Chapter 198 The Secret of the Five Continents' Spiritual Veins: A Great Change
Upon arriving at the Tiangan Sect, Sect Master Duan Hong immediately selected a few people and took Song Yin with him to the Tiangan Sect's underground palace.
"Sect Master, is she going too?" someone asked Duan Hong in a low voice, but their gaze fell on Song Yin beside her.
Song Yin heard it too, but she didn't care because she had to go to the underground palace.
Sect Master Duan glared at the elder, who had only been promoted a few years ago and still had some shortcomings. Sect Master Duan rubbed his temples. "Elder Li should stay outside with the others."
His words were undoubtedly saying, "Let's take the magical artifact from Song Yin's hands and put it in our own."
Elder Li stopped in his tracks, stunned: "Sect Master?"
Unfortunately, no one else waited for him. As Song Yin and Sect Leader Duan strode forward, they quickly left him behind in the crowd.
Mu Xiangxiao, who had once asked Song Yin for help at the Xianxiao Sect, sent a telepathic message to Elder Li: "Are you trying to steal Elder Song's magic weapon by saying this?"
Elder Li felt a chill run down his spine; he had placed too much importance on the underground palace, to the point that he had forgotten this detail.
Sect Leader Duan walked at the front, with Song Yin on her right. She said to Song Yin, "I'm sorry to have embarrassed Elder Song. In a large sect, it's inevitable that there will be a few who don't know their place."
Song Yin: "It's alright, I suppose that elder was also thinking of the Heavenly Stems Sect."
The more understanding Song Yin was, the more it highlighted Elder Li's unreasonable and brainless behavior. Sect Leader Duan was exhausted, but she kept an eye on Song Yin out of the corner of her eye. Sect Leader Duan thought to herself, "If only such an excellent cultivator were from my Heavenly Stem Sect. I really envy Yan Xi's luck, tsk."
After passing through numerous checkpoints, Song Yin arrived at the underground palace of the Tiangan Sect. While similar to the underground palace of the Xianxiao Sect, it had many differences in detail. Entering the palace and passing through several heavy gates, the group arrived at the very heart of the underground palace.
Sect Leader Duan stepped aside and gestured for him to proceed. "I'll leave the rest to Elder Song."
The sect leader has always shown Song Yin the utmost respect.
Song Yin nodded slightly, and then stepped forward under several gazes, releasing the spiritual vein from the Qiankun Chengmai Gourd.
Having had the experience with the Immortal Cloud Sect last time, Song Yin was much more skilled this time.
The disciples of the Heavenly Stems Sect were still discussing the return of their sect leader and elders today.
"The sect leader and elders returned so quickly, could it be that they have already obtained the spiritual vein?" Since the matter of the spiritual vein was exposed before, they already knew about it, and everyone was praying that the sect leader and the elders could bring back the spiritual vein this time.
"Who knows? But I really envy the disciples of the Immortal Cloud Sect and the Yuan Cang Sect. They no longer have to worry about the spiritual veins."
"I heard that many people from various sects went this time. I hope they won't be snatched away by the other five major sects."
"I hope so."
"Perhaps we can look at it from a brighter perspective. Just now, a group of people returned to the Tiangan Sect. Guess who I saw?"
"Who else can we see? Don't keep us in suspense, tell us."
“I saw Song Yin! I checked again and again and found that the one walking to the right of the sect leader was Song Yin! No, now we should call her Elder Song. Everyone knows about the Xianxiao Sect elder succession ceremony back then.”
"Is it true? Is it really Elder Song?" Who is Elder Song? He is from the Immortal Cloud Sect. The Immortal Cloud Sect already has a spiritual vein. When this famous Immortal Cloud Sect elder came to the Heavenly Stem Sect, they would instinctively think of helping him.
As the disciples huddled together, speculating about various rumors, they noticed something amiss with the spiritual energy around them.
One of the disciples was the first to notice, "Hey, have you noticed that the spiritual energy has increased?"
"Really? Isn't it always like this? Although our Heavenly Stems Sect doesn't have any new spiritual veins yet, every corner of the sect has been set up with spirit-gathering arrays. You just returned to the sect, going from a place with little spiritual energy to a place with abundant spiritual energy, and the feeling of abundant spiritual energy should be due to the effect of the spirit-gathering arrays."
"That's not right!" A disciple exclaimed seriously, "I haven't left the sect for decades, and I'm most familiar with the spiritual energy within the sect. The spiritual energy in the air has indeed increased!"
"Huh? There are more?"
This caused a great stir, prompting many disciples to begin paying close attention to the changes in spiritual energy.
They felt that there was indeed more spiritual energy than before, and the increase was still continuing!
"Could it be that Elder Song of the Immortal Firmament Sect really brought back the spiritual vein for our Heavenly Stems Sect..." the disciple who said he saw Song Yin murmured blankly.
In no time, news of the increased spiritual energy and Song Yin helping the Tiangan Sect bring back the spiritual vein spread like wildfire to every corner of the Tiangan Sect.
