Chapter 169: Possible

Jiang Yu withdrew her spiritual perception and scanned the surroundings; earlier her spirit had felt a place a hundred li wide in the darkness, and now she sees only a thirty‑square‑meter "prison cell"?

She almost traced the wall inch by inch, all covered with paintings and characters—some scenery, some incomplete cultivation techniques—but there was no formation.

"There must be a spatial formation here, yet my eyes and spiritual perception have not found it," Jiang Yu said, voluntarily exiting the area; she must look for an exit beneath the stalactites.

Unexpectedly, Thus: Xuantang Xingjun pointed to a wall painted with a thatched cottage and said, "I've been here, it's at the very inner edge.

Step beyond its boundary, straight to where the Seven‑Petaled Green Calyx Flower lies."

Jiang Yu assured again, "I will take you there."

"You use heart‑blood to forge the Spiritual Sword, then completely unbind me and the sword.

After that I won't need you to escort me; I can find it myself." Thus: Xuantang Xingjun said confidently; beyond this underground cavern must be the innermost layer of the cave heaven.

Jiang Yu was about to refuse, but he added, "A cultivator's whole life is only a few drops of heart‑blood; losing each drop requires a long period of recuperation to replenish.

And this place is a good spot to recuperate; you needn't worry about being ambushed by other cultivators."

"Don't listen to him; losing heart‑blood in a secret realm is dangerous; he has ulterior motives," Jiang Tu was the first to object.

Jiang Yu naturally could not agree, "Senior, I can unbind you by another method."

The Mixed‑Primordial Talisman Manual already has it; why must she resort to self‑harm to cause trouble?

Losing heart‑blood will definitely damage one's vital energy; if she encounters a cultivator or demonic beast soon, she may be unable to retreat unscathed.

The old Xuantang, seeing his mortal body ahead, could not strike himself to vent his anger, so he sought ways to have others kill him.

Jiang Yu never thought that a Flower‑Transformation cultivator, after being tormented by her several times, would just smile it off.

Thus: Xuantang Xingjun kept urging, but Jiang Yu had already walked back on her own, leisurely searching for traces of formations.

"Be on guard against him," Jiang Yu transmitted to Jiang Tu, and gripped the bamboo fan she had just folded in her hand.

With no other choice, Thus: Xuantang Xingjun had to help her find an exit, and in a moment discovered a hidden passage.

"Are you sure you can completely sever the link between me and the Spiritual Sword?"

"Sure." Jiang Yu had, back when she was in the sect, avoided him and asked her master to study the binding‑breaking talisman patterns.

Later, her master, relying on his Primordial Queen cultivation, successfully drew two of them.

She thought for a moment, took out one and showed him, "This talisman has a special restriction; only the owner of the Spiritual Sword can use it."

"Let's go." Thus: Xuantang Xingjun hadn't fully seen, then saw her slam the talisman into the Dragon Pearl, and reluctantly led her out through the narrow passage.

People say mountain roads have eighteen bends; this underground tunnel is no less, and it keeps getting lower.

Thus: Xuantang Xingjun's spirit was not bound by altitude, able to become a sphere and fly at any time, whereas Jiang Yu suffered; in some places she had to crawl to get through.

"Did cultivators who were sent down before also have to crawl like this?" Jiang Yu, while crawling, would, if she wasn't careful, smash into the irregular stone ceiling.

Jiang Tu had a different view, "They use a small teleportation formation, so the descent isn't too fast.

And this tunnel might have been secretly dug by those who were imprisoned."

Jiang Yu thought, "It could really be possible.

Hopefully the place where Senior Sister and the others fell also has such exits."

Her wish was doomed to fail, because in their squad only she was transmitted to this place.

Those few with Xia Bing were still on the second layer, and fell onto the island that Lu Chenxia and the others had teleported into.

But when they fell, the lake island and the great hall were already empty; everywhere, items including lotus seeds had been completely harvested.

Fortunately, Lu Chenxia left a cipher, which the Lu Chan searching for exits discovered.

Their party quickly teleported away, but drifted farther from the Guo Jue team.

Jiang Yu currently knows nothing of these; she focuses on crawling out of the passage, and is immediately startled by the swaying rice before her.

