64: Chapter 64 What Glory?

Zhao Yi flashed out of a branch mine.

Meanwhile, Bai Yuzhong and Bai Yujie, having teamed up to kill Bai Yuchu, began fighting over the xuanqiong shield, completely ignoring whether the mine would collapse.

"Damn it, what are you doing?"

The great sumeru treasure hoe had somehow turned into a mini-hoe, clinging to the xuanqiong shield, swaying back and forth as if a child were nursing.

Boom!

A massive roar echoed, sending Zhao Yi into a dizzying spin. The branch mine collapsed, burying not only Bai Yuzhong and Bai Yujie but also the great sumeru treasure hoe along with them.

"Damn it!"

"What is this?"

If it were ordinary ground, Bai Yuzhong and the other might have been able to save their lives using Five Elements Spells, but this was a Spirit Stone mine, a forbidden zone for Spells. Plus, they were at least a hundred meters from the surface; even a Nascent Soul Cultivator like Zhao Yi wouldn't be confident of surviving such a collapse.

"Oh no, my hoe!"

"The great sumeru treasure hoe."

Zhao Yi reached out.

He breathed a sigh of relief only when he felt something in his hand.

But seeing the shield on the hoe blade, Zhao Yi frowned again.

"Wasn't it said to be a Spiritual Artifact? Did its artifact spirit get crushed to death too?"

He brought the hoe in front of him and watched the hoe blade embedded in the shield. A flash of inspiration struck Zhao Yi.

"Damn it, you didn't swallow the artifact spirit of the xuanqiong shield, did you?"

Zhao Yi waited for a long time, but the great sumeru treasure hoe didn't make a sound, as if it weren't the one that had swallowed the xuanqiong shield's artifact spirit.

"Things from the System are truly strange..."

"Forget it, it's a Spiritual Artifact after all. I'll see if I can repair it when I go out."

What Zhao Yi didn't know was that because of this broken Spiritual Artifact, the deaths of the three Golden Core True Persons—Bai Yuchu and the others—were once again blamed on him.

"Huh? Where's my dog? Did it get buried too?"

Zhao Yi was speechless.

"Approximation Technique."

"Within twenty meters."

"The Great Dao is Simple, the approximation is naturally formed, numbers arise from the heart..."

A moment later, the figure of Approximate reappeared in a burst of golden light.

When Approximate appeared again, it looked at the branch mine from earlier with eyes full of fear.

Zhao Yi was stunned. It knew to be afraid?

"Silly Dog, let's go."

"Time to dig for Spirit Stones."

"Three idiots, for no reason at all, just a complete waste of my time."

Although Bai Yuzhong and the other two had started with a bang and ended with a whimper, Zhao Yi knew their purpose was to lure him out of the mine.

"Leave the mine?"

"I'm not going out."

"I don't care who is outside, I will dig here until I die. If you have the ability, come down here."

Zhao Yi was already prepared. If that Soul Transformation Cultivator couldn't hold back and came down to cause trouble personally, he would hide using the Immovable Void Technique.

In any case, leaving was out of the question.

At worst, he would just block the mine entrance directly, like he did with the Lesser Strange Spirit Stone Mine.

...

At the entrance of the Great White Spirit Stone Mine.

A Bai Family Cultivator walked hurriedly to Bai Yucheng and whispered a few words.

"What did you say?"

"Say it again?"

Bai Yucheng grabbed the Cultivator by the collar and roared, his expression looking as if he wanted to devour someone.

"Elder, the soul lamps of the three Immortal Masters—Yuzhong, Yujie, and Yuchu—placed in the ancestral hall have gone out. They have fallen..."

"That's impossible!"

"They were holding the xuanqiong shield, how could they have fallen? And to the point where their soul lamps went out?"

With a flash, Bai Yucheng's figure appeared in the Bai Family ancestral hall. Looking at the extinguished soul lamps in the third row, he had to accept the fact that the three Golden Core True Persons of the Bai family had fallen.

"Heh!"

"Good! Good!"

"A truly good Nascent Soul True Monarch Zhao Yi."

"To humiliate my Bai family like this."

"Do you really think I wouldn't dare to enter the Spirit Stone mine to kill you?"

When a Soul Transformation Cultivator is angry, the world changes color; the entire sky turned gloomy.

"Are you going to stop me?"

After a long silence, Bai Yucheng spoke again: "I suppose you wouldn't dare!"

