Chapter 156

As for how to utilize the next few years, Long Xuan decided to first conquer that ancient tomb. That ancient tomb had already been successfully copied by his Original Realm and was currently stored in his Heavenly Mechanism Eye. He could enter to play the "dungeon-clearing game" at any time.

After clearing the dungeon, he would then order his clone to go to the real ancient tomb to retrieve the treasures. With the clone having the walkthrough, retrieving the treasures would be effortless, and he would save himself another trip.

Afterwards, he would use the things his clone learned from the hidden secret chamber in the Library Tower to research the "Ten Absolute Blade Technique."

After the "Ten Absolute Blade Technique" was successfully mastered, the Blade Gu should be refined by then. The Blade Gu could just happen to learn the "Ten Absolute Blade Technique" and then soar into the sky.

By then, his Blade Gu would be invincible, and no human would ever be able to defeat his Blade Gu in blade techniques.

Long Xuan no longer hesitated. With a thought, he appeared on the small island he had visited before. In front of him was a fire pit that had long since gone out; it was left by his group, and the memory was still fresh.

He also remembered the Lighthouse Jellyfish he obtained here. Thinking of this Lighthouse Jellyfish, a flash of inspiration struck him, and he suddenly thought of something, unable to help but frown.

He suddenly realized that he seemed to have taken it for granted. Can one really successfully conquer an ancient tomb using this method? Not necessarily.

Because his Original Realm copies inanimate objects; powerful living things simply cannot be copied successfully unless the consciousness of a certain creature is pulled into the Original Realm. However, the Heavenly Mechanism Eye is ineffective against Gu worms whose level is far higher than its own.

This is not easy to handle.

Even if you successfully crack all the formations and mechanisms, so what? You have no idea how many living things are still in the real ancient tomb.

Thinking about the situation of living things in the ancient tomb, Long Xuan had a massive headache.

However, since he had already copied this ancient tomb, how could he not go in and take a look?

Regardless of whether there are living things guarding the tomb in the real ancient tomb, he decided to first break into the illusion-form ancient tomb and see.

He quickly made his decision and began to calculate the location to enter the tomb.

Digging a tomb-robbing tunnel is also a technical job. Wanting to dig the tunnel accurately is definitely not an easy task. If he dug in the wrong direction, the time wasted would be significant.

After a while, Long Xuan calculated a suitable location to dig the tunnel to enter the tomb. However, just as he was about to pull the consciousness of an Earth Master in to dig the tunnel, he suddenly discovered that a large hole already existed not far away, only this location was very hidden and covered by tree branches, making it very difficult to discover.

He couldn't help but be stunned. Could it be that this ancient tomb had already been robbed a long time ago, and he had come too late?

No, he clearly saw infinite progress, which meant there were still treasures underground. Even if this tomb had truly been robbed, it definitely hadn't been robbed clean; there must still be treasures remaining.

He took a deep breath, a ball of flame grew in his palm, and he quickly ran into this tomb-robbing tunnel.

Everything has its pros and cons. Even if this tomb had truly been robbed, it might not necessarily be a bad thing; it might be a case of "a blessing in disguise."

Originally, he was worried that he wouldn't be able to deal with the living things in the ancient tomb by cheating with his Original Realm methods. Now, he didn't need to worry. Once this tomb had truly been robbed by someone, even if the living things inside weren't all dead, there would definitely be very few left.

In his view, this was definitely a good thing.

Otherwise, if there were Gu King-level living things guarding the tomb, even if he cleared the dungeon a thousand times, he would never be able to take away the tomb-suppressing treasure.

With his personality, even if he had to give up most of the treasures, he had to be absolutely safe. He only needed the most valuable treasure in the tomb; it didn't matter if all the other treasures were lost.

Originally, according to his plan just now, he was prepared to spread the location of the ancient tomb, lure a batch of Gu Kings in to clear out the Gu King-level living things in the tomb for him, and then he would use his foresight to take away the most precious treasure in the tomb.

Once this plan was implemented, he would also lose most of the treasures in the tomb, which was no different from the current situation.

