55: Top-grade Earth Spirit Fire Vein

Shi Xiaodan eventually left.

He was going to avenge his wife and child!

Though he was despicable for slaughtering a small town, he was also a pitiable man.

An honest, kind, and pitiable man.

Pushing such a person to the brink was undoubtedly a disaster!

Long Aotian severely wounded the Imperial City Shi Family here, and it is foreseeable that the Imperial City Shi Family will still need to conceal its strength.

At least three Ancestors of the Mahayana Realm will be hidden, even if only one or two.

Other forces, such as the Ancestors of the Spirit Division Realm, will be appropriately revealed.

If Long Aotian had not severely wounded the Imperial City Shi Family so badly, eliminating ninety-eight Family Guardians of the Soul Emergence Realm in one battle, it would have been most suitable to release a portion of the Family Guardians.

In the battle with the Long Family, the Family Guardians were able to crush the Long Family Old Ancestors, serving to stabilize the overall situation and deter minor threats, which was highly valued.

However, the Imperial City Shi Family now only has Shi Xiaodan left among its hidden Family Guardians, and even this one is not truly one of their own.

What else can the Imperial City Shi Family do?

They can only release the forces at the level of Ancestors of the Spirit Division Realm who were not completely wiped out.

At that time, Shi Xiaodan will also be released along with them.

It is worth mentioning that the Imperial City Shi Family also lost thirty Nascent Soul Realm Family Elders this time.

Although the number of Nascent Soul Realm Family Elders in the Imperial City Shi Family is several to ten times greater than the number of Soul Emergence Realm Family Guardians, losing dozens at once, even the Imperial City Shi Family, cannot withstand such attrition.

It can be said that after this battle, combined with those eliminated by the Long Family in their previous conflict and those eliminated by individuals or forces who stabbed them in the back, the number of Nascent Soul Realm Family Elders in the Imperial City Shi Family has decreased by at least ten percent in the past six months.

Long Aotian could imagine the scene: after Shi Tianjing and his group returned to the Imperial City Shi Family, the high-ranking members of the Imperial City Shi Family would turn green and then purple with rage during the clan meeting, almost spitting blood...

When Shi Xiaodan left, he not only opened the defensive array but also handed over control of the defensive array to Long Aotian.

After his Divine Sense spread out, confirming that no one was around and that there was indeed no one else inside the defensive array except Long Aoxue, who was confined in the Cultivation chamber, Long Aotian then used his Divine Sense to control the Treasure Pagoda, which had transformed into a speck of dust, and drifted into the defensive array with the help of the wind.

Even at this moment, Long Aotian still did not relax his vigilance.

He understood very well that in the Martial Arts World, where strength is revered, killing is not bound by laws, reason, or morality, and actions are taken at will, if his strength was low, a moment of carelessness could lead to death in the next.

He, who could kill six Ancestors of the Spirit Division Realm from the Imperial City Shi Family using the Level 6 Void Maelstrom Array, was not invincible; any one of the three Ancestors of the Mahayana Realm from the Imperial City Shi Family could easily crush him.

Safety is the foundation.

No matter how reckless, caution is paramount.

"Hmm?

There's actually a High Grade Earth Spirit Fire Vein here?

No wonder the Imperial City Shi Family built their hidden stronghold here and even claimed it for themselves."

When his Divine Sense spread out to investigate what was special inside the defensive array that warranted the Imperial City Shi Family going to such great lengths to build such an important stronghold here, Long Aotian was astonished by what he discovered.

The High Grade Earth Spirit Fire Vein, though it produced Earth Spirit Fire Nectar rather than Spirit Ore, contained immense fire-attributed energy comparable to High-Grade Spirit Stones.

This meant that Cultivating here, by absorbing the energy from the Earth Spirit Fire Nectar, was equivalent to Cultivating with High-Grade Spirit Stones.

However, unlike directly Cultivating with High-Grade Spirit Stones, absorbing the energy from the Earth Spirit Fire Nectar for Cultivation required removing its Impurities, meaning absorbing, refining, purifying the energy, and then absorbing and refining it again.

This was equivalent to Cultivating twice!

