Chapter 223: Stealing the Divine Spear

"You… really got it?"

Outside the barrier, Jin Lan stared at He Pingsheng in shock.

And the black crystal stone that flashed briefly in He Pingsheng's hand.

And the people who had emerged with He Pingsheng from that barrier, pointing and whispering at him.

Everyone knew He Pingsheng had taken the Spear Intent Crystal.

"Huh… huh… huh…" Jin Lan looked at He Pingsheng, her eyes filled with anticipation.

"Wait for me!" He Pingsheng said to Jin Lan, "I'm going back in!"

"See if I can claim that divine spear!"

"What?" Jin Lan shuddered, "You… you're going back in?"

"Mm!" He Pingsheng said, "I want to try… but I'm more afraid I'll cause some earth-shattering commotion!"

"Go wait for me where we first met!"

"No matter whether I get the divine spear or not, I'll come find you there!"

"Alright!" Jin Lan nodded, "You're not just trying to get rid of me, are you?"

He Pingsheng said, "If I wanted to leave, you couldn't stop me anyway—why would I bother pretending?"

"Fine!" Jin Lan turned away, "I hope you succeed!"

With that, she turned and left immediately.

After descending the peak, she mounted a giant bat and headed toward the place where she'd first found He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng, meanwhile, strode forward toward the luminous membrane.

Several who tried to attack him were dodged by his sudden burst of speed.

No one landed a hit.

When he reached the black luminous membrane, He Pingsheng again pressed his hand against its black surface, then gently closed his fingers.

Hummm… hummm… hummm…

The void trembled slightly, and He Pingsheng reappeared within the barrier.

With a leap, he arrived before the massive divine spear.

In truth, He Pingsheng didn't know how much of the original owner's spiritual sense remained inside the spear.

But he had to try!

He Pingsheng reached into his storage pouch and pulled out a porcelain bottle, then poured out a top-grade 【Dual Spirit Pill】.

A top-grade pill could boost spiritual sense to fifteen hundred zhang.

But after thinking it over, he put the top-grade Dual Spirit Pill back.

He'd take an exquisite one instead.

He felt the top-grade wasn't enough.

If the top-grade proved insufficient, swallowing an exquisite one later would just waste a top-grade pill.

Better to swallow the exquisite one outright.

The exquisite Dual Spirit Pill was instantly swallowed by He Pingsheng.

At the same moment, his spiritual sense began to surge.

"Boom…"

He Pingsheng closed his eyes, letting his spiritual sense expand violently within his mind sea, spreading outward.

Five hundred zhang!

One thousand zhang!

Two thousand zhang!

Three thousand zhang!

Four thousand zhang!

Five thousand zhang!

His spiritual sense coverage surged past five thousand zhang.

Tenfold!

After consuming the exquisite pill, his spiritual sense had exploded to ten times its original strength.

This…

He Pingsheng stared in shock: this was equivalent to the spiritual sense of a Golden Core peak cultivator!

And it would last fifteen days!

Too powerful.

No wonder it was an exquisite Dual Spirit Pill.

Exquisite-grade items and top-grade ones were entirely different things.

Boom…

The next instant, He Pingsheng's massive spiritual sense slammed into the hundred-zhang divine spear before him.

The residual spiritual sense within the spear was still strong, but after so many years, it had slowly rusted away.

Now, it was roughly equivalent to a Golden Core mid-stage cultivator's.

Thus, when He Pingsheng's spiritual sense struck, the lingering soul was instantly shredded.

Of course, He Pingsheng's own spiritual sense suffered massive depletion.

His face turned pale.

Fortunately, he succeeded.

Boom… boom… boom…

The black divine spear, one zhang thick and a hundred zhang tall, suddenly shrank, then transformed into a three-inch-long object resting in He Pingsheng's palm.

Just slightly longer than his hand.

At that moment, the black luminous membrane above him collapsed.

He Pingsheng had no time to examine the rank of the spear in his hand—he instantly turned into a gust of wind and fled downhill.

Behind him, countless figures chased after him desperately.

"That bastard took the divine spear!"

"Heavens! From now on, Divine General Mountain has no divine spear!"

"Damn it… that's our Shangdang Commandery's property—stop him!"

Countless people surged after He Pingsheng like a flood.

Someone asked, "Who is that man?"

"Where's he from?"

Someone replied, "He's Shi Yuan from the Beast Taming Immortal Sect of Dingxiang Commandery!"

"Don't let him escape!"

"Worse—he's moving too fast!"

Wasn't he?

He Pingsheng's magic power surged violently into his feet, his soles blazing with golden light, his speed instantly doubling.

With just double speed, he left the countless cultivators far behind.

In half a stick of incense, He Pingsheng vanished into the mountains.

"No good…"

"We absolutely cannot let him get away!"

"He destroyed our Divine General Mountain!"

"Taking the Spear Intent Crystal was bad enough—but now he stole our divine spear!"

"Go—hurry and inform the Elders!"

"Stop him at all costs!"

Boom…

Instantly, members of the imperial family shattered their Life-and-Death Talismans and teleported away.

…

"Elder… Elder… something's wrong!"

A disciple in black Daoist robes teleported out of the secret realm and rushed to the Elder's side, panting, "Major incident—major incident…"

The cultivator's voice was loud, instantly drawing the attention of every cultivator and Elder in the square.

Naturally, the white-haired cultivator Long Yuan was among them.

"What is it?" An old man looked at the black-robed disciple.

The black-robed disciple said, "The spear's gone… someone pulled it out…"

"What?"

"The spear's gone?"

Upon hearing this, everyone in the square was utterly stunned.

Long Yuan leapt a hundred zhang in a single step, appearing before the black-robed disciple, grabbing his robe collar, his expression wild with urgency: "Explain clearly—what happened?"

"Yes!" the black-robed disciple said, "Senior, inside, a cultivator claimed the black spear atop Divine General Mountain!"

"The black barrier has also been shattered!"

"We all chased him, but we couldn't catch him!"

Boom...

Long Yuan's heart was swept by a towering storm.

Oh my heavens...

Who is this person, possessing such extraordinary fortune? He took the divine spear that countless others had failed to claim over millennia.

Could it be that the true bearer of great fortune is still inside?

Or did Wang Dun sneak in as well?

"Who?"

"Do you know where that man came from?"

Long Yuan's voice trembled slightly.

The black-robed disciple said: "We know. He's said to be a disciple of the Beast Taming Immortal Sect from Dingxiang County, named Shi Yuan!"

"Dingxiang County? Shi Yuan?"

Long Yuan shot to his feet: "Him again?"

In that instant, Long Yuan's mind cleared completely.

He drew a deep breath, his brows tightly furrowed: No—this is wrong.

The true bearer of great fortune is neither He Kunlun nor Wang Dun.

It is this fellow named Shi Yuan.

Wrong!

Wrong!

Could we have been wrong from the very beginning?