Chapter 200 Ancient Relics
The meeting hall.
A group of Yuanying ancestors were discussing the newly discovered secret realm of the cave.
It was not until the arrival of the headmaster that the hall returned to silence.
After everyone was seated, Wang Daoxuan got straight to the point and said, "I called you all here today because of an urgent matter. A new secret cave was discovered somewhere in southern Xinjiang. It is speculated that it should be an undiscovered cave of an ancient sect..."
After the headmaster confirmed this, the hall became noisy again.
“It’s actually true!”
"If the location is in the southern border, I'm afraid the demon tribe and the Great Zhou Dynasty will both participate in the competition."
"We must send someone over as soon as possible, otherwise it will be too late."
The unexplored caves of the ancient sects are considered to be the most popular type of secret caves among the major sects.
Many of the sealed ancient elixirs and magic weapons in the cave can be used directly without refining. Some ancient lost alchemy and refining techniques also have the opportunity to see the light of day again.
According to the rules of the world of immortal cultivation, whichever sect has the sphere of influence of this kind of secret cave, that sect will have priority in mining rights.
If there are other entrances to the secret realm of the cave, then the major forces at the entrance will also be eligible to obtain the resources therein.
This time, a new secret cave appeared in southern Xinjiang.
That was originally the territory of the demon clan, but in the world of immortal cultivation, the demon clan has always been the weakest. Many demon clans who have practiced for hundreds of years will eventually become other people's demon pills. No major force will care about their ideas. It can be predicted that all will compete for that new secret cave realm.
In this case, whoever enters the secret realm first will gain the upper hand.
Kunlun’s top management obviously realizes this.
Without wasting any time, Wang Daoxuan made arrangements immediately.
“Brother Taiyi, Brother Dongming, Brother Shouyuan, Sister Xuanzhen, the four of you will lead ten Nascent Souls, fifty Golden Cores, one hundred Foundation Establishment, and two hundred Qi Refining disciples to the southern border immediately to explore this secret realm…”
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Soon, Li Yu returned to Yuxuan Peak.
Nangong Chan had just put down the conch in her hand. She seemed to have received some news. She glanced at Li Yu and asked, "Is it about Southern Xinjiang?"
Li Yu nodded. It seemed that the Xuanyin Sect also knew about it.
As one of the three giants of the demonic world, the Xuanyin Sect's intelligence is no worse than Kunlun's.
Soon, various spirit boats, flying ships and other flying magic weapons gathered outside the Kunlun Cave Heaven.
For this operation, four of Kunlun's nine late Nascent Soul masters were dispatched, as well as ten in the early and middle Nascent Soul stages and fifty in the Golden Core stage, which is almost a quarter of Kunlun's entire backbone force.
And these only represent the sect's power on the surface.
The rest of the Jindan elders and Yuanying ancestors can also go there on their own. No matter they are sent by the sect or they go there on their own, all the gains in the secret realm of the cave will belong to them.
However, in order to turn it into a resource that helps with cultivation, it has to go through a sect, and the sect will deduct some materials accordingly in the process.
Just in case, in addition to the Jindan and Yuanying masters, Kunlun also sent out a number of disciples in the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining stages.
No one knows the bearing capacity of the new secret cave. If the space is too weak, people who are too strong will not be able to enter and will have to rely on these low-level disciples.
In the past, if there was such an opportunity, Kunlun's Qi-refining and foundation-building disciples who were confident in their own abilities would generally participate enthusiastically.
Exploring secret places may be dangerous, but the rewards are also huge.
In order to have the opportunity to form a pill, many disciples choose to take risks.
But this time, those ordinary disciples who were at the peak of Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment were not very interested in exploring the secret realm.
With the Sun and Moon Sect around, they have great hope of forming a pill in the future, and there is no need to take any more risks. Every time a new secret cave realm appears, countless cultivators die in it.
An hour later, outside Kunlun Cave Heaven, on a huge spirit boat.
Li Yu's spirit boat was destroyed by the elders of the Demon Flame Sect last time. Although he bought a new one later, its speed could definitely not be compared with the sect's. This time when they went to Southern Xinjiang, all the people from Kunlun took the same spirit boat.
Senior Sister Qin and the demon girl stood on his left and right.
The demon woman took a ride on Kunlun and went to southern Xinjiang to meet up with the people from the Xuanyin Sect.
Senior Sister Qin also unexpectedly took the initiative to go there.
Li Yu did not let Jiang Li and Zhou Zixuan go together, even though they all had five spirit veins and Jiang Li had almost the strength of a seventh golden elixir after taking the water-attributed Nine-Turn Demon Pill. However, exploring the secret realm was not a trial in an illusion, and the dangers there were uncontrollable. The Thousand Poison Cave was an example, so there was no need for them to take the risk.
Not many of the sect’s young geniuses went there.
Most of those Jindan elders are also very old.
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Southern Xinjiang.
