86: Chapter 86 Fourth-Order Spiritual Treasure
Sanhai Great Hall.
Bai Cang stood in place, carefully digesting the memory fragments flooding into his mind.
He gained an understanding of the ghost cultivator's original identity.
Yu Xuzi, the Ancestor of the Huihai Sect.
As for the reason he became a ghost cultivator...
There were those who did not want the inheritance of the Shanhai Sect lineage to reappear in the world.
This was because the sect's cultivation technique possessed the opportunity to seize the creation of heaven and earth, allowing the spiritual energy of a region to gather in one place.
In ancient times, it even allowed the spiritual energy of an entire realm to converge on a single sect's land; the whole world submitted, and none dared to disobey!
Until a great catastrophe broke out in this realm, splitting the land in a single battle and causing countless powerful beings to fall.
The foundation of the earth was damaged, leading to the decline of spiritual energy. Heaven and earth could only allow cultivators below the Void Refining stage to remain.
Even Soul Transformation cultivators found it quite difficult, as the spiritual energy was only enough to maintain a portion of their consumption...
It could be said that Soul Transformation cultivators were the peak of combat power in this realm. To go any higher, one needed to shatter the void and ascend to the Earth Immortal Realm.
When the great battle reached its peak, the powerful cultivators of the Shanhai Sect were rejected by heaven and earth, forced to shatter the void and ascend to the upper realm.
The remaining orthodox lineage suffered sieges from other cultivators, declining from its peak. Due to the fear of the masses, it eventually vanished silently into the long river of history.
After the Huihai Sect Ancestor cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage, he was detected by several divine senses who came to exterminate him.
In desperation, the Huihai Sect Ancestor gathered all the sect's cultivators in the Sanhai Hall and used a formation to drag the island into the deep sea.
He set up the 'Great Yin Gathering Formation,' attempting to reappear after a thousand years and use treasures to entice cultivators to come, allowing the entire sect to seize bodies and be reborn...
Bai Cang shook his head; this move was simply whimsical!
But it was likely a move born of desperation, wasn't it?
Just as he entered the Nascent Soul stage, several late-stage Nascent Soul great cultivators directly came killing at his door...
It was a hopeless situation!
“Dust to dust, earth to earth. What the Huihai Sect could not do, the Mountain and River Sect can!”
Bai Cang had this confidence in his heart.
By the time Yue Shanhe cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage, he estimated he would have already become a fifth-tier Demon Venerable, and a sixth-tier Demon Monarch might not be impossible!
A mere few Nascent Soul cultivators could be dealt with casually!
“Ancestor Bai!”
Yue Shanhe ran over in concern, his sleeves fluttering. He only breathed a sigh of relief after observing carefully.
Bai Cang smiled and said, “Do not worry, it was just a remnant soul. Since I left the mountains, have I ever done anything without certainty?”
He then looked at Daoist Mu and the other two, saying, “Why have the three fellow Daoists returned?”
Daoist Mu was the first to speak, bowing solemnly and saying gratefully, “We have come specifically to thank the Perfected One for saving our lives!”
Daoist Hua and Daoist Lin also said gratefully, “We thank the Perfected One for saving our lives!”
Misfortune is where blessings lean; blessings are where misfortune hides.
If they had succeeded in breaking the formation's restrictions as they wished, the ghost tide would have swallowed them in an instant!
Just the third-tier ghost cultivators they saw numbered seven or eight...
This Huihai Sect was clearly a murderous trap!
“Fellow Daoists are too polite!”
Bai Cang waved his hand, not taking the saving of their lives to heart.
By annihilating the ghost cultivators, he had also quietly eliminated a catastrophe that would have swept through the lands of the three kingdoms in the future.
Inside the Shanhai Main Hall.
Countless skeletal bodies sat withered on the ground, their clothes almost entirely rotted away. Beside each skeleton was a storage bag.
Bai Cang and Yue Shanhe walked in slowly, taking in the scene with shock, a trace of sadness inevitably rising in their hearts.
“I never expected it to be like this!” Yue Shanhe sighed with emotion.
He had just heard the origins of the Huihai Sect from Bai Cang and felt considerable sympathy for the members of the Huihai Sect, who shared the same lineage.
“The dead are gone, while the living remain. Collect their storage bags and arrange for people to bury them later.”
Bai Cang said, his gaze looking forward.
The color of the last dozen or so skeletons at the back of the hall was clearly different from the others; they must have been Golden Core stage cultivators during their lives.
At the very top was a physical body that had not decayed.
