Becoming an immortal against the will of heaven

"How is it, Brother Chen? Is everything resolved?" Seeing Chen Tian walk back, Cao Fangcun, who was meditating, slowly opened his eyes, exhaled a long breath, and smiled.

"Hehe, what kind of person is Fellow Daoist Chen? With him taking action, what problem can't be solved? He must have already sent that beast to be reincarnated," the middle-aged beautiful woman beside him also opened her eyes, covering her mouth and giggling.

"Now is not the time to talk about these things. Since everyone has rested enough, then let's not delay and quickly enter the second level," Chen Tian said with a serious expression, not smiling at all.

Hearing his words, everyone nodded and then stood up from the ground, jumping into the deep pit leading to the second level.

From the outside, this deep pit seems very long, but in reality, it's not. After only a few breaths, everyone's feet could already feel the hard soil.

If the first level could still see some light, then the second level could only be described as pitch black.

And within this darkness, there seemed to be a disturbing aura hidden, causing everyone to become restless.

"Bring out those things."

At this time, Cao Fangcun turned his head and instructed, and the two Cao family elders hurriedly acted, opening their storage pouches and taking out glittering gems.

"Yao Fire Stones?"

The gray-robed elder was knowledgeable and immediately blurted out after seeing these gems.

"Senior Ning is indeed well-informed. That's right, these are the Yao Fire Stones that our Cao family specially collected for today," Cao Fangcun said with a proud look, and then instructed the two Cao family elders, "Alright, cast the spell."

After hearing this, the two responded in unison, and then without hesitation, frantically injected spiritual power into these Yao Fire Stones.

As endless spiritual power poured in, the light emitted from these Yao Fire Stones became even more dazzling, and eventually slowly floated into the air, dispelling the darkness and illuminating the entire space.

Seeing this scene, Chen Tian couldn't help but feel a little surprised. You must know that although the area of the second level is much smaller than the first level, it is also hundreds of thousands of miles wide, and just relying on these few small stone-like things to illuminate such a large space is indeed amazing.

After sighing softly, Chen Tian retracted his gaze and scanned the second level.

The second level was extremely similar to the first level, with countless strange trees and flowers planted all around. These flowers and plants were strangely shaped and were definitely not creatures from the Qian Yuan Continent, something Chen Tian had never heard of.

However, the slight difference from the first level was that a thick layer of black mist permeated the space of the second level, surrounding the trees and flowers, slowly drifting.

Although there was light emitted from the Yao Fire Stones, the visibility here was only ten zhang because of the black mist.

In other words, relying solely on the naked eyes of everyone, they could only clearly see a distance of ten zhang, and beyond that, they were completely unaware.

Seeing this, the gray-robed elder was quite surprised, so he released a wisp of spiritual sense to probe forward, wanting to see clearly what was hidden in this thick fog.

Cao Fangcun was also here for the first time and was as surprised as everyone else, but at this moment, he noticed the gray-robed elder's actions, his face suddenly changed, and he hurriedly shouted, "Senior Ning, stop!"

Although Cao Fangcun shouted very timely, it was still a step too late.

The spiritual sense released by the gray-robed elder had already probed into the black mist beyond ten zhang.

"Buzz... Buzz buzz buzz... Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz..."

In an instant, the originally calm black mist suddenly rolled violently, and then burst out with a deafening sound.

Listening carefully, this sound was made up of countless tiny sounds, as if some creature that had been sleeping for ten thousand years had awakened.

"Ah, my head, it hurts! It hurts so much!"

Just as everyone was surprised by this sudden sound, the gray-robed elder next to him suddenly hugged his head and rolled on the ground in pain.

Seeing this, Chen Tian's face changed, and he strode to his side, reaching out his right hand and placing it on his forehead to check.

Seeing this scene, everyone was horrified. They obviously hadn't figured out what was going on.

Fortunately, at this time, the deafening roar just now calmed down again, and the black mist also stopped rolling and slowly flowed.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, can you explain to us in detail what happened just now? Why did Fellow Daoist Ning suddenly faint?" At this time, the servant Suanzi showed a look of surprise and asked Chen Tian.

Chen Tian's expression was cold and stern as he looked at Cao Fangcun and said, "Let Brother Cao explain everything."

After speaking, Chen Tian took a step forward and stared intently at the slowly moving black mist.

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but turn their attention to Cao Fangcun, as if waiting for his explanation.

"Alas, alright, then I will answer everything," facing everyone's doubtful gazes, Cao Fangcun had no choice but to agree.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Fangcun pointed to the thick black mist and asked, "Do you know what this is?"

"If it were before, I would definitely answer that this is ordinary mist, but after seeing that scene just now, I can be sure that this mist must be extraordinary. I'm afraid that Fellow Daoist Ning's condition is also related to this black mist," the middle-aged beautiful woman frowned slightly and said softly.

"Fellow Daoist Meijiaoniang is right, the culprit of all this is in this black mist," after saying that, Cao Fangcun suddenly stretched out his left hand, grabbed some black mist from the air, and held it in his hand.

However, if you observe carefully, you can find that Cao Fangcun's palm is covered with a thick layer of defensive barrier, extremely carefully wrapping the black mist in it. The cautious appearance is like being extremely afraid of these black mist.

Servant Suanzi and the middle-aged beautiful woman couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise. After a moment of contemplation, Servant Suanzi asked in confusion, "Young Master Cao, what exactly is this black mist?"