106: Shocking situation

Outside Mo Yun Manor, two different Immortal Caves had already been opened: one for the Lin Family and one for the Qian Family.

Lin Shiming and Lin Houyong of the Lin Family needed to recover their True Essence, so Lin Xianzhi naturally acted as their Protector.

The Cultivators of the Qian Family were quite active, constantly searching around the Immortal Cave, but the area around this Immortal Cave had long been scoured by the Huang Family; it could be said that not even an inch of ground was left undisturbed.

Apart from finding a few Spirit Medicine seedlings in the Spirit Herb Garden, they found nothing else.

Inside the Immortal Cave, Lin Shiming seized the time to refine the Nine-Sword Formation. He had a premonition that the Qian Family might go to great lengths for the final treasure.

Treasures move hearts, especially a Purple Mansion treasure like this. If the Qian Family wanted to keep it a secret, they might indeed act in the shadows.

What he needed to do was at least suppress Qian Zichu, then free up his hands to help Lin Houyong.

His True Essence had suffered significant losses, with less than a third remaining, even with him deliberately controlling the refinement progress of the array swords.

But now, the Qian Family had given him a full bottle of hundred-year spiritual milk.

He no longer cared about consumption and took out dozens of Mid-Grade Spirit Stones to recover his True Essence all at once.

With the array swords released from their restrictions for refinement, he only felt the True Essence in his body rapidly draining.

In his spirit platform and Heavenly Wood Heart, a total of nine Spirit Swords emitted a purple, ethereal Spirit Light, illuminating his internal organs with rising purple Qi.

If an outsider were present, they would notice faint purple Sword Qi overflowing from his body.

These purple Sword Qi were endless and continuous.

Lin Shiming dared not delay. He immediately consumed the entire bottle of hundred-year spiritual milk and began absorbing Spiritual Qi rapidly by holding Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.

At this moment, the Purple Wood Spirit Art also played a huge role. As a Profound Rank High Grade wood-attribute Cultivation Technique, its absorption capability was terrifying, and his True Essence quickly recovered.

Coupled with the hundred-year spiritual milk, a subtle balance was even forming.

Two more days passed!

The people of the Qian Family outside were already impatient. Lin Houyong, now full of vigor, had also finished his Cultivation and emerged from seclusion, but he did not leave the Immortal Cave; instead, he waited quietly for Lin Shiming nearby.

Just then, Lin Houyong suddenly saw nine Spirit Swords fly out from Lin Shiming's body, purple light pervading and Sword Qi crisscrossing.

The nine Spirit Swords buzzed with sword cries as they circled Lin Shiming.

Then, as Lin Shiming formed a hand seal, the nine array swords flew up one by one, their sword light piercing the sky, terrifying to the extreme!

Fortunately, they did not break through the isolation Formation set up by Lin Xianzhi, otherwise the Qian Family members outside would surely have broken in.

"Collect!" Lin Xianzhi extended a finger, and the nine Spirit Swords flew back one by one, entering his body to continue refining within his spirit platform.

And Lin Houyong, before him, spoke with extreme joy:

"Shiming, is this your true strength?" After Lin Houyong finished speaking, a hint of dimness appeared in his eyes. He hadn't expected Lin Shiming to surpass him so quickly!

But it was only for a moment, then his joyful expression returned.

"Fifth Uncle overpraises me. Shiming is merely cultivating the Qingxuan Sect's Cultivation Technique!" Lin Shiming replied modestly, then cupped his hands to his Fifth Uncle in thanks.

"Thank you, Fifth Uncle, for waiting for me here!"

"Shiming, take this half bottle of hundred-year spiritual milk as well!" Lin Houyong took out another half bottle of spiritual milk. His True Essence consumption was not continuous; half a bottle was enough for him.

Seeing Lin Shiming's Spirit Swords this time, he finally understood why Lin Xianzhi's previous sword strike seemed unremarkable.

And afterward, his True Essence was considerably depleted. It turned out he had already begun to refine artifacts in his spirit platform!

Now, he couldn't help but look forward to seeing the expressions of disbelief on the faces of those two Qian Family members when they were suppressed by the sword Formation.

Lin Shiming accepted the half bottle of hundred-year spiritual milk and consumed it again for refining.

