Chapter 931: 100,000 Void Stones! Tie Xian Lian Breakthrough!

“What’s wrong?”

Xu Jingming placed the ice element essence into his space ring and followed Su Qingli’s gaze.

Ahead, about a hundred meters away, the glacier had completely collapsed.

Transparent crystalline stones faintly reflected light amid the snow.

“That’s...”

Xu Jingming’s eyes lit up.

With a single step, he crossed the hundred-meter distance in an instant and picked up a crystal stone from the ground.

The stone was about the size of a goose egg, transparent like crystal, yet its texture was utterly different from crystal.

It seemed to contain a mysterious energy that warped the surrounding space.

Holding it in his hand, he could clearly feel a sense of resistance.

“This must be Void Stone.”

Su Qingli walked over with her long, graceful legs, her figure swaying.

Void Stone is not only a specialty of the Xinhuo World—it exists on Blue Star as well.

But it’s extremely rare; she had only seen it one or two times.

“I didn’t expect to find this besides the element essences.”

Xu Jingming smiled.

Because he was learning that SSR-ranked lightning technique, he still owed the Xinhuo Divine Temple 3.1 million Void Stone.

He had to repay this amount, or he couldn’t learn any other SSR-ranked techniques.

Moreover, this trial’s ranking was based entirely on the number of Void Stone collected.

The more, the better.

“Teacher, you search the right side, I’ll take the left, and Eva handles the leftovers.”

“We’ll sweep this entire area and collect every single Void Stone!”

He still had a Chi Mang Liu Jin Guardian purchased from the Xinhuo Divine Temple—he could give it to Eva.

Actually, the Tie Xian Lian, which could grow thousands of vines, would be perfect for this task.

It could scan a ten-kilometer radius in just a few seconds.

But the Tie Xian Lian was currently in a critical phase of breaking through to the ninth tier, so it couldn’t be used.

“Alright.” Su Qingli nodded.

Eva excitedly activated the Chi Mang Liu Jin Guardian.

The three split into three directions and began searching.

Xu Jingming’s space ring had ample capacity—he simply collected every Void Stone he sensed with his spiritual force.

In less than half a minute, they had already gathered over four thousand Void Stone!

“We’ve only cleared less than one-fifth of the area.”

“Once we sweep the entire zone, we’ll likely collect at least fifty thousand Void Stone!”

Xu Jingming sped up. Eventually, the three spent four minutes scouring the entire area clean before regrouping.

“I’ve got 45,000. What about you two?”

Xu Jingming looked at Su Qingli and the Chi Mang Liu Jin Guardian operated by Eva.

“I have 42,000,” Su Qingli replied.

“I only got 14,000,” said Eva, who handled the cleanup—she collected the least.

“So just from this one area, we’ve gathered a full 100,000 Void Stone!”

Xu Jingming’s smile was hard to conceal.

This was only the seventh level—there were still six more levels ahead.

At this rate, they’d quickly gather the 3.1 million needed to repay the Xinhuo Divine Temple.

“Also, the rankings should’ve updated.”

The sky’s leaderboard remained visible—he glanced up and saw his rank.

23rd place, No. 344, Void Stone: [number]

Su Qingli was two spots behind him.

25th place, No. 345, Void Stone: [number]

“The number matches exactly what I have.”

“That means the Po Xu Tower has been monitoring my movements all along.”

Xu Jingming’s heart tightened.

He knew:

Both he and Su Qingli maintained spiritual force isolation nets around their bodies.

This prevented other psychics from spying on them.

After breaking through the sixth level of Lian Shen Shu, he was confident even ninth-tier experts couldn’t sense him.

Yet this method proved useless against the Po Xu Tower.

Looking further up, he saw the top rank.

1st place, No. 1, Void Stone: [number]

“220,000 Void Stone? Already?” Xu Jingming was startled.

“That No. 1 must be the ninth-tier peak from the Lei Ding family,” Su Qingli murmured beside him.

Ninth-tier peak!

Within the Po Xu Tower, where supreme experts couldn’t enter, this was the absolute pinnacle of combat power.

“It must be him.”

Xu Jingming nodded, sighing:

“That means even a ninth-tier peak’s spiritual force is useless here—the Po Xu Tower can spy on anyone at will.”

“Since even supreme experts can’t enter the Po Xu Tower, such abilities are understandable.”

Su Qingli wasn’t particularly surprised.

“Then I’m even more eager to see what awaits at the tower’s summit,” Xu Jingming smiled.

“Jingming, put these 42,000 Void Stone with you,” Su Qingli said, extending her slender hand to offer him the space ring filled with Void Stone.

“That way, your ranking can climb higher.”

Her limit was fixed at ninth-tier low; resources meant nothing to her—better to give them all to Xu Jingming.

Her upper limit was already fixed at Lower Ninth Stage; resources were useless to her, better to give them all to Xu Jingming.

Xu Jingming shook his head. “No. From now on, we split everything we find evenly.”

Though the Po Xu Tower was mysterious, for him—with his system—all he needed was psychic points.

External resources held little value.

Besides, Su Qingli was his teacher—he couldn’t just take her Void Stone for himself.

It was just a ranking—it didn’t matter that much.

“Don’t worry too much about your bottleneck, Teacher.”

“Once we find Qiao Lin and get the Chi Yun Fruit, we can resolve your side effects.”

Xu Jingming smiled, seeing through her thoughts. “And even if Qiao Lin doesn’t have it, the Po Xu Tower must have a solution.”

Hearing this, Su Qingli felt a warmth in her heart.

Whether or not the side effects could be cured, his attitude made her feel she hadn’t misjudged her disciple.

“Alright, I’ll keep the Void Stone with me for now—we’ll decide after we reach the thirteenth level,” Su Qingli retracted the space ring.

“Then good, I’ll keep the Void Stone for now until we reach the 13th level,” Su Qingli said, returning the space ring to her possession.

Xu Jingming grinned and turned to Eva. “Eva, hand over your Void Stone.”

“Favoritism! This is blatant favoritism!”

Eva, the twin-tailed little girl, planted her hands on her hips and pouted.

“You split everything with Teacher Su, but you just take mine!”

“What use do you, an AI lifeform, have for Void Stone?”

Xu Jingming chuckled.

“Who says I don’t need them!”

Eva puffed out her flat chest proudly.

“I have my own serial number and ranking—I’m No. 346, currently ranked 201st!”

“Oh? You heard that voice too?” Xu Jingming asked, puzzled.

“Yes!” Eva nodded her head cutely.

“It seems the Po Xu Tower classifies any being with spiritual force as a trial participant,” Su Qingli mused.

“Alright, then keep your Void Stone for now.”

Having confirmed this, Xu Jingming didn’t take Eva’s Void Stone.

At that moment, a strange spiritual force ripple suddenly emerged from his space ring, as if suppressing some kind of energy.

Sensing it, Xu Jingming froze for a moment, then immediately realized—his eyes widened in delight:

Xu Jingming, sensing this fluctuation, first froze in surprise, then immediately realized it and exclaimed with delight:

"The Iron-Thread Lotus is about to break through to the ninth tier!"