It was quite cumbersome!

Nevertheless, in the Eastern Barrens, where Cultivation resources are scarce and becoming increasingly so, having a High Grade Earth Spirit Fire Vein for Cultivation was an incredibly precious Cultivation resource.

No one would dislike it!

"This High Grade Earth Spirit Fire Vein seems to be slowly repairing and evolving?

The Earth Spirit Fire Nectar currently gushing out is enough to support two hundred Soul Emergence Realm cultivators, making this absolutely one of the rare Treasure Troves in the Eastern Barrens.

Hmm?

nirvana rock?

There's actually nirvana rock here?!

This is an evolved Fire Spirit Pool?!"

Soon, Long Aotian discovered something else extraordinary.

There was actually a nirvana rock several meters in size here, which greatly astonished him.

The function of nirvana rock is neither great nor small; it can filter the energy in Earth Spirit Fire Nectar, causing the Earth Spirit Fire Nectar that permeates the nirvana rock to evolve into pure energy Spirit Springs, and the energy Spirit Springs filtered by the nirvana rock are purer and more Advanced than the original energy.

In other words, the High Grade Earth Spirit Fire Nectar refined through the nirvana rock can transform into quasi-High Grade Fire Spirit Springs or High Grade Fire Spirit Springs.

Long Aotian observed that the Fire Spirit Springs in the Fire Spirit Pool were quasi-High Grade Fire Spirit Springs.

This might be related to the grade of the High Grade Earth Spirit Fire Vein.

Although this High Grade Earth Spirit Fire Vein was considered High Grade, it had only recently evolved to High Grade and still contained a small amount of Medium Grade aura.

Strictly speaking, it was a half-Medium, half-High Grade Earth Spirit Fire Vein and had not fully completed its evolution.

The main reason for this was that this Earth Spirit Fire Vein was first affected by the great battle of Ao Zhan and his group during its evolution, fortunately not suffering too much damage; otherwise, it would not have been able to give birth to the two great Dragon-snake demons, White Emperor and Thunder Dragon.

However, the Earth Spirit Fire Vein gave birth to White Emperor and Thunder Dragon, but White Emperor and Thunder Dragon fought over it, ultimately dealing it another severe blow, so much so that it has not truly evolved into a High Grade Earth Spirit Fire Vein even now.

"I finally understand why the Imperial City Shi Family only cultivated one hundred Soul Emergence Realm Family Guardians here instead of two hundred.

It's because the other one hundred slots were monopolized by the three Ancestors of the Mahayana Realm.

The nirvana rock's ability to evolve and purify is equivalent to the amount of Earth Spirit Fire Spirit Nectar used by over one hundred Soul Emergence Realm cultivators here.

If they cultivated more Soul Emergence Realm cultivators, it would infringe upon the interests of the three Ancestors of the Mahayana Realm.

Haha... Now, this Fire Spirit Pool, twenty to thirty meters in circumference and brimming with Spirit Springs, benefits me.

With so many Spirit Springs, how could the nirvana rock's evolution and purification take less than a hundred years?

Could it be that they only collected it once every hundred years, either because of urgent Family matters or because they wanted to resolve the Family's troubles first before peacefully and happily dividing it?"

Long Aotian laughed.

He felt a little embarrassed by how much he was gaining.

This was a Cultivation resource that Ancestors of the Mahayana Realm had waited a hundred years for, enough to create one or two more Ancestors of the Mahayana Realm.

Now, it all benefited him for free!

Long Aotian began to search for containers among the spoils of war, finding two hundred container bottles in the storage rings of the fallen Soul Emergence Realm and Spirit Division Realm cultivators from the Imperial City Shi Family.

Each thumb-sized container bottle held a universe within, capable of holding one cubic meter of Spirit Spring, and Long Aotian directly filled two hundred bottles.

Even then, it was less than one-fifth of the Spirit Springs in the Fire Spirit Pool.

Finally, Long Aotian found an Immortal-grade gourd Magic Treasure in the Immortal Lord's storage ring, with a capacity of tens of thousands of cubic meters, and he collected all the remaining Spirit Springs...