At this moment, his True Essence was indeed not abundant. Consuming this half bottle of hundred-year spiritual milk would allow him to recover half of his True Essence.

Fortunately, there was still a double amount of True Essence within the Heavenly Wood Heart.

Another half day passed before Lin Shiming and Lin Houyong emerged from the Immortal Cave.

Outside the Immortal Cave, Lin Xianzhi held a green lotus Dharma Sword, while the three from the Qian Family—Qian Bosheng, Qian Zichu, and Qian Ziyun—wore displeased expressions.

They were extremely dissatisfied that the two Lin Family members were so slow despite having the hundred-year spiritual milk.

"Fellow Daoist Lin, we can start now, right? It took our Qian Family's hundred-year spiritual milk so long. Our Qian Family must choose the treasures first!"

"You don't have to give it. We can wait!" Lin Xianzhi directly refused. If there was only one Purple Mansion treasure, and the Qian Family chose first, what if there was only one Purple Mansion spiritual item?

One must know that the Lin Family was once home to Purple Mansion Cultivators, but apart from the Lin Family's ancestral Profound Rank Cultivation Technique, no other Purple Mansion spiritual items were left behind.

"Let's discuss the distribution after we see the treasures. For now, let's break the Formation!"

Although Qian Bosheng was filled with anger and his gaze was even more sinister, he still endured it and worked with the Lin Family to open the Formation.

At this moment, without six Foundation Establishment Cultivators, anyone else would be useless!

Soon, the six Foundation Establishment Cultivators stood in a hexagonal Formation around Mo Yun Manor. Then, Lin Xianzhi and Qian Bosheng took the lead in casting spiritual arts, releasing spiritual techniques to attack the Formation.

Immediately after, Lin Shiming and the other four also cast their spiritual arts.

All six worked together to break the Formation!

Because this was a Fourth-Order Spirit Formation, they could only rely on the combined effort of six Foundation Establishment Cultivators to wear down the Formation.

As the six Foundation Establishment Cultivators attacked, the Formation of Mo Yun Manor gradually weakened, and Spiritual Qi once again surged from underground to strengthen the Formation.

However, compared to the vast Spiritual Qi of the Fourth-Order Spirit Vein, only a small portion was injected into the Formation, as no one was controlling it.

At the same time, the System prompt that Lin Shiming had been anticipating finally sounded.

He had actually been expecting a prompt for a long time. After all, this was a Purple Mansion Immortal Cave, and even Heaven-Defying Secret Manuals like "Detailed Explanation of Array Instruments" for Formation, Artifact Refining, and Alchemy had appeared.

The treasures inside were bound to be Heaven-Defying.

However, when the prompt appeared, Lin Shiming only felt cold sweat continuously pouring down his back.

At the same time, his mind began to race.

"Please be careful of the Qian Family Cultivator hiding his cultivation, and pay attention to the Lingxi insect on Qian Ziyun's body!!!"

Hidden Cultivator!

Lingxi insect!

Lin Shiming only felt that the journey to the Purple Mansion Secret Realm instantly became perplexing and fraught with danger.

But the Qian Family members had previously sworn an oath of the heavenly dao to each other, so there shouldn't be a cultivation gap.

Unless the Qian Family members could suppress their own Realm and break through at a critical moment.

Furthermore, it was the Lingxi insect again.

This Lingxi insect had previously been hidden on his body, and even Lin Xianzhi, a Late Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator, couldn't detect it without careful inspection.

And the owner of this insect was Li Chengzhi of the Li Family!

But he didn't believe that Li Chengzhi wanted to target Qian Ziyun alone; instead, he thought of more.

The sudden merger of the Huang Family, Huang Yunqi's desperate, all-or-nothing fight, and the escape of the Huang Family's Qi Cultivation Elder!

At this moment, Lin Shiming only felt a shocking grand scheme unfolding nearby, and the Lin Family had entered the game.

Also in the game was the greedy Qian Family.

The Li Family intended to eliminate the threatening Foundation Establishment Cultivators of both the Qian Family and the Lin Family.

Lin Shiming immediately transmitted a message to Lin Xianzhi, with only one phrase.

"Beware of the Lingxi insect!"

As soon as these words were uttered, Lin Shiming clearly saw Lin Xianzhi's body tremble slightly, his face filled with disbelief.