Chapter 55: Dragon Tiger Secret Realm

Before entering, who would have thought that below would look like an underground palace?

After all, it was located underground, and with a door opening and closing above, it looked like an underground building no matter how you looked at it.

But as Jin Mingxiu looked down from mid-air, her heart sank.

Below was unexpectedly a plain. As if mirroring the surface, it was surrounded by the skeletons of a dragon and a tiger. The center, where something should have been placed, was now missing.

The dragon and tiger skeletons were incomparably huge, like mountains. Half of the dragon was fiery red, and half of the tiger was crystal-like ice blue. The visual effect was truly shocking.

At least in Da Qian, people had never seen a dragon, nor such a large tiger.

The incredibly dense spiritual energy was almost turning into substance, slowing people's falling speed by three points. Looking around, in the surrounding darkness, the boundary seemed visible. That boundary was like a mountain but not a mountain, it was... a spiritual stone ore vein!

Jin Mingxiu held her breath.

If she could monopolize this place...

Scanning around, besides herself, four other people had come down. Among them, only the sect master and she were at the fourth grade. The white-haired girl was at the fifth grade, and the other two were negligible. As long as she found a chance to sneak attack the sect master, wouldn't this place be hers to run rampant in?

This fall wasn't really that high. With her mind turning electrically, her feet already landed on solid ground, exactly on the empty ground in the center of the dragon and tiger skeletons.

Jin Mingxiu hadn't even had time to think of a sneak attack strategy when the four others moved first.

The seemingly negligible child and the white-haired girl rushed forward, one left, one right. Shen Tang sat steadily in front, pushing both palms flat.

Majestic, peerless purple qi surged like mountains overturning the sea. Jin Mingxiu quickly drew her sword and chopped angrily, but it was like hitting a wall. She barely managed to separate the qi force, and she herself staggered back, her qi and blood in disarray.

The child's fists from the left and right, and the white-haired girl's sword, she had no time to dodge and was hit directly on both ribs.

Jin Mingxiu truly hadn't expected to be sneak attacked by this group of women and children before she could even attack. She also hadn't expected this child to be so strong! With a pained grunt, she quickly shook off A Nuo and Du Gu Qingli, turned and flew away: "Sect master sneak attacks loyal ministers and acts against the way! This seat will go out and inform the entire sect from top to bottom, demanding an explanation from everyone!"

Fortunately, this child was only at the fifth grade, and the white-haired girl was also at the fifth grade. Although she was injured, her grade was higher, so she was confident she could outrun them.

Shen Tang was crippled anyway, so she couldn't chase.

Just as she was thinking this, a whooshing sound suddenly came from behind.

Jin Mingxiu looked back in horror, only to see Shen Tang following less than one zhang behind, like someone leisurely strolling through a courtyard: "It's a pity you can't get out."

Jin Mingxiu looked as if she had seen a ghost: "You, your leg..."

"It's no coincidence, it just recovered yesterday."

"So you brought me down just to intentionally kill me where others couldn't see!"

"Then you're thinking too much." Shen Tang smiled slightly: "It's just that you're hard to measure. Leaving you outside, I wouldn't know who you would find to inform. It's better to bring you down and solve it in advance."

Despair filled Jin Mingxiu's heart. This sect master wasn't so scheming before, but now...

In the space of two sentences, Shen Tang had already caught up from behind and patted with her right palm again.

That hair-raising violent qi force surged again. The injured and not-yet-recovered Jin Mingxiu reluctantly returned her sword to resist. But the high-grade flying sword that she usually took pride in was like scrap iron in front of Shen Tang's overbearing and peerless purple qi. With a palm out, the sword broke.

"Bang!" A jade hand easily scattered the sword qi and heavily struck Jin Mingxiu's chest.

Jin Mingxiu spat out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground, looking at the slowly approaching Shen Tang as if she were a devil: "You... cultivating the Huang Ji Jing Shi Jing to this extent, simply..."

Even if the Huang Ji Jing Shi Jing was a world-class super-grade cultivation method, it wasn't said that one could shatter a flying sword of the same rank with bare hands as if it were tofu. This wasn't just the power of the cultivation method itself, but also the power of the cultivator herself. Her body refinement had reached an extremely astonishing realm, and she could condense the cultivation method's qi force to a substance-like state.

Jin Mingxiu could almost affirm that even some princes cultivating to the fourth grade would still be no match for Shen Tang.

Invincible at the same rank referred to this kind of person.

"Now you know it's the Huang Ji Jing Shi Jing. It seems you're not Father Emperor's person, and Father Emperor's person wouldn't kill me now..." Shen Tang paced to his front and said in a low voice: "Tell me whose person you are, perhaps I can still consider giving you a quick death."

Jin Mingxiu sneered: "Although I just saw you, young and inexperienced, ascend the position and then act against the way, slaughtering eight hardworking elders who protected you and escaped to Xia State, you don't deserve to be lord!"

"Why bother putting yourself in my shoes and saying it so grandly?" Shen Tang sighed, slightly lifting her palm, just about to use a forceful confession method.

"Sister, wait." A Nuo ran over carrying a white banner: "Master says our people emperor banner just upgraded, now it can preserve more memories by detaining the soul spirit. Want to try? Maybe we can dig up more secrets."

Shen Tang turned and rubbed her head: "I'll leave it to you."

A Nuo looked at Jin Mingxiu who was slumped on the ground and showed an innocent smile.

Shen Tang returned to the center of the dragon and tiger. Lu Xingzhou had been too lazy to look at the chase and kill from the beginning. He had been surveying here for a while, and Du Gu Qingli had also gone to check the situation of the surrounding spiritual stone ore vein.

