The Great Wild God - Chapter 144

Chapter 144 Secret Hall
Chen Xun stretched out his hand to stick to the stone wall, and a trace of warmth leaked out from the stone wall.

The Scarlet Sun Grass liked to produce Yang flames, and usually did not grow in the depths of the cave. It should be because this stone wall provided an environment for the growth of the Scarlet Sun Grass.

At this moment, the snow outside the mountain hadn’t dissipated yet, and the valley where the Lonemoon Cliff Stone Pillar was located was melting with spring, growing colorful flowers and plants. At this moment, there was also a warm current of Yang fire leaking out from the stone wall. Chen Xun suspected that the place they were in was very likely directly below the valley.

With this thought in mind, Chen Xun and Qianlan retreated to the entrance of the cave and walked in step by step. After carefully measuring the distance and position, they walked to the end and confirmed that the position of the cave bottom and the Lonely Cliff Stone Pillar did not deviate more than 500 meters from each other.

The bottom of the cave was very wide. It was thirty to fifty meters deep, and there were nearly a thousand Red Sun Grass plants growing between the gaps in the rocks.

The College controlled the supply of medicinal pills from the Tu Shanxi Ridge and even the entire Azure Water Wilderness. Every year, there were almost 2,000 plants of Crimson Sun Grass gathered from the hands of tribes, rogue cultivators, and sects, but most of them had less than a hundred years of growth.

There must be a thousand-year-old, pure medicinal Red Sun Grass that was priceless in the Azure Water.

The Nine Revolutions Golden Pill was refined from a thousand-year-old spirit herb or a hundred-year-old spirit herb. Although they were all called Nine Revolutions Golden Pills, they were not a concept at all.

The medicinal energy boiling flow created by the former was several times or even ten times that of the latter, so it was naturally easier to break through the physical barrier and advance into the Reincarnation Realm after consuming it.

Chen Xun looked at the hole-filled Scarlet Sun Grass, and its roots grew dark purple. He didn’t know how many thousand years it had grown in this hole.

All medicinal herbs that could be used to refine pills would turn into spiritual energy when they put down the Void Origin Pearl. However, even if Chen Xun took out the Crimson Crow Saber and other items and carried them on his back, the space that the Little Cosmos Sack could free up was extremely limited.

Two to three hundred stalks of Scarlet Sun Grass stuffed the small Cosmos Sack. Seeing that more than half of the Scarlet Sun Grass couldn’t be taken away, Chen Xun also had a headache. If he didn’t take it now, the Scarlet Sun Grass would most likely become something in Mystical Frost Sect’s bag in the future.

Chen Xun pulled out two stalks of Crimson Sun Grass and threw them into the Void Origin Pearl. The stems and leaves quickly melted away and merged with the spiritual energy in the pearl. However, seven or eight crimson grass seeds that were several times smaller than corn fell silently into the Void Origin Pearl.

Grass seeds could not be used to refine pills or magical artifacts, but in the future, when they found a place rich in spiritual energy, they could plant large amounts of new Scarlet Sun Grass.

When Chen Xun thought of this, he specially pulled out the Crimson Sun Grass that had grown grass seeds from the stone wall and threw it into the Void Origin Pearl.

After tossing and turning for a while, Chen Xun pointed at the empty stone wall and said to Qianlan, “Break open this stone wall. Let’s see what’s hidden behind us. There’s actually Xuanyang Qi coming out.”

Chen Xun could also shatter the stone wall with the Crimson Crow Saber, but the commotion was also large, easily alarming the sentinel wolves roaming in the valley above.

Qianlan pulled out her Spirit Sound Sword, and her sword qi flickered as she cut into the stone wall.

The dark green hard stone wall was like soft tofu, silently sliced off by the sword qi.

Qianlan was so tired that she was out of breath, so Chen Xun handed over a stalk of Crimson Sun Grass.

Devouring the Scarlet Sun Grass directly would only be able to refine two-thirds of its medicinal power. It was a waste, but compared to the medicinal pills on Chen Xun’s body, so much Scarlet Sun Grass could not be taken away in the Little Cosmos Sack, so it would be a waste.

Chen Xun also chewed on two stalks of Scarlet Sun Grass and channeled the Profound Yang medicinal power into Hundred Bones for cultivation.

In less than half a day, the Thousand Orchid Imperial Envoy’s Spirit Sound Sword had broken through the stone wall to a depth of a hundred meters, and a faint red light had already emerged from the depths of the stone wall.

