A secret passage leading underground had been opened in the main hall at some point in time. Cultivators walked in one after another, and the hollow sound of footsteps came from the depths below.
Everyone followed the secret passage all the way down, and after walking for about half an hour, they arrived in front of a bronze door.
The door was thick and simple, and it gave off a sense of vicissitudes. A flying dragon was carved on the door, and it was lifelike, as if it was a living creature.
The door was already open, and there was a faint red mist surging behind the door.
The cultivators who came here did not stop, and they all rushed into the red mist and disappeared. The open bronze door and the surging red mist seemed to have an invisible beast entrenched inside, swallowing the cultivators into its stomach one by one.
Lu Ye was behind Xie Jin, and he followed him into the red mist.
However, after walking in, he suddenly felt a sense of weightlessness. This feeling came and went quickly, and by the time Lu Ye came back to his senses, Xie Jin's figure was nowhere to be seen. Not only him, but even the cultivators who had walked in before could no longer see him.
Lu Ye did not panic. On the way to the gathering point, Qiao Qiao 'er had asked him some things about the Dragon Spring. Xie Jin did not hide anything and told her a lot, but because his cultivation was not high, what he knew was also hearsay.
One of them was the strange experience of entering this place. Everyone who entered here would appear in an independent small space, and would not have any interaction with others.
As for why this was, Xie Jin could not say. He only knew that the elders of the sect speculated that this place seemed to be related to the secrets of space.
Lu Ye turned his head and looked around. The faint red mist was not too dense, so it did not completely cover the surrounding environment. He looked around for a while and found that the place he was in seemed to be a secret room. In the center of the secret room, there was a spring the size of a bowl that was spewing out spring water. The spring water did not flow in all directions, and soon seeped into the ground, and as the spring water gushed out, a faint red mist dissipated.
This secret chamber wasn't big, only about ten meters in length and width. Apart from the mouth of the misty spring, there was nothing else in the chamber.
The current situation made Lu Ye feel strange. He did not know where the others had gone, but he thought that they were all like him, in an independent secret room.
There were probably some secrets hidden in this place. Lu Ye wasn't in the mood to explore these things. The nearby forces had been entrenched here for so many years. If there were any secrets, they would have long been discovered by them.
There wasn't much time left. Lu Ye walked to a corner of the room, took out a prayer mat, and sat down cross-legged on it.
At this point, Xie Jin only needed to meditate and cultivate normally. As he breathed in and out, the faint red mist would temper the cultivator's body.
Lu Ye was a little worried. He had never been normal throughout his cultivation journey.
After a series of attempts, as expected, this kind of meditation did not have the slightest effect. The light red mist lingering around his body was not absorbed into his body at all.
This mist was the true source of tempering a cultivator's physique. If it couldn't be drawn into the body, it naturally wouldn't have any tempering effects.
Lu Ye had already prepared a countermeasure to this. He began to construct spirit gathering runes in his spiritual cavities.
The spirit gathering runes could transform into tiny funnels and draw the world's spiritual energy into Lu Ye's spiritual cavities. If the light red mist here was the world's spiritual energy, the spirit gathering runes should be able to display their effects.
Soon, a spirit gathering rune took shape. Lu Ye immediately had a different feeling. Under the guidance of the spirit gathering rune, the mist was gathered and poured into the spiritual cavities through the funnel-shaped rune.
It was different from when he was cultivating. When the mist poured into the spiritual cavities, Lu Ye immediately felt a slight pain. It was not intense, as if someone had taken a needle and lightly poked him.
This made him feel relieved. Xie Jin had said that this was a normal phenomenon. Tempering the physique was not a pleasant experience. Everyone would feel pain here.
This was also the reason why Tang Wu had told everyone to act according to their abilities. The higher the cultivation talent of a cultivator, the greater the benefits they would receive. Correspondingly, the greater the pain they would have to endure.
As the spirit gathering runes continued to display their effects, the slight pain continued to spread.
Lu Ye could almost ignore this pain. He began to construct the second spirit gathering rune. After a while, the third, the fourth …
When he had constructed the thirtieth spirit gathering rune, Lu Ye lightly snorted.
At this time, as the light red mist continued to pour in, the pain became extremely obvious. It no longer felt like a needle was gently poking him. Instead, it felt as if there were many needles in his body, constantly moving through his limbs and bones.
Lu Ye temporarily stopped constructing the spirit runes. He felt that if he continued like this, he would not be able to hold on.
The pain became more and more intense. When it reached its peak, Lu Ye suddenly felt as if his whole body was on fire. His muscles bulged, and the veins on his forehead bulged. He looked extremely sinister.
