Chapter 92: Gathering Flames

  The architecture of the Hidden Gate is almost at two extremes with the Hunter's Guild. It doesn't look very obvious from the outside, but once you go in, you can see the difference.

  At that time, when Qin Hao entered the hunting alliance, his first impression was comfort and elegance, and he felt much more relaxed. The style of this mysterious door is different from others. The building's color is cold and hard, and the light is dimly shaking, as if people's emotions are also suppressed.

  Qin Hao wasn't too surprised, as there were many array masters in the Hidden Mysteries Sect, and these so-called array masters spent most of their lives studying array diagrams. Which one didn't have some quirks? If he walked in and found that this place was bright and comfortable, he would really need to pay attention and carefully examine it to see which array master had a problem.

  Qin Hao stepped on the hard gray rock, his footsteps echoing in the corridor, feeling increasingly depressed. After walking for a long time, Qin Hao finally passed through the long corridor and turned to a spacious hall.

  As soon as he entered the hall, a young servant in his early twenties came forward to greet him. The servant had a plump face and a round complexion.

  He smiled and walked forward, but when he saw that the person was just a young boy, his smile suddenly decreased by half.

  Qin Hao saw the change in his expression and didn't say much, stretching out his hand to point, with the mysterious energy on his finger jumping like sparks. It rose higher and higher, transforming into two red bands that danced around Qin Hao before slowly retracting into his body.

  That little fellow took a glance and was shocked: Ling Xuan Wu Zhe.

  Goodbye to Qin Hao's tender face, thinking of his age, and putting away all the disdain.

  He adjusted his collar, smiled and said: "I don't know what brings the senior here, is there something I can help with? My name is Ma Sheng." The young servant stepped forward, bowed and said: "This is a branch of Xuanxuan Gate in Heishi City. If the senior wants to purchase auxiliary attack, defense or seal arrays, I can introduce you."

  Although this horse's age may be a few years older than Qin Hao, if it is based on cultivation, he should also say this sentence.

  The mysterious door was divided into sections, Qin Hao's heart moved slightly. He immediately asked calmly: "Is there an array diagram for sale?"

  As for the Xuanxuan formation diagram, Qin Hao was quite interested. Rather than spending a lot of money on finished Xuanxuan formations, it's better to buy the diagrams and refine them himself. Of course, those who choose this method are in the minority.

  It's not that those warriors can't understand, but even if they have an array map, it's still not as effective as a single Sealing Mystic Array for them. For someone who hasn't undergone training, refining a Sealing Mystic Array and wasting good mystic crystals is a small matter, but if one isn't careful, the mystic crystal's demonic energy will self-destruct, which would be a tragic outcome...

  "Is Senior a Zhen Master?" Ma Sheng's eyes narrowed slightly, his gaze flickering back and forth on Qin Hao's face.

  "No." Qin Hao replied extremely succinctly.

  "Why?"

  "Hobby." Qin Hao's expression was calm: "Personally prefer watching formation charts, no problem with that."

  "No, no." Ma Sheng hastily apologized and said smoothly: "It's just that these things are not for sale by the Xuanmen Sect, and even if they were, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to afford them. Is there anything else I can help you with?"

  He hesitated for a moment, choosing his words carefully, before speaking: "The second-order primary and intermediate Xuanxian arrays used to assist in attacks are both available here. They can help seniors deal with second-order demon beasts. The defensive Xuan array can even protect warriors from harm. These are all essential when traveling through the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts."

  Qin Hao hesitated for a moment and said lightly: "Thank you." Then he turned around and left.

  He also has the offensive formation, and Jin Ge arm is one of them. As for defensive formations, although he hasn't refined any yet, the array diagrams flowing from the black stone are too numerous and varied in type, so why bother spending money to buy finished products?

  Several hundred Xuanjing, it sounds like a lot, but if you buy finished products to seal the Xuan array, it's just a drop in the bucket.

  "Senior." The young servant saw Qin Hao's footsteps ceaseless, and hastily shouted: "The Sealing Mystical Array that can help with cultivation, I don't know if Senior is interested or not?"

  Qin Hao's footsteps came to an abrupt halt as he turned around and walked up to the young servant: "The Sealing Mysterious Array for cultivation assistance?"

  "That's right." The young servant nodded heavily, with a proud expression: "The martial artist in the Lingxuan realm can increase their cultivation speed. Those in the first to third layers of Lingxuan can increase it by about three times, and the higher you go, the less effective it will be. This Sealing Mystique Array is quite powerful."

  "It seems you are a Fire-type Xuanqi. There is an empty stone room here that is available, take a look first and then decide whether to accept."

