Li Jing, Jiang Yini, and Wang Chong entered the underground cavern, and the rest of the mbers began to gather imdiately, but without haste.
To be prepared in case of any situation, they decided to enter the underground for deploynt an hour later.
While everyone was waiting for ti to pass, the other non-participant mbers started packing up in full swing to prepare for the upcoming large-scale evacuation.
In the blink of an eye, half an hour had passed.
Deep in the southern part of the underground cavern, a golden light arrived at the location of the Throne Palace.
The golden light paused, and Li Jing, controlling the Linglong Tower, revealed his form and glanced at the palace, and made a handprint.
Here was not his limit.
He could move deeper.
But he had to make so preparations first.
Nobody could be sure of what was deeper inside the cavern.
He had to drop six nuclear warheads at once, and it was uncertain what would happen after the explosion, so he had to take preventive asures.
Through complicated handprints, it took Li Jing nearly two minutes to complete the spell formula of the Heavenly Saint Xuan Yi, a defense thod of the Four Realm.
After the last handprint was completed, a phantom of a white robe with a golden edge appeared in front of Li Jing and then disappeared.
The next second, the clothes on his body were replaced by the robe with a golden edge.
This was the first ti Li Jing used Heavenly Saint Xuan Yi.
Looking at his clothes being replaced, he was imnsely surprised.
The Heavenly Saint Xuan Yi manifested in the form of clothing.
The color of the edge differed according to the user’s proficiency. A golden edge symbolized Great Perfection.
All of this was written in the detailed docunt about the magic skill at the Immortal Learning Academy.
However, it did not ntion that the users’ existing clothes would be replaced with this.
He gently touched the robe with the golden edge.
The garnt felt soft to the touch.
It felt like a piece of high-grade silk clothes, not possessing any defense power.
But surprisingly,
Wearing the Heavenly Saint Xuan Yi gave him a strong sense of security.
For an instant, Li Jing even had the illusion that he would be unscathed even if he took a direct hit from a nuclear warhead.
Apart from that, wearing the Heavenly Saint Xuan Yi made him, a modern man, exude an air of immortal elegance.
It was indeed a defense thod of the Four Realm.
Not to ntion that it was mystifying and powerful, it was also incredibly cool.
After experiencing it a little, Li Jing confird that unless Heavenly Saint Xuan Yi sustained damage beyond its limit, it could be maintained for at least six hours.
Nice!
In the future, if he didn’t have any decent clothes to wear, he could put on the Heavenly Saint Xuan Yi.
Looking towards the depths of the cavern, Li Jing controlled the Linglong Tower and transford it into a golden light, shooting off.
In just ten minutes, he passed through six caverns consecutively.
He had reached his limit.
The oxygen levels in the air had beco so thin that he needed to pant heavily to maintain his body functions.
Li Jing stopped in mid-air and revealed his form.
Just as he was about to take out the nuclear warheads, the milky voice of the spirit weapon Linglong resounded in his heart.
"Master, there seems to be sothing delicious here, very nourishing!"
?
Li Jing was stunned and looked puzzled.
Delicious?
Nourishing?
The "delicious" thing Linglong ntioned could never be regular food.
Because she fed off spiritual materials.
So...
Was there so sort of spiritual material hidden here?
If Linglong described it as "nourishing", it must be of high quality!
Li Jing looked around, but he didn’t see anything worth ntioning.
The cavern was bare, there was nothing.
He looked at the Linglong Tower spinning slowly beside him and asked.
"Can you sense where it is?"
"No."
Spirit weapon Linglong replied.
"But I can affirm that the thing belongs to the tal elent, like . Otherwise, I wouldn’t sense it."
"I see."
Li Jing nodded, made a handprint, and launched the Sky Eye Technique.
If there was treasure hidden here, he had to unearth it.
The Linglong Tower didn’t have the function of searching for spirits or items, but the Sky Eye Technique did!
Since he had plenty of ti, it wouldn’t hurt to see if he could find anything.
His third eye opened and Li Jing looked down at the ground.
At first glance, he saw sothing unusual.
Deep underground, the naturally occurring Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Qi was quite dense.
Under the insight of the Sky Eye Technique, everything seed blanketed in a white fog.
This was common.
What was unusual though was that...
About three to five centiters above the ground of the cavern, there was a thick layer of spiritual qi, which looked so dense it was as if it might materialize at any mont.
As the saying goes, anomalies often signify hidden problems.
Spiritual qi isn’t like regular gases; it doesn’t follow normal dispersion patterns.
Unless, of course, it’s attracted by sothing with a spirit-gathering effect.
Most spiritual objects have a certain spirit-gathering effect, but the effectiveness varies.
The large amount of spiritual qi gathered a few centiters above the ground indicated that there was a very strong spirit-gathering object concealed underground.
Li Jing couldn’t figure out where the object was.
Whatever it was, it had an incredibly strong spirit-gathering effect.
It was so strong that it attracted a dense layer of spiritual qi that covered the entire cave floor, largely blocking the vision of the Sky Eye Technique and making it impossible for him to precisely locate the object.
