370.Chapter 365 – Invitation to Treasure Hunting
Chapter 365 – Treasure Hunting Invitation
“This is Fellow Daoist Shen, right? I’ve long heard of Fellow Daoist Shen’s great name, and when I see it today, it really lives up to its name.”
A yellow-shirted Confucian scholar with a gentlemanly appearance opened his mouth and said, his voice booming.
“Fellow Daoist Xu is flattering, to say great name, who doesn’t know your great name of True Lord Haoran.”
Shen Long said modestly.
The yellow-shirted Confucian was True Monarch Haoran, his real name was Xu Qingshu, mid YuanYing stage, Vice Sovereign of Holy Spirit Sect.
Xu Qingshu greeted Shen Long and sat down, and the people one after another reported their names and introduced themselves.
“Mrs. Chen is from the Tianyin Sect!”
Shen Long was a little surprised, and his gaze fell on a plump purple-skirted woman.
The purple-skirted woman was called Chen Yue and came from the Tianyin Sect.
“Fellow Daoist Shen, is there something wrong?”
Chen Yue was puzzled.
“That’s not true, I was not expecting Fairy Chen to come all the way here to attend the Holy Spirit Dharma Meeting.”
Shen Long said.
“I didn’t come over to attend the Holy Spirit Dharma Meeting, I just happened to stumble upon it, my senior brother traveled to the Western Desert Immortal Cultivation Realm and I don’t know who exterminated him, so I came over to investigate on purpose.”
Chen Yue explained.
“Fairy Chen’s senior brother was killed in the Western Desert Immortal Cultivation Realm? Such a coincidence.”
A large-bellied, gold-robed old man was surprised.
“What! Fellow Daoist Wu also has relatives and fellow disciples who were killed in the Western Desert Immortal Cultivation Realm?”
Chen Yue said suspiciously.
The gold-robed old man nodded and said, “My descendant traveled to the Western Desert Immortal Cultivation Realm and died, and for the time being, the cause of death hasn’t been investigated.”
“How is it that so many Daoists were killed in the Western Desert Immortal Cultivation Realm, and that a divine Evil Cultivator has appeared in the Western Desert?”
Shen Long was puzzled.
When he was a guest at the Zhou family, Chu Buyu had mentioned that a YuanYing cultivator from the Sun and Moon Palace had died in the Western Desert Immortal Cultivation Realm, and Chu Buyu and Xu Xin wanted to find out the cause of death.
“More than two hundred years ago, a mid YuanYing evil cultivator Blood Blade Demon Monarch appeared in the Western Desert and exterminated multiple forces, there were more than a dozen YuanYing cultivators who died at the hands of this person, Fellow Daoist Xu, I heard that your Holy Spirit Sect’s Grand Elder personally led a team to apprehend this person, what was the result?”
Qian Xin said.
“This person has been seriously injured by Senior Brother Lin, escaped into the Tiansha Ruins, his whereabouts are unknown, could it be that he came out to cause trouble?”
Xu Qingshu said.
“Don’t rule out this possibility, the Bloodsword Demon Monarch’s god passes through people, and there’s a fourth-order spirit flame, ordinary YuanYing cultivators aren’t even his match, he’s indistinguishable from a late stage YuanYing, he’s overpowered.”
Lu Dong concurred.
“Even if the Bloodsword Demon Monarch is still alive, it doesn’t necessarily mean that all these Daoists who died in the Western Desert Immortal Cultivation Realm were killed by the Bloodsword Demon Monarch, perhaps they were killed by other cultivators or entered the Heavenly Sand Ruins in search of treasures, and their bodies died.”
Qian Xin analyzed.
Xu Qingshu nodded, “Fellow Daoist Qian has a point, but these Daoists are a lesson from the past, so all of you should be more careful when you go out.”
After chatting for more than an hour, Xu Qingshu proposed to exchange Immortal Cultivation resources, and no one objected.
Shen Long exchanged the Blood Mushroom Dan for an early fourth stage Amethyst Flying Scorpion’s demonic dan, and also exchanged it for more than twenty thousand year old elixirs, and Zen Master Xinkong took out a two thousand year old Golden Thunder Bamboo, wanting to exchange it for the six Clear Bamboos, but it didn’t work out.
The six pure bamboo is one of the ten great spirit wood, it is the top material for refining Buddhist treasures.
