384: Da Geng Sword Formation and Crystal Treasure Chest

Inside the Immortal Cave, streaks of Heavenly Lightning descended.

Mu Feng faced them head-on, completely fearless.

These Heavenly Lightning bolts were quite powerful, each strike possessing the strength of an Early Stage Nascent Soul.

If one's strength was a bit weaker, they might not have been able to withstand so many Heavenly Lightning strikes.

However, Mu Feng was different.

His Physical Body was formidable, and he had the imitation Spirit Treasure, Vajra Shield, protecting him.

Although the Heavenly Lightning was powerful, it couldn't do anything to him.

This was why he confidently met it head-on.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

"When I saw that Giant Pincer Crab Undergoing Tribulation, this Lightning Tribulation seemed terrifyingly powerful, but now it seems nothing more than that!"

Amidst the Lightning Tribulation.

Mu Feng was filled with heroic spirit.

He allowed the Heavenly Lightning to temper his body until his Nascent Soul reached its limit before using his Magic Treasure to strike.

With the Magic Treasure's assistance,

coupled with the help of the Qing Luo Sword Formation, the remaining Heavenly Lightning posed no threat to him whatsoever.

Even though the power of the Heavenly Lightning continued to increase,

Mu Feng remained as stable as a mountain within it.

It wasn't until the final bolt of Heavenly Lightning descended and the Nascent Soul within him opened its eyes that Mu Feng retracted his protective Magic Treasure.

"Is this… the Nascent Soul? It truly is peculiar!"

The moment his Nascent Soul opened its eyes, Mu Feng felt his Divine Sense, which was originally in his head, transfer to the miniature Nascent Soul within his body.

Immediately after, that miniature Nascent Soul came under his control.

And it became an indispensable part of him, just like his limbs, allowing him to easily control it without much practice.

This feeling was very peculiar.

Mu Feng's thoughts stirred.

The Nascent Soul within his body floated out from his head.

However, perhaps because he had just entered the Nascent Soul Stage and his Nascent Soul was still very fragile, Mu Feng felt it become somewhat uncontrollable the moment it left his body, scaring him into quickly retracting it back into his body to nurture it.

Nevertheless, the wondrous feeling of his Nascent Soul leaving his body for that brief moment continued to leave him with an endless aftertaste.

He finally understood why Nascent Soul Cultivators were so much stronger than regular Core Formation Cultivators.

After a Cultivator Cultivates a Nascent Soul, the magical power and true essence within their body are refined, becoming even purer.

For the same Spell or Divine Ability, the difference in power when released by a Nascent Soul Late Stage Cultivator and an Early Stage Nascent Soul Cultivator can be said to be worlds apart.

【System Reminder: Congratulations on advancing to Nascent Soul Stage. You have learned a new skill, Great Geng Sword Formation. For details, please check your personal page.】

As soon as his Nascent Soul returned to his body,

the red notification for advancing to Nascent Soul immediately appeared before his eyes.

"Finally, I've advanced to Nascent Soul Stage. It really wasn't easy!"

"Hehe, this Great Geng Sword Formation is said to be incredibly powerful. I wonder if it's true."

"Let's check the skill details first."

Mu Feng thought to himself, opening his personal page information.

【Name】: Mu Feng

【Realm】: Early Stage Nascent Soul

【Physical Body Strength】: Core Formation

【Spiritual Root】: Water, Fire, Wood, Earth, Metal.

【Cultivation Technique】: Five Elements Skill, Azure Origin Sword Art (Layers 1-13), Divine Origin Skill, Heavenly Martial Body Tempering Art.

【Skill】: Fireball Technique, Water Binding Technique, Wood Escape, Azure Origin Sword Light, Azure Origin Sword Shield, Sword Shadow Separation Light Technique, Great Geng Sword Formation.

【Magical Artifact】: Azure Dragon Flag, Cloud Stepping Boots.

