Su Qing continued walking forward through the cave.
The cave walls were very smooth, as if they had been created by some force rather than by human excavation.
It's like a soldering iron piercing a candle, instantly shaping it.
Su Qing felt uneasy; she was worried about what she might find at the end of the cave.
She didn't know how long she walked, but Su Qing felt like she had walked a very, very long way before finally arriving at a relatively spacious stone chamber.
This stone chamber is a huge spherical chamber, as if it was formed after something rolled here. It is a hundred meters long from one end to the other.
In the middle of the stone chamber, there were some broken, slightly bluish stones. In the middle of the chamber, a passage was almost perpendicular to the ground. Su Qing stood in front of the passage, smelled a faint fragrance of flowers, and even saw a clear blue sky...
This place is so strange.
Su Qing squatted down and examined the bluish stones...
This isn't a rock at all; it's clearly an eggshell.
Su Qing realized that she had probably stumbled into some kind of lair...
Looking at this cave, this stone chamber, and this passage leading to the sky, Su Qing felt that no matter what kind of nest it was, it was not something a disciple at the fifth level of Qi Refining could handle, even if she had the memories of her Nascent Soul from her previous life.
"I have to get out of here right away," Su Qing thought to herself, when her pockets started to move.
The little green snake poked its head out of its pouch. When it saw the bluish eggshell on the ground, its eyes lit up. After coming out of its pouch, it climbed onto the eggshell, opened its mouth wide, and began to eat it greedily.
Su Qing was speechless. This little foodie even ate the eggshells.
Forget it, I'll just collect all these eggshells and keep them as snacks.
Thinking this, Su Qing put all the eggshells on the ground into her storage bag, and then stuffed the little green snake, which was still chewing on the eggshells, into her pocket.
Then, Su Qing took out a rope from her storage bag.
Although this rope is not a magical artifact, it is made of black gold hemp and is very strong.
Su Qing tied the rope to the hilt of the Purple Fire Sword, then threw it into the stone wall of the passage. The Purple Fire Sword, along with the rope, plunged deep into the stone wall.
Su Qing tried it out and found it to be quite sturdy. She then began to climb up the rope.
After climbing up the rock face, she took out a dagger and began to chisel small holes in the rock. She climbed up the vertical rock face little by little by chiseling.
For Su Qing, who was at the fifth level of Qi Refining, rock climbing was nothing. She had climbed up in just a quarter of an hour.
Looking around, Su Qing realized that she was at the end of Manyun Valley, which was surrounded by mountains on three sides, with Manyun Valley right in front of her.
The valley is shrouded in mist, but here the air is fresh and the fragrance of flowers is intoxicating.
Su Qing looked around and exclaimed, "Wow, there are so many third-tier spiritual herbs here!"
It seems that this place was most likely a medicinal herb field before.
So many spiritual herbs, why not take them all? Su Qing quickly swept up all the third-tier spiritual herbs around her. Of course, she didn't waste the second-tier and first-tier ones either, putting them all into her storage bag.
Su Qing also found two spirit fruit trees, which she picked clean.
Generally, there are guardian beasts next to third-tier spiritual herbs and fruits, but probably because of this nest, there wasn't a single guardian beast in sight.
Seeing that there was nothing else around, Su Qing decided to leave.
She walked into the misty Cloud Valley, circled around it, and, finding no spiritual herbs or fruits, came out safely.
Strange, that sixth-tier demonic beast, the Nine Nether Profound Python, has also disappeared.
Su Qing originally intended to leave the back mountain as soon as possible, but she was worried that her senior brothers and sisters were still at Ying Shui Lake, so she turned back to Ying Shui Lake.
Upon arriving at Yingshui Lake, Su Qing was completely dumbfounded.
Why are there so many people?
Senior Brother Beiming, Senior Brother Fengyao, and the elders at the Core Formation stage!
"Master?"
Shui Qingchen had a cold and aloof expression, her eyes fixed on Ying Shui Lake. When she heard Su Qing's voice, she turned her head sharply and saw Su Qing standing calmly behind her.
