Chapter 69

Seeing Ji You did not know that his reputation outside had already been ruined.

What one fiancée, two fiancées, fiancées everywhere, and so on.

He didn't even know that someone was waiting for him right now, intending to see what his non-existent fiancée looked like...

At this time, he was hunching his waist, following Yuanchen through a narrow and dark cave, feeling a sense of chest tightness because he had been stooping for too long.

This jade tablet, it must be a high-quality one...

Seeing Ji You groped in the darkness, feeling that the aura around him was already incomparably restless, as if it were the eve of a storm.

At this time, the cave constantly emitted sounds of breaking through the air, accompanied by sounds of ecstasy rising one after another.

Seeing Ji You didn't know what those immortal sect disciples had seen on the mountain, but there were always auras of breaking through realms constantly emerging on the mountain, as if there really was an immortal fate here.

But the so-called enlightenment is about the word "enlightenment."

If one says there is an opportunity to lead people to enlightenment, Seeing Ji You believes it, but if one says there is something that can bypass enlightenment through external force to make people attain the Dao, this itself is illogical.

It's just like reading; one can take some medicine to increase memory, but in the end, one still has to see it with one's own eyes.

Unless, there is still some existence in this Azure Cloud World that people don't understand.

Just at this moment, Yuanchen, who was walking in front, suddenly called out "brother-in-law."

Seeing Ji You looked with the light of the jade plate and found that in front was a completely different blood-red rock; the two types of stone materials produced a clear fault at the position where the two passed, like oil and water separating.

"The outside of the mountain is rock, but what is wrapped inside... is not necessarily what."

Seeing Ji You whispered: "Hurry up and walk forward, finish the battle quickly, then you pay and I withdraw, money and goods are cleared."

Yuanchen pursed his lips after hearing this: "Where is my sister?"

"Don't even think about using your sister to fish a stunning brother-in-law like me home."

After Yuanchen finished listening, he followed him gloomily, and then the two passed through the cave and walked into a spacious and quiet stone cave.

And what was chilling was that there were white bones everywhere here.

The good news is that more than half of the white bones here are not human, because one can distinguish the difference just from the form.

Especially one of the incomparably huge things that looked like a leg bone, which was thicker than Seeing Ji You's entire body.

"Di people..." Yuanchen murmured.

"What?"

Yuanchen raised his head and looked at him: "It is said that in the primordial era, there was a very huge race that inhabited the Hundred Thousand Mountains outside the Nine Provinces, but they were eventually devoured by the relic race, but a tribe among the barbarian race seems to have preserved a trace of this race's bloodline, but they need to go berserk to obtain a giant body."

"Previously, the Zhenbei Army captured the Northern Plains and encountered such a barbarian troop, but their physique was no longer as powerful as their ancestors."

Seeing Ji You frowned: "The barbarian race is not a single race, but a collective term?"

Yuanchen turned his head to look at him, making Seeing Ji You feel a sense of contempt like a high school student looking at a middle school student.

Seeing Ji You chuckled: "I come from Yuyang County in Fengzhou, a place where I didn't know if I'd have the next meal, only Teacher Chen's family had a few broken books, not even with pictures, what do you expect me to know?"

Yuanchen was stunned for a moment: "There is still such a poor place, no wonder brother-in-law loves money so much."

"No way, I'm afraid of being poor."

Yuanchen turned his head to look at that leg bone: "Actually, this is not a secret either; that great battle in the primordial era was fought too fiercely, so other tribes fled to the wild continent outside the Northern Plains to avoid the war, so the barbarian race is not just one race, but all races other than the human race."

Seeing Ji You pondered for a moment and said: "Aren't there also the demon race?"

"Correct, but in that war, the demon race stood on the side of the human race, so they are not classified as the barbarian race."

Seeing Ji You was pondering when he suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed Yuanchen who was walking forward.

The sudden gravity drop made the veins on his arm bulge, but the explosive power generated at that moment just happened to hold Yuanchen's entire weight.

