Chapter 494: Pursuit

The crocodile played by the Flame Clone swam across the dark river and easily climbed under the tree. It gazed at the fruits emitting blue light one by one above its head, then looked back at the crocodiles in the river. Finally, it steeled its heart and quickly climbed up the tree.

And until this moment, the crocodiles in the dark river showed no reaction at all.

After the Flame Clone easily picked all the fruits on the tree, it jumped down, swam back to the opposite bank without any danger, and quickly crawled toward Long Xuan's direction.

It only picked all the fruits on the tree and did not move the entire Heavenly Spirit Tree.

The Heavenly Spirit Tree world is not unique; as long as there is a fruit pit, Long Xuan can cultivate a new Heavenly Spirit Tree.

The commotion of moving the entire Heavenly Spirit Tree would be too great. Long Xuan was afraid that doing so would alarm the crocodiles in the river and cause unexpected twists, so he did not take the risk.

"It's done! Let's go!"

Seeing that the Flame Clone had successfully returned, Long Xuan was overjoyed. After greeting Di Xin, he walked carefully toward the distance.

Long Xuan's goal was clear; after leaving this area, he headed straight for another location showing infinite progress.

Di Xin followed him closely and did not express any opinion on the path ahead.

When they walked into a tomb passage, Long Xuan frowned slightly. He discovered that after walking here, his Earth Escape failed, presumably affected by an array.

There are simply too many insects in this world that can dig soil. In order to defend against these insects that can travel underground, the vast majority of defensive arrays have soil-solidifying capabilities to prevent certain digging Gu insects from rushing in.

Therefore, Long Xuan encountering a situation where Earth Escape could not be used here was not an accident, but an inevitability.

For the more dangerous journey in the second half, it was simply impossible for him to use the Earth Escape ability to travel directly to the location of the coffin.

"You didn't break the array here?" Long Xuan looked at Di Xin beside him and asked.

"I just walked here, what do you think?" Di Xin rolled her eyes at him.

"If I really had the ability to break all the arrays in the tomb, the tomb-securing treasure in the tomb would already be in my hands."

"I only broke the barrier protecting this great tomb; I didn't touch the various small arrays in the tomb, nor do I have the ability to touch them."

"Even these arrays are completely unknown to me; I don't know what kind of danger they will attract."

Di Xin looked at the tomb passage ahead with a solemn gaze and said with extreme seriousness: "What is certain is that there must be great danger in this tomb passage."

"As for what kind of danger, I don't know either. Let's be careful from now on!"

Long Xuan looked at her with a surprised gaze. He didn't expect that there were still arrays in this world that could stump Di Xin. It seemed that the arrays here truly exceeded the scope of what she had learned.

Long Xuan didn't say much. Subconsciously, he took a puppet out of his storage ring, attached a wisp of his split soul to it, and then, under the control of the split soul, the puppet walked bit by bit into the depths of the tomb passage.

He had a massive amount of puppets in his hands; he was certainly not short of pathfinding stones.

However, before it had walked a few steps, this puppet suddenly seemed to be cut by something; it was cut into four pieces and fell heavily to the ground.

The cut on the puppet's fracture was smooth, and the hard metal shell was like tofu being cut. He didn't know what kind of attack could be sharp to such a degree; Long Xuan never saw what the puppet was attacked by from beginning to end.

He couldn't help but show a look of horror. One must know that the puppet he released had a shell made of alloy, and its hardness was even harder than Geng Metal.

In this world, there really weren't many abilities that could break the defense of this puppet.

And now, the alloy shell was easily broken by an invisible attack; he simply couldn't believe his eyes.

Long Xuan couldn't help but swallow his saliva, feeling a lingering fear in his heart. Even an alloy puppet would be easily shredded if it went in; what would happen if a person went in?

Fortunately, he didn't rush in recklessly. The mysterious attacks here could easily kill even a Gu King; if he, a tiny Spirit Sea stage Gu cultivator, entered, he would surely die.

Di Xin waved her hand solemnly, and the puppet cut into four pieces on the ground seemed to be controlled by some force, suddenly flying back.

She took the puppet, gently touched the neat cut with her hand, and her expression became more and more solemn.

"This is an attack caused by space rifts. There are countless invisible space rifts in this tomb passage."

"And some of these space rifts can move, otherwise the puppet wouldn't have been cut in half at the waist."

"No matter how hard an object is, it will be easily cut by a space rift. No Gu cultivator's defensive power can block the attack of a space rift."

"As expected of the Cangyue Imperial Tomb, it can actually use the power of space to guard the tomb."

