The Second Volume: Misty Canyon Chapter 13: The Red Fire Dragon Flag of Daoist Instruments

  The surging Fire Elemental Force caught Wang Guanlan off guard, and the easy success of his spell left him utterly astonished.

  "What a dense and rich Fire Elemental Force! It's unimaginable that it can condense into a fireball on the first try, this is almost impossible in other places!" Indeed, no matter which spell, it takes time to cultivate, but in this low-grade Daoist artifact space, filled with Fire Elemental Force, Wang Guanlan doesn't need to spend any effort to sense it. As soon as the incantation is spoken, the sensation arises naturally, and the fireball condenses.

  However, this is only limited to the space within the Flame Dragon Flag. Wang Guanlan can be sure that as soon as he goes out, wanting to condense into a fireball will require him to think carefully again.

  "In this space of the Daoist instrument filled with the power of Huoyuan, I am familiar with the operation method of Huoqiu. Even if I go out and can't display it as easily as now, in terms of familiarity, it's still unmatched by ordinary people!"

  Just as Wang Guanlan was concentrating on practicing the fireball technique, outside the Flame Dragon Flag, a battle had already begun, just like the plan of the crimson-robed woman. After luring the ice beast out of the Cold Water Pool and trapping it in the formation, she used the newly subdued Cyan Horned Lizard to counterattack the ice beast, while she herself descended into the Cold Water Pool.

  At this moment, the ice beast and the horned lizard were both in a fierce battle. One was a demon from the demon world, while the other was a demon from the human world. They were evenly matched opponents, each encountering a worthy adversary.

  In terms of spiritual intelligence, the original demonic beasts of the demon beast realm are smarter than the cold-blooded demonic beasts because they are closer to the ancient magic tribe in bloodline. In terms of strength, they should be one level higher than the ice and snow demonic beasts, but this demonic beast, Cang Jiao Xi, is not a mature body itself, its own strength foundation is not high, and it was forcibly pulled out from the demon beast realm by the crimson-robed woman, beaten up, and suffered great damage to its strength. In such an unfamiliar environment, its comprehensive strength is only equivalent to that of a cultivator at the 8th layer of Qi Refining. The ice and snow demonic beast, on the other hand, has already entered the realm of the 9th layer of Qi Refining, and if it were in the Cold Moon Pond, its strength would be almost equivalent to that of a late-stage master-level cultivator at the 9th layer of Qi Refining. Unfortunately, it fell into the crimson-robed woman's array and could not exert even six or seven out of ten of its power, but still had the upper hand.

  In the formation, the roars of the demonic beasts intertwined with each other.

  "Rage, damn it, that woman actually dares to be so rude to the great Yuan Hai young master! I'll kill her, I must kill her!" The demon beast Cang Jiao Xi was subdued by the crimson-robed woman's demonic cultivation technique and forced to fight for her, although he was under her control. Despite being controlled, his heart was filled with anger, yet he didn't dare slack off because the Ice Demon Beast wouldn't care whether he was willing or not - if he made a single mistake, it would finish him off, so he had no choice but to be cautious.

  At this time, the horned lizard named Yuan Hai was standing on two legs like a human, its sharp front limbs waving in the air like human hands, leaving behind mysterious and profound marks. The original occupant of "Huang Xue" was just a beast driven by instinct, unable to transform and thus unable to obtain the complete divine inheritance from the bloodline. How could it be compared to me, Yuan Hai?

  When a demon beast transforms, it is similar to when a human martial artist breaks through the Refining Qi Realm and experiences a tribulation. They will also experience a transformation tribulation, known as the Transformation Tribulation. At the same time, they can obtain the divine transmission of the innate bloodline. However, before transforming, although their spiritual intelligence has opened up, most demon beasts still rely on their powerful bodies to fight during battles. Some have abilities such as spitting out breaths, like this Ice Demon Beast, which can spit out extremely cold ice breath from its mouth. The power of this ice breath is extremely strong, and if a martial artist who hasn't formed a Qi Shield gets hit by it, they will only have one path - death. Even if they have formed a Qi Shield, whether or not they can withstand it is unknown.

  However, apart from this instinct, the combat methods of the Ice Demon Beast are extremely limited. The Demon Beast Yuan Hai is not as powerful as the Ice Demon Beast, but it has many more methods at its disposal. It was precisely these additional methods that allowed Yuan Hai to hold on for such a long time.

  "Roar——!"

  Even the thick-skinned and rough Ice Demon Beast was forced to retreat step by step under the sudden and bizarre attack of Yuan Hai, the most eerie thing being that although Yuan Hai's sharp claws originally didn't cause much damage to the Ice Demon Beast, after he unleashed this strange technique, the claw marks left in mid-air produced a terrifying destructive power, shattering the Ice Demon Beast's scales which were comparable to ten thousand years' worth of ice, blue blood splashing everywhere, and the deep wound that could see bone finally stung the Ice Demon Beast into letting out a thunderous roar that tore through the clouds.

  "Shout, shout to no avail!" The demon beast Yuan Hai's eyes flashed with a hint of complacency, "Foolish woman, do you think you can control me with your demonic cultivation technique? Hmph, if it weren't for the fact that your technique is unusual, I would have destroyed you the moment you used it!" Just thinking about this made the demon beast Yuan Hai feel somewhat regretful.

