Magma Fairy Palace.
As Ning Zhuo's soul returned to his body, the puppet body he was inhabiting clattered to the ground in pieces.
However, as Ning Zhuo quickly came back, the puppet body on the ground rapidly reassembled and soon stood up again.
At the same time, a teleportation ring spat out Yuan Dasheng's corpse.
Upon seeing this, the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit felt its vision darken.
The scenario it least wanted to see had happened!
For a moment, it glared at Ning Zhuo with wide dragon eyes, nostrils flaring, and sparks flying from its breath with every exhale.
But Ning Zhuo did not feel a thing.
The Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit's breathing became increasingly intense, and it let out an enraged roar towards the sky!
The roar reverberated in all directions, causing the entire Immortal Palace to tremble.
The sound waves quickly spilled out, causing the lava to splatter and disperse a large cloud of smoke at the peak of Fire Persimmon Mountain.
City Lord Meng Kui suddenly opened his eyes, immediately stopping his cultivation, "Again?"
In the main hall of the Magma Fairy Palace.
The Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit was frantically darting around in the air, continuously spewing columns of fire, burning everything in sight as if it had gone mad.
The Magma Fairy Palace became increasingly chaotic.
In the reflection of the soaring flames, Meng Kui's expression grew darker.
Ning Zhuo was completely unaware of this.
In the room he was in, everything was tranquil and peaceful.
After quickly examining Yuan Dasheng's corpse, he felt both surprised and disappointed.
The surprise was that he had successfully brought Yuan Dasheng's corpse into the Magma Fairy Palace on his first attempt. This was a brand new experience for him.
The disappointment was that he had specially hidden storage bags both above and inside Yuan Dasheng's body, but neither of the bags had been transported over.
"I had been sensing my Buddha Heart Demon Seal throughout the process of entering the palace," he muttered.
"Sigh, if only I could bring in a large amount of materials."
"The resources within the Magma Fairy Palace are almost all consumed by the limited spirit stones."
If he had an abundant supply of resources, Ning Zhuo was confident he could fortify the first three checkpoints impenetrably!
After composing himself, Ning Zhuo began to think about what to do next.
He had successfully brought in the monkey's corpse, but how could he hand over the monkey's corpse to the Immortal Palace?
He had no idea how this step would work, and he was seriously lacking information.
This information was supposed to be provided promptly by the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit, but now it was gritting its teeth and frantically escaping in the main hall.
Chasing after it was a fire whip.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The fire whip kept lashing at the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit, even as it circled the pillars at high speed.
On the peak of Fire Persimmon Mountain.
Meng Kui mustered all his strength, frantically casting spells, summoning a giant hand to press down on the Magma Fairy Palace.
The beams of precious light emanating from the Immortal Palace quickly pierced through the giant hand.
Meng Kui sighed helplessly and had no choice but to activate the Fire Persimmon Immortal City Great Array. Borrowing the power of the array, he finally managed to stabilize the situation.
"What on earth is causing the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit's frenzy?!"
This time, the scale of the chaos in the Magma Fairy Palace was unprecedented.
As a result, it exerted immense pressure on Meng Kui.
Meng Kui could even hear the thick sense of unwillingness, rage, and helplessness mixed in the dragon's roar that echoed outside the palace. Uh... and also the sounds of painful wailing.
Initially, there had been only one fire whip whipping the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit. But as it stubbornly resisted and neglected its duties, more and more fire whips started materializing.
Five or six fire whips chased the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit, beating it relentlessly!
The entire spirit body of the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit became dim and insubstantial from the constant lashes, and it could no longer hold out. It had to speak up and convey the crucial information.
Ning Zhuo, in his room, was about to try something when he received the information and frowned slightly, "It seems like the Magma Fairy Palace has been severely damaged. Such important information should be communicated immediately."
There was no time for hesitation, so Ning Zhuo followed the instructions and dragged Yuan Dasheng's corpse to the door.
His small puppet body found dragging Yuan Dasheng's corpse extremely difficult and time-consuming.
