Chapter 358

Entering the temple again today, Little Wei Yuan's feeling was even clearer; deep in the temple, there was indeed something calling to him. When the Three-Eyed Bird sent him here that day, did it have anything to do with what was hidden underground?

Little Wei Yuan took out the newly made equipment and said: "If the undead monsters appear, tell me the direction and distance."

The woman raised the hand crossbow Little Wei Yuan had made and said: "At noon, even if it's in the cave, it will be slow. If I see it, I'll shoot an arrow first; you just fire at the point where the sound lands."

The two slowly went deeper; after passing the four murals, there were actually no more, and further ahead was a natural passage—the undead monster had come out from this passage.

Hearing the movement outside, the undead monster indeed walked out from the passage again.

The woman shot an arrow, accurately hitting its body. But although the hand crossbow was powerful, it couldn't shoot through its body; the bolt sank deep, emitting the sound of metal clashing against stone.

Hearing the sound, Little Wei Yuan immediately stimulated it with Dao power; amidst a roar, several flying swords were fired consecutively from the equipment in his hands. The flying swords were propelled by the explosion and had their own power, instantly tearing the undead monster to shreds!

But more footsteps sounded in the passage; the woman ran over quickly to look and exclaimed: "So many monsters! Run!"

But she didn't run; Little Wei Yuan held her back, then stood at the entrance of the passage himself.

The heavy footsteps in the passage had already indicated the direction to Little Wei Yuan, and then, amidst a roar, Little Wei Yuan emptied all the flying swords in the tripod box in one breath. The narrow passage was instantly covered in monster corpses.

The flying swords were, after all, equivalent to Dao Foundation magic treasures, and their power was far beyond that of the hand crossbow; once a sword hit any part, it would directly blow that part away.

But the cave walls began to vibrate, and countless footsteps sounded from deep in the passage; he didn't know how many monsters had awakened and were walking toward them!

Now Little Wei Yuan didn't dare to be brave and said: "Run!" Then he scooped up the woman and fled outside the temple.

Feeling the sunlight spilling down from the sky, Little Wei Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, wisps of yin energy gathered toward Little Wei Yuan and entered his sea of consciousness. A small piece of fertile soil appeared where the young girl Yin-Yang stood, and the vitality here had recovered somewhat.

Little Wei Yuan realized that the source of this yin energy was those undead monsters. Could it be that, like the Xu family youth from before, they were unable to be liberated for some reason and were purified by Little Wei Yuan's Reincarnation of Myriad Realms?

The fertile soil generated this time was different from the past; it not only had vitality but also gave birth to a bit of spirituality. This change surprised and delighted Little Wei Yuan—the most critical part of the Rebirth Realm in the mid-stage of Dao Foundation was not the accumulation of spiritual energy, but the birth of spirituality. Whether one had spirituality was the key to achieving a Dharma Form, and the quality of that spirituality determined the quality of the Dharma Form.

Now that spirituality was sprouting in his Dao Foundation, it meant Little Wei Yuan had passed the first hurdle. Next was to strengthen and improve the quality of that spirituality.

Little Wei Yuan's Myriad Miles of Heshan was unprecedented, so there was no experience to follow in cultivation. At this moment, the first bit of spirituality was born from the earth, which seemed quite good and had a certain status, though he didn't know what it would develop into in the future.

Since he knew that the yin energy of undead monsters could catalyze Dao Foundation spirituality after reincarnation, Little Wei Yuan naturally couldn't just leave. He blocked the entrance of the temple, firing flying swords one by one, harvesting all the undead monsters that rushed out.

In the blink of an eye, the flying swords were exhausted, and only then did Little Wei Yuan take the woman and flee. The undead monsters rushed out from the temple, then roared and fell to the ground in the sunlight. Those behind didn't dare to come out again, roaring futilely at Little Wei Yuan's back.

The sniping at the temple entrance killed at least dozens of undead monsters, and the yin energy expanded the fertile soil under the young girl Yin-Yang to ten zhang. And the part covered by the fertile soil was actually unaffected by the Azure Void, could be manifested, and could provide Dao power normally.

Returning to their dwelling, Little Wei Yuan continued to manufacture flying swords. The flying swords made in the previous round had exhausted their Dao power after killing the undead monsters and turned into nothingness.

This time, Little Wei Yuan was unhurried, making flying swords one by one, spending the entire afternoon making two hundred flying swords in one breath. He also made ten tripod boxes.

The woman had nothing to do, so she sat on the side watching Little Wei Yuan make swords, and just watched like that for the whole afternoon.

After dinner, Little Wei Yuan casually made a dozen new crossbow bolts for the woman, then made her a short sword. However, the woman seemed more interested in those flying swords, so Little Wei Yuan changed the short sword into the style of a flying sword.

Little Wei Yuan made flying swords all night, and only when the night was deep and quiet did he sleep in each other's arms with the woman.

With that piece of fertile soil, Little Wei Yuan's Dao Foundation came alive and was able to generate spiritual energy again. Although the area of the fertile soil was not large, the Dao power recovered daily was enough for Little Wei Yuan to make two or three hundred flying swords.

The next day at noon, Little Wei Yuan and the woman went deep into the temple, killing their way a hundred zhang into the passage, killing over a hundred undead monsters, and exhausting the flying swords before retreating from the temple.

The yin energy gained that day expanded the fertile soil to twelve zhang, but the details on the young girl Yin-Yang became richer, almost indistinguishable from a real person. If Little Wei Yuan didn't look carefully, he might mistake her for a real person.

