There were no wall lamps in the cave, and the moonlight outside only faintly illuminated a small area at the entrance. The further you went in, the darker it became, to the point that you couldn't see your hand in front of your face, and even the surrounding temperature became chilly.
Liu Jinghong rummaged through his mustard seed bag and pulled out a luminous pearl, instantly illuminating the cave.
"How come your mustard seed bag contains all sorts of things?"
"Maybe it's because...it's too big? I bought this from the peak master of the weapon refining peak for a thousand Heavenly Spirit Jade. The space inside is about the size of one or two hundred nameless immortal mountains. It can hold a lot of things, and I always want to fill it up...Hey? Junior sister, why are you leaving? Wait for me!"
Chu Hongluan touched her waist, where her small pouch, barely the size of a one-bedroom apartment, gritted her teeth, and said: "Damn it, I hate rich people."
After their banter subsided, the two continued walking side by side, cautiously surveying their surroundings by the light of the luminous pearl. The cave was much larger than they had imagined, a natural cave filled with jagged rocks, and many venomous snakes of various sizes coiled on its surface.
The surrounding stone walls seemed to be covered with a layer of scales, and when they were illuminated by the light, they rippled like lake water.
Chu Hongluan pulled Liu Jinghong closer to take a look, but after just one glance, she hurriedly retreated, her face extremely pale.
Damn, she felt like throwing up!
What rubbish about scales! Those are just a dense swarm of poisonous insects!
Liu Jinghong was heartbroken. She tossed the luminous pearl back into her pouch, stretched out her arm, and reached behind Chu Hongluan's head to cover her eyes with one hand.
"The character '离' (li) signifies purgatory."
The fire soared into the sky, engulfing an area in an instant, and spreading with terrifying force, sweeping away all the horrifying poisonous insects and snakes! Burning them to charcoal! Burning them to ashes!
The once pitch-black cave was suddenly brightly lit.
You know what, these snakes and insects, despite their disgusting appearance, actually smell delicious when burnt. Like real barbecue.
Chu Hongluan twitched her nose and pulled Liu Jinghong's hand away.
They saw that, apart from a ten-step radius around them, the entire cave was engulfed in flames.
How barbaric.
She likes it very much.
Liu Jinghong pulled her along and they continued walking forward. Ye Huo obediently made way for them until they reached the deepest part of the cave, where they saw a huge pit filled with the strong smell of roasted meat.
"I think... the High Priest will kill you."
"It would be my honor to die for my junior sister."
"...Stop being sarcastic."
Chu Hongluan looked up and saw a burning rope hanging horizontally above the snake pit.
If she wasn't mistaken, this rope must be the high priest's bed. Bah! That old poison master who plays with insects, snakes, and venom, actually dares to copy Little Dragon Girl's character design! She doesn't even deserve it!
After the fire subsided, Liu Jinghong deliberately left a few scattered rays of light to facilitate Chu Hongluan's next steps.
Chu Hongluan extended her divine sense to sense the area and discovered that all eleven spiritual veins were indeed converging here. Just like those formations within formations, they were difficult to deal with. When one vein was extracted, all eleven had to be extracted at the same time, otherwise the structure would be damaged before one vein could be extracted, and the remaining ten would be rendered useless.
The so-called spiritual veins refer to the crystal veins, petrified wood veins, and special metal ore veins buried in the earth that absorb and store enormous spiritual energy.
Spiritual veins naturally attract, gather, absorb, and store spiritual energy. Destructive mining is easy, but extracting it intact and transferring it elsewhere is incredibly difficult.
But Chu Hongluan would be an exception, because she is a blade, and a blade itself is a refined and forged mineral. Her power and the power of the spiritual veins share the same origin; upon meeting, it's like old friends meeting again, tears welling up in their eyes. Extracting spiritual veins is also as if divinely aided!
Chu Hongluan took the Eri from behind her back and gently stroked it with her finger: "Come, share some of your power with me."
The calamity began to tremble, emitting a clanging sound like blades, and unleashed a torrent of malevolent energy—
The surging crimson mist rushed into Chu Hongluan's body, and her cultivation level rapidly increased in front of Liu Jinghong.
Peak Nascent Soul Stage! Spirit Transformation Stage! Peak Spirit Transformation Stage!
At this moment, she was only one step away from the Tribulation Transcending stage. The blood mist was still seeping into her body. Chu Hongluan pinched her slender fingers, and the blood mist seemed to be strangled, frozen in place, only able to twist helplessly, looking somewhat aggrieved.
"That's enough, don't give me so much."
The earthquake trembled even more violently, as if venting its dissatisfaction, but in the end it obediently withdrew all the excess blood mist.
Liu Jinghong watched from the side, her heart filled with mixed feelings.
I don't understand it, I really don't understand it.
Who exactly is my junior sister? And that knife...?
Liu Jinghong felt that she might have seen that knife in ancient books.
Ah, the mysteries surrounding my junior sister are truly countless.
Chu Hongluan had already begun extracting spiritual veins when the divine imprint she had previously placed on her body suddenly became scorching hot. A voice, broken and intermittent, entered her sea of consciousness from the imprint: "High...Priest...go to the Holy Maiden's...Hall...open the Killing Realm..."
Chu Hongluan's expression changed drastically.
Something happened in Chunxiao!
Chu Hongluan, disregarding the fact that half of her spiritual vein had been extracted, grabbed Liu Jinghong's hand and said, "Let's go to the Holy Maiden's Palace!"
"The character '干' (gān) – '斗转星移' (dǒu zhuǎn xīng yí) –"
Before the incense stick burns, in the Temple of the Holy Maiden.
Gu Chunxiao sat blankly by the stone bed, her eyes vacant.
Not far from her, a woman in a red robe leaned against the wall, resting with her eyes closed. But Gu Chunxiao knew that this woman had been watching her every move.
Gu Chunxiao got up and walked step by step to the entrance of the cave.
The woman in the red robe finally opened her eyes. She remained in the same position, only turning her head to look at her, and said coldly, "Your Highness, the High Priest has ordered that you are not allowed to go anywhere."
Gu Chunxiao's lips slowly curved into a smile, vaguely resembling Chu Hongluan's: "Is that so?"
The alarm bells rang in the woman's heart.
"Then let her come and collect my body." Gu Chunxiao gathered all her spiritual power and struck her own chest with a thunderous palm strike!
The woman in the red robe's pupils contracted, and she rushed forward in a panic to stop him!
In that instant, a cold glint flashed in Gu Chunxiao's dark eyes! Her palm transformed into a claw, suddenly twisting! Dense black mist erupted from her claw!
It's the Nine Yin Enchantment Claw!!!
The woman in the red robe had eyes wide with rage; she had rushed forward too fast and had no time to dodge!
Gu Chunxiao's attack struck directly at the top of her head! A strange black aura instantly surged into her Baihui acupoint and then flowed out from her seven orifices—
The woman in the red robe convulsed uncontrollably and collapsed to the ground with a thud.
However, after a short while, the woman in the red robe stood up again.
She stood respectfully behind Gu Chunxiao, her eyes wide open and blank, the whites of her eyes completely black, with only black mist filling her eye sockets and churning inside.
"Left Protector, go and kill those people outside."
"yes--"
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