Chapter 167

Lu Chenxia and the others were transmitted to a lake island; she glanced at her hand, and the red dot representing Lu Ruochan disappeared.

Having already made her choice, she focused on this place; she saw a hall built on the island, and many lotus flowers in the lake, of high grade.

But several people did not go to harvest; instead, they stared at the hall's main door, and they heard someone speaking.

The next moment, fighting sounds rang out; as the door was opened, two demon cultivators from the Tianyuan Continent ran out first.

One of them was Jiang Yu's acquaintance, Mo Yizhou; upon seeing Lu Chenxia and the others, he hurriedly said, "They are cultivators from Dragon Emperor Island; they and the Profound Heaven Sect and Spirit Ruins Sect unevenly split the treasure, flipped the table, and started fighting."

"Everyone, shall we counterattack back?"

"'No.' The four Tianyuan Southwest cultivators beside Lu Chenxia, plus one Buddhist cultivator and one demon cultivator, all disagreed."

Moreover, after exchanging glances, they turned and flew toward the lake surface to pick lotus seeds, which can calm the mind.

Mo Yizhou and his companions, after looking back at the dozens fighting inside the hall, indecisive, discussed among themselves, and then also pursued Lu Chenxia's group of seven to pick lotus.

So many ninth-grade lotus seeds—we've struck it rich!

Therefore, after more than an hour, Jiang Yu, together with her senior sister and several Foundation Establishment cultivators, searched a thousand li but still did not find Lu Chenxia.

"'Jiang Yu, Chenxia clearly sensed me as well; under normal circumstances, she should have come looking for me.' Lu Ruochan couldn't help but worry."

Jiang Yu didn't want to say much; in her impression, Lu Chenxia is a rational person.

Jiang Tu pointed directly to the core: "When others find something good, they certainly collect it right away."

Searching for someone in a secret realm is no different from wasting time; a step slow, steps slow, while others are gathering spiritual herbs you only just set out—losses are too great.

When they took a different route back, they discovered in a small basin surrounded by mountains on all sides, growing a nourishing holy-grade longevity child.

For cultivators, this item's strengthening the body is secondary; its main effect is that the dried fruit inside can be eaten to treat chronic hidden injuries.

Cultivators are either practicing combat arts or on the path of practicing combat arts; who doesn't have some hidden injury?

Do you really think pills are omnipotent? If so, the medical cultivators who specialize in healing in the cultivation world would not have crowds at their doors.

Jiang Yu recalled the record in the Spirit Herb Compendium: the longevity child is a plant about a foot tall, whose edible part grows only at the tip and is also wrapped in a spiny hard shell.

However, when harvesting, one must open the shell on the plant to take the fruit; if the shell is taken together with the fruit, within ten breaths the fruit inside will all turn black and become useless.

But when they had truly landed on the mountaintop of the basin and wanted to go down, after a series of spiritual light flickers, a deafening dragon roar rang out, and they were all bounced away.

Jiang Yu performed consecutive backflips in midair before barely stabilizing on her flying sword; upon seeing the golden shimmering formation light on the basin, she immediately swapped her flying sword for a bamboo fan, forming a defense around herself.

Xia Bing caught the falling Lu Ruochan, flew to her side, and asked, "Are you hurt? Do you want to come up with me?"

"'No, I'll serve as rearguard for the two senior sisters.' Jiang Yu did not want to increase Senior Sister Xia's burden."

On this side, a returning Foundation Establishment late-stage cultivator asked, "Who knows how to break this formation?"

"'This is the Nine Palaces Reverse Eight Trigrams Flying Dragon Formation set according to the mountain terrain.'"

"'I only heard of it from my transmission-master uncle, but I have never solved it.' Another late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Wan Jian Sect had already distinguished the formation."

Also, a demon cultivator said, "Then did your transmission-master uncle explain how to break it?"

"'He has explained it, but it requires using thunder mother stone as the commander to break the formation; do you have any?' the Wan Jian Sect Foundation Establishment cultivator countered."

"'Will this work?' Jiang Yu realized she had learned too little in the Transmission Hall."

She had seen the formation peak instructor lay it out with formation flags, but had not seen the operation of setting up the formation using the terrain.