What should he do?
Li Jing frowned.
Should he search slowly?
He was not that patient.
After pondering for a mont, Li Jing had a thought and softly reprimanded.
"Linglong! Zhenshi!"
"Whoosh!"
The Linglong Tower beside him instantly soared to a hundred feet tall and landed with a loud crash.
After being "promoted" to a Lifebound Magic Instrunt, the Linglong Tower was connected to Li Jing in an indescribable way, truly facilitating the movent of his heart.
The highest secret of the Zhenshi Skill was that it didn’t require any hand signs or spell constructs.
"Boom!"
The Linglong Tower crashed to the ground with a loud noise.
This ti, its power was far more terrifying than ever before.
As a Lifebound Magic Instrunt, not only did the power of the Linglong Tower increase exponentially,
but it had also beco Li Jing’s second origin, carrying a golden pill of the late Four Realm stage within it.
Striking soone with a golden pill was not sothing a cultivator could do.
But a monster can use a demon pill to strike soone.
However, using the demon pill to attack is a desperate asure for a monster. It would only resort to this when cornered as it risks damaging its own cultivation.
Li Jing didn’t have this concern.
The reason was simple.
Encasing his outer elixir was the Linglong Tower, a spiritual weapon. No matter how hard he threw it, it would never hurt the elixir.
As the Linglong Tower crashed to the ground, the entire cavern shook violently, a blast wave swept through, clearing away the thick spiritual qi above the ground.
Li Jing stood midway in the air, watching the ground through his third eye.
The vibrations quickly subsided and the dispersed spiritual qi, exploded by the shockwave, resud its natural state, floating freely as Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Qi.
Imdiately after, Li Jing clearly saw through his Sky Eye Technique that a portion of the spiritual qi was being drawn by a certain force, slowly moving towards a flat piece of ground not far away.
He found it!
Li Jing’s eyes glowed brightly.
Just as he was about to move over and take a closer look, a furious accusation suddenly rang out.
"Ant! You dare to disturb the sacred land of my Saint Clan’s sacred rulers! Die!"
?
Li Jing was perplexed and slowly turned his head around.
What he saw were dozens of streams of light shooting toward him from the tunnel leading to the deeper part of the cavern.
Li Jing laughed.
These were like free als being delivered to his door!
Wasn’t this a double victory?
"Linglong."
With a soft call,
The Linglong Tower rose from the ground, maintaining its enormous hundred-foot tall stature, it transford into a thick beam of golden light and directly collided with the dozen or so streams of light that were shooting towards him.
Well, these ten or so were truly brave.
Undeterred by the golden light of the Linglong Tower, they charged straight into it.
And, then there was no ’then’.
"Experience 68422."
"Level up, 45. Spiritual Power Intensity 90, Skill Points 2."
"Level up, 46. Spiritual Power Intensity 92, Skill Points 2."
A series of three prompts brought a smile to Li Jing’s face.
Almost seventy thousand experience points at once, this was more satisfying than killing a swarm of Parasite Insects.
Not only was it a large quantity, it was high quality too!
He was about to level up again. Only four levels left before reaching the Fifth Boundary, Li Jing eagerly looked towards the passage leading to the deeper parts of the cavern.
After waiting for a while, nothing more appeared.
Li Jing was a bit upset.
Is that it?
That’s all?
Bring on more!
If not people, another swarm of Parasite Insects would do just fine!
With many desires unsatisfied, Li Jing turned around with a smirk to look at the flat surface where the Spiritual Qi was gathered not far away.
What did those few who suddenly appeared not afraid of death shout just now?
The resting place of the Saint Lord of the Saint clan?
What is a Saint Lord?
Li Jing didn’t know.
However, he could roughly understand that this seemingly empty cavern was actually the grave of so prestigious ancestor of the Saint clan.
If nothing unexpected happened, the location sensed by the Spirit Weapon Linglong’s was exactly the location of the grave.
He infuriated more than ten people by just this one move.
If he ssed with this grave, would the entire Saint clan co charging out?
With a dismissive wave, he stored the Linglong Tower that had returned, and summoned the Flying Sword Blue Edge, weaving several Handprints in his hand, lifting the sword high above his head.
"Heavenly Sword, Slay Evil!"
The Slay Evil Sword Technique was a sword move that could be executed once the Heavenly Sword Skill had reached the level of minor achievent.
Li Jing didn’t like to use this move.
Why use a low-level sword move when he could directly achieve Unity of Man and Sword with the sa Handprint?
But using Slay Evil now was just right.
Slay Evil wasn’t particularly strong.
Its power is average.
But its sword phantom is thick and long enough, with a large attack range.
"Whoosh!"
A sword phantom nearly two hundred ters long erupted from the tip of the Flying Sword Blue Edge.
Li Jing, holding the sword phantom, flew over the flat surface where the Spiritual Qi was concentrated, and slashed down with one stroke.
"Swoosh!"
The two hundred ter long sword phantom cut through the ground like tofu.
Imdiately, a strand of faint light erged from the deep crevice.
