Chapter 76: Don't Be Greedy

When those people fly close—yo! —half of them are "acquaintances".

What Jiang Yu didn't expect was that Min Wu also brazenly followed in Qi Haohau's party.

Ao Ze saw more flashes of light darting in from another direction, his eyebrows knotting: "It's over, the crowd keeps growing; they'll definitely turn this place upside down."

"Old Xuan, the teleportation array you mentioned will be uncovered soon."

"Ha, it hasn't been found in over two thousand years, and now it's even more impossible," Thus: Xuantang Xingjun said with great certainty.

Jiang Yu, however, waited patiently for more people to fall into the valley.

When Qi Haohau's group carved another passage through the collapsed cave, they streamed in like fish for a quarter of an hour, then, while no one had fled to the surface, they slipped in silently.

Thus: Xuantang Xingjun laughed: "You are still surprisingly efficient.

But they opened the road ahead in the wrong direction; do you still intend to follow?"

"I respectfully ask for your guidance," Jiang Yu replied humbly at this moment.

Thus: Xuantang Xingjun, with a brief grin, said, "Earlier, when I said we would go down, I wasn't referring to the cave interior but to the cave entrance, using the Twenty‑Eight Mansions as a reference, taking the Gang step to the Eastern heart position, and then descending underground by several hundred zhang."

"Several hundred zhang? My earth‑diving talisman might not even be enough," Jiang Yu said, but still turned and retreated.

During that time, later cultivators also rushed into the cave; she could only flash into another space again to avoid being discovered.

Unfortunately, that handle‑less spirit sword could only scatter a few rice seeds; it couldn't travel a hundred li a day like a Dragon Orb, nor could it become invisible.

Otherwise she could, like Jiang Tu commanding a Dragon Orb, hide in space and let the spirit sword fly invisibly.

And now, she wants to obtain the Continental Transfer Star‑Shift Command as quickly as possible, so she must heed Thus: Xuantang Xingjun at this moment.

The latter is fairly reliable; after scanning dozens of li and seeing no cultivators flying this way, he decisively ordered Jiang Yu to locate the heart position and descend.

As for the earth‑diving talisman being insufficient, he can provide an earth‑diving ruler.

This also made Jiang Yu realize that his soul‑body also has storage space.

But that is his privacy, and Jiang Yu didn't ask any more; also, a single breath of descending hundreds of zhang underground would affect breathing.

Sigh, even a Foundation Establishment cultivator, descending several hundred zhang into a wind‑tight underground, still faces life danger.

But that wasn't all; Thus: Xuantang Xingjun kept pointing left and right, making her shuttle and dive.

Jiang Yu suspected he was deliberately interfering with her sense of direction, because beyond a certain depth underground, a cultivator's divine sense would be severely disrupted, at least halving the detection range.

After this conjecture, she quietly sent a mental message to Ao Ze: "Go to the wooden house's storeroom, find a Lingering‑shadow stone, record the underground."

"I have one in my storage ring," Ao Ze said confidently, re‑recording the real‑time image of the Dragon tablet, unafraid of Old Xuan.

Jiang Yu, not knowing how long she had been darting left and right, suddenly felt the soil ahead harden; if it weren't for the protective shield, she would have nearly smashed her face, indicating they had reached beneath a mountain peak.

Or perhaps they never left the valley, merely circling around a stone wall.

"Let me out, and I'll set the restriction for you," Thus: Xuantang Xingjun had no intention of making her do the work.

Jiang Yu, delighted and at ease, thought briefly and released the spirit sword; at the same time she brushed her hand over the storage pouch and took out two sword‑qi talismans for defense.

Thus: Xuantang Xingjun only glanced with the corner of his eye, noticing her small move without saying a word.

Instead, he swiftly formed a hand seal with both hands and struck the hard soil that had hit her.

Jiang Yu only felt a flash of light, and immediately a soil‑colored light shield appeared.

Thus: Xuantang Xingjun flashed and leapt into it; Jiang Yu followed, and saw that he only tapped a few spots on the ground with his foot, and they were sent downward by a mechanism.