【Magic Treasure】: Extreme Lightning Bottle, Blood Magic Robe (Demon Treasure), Treasure Dropping Flower Basket (ancient treasure), Golden Lightning Arrow (Exotic Treasure), Soul-Devouring Bee Cloud Sword (Lifebound Treasure), Gale Boat (Flying Magic Treasure), Dazzling Light Halberd, Vajra Shield, Three Flames Fire Fan, Demon Dragon Blade (Ancient Demon Treasure).

【Secret Technique Divine Ability】: Eye of Insight, Wind Control Technique, Cold Ice Qi Strength, Limb Rebirth, Dragon Transformation, True Devil Slash, Qing Luo Sword Formation, Yu Lei Secret Method (Sacrificial Thunder Art, Lightning Body Induction, Thunder Control Method, Thunder Incantation), Mystic Bird Transformation, Illusionary Demise Eye (Click to view details)

【Charm】: 13100 (Charm affects the favorability of Cave World creatures towards you.)

【Title】: First Core Formation (Can be hidden), First Sword Cultivator (Can be hidden), First Nascent Soul (Can be hidden)

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View Skill Details

【Great Geng Sword Formation: Can only be used after the Lifebound Treasure is infused with geng essence. Its power is unparalleled and it is indestructible. It is divided into a small sword formation composed of thirty-six swords and a large sword formation composed of one hundred and eight swords. Once the large sword formation is deployed, Cultivators below Late Stage Nascent Soul will undoubtedly die. Late Stage Cultivators will depend on their Spirit Treasure and Divine Ability.】

"As expected, it's formidable. Cultivators below Late Stage Nascent Soul will undoubtedly die, and Late Stage Cultivators seem to have a hard time if they fall into it."

"Hehe, my sword formation is back."

After reaching Late Stage Core Formation, he increasingly felt that the Qing Luo Sword Formation was becoming ineffective.

Several times, it was broken before it was even fully deployed.

Or, even if it was deployed, it wasn't necessarily able to deal with the Nascent Soul Old Monsters within it.

This gave him a headache.

After all, this sword formation was quite useful before, and it would be a pity to abandon it now.

Fortunately, after advancing to Nascent Soul Stage, he had mastered a new sword formation skill.

From the information, it seemed quite powerful, but the specific situation would only be known after actual combat.

Besides checking the Great Geng Sword Formation information on his personal page, Mu Feng also glanced at his other information.

His personal information had changed quite a bit.

Firstly, his Spiritual Root section had changed from the original three Spiritual Roots to five Spiritual Roots.

That Celestial Patching Pill had completely filled in his remaining two Spiritual Roots, which was an unexpected pleasant surprise.

When he opened the grand gift pack and saw the Celestial Patching Pill ranked first, Mu Feng was still puzzled.

Now it seemed that the Celestial Patching Pill's effect was truly a bit too Heaven-Defying.

He also didn't know if the top ten in points all received it, or if it was only a reward for him as the first place.

He could go out later and sound out others.

Besides the Spiritual Root change,

the biggest change was in his personal Charm value.

Because he was the first Cultivator to advance to Nascent Soul Stage, this announcement gave him a full ten thousand Charm points.

This thing was linked to the Cave World races.

When the Trial Tournament ended that day, he saw someone say that they were going to a new map.

And in that map, there seemed to be many Immortal Cave races, so he figured this Charm value should be useful.

Besides these two, his title section now had an additional title of First Nascent Soul.

It looked incredibly brilliant.

However, Mu Feng was not a high-profile person, so he directly hid it.

After glancing at his personal information a few more times, Mu Feng closed it.

Then he opened the Immortal Cave page to check it.

He remembered that the previous nascent soul grand gift pack had upgraded his Immortal Cave to the highest Rank.

But Mu Feng didn't see his Immortal Cave undergoing closed-door cultivation.

He estimated that it probably needed to gather Materials for upgrading, just like before.

【Ultimate Immortal Cave Upgrade Materials: Crystal x5, Top-Grade fire spirit stone x1, Top-Grade Wood Spirit Stone x1, Top-Grade earth spirit stone x1, Top-Grade water spirit stone x1, Top-Grade Top-Grade Spirit Stone x1, High-Grade Spirit Stone x8000, Mid-Grade Spirit Stone x100000, Low-Grade Spirit Stone x1000000.】

"As expected, it requires Materials for upgrading."

