66: Chapter 66

Mu Wanqing looked around, stepped forward, and picked up a Jade Slip. After injecting spiritual power, lines of golden characters floated before her eyes: "Mystic Ice True Art," an Earth Rank Medium Grade Cultivation Technique. Cultivating it to Major Achievement allowed one to condense ice into armor and freeze mountains and rivers... Chen Xuan walked to the bookshelf on the other side, his fingertips brushing past rows of Cultivation Techniques; they were all Earth Rank techniques of various types. On the opposite side, however, were some useless Human Rank techniques.

"I can actually add these to my Dao Seeking Sect for the Inner Sect Disciples and Outer Sect Disciples to Cultivate. The techniques those Disciples are currently practicing were gifted by the kind Fellow Daoists of the Po Shan Sect, so their foundation is slightly lacking."

"Revered Master, look over there!" Mu Wanqing pointed excitedly at a stone platform ahead.

On the stone platform in the center of the stone room, several jade boxes were placed, emitting a faint blue light. They were clearly the finale treasures of this technique stone room.

Chen Xuan reached out a hand and made a grasping motion forward.

A jade box instantly flew into Chen Xuan's hand. "Myriad Phenomena Mystic Art," a Heaven Rank Low Grade Cultivation Technique. Upon reaching Major Achievement, every gesture contains the power to destroy heaven and earth, allowing one to move mountains, fill seas, and overturn the universe.

"Purple Heaven Divine Thunder Scripture," a Heaven Rank Medium Grade Cultivation Technique. Reaching Major Achievement allows one to summon divine thunder for their own use; wherever the thunder's might reaches, all things are annihilated.

Chen Xuan gave the descriptions of the techniques a casual glance and found them somewhat interesting.

At Major Achievement, each was more powerful than the last, but for them to be truly useful, they still needed the support of a Realm. It was like a Mahayana Stage Cultivator killing a Golden Core—did they even need skills?

All five jade boxes contained Heaven Rank techniques, the best being a Heaven Rank High Grade one.

The value of System Dad was truly highlighted at this moment.

With a wave of her sleeve, Mu Wanqing happily began to pack the techniques into her storage ring. This was the greatest harvest since entering the Spirit Void Secret Realm.

Chen Xuan asked, "Why aren't you leaving even one behind?"

"Huh?"

"Didn't you say you wanted them all, Revered Master?" Mu Wanqing scratched her head and asked back.

Hoh... this Founding Senior Disciple learns quite fast... Chen Xuan coughed and said, "You can leave the Human Rank techniques. Bringing this trash back to the Sect would just take up space, so we might as well leave them for some fated Fellow Daoists. As for the others..."

Presumably, those Hegemon-level Forces didn't have much talent for the Dao anyway. Even if they got their hands on Advanced goods like Earth Rank techniques, they probably wouldn't be able to understand them.

Chen Xuan decided to be a good person and just take them all away.

Mu Wanqing argued, "Revered Master, although our Dao Seeking Sect doesn't need Human Rank techniques, we can take them back to the Sect and sell them for Spirit Stones. If they're left here to gather dust in this hall forever, how pitiful would that be!"

Chen Xuan glanced at her. "Did you learn this from your father too?"

Good grief, as expected of someone whose father is the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

Mu Wanqing's almond eyes blinked, and she gave an innocent smile, saying, "I will listen to Revered Master; I won't take these Human Rank techniques with me."

After being busy for the time it takes an incense stick to burn, the two of them left the way they came, intending to head toward the second entrance.

Inside the stone room, a slight ripple of spiritual power arose, and the Array Spirit hidden at the core of the Formation slowly woke up.

It sensed the two auras growing more distant, and the phantom it condensed tilted its head slightly, full of confusion. Strange, why did those two people just now walk with such composure, not being affected by the Formation at all?

At the end of the second entrance was a Pill Room filled with Medicinal Pills. It was still protected by a Formation; clearly, the owner of this hall was indeed extremely skilled in the path of Formations.

