121: Chapter 121 Treasure Hunt at Starfall Mountain

Arriving at the outer Sect, Li Qingling quickly searched for Chen Lingjun and the other.

In just a moment, she arrived at the Immortal Cave where Chen Lingjun was healing his injuries.

Outside the Immortal Cave, Chen Lingyu's Face revealed pleasant surprise upon seeing Li Qingling, and she said, "Seventh Aunt, you are here."

Li Qingling smiled and nodded, then asked with some confusion, "Lingyu, why are you here? Did something happen to Lingjun?"

Hearing this, Chen Lingyu wore a bitter expression and recounted everything that had happened before.

After listening, Li Qingling had no choice but to take out a bottle of Tier 2 healing Medicinal Pills and hand them to Chen Lingyu. As a Foundation Establishment Cultivator of the Sect, she truly could not participate or personally step into the fights among Qi Refining Disciples. Not only would this damage her Face as a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, but it would also break the rules of the immortal cultivation world.

Generally speaking, high-level Cultivators would not personally step down to bully a junior unless there were interests involved.

Therefore, it was inconvenient for her to step in and uphold justice for Chen Lingjun. Moreover, Cultivators were meant to act in a Heaven-Defying manner; the Face she lost should be won back by herself rather than letting the Family elders intervene, because the Family would not nurture Cultivators who only knew how to rely on their background to suppress others.

However, Li Qingling was, after all, the Seventh Aunt of the two, so she took out two Tier 1 High Grade Magical Artifacts and gave them to them. This was the limit of what she could do.

"Thank you, Seventh Aunt," Chen Lingyu said with a giggle.

"Since everything is fine, I will go attend to my matters first." Although Li Qingling said this on the surface, she had actually planned long ago to have the deacon Cultivators in charge of the competition keep an eye on them during their matches to prevent similar incidents. As for why she did not make it explicit, she was also afraid that if Chen Lingyu and the other knew someone was looking out for them, they would lose a bit of the serious mindset needed to handle the competition.

...

Qingzhou, Xingyun Mountain.

Legend has it that several thousand years ago, an extraterrestrial meteorite fell to this place, which was why this entire mountain range was named Xingyun Mountain.

That extraterrestrial meteorite was extraordinary. It was said to be a meteorite composed of countless Xingyun Ores. The founding Ancestral Master of the Tianyan Sect back then relied precisely on these Xingyun Ores to establish the Tianyan Sect, which possessed four Golden Core Masters during its Peak period.

Even after so many years, the Xingyun Ores of that extraterrestrial meteorite had long been mined hollow by countless generations. Even if there were still residual Xingyun Ores, they were deep underground.

Chen Xuanyi was currently underground. He had also come to search for Xingyun Ores. He learned from the mouths of Qingzhou Cultivators that Xingyun Ore was an excellent fire-attribute Ore with varying qualities. Melting it into a Magical Artifact could increase the fire-attribute destructive power of the artifact, and his Magical Artifact happened to need fire-attribute Ore, so he came here to try his luck.

Although those Tier 4 Xingyun Ores had long been mined out, some Tier 3 and Tier 2 Xingyun Ores still remained to some extent.

In the past, there were always some Cultivators who could dig up small amounts of Tier 3 Xingyun Ores and some Tier 2 Xingyun Ores.

The reason why these Xingyun Ores had not been completely mined out was precisely because of that extraterrestrial meteorite from back then. After that extraterrestrial meteorite fell to this place, it silently changed the Spiritual Qi and geology of this mountain, causing some stones deep within Xingyun Mountain to transform into Xingyun Ores every once in a while.

Moreover, the deeper one went underground, the greater the quantity and quality of the Xingyun Ores encountered would increase.

It was just that a kind of Yao Beast existed underground. This kind of Yao Beast liked to huddle in the high-temperature environment of the underground, and its temperament was also extremely irritable, and most of the time it lived alone. This indirectly became one of the reasons why Xingyun Ores were extremely difficult to mine.