Qian Xin took out a dozen fourth-order demon pills and exchanged them for fire-attribute weapon refining materials, exchanging them for quite a few needed materials.
After half an hour, the exchange ended, and the cultivators left one after another, each going back to their own homes.
Returning to his residence, Shen Long sat cross-legged on top of the futon with a thoughtful expression on his face.
From the chatting content of the party, Qian Xin cultivated not Ghost Dao techniques and did not raise ghosts, in which case, the ghostly aura on his body was thick, and he should be in possession of a Ghost Dao spiritual treasure, such as the Parasol of a Hundred Ghosts.
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In a small green tiled courtyard, Lu Dong, Qian Xin and Qian Shuo were sitting around a green colored stone table, talking about something.
“Ancient cultivator cave! Five Elements Garrison Spirit Ban!”
Lu Dong frowned slightly, an interested expression on his face.
“We tried it, the prohibition is very strong, it requires five YuanYing cultivators to join hands to have a chance to break it, Fellow Daoist Lu and Fellow Daoist Qian, what do you think?”
Qian Xin asked.
Lu Dong pondered for a moment and said, “Fellow Daoist Qian, allow us to think about it for a few days, how about it?”
“No problem, but you don’t want to think about it for too long, I’ll give you three days, if you don’t want to forget it, we’ll find someone else.”
Qian Xin said with a straight face.
“Okay, within three days, I will definitely give you an answer.”
Lu Dong promised.
Qian Xin got up to say goodbye and left the place.
“Fellow Daoist Lu, Fellow Daoist Qian has invited you to search for treasures?”
Qian Shuo asked.
“When I was at the JieDan stage, I was treasure hunting with him, thanks to his help, I was saved, just now at the party, you also heard that a number of fellow Daoists were killed in the Western Desert, so it’s better to be careful.”
Lu Dong said in a deep voice.
Qianshuo nodded, deeply agreeing.
——
Seven days passed, and the Holy Spirit Garden.
Xu Qingshu, Wu Yuan, Chen Yue, Shen Long, and more than a dozen other YuanYing cultivators gathered in the green-colored bamboo pavilion, sipping tea and chatting.
A tall, green-shirted man walked in quickly, bowed, and rushed to Xu Qingshu, “Uncle Xu, we’ve found the corpses and relics of Elder Wu’s descendants.”
“Where?”
A large-bellied, gold-robed old man asked after him.
The green-shirted man took out a blue storage bag and handed it to the gold-robed old man with both hands.
The golden-robed old man’s divine sense swept, nodded, and said, “Many of the things in here are indeed Yu’er’s belongings, where did you find this? How do you know that this is the relics of my descendant?”
“Back to Elder Wu, we found it in the Heavenly Sand Ruins, in the relics there is an Echo Crystal, it was left behind by Immortal Wu, she entered the Heavenly Sand Ruins in search of the Golden Soul Fruit, she came across the late fourth stage Earth Splitting Rhinoceros, and by the way, she came across two YuanYing cultivators, and among them, there was Elder Lin, the one Elder Chen was looking for.” The green-shirted man explained.
“What! Ran into senior brother Lin? Fellow Daoist Wu, please take out the Return Crystal for me to take a look.”
Chen Yue said.
The gold-robed old man nodded and took out a blue crystal ball from his storage bag, injecting mana into it, the Returning Shadow Crystal lit up with a blinding blue light and spewed out a blue light, transforming into a pale blue-skirted woman’s silhouette.
The left arm of the woman’s silhouette was missing, a look of great vitality.
“If someone sees the image of the return crystal, I am sure that I am also gone, the belongings are given to you, please go to my grandfather Wu Shan, give his old man a message, I received a message that there is a Golden Soul Fruit Tree somewhere in the Tiansha Ruins, I entered the Tiansha Ruins to look for the Golden Soul Fruit, and I ran into two YuanYing cultivators on the way ——“
The woman’s silhouette slowly said.
Wu Yu entered the Tiansha Ruins to look for the Golden Soul Fruit, and on the way ran into several YuanYing cultivators, and fought, each in his own line of work, she ran into the late fourth stage of the Cracked Ground Rhinoceros in the depths of the Tiansha Ruins, and was deeply and seriously injured, and before dying, she recorded back the Shadow Crystal in the hope that the person who had a destiny to get the relics would be able to notify Wu Shan.
“I said how come I couldn’t find Yu’er, it turns out that she died in the Tiansha Ruins.”