At this time, Yuanchen's feet were dangling in the air, and cold sweat had already broken out on his forehead.

He hadn't paid attention when he was moving forward just now; there was no ground in front, and at this time, it was actually suspended, and under his feet was a deep pit going downward.

If Seeing Ji You hadn't reached out to grab him in time, he would have fallen straight in.

Subsequently, Yuanchen was pulled up, and then looked over with the light of the jade plate.

The deep pit in front of him was full of corpses, lying horizontally and vertically, piled up layer by layer.

Unlike those ancient skeletons earlier, these corpses were all humans, or rather, cultivators.

The corpses were all in the state of having their abdomens cut open, with a huge hollow left in the center.

Before coming here, Seeing Ji You was just a clear and stupid college student, not knowing how to judge the time of death of a corpse.

And there didn't seem to be any natural decomposition behavior like "rotting" in this ruin, so even if a great detective came, it would be of no avail.

But judging from the dried blood stains and the dust covering the clothes, these corpses shouldn't be recent.

The good news is that there were no alchemists among these people.

Seeing Ji You squatted down and pointed at the hollow places, looking at Yuanchen: "What is the thing missing in this position?"

"Spirit essence..."

"?"

Yuanchen swallowed his saliva, feeling a chill.

Alchemists are also physicians, very knowledgeable about the human body structure; cultivators produce spirit essence after Qi Refining, which is hidden here.

But even he had never seen such a thing as raw dissection of spirit essence.

How painful must this be...

Although Yuanchen does not cultivate the Heavenly Dao and does not condense spirit essence, he also has an inner core, and just looking at it made him feel pain.

So he looked back at Seeing Ji You and found that the other party's expression was as usual, without any emotional disturbance.

Seeing Ji You also turned his head to look at him at this time, thinking to himself, why are you looking at me, I don't have this kind of thing.

"What can be done if spirit essence is taken out?"

"Spirit essence is an elixir bead once it leaves the human body; there shouldn't be anything special, or perhaps there is something I don't know."

There had been an incident of disciples going missing in the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan before, and later someone found five corpses in the cave.

But to avoid causing panic, and also to prevent other immortal sects and aristocratic families from having any other thoughts, the Management Tian Shuyuan did not disclose the details to the outside world.

But even so, Seeing Ji You could still vaguely remember those missing Heavenly Tian Shuyuan disciples.

"Let's keep going, hurry up and find someone, I can't earn money and have no life to spend it..."

Seeing Ji You drew the long sword in his hand, and spiritual energy attached to the sword body like smoke and dust, a cold light blooming in the night.

The Lower Three Realms cultivate the body, following the path of tempering the body with spiritual energy.

Only when one reaches the final Upper Realm of Condensation and Transformation can one condense spirit essence, and finally reach the perfection of the Lower Three Realms.

That is to say, the lowest realm of the people who died here is also the Upper Realm of Condensation and Transformation, and possibly even the perfection of the Lower Three Realms, the same cultivation as him.

This thousand taels of gold is truly not easy to earn.

The two continued forward and saw countless iron cages arranged throughout the stone cave, densely packed, with claw marks everywhere around.

Besides the iron cages, there were also some prayer mats, incense burners, etc., and judging from the quantity, there were quite a few people.

But just like the corpses in the pit, these prayer mats and incense burners were all covered with a layer of fine dust; judging by time, they hadn't been moved for at least half a month.

The ruin originally called the "Unknown Place" had actually been occupied by a nest long ago, followed by constant evil disasters, and the emergence of immortal fate...

Then the people here withdrew early, leaving behind only a huge conspiracy.

While Seeing Ji You was pondering, the jade plate in Yuanchen's hand suddenly bloomed with a burst of brilliant light.

Subsequently, the aura emitted by the mutual induction of spiritual energy rapidly drove the rotation of the jade plate, finally locking onto the south of the cave and fixing there.

Yuanchen carried the jade plate and ran in quickly.

Just at this moment, a boom came from the peak of the high mountain, and the mountains began to shake constantly.

(End of chapter)