Chapter 93: Golden Core Old Monster?

However, it's a pity that water and fire are incompatible; I have already condensed a water-element spirit body phantom. If I were to condense a fire-element spirit body phantom now, without any other five-element harmonization in between, would the two spirit body phantoms fight each other in the qi sea dantian?

Things are definitely good stuff; waiting for Yunhe to obtain the Southern Ming Bird's essence blood himself, who knows how much time it will take, and what price it will cost.

Now directly obtained from Zou Zhongping's storage bracelet, saving a lot of time.

But unfortunately, it cannot be used right away.

Metal generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal.

If he can obtain a portion of wood-attribute five-element spirit beast bloodline demon beast essence blood, he can not only refine the wood-element spirit body phantom, but also likely smoothly condense the fire-element spirit body phantom.

In this way, the minor five-element spirit body would be considered more than half condensed, allowing the advantages of the Great Longevity Grand Five Elements True Scripture to be brought out.

However, according to the description of the Great Longevity Grand Five Elements True Scripture, before condensing the five-element spirit body, the more spirit body phantoms accumulated inside, the less stable it becomes, and the greater the danger to oneself.

That is also obviously a troublesome matter.

Wanting to gather all five-element spirit beast essence blood at once is difficult, and the time spent in between is also a waste of efficiency.

However, condensing the spirit body phantoms one by one will make oneself unstable, but it can exchange for an increase in cultivation speed and combat ability.

After thinking for a long time, Yunhe shook his head.

Actually, this consideration has no practical significance, because even knowing the drawbacks, under permissible conditions, Yunhe would still choose to first condense the spirit body phantoms to increase cultivation speed.

Cultivation base is the foundation of everything.

It's time to go.

I also don't know how the outside is now.

How many cultivators managed to escape successfully back then?

And how many sects received the news?

Although Blood Ritual and the Wang Clan Ancestor are both Golden Core cultivators, and they still have many Foundation Establishment cultivators under them, relying solely on them to oppose the surrounding so many realms, so many sects is unrealistic.

In this situation, Blood Ritual should have been able to foresee it, but he still chose to launch a ruthless purge against sect cultivators; there are only two possibilities.

One.

They would finish these, after harvesting the Zou family, they would flee far away, outside the influence of the major sects; then even if the major sects are angry, they would have nowhere to vent.

Two.

It is a result that Yunhe does not want to see.

That is, Blood Ritual and the Wang Clan Ancestor have their confidence, not fearing the major sects.

And this confidence likely rests upon the condition that they have a powerful sect behind them.

If that is indeed the case.

At that time.

It would likely turn into a slaughter between the Demonic Path Sect and the Righteous Path Sect.

Then that matter would really become a big deal.

No matter what, first ascertain the situation, then consider what to do next.

Collect the Red Pattern Spirit Bees back into the spirit insect bag, then gather several flag poles into the storage ring.

Zou Zhongping's storage ring has a much larger capacity than a storage bag, and being worn on the wrist, it is obviously more convenient for storing items than a storage bag.

Yunhe also doesn't need to worry about being recognized.

Because that storage ring has the ability to change its color and appearance.

As for saying, would a male cultivator wearing a ring look strange?

Hidden under the sleeve and unseen, in the world of cultivation, few people would judge a person by appearance or attire.

Not to mention wearing a ring, as long as it helps cultivation and combat, Yunhe has seen people wearing earrings, nose rings, and even tongue rings.

'After so long, the people of Blood Ritual probably won't come looking for me anymore, after all I am only an early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.'

No need to regard oneself as too important.

Yunhe self-mockingly smiled, then formed a seal and cast the Earth Escape Technique, his figure slowly rising.

'The yang energy here is abundant; I also don't know what the cause is.'

Adhering to the principle of caution first, the disturbance Yunhe created was very small.

Slowly.

He returned to the surface.

However, what surprised him somewhat was that he did not see the sun, but instead appeared in a mountain cave.

The yang energy inside this cave is even richer than underground.

But this also left Yunhe quite doubtful.

Originally I thought it might be a sunny place; due to some reasons, causing the yang energy to condense and not disperse, ultimately forming the abundant yang energy that pervades this place.

