Chapter 425 – Harvest and Departure
Chapter 425 – Harvest and Departure
This time, lying peacefully in the bone box was a palm-sized, gold-like, non-gold, stone-like token.
On it is engraved with a simple and elegant “immortal” word, it is that senior said the immortal palace order.
Xu Chuniang took the token out, and it sank slightly into her hand, immediately bringing a slight coolness.
Following the method described by the senior, she cut her fingertip and dripped a drop of blood into the Immortal Palace Order.
The blood flickered on the Immortal Palace Token, and then she felt as if some sort of subtle connection had arisen between the token and herself.
Xu Chuniang gripped the Immortal Palace Order tightly and probed into it with her divine sense, but she did not perceive any guidance.
She realized after a moment’s thought that perhaps it was because she was in a secret realm, and the Immortal Palace Token couldn’t sense the remains of the Immortal Palace.
She put the Immortal Palace Order away properly and then opened the third bone box, the spirit inside had also lost its aura and could not be used.
Xu Chuniang continued to open the last bone box, inside was a pile of black, long-decayed dust, not recognizable as what it once was.
She had expected this outcome, so she wasn’t disappointed.
After a thousand years, only some high-grade spirit mines and a very few special spirit objects could be preserved.
Instead, she was more interested in these bone fragments than these bone boxes.
Spiritual objects would gradually lose their spirituality due to the passage of time, but bone fragments would not.
These bone fragments were equivalent to jade slips, and the things recorded within them would remain intact even after a thousand years.
Xu Chuniang flipped through them for a while, and found that they were mostly some alchemy tips, from which she surmised that the predecessor might have been an alchemist in his lifetime.
She roughly flipped through it, in addition to the alchemy-related ones, the rest were some miscellaneous anecdotes of the cultivation world from a thousand years ago, mostly related to the Three Immortal Islands and the Ten Ancestral Continents.
There was even a bone fragment that mentioned a high mountain in the northwest named Kunlun, which made Xu Chuniang’s heart flutter.
The five northwestern sects belonged to the same northwestern region, I wonder if this northwestern region was related to the other northwestern region.
These bone fragments she only cursorily scanned through, and then put them away in different categories.
When she saw what was written on the last few bone fragments, she had a slight burst of spirit and finally found the chart.
As a disciple of the Penglai Sect, the Cheng Family’s ancestor had a huge collection of sea charts, almost encompassing three or four continents.
Although a thousand years had passed, the sea had changed and a lot of changes had occurred, the value of this chart was still immeasurable.
Xu Chuniang’s divine sense swept over the chart, memorizing it firmly in her mind before continuing to check the remaining bone fragments.
After organizing all the bone fragments, the jade hairpin was empty.
She put the jade hairpin away and took out Zhan Luo’s storage ring, freezing in place as soon as her divine sense probed into it.
Zhan Luo’s storage ring had a huge amount of space, in addition to large piles of spirit stones, there were a lot of various kinds of spiritual weapons, medicinal herbs, and spiritual objects, and a significant portion of them were not of low grade!
Sparing Xu Chuniang’s knowledge, she was also subdued at this point.
The other party’s cultivation resources were simply comparable to the treasury of a small cultivation family.
What made her heart beat faster was that she had found a precious Extreme Spirit Stone amongst a pile of high-grade spirit items!
Without hesitation, Xu Chuniang transferred all the spirit stones, including the very high grade spirit stone, as well as some precious items, into her storage ring.
As for more spiritual objects that could be used for formations, she put away all of them.
The others that were used for alchemy and weaponry, she hadn’t figured out what to do with them yet, so she let them be stored as they were for now.
Xu Chuniang briefly counted all the spiritual items, and similarly found a large pile of bone fragments in a corner of her storage ring.
These bone fragments recorded everything, from the smallest Qi cultivator’s introductory techniques, to the great Dao Jindan cultivator’s method of refining the spirit, simply everything.
There were even two or three sets of techniques, and there was even a set that explicitly stated that it could be cultivated up to the YuanYing stage. Combined with the rich cultivation resources in Zhan Luo’s ring, Xu Chuniang couldn’t help but wonder if she had gotten so many resources and legacies by virtue of having the backing of her family, destroying a certain small lineage, and ransacking someone’s treasury.
Although these bone fragments recorded a lot of things, the various arts within them were not considered profound.
Regardless of whether it was a gongfu, a body forging technique or a god refining method, it wasn’t even as subtle as Xu Chuniang’s existing ones.
After picking and choosing, she finally managed to pick out a recluse technique called “Cloud Concealment Transportation”, which could just make up for her lack of recluse techniques.
According to the description of this technique, when used skillfully, it could not only accelerate the speed of recluse, but also had a certain effect of concealment.
At the Jindan Stage, not only does the speed of refining spiritual and magical weapons greatly accelerate, but the speed of comprehension of magic spells also increases a lot.
After only four or five days, Xu Chuniang had initially mastered the Cloud Concealment.
Without further delay, she headed towards the exit of the secret realm that senior had mentioned.
Walking near the exit, she realized that the great lake that senior had spoken of was actually only a small pool of water.
Elder said that the great lake was extremely deep, but now there was only such a small pool left, how deep could it be?
It couldn’t be that she was looking in the wrong place.
Xu Chuniang tried to probe into the pool of divine sense, but found that this seems to be a small puddle of water pool, in fact, no bottom.
She then relaxed her heart and jumped into the pool of water according to the guidance that senior had said, and continuously swam downwards.
The pool was extremely deep, and at first Xu Chuniang was worried that there might be demonic beasts hiding inside.
But after diving for a long time, not to mention the demonic beasts, she didn’t even see a single blade of watercress.
Xu Chuniang then let go of her heart and continued to dive down.
Suddenly, she felt a huge push, as if the entire water in the pool was pushing her hard.
This thrust was maintained for a few breaths, and then Xu Chunniang felt her body lighten, and her surroundings suddenly brightened up a bit.
It was only after leaving the secret realm that she still felt the squeezing sensation coming from all sides.
It turned out that she had traveled from the pool of water, to another body of water.
It s not right …… Xu Chuniang frowned slightly, she had the ability to control water since she had refined the One Yuan Heavy Water, and she had never felt the pressure of water again.
This squeezing sensation could not have originated from water.
Her divine sense swept toward the four directions, and as expected, she swept a large white net.
This net was extremely large and looked bluff, but in reality, it was only a low-grade spirit weapon.
Not only was it worn out, there were also many traces of mending on it.
Xu Chuniang could break it with a single movement of her fingers.
She was about to break through the net with a movement in her heart, but her divine sense swept over the boats on the lake, and she couldn’t help but pause in her movements.
The fishermen on the boat didn’t know that a cultivator had somehow appeared in the net.
They skillfully collected the net, their faces and bodies were covered with beads of sweat, and their eyes and eyebrows were filled with the joy of harvesting.
“The portion is not light this time, we should be able to fish up quite a few fish!”
“The cabin will be full, we’ll go back when we finish fishing this net.”
“The harvest these days is quite good, I hope that this time, we can fish up more spirit fish in exchange for spirit stones.”
They kept reeling in their nets, however, after just pulling the nets out of the water and seeing the scene inside, these fishermen all froze.
(End of chapter)