"Stop yelling 'Holy crap,' what did you see?" Chen Yi couldn't help but ask.
Zhou Lianfeng murmured, "Don't rush, don't rush, let me look again, let me look again!"
A few minutes later, he exited the soul-searching state and said with a solemn expression, "This old bastard has lived for quite a long time. It took me a lot of effort to search for some useful memories."
Get to the point!
Wu Lingyao and Chen Yi both stared at him, waiting for him to say something useful.
"Ahem! During this soul search, I saw the past of the Yinshan Sect and how it evolved into its current state."
As he sorted through his memories, he recounted, "The Yinshan Sect was indeed a sect with a considerable reputation. It even produced Golden Core cultivators. However, because its cultivation techniques and secret arts leaned towards the evil path, it was destroyed by a Golden Core cultivator who claimed to be righteous. But some still managed to escape."
"For this reason, that Golden Core cultivator specifically left a restriction on Yin Mountain. Anyone whose cultivation level reaches the Foundation Establishment stage or above will trigger the restriction and be killed. The Yin Mountain Secret Realm token is also part of the restriction; those who enter without the token will also be killed. This is why only those below the Foundation Establishment stage can enter the Yin Mountain Secret Realm..."
"These two elders of Xuanming were originally Foundation Establishment cultivators, but in order to survive, they forcibly severed their cultivation and were reduced to the tenth level of Qi Refining."
Upon hearing this, Wu Lingyao couldn't help but nod.
No wonder the pressure from Elder Xuan was much stronger than that of an ordinary Qi Refining Level 10 cultivator; it turns out he was once a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Seeing that the matter had been resolved, Chen Yi continued on to his next destination.
That should be the location where another elder of the Yinshan Sect and Yu Qian are.
On the way, he continued to ask, "Isn't the Yinshan Sect Master going to rebuild his foundation? Isn't he afraid of being discovered by the restrictions?"
Zhou Lianfeng said with a solemn expression, "Because they discovered a way to bypass the restrictions, which is to use some kind of true spiritual energy to build a foundation, something unheard of before..."
"What true spiritual energy?" Chen Yi pressed.
Zhou Lianfeng recalled, "It seems to be called... Nine Yin Earth Fire True Spiritual Energy?"
A hint of surprise flashed in Wu Lingyao's eyes. Wasn't that the same as the Foundation Establishment of the Underground Path?
She had heard Yu Qian mention the conditions for establishing a foundation in the underground passage, but this was something that was extremely rare and difficult to achieve in the entire Crimson Dragon Kingdom.
Those who possess the bloodline of only a small number of Golden Core cultivators will inherit the authentic Foundation Establishment technique.
Some Golden Core cultivators are only at the Foundation Establishment stage of the Human Realm, with their upper limit basically locked at the Golden Core stage. Only a very few can advance to the Nascent Soul stage, and at least in the Crimson Dragon Kingdom, this is only an occasional rumor, and its veracity is unknown.
Who would have thought that the remnants of the Yinshan Sect would harbor such ambitions?
"Where is the true spiritual energy of the Nine Yin Earth Fire?"
"This person has no relevant records in his memory, but he does know that another Elder of the Underworld knows these things."
Chen Yi nodded slightly.
He casually opened the old man's storage bag and found that there was nothing inside except a cultivation manual.
Upon closer inspection, this cultivation manual only contains the first half, and at most, one can only cultivate up to the Foundation Establishment stage.
"The Yinshan Sect isn't even very friendly to its own people!"
“Perhaps when they were wiped out, their entire fortune was taken away?” Zhou Lianfeng said incisively.
Then, he added sarcastically, "Tsk! So poor, yet they're always thinking about breaking the restrictions and restoring the Yinshan Sect. It's really pathetic..."
A few minutes later, they arrived at a rock wall.
“There’s no road,” Wu Lingyao said.
Chen Yi took a deep breath: "Then let's build a road!"
After all, the Earth Dragon Shifting Formation altered the entire interior of the mountain, turning some previously connected locations into dead ends.