After saying this, he headed straight for the Great White Spirit Stone Mine.

In the Wentian Pavilion of the Anning Prefecture First Cultivation Academy, Fan De looked at the Soul Transformation Elders sitting there with disdain.

"So, this is your decision?"

"Academy Disciples are in trouble, and you stand by with your hands in your sleeves. Do you still have the face to be Elders of the Academy?"

"Cough, cough..."

"Elder Fan, the Mountain Master is in closed-door cultivation; it's not that there's no one to make a decision."

"Furthermore, that Zhao Yi is just a Nascent Soul Stage Death Cultivator..."

Fan De said expressionlessly: "Short-sighted people. One day, you will regret today's decision."

After saying this, his figure disappeared from the Wentian Pavilion.

The other Soul Transformation Cultivators looked at each other, none of them speaking, and their figures slowly disappeared.

...

In the Great White Spirit Stone Mine,

Bai Yucheng, who had entered the mine ten days ago, was going crazy.

He clearly felt that Zhao Yi was nearby, but there was nothing in front of him. No matter what method he used, he couldn't force Zhao Yi out.

"What a Reversal Cultivator!"

Bai Yucheng had once seen Zhao Yi's Golden Core confusion in Ye Qingyang's memory, and he also knew that Ye Qingyang had once sealed the Third Layer Mine of the Lesser Strange Spirit Stone Mine just to catch Zhao Yi.

He had thought it was because Ye Qingyang's cultivation was insufficient, but now it seemed he had misjudged Ye Qingyang, that Nascent Soul True Monarch.

Zhao Yi, upon entering the mine, was indeed very difficult to deal with.

Time passed.

Zhao Yi looked at Bai Yucheng in front of him, speechless. He suspected that this Soul Transformation Old Ancestor was sick. What kind of Soul Transformation Cultivator doesn't Cultivate and spends all day wandering around in a mine?

Wandering around in the mine was one thing, but he even drove away the Cultivators who were digging for Spirit Stones, giving Zhao Yi no way to fish in troubled waters.

With his Soul Transformation cultivation, any slight movement in the mine now could alert him.

For example, right now, Zhao Yi had been cornered against the wall by Bai Yucheng.

Bai Yucheng knew Zhao Yi was nearby, and Zhao Yi knew that Bai Yucheng knew he was nearby.

But with the help of the powerful Immovable Void Technique, Bai Yucheng just couldn't find Zhao Yi.

At this moment, the two had actually reached a point of endurance. Zhao Yi remained motionless, maintaining the Immovable Void Technique.

Bai Yucheng sat cross-legged on the rocks in the mine, closing his eyes to rest, also motionless.

Outside the mine, the sun rose and set. In the blink of an eye, three months had passed.

When these three months first started, Zhao Yi felt that every day was like a year, but later, he gradually got used to it.

Morning and night, he recited the Azure Spirit Scripture silently, and in the middle, he savored the many half-baked Spells he had learned at the Cultivation Academy.

The days actually passed faster and faster.

"Hmph, anyway, I just reached the Mid Nascent Soul Stage. I have at least a thousand years of life. I can outlast you."

Three months had passed, and Zhao Yi's mindset had become increasingly peaceful.

Just when Zhao Yi thought he would continue to drag this out for a long time, the Bai Family Cultivators suddenly entered the mine.

"Elder, news from the Chaotian Spirit Realm. Mi Yao has achieved a Breakthrough to Soul Transformation and is about to undergo the tribulation. You need to return to preside over the overall situation."

Bai Yucheng stood up suddenly.

"What did you say?"

Zhao Yi's heart skipped a beat, and his Immovable Void Technique was almost broken.

"Elder, Mi Yao has achieved a Breakthrough to Soul Transformation and is about to undergo the tribulation. You need to leave the mine to preside over the situation. The tribulation cloud has already covered the entire Yellow Earth Ridge, and it is about to begin."

The Cultivator's forehead was sweating, not knowing if it was from anxiety or from being frightened by Bai Yucheng, the Soul Transformation Cultivator.

"Breakthrough to Soul Transformation, about to undergo the tribulation?"

Bai Yucheng's figure instantly turned into a beam of light and left the mine.

No matter how important Zhao Yi was, he was not as important as Bai Miyao.

If Bai Miyao achieved Soul Transformation, then the Bai family would have two Soul Transformation Cultivators. Counting Bai Dadong, that would be three Soul Transformation Cultivators in one family. What kind of glory would that be?