Chapter 491
Chase
The crocodile played by Yan's clone swam across the dark river and easily climbed under the tree. He looked at the fruits emitting blue light above his head, then looked back at the crocodiles in the river. Finally, he made up his mind and quickly climbed up the tree.
Until this point, the crocodiles in the dark river had not reacted at all.
After Yan's clone easily picked all the fruits on the tree, he jumped off the tree, swam back to the other side safely, and crawled quickly towards Long Xuan.
He just picked all the fruits on the tree and did not move the entire Tianling tree.
The world of Tianling Tree is not unique. As long as there is a fruit core, Long Xuan can cultivate a Tianling Tree again.
Moving the entire Tianling Tree would make too much noise, and Long Xuan was afraid that doing so would alarm the crocodiles in the river and cause trouble, so he did not take the risk.
"Alright! Let's go!"
Seeing that Yan's clone had returned successfully, Long Xuan was overjoyed. After greeting Emperor Xin, he walked away cautiously.
Long Xuan had a clear goal. After leaving this area, he went straight to another location that showed infinite progress.
Emperor Xin followed him closely without making any comments on the next route.
When walking into a tomb passage, Long Xuan frowned slightly. He found that after he walked here, his earth escape technique was ineffective here. It must be affected by the formation.
There are too many bugs that can dig in this world. In order to defend against these bugs that can move under the soil, most defensive formations have the ability to solidify the soil to prevent certain digging poisonous insects from rushing in.
Therefore, it was not accidental but inevitable that Long Xuan encountered a situation where he could not use earth escape here.
The second half of the journey was even more dangerous. It was impossible for him to use his earth escape ability to directly reach the coffin.
"You haven't broken the formation here?" Long Xuan asked Emperor Xin who was standing aside.
"I just got here, what do you think?" Emperor Xin rolled his eyes at him.
"If I really have the ability to break all the formations in the tomb, the treasure that guards the tomb would be in my hands now."
"I only broke the barrier protecting this large tomb. I did not touch the various small formations in the tomb, nor did I have the ability to do so."
"Even these formations are completely unknown to me, and I don't know what kind of danger they will bring."
Emperor Xin looked at the tomb passage ahead with a solemn gaze, and said in a very serious manner: "It is certain that there must be great danger in this tomb passage."
"I don't know what kind of danger it is, so let's be careful next time!"
Long Xuan looked at her in surprise. She didn't expect that there was a formation in this world that could stump Emperor Xin. It seemed that the formations here were really beyond the scope of what she had learned.
Long Xuan didn't say much, and subconsciously took out a puppet from the storage ring. After attaching a wisp of soul to it, the puppet walked deeper into the tomb passage under the control of the soul.
He has a large number of puppets at his disposal, so he has no shortage of pathfinders.
However, before it could take a few steps, the puppet was suddenly cut into four halves as if by something, and fell heavily to the ground.
The cut on the puppet was smooth, and the hard metal shell looked like it was cut like tofu. No one knew what kind of attack could be so sharp. Long Xuan never saw what attacked the puppet from beginning to end.
He couldn't help but show a look of horror. You know, the puppet he released had a shell made of alloy, which was harder than Gengjin.
In this world, there are not many people who can break the defense of this puppet.
But now the alloy shell was easily broken by an invisible attack. He could hardly believe his eyes.
Long Xuan couldn't help swallowing his saliva, feeling a little scared. Even an alloy puppet would be easily chopped into pieces if it went in, so what would happen if a person went in?
Fortunately, he did not rush in recklessly. The mysterious attack here could easily kill even the Gu King. If he, a small Gu cultivator in the Linghai period, entered there, he would surely die.
Emperor Xin waved his hand solemnly, and the puppet that was cut into four pieces on the ground flew back immediately as if it was controlled by some force.
She took the puppet and gently touched the neat cut with her hand, her expression becoming more and more solemn.
"This is an attack caused by space cracks. There are countless invisible space cracks in this tomb passage."
"And some of these space cracks are movable, otherwise the puppet would not be cut in half."
"No matter how hard an object is, it will be easily cut by the space crack. No Gu cultivator's defense can block the attack of the space crack."
"As expected of the Cang Yue Emperor's Mausoleum, it can actually use the power of space to guard the tomb."
