Chapter 22

Long Yuan looked at the corpse.

It was an old man,

his face looking lifelike,

but there was a large hole in the center of his forehead, as if he had been pierced by a single finger.

And beside him,

a long black sword was suspended,

and the endless sword aura was emanating from this long black sword. ===== CHAPTER 53 =====

[Spirit Tool]: Mo Ye

[Grade]: High-Grade Saint Tool

[Inheritance]: Saint Spirit Sword Art (High-Grade Saint-Level Divine Ability)

Through the system,

Long Yuan saw the information for this long black sword.

"A Saint Sword that comes with an inheritance?"

"This is quite a good treasure!"

Then his gaze turned to the ring worn on the old man’s hand.

A powerhouse capable of wielding a Saint Tool

should have quite a few treasures in the space ring they left behind.

But Long Yuan could not obtain it;

the aura emanating from the body gave him a heart-stopping feeling.

Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration.

He walked out of the black ancient palace,

then activated the Long Di Palace, instantly taking the entire black ancient palace into the Long Di Palace.

"No matter how powerful you are, can you escape the suppression of an Emperor Tool?"

Long Yuan snorted coldly.

However, with things having reached this point,

he was no longer in a hurry.

The cooked meat was already in hand; was he afraid it would run away?

"I'll study it slowly when I get back!"

Long Yuan left the barrier space,

and when he arrived at the fissure that had appeared earlier due to the seizing of the Heavenly Essence Vein, he dived directly into the underground fissure.

The location of the Heavenly Essence Vein was very deep,

tens of thousands of miles from the surface,

so even he had to fly for a long time.

"Sure enough, there are a large number of essence stones here!"

The original Heavenly Essence Vein had already been taken away by him,

leaving behind a gully like a riverbed.

And on both sides of the riverbed,

thumb-sized diamond-shaped essence stones had formed, emitting dense heaven and earth essence.

These were heaven and earth essence stones born from long-term nourishment by the heaven and earth essence emitted by the Heavenly Essence Vein.

Essence stones not only contained pure heaven and earth essence, which was helpful for cultivation,

but were also the common currency of this cultivation world.

As the saying goes, money makes the mare go,

and with money, one could quickly improve the family's strength.

"It even nurtured Fifth-Order spirit herbs?"

Long Yuan looked excitedly at the spirit herbs that occasionally appeared on both sides of the riverbed,

and then spent some time picking the spirit herbs directly.

These would all be the foundation of the Chu family in the future; Long Yuan would certainly not give them up.

"Collect!"

After picking the spirit herbs, a huge suction force erupted from the Long Di Palace,

and the diamond-shaped essence stones rolled,

flying into the Long Di Palace...

After leaving the cave,

and hunting a few more demon beasts,

Long Yuan returned to the Chu family in Qingyangzhen under the cover of night.

"Go!"

His big mouth opened, a black vortex appeared,

and the Heavenly Essence Vein slowly descended beneath the Chu family grounds.

It was very calm,

without the commotion that had occurred when seizing the Heavenly Essence Vein.

The moment the Heavenly Essence Vein completely merged,

a massive surge of heaven and earth essence instantly erupted from beneath the earth, shrouding the entire Chu family in a mist.

"This feeling..."

Chu Tianyang, Chu Yan, and the others, who were in the middle of cultivation, were instantly awakened.

"Such dense heaven and earth essence!"

"How could so much heaven and earth essence suddenly appear here?"

Chu Yan looked in astonishment at the heaven and earth essence in the room that had almost turned into mist,

his expression one of shock!

"Elder Yao, what is going on?"

Unable to figure it out, Chu Yan called Elder Yao out.

"This..."

"What happened to your Chu family?"

"Why has the heaven and earth essence suddenly become so dense?"

"Only a Fifth-Order Heavenly Essence Vein could release such dense heaven and earth essence!"

Elder Yao looked at the hazy mist around them in astonishment.

"I don't know either!"

"It wasn't here just a moment ago! It suddenly became like this!"

Chu Yan shook his head.

"Something must have happened; go ask your father!"

"Alright!"

Even though it was night,

almost all the high-level members of the Chu family were alarmed by this sudden change.

"Father, what happened to our family?"

