Chapter 1006: The Treasure Garden Opens

Facing Li Li Wuyuan's backing down, Li Luo gave a bland smile, then turned to Li Li Lingjing and said, "Cousin Li Lingjing, how were the harvests from the treasure vault earlier?"

Although he was also somewhat annoyed with Li Li Wuyuan, the harvest still had to be distributed, otherwise the other three veins would think the Dragon Fang Vein wanted to hog it all, which would affect their future cooperation.

Hearing this, Li Li Lingjing took out a large batch of jade boxes from her spatial sphere and opened them.

"This vault mainly collected Spirit Water Marvelous Light. The quantity is considerable, and the preservation is fairly intact. Among them, there are roughly three hundred bottles of Fifth and Sixth Ranks Spirit Water Marvelous Light, ninety bottles of Seventh Rank, and thirteen bottles of Eighth Rank. These quantities were tallied by the people from each vein who entered when they were obtained."

Li Luo nodded slightly. Just from a single vault, they had harvested several hundred bottles of Spirit Water Marvelous Light, including thirteen bottles of the Eighth Rank. If calculated in Heavenly Gold, the value of this batch of Spirit Water Marvelous Light was nearly close to a hundred million.

This was indeed a considerable sum of resources, no wonder Li Li Wuyuan had been keeping an eye on it.

Li Luo couldn't be bothered to haggle with the Dragon Blood Vein and the others, so he roughly divided this batch of Spirit Water Marvelous Light into five portions. Naturally, the share belonging to their Dragon Fang Vein was a bit larger. Li Li Lingjing and Li Li Fuling had contributed the most, so Li Luo felt entirely justified in giving them this extra portion.

After the division, Li Luo ignored the dissenting voices from the Dragon Blood Vein side. His current attitude was simple: if you have objections, then disband and go your separate ways.

He turned around, smiled at Li Li Lingjing, Li Li Fuling, and the others, then introduced Lü Qing'er, Jin-Zhong Jie, and their group to one another.

"Li Luo, not bad at all. In just this short while, you went and brought back a Princess from the Golden Dragon Mountain?" Li Li Fuling sized up Lü Qing'er, somewhat envious of the latter's ice-and-snow-like complexion, while teasing with a smile.

Li Li Lingjing held her Emerald Bamboo Green Snake Staff. Her gaze lingered on Lü Qing'er for a while, her pretty face showing little expression.

Jin-Zhong Jie, who stood nearby, noticed this and took half a step closer to Lü Qing'er, her body subtly tensing up, because from Li Li Lingjing, she sensed a dangerous aura.

However, Lü Qing'er's expression remained unchanged. She met Li Li Lingjing's gaze and gave her a faint smile.

Li Li Lingjing nodded slightly, treating it as a greeting, then turned and walked to one side.

Jin-Zhong Jie was somewhat displeased with Li Li Lingjing's coldness and was about to say something, but Lü Qing'er shook her head at her, so she could only swallow the words back.

Lü Qing'er glanced at Li Li Lingjing's graceful back. Relying on the keen intuition between women, she felt that this nominal "cousin" of Li Luo's seemed to be very different from that woman called Li Li Fuling.

At the very least, the emotions Li Li Fuling displayed toward Li Luo were relatively ordinary and simple.

"This Cousin Li Lingjing seems to be a very dangerous person." Lü Qing'er's gaze shifted as she muttered to herself. Relying on a certain power within her body, she faintly sensed a dangerous aura from Li Li Lingjing.

Moreover, although Li Li Lingjing's eyes held a faint smile when she looked at her, Lü Qing'er did not feel the slightest warmth in that smile. The feeling was as if the other party were even colder than her so-called Ice Phase.

However, Lü Qing'er had to admit that although Li Li Lingjing radiated a dangerous aura, this kind of presence was truly not to be underestimated. She had felt a similar presence and pressure from Jiang Jiang Qinge, but Jiang Jiang Qinge's came from being too outstanding and brilliant herself, so being around Jiang Jiang Qinge inevitably brought pressure. The Li Li Lingjing before her, however, was a dangerous aura.

