Breakthroughs

“You may leave!”

Zhong Qing glanced at them indifferently and waved his hand casually.

He didn't pay much attention to them.

“Thank you, thank you.”

“Thank you, Senior, for sparing us!”

Seeing that Zhong Qing was not interested in them, the women were immediately overjoyed and burst into tears, seeing the hope of survival.

They all knelt on the ground, expressing their gratitude, before tidying their clothes and hurriedly departing.

Before leaving, they didn't forget to fiercely bite off a few mouthfuls of flesh and blood from the corpses.

If they hadn't hated them to the extreme, how could they have resorted to such actions of drinking their blood and gnawing on their flesh?

After the women left, Zhong Qing began to survey his surroundings.

In a bandit's den like this, in addition to the Storage Pouches they carried, there must also be a treasury.

The Immortal Cave was vast, and Zhong Qing was not in a hurry.

He searched slowly.

After half an hour, his eyes moved.

His footsteps stopped at the entrance of a secret room.

This was a secret room door made of ten-thousand-year-old cold iron.

It was extremely hard.

Without a key, even a Sun Profound Realm expert would probably not be able to open it.

However, for Zhong Qing, none of this was an issue.

As his palm rested on the door.

With a slight force, the ten-thousand-year-old cold iron was directly shattered by his palm force.

Looking inside.

Spirit Stones were piled up like mountains.

Various Spiritual Materials and precious Medicinal Pills were placed on shelves.

Cultivation Techniques and Mystic Skills were also not few in number.

In addition to these, there were also some rare treasures.

All of them were valuable items.

This surprised Zhong Qing.

“Speaking of which, are bandit dens this wealthy nowadays?”

Those Spirit Stones were all High Grade and above, probably no less than a million in number.

There were even tens of thousands of High-Grade Spirit Stones!

Among the numerous Spiritual Materials and precious Medicinal Pills, there were three King-level Medicinal Pills alone.

Other Artifact Refining Materials, such as Star Iron and Indestructible Bone, were also of extremely high quality.

They could even be used as refining Materials for Wang-level Divine Weapons and even Half-Emperor-level Divine Weapons.

Although he had obtained countless good things through the System, he didn't have everything.

And no one would complain about having too many good things.

Furthermore, other people's things always tasted better.

And in the treasury, Zhong Qing successfully found the Secret Realm fragment that the woman had mentioned earlier.

The fragment was palm-sized, neither gold nor iron, and slightly heavy in his hand.

An ancient aura emanated from it.

Clearly, this Secret Realm fragment had an extraordinary Origin.

However, this thing was only a remnant.

Zhong Qing saw at a glance that a single fragment was useless; it would only be effective if multiple fragments could be gathered to form a complete one.

After putting it away, he shifted his focus to the other treasures.

It was no exaggeration to say that the value of this single treasury was enough to buy several former Immortal River Sects.

Zhong Qing truly experienced the gap between the Eastern Region and the Northern Region.

However, all these things were now his.

To be honest, this feeling of killing and plundering was quite exhilarating.

Zhong Qing packed all the items and took them away, storing them in his Small World.

Soon, he completely emptied the treasury.

He didn't even leave behind the Cultivation Techniques and Mystic Skills he least valued.

Even a mouse coming in would leave in tears.

He truly brought the spirit of not letting go of a single speck when robbing someone to its extreme.

After doing all this, Zhong Qing finally left the treasury with satisfaction and went to rendezvous with Hei Bai.

Hei Bai's gains were also extremely pleasing.

He had collected several hundred Storage Pouches in total.

These Storage Pouches also contained many good things.

Medicinal Pills, Cultivation Techniques, Spirit Stones, some rare treasures... everything was available.

This time, it could be called a great harvest.

Just as Zhong Qing was tidying up his gains.

The System suddenly spoke.

“A Spiritual Vein has been detected here. It is recommended that the host absorb it!”

