A sudden descent of danger

Another half month has passed.

North Spring Mountain.

On the main peak where Gu Yuanqing was located.

Inside a grand hall, in the Alchemy Chamber, a ten-foot-tall Pill Furnace, Dao Fire burned fiercely.

The feet of this censer are made of three animal feet, and the open mouth of the Qilin on the belly serves as the fire door. The walls of the censer are decorated with the Four Sacred Beasts: Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise. Various Cloud Pattern are carved according to the Five Elements, Eight Trigrams, Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches and Earthly Branches, and Twenty-Eight Mansions.

Strange light flickered Pill Furnace, and the medicinal power within seemed about to burst forth. The furnace lid trembled slightly, and Runes lines appeared, steadily suppressing all the medicinal power within the Pill Furnace.

Suddenly, a wisp of green light flashed in the Pill Furnace, and Gu Yuanqing quickly threw the blood of the Silver Blood Snake in his hand into it.

In an instant, the azure light inside the Pill Furnace transformed into seven colors, and then into pure white.

Gu Yuanqing circled the Pill Furnace swiftly, casting a series of Hand Seal. As the pure white light turned silvery-white, he softly shouted, "Withdraw!"

The furnace top opened, and twelve shimmering silver Spirit Tempering Pill dripped into a pre-prepared Jade Bottle using the Object Control Method.

The Pill Furnace went out.

Gu Yuanqing sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes, and carefully comprehended the changes in the medicinal power of the elixir he had just refined.

Half an hour later, he suddenly opened his eyes, spread his palms, and Dao Fire ignited in his palms. Spirit Herb, Spirit Fruit, Spirit Materials flew into the Dao Fire and began to change in the Void. He used his Object Control Power to control the changes in medicinal properties. These Spiritual Item turned into Spirit Liquid that kept shimmering with light. Just as he was about to reach the last few steps, a ball of light suddenly flashed, the medicinal properties in the Dao Fire dissipated, and the Spirit Liquid turned into a bluish-black color.

Gu Yuanqing frowned, Dao Fire suddenly blazed brightly, instantly turning the ruined elixir to ashes.

"There are still some things I don't understand. Perhaps I need to refine it a few more times before I can fully comprehend its mysteries. Only then can I refine pills out of thin air by relying on the Object Control Method, without the aid of Pill Furnace, and control the medicinal properties of various spirit medicine."

"That's enough for today."

Stepping outside the hall, he couldn't help but glance once more at Fengtian City, where Li Chengyi was circulating his Cultivation Method, Azure Dao Fire igniting to temper his Physical Body.

Gu Yuanqing smiled.

"This kid's cultivation speed isn't much slower than mine, he's just a bit reckless. Non-Self hadn't secretly intervened, he would have suffered a great loss Yin Fire Tribulation."

As usual, he used his Mountain Observation Technique to take another look at the area covered by North Spring Mountain.

Among them are countless living beings, and he knows he cannot investigate them all in detail. The most important thing is to see if there are any experts. However, he is much more meticulous about Fengtian City.

Just as he was about to withdraw his thoughts, his mind suddenly stirred, and he quickly locked onto a middle-aged man in the Dao Embryo Realm.

At this moment, the middle-aged man was in his inn room.

He held a piece of paper in his hand, his eyes gleaming with undisguised delight.

Hao Deyang poured Xia Yanjie a cup of tea and handed it to him.

"Brother Yanjie, is there any error in these Eight Characters of Birth?"

Xia Yanjie gulped down the drink in a few mouthfuls, then patted his chest and said, "Brother Hao, you can rest assured about my work. I went to great lengths to get this from the midwife who delivered my baby. I was worried she might try to cheat me for money, so I had the servants from the Gu Family at the time confirm it with them. It's definitely the right one."

"That's good. Look, are you satisfied with this?" Hao Deyang handed over the things he had prepared earlier.

"Brother Hao, you're too kind. You've already spent a lot of money these past two weeks. How could I possibly accept anything from you for such a small favor!"

"Not at all, this is just a small token of my appreciation. If it weren't for you, I don't know how much more effort I would have had to put in. Don't worry, I'm doing this for the country, and the reward I'll receive when I return will be no less than this. If you consider me a friend, you should accept it, otherwise it will be difficult to trouble you in the future."

"Look at what you're saying, then I guess I'll have to accept it, brother." Xia Yanjie accepted it half-heartedly, then casually asked, "But, Brother Hao, what does your country need this Eight Characters of Birth for?"

Hao Deyang glanced at the eight characters recorded on the paper again, carefully put them into his inner pocket, and smiled, "The king likes metaphysics and thought that the birth date of Immortal Gu must be an auspicious day, so he wanted to find it and study it. He once jokingly said that the next prince would be delivered according to this birth date."

Xia Yanjie burst into laughter upon hearing this.

In the North Spring Mountain, Gu Yuanqing frowned slightly.

"My Eight Characters of Birth?"

The cultivation in this world leans towards Martial Path and the way of Array Formation, but Gu Yuanqing is not just a person of this world. Not to mention that he has been in contact with the Cultivation World and knows some Secret Method, even if his Eight Characters of Birth were a secret in his previous life, if someone suddenly tries to find his birth date and time, coupled with the warning from his Dao Heart, he can't help but think more about it.

However, he didn't do anything immediately; he simply focused his gaze on the Dao Embryo Realm Cultivator.

The next day, Hao Deyang's Traveling Merchant set off.

Xia Yanjie changed into a new set of clothes and came with servants carrying valuable gifts to see him off. In the past half month, he had acquired a lot of things without much effort, almost increasing his wealth by half, as well as various cultivation Restoration Pill. In his eyes, Hao Deyang was simply a god of wealth.