“Leave the rest to me to try” Chen Xun, who had been calling Qianlan a coolie, was also embarrassed. He took out the Frost Saber from the Void Origin Pearl and released the Frost Saber Light to break through the stone wall.

Just as the saber light cut into the stone wall, a ray of spiritual light shot out from the stone wall.

Chen Xun was also caught off guard. Subconsciously, he could only place the Frost Saber horizontally in front of him, wanting to block the Spiritual Light that was striking towards his chest. He didn’t even need time to use the Shadow Separation Technique or the Cloud Evasion Technique to dodge it.

An indescribably powerful force collided with the Frost Saber. Chen Xun’s tiger’s mouth was immediately shattered. The Frost Saber came out of his hand and smashed towards his chest. His entire body was knocked flying.

Before Qianlan could react, Chen Xun was ruthlessly smashed into the other end of the cave.

Chen Xun landed heavily on the ground. Countless rocks that had been shattered and collapsed pressed down on his body again. The entire cave almost collapsed.

Chen Xun felt as if his entire skeleton had been torn apart. He couldn’t even exert any of his strength under the rubble, and his intuitive organs were torn apart by the tremendous force, causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood.

Qianlan hurriedly picked Chen Xun up from the pile of rocks and took out a medicinal pill for him to take.

After a long time, Chen Xun finally recovered his strength. However, he saw that the Frost Saber was broken into pieces and scattered on the ground. If it weren’t for the Frost Saber’s buffer, only the sea of souls formed from the six-armed Giant Demon Blood would have been able to protect his life.

Chen Xun struggled to climb over and cut open the stone wall. Inside, he saw an incomparably smooth copper wall that could illuminate people.

There was a faint red light flowing on the surface of the bronze wall, and the spiritual light just now was emitted from this bronze wall.

“What is this?” Qianlan was dumbfounded. The bronze wall was dark red, and it was filled with spiritual light. Obviously, it was not made of ordinary copper and iron, but was made of pure copper that could be used to refine talismans.

The hole they had opened was only a meter or two in size. If this bronze wall was connected to the Lonely Cliff Stone Pillar above the valley, how much red copper would it take to create such a huge bronze wall?

“Ancestor Black Python recorded that there was a secret cave stone hall under the Lonely Cliff stone pillar. Damn it, I didn’t expect it to be a copper hall raised from Scarlet Essence Copper!” Chen Xun spat out a mouthful of blood.

Chen Xun’s mind raced as he thought to himself, If the secret hall below the Lonely Cliff Stone Pillar was made of scarlet copper, wouldn’t it cost him hundreds of millions of kilograms of scarlet copper?

He and Daoist Azure Wood had refined the Spirit Gathering Formation, allowing Zhao Tu to secretly purchase 500 jin of Scarlet Essence Copper. It would cost him more than a thousand talismans. If he dug out this copper hall and took it for himself, the entire Azure Water College would not be as rich as him.

No wonder the Profound Frost Sect and Qing Yangzi planned to dig such a big hole for the Su Clan for a hundred years.

Not to mention the treasures in the secret hall, this Copper Scarlet Palace was worth the risk of the Profound Frost Sect and Qing Yangzi.

Only by crippling the Su Clan and rendering them completely unable to extend their hands to the north of Python Fang Ridge would they be able to monopolize the Jade Pillar Peak and slowly dig out this Copper Scarlet Palace from underground.

Chen Xun took out the Scarlet Crow Saber and tried to cut the bronze wall again.

Qianlan hurriedly pulled him back, “The secret hall usually has extremely powerful restrictions. You were really lucky just now …”

“I’ll use more strength this time.” Chen Xun said with a relaxed expression. The lightning bolt that had almost shattered his body earlier was still far from the lightning bolt released by the ferocious beast.

Chen Xun slashed down with his saber, and the red light flowing on the bronze wall lit up like a wave of water, causing a ray of spiritual light to bounce out.

Chen Xun exerted less strength this time, and the enormous force released by the Spiritual Light only forced him back a dozen steps.

“That’s right. The restriction of the secret hall was rebounded ten times according to the additional strength. Fortunately, I didn’t use my full strength just now. Otherwise, I would have been wronged if I had been killed by the rebound.” Chen Xun smiled bitterly.

Qianlan was also surprised by Chen Xun’s physical strength. Although Chen Xun had not used his full strength to break through the stone wall with his fierce frost saber light, his ten-fold rebound force was incomparably powerful.

