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Ringing the Bell for a Hundred Years, I Became the Sect’s Ancestor – Chapter 134

Chapter 134

Chapter 134: Ape God

For ten consecutive days, Li Qian had been studying formations within the grand formation of the ancient ruins.

The effects were remarkable.

His progress on the Lion Camel Ridge Formation Manual surprisingly increased by two to three points daily.

With such a great opportunity to study formations, Li Qian naturally wouldn’t let it slip away.

He had to make good use of this time to boost his formation progress.

Outside, Xiao Wendao knew that the black-cloaked figure had entered but hadn’t come out.

However, he wasn’t worried. Even Hou Shuwen had managed to retreat unscathed, so that senior would definitely be fine.

“Phew, finally found the last foundation formation.”

After more than half a month, Li Qian let out a long breath, excitement evident on his face.

It truly wasn’t easy.

There were a total of five foundation formations within this ancient ruin’s formation.

The first four foundation formations were easy to find, but the fifth one… it took him a long time to finally decipher it.

Although it seemed like just finding five foundation formations, in reality, it meant that he had basically figured out the entire operating mechanism of the grand formation.

He could use the knowledge from the Lion Camel Ridge Formation Manual to deduce the positions of the five formation stakes.

Moreover, when navigating the formation, he could effectively avoid the dangerous areas within.

All of this was primarily based on his possession of the Lion Camel Ridge Formation Manual.

Otherwise, even with his profound knowledge of formations, if he didn’t understand the Lion Camel Ridge Formation Manual, deciphering it would have been extremely difficult.

“Time to break the formation.”

Li Qian muttered to himself, then stood up and started walking.

Five formation disks revolved around him, emitting waves of foundation formation energy. Under his control, they occasionally combined in pairs, allowing him to avoid triggering the hidden dangers within the formation.

After cautiously advancing for a while, he passed through areas filled with dense fog and potent venomous miasma, but they couldn’t approach the range of his Blood and Qi Sanctuary.

It was evident that his Blood and Qi Sanctuary was the bane of venomous miasma.

Moreover, he determined that this venomous miasma wasn’t naturally formed but released by that venomous beast. Then, through the Polluting Foundation Formation within the grand formation, it ultimately condensed into such a potent venomous miasma.

After more than fifteen minutes, he arrived before a giant tortoise back brazier, estimated to be about ten feet in diameter.

The stone tortoise looked crude and ferocious, with a mouth full of teeth.

The brazier it carried on its back was surprisingly assembled from a large number of what seemed to be human skulls.

Wisps of greenish-blue venomous miasma emerged from the brazier.

Li Qian’s figure levitated. Inside the brazier, he could see an exotic beast that looked like a lizard. It wasn’t particularly large, only about a meter long.

Its entire body was covered in wrinkled green skin. It opened its mouth, revealing a full set of fangs, and let out a roar, seemingly warning Li Qian not to approach.

Li Qian’s Blood and Qi Sanctuary slowly expanded, approaching the lizard exotic beast.

The lizard exotic beast, frightened, retreated to the side of the brazier, frantically scratching with its two front claws.

Finally, Li Qian’s Blood and Qi Sanctuary completely enveloped the lizard exotic beast.

The lizard exotic beast’s roar became filled with terror. It curled up into a ball, its body trembling, limp and weak, as if it had become extremely feeble.

Through his Blood and Qi Sanctuary, Li Qian could sense that this seemingly small lizard exotic beast had an incredibly robust physical body, even containing a terrifying power, somewhat similar to the demonic power within demon stones.

However, its quality was far inferior.

“Could this thing be a demon?”

Li Qian was surprised.

It’s just that this demon was a bit weak.

Probably equivalent to an ordinary initial level Celestial Being.

Of course, this weakness was only relative to Li Qian.

Moreover, under the suppression of his Blood and Qi Sanctuary, this lizard exotic beast was like it had encountered its nemesis, completely unable to display its true strength.

Li Qian reached out and grabbed the lizard beast, lifting it up.

The lizard beast trembled, emitting a mental wave, seemingly begging for mercy.

“Eh, this thing actually knows how to beg for mercy, isn’t it a bit too intelligent?”

Li Qian was even more surprised.

Ordinary exotic beasts, even Little Black, couldn’t possibly be this intelligent.

Unless this was a lizard demon.

But this ancient ruin had existed for who knows how long, how could a living lizard demon suddenly appear?

