Chapter 57 Swallowed Up
After about an hour, Zhang Qian had completely devoured all of the demon's energy.

call!
He heaved a sigh of satisfaction. After a while of adapting to his greatly enhanced body, he calculated, "With my current physical strength, I can open up all the acupoints in my body in one go and reach the state of great perfection in Qi Refining. The cultivation method of the Demon Refining Island, Qiankun Yiyuan Zhen Jue, only records the locations of 360 acupoints, but my Taiyi Demon Refining Golden Chapter has five more."

Zhang Qian thought to himself that with his current physical strength, it was enough for him to completely open up the acupoints in his body in one breath without any consequences.

However, Zhang Qian discovered that after his bloodline had replenished some of its essence, it was no longer so easy to continue improving.

Not only was the fifth palace pitch black, with no existence at all, there wasn't even a trace of spiritual energy from heaven and earth. This was not a place for retreat. He resisted the urge to open up his acupoints right now, and instead took out a bottle of physical elixir given to him by his senior sister.

He had asked Li Qingque for a lot of elixirs before, but he did not take them after he got the Heavenly Demon Essence. Now he poured out a elixir, tilted his head back and swallowed it, but was surprised to find that after taking the elixir, there was no change in his body and the elixir did not have any effect.

Frowning, Zhang Qian thought about it and figured out the reason.

"Yes, my body has been greatly strengthened now. These low-grade elixirs have no effect on me anymore. The medicinal power contained in the elixirs can no longer increase the strength of my body."

After trying several elixirs in succession, Zhang Qian helplessly discovered that all the elixirs were useless. He put away all the jade bottles, and a green gourd appeared in Zhang Qian's hand.

"I don't know if the Qiankun Quemai Pill will be useful to me? This pill is extremely cold in nature. I was born with the ability to escape into water, so I am not afraid of the extreme cold. The word 'Quemai' is in the name of this pill, so it has a very good effect in tempering the meridians. However, I'd better wait until I get out and open up the acupoints before taking it."

After putting away the gourd, Zhang Qian stood up suddenly. Looking at the darkness around him, he closed his eyes and simply spread out his mind, sweeping around.

After a few minutes, Zhang Qian frowned. He found that even his mind did not detect anything. Not to mention the stone platform leading to the Sixth Palace, there was nothing in the entire Fifth Palace.

"Impossible, what's going on? With my mental strength, I should be able to find some flaws. Why..."

After walking in the darkness for a long time, Zhang Qian gradually lost his patience. He began to understand the power of the Fifth Palace. All the demons in the Fifth Palace were hiding in the cracks. Unless he found the stone platform leading to the Sixth Palace, he could not touch those demons at all.

Those demons exert their powerful means in the cracks. Ordinary people who come in will not only be immersed in endless darkness and gradually lose all senses, but will also be tortured by endless loneliness until they forget the passage of time and are tortured to madness.

Two hours later, Zhang Qian still hadn't found any clues. Looking at the Demonic Pagoda above his head, he planned to take some action.

At this time, in the outside world, more than two hours had passed after Zhang Qian entered the Fifth Palace. Seeing that Zhang Qian still had not passed the Fifth Palace, many people secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Previously, Zhang Qian broke through the first four palaces in one breath and destroyed the fourth palace, which really scared many people. Now seeing Zhang Qian trapped in the fifth palace, Xiao Daoyi showed a hint of gloating in his eyes.

"When I entered Shangyuan Bajing Palace, I was trapped in the fifth palace for ten days. I lost all senses and forgot the passage of time in the endless darkness. I only felt that I had been there for decades. The boundless loneliness almost drove me crazy. Although Zhang Qian's sword intent is terrible, all the demons in the fifth palace are hiding in the cracks. Even if his sword intent is strong, he can't attack those demons. He can only be trapped inside and endure endless loneliness."

Glancing at Li Qingque from the corner of his eye, Xiao Daoyi secretly snorted and became unhappy when he saw the worry in Li Qingque's eyes. Another hour passed, and there was still no movement in the Fifth Palace. Guan Zhongxuan suddenly chuckled and said, "Master, it seems that Zhang Qian has been trapped in the Fifth Palace. For someone with such an unstable temperament like Zhang Qian, it is impossible for him to pass through the Fifth Palace in a short time. Let's go back and wait. Judging from this, it may take him a month to pass through the Fifth Palace. Daoyi was trapped in the Fifth Palace for ten days. Zhang Qian..."

However, before Guan Zhongxuan could finish his words, the Shangyuan Bajing Palace shook slightly, and the node connecting the fifth palace and the sixth palace lit up. Zhang Qian had already passed the fifth palace!

"This is impossible!"

The smile on Guan Zhongxuan's face froze and he stammered, unable to speak.

Xiao Daoyi was deeply shocked, but he remained calm on the surface. He turned to Li Qingque and said, "Uncle Li, congratulations. With a talent like Zhang Qian on the Demon Refining Island, its revival is just around the corner."

No one present knew how Zhang Qian passed the fifth palace so quickly, but it was actually very simple.

Zhang Qian wandered around for a long time, and when he became impatient, he poured all of his remaining true energy into the illusory Heavenly Demon Pagoda, making the Heavenly Demon Pagoda slightly more solid and greatly increasing its power.

Boom!
The pagoda trembled, and the magnificent magic truth swept out. Once the truth came out, it completely dispelled the darkness around. However, before Zhang Qian could look around, the darkness came back, like ink dropped into clear water, spreading to every corner again and submerging the entire fifth palace.

"Hmph, turn around for me!"

With a cold snort, Zhang Qian's mind moved, and the Heavenly Demon Pagoda began to rotate, emitting a suction force as it rotated. Under this suction force, the darkness around it seemed to turn into substantial thick smoke, which was continuously sucked in by the Heavenly Demon Pagoda.

As time went by, the suction power of the Demonic Pagoda became stronger and stronger, and the darkness in the fifth palace gradually became thinner.

After an hour, the Demonic Pagoda had swallowed up nothing more, and all the darkness in the fifth palace was completely sucked up, revealing its original appearance. It was a pitch-black land with no end in sight. A hundred miles ahead of Zhang Qian, there was a pitch-black stone platform, which was the passage to the sixth palace.

The pitch-black stone platform was hidden in the dark earth and was very inconspicuous. If it weren't for Zhang Qian's sharp eyes, he wouldn't have been able to find it.

hum!
The Demonic Pagoda stopped rotating, and Zhang Qian keenly saw wisps of darkness emerging from the stone platform. However, the darkness seemed to have no more power and no longer had the ability to turn the entire Fifth Palace into darkness.

"Sure enough!"

Before, Zhang Qian guessed that the darkness in the fifth palace was not without reason. He speculated that this boundless darkness should be the demonic energy released by the demon hiding in the crack. However, the demonic energy of the demon was not endless. After being swallowed by the Demon Pagoda for an hour, the demonic energy of the demon in the crack had been swallowed up completely, and these demons no longer had much power.

(End of this chapter)