Chapter 56: Ancient Immortal Cave Mansion

Four colors of light simultaneously lit up. Four people, without prior arrangement, simultaneously chose the lowest nine-grade energy and simultaneously struck the corresponding points.

The mountain wall quietly cracked open a seam without a sound.

Indeed, Lu Xingzhou's judgment as a lazy person was still very accurate... Shen Tang and Gu Du Qingli looked at him with a strange expression. Lu Xingzhou's face did not change color. "Humans fantasize about cultivating immortality, besides wanting to live forever, isn't the biggest meaning for convenience? So I dare say, every single person who cultivates the Dao is very lazy."

Gu Du Qingli thought for a moment and inexplicably felt it made sense. Just like Lu Xingzhou's Five Ghosts Transporting Method, it was indeed convenient.

So why did she practice the sword?

Was it because she was deceived by her Master when she was young...

Of course, the Huangji Jing Shi Jing was still not a good cultivation method.

"Cough." Gu Du Qingli cleared her throat with a calm expression. "From the current situation, there is a very high possibility that the original owner has already sat in transformation inside, causing all his external alchemy arrangements to become empty talk. This means our original judgment was not wrong. Originally, this place was indeed an auspicious and harmonious place, with no danger... but now there might have been changes."

Shen Tang said, "The original owner's corpse?"

"Yes, this kind of unexpected sitting in transformation was necessarily not in the original owner's expectations, so no arrangements for the aftermath will be made. That corpse, having stayed in this kind of spiritual energy extremely dense feng shui treasure land for a long time, might undergo corpse transformation. External incoming vitality is the most common trigger."

A Nuo couldn't help but retort, "Sister Qingli, how many graves have you dug? You're so skilled it makes people's hearts ache."

Gu Du Qingli was silent for a moment and lightly said, "From a young age, what I saw most were glaciers, followed by dead people. Protecting Shen Tang these past two months, the words I've said are more than I said in the previous ten-plus years."

She didn't say more, only looked towards Lu Xingzhou, waiting for him to decide. Actually, the words were difficult to say... her meaning was that it was relatively dangerous inside, and Lu Xingzhou's cultivation here was the lowest. And intelligence was completely meaningless in facing unreasonable corpse puppets and the like, so it was best not to go in.

But saying these words plainly would appear a bit hurtful to one's self-esteem... Gu Du Qingli also didn't know why she would think of this. By rights, this shouldn't be something she would consider...

Lu Xingzhou was always quite silent. At this moment, he only slowly opened his mouth. "I cultivate soul ghost techniques; they should be useful... Someone else shouldn't enter."

He sighed and said in a low voice, "A Nuo, you guard outside. Absolutely do not go in."

A Nuo looked foolish. "Why?"

"You and the master of this place must have a connection. I'm afraid that the illness caused by suppressing demon beasts last time will happen again, and this probability... is quite high." Lu Xingzhou rubbed her little head and gently said, "Those people like Tang Yunzhong might not be able to keep the secret steady. In case someone intrudes and causes destruction, it's also a trouble. A Nuo, help guard the outside, okay?"

A Nuo's intended words were blocked by the latter half of the sentence. She looked at him resentfully for a while and finally lowered her head and handed over the white banner. "Okay. Master, take the magic treasure with you..."

She clearly knew that Master was just finding an excuse... For so many years, A Nuo had never been a burden to Master, but after returning to Xia State, she always felt very useless.

No matter what, she had to listen to Master's words and not cause trouble.

There were no outsiders here. Shen Tang shook off her wheelchair and could walk on her own. A Nuo watched with eager eyes as Gu Du Qingli pushed Lu Xingzhou's wheelchair into the doorway, then squatted on the ground, hugging her knees and curling into a ball.

Actually, A Nuo felt that her ability to sense flowers and grasses was still very useful for exploring cave mansions... Unfortunately, this outside seemed like a vast wilderness, looking like fertile soil, yet how could she not even see a wild grass? Was the earth vein sucked dry by alchemy? But it didn't seem like it. The earth vein was clearly still very fertile, otherwise, it wouldn't be enough to form a spirit stone mine...

"Eh..." A Nuo suddenly lifted her small head from her knees, her gaze flashing.

The absence of flowers and grasses in this place was itself an abnormal phenomenon. Master and Sister Qingli's thinking direction wasn't this. Their brain circuits didn't turn here, but A Nuo's did!

Indeed, it was right for A Nuo not to go in. There must still be unknown omissions outside that haven't been explored!

A Nuo is the most intelligent!

...

"Bang!" On that side, the three people had just entered the cave mansion and hadn't walked even a few steps when they were met with an extremely strong energy impact.

Shen Tang, who was leading the way, didn't understand for a moment what was opposite and subconsciously pushed her palms together heavily.

Qi energy intersected. The opposite direction floated back, and Shen Tang was also shaken to stagger backward, bumping into Lu Xingzhou's leg underfoot, and directly falling into his embrace.

Shen Tang: "..."

Lu Xingzhou habitually held her with one hand. His right hand had already reached out from her side, and the white banner lightly shook.

Gu Du Qingli was just about to draw her sword, but then suddenly discovered that the enemy didn't move.

Looking carefully, the enemy was just a group of very vague human shadows, shaped like ghosts.

