Chapter 1290: So Professional?

Xu Que and his companions halted in place, no longer advancing.

Clearly, their situation was now somewhat difficult; the closer they drew to the interior of Buried Immortal Valley, the stronger that suffocating, oppressive feeling became!

Duan Jiude, holding a Qianxiang in one hand, had divined that for everyone on this journey inward, the situation was entirely one of nine deaths and one life.

This caused several of them to tighten their expressions involuntarily, including the Zha Tian Bang Members who had followed behind; they were all stunned, clearly having never expected Buried Immortal Valley to have become so dangerous.

"It's over, something really bad has happened now! Back when This Seat was a Divine Venerable, I said the feng shui of Buried Immortal Valley was wrong; I didn't expect it hid such a trick, actually altering the mountain range's trajectory to transform into a Heaven and Earth Furnace!" Er Gouzi cried with a mournful face, feeling he was finished.

"So that's how it is; no wonder after This Seat entered this place, the Immortal Yuan within my body began to dissipate, and even my Vitality was affected!" Mo Junchen said with a grave expression, scanning his surroundings before speaking in a deep voice: "However, we should still be in the outermost border region; otherwise, casualties might have already begun to occur."

"That's right; we are indeed still in the border area. Previously, those Eastern Wasteland Cultivators who fled in here to escape pursuit by the Sea Race Vanguard Army all died ahead!" Duan Jiude spoke, pointing forward with his finger.

Although he did not possess Er Gouzi's sensitive nose capable of detecting the scent of blood, that previous divination had already calculated the auspicious and inauspicious locations of this place; simply put, except for the area where they currently stood, all other places were inauspicious positions, which was precisely why the Qianxiang showed nine deaths and one life!

And not far ahead lay the most dangerous position, where the Evil Qi was heaviest, indicating that many people had died there.

"Holy crap, the smell of blood really is coming from over there! But this place is too eerie; a Heaven and Earth Furnace can actually melt so many Cultivators until not even dregs remain!" Er Gouzi exclaimed in horror, awestruck by the heavenly and earthly forces of this place.

"It seems the person underground possesses formidable methods, attempting to awaken through a Blood Sacrifice; compared to this, that Altar of Xuan Yuan Wanrong's from back then truly seems like a small witch seeing a great witch!" Xu Que said, frowning.

This grand formation arranged across the mountain range completely transformed Buried Immortal Valley into a Heaven and Earth Furnace, performing a Blood Sacrifice on everyone who entered, thereby allowing the person buried underground to awaken; moreover, after awakening, their cultivation realm would far surpass their peak period from years past!

However, how vast was Buried Immortal Valley? The amount of blood sacrifice required was enormous; relying solely on the Eastern Wasteland cultivators who had previously fled in here, or even including Xuan Yuan Wanrong, was likely insufficient to fully activate and operate this place to awaken the person underground.

After all, such an Array generally requires fresh blood; whether from the strong or the weak, as long as the volume of blood is sufficiently massive, it works. Therefore, no matter how powerful Xuan Yuan Wanrong was, the blood volume of a single person ultimately could not sustain the operation of such a great furnace.

Then, where did the greater volume of blood come from?

Thinking of this, Xu Que's frown deepened further; combining this with the earlier incident of the Sea Race Vanguard Army marching toward the Southern Continent, he could vaguely guess that the Sea Race might be intending to drive all Cultivators from the Four Continents to this location, sacrificing them alive!

"Kid, what do we do now? Moving forward is a dead end, but retreating means only you die; what's your take?" At this moment, Er Gouzi looked at Xu Que and asked.

His words were not without merit; if they continued forward, they would likely die here before even seeing Xuan Yuan Wanrong, but if they retreated, and Xu Que failed to resolve the crisis of Xuan Yuan Wanrong's disappearance and Dao destruction, then Xu Que would also be affected by the fate of the Imperial Physician Heavenly Book, dying together with Xuan Yuan Wanrong!

Therefore, this was almost a dead end with no way forward or back!

"Er Gouzi, is your skin itching again?" Xu Que immediately widened his eyes.

Er Gouzi hurriedly hid behind Duan Jiude, crying out: "This Seat, the Divine Venerable, is merely stating a fact!"

"This is a fact that is hard to accept; we have encountered a dilemma with no way forward or back!" Mo Junchen sighed, shaking his head.

Although he indeed found it very hard to accept this fact, there was no help for it; having cultivated for so many years, he had encountered even more difficult choices; although he was now accustomed to such things regarding Xu Que's current predicament, he still felt powerless to help!

