Chapter 147: Princess Qingyue
As she spoke.
The luxurious aerial banquet had already been set up.
These delicacies used special ingredients and were brewed using spiritual materials and spiritual medicines.
They were colorful, fragrant, and delicious, with spiritual energy overflowing.
"There are nineteen layers of underground palaces in the outer layers of the Shang Emperor's Tomb."
While eating, Zhou Lingling's expression was solemn.
"In the past, explorations by the God-Given Realm basically stopped at the tenth or eleventh layer."
"To advance further is extremely difficult."
"Occasionally, direct descendants with heaven-gifted talent advance bravely, entering the twelfth underground palace to obtain a large amount of resources."
"We want to get into the top three."
"We must at least enter the eleventh underground palace."
"Above the tenth underground palace, it is possible for Spring Realm spirit demons and ghosts to appear!"
Liu Feng to the side, however, had a calm expression; he looked at Jiang Jian and said: "Sister Lingling, what are you afraid of? With our team's strength, we should be able to handle Spring Realm spirit demons and ghosts."
Even Zhou Sisi nodded and whispered: "Cousin, you are just too obsessed with the ranking; with Jiang Jian here, the top three shouldn't be difficult."
Zhou Lingling clearly had an obsession in her heart and didn't say any more.
The Shang Emperor's Tomb was simply too large in scale.
Among the hundreds of entrances, there existed many underground palaces with countless burial objects.
After the year 2875, these burial objects underwent drastic changes; some turned into rare spiritual resources, and some turned into spirit demons and ghosts.
This was also the reason why the Zhou family allowed guests to be invited to explore the Shang Emperor's Tomb.
There were many entrances to the underground palaces.
During exploration, each entrance would be assigned to one Zhou clan member.
The harvest from it would belong entirely to them.
As for whether this Zhou clan member chose to invite guests, it was entirely up to their own will.
After all, some Zhou clan members were not very strong.
They could only rely on inviting guests to help them explore.
Behavior like Zhou Lingling's, inviting guests to compete for clan competition rankings, was very common.
Because, during the clan competition, all resources in this entrance belonged to Zhou Lingling.
Whether she wanted to invite guests or not, others had no right to interfere.
"It's time to go."
Liu Feng stood up, his expression somewhat excited.
Zhou Sisi and Zhou Lingling both looked toward Jiang Jian.
"Jiang Jian, we should go."
Zhou Sisi whispered.
Having experienced the Zhou Qing incident, Jiang Jian had already become the absolute core of the team.
The other three were convinced by him and had no more objections.
Jiang Jian, dressed in a gold-threaded white robe, had originally been cultivating quietly.
At this time, he stopped his cultivation, stood up, and the spiritual energy around him quietly converged.
The cabin door opened.
Cold morning mist rushed toward them.
The warship was still suspended in the sky, and in all directions, there were Zhou family combat warships!
Nearly fifty of them!
Below was an endless, unimaginably massive building.
The imperial mausoleum, the Shang Emperor's Tomb.
"The entrance assigned to us is Underground Palace No. 337."
Zhou Lingling pressed her identity device, her tone calm, "Set the coordinates, lower the gangway immediately!"
The next second, the Zhou family guards operated the warship.
At the cabin door, a double-layered gangway extended and stretched downward.
"Let's go down!"
Zhou Lingling walked in front and was the first to go down the gangway.
Jiang Jian fell to the back of the team, walking on the gangway, spiritual energy surging around his body to resist the biting cold of the high altitude.
All around, on dozens of warships, the gangways were all lowered.
Teams of Zhou family juniors, along with the guests they brought, descended along the gangways to the ground.
"Underground Palace No. 337!"
Zhou Lingling looked at the tunnel in front of her and confirmed the coordinates again.
The surrounding soil and rocks had long been cleaned up cleanly.
This tunnel was very wide, and at every moment, icy Yin energy seeped out from it.
"One more minute."
Zhou Lingling glanced at her identity device.
Except for Jiang Jian, the others were holding their breath, their faces showing excitement.
Jiang Jian, meanwhile, had a calm gaze, looking toward the darkness in the depths of the tunnel.
His Shenque spiritual essence had already reached the limit of limits.
Advancing even a tiny bit more was almost impossible.
As long as he was willing.
He could break through the Spring acupoint at any time and step into the second realm!
"I always feel that something is still missing."
Jiang Jian frowned slightly, "Where exactly is my cultivation limit lacking?"
