0p0 Chapter 706 Returning to the Immortal Cultivation World, Son of an Old Friend 14
Chapter 706 Returning to the Immortal Cultivation World, Son of an Old Friend 14
Her current spiritual consciousness was not restricted, so she could even cover the entire cultivation world. There were only two possibilities for this situation. One was that the Heavenly Dao in the upper realm had cast a barrier, and the other was that this crack connected to the void...
Before that, she had some preconceived notions. When she saw the fog that restricted her cultivation, the first thing that came to her mind in this world was the Demonic Abyss, forgetting that the power of the void was the same.
So what she sensed before was not the breath of the Demonic Abyss, but the breath of the void.
If the storm sea outside Guixu was sucked away by the void crack, then that would make sense.
But if this crack is connected to the void, the Guixu Secret Realm is still there. It seems that there is something stabilizing it.
what is it then?
Just as she was thinking about it, Qin Yuanfeng and others came over.
They had recovered their magic power. Xu Changning used his spiritual sense to see that it was over here. They had also dealt with those rotten corpse monsters, so he flew over with them on his sword.
Everyone looked at the big pit and bloodstains in front of them, their eyes full of curiosity and awe. They didn't expect that Senior Xiao could kill the ninth-level monster as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.
As soon as Xu Changning landed, he sent a voice message to ask Xiao Yun what happened. He had previously seen with his spiritual sense that a ninth-level demon beast was killed by her in one blow, and thought that everything was fine. But seeing that she did not look relaxed, could there be a more powerful existence than a ninth-level demon beast?
Xiao Yun whispered his guess to him, and after seeing the doubt in his eyes, he described the horror of the void.
Xu Changning had no idea what the void was like before, but after hearing what Xiao Yun said, he had a general understanding. The strong wind that could tear apart the body of a cultivator in the Tribulation Crossing Stage was a giant beast of the Immortal Level. Just imagining it was terrifying.
"So what are your plans now? Are you going to follow this crack and explore the void?"
Xu Changning asked uncertainly, "If she goes, should I go with her?" He didn't know if his Incorruptible Bone could withstand the strong wind.
Xiao Yun gave a negative answer. "No, since this place has existed for 500 years without any problems, then the laws of nature in this world must have made some arrangements. There's no need for me to go there. If something bad happens, I'll have to clean up the mess myself, which is already troublesome enough."
Xu Changning didn't know that Xiao Yun had traveled through many worlds, but she didn't find this world strange. After all, she had also been to other worlds, so there was nothing wrong with using this world to describe it.
Xiao Yun glanced down at the green mist slowly rising from the crack, then turned to Qin Yuanfeng and the others and said, "Although the mist has temporarily dissipated after the ninth-level monster was dealt with, it's rising again down there. We can't stay here for long. We'd better leave as soon as possible."
Qin Yuanfeng and the others all looked in the direction she pointed, and sure enough, wisps of green mist floated up. They all stepped on their flying swords again, ready to leave at any time.
Xiao Yun was amused by their uniform movements and expressions, which made her laugh. It made her feel like a mother duck with a group of ducklings.
Qin Yuanfeng and the others didn't know what she was thinking. They only knew that they had finally dealt with those rotten corpse monsters and didn't want another wave to come.
Then he remembered that he was still holding the weapon given by Senior Xiao, and quickly handed it back to her.
Xiao Yun waved his hand and took back all the particle guns. After all, this thing was not from this world, so it was better not to leave it outside.
By the way, he also checked the physical condition of everyone. Seeing that no one was injured and they were not corroded by the evil spirit because they had taken the obstacle-clearing pill, he led everyone to fly upwards.
He also used his spiritual power to lift up several people below the Foundation Establishment Stage. They were a little exhausted and it was difficult for them to just fly.
Before they arrived here, they flew along the crack, so they couldn't get around it and were pulled inside by the fog.
This time, Xiao Yun chose the direction for them to cross the crack and fly to the other side.
Fortunately, the green mist is not present in the entire crack, but only in this area within a radius of about 100 miles.
Another quarter of an hour had passed by the time they crossed the crack. There was no other way, as they had to accommodate several people in the Foundation Establishment Stage, so they really couldn't fly too fast.
After flying over the cracks and landing in a forest, they heard Lin Wan'er's exclamation: "Look! There are thousand-year-old red spirit fruits here! Have we reached a place in the secret realm that no one has ever been to?"
