Chapter 552: Chapter 550: Turtle Spirit (A congratulations to the Alliance Master who has a shortage of Heaven)_1
"It seems this is already the second floor of the Vast Sea Palace, isn’t it?"
Fang Xi’s Divine Consciousness reached out, but he couldn’t penetrate even the thin layer of wall of the loft.
Fang Xi had already tested the strength of the Vast Sea Palace and saw no need to try again; instead, he turned his attention to the treasures atop the three jade platforms.
Each of the three jade platforms was enveloped in prohibitive barriers of different glowing lights, and since the opportunity was a one-time deal, forcefully breaking the prohibitions seemed inadvisable.
At this moment, Fang Xi could only test his own discernment.
He looked at the first platform and saw a four-square bronze seal placed on it, the handle fashioned in the form of a bronze serpent.
"It must be a Spiritual Treasure. Towers, mirrors, seals—such forms of Spiritual Treasures often possess extraordinary power... Judging by its spirit light, it may be of medium to high grade..."
Spiritual Treasures, Fang Xi had plenty, and he certainly did not covet more; thus, he turned his gaze elsewhere.
Above the second jade platform was a single jade slip, likely containing some Cultivation Secret Skill.
"There’s not even a summary; how am I to choose?"
Fang Xi was momentarily at a loss for words, and his gaze moved on to the third platform.
Atop this jade platform was a ’Ten Thousand Years of Empty Green Bottle’, clearly containing some kind of Spiritual Pill.
"This is too much... Two choices purely based on guesswork!"
After pondering for a moment, Fang Xi first gave up on the bronze seal, as he truly had no shortage of Spiritual Treasures...
Subsequently, he abandoned the thought of the Cultivation Secret Skills.
After all, the ’Kuyong Skills’ he was practicing were quite good and he had no wish to switch to other cultivations; as for Secret Skills? There were too many in The Nine States to learn...
On the other hand, some special Spiritual Pills were in short supply, for without ancient Spirit Medicine, even The Nine States struggled to cook without rice.
Therefore, Fang Xi reached his hand into the light barrier and grabbed the ’Ten Thousand Years of Empty Green Bottle’.
Pop!
As his hand contacted the prohibition, it seemed as if he had penetrated a layer of flowing water, easily grabbing the Empty Green Bottle out.
Before Fang Xi could examine it, the sensation of the world spinning engulfed him again.
His vision blurred and he then found himself in front of a palace.
The doors of this palace were wide open, and the inside was spacious and empty, seemingly nothing hidden from view.
"Oh? It looks like I might be the quickest one here?"
Fang Xi smiled and didn’t enter right away; instead, he carefully observed his surroundings. "Is this the third floor of the Vast Sea Palace?"
After meditating for a while, array flags and array disks emerged and he deftly embedded them into the walls and the ground around him.
With the casting of his Magic Spells, these array-setting tools vanished in a flash of light.
Once all this was done, Fang Xi had the leisure to examine the ’Ten Thousand Years of Empty Green Bottle’ in his hand.
The bottle was filled, not with a single pill, but brimming with them!
"Hm?"
Fang Xi poured out one pill and saw that it was pure white, emitting a milky fragrance; he quickly compared it in his mind with something else.
Instantly, he remembered the descriptions from the ’Langhuan Pill Book’.
"The ancient Returning Profound Pill, capable of quickly restoring a cultivator’s Magic Power... Rumors suggest that even those in the later stages of the Nascent Soul could recover most of their Magic Power instantly upon swallowing just one..."
After a careful examination, Fang Xi returned the Returning Profound Pill to the bottle. "Pity... it’s not beneficial for breaking through the Transcendent God bottleneck..."
As Transcendent Gods could manipulate Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Power, they seldom dealt with depletion of Magic Power, making such pills unnecessary for them.
These Returning Profound Pills were primarily of interest to cultivators below the rank of Transcendent God.
Just then, Fang Xi seemed to sense something and casually stored the Ten Thousand Years of Empty Green Bottle away.
After a moment, a burst of silvery light appeared, as Fairy Shui held a jade slip as green as emerald, appearing outside the Bronze Hall.
Seeing Fang Xi there, a hint of joy quickly surfaced in the eyes visible above Fairy Shui’s veil. "Lingxin pays her respects to the senior!"
"As long as Fairy Shui is unharmed... that’s good,"
Fang Xi smiled and asked, "I wonder if the trial in the Secret Realm was challenging?"
He didn’t bother to ask about Fairy Shui’s reward as the jade slip in her hand said it all.
’I wonder what Cultivation Secret Skill it is? But seeing her expression, perhaps the gains were not insignificant?’
"Reporting to the senior, I encountered several third-rank Black Taisui; these peculiar monster beasts have inscrutable Divine Skills... Had I not been versed in Psychic Rhinoceros, I might have suffered quite a bit," Fairy Shui replied with a wry smile.
’It seems the test is tailored to the cultivator’s level, and why is it all Black Taisui?’
’And of course, the rewards are based on merit... Killing monsters is meritorious, meritorious... interesting!’
The light in Fang Xi’s eyes danced, and he looked towards the completely empty, vast interior of the Bronze Hall. "Fairy Shui... I have yet to explore the third floor of the Vast Sea Palace myself, how about we do it together?"
"The senior actually trusts someone else!"
Fairy Shui was immediately moved; when she first saw the emptiness inside the Great Hall, she thought that Fang Xi had already swept away all the treasures...
Fang Xi glanced at the ’Fortune Worm’ swimming cheerfully above Fairy Shui’s head and smiled without a word.
The two slowly walked into the Bronze Great Hall.
All of a sudden!
Columns of light lit up!