Because those who set up formations relying on terrain are formation masters; she had only learned a bit of the basics, still lingering outside the gate.

So as soon as she saw someone else knowing how to solve it, she immediately took out the thunder mother stone she had not yet used up.

That late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator's eyes lit up, and he said, "One piece is not enough; we need four pieces."

"'Brother Fu Daoist, thunder mother stone is rare; even my sect's junior sister only has one or two.' Deng Yuanwu also had one; although he didn't know much about this formation, he knew that four thunder mother stones couldn't be used."

"'Indeed, right now I only have this piece in my hand.' Jiang Yu spoke truthfully; the thunder mother stone she had obtained in the mortal world that day, she had used part of it, and the remainder was still kept in the Dragon Pearl."

Jiang Tu snorted coldly, "Wan Jian Sect cultivators also play tricks, trying to secretly pocket it at the opportunity."

"'Sword cultivators are not stupid; Wan Jian Sect has always held a position among the four great Dao gates, not just won by fighting.' Jiang Yu handed over the thunder mother stone and stepped back, thinking she wouldn't get a chance to step forward again later."

That Wan Jian Sect cultivator readily took the thunder mother stone, no longer mentioning four pieces, but instead asked his teammates for other materials.

Not long after, he used those few items to craft a cone-shaped object, and, under the cover of his teammates, threw it onto one formation eye.

Boom—boom—boom

Several consecutive explosions blasted a large hole in the golden shimmering formation light.

Jiang Yu, without hesitation, immediately flew down and plunged into the basin in an instant.

She hurriedly found a pair of gloves in her storage ring, put them on, and prepared to peel open the spiny shell of the longevity child.

"'Wait.' Xia Bing chased after her jumping down, 'You guard left and right; I'll collect.'"

Saying that, she took out a pair of ice silkworm silk gloves, put them on, made a hand seal or something, making it convenient and quick.

In contrast, Jiang Yu was wearing an old torn glove from before, thick and not fitting well.

Of course, she was not truly standing guard side by side with her junior sister Lu; both were like the other cultivators, trying to pry open the shell to get the fruit.

Jiang Yu received a dragon scale sent by Jiang Tu on her side, "It's from dragon bone; I dyed it for disguise—take it and use it to cut open the longevity shell."

She infused it with spiritual power and tried; indeed, it opened the shell quickly and effectively, the seed-sized fruit instantly went into a jade box.

Several people harvested extensively; Jiang Yu occasionally selected a few good seedlings, sending them into the Dragon Pearl for Jiang Tu to plant.

Meanwhile, the people waiting for them in the cave, before they returned, first waited for a team led by Qi Hao Hao.

The cultivators discovered that the Dongzhou people had actually come straight here, and they all prepared to meet them in battle.

Fortunately, Guo Jue stepped forward, saying they had cooperated before, and after introducing both sides, they avoided fighting.

He also asked Qi Hao Hao for news of Wen Xin and Qin Zhuo, and learned that this group of Dongzhou cultivators actually crossed the river without bringing any Tianyuan cultivators.

This was unacceptable; the late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator leading the Tianyuan side refused to let the Dongzhou cultivators enter the cave to rest.

The Dongzhou cultivators insisted, however, that the cave was their elder's, left behind from when they previously entered the cave heaven.

Anyway, as the two sides argued, they launched into a shouting match, while those of like mind refrained from fighting.

Guo Jue, seeing that they couldn't fight for the moment, sought out Xu Hao, the sword cultivator from the Wan Jian Sect with whom they had previously coordinated, and said, "Shall we find people from the Guiyuan Sect to go meet their fellow disciples?"

Oh right, there is also a female donor surnamed Feng from your sect.

Xu Hao paused slightly: "Senior Sister Feng? Why isn't she with you?"

"I don't know." Probably they feel that her being alone among the Grand Void disciples is unsuitable; they actually don't want to understand.

When Xu Hao went to find his fellow sect members to pass on the message, Jiang Yu here had already, after the sun had fully set, picked many longevity sprouts.

"Not good, the formation is healing itself." That demon cultivator was the first to notice something wrong; she immediately gave everyone a warning.

At this point, everyone no longer had the materials originally used to break the formation; one by one they cast aside the spiritual plants and flew up into midair.

Unexpectedly, the formation closed even faster.