The Terrifying Path of Immortal Cultivation

He burst into a crazy laughter, his eyes filled with joy.

But his body underwent a strange transformation.

Puchi

It seemed like something was drilling out of his body, a terrifying limb protruded from his back, resembling a furry spider leg.

Pupupu.

A series of light sounds, a total of more than ten legs of different shapes, all grew out from his back.

These legs supported him, turning him into a semi-human state.

These legs seemed to have a consciousness of their own, moving in a strange rhythm.

Swoosh

Disappeared in the eyes of the shadowy paper figures, rushing into the depths of the mist.

This strange scene startled Li Qing, "Is that a mutation?"

"Why is it so fast?"

"No, there's something wrong with this mist."

He realized that this mist might not just be a simple sensory confusion, but even had the ability to induce mutation.

"How did those people get out? The cultivation level of that person just now has definitely reached the Human Tribulation realm."

"I can clearly feel the strange fluctuations on the other party's body."

"It's clearly caused by the Human Tribulation."

"I remember some of the cultivators who came out, some of them were only at the Body Strengthening level."

"How did they get out?"

At this point, other shadowy paper figures also discovered Independent Cultivators undergoing the same mutation, with at least five appearing.

As he approached, he didn't see a single normal person.

Li Qing's heart grew increasingly gloomy, feeling that there was a huge problem with this ruin.

"Fortunately, I only sent out an incarnation. If my true self had come, I would have been finished."

These bizarre mutations were all extremely disgusting in their own ways.

He even saw a female cultivator, whose upper body had turned into a structure resembling a dried corpse, while her lower body had turned into a smooth, scaleless snake-like tail.

Most importantly, once these cultivators mutated, they would directly rush into the depths of the mist, as if something there was calling them.

Li Qing pondered, "Go in and take a look."

Ten shadowy paper figures quietly infiltrated from all sides and quickly arrived at the location of the ruins.

A circle of dilapidated walls surrounded a large group of buildings.

The shadowy paper figures quietly entered, each observing a different scene from ten different directions.

One of the scenes made Li Qing's hair stand on end.

On a huge and empty square, various bizarre monsters were densely scattered, numbering at least a hundred.

At this moment, they were all lying on the ground. Each of them had a strange tube inserted into their bodies.

This tube seemed to be a fleshy structure, with a ring of fine white teeth-like protrusions at the connection point, piercing into the bodies of the monsters.

It seemed that these tubes were absorbing the flesh and blood of these monsters, as one after another bulge could be seen moving along the tube towards its source.

Upon closer observation, it was discovered that the source of these tubes was inside a huge palace.

The palace was shrouded in a strange blood-colored mist, exuding a horrifying and eerie aura.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle.

A strange sound caught Li Qing's attention. In one scene, a group of strange red beetle-like creatures had gathered in what looked like a garden.

They were wriggling frantically, piling up like a mountain, seemingly gnawing on something.

The shadowy paper figures quietly observed and soon discovered the problem.

Occasionally, the beetles revealed underneath were nothing but gnawed-clean white bones.

These bones were in a sorry state, with even the bone marrow seemingly gnawed clean.

This was a dead zone, anyone who approached would die.

Suddenly, the vision of this shadowy paper figure became somewhat blurry.

Li Qing quickly controlled the shadowy paper figure to look all over its body.

At some point, a group of red beetles had silently surrounded "it."

These beetles were voraciously gnawing at the paper figure.

In the next instant, the paper figure was gnawed into debris.

Shadowy paper figure number 1, terminated.

Feeling the destruction of his first paper figure, Li Qing's mouth twitched slightly.

"It seems that this spell is not completely concealed and can be detected by certain things."

"So, even when using the information obtained by this incarnation for exploration, one must be careful to distinguish between truth and falsehood. Moreover, the paper figures that have been used can only be left outside."

"I need to record the information and then correct the truth through the Jade Tablet, to determine whether the information is true or false, and whether it fits the current environment."

Li Qing quickly pondered the potential problems brought about by the shortcomings of the shadowy paper figures.

He continued to control the other paper figures, conducting a deeper exploration of the ruins.

He controlled the paper figures to search other buildings, not forgetting the purpose of his visit.

The goal was the secret formula for magical materials. If he could obtain the cultivation secret for magical plants, that would naturally be even better.

A shadowy paper figure arrived at an empty hall, with a plaque hanging on the hall's entrance bearing the thin gold characters from a thousand years ago - Sutra Pavilion.

Li Qing was delighted, immediately controlling the shadowy paper figure to enter.

Soon, his joy turned into disappointment, as there was nothing inside.

The shelves were completely empty, as if everything had been taken away.

"It's been emptied? There are at least ten bookshelves, with tens of thousands of books."

"Not all of them are necessarily cultivation methods, but at least related to cultivation."

"Someone has been here before, and everything has been taken away."

Li Qing couldn't help but feel a sinking feeling, indicating that there might not be anything good left here.

The so-called treasures might just be some kind of trap, with someone fishing for something.

The ground was littered with some debris, seemingly useless scraps of paper and torn books.

Li Qing's shadowy paper figure still flipped through these books, carefully examining them.

They were all in thin gold characters, all written a thousand years ago.

Li Qing had collected countless information in the Jixia Academy's library, including different fonts from different dynasties, in order to facilitate future reading and to find useful knowledge.

Knowledge is power, this was his motto.

At this moment, his focus was still on the incarnation outside the mist, and everything observed by these incarnations was only through shared vision.

Most of the books were old and some even crumbled at a touch.

After a casual glance, there was nothing useful.

Li Qing shook his head helplessly, "If this is a trap, then the useful things have probably been taken away."

"Those cultivators who managed to escape probably also have big problems, they might not even be themselves anymore."

Li Qing pondered, and one of the shadowy paper figures saw a figure.

It was on the huge square, a figure clad in blood-colored armor was walking in from outside the square.

In his hand, he was dragging a huge monster that was at least ten feet in size.

He flung the monster to the ground, as if throwing a fish that smelled fishy.

A strange tube emerged from the huge palace shrouded in black mist.

The mouth of the tube was raised high, revealing a port full of sharp teeth, which suddenly pierced into the body of the monster.

The figure in the blood-colored armor suddenly turned his head and looked in the direction of the shadowy paper figure.

A red light suddenly flashed, causing Li Qing's heart to jump.