freenovelworld Chapter 570: Taking All Foundation Establishment Stage 1 Members with Me
Chapter 570: Taking All Foundation Establishment Stage 1 Members with Me
Yi Qinglin stared at the Heavenly Fire Gate and replied in a trembling voice, "It is said that this Heavenly Gate craves the flesh and blood of cultivators, and it can be opened by sacrificing five or six hundred people each time."
Behind the door was an imperial armory!
After observing for a long time with his Heavenly Eye, Xiao Jukeng finally came to a conclusion: "Ignorant fool, that gate has no intelligence at all."
Rather, it is the human's spiritual roots that can weaken the fire above; once a certain number are reached, the barrier can indeed be broken.
But this is utterly inhumane!
"Little Pit, what kind of fire is that?" Mu Zhen asked, looking at the small giant pit.
He didn't want to die in such a humiliating way, nor did he want those who were willing to cover their escape to die.
Especially Yi Qinglin and his fellow villager.
Long Yuan and the others shared the same idea. People are all interconnected. Yi Qinglin and Xu Zhe had tried to save them several times, so how could they abandon them now?
They should at least see if they can save them. If there's really no way to help them, then they'll have to leave first and come back later to avenge everyone.
It's better than dying in vain and thus benefiting your enemy.
Xiao Jukeng retracted his Heavenly Eye and his mind raced.
He then revealed a malicious smirk: "I don't know, but no matter what kind of fire it is, it all boils down to the same thing."
If water cannot overcome fire, then fire will prevail. There is no fire in this world that can surpass the true fire of the sun.
Furthermore, with his extremely Yang body, he should be able to withstand this fire. He then looked intently into Mu Zhen's eyes: "Host, are you sure you don't want to escape?"
"Sure!"
"Okay, let's take a gamble together."
There is no danger behind the barrier.
"Huangfu Zique, you two, holding Da Bai, stand at the head of the golden dragon. Simultaneously release your spiritual energy shields to completely cover the golden dragon!"
Huangfu Zique pointed to his dantian and made a face.
'No, if you release such a large spiritual energy shield, I can only hold it for five seconds at most.'
If it's just a small-scale spiritual energy shield, it naturally doesn't require much spiritual power to maintain.
However, if the area is too large, the loss of spiritual energy is truly terrifying.
He was only at the fifth level of Qi Refining, and his dantian was smaller than a washbasin; the spiritual energy stored inside couldn't withstand such consumption.
Once the spiritual energy in the dantian is depleted, one becomes as fragile as an ordinary person and may die at any time.
The Spirit Recovery Pill can quickly replenish the body's depleted spiritual energy, but it only stores a large amount of spiritual energy, not spiritual power.
If spiritual energy does not enter the dantian, it cannot be converted into spiritual power.
To put it simply, just like breathing, if you want to expel carbon dioxide, you have to let oxygen enter your lungs first for a transition.
The carbon dioxide is excreted very quickly, but the spiritual energy of the Rejuvenation Pill takes at least ten seconds to flow from the stomach into the dantian.
Moreover, it doesn't fill the dantian all at once, but rather flows in slowly like a trickle.
In short, even the best spirit-restoring pills cannot keep up with the rate at which such a large spiritual energy shield is consumed.
The giant pit looked around at the hundreds of Foundation Establishment cultivators surrounding it: "Don't worry, once they see a glimmer of hope, they won't let your spiritual energy run out."
"You mean they have a way to instantly convert the spiritual energy I absorb into spiritual power?" Huangfu Zique raised an eyebrow.
"You'll understand when the time comes!" Little Giant Pit didn't have time to explain these things to him, because those Golden Core cultivators had already extended their demonic claws towards them.
As thousands of Golden Core cultivators simultaneously unleashed their Absorption Palm Technique, Mu Zhen and the large group of people surrounding him were all drawn to the front of the Heavenly Fire Gate.
Yi Qinglin closed his eyes in anguish; it was too late!
"I told you to leave, but you wouldn't listen. Now look what's happened, you can't leave even if you want to!" Xu Zhe turned his head away, not wanting to look at those people anymore.
He was still thinking of taking revenge on those Golden Core cultivators after they ran away. Now that five Foundation Establishment cultivators were missing, would he have to choose five replacements from the Golden Core cultivators?
We'll see who they choose then.
It might even cause a riot, and everyone could take the opportunity to do something. It's not necessarily true that they have to go and die.
Seeing the priests begin their blessing dance again, Mu Zhen immediately stepped forward and addressed the crowd, saying, "Everyone, please be quiet."
Listen to me, sending food in waves like this is useless. Think about it: is it faster to get full by eating slowly or by eating big mouthfuls?
"Alright then, since we're all going to die anyway, let the last three hundred men come with us!"
"Stop your nonsense! No matter what you do, don't even think about stopping the sacrificial ceremony today!" A stern-looking young man on the front of the flying boats shouted contemptuously.
In a single sentence, it is clear that Mu Zhen's intention was to disrupt the sacrificial ceremony.
Mu Zhen glanced at him sideways.
The old saying is true: your appearance reflects your heart. This person doesn't look like a good person at all!
"Yes, don't even think about stopping the ritual!"
"Priests, hurry up and finish the blessing, throw them in quickly, don't keep the Heavenly Fire Gate waiting!"
Di Tianhuang stood beside Mu Zhen, facing the vast sea of heads before him, and amplified his voice with his spiritual power: "We are not afraid of death."
However, there are also fellow Daoists from our own realm among you.
We do not wish that our fellow Daoists in this realm would still gain nothing after the sacrifice.
We had already arrived in the Heavenly Fire Realm long ago.
They also learned from the locals that opening the Heavenly Fire Gate would require at least a thousand people.
If you senior Golden Core cultivators don't want these spots to end up on your own, then why not try the method we've described?
Let's charge in with four hundred men in one go. The Heavenly Fire Sect will need time to process all that flesh they've swallowed.
Then everyone can take advantage of this gap to master the basics in one go!
The boy's calm yet youthful voice was very penetrating. If someone chooses to die a noble death, then what else is not worth believing?
“I hadn’t seen these children before I came here.”
"They must have entered the Heavenly Fire Realm through other means."
"So there are other human beings living in the Heavenly Fire Realm."
"A thousand people, that leaves us five hundred short..."
Realizing that danger might befall them, the Golden Core cultivators instantly panicked, each feeling insecure.
Everyone fears that they will eventually become the one forced to their death.
Someone quickly raised their hand: "Let's just listen to them. Sending them up one by one is too much trouble. If it doesn't work out, we can just select another 500 people!"
"Yes, do as he says, quickly bring up the other three hundred offerings on the ground!"
"Do as he says!"
Countless people responded with shouts.
Soon, the remaining three hundred people were also forcibly pulled to the front of the Heavenly Gate.
This group of people didn't have any objections. Hadn't they heard? It takes a thousand people. That way, even those who were assigned to the last group would lose their spirit.
They were still thinking that if the first few teams could break the barrier, they wouldn't have to make unnecessary sacrifices.
The result was that it would take a thousand people.
What else is there to look forward to?
As for helping others in the same world obtain treasures, well, they don't care about their lives or deaths, so why should they care about them?
It was simply a matter of being forced by circumstances, with no other option but to resist!