Looking at the scorching magma below, Chen Xuanyi felt pleasantly surprised in his heart. Having spent several hours through continuous exploration, he had finally arrived down here.

Looking down, bubbles continuously rose from the surface of the magma, and the extreme high temperature continuously evaporated the remaining Spiritual Qi in the air.

Bang!

A huge Magma Behemoth suddenly emerged from the magma, its terrifying aura causing even Chen Xuanyi to choke for a moment. He hurriedly hid and suppressed the Qi in his body to the lowest level.

This Tier 3 Magma Behemoth merely raised its head to scan the surroundings, found nothing unusual, and returned into the magma once again.

"I didn't expect a Tier 3 Magma Behemoth to be lurking here. It seems that this underground is not as safe as it appears on the surface," Chen Xuanyi said with lingering fear. If he had been above the magma just now, he would have long since been swallowed into the belly of that Magma Behemoth, and even begging for an intact corpse would have been difficult.

Just as he was planning to move on again, a group of Cultivators appeared at a tunnel entrance not far away. Chen Xuanyi continued to hide himself. In a place like this, for a lone wolf like him, incidents of being killed and having one's treasures stolen by others due to a single slip-up were quite numerous.

Those four Cultivators were all in the Foundation Establishment Stage. The one with the highest cultivation was a masked woman dressed in a purple skirt, whose cultivation had reached the fifth layer of Foundation Establishment. Among the other three men, one was at the fourth layer of Foundation Establishment, and two were at the third layer.

Seeing them chatting and laughing happily, it was obvious that they were not meeting for the first time. However, the gazes of two among them would always drift toward the purple-skirted woman from time to time, carrying greed deep within their eyes, as if they wanted to make the woman their own.

"Fairy Jiang, starting from here is the place where Tier 3 Xingyun Ores are born. The further down we go, the more Tier 3 Xingyun Ores we will encounter, but the dangers below will also be greater, and there are even Tier 4 Magma Behemoths in existence," explained the handsome male Cultivator at the fourth layer of Foundation Establishment.

"Tier 4 Magma Behemoth?! Fellow Daoist He, is the news true?" Jiang Yuruo's beautiful eyes flashed with surprise as she asked.

"Fellow Daoist He naturally would not lie; a Tier 4 Magma Behemoth does indeed exist here. Back then, a Golden Core Master of the Tianyan Sect thought of completely occupying this place, and led quite a few Disciples of the Sect to come here, but unfortunately, an entire Magma Behemoth nest was entrenched here."

"Although the Tianyan Sect did not occupy any advantage at first, after that Golden Core Master made a move, the Disciples of the Tianyan Sect quickly defeated a large number of Magma Behemoths and occupied most of the underground territory. Unfortunately, good times did not last long; that Tier 4 Magma Behemoth emerged from the deepest part of the underground and fought a fierce battle with that Golden Core Master for several days. The result of that final battle is unknown to anyone, but afterwards, the Tianyan Sect gave up the thought of completely occupying this place," said the Foundation Establishment male Cultivator standing beside the two.

However, when Jiang Yuruo looked at him, a trace of anger and disgust flashed deep within her eyes. How could she not know that these two Foundation Establishment Cultivators had always been looking at her with lewd gazes?

If it weren't for the fact that she had matters requiring the help of the three, she would have already fallen out with them.

Bang!

That Tier 3 Magma Behemoth rushed out again, and the four stared in horror at the Magma Behemoth carrying a terrifying aura.

"Let's go quickly." He Kai glanced at Jiang Yuruo and hurriedly reminded her.

Hearing this, Jiang Yuruo and the other three transformed into four streaks of escape light and fled rapidly.

Seeing this, that Magma Behemoth moved its mountain-like body, crawled out of the magma, and slowly pursued them.

Meanwhile, Chen Xuanyi, who was hiding on the other side, also took advantage of this opportunity to head in another direction.