"Junior Sister Su Qing!" Gu Fengying was so excited to see Su Qing that he went up to grab her hand, but was stopped by Shui Qingchen.
"Su Qing, what exactly happened after you fell into Ying Shui Lake?" Shui Qingchen asked.
Su Qing was stunned.
What's going on here?
When Elder Pan, who was guarding the back mountain, saw Su Qing's dazed expression, he said, "You've scared us all! You're too bold, child."
"Junior Sister Su Qing, you scared me to death!" Gu Fengying's tears were about to fall. "After I was teleported, I couldn't find you anywhere, so I quickly wrote down what happened on the forum of the communication jade tablet and rushed to invite my master over. Luckily, you're alright! Junior Sister Su Qing, were you teleported to another place because of that Nine Nether Profound Python?"
ah?
When Su Qing thought about her previous experiences, she instinctively didn't want to tell others what happened at Ying Shui Lake, especially the passageway.
So Su Qing nodded and said, "Senior Brother Gu, I woke up near Manyun Valley. I was worried about everyone, so I came here. I'm sorry to have made you all worry."
"It's good that you're alright." Shui Qingchen said, tossing Su Qing a bottle of pills and saying, "Take this."
Su Qing caught it and saw that it was a top-grade third-rank healing pill, the Guiling Pill.
Su Qing poured out a pill, opened her mouth and swallowed it. Immediately, she felt a warm current spread from her internal organs to her whole body. Su Qing quickly sat cross-legged and began to regulate her breathing.
These Grade 3 pills were indeed incredibly effective. Su Qing's limbs, which had been feeling a bit cold, began to recover, and even some of her hidden injuries started to heal thanks to the Spirit Returning Pill.
While regulating her breathing and healing her injuries, Su Qing's mind raced.
She felt that something seemed unusual about this.
Nascent Soul stage?
Su Qing's pupils contracted, and she opened her eyes from her meditation. Sure enough, there were two Nascent Soul stage guardian elders from the Xuanling Sect.
Protector Qin and Protector Jiang hovered in the air above Yingshui Lake on their swords.
"I heard that fifth and sixth-tier demonic beasts have appeared in the back mountain. Can you capture the two demonic beasts?" Protector Qin asked.
The pressure from the Nascent Soul stage was enough for the elders in the Core Formation stage to withstand, but the inner disciples in the Foundation Establishment stage felt their legs go weak, and all the disciples in the Qi Refining stage knelt on the ground.
Su Qing slowly stood up and fearlessly faced the two Nascent Soul stage guardian elders.
In her previous life, she had at least cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage. These two Nascent Soul stage cultivators seemed to be less powerful than she had been in her previous life, so she naturally wouldn't kneel down just because of their pressure.
When Protector Qin and Protector Jiang saw that Su Qing, a junior disciple at the fifth level of Qi Refining, was standing so straight, they couldn't help but admire her. Although she was only an outer disciple with three spiritual roots, her tenacious character meant that she would likely achieve great things in the future.
"Are you Su Qing?" Protector Qin asked.
"Reporting to the Dharma Protector, I am Su Qing, an outer disciple of the Jade Maiden Peak of the Xuanling Sect," Su Qing said.
"Not bad, not bad. I heard that you went into seclusion for a month and advanced from the third level of Qi Refining to the fifth level?" Protector Qin asked.
"It's me."
Protector Jiang nodded in agreement. He was a single-elemental root cultivator. He remembered that it took him a month to cultivate from the third to the fifth level of the Qi Refining stage. For someone with three spiritual roots to catch up with the cultivation speed of a single-elemental root cultivator was unprecedented in the Xuanling Sect.
"Do you know where the Nine Netherworld Python is?" Protector Jiang's voice softened slightly.
Right, what about those two Netherworld Pythons?
"I last saw him in Yingshui Lake, but I don't know where he went," Su Qing said.
Protector Qin said to Protector Jiang, "Let's go into the water and take a look." Then he turned to the others and said, "If you have nothing else to do, you may leave on your own."
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