"I knew it!"

Mu Feng couldn't help but sigh after reading the upgrade Materials information.

He knew the System wouldn't be so kind as to directly upgrade it for him.

However, the Materials this time weren't that many.

Besides the five crystals,

the rest were Spirit Stones.

The total number of High Grade, Medium Grade, and Low-Grade Spirit Stones combined amounted to tens of millions.

If an ordinary person saw such a huge number, they would probably have a headache for a long time.

But because Mu Feng had killed a large number of Cultivators in the Trial Tournament,

his Spirit Stone count had already reached an astonishing tens of millions.

Moreover, he now had countless Materials on him, and if he sold them all, he might be able to gain another tens of millions of Spirit Stones.

So, these ten million Spirit Stones were still manageable for him.

"Looking at it this way, it seems the difficulty this time is quite ordinary. It's just that Top-Grade Spirit Stones are relatively harder to find."

"Fortunately, I had some saved up earlier and didn't use them when I advanced to Nascent Soul Stage."

His advancement to Nascent Soul this time was quite smooth.

Many treasures hadn't even been used yet.

However, a lot of Medicinal Pills were consumed.

Basically, all the helpful Medicinal Pills were used up.

"Hmm, I'll go to the Transaction Channel later to see if anyone is selling Top-Grade Spirit Stones. If there are, I'll buy them first."

"If not, then I can only rely on my own luck."

"As for crystals, they should be extracted from that crystal treasure chest."

"That shouldn't be difficult."

With his Nascent Soul formed, the treasures in the rubbing (rubbing/fragment) were naturally not difficult for him to obtain.

However, before going out to explore, he still needed to check the Transaction Channel first to see if there were any items he needed.

Mu Feng thought to himself, opened the Transaction Channel, and entered the information for the Top-Grade Spirit Stones he currently needed.

After a search, he didn't find any.

Instead, he unexpectedly found two Materials for the Transforming Spirit Ginseng Pill: Thousand Leaf Dew and Agate Horn.

This made Mu Feng quite happy.

This Medicinal Pill was exactly what he needed now.

Unfortunately, he currently only had one Level 9 Yao Beast Core, and it had already been used as a Material for the Cultivation Infant Pill.

Otherwise, he could have refined this Transforming Spirit Ginseng Pill first.

Speaking of Medicinal Pills,

Mu Feng remembered his Top-Grade Pill Furnace upgrade coupon and Top-Grade Forging Furnace upgrade coupon.

So he used them directly.

He directly upgraded the two Pill Furnaces in the forging room to Top-Grade Magic Treasures.

After everything was done,

Mu Feng clicked on the red dots in his friends' chat boxes again.

While he was in closed-door cultivation and breaking through to Nascent Soul Stage, a few friends had sent him messages.

Mu Feng glanced at them and found that most of them were similar blessing messages.

Just as he was about to close it, he noticed that Zhang Jingjing's message asked if he wanted to explore the True Spirit Bloodline.

This reminded Mu Feng of what he had told her in the Purple Bamboo Forest.

After thinking for a moment,

Mu Feng decided not to rush to reply to her yet.

He would first go to the rubbing treasure chest and see what Materials the next layer of the Heavenly Martial Body Tempering Art required.

Moreover, he had just advanced to Nascent Soul Stage, and there were many things he needed to do.

Whether it was the refining of Cultivation Infant Pill or the Transforming Spirit Ginseng Pill, these were all urgent matters.

He would consider this matter slowly when he was a bit more free.

Closing the chat window,

Mu Feng walked directly towards the Immortal Cave Hall.

There, eight Secret Realm space teleportation gates were shimmering.

Come to think of it, he hadn't explored these Immortal Cave Secret Realms for over ten or twenty days.

Now, seeing these teleportation entrances felt quite familiar.

The crystal treasure chest's teleportation entrance was in the west.

Although he had seen it once before,

to ensure nothing went wrong, Mu Feng investigated it again.