"With so many movable space rifts in this tomb passage, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to pass through here."

"I might as well tell you, there is no ability in this world that can see hidden space rifts, otherwise such things wouldn't be used to guard the tomb in the Cangyue Imperial Tomb."

Hearing Di Xin's explanation, Long Xuan suddenly realized. Since it was an attack from space rifts, then why his alloy puppet had its defense broken was completely explained.

No matter how high the defensive power of the alloy puppet was, how could it resist the sharpness of a space rift?

However, tricky as this tomb passage was, what was the meaning of Di Xin putting the puppet into her own storage ring? Seeing Di Xin put the puppet into her pocket as if no one was around after checking the puppet's cut, Long Xuan's mouth couldn't help but twitch.

He suspected whether Di Xin had already seen that the puppet shell was not simple. Alloy technology was ahead of this era, and using alloy to make array bases could definitely increase the upper limit of the array. It was normal for Di Xin, a genius array master, to be interested in alloy.

Long Xuan took a deep breath, turned his head, and after trying to use the ability of his Golden Finger, he indeed saw progress bars one after another in the tomb passage.

Some progress bars could even move; presumably, these were the movable space rifts Di Xin spoke of.

Seeing that his Golden Finger could really see the hidden space rifts, Long Xuan was ecstatic in his heart, secretly sighing. Di Xin had just said there were no means to see hidden space rifts, and yet he saw them easily; was this a bit too much of a slap in the face?

Long Xuan smiled, took another puppet out of his storage ring, attached a wisp of his split soul to it, and controlled the puppet to go ahead and find the path.

Long Xuan had always been cautious. Although he found a way to deal with the danger here, who could guarantee there were no other invisible dangers here?

Caution is never wrong. With this mentality, Long Xuan did not immediately walk into the tomb passage and chose to send out another puppet to find the path ahead.

Seeing Long Xuan's actions, Di Xin frowned slightly, but in the end, she didn't say anything more.

However, when she saw this puppet dodging left and right and walking into the depths of the tomb passage without injury, she widened her eyes and was completely unsettled.

"How is it possible? You saw the space rifts, right? You can actually see the space rifts here; how on earth did you do it?" Di Xin said in shock.

"Let's go!" Long Xuan didn't explain much. Seeing that the puppet hadn't suffered any injuries after walking in front for a long time, he felt relieved and walked forward boldly. Di Xin stared blankly at his back, too late to think much, and hurriedly followed.

Not long after the two left here, a group of people arrived in a hurry; this group was the Gu cultivators from various families who had come down to the tomb together.

The overall cultivation level of the Gu cultivators from various families was much higher than that of the Xuanyuan Imperial Family's Gu cultivators. Therefore, under the attack of the twisting force, most of those who died were the Xuanyuan Imperial Family's Gu cultivators, and the attrition rate of the various families' Gu cultivators was far lower than that of the Imperial Family.

So there were still quite a few Gu cultivators who came down to the tomb, and Gu King powerhouses were everywhere.

This group of Gu cultivators happened to walk the path Di Xin had walked. Most of the dangers along the way had already been cleared by Di Xin, so this group of people didn't encounter any danger along the way, and their strength was preserved very completely.

This group of people were obviously not reckless people and didn't rush directly into this tomb passage. They learned from Long Xuan and also sent a puppet to find the path ahead.

When this puppet was suddenly cut into four pieces by a mysterious force, everyone was startled and showed thoughtful expressions.

Finally, someone was knowledgeable. An old man spoke first with a solemn expression: "If I'm not mistaken, there are invisible space rifts in this tomb passage."

"It's not easy to handle. There is no Pupil Gu in the Gu World that can see hidden space rifts."

"This path is unsolvable; there is no way to pass through."

Hearing this, the head of the Lan family frowned. An eye suddenly stood up between his eyebrows. After looking carefully in the tomb passage for a long time and not seeing any space rifts, he finally gave up.

"Since it's unsolvable, then how did the people in front pass through?" He frowned and asked, his expression very puzzled.

This group of people followed the route Di Xin took, so naturally, they would also pass by the Heavenly Spirit Tree. Seeing that all the Heavenly Spirit Fruits on the Heavenly Spirit Tree had been picked away by someone, they cursed angrily in their hearts; how could they not judge that there were people in front?

Hearing this, everyone was silent for a long time. They were also curious about how the people in front passed through, and they couldn't figure it out no matter how they thought.

"Since this path is blocked, shouldn't we bypass this place and go to other areas?" After a moment of silence, someone in the crowd suddenly suggested.