The intense pain made him sweat profusely, drenching his clothes.
But soon, the pain began to ease again. Although it did not completely disappear, it was much better than before.
Lu Ye calmed his mind and constructed the spirit gathering rune again.
Thirty-one, thirty-two … until the fortieth.
Once again, he reached his limit. The same feeling as before was transmitted. His body began to burn again, and the pain began to ease.
He constructed the third spirit rune.
Until all his spirit cavities were reinforced with spirit gathering runes, there were a total of fifty-four of them.
The light red mist from all around swarmed in and was swallowed by Lu Ye. He clenched his fists and endured with great difficulty, his body constantly trembling.
Suddenly, two huge blood-red eyes appeared in his mind, staring at him from the sky. Those blood-red eyes were filled with a chaotic and murderous aura. Under its gaze, Lu Ye felt a chill run down his spine.
After what seemed like an instant, but also like a million years, Lu Ye suddenly opened his eyes, but there was nothing in front of him.
His expression was one of bewilderment. He didn't know if it was an illusion or something else, but under the gaze of those blood-red eyes, he clearly heard an old voice. That voice said something, but Lu Ye didn't hear it clearly.
The pain in his body had completely disappeared at some point. His stomach was growling, and he felt an intense hunger he had never felt before.
* Puchi … *
A strange sound came out. Lu Ye looked over and saw that in the middle of the secret room, there was a flat object spurting out with the spring water.
He looked at it in bewilderment for a moment, wanting to get up and grab it, but after taking a few steps, he felt that something was wrong.
His body … seemed to be somewhat unbalanced. It was not the kind of imbalance that made him dizzy, but rather an imbalance that he could not control.
He clearly wanted to go to the spring, but after a few steps, he crossed the spring and arrived at the other side of the secret room, almost hitting the wall.
Hurriedly stopping, he closed his eyes and silently examined his body.
His qi and blood seemed to be more than twice as abundant as before, and his flesh and blood had become more powerful. He gently clenched his fists, a powerful force surging.
His physique had received a very exaggerated upgrade! This was the root of his inability to control his body. Because his strength had increased too much in a short period of time, and his speed had also increased very quickly, but his mind had not yet adapted to the improvement of his body.
When he calmed down, even everything around him seemed to have slowed down.
Could the tempering of the Dragon Spring really have such great benefits? Lu Ye was somewhat bewildered.
It should not be like this. If the tempering of the Dragon Spring really had such great benefits, this place would have long been occupied by the top sects. How could it be the turn of Green Feather Mountain and Tai Luo Sect to hold the Dragon Spring Gathering? Although the top sects were all stationed in the core area, they only needed to send some people.
Xie Jin had said before that tempering in the Dragon Spring did have benefits, but it was not enough to make a person reborn. Compared to the body tempering treasures occupied by the top sects, the Dragon Spring was still much worse, so Lu Ye and the others should not have too much hope and only do their best. However, in addition to tempering the physique, the Dragon Spring also had another effect, which was why the disciples of the top sects had come to take a share of the profits.
But at this moment, Lu Ye clearly felt that he had been reborn.
He took a deep breath, slowly calmed his mind, turned around, and began to slowly walk around the secret room.
At first, it was not very smooth. He was like a baby who had just learned to walk, and if he was not careful, he would bump into the wall. But after walking a few laps and adapting to the changes in his body, the situation became better.
It was not until now that he found that the light red mist that was originally here had disappeared without a trace. The spring was still spewing water, but there was no more mist overflowing.
The hunger was getting stronger, as if he had not eaten for many days.
For the time being, Lu Ye ignored the inexplicable object that was spewing out from the spring and continued to walk around the secret room, taking out some dried meat from his storage bag.
After eating more than ten kilograms of dried meat, he felt full.
Dang — —
A clear sound rang out. Lu Ye was startled at first, but then he reacted.
Dang — —
The sound became urgent.
Xie Jin said that when the bell rang three times, it meant that the time was up and everyone had to leave.
Three days had passed? Lu Ye was a little surprised. He felt that he had only been here for half a day.
Before the final bell rang, he quickly walked over to the spring, grabbed the object that had spewed out from the spring, and stuffed it directly into his storage bag, not even having time to investigate what it was.
The feeling of weightlessness from before came again, and Lu Ye only saw a blur in front of his eyes before he appeared in front of the bronze gate.
The surrounding area was bustling with people. Obviously, everyone had been sent out. A sour and foul smell wafted out, causing Lu Ye to frown. The smell was extremely strong, and there seemed to be more than one kind of smell. Many women were so stimulated by the smell that they began to retch.
"Get out, get out, it stinks!" Someone shouted and took the lead to return.
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