Just like some extremely yin places.

When a powerful cultivator or demon beast dies, resentment gathers; combined with the land's special nature, yin energy gradually accumulates to form a yin land, eventually leading to the birth of certain yin-evil entities.

But unexpectedly, the place where the yang energy is richest here is actually inside the cave.

'Could it be that there is some treasure?'

After a slight hesitation, Yunhe quickly released his divine sense to sweep.

'Huh?'

Although he didn't find any treasure brimming with yang energy, he did discover some clues inside the cave.

He arrived at the end of the cave.

Before his eyes appeared a solid and rugged rock wall.

The rock wall that should have been dry was instead covered with numerous water droplets.

And these water droplets presented a strange black color.

Yunhe stepped forward, gently drawing a drop into his palm, feeling a hint of coldness.

However, once the water droplet left the rock face, it dissipated into strands of black mist due to the yang qi filling this place, eventually vanishing into nothing.

"Yin qi?"

Having witnessed the terrifying dense fog that surrounded the Zou family, Yunhe gained a deeper understanding of yin qi.

But the problem arose.

Why would yin qi arise in this place where yang qi is stagnant?

If it weren't for someone observing closely, they might not even notice it.

He released his divine sense again, sweeping toward the back of the wall, yet still found nothing, as if it were truly just an ordinary rock face.

This left Yunhe feeling greatly doubtful, increasingly sensing something abnormal.

Although his divine sense was damaged, its essence remained strong; it shouldn't be that he couldn't find the source of such an abnormal phenomenon.

"It's not impossible for extreme yang to give birth to extreme yin. Although the yang qi here is rich, it's still far from being extreme yang. Moreover, the yin qi on the rock face is even thinner, far from reaching extreme yin."

Had he not been curious and drawn in that water droplet, he would not have discovered the trace of yin qi hidden within it.

Therefore.

"There's definitely something wrong behind this rock wall!"

His thought reached this point.

Yunhe hesitated for a moment, then once again formed the seal and cast the Earth Escape Technique.

It wasn't that he was reckless, having healed his scar and forgotten the pain.

Rather, he could clearly feel that the yin qi here was obviously insufficient to compare with the black mist encircling Zou City.

Moreover, in a place rich with yang qi, even if he encountered some dangerous yin entity, he could leave without worry.

Most importantly, if there truly were some danger hidden here, then while he was hiding underground, the danger should have come to him.

After all, although he used the Earth Escape Technique to hide underground, he wasn't very deep, nor far from here; over these many days nothing has happened, which shows that even if there were a threat behind the rock wall, it should still be within his capabilities.

Furthermore, he now possesses the Xuanwu bracelet combined with Three Yang Heavy Water, as well as the newly acquired Vermilion Fire Pearl, giving him sufficient confidence to deal with yin evil entities.

Immediately, he squeezed himself bit by bit into the space behind the rock wall.

As he passed through that icy layer of rock, suddenly appearing before his eyes was a sealed cave within a cave!

Moreover.

Just a wall away, the yin qi inside this cave was several times denser than that of the rock wall; although still not comparable to the black mist, it was close.

And what surprised Yunhe most was that within this small sealed cave, there actually lay a formation!

Most of the yin qi inside the cave emanated from that formation.

"Who?!"

A sudden voice.

It rang out beside Yunhe's ear.

This voice gave him the feeling of when, in Zou City, the false golden core elder of the Zou family, Zou Changming, transmitted a sound to him.

Instantly his heart was shocked.

Golden Core old monster?!

Within that formation, was there hidden a Golden Core cultivator?

He immediately hurriedly performed a salute, saying:

"Junior unintentionally intruded, offending Senior; please forgive me, Senior."

Cold sweat beaded on his forehead, his heart pounding "thump-thump".

To be honest, who could hide a Golden Core old monster in here?

"Get lost!"

The voice sounded like a thunderclap, suddenly ringing again beside Yunhe's ear.

Upon hearing it, Yunhe let out a light sigh, immediately preparing to salute again and then leave.

But suddenly, he again felt a hint of something off.