"How is it?" Shen Tang asked.

Lu Xingzhou looked at the sunken area in the center and frowned: "There was definitely a pill furnace here originally. I want to know why that pill furnace flew away back then. Unfortunately, I can't tell from here. As for the rest..."

He pointed to the surrounding huge dragon and tiger skeletons: "These skeletons originally contained great energy, but now they have long been absorbed into useless dry bones and will scatter with a slightly strong impact. I suggest preserving them well, they should still have some value... At least they can be used for archaeology to research what these things are exactly, after all, Da Qian truly doesn't have them."

Shen Tang nodded: "Good."

Lu Xingzhou finished and fell silent. Shen Tang sighed slightly.

If these dragon and tiger skeletons were still in their initial state, then one could say there would be as many immortal bones as one wanted, and they could all be calculated. But now it felt like entering a treasure mountain only to find the treasure already depleted. One could imagine Lu Xingzhou's disappointment, it would have been better not to have found them.

Lu Xingzhou perked up a little, smiled, and said: "I don't particularly want these animal bones anyway, it's awkward... Such a large place, the survey has just begun, there won't be only these few things. On the other hand, even if there are only these few things, Tian Xing Sword Sect has earned a lot this time."

Shen Tang nodded. Furthermore, not to mention this incomparably dense spiritual energy and the special yin-yang surrounding atmosphere which could create an extremely good cultivation and trial place for the sect, just this surrounding spiritual stone ore vein was a necessary condition for becoming a top-level sect.

No top-level sect relies on selling medicinal materials and flying swords to rise. That's the plan for ordinary sects to stand firm. Saying that Tian Yao Holy Land relies on selling medicine to supply disciples' resources is simply laughable. Having a mine is the most important backbone, and among them, the most important is the spiritual stone mine.

Of course, one cannot sit idly by and watch the mountain empty. Various industries still need to be developed to achieve a virtuous cycle, which doesn't conflict with the previous development plan.

The most wonderful thing is that this spiritual stone ore vein is hidden in a secret realm, so it doesn't need to be placed in the open and attract covetous eyes.

But Shen Tang was still not happy. Looking at Lu Xingzhou's appearance, she always felt a forced smile. She didn't say anything more and quickly went to explore in the opposite direction of Du Gu Qingli.

The so-called spiritual stone mine, of course, is not purely piled up with spiritual stones. Its main body is still a mountain. Since it is a mountain, it is still possible for other things to exist inside the mountain. In such a mountain body where dense energy gathers, the probability of giving birth to special creations is still very high. For example, it is very possible that there is an immortal family's cave mansion.

These dragon and tiger skeletons, the original pill furnace, without proof of human arrangement, where did this person originally come from? They couldn't have just lived in the wilderness.

Du Gu Qingli had been checking this aspect from the beginning.

Little white hair had been alone in Frozen Moon Cold River for so many years. The ancient tombs and ancient cave mansions personally dug from the bottom of the ice river were probably more than what Lu Xingzhou had heard of.

"Lu Xingzhou." Du Gu Qingli knocked on a certain part of the mountain body and pondered for a long time, then suddenly turned her head and shouted: "Take some spiritual stones and place them in the dragon and tiger's eye sockets."

Lu Xingzhou's heart moved slightly. If there was an immortal family's cave mansion, there must be a trick to open it. It was very reasonable to judge by the gaze of the dragon and tiger's pupils here.

He patted his wheelchair and flew up, quickly taking out four blocks of spiritual stones from his ring and accurately throwing them into the empty eye sockets of the dragon and tiger.

Spiritual energy seeped into the eye sockets, and gradually the dragon and tiger's double pupils seemed to come alive, flashing slightly.

It was clearly only the light of a firefly, but it was already enough. With everyone's eyesight, they could already vaguely see four extremely thin light lines shooting onto the mountain wall in front of Du Gu Qingli, forming four not-so-regular small points, but up, down, left, and right were still very clear.

The four people quickly gathered around.

"If there are no surprises, this is the location of the opening prohibition, and it must correspond to the power of the four symbols." Du Gu Qingli said seriously: "Regarding the power of the four symbols, I have ice and cold power, which can correspond to Xuanwu; Lu Xingzhou is an alchemist who cultivates fire, which can correspond to Zhuque; Shen Tang is a sword cultivator who can correspond to Baihu..."

Saying that, she looked at A Nuo: "Although I don't know your specific cultivation, I always feel that your wood attribute is extremely strong, is that wrong?"

A Nuo nodded: "I can."

The four people looked at each other, all feeling a sense of strange fate. No one had deliberately gathered any attributes, but unconsciously, the four symbols were complete.

Shen Tang cautiously asked: "Since it's an immortal family's place, is our cultivation enough to open it?"

Du Gu Qingli said: "In principle, this is a self-family door prohibition, not a tomb prohibition, and it doesn't require too strong a power to open. No one wants to put in effort at home. Probably eighth or ninth grade energy is enough... Now I can't confirm whether it needs to be simultaneous or sequential?"

Opening a door prohibition might not require much power, but if you press the wrong trigger by mistake, it might even kill the thief without forgiveness.

The original owner was probably just one person, but with his cultivation, it was very easy to trigger four points simultaneously. It was really hard to judge. If it needed to be pressed in sequence, that would be troublesome, as no one would know the other person's password sequence.

Lu Xingzhou stroked his chin and looked at the four small points, pondering for a long time. Suddenly he laughed: "Of course it's simultaneous. Since it's home, if you can open it at once, why bother pressing four times? I can just face scan and definitely not press a password."