The mountains are rolling and undulating, with giant trees tens or even hundreds of feet high blocking out the sun. The dense treetops are intertwined to form a huge green canopy. Beneath the calm, undercurrents are rising and falling.
The entire southern border is sparsely populated.
The reason why this place is sparsely populated is because it is the territory of the demon clan.
The human and demon races have had a long-standing grudge against each other. Both the righteous and the evil have a great demand for demon pills. Strong men from all factions often enter southern Xinjiang to massacre the demons, which has led to the demons' extreme hatred towards humans.
Whenever human cultivators encounter the demon tribe in southern Xinjiang, a fierce fight will break out.
The demons rarely set foot outside Southern Xinjiang, and also listed Southern Xinjiang as a forbidden area for humans.
Today, a number of spiritual boats flying low over the country broke the tranquility of southern Xinjiang.
It has been who knows how many years since any new secret caves and heavens appeared in the big world. The entire world of immortal cultivation, both the righteous and the evil, has been plagued by the problem of scarce resources.
It was not easy to discover a new secret cave, and no one cared about the so-called ban on the demon clan.
A spiritual boat with the mark of an alchemy furnace on it slowly landed on a mountain in southern Xinjiang.
Li Yu stood on the spirit boat and saw the void several miles ahead, which was fluctuating like water, giving people an unreal feeling.
This shows that the space there is unstable. Generally speaking, such a situation will only occur at the entrance connecting the cave secret realm and the big world. Judging from the area of the entrance, the scale of this cave secret realm will not be too small.
The Kunlun Spirit Boat was still several miles away from the entrance, but the ground beneath their feet had already become a scorched earth. It was obvious that a great battle had just taken place here. The ground was covered with traces of blackening. Many tall trees, probably affected by some powerful force, all fell in one direction. In a huge pit under Li Yu's feet, even the rocks showed signs of melting.
Countless figures gathered around this place, and powerful auras rose into the sky, without any concealment.
The most eye-catching among them are undoubtedly the people from Tiandao Sect.
They are closest to the entrance and have the largest number of people. Although Li Yu did not observe any God Transformation cultivators, there are more than a dozen in the late Nascent Soul stage alone, and hundreds in the early and middle stages.
There are about two hundred Jindan stage people standing behind them, and none of them is weaker than Jindan ninth level.
There were quite a few people coming from Kunlun this time, but their overall strength was less than one-tenth of that of the Tiandao Sect.
A little further away, some other figures are also very eye-catching.
Although they have human form, if you look closely, you will find that some of them have long tails and some have pointed ears. They are obviously transformed demons.
There are also quite a few of these monster clans, and they are not much inferior to the Tiandao Sect, but their overall strength is inferior. There are only more than twenty monster clans in the Nascent Soul stage, and the strength of the Golden Core stage monster clans is also uneven.
Among the righteous sects, only Kunlun has come so far. Apart from him, there is another strong force present.
They have more Nascent Soul experts than Kunlun, more than thirty in total, and quite a few in the Golden Core stage, more than a hundred. However, Li Yu is unfamiliar with each of them.
The Demonic Path and Southern Xinjiang are located in the south and the north respectively, so it is impossible for them to move faster than Kunlun. These people can only come from the Central Dynasty.
The strength of the Central Dynasty is actually stronger than Kunlun, but they do not belong to Taoism. The strong men of the Central Dynasty rarely set foot in the Taoist area, and the Taoist disciples don’t know much about them.
Before Kunlun arrived, the three major forces, the Tiandao Sect, the Demon Clan, and the Central Dynasty, were clearly in a stalemate.
Judging from the scene, a big battle broke out between them.
Kunlun's arrival immediately attracted the attention of the three forces.
The expressions on the faces of the many powerful demon clan members became increasingly ugly.
A new secret cave realm appeared deep in southern Xinjiang. The demon clan should have priority in mining rights, but apparently none of these forces took the demon clan seriously.
Several people in the late Nascent Soul stage of the Tiandao Sect also frowned slightly.
This secret cave has never been mined, and the resources within must be extremely rich. It would be best if we could completely take it for ourselves.
Before the entrance was completely opened, if it were only the demon clan and the people from the Central Dynasty, they could still deal with it.
But if Kunlun and other sects were added , the situation would be out of their control.
Not long after, a few black dots appeared on the horizon again. They were the spiritual boats of Emei Mountain. Within the next few hours, several sects of the righteous path arrived one after another. As for the evil sects, they arrived here one day later because they were too far away.
Regardless of whether they were sects of the righteous path or the evil path, after a brief period of observation, they all stood together with Kunlun, forming the fourth force here, and also the largest one.
After this force was split, even the most powerful Kunlun was nothing compared to the Tiandao Sect, the demon clan and the Central Dynasty.
But when the forces of good and evil are combined together, they are more powerful than the other three forces combined.
