Chapter 170

Having already found a landmark in the innermost layer, Jiang Yu would not give up the time to seize treasures, and went to see this Xuantang Xingjun.

She stood still, took out the talisman and spirit sword: "It's just that you intend to leave; I will now undo the binding between you and the spirit sword."

Seeing Jiang Yu's spiritual power flow into the talisman, Xuantang Xingjun immediately flicked out a force to interrupt, saying, "About eighty li to the west there is a medicine field; there is a very concealed spell formation there, which ordinary people cannot easily discover."

But after you have harvested this medicinal herb, you must take me to find the cluster of green calyx flowers; over there you need to help me dispel some formations.

"Hmph, Old Xuan, you haven't spoken a word of truth; what you said earlier in the underground cavern about leaving on your own is mostly a lie to you."

"Now you say you should go break the formation, but you know nothing about formations—just basic entry-level stuff."

"Unfortunately I can't see eighty li away now; quickly put him into your spirit sword, don't let him have another idea." Xuan Tu felt that Xuantang was scheming.

Jiang Yu agreed, so she delayed a bit, releasing her bamboo fan as a means of transport: "Senior, enter the spirit sword or the dragon pearl, and we'll go together."

"No need, I'll hide and protect you." Having reached the final critical moment, Xuantang Xingjun did not want to enter those two spaces again, lest he be manipulated.

Jiang Yu did not insist either; she only insisted that he stand before her, to prevent him from sneaking attack from behind.

And the bamboo fan, after receiving spiritual power, flew at great speed, not lagging behind the cloud-piercing vessel of Guo Jue, and in a few blinks flew to beyond eighty li.

Because Jiang Yu had affixed an invisibility talisman, her flight speed was too fast and the time too short, so she did not attract any notice.

Before her eyes was a not-so-high mountain face, a broken section that received the flow of water from the upper mountain peak; opposite it stood a stone pavilion, likely an observation platform.

Following Xuantang's instructions, Jiang Yu brought her flying sword close to a small waterfall, carefully positioned herself, and then discovered that inside the stone mountain behind the waterfall was embedded a chicken-egg-sized absolute spirit stone.

This thing can block cultivators' divine sense probing; if you don't get close and look with the naked eye, you simply cannot notice it.

Just as she was about to dig out the absolute spirit stone with her sword, Jiang Tu and Xuantang simultaneously warned, "Someone, a female cultivator of the Shangqing Sect."

But by the time Jiang Yu tried to retract her hand, she had already been spotted, after all the invisibility talisman hid only her, not her spirit sword.

In the morning light and thin mist, a Golden Core female cultivator stepped on clouds and arrived, silently shooting a leaf toward her hand.

Fortunately, Jiang Yu's purple jade promptly rose a protective shield, causing that leaf to strike and shatter into powder.

She then revealed her figure, cupped her fists toward the opponent, and spoke in Dongzhou dialect: "Senior, why do you attack this junior?"

"Foundation Establishment?" the Golden Core female cultivator was slightly doubtful, but since she was not a disciple of her sect, she would not show mercy.

Swish swish swish

This time the attack was no longer leaves but several silver-shaped magical implements, and the Golden Core female cultivator was also flying toward her.

Jiang Yu naturally would not stay put to be beaten; she was talking with the opponent to buy time to draw out a sword talisman.

In the instant the bamboo fan shifted to dodge the attack, she activated and released a Nascent Soul-stage sword talisman.

Boom boom boom

Seeing the sword talisman, the Golden Core female cultivator immediately wanted to abandon her magical treasure and flee, but she never expected that, while she was teleporting, a great claw of a demon beast slapped her back.

Thus, fortunately she was sliced by sword qi, losing an arm and half her life, and barely managed to escape.

Jiang Yu picked up the fallen needle-shaped magical implement and gave it to Jiang Tu: "Quickly enter the dragon pearl, Senior Xuantang, quickly teach me how to open the entrance."

"Aren't you afraid others will block you here?" Xuantang Xingjun frowned; the surging sword qi would surely attract other cultivators.

But under Jiang Yu's insistence, he still helped her open the entrance.

