Chapter 174 Spring River Pearl

Zhang Chunjiang must have been extremely surprised, but there was not a single bit of surprise!

He stared at Gao Xian in silence for a while and then suddenly said, "You killed Xu Lingyun!"

Gao Xian's smile deepened. He snapped his fingers and praised, "Lao Zhang, your brain is not in vain."

Zhang Chunjiang no longer had the energy to get angry. He slowly said, "You have such a powerful cultivation, but you pretend to be a Qigong practitioner and lurk in the sect. Who are you?"

"You are about to die, but you are still thinking about the sect. You are truly a loyal person."

Gao Xian praised with his mouth, but his eyes were full of teasing.

He held a bronze plate in his hand and handed it to Zhang Chunjiang. "I crushed the communication plate a long time ago. Others won't be able to come for a while."

The communication card is a magical tool specially used to transmit information. Foundation-building monks use it to communicate with each other. The communication card can lock each other's position within about ten to twenty miles.

Some simple information can also be transmitted through the special mana fluctuations on the communication card.

Several foundation-building monks in Lianyun Sect communicate through communication boards to facilitate mutual support.

Gao Xian had long noticed the communication card hanging on Zhang Chunjiang's wrist. The magical impact emitted by the fierce battle just now naturally formed a shield, and the communication card was unable to transmit any information to the outside world.

Of course, the intense magical energy emitted by the battle itself will also attract other practitioners.

The difference is that there is no signal card for positioning. It is not easy to accurately locate the battle position in such a huge underground palace.

Zhang Chunjiang glanced at the message board and said slowly, "Don't be complacent. What you did will be exposed sooner or later."

"Perhaps."

Gao Xian said nonchalantly: "You can't see it anyway."

He raised his hand and pointed at Zhang Chunjiang, "Old Zhang, do you have anything else to say?"

Zhang Chunjiang's cloudy eyes were filled with fear and despair. He struggled to say something when the shining ice cone pierced through his forehead.

The terrifying magical impact of the ice cone caused Zhang Chunjiang's eyes to explode, his head to deform, and his breath to be completely cut off.

"You want to talk, but I don't want to listen."

Gao Xian sneered slightly. This old guy had to make things difficult for him and caused so many problems. He felt indescribably relieved and happy when he solved the problem himself.

Zhang Chunjiang, who had died, still had subtle magical power flowing in his chest. Gao Xian's spiritual consciousness did not sense this subtle magical power, but the Flower Mirror saw this change in magical power.

There was a golden glow on his hands, and golden threads reached into Zhang Chunjiang's arms like thousands of tentacles, but he touched nothing.

The golden thread cut through Zhang Chunjiang's chest skin like a knife, digging out a green bead from it.

The green bead seemed to be filled with water. With a slight shake, ripples immediately appeared.

Gao Xian could even faintly hear the sound of the rushing river. He suddenly realized that it was this bead that had been providing Zhang Chunjiang with pure magic power, allowing him to survive wave after wave of spells.

His consciousness sank into the green bead, and he sensed Zhang Chunjiang's remaining consciousness inside it. This was equivalent to Zhang Chunjiang using his consciousness to leave a passage in the green bead, and its principle was similar to that of the jade slip for passing on skills.

Zhang Chunjiang kept asking him questions, not only to delay time, but also to store their conversation in the green bead.

The plan was quite deep, but unfortunately, he had the Flower Mirror that could see into the underworld, but it could not observe more subtle and profound levels than divine consciousness.

"Let's call it Chun Jiang Zhu. It can be regarded as a kind of commemoration for Lao Zhang."

Gao Xian put the Chunjiang Pearl into the storage bag, and kept the rest of the storage bag separately, and put away everyone's magical instruments, robes and other things.

Finally, Gao Xian put everyone's bodies into the storage talisman.

Leaving the body here would reveal a lot of information, and no one would care if the body was left there. He could help to pray for the soul and bury it, which could be considered a good deed.