Following behind Zhou Lingling, he walked into the tunnel.
Jiang Jian's thoughts were still surging.
Breaking through to the Spring Realm was but a snap of the fingers.
But Jiang Jian still wanted to try to find that trace of spiritual opportunity.
This trace of spiritual opportunity was mysterious and profound.
He didn't know where it lay.
But Jiang Jian had a premonition in his heart.
As long as he could break through this trace of spiritual opportunity.
The spiritual essence of the God-Given Realm could achieve true perfection!
As they went deeper into the tunnel, the few felt colder and colder.
The passage in front gradually became wider.
The Shang Emperor's Tomb was too large in scale.
This kind of entrance had long been sealed by the Zhou family, and before this, no one had ever been here.
Only until the moment before the clan competition began would the formation seal be lifted.
"So cold!"
Zhou Sisi gritted her teeth and urged more spiritual energy to protect her body.
Liu Feng paused, stopped his steps, and walked toward a side chamber nearby: "There are more than twenty pieces of refined iron here!"
In the side chamber, many metal objects were placed.
At this very moment, although they were of different shapes, they had all turned into refined iron.
Refined iron was extremely precious!
Each piece of refined iron could be sold for hundreds of thousands of Alliance coins!
"Here, there are a few natural spiritual stones!"
"More than twenty stalks of Corpse-Attracting Incense!"
Liu Feng continuously scavenged for resources, putting them all into his bag.
Although he was wealthy.
But the resources in this underground palace were simply too many, and collecting them was too easy.
No one would complain about having too much money.
And this was merely one of the hundreds of underground palaces in the Shang Emperor's Tomb.
Furthermore, it was only the outer layer.
"In front is the first underground palace."
Zhou Lingling stopped and took out her weapon, which was a technological light sword.
"No need for such trouble."
Jiang Jian walked past her, the gold threads on his white robe emitting a faint light.
Walking a few steps, the view suddenly opened up.
A spacious palace chamber appeared before their eyes.
Ancient murals were carved around the palace chamber.
In the very center, a stone coffin was placed.
"I'll provide lighting for you all!"
Zhou Sisi walked into the palace chamber, formed seals with both hands, and condensed a ball of scorching light, suspending it above her head.
Immediately, the palace chamber was as bright as day!
At the same time, the coffin shook violently!
Boom.
A pale bone claw pushed the coffin open forcefully and reached out!
"Finally seeing the sun again."
The skeleton creaked all over, sat up, ghost fire burned in its eyes, and its voice was hoarse.
It looked at Zhou Lingling and the others, and the ghost fire in its eyes suddenly intensified!
"This is the smell of flesh and blood!"
The skeleton shook all over, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, making a move to pounce over!
Crack!
A stream of light blasted past casually, and the skeleton didn't even have time to move before it shattered into bone fragments all over the ground!
Jiang Jian walked past the coffin with an expressionless face: "I'll go to the front; you all are responsible for collecting resources."
Liu Feng kicked open the stone lid of the coffin, and while scavenging for the burial objects that had turned into spiritual items, he looked at the bone fragments all over the ground with pity: "Little ghosts like you would be doing odd jobs as coolies above. It's better to be dead now, so as not to be caught and suffer."
The team moved at an extremely fast speed.
Gradually.
Jiang Jian and Zhou Lingling had already reached the seventh underground palace.
Liu Feng and Zhou Sisi, meanwhile, were busy collecting resources and were left behind.
"Watch out for the Steel Fork Ghost!"
Zhou Lingling looked ahead, her expression changing slightly.
Dozens of Steel Fork Ghosts broke out of the murals on the tunnel walls, screaming as they rushed toward Jiang Jian!
Boom!
The next second, screams rang out continuously!
Jiang Jian didn't stop his steps, and the frost-white karmic fire around his body burned fiercely!
All the Steel Fork Ghosts, as soon as they were touched by the flames, were burned all over their bodies in an instant.
Within a few short seconds, they were completely turned into ashes!
The screams came to an abrupt end!
Jiang Jian stepped into the underground palace, felt something in his heart, and looked up.
The top of the palace chamber had changed its appearance, much more exquisite than the previous underground palaces.
On it, there were many stone carvings and murals.
Carved with the sun, moon, stars, and celestial maidens in the floating world.
The next second.
The gentle and elegant celestial maiden's expression suddenly changed!