From the deep darkness, a bronze giant turtle slowly crawled out. This turtle seemed to be a mechanized puppet made of bronze, moving stiffly, yet the pair of turtle eyes were remarkably agile. What astonished Fang Xi even more was that on the back of the bronze turtle there was a pitch-black...Spirit Ganoderma?!
"This Spirit Ganoderma... Lingxin seems to have never seen a similar description."
Shui Lingxin shuddered visibly upon seeing that Spirit Ganoderma.
"Fairy Shui, now you should use your ’Spirit Communication Physique’..."
Fang Xi offered a reminder.
"Indeed..."
Shui Lingxin closed her eyes, and a red mark appeared to split open on her forehead.
The next moment, she opened her eyes with a hint of surprise, "I have successfully communicated with this elder turtle... It’s the Array Spirit that controls the Vast Sea Palace... It’s willing to test me, to refine the Heart of Vast Sea... but now on the second layer, many cultivators are about to be transported to the Vast Sea Palace, and we can’t be disturbed."
"Never mind, as a Taoist Protector, I will safeguard the palace door for you."
Fang Xi said with a sigh.
"Thank you, elder. During the refinement process, ’Void Crystals’ will inevitably be produced. Lingxin doesn’t need any and will gift them all to you."
Shui Lingxin continued to communicate silently for a moment, and then the bronze giant turtle mechanically turned around, emitting a roar as though it came from ancient times.
Roar!
In the void of the Vast Sea Palace, azure chains appeared, entangling a massive sphere of blue light within them.
The azure chains gleamed like crystal, clear and sparkling, and seemed to grow countless ’Phoenix Seal Scripts’ within!
’Impressive maneuver... refining the Void Crystals into chains, making the ’Phoenix Seal Scripts’ seem as if they are growing naturally, a force of creation...’
’Just the form of it...’
Fang Xi glanced at the nearby bronze giant turtle, his eyes deepening.
"The junior will begin now!"
Shui Lingxin looked at the ’Heart of Vast Sea’ with an equally excited expression and took a step forward.
She closed her eyes tightly, and the red mark on her forehead opened, releasing an aura that seemed to communicate with all things in heaven and earth.
Rustle!
The chains trembled and began to slowly melt.
Drops of Void Crystal fell, turning mid-air into a transparent crystal-like ’Void Crystal’, but the Phoenix Seal Script patterns inside completely disappeared.
Fang Xi reached out and directly, without any hesitation, picked up a ’Void Crystal’, his eyes showing satisfaction, "Such pure Void Force should be very beneficial for the expansion of Cave Heaven... The concept and secret skills are also quite clever. It’s not breaking the prohibition by force, but rather attracting the chains to self-destruct with the ’Spirit Communication Physique’..."
He glanced at the bronze giant turtle next to him, and saw it was still motionless, just dumbly watching Shui Lingxin’s actions.
Suddenly!
Shui Lingxin let out a muffled groan, her eyebrows furrowed as if in pain.
Roar!
The bronze giant turtle roared once again, a jade bottle shattered mid-air, and a mist enveloped Shui Lingxin, quickly absorbed by her.
Her aura immediately stabilized, and the ’Heart of Vast Sea’ constrained by countless chains shone brightly!
’Hmm? Ten Thousand Years of Green Marrow Liquid?’
Fang Xi raised his eyebrows. This was a substance of the same level as the Crystal Thought Fruit that nourished the Divine Consciousness, and even more valuable for its gentler effects!
’This old turtle actually made a move directly. Is it afraid that Shui Lingxin will fail? Interesting...’
He was looking forward to seeing what would happen next, but suddenly people had arrived from outside.
Fang Xi snorted coldly, a multicolored light screen transformed into a prohibition, sealing the Bronze Hall door shut and suddenly activated the array he had previously laid out!
Then, with a wave of his sleeve, a puppet at the late-stage Nascent Soul of the Demon Clan appeared, continuously collecting the falling crystals in the void.
After another glance at Shui Lingxin, who seemed to have entered a state of oblivion, Fang Xi transformed into a streak of green light, flying towards the outside of the great hall.
As he approached, the multicolored prohibition automatically revealed a passage just wide enough for one person to go through.
When Fang Xi arrived outside, he saw an early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator dressed in a Taoist robe of white bone, apparently preparing to attack the prohibition with a spiritual treasure.
"Old White Bone Demon?!"
He snorted coldly, his late-stage Nascent Soul magic power surged out, forcing the Old White Bone Demon to take several steps back, his face sported an awkward smile, "It turns out that this place had already been occupied by Sir. This old one will leave, will leave right now..."
"Hehe, Old White Bone Demon, why are you leaving so soon? Even though this man is a great cultivator, we could protect ourselves if we join forces."
At that moment, a sinister voice echoed.
Two auras of mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators approached rapidly, unmistakably it was the Liu Twin Demons!
"Just courting death!"
Fang Xi snorted coldly, as the ’Sky Demon Chant’ moved in response to his will.
The Liu Twin Demons’ expressions abruptly became vacant, their Escape Lights significantly slowed down.
By the time they regained their senses, a Multicolored Lotus had already begun to bloom in mid-air.
A series of Five Elements Spells descended, assaulting their protective Demon Qi into disarray.
Before the Twin Demons could fully react, the ’Five Elements Ring’ suddenly became as large as a house and crashed down fiercely!
The Multicolored Ring fell, and the Liu family’s second son was instantly crushed into a pulp.
Not far off in the void, a flash revealed the panicked Nascent Soul of the Liu family’s second son, but a small gray-white tower appeared right after, a gray-white light falling and completely trapping the Nascent Soul.