These things sound trivial, but in fact, it only took two minutes from the time he started to the time he finished.

Gao Xian didn't walk far before he found a smashed stone chamber and hid inside.

At this distance, he could easily see the battlefield through the Flower Mirror, and he was very curious about who would come over.

Gao Xian dared to say that the rat spirit that suddenly appeared was definitely not a human being, but most likely a demon from the Eastern Wilderness.

Yun Qiu Shui told him that the demons and devil cultivators in the Eastern Wilderness were ready to make a move and would probably invade Mingzhou in the near future.

After Gao Xian returned to Lianyun City, he specifically looked up some classics and found some records about demons and evil cultivators.

Demonic cultivators are those who practice the magic techniques of the devil, but the magic techniques are fierce and cruel. In order to practice, demonic cultivators often massacre large numbers of cultivators, and even ordinary people.

The cruel methods of the evil cultivators destroyed the balance of the cultivator world and greatly damaged the foundation of the cultivator world, thus arousing public outrage.

Many major sects joined forces to drive the evil cultivators out of Jiuzhou.

From then on, the magic cultivation took root in the land of the Eight Wastelands. Many demon tribes learned the magic arts and quickly grew stronger. The magic cultivation was also linked to the demon tribe.

Strictly speaking, those who practice magic techniques are called magic cultivators, including humans, demons, etc.

The demon race is a special race of life. They have human bodies, but retain some unique and obvious animal characteristics.

According to historical records, these are the descendants of the demon saints from ancient times.

Gao Xian originally thought that the demon race were girls with cat ears or rabbit ears, but after seeing the mouse spirit today, he realized that the demon race are really ugly.

This also destroyed his beautiful imagination of the demon race.

If all the demons were of this character, and there were thousands and millions of them gathered together, how terrifying it would be.

In his previous life, he was just an ordinary person who admired heroes but never thought of becoming one. The foolish dreams before the age of seventeen did not count! Gao Xian just wanted to live his life peacefully. If a large number of demons really poured in, he would definitely leave Lianyun Sect.

Well, bring Qiniang and Yuling! The first to arrive were Lu Lingfei and Pang Su. After they arrived, they carefully inspected the battlefield, and then both looked miserable.

Although they did not find Zhang Chunjiang's body, they could almost conclude that Zhang Chunjiang was dead.

Although Zhang Chunjiang is only in the initial stage of foundation building, he has practiced for more than a hundred years and is definitely considered a powerful figure in Lianyun Sect.

He brought dozens of Qigong practitioners with him. With these people acting as shields in front and behind, they would have time to retreat even if they encountered a strong enemy.

The result was that he died just like that! What was even more bizarre was that there was a huge deep pit on the ground, and I didn't know who had used magic to attack the ground and left traces.

Pang Ban and Lu Lingfei discussed it and decided to dig the pit.

Although I don't know what's inside, I have to open it and take a look.

When many Qigong practitioners caught up, the group quickly dug out the rat spirit buried in the soil.

The rat demon almost turned into a pool of meat paste, but still retained the characteristics of the demon.

Lu Lingfei and Pang Su both noticed something was wrong, and their faces became even gloomier.

There are actually demons!

They all knew that the Eastern Wilderness was the world of demons, but this was the first time they saw the demons with their own eyes.

Please...collect 6...9...books...!

If the Seven Evils Sect gets involved with the demon clan, their Lianyun Sect won't be able to stop them.

This matter concerns the survival of the sect and even more so their own lives and property, so the two foundation-building monks are of course feeling heavy-hearted.

With this astonishing discovery, the two foundation-building monks discussed it with each other, collected the body of the rat demon, and quickly evacuated with their men.

Gao Xian followed the group of people from a distance until they returned to the ground, but they did not encounter anyone from the Seven Evils Sect.

The two foundation-building monks treated it as a formidable enemy and actually set up a protective magic circle around the camp.

After the eight flags were hoisted, the camp was shrouded in a cloud of smoke.

Gao Xian observed for a while and then returned to the underground ruins.