He had white hair and a youthful face, wearing a Flood Dragon Sea-Tossing Robe and a jade crown. His temperament was extraordinary as he sat cross-legged on the ground, holding a crystal-clear pearl in both hands.
“Yu Xuzi.”
Bai Cang picked up the pearl from the Daoist's palm and scanned it with his divine sense. The restrictions inside had long since vanished with time.
A fourth-tier spatial spiritual treasure, the mountain and sea pearl.
He engraved his own soul restriction and carefully investigated the interior.
Inside, there was actually a fourth-tier spiritual vein, as well as Yu Xuzi's wealth from when he was alive!
There were several third-tier magic treasures and countless types of pills and miscellaneous items...
Moreover, there were many Core Formation spiritual items, enough for three or four people to use for forming their cores!
“This is...?!”
Bai Cang took out the shanhai ten suns scroll from the mountain and sea pearl, and the aura of a fourth-tier spiritual treasure rushed toward him.
He engraved his soul restriction, and in the next second, he understood the use of this scroll.
This shanhai ten suns scroll was a binding magic treasure containing a fourth-tier battle formation.
It could draw people inside, and they could only escape by breaking through or walking out of the formation gates!
After Yu Xuzi ascended to Nascent Soul, the old enemies of the Shanhai Sect immediately came to his door; he had no ability to refine fourth-tier spiritual treasures at all.
These two fourth-tier spiritual treasures, the mountain and sea pearl and the shanhai ten suns scroll, should be inheritance items of the sect...
Half a day later.
Mountain and River Sect.
After being saved by Bai Cang, Daoist Mu and the others did not choose to leave but followed along to visit the Mountain and River Sect.
While still a hundred miles away, they saw an immortal palace above the vault of heaven and were struck dumb.
“This is my Ancestor Bai's place of cultivation, the Floating Immortal Palace!” Yue Shanhe introduced proudly.
Daoist Mu and the other two nodded in a daze. To be able to stand suspended in the air, could it be that the Mountain and River Sect had a fourth-tier formation master?
Impossible!
The three shook their heads inwardly.
The Yun Kingdom had a suspended city held up by the fourth-tier formation 'Nine Element Geomagnetic Profound Thunder Formation.' The person who set up the formation was the Nascent Soul Ancestor of the Yuanlei Sect—True Lord Mang Lei.
But that was a Nascent Soul True Lord plus a fourth-tier formation master!
Although demonic beasts were naturally strong in combat power, as for their comprehension and inheritance of the hundred arts of immortal cultivation... they really could not compliment them!
The group was guided up to the Floating Immortal Palace.
Bai Cang immediately summoned the artifact spirit Gong Lingmeng and said, “Ling Meng, have someone arrange a small banquet!”
“Yes, husband!”
Gong Lingmeng curtsied and vanished into the void behind her.
Bai Cang turned to look at the three and said, “Everyone, follow me.”
The three nodded blankly and followed behind, waves of shock rising in their hearts.
No matter how poor their eyesight was, they could see... that woman just now was an artifact spirit body!
And artifact spirits... only appear in spiritual treasures of the fifth tier and above!
Fifth-tier spiritual treasures were things that could be sought but not easily found; even Soul Transformation cultivators might not necessarily possess many.
Such spiritual treasures were mostly inheritance treasures of powerful forces, because while Soul Transformation cultivators could be encountered, fifth-tier artifact refining masters were hard to come by!
They also required the perfect alignment of heaven's timing, geographical advantage, and human harmony...
Fake, it's fake, it absolutely cannot be real!
The three shook their heads frantically in their hearts.
As they walked further in, the expressions on their faces changed wonderfully again. Daoist Lin exclaimed, “This... this level of spiritual energy?! It's at least at the level of a high-grade third-tier spiritual vein!!”
Daoist Mu and Daoist Hua were equally shocked.
The three of them were all rogue cultivators, and superior spiritual veins were mostly occupied by large forces. Their places of cultivation were generally rented cultivation caves in the suspended city.
The concentration of spiritual energy was only at the mid-grade third-tier level!
They had to pay one high-grade spiritual stone every two years. At their level, staying in seclusion for over a decade was common; how could they afford such long-term consumption?
Better caves were hard to get even with spiritual stones, as they were basically used by the internal Golden Core great cultivators of the Yuanlei Sect.
Who would have thought... that the land of the three kingdoms actually had such a sacred place for cultivation!
For a moment, the three of them felt their hearts waver, wanting to ask if they were short of any gatekeepers.