Chapter 306: Source Golden Dragon

After exiting the cave, He Pingsheng did not leave immediately.

He stood on a stone not far from the cave, his brows tightly furrowed.

Those two seemingly simple exchanges of attacks just now were enough for He Pingsheng to ponder for a long time.

First, the opponent was truly Golden Core stage.

He was only at the eleventh layer of Foundation Establishment.

Why was the guy opposite him so weak?

This was the first question.

He Pingsheng did not deny that he was powerful; at the Foundation Establishment stage, he could sweep away everything.

But if he encountered a Golden Core stage cultivator or demonic beast, without using spiritual sense divine abilities, relying only on pure combat, he did not think he could win.

The best result would likely be a draw across ranks.

Neither side winning.

But in this battle just now, the opponent clearly seemed too weak.

Why?

He Pingsheng did not know, but he had a guess.

First, it was because of restraint.

His lightning power happened to restrain that demonic creature.

Secondly, that demonic creature was not a demon in the true sense, but a creature hallucinated here by the Yin-Sha Qi of the Earthly Yin Vein, with relatively low intelligence.

And not only was its intelligence low, it also lacked powerful cultivation techniques, spells, and divine abilities.

Its offense and defense relied entirely on instinct.

These instincts, while powerful under the infusion of its realm, were far inferior in power compared to true spells and divine abilities.

"Hmm..." After thinking for a while, He Pingsheng took a deep breath, nodded, and muttered to himself: "Perhaps that is exactly why I was able to defeat that Golden Core Yin-Sha demonic creature!"

After figuring it out, He Pingsheng tidied up a little and prepared to leave.

But just at this moment, the six people who had been following behind him, lagging by half an hour, finally hurried over.

A woman, leading five men, arrived before He Pingsheng.

There were six of them in total, and each one was wearing the moon-white robes unique to the royal family.

"Who are you?" The leading Commandery Princess looked at He Pingsheng, her gaze unkind: "Why are you appearing here?"

He Pingsheng looked at these six royal disciples, then his spiritual sense surged forth, sweeping over the six of them.

The one with the highest cultivation was the woman before him, at the twelfth layer of Foundation Establishment, and she seemed to have entered the False Core realm.

The other five were at the eleventh or twelfth layer.

"I am an ordinary person!" He Pingsheng replied: "As for why I appear here, naturally, I walked along the mountain gully!"

"Did you enter this cave?" The Commandery Princess pointed to the mountain cave He Pingsheng had just exited.

He Pingsheng smiled and said: "I entered..."

"Is it not allowed to enter?"

The Commandery Princess immediately turned solemn and said: "May I ask, fellow Daoist, what did you obtain inside?"

He Pingsheng said: "Sorry, I have no obligation to answer you!"

After speaking, He Pingsheng moved his feet and prepared to leave.

But he was instantly blocked by the other five men.

He Pingsheng did not want to cause trouble, nor did he want to offend the royal family; after all, if he offended the Great Liang royal family again, it would be another round of trouble.

So, golden light erupted beneath his feet, and his body instantly exploded with five times his speed, rushing out of the five-person encirclement.

"Stop right there..."

The Commandery Princess gritted her teeth, but unfortunately, flying was not allowed here, and they could not catch up to He Pingsheng's speed.

"Commandery Princess!" A subordinate bowed to her and said: "How about we go over and..."

The subordinate made a hand-slashing motion.

The Commandery Princess shook her head and said: "Don't worry about him; handling our proper business is urgent. Hurry and follow me into the cave!"

"So what if he went in?"

"I don't believe that he alone could take away that Extreme Yin Blue-Gold!"

"Don't forget, there is a Golden Core demonic creature guarding that place!"

"Go!"

As she spoke, the Commandery Princess led her subordinates directly into the cave.

He Pingsheng returned to the main valley of the Five-Dragon Gully Mystic Realm.

Rushing toward him were clusters of dense metal-attribute spiritual energy.

This time, he did not go to the winding and rugged branches but walked forward at high speed.

Because He Pingsheng had no special needs.

His expectation was simple: obtain the 【Black-White Lotus】.

It is said that this Five-Dragon Gully is divided into the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, each connected head to tail.

The total opening time is fifty days.

The first is the metal-attribute Gold Gully, so the last is the Earth-Dragon Gully.

In the Earth-Dragon Gully, there is the Profound-Yellow Black-White Lotus.

Hurry there!

If I'm late, it will be snatched away.

He Pingsheng walked forward all the way!

After about two days and two nights, he finally arrived at the end of the Gold-Dragon Gully.

Here was an open land surrounded by mountains.

In the middle, a large river rushed down from upstream.

On both banks of the large river, one side was extremely narrow, and the other was extremely wide.

On that extremely wide riverbank, a golden divine light reaching the sky was suspended in the void, and waves of metal-attribute magic power surged in all directions, constantly erupting from above.

He Pingsheng looked up in surprise, watching this golden divine light.

After looking carefully, He Pingsheng discovered that this was not divine light, but a metal-attribute substance.

That thing was only about a foot thick but a zhang long, standing upright in the void, resembling a golden, slightly curled tree root.

Countless metal-attribute spiritual energies transformed into light, piercing the firmament and sweeping in all directions.

"This is..." He Pingsheng's eyes narrowed slightly: "Could this be the Gold Dragon that those royal people spoke of?"

Legend says that in the Five-Dragon Gully, within every dragon gully, there is a dragon.

This dragon is the source power of the five-element attributes.

Then, this golden light in the void is naturally the source of that metal attribute.

At this very moment, He Pingsheng was not the only one here.

On the ground beneath the golden light, more than twenty people were sitting.

These people, without exception, were all sitting cross-legged on the ground, watching the golden source in the void, either meditating, observing, or swallowing gold spiritual energy to cultivate.

It varied.

He Pingsheng, however, shook his head.

Because he always felt this was meaningless.

Contemplating the Daoist power of the source involves the rules of Heaven and Earth, which must be connected via a Dao root.

Let alone Foundation Establishment stage, even Golden Core stage cultivators, where would they get a Dao root?

As for swallowing gold spiritual energy to cultivate?

Perhaps it is possible!

After all, the density of gold spiritual energy here is a hundred times that of the outside.

Cultivating here for one day is equivalent to one hundred days outside.

If one cultivates for ten days, it is basically equivalent to three years outside; one might even break through two layers.

But...

This is also unrealistic.

Because most of those who can come here are at the eleventh or twelfth layer and have long encountered bottlenecks; swallowing gold spiritual energy can break through ordinary layers, but it cannot break through a bottleneck.

Also, to absorb the gold spiritual energy here, one must have a gold spiritual root, and it must be a single gold spiritual root.

For someone like He Pingsheng with five-element spiritual roots, no matter how dense the spiritual energy is, it is useless.

The spiritual roots are too weak to absorb it.

He relies on elixirs for cultivation.

So these are all meaningless to He Pingsheng.

What is meaningful to him is finding the exit.

How can one enter the next dragon gully, the 【Wood-Dragon Gully】?