Xiao Yun glanced over there. It was a thousand-year-old red spiritual fruit. It was useful for cultivators below the Golden Core stage. It could quickly restore spiritual energy. It could be eaten directly or refined into spiritual pills.
She remembered that when she first came to this world, she collected a lot of things from Jiuyou's cheap father's back garden and put them into her space, eating them as snacks.
It was only after she went to Tianxuan Sect and systematically studied alchemy that she realized its medicinal value. Before that, she always thought it was just a fruit.
Lin Wan'er's shout called Qin Yuanfeng and others over, and then they found that there was not only the Red Spirit Fruit, but also many spiritual medicines on the ground that were more than a thousand years old, and they were all collected in an instant.
These are not difficult to find elsewhere, but those over a thousand years old are still rare. Those elsewhere are basically a hundred years old and most will not exceed 500 years old. The ones before that have all been picked up.
There were about twenty red spirit fruits, which was more than enough for them to share. Moreover, this fruit had a special feature, that is, if it was not picked while growing on the tree, it would remain there and would not bloom and bear fruit again.
Only when it is picked off will it bloom and bear fruit again, so the quality of the red spirit fruit does not depend on how old the tree is, but on how many years the fruit has stayed on the tree.
Watching them busy collecting herbs and spiritual fruits, Xiao Yun and Xu Changning wandered around boredly. They were not interested in these things.
In Xiao Yun's space, there are fruits that are tens of thousands of years old, as well as dragon scale fruits and red fruits that are much more advanced than this one.
Xu Changning doesn't need it. His body has reached the Void Refinement Stage, and this thing is no longer useful to him.
The two of them strolled to a big tree, and Xiao Yun looked at the tree for a long time.
"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with this tree?"
Xu Changning also looked at it with her, but after looking for a long time, he didn't find anything different. Although it was unusually tall, there were no small trees here. After all, some of them were thousands of years old.
Xiao Yun nodded. "This is a gold-absorbing tree. It's at least ten thousand years old. It doesn't fit in with the other trees. I don't know how it ended up here."
What she didn't say was that the spiritual energy on this tree was more refined, and it was very likely grown from seeds that fell from the upper realm. Also, Xiao Lin's original form was this kind of tree.
With a wave of her hand, she collected the entire tree into the space and planted it directly in the forest where Xiao Lin was. Xiao Lin had been in seclusion for a breakthrough during this period and had not come out to hang around. She collected this tree to see if it could help with its breakthrough.
Just after Xiao Yun took away the gold-sucking tree, the originally peaceful forest suddenly shook violently.
A huge black shadow emerged from the tree pit that originally housed the gold-sucking tree. It was a gold-eating beast as big as a mountain.
It roared angrily, obviously mad because the gold-sucking tree was taken away.
Qin Yuanfeng and others were concentrating on collecting the elixirs, but were startled by this sudden change and broke the elixirs in their hands.
After reacting, they all stood up and drew their swords, ready to be on guard.
Xiao Yun frowned. He didn't expect that there was such a thing under the money-absorbing tree. Looking at its golden appearance, it looked like a big ornament, which was not ugly.
Moreover, the strength of this gold-devouring beast has reached level eight, which is only slightly weaker than the previous level nine monster, but much higher than other monsters.
She made a prompt decision and put it directly into her space. There was plenty of gold in her space, so she went in to play.
The gold-eating beast was stunned when it entered the space. Before it could hide its ferocious expression, it saw its gold-sucking tree. It ran towards the gold-sucking tree with its butt sticking out, and then dived under the gold-sucking tree.
Xiao Yun: ...This little thing is really unique.
Outside, Qin Yuanfeng and the others were also bewildered. Where was that huge monster just now? A monster that shone with golden light and blinded people's eyes.
Xiao Yun waved his hand to smooth the huge pit on the ground, coughed lightly and said, "That's the Gold Devourer, the companion beast of the Gold Absorbing Tree. I've put it in the storage space. It's all right now. Go and continue collecting herbs. I think there are still quite a few spiritual herbs over there."
Then everyone scattered like birds and beasts. They were all monks and had long lost interest in gold, so when they heard about the gold-sucking tree and the gold-devouring beast, they stopped paying attention.
Looking at Xu Changning standing there in a daze, Xiao Yun raised an eyebrow, "What's wrong? What are you staring at?"
Xu Changning transmitted a voice message to her uncertainly, "When you just took away the gold-devouring beast, I felt a force calling me. No, that's not right. To be more precise, it was calling this body."