Unless it was related to the previous upheaval of heaven and earth.

Little Black also mutated during that time.

Perhaps this lizard accidentally wandered into this ancient ruin, then somehow survived, and due to some reason, underwent demon transformation. Judging from the formation, this place was likely a demon race ruin.

“Dig out the things here, and I’ll spare your life.”

Li Qian spoke.

The lizard demon actually understood and nodded repeatedly.

Li Qian directly tossed it to the ground.

The lizard demon suddenly let out a roar, and its body swelled up, transforming into a giant demonic creature resembling a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

“It really is a demon.”

Seeing this scene, Li Qian had no more doubts.

The demon-transformed lizard demon had a terrifying and ferocious appearance, surrounded by a potent force, which was the power Li Qian had sensed earlier.

It should be a type of demonic energy.

The lizard demon looked at Li Qian, its two giant claws even bowing slightly, appearing quite human-like.

Then it began frantically digging around the tortoise back brazier.

For a time, soil and rocks flew everywhere.

The reason Li Qian didn’t dig out this formation stake himself was mainly because he was worried about potential dangerous restrictions.

Having studied the Lion Camel Ridge Formation Manual, he knew how insidious this formation system could be.

Since there was a readily available demonic creature to command, there was no need for him to do it himself, why take the risk?

The lizard demon’s digging efficiency was high, and soon a large pit was excavated, revealing a circular pillar beneath the tortoise back brazier.

It was unknown how deep it was.

The exposed part was already over ten feet long.

Numerous patterns were engraved on the pillar, all of them formation patterns.

After digging for a while longer, the entire pillar was finally unearthed.

It was almost thirty feet deep.

Moreover, the bottom of the formation stake was a giant rock, and it was unclear how it was connected to the formation stake, almost seamlessly, as if they were one entity.

Spiritual light flowed on the entire formation stake, emitting a sizzling sound.

“What a treasure! If this thing were brought back to Divine Sword Sect, it could completely serve as a formation foundation.”

Li Qian thought to himself.

Unfortunately, this formation stake was too large.

Even the black iron ring couldn’t hold it.

Moreover, there were at least five such formation stakes within this ancient ruin.

As for whether there were even more formation stakes, that was unknown.

After all, his current location was only the outer area of the ancient ruin.

There might be even more powerful formations inside.

Next, Li Qian found the other four formation stakes and commanded the lizard demon, his free labor, to dig them all out.

Of course, digging them out didn’t mean the formation was broken.

Li Qian stood before a formation stake, this was the Attracting Foundation Formation.

It was also the most crucial foundation formation in the Lion Camel Ridge Formation Manual. All Lion Camel Ridge formations needed this Attracting Foundation Formation as their core.

The Attracting Foundation Formation was specifically used for gathering heaven and earth yuan qi.

For a formation to operate, it needed to rely on heaven and earth yuan qi.

Of course, it could also use yuan stones and the like.

For long-term operation of a formation, relying on yuan stones definitely wouldn’t work.

Once the yuan stones were depleted, they had to be replaced.

Ancient ruins like this, which had existed for an unknown amount of time and could still function normally, relied on their ability to attract heaven and earth yuan qi as well as earthly yin energy.

Otherwise, if they were powered by yuan stones, they would have long since been exhausted.

Li Qian took a deep breath, waved his hand, and four foundation formation disks flew out, revolving around the formation stake.

Under his control, the four formation disks gradually replaced the function of the other four formation stakes.

Of course, this was only on a small scale.

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However, this was precisely the effect Li Qian wanted.

“Knock it down.”

Li Qian suddenly ordered.

The giant lizard demon cooperated well, charging forward and slamming into the formation stake.

A loud boom.

The entire formation stake shook violently.

Accompanied by a cracking sound, the entire formation stake broke directly from the connection point and collapsed with a crash.

At the moment of collapse, a terrifying surge of earthly energy erupted from the formation stake’s foundation, bombarding the lizard demon.

In an instant, the lizard demon let out a shrill roar, its protective demonic energy instantly torn apart. Its body, as if turned into a tattered mess, was sent flying.

It landed in the distance, its body mangled and bloody.

Even its bluish-black bones were exposed, and its internal organs spilled out.

Immediately afterward, the lizard demon’s body rapidly shrank, returning to its original size of over a meter long.

Li Qian gasped at this scene.

He hadn’t expected such terrifying earthly yin energy to be accumulated beneath the formation stake.