Some people may doubt the authenticity of this news, but the increasing spiritual energy around us is the strongest proof.
At the entrance of the underground palace, Song Yin walked out with the sect leader and elders of the Heavenly Stems Sect. She had already stored the Qiankun Inheritance Gourd in the Langhuan Cave.
Sect Leader Duan: "We owe this all to Elder Song. Please join us at the banquet, Elder Song."
When Song Yin took her seat, she saw Elder Li again, the one who had been left behind after whispering to her. This time, he was much more well-behaved and showed Song Yin exceptional respect.
During the banquet, the elders of the Heavenly Stems Sect took turns thanking the Immortal Cloud Sect and Song Yin, praising her one after another, turning the occasion into a celebration of gratitude and praise for Song Yin.
It's impossible to know how many of these expressions of gratitude and praise were genuine and how many were born of apprehension. Song Yin didn't care about their true thoughts; she only cared about receiving the gifts prepared by the Heavenly Stems Sect.
Midway through, Sect Master Duan directly handed Song Yin a high-grade storage ring, which contained the reward that the Heavenly Stem Sect had given Song Yin for this time.
Song Yin accepted the storage ring but did not immediately check its contents. After the banquet, Sect Leader Duan wanted Song Yin to stay at the Tiangan Sect for a while, but Song Yin refused and directly took a flying boat back to the Xianxiao Sect.
Sect Leader Duan pointed to a row of high-level sword cultivators: "Let them send you back." Now everyone knows that Song Yin has a magic artifact that can hold spiritual veins, and she is afraid that someone might harm Song Yin on her way back.
"Thank you." Song Yin did not refuse and led the group of sword cultivators onto her flying boat.
The flying boat headed towards the Immortal Cloud Sect at the same speed as when Song Yin arrived.
Inside the flying boat, Song Yin probed the storage ring given to her by Sect Master Duan with her divine sense. The cultivation resources inside were equivalent to the foundation of a peak.
"What a generous gesture!" Song Yin exclaimed softly, then put the storage ring into the Langhuan Cave.
She stood up, casually straightened her sleeves, and approached the high-level sword cultivator arranged by Sect Master Duan.
"Fellow Daoists, please pretend that I'm still on the flying boat. I'll trouble you to take the flying boat back to the Immortal Cloud Sect." Song Yin said politely to these sword cultivators.
"What does Elder Song mean?" one of the sword cultivators asked cautiously.
Song Yin blinked. "I'm sure you all understand." With that, she disappeared into the flying boat under everyone's gaze.
Not long after leaving the Tiangan Sect, she put on the Linglong Mask after leaving the flying boat, then flashed back to Tiangan City, went directly to the teleportation array, and after several teleportations, Song Yin returned to the Xianxiao Sect that same day.
Song Yin went to the main peak to return the Qiankun Chengmai Gourd. When Sect Master Yan saw her return, he was surprised: "You finished so quickly?"
Song Yin handed the magic weapon to Sect Master Yan, saying, "It's done. However, there are still several high-level sword cultivators from the Heavenly Stems Sect on my flying boat. They will return my flying boat in a few days. I'll trouble Sect Master to help me collect it then."
After a moment's thought, Sect Leader Yan understood Song Yin's intention. "Alright, I understand."
Song Yin: "Then I'll go find Elder You first. The entire process of using the magic weapon was recorded by the recording stone, and now I'm going to hand the recording stone over to him."
After the magical artifact was crafted, Ancestor You returned to the forbidden area. After Song Yin went to the forbidden area to give the recording stone to Ancestor You, Ancestor You devoted himself to the recording stone.
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Perhaps it was because the cultivation world was lucky in the following years, five years after the Heavenly Stem Sect obtained a new spiritual vein, another new spiritual vein appeared in the cultivation world, and there were two of them.
Song Yin was robbed on her way back to the Immortal Cloud Sect by flying boat. With the appearance of the new spiritual vein, the Azure Profound Sect sent more people to personally escort her.
It is worth mentioning that Wuji Sect also participated in the collection of spiritual veins. It is unknown what Wuji Sect and Yuancang Sect discussed, but Yuancang Sect, which originally refused to help any sect, was willing to help Wuji Sect this time.
Unsurprisingly, the two new spiritual veins were once again divided among the five major sects. With this division, new spiritual veins were available in all five continents, thus stabilizing the spiritual vein system of the five continents in the cultivation world.
After the spiritual vein was sent to the Qingxuan Sect, the Heavenly Dao actually bestowed golden light of merit upon Song Yin. This left the Qingxuan Sect members present at the time completely dumbfounded. They couldn't understand why the Heavenly Dao would bestow golden light of merit simply for helping to send the spiritual vein.
Not only were the people of Qingxuan Sect puzzled, but Song Yin herself didn't quite understand either. However, the golden light of merit was a good thing, and since Heaven dared to give it, Song Yin dared to accept it.
After the Five Continents Spiritual Veins were established, Song Yin had been secretly watching to see if a new spiritual vein would appear in the cultivation world. If one did, she would replace it for herself.
