Li Yuanba descended from another mountain peak. From here he could observe the position of Elder Jinggeng and others. The distance between the two sides was not too far.

His body sank into the soil, and the ground automatically separated. As his body entered the ground, the ground automatically merged again, leaving no trace.

This is the innate ability of the corpse refiner, which can hide itself in the earth. This innate ability is even more effective than some secret methods of hiding one's breath.

Li Yuanba seldom uses the corpse refining state, and he felt very strange at this moment.

After sinking into the ground, he did not feel suffocated at all. Instead, the energy coming from the earth made him feel comfortable.

Of course, although this ordinary underground can make one feel comfortable and beneficial to oneself, its effect is extremely weak. With his realm, perhaps he has to stay underground for hundreds of years to accumulate the energy to take third-grade elixirs and practice for several months in human state.

This is the gap. The reason why human monks can unify the world is because they can utilize cultivation resources to a greater extent.

Although he was sunk underground, Elder Jinggeng and his men could still discover him through the drone satellite system if they made any movement.

For the whole day, Great Elder Jing Geng did not make any movement until it got dark. Dong Wei began to put away the formation, and the thirty-three Jindan monks restored the Xuanwu Secret Formation.

During this period, the drone satellite system focused on the changes on the top of the mountain. The infrared mode discovered them during the time between the formation being put away and the thirty-three Jindan monks forming the Xuanwu Secret Formation.

Li Yuanba's body emerged from the mud, but there was not a bit of mud on his body.

When Great Elder Jing Geng and his men were taking action, he also followed behind using 'Lotus Steps'.

This time, Great Elder Jinggeng and his men moved much faster. They kept changing directions between the various mountains and were always able to avoid the mountain where the big monster was.

Perhaps it was because they were lucky or well prepared, but they traveled for another four hours and did not encounter any more big monsters.

Li Yuanba looked at the map. They had already entered the core area of ​​the Nanyuan Mountains. The speed of Elder Jinggeng and his men ahead had slowed down. They would conduct repeated explorations before moving forward each time.

Li Yuanba's plan was simple. He just had to follow the path opened up by Elder Jing Geng and he didn't need to worry about the spirit beasts.

Judging from the appearance of Great Elder Jing Geng and the others, they should be about to reach their destination and prepare.

While he was thinking about it, thirty-three Jindan monks fell downwards. They were flying at a low altitude and soon landed on the ground.

"Be ready to fight at any time!" Elder Jinggeng gave the order in a deep voice.

No one knows how much the Linghe Sect and the Wuya Sect paid in order to arrive here successfully this time.

Finally reaching the destination, he was extremely excited.

His eyes were full of hope. Perhaps this was his chance to change his fate, and he had to seize it even if it meant giving up everything.

Since this place is already the core area of ​​the Nanyuan Mountains, there are a lot of big monsters, which has greatly reduced the number of first and second level spirit beasts.

Elder Jinggeng led the way and arrived at the foot of the cliff.

He slowly moved a huge rock away, revealing a cave.

Except for him, the other Jindan cultivators all showed expressions of surprise and curiosity.

This operation was entirely commanded by Great Elder Jing Geng. They only knew that they were heading to the Shiwandashan Mountains to retrieve a treasure. This treasure was related to whether their forces could produce a Nascent Soul ancestor.

But the exact location of the treasure is known only to Elder Jing Geng.

"Dong Wei, you leave two people up there and use all the prepared formation flags to cover the location of the cave entrance. Once a spirit beast attacks, try to delay the time as much as possible!" Great Elder Jing Geng instructed the formation master Dong Wei.

"No problem, Great Elder!" Dong Wei nodded in response.

He took out the third-grade formation flags and placed them around the cave entrance one by one. Soon, the cave entrance disappeared from Li Yuanba's sight.

It also made it impossible for Li Yuanba to observe the mouth shape of Great Elder Jinggeng through "Divine Eyes" and recognize the words of Great Elder Jinggeng through lip reading.

But he was already certain that this cave was where the treasure was.

He waited for a cup of tea, and his figure flashed into the formation.

Long before Dong Wei arranged the formation flags and activated the formation, he saw the positions of the flags arranged by Dong Wei, and from this he recognized the formation used.

Dong Wei’s formation inheritance is not a particularly special formation inheritance, but a typical formation inheritance of the Northern Shu continent.