"There are so many movable space cracks in this tomb passage. It will be difficult for us to pass through here."
"I might as well tell you that there is no ability in this world that can see hidden space cracks, otherwise the Cangyue Imperial Mausoleum would not use such a thing to protect the tomb."
After hearing Emperor Xin's explanation, Long Xuan suddenly realized that since it was an attack from a space crack, it completely explained why his alloy puppet's defense was broken.
No matter how high the alloy puppet's defense is, how can it possibly withstand the advantage of space cracks?
However, although this tomb passage is tricky, what does it mean that Emperor Xin put the puppet into his storage ring?
Seeing Emperor Xin check the broken end of the puppet and then put it into his pocket without paying any attention to anyone, Long Xuan couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.
He wondered if Emperor Xin had already seen through the complexity of the puppet's shell. The alloy technology was ahead of that era, and using alloys to make the array base would definitely raise the upper limit of the array. It was normal for Emperor Xin, a genius array master, to be interested in alloys.
Long Xuan took a deep breath, turned his head, and tried to use the power of the golden finger. Sure enough, he saw the progress in the tomb passage.
Some progress can even move. I guess this is the moving space crack that Emperor Xin mentioned.
Seeing that his golden finger could really see the hidden space cracks, Long Xuan was ecstatic and sighed secretly. Emperor Xin had just said that there was no way to see the hidden space cracks, but he could see them easily. Isn't this a bit too embarrassing?
Long Xuan smiled, took out another puppet from the storage ring, attached a wisp of soul to its body, and controlled the puppet to explore the way ahead.
Long Xuan has always been cautious. Although he has found a way to deal with the dangers here, who can guarantee that there are no other invisible dangers here?
It is better to be cautious. With this mentality in mind, Long Xuan did not enter the tomb passage immediately, but chose to send out another puppet to explore the way ahead.
After seeing Long Xuan's actions, Emperor Xin frowned slightly, but ultimately said nothing more.
However, when she saw the puppet dodging left and right and walking into the depths of the tomb unharmed, her eyes widened and she lost her composure completely.
"How is this possible? You saw the space crack, right? You can actually see the space crack here, how on earth did you do it?" Emperor Xin said in horror.
"Let's go!" Long Xuan didn't explain much. Seeing that the puppet had walked in front of him for a long time without any injuries, he walked forward boldly. Emperor Xin stared at his back in a daze. He didn't have time to think about it and hurried to catch up.
Not long after the two left here, a group of people hurried over. This group of people were none other than the Gu practitioners from the major families who went to the tomb together.
The overall realm of the Gu cultivators from the major families was much higher than that of the Xuanyuan royal family. Therefore, under the attack of the twisted force, most of those who died were Gu cultivators from the Xuanyuan royal family. The loss rate of the Gu cultivators from the major families was much lower than that of the royal family.
Therefore, there are quite a few Gu practitioners going down to the tomb, and there are a lot of powerful Gu Kings.
This group of Gu cultivators happened to take the same route that Emperor Xin had taken. Most of the dangers along the way had been eliminated by Emperor Xin, so this group of people did not encounter any danger along the way, and their strength was preserved very intact.
This group of people were obviously not reckless and did not rush directly into the tomb passage. Instead, they followed Long Xuan's example and also sent out a puppet to explore the way ahead.
When the puppet was suddenly cut into four halves by a mysterious force, everyone was shocked and looked thoughtful.
Finally, there was someone who was knowledgeable. An old man with a serious expression spoke first: "If I am not mistaken, there are invisible space cracks in this tomb passage."
"It's not easy. There is no pupil Gu in the Gu world that can see hidden space cracks."
"There is no solution to this road. There is no way to pass it."
Hearing this, the head of the Lan family frowned, and suddenly an eye stood up between his eyebrows. He looked carefully in the tomb passage for a long time, and after not seeing any space cracks, he finally gave up.
"Since there is no solution, then how did the person in front get through?" he asked with a frown, looking very puzzled.
Their group was following Emperor Xin's route, so they would naturally pass by the Tianling Tree. When they saw that all the Tianling fruits on the tree had been picked, they cursed in their hearts. How could they not judge that there were people ahead?
After hearing this, everyone was silent for a long time. They were also curious about how the person in front of them got through, and they couldn't figure it out.
