118: Chapter 118 The Fragile Agreement

"Does Fairy think she has a problem?"

Qi Yang pretended to be curious.

Su Qinghan did not answer, but stood up and patted the hem of her skirt.

"Just stay in the camp and don't run around. This ruin is extremely dangerous, not something you can get involved in."

Qi Yang nodded repeatedly.

After Su Qinghan turned into a sword light and left, his gaze turned profound.

In the evening, a violent vibration and explosion suddenly came from outside the camp.

Qi Yang sat up and looked over, only to see thick smoke rolling from the direction of the camps of the Qingyu Sect and the Houtu Sect, and a large number of Cultivators flying towards the same direction.

The news quickly spread through the entire camp.

The Qingyu Sect and the Houtu Sect joined forces, attempting to violently blast open the Restriction wall at the end of the Earth Poison Passage.

Each of the two Sects sent a Middle Stage Foundation Establishment Elder to bombard it with all their might, lasting for a full two hours.

The rumbling sound came intermittently, and the ground even trembled slightly.

As a result, the Restriction wall developed cracks, but was not broken open.

The two Middle Stage Foundation Establishment Elders each suffered the backlash of the Restriction and retreated in disarray.

This news flew across the camps of the Five Sects as if it had grown wings.

Lying in the corner and listening to the handymen discussing animatedly, Qi Yang couldn't help letting out a cold laugh.

Just as he expected, the Restrictions at the end of the five passages were linked together. Attacking from a single direction alone might not break them even if a Late Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator came.

The Five Elements must be unleashed simultaneously and activated at the same time.

Now all the Five Sects knew this point, and the subsequent development was self-evident: either they joined forces, or everyone would be locked outside, and no one could dream of getting the treasures in the core area.

And he, Qi Yang, only needed to wait.

Waiting for these people to open the door, and then he would sneak in silently.

Late at night, Qi Yang lay on a tattered felt mat with snores shaking the heavens on his Face, but his spiritual sense quietly spread out like a spider web.

He detected that a dozen auras in the Blood Shadow Sect camp quietly slipped out and moved toward the direction of the Water Poison Passage.

Those demonic Cultivators were not idle and were still trying to break through alone.

At the same time, an aura that made his heart chill flashed past from the depths of the Ziyang Valley camp.

It was very covert, but it couldn't hide from his Early Stage Foundation Establishment spiritual sense.

Late Stage Foundation Establishment!

Ziyang Valley actually had a Late Stage Foundation Establishment powerhouse holding down the fort!

Who had been hiding in the dark and had never shown up.

Qi Yang's alarm bells rang loudly in his heart.

If this powerhouse also set their sights on the things in the Inheritance Hall...

"Not urgent, not urgent."

Qi Yang admonished himself in his heart.

"The more it is this kind of time, the more one must keep one's composure. So what if it is Late Stage Foundation Establishment? As long as they don't know of my existence, they can never threaten me."

On the third day.

The Elders of the Five Sects finally sat together.

In front of interests, Face and hatred could be temporarily put down.

The negotiation took place on the stone gate square at the entrance of the ruins, with each Sect sending Foundation Establishment Elder representatives and Core Disciples to attend.

Qi Yang of course had no qualification to participate, but his spiritual sense could clearly capture every argument coming from over there.

The Grand Elder of the Blood Shadow Sect, a Late Stage Foundation Establishment dual spiritual root fire and earth type, spoke first, proposing that each Sect send one Foundation Establishment Elder to bombard the Restriction wall from the ends of the five passages simultaneously, and the resources in the core area would be distributed afterwards.

Elder You Ke of the Xuantian Sect did not trust the Blood Shadow Sect, the Qingyu Sect guarded against the Houtu Sect, and Ziyang Valley kept a distance from everyone.

After arguing for half a day, they finally reached a fragile agreement in the Face of the reality that if no one could get it, they would all stare blankly together.

Qi Yang was not surprised at this result at all; interests were forever the best lubricant in the Cultivator's world.

The agreement was reached. Tomorrow at three quarters past noon, each of the Five Sects would send one Foundation Establishment Elder to enter their respective selected passage and launch an attack on the Restriction wall simultaneously.

Within the core area, everyone relied on their own abilities, but Foundation Establishment Elders were not allowed to attack each other, otherwise the other four Sects would gang up on them.

This Restriction was limited only to Foundation Establishment Elders.

The implication was that the slaughter among Qi Refining Stage Disciples was not within the scope of the Restriction.

Qi Yang sneered in his heart.

These crafty people left a backdoor for killing in every single rule.

On the fourth day, at noon.

