"Is there such a secret behind this?"
Unexpectedly, the Righteous Alliance, despite its sanctimonious appearance, plotted against the Ancient God Clan and the True Origin Sect in order to obtain the Gan Yang Immortal Pearl.
They annihilated them and sealed the Ancient God Cave, preventing the ancient god race from entering this realm to seek revenge.
“Senior Nan Lingzi, whether what you say is true or false, I may choose to believe you.”
Lu Xuan also felt that his Uncle Ji and the others were unreliable, always acting suspiciously, and even sending him into the Ancient God Cave to his death. Regardless, they were all Lu Xuan's enemies.
Lu Xuan had just finished putting away the items Nan Lingzi had given him when a sudden thought struck him:
"Perhaps I can help you get out of this predicament, senior."
After saying that, Lu Xuan summoned the Ancient God Sword, which transformed into a heavy and sharp greatsword, and headed towards the chains that imprisoned Nan Lingzi.
Click click click.
Several metallic clanging sounds rang out.
The four chains, however, were intact.
Nan Lingzi sighed softly and said:
"Don't waste your precious magic power. There is no spiritual energy in this ancient god cave, so you can't replenish your cultivation. Otherwise, I wouldn't have fallen to the Nascent Soul stage."
Sure enough, Lu Xuan sensed that the ancient god cave was deathly still, devoid of any spiritual energy, with only faint traces of demonic and poisonous energy.
Nan Lingzi said, "You must have noticed that this place is filled with death energy and the five poisonous energies. They deliberately imprisoned me here to deplete my magical power."
Once consumed, it cannot be recovered.
This caused Nan Lingzi, who was at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, to experience a significant drop in cultivation.
If he hadn't been a rare fifth-order body cultivator, he would probably have been annihilated long ago.
"Senior, you've suffered, but I'm not limited to this."
Seeing that Lu Xuan was still trying to rescue him, Nan Lingzi smiled bitterly:
"Young man Lu, don't waste your energy. These four chains are all made of the legendary Taiyi Star Gold and extraterrestrial cold iron! Only a profound treasure can cut them."
"Mysterious Treasure?"
"Above magic treasures are mystical treasures, and above that are immortal treasures! Is the Qianyang Immortal Pearl the only immortal treasure in this world?"
Immortal Treasure? Upon hearing this, Lu Xuan pondered to himself, wondering whether the treasure cauldron in his dantian was a mystical treasure or an immortal treasure.
Lu Xuan felt that the latter was more likely!
Although the Xuanbao is powerful, I have never heard of it being able to enter a cultivator's dantian and accelerate the ripening of spiritual herbs.
Seeing that Lu Xuan remained silent, Nan Lingzi assumed he was somewhat disappointed, so she tried to comfort him:
"Don't blame yourself too much. You're only at the Core Formation stage right now. As long as you find the treasure trove of our True Essence Sect, break through to the Nascent Soul stage, and then refine a few peerless treasures, rescuing me will be a piece of cake."
"Otherwise, unless you find the legendary Devouring Divine Gold or the Devouring Demonic Insect, one of the ten most powerful demonic insects in the ancient cultivation world, which can devour everything, it should be able to devour this Taiyi Star Gold as well..."
What? Devouring Divine Metal? Devouring Demonic Insects?
Lu Xuan looked surprised.
Let's try the Devouring Divine Gold first; we won't reveal the Devouring Demonic Worm for now.
Seeing Lu Xuan take out another sword, Nan Lingzi initially shook his head, but suddenly his eyes lit up:
"A magical flying sword mixed with some Devouring Divine Metal? What a pity, if it were a Mystic Treasure, it might have been able to save me."
Upon hearing Nan Lingzi's words, Lu Xuan realized that the sword was unlikely to cut the chains.
But I'll give it a try anyway.
"Bang, ding."
Several crisp sounds rang out, and several shallow nicks appeared on Lu Xuan's flying sword.