Therefore, the fact that this ancient tomb had already been robbed didn't affect his mood in the slightest, and he didn't need to rack his brains to find a batch of Gu Kings to act as "pathfinding stones."

The ancient tomb was very deep. Ancient tombs in this world are like this because powerful Gu cultivators have the ability to move mountains and fill seas, making it easy to build large-scale ancient tombs. Therefore, ancient tombs in this world are basically buried deep and are extremely difficult to find.

Long Xuan also walked for a long time before finally reaching the bottom. Looking vertically downward, he discovered a gray-white tomb passage. The tomb passage was very long, and with the help of the dim wall lamps, he couldn't see where it extended at all.

Due to having infinite lives, he didn't need to be as cautious as usual and jumped down boldly.

The tomb passage was very quiet. After he jumped down, he could only hear the sound of his own footsteps and his faint breathing. Every everlasting lamp on the stone wall showed progress, which made Long Xuan a bit disappointed.

He had just seen a piece of progress below and thought it was some treasure; it turned out to be all everlasting lamps.

Don't look at the everlasting lamp as a lamp that won't go out for ten thousand years; in reality, its value is not high. Even if it's worth some money, it was no longer in his eyes.

He looked carefully at the murals on the walls and discovered that all the murals had been wiped away by force, seemingly destroyed by tomb robbers. Only a few incomplete characters could be seen sporadically on the stone walls.

Through these incomplete characters, Long Xuan roughly judged that it wasn't some cultivation method, but should be some kind of powerful Gu formula.

He couldn't help but show shock. This tomb passage was so long that he couldn't see the end of it, and the murals were in rows—there were countless murals. What kind of Gu formula was this, to be so long? How many characters were there, to actually need so many stone walls to record it?

He couldn't help but be stunned. A rough estimate was that the material quantity of this Gu formula was at least at the million-level; this was just a conservative estimate.

If some materials appeared in hundreds of overlapping situations, the material quantity of this Gu formula could even be in the tens of millions. It's just that he didn't dare to think about this number; this number was truly too scary.

What is the concept of a Gu formula with ten million materials? Is this also called a Gu formula? In the case of having a failure rate, what kind of god-like person could refine this kind of Gu worm? He was truly impressed.

He completely dared not imagine how strong a Gu worm refined with so many materials would be. Without thinking, this kind of Gu worm definitely had world-destroying power, strong beyond anyone's imagination. Once the Gu was formed, it could be invincible in the world.

Unfortunately, such a heaven-defying Gu formula was destroyed by tomb robbers. This person was simply selfish; he learned such a powerful Gu formula himself but didn't want others to learn it, destroying all the stone walls completely. From then on, he was probably the only person in the world who learned this heaven-defying Gu formula.

However, who could have learned this heaven-defying Gu formula? It shouldn't be an unknown person.

The owner of the tomb who possessed such a heaven-defying Gu formula must have been a super powerhouse during his lifetime. His tomb must have been dangerous to the extreme and not something that ordinary people could rob just because they wanted to.

The person who could rob this tomb must also be a "monster-level" figure. There probably weren't many people in the Western Lands who could retreat unscathed from this fierce tomb.

Long Xuan's eyes showed a thoughtful look, but he didn't know many monster-level figures in the Western Lands, and he couldn't deduce who it was now, so he stopped thinking about this person.

At this moment, he was also glad that this tomb had been broken into by this monster-level figure first, clearing away most of the danger for him.

Otherwise, just based on the long Gu formula on the stone walls, Long Xuan could judge that this level of fierce tomb was definitely not something he, a small "Marrow Cleansing stage chicken," could break into, even with the Original Realm to cheat.

However, although this person broke into this tomb and successfully retreated unscathed, his eyes weren't very good. He actually missed a treasure, and it was a heaven-defying heavy treasure with infinite progress.

Long Xuan smiled and walked toward the deepest part of the tomb passage.

Although this ancient tomb had been robbed, it was impossible for there to be no danger at all. Long Xuan judged the locations of various mechanisms through the progress and thus avoided them calmly, sneaking into various tomb chambers without wasting a single life.