  Yuan Hai was different from ordinary demon beasts, he came from a noble birth, and was the legitimate heir of the Yuan family, one of the great families in the demon beast world. As such, apart from his innate bloodline inheritance, he also had a family legacy. Demon beasts like him couldn't be controlled by ordinary demon beast techniques. The crimson-robed woman's demon-refining technique was unique, but if Yuan Hai really didn't want to submit, she wouldn't have been able to do anything about it. No one expected that Yuan Hai would voluntarily release his divine soul after being beaten by the woman, allowing her demon-refining technique to succeed. At the moment of success, he intended to strike and kill her.

  He never expected that the other party's demon-refining technique was also a unique and secret transmission. As soon as he relaxed his divine soul, he was immediately controlled by the crimson-robed woman. Although this control was far from the complete and reliable control the crimson-robed woman had imagined, it was still successful. Once the demon-refining technique succeeded, the poor Yu Hai could no longer attack the caster, the crimson-robed woman, and would have to accept her orders.

  He would naturally not be willing to die for that damned woman if he was not completely controlled.

  Fighting against the Ice Demon Beast until now, although slightly at a disadvantage, overall still in a stalemate, the long stalemate made him want to come up with a solution.

  "That woman trapped us inside with her formation, making it impossible to enter or exit. Even if I managed to break free from her demonic spell's control now, it would still be difficult to escape. It might be better to open a gap and let this demon beast charge at the formation."

  In the frenzied attack of the Ice Beast, Yuan Hai slowly slowed down his offense, retreating step by step, slowly luring the Ice Beast towards the center of the formation.

  "The five-line inverted killing array, and with the Taoist instrument to suppress the array eye, this woman is also considered to have two brushes, unfortunately encountered Ben Shao Ye, Ben Shao Ye from a young age refined array method, of course, will not be trapped, let me bring this cold ice demon beast into the array eye, using the impact array eye, breaking this array method, killing the small child in the array eye, I want to see if your woman's abacus can still make a sound!" The array was set up by the crimson-robed woman, and Yuan Hai was controlled by her, so he couldn't actively attack the array. However, because he grasped some secret methods, the control of the crimson-robed woman over him was not complete. Although he couldn't directly resist, it wasn't difficult to make some small movements in secret.

  Although the ice demon beast has opened its spiritual wisdom, it has not yet reached the level of being able to break through formations and cannot see the intentions of the opposing demon beast. Under Yuan Hai's guidance, it steps towards the formation eye one step at a time.

  In the midst of his cultivation, Wang Guanlan was completely unaware of the situation outside. Utilizing the fire-elemental energy within the Red Fire Dragon Flag, he was cultivating the newly acquired Fireball Technique. The Red Fire Dragon Flag truly lived up to its reputation as a Dao artifact, and although it was only a low-grade Dao artifact, cultivating the Fireball Technique within it allowed for extremely rapid progress. At this point, Wang Guanlan no longer needed to use incantations to activate the technique; he could simply rely on his divine soul and hand seals to release complete fireballs. However, this was not what brought him the most joy. What truly surprised and delighted him was that during the process of cultivating the Fireball Technique, his divine soul's power was constantly increasing - or rather, the "One Thought Gives Rise to Myriad Laws" fate symbol within his divine soul was growing stronger. This strengthening even gave Wang Guanlan the illusion that his divine soul could grow infinitely.

  Under the joint effect of the Red Fire Dragon Flag and the One Thought Gives Rise to Myriad Laws Symbol, Wang Guanlan's fireball technique was increasing at a strange speed, with endless fire-elemental energy and inexhaustible divine soul power, causing Wang Guanlan to become completely immersed in contemplating the mysteries of his magic, until a strange fluctuation appeared in the space of the Flame Dragon Flag.

  The originally calm and warm fire element suddenly became violent, and the fireball that had condensed in front of him suddenly burst open.

  "What's going on?!" Wang Guanlan was interrupted in her cultivation by this sudden change, and she couldn't help but feel a little angry, almost bursting into a loud scolding.

  At this moment, the originally fiery red space also changed, Wang Guanlan felt a gentle and unparalleled power wrapped around him, then, in front of him, a small triangular flag of fiery red color appeared.

  Subconsciously, he reached out and grabbed the small flag in his hand.

  BOOM!!

  The moment he grasped the small flag, he felt a loud noise in his mind, and a profound idea was transmitted from the small flag to his soul.

  "Here it comes!" Wang Guanlan's heart was filled with joy, he knew that in this world, whether it was a soldier or an instrument, once they reached the spiritual level, they would produce spirituality, and when they reached the Dao level, their spirituality would greatly increase. It was said that some powerful Dao instruments, over time, would even give birth to instrument spirits, these instrument spirits opened up their spiritual intelligence, just like humans, and were even more intelligent and cunning than humans. According to legend, some Dao instruments' instrument spirits had even broken free from the constraints of their physical bodies, able to reincarnate, and as soon as they were born, they possessed great divine powers.

  These were somewhat legendary to Wang Guanlan, and he didn't even believe them before entering the Fog Concealing Gorge. However, after experiencing everything in the Fog Concealing Gorge, he had no choice but to believe again.

  With the experience of having a thought born from Wan Fa symbol, Wang Guanlan knew that the idea conveyed by the Chi Huo Yan Long flag and the thing conveyed by the Wan Fa symbol were of the same nature, called Ling Yin.