174: Strange spirits

“Hahaha, there must be a great treasure here!” Qi Wei laughed loudly.

After laughing, his gaze burned as he looked at the five of you.

“Lü Feng, the five of you go in.”

After speaking, he looked at Elder Jia.

Elder Jia understood and made a Life Token for Lü Feng.

As for the other four of you, in his eyes, entering the Immortal Cave was a dead end, so why waste energy making Life Tokens?

However, you keenly noticed that while Lü Feng appeared nervous, his heart was calm—he seemed to be looking forward to entering the Immortal Cave.

You wondered to yourself: Is Lü Feng not afraid of death?

Although you were puzzled, you were also very curious about what was inside the Immortal Cave.

The five of you held your breath and cautiously walked into the Immortal Cave.

The entrance to the Immortal Cave was a channel one zhang wide, with fresh chisel marks and bloodstains still on the stone walls.

After walking for a few minutes, the view suddenly opened up—a cave hall ten zhang wide appeared before your eyes.

The Immortal Cave was luxuriously furnished, with white jade tables, chairs, and beds, and a spiritual spring still gurgled in a corner.

On both sides of the Immortal Cave—five tightly shut stone doors were neatly arranged, with faint runes visible on them.

And from a passage inside the Immortal Cave wafted a strong medicinal fragrance, but on the ground of the passage, several fresh bloodstains extended into the deep darkness.

Not only that, but the entire Immortal Cave was filled with a pungent smell of blood, and there were obvious traces of burnt corpses on the ground.

“It seems that the previous group of people... has already scouted the way for us.” Widow Lu breathed a sigh of relief.

“There are traces of burnt corpses on the ground, but it doesn't look man-made. What kind of situation would cause this?” An Lu asked.

Liu Ruyan said calmly, “It's the Immortal Cave's Restriction.”

“I didn't expect that after thousands of years, the Immortal Cave's Restriction is still operating.” An Lu's tone was filled with disbelief.

“Most Restrictions are difficult to maintain for so many years; it should have been activated within the last six months,” Liu Ruyan said calmly.

An Lu's eyes widened as she looked at her, her body visibly trembling: “Are you saying there's someone in this Immortal Cave?”

Widow Lu's voice trembled: “Could that Bizarre Spirit Body still be here?”

“What should we do? Going out is death, staying here is also death,” she said with a nervous expression.

Lü Feng suddenly said calmly, “I think that Bizarre Spirit Body should have escaped. Otherwise, why haven't we encountered anything after being in here for so long?”

After speaking, he walked directly to a tightly closed stone door and pushed it open—

“Boom!”

The heavy stone door was pushed open, and what was inside made Widow Lu and An Lu's eyes light up—the stone chamber displayed many Heaven And Earth Treasures for refining Magic Treasures, as well as a large number of Magical Artifacts and Spiritual Artifacts.

“We're rich, so many good things,” An Lu's eyes gleamed.

“Something's not right,” Widow Lu frowned, “the owner of this Immortal Cave must have been a Nascent Soul Great Power in life. These things might be treasures in our eyes, but why would a Nascent Soul Great Power specifically use a secret chamber to store these?”

Lü Feng smiled and pointed to a Material in the corner: “You can't say that. Look at this Vajra Sand; it's a Material for refining top-tier Magic Treasures.”

You immediately frowned, but quickly returned to normal—because you had already scanned the stone chamber with your Divine Sense and were certain that this piece of Vajra Sand wasn't there before.

It clearly appeared suddenly just now.

Liu Ruyan also noticed this situation. She glanced at you subtly and transmitted her voice: “There's something wrong with this Lü Feng, but I've investigated him, and he is indeed only at Foundation Establishment Cultivation. Should I try to test him?”

“Don't rush. Since he's willing to put on a show, let him lead us to investigate this Immortal Cave. Behind that passage should be a medicinal garden; let's go there and see,” you replied via voice transmission.