【Wow, you're lucky! There's a crystal treasure chest inside, which is a treasure chest found only in core areas. It contains numerous treasures. Of course, to retrieve the treasures, you must first deal with the eighth-Rank Yao Beast tribe within. However, with your current strength, it shouldn't be too difficult.】

"Eighth-Rank Yao Beast tribe?!"

"As expected, it's quite dangerous. I thought there were only two, fortunately, I didn't rush in back then!"

After reading this Immortal Cave Secret Realm information, Mu Feng couldn't help but gasp.

Previously, when he saw the prompt saying there was more than one Nascent Soul Yao Beast, Mu Feng thought it was two.

Now he realized it was a whole group.

No wonder the previous prompt said he would surely die if he went in.

It made sense.

His combat power at that time was only around Early Stage Nascent Soul.

Facing a group of Nascent Soul Yao Beasts, he would have no room to resist.

Let alone then, even now, if he encountered a large number of Shapeshifting Yao Beasts, he could only flee.

However, the prompt just said it wouldn't be too difficult for him, so he figured the number of Shapeshifting Yao Beasts inside shouldn't be particularly high.

Thinking this, Mu Feng's taut nerves relaxed a little.

His current combat power was not weak, and he had several pets helping him.

He figured his combat power was still quite decent among Late Stage Nascent Soul Cultivators.

"Little Lizards, let's go!"

He called out to the three Little Lizards in the Immortal Cave.

Earlier, when Mu Feng was Undergoing Tribulation, the Flying Purple Patterned Scorpion and the Silver Moon Fox were so scared that they ran into the Insect Room to hide.

Now that it was time to depart,

he naturally had to call them along.

"Ying ying ying."

"Hiss hiss!"

Hearing his call, the two Little Lizards immediately ran out of the secret room.

As for the Little Lizard,

it had been by his side, acting as his Protector.

Seeing all three pets gathered,

Mu Feng immediately took them and stepped into the Immortal Cave Secret Realm entrance teleportation gate to the west.

After a flash of white light,

one person and three pets appeared in an unfamiliar Secret Realm.

This was a desolate Secret Realm, with smoke and dust lingering everywhere.

It seemed the situation was not very peaceful.

As soon as Mu Feng entered, he immediately activated his Divine Sense and simultaneously summoned the one hundred and eight Soul-Devouring Bee Cloud Swords within his body, circling them around him, constantly ready for battle.

After advancing to Nascent Soul Stage, his Divine Sense had grown considerably.

Controlling one hundred and eight Lifebound Treasures was not too difficult.

After some thought,

Mu Feng also pulled out the Demon Dragon Blade.

This item had been left idle for so many days, and its power had decreased significantly.

However, he had just checked it and found that even though the demonic seeds inside were depleted, its power was still much stronger than the Dazzling Light Halberd.

So he also used it as his main Magic Treasure.

Moreover, this item was quite suitable for this Secret Realm space, allowing him to use war to sustain war.

If he wanted to deal with a group of Shapeshifting Yao Beasts, he naturally needed a powerful divine weapon to assist him.

Currently, this Demon Dragon Blade was the best option.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Just as Mu Feng finished preparing everything,

he heard a sound of something breaking through the air from within the smoke.

Turning his head, he saw a green mantis.

This mantis was not unfamiliar to him.

It was precisely the Golden-backed Demon Mantis he had seen before!

However, the Yao Mantis he saw at the Flying Spirit Race that day was only a fourth-Rank, while this one was a seventh-Rank Peak.

The combat power of Spiritual Insects had always been stronger than ordinary Yao Beasts, just like his Flying Purple Patterned Scorpion, which was clearly at the Late Stage Core Formation level but could help him defeat a Nascent Soul Cultivator.

Therefore, Mu Feng dared not show the slightest slack.

With his eyesight, he naturally saw that this Golden-backed Demon Mantis was bred in captivity.

Normal Golden-backed Demon Mantises could not grow to this Rank.

Since a seventh-Rank Peak Yao Insect appeared here,

it meant its master must be nearby.