  Ma Sheng finished speaking, bowed again, and walked to one side, leading the way forward: "This way, please."

  Qin Hao nodded and followed. Increase cultivation speed? He had heard of this Xuanxuan formation, but he had never seen it with his own eyes.

  Ma Sheng walked out of the hall, around several long corridors, dozens of stone rooms, and led Qin Hao to a stone room after seven or eight turns.

  Ma Sheng pushed open the door and walked in. Qin Hao stood outside the door for a moment, sizing things up, before his body also flashed inside.

  In the stone room, there were no basic facilities such as tables, chairs, and beds. The four walls were rough black stone walls with many holes and bumps. Only the floor was relatively smooth and clean. In the center of the floor, a crimson crystal was inlaid, its surface etched with intricate lines that formed a diamond-shaped array. Through the transparent crystal shell, it was clearly visible that inside the crystal, at its very center, a symbol made of condensed spiritual energy floated quietly, surrounded by the crystal's mystical power.

  Ma Sheng walked forward and placed his five fingers on the surface of the Xuan Crystal, tapping and alternating to input Xuan Qi. The surface of the Xuan Crystal also gradually lit up.

  After a moment, the primordial energy of heaven and earth in this stone chamber began to fluctuate. Then, an extremely scorching feeling filled the entire stone chamber. The stone chamber seemed to be imbued with a faintly discernible fiery red color.

  Qin Hao only felt that his body had heated up, the fire element in the air was so dense it was almost solid. In just a few short breaths, he felt a layer of sweat beads densely covering his forehead, and after wiping his back, it was completely soaked through.

  Ma Sheng was also drenched in sweat, as if he had just been pulled out of the water. He wiped his sweat and forced a smile: "This Enclosed Mystic Array is called 'Gathering Flames'. I don't know if Senior is satisfied? If you want to cultivate here, the cost for one day is thirty first-grade superior mystic crystals or five first-grade peak mystic crystals."

  Qin Hao didn't say anything else and took out thirty first-grade high-level mystic crystals from his ring, tossing them over: "Not bad, you can leave now."

  Ma Sheng took over Xuanjing and cupped his hands again before retreating.

  Qin Hao walked to the very center, sat down cross-legged, and stared intently at the small Sealing Mystical Array. This auxiliary cultivation Sealing Mystical Array was extremely rare.

  The principle should be to use the formation chart, stably releasing the Xuanjing demon power, and then attracting the same system's Tian Di Yuan power to gather here, forming a dense Yuan power area, accelerating the cultivation speed.

  For some reason, he always felt that this array was somewhat familiar, but for a moment, he couldn't think of it. The scorching sensation on his body grew stronger and stronger, Qin Hao didn't dare to spend more time on this issue.

  Qin Hao wiped away the sweat on his face, closed his eyes, and began to fully operate the Flame Control Technique. As soon as he started operating it, he felt a surge of fire-attributed heavenly energy pouring into his body at a density several times that of usual. Normally, when he practiced, he had to carefully sense the fire-attributed energy existing in the air, absorb it into his body, and refine away the remaining chaotic energies before daring to sink into his dantian.

  Nowadays, all these actions have been omitted. The surrounding forces are endless and can be absorbed without feeling, and this mysterious array must have used some kind of spiritual grass when it was refined, which purified the gathered heaven and earth's original energy, so he doesn't need to refine and transform this process again.

  Qin Hao sat quietly, motionless, his eyes closed, and his mind was clear. The stone room was silent, occasionally interrupted by a long, drawn-out breath.

  …………

  "Ah."

  After a while, he let out a long sigh, and his body suddenly trembled without warning, with his breath fluctuating in waves, causing concentric ripples in the air.

  In his dantian, two streams of primordial energy intertwined and merged into one, immediately followed by a rapid rotation. When it stabilized again, they had transformed into three.

  Ling Xuan tripled! Qin Hao opened his eyes, feeling the flow of Xuan Qi inside his body several times faster than before. He couldn't help but let out a sigh of admiration: This Xuan seal array is indeed effective. No wonder the price of thirty Xuan crystals was worth it for someone to come here and be slaughtered.

  Of course, it's not to say that breaking through one level can be done in just a few hours. The original Qin Hao, his cultivation was already at the second heavy peak, and he only needed one more step to break through. Even without this mysterious array, within three to five days, Qin Hao would inevitably enter the Lingxuan third heavy.

  This mysterious formation can compress three to five days of bitter practice into just a few hours, an effect that is also astonishing.