The System's words made Zhong Qing's movements of counting his wealth pause involuntarily.

A ripple appeared in his heart.

A Spiritual Vein, this thing was a must-have for Cultivation Schools.

It was the most indispensable thing for cultivators.

A Spiritual Vein, regardless of its quality or size, if it were to spread, it would likely cause numerous Sects to fight and attack each other.

He hadn't expected that just coming here to suppress bandits would lead to such a pleasant surprise.

Perhaps the original bandits didn't even know that there was a Spiritual Vein flowing beneath their home.

After Zhong Qing put all the treasures and Storage Pouches into his Small World, he opened his Heavenly Eye to observe the exact location of the Spiritual Vein.

The function of the Heavenly Eye allowed him to see through anyone's secrets at a glance.

Naturally, it could also peek into the Origin of things and survey all creation.

It was perfectly suited for reconnaissance.

In Zhong Qing's eyes, a section of a Spiritual Vein's tail lay quietly beneath the mountain range where Fuguang Cave was located!

Following the tail, he investigated upwards.

The Spiritual Vein was extremely long, stretching for dozens of miles, like a sleeping white giant Dragon.

His figure moved.

He directly exited Fuguang Cave.

But before leaving, he glanced at Fuguang Cave.

There was no longer any need for this place to exist.

“Boom!”

As he struck out a palm in mid-air.

A nearly hundred-zhang large handprint descended, causing an immense tremor.

With him as the boundary, the area where Fuguang Cave was located was directly shattered into dust by a single palm strike!

Raising a thousand feet of ice shards and dust!

When the dust settled.

The originally undulating mountain range, an area of several miles, was directly flattened into a plain.

Along with the entire Fuguang Cave, it was thus erased from the world.

Amidst the shaking of the mountains and earth, Zhong Qing followed the source of the Spiritual Vein directly.

As Zhong Qing departed, Hei Bai followed closely behind him.

After crossing a mountain range, they arrived in a huge ice mountain valley!

This was the source of the Spiritual Vein.

“System, how do I absorb this Spiritual Vein?”

Zhong Qing asked somewhat impatiently.

“The System will automatically absorb it for the host!”

“Rumble…”

As the System's voice fell.

The mountain range suddenly shook.

That Spiritual Vein seemed to be forcefully taken by a supreme power.

It transformed into surging Spiritual Qi.

It gushed forth like a river and a tsunami, flowing into Zhong Qing's body.

For a moment, the surroundings of heaven and earth were completely enveloped by Spiritual Qi.

The concentration was so dense that it seemed to have turned into liquid.

With Zhong Qing as the center, an area of a hundred zhang was clearly covered by Spiritual Liquid.

Forming a Spiritual Tide Lake!

And Zhong Qing, like an bottomless black hole, under the action of the System, freely absorbed this surging Spiritual Liquid.

Just like that, it continued from day to night, and from night to day.

Time passed slowly.

Three or four days passed in a flash.

After three or four days of absorption, the Spiritual Power of the entire Spiritual Vein was completely absorbed by Zhong Qing, not a single drop remained!

The original Zhong Qing's cultivation was only at the First Heaven of the Sanyin Realm.

After devouring this entire Spiritual Vein, his Realm directly crossed one stage.

He reached the Second Heaven of the Sanyin Realm!

This kind of improvement was extremely terrifying!

One must know that the further one's cultivation progresses, the harder it is to improve!

After ordinary cultivators enter the Tianxuan Realm, every small step of improvement requires hundreds or thousands of years of grinding and tempering.

After entering the Sanyin Realm, trying to cross a Realm in one step is undoubtedly as difficult as ascending to heaven.

And every Realm's improvement brings a world of difference in strength.

Zhong Qing carefully felt it; if the combat power of the First Heaven of the Sanyin Realm was set at ten thousand.

Then the combat power of the Second Heaven of the Sanyin Realm directly soared to one hundred thousand!

It truly was one Realm, one Heaven.