Xiao Yun narrowed his eyes slightly, "Can you sense the exact direction?"
Xu Changning nodded. "To my left, in the direction of that triangular boulder. I almost lost control of my body and flew over there."
Xiao Yun's spiritual sense probed straight in that direction. There was actually a two-foot square hole under the stone, with stairs inside. It seemed to have been dug out by humans.
Her consciousness continued to move downwards. About ten meters away, there was a stone door. The door was engraved with wood grain and a carving of a pepper-shaped door knocker holding a ring. The ring was hollow and movable.
The spiritual consciousness passed through the stone gate, and inside was a horizontal passage of forty to fifty meters. After that was a relatively spacious space, about two hundred square meters in area. The ceiling of the cave was high, and it was carved with various patterns of strange beasts.
There are two stone platforms below, one of which is topped with a three-meter-high stone tower. The tower has seven floors in total and is extremely exquisitely made. Each floor has wooden doors and windows, and some small ornaments can be vaguely seen inside. There is a black bead on the top of the tower, and it seems that there is a living creature moving inside the bead.
Xiao Yun was very familiar with this. It was the Soul-Catching Pearl, used by the ghost messengers in the underworld to lure out hidden souls.
On another platform were piles of coffins. Yes, those coffins were stacked up, and the coffin lids were clearly curved, yet the seven layers stacked high were surprisingly stable.
Each coffin was sealed with a silk seal, and the runes on it were the opposite of normal runes, upside down.
This... is a corpse refining site?
She turned to Xu Changning and asked, "Didn't you use your spiritual sense to explore that area just now?"
Xu Changning: "We investigated, but found nothing."
Xiao Yun frowned. She didn't find any formation or restriction there, and her spiritual sense was not blocked. How could Xu Changning's spiritual sense not be able to penetrate?
Wait, could it be that the owner of this place is higher in rank than Xu Changning? No way, he's already incorruptible. Any higher would be either a drought demon or a demon god.
Xiao Yun was full of doubts, and this made her want to find out more about the situation in this place.
She told Xu Changning about the situation inside, and then said, "Should we go down and take a look?"
Xu Changning's face changed when he heard this, and he quickly said, "I want to go over and take a look. This is probably the corpse refining site of the person from whom I inherited the legacy. There are also some of his remaining souls. No wonder I was being pulled just now. I thought it was this body being pulled, but it turned out to be me!"
After saying that, he walked towards the cave entrance.
Xiao Yun followed him out of curiosity. When Qin Yuanfeng and others saw them walking in that direction, they stopped what they were doing and followed.
Xiao Yun waved his hand, "You guys pick your own, we'll go over there and take a look. If there's anything going on here, my spiritual sense will be able to see it too."
The crowd then stopped and said that if there was anything, they could call them and they could help.
Xiao Yun and Xu Changning came to the huge rock. Xu Changning used his spiritual power to move the rock away, revealing the cave entrance underneath.
The two men jumped down directly and soon arrived at the stone door. Xu Changning pushed it, but the stone door did not move. He began to look for the mechanism around it. Xiao Yun stepped forward and pushed him aside. He reached out and grasped the ring on the door knocker. With a light pull, the stone door slowly opened.
Xu Changning: ...
After the two entered the passage, they walked forward for a while and came to the spacious space. Xu Changning's attention was attracted by the beads on the stone tower, and he walked towards the stone tower first.
As soon as he approached, the soul-catching bead suddenly shone brightly, and a powerful suction force came, and his skeleton was sucked out along with his soul!
Xiao Yun reacted quickly, waving his hand to set up a barrier between him and the stone tower, and pulled him back and stuffed him back into the puppet's body.
Xu Changning calmed down and said with lingering fear, "That was a close call. What is this bead? It actually sucked me out."
Xiao Yun looked at the dark runes gleaming on the tower and said, "This is a soul-calling bead, used by the ghost messengers of the underworld to call souls back. It can't be activated on its own without the ghost messenger's magical power. It seems the key lies in the stone tower. The runes on it are a trapping array, so something must be trapped inside."
Xu Changning glanced at the stone pagoda and then at her, speculating, "Could it be the remnant soul of my unknown master inside?"
Xiao Yun tried to use his spiritual sense to probe into the stone pagoda, but he couldn't see what was inside. Could this restriction also be set by the Heavenly Dao from the upper realm? Who was trapped here? Did the dignified Heavenly Dao need to personally intervene?