CHAPTER 535: CHAPTER 78: HEAVENLY FIRE, BROWN BEAR, OLD TURTLE

In the pitch-black passage, devoid of a single sound, it was as if they had arrived upon an abandoned path of stars.

"Master, come in quickly! Those two guys are so excited they can’t sleep!" Heavenly Fire cheerfully led the way at the front, continuously glancing back at Li Qingming.

Li Qingming followed the instructions and stepped forward, staying close behind Heavenly Fire, vanishing into the passage.

Shortly, they reached the end of the passage. At the very front was a small wooden door.

Li Qingming nodded to the others behind him, gently pushed open the wooden door, and stepped inside.

Upon entering, the scenery transformed.

This seemed to have become the patented trick of Fire Feather Old Man; every room was an independent Array space.

It was a very ordinary room, with a vermilion Eight Immortals table in the center, upon which lay three gray, arm-sized jade boxes.

The room wasn’t large, and once Li Qingming and his group had all entered, it immediately felt a bit crowded.

Xiong Da and the others had no choice but to shrink their size and climb onto the Eight Immortals table.

Heavenly Fire, swift as lightning, perched on the box at the far left, squinting its watery large eyes, and said, "Hey! Stinky bear, Old Turtle, come out. My master is here!"

"Click! Clack!"

A series of crisp locking sounds followed, and all the boxes on the Eight Immortals table were opened.

In the box on the far left, belonging to Heavenly Fire, lay a thin and reddish-feather as thin as cicada wings. The intricate patterns on the feather were clearly visible, exuding intense Bing Fire Law Power.

In the box in the middle, there sat a palm-sized, miniature rockery. The rockery featured pavilions, small bridges and flowing water, and an array of flowers, plants, and trees, brimming with rich Vitality Power, almost like a portable abode.

As for the box on the right, it contained a pitch-black turtle shell. This turtle shell, also palm-sized, had patterns after patterns on it, eerie and Mysterious. The solidified Earth Law Power radiating from it made Li Qingming think that this was more than just a turtle shell.

"Are you our new master?" A finger-sized, dark green Old Turtle slowly crawled out from the turtle shell, "It’s about time you came! We’ve been trapped by that Fire Feather Old Man in this wretched place for seven or eight Calamities, seven or eight Calamities!"

"Old Turtle, your disposition doesn’t seem at all like that of a turtle!" At this moment, a brown bear popped out from the rockery in the middle. It was similarly the size of a finger. If it wasn’t wingless, Li Qingming would definitely have thought it was related to Xiong Da.

At this point, aside from Li Qingming, who was mentally prepared, the rest were stunned.

"This, are each of these Supreme Treasures possessed by an Artifact Spirit?" Li Qingquan, with his eyes wide and mouth agape, pointed to the three Spiritual Treasures and their inhabitants, "It’s simply too incredible."

"Amitabha Buddha!" Shakyamuni did not say much, but the shocked expression in his eyes had already given him away.

"I’ve never seen a Supreme Treasure with an Artifact Spirit before; today has truly been eye-opening!" Yang Jian’s eyes twinkled as he looked at the three Supreme Treasures, and suddenly, pointing to the artificial hill in the middle, he said, "Master, look, Senior Xiong and that brown bear are sitting together; they really look like brothers, don’t they?"

Everyone looked where Yang Jian was pointing and couldn’t help but chuckle.

At this moment, Senior Xiong and the others were all the size of fingertips, and Senior Xiong was sitting on the small artificial hill facing the brown bear Artifact Spirit, eyeing each other closely.

Li Qingming looked at Senior Xiong and smiled, saying, "Okay, you three, tell us about your origins and functions now."

"Little broken bird, master brought you here, you go first," the brown bear curiously touched Senior Xiong’s small wing and said.

Heavenly Fire nodded and said, "Master, my true form is called ’Fire Origin Dao Foundation.’ It was formed from the Innate Fire Essence Qi and Innate Essence during the initial chaos, and it contains a complete path of the Bing Fire Law, which can break open Heaven and Earth to create its own realm. If the old master hadn’t found me back then, perhaps I could have grown into a Demon God!"

"Fire Origin Dao Foundation, to put it simply, is an item of creation!" the little brown bear said dispassionately, "Of course, that’s precisely what makes it so formidable. Unless a Heavenly Dao Level Great Power personally arrives, as long as it is unwilling, no one can find and enter this realm!"

"My true form is ’Da Yan Turtle Shell.’ As for my function, it lies in defense, absolute defense!" The Old Turtle lying lazily on the turtle shell turned over, showing its bellied shell, and said, "If my back shell operates at its limit, only Heavenly Dao Level Great Powers could break through it. Even back in the day, Fire Feather Old Man needed the help of three Demon Gods to kill my master and break my defenses!"

"Alright, it’s just me left!" The little brown bear stood up on two feet, staring into Li Qingming’s eyes as it spoke: "My true form is called ’Time Mountain.’ It originated during the early swirls of chaos, when a strange stone gained a strand of the Time Rule and evolved over ten eras. Within my true form, time can be rewound, time can flow backward, time can be shattered... All the various time-related feats that the Heavenly Dao can do, I can achieve them. As for why I am here, my master died, and I was found by chance by Fire Feather!"

Li Qingming was taken aback and looked at the little brown bear with a hint of a special glint in his eyes.

"Alright, enough about us! As our new master, isn’t it time you introduce yourself?" the little brown bear felt sad for a moment but then suddenly broke into a heartless laugh. However, the hidden pain deep within its eyes was something that just couldn’t be cast off.

"Me?" Li Qingming chuckled and said, "We are Cultivators from the Pangu Great Thousand World."

"Pangu Great Thousand World?" The three Artifact Spirits looked at each other, their brows tinged with confusion.

"That name sounds so familiar," the Old Turtle stuck out its little stumpy legs, touched the turtle shell underneath, and suddenly cried out, "Pangu! It’s Pangu, I remember now! My master once mentioned him."

With that, the Old Turtle began to shake violently, but no matter what, it couldn’t turn over.

"I’ve also heard of Pangu!" The little brown bear sat down on the small artificial hill, and there was actually a tint of fear in its eyes.

"Master, are you really from the Pangu Great Thousand World?" Heavenly Fire’s big watery eyes were filled with longing.

Seeing the strange reactions of the three Artifact Spirits, Li Qingming and the others exchanged glances, feeling quite curious.

"Yes, we are all from the Pangu Great Thousand World. Why, do you know of Pangu?" Li Qingming asked curiously.

"We know!" The three Artifact Spirits nodded frantically, but their behavior seemed anything but normal.

"Oh? Have you ever seen him?" Li Qingming grew even more curious.

This time, the three Artifact Spirits had an unusually unanimous reaction; they all gasped in shock and said, "Seen him! Pangu, he’s an Evil Demon, a tremendous Evil Demon!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)