Even if she had a bloodline and spiritual light to change her body, she would most likely be beaten until her soul was shattered.

“What should we do next?” Qianlan asked.

“Next, let’s dig a hole upwards,” Chen Xun laughed. “That divine wolf is extraordinarily intelligent, but I never thought that we would be able to dig out a secret passage that connects to the valley, right?”

The group of beasts forced everyone from the College to retreat into the valley in order to borrow the ferocious beast trapped by the Lonely Cliff Stone Pillar to kill everyone from the College.

If they could dig out a secret passage connecting to the valley, the exit of this secret passage would be more than twenty miles away. Although it was not enough for the people of the Academy to quietly escape from Jade Pillar Peak, as long as Su Lingyin, Su Fanglong, Su Qingfeng, and other experts could sneak behind the pack of wolves, they might even accidentally attack and kill the divine wolf.

Thinking of the inevitable death situation, Qianlan could not help but feel excited. Taking a few steps back, the Imperial Envoy’s Spirit Sound Sword began to cut through the stone wall above.

At this moment, they were about four to five hundred meters below the valley. If it was all this hard stone wall, they would have enough Crimson Sun Grass to replenish their consumption. They would probably be able to dig through it in two days.

Chen Xun didn’t stop Qianlan when he saw her excitedly digging a secret tunnel, but he knew that Qing Yangzi was the one who was in big trouble.

If they didn’t solve Qing Yangzi, even if they dug out the secret passageway, they wouldn’t be able to solve the current predicament.

Qing Yangzi’s injuries might not be as severe as they appeared on the surface. It was also possible that he had holy medicines in his possession, and his cultivation could quickly recover to the Heaven Origin Realm.

As the Grand Elder of the Academy, Qing Yangzi had also secretly cultivated a large number of powers.

Apart from the Gui Xi Tribe, no one knew how many people in Cang Lan City and the trapped members of the Academy had betrayed the Su Clan together with Qing Yangzi.

As Chen Xun swallowed the Scarlet Yang Medicine to heal his wounds, he was thinking nonsense. Suddenly, his soul was shocked, and he heard a strange sound coming from outside the cave.

Qianlan quickly noticed the abnormality and walked over to Chen Xun, asking, “What happened?”

Chen Xun complained to himself. He must have been knocked back by the Spiritual Light just now, causing the cave to shake, alarming the desolate beasts in the mountain.

He and Qianlan quickly skimmed towards the entrance of the cave. When they reached the middle of the cave, they saw a dozen or so green wolves searching through the cave.

Seeing that Qianlan was about to attack with the Spirit Sound Sword in her hand, Chen Xun hurriedly pulled her back, brandished the Crimson Crow Saber, and slashed towards the stone wall. Immediately, rocks fell like rain, and soon, the cave was completely blocked.

They revealed Xing Zang and killed a dozen or so Blue Wolves. Soon, they would attract even more powerful desolate beasts.

Only by blocking the dozen or so green wolves would it be possible to stall for time.

Returning to the bottom of the cave, Chen Xun asked Qianlan to continue cutting the stone wall upwards, while he took out the Soul Chasing Seal.

He didn’t know if the Scarlet Essence Copper Wall could conceal his Spiritual Sense, but he still had to give it a try.

However, when he extended his Spiritual Sense into the copper wall through the Soul Chasing Seal, a rich Spiritual Will came out from the copper wall and instead followed his Spiritual Sense.

Without waiting for Chen Xun to react, the Soul Chasing Seal transformed into an incomparably pure divine force that shattered the Soul Chasing Seal.

Seeing the green jade powder scatter from his hand, Chen Xun was momentarily shocked.

He had heard Daoist Greenwood say that his soul was strong enough to ignite the lamp wick with pure spiritual sense. He hadn’t expected that this spiritual sense would actually smash the Soul Pursuing Seal into pieces.

What level of cultivation was this?

Seeing the Soul Pursuing Seal turn into jade powder, Chen Xun felt even more bitter in his heart.

Zong Ya’s blood dripped as he attached his divine soul aura to the Soul Chasing Seal. With the Soul Chasing Seal, when Zong Ya and the others broke out of the encirclement, Chen Xun would be able to know their location in time and rush over to receive them.

Now that the Soul Pursuing Seal had been destroyed, how could he help Zong Ya and the others break out of the encirclement?