51: Chapter 51 Heavenly Secret Shielding Talisman

Li Guidai endured the intense pain, grimacing as he walked over to the giant lizard that had temporarily passed out.

He kicked its hard bone armor with his unbroken leg. Confirming it wouldn't wake up anytime soon, he let out a long sigh of relief and then couldn't help but laugh up at the sky:

"Hahaha! Destiny is on my side! As expected, good-looking people never have bad luck!"

Li Guidai leaned against the rock wall with a grimace, enjoying the healing spirit pill that Zhuge Yue was carefully feeding him, while directing Kuang Dalei, who had just woken up and was still seeing stars:

"Old Kuang! Stop playing dead! Hurry, find something sturdy and tie that big guy up for me! Yes, that stupid lizard that knocked itself out! It's a Nascent Soul Stage demon beast; we can't let it go to waste!"

Looking at the Earth Vein Rock Lizard, which lay collapsed on the ground like a small mountain and still exuded a terrifying pressure with every breath, Kuang Dalei's legs went weak, and he said with a mournful face:

"Lord... Lord Li! How... how do I tie this thing up? What should I use to tie it? If it wakes up and sneezes, I'll be finished!"

Li Guidai swallowed the pill, feeling his injuries ease, and his mind immediately became active. He rubbed his chin, staring at the unconscious giant beast with glowing eyes, and began to fantasize:

"Kill it and harvest the materials? Demon core, bone armor, essence blood... they're certainly valuable. But that's too wasteful! This is Nascent Soul Stage combat power! Can we find a way to tame it and keep it at the entrance of our Yuegui Pavilion to guard the house? How grand that would be!"

He paused, his imagination running even wilder:

"Or... wait until it wakes up and discuss it with it? Let it stay in this spirit vein and be responsible for using its demon power to 'pressurize' the spirit vein, making the spirit energy flow even stronger! We'll pay it a monthly salary, settled in spirit stones! This is called win-win cooperation!"

"Pfft—"

Zhuge Yue, who was adjusting her breathing, heard this outrageous idea and couldn't help but cover her mouth with her sleeve, a helpless smile appearing on her cold, clear face.

Negotiating a salary with a Nascent Soul Stage demon beast? Her husband's brain must have been knocked pretty hard just now.

Kuang Dalei was so frightened he stumbled and almost knelt before Li Guidai:

"Lord Li! You can't do that! It... it doesn't understand human language! And if it finds out we broke its formation and stole its nest, never mind a salary, it will chew us up like snacks!"

"Tsk, no sense of adventure!"

Li Guidai waved his hand in disdain, but he also knew this idea wasn't very realistic at the moment:

"Alright, alright, let's tie it up first! Use my Profound Iron Demon-Locking Chain! Not strong enough? Then wrap it a few more times! And slap on a few more binding talismans!"

Under Li Guidai's coercion, Kuang Dalei had to tremble as if he were disarming a bomb, using the thick Profound Iron chains to wrap the giant lizard's limbs round and round, covering it with yellow talisman papers, making the lizard look like a strange gift about to be sacrificed.

After dealing with the spoils, the three finally stepped into the core area of the spirit vein.

Upon entering, spirit energy, pure to the extreme, enveloped them like a warm tide, making every pore on their bodies relax.

Before them was a huge underground cavern. In the center was a pool of spirit spring water that looked like liquid emerald. Deep within the spring eye, one could vaguely see a spirit vein core winding like a jade belt, emitting a soft and majestic halo.

"It really is an ownerless top-grade spirit vein! This quality, this storage capacity! We're rich! We're really rich!"

Li Guidai was so excited he almost jumped up, which aggravated his injuries and made him grimace again.

He didn't dare to delay and immediately took out several high-grade formation disks. Fumbling under Zhuge Yue's guidance, he set up a temporary sealing formation at the breach they had previously broken.

This was to avoid excessive leakage of spirit energy and also to isolate the aura of this place, preventing unnecessary trouble.

Next came the trickiest part—how to transport this spirit vein core, as well as that huge Earth Vein Rock Lizard, safely and discreetly back to Ganlu Town, hundreds of miles away?

Carry it back directly? The target would be too big, like a beacon in the night.

