Chapter 880

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Protagonist:

Xu Changqing

After an unknown length of time, the surrounding spiritual energy turned turbid, and dense earth qi permeated the air.

As they went deeper, the mist grew thicker and thicker, gradually turning into heavy yellow qi, and finally, even strands of mysterious yellow qi appeared.

It is common knowledge that mysterious yellow qi is more refined than yellow qi.

It is a heaven-and-earth treasure for body tempering; using it can strengthen the flesh body.

Magic tools and magic treasures forged with it can even have their power amplified.

Even so, the female earth and Xu Qiansui still did not linger, continuing onward toward the depths.

After going down for a long time, the surroundings suddenly became spacious, no longer the previous narrow twists and turns; light completely disappeared, plunging into pitch darkness.

A faint yellow spiritual light radiated from the female earth's body, illuminating a small area before her.

At the same time, the earth qi grew increasingly dense, almost condensing into substance.

The surrounding pressure grew greater and greater, like an invisible mountain pressing down tightly on the two of them.

The female earth and Xu Qiansui, one mobilizing magic power, the other circulating spirit patterns, resisted the invisible pressure from all sides.

At this moment, the depths of the spiritual vein had long lost the gentle warmth of a spiritual vein; only heavy mysterious yellow qi rolled and flowed in the air.

Touching it felt sluggish and astringent; inhaling a breath made one feel as if the five viscera and six bowels were all wrapped in a heavy, condensed force.

And besides the dense, indissoluble mysterious yellow qi, the stone walls were also covered in ancient and obscure patterns, emitting a faint dark gold glow, with subtle spiritual power fluctuations faintly detectable between the patterns.

They seemed naturally formed, yet also seemed artificially engraved.

After an unknown number of years of erosion, they still exuded a mysterious aura.

Occasionally, rubble peeled off the stone walls and fell into the pitch-black abyss below; for a long time no echo could be heard, showing just how deep this spacious place was.

The female earth's divine sense spread rapidly, probing in the direction where the mysterious yellow qi was densest.

This mysterious yellow qi did not appear out of thin air; it must have its source.

And the location of the source most likely also had an inseparable connection with the spiritual vein abnormality.

However, divine sense was not very useful in this place; on the contrary, it was suppressed.

Vaguely, she only managed to capture a fluctuation in one direction.

Immediately, the female earth made a silencing gesture toward Xu Qiansui, her figure once again transforming into a faint yellow phantom, swiftly approaching along the direction of the fluctuation.

Xu Qiansui followed closely behind, his steps light, not making a single sound.

Before long, the female earth and Xu Qiansui arrived at the center of the spacious area, and immediately a colossal object came into view.

That was the source of the mysterious yellow qi, yet it was not a giant human face, but a closed flower bud, its whole body dark yellow, its surface covered in dense veins, with mysterious yellow spiritual light flowing between the veins.

From afar, it looked like a giant piece of amber wrapped in mysterious yellow qi, silent and strange.

Through shared vision, Xu Changqing witnessed all of this.

He sat at the stone table, his expression growing increasingly solemn.

He had originally thought the source of the mysterious yellow qi was most likely a giant human face, or related to the Lord of the Covenant or the Tu Soil God.

But the scene before him far exceeded expectations.

This flower bud was extremely large, a full dozen times larger than the same kind he had seen underground in Hongfeng Valley.

Its diameter was several tens of zhang; the petals were tightly closed, and a large amount of pure mysterious yellow qi surged out from within endlessly.

Then, following the spiritual vein, it spread in all directions, both nourishing the surrounding mineral veins and spiritual veins, and making the earth qi increasingly dense.

The female earth halted her steps, examining this giant flower bud; her divine sense carefully probed toward the petals, but was blocked by an invisible barrier, utterly unable to infiltrate.

She could not at all discern what was being nurtured inside, only vaguely sensing a vast aura hidden deep within the flower bud.

It was neither demonic evil nor a root god, strange in a way that made it impossible to fathom.

The female earth turned around, staring fixedly at Xu Qiansui, and said in a deep voice: "This Venerable One has found the source of the mysterious yellow qi in this place; it is a giant flower bud.

It is quite similar to the scene underground in Hongfeng Valley, but the scale is many times larger; the interior nurtures an unknown thing, and I cannot investigate it clearly."

Xu Changqing heard this and was about to give orders, but saw the female earth's expression suddenly change.

She turned her body, her gaze sweeping over the ground and stone walls around the flower bud.

Only to see that around the flower bud, things suddenly lit up; those dense patterns interwove into a net, firmly enveloping the entire flower bud.

The ancient patterns on the stone walls resonated with each other, forming a complete formation and restriction.

These formations and restrictions were hidden extremely deeply; obviously they were laid down by the high level of the Dongting Immortal Sect, their purpose being to guard this giant flower bud.

If one forcibly broke the formation and opened the restriction, it would surely trigger an alarm, alerting the high level of the Dongting Immortal Sect; at that time there would be endless trouble.

Therefore, one must not act rashly.

The female earth looked at Xu Qiansui again, then continued her report: "This Venerable One, the area around the flower bud is full of formation restrictions; they should have been laid by the high level of the Dongting Immortal Sect.

If forcibly broken, it will certainly alert the other party; please inform me of the subsequent plan.

Should we forcibly break the formation restrictions and continue deeper to investigate the flower bud's interior, or instead seek another path to the deeper parts of the spiritual vein?"

Xu Changqing fell into deep thought, his mind rapidly weighing the pros and cons.

He understood clearly that if he forcibly broke the formation, alerting the high level of the Dongting Immortal Sect, the female earth would be exposed, and later attempts to investigate the spiritual vein would become fraught with difficulties.

After a moment, Xu Changqing, borrowing Xu Qiansui's mouth, instructed: "Do not forcibly break the formation restrictions; absolutely do not alert the immortal sect's high level.

You and Qiansui withdraw from this place, find another route, and continue probing deeper into the spiritual vein."

Not seeing a giant human face — this is absolutely no good thing.

Either that, or the depth is still not enough.

Either that, or the situation here is even stranger.

"As you command."

The female earth responded respectfully, then led Xu Qiansui back, withdrawing from the Flower Bud area.

Afterwards, the two explored the depths of the open Spiritual Vein for about half an hour, finally finding a gap in a secluded corner where the Spiritual Array and Jin Fang did not cover.

This gap was extremely narrow, allowing only one person to pass, hidden in a depression in the stone wall, with the surrounding Array Patterns so weak they could be ignored.

Possibly due to erosion over the years, causing the power of the Spiritual Array to weaken.

The female earth carefully searched around, confirmed there were no traps inside the gap, then went in first, with Xu Qiansui following closely behind.

At first extremely narrow... passing through the gap, the scene before their eyes changed again.

Although the space here was not as open as before, it was still very spacious.

The Earth Qi here was richer than above, even condensing into a solid form.

Afterwards, a bamboo appeared before the eyes of the three "people".

It was a bamboo entirely golden in color, tall and slender, with distinct bamboo nodes, its body glowing with Xuanhuang Spirit Light, and on every bamboo leaf, Yellow Qi condensed.

The female earth and Xu Zhangqing were both filled with shock in their eyes.

This bamboo was an extremely rare Spiritual Treasure, Xuanhuang Bamboo.

It was formed by Yellow Qi condensing over ten thousand years, extremely rare, seldom seen in the entire Dongyu.

The main use of Xuanhuang Bamboo was to refine the top-grade Magic Treasure Xuanhuang Pagoda, which not only had extremely strong Defense, but could also resist high-rank spells and monster attacks, even suppressing Earth Qi!