Once Yuan Dasheng's body was dragged in front of the door, a teleportation ring immediately appeared and swallowed it.
The Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit curled up in a corner, enduring the continuous lashes of the fire whips with great pain.
The expression on its dragon's face, besides the pain, also showed a sense of utter desolation.
It knew that Ning Zhuo had made the most appropriate choice!
Even if Ning Zhuo had brought the corpse of a Golden Core Stage cultivator and created a spirit rhythm mechanism, Ning Zhuo would not have been able to control it.
But Yuan Dasheng was not a Golden Core; he was at the third level of Qi Refinement, ninth level of Body Refinement. Using him as raw material, the crafted mechanism artifact would be just on the edge of Ning Zhuo's control limits.
The key component was the immortal aptitude!
Materials with immortal aptitude were extremely rare and highly valuable!
The Magma Fairy Palace had four types of furnaces: bronze furnace, iron furnace, silver furnace, and golden furnace.
To refine materials with immortal aptitude, one had to use the golden furnace.
Once used to refine immortal materials, even the golden furnace could only be used once!
Since the Magma Fairy Palace had been built, there were at most eight golden furnaces, and now only four were left.
So to refine Yuan Dasheng, they had no choice but to use up another.
The Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit absolutely did not want to see this happen, but reality was exceptionally cruel!
It had no choice but to follow through, controlling the entire Immortal Palace to throw Yuan Dasheng's corpse into the golden furnace.
The golden furnace began its refinement.
A massive amount of spiritual power was consumed, and a magnificent beam of precious light shot from the golden furnace.
The radiance was incredibly dazzling, piercing the sky like a giant pillar.
"What is happening now?" Meng Kui wondered in bewilderment and quickly used the great array to wave smoke clouds, trying his best to obscure the towering pillar of light.
"If only I could enter the Immortal Palace..." Meng Kui gritted his teeth in frustration and sighed.
His proficiency in mechanism art was very low. To be more precise, it was extremely low by the Nascent Soul cultivator standard.
As a result, he had not been selected to enter the Magma Fairy Palace.
In this regard, he was even less qualified than some of the Golden Core and Foundation Establishment cultivators who had entered the palace after the standards had been lowered.
None of his two Golden Core subordinates had been chosen by the Immortal Palace either.
Some of his Foundation Establishment subordinates had been selected and could enter the Immortal Palace, but their overall advantage was not significant, and they could not outpace the Zhou Family and the Zheng Family.
Because of this, after the Magma Fairy Palace emerged, Meng Kui personally stationed himself at the mountain peak. Under the pretext of investigation, he blocked the entire Immortal Palace, temporarily preventing any cultivators from entering.
The Zhou Family and Zheng Family expressed objections but were firmly turned down by Meng Kui. After all, City Lord's Mansion had also not sent any cultivators to storm the Immortal Palace directly in person.
City Lord Meng Kui represented the Southern Bean Dynasty, using the investigation of demon cultivators as an excuse. The other two families had no choice but to monitor the Immortal Palace to prevent the City Lord's Mansion from secretly sending people in.
"Chong'er is still my greatest hope."
Meng Kui had immense confidence in Meng Chong.
Especially recently, Meng Chong had made a significant breakthrough, taking the Frenzied Rushing Thunder technique to a new level, showing immense progress.
"Chong'er has superior talent and an overwhelming destiny. Any pressure will only make him stronger. In a fair competition, who can suppress him?"
The pillar of precious light gradually dispersed, and the Magma Fairy Palace returned to tranquility once more.
Meng Kui chuckled with satisfaction.
At the same time.
A teleportation ring reappeared in front of Ning Zhuo.
From the ring, a mechanism monkey slowly floated down.
"It's already done?"
Ning Zhuo felt a rush of excitement as he stepped forward to inspect.
It seemed to hear the sound of footsteps; the mechanism monkey opened its eyes slowly, raising its head.
It gazed at Ning Zhuo, its pupils glowing with a blood-red light, exuding a formidable aura.
Ning Zhuo slowed his steps.
At this moment, Yuan Dasheng had been reborn!