RETURN OF THE RULER
125. The Ming II village
"While..." Yang Xuan moved while carrying Princess Hai Rong in his arms. After they arrived, he examined the stone cliff first with golden eyes.
"The ancient seal and the killing formation of the saint beast." Yang Xuan muttered in astonishment. He noticed the central point of the formation in the cave passage and took out a black eagle from the continent sealing ring and told him to take Princess Hai Rong away.
Yang Xuan stared intently at the stone wall with twitching brows. He could hear the whistling sound of phoenix flames as whirls of flames appeared in the hallway of the cave.
"Who ..." Solar chakra shot out from Yang Xuan's body as eternal flames blazed over his body. The solar chakra missed at high speed towards the rock cliff.
Dhuars
A powerful explosion occurred when the solar chakra hit the rock cliff, instantly the mouth of the cave gave off an aura of death along with the heat.
The sound of a deafening streak of explosions shot out from the mouth of the cave as the solar chakra continued to destroy hundreds of deadly traps arranged along the goa passage.
Yang Xuan entered the cave passageway in the black eagle's follow from behind while observing the hallway wall. Yang Xuan took out a fire eagle and a white eagle then gave the order to ascertain the temple members in the region of the arc desert and the mysterious forest. After making sure the two eagles were gone he re-sealed the mouth of the cave and set up a killing formation.
"From the central point array of seals and formations that are within this passageway, it should be a type of saint beast killing formation." Inner Yang Xuan was curious.
Yang Xuan saw hundreds of high-level swords being thrown from several points after the solar chakra destroyed the central point of the seal and formation.
Yang Xuan took out a fire phoenix sword and a golden crow sword lying on the ground. He observed that the two swords were already at the sacred level and took all the swords lying at some point as traps.
"Has in this region in the past there been wars so that sacred bird species perform body unification formation techniques to seal this place when losing to the enemy? Then who is their enemy... ?" Yang Xuan shuddered at the thought of that.
Yang Xuan thought, if the fire phoenix and the golden crow lost that battle, then who were their opponents and how strong their opponents were that they were buried in this place.
"Hey, what are you thinking?"
Hai Rong's daughter asked as she picked up a golden spear that lay not far from where she stood and handed it over to Yang Xuan.
"Have you ever heard or read in the library of the water kingdom palace that there was a legend in this Ming village territory or the water kingdom territory." asked Yang Xuan hoping for a hint of light.
"If I don't know about it, but our ancestors once said that Ming village was the curse of the 'Fire Phoenix Goddess' so no one would pay attention to the village, even until now the residents of Ming village had never been able to become cultivators again." Princess Hai Rong replied like trying to remember.
"Did your explanation not make up?"
Yang Xuan raised next to his brows and stared intently at Princess Hai Rong as if asking for an explanation. He did not understand why the Fire Phoenix Goddess had cursed the Ming villagers.
Yang Xuan wrapped his hand around Princess Hai Rong's shoulder. They continued to casually walk down the hallway and told the girl to continue her story. Princess Hai Rong even hugged Yang Xuan's waist tightly as she couldn't see anything.
"Ming Village used to be a big city, before the water kingdom stood Ming city already existed, even that city gave birth to great cultivators of its time. According to the stories of the ancestors around the Ming city the main general of the Fire Phoenix Goddess who was allied with the demons was hiding in that place, so the Fire Phoenix Goddess suddenly appeared on this continent. The battle between the Fire Phoenix Goddess against thousands of people made the Ming city a ruin."
"If not mistaken, people say that the misty mountain where the black bat came out the other day is the former Ming city. However, until now no one has been able to confirm the truth of the story, because no one dared to approach the terrifying mountain." continued Princess Hai Rong and concluded her explanation.
"Just keep your story going I'll listen to it, can you see me?" ask Yang Xuan.
"I can't see anything in this hallway." replied Princess Hai Rong.
The two of them continued to tread through the cave passage carefully, Princess Hai Rong told a long story and continued to hug Yang Xuan's waist tightly as she could not see around him. Yang Xuan listened to Princess Hai Rong's story carefully. Within the darkness of the passageway such a dense death aura occasionally swept through the passage made Princess Hai Rong fall to her knees and spew fresh blood from her mouth as the occasional pressure increased, however, the pressure increased, at the same time a calming spiritual aura also appeared.
Yang Xuan circulated the spiritual aura to neutralize the dark aura that appeared making Princess Hai Rong able to breathe a sigh of relief. The two of them walked without using light or illumination so as not to attract the attention of the power that was in the depths of the hallway.
In the depths of the dark passage Yang Xuan continued to move ever deeper. He felt the dark aura getting more extreme, it was fortunate that the dark aura appeared only occasionally sweeping through the cave hall so he did not need to continuously protect Princess Hai Rong. Yet Princess Hai Rong also looked exhausted so Yang Xuan decided to take a break after a few hours of them tracing the passageway.
Yang Xuan decided to take a break to recuperate as he felt that the hallway seemed to have no end. Yang Xuan gave the storage ring to Princess Hai Rong while continuing to observe around her. Yang Xuan felt astonished as they had yet to encounter the challenge of a savage or demon beast.