In a field of dozens of acres, the rice paddies were planted with premium Spiritual Rice of white, black, yellow, purple and other colors.

In front of a distant thatched cottage, the houses were full of high‑grade Spiritual Medicines and Fruits, especially many that benefit the spirit, and they were right on the blooming flowers, where diligent swarms of bees flew.

When Jiang Yu released her aura, the bees buzzed in a massive gathering; in an instant, thousands of fifth‑ and sixth‑grade Bee Lords bearing shining bee‑crafted armor swarmed joyfully toward her.

"I'll go." Jiang Yu pulled a bell‑shaped artifact from her storage bag, just as she was about to dodge, her body flashed into the Dragon Pearl space.

Outside, Thus: Xuantang Xingjun was left alone to battle the swarm of bees.

Unfortunately, the Bee Lords could not smell the soul bodies, so they flew past Thus: Xuantang Xingjun, randomly searching for people.

Meanwhile, Jiang Yu, inside the Dragon Pearl, only wanted a good sleep, and said, "Jiang Tu, congratulations on regaining seventh rank.

It seems this is the innermost layer; outside are all sixth‑grade bees. Could you do me a favor and harvest the mature Spiritual Medicines?"

"What's in it for me?"

"Half each."

"No, I'll take seven, you three."

"Alright." Without Jiang Tu, she was surrounded by sixth‑grade bees and dared not move a bit.

When Jiang Tu emerged from the Dragon Pearl, the Dragon King aura radiating from his body dispersed outward, and the swarm of Bee Lords instantly reverted to ordinary bees, daring not to block wherever the Dragon King went.

Seeing this, Jiang Yu also flashed out, "Let's harvest together; after gathering, we'll keep the premium ones."

When her aura appeared, the bees buzzed incessantly again, still intent on charging to attack.

But they were too timid to approach Jiang Tu again.

Thus: Xuantang Xingjun paced back and forth, saying most of all, "Don't harvest everything; leave some small ones."

If he didn't say so, Jiang Yu couldn't take everything; she had to leave resources for later arrivals.

Jiang Yu not only transplanted the original Spiritual Medicines as seedlings, but also entered the Dragon Pearl to find some seeds to plant here.

But when they harvested the Spiritual Rice, Thus: Xuantang Xingjun said, "After harvesting, we must select seeds to cultivate seedlings for replenishment.

"Think carefully—do you intend to harvest all nearly a hundred acres?"

Jiang Yu replied, "I'll only harvest a portion, leaving some for others.

Rest assured, after finishing I'll go deliver them to you."

Thus: Xuantang Xingjun is not at all at ease, because after Jiang Yu had only taken away three‑tenth of the spirit rice and replanted it, a Golden Core cultivator's evading light rushed toward them.

Jiang Yu's first reaction is to make Jiang Tu hide; she fears that others will see the true dragon's child and immediately try to snatch him.

As a result, Jiang Tu only pulls Jiang Yu into the Dragon Pearl space, and once again throws Thus: Xuantang Xingjun aside.

The old man is so angry he nearly shouts a curse, yet he does not ask to enter the Dragon Pearl; he does not want to be sealed again by the spirit sword, "Aren't you afraid I'll be discovered?"

"Not afraid, you could deal with them with a single finger." As Jiang Yu sits down before the Dragon Stele, two Golden Core cultivators fly to the thatched house.

Seeing the spirit medicine is newly planted, they babble incoherently, indicating they want to take revenge on the one who discovered the calamity Hu.

"It's a cultivator from Dragon Emperor Island," Jiang Tu, who is also learning foreign languages together with Jiang Yu, says.

Jiang Yu watches the two not even look at the spirit rice, and darts away; the oppressive pressure of the dragon bone is too great, she feels terribly uneasy, "Their island doesn't cherish spirit rice?"

No, it must be that there are more valuable things nearby.

She pauses for half a minute, sees the two Golden Core cultivators not reappear, leaps out of the space and departs, "Senior Thus: Xuantang Xingjun, could you tell me where the nearest medicine garden is?"

"Other places may change, but the innermost pavilion will not; it is said that their garden is filled with spirit medicine."

"First go find the green calyx flower."

"Do you think it's possible?"