To Lu Xuan's great surprise, the four chains opposite him were completely undamaged.
Nan Lingzi chuckled and explained:
"These materials are called Taiyi Star Gold and Extraterrestrial Million-Year Cold Iron, both peerless materials for refining profound treasures. They are not something your magic weapon flying sword can cut through!"
"If you can take these two materials with you and add them to your flying sword, it might become a Xuanbao flying sword that only a Nascent Soul cultivator can possess. However, you would need at least a Nascent Soul cultivation level to activate it."
Upon hearing Nan Lingzi's reminder, Lu Xuan had no intention of letting go of these two materials, as they were top-tier Xuanbao-level materials that were priceless and unavailable on the market.
"Devouring Demon Worms, come forth!"
Lu Xuan shouted loudly, startling the old man next to him.
Unexpectedly, Lu Xuan then actually summoned over a hundred Devouring Demon Insects at the early stage of Core Formation.
"What? Devouring Demonic Insects? You're quite something, kid. I almost misjudged you. With so many early-stage Core Formation level 3 Devouring Demonic Insects appearing, even I would have to give way in my current situation."
"Really? That's because your cultivation level has dropped, right?" Lu Xuan flattered Nan Lingzi.
This pleased Nan Lingzi greatly. "Hmph, of course. My fifth-order Sacred Body is impervious to water and fire, and nothing can harm me. No matter how powerful these Devouring Demon Worms are, they can only hurt me if they can advance to the fourth-order Nascent Soul realm!"
"Senior, you are so powerful, could you teach me your True Essence Sacred Body Technique?" Lu Xuan asked tentatively.
"What is this?"
Nan Lingzi curled her lip and said disdainfully:
"As long as you become the next sect leader of our True Essence Sect, the True Essence Sacred Body Technique will naturally be passed on to you."
"How can I become the next sect leader of our True Essence Sect? Am I already the successor, but not the sect leader?" Lu Xuan asked.
"No, that requires the approval of the divine will of the upper realm of our True Yuan Sect, that is, the approval of several of our seniors in the upper realm of True Yuan Sect, in order to become a true sect leader."
“There are still people in our Upper Realm? Then how did our True Essence Sect end up like this?” Lu Xuan almost laughed.
"What do you know? After ascension, being able to project one's divine soul is already a divine ability beyond the Nascent Soul realm. It's quite remarkable. To descend from the upper realm, one needs at least the cultivation level of the Dao Integration realm!"
"The Dao Integration Realm!" This was something Lu Xuan had never heard of before.
The highest level of cultivators Lu Xuan knew of was only the peak of the late-stage Nascent Soul realm.
Nan Lingzi didn't say anything about it, but continued to watch the hundreds of Devouring Demon Insects that Lu Xuan had summoned.
"Hey, these broken chains have actually been slowly gnawed by your Devouring Demon Worms, leaving some marks!" Nan Lingzi exclaimed with great surprise.
He originally thought that Lu Xuan could only open the True Essence Treasury, break through to the Nascent Soul stage, and use the Mystic Treasure to save him. He never expected that he would see hope of escaping his predicament now.
"Alright, Lu Xuan, have your Devouring Demon Worms do their best to bite through these chains. As long as I am free, this Endless Sea Immortal Cultivation World will be ours."
"But..." Lu Xuan felt that his Devouring Demon Insects were being consumed very quickly. In the blink of an eye, several Devouring Demon Insects in the early stage of Core Formation were killed by the Geng Metal Qi of Taiyi Star Gold and Heavenly Cold Iron.
"No, even if I manage to break through these chains, my Devouring Demon Worms will be almost gone. Let's stop."
At Lu Xuan's command, his Devouring Demon Insects all returned to Lu Xuan's high-level spirit beast pouch.
At this moment, Nan Lingzi finally couldn't hide her anger and lost it.
“Young man Lu, I advise you to help this old man escape this predicament, or I will leave you here forever.”
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