Chu Yan asked as he came to the side of the astonished Chu Jingyue.

"I don't know the specifics, but I suspect the Beast God must have found a Heavenly Essence Vein for our Chu family!"

Chu Jingyue said, stroking his chin,

because the Beast God had taken the Second Elder and the others into the Jiuxiao Mountains earlier precisely to search for a Heavenly Essence Vein!

And now that there was such a change,

besides the god-like methods of the Beast God, who else could it be? ===== CHAPTER 54 =====

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

Elder Yao’s voice rang out in Chu Yan’s mind.

"Since ancient times, forces have always been established upon Heavenly Essence Veins; never has anyone been able to extract a Heavenly Essence Vein and stuff it beneath a force!"

"This definitely cannot be man-made!"

But at this moment,

the Second Elder and the others ran over with excited faces,

shouting: "Ancestor, Patriarch, it’s simply a miracle!"

"Lord Beast God truly has god-like methods!"

"What exactly happened?" Chu Tianyang asked hurriedly: "Didn't you follow the Beast God to search for a Heavenly Essence Vein?"

"A Fifth-Order Heavenly Essence Vein! The Beast God not only found a Fifth-Order Heavenly Essence Vein, but has just successfully integrated the Heavenly Essence Vein beneath our Chu family grounds!"

"Otherwise, why do you think the heaven and earth essence here would suddenly skyrocket?"

Chu Hongxiao said excitedly.

He had just seen the Beast God integrate the river-like object obtained from the Jiuxiao Mountains into the ground beneath the family.

Out of curiosity, he had asked what it was,

and the Beast God told him that it was the Heavenly Essence Vein they were looking for on this trip!

"It really is a Heavenly Essence Vein!"

"The Beast God’s methods truly exceed our imagination!"

Chu Jingyue said in shock.

But compared to his shock,

Elder Yao was truly dumbfounded.

Even though he had lived for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, he had never heard of such methods.

Let alone the holy land he was previously in,

even some Emperor-level forces could not achieve this level!

"With the Beast God here, the rise of my Chu family is just around the corner!"

Chu Tianyang’s eyes were filled with tears.

He had never imagined

that their Chu family would one day develop to this extent.

And with this Fifth-Order Heavenly Essence Vein here,

his own breakthrough to a Fifth-Order Martial King was also just around the corner!

Perhaps the grand goal the Beast God mentioned of making the Chu family the number one family in this world could really be achieved!

Everyone in the Chu family was very happy,

and Long Yuan was also very excited,

because the system’s reward had finally arrived!

[Ding! Found a Heavenly Essence Vein for the Guardian Family!]

[Reward: Saint-Level Martial Skill Divine Ability "Hui Horn Heaven-Splitting Strike", one Saint-Level Heavenly Essence Vein, 5 portions of any Spirit Body Origin, 3 portions of any Spirit-Level Martial Soul Origin!]

In an instant,

the Saint-Level martial skill divine ability "Hui Horn Heaven-Splitting Strike" suddenly appeared in Long Yuan’s mind.

And he had completely mastered it without needing to learn or comprehend it!

As his mind stirred,

the three curved horns on his head began to bloom with blue light.

The light converged,

forming a blue sphere emitting biting cold energy in the center.

Swish!

A blue beam of light shot out from the sphere,

striking a mountain range not far away inside the Long Di Palace.

Boom!

With a loud noise,

the entire mountain range was razed to the ground and then immediately frozen!

"Powerful!"

"Truly worthy of being a Saint-Level divine ability!"

Seeing the power of this move, Long Yuan’s eyes lit up.

This was definitely much more terrifying than any of his previous methods!

"But it does consume a bit of internal spiritual energy!"

After one strike,

he felt a bit drained!

At this moment, he remembered the Saint-Level Heavenly Essence Vein rewarded by the system.

Long Yuan directly integrated this Saint-Level Heavenly Essence Vein into the ninth-floor space of the Long Di Palace.

The Long Di Palace had nine floors in total;

the first floor was the smallest, while the ninth floor was the largest!

When the Saint-Level Heavenly Essence Vein merged into the Long Di Palace,

the heaven and earth essence inside the entire Emperor Tool space suddenly became dense! ===== CHAPTER 55 =====