The database of Li Shiming's life-saving magic weapon IBMz15 contains detailed information about the formation that Dong Wei has currently arranged. This means that Li Yuanba does not even need to break the formation. He can just rely on his familiarity with the formation and use 'Lotus Step by Step' to suddenly appear in the formation.

Li Yuanba stood in the formation. The distance between him and Dong Wei and the other two Jindan cultivators was only three meters, but Dong Wei and the two Jindan cultivators did not notice his presence.

For a formation master, the formation is his weapon, but when the opponent's formation level is higher than his own, this weapon may become the opponent's weapon.

Just like now, although Li Yuanba is not a master of formations, his original body Li Shiming is, which means that Li Yuanba also possesses the ability of a master of formations.

Not to mention that how could a formation master from a medium-sized sect be compared with Li Shiming, the formation master.

Regardless of the help given to Li Shiming by his natal magic weapon IBMz15, which allowed Li Shiming to possess analytical and computing capabilities that other formation masters could not achieve, Li Shiming's total knowledge of formations also far exceeded that of Dong Wei.

Li Shiming's formation knowledge system is divided into the part obtained from Tianhai Island, the part obtained from Shushan Sect, the part obtained from Senluo Sect, the formation inheritance he obtained from various Jindan cultivators as an alchemy master, and the formation classics obtained from the ancestor Weng Zhao of Tianxing Trading Company.

This knowledge of formations is what makes Li Shiming far superior to other formation masters. At least in the Northern Shu Continent, no other formation master's total knowledge of formations can compare with his.

Li Yuanba entered the formation and used the power of the formation to block the space between him, Dong Wei and the two Jindan cultivators.

He did not attack the three Jindan monks. With his fighting power, it would take him only a moment to kill the three Jindan monks.

He bypassed the three Jindan monks in the formation, passed through the formation and entered the cave.

As soon as he entered the cave, he felt a sense of comfort. This place was filled with cold energy, which was the most conducive environment for refining corpses.

He saw an engraved pattern on the wall of the cave. It was an isolation pattern engraved with second-grade materials, which could prevent the cave from being discovered.

There is an isolation pattern every five meters, which ensures the concealment of the entire cave to the greatest extent.

This is the Nanyuan Mountains. It is not an easy task to set up so many isolation patterns here.

Every time I come here, I have to take great risks. In addition, the engraving will cause fluctuations in spiritual power, so every time I engrave, I need to first make sure that there are no powerful spiritual beasts nearby before I can proceed.

Following the cave forward, we entered the belly of the mountain.

Li Yuanba felt that the spiritual energy was becoming more and more dense. There should be a very high-level spiritual vein deep in the cave. He just didn't know whether it was a Jindan-level spiritual vein or a higher-level Yuanying-level spiritual vein.

The rich spiritual energy is mixed with an even stronger cold and yin energy.

He stopped moving forward and sensed the aura of a Jindan cultivator in front of him.

It seemed that they were in an isolated aura and inside the belly of the mountain, so Elder Jinggeng and the others no longer had to hide their aura. Of course, they would not intentionally emit their aura.

Li Yuanba, who was also in the cave, could clearly sense the locations of these Jindan cultivators.

He did not move forward. He did not care about the other Jindan cultivators, but he sensed danger from Elder Jinggeng.

There was no obvious fluctuation of spiritual power ahead, which meant that the other party had not yet taken action to take the treasure.

He was extremely curious about what kind of treasure was here that would make Elder Jing Geng mobilize so many Jindan monks here.

Deep in the cave, Elder Jing Geng stood at a gap, looking at the huge space below.

This place was discovered accidentally by the master of Great Elder Jing Geng. At that time, his master was collecting elixirs in the Shiwanda Mountains when he was discovered and chased by a huge monster.

While escaping, he accidentally entered a crack. Not only did he escape the pursuit of the big monster, but he also made an unexpected discovery.

The crack was very deep and there was a big monster outside, so his master kept going inside.

His master had mastered the secret method of shrinking his body. He passed through several cracks so small that only children could pass through. After going deep into the belly of the mountain, he was shocked to find that the cracks brought him to a space inside the mountain.

First of all, his master sensed the change in spiritual energy. There was actually a Nascent Soul level spiritual vein here. The value of this Nascent Soul level spiritual vein alone was unimaginable.

