104: Chapter 104 Seeking the Forbidden Land: Preparations Before Foundation Establishment

Qi Yang put away the mechanical crossbow and slid down the stalactites onto the black-awning boat.

He did not look at the corpses dissolving into bloody water in the water, walking straight into the cabin of the second boat.

In a hidden compartment, he found a jade box covered with yellow spirit-sealing talismans.

Opening the jade box, a heavy aura of the earth, as if it could bear all things, rushed towards his face.

In the center of the jade box quietly lay a handful of dark-yellow soil.

This soil seemed to have life, writhing slightly in the jade box.

xirang residual mud!

"Ultimate earth-type spiritual material, obtained!"

A flash of wild joy crossed Qi Yang's eyes, and he quickly put the jade box deep into his Storage Pouch.

Afterwards, he took out the corpse-dissolving water and sprinkled it everywhere on the black-awning boats, ensuring that no living survivors and valuable clues were left behind.

Finally, he kicked the boats over, letting them sink to the bottom of the cold river.

After finishing all this, Qi Yang immediately executed the Earth Escape Technique, his figure merging into the rock wall as he evacuated this underground karst cave.

Two hours later.

A sharp ice-blue sword light tore through the night sky of the Mortal realm, plunging straight into the underground karst cave.

Su Qinghan, dressed in a black martial outfit, rushed to the subterranean river with more than ten elite Disciples of the Xuantian Sect, full of Killing Intent.

But what came into their view was only an empty and dead subterranean river.

"Senior Sister Su, no traces of the Houtu Sect were found, not even a living person!"

A Disciple scouted around and reported with an ugly expression.

Su Qinghan frowned tightly and walked to the edge of the subterranean river.

Her sharp sword heart sensed a hint of something wrong.

She squatted down, felt a reef on the shore, and her fingertips stained a tiny, unnoticeable trace of black blood.

"There are no traces of spiritual power fluctuations, nor any remnants of spell bombardments."

Su Qinghan stood up, her eyes becoming incomparably solemn.

"The team of the Houtu Sect was intercepted and plundered here."

"What?! How is this possible!"

That Disciple was greatly alarmed.

"The Houtu Sect sent two Great Perfection Cultivators to lead the team, who could silently annihilate all of them?"

Su Qinghan looked into the pitch-black depths of the subterranean river, various possibilities surfacing in her mind.

"It is Mortal mechanical crossbows, as well as an overbearing corpse-dissolving poison."

Su Qinghan fished out half of a black crossbow arrow that had not completely dissolved from the river water.

"The opponent didn't use spiritual power at all, and the methods were clean, neat, and extremely ruthless."

"Could it be an assassin organization of the Mortal realm?"

"How could a Mortal assassin kill Qi Condensation Great Perfection Cultivators?"

Su Qinghan shook her head, a trace of deep dread flashing in her eyes.

"This is definitely a terrifying secluded old monster, well-versed in the way of assassination; even we and the Houtu Sect were schemed against by him."

All clues were broken.

Su Qinghan took a deep breath: "Retreat! This matter has already exceeded our control, immediately return to the Sect to report to the Elders!"

The team of the Xuantian Sect came quickly and went quickly.

No one expected that the person regarded by Su Qinghan as a terrifying secluded old monster was currently hunching his back, walking slowly on the road back to the Xuantian Sect.

Xuantian Sect Inner Gate, Baicao Peak back mountain, Nether Grass Field.

Qi Yang pushed open the dilapidated withered wood door, locked it from the inside, and then walked straight into the underground secret room.

On the bronze stone platform, Qi Yang sat cross-legged, took out the things in his Storage Pouch one by one, and placed them in front of him.

The xuanshui true crystal exuding extreme cold qi.

The scarlet flame essence gold possessing both fire and metal attributes.

The poisonous wood heart where vitality and Death Qi are perfectly fused.

And the xirang residual mud that was just intercepted and obtained, exuding a heavy earth aura.

Metal, wood, water, fire, earth—the ultimate Five Elements spiritual materials were finally all gathered!

Qi Yang looked at these five supreme treasures, his heart unable to help beating violently.

"Everything is ready!"

Qi Yang took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the excitement in his heart.

But he did not immediately begin refining the foundation establishment pill, nor did he immediately prepare for a Breakthrough.

