Chapter 408: Longevity: My Steady Farming-Style Cultivation Chapter 408 Unexpected Discovery!

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

Xu Zhangqing instantly felt his hair stand on end, and in his heart he secretly thought: "This place can't be stayed in; I'm merely long-lived, not invincible……"

Having made up his mind, he turned and walked toward the Dongting Immortal Sect's management area.

Not long after, Li Lingbi returned from hunting with Chu Qiu and the others.

This trip's gains were decent; they killed quite a few water demons and sea monsters.

Immediately, Xu Zhangqing found him and spoke his thoughts: "Senior Brother Lingbi, I want to go back and check on the spirit fields and spirit plants at home."

Li Lingbi was surprised: "You want to go back?"

Xu Zhangqing spread his hands and said helplessly: "Aside from cooking, my staying here is meaningless."

Li Lingbi nodded slightly: "That's true."

Making someone who dislikes combat and exploration stay in this kind of place is indeed a torment.

The benefits that should've been given have already been given; might as well go back and call it quits.

Before leaving, Xu Zhangqing asked curiously: "Senior Brother, the Canglan Sea Region is so dangerous — are there only us disciples here?"

Li Lingbi waved his hand: "We're just the ones openly attracting attention; my master and other Nascent Soul Stage Immortal Masters have been monitoring this place all along."

Just knew it wasn't that simple; Xu Zhangqing breathed a sigh of relief inwardly, then bid farewell to Li Lingbi and turned to walk outside.

However, he wasn't leaving — he planned to finish making lunch first before departing.

During this time he heard that Zhao Qianyun had awakened, and even revealed Rumeng Island's location.

Toward this, Xu Zhangqing not only lacked interest but instead sped up his cooking; once everything was settled, he didn't even greet anyone, mounted Broken Moon Flowing Frost, and soared away into the distance.

Only when there was no one around did he immediately descend into the water and switch to the Thunder Dragon Water-Avoiding Boat.

Flying in the air makes the target too large; it's very easy to be targeted by others.

But in the water it's different — not only is there the Thunder Dragon Water-Avoiding Boat's protection, one can also activate the Jiao Dragon Transformation's various effects, and one's own strength will be enhanced.

Right now, the entire Canglan Sea Region is treacherous and unpredictable; one has no choice but to be cautious.

Finding a deep-water spot, Xu Zhangqing finally relaxed, then entered his personal space to check the situation.

As it turned out, these Wen Bone Puppets had indeed given him a surprise.

Those small coffins — a third of them had already been moved in; some were already damaged, some preserved relatively intact.

The complex spiritual runes on them, Xu Zhangqing still couldn't understand, but it didn't matter either; anyway, his personal space has rules that suppress and restrict.

No matter what's inside the coffins, no accidents will occur.

Soon, Xu Zhangqing selected a small coffin before him, and after inscribing the complete spiritual runes down, he immediately ordered the surrounding Wen Bone Puppets to open it.

Click~

Crack~

Before long, under the effort of several Wen Bone Puppets, the coffin lid was pushed open bit by bit, and a stench of foul, pungent black qi instantly burst out from inside.

After this stench dissipated, Xu Zhangqing stepped forward to inspect, and his eyes widened in shock.

"How can this be?"

"This coffin actually contains a cultivator's corpse!"

"Judging by the look of it, it's even a bit fresh!!"

He had originally thought the contents of these coffins should be closely related to Ancestor Spiritual Mark.

Never expected — they're actually people.

And cultivators at that.

Though the flesh was withered and all essence had been drained dry.

From the dust-repelling effect on the clothing, one can tell the time of death wouldn't be too long ago.

Perhaps when placed in the coffin, the person wasn't even fully dead yet.

Thinking of this, Xu Zhangqing immediately instructed the Wen Bone Puppets to open several more small coffins nearby.

Sure enough, exactly as he had guessed — all were cultivators' corpses.

However, some had existed for a very long time; their clothes had rotted away.

The moment the coffin was opened, they instantly turned to powder.

From this it's not hard to guess that the small coffins surrounding the stone coffin are all filled with various cultivators' corpses.

Some from ancient times.

Some from recent times.

Xu Zhangqing even found several storage items, such as storage bags and storage rings.

They contained all sorts of things, quite abundant.

Moreover, through this he had already confirmed the identities of several cultivators.

One of them even came from the Dongting Immortal Sect as well, and was a Golden Core Stage Talisman Master.

From that person's storage ring, Xu Zhangqing discovered many books on talisman drawing, jade pendants, casual notes, and so on — the content was very rich.

Crucially, there was also a set of very high-grade talisman-drawing equipment.

Such as the Three-Aperture Spirit Brush, Five Elements Talisman Paper, Myriad Spirits Inkstone, Soul-Locking Cinnabar Box, Pattern-Fixing Paperweight, Spirit Rhinoceros Wrist Ring, Hundred Talisman Mirror, Purifying Spirit Cloth, and Spirit-Carrying Bag.

Not only high-grade, but also valuable; now they've all gone cheap to an outsider.

Xu Zhangqing mused: "This stuff can be used when alone in private; if taken out to show off, one might just be recognized."

At the same time, as the number of small coffins continued to decrease.

The restrictions originally suppressing the Wen Bone Puppets were gradually weakening bit by bit.

After moving and destroying another third, they could no longer be completely suppressed.

A Wen Bone Puppet had already walked step by step to the vicinity of the stone coffin from the front, and no accidents had occurred at all from beginning to end.

After all, these puppets were all "one's own people," existing within the rules.

If they were replaced by outsiders, such as Xu Zhangqing or Fire Crows or puppets approaching, trouble would definitely occur.

This was equivalent to a tightly guarded bunker, but an insider had opened a channel for entry.

There is a saying: external enemies are easy to block, but internal thieves are hard to guard against.

Xu Zhangqing used Ya Wu's shared vision to look at the huge stone coffin within arm's reach, and his heart was as excited as could be.

After all, inside very likely existed something he urgently needed.

You must know that his own cultivation realm had already reached Zhi Ji Yuan Man, and above that was the Golden Core Stage.

If it were a Single Spirit Root, it would be fine to say; even choosing an Earth Grade Golden Core, the difficulty would not be high.

But Xu Zhangqing, for the convenience of farming, stubbornly raised himself from a Single Spirit Root to a Five Spirit Root, which caused the Turbid Thunder power he faced during breakthrough to be at least eight times that of others.

Thus, the difficulty increased by a great deal.

Calming his heart, he awakened more Wen Bone Puppets, attempting to move this stone coffin.

However, its weight was far heavier than imagined.

Dozens of Wen Bone Puppets not only failed to move it, but instead shattered into pieces.

Heavy, truly too heavy.

Far exceeding the pressure they could bear.

Seeing this, Xu Zhangqing had no choice but to awaken more Wen Bone Puppets, while at the same time using his ability to draw talismans in midair, covering them with another layer of weight-bearing spiritual runes.

When the number exceeded one hundred, this extremely heavy stone coffin finally made a "Boom boom boom" sound, and was then lifted bit by bit.

Although it was very close to the ground, it indeed moved.

Seeing this, Xu Zhangqing's heart pounded wildly, more excited than the first time he visited Yixiang Pavilion.

Boom~

Boom~~

Boom~~~

For every step a Wen Bone Puppet took, at least one-fifth fell apart.

Fortunately this time, Xu Zhangqing was fully prepared, constantly awakening Wen Bone Puppets, and immediately supplementing any losses.

No one knew how long passed, but stubbornly from deep inside the Secret Realm, bit by bit, it was moved to the Outer Perimeter.

At this moment, only one step remained to the entrance!