Chapter 7: The Imperial Spirit Tower
Chapter 7 Imperial Spirit Pagoda
Shen Long activated the soundproof array and took out the small tower that was about a foot tall.
The small tower was heavy in his hand and had arcane patterns engraved on it.
He injected mana into the small tower, and the small tower lit up with an eye-catching blue light and grew in size.
When the small tower rose to more than one person high, Shen Long stopped injecting mana, and the blue small tower stopped rising.
Above the tower door was a plaque with three arcane characters, and Shen Long did not know what it meant.
“Barbarian text?”
Shen Long was puzzled.
The Barbarians were a powerful race in the Eastern China Immortal Cultivation Realm and were mortal enemies with the Human Race, the Barbarians had their own civilization, their own writing and cultivation system.
If it was a magic weapon, it could be used after being sacrificed.
Shen Long sat down on his knees and began to sacrifice the small tower.
When he finished sacrificing, he pinched his spell, and the small tower did not respond.
Shen Long frowned and wondered, “Could it be a magic treasure?”
Dharma treasures were more advanced than magic weapons and could only be driven by cultivators above JieDan.
At the thought of this, Shen Long’s breathing became heavy, if it was really a magic treasure, he would be rich.
He calmed down and carefully recalled how he got the small tower, a magic treasure is a weapon used by a high level cultivator, how could it be in the body of a mid-first level spirit devouring rat?
He couldn’t figure it out, so he didn’t think about it, maybe the magic treasure had a specialized method of driving it, it was different from a magic weapon.
Shen Long was only a qi refining cultivator, a foundation cultivator was a high level person to him, and a JieDan cultivator was a legend to him.
With his current cultivation, there was no way to access the magic weapon’s driving method, so he could only give up.
“The shopkeeper once said that the magic treasure needs to drop blood to recognize its owner.”
Shen Long showed a look of reminiscence and muttered to himself.
Sun Huo Wang was able to come into contact with Foundation Establishment cultivators and had extensive knowledge, and he had once said that magic treasures needed to be blood-recognized before they could be used.
Shen Long bit his right index finger and dripped three drops of blood on top of the small tower, which quickly absorbed the three drops of blood.
He tried to inject mana into the small tower, the small tower suddenly blazed with blue light, a powerful suction force emerged out of thin air, and Shen Long’s body flew uncontrollably towards the tower door.
He felt a blur before his eyes and appeared in a spacious and bright hall, in the center of which there was a pool more than a hundred feet large, with some demonic beast patterns carved on the stone walls.
“Dragon, phoenix, Qilin, Xuanwu, Vermilion Bird ——“
Shen Long recognized the origins of some demonic beasts, he had only seen textual descriptions in the canonical books, he had not seen the living creatures with his own eyes.
These demonic beast patterns were coolly similar to the powerful demonic beasts such as dragon, phoenix and unicorn recorded in the canonical books, he only recognized the origin of some demonic beast patterns, and there were many others that he did not recognize.
“Could it be a treasure of the Royal Spirit Sect?”
A bold guess surfaced in Shen Long’s mind.
The Royal Spirit Sect was one of the five major forces in Qin, with a long heritage and a YuanYing cultivator who specialized in repelling insects and beasts.
He came to the side of the pool, which was empty.
He circled around the main hall and found nothing.
“Wait, this one space is too big! Spatial treasures?”
Shen Long was slightly stunned, the stone house he lived in was not very large, and the area of this great hall in front of him far exceeded the stone house.
Whether it was the demonic beast pattern on the stone wall or the area of the great hall, it was beyond Shen Long’s cognizance, this small tower was definitely not an ordinary treasure.
He walked towards the door of the tower, placed his hands on top of the door of the tower and pushed, a powerful suction force appeared out of thin air and pushed him out.
Shen Long appeared in the stone house, and the small tower also returned to its original size.
Shen Long experimented a few times and mastered the technique of using the small tower, as long as he injected mana, a powerful suction would bring him into the tower, and he could leave by pushing the tower door.
“Let’s call it the Imperial Spirit Tower!”