"Since this road is blocked, shouldn't we bypass this place and go to another area?" After a moment's silence, someone in the crowd suddenly suggested.
The head of the Lan family glanced at the person who spoke, then looked towards the tomb passage and said in a deep voice: "After this boy used that move, he was obviously seriously injured. There is no way he would use such a terrible move a second time."
"Since he has no means to threaten me, now is a good opportunity to kill him. We must not give him time to recover from his injuries."
"I don't care where you go, but since he has chosen this path, then I must take this path. I will decide this boy's fate."
Lan Yan narrowed his eyes slightly, and a fierce murderous intent flashed in his eyes.
An innocent man is guilty of possessing a treasure. The ability to injure the Gu King with the power of the Spirit Sea Stage is simply too incredible, and the destructive power is simply earth-shattering. Faced with such ability, he couldn't help but be tempted and get it at all costs.
If he learns this move, who will he be afraid of? He can even easily kill Xuanyuan Zhi outside. By then, he will be the strongest in the Western Region, and even one of the top ten strongest people in the Gu world.
This forbidden technique was too tempting for him.
At this time, many Gu Kings had the same idea as him and became greedy for this forbidden technique.
Who can resist being tempted by such a super forbidden technique with such incredible destructive power? This is simply the best offensive technique in the world. This is how everyone evaluates this technique.
"Humph! Since he can pass through here easily, we will not be stumped by this road. Even if I have to use a large number of living people to explore the way, I will find the correct route."
Lan Yan suddenly turned his cold eyes towards the group of people behind him, scaring them so much that they trembled all over and subconsciously took two steps back. At this moment, all the Gu cultivators in the Spiritual Sea Stage had a bad premonition in their hearts and their faces turned pale in an instant.
Soon, the crowd began to scream and chaos ensued.
The Linghai stage Gu cultivator who luckily survived under the twisted jade eventually became a pathfinder for a group of Gu kings here.
At this time, Long Xuan didn't know that he had been targeted by a large group of Gu Kings.
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"Mo Jin! There is Mo Jin here!"
Long Xuan stroked the flashing black metal on the stone wall and was ecstatic.
Mo Jin is a special metal that has long been extinct in the Gu world. It has magical effects and powerful healing abilities.
As long as a small cut is made on the ink gold, the cut will heal at an extremely fast speed.
If you add a little ink gold into a spiritual weapon, it will have powerful healing properties.
This magical metal is simply amazing and its value is far higher than Gengjin.
It is precisely because the role of black gold is so huge that it has been over-exploited by humans and gradually became extinct in the long river of history.
Long Xuan was overjoyed. He never expected that he could find a vein of black gold at the burial site of Cangyue Imperial Mausoleum.
Although his exploration revealed that the reserves of this black gold vein were not large, the value of the black gold was enough to make him a fortune. At least he had the high-end building materials for the蓮咕hut.
Emperor Xin's fingers also gently stroked the black gold on the stone wall, with a look of surprise in his eyes, and he smiled and said, "I never thought that there is a black gold vein hidden here."
"Once the black gold is added to the formation base, it will have a powerful self-healing ability. Then such a formation will not be destroyed for countless thousands of years and will be passed down forever."
"Now I finally understand why the tomb protection formation of the Cangyue Emperor's Mausoleum has been maintained until now without any malfunction. It turns out that Emperor Cangyue has a large amount of ink gold in his hands."
"However, the mining of black gold is too difficult. If you want to mine enough black gold, it will take a long time."
"I'm afraid that we will be caught up by the people behind us before we can dig a few pieces." Emperor Xin said with a look of disappointment.
Long Xuan frowned slightly. He was certainly unwilling to give up such a precious black gold vein.
Finally, he patted the insect breeding bag on his waist and released the Heaven-Swallowing World Toad inside.
At this time, he could only let the Heaven-Devouring World Toad directly swallow up the black gold vein.
After it swallows the mineral vein into its stomach, he will slowly mine in its stomach. By then, he will have another floating island and have plenty of time to mine.
But he was not sure whether the Heaven-Swallowing World Toad had the ability to swallow this mineral vein, so he could only give it a try.
This was the only solution he could think of so far. If the Heaven-Swallowing World Toad could not perform any meritorious service, then he would be completely helpless and could only give up this priceless black gold vein. (End of this chapter)