Then Lü Feng opened the other four stone doors, and each secret chamber was filled with various rare Materials and Heaven And Earth Treasures.

A small portion of the items here were extremely precious even to Golden Core and Nascent Soul Cultivators.

But most were only suitable for Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

You always felt that this situation seemed deliberately arranged by someone.

Finally, you followed Lü Feng into the passage at the back of the Immortal Cave, leading to the medicinal garden.

The sight before you all made you incredibly excited.

Rows of neat spiritual medicine fields were filled with various rare Spirit Medicines, and even more surprisingly, these Spirit Medicines were all over a thousand years old.

“I didn't expect such a well-preserved spiritual medicine garden here,” Liu Ruyan said calmly.

“Wow, look, this is a thousand-year-old Five Elements Ganoderma!” Lü Feng pointed to a Heaven And Earth Treasure and exclaimed loudly.

“Look here, this is a thousand-year-old Grand Void Illusion Grass,” Widow Lu walked to a Spiritual Plant emitting a translucent golden light.

“And this, this is a thousand-year-old azure sky marvel fruit!” An Lu looked at a glowing fruit, her voice filled with shock.

You noticed an ancient tree over ten meters tall next to the Spirit Medicine, with a peculiar fruit growing on it—it was shaped like a peach, but as large as a human head, and the entire tree bore only this one fruit.

So you asked, “What is this peach-like fruit? Why is there only one?”

“This is a divine wood spirit peach; it is said that it takes a thousand years for one to grow. This divine wood spirit peach should have just matured,” Liu Ruyan's tone also carried a hint of surprise.

“What is its use?” You asked her curiously.

“For Nascent Soul Cultivators to improve their cultivation, ordinary Medicinal Pills are no longer effective; they can only rely on Heaven And Earth Treasures of this type. This divine wood spirit peach can save a Nascent Soul Cultivator decades or even a hundred years of arduous cultivation,” Liu Ruyan explained.

After a pause, she added, “It should be the most precious spiritual fruit in this medicinal garden.”

“There are so many thousand-year-old Spirit Medicines here? Then wouldn't it be...” An Lu trembled with excitement.

Widow Lu's eyes widened, her hands slightly trembling—with so many precious Spirit Medicines, if she could obtain them all and slowly refine them in some place, wouldn't she eventually become a Nascent Soul Great Power?

As she thought about it, her eyes lit up, and she involuntarily walked to the ancient tree, reaching out to pluck the divine wood spirit peach.

However, the next second—

“Whoosh—!”

A blinding beam of aurora shot down from the dome without warning, precisely hitting Widow Lu.

“Ah—!”

The mournful scream abruptly ceased.

Under everyone's horrified gaze, her body was completely disintegrated by the aurora, turning into a pool of crimson blood that splattered on the ground, leaving no clothing behind.

“Seeking death,” Liu Ruyan said calmly, “this medicinal garden appears unguarded, but it actually has a killing array. Touching anything randomly will trigger it...”

Before her words finished, an unexpected change occurred!

A translucent phantom suddenly shot out from above Lü Feng's head, lunging directly at Liu Ruyan's face. The phantom's five fingers formed claws, with corrosive black Qi swirling around its fingertips, seemingly about to crush her skull.

Liu Ruyan seemed to have been prepared, she snorted coldly, her figure shifting like a ghost to evade, easily dodging this fatal blow.

Lü Feng's body, now without the phantom's control, collapsed to the ground like a broken puppet.

“Ah!” An Lu screamed in fright, hurriedly hiding behind you, her cold little hand clutching your sleeve tightly, trembling all over.

You frowned and shook off her hand, your gaze fixed on the flickering phantom.

“Hehehe...” The phantom let out a spine-chilling strange laugh, “As expected, a Nascent Soul Cultivator, you hide quite well.”

“Are you the Bizarre Spirit Body?” Liu Ruyan asked with a raised eyebrow.