Seeing the faint light erging, Li Jing’s eyes brightened.
There really is sothing!
And it looks quite large!
With a glance towards the passageway leading to the deeper depths of the ground, Li Jing summoned nearly three thousand Spirit Strikes behind him.
The next second, the Spirit Strikes were released all at once.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
The ground that had already been ripped apart by the crevice was imdiately blown to a ss, with dust and fragnts flying everywhere.
After a round of Spirit Strike bombardnt, a huge pit with a diater of several tens of ters was blasted open in the ground.
Faint light, still deeper.
Seeing that he hadn’t reached the place yet, another round of Spirit Strikes was generated behind Li Jing.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
Carpet-bombing with Spirit Strikes successfully deepened the pit by dozens of ters.
The dust is flying, blocking the view.
But the faint light clearly showed through.
He’s there.
With the corners of his mouth twitching upward, Li Jing waved his hand and let out a surge of Spiritual Power.
The Spiritual Power rolled out, stirring up a powerful wind that swept away the dust and smoke.
Imdiately after, a gray stone coffin, more than ten ters long and six to seven ters wide, revealed itself.
At first glance, Li Jing confird that this stone coffin was a treasure.
The stone coffin exuded a cold and eerie aura, with strange texts carved on the lid.
Most of these texts were in the language of Lizard n.
But the coffin itself was not the object the Spirit Weapon Linglong sensed.
At least according to Li Jing, the stone coffin had nothing to do with the gold attribute.
The object was likely inside the coffin.
As he descended through the sky into the pit, Li Jing knocked the lid open with a single slap.
In an instant, a dazzling golden light burst forth.
Peering inside, Li Jing discovered a large and a smaller, but still huge, pair of skeletons in the coffin.
Located between the two skeletons was a golden stele inscribed with unique text.
The golden light radiated from this stele.
Li Jing, suspended in mid-air, gestured in the air and pulled the stele out.
The massive golden stele was incredibly heavy in his hands.
After casting a glance at the stele, Li Jing asked,
"Linglong, is this the object you sensed?"
"Yes!"
The voice of Spirit Weapon Linglong echoed regretfully in his mind.
"Master, it seems we cannot cast a spell on this object, it has already been refined into a Spirit weapon."
"It has been refined into a Spirit weapon?"
Li Jing frowned slightly but without giving it further thought, he stored the stele in his storage space.
Whether it had been refined or not, it was a good item worth keeping.
After stowing the golden stele away, Li Jing’s gaze landed back on the two skeletons in the stone coffin.
The skeletons were really large.
The larger one had a minimum height of six ters, by his estimation.
The smaller one was around four ters tall.
Almost instantly, Li Jing connected these two skeletons with the two, large and small, thrones he had discovered in a palace to the south earlier.
The owners of these skeletons clearly had a high cultivation level when they were alive.
Just by looking at the remaining bone structure, a chilling feeling filled his heart.
Glancing up at the sky above the pit, Li Jing’s face darkened.
Even after desecrating their ancestor’s grave, the Saint clan had not raised an alarm.
Had they beco timid just because a dozen of them had died?
Where was their spirit?
Bowing his head to look at the coffin again, Li Jing sank down and placed the heavy lid back on it.
He couldn’t defile the deceased strong ones. That had to be avoided.
But he wasn’t planning on leaving this coffin here.
The stone coffin was a treasure, filled with peculiar text.
And the two skeletons inside still possessed a weak yet tangible power.
Bringing them back, the Research Institute would probably be interested.
Leaving them here would be a waste. Better to make them useful to him.
After stuffing the entire coffin into his storage space, Li Jing levitated into the air, looking towards the passage that led deeper underground, and opened the suitcase he’d fetched.
The Saint clan had disappointed him considerably.
But he still had to deliver the gift.
The nuclear warheads stored in the suitcase were elegantly compact. Each was about the size of a remote control.
He took out one, weighed it in his hand, while pouring in his spiritual power.
The next instant, he could clearly feel a scalp-prickling power brewing within it.
Without any hesitations, Li Jing flung the nuclear warhead away.
He had not learned the General Object Control Skill.
If he had, he could have used the skill to shoot all six nuclear warheads like flying swords, to a place deep enough.
Fortunately, he has ventured on the path of Body Refining, and thus had tons of power in his hands. Throwing them manually worked just as well.
The minute he let go of the nuclear warhead, it shot towards the deep parts of the cavern like a shell.
Li Jing didn’t tarry, activating and tossing the remaining five warheads one after the other.
After delivering the gift, he decisively summoned the Linglong Tower, and shot away like a streak of golden light.
If he could...
He’d really like to see if the fireworks were spectacular.
But these were firework displays that could potentially kill if observed directly.
The golden light streaked forwards.
Approximately five seconds later, a deafening "boom" echoed from the back, followed by rampant tremors that threatened to break the entire frawork of the underground cavern.
Without looking back, Li Jing focused on his escape.
He could acutely sense a frightening wave of energy unfurling and rolling towards him like a storm from the deep.
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