Aside from the light shield, she saw no other spiritual energy, so she asked, "Has mundane mechanism art been added here?"

Thus: Xuantang Xingjun nodded: "Hmm, but without a sect‑specific hand seal combined with an incantation, no one can enter through this entrance."

In a moment, after you take the Continental Transfer Star‑Shift Command, you may also take three more items.

"Won't you take them?" Listening to the voice, there is more than one entrance, and Jiang Yu must enter before others.

"These things are of no use to me," Thus: Xuantang Xingjun said, though he omitted that excessive greed can cause a formation to backfire.

The layers of restrictions added by successive divine‑transforming elders of the Cloud Mist Immortal Sect are not merely for show.

Today he opened this place, yet he doesn't know how many junior cultivators entering the collapsed cave might benefit.

At that moment, the yellow light went out, and they landed in a sealed area; they saw the star lord again executing a set of intricate hand techniques, and the surroundings suddenly became as bright as day.

Jiang Yu scanned the surroundings and found herself standing in a passage over a hundred zhang long, with lanterns on the walls that were not the usual moon‑light stones.

Instead they were higher‑luminosity, lower‑yield sunstones, each arranged in a different shape.

At the bottom of the passage stood a massive stone door, its upper surface carved with numerous wild demonic beasts.

She only stared at it a few more times, then felt her qi and blood surge, and her eyes stung.

Thus: Xuantang Xingjun brushed off his soul ring, then tossed her a token, saying, "I will sit in meditation here for a while; you may wander in, but remember not to be greedy.

The token will ensure you are not attacked when entering or leaving."

"I'll accompany you," Ao Ze also flashed outside, sitting with him, clearly to keep watch.

Turning his head, he sent a mental message to Jiang Yu: "This place, could it be his hidden lair?"

Be careful; Jiang Tu instructed me to guard your safety.

But I think watching over this old man is safer than going in with you.

"You've got the intention; if the situation turns bad, I'll come out immediately.

Jiang Tu, you take care of him," she said, while Jiang Yu removed the specially crafted pouch at her waist for the Dragon Orb and handed it, along with the Dragon Orb, to him.

Ao Ze was surprised: "Not taking it inside? If danger arises, you can still hide."

"I have this," Jiang Yu lifted the handle‑less spirit sword that didn't fit the sheath; the sword is the weapon that can truly challenge those of Xuantang.

Holding the token and channeling spiritual power, she passed through the passage calmly, and the stone door, upon seeing the token, opened silently on its own.

She stepped through the door and just as she steadied herself, she felt her head heavy and her feet light, a brief dizziness, and the next moment she fell into a cavern over thirty zhang wide, still lit by sunstones.

The ceiling of the cavern was about thirty zhang above the ground, embedded with countless hanging blades that occasionally swung down with a strange, cutting sensation.

The surrounding cavern walls were pierced with hundreds of tiny holes; through the outer spiritual light shield, one could clearly see that each contained an identical treasure.

Jiang Yu dared not waste time admiring; she rose and flew to each hole, to confirm none contained the Continental Transfer Star‑Shift Command.

But even after browsing all these hundreds, I still don't see anything like a token.

She couldn't help but look up toward the cave ceiling, her spirit sense probing the sword formation in an instant, and a soul‑piercing attack suddenly surged, painful.

Sure enough, up there was a token sparkling with starlight!

Jiang Yu swiftly withdrew her spirit sense to swallow a Concentrating Spirit Pill, and the Chaotic Primordial Talisman script in her sea of consciousness flashed blue, instantly forming a luminous shield before her forehead.

"Your defensive reaction is a bit …" she thought, and still needed to use this shield to attempt to take the token, so she stopped grumbling about its slowness.

She released a flying sword to command the void, but it fell three zhang, "Indeed, the sky is sealed."

Jiang Yu, without hesitation, single‑handedly flew upward, and intermittently threw a shield or sword from her hand, leveraging the force to ascend further.

Then, seizing the moment, she surged into the suspended sword formation, swiftly snatching the token, only to be knocked down in an instant by a huge force.