The two worlds have not yet completely connected, and the various forces have not interfered with each other and are all waiting quietly in place.
I don’t know how long it had been, but just as the atmosphere here became more and more tense, a special space fluctuation suddenly came from the void.
"The entrance is stable!"
The people from Tiandao Sect were closest to the entrance and were the first to react.
Countless figures flew towards the entrance.
The secret realm of the cave can only accommodate a limited number of people. If you enter too late, you may be stopped outside.
Countless figures rushed towards the entrance, but different results appeared.
Although most people successfully entered, many people were still stopped outside.
Those who did not enter the secret realm were all, without exception, in the Nascent Soul stage.
In other words, what was newly discovered this time was a third-tier secret cave realm that could only be entered by people below the Nascent Soul stage.
As a result, the Nascent Soul powerhouses from various sects can only wait outside.
Those disciples in the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages were also unable to enter.
It’s not that their bodies cannot enter, but it’s difficult to get out once they’re in. Those powerful Jindan stage masters can kill them countless times with ease.
"Walk!"
After the people from Tiandao Sect entered, the demon clan and the Jindan stage people from the Great Zhou Dynasty also rushed to the entrance.
The Nascent Soul masters of the Tiandao Sect wanted to stop them, but when they saw obvious fluctuations of mana in the bodies of the Nascent Soul masters of the two major forces, they had no choice but to let them in.
With the strength of the disciples of Tiandao Sect, they should not suffer any loss in that secret realm.
This new secret cave realm can only be entered by those below the Nascent Soul stage. This is certainly a good thing for Li Yu. Although he cannot be said to be invincible below the Nascent Soul stage, if he wants to leave, no one can stop him.
Kunlun arranged fifty Jindan elders this time, but more than seventy actually came. Among them, there were almost no geniuses of the younger generation. Most of them were elders over four hundred years old who came to fight for the hope of forming a baby.
After discovering that only those at the Jindan stage could enter this place, the Nascent Soul masters of all the major sects immediately sent messages to the sects and asked them to send more people at the Jindan stage.
The Tiandao Sect, the demon clan, and the Central Dynasty have already had more than four hundred people who have entered the Jindan stage. No one knows when it will reach saturation. The Jindan stages of both the righteous and evil sects are also rushing to enter.
After some instructions from Grandmaster Xuan Zhen, Li Yu and Senior Sister Qin, the demon girl, entered the secret realm together. After a period of dizziness, they appeared in an unfamiliar space.
There was a vast expanse of white in front of his eyes, his consciousness was suppressed, and he could hardly see beyond ten feet.
This feeling reminded Li Yu of the scene in the Thousand Poison Cave.
The difference is that in the Thousand Poison Cave, what blocked the view was poisonous smoke and miasma, while in this space, the whiteness was atomized spiritual energy...
How rich does the spiritual energy have to be before it can be directly atomized?
Being in this secret cave, every pore of Li Yu seemed to relax and absorb the surrounding spiritual energy crazily.
Li Yu looked around. He had clearly come in with Senior Sister Qin and the demon girl, but there was no one around him. It seemed that the space at the entrance was very messy, and those who entered were teleported randomly.
With the strength of Senior Sister Qin and the demon girl, Li Yu doesn't have to worry about them.
He contacted the witch with his soul and learned that she was teleported to the edge of a lake. According to the witch, the lake water in front of her was completely formed by liquefied spiritual energy.
Knowing that the witch was fine, Li Yu felt relieved.
The next moment, Li Yu looked around and his expression changed slightly.
He seemed to be standing on a mountain peak. Just within a radius of three meters under his feet, there were five magical herbs growing. Li Yu didn't recognize three of them. They should be ancient medicinal herbs that had long been extinct in the world of immortal cultivation.
These spiritual herbs are all very old, and one of them even shows signs of withering.
Li Yu just touched it lightly, and the elixir turned into powder and fell to the ground.
There was already a thick layer of similar powder on the ground.
Obviously, this secret realm has existed for an unknown period of time, and the elixirs in it have gone through the cycle of growth and withering countless times.
Li Yu collected several other spiritual medicines through the air and put them into the storage space. Although Li Yu did not recognize some of them, as long as they were spiritual medicines, they would be useful. If he could find the ancient elixir recipe, with the ability of the Qiankun Furnace, it would be very likely that he could copy the ancient elixir.
Speaking of the Qiankun Furnace, Li Yu looked down at his chest.
Although his vision could not see beyond ten feet, the Qiankun Furnace could sense the presence of the elixir, so he just had to follow its sensation.
However, there are magical herbs everywhere here, so there is no need for this kind of induction.
In a short while, Li Yu picked dozens of spiritual herbs and medicines on this peak. Just as he passed through the misty spiritual energy somewhere, he raised his head and was slightly stunned.
In the fog, several palace-like buildings are looming.
An idea immediately emerged in Li Yu's mind that this place was not a natural secret cave, but an ancient relic!
