The ball of light was bound by the power of the bead and gradually lost its ability to resist.

He let out a series of piercing screams, his voice filled with despair: "No! I can't be trapped like this!"

However, the power of the bead seemed to have its own will; it not only bound the ball of light but also continuously absorbed his power.

The ball of light gradually became transparent, and a resolute voice came from within it: "Since you won't let me have an easy time, then nobody else will live."

He thought that rather than disappearing like this, he might as well detonate his divine soul and perish together with them.

However, he couldn't even activate his divine soul power at this moment, and eventually turned into a phantom image, which was completely swallowed by the bead.

As the ball of light dissipated, the formation binding them automatically dissipated, and the two fell to the ground.

Upon seeing this, Qing Xuanzi was startled and immediately used his Wind Control Technique to lift the two of them steadily and gently land them back on the ground.

"Father Xi!"

Rong Jiaojiao shouted, and the deadly threat disappeared; her voice also lost its previous fear.

Qing Xuanzi looked around and then discovered that there was a hidden world below.

There is a small spiritual vein here, but it has been bound by an array, with all the spiritual energy being used to nourish the array beneath their feet. Now that the array is uncontrolled, the spiritual energy has begun to dissipate.

Qing Xuanzi looked around and found that there was a medicine garden on the other side of the formation. Perhaps because of the spiritual energy here, the medicine garden was not big, but it contained a lot of spiritual herbs.

Suddenly remembering something, I looked at the bead that had been floating in the air, but it was nowhere to be seen now.

Qing Xuanzi shouted, "You have to leave me some of Jiaojiao's treasures!"

To his surprise, the herb garden did not react, but he felt the array beneath his feet trembling. He thought the cave was about to collapse, so he immediately used his lightness technique to carry Rong Jiaojiao and run towards the array they had entered through, hoping to escape with Rong Jiaojiao from there.

However, after he landed, he discovered that the ground was normal, meaning that only the central formation was abnormal.

His divine sense probed the formation, but was repelled by a force. Thinking of Rong Jiaojiao's greedy magical artifact, an unbelievable thought crossed his mind: "Could this magical artifact be trying to devour the spiritual vein?"

The thought of this caused him immense heartache. If this spiritual vein were here, it would be enough for him and Rong Jiaojiao to cultivate with. Sigh…

What a pity! Seeing the spiritual herbs that hadn't been collected yet, he quickly rushed over, thinking he could gather them before the treasures got too busy.

After setting Rong Jiaojiao down, Qing Xuanzi quickly scanned the herb garden with his divine sense. He discovered that most of these spiritual herbs were rare varieties that were over a thousand years old, and some even emitted a faint spiritual aura, clearly indicating that they were extremely precious.

He felt a mixture of joy and anxiety—joy at the value of these miraculous medicines, and anxiety about the urgency of the situation.

He moved swiftly through the herb garden, his eyes sharp as lightning, and soon locked onto several of the most precious medicinal herbs.

A small jade shovel appeared in his hand, a tool he usually used for gathering herbs, which came in handy at this moment.

"Father Xi, what are you doing?"

Rong Jiaojiao's voice came from behind. She had recovered from the shock and followed her master curiously, watching Qing Xuanzi's movements.

"Jiaobao, Master will take you out later. Stay here and don't move around."

Qing Xuanzi said without turning his head. His movements were swift. With a gentle flick of his jade shovel, another spiritual herb emitting a faint golden light was uprooted.

"What is this?" Rong Jiaojiao asked curiously, her eyes sparkling, clearly attracted by the radiant medicinal herbs.

"This is a thousand-year-old bitter lingzhi, which is very beneficial to cultivation." Qing Xuanzi carefully placed the lingzhi into the jade box, and then quickly looked at the next spiritual herb.

"Wow, so beautiful!" Rong Jiaojiao's eyes were full of surprise. "Father Xi, what about this one?"

She pointed to a spiritual herb that emitted a pale blue light. The herb's leaves were as transparent as gauze, with a few glistening dewdrops hanging on them.

"This is the Ice Spirit Grass, which is extremely rare and has miraculous effects on cultivating spiritual power." Qing Xuanzi answered as he carefully picked the Ice Spirit Grass and placed it in the jade box.

“Father Xi, this one is beautiful too!” Rong Jiaojiao pointed to a spiritual herb that emitted a purple light. The herb was shaped like a blooming lotus flower, and it was extremely beautiful.

Rong Jiaojiao reached out to pick it, but Qing Xuanzi quickly stopped her: "Jiaojiao, don't move. This is a Purple Spirit Lotus, which blooms only once every thousand years and is extremely precious."

Qing Xuanzi's expression changed slightly; he hadn't expected to find such a precious spiritual herb here.

He quickly picked the Purple Spirit Lotus and put it into the jade box, secretly rejoicing that Jiao Bao's treasures were too busy to handle everything.

Rong Jiaojiao pouted and searched for other places. The herb garden was not big, and she could see it all at a glance. Rong Jiaojiao's eyes then fell on a spiritual herb that was emitting a light green light not far away. The leaves of the spiritual herb were as crystal clear as jade and had a faint fragrance.

"This is a Jade Spirit Leaf. Although it is not very old, it is full of spiritual energy and can be of great help to cultivation."

Seeing that she had her eye on the spiritual herb again, Qing Xuanzi immediately went over and picked the Emerald Leaf, putting it into the jade box, afraid that if he was a second late, Rong Jiaojiao would snatch it away.

“Father Xi, there’s more!” Rong Jiaojiao pointed to a spiritual herb that emitted a golden light. The herb was shaped like tiny golden stars, shimmering with dazzling light.

"This is Venus Tempering Grass, which is extremely rare and has a great effect on improving the physique of cultivators."

He never expected to find so many rare and lost medicinal herbs here. Qing Xuanzi shouted in his heart, "I'm rich! I'm rich!"

He quickly picked the Venus Tempering Grass and put it into the jade box.

"Father Xi, there's this one too, this one is beautiful!"

Seeing that her master treasured these medicinal herbs, Rong Jiaojiao didn't dare to touch them. She only found the most beautiful ones and told him about them.

Qing Xuanzi dug wherever Rong Jiaojiao pointed, basically digging up one of every kind of spiritual herb in the herb garden. Seeing that Rong Jiaojiao's treasure hadn't moved yet, he dug up another batch.

At this moment, the light of the central array grew dimmer and dimmer, and then it shattered, revealing the stone platform in the middle.

A coffin slowly rose from the center of the stone platform. Qing Xuanzi immediately became alert and hugged Rong Jiaojiao tightly to protect her.

Rong Jiaojiao didn't react, and instead curiously craned her neck to look in that direction.

Seeing her like this, Qing Xuanzi relaxed a bit. At this moment, a green bead floated up from under the formation, but it was several times larger than before.

It swayed in the air for a moment, then flew straight to Rong Jiaojiao. Rong Jiaojiao felt a sense of familiarity and reached out to grab it.

But then the little bead seemed to hesitate for a moment, flew above them, and emitted blue light again. In the next instant, all the spiritual herbs and soil around them disappeared.

Then, quite cleverly, it swayed in the air for a moment before floating down to stop in front of Rong Jiaojiao.