Underwater Caves

The ice spear talisman that Gu Fan released was also a mid-grade talisman.

The method for drawing this talisman is written in "An Introduction to the Way of Talismans," and it is considered one of the few mid-grade first-level talismans in the book.

Compared to low-grade talismans, mid-grade talismans are much more difficult to draw, but their power is also significantly greater.

The already precarious shell shattered completely after being struck by the ice spear.

The ice gun broke into several pieces upon hitting the shell, with the tip shattering into fragments that pierced the exposed pink clam meat.

More importantly, once the shell shattered, the king clam lost its ability to move and became a sitting duck, completely at Gu Fan's mercy.

Gu Fan naturally understood Bei Wang's predicament, and with a flick of his wrist, he pulled out another stack of talismans.

One after another, the talismans were thrown out as if they were free, turning into water arrows that shot towards the clam king, tearing the exposed clam meat to shreds, and staining the surrounding area with pale red blood.

Gu Fan was worried about hurting the pearl, so he only aimed at the outer perimeter of the shell. Only when the king of the shells floated down to the seabed did he cautiously approach.

To be on the safe side, Gu Fan applied two more water shield talismans to his body.

Next, he took out a gray dagger from his storage bag and used his magic to repeatedly cut the clam shell until the shimmering silver pearl was revealed.

Once he confirmed that the King of Shells had completely lost the strength to resist, Gu Fan took the Shell Pearl into his palm and felt a warmth upon holding it.

"If this were my past life, I would definitely make Meng Wei call me godfather," Gu Fan thought to himself.

The King of Shells had already been severely injured by Meng Wei, otherwise Gu Fan would not have been able to kill him. More importantly, Meng Wei treated Gu Fan sincerely and was one of his few friends in this life, so Gu Fan did not intend to keep the shell pearl for himself.

Gu Fan planned to return to his sect and find a suitable opportunity to hand Meng Wei over so that he could ask Long Ying for a favor. He figured Meng Wei wouldn't treat him unfairly.

After putting the pearl into his storage bag, Gu Fan turned his attention to the remaining half of the seashell.

Meng Wei only broke the top half of the seashell; the bottom half remained intact.

The lower half of the shell was rounded like a shield, making it an excellent material for crafting defensive magical artifacts. Gu Fan planned to take it back and, after learning the art of artifact crafting, forge it into a protective magical artifact.

Without further ado, Gu Fan simply picked up the small gray sword and peeled off the remaining soft flesh of the King of the Sea.

Unfortunately, the clam meat was of little use and was shattered beyond recognition by the talisman, so they had to give up.

The half-shell was about five feet in diameter. After Gu Fan put it away, his storage bag was almost full.

This made Gu Fan realize that he needed a larger storage bag.

Storage bags are the most common spatial magical artifacts, and almost everyone in the cultivation world has one. However, large ones are not so easy to find, so we can only wait and see.

After disposing of the king clam's remains, Gu Fan returned towards the reef.

They hadn't noticed while chasing the King of the Sea, but now they realized they had swum quite far. Luckily, there were traces of exploding fireballs underwater, otherwise it would have been quite difficult to find their way back.

When the massive reef reappeared in front of him, Gu Fan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Walking down to the bottom of the reef, where the clam king was hiding, we found a sunken pit.

Gu Fan stepped forward and cleared away the coral and seaweed that were in the way, finally understanding why the Clam King had stayed there.

Below the pit was the entrance to a dark, shadowy passage, from which wisps of spiritual energy were rising.

The King of the Sea was attracted by this spiritual energy, presumably hoping to absorb it to heal his injuries quickly.

The entrance to the secret passage was narrow, barely enough for one person to fit inside, so King Bei had to stay outside the passage.

This discovery stirred a surge of excitement within Gu Fan—the presence of spiritual energy meant the trip hadn't been in vain; there truly was an opportunity buried here!