Perhaps it was fate, or perhaps Song Yin was destined to possess a large spiritual vein. Two years later, Song Yin indeed discovered a large, unclaimed spiritual vein.
This time is different from before. Now there is Yuancang Sect that can collect spiritual veins. This time she is acting secretly. No one in Xianxiao Sect except Shi Heming knows about it. Therefore, Xianxiao Sect will also become her opponent.
"This is for my personal sake. If anything goes wrong, we'll leave," Song Yin instructed Shi Heming.
Shi Heming didn't ask any more questions, only saying, "I understand."
Song Yin and Shi Heming made several trips to Zhongzhou.
The Qingxuan Sect desperately wanted a new spiritual vein back then, and everyone could see how anxious they were for it over the years. Then, two years after the Qingxuan Sect obtained a new spiritual vein, another one appeared in the Central Continent – truly a fortunate accident.
After Song Yin arrived at the location where the Central Continent spiritual vein appeared, several well-informed sects and families had already gathered there.
This surprised Song Yin. "Previously it was all various sects, but I didn't expect this spiritual vein to attract several major families as well."
Shi Heming, hidden in the shadows, said, “Before the five major sects obtained the spiritual veins, they knew they had no chance even if they wanted them. But now it’s different. Each of the five major sects has its own spiritual vein, so they have the idea that they can do it themselves.”
Song Yin and the others concealed their presence and then found a secluded, key location.
How can a large spiritual vein be transferred into Langhuan Cave Heaven without anyone noticing?
Song Yin's approach was to release the existing medium-sized spiritual vein while simultaneously taking in the large spiritual vein into the Langhuan Cave Heaven. Operating two spiritual veins at the same time was extremely taxing on her divine sense.
"From now on, you're in charge of preventing anyone else from breaking in."
"no problem."
Shi Heming hid in the lush trees, while Song Yin burrowed underground.
She took a deep breath, opened the Langhuan Cave Heaven, and used her divine sense to guide out the medium-sized spiritual vein inside, while simultaneously drawing the large spiritual vein from this place into the Langhuan Cave Heaven.
The entrance and exit are located together, with the two spiritual veins occupying one on the left and one on the right, without interfering with each other.
Song Yin didn't want to attract attention, but the moment the spiritual vein was taken away, it always caused an earthquake. The experienced cultivators immediately sensed something was wrong, and their fighting and bickering quickly turned into investigating who had struck first.
"Damn it! You guys are shameless! Whoever wins keeps the prize!"
"As a high-level cultivator, stop swearing and mind your manners. Someone must have secretly sought help from the Yuancang Sect or the Xianxiao Sect to be able to manipulate the spiritual veins right under our noses!"
"Is it possible that they are from those two sects?" a cultivator from a prominent family asked.
"Anything is possible, but first we need to find out who's tampering with the spiritual veins. If it really is one of the five major sects, we'll have a reason to go back. We can't let the five major sects take over all the spiritual veins in the cultivation world!"
As soon as the ground began to tremble, Shi Heming knew that such commotion would attract the attention of those guarding the area. He set up multiple arrays around Song Yin, some that would trap people in illusions, others that would make them feel lost and confused, and various defensive arrays were deployed simultaneously to try and prevent them from affecting Song Yin.
Shi Heming glanced at the ground and said in a low voice with concern, "I wonder how Yinyin is doing down there."
The person who just arrived is now trapped in an illusion.
At this moment, Song Yin, who was underground, gradually turned pale. The earthquake also caught her attention, so she had to complete the spiritual vein replacement at a faster speed.
Using her divine sense extensively, Song Yin took out several bottles of pills midway through and poured the pills that were useful to her divine sense into her mouth as if they were free.
"Yinyin, someone's here again."
Shi Heming's voice transmission sounded in his mind, and Song Yin's voice transmission replied: "Give me ten more breaths."
"Strange, why isn't anyone checking here?" someone asked, puzzled.
"Now that we're here, we don't need anyone else."
Song Yin silently counted in her heart: Three.
"Oh no, there's a formation here!"
"Be alert! Quickly send a message to them!"
two.
"Fellow Daoist, be careful! The formation can trap people in an illusion!"
"Oh no, it can attack!"
one!
At the last second, Song Yin completely absorbed the large spiritual vein into the Langhuan Cave Heaven.
Many people were trapped on the ground, which Song Yin could easily detect with a light sweep of her exhausted divine sense.
Instead of emerging from the ground, she transmitted her voice directly: "Alright, let's retreat!"
Song Yin and Shi Heming activated the teleportation talisman at the same time, leaving the formation in place.
Those who rushed to provide support immediately attacked and attempted to break the formation upon seeing it.
The formation became the best illusion, and the two people who were really chasing them had already run thousands of miles away.
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Author's Note: Song Aotian: Family, I found a large, unclaimed spiritual vein. It wants to come home with me! [dog head with rose in its mouth]
Others: Open your eyes and say that again!!!
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