Of course, if one wants to collect spiritual veins, then one needs a Nascent Soul ancestor to do it.

However, if you sell the information to the Yuanying Patriarch or a large trading company, you can get enough rewards.

His master made a great discovery in that space. For this great discovery, he went deep into this place many times, reopened the passage, and made some hiding things.

Unfortunately, Elder Jinggeng’s master died before the harvest, leaving this big secret to Elder Jinggeng.

Over the years, Great Elder Jing Geng has been sending people to explore for information leading to the core of the Nanyuan Mountains.

Finally, Great Elder Jing Geng got the chance, and he became strong enough to use the Great Discovery. He felt that all this was a miracle given to him by God.

Some of the Jindan cultivators beside Great Elder Jing Geng were also secretly looking at the space outside the gap.

Apart from the rich spiritual energy, they only saw a calm surface of water.

This water was definitely not ordinary. They were at the gap, dozens of meters away from the water surface, but they could still feel the cold air emanating from the water.

If it were ordinary pool water, such cold air would have frozen into ice long ago.

But there was no trace of ice on the water surface in front of him, only dead silence.

"Everyone go to the water surface and wait. There is a fourth-grade lotus here. Our goal this time is this fourth-grade lotus. Once the fourth-grade lotus comes into the world, you need to pick it immediately. No matter who picks it, you must hand it over to me!" Great Elder Jing Geng gave orders in a deep voice to the Jindan monks beside him.

Hearing his words, the eyes of the Jindan cultivators flickered.

Although Great Elder Jing Geng did not specify what kind of fourth-grade lotus it was, the value of a spiritual object that could reach the fourth grade was unimaginable in the world of immortal cultivation, not to mention the special lotus among spiritual objects.

Lotus spiritual objects have always been special treasures. For example, the spiritual object golden lotus can purify spiritual energy. There are also various spiritual lotuses, each of which has a special function and is the top existence among spiritual objects.

A fourth-grade lotus could conservatively be exchanged for enough resources for them to cultivate to the level of a great elder. They could even achieve Nascent Soul stage with the help of this fourth-grade lotus.

Although not all Jindan cultivators have such thoughts, who would not have any thoughts when faced with a treasure that can affect the future of cultivation?

Twenty-nine Jindan monks flew out of the gap and hovered above the water.

They suddenly discovered that for some reason, Great Elder Jinggeng did not come into the space with them through the gap.

And the great elder Jing Geng clapped his hand at the gap, and a ray of light from the formation blocked the gap.

"Great Elder, what are you going to do?" A Jindan cultivator noticed something was wrong and asked loudly.

Some Jindan cultivators were more direct. They took out their magic weapons and attacked the gap.

Just as they were mobilizing their spiritual power, the calm water surface suddenly began to roll.

Black roots with a foul smell stretched out from beneath the water and rolled towards the Jindan cultivator above.

Although the space was nearly thirty meters high and quite large in area, there were so many black and smelly roots in the water that the twenty-nine Jindan cultivators had no room to move.

These Jindan monks would not sit still and wait for death, and they all used their magic weapons to attack the black and smelly roots.

The black and smelly roots were not solid and exploded one after another with the attack of the magic weapon.

At first, the Jindan cultivator was still happy. These black and smelly roots looked scary, but their power was really limited.

But they were no longer happy after a moment, because the black and smelly roots exploded, forming a large cloud of poisonous fog.

At the same time, after the magic weapon came into contact with the black and smelly roots, it felt obviously out of control. This was because it was corroded by the deadly poison of the black and smelly roots.

The Jindan monks used various methods to expel the poison. Some of them used magic weapons to form a protective shield, some used spells to blow away the poisonous fog, and some took out detoxification pills to avoid poisoning.

The poison that can corrode magic weapons would have extremely terrible consequences if it got on your body.

The bodies of cultivators are far inferior to the defensive power of magic weapons, and the magic weapons are affected. The Jindan cultivators try their best to use various means to stop the poisonous fog.

In the short term, their methods were effective. The poisonous fog was blocked by the protective shield and blown aside by magic.

However, the black and smelly roots extending upward in the water did not stop, but continued to extend. I really don’t know what exists under the water. The black and smelly roots seem to be endless.

The Jindan monks can only attack continuously. Once the magic weapon is affected, they will change it. If the magic weapon cannot be used, they still have talismans. If that doesn't work, they will spend time casting spells.