Chapter 204: Breaking Through Seven Layers of Defense

What Lin Zhangqing just said, and his attitude, gave Lu Xinyi great hope, so he decided to strive for it.

So he didn't say anything more and began to observe the terrain nearby; he should be judging their accurate location now, anyway, Lin Zhangqing didn't care about him.

He just released Chu Yi and Chu Er from the Spirit Beast Bracelet and let them watch in the air.

At this time, Lu Xinyi also moved and began to head into the mountains. Lin Zhangqing followed not far behind him, his divine sense always paying attention to him.

Following him as he darted around in the mountains, Lin Zhangqing remained silent and didn't urge him. Fortunately, he was indeed heading deep into the mountains.

About three hours later, he finally stopped at a piece of mountain rock.

Lin Zhangqing understood that they had arrived, but he didn't see the entrance to the cave now.

Lu Xinyi took the initiative to say: "We're here, this is the place. I hid the entrance; it's over there, follow me!"

Lin Zhangqing nodded and followed him for another few dozen zhang, arriving at a place growing a large area of thorny vines.

"Is this the place?" Lin Zhangqing saw him standing still and asked directly.

Lu Xinyi nodded and said: "The entrance is behind this patch of thorny vines. I also used some stones to cover part of the passage and the entrance to avoid anyone accidentally breaking in."

Since he had already found the place, Lin Zhangqing didn't delay time and directly fired a few fireballs. A large area of thorny vines was burned, and soon a large area was cleared.

It revealed a rock wall piled with rubble. Lin Zhangqing directly probed his divine sense inside and soon found the accurate location of the cave entrance.

At this point, there was nothing for Lu Xinyi to do.

So Lin Zhangqing said to him: "Rest assured, after I get the things in the cave abode, I will put you in Lu Family Settlement. Now you go into the Spirit Beast Bracelet first."

Lu Xinyi was helpless and could only nod; he now had to obey Lin Zhangqing's arrangements for everything.

Directly putting Lu Xinyi into the Spirit Beast Bracelet, Lin Zhangqing observed that this place was all rock, and there was no way to use the Earth Travel Technique to get in.

Now he could only honestly clear away the pile of rubble at the entrance, but Lin Zhangqing also had a way; he directly found a large storage bag and then collected the stones piled at the entrance into the storage bag.

There were too many stones, and Lin Zhangqing didn't take them all away; he only cleared a passage that was barely enough for a person to enter.

Fortunately, the rubble only blocked the entrance and part of the passage, and soon he passed through. Lin Zhangqing finally successfully entered the cave abode.

To prevent danger or someone sneaking in, Lin Zhangqing first put three defense talismans on himself.

Then he returned and left twenty-four Purple Crystal Scorpions outside the cave abode, letting them stay invisible and on alert, before returning inside to carefully observe the layout of the cave abode.

The cave abode space was not very large, small and exquisite, about five zhang in radius, and there were five doors on the cave walls.

Four of them had already been opened, and the one remaining closed should be the one that the two Lu Xinyi brothers had never been able to open.

However, Lin Zhangqing was not too anxious; instead, he searched the four opened rooms carefully again and knocked on every corner.

As a result, he found nothing, and there were even fewer hidden compartments. It seemed that others were not stupid and didn't give Lin Zhangqing a chance to pick up leaks at all.

That left this last stone door. Lin Zhangqing pushed it hard, but the stone door was as stable as a rock and didn't react at all.

Knowing that ordinary means would definitely be useless, he didn't waste any more effort.

He retreated directly to the passage he came in from, summoned the Thunder Horn, and then injected spiritual energy. Soon, with the coordination and mobilization of the Eight Hundred, a Geng Metal Divine Thunder was generated.

Worried that the power of one divine thunder would not be enough, Lin Zhangqing himself mobilized three apertures, and the thunder spiritual energy inside generated a Geng Metal Divine Thunder, controlling it with the Thunder Control Technique, ready to fire.

Then, controlling the two divine thunders, he blasted them together at the middle of the stone door. After two thunderous roars with a very short interval, the stone door on the cave wall had disappeared. After waiting for a long while, the smoke and dust inside dissipated, and Lin Zhangqing walked in carefully to check.

He discovered that there was actually another world inside; the space in this room was much larger than the outside, at least twenty zhang in radius.

And in the very center, there was a huge and eye-catching formation, but the formation was not activated and was already covered with a layer of dust. He didn't know what this formation was used for.

The space was very spacious, but there was nothing. Lin Zhangqing began to search carefully inside, and finally, at a corner, he made a discovery.

To be precise, he made a discovery on a skeleton: a bright purple halo, and a very thin semi-transparent thread tied to a piece of black wood.

The black wood was about two inches long and hung on the neck of the skeleton, like a pendant.

The person to whom this skeleton belonged must have valued this thing very much before death; even the semi-transparent thread tied to the black wood should be silk swallowed by some kind of Third-Grade Spirit Silkworm.

The purple halo was emitted by this piece of black wood. Lin Zhangqing understood that the purple halo indicated that this piece of black wood was something related to the soul and divine sense.

Added to the environment he was in, Lin Zhangqing already had some guesses in his heart.

Carefully observing this skeleton, the clothes and such had weathered away, and the whole skeleton had shriveled to the point where only a layer of skin wrapped it. It seemed that it had been dead for a very long time.

On the skeleton and around it, he didn't find any trace of a storage bag; instead, on his left wrist, he saw a round bracelet. Lin Zhangqing guessed that this was very likely a storage bracelet.

Besides these two things, there was nothing else, and the surroundings were excessively clean and tidy.

However, seeing the storage bracelet, Lin Zhangqing was not too excited and didn't even go near to take it; instead, he retreated a distance.

He began to search other corners carefully. Lin Zhangqing prepared to wait until the end to deal with this skeleton and the things on him.

Although this space was not small, under Lin Zhangqing's search, it was all checked, and there were two places worth noting.

The first place was the huge formation in the center of the whole space; he didn't know what its function was, so for the sake of safety, Lin Zhangqing didn't step into the range of that formation.

The second place was the skeleton. These were the only two dangers in this space.

Lin Zhangqing didn't understand the formation, so he ignored it first. However, Lin Zhangqing had experience in how to deal with the skeleton.

Standing from a relatively far place, a series of fireballs blasted towards the skeleton. Low-pitched fireball roars sounded, and the chain of fireball explosions blasted the skeleton into fragments, flying everywhere.

Suddenly, under the cover of these sounds, lights, and flames, a black light broke through the flames and lunged straight at Lin Zhangqing's face.

Seeing the black light lunging, Lin Zhangqing was shocked. Although he had long harbored such a hypothesis in his heart, he didn't expect to actually encounter it.

However, Lin Zhangqing was well-prepared. The black light naturally couldn't succeed. With a thought, he activated the skill inherent in the Three Treasures Spirit Beast Bracelet and instantly cast a defensive spirit shield covering his whole body.

This was the first time Lin Zhangqing had used this skill of the Spirit Beast Bracelet in a Dharma battle.

The black light penetrated the outermost three layers of defensive light shields provided by the defense talismans; "po, po, po," the three layers of defensive light shields shattered upon impact.

The black light hit the newly formed defensive spirit shield directly, and it only took one breath to break through the spirit shield.

Then it hit three suddenly appearing Thunder Shields directly. "Ah, ah, ah," three consecutive screams that shook the soul sounded.

It could be heard that these three screams were weaker than the last, and in the end, the black light was only one-tenth of its original size.

He thought it was finally gone, but unfortunately, it hit the main body of the Heavenly Thunder Shield again. After a faint scream, everything in the cave abode returned to peace.

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