"Wrong. Although the yin qi here is heavy, it obviously cannot meet the cultivation requirements of a Golden Core cultivator. Placing a yin formation at the center of a yang-rich area is itself unreasonable; it doesn't look like secluded cultivation, more like... hiding?"

"Moreover, although the two voice transmissions were brief, how could they give me a feeling of being fierce outwardly but weak within?"

If he had indeed unknowingly intruded upon the secluded cultivation ground of a demonic Golden Core old monster, then not only would approaching this cave within a cave and nearly facing him directly be fatal, but even while he was hiding underground he should have been exterminated.

No doubt, with the divine sense of a Golden Core old monster, he could certainly locate him hiding underground.

Now that he has arrived here, the other party merely issued a verbal warning and never took action.

When did demonic Golden Core cultivators become so easy to talk to?

Putting himself in the other's shoes, if his own secluded cultivation spot were suddenly barged into by a junior.

"No, how could a Foundation Establishment cultivator possibly break into a Golden Core old monster's cultivation ground? This is simply unreasonable."

Thinking this, Yunhe halted his movement to leave, yet still performed the salute, saying:

"Senior, I have just arrived here, unfamiliar with the place; may I ask Senior to tell me where this is?"

While speaking, Yunhe remained uneasy in his heart, gripping the storage bracelet on his wrist; should the situation turn bad, he would immediately throw out the Xuanwu bracelet and the Vermilion Fire Pearl.

But that voice did not sound again.

Only when he made a motion to rise did the voice finally come.

"West of Héyù, at the tail of the Heavenly Ridge Mountain Range, within Sparrow Tongue Mountain."

"It turns out, without realizing it, I've nearly run into the Heavenly Ridge Mountain Range."

Yunhe confirmed his current location.

But the other party's answer raised Yunhe's confidence, which had been only seventy or eighty percent, up to ninety-nine percent.

"Thank you, senior."

"You can get lost."

But the more the other party acted like that, the calmer Yunhe felt.

"Senior, do you need my help?" He bowed again, his attitude earnest.

Another silence fell.

After a while, the other party spoke again, voice much calmer.

"Ah, forget it, forget it, old Daoist I made a mistake in my cultivation, I have no choice but to rely on this yang place to suppress the yin qi entering my body. If you truly have good intentions, little friend, you can go to Guiyuan Sect and find the sect head Xie Luojiang, and tell him that his martial uncle Qin encountered trouble in Tianling Mountain and urgently send help."

He paused, then spoke again:

"I won't let you make a wasted trip; when the time comes, my Guiyuan Sect will surely give great thanks."

Again, great thanks.

Yunhe's mouth twitched slightly, but he put on an air of sudden realization and said:

"So it's Martial Uncle Qin of Guiyuan Sect; I, the junior, have a deep friendship with your sect's Junior Brother Wu Shui, so I should certainly be able to help you, senior."

Saying that, he took out a transmission talisman, preparing to send a message.

"Ah, you know Wu Shui? That's truly great. However, relying solely on Wu Shui probably won't be enough to help the old Daoist; little friend, you still need to find more."

Pa!

But Yunhe slapped his forehead, chuckling as he said:

"Ah, sorry, I misspoke; Martial Brother Wu Shui seems to be a cultivator of the Spirit Beast Sect."

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Immediately, Yunhe flipped his palm, put away the transmission talisman, and brought out the Xuanwu Bracelet, looking toward the formation and saying:

"Senior, are you familiar with the Blood Rite?"

"Blood Rite?!"

The Xuanwu Bracelet was infused with a spell, quickly expanding to about one zhang wide, and strands of Three Yang Heavy Water adhered to it, contacting the yin qi inside the cave, emitting a 'hissing' sound.

". Little friend, what are you doing!"

Seeing this, the cultivator hiding in the formation seemed a bit flustered.

But Yunhe's actions did not stop.

He then produced the Li Fire Pearl, its scorching heat rising.

"Senior, please forgive my ignorance. I don't know. whether the senior should come out himself, or I should go in?"

"Forget it, it's too much trouble for the senior; I'll come myself."

Saying that, the magical aura on the Xuanwu Bracelet and Li Fire Pearl surged.

"Wait!"

(End of chapter)