The head of the Lan family looked at the person who spoke, then looked at the tomb passage again, and said in a deep voice: "After that kid used that move, he was obviously seriously injured. It is absolutely impossible for him to use such a terrifying move a second time."

"Taking advantage of the fact that he has no means to threaten me, now is the best opportunity to kill him. We must not give him time to heal."

"I don't care which path you take, but since he took this path, then I must take this path. I am determined to have this kid's life."

Lan Yan narrowed his eyes, and a sharp murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

An innocent man treasures a ring, and the crime is his treasure. That means of being able to injure a Gu King with the power of the Spirit Sea stage was simply too heaven-defying, and its destructive power was simply world-destroying. Facing such an ability, he couldn't help but be tempted, even if he had to pay any price to get his hands on it.

If he learned this move, then who would he fear? He could even easily destroy Xuan Yuan Zhi outside. At that time, he would be the number one powerhouse in the Western Lands, and he would even have a place among the top ten powerhouses in the Gu World.

The temptation of this forbidden technique was simply too great for him.

At this time, many Gu Kings had the same thoughts as him, and greed arose for this forbidden technique.

Who could not be tempted by a super forbidden technique with such heaven-defying destructive power? This was simply the number one offensive technique in the world; this was everyone's evaluation of this technique.

"Hmph! Since he can easily pass through here, then we won't be stumped by this path either. Even if it means using a massive number of living people to find the path, I will find the correct route."

Lan Yan suddenly cast a cold gaze at the group of people behind him, scaring them into shivering all over and subconsciously taking two steps back. At this moment, all the Spirit Sea stage Gu cultivators felt a bad premonition in their hearts, and their faces turned pale instantly.

Not long after, screams rang out one after another in the crowd, and it was a mess.

The Spirit Sea stage Gu cultivators who luckily survived under the twisting jade finally became pathfinding stones for a group of Gu Kings here.

And Long Xuan didn't know at this time that he had already been targeted by a large group of Gu Kings.

"Ink Gold! There is actually Ink Gold here!"

Long Xuan touched the black metal flashing on the stone wall, ecstatic.

Ink Gold is a special metal that has long been extinct in the Gu World. Its function is very magical and possesses powerful healing capabilities.

As long as a small cut is made on Ink Gold, this small cut will heal at a very fast speed.

If a little Ink Gold is added to a spirit tool, it can allow the spirit tool to possess powerful healing attributes.

Such a magical metal is simply heaven-defying, and its value is far, far higher than Geng Metal.

It is precisely because the function of Ink Gold is so huge that it was over-mined by humans and gradually became extinct in the long river of history.

Long Xuan was ecstatic in his heart. He didn't expect that he could discover an Ink Gold mine vein at the burial site of the Cangyue Imperial Tomb.

Although according to his investigation, the reserves of this Ink Gold mine vein were not large, but with the value of Ink Gold, it was enough for him to make a fortune. At the very least, the high-grade building materials for the Straw Gu Hut were secured.

Di Xin's fingers also gently touched the Ink Gold on the stone wall, a look of surprise appeared in her eyes, and she smiled: "I really didn't expect that there was actually an Ink Gold mine vein hidden here."

"Once Ink Gold is added to an array base, it will possess powerful self-healing capabilities, so such an array will not be destroyed for countless tens of thousands of years and will be passed down forever."

"At this moment, I finally understand why the tomb-guarding array of the Cangyue Imperial Tomb has been maintained until now without any faults. It turns out that Emperor Cangyue had a large amount of Ink Gold in his hands."

"However, the difficulty of mining Ink Gold is too great. To dig out a sufficient amount of Ink Gold requires a not-so-short mining time."

"I'm afraid we will be caught up by the people behind us before we have dug a few pieces," Di Xin said with a disappointed expression.

Long Xuan frowned slightly. Of course, he was unwilling to just give up such a precious Ink Gold mine vein.

In the end, he patted the insect-breeding bag at his waist and released the Heaven-Devouring World Toad inside.

At this moment, he could only let the Heaven-Devouring World Toad swallow the Ink Gold mine vein directly.

After it swallowed the mine vein into its belly, he would go into its belly to slowly mine. By then, he would have one more floating island, and he would have plenty of time to mine.

But whether the Heaven-Devouring World Toad had the ability to swallow this mine vein, he was not sure in his heart. At this moment, he could only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

This was the only method he could think of so far. If the Heaven-Devouring World Toad couldn't perform meritorious service, then he would truly be powerless at this moment and could only helplessly give up this priceless Ink Gold mine vein. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 495 =====