This earthly yin energy was clearly also a force driven by the formation.

It would erupt immediately after the formation stake was toppled. This was actually the unique Earth Trapping Formation within the Lion Camel Ridge Formation Manual.

The Formation Master who set up the formation in this ancient ruin probably wasn’t skilled enough to integrate the Trapping Foundation Formation into the grand formation, so they could only combine it with the Attracting Foundation Formation, creating an extremely dangerous Earth Trapping Formation.

As long as someone dared to destroy this Attracting Foundation Formation, they would immediately be annihilated by the eruption of earthly yin energy accumulated for who knows how many years.

“Fortunately, I have a deep understanding of the Lion Camel Ridge Formation Manual. Otherwise, if I had come to knock down this formation stake myself, I would have been the one attacked by the Earth Trapping Formation.”

Li Qian thought to himself.

The power erupted by the Earth Trapping Formation just now was no less than a Celestial Image level attack.

The lizard demon, whose strength after demon transformation was comparable to a middle level Celestial Being, had no power to resist and was directly killed.

“It’s really a pity, I truly didn’t intend to kill you.”

Li Qian could sense that the lizard demon’s life force had completely vanished.

Then, with a grab of his hand, he extracted a sesame-sized demon stone from the lizard demon’s body.

It was grayish-black in color.

Just by looking at it, one could tell that its quality was very ordinary.

And its size was small, it didn’t contain much energy at all.

However, from this demon stone, it could be seen that the lizard was indeed a demon.

At this moment, the entire grand formation began to disintegrate.

The venomous miasma that was originally bound by the formation started to disperse.

Without the obstruction of the formation, Li Qian continued deeper, finally arriving before a stone gate over ten meters tall, with four demonic script characters written on it.

Over the years, he had been continuously learning demonic script.

He now recognized a considerable number of demonic script characters.

So with just a glance, he could recognize them.

“Panyuan Cave Mansion.”

His spiritual perception probed inside.

He didn’t sense any formation fluctuations.

“Is there only a formation on the outer perimeter?”

Li Qian muttered to himself.

He immediately walked in.

Inside was a deep passage, dark and profound.

There were some spacious stone chambers on both sides, with some items placed inside. He didn’t enter them but continued walking deeper, finally arriving at a giant cave.

Li Qian’s attention was immediately drawn to a stone statue at the end of the cave.

This stone statue was at least thirty feet tall.

It was carved with lifelike detail.

From its appearance, it seemed to be a ferocious ape beast, but it was clad in heavy armor, carrying a pitch-black long staff on its shoulder.

Unconsciously, Li Qian walked towards the stone statue.

But when he was still several feet away from the stone statue, a bell sound suddenly rang in his mind.

Dong!

Like a great bronze bell, it jolted him awake. He abruptly moved, retreating.

Suddenly, red light shone from the stone statue’s eyes, as if it had come to life. It even opened its mouth and spoke, “Mortal, as long as you serve this god, you will gain boundless benefits and have the opportunity to break through the limits of this Mortal Realm, to witness the true world outside.”

The voice was neither male nor female, but it was extremely alluring.

However, the bell sound in Li Qian’s mind continued, keeping him clear-headed. He wasn’t affected.

“Who are you?”

Li Qian asked.

He knew that everything he was seeing was definitely not real, most likely a powerful illusion. The Time Bell’s sound could only keep him awake but couldn’t help him break free from this illusion.

“Mortal, you can call me Ape God.”

The stone statue spoke.

“Ape God. Hmph, just a demonic creature playing tricks.”

Li Qian snorted coldly. If it were truly a god, there would be no need to resort to such lowly means to deceive him.

“Audacious mortal, you court death!”

The stone statue suddenly flew into a rage. It abruptly moved, extending its giant hand to grab Li Qian.

The hand was like a giant seal, covering the sky. It seemed to envelop all of Li Qian’s escape routes.

If it weren’t for the Time Bell’s resounding chime keeping him awake, he would probably have been completely paralyzed by this hand.

“What a terrifying will! This is definitely not Celestial Image level, could it be the even higher Myriad Images level?”

Li Qian was horrified.

But just as the hand was about to land, his vision suddenly changed, and the hand vanished.

The scene before him completely returned to normal.

The stone statue remained a stone statue, it hadn’t moved at all.

“As expected, just playing tricks.”

Li Qian secretly breathed a sigh of relief, even more certain now.