Everyone knew that he was in the same team with Zhang Chunjiang, and all the members of that team were killed. If he ran back now, he would inevitably be interrogated.

It would be better to wait until Yun Feiying comes.

Since Yun Feiying said he would protect him, he could definitely settle this little matter for him, right? In any case, judging from the traces of fighting at the scene, no one would suspect that he was related to Zhang Chunjiang's death.

As for escaping alone, that's no big deal.

Gao Xian returned to the underground ruins and found a closed stone chamber. He first used his clone wearing the shadowless robe to take a look inside and confirmed that there was no danger before he followed in.

There is only a stone bed in this enclosed stone chamber. It seems to be either a bedroom or a quiet room for retreat.

In this closed space, Gao Xian can finally take out all his harvests and check them.

Mu Yunxiu's robe and sword were intact, worth at least 30,000 or 40,000 spirit stones. Zhang Chunjiang's sword was slightly damaged, but basically intact, also worth 20,000 spirit stones...

As for the magical weapons, elixirs and the like left behind by the numerous Qigong practitioners, there are too many to count.

These cultivators were at least in the middle stage of Qi training and had quite a lot of wealth. Although they didn't bring many spirit stones with them, their elixirs, magic tools, and magic talismans were all top-notch.

All added up, there are more than ten thousand spirit stones.

Gao Xian felt that the most valuable items were the two gems. The rat demon's earth-type gem was obviously of a higher grade and could even allow the rat demon to perform underground escape.

Gao Xian held the orb in his hand and studied it for a long time, but he could only sense the pure and rich earth-type spiritual energy within the orb, but he didn't know how to guide and use it.

The grade of Chunjiang Pearl is also very high. In his opinion, it is at least the upper grade of the second grade.

"These two pearls, if we estimate their value, should be worth at least 100,000 spirit stones, right?"

Gao Xian happily played with the two pearls, and the corners of his mouth rose unconsciously...

Lianyun Sect responded very quickly. Wang Chuan arrived the next day and brought three foundation-building cultivators, including Zhu Qinnan, as well as hundreds of Qi-cultivating cultivators.

Yun Feiying privately found Zhu Qinnan and told her the news of Gao Xian's death.

She said with great regret: "Daoyou Gao had great insight and extraordinary bearing. His death is truly a pity!"

Yun Feiying explained, "It was Zhang Chunjiang who forced Fellow Daoist Gao to come with me. I was not aware of this matter..."

Zhu Qiniang said calmly: "Gao Xian has always been lucky and quite smart, maybe he is still alive."

Yun Feiying agreed on the surface, but in his heart he disagreed. Zhang Chunjiang was dead, and the demon tribe was still attacking, so why should Gao Xian live?

As the youngest foundation-building cultivator in the sect, Yun Feiying has a very bad relationship with the older foundation-building cultivators such as Zhang Chunjiang and Pang Su.

The reason was simple, the old foundation builders controlled all kinds of resources and power in the sect. If she wanted to move up, she would inevitably come into conflict with the old foundation builders.

Although the clan leader supports her, it is impossible for him to always stand up for her in small matters.

After Yun Feiying suffered several losses, he realized that he had to win over a few foundation-building cultivators and form his own faction, so that he could gain a foothold in the sect.

For this purpose, she deliberately made friends with Gao Xian. Firstly, she saw Gao Xian's potential, and secondly, she wanted to win over Zhu Qinnan.

She felt that Gao Xian must die, but she could not attack Zhu Qiniang.

She said: "After all, there are no bodies. There are so many cultivators, there must be someone who is lucky. I will send a team to help you find it..."

Zhu Qiniang now understood that Yun Feiying was trying to win her over. She didn't hesitate: "Thank you, Brother Yun."

To Yun Feiying's surprise, Zhu Qinnan brought Gao Xian back the next day.

Looking at Gao Xian who was full of energy and vitality, Yun Feiying was surprised and speechless...

(End of this chapter)