Wu Shan sighed, looking sad.
“Little friend Liu, you didn’t go looking for the Golden Soul Fruit?”
Shen Long asked curiously.
The Echo Crystal mentioned the Golden Soul Fruit Tree, wouldn’t the Holy Spirit Sect’s cultivators be moved?
“We went to the place that Fairy Wu mentioned and didn’t find the Golden Soul Fruit, it was taken first.”
The green-shirted man said in a regretful tone.
Wu Shan nodded, “It’s been more than a hundred years since Yu’er was killed, after such a long time, I guess the Golden Soul Fruit Tree has been discovered by other cultivators, after finding out the cause of her death, the big stone in my heart can be put down.”
“I told you! The missing daoist may not have been killed by the Bloodsword Demon Monarch, the Heavenly Sand Ruins do have a lot of good things, but there will be an outbreak of Absolute Spirit Qi there, if one enters the Heavenly Sand Ruins to search for treasures and encounters an outbreak of Absolute Spirit Qi, even the greatest of aptitudes will have a hard time escaping death.”
Qian Xin said.
“Who says otherwise! In that case, Mrs. Chen, Fellow Daoist Lin probably died in the Heavenly Sand Ruins.”
Wu Shan said.
Chen Yue nodded, sighed, and said, “That should be the case, it would be good if we could find Senior Brother Lin’s corpse or relics.”
“Don’t worry, Mrs. Chen, we will keep an eye out for you.”
Xu Qingshu promised.
“Then I’ll trouble Fellow Daoist Xu.”
Chen Yue said gratefully.
After chatting for most of an hour, the cultivators left one after another.
“Fellow Daoist Shen stayed behind.”
Lu Dong called out to Shen Long and chased after him with Qian Shuo.
“Is something wrong? Fellow Daoist Lu?”
Shen Long opened his mouth and asked.
“Fellow Daoist Shen, we have something to talk to you about, how about a chat at your place?”
Lu Dong said politely.
Shen Long agreed and led them to his residence, activating the prohibition of his residence.
“Fellow Daoist Lu, Fellow Daoist Qian, if you have anything to say, just say it!”
Shen Long said.
“Fellow Daoist Shen, we would like to invite you to go treasure hunting with us! Ancient cultivator cave arranged five elements garrison spirit ban, need five YuanYing cultivators to join hands to open the ban, there is still one person missing, are you interested?”
Lu Dong slowly said.
“Ancient cultivator’s cave? Five Elements Garrison Spirit Prohibition? Do you know whose seated cave it is?”
Shen Long was somewhat moved.
“It might be the seated cave of the Bloodsword Demon Monarch, the location is at the periphery of the Tiansha Ruins, and the chances of an outbreak of extinct spirit qi are very low.”
Lu Dong said.
“The Bloodsword Demon Monarch has exterminated quite a few Daoists and has quite a lot of goodies on him, no less than four Spiritual Treasures, and I heard that he has a Flying Spiritual Treasure.”
Qianshuo added.
“The other two daoists wouldn’t have late stage YuanYing cultivators, would they!”
Shen Long said with a frown.
“No, one early YuanYing stage and one mid YuanYing stage, if you agree, I’ll contact them right away and have them come over, if you don’t agree, then forget about it, just pretend you never heard of this matter.”
Lu Dong said.
Shen Long pondered for a moment and agreed.
Lu Dong took out a yellow light flickering summoning disk, punched in a spell, and made a gesture.
After a little more than half a quarter of an hour, a summoning disk flew in.
Lu Dong opened the courtyard door and invited Wu Shan and Qian Xin in.
“Fellow Daoist Qian and Fellow Daoist Wu, it’s you guys.”
Shen Long was a little surprised.
“What? Fellow Daoist Shen is surprised to see us?”
Qian Xin said with a smile.
“I didn’t realize that the other two Fellow Daoist Lu was talking about were you guys.”
Shen Long said with a smile, and in his heart, he said, “We have to be careful of Qian Xin before we can do that, this person might have a spiritual treasure like the Hundred Ghosts Umbrella on his body.”
“Since we have all the people, let’s be on our way! First things first, break the formation, fellow Daoist Qian and I will pick one thing first, and we will share the rest equally, after all, it’s the ancient cultivator’s cave that we found.”
Wu Shan said in a deep voice.
Shen Long’s three people had no opinion and agreed, and the five of them left the workshop.
(End of chapter)