The elite Disciples of all Sects gathered at the entrances of the five passages, preparing to rush into the core area at the very first moment the Restriction opened.

The atmosphere was as tense as a taut bowstring, and everyone tightly gripped their Magical Artifacts, vigilantly staring at the people from other Sects.

Su Qinghan stood at the very front of the Xuantian Sect team, the hanpo sword in hand, her whole body exuding a piercing chill.

Behind her were more than a dozen inner Sect elites above the Qi Refining Tenth Layer, among whom there was no lack of masters at the Qi Condensation 12th Layer Great Perfection.

Qi Yang mixed at the very back of the handyman team, hunching his back, looking like he was about to be scared to faint at any moment.

Fang Chu was reprimanding the handymen to keep close to the team and not fall behind, his tone full of impatience.

Three quarters past noon.

Five terrifying spiritual power fluctuations erupted almost simultaneously from the depths of the five passages.

Golden, green, blue, red, and yellow pillars of spiritual light of five attributes soared into the sky, intersecting above the ruins into a colorful halo.

The entire earth trembled violently.

Qi Yang felt the resonance of that power.

The power of the Five Elements formed a perfect cycle within the Restriction wall, and the thousand-year Seal finally began to loosen.

Boom!

A loud bang came from the depths of the ruins, and all five passages simultaneously transmitted the sound of stone walls shattering, the roar of flying gravel echoing endlessly within the passages.

"It's open! Charge!"

The Disciples of each Sect let out shouts, surging into their respective passages like a breached flood.

Qi Yang did not follow the main force of the Xuantian Sect to take the Gold Poison Passage. Instead, taking advantage of the moment of crowd confusion, he slapped on a qi-suppressing talisman, lowered his figure, and silently drilled into the Wood Poison Passage.

This passage still had no Sect choosing to enter it.

To others, the Wood Poison Passage had the least harvest and the greatest loss, with no cost-effectiveness to speak of.

But to Qi Yang, this road was not only a hotbed for cultivation, but also his exclusive safe passage.

Traveling swiftly all the way, he advanced rapidly along the route he had walked twice before.

He directly skipped the cave of the rotting heart fruit and didn't need to waste time anymore.

Ten-odd miles, twenty miles, thirty miles...

At the end of the stone wall, the dead wall covered with Restriction patterns earlier had shattered into full ground gravel, revealing a wide exit behind the wall, from which a dim light shone through, mixed with a thick Spiritual Qi that made one's blood surge.

Qi Yang took a deep breath, without the slightest hesitation in his steps, and stepped directly into the exit.

The view suddenly opened up before his eyes, and a huge circular square appeared in his vision.

The ground was paved with profound iron stone as black as ink, reflecting a dim and cold light.

Right in the center of the square stood a fifty-zhang-tall black stone tower, its body densely engraved with ancient runes, exuding a heart-palpitating poisonous evil aura.

Surrounding the stone tower were six halls of varying scales, with their doors tightly closed, and different names engraved on their lintels.

Qi Yang's gaze swept across quickly.

Medicine Storage Hall, Poison Refining Hall, Puppet Hall, Formation Hall, Spell Hall.

The sixth hall was the grandest, located directly behind the stone tower. Two large characters on the lintel made Qi Yang's pupils shrink violently.

Inheritance Hall.

That was right there, the Myriad Poisons True Scripture was inside.

But Qi Yang did not rush over immediately; he suppressed the wild joy in his heart and flashed into the shadow of a huge boulder beside the exit of the Wood Poison Passage.

Because figures had already emerged from the exits of the other four passages.

The people of the Blood Shadow Sect arrived first.

Leading them was the Middle Stage Foundation Establishment Second Elder, a dual spiritual root fire and earth type with a gloomy expression.

Behind him were more than a dozen elite Disciples wearing blood robes, every single one of them full of Killing Intent.

Following closely behind were the allied forces of the Qingyu Sect and the Houtu Sect gushing out from the Earth Poison Passage.

Senior Brother Jiang Yunwei of the Qingyu Sect, a three spiritual root metal, wood, and water type at the Qi Condensation 12th Layer Great Perfection, walked at the very front holding a second-grade lower-tier qingfeng sword, his gaze as sharp as a falcon's.

The team of the Xuantian Sect appeared from the Gold Poison Passage. Elder You Ke sat in the center to hold down the fort, and Su Qinghan walked at the very front of the team, ice-blue Spiritual Qi flickering faintly around her body.

The last to come out was Ziyang Valley.

Qi Yang's gaze locked onto a figure in the Ziyang Valley team, Ye Hongyu.