However, there were three of them, and the rock layer in between wasn't too thick, so it didn't completely stop them.
The reason they weren't in a hurry was that Wu Lingyao had contacted Yu Qian using the communication talisman given to her by Chen Yi as soon as they were separated.
The other party said it wasn't a big problem and told her to take care of herself first, adding that they would try to find her later.
That's why Chen Yi had time to have Zhou Lianfeng search for Elder Xuan's soul, instead of rushing to Yu Qian's side immediately.
"boom!"
As the armored golems cleared a path, they were able to continue their advance.
When they found Yu Qian, she had already subdued the Old Man of the Underworld.
At this moment, Chen Yi realized that Yu Qian's true cultivation level was actually the same as Man Li's, at the ninth level of Qi Refining.
No wonder Manli paid special attention to Yu Qian when she first saw her.
"The cultivation of immortality by the wealthy is indeed extraordinary. Apart from the bottlenecks that can slightly hinder them, once they break through, they can quickly sprint to the next bottleneck..." Chen Yi sighed inwardly.
He thought that Yu Qian could casually take out pills worth tens of thousands of yuan each. With this kind of wealth, the Qi Refining stage was nothing to her. Perhaps only the Foundation Establishment stage would be relatively challenging.
"Oh? You're here?" Yu Qian said with a relaxed expression.
With her ninth-level Qi Refining cultivation, a bunch of magical artifacts, and the talismans given to her by Chen Yi, it's not surprising that she could deal with an old man at the tenth level of Qi Refining.
At this moment, Elder Ming was entangled by a golden thread magic artifact and could only stare helplessly at the group.
Chen Yi bluntly said, "Brother Feng, perform a soul search!"
Zhou Lianfeng was also very interested in the Nine Yin Earth Fire True Spiritual Energy, so he didn't waste any words and immediately got to work with it.
"Well!"
The old man's eyes widened, as if he were enduring intense pain.
After all, soul searching is no child's play; the excruciating pain of the soul is much clearer and more intense than that of the physical body.
A moment later, Zhou Lianfeng completed the soul search.
"The construction of the White Bone Soul Devouring Array and the incidents in Yinshan Village every time the secret realm opens were all your doing."
He looked at Elder Ming with disgust.
"These beasts from the Yinshan Sect created three dangerous areas to avoid attracting too much attention from outside cultivators. In reality, everyone who stayed in the secret realm was killed by them. Especially this Elder Ming, who frequently possessed other people's bodies to avoid aging."
The group looked at Elder Ming, who indeed possessed a youthful appearance.
"The villagers of Yinshan Village were all used as materials for them to set up the formation. They are truly inhuman!"
Zhou Lianfeng didn't consider himself a good person either, but these Yinshan Sect members were even more beastly.
They didn't even spare the women and children; they ruined hundreds of people.
Every three years, the secret realm opens, and a dozen or so lucky individuals are randomly selected from among the cultivators who enter.
It has been decades of preparation before this plan came to fruition.
"Hehehe!" Elder Ming chuckled eerily, "Once the sect leader arrives, you will all die!"
"Smack!"
After saying that, he lowered his head and fell silent.
Chen Yi took a deep breath and asked, "What about the Nine Yin Earth Fire True Spiritual Energy?"
We must stop the Yinshan Sect Master from establishing his foundation, or we might really die here.
Zhou Lianfeng nodded and said, "The true spiritual energy of the Nine Yin Earth Fire requires cultivators to ingest the Phosphorous Fire and the Nine Nether Grass, supplemented by the orthodox cultivation methods of the Yin Mountain Sect, in order to condense it..."
"The quality of the phosphorescent fire and the Nine Nether Grass will directly determine the probability and quality of condensing true spiritual energy."
Upon hearing this, the two women looked at Chen Yi and said, "So, the Yinshan Sect Master will definitely not let you go!"
Chen Yi's lips twitched.
However, he did not intend to let the other party off the hook.
After all, the orthodox cultivation techniques of the Yinshan Sect are most likely only preserved in the current sect leader's possession...
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