Today, Little Wei Yuan made three hundred and sixty flying swords in one breath, then ate his fill and slept well, continuing to explore the temple with the woman.

Over the next few days, Little Wei Yuan kept going deeper like this, killing more undead monsters; the range of the fertile soil grew slowly, but the changes in the young girl Yin-Yang became more and more obvious.

Previously, the Myriad Miles of Heshan had Mount Yushan as its core, but now that they were too far from the Azure Void, Mount Yushan was dormant, and the young girl Yin-Yang had become the core instead. After a few days, Little Wei Yuan had explored more than three hundred zhang deep, killing hundreds of undead monsters. After going deep along the passage, the temple had become a huge group of natural caves. Now Little Wei Yuan's perception was becoming clearer and clearer; the calling was coming from deep underground.

The night was deep and quiet.

Little Wei Yuan appeared in the underground passage again; this time all the undead monsters had disappeared, so he followed the passage all the way down, and the further he went, the more he felt something deep underground, with the sound of rushing water vaguely coming from it.

Soon Little Wei Yuan walked into a huge space, and a black-robed person whose face could not be seen in the space said: "You finally came."

Before Little Wei Yuan could answer, he saw one figure after another appearing behind the black-robed person: Zhang Sheng, Bao Yun, Ji Liuli, Ancestor Xuanyue, Concubine Yun, and so on. They smiled at Little Wei Yuan and then walked toward the abyss in front of them one by one, jumping down.

Little Wei Yuan was shocked, ran to the edge of the abyss, and looked down, only to discover that this abyss was actually an opening leading to another world. In the center of that world was actually that three-pupiled Heavenly Eye!

Little Wei Yuan was startled and instantly woke up from the nightmare, only then discovering that his clothes were soaked with sweat.

The woman was still sleeping in his arms, her breathing even, which made Little Wei Yuan gradually settle down. He buried his face in the woman's hair again and hugged her.

The woman moved but didn't wake up, and the two continued to sleep like this until dawn.

In the morning, Little Wei Yuan used his newly generated Dao power to make another hundred flying swords, then had a full meal with the woman and entered the temple again.

At this time, Little Wei Yuan's spiritual sense had recovered somewhat, and he could perceive further and more clearly. However, the images retrieved by his spiritual sense were still very blurry—in the words of the world beyond the sky, it was like being a thousand degrees nearsighted.

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Like the previous few times, Little Wei Yuan made some noise, and undead monsters walked out from the passage, their heads blown up by Little Wei Yuan's flying swords.

Little Wei Yuan entered the passage first; several undead monsters wandering in the passage hadn't reacted before they were shot and killed by Little Wei Yuan's flying swords.

After clearing the undead monsters in the passage, the two entered a spacious space. The woman shot a crossbow bolt that hit a monster twenty zhang away, and Little Wei Yuan immediately followed with two flying swords, cutting the monster in half.

The two cooperated like this; when they encountered open terrain, the woman would use the crossbow to point the way for Little Wei Yuan, gradually going deep underground.

Passing through a passage, Little Wei Yuan clearly felt that the space in front suddenly became spacious, and not far ahead, a terrifying pressure was condensing, like a ball of yin thunder about to be unleashed.

The woman's voice was rarely solemn, saying: "We seem to have provoked something we shouldn't have."

Yuan Qingyan had achieved his goal for this trip, so he took his leave first.

"A two-zhang undead monster, wearing armor, with a lizard head—oh, now it's a skull. It's standing up now!"

At this moment, a terrifying aura erupted ahead; this was a Dharma Form-level opponent!

Little Wei Yuan made a prompt decision, scooped up the woman, and retreated into the passage they had come from, then pushed the woman and said: "You go first, I'll deal with him!"

The woman didn't drag her feet at all and said: "Then take care of yourself! Don't forget you still owe a debt!"

"Can't forget." Little Wei Yuan backhanded a slap on the woman's bottom. The woman immediately ran out of the passage like a startled rabbit.

Little Wei Yuan held his gun and aimed at the passage entrance. The Dharma Form-level undead monster had just turned out of the passage when it was met with a barrage of flying swords!

Little Wei Yuan instantly emptied the sword box and took out another one to load. Although these flying swords weren't very powerful, they were still of Dao Foundation-level power, so they would still cause damage when hitting the body, and their numbers were numerous; the monster was hit and stumbled backward, cracks appearing on its armor!

Just as it stabilized, Little Wei Yuan emptied the second sword box.

Little Wei Yuan immediately retreated, circled behind another corner of the passage, reloaded the sword box, and waited for the Dharma Form monster. That monster had been enraged by Little Wei Yuan and was roaring as it rushed out from the corner, only to run head-on into a box of flying swords!

Its armor had been beaten to pieces, and obvious wounds appeared on its withered body. Little Wei Yuan emptied the sword box, retreated to reload, and then waited for the monster to show its head from the corner, meeting it head-on with a barrage of flying swords, running away after firing.

Shooting and retreating like this, by the time Little Wei Yuan finished the sixth sword box, this Dharma Form monster finally let out a roar of unwillingness and collapsed in front of Little Wei Yuan.

A ball of dense yin energy rose from the monster's corpse and entered the Myriad Miles of Heshan. This ball of yin energy was more than the sum of all the previous undead monsters, and it went directly into the fertile soil under the young girl Yin-Yang.

At this moment, the spirituality accumulated in the Myriad Miles of Heshan finally reached a critical point; with a crack, the stone skin on the surface of a warrior's body peeled off piece by piece, and he slowly opened his eyes, which actually held wisdom.

(End of chapter)