She struggled out from the top of the palace chamber, turned into a hideous ghost, and pounced toward Jiang Jian!
"This thing should be worth a lot of money."
Jiang Jian's gaze remained unchanged, and he waved his robe sleeve casually.
The Hanging Xuan Shan Yin appeared instantly, green light bloomed, suppressing the celestial maiden ghost in place, unable to move!
It was bound by the green light, clearly not expecting to be subdued instantly, and resentment grew in its heart, letting out an incomparably venomous hiss!
"I'll leave it to you."
Jiang Jian withdrew the Hanging Xuan Shan Yin, separated a ray of green light, and threw it behind him casually.
Seeing this scene.
Zhou Lingling's expression changed slightly, and she hurriedly used her methods to control this celestial maiden ghost.
"Mural celestial maiden monster, this is a precious species."
Zhou Lingling looked closely and couldn't help but look happy, "If sold as a pet, it's worth at least five million Alliance coins!"
Jiang Jian didn't pay attention to her and continued to push forward.
Whether encountering ghosts or spirit demons.
They were all suppressed on the spot, easily swept away!
His cultivation at 113% of the God-Given Realm was simply too terrifying.
These spirit demons and ghosts, not even at the Spring Realm, had no power to resist at all.
Behind, in the underground palace tunnel.
"We can't even see their shadows in front anymore!"
"This is too fierce!"
"How fast must this speed be!"
Liu Feng and Zhou Sisi, with big bags and small bags, carrying a massive amount of spiritual resources, exclaimed repeatedly.
In front, there was completely no sound anymore.
This meant that Jiang Jian and Zhou Lingling had already gone at least several underground palaces deeper than the two of them!
"Scavenge everything clean!"
"It's practically picking things up for free!"
Zhou Sisi looked excited, "Every clan competition, exploring the Shang Emperor's Tomb, teams can only get a small portion of resources to compete for ranking."
"We don't have this kind of pressure at all!"
"We just need to pick, pick, pick, without worrying about external interference, and even less about dragging down the team's progress!"
Liu Feng felt the same way and nodded: "Others definitely don't scavenge as thoroughly as our team."
His guess was not much different from the facts.
For these Zhou family juniors.
Although the resources in the outer layers were precious.
But in the clan competition, coming out on top and being valued by the family was more important!
Thirty teams were almost all pushing forward!
They had almost no energy to scavenge for spiritual resources along the way!
Once they stopped to put their minds on resources and treasures.
Then, their speed of advancement would inevitably slow down.
And they would be left far behind by others!
Zhou family juniors, whether direct or collateral, almost all had high spirits; no one was willing to be compared to others!
There were almost no teams that could find a perfect balance between speed of advancement and scavenging for resources!
But Jiang Jian not only grasped the balance point but also pushed it to the extreme!
Not only was the speed of advancement extremely fast, but the exploration progress was extremely deep.
The resources behind were scavenged by Zhou Sisi and Liu Feng with all their might, not missing a single bit!
If the resources obtained by other teams along the way were one portion.
Then the resources collected by Liu Feng were at least five or six portions!
At the same time.
Zhou family Council of Elders.
"Zhou Lingling's team is actually temporarily ranked first!"
An elder pointed at the light spot moving fastest on the holographic screen, his expression suspicious.
The other Zhou family elders also showed confusion.
The holographic map sensed identity device information.
It could only see exploration progress, not the situation inside the underground palace.
The light spot representing Zhou Lingling almost didn't stop, sweeping all the way!
Its exploration progress had already reached the tenth underground palace, far in the lead!
The highest exploration progress of other Zhou family teams had only reached the eighth layer!
"Even Zhou Wu, Zhou Shanyue, and Zhou Qing have been compared and left behind!"
An elder said: "Zhou Lingling seems to have brought a guest."
"Not bad!"
Someone else showed appreciation, "According to our Zhou family rules, for the juniors' clan competition, exploring the Shang Emperor's Tomb allows inviting guests!"
"Cultivation is not just about fighting and killing."
"It's also about human relationships!"
"Connections and relationships, and recruiting talent, are equally important!"
Hearing this.
Several more elders had bright gazes.
The Zhou family had quite a few guests.
Not just God-Given Realm, Spring Realm.
Even among the Zhou family elders, there were guests of the Divine Palace Realm!
After all, the Zhou family occupied such a massive treasure trove of resources.
If they relied solely on family power to support it, it would inevitably be thin.
Under these circumstances.