All the major tomb chambers had long since been looted, and the murals with characters on the walls had all been destroyed, not leaving a drop of soup for those who came later—simply not acting like a human.

However, at least some low-value junk was left on the ground. He was too lazy to pick up things of low value, which further proved that the identity of the tomb robber was not a simple person.

However, Long Xuan's personality was different from this tomb robber. In his view, no matter how small a mosquito's leg is, it's still meat. It's better to have it than not. Even if his net worth was astonishing, he had to exert the spirit of "plucking a wild goose as it passes" and search everything clean.

Long Xuan unceremoniously collected all the junk on the ground into his storage bag, but soon he dumped it all out. Only then did he remember that this was an illusion. What was the use of him collecting treasures in the illusion? He was truly muddled.

It couldn't be blamed on him; if it had to be blamed, it could only be blamed on this illusion being truly too realistic.

After Long Xuan visited more than ten more tomb chambers, he finally discovered a huge tomb chamber where the murals hadn't been destroyed. His spirit lifted, and he immediately ran forward to read the paintings and characters carved on the walls carefully.

Ever since he traveled with Long Ziyan for a period of time during the last tomb robbery, he had gradually developed an interest in looking at ancient tomb murals. The murals in this tomb chamber immediately aroused his considerable interest.

The characters on this wall were all Divine Texts. He was also fortunate that, influenced by Long Ziyan, his studious clone had taken the time to self-study Divine Texts; otherwise, he truly wouldn't have been able to understand the content on the walls.

Seeing that the characters on the walls were all Divine Texts, Long Xuan was even more excited because the inheritance that could be written in Divine Texts must be very ancient and must be very extraordinary. If the characters on the walls recorded a cultivation method, then a cultivation method that could be written in Divine Texts must be heaven-defying.

With anticipation, Long Xuan found the beginning of the text and began to study it word by word seriously.

However, as he read, he soon discovered something wrong. The things recorded on the walls were indeed a cultivation method, and it was an extremely powerful cultivation method called the "Yin-Supplementing Art."

But this cultivation method was actually a dual cultivation method. However, this dual cultivation method was an evil cultivation method of "supplementing Yang by supplementing Yin." The side being supplemented by Yin would be supplemented to death alive; it was an unequal dual cultivation method that favored men and disadvantaged women.

Observing this cultivation method, Long Xuan could judge that the owner of this tomb was an evil demon cultivator who had done who knows how many evil deeds in his life.

However, although the cultivation method was evil, it was powerful enough. Anyone who practiced this cultivation method, no matter how poor their aptitude, could advance by leaps and bounds, and it also had the effect of increasing the success rate of breaking through a major realm by ten percent.

The most exaggerated thing was that when dual cultivating with a girl of the same clan, this cultivation method had the effect of increasing bloodline purity, but the upper limit could only increase by one rank at most.

Bloodline purity is something extremely difficult to increase. Even if it could only increase bloodline purity by one rank, that was already heaven-defying enough.

If it were someone with a low-purity bloodline, increasing bloodline purity by one rank might be optional.

But if it were someone with a nine-rank bloodline practicing this cultivation method, then their bloodline would become ten-rank. A ten-rank bloodline is something rarely encountered in ten thousand years, and the effect is completely two different concepts from a nine-rank bloodline. From this, one can completely see how heaven-defying this dual cultivation method is.

Sure enough, the cultivation methods that could be recorded in Divine Texts were truly extraordinary. This cultivation method didn't let him down.

Long Xuan's eyes brightened, and many whimsical ideas began to appear in his mind. His old habit had flared up again; he would subconsciously want to create something himself when looking at anything.

Seeing a dual cultivation method was no exception. He subconsciously thought about whether he should create a dual cultivation method, creating eighteen postures—no, that's eighteen forms.

It also wouldn't take much time; he only needed to adapt this "Yin-Supplementing Art," adapting the unequal "supplementing Yang by supplementing Yin" into an equal "Yin-Yang mutual supplementation," which would benefit both men and women.

Creating a cultivation method from scratch is difficult, but adapting a cultivation method is much simpler. It wouldn't take him much effort at all. He felt this plan was feasible and could be tried.

(End of chapter)