He hadn't expected that less than an hour after Hao Deyang left, the palace Imperial Guards would come knocking on his door and take him away without a word.

The torture had barely begun when he confessed everything.

Gu Yuanqing retrieved the Dossier using the Heavenly Fishing Method, looked at the records, and smiled slightly, "I'd like to see who it is."

Among the old belongings of Gu Yuanqing that Hao Deyang took, a jade pendant the size of two fingers was silently mixed in. On the jade pendant was a wisp of Divine Sense sent down by Gu Yuanqing, protected by the Incense and Fire Qi and surrounded by Spatial Method.

With the help of this item, even outside the area covered by Mountain Observation, Gu Yuanqing could still easily track its whereabouts.

Hao Deyang traveled westward until he reached the sea, where he boarded a large ship and headed into the depths of the ocean.

Gu Yuanqing chuckled to himself, "This direction doesn't seem to be towards the Shuiyue Kingdom, but rather the Archipelago in the far west. It seems I guessed right after all."

Wang Yuchi stood on the edge of the Cliff, gazing in the direction of the Great Qian Kingdom. These past few days, he had been feeling uneasy. He used the Mysterious Light Mirror to calculate, and each time he got a "misfortune" character. Moreover, the color of this "misfortune" character was getting darker and darker, indicating that danger was getting closer and closer.

Although it's unclear where this danger comes from, there's no need to calculate it in this Floating World; it's mostly known to be Gu Yuanqing.

"No, we can't wait any longer. Although using the Secret Technique will come at a higher price without the guidance of the ancient artifacts and bloodline, the danger is drawing ever closer. Waiting any longer is no different from sitting and waiting to die!"

"Although Hao Deyang's every move was under my surveillance and I didn't detect anything unusual, I was just a wisp of my Divine Soul. Perhaps someone had tampered with me without my knowledge. Or perhaps Gu Yuanqing had already noticed Hao Deyang's strange behavior but remained inactive, secretly following him to find me!"

The more he thought about it, the more convinced he became. Otherwise, how could the Mysterious Light Mirror have changed so drastically? Through Hao Deyang's eyes, he had already obtained Gu Yuanqing's Eight Characters of Birth. Now, he could simply pay a higher price. He turned to look at the creatures on the island, a fierce glint in his eyes, and muttered coldly to himself, "Don't blame me. In the World Conflict, it's a matter of life and death. Since you were born in this realm, you are enemies!"

As he spoke, he strode to the mountaintop, where an altar had already been built.

He sat cross-legged before the altar, closed his eyes, regulated his breathing, and waited for night to fall.

It was midnight in the blink of an eye. Wang Yuchi opened his eyes, patted the Storage Bag at his waist, and a minotaur-headed, human-bodied deity Divine Statue flew out. He bowed slightly, held the Divine Statue in both hands, slowly stepped forward, and gently placed it on the top of the Sacrificial Altar.

He formed another Hand Seal, and thirteen Law Treasure flew out, revealing a nine-tiered Divine Platform that radiated golden light. His Divine Soul stepped out of his Physical Body and stood on the Divine Platform.

The Divine Soul hand touched the Formation Disk in the center of the floating Law Treasure, and the other twelve Law Treasure instantly flew out in all directions.

True Essence was injected, the Formation Disk shone brightly, and the twelve Law Treasure immediately moved accordingly, forming a cyan light screen that covered an area of hundreds of miles.

As he changed his Seal Technique, a gentle breeze suddenly arose, which in a moment transformed into a strong wind, and then into Gale, the howling sound waking countless people.

Forty miles away, in a city, a woman suddenly awoke.

"Honey, get up quickly! A strong wind is blowing outside; it looks like it's going to rain heavily. We need to bring everything inside."

The man sleeping soundly beside them groggily woke up, and the two then prepared to go out.

But a Gale came and ripped the roof off, sending tiles flying everywhere, and the wind that rushed in made it hard for people to stand.

As the two cried out in alarm, the Gale changed again, transforming into sharp blue blades.

The screams abruptly ceased, and the two men, covered in blood, fell backward.

Countless others were killed in their sleep, and some with slightly higher cultivation levels were awakened, but these were at most at the Profound Martial Ninth Layer, and what power did they have to resist this Array Formation?

Screams continued, and in less than half an incense stick's time, all living beings within a radius of hundreds of miles perished.

This is the Divine Platform Ninth Layer; with the help of Array Formation, one person can destroy a city.

Wang Yuchi remained indifferent. He took out three large incense sticks, each about the thickness of a thumb, and made a Seal Technique.

The Gale outside transformed into Yin Wind, carrying countless Living Souls that entered the incense. In the end, the three incense sticks were enveloped in layers of black mist.

All the Law Treasure flew back and automatically disappeared into his Storage Bag.

His Divine Soul his body, and Dao Fire ignited on his fingers. He lit three large incense sticks, then respectfully bowed three times and inserted them into the Incense Burner in front of the Divine Statue.

He took three steps back, knelt and kowtowed three times, then inserted his finger into his heart. With a flick of his finger, a stream of blood from his heart was drawn out, condensing in the Void into Gu Yuanqing's Eight Characters of Birth, which then entered the Divine Statue.

He knelt on the ground and chanted True Word, and the Array Formation around the altar lit up.

His tone of voice became strange, and he shouted, "Ancient Oath as our bond, incense as our guide, eight characters as our guide, believer Wang Yuchi beseeches the Great Black Prison Underworld God to descend..."

Gu Yuanqing was Mountain Observation, his mind seemingly lost in thought, trying to comprehend the Dao Resonance in this mysterious realm. But for some reason, he was the Unseen today, and felt as if something was amiss.

He opened his eyes, but couldn't see anything. Suddenly, he raised his hand, and a gentle breeze made him feel that North Spring Mountain was much cooler than usual...