It turned out that Princess Hai Rong was also curious. The girl felt like they had been walking down the hall for a few hours, but they had not arrived. Hai Rong's daughter also didn't know what the passageway was like because she couldn't see anything.
After they finished recuperating back down the passageway, after walking for another two kilometers, Yang Xuan finally found a stone door that covered the passageway. The stone door was also sealed with a bird-type saint beast body unification formation, making Yang Xuan confident the fire phoenix general along with his group must have sealed their bodies behind the stone door in severe injuries.
Yang Xuan felt a dark aura and golden aura simultaneously seeping from the stone door. He took a distance from the stone door and set up a sun protection ring formation while removing some light crystals for lighting. He also coated the sun ring formation with a protective array and a high-level illusion seal. Then bring Princess Hai Rong inside.
"Don't you ever get out of this formation, just recover yourself?" yang Xuan's orders.
"Thank you," Princess Hai Rong replied. For tens of hours inside the hallway, only this time he saw the light. However that light only existed within the sun ring formation so he would never know what was happening outside of the formation.
Suddenly the solar chakra appeared in the air as Yang Xuan's body was enveloped by an immortal flame. Yang Xuan immediately circulated the spiritual aura, he was sure that behind the stone door there was a great danger awaiting his arrival because throughout the previous passage they had found no obstacles at all.
The solar chakra missed at high speed towards the stone door.
Dhuars
The fierce explosion caused the stone door to shatter into pieces along with the appearance of a fire phoenix, Yang Xuan stared intently at the fire phoenix that was still perched on the boulder, and vice versa. Yang Xuan continued to closely observe the fire phoenix.
"Hey boy, how dare you enter this place?" the fire phoenix leaped from its place then turned into an old man with a long beard dangling down. The old man's face fickled as he scanned Yang Xuan's body.
Yang Xuan continued to observe the old man's body as he revealed an evil smile. He was even very lazy to answer the old man's question, Yang Xuan was convinced that the old man was the remaining energy of god power.
"Hey boy, do you want to be my student? If you want all the treasures here to be yours?" the old man seemed to find a glimmer of light within the darkness, his eyes were not even separated from Yang Xuan's body.
"Haha! you are a rare resource to increase my cultivation, excuse this old boy sir?" Yang Xuan laughed out loud and did not respond to the old man's question.
Absorbing the old man was even ten times better than entering the fire phoenix pagoda and the golden crow pagoda. Yang Xuan was certain that after absorbing the old man he would receive the lightning forging tribulation, even all of the old man's knowledge would appear in his head.
"You!" That was the only word that came out from the old man's mouth, he was sure that the young man before him knew that he was the remaining energy force. The old man tried to find a way to escape, but did not find a gap because he saw that the place was already sealed by the young man before him with the sun ring formation.
"You'd better just give up, you're still lucky at the end of your life to be able to join me" Yang Xuan said as he made a sun ring formation of immortal fire in his right hand. Instantly four rings of fire missed all four different angles to lock in the old man's movements. Even the ring of fire kept circling around him.
"The formation of the sun ring." murmured the man involuntarily. He also knew that the flames he had on his body would not be able to kill the young man before him.
"Y-Your Majesty the ruler of the sun continent, servant is ready to join your body. The servant was the soldier of Empress Liena, only the servant was caught by the main group of generals who had allied with the demons, so the servant ended up in this place.
"Has the phoenix clan been successfully infiltrated by demons?" asked Yang Xuan full of probing.
"Yes, Your Majesty, even though Empress Liena managed to clear the clan, however, several generals and commanders and thousands of soldiers managed to escape to this place. But their hiding place was known by Empress Liena, so the group of generals was buried in this place with servants."
"Your Majesty, I am Huang Lanfen from the phoenix clan so grateful to be able to meet you" Huang Lanfen said.
Huang Lanfen was very grateful to Yang Xuan, because at the end of his life there was someone who found himself even though he was forced to, however, at first, having Yang Xuan explain going to visit the phoenix clan someday made Huang Lanfen breathe a sigh of relief. The old man also looked sincere before Yang Xuan.
They kept talking about various things for several hours. After which, Yang Xuan took the lotus position and circulated the ancient god cultivation technique. Huang Lanfen turned into a white light then entered Yang Xuan's body. Just as Huang Lanfen was about to enter Yang Xuan's soul force, a soul binding seal suddenly appeared and shackled Huang Lanfen's body.
"Hey boy, what are you doing?" huang Lanfen's voice appeared on Yang Xuan's head.
"Haha! from the beginning I've said I'll absorb you, do you think I believe in a devious demon like you. After all you are only energy left and not soul fragments," Yang Xuan laughed out loud in response to Huang Lanfen's fury.
"Fuck! untie him... Aaahh.." shouted Huang Lanfen in pain after being purified by the golden lightning and the red lightning. Yang Xuan continued to circulate his strength to purify lanfen energy. Yang Xuan threw the lanfen body into his soul force then purified the old man's energy within the formation ball, after which he began to absorb it.