Because he was very clear that for someone like him with Five-Element Mixed Spiritual Rootss, whose body possessed all the Five Elements, once he attempted Foundation Establishment, the collision and Fusion of the Five Elements forces would cause terrifying-level celestial phenomena!

If he made a Breakthrough in the Nether Grass Field, that soaring Spiritual Qi vortex and Five Elements anomaly would definitely blast out all those powerhouses of the Xuantian Sect in closed-door seclusion.

By then, not a single secret on his body could be kept.

"I must find an absolutely safe and absolutely hidden place."

Qi Yang stood up, walked to the bookshelf, and opened a thick Southern Geography Records.

His gaze searched carefully on the map, sweeping past famous mountains and great rivers, and finally, it firmly locked onto a gray area tens of thousands of miles outside the jurisdiction of the Xuantian Sect.

Spirit-Deprived Desert.

This was a truly dead land.

Within a radius of several thousand miles, Spiritual Qi was withered to the extreme, and terrifying sandstorms were everywhere.

Let alone Cultivators, even the Yao Beasts with the most tenacious vitality were unwilling to step foot a single half step.

The most down-and-out Loose Cultivators would rather go to the Mortal realm to beg for food than suffer in the Spirit-Deprived Desert.

"This is it."

A flash of resoluteness crossed Qi Yang's eyes.

"With withered Spiritual Qi, it can just happen to cover up the Spiritual Qi riot triggered during Foundation Establishment. The more desolate the place, the safer it is!"

Having made up his mind, Qi Yang began to pack his bags.

Just at this moment, that layer of warning Formation on the ground trembled slightly.

Qi Yang immediately put away the Five Elements spiritual materials, changed into an old and decrepit disguise, and slowly walked back to the ground.

Pushing open the door, Su Qinghan, dressed in a moon-white long dress, was standing in the courtyard.

She looked somewhat exhausted, and the Evil Qi on her body had not completely dissipated.

"Has the Fairy returned in triumph?"

Qi Yang hunched his back, smilingly greeted her, and casually poured a cup of coarse tea.

Su Qinghan took the teacup, but didn't drink it, instead letting out a heavy sigh and sitting by the stone table.

"Don't mention it, it was a wasted trip."

Su Qinghan rubbed her brows, a trace of frustration flashing in her eyes.

"We calculated accurately that the Houtu Sect would take the underground subterranean river, but by the time we rushed there, we didn't even see a ghost's shadow."

"Oh? Could the Houtu Sect have changed their route?"

Qi Yang put on an appearance of surprise.

"No, they were right in the subterranean river, but they were intercepted and plundered."

Su Qinghan raised her head, looking at Qi Yang with profound eyes.

"Annihilated entirely, the two Great Perfection Cultivators didn't even have a chance to fight back, directly being turned into bloody water."

Qi Yang was steady as an old dog in his heart, but on the surface he gasped: "This... how high must one's cultivation be to accomplish this? Could it be that some Golden Core Stage Senior made a move?"

"Unclear, there is not a trace of spiritual power fluctuation at the scene, and the opponent used Mortal mechanical crossbows and poison."

Su Qinghan shook her head.

"This method is too ruthless and too clean; when did such a terrifying secluded old monster appear within the jurisdiction of the surrounding major Sects?"

Qi Yang nodded repeatedly, deeply agreeing.

"Indeed, indeed, the outside world is too dangerous, it's safer right here in our grass field."

Su Qinghan looked at Qi Yang's good-for-nothing appearance, and couldn't help smiling slightly.

The trace of frustration in her heart inexplicably dissipated quite a bit in front of this old handyman.

"I am going to the Sword Tomb to undergo closed-door seclusion for a period of time."

Su Qinghan stood up, took out a jade bottle from her Storage Pouch, and placed it on the stone table.

"These are some Medicinal Pills for consolidating the root and cultivating the origin. Take good care of yourself, you old bones. Don't wait until I come out of seclusion and find that you can't even farm the land anymore."

After speaking, Su Qinghan did not stay long, transforming into a sword light that soared into the sky.

Qi Yang looked at the jade bottle on the table and smiled slightly.

This lass was indeed becoming more and more human. However, by the time she came out of seclusion, he probably wouldn't be that Qi Condensation Third Layer "old good-for-nothing" in her eyes anymore.