"These are symbol spirits, also called Kui Zhao. They are often used to guard doors or certain treasures. Putting them in the ghost category is also not unacceptable," Lu Xingzhou said, shaking the white banner. "My soul banner is the nemesis of this kind of thing. If you all forcefully fight, it will be very hard to deal with; they are not afraid of pain."

Hearing the meaning of Lu Xingzhou counterattacking to save face after having been belittled before, Gu Du Qingli's mouth twitched. "This soul banner of yours... is a very formidable magic treasure, not an ordinary magic tool."

"Yes." Lu Xingzhou put away the soul banner and sighed. "It's a life treasure that grew with me. I delayed it."

Gu Du Qingli really wanted to ask why he chose such an evil-aura life magic treasure, but before she could ask, the person in Lu Xingzhou's embrace spoke first. "Let go of me~"

Gu Du Qingli: "..."

What are you shouting about? You, a dignified four-grade, find it difficult to stand up by yourself? Saying it as if he can hold you...

Practicing cultivation has made her silly.

Shen Tang also realized that her brain had gone into the water and struggled up, her face red and ears hot. Just then, she heard Lu Xingzhou asking the foolish symbol spirit in front with an unchanged expression, "Who is your master?"

The symbol spirit strenuously frowned and thought for a while, seemingly unable to remember anything. A muffled echo resonated in the passage. "In any case... you all don't have Master's aura... not allowed to enter..."

Lu Xingzhou strongly suspected that A Nuo might have its master's aura, but he didn't dare take this risk. He pondered for a moment and took out a small fortune bag from his ring, shaking it. "Does this have aura?"

The symbol spirit was startled for a moment and didn't recognize a master, but it cleared the way.

This performance was like the aura was somewhat familiar, but not to the degree of a master. It probably acknowledged you as a friendly guest.

Lu Xingzhou looked thoughtfully at the fortune bag in his hand. Shen Tang, regardless of her red face, quietly asked, "What is this?"

"This is a fortune bag that A Nuo wove for me on my birthday this year. Inside are her hair and a healing pill..." Lu Xingzhou's eyes were gentle. "A Nuo's talent as a Dan Master is extremely good, but unfortunately, she has no flame affinity and cannot cultivate flame techniques, making it very difficult to refine pills by herself. This was refined by her relying on Danxia Mountain's earth fire. At that time, she couldn't control the earth fire and made her face and body dirty, like a gray monkey..."

A Nuo's hair... at least proves that A Nuo and the master of this place are indeed connected, but for the time being, it's hard to determine the extent of the connection, whether it's blood relation.

In any case, it was correct not to let her come in. Now, there is no other immortal pill; they cannot afford an accident.

Seeing Lu Xingzhou say no more words, Gu Du Qingli directly pushed the wheelchair past the symbol spirit. The moment they passed, Lu Xingzhou's soul banner rolled, and the symbol spirit whooshed into the banner. A piece of talisman paper fluttered down in mid-air.

"Since it is clearly related to A Nuo, I must take it back for detailed investigation." Lu Xingzhou caught the talisman paper with one hand and put it away. "Let's go."

The doorway passage was very short. Not long after, the three people arrived at a spacious place, which should be a front hall according to the arrangement of the cave mansion. But just as they stepped in, Shen Tang immediately tensed her entire body's spiritual energy and stopped her footsteps.

The front hall was messy. Stone tables, stone chairs, and the like were smashed to pieces. There were actually fragments of cups on the ground, and various places vaguely showed burn marks from techniques.

"There was a battle here... these are very ancient remnants," Shen Tang said in a low voice. "Looking at the situation, it's very likely that guests came to visit, and then the host and guests had some dispute that led to a fight."

Gu Du Qingli's previous inference about "unexpected sitting in transformation" was instantly overturned. This was not unexpected sitting in transformation; it was man-made!

From the cup fragments, it looked like there was more than one guest; there were multiple guests.

"Then, even the routine search for the cave mansion core is unnecessary. Following the battle traces will lead to the final place of the battle, which is the most important." Gu Du Qingli pushed Lu Xingzhou to turn towards the left corridor, and Shen Tang quickly caught up.

The corridor was even more filled with remnants of techniques everywhere, making the three people's hearts alarmed and apprehensive.

This kind of cave mansion is itself deep inside the mountain belly. It is originally very difficult to destroy. Moreover, the cave master, in order to avoid accidents and bury himself inside, would often arrange extremely sturdy reinforcement arrays. With Shen Tang's current strength, bombing a small pit is almost impossible.

But along this road, they could see that many parts of the cave wall were collapsed, large pieces of rock wall had fallen and piled on the ground, the entire wall was pitted, and there were even large holes up to ten zhang deep. They didn't know the strength of the two sides of the battle.

Almost at the end of the corridor, they finally saw the first corpse. A pair of legs were exposed at the corner.

According to Gu Du Qingli's experience, this is very likely to have undergone corpse transformation. The three people each gathered a big move on their bodies and approached carefully.

Arriving at the corner and looking towards the corpse, the three people's scalps began to numb.

What one corpse? There were at least ten plus corpses here... These may all be ancient immortals. If they simultaneously undergo corpse transformation...

Just as they had this thought, a wave of slight trembling transmitted. The more than ten corpses after the corner simultaneously raised their heads, their eyes emitting green oily phosphorescence.