Chapter 228 (1/2)
Chapter 228 - Finding A Good Location20 Dec 2017
QingQiong Mountain was located on a gigantic island, but there weren't many green hills or clear waters there. Neither were there many types of trees also. It was very difficult to believe that this place surprisingly held a heavenly grade cave.
Yang Chen landed his Flying Shuttle, and everyone stepped on the island looking at each other in dismay. Although watching the majestic ocean surging with great waves every day had broadened their horizons, stepping on the land again after one whole month was much more delightful. However, their excitement soon turned to confusion.
”Here? There are demon beasts here?”
She Kui didn't believe that there could be demon beasts here. He even flew around the whole island once and asked Yang Chen with surprise.
Although there were a few high peaks on the island, there were only few coconut trees growing near the ocean. He even couldn't find any source of water present there. As far as he could see, the entire place was filled with mountain rocks.
Let alone demon beasts, any living organism would only be seen after great difficulty. That is if you don't consider the coconut trees growing near the ocean as living organisms.
”I believe you should not always trust books mindlessly!”
Gao Yue had rarely seen Yang Chen getting conned. Feeling happy, she a.s.sumed the att.i.tude of an earnest master and guided Yang Chen.
However, her face looked so beautiful that even if she was talking to a board, then it also would have made Yang Chen feel envious. When he saw Gao Yue, he became dazed while suddenly looking at her beautiful appearance and unable to say anything.
”Junior apprentice brother!”
Gongsun Ling helplessly called him, trying to wake him from that kind of infatuated state. She couldn't help but feel somewhat bitter.
Almost anyone could see that Yang Chen's heart was on his master, but no one said anything. Moreover, Gao Yue had made her resolve that since she is Yang Chen's master, she would always think about him from a master's standpoint.
”Could the demon beasts be in the ocean?”
She Kui standing at the coast, gazed at the ocean wrinkling his brows. There were countless demon beasts swimming in the ocean. Everyone knew this fact. But he and Xie Sha were earth attributed demon beasts. Although among the five phases earth subdued water, but going into the ocean wasn't too convenient for them.
”If everyone knew about the treasures here, then wouldn't the people have already taken it away?”
Yang Chen didn't say anything towards his master, but he said this to She Kui and Xie Sha:
”Do you want to make a bet?”
”What kind of bet?”
She Kui and Xie Sha weren't afraid of making any bets with Yang Chen. In fact, neither of them cared much about the outcome. Cultivators and demon beasts' reasoning on different matters is sometimes greatly different.
”Bet all the earnings you get inside.”
Yang Chen joked, but then he sensed it was not proper and supplemented:
”Half of your earnings, I mean.”
”Ok!”
She Kui and Xie Sha were completely unaffected. In any case, any treasure obtained would be because Yang Chen gave them the chance, so giving half their harvests to Yang Chen wasn't impossible.
When Gao Yue and Gongsun Ling saw Yang Chen being cheeky in front of two YuanYing stage experts, they also didn't try to stop him. They knew that She Kui and Xie Sha didn't care much about such things.
”Follow me then!”
Yang Chen immediately took the lead and flew on his flying sword towards the highest peak among all the other mountains. The others also weren't willing to fall behind and followed him.
All the peaks a.s.sembled on this island formed the QingQiong Mountain. The sect which initially resided on the QingQiong Mountain had fallen ten thousand years ago, so the fact that no one knew about it was completely normal.
After flying along the surrounding of the peak once, Yang Chen confirmed the position and drove his flying sword to reach halfway to the mountain, continuing to hover there.
Everyone was at loss while looking at Yang Chen's action, but no one said anything and calmly waited.
Everyone could clearly see a series of flickering formation symbols radiating from Yang Chen's hands, flas.h.i.+ng and dying out without entering that almost vertical precipice. Different symbols contained different spirit power and spell formations and flickered continuously.
When Yang Chen stopped, everyone looked at the precipice opposite to them as if they had woken from a dream. Above the rock half hanging in the air, a transparent and barely visible door appeared. Even though they were cultivators, they could barely make out the door even at such close distance.
”You all go in first, after I go in, the door will close and vanish which could only be opened from inside.”
Yang Chen instructed them:
”After going inside, remain cautious and don't run around everywhere for the time being, everyone stay together at the same place.”
The sudden appearance of the door caused everyone to become cautious. When Yang Chen earnestly warned them, all of them understood that it was dangerous inside. Immediately, everyone prepared their defensive magic weapons and flying swords first, only then nodded to Yang Chen implying that they were ready to go in.
She Kui and Xie Sha lead the way, they were YuanYing stage experts, so if they encountered something dangerous, they will be able to resist it for sometime. They were followed by Gao Yue, who had unleashed her fire attributed spirit power restoring her cultivation base back to JieDan stage. The last one was Gongsun Ling followed by Yang Chen.
The door seemed to have a criss crossed spell formation on it. After entering, there found a long twisted tunnel. Everyone followed Yang Chen's instructions and didn't run around carelessly, only checked their surroundings.
In terms of spiritual awareness, Yang Chen could be said to be the most formidable one among them. Furthermore, after releasing the spiritual awareness threads, the extent of his probe was even larger than She Kui and Xie Sha. Only after carefully investigating once, Yang Chen felt at ease.
A small fire was lighted using a very small fire attributed spell formation. This fire only had the size of torch and could sustain on a low grade spirit stone for a long time. This was refined by Gongsun Ling herself for use at the Immortal Falling Well, now was the perfect chance to use it again.
Everyone felt much more comfortable after the flame was ignited. Yang Chen indicated that there isn't any danger here but everyone still remained on their guard and slowly moved forward in the tunnel. Especially She Kui and Xie Sha who were holding their snake tooth dagger and scorpion tail thorn respectively and moved forward as if they were facing a huge enemy.
The tunnel was very clean without the slightest speck of dust even after so many years. Seemingly it was because of the spell formation for eliminating dust. This seemed the most plausible explanation since even the spell formation for special entrance had lasted so many years, then what to speak of a minor spell. This region was supposed to be rich in spirit power so this was normal.
However speaking of spirit power being abundant, Yang Chen was somewhat confused, this tunnel seemed to be completely ordinary without the slightest sensation that it was rich in spirit power, this matter made him extremely suspicious.
This ancient tunnel was completely composed of bricks which were engraved with some symbols unknown to everyone. Surprisingly, usage of spiritual awareness was also cut off within the tunnel, so moving in this ten thousand years old, even if it was Yang Chen, he also had to be cautious.