This stone statue only had pure mental attacks, which happened to be countered by the chime of his Law Instrument Time Bell.

Thinking of this, Li Qian didn’t hesitate. He directly threw a punch, his surging blood and qi condensing into a dazzling blood light that roared forward.

Boom!

Accompanied by a thunderous boom.

The entire stone statue was shattered.

Even the stone wall behind the statue was blasted with a bottomless hole.

Fortunately, the cave was incredibly sturdy and didn’t collapse because of this.

Li Qian walked over and looked at the shattered stone statue, he couldn’t help but be surprised.

This wasn’t a stone statue at all, but a real ape demon corpse. Inside, there were bones, tendons, and internal organs, but they had all seemingly turned into fossils.

Then, he dug out a pitch-black stone from the fallen head of the stone statue.

A demon stone.

Moreover, this demon stone wasn’t any smaller than the one from the wolf demon.

“Excellent, I just happen to be short of demon stones.”

A delighted smile appeared on Li Qian’s face. This trip was worth it after all.

That demon stone had been used for such a long time, who knew how much longer it could last.

Without new replenishment, once it was used up, his Blood and Qi Sanctuary wouldn’t be able to improve any further.

Suddenly, he began to search carefully again.

Unfortunately, he didn’t find any storage artifacts like the black iron ring.

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(🇨🇳)Ringing the Bell for a Hundred Years, I Became the Sect’s Ancestor

🇨🇳)Ringing the Bell for a Hundred Years, I Became the Sect’s Ancestor

撞钟百年,我成了宗门老祖
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Status: Ongoing Author: Released: 2024 Native Language: Chinese
Reborn into a world where martial arts are supreme, Li Qian became an Odd-Job Disciple of the Divine Sword Sect and was assigned to be a Bell Ringer. While ringing the bell, the Sacrificial Instrument System unexpectedly awakened, and the Time Bell he rang became his Natal Sacrificial Instrument, connected to his very life. As long as he rang the bell, he could enhance the Time Bell Sacrificial Instrument. Moreover, the Sacrificial Instrument has one major characteristic. As long as the Time Bell is not destroyed, the Host will not die. From then on, a path of immortal martial arts unfolded before Li Qian. Many years later, the Divine Sword Sect faced a crisis of annihilation, and countless Divine Sword Sect disciples knelt before the Time Bell Pavilion. "We implore the Ancestor to act." *** In a world dominated by martial prowess, the Divine Sword Sect stands as a beacon of power and prestige. Within its vast hierarchy, Odd-Job Disciples occupy the lowest rung, their lives dedicated to menial tasks and their dreams of martial cultivation often fading into obscurity. Li Qian, a transmigrator from a world without martial arts, finds himself among these lowly disciples, his initial aspirations dampened by his assigned role as a mere bell ringer. Yet, fate has a different plan for Li Qian. The seemingly ordinary Time Bell, entrusted to his care, awakens a dormant power within him—the Sacrificial Instrument System. Bound to the Time Bell, Li Qian discovers a path to cultivation unlike any other, one that grants him unique abilities and the potential for eternal life. As he diligently performs his duties, the Time Bell undergoes a gradual transformation, its power growing alongside Li Qian's own martial arts cultivation. However, the tranquility of Li Qian's life is shattered when he becomes entangled in a web of secrets and conspiracies. The mysterious death of his predecessor, Old Song, and the existence of a treasure map left behind by an Innate Martial Artist thrust Li Qian into a dangerous game of power and intrigue. Hunted by those who covet the treasure and forced to confront the darker side of the Divine Sword Sect, Li Qian must rely on his wits, his growing strength, and the enigmatic abilities of the Time Bell to survive. Guided by his master, Zhou Buping, a recluse with a hidden agenda, Li Qian navigates the treacherous waters of sect politics, forming alliances with fellow disciples like the hardworking Chen Yong and encountering enigmatic figures like the seductive Song Yingying. As he delves deeper into the mysteries surrounding him, Li Qian uncovers a world far more complex and dangerous than he ever imagined, a world where the pursuit of martial perfection is intertwined with ambition, betrayal, and the ultimate quest for immortality. This is a story of cultivation, adventure, and self-discovery, where a seemingly ordinary individual, armed with an extraordinary artifact and an unyielding spirit, rises above his humble beginnings to challenge the established order and forge his own destiny in a world where only the strong survive.

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