Use a storage treasure? The power of heaven and earth contained in the spirit vein core was too vast; ordinary storage bags couldn't withstand it at all and might even risk exploding.

Li Guidai scratched his head, his gaze falling on the [Heavenly Secret Shielding Talisman] rewarded by the system.

"I've got it!"

He slapped his thigh: "Yueer, use your Taiyin power to create a large concealment barrier to cover the spirit vein core and this Earth Vein Rock Lizard!"

"I will use this Heavenly Secret Shielding Talisman to disrupt the heavenly secrets of this place, making it impossible for powerful experts to divine it! Then... we'll use the underground teleportation array to transport it in batches!"

No sooner said than done!

Zhuge Yue sat cross-legged, activating her Heavenly Yin Immortal Body and drawing on the power of the moonlight.

It turned into a hazy shadow curtain that seemed to absorb all light and detection, slowly enveloping the spirit vein core area and that giant beast which was bound up like a package.

Li Guidai, with a pained expression, sacrificed the precious Heavenly Secret Shielding Talisman.

The talisman burned without wind, turning into a stream of clear light that merged into the void.

In an instant, this area seemed to be temporarily erased from the perception of the entire world, becoming blurred and chaotic in causality.

"Quick! Old Kuang! Give me a hand! First, cut off the most essential part of this spirit vein core and send it back through the teleportation array!"

Li Guidai called out to Kuang Dalei.

Cutting the spirit vein core was technical work, and also hard labor. Li Guidai used a specialized magic tool, carefully slicing the jade-belt-like core as if it were tofu.

Zhuge Yue stood by, using her Taiyin power to stabilize the cut parts and prevent the spirit energy from going berserk.

Kuang Dalei was responsible for the coolie work, carrying the cut-off fragments of the spirit vein core, which were still emitting astonishing spirit energy, one by one to the small, short-distance teleportation array that had been set up earlier, which could only transport a small amount of items at a time.

The process was chaotic!

Li Guidai accidentally cut too much, and the spirit energy gushed out instantly, knocking him over.

When Kuang Dalei was moving a larger piece of the core, his foot slipped, and he almost dropped the treasure, scaring Li Guidai out of his wits.

Zhuge Yue was maintaining the concealment barrier and stabilizing the spirit vein, which consumed a huge amount of spirit power. Her face grew paler and paler, and she still had to occasionally step in to clean up the mess for those two clumsy guys.

The funniest part was transporting the unconscious giant lizard.

Because its volume was too large, it couldn't be transported at once.

Li Guidai had a whimsical idea: to fold the giant lizard and stuff it into the teleportation array.

"Bend its leg! Yes! Now push its head inside!"

"Lord Li! I can't bend it! Its muscles are too hard!"

"Use some strength! You're at the Foundation Establishment stage! Can you have some dignity as a Foundation Establishment cultivator?"

"My Foundation Establishment stage amounts to nothing!"

In the end, it took three attempts to barely transport the giant lizard, which was positioned in an extremely awkward pose, as if it were doing high-difficulty yoga.

Every time the teleportation halo lit up, one could see the huge figure, bound by iron chains, twisting and flickering—the scene was quite bizarre.

After half a day of tossing and turning, when the last piece of the spirit vein core and the last part of the "lizard-shaped express" were successfully transported back to the underground secret chamber of Yuegui Pavilion, the three of them were almost exhausted and collapsed on the ground.

Li Guidai looked at the pile of spirit vein cores in the center of the secret chamber, emitting an alluring halo, and the giant lizard in the corner that was still unconscious and in a bizarre pose.

Although his body ached all over and his spirit power was exhausted, he couldn't help but grin, revealing a tired yet extremely satisfied smile.

"It was worth it! Everything was worth it! Hahahaha!"

As he laughed, he aggravated his internal injuries and started grimacing again.

Zhuge Yue looked at him like this, shook her head helplessly, but there was a hint of indulgence and a shallow smile in her eyes.

Kuang Dalei was sprawled directly on the ground, staring blankly at the ceiling, muttering:

"Next time... next time, let someone else have this kind of fortune... My heart, Old Kuang's heart, can't take this kind of excitement..."