Chapter 375

After the group came out of the first stone gate with satisfaction, Fang Wuqian summoned that giant green ox again and used the old method to violently demolish the second stone gate.

This time, they entered a stone room that didn't look very large. As soon as he walked in, Song Qingming felt as if he had smelled a somewhat strange medicinal fragrance.

Smelling the scent and looking around, he discovered that there were several rows of wooden shelves made of spirit wood placed against the walls in this stone room, and there were quite a few small porcelain bottles of different colors on them.

Gao Yuyao stepped forward, picked up one of the porcelain bottles, opened it to take a look, then brought it to her nose to smell it, immediately frowned, and tossed it to the side.

"Senior Sister Duan, you were indeed right. This place seems to be where that senior refined pills. It's just a pity that these pills have been here for too long and are of no use. They can only be taken back as waste pills for researching pharmacology."

Ordinary pills are different from other spirit items. No matter how well you preserve them, if they are placed for too long, they will begin to lose their spirituality. Even second-tier top-quality spirit pills like the Foundation Establishment Pill can only be preserved for a few decades at most.

This cave dwelling hadn't been entered by anyone for several hundred years. The pills in the jade bottles—the few didn't need to open them all to know that they were basically of no use.

Gao Yuyao and Duan Xueyi, after putting away these jade bottles, searched carefully in the stone room again, unwilling to give up, but ended up with nothing and could only leave here with some regret.

These two alchemists were so eager to find something; Song Qingming didn't need to think to guess that it was likely they wanted to obtain the pill-refining classics left behind by this senior.

In the cultivation world, high-tier alchemists above the third tier are very rare. Like the Xiaoyao Sect, which has controlled the entire State of Wei cultivation world for thousands of years, there are only two third-tier alchemists in the sect, and one of them doesn't have much lifespan left.

Although Duan Xueyi has excellent cultivation talent and is a two-spirit-root cultivator, there are still five or six such Foundation Establishment seeds that the Xiaoyao Sect focuses on cultivating and can form a core.

Without the blessing of special circumstances, if she were to rely solely on her own fair competition for Core Formation resources, Duan Xueyi's hopes would clearly be inferior to those of a cultivator with a superior talent like Li Yungong, who possesses a rare spiritual root.

But as a second-tier top-quality alchemist, as long as she has the opportunity to go a step further and become a third-tier alchemist, Duan Xueyi's status in the sect will instantly rise with the tide, and the Xiaoyao Sect will certainly invest more Core Formation resources in her.

If Duan Xueyi and her companion are lucky this time and can find a pill-refining classic left behind by a senior here, it will certainly be of great help to her alchemy skills. In the future, there might truly be an opportunity for Duan Xueyi to break through and become a third-tier alchemist.

If this is truly the case, her chances of forming a core in the future will also be greatly increased. After all, the Xiaoyao Sect, as a major sect, still has to consider the long-term development of the sect. A third-tier alchemist is enough to attract the attention of the sect's Nascent Soul ancestors. Gao Yuyao, who is equally keen on this, also has this little thought in her heart.

Although Gao Yuyao's background in the sect is far inferior to Duan Xueyi's, who has a Core Formation master to look after her, she is also a two-spirit-root cultivator, and her cultivation talent is no worse than Duan Xueyi's. She also has a not-so-small chance of forming a core.

It's just that Gao Yuyao's alchemy skills are currently only second-tier low-quality, and there is still a long way to go before becoming a third-tier alchemist. But as long as there is this hope, she naturally won't easily miss it.

After searching carefully in the stone room several times and still failing to find what she wanted, Duan Xueyi and Gao Yuyao could only shake their heads helplessly and follow Song Qingming and his companion to leave this stone room.

"Two Fairies, don't be discouraged. Now that there is only this last stone gate left, perhaps the things you want are inside here."

Seeing Duan Xueyi and Gao Yuyao looking somewhat disappointed, Fang Wuqian, who was preparing to force open the gate, comforted the two women with a smiling face.

Hearing this, Gao Yuyao and Duan Xueyi's expressions eased slightly, and they focused their attention on this last stone gate again.

Following Fang Wuqian's order, that giant green ox raised its four limbs again, shouted, and rushed toward the last stone gate.

The group originally thought that this stone gate would be the same as the previous two, smashed into powder by this brute-force green ox in one breath.

Unfortunately, when they saw the scene the next moment, Song Qingming and the others widened their eyes instantly, and Fang Wuqian's face turned iron-blue.

Seeing that green ox crash into a spot one foot in front of the stone gate, it was as if it had crashed into a large mass of cotton; the giant ox head couldn't move forward even a step.

The green ox, seeing it couldn't smash the stone gate, retreated again, went to a place further away, and rushed toward the stone gate again with even faster speed.

Unexpectedly, this time it was the same as before and still couldn't touch the stone gate. The giant green ox was also bounced back by a huge force and sat directly on the empty space on the side.

"Fellow Daoist Fang, better put away your spirit beast first. This stone gate is different from the previous ones. There should be special restrictions set up on it; relying solely on brute force seems difficult to enter."

Hearing Song Qingming say this, Fang Wuqian smiled awkwardly, kicked the green ox that was still somewhat dizzy on the ground with his foot, and then directly put it back into the spirit beast bag at his waist, giving up his position to Song Qingming.

"Hehe! Fellow Daoist Song, it all depends on you."

Song Qingming nodded slightly, took out a set of formation flags from his storage bag again, and inserted them into the ground according to the positions he had pre-selected.

"A few Fellow Daoists, please help in a while and inject some magic power into the formation I set up."

Duan Xueyi nodded with a smile and replied: "Fellow Daoist Song, no need to be polite. Just tell us what to do in a while."

This time, breaking the restrictions on the stone gate was simpler than the formation at the entrance of the cave dwelling earlier. Song Qingming only spent less than half an hour to successfully break the restrictions on it.

Song Qingming first used the formation he set up to tentatively attack this stone gate. After detecting the weak points of the restrictions on the stone gate, he borrowed the spiritual energy of the formation to gather the magic power of the few together and launched an attack directly at the weak points of the restrictions, quickly breaking this restriction by force.

The restrictions on this stone gate were just casually set up by the cave dwelling owner. After a long time, the power of the restrictions had also dissipated by more than half, unlike the formation at the entrance of the cave dwelling earlier, which had the Baoguang Tripod as the formation eye and could continuously absorb the spiritual energy in the cave dwelling to supplement the formation, repairing the damage to the formation at any time.

Seeing that Song Qingming had lifted the restrictions on the stone gate, Fang Wuqian, who had long been unable to hold back, directly took out a very heavy silver giant sword, stepped forward, and slashed a sword aura at this third stone gate with all his might.

Following a burst of violent movement, the last stone gate also quickly turned into a pile of rubble, revealing the scene hidden behind it.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 376 =====