But Chen Xuan didn't even sense a ripple of spiritual power before he led his Eldest Disciple away, fully loaded.

The Revered Master and Disciple pair arrived at the third entrance in one go.

Mu Wanqing was in an excellent mood, the joy of a windfall always radiating from her round, oval face.

"Revered Master, the owner of this hall is truly generous to leave so many good things behind. I wonder what will be inside this passage."

Chen Xuan commented, "Generous is not necessarily the word, but the scale is indeed impressive. Those two Formations in the square and the hall were no pushovers. Have you forgotten how many Cultivators died within them?"

They had not only harvested over a thousand bottles of fifth-grade elixirs and over a hundred bottles of sixth-grade elixirs, but even ten bottles of seventh-grade elixirs.

With these cultivation resources, Chen Xuan could use his reputation points to improve himself.

Mu Wanqing nodded. "True! Revered Master is still the amazing one, breaking Formations with ease."

As the two chatted, they passed through the dark and narrow passage. Mu Wanqing's pupils constricted, her voice stopped abruptly, and she stared at the scene before her with a hand over her delicate lips.

The end of the third entrance was not a room waiting with Magic Treasures or Medicinal Pills to be brought back to the Dao Seeking Sect, but an extremely spacious room—no, an Underground Palace!

In the very center sat an Octagonal Pool, its walls built from pitch-black volcanic rock.

Boiling lava churned in the pool, the thick orange-red molten rock like boiling blood. Bubbles rose to the surface, and a wave of dry heat rushed toward them.

The center, protected by the surrounding lava, was small at the bottom and narrow at the top, tightening upward layer by layer.

At the top of the high platform, a lifelike Coiling Dragon Statue sat perched. The statue's head was held high, its dragon eyes carved with spirit, looking down at the boiling lava below.

And in the Dragon's mouth, it was steadily holding a wooden box. The box was dark brown and had no decorations, but as long as one wasn't a fool, they could see this box was extraordinary.

This place gave off a sense of shock mixed with a touch of eeriness.

"Revered Master, what is this place?" Mu Wanqing asked softly.

Chen Xuan was also observing the scene. "It seems we've hit the jackpot this time."

"Huh?!" Mu Wanqing tilted her head in confusion.

Chen Xuan didn't speak; he reached out a hand, wanting to pull the box from the statue's mouth, but it was clearly in vain.

"Wait here; I'll go see what's going on."

As soon as Chen Xuan's voice fell, his toes tapped the ground, and his body flew toward the octagonal high platform like an arrow leaving a bow. Spiritual power circulated around him, forming a pale green shield to resist the heat waves from the steam of the lava.

This place looked dangerous and full of trouble; he couldn't let his Eldest Disciple lead the way.

Just as Chen Xuan was only two zhang away from the octagonal high platform...

In an instant!

Waves several zhang high suddenly surged up from within the lava!

*Gurgle.*

Dense bubbles burst one after another, and a huge black shadow broke through the surface of the lava, covered in scalding molten rock, and lunged toward Chen Xuan.

It was a massive Lava Giant Lizard, its entire body covered in heavy scales that looked as if they were forged from obsidian. Its eyes burned with orange-red flames as it locked onto Chen Xuan in mid-air.

It suddenly opened its massive mouth filled with fangs, and a tongue at least a zhang long shot out like crimson lightning, heading straight for Chen Xuan's back.

The speed of this tongue was unimaginably fast; even though Chen Xuan had been in a state of alert, he still hadn't reacted in time.

*Clang!*

A pale golden light shield suddenly condensed behind Chen Xuan. The crimson tongue slammed hard against the light shield, letting out a deafening boom.

*Ding~*

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Having regained his senses, Chen Xuan quickly flew back to the shore and led his Founding Senior Disciple away at high speed.

The feeling that beast gave off just now was wrong; with Chen Xuan's current cultivation base, he actually had no way to resist its attack.

There was only one possibility for such a situation to occur.

This lizard's Realm was above the Nascent Soul, far higher than Chen Xuan's.