ground.
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