The Zhou family continuously recruited heaven-gifted talents, reached agreements, and signed God-Witness Contracts with them.
Over time.
The Zhou family expanded rapidly, forming a behemoth that suppressed Taiping Prefecture.
Tenth underground palace.
"He is still walking forward!"
Zhou Lingling stopped and looked forward, her face pale.
She had just cleared a batch of rat demons, and her spiritual energy was nearing exhaustion!
But Jiang Jian in front made her keep refreshing her understanding.
His spiritual energy was so thick it was almost terrifying!
"I need to recover some spiritual energy."
"Otherwise, I won't be able to keep up with Jiang Jian's pace."
Zhou Lingling opened her handbag, took out a pill, and swallowed it.
The next second.
Her spiritual energy was replenished, recovering about 30%.
But on Zhou Lingling's face, there was also a look of heartache.
This kind of pill to replenish spiritual energy was rare in quantity and very expensive.
What she didn't know was.
Jiang Jian in front didn't have infinite spiritual energy.
Rather, he had hundreds of Water Spirits!
Water Spirits were formed from the spiritual opportunity of rivers and were a specialty of Linjiang Prefecture and Hanjiang Prefecture.
In the debate between the two prefectures, the Water Spirits collected by students were extra rewards given by the two major prefecture governments.
On the market, Water Spirits were never sold.
The two prefecture governments would not allow such precious medicine to circulate.
Linjiang Prefecture and Hanjiang Prefecture, although relatively barren, had unique spiritual assets.
Water Spirits were one of them.
Taiping Prefecture, where the Zhou family was located, was a plain region.
Although prosperous and wealthy, it didn't have things like Water Spirits at all.
"Eleventh underground palace."
Jiang Jian took a Water Spirit, and as spiritual opportunity surged, his Shenque spiritual energy immediately recovered some.
The spiritual opportunity of the Water Spirit was very pure, of extremely high quality, and could be directly absorbed and used!
"Spring Realm ghost."
Looking at the palace maiden in front, Jiang Jian's expression was slightly serious.
She wore a seven-tassel crown, a plain pink embroidered palace dress, and her black hair hung down like a waterfall, spread out on the ground.
Clearly, based on her attire, even when she was alive, this girl's status would not have been low.
Shang Emperor period.
The seven-tassel crown was a regulation for the level of a princess.
"I have already died once."
The palace maiden turned around, looking at Jiang Jian, her pupils as dark as an abyss.
"I died as a burial sacrifice."
As she spoke, she gently opened her arms.
Her full head of pitch-black hair danced wildly!
In all directions, countless black energy gathered toward the girl!
"Do you want me to die a second time?"
The girl's face was as white as paper, her lips crimson, and she smiled at Jiang Jian.
Jiang Jian's expression was stern, his Shenque spiritual energy surging and undulating; he didn't have the slightest contempt for the palace maiden in his heart!
He could handle the Spring Realm Star Ring trash.
But Star Ring trash, after all, had no reason and most were puppets controlled by instinct.
What's more.
Star Ring trash, unlike planetary creatures, walked the path of mutation and evolution.
Their sensing of spiritual energy techniques was relatively dull.
But the palace maiden in front, with ghost power surging and an incomparably strong aura, was absolutely incomparable to Star Ring trash!
This was also Jiang Jian's.
First time truly facing a creature of the Spring Realm!
Suddenly, hundreds or thousands of strands of hair crossed a distance of dozens of meters and stabbed fiercely toward Jiang Jian!
Inch by Inch to the End of the World!
Jiang Jian's gaze turned cold, and his figure dissipated into black light!
Boom!!!
The pitch-black hair blasted into the stone wall, and the rocks shattered!
Losing its target, the palace maiden's expression didn't change; instead, she revealed a strange smile.
The next moment.
She suddenly turned around and flicked her palace dress sleeve fiercely behind her!
Clang!
A dull boom came, kicking up countless dust!
A frost-white light screen appeared in front of Jiang Jian, solidly blocking this blow!
Just now, Jiang Jian appeared behind her, and before he had time to make a move, he took a full sleeve blow!
Although he blocked the palace maiden's blow.
Jiang Jian was also blasted back by the huge force.
He retreated more than ten meters in succession!
The next second.
The palace maiden wore a strange smile, took advantage of this opportunity, leaned in, appeared directly in front of Jiang Jian, her full head of hair dancing wildly, and blasted and rolled over again!
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