Gu Fan squeezed into the dark passage and walked forward for several dozen steps. Suddenly, the passage widened to the left and right, and a faint light appeared in front of him. Following the direction of the light, he entered a wide-open cavern.

The cavity contained air, and Gu Fan looked around and realized that this place seemed to be an underwater cave.

The walls of the grotto are inlaid with luminous stones, and the light we saw earlier came from these stones.

At the end of the grotto was a stone platform. After Gu Fan climbed onto the platform, he saw a skeleton wearing decayed clothes, leaning against the cave wall.

At the center of the stone platform, wisps of spiritual energy were emanating, revealing that this place was actually an underwater spiritual vein.

Although the spiritual vein is very weak, it is still a spiritual vein after all. Judging from its location, it seems to be a branch of the Cloud Realm Mountains extending into the seabed.

A gray storage bag was placed in front of the skeleton. Gu Fan picked it up and found that the storage bag was not bound to his divine sense.

"That's right. These must have been left to Hou Ying's ancestors, so they weren't bound together."

After probing with his divine sense, Gu Fan was surprised to find that the storage bag contained a huge space, several feet in diameter.

Unexpectedly, the problem that had been bothering him was solved so quickly, and Gu Fan was overjoyed.

The storage bag didn't contain many items. What first attracted him were the three jade slips, followed by a three-pronged flying fork, a small blue shield, a white jade ring, and dozens of low-grade spirit stones.

Both the three-pointed flying fork and the blue light shield are magical artifacts, and their spiritual light far surpasses that of the gray dagger, indicating they are at least mid-grade magical artifacts.

"I've struck gold!" Gu Fan exclaimed in his heart. The value of these two magical artifacts alone far exceeded that of the talismans he had used before.

As for Bai Yuhuan, she looked somewhat familiar to Gu Fan.

"How come this is so similar to Yu Huan's identity as a member of the Lingxiao Sect?"

However, after Gu Fan took out his identity jade ring to compare, he immediately discovered the difference.

Although the two are similar in shape, the jade ring in the gray storage bag has many patterns, with auspicious clouds surrounding the token.

When Gu Fan held the jade ring up to the light, a strange scene unfolded.

In the center of Yuhuan, a fairy mountain supported by a sea of ​​clouds could be faintly seen!

The jade ring itself is also a magical artifact. Gu Fan observed it with his Myriad Manifestations Eye and could see that there was a restriction inside, but there was no reaction when he inputted his magic power.

Gu Fan reluctantly put the jade ring away, guessing that it was not used for magical combat.

As for the remaining three jade slips, Gu Fan briefly examined them and found that two of them contained cultivation techniques, while the other contained a biographical record of the owner of this place. To avoid any unforeseen complications, he planned to examine them more closely after returning to his sect.

Just as he was about to leave, Gu Fan remembered that Bai Gu was Hou Ying's ancestor and that he had taken the opportunity left behind by him. So he turned around and bowed to Bai Gu.

A moment later, Gu Fan emerged from the secret passage.

After moving a piece of coral near the reef to block the entrance to the tunnel, they quickly rose to the surface.

When Gu Fan emerged from the sea, he noticed that the moon had begun to set. After releasing the white jade boat, he determined the direction, carefully avoided the clouds and mist, and headed towards the shore.

After landing, Gu Fan did not immediately return to the sect. Instead, he found a secluded hillside, used his gray sword to carve out a space in the mountain where he could barely survive, and leaned against it.

After a night of treasure hunting and fighting with the King of Shells, he felt drowsy and fell asleep.

It wasn't until his daily practice instincts awakened him that he opened his eyes and saw the first hint of dawn on the horizon. In a moment, the sun would rise and he would gather the purple glow of the morning sun.

Gu Fan simply sat up cross-legged and gazed at the horizon, waiting.

As the sun climbed to its zenith, Gu Fan refined the last wisp of spiritual energy before releasing the white jade boat and heading towards the Lingxiao Sect.