"Jiang Yu, I suspect this place has been reinforced by Old Xuan." As Jiang Tu entered the dragon pearl, his eyes remained fixed on Xuantang Xingjun.

"We only need to harvest the medicine." Jiang Yu, while breaking the seals in order, kept memorizing.

Just as Jiang Yu smoothly entered the medicine field, some Golden Core cultivators had already been drawn by the sword qi, but many more were busy with their own affairs and did not come to watch the spectacle.

Only one cultivator from the Taiyi Sect felt the sword qi familiar and flew over; when he arrived and collided with others, he did not see the person who had used the sword talisman.

But because the other party was a Dongzhou cultivator, and they had previously fought over spiritual herbs, the two, having a disagreement, started fighting again.

Moreover, the more they fought, the more heated they became, each calling for reinforcements; for a time, above and below the waterfall, several Golden Core cultivators were fighting together.

Coincidentally, Daoist Lin seized a strand of strange fire and proceeded to the innermost layer; passing by, he saw Tian Yuan and Dongzhou cultivators fighting, and without a word joined in.

Jiang Bai and Lu Xin, who were traveling with him, then caught up to stop him.

Meanwhile, Jiang Yu, who had caused the fight, was unaware of this; she entered a separate cave heaven medicine garden.

Flowing water, sunlight, spiritual qi—none lacking—and there were several hundred stalks of medicinal herbs.

Everything visible was medicinal herbs over ten thousand years old, and each stalk had a specially crafted spell formation attached.

"Senior Xuantang, do you have a solution?"

"None; it depends on your fortune—whatever formation you can open, you harvest that one."

"Before me, many cultivators had broken in here, yet the ten-thousand-year-old medicinal herbs still remained plentiful, indicating that few had been harvested."

"I can open the formations on the medicine field; I cannot help you otherwise." Xuantang Xingjun pointed his soul power at several spots, and the spell light covering the entire medicine field receded.

He then sat on a large stone to the side; back then he had inadvertently entered this medicine field and had only taken two stalks.

"You're just being mysterious again." This place is only about two mu; seeing no outsiders, Jiang Tu flashed his body and leapt out of the dragon pearl.

Xuantang Xingjun glanced at it lightly: "Jiang Tu, you this dog-headed strategist have not been whispering bad things about me in Jiang Yu's ear, have you?"

"Compared to Ao Ze, you are not being fair."

"Being honest makes one easy to bully." Jiang Tu was not afraid to speak plainly to him.

"Jiang Tu, you also come harvest two stalks." In a short time, Jiang Yu had already found a method.

It was not that she was particularly clever, but that she understood the spell formations set on the medicinal herbs, so she used only the simplest method.

She circulated spiritual power matching her own spiritual root, tapping the inverted light cover, and then noticed that the fish-token mark on her arm also flickered.

Thus, coordinating with the flashing of the mark, she struck one point, and the formation instantly opened.

Seeing Jiang Yu harvest the ten-thousand-year-old medicinal herb with a jade spade, Xuantang Xingjun could not help but wonder, "You understand the formations here, so breaking them has become faster?"

"I don't understand; I just pointed at random." Jiang Yu would not tell him the truth, but Jiang Tu flew back to her side and told her the reason.

Furthermore, she carefully divided the divisible medicinal herbs and sowed back a little bit.

Jiang Tu also followed her command, circulating water spiritual power, then slapped his paw onto the spell light outside the medicinal herb, and easily slapped it open.

Xuantang Xingjun stared, mouth agape; in just a few breaths, he saw a person and a dragon point open another stalk and harvest it.

For half an hour straight, they actually harvested more than ten stalks of ten-thousand-year spiritual herbs, Xuantang Xingjun watched, his heart dripping blood.

You two don't need to; why harvest so much for others?

Honestly, Jiang Yu is now picking selectively; she picks whichever kind is more helpful for her master to achieve God Transformation.

Then, using divine sense to communicate with Jiang Tu, the reason they don't use sound transmission is for fear that Xuantang will read lips.

"Jiang Tu, use your divine sense to carefully search the surroundings, see if there is any other exit.

"Especially the stone that Old Master Xuan is sitting on.