306: Chapter 306 Treasure Land and Cursed Land

"Fine. I can use thunder and thunder-shock magic to mimic the presence of these Dragons, buying us time to observe the changes underground."

"Ada specializes in Earth magic; she can absorb this Earth Qi energy. Let's try to minimize the disturbance."

"Alright."

Wang An looked at the Dragons coiled above the clouds over the valley.

These Dragons were not truly living creatures, but rather physical manifestations of the Law of Dao of Thunder; they lacked true intelligence but possessed instinctive actions based on their imagery.

And this scene of the Thunder Cloud Devouring Mountain was the reason these Dragon images were constantly surging toward the area where the Earth Qi gathered.

Wang An took a deep breath and led the group to dig more pits centered around this giant crater to determine the range of the Earth Qi concentration.

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"This is the eleventh one. I hope this low-lying area is where the earth is most concentrated."

Wang An covered the group with a canopy, isolating their position in another dimension.

Su En held a golden magic staff, constantly using the Profound Truth of Law to mimic the Dragon imagery, driving away the Dragons attracted by the upwelling of Earth Qi.

Irene held a crystal staff and stood at the bottom of the pit, continuously collecting the upwelling Earth Qi to reduce the attraction of this place to the Dragons.

Two and a half hours passed. The canopy placed on Lu Tianxin's Puppet Clone seemed to be affected by a massive interference from the Earth Law, with a faint risk of being unable to maintain itself and falling out of the dimension.

He had been prepared for this long ago and threw a small, black hole-like Magic Treasure into the pit.

In just an instant, it swallowed all the Earth Qi that Ada had been suppressing and absorbing with her staff, and immediately blocked the potential underground eruption point.

"Found it. Let's go down."

After saying this, Wang An transformed into light and entered the bottom of the pit.

Su En and Ada were not slow either; they activated the array concealing the entrance here and immediately followed, diving to the bottom.

In just a moment, Wang An crossed the thousand-meter cavern and arrived at a natural underground space where Lu Tianxin and the black hole Magic Treasure were stationed.

Above the space, Wang An's black hole Magic Treasure was constantly sweeping up and swallowing the Earth Qi flowing into the upper reaches, but it already showed signs of being unable to hold on after just this short while.

Sensing this result, Wang An sighed inwardly, "As expected, the experimental prototype is not very reliable."

When Su En and Ada arrived before them, Wang An immediately controlled the black hole Magic Treasure to transform into a white hole, spewing out infinite Earth Qi.

This Earth Qi converged into a nebula, which Wang An controlled to evolve into a large, hard layer of earth, covering the excavated entrance.

Only after confirming that this Earth Qi had returned to normal and settled did he retract the Magic Treasure.

Seeing this, Ada felt a bit angry and said directly, "Immortal Master Tianhe, since you have such a Magic Treasure to absorb Earth Qi, why didn't you bring it out earlier? We spent quite a bit of mana stopping the Earth Qi from dissipating and simulating the Dragons to prevent them from attacking. Were you doing this on pur..."

But as soon as she said this, Su En's expression changed.

Seemingly perceiving the state of that Magic Treasure, he immediately stopped Ada from continuing, "If I am not mistaken, this type of Magic Treasure or magical device should not be stable yet. It contains terrifying energy within."

"Fellow Daoist Tianhe was also taking a risk to let us pass through this Earth Qi eruption smoothly."

There were some things Su En did not explicitly state, because he felt that inside that black hole Magical Artifact, the Law of devouring could only achieve a storage effect. If it absorbed too much, it would likely reach a critical point, eventually becoming uncontrollable and causing an explosion, and those of them nearby would likely not fare well.

Seeing that someone had explained for him, Wang An paid them no further attention and instead took Lu Tianxin to explore this underground space at the base of the mountain.

Su En and Ada discussed it and did not take the same route as Wang An and his companion.

Having already entered, the cooperation between the two parties was complete. If they took the same route, how to distribute the Source of Law when they encountered it would be another problem.

The entire suspended Thunder-Earth mountain range was already a Tier 1+ transcendent mountain, and deep in this core underground area, the walls of these natural caverns were composed of extremely hard Tier 2 Earth Dao rocks.

Wang An and Lu Tianxin explored as they walked. The cavern was intricate and winding, with countless Earth Qi surging and flowing, seemingly using these passageways that permeated the entire mountain to constantly float upward and resist the erosion of the Dragons.

Moreover, the already narrow cavern passages were filled with a large amount of Earth Qi, so even Wang An could not safely transform into light to escape quickly.

Lu Tianxin was quite curious about this transcendent ecosystem. She threw out a Tier 2, Level 1 spiritual object, the Earth Origin Bead, that she had collected earlier.

The next moment, the long river of Earth Qi, which had been flowing in the upper part of the cavern passage according to a certain pattern, split off a tributary and converged toward the Earth Origin Bead.

Infinite Earth Qi surged and wrapped around it, and the floating earth energy within the Earth Origin Bead was immediately nourished and had its properties changed.

Under their gaze, the structure of the Earth Origin Bead, which had originally been in a gaseous state, rapidly crystallized due to the accumulation and gathering of Earth Qi.

Lu Tianxin observed its energy fluctuations; it had already reached Tier 2, Level 2, though the Law aura was still a bit lacking.

"Master, this can be called a treasure land for Earth-element Cultivators!"

"If those Tier 1 and 2 experts who cultivate the Earth Dao were allowed to come here, I fear they could cultivate to Tier 2, Level 3 in less than a few hundred years."

Wang An held up the Earth Crystal Bead with his magic power; its weight was no longer what it used to be, reaching at least the level of billions of tons, like a small physical mountain.

"It's not that simple."

"Take you for example; if you didn't have the protection of my Divine Ability right now, just being impacted by this Earth Qi on the surface would likely result in you being assimilated by the Earth-element Law contained within."

"This suspended Thunder-Earth mountain range is both an excellent treasure land and a great dangerous land."

"Mid-tier experts below Tier 2, Level 2 who have not mastered a faint Law should not even think about coming here to explore."

Hearing these words from her Master, Lu Tianxin finally realized that they had been safe and sound all along the way actually because they were protected by the Law Divine Ability, which made things go so smoothly.

"Let's go. Don't stay in one place for too long."

"Although the canopy has isolated us into another dimension, even a slight action will affect the changes in the outside world, leading to the triggering of Earth Qi eruption points."

"Just like when you excavated the cavern earlier, in less than a few seconds, you could be twisted back into reality by the Law, and then this Puppet Clone of yours would be ruined."

The two quickly moved forward in the cavern passage with extremely gentle movements, bending over as much as possible to avoid touching the long rivers of Earth Qi flowing like multiple rivers above their heads.

However, outside the suspended Thunder-Earth mountain range, where they were not paying attention, two pterosaurs were attracted by the Law fluctuations caused by the previous Earth Qi eruption.

One could see these two pterosaurs; one was pitch black, its entire body having a texture like obsidian, and every movement it made carried the might of a collapsing mountain and splitting earth.