Like a venomous snake with bewitching colors, quietly lying in wait.

"Why does Li Luo always provoke these kinds of very dangerous older sisters?" Lü Qing'er sighed helplessly in her heart. This Cousin Li Lingjing clearly belonged to the type who was ruthless and spoke little. She wondered what the scene would be like if Li Li Lingjing and Senior Sister Jiang met in the future—a clash of the strong.

She didn't mean anything else by it, she simply felt that these two might really clash.

And thinking of that scene, the corners of Lü Qing'er's lips curled up slightly.

"What are you thinking about?" Li Luo's voice came at this moment.

Lü Qing'er pulled her thoughts back, glanced at him lightly, and smiled, "I'm thinking about a very interesting scene."

Hearing this, Li Luo was baffled. Just as he was about to ask, his expression suddenly changed, and he sharply raised his head to look into the distance, where massive pillars of light were shooting up into the sky.

The pillars of light refracted enormous images in the void, resembling an ancient mountain forest emanating a wild, primeval aura. Faintly, beams of treasure light could be seen manifesting within.

Everyone was drawn by this commotion.

"It's the 'Spirit Phase Treasure Garden'!" Li Li Wuyuan exclaimed, then said ecstatically, "It seems the other vaults have all been destroyed, triggering the protective grand array of the Spirit Phase Treasure Garden."

Li Luo stared at the projection in the void with slightly focused eyes. The so-called Spirit Phase Treasure Garden was clearly extremely vast. Back then, when the Formless Saint Sect built this garden, they must have spent immeasurable effort.

The projection flowed through the void. Suddenly, Li Luo saw deep within the garden what seemed to be a towering ancient tree, exuding an aura of the vicissitudes of time, unknown how many years it had endured. In that fleeting glance, he seemed to see several fruits hanging on the ancient tree.

The fruits displayed a riot of colors, and within them, countless phase natures such as wind, fire, thunder, and lightning were constantly evolving. A profoundly mysterious aura permeated outward.

And when Li Luo saw those miraculous fruits, the three phase palaces within his body suddenly roared violently at this moment, and his phase power surged like a storm.

An irrepressible feeling of longing welled up from within his heart.

In that instant, Li Luo understood what it was.

"Origin Mysterious Heart Fruit!"

Shocked voices had already escaped the lips of those present, one step ahead of Li Luo.

Li Li Wuyuan, Li Li Fuling, and the others all revealed fanatical looks, their expressions stirred. This "Origin Mysterious Heart Fruit" was precisely what they most coveted upon entering the Spirit Phase Grotto-Heaven.

Refining and consuming such a heavenly treasure would allow one to comprehend the origin of one's own phase nature. This was something normally only touched upon by Da Tian Xiang Jing powerhouses. Furthermore, to break through to Marquis Realm in the future and forge a Marquis Platform, one also needed the accumulation of phase nature origin.

This was the foundation of a Marquis.

If one could obtain such a marvel, it would be of immense benefit for their future stepping into Da Tian Xiang Jing, or even impacting Marquis Realm.

The projection in the distant void gradually dissipated. Li Luo stared intently, and when that towering ancient tree vanished, he didn't know if it was an illusion, but he seemed to see not far from the ancient tree a thatched hut, and within the hut, a blurry white shadow.

It was a white ape, holding a stone pestle, seemingly pounding medicine in the thatched hut.

But before Li Luo could see clearly, all the projections completely vanished at this moment.

What rose in their place was the sound of wind breaking across the sky. One could see streaks of light shooting in from all directions, madly streaking toward the location of the "Spirit Phase Treasure Garden."

"Let's set off too." Li Luo looked at the others and said.

No one objected; everyone was utterly impatient.