Life is sometimes like this; sometimes even if you know what will happen, you can only watch it happen helplessly, unable to change it yourself.

For instance, seeing a precious vase about to fall from afar, yet being unable to flash over instantly to catch it.

Or for instance, Taishang Buyi becoming increasingly Handsome, yet being unable to stop it.

There are far too many such things!

"Bullshit!" Suddenly, Er Gouzi shouted, refuting Mo Junchen.

Duan Jiude also looked at Mo Junchen with a strange expression, shaking his head: "Guardian Mo, what are you saying? When did we ever encounter a dilemma with no way forward or back?"

"Yeah, what kind of dilemma is this?" Xu Que also looked at Mo Junchen in astonishment.

Mo Junchen was instantly dumbfounded; even the eight-headed snake present and the rest of the Zha Tian Bang Members became confused one after another.

At least in their view, Mo Junchen's words were correct, and moreover, Er Gouzi had said it himself: moving forward meant everyone dies together, while retreating meant Xu Que dies; wasn't this a dilemma with no way forward or back? Why did the "Virtue-Lacking Dog" duo oppose it simultaneously?

"Sigh, Guardian Mo, This Seat, the Divine Venerable, is very disappointed in you!" Er Gouzi sighed, wearing an expression of frustration at someone's failure to improve.

Duan Jiude also shook his head helplessly: "Our Zha Tian Bang has never had such a thing as a dilemma with no way forward or back!"

"Exactly; besides front and back, aren't there also up, down, left, and right? If we can't go forward, and we can't go back... tfoo, no, if we can't go back, then we'll just go downward and raid that person's lair!" Xu Que said with an air of Solemnity.

"Go downward? Raid the lair?"

Hearing this, Mo Junchen couldn't help but stall, and everyone present also froze.

Subsequently, everyone suddenly widened their eyes, having figured it out.

This "Virtue-Lacking Dog" duo intended to dig underground, in short, to dig a grave!

If one followed Little Yellow's explanation, then this Buried Immortal Valley was the burial site of that Great Ability from the Sea Race from years past, his tomb; now that this tomb had turned into a man-eating furnace, it was simply a dead end for everyone.

Yet who could have expected that, under such circumstances, the "Virtue-Lacking Dog" duo, without any communication whatsoever, immediately thought of the same thing, directly planning to dig underground and raid that Great Ability's tomb!

Although this was a very useful method, it was ultimately a bit virtue-lacking; within such a short time, an ordinary person truly would not have thought of it!

"Yo, looks like you all understand!" Er Gouzi chuckled.

"Good that you understand; it shows your comprehension isn't bad. Come, come, let's get to work quickly!" Duan Jiude rolled up his sleeves and pulled out an iron shovel.

Clearly, his ability to always carry an iron shovel with him still stemmed from his old profession!

"Dizzy, what are you two doing? How improper?" At this moment, Xu Que shouted to stop Er Gouzi and Duan Jiude, frowning as he said.

Everyone present stalled once again, somewhat surprised.

Was the Bang Zhu's attitude opposing the digging of someone's grave? Could it be that when he spoke of raiding someone's lair, he wasn't referring to grave robbing?

Oh heavens, had the Bang Zhu reformed and returned to righteousness?

Amidst everyone's stunned expressions, Xu Que stepped forward, took Duan Jiude's iron shovel, and said with a serious face: "Grave robbing isn't done like this! The so-called Seeking Dragon and Dividing Gold requires locating the Acupoint first; if you haven't even found the Acupoint properly, how long will this random digging take?"

Having finished speaking, Xu Que waved his large hand and pulled a large Compass out from between his legs.

Why large? Because nothing that came out from between his legs was ever not large!

"Clack!"

The next moment, Xu Que took a step forward, holding the Compass, and loudly recited: "Seeking Dragon and Dividing Gold, observe the winding mountains; one layer of winding is one layer of barrier; if the barrier gate holds eight parts danger, it will not escape the form of Yin Yang Eight Trigrams! Fix it for me!"

Whoosh!

Instantly, a strand of Spiritual Light shot out from the Compass in Xu Que's hand, landing directly on a mountain range ahead.

"See that? Dig in that direction!" Xu Que immediately pointed forward, speaking to everyone with an aura that swallowed the Kingdom and directed the rivers and mountains.

Everyone in the entire area instantly stiffened their expressions; Mo Junchen even dropped his jaw wide open, his face filled with shock.

This... this posture, this footwork, this incantation!

It was far too professional, far too skilled!

Just how many ancestral graves of others must this bastard have dug up?

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