Chapter 763 - 542: The Girl in the Ice

Chapter 763: Chapter 542: The Girl in the Ice

This is a completely contradictory situation.

The Spiritual Energy output of the Spirit Vein has increased, which indicates that the Spirit Vein is promoting.

However, the increasing premature aging in the Spirit Vein suggests that the Spirit Vein is aging and is not far from degradation or even destruction.

How could these completely opposite traits appear in the same Spirit Vein!

What is going on?

Lu Qian gripped the Golden Branch tightly, staring at the Spirit Vein that was steadily exhaling Spiritual Qi, and a bold guess emerged in his heart.

Only this explanation makes sense... This is some kind of overuse!

Accelerating the aging of the Spirit Vein, using this as a price to increase the Spiritual Energy output.

Could this be the case?

Lu Qian’s heart raced, but there were too few samples now to be sure.

If this kind of "overuse" really holds true, what does it imply?

The amount of Spiritual Energy that a Spirit Vein can produce is fixed. If the output is faster, then naturally its lifespan is shorter?

Or is there a concept of "wear and tear" for the Spirit Vein itself, and does overloading its use lead to premature aging?

Then what about the Spirit Vein promoting?

No, everything about the Spirit Vein is shrouded in mist, and the current phenomena alone are completely unclear.

It seems that once back at the Mountain Gate, more effort needs to be spent on experimentation.

Carefully, Lu Qian withdrew the Golden Branch back into his Dantian, still suspended above the Golden Core. It was this miraculously mysterious Golden Branch that gave him the qualification to observe all this with mere Golden Core Power.

If his guess proves true, this Golden Branch will become the most precious treasure of the Yunshan Sect! Moreover, its value is more reflected in its effect on the Spirit Vein, far surpassing the Mighty Power of sealing space and stabilizing realms during combat.

After organizing the day’s conjectures, Lu Qian had just put away the Five Elements Grand Array when the Pearl Spirit shouted not far away, "Lu Qian, are you done? Come quickly, I’ve found a hidden pathway!"

It turned out that while Lu Qian was absorbed in the Golden Branch and Spirit Vein, the Pearl Spirit waited impatiently outside. After all, this place was isolated overseas with no sign of anyone, and with Lu Qian’s Five Elements Grand Array protection, she didn’t just wait idly by.

Moreover, the place she wanted to explore was right nearby, which was the last building on Lanshan Island that the two were going to search, the five-story Storage Pavilion.

So she went alone, lightly pushed, and reduced the Array of the Storage Pavilion along with its main door to fragments, directly entering the building.

First, she went from bottom to top in a circle. The five stories of the pavilion were respectively a materials level, a Talismans level, an Elixirs level, a Treasure Artifacts level, and on the topmost level, the Cultivation Technique level.

After decades of hiding in Wu Yan’s Dantian and observing the world from Wu Yan’s perspective, the Pearl Spirit had already supplemented her knowledge of cultivation, also gaining a basic understanding of the value of these items.

Though, in her view, it was still a pile of junk, she at least knew which junk was still of use to the current Yunshan Sect.

It’s just that Lanshan Island was indeed a barren place, and the accumulation of the small force consisting of only a few people wasn’t rich. Qiming Spirit Monarch had just recently formed a Nascent Soul and didn’t have much Nascent Soul Level items; he carried them with him and then was swept away by the Five-Colored Divine Light.

What’s stored on this island, besides a few rare items among the materials, other Elixirs, Talismans, Treasure Artifacts were at most Golden Core Level, and there wasn’t even a need to think about Secret Treasures.

In addition, in the Cultivation Technique level, the inheritance Dao Foundation of Lanshan Island was stored, but the value of the Cultivation Technique Secret Manuals needed to be identified slowly, something that the Pearl Spirit wasn’t interested in.

The meager scene made the Pearl Spirit click her tongue, not bothering to look thoroughly. She directly activated the Cloud and Mist Vortex that devours everything, sweeping from top to bottom layer by layer, swallowing everything in the pavilion into the Primordial Pearl, thinking to let Lu Qian look through it slowly later.

Wherever her footmarks passed, the items along with the shelves vanished without a trace, leaving only the empty floorboards of each layer without even a speck of dust left.

Until she went back to the first floor, the Cloud and Mist Vortex activated once more, and the Pearl Spirit exclaimed softly.

In the corner, there was a shelf that remained unmoved, seemingly rooted into the ground.

Knowing something was up, she circled it, but no clue was visible from the outside, and without bothering to find the acupoints, she simply shifted her form, and the Misty Treasure Pearl flickered past!

With a loud crackling sound, the shelf instantly shattered, countless mechanisms thoroughly became scrap, and a pitch-black hole appeared on the ground!

Just then, she finally sensed the Five Elements Grand Array outside the pavilion had been put away, and Lu Qian’s aura reemerged, so the Pearl Spirit hurriedly shouted, "Lu Qian, are you done? Come quickly, I’ve found a hidden pathway!"

Lu Qian flashed in, noting the black hole standing out on the empty floor, and marveled at the Pearl Spirit’s incredible efficiency.

Praising her, Lu Qian lightly stirred his Niwan Palace, extending his Divine Sense in a continuous beam inward.

The deep tunnel extended straight down a hundred zhang, and at its end was a stone chamber, within the stone chamber—

"Let’s go!" Startled, Lu Qian, accompanied by the Pearl Spirit, rushed in, rapidly descending.

This secret pathway was reinforced with stone slabs, and the carved traces were very new, not exceeding twenty or thirty years. Although Lu Qian moved quickly, he carefully sensed with his Divine Sense along the way, and found no traps or arrays, smoothly reaching the stone chamber.

Clear light flickered in front of them, and the Pearl Spirit let out a sound of surprise.

In the center of the stone chamber, there was a piece of solid ice about a zhang in size, and within the ice was a sealed female cultivator!

Lu Qian first circled around, and besides the huge ice block and the girl in the ice, there was nothing in this secret chamber.