Thus, a large wave of teams set off at this moment, all pushing their speed to the limit, racing toward the direction of the earlier projection.

After roughly ten-odd minutes, Li Luo's group gradually slowed down.

Their gazes were cast forward, where they saw dense clouds and mist appearing between heaven and earth. The clouds and mist were almost tangible, blanketing the sky as they descended.

Beneath the clouds and mist, giant trees stood silently like giants. The clouds and mist filled the spaces between these giant trees, forming barriers.

These barriers were precisely the protective grand array of the "Spirit Phase Treasure Garden."

Originally, these barriers were flawless, but with the destruction of those vaults, one spot of the cloud wall had become extremely thin, clearly beginning to show a breach.

As people continuously arrived at this spot, they all employed their movement techniques, charging through the thin cloud wall into the "Spirit Phase Treasure Garden."

And just as Li Luo and the others arrived here, he suddenly sensed a chilling gaze being cast toward him from not far away.

He looked up, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

He saw that in that direction, a group led by Zhao Yan and Zhao Zhao Shenjiang was locking onto him with sinister gazes. Moreover, beside them, Li Luo also saw people from Qin Li Tianwang's vein.

Qin Ying and Qin Yi were both among them.

Sure enough, just as he had expected, the Zhao Li Tianwang vein and the Qin Li Tianwang vein had joined forces.

Zhao Yan stared at Li Luo and the others with killing intent in his eyes, then his gaze suddenly swept over the unfamiliar Lü Qing'er and Sister Jin.

"Are these people the reinforcements Li Luo and his group found?" Zhao Yan asked toward Qin Ying's side.

Before Qin Ying could reply, Qin Yi pondered briefly and said, "They seem to be people from the Golden Dragon Treasure House, but why haven't we seen Mu Yao? This time it seemed he was leading the Golden Dragon Treasure House's team."

"Could they have gotten separated? Or did something happen?" Qin Ying said.

Qin Yi shook her head to indicate she didn't know. Her clear, water-like gaze lingered on Lü Qing'er for a moment, and at that moment the latter seemed to sense it too, immediately casting her gaze over from afar. In those eyes, there seemed to be a cold, piercing quality like ten-thousand-year ice and snow.

"Hmph, it doesn't matter. Our two houses joining forces will certainly make Li Li Tianwang's branch return empty-handed." Zhao Yan said coldly.

"Let's go, enter the Spiritual Phase Treasure Garden first. The most important thing right now is to seize the 'Origin Mysterious Heart Fruit' first!"

Both sides agreed to this, then immediately set out, being the first to charge in through the thin part of the cloud wall.

"This is bad. These two houses have really joined forces."

Li Li Wuyuan watched the two branches moving together, his expression somewhat ugly, and said through gritted teeth.

"It was already expected." Li Luo's expression didn't change. Zhao Yan's group had suffered a great loss at the Golden Dew Platform, and they also knew Li Li Lingjing had cultivated to the Nine Star Tian Zhu Jing. So to deal with Li Li Tianwang's branch, Zhao Yan could only seek cooperation with Qin Li Tianwang's branch.

"We also have friends from the Golden Dragon Treasure House to help us, so our lineup may not be inferior to theirs."

Li Luo offered some reassurance, then also led his group to charge out, rushing in through the thin part of the cloud wall.

As wave after wave of teams kept arriving and then entering the "Spiritual Phase Treasure Garden," the area outside the treasure garden gradually became quiet.

This quiet lasted for a while, then a figure slowly strolled over from afar.

As he drew closer, the figure became clear. It was a handsome youth wearing a white monk's robe. His expression was gentle, with a refreshing, warm smile, but on his bare, shiny head, blood-red patterns slowly writhed as if alive, giving him a slightly eerie feeling.

He surveyed the "Spiritual Phase Treasure Garden" covered by the cloud wall before him, and nodded with a smile.

"What a big coffin."

As he spoke, he also stepped into the cloud wall, then disappeared into the faint mist.