  Qin Hao lowered his head and turned his eyes around, sizing up this mysterious formation, the more he looked at it, the more familiar it became.

  "The formation diagram on the black stone." Qin Hao's heart moved, and he suddenly remembered.

  Pangzi had left him a black stone, which recorded several hundred kinds of sealed arrays, as well as a "self-injury type" sealed array that required the coordination of hundreds of array diagrams to take effect.

  Those things are Qin Hao's precious possessions. However, most of the sealed Xuan arrays are incomplete. After all, that array master was studying "self-mutilation type" Xuan arrays when an accident occurred, his meridians were severed, and he barely managed to record down his life's work with his last breath. In his haste, some parts were naturally glossed over, leaving behind only the array diagrams and talismans. The things that need attention when engraving the array diagrams, as well as the auxiliary spiritual medicines required, were not recorded.

  If that black stone were to be obtained by a seasoned Array Master, he would be able to deduce its effects and usage based on the array diagram and symbols, assisted by spiritual medicine. However, Qin Hao was still just a novice in array refinement.

  Even if his control of the mysterious energy is extremely excellent, and he can even engrave the formation diagram and condense the symbol pattern without relying on the meteorite needle; Even if he has already been able to independently refine the second-level primary sealed mysterious array; Even if he has already obtained a lot of knowledge about the sealed mysterious array from the black stone; For the foundation of the sealed mysterious array, he is still just a novice who has just entered the door.

  What does a beginner need to learn before entering the door of an array master?

  Understand the structural properties of various mysterious crystals and know how to engrave array diagrams without triggering an explosion.

  Understand the different uses of basic arrays, know how to use arrays, at least it's clear which array can accelerate the release of demonic power, which one is suppressing the speed of demonic power release, and which one is completely releasing demonic power, defeating the enemy with one move.

  You must know the functions of different talismans. Low-level attack seals, such as the Xuanxuan Array, only release the demon power once and directly attack the enemy, so it's fine to just draw the array diagram at that moment. However, some high-level seals, such as Qin Hao's Jinjin Arm and Lin Bi's Bingling Xuanjing, require first using the Xuanqi to condense into talismans, which are then inserted into the Xuanjing, allowing the demon power to be released in the array diagram while also achieving the effect of controlling the shape through the talismans.

  An auxiliary medical Xuan array that needs to absorb the evil spirit's power, and it is also necessary to first store the essence of spiritual medicine in the talisman, purify the evil spirit's power, and reduce the harm to the human body. Therefore, the array master must also have some knowledge of medicinal herbs.

  But in learning these basic knowledge, Qin Hao basically skipped them all.

  Therefore, if it were a competition in array techniques, Qin Hao was confident that he could come up with an even better second-grade primary Sealing Mystique Array than his opponent. Not to mention anything else, the Golden Arm he had refined was already considered top-notch among its peers.

  But if someone were to hold a "Mystic Array" basic knowledge Q&A competition, without a doubt, even an ordinary disciple would be enough to make Qin Hao tragic.

  At this moment, the tragic Qin Hao was staring at the mysterious array, and he could confirm that the formation diagram of this mysterious array had appeared on the black stone before. Was there a connection between the master of the black stone, the crazy array master, and the Hidden Mystery Gate?

  Shaking his head, Qin Hao quickly threw out this idea. Now the main thing is to find out what kind of spiritual grass is needed for the formation of the Xuanxuan Array.

  Qin Hao stood up and paced back and forth in the stone room, feeling the characteristics of the yuan force. The yuan force was extremely pure, without any impurities, and had a scorching sensation on the surface of his body, but when absorbed into his body, it was extremely warm and smooth.

  Is there a spiritual fruit that can purify the fire-type demon's power?

  Crimson fruit? No, the essence of crimson fruit has a pungent smell that can be detected from over 30 feet away.

  Seven Flame Leaf? No, that's not it either. Although Seven Flame Leaf is tasteless, using it is extremely troublesome. While the essence of Seven Flame Leaf has the effects of Crystal Witch Power and Heavenly Earth Primordial Power, the Seven Flame Leaf itself has an extremely strong fire attribute. The power purified by it may be pure, but it is extremely hot and oppressive, absolutely not as gentle as this.

  ………

  One after another medicinal herb emerged from Qin Hao's mind and was rejected by him again.

  Soon, Qin Hao's thoughts focused on a fire-type spiritual herb - the Fire Fox Flower. The Fire Fox Flower has seven leaves, is bright red like fire, and has a warm and gentle medicinal property.

  Qin Hao took out the map of Heishi City and searched for information about various shops on it. Then, his gaze locked onto "Medicine Workshop".

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