Shen Long gave the small tower a name, he couldn’t recognize the words on the plaque on the tower’s door, considering the pattern of the demonic beasts inside the tower and associating it with the Royal Spirit Sect, he named it the Royal Spirit Tower.
He put away the Royal Spirit Tower, ate a jar of Golden Pearl Spirit Rice, and ran his energy to cultivate.
Ten hours later, Shen Long walked out of the stone house and walked towards the martial arts garden on the mountain to practice his arts.
Two days later, Shen Long was practicing spells in a secret room of the martial arts garden as he stood in front of a sand pit.
His right hand’s green light blazed out and he rushed the sand pit, a green light shot out and did not enter the sand pit. Half a quarter of an hour later, Shen Long walked out of the stone room, and there were a dozen white ice cones inserted in the sand pit.
He walked towards the bottom of the mountain and ran into Qin Qing on the way.
“Fellow Daoist Shen, I knew you were here, Fellow Daoist Xu has something for us.”
Qin Qing said, his face grave.
Shen Long nodded and followed Qin Qing to the Green Bamboo Courtyard.
Xu Lei, Sun Yang and Liu Xin were sitting in the stone pavilion, and Liu Xin’s expression was haggard.
Seeing that Shen Long was safe and sound, they nodded.
“What happened? Fellow Daoist Xu.”
Shen Long asked.
“Fellow Daoist Chen has fallen, we don’t have enough manpower, we need to identify new teammates again before we can go into the mountains to hunt demonic beasts.”
Xu Lei said.
They ran faster, Chen Qiang and Liu Xin were attacked by dozens of fire crows, Chen Qiang stayed behind to break the back and cover Liu Xin’s retreat, and was exterminated by the fire crows.
With this, they were left with five people and needed to replenish their manpower.
“I don’t have a problem with that, but the newcomers should be reliable and not too weak.”
Shen Long said.
“That’s right, the old man agrees with Fellow Daoist Shen’s opinion.”
Qin Qing deeply agreed.
Sun Yang and Liu Xin didn’t have an opinion either, and Xu Lei nodded and said, “Mrs. Liu, people can’t return from the dead, get some rest and let’s identify new teammates as soon as possible before we head into the mountains to hunt demonic beasts.”
After chatting a few words, Shen Long’s four people left one after another.
After leaving the Green Bamboo Courtyard, Shen Long walked towards the mountain.
Coming to the green stone square where the scattered cultivators set up stalls, Shen Long walked around.
“The strange insects on the Heaven and Earth Strange Insects List, really?”
“Real gold is not afraid of fire, so how can it be fake? If you don’t believe me, find someone who knows the goods to take a look.”
“These insect eggs of yours are weak in vitality, whether they can hatch or not is still a matter of opinion.”
“Royal Spirit Sect! The Heaven and Earth Strange Insect List!”
Shen Long became interested and walked quickly towards the front.
Not long after, he came to a small stall in front of a stall, the stall owner was a green-robed old man over sixty years old, there were quite a few things on the stall, ores, spirit medicines, spirit wood, demonic beast materials, and a green-colored jade box caught Shen Long’s attention.
Inside the green jade box there were dozens of white insect eggs, the eggs emitted a weak fluctuation of vitality.
Huang Xiu Yun stood in front of the stall, full of curiosity, surveying the insect eggs in the jade box.
“Just from the appearance, who knows what kind of bug eggs they are, cheaper, I’ll buy these bug eggs.”
Huang Xiu Yun bargained.
“These are the bug eggs of the Snow Crystal Spider, fifty spirit stones for one bug egg, no second price.”
The green-robed old man did not budge at all.
“Fifty spirit stones a bug egg, this is too expensive.”
Huang Xiu Yun said with a frown.
“It’s not like this is an ordinary spirit bug’s egg, don’t know the goods even if you don’t know them, if you want to take advantage of it go elsewhere.”
The green-robed old man said without any good humor.
“If it’s really a Snow Crystal Spider’s bug egg, fifty spirit stones per bug egg isn’t expensive.”
A loud man’s voice rang out.
As soon as the words fell, an obese gold-shirted youth walked over, the gold-shirted youth’s face was white and clean, and a green-colored spirit beast pouch was tied around his waist.
(End of chapter)