Just as Zhong Qing thought the improvement was over, the System's voice came again.

“Detected that Su Ye has broken through to Star Profound Realm Great Perfection. Host has received cultivation feedback.”

As the System's voice fell.

Zhong Qing's expression suddenly brightened.

He had just absorbed a Spiritual Vein, and now he was getting cultivation feedback again?

Amidst the surprise, an invisible, immense power surged towards Zhong Qing.

It was only for a moment.

It allowed Zhong Qing's cultivation to advance several steps, reaching new heights.

He directly surged to the Peak of the Second Heaven of the Sanyin Realm, just a step away from the Third Heaven of the Sanyin Realm!

This made Zhong Qing extremely excited.

“This kid Su Ye is actually so diligent!”

“In such a short time, he actually broke through to Star Profound Realm Great Perfection!”

“Not bad, not bad!”

After he returned, he planned to reward his Xiao Tu Di well.

However, the Peak of the Second Heaven of the Sanyin Realm was still a tiny bit short of the Third Heaven.

This made Zhong Qing feel that this Breakthrough was not very perfect.

“If only Lin Feng had broken through too!”

“With his strength, after breaking through and then receiving the ten-thousand-fold feedback, it should be enough to completely push me to the Third Heaven of the Sanyin Realm!”

However.

When a person's Luck comes, it's unstoppable.

Just as he thought this.

The System's prompt actually came again.

“Detected that Lin Feng has broken through to Moon Profound Realm Early Stage. Host has received cultivation feedback.”

“Hiss…”

Upon hearing this news, even with Zhong Qing's Heart-Nature, he couldn't help but take a slight gasp of cold air.

His Luck was simply Heaven-Defying.

It really was whatever he wished for came true.

These two Disciples were truly capable, and his affection for them was not in vain.

Their upgrade speed was one better than the other.

As Lin Feng broke through, the ten-thousand-fold cultivation feedback allowed Zhong Qing to completely cross the barrier from the Second Heaven to the Third Heaven.

He opened the System attribute panel!

[Host: Zhong Qing]

[Cultivation: Sanyin Realm Third Heaven!]

[Disciple: Lin Feng, Moon Profound Realm Early Stage, hundred-fold amplification active.]

[Disciple: Su Ye, Star Profound Realm Great Perfection, hundred-fold amplification active.]

[Activated Bonds: Scrappy Bond 2/2, more bonds to be developed.]

[Acquired Physique: None.]

[Acquired Special Skills: Old Six Halo, Heavenly Eye, Same-Level Crushing, Own Small World.]

Zhong Qing looked at the attribute panel, his expression somewhat excited.

First, he searched Fuguang Cave for a large amount of wealth.

Then he discovered a Spiritual Vein, which allowed his cultivation to advance another level.

Now, his two good Disciples' cultivation had broken through again, causing his strength to surge once more.

Zhong Qing felt the power unique to the Sanyin Realm Third Heaven cultivation, feeling an unprecedented strength.

After the excitement, Zhong Qing couldn't help but feel a sense of doubt.

He remembered that before he left, one of his Disciples' cultivation was only at Chen Xuan Realm Great Perfection, and the other was at Star Profound Realm Early Stage.

In such a short period, the two had actually continuously broken through a major Realm.

Did they have some new Opportunity or fortuitous encounter?

Of course, these were not the main points.

The main point was that previously, when they broke through a minor Realm, it could make his cultivation soar like a rocket.

Now, breaking through a major Realm only caused him to improve by one minor Realm.

This was a bit unscientific, wasn't it?

After pondering for a moment, Zhong Qing felt the surging Spiritual Power within his body.

He showed a look of realization.

His cultivation was too high now.

He was several major Realms above his Disciples.

Even if they broke through a major Realm and received ten-thousand-fold feedback, for a grand expert like him in the Sanyin Realm, the amplification was still limited.

“It seems that finding the third Disciple is an urgent matter!”