Lord of Time: From a Five Elements Cultivator to a Master of All Daos

Chapter 194: The Cave at the Bottom of the Mountain, the Abyss in the Cave

"Fellow Daoist Shao, you are joking. The power of destiny is such a mysterious thing that a Nascent Soul cultivator like me cannot master.

"My Fortune Temple only knows some methods to deduce good fortune, it's not some magical method."

Kong Wu looked embarrassed after hearing what Shao Jie said, and then explained.

"The power of luck?"

Wei Zhong was slightly stunned.

"Could it be that this is what Da Jin felt just now?"

Kong Wu's words were obviously an attempt to cover up something, so Wei Zhong simply filtered out his explanation.

The remaining Yuanyings also had different expressions, and they were obviously more wary of Kong Wu.

The means of using luck can be considered extremely mysterious at the Nascent Soul level. The other party's concealment made everyone feel uneasy.

"This is because they are afraid of the evil coming from them."

Wei Zhong understood everyone's thoughts, and looked up at the two brothers from Fuyun Temple who were extremely embarrassed. They seemed to want to explain something more.

But seeing the expressions of the crowd, he couldn't help but sigh, knowing that no matter how much he explained, it would be useless.

"Oh, then can Fellow Daoist Kong Wu deduce whether there is an opportunity under this mountain?"

The two brothers looked at each other and replied:
"I'll try."

Then the two of them walked to the foot of the mountain, held the rosary in their hands at the same time, clasped their palms together, and gently placed them on their chests.

He closed his eyes slightly and uttered some obscure chanting sounds.

This action caused the great gold in the cave to roll continuously, as if the actions of the two were connected to an even greater force of luck.

But this movement only lasted for two breaths and then suddenly stopped.

The two returned after finishing their work and nodded to everyone:

"Fellow Daoist Shao Jie is right. There really is a great opportunity here."

Seeing that the two of them came up with such an answer after playing tricks, Miaoli Shan couldn't help but sneer:
"Mysterious."

The two men glared at each other, but Miao Lishan glared back at them. Seeing this, Shao Jie quickly tried to smooth things over.

“My three fellow Taoists, please do not argue. This mountain is located in the center of Lingshan Mountain and is also the center of the sky’s light. It is indeed an extraordinary opportunity.

"We just need to work together to dig here, and we will see the result soon."

"Dig, dig a hole?"

Wei Zhong thrust the magic sword into the ground. However, this fourth-level magic sword could only penetrate half an inch.

'How long will it take to dig this out? My Nascent Soul cultivation can only last for half an hour at most. Even if I use the [Time Dao Method] continuously, it won't last long.'

On the other side, Shao Jie had already instructed everyone on where and in what direction to start digging at the bottom of the mountain, and Wei Zhong was also assigned to a team.

Accompanying them were two monks from Fuyun Temple and Shao Jie.

Everyone used their own methods to dig the rocks. The two people from Fuyun Temple took out a pair of golden spikes. When the golden spikes were smashed down, cracks suddenly appeared on the glazed rocks. Then they used magic swords to cut them into pieces and easily dug out a distance of one foot.

Shao Jie's method was very strange. He threw a ball of fire between the rocks, and the spiritual fire corroded the rocks just like it had corroded Wei Zhong's sword.

The speed is not slower than that of the two monks.

Wei Zhong's movements were a bit slower, he stroked the long sword gently, and the golden Gengjin sword energy attached to the sword. Although cutting the rocks was a bit easier than before, it still required a lot of effort to cut a little bit at a time, which was far less rapid than the large-scale methods of the two.

Shao Jie frowned:
"Fellow Daoist Wansen, why don't you help fellow Daoists Kong Wu and Kong Ming to clean up the stubborn debris?"

Wei Zhong hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded.

Sure enough, this excavation is not something that can be completed in a short time.
An hour passed quickly, and Wei Zhong's cultivation had shown signs of slowly dissipating.

[Consume fifty years of lifespan and perform the Dao of Time once. ]

There was a slight movement in his heart, his lifespan dissipated, and his cultivation was replenished again.

"Fellow Daoist Wansen, why did you suddenly stop moving?"

Kong Wu looked at Wei Zhong who suddenly stopped, puzzled.

Wei Zhong raised his head:

“There seems to be a sound.”

Several people stopped what they were doing, and then they heard the sound of dripping water not far away. Inside this mountain, not only was everyone's consciousness compressed, but even the perception range of the five senses was blocked by the rocks.

"Yes, we are in the right direction."

Shao Jie crushed a talisman, and Miaoli Shan and others who received the news rushed over immediately.

Seeing Wei Zhong putting his ear against the rock, he pointed at everyone:
"There should be an underground cave in this direction."

Hearing this, everyone became excited and started digging towards that place using their own methods.

In just a hundred breaths, the rock was finally opened up.

Inside is an enclosed space with dim light.

When everyone went deeper into it, they immediately felt the abundant spiritual energy around them.

"Fourth-level spiritual vein?"

It turns out that Pingyao Prefecture is not without a fourth-level spiritual vein, but is hidden deep under the Shuangwu Lingshan Mountain?

"Pity."

It was too difficult to establish a sect here. Every few hundred years, sunlight would shine down and destroy everything. A Yuanying sect would need to rebuild many times. Or, the important parts of the sect could be moved to the bottom of the mountain, but digging caves was not easy.

It took everyone so much time to dig out such a passage. It is pure fantasy to want to dig out a space large enough for the Nascent Soul Sect to survive.

Looking around, I didn't find many unique spiritual creatures.

"I wonder where the opportunity that Fellow Daoist Shao mentioned is?"

“Don’t worry, Fellow Daoist Puyang. Since there is a fourth-level spiritual vein here, are you still worried about not having an opportunity?

"The cave is quite big, why don't we look around?"

The spiritual consciousness here is also sluggish, even stronger than in the outside world. With Wei Zhong's Nascent Soul spiritual consciousness at this time, it can only extend less than ten feet.

"Then what do we find? It all depends on our ability."

"Very good!"

……

Everyone agreed and then dispersed.

Only Wei Zhong and Miaoli Shan remained where they were.

"Fellow Daoist Wansen, why don't you take the time to go somewhere else?"

There was a hint of embarrassment on Wei Zhong's old face:
"Isn't this guy targeting me?"

Shaking his head, Wei Zhong walked to a small pond not far away. Only a few people had explored this place, but they didn't find any secrets.

Miaoli Shan saw that the old Taoist walked to the vicinity of the pond, pointed his sword, lifted up a stone slab, and rich spiritual energy instantly emerged from it.

"Really?"

Wei Zhong looked at the jade-colored droplets below and nodded slowly.

This is not Yinxiao Jade Dew, but Xuanling Jade Liquid, a raw material that Wei Zhong once used to make elixirs.

In the Wanshou Mountains, Wei Zhong once collected this third-level spiritual object.

But the one in front of him was the fourth level.

If you count them carefully, there are a total of twenty-six drops.

He picked them up, placed them in two jade bottles respectively, and threw one of them to Miaoli Shan.

"Whoever sees it gets a share. This belongs to Brother Miao." The latter took six drops of the jade liquid and was greatly surprised for a moment.

"This Wansen is a very easy-going person. He took the initiative to divide up the spiritual objects without me even saying anything."

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Wansen!"

"Friend Miao, you should go and have a look somewhere else immediately, otherwise all the spiritual objects in this cave will be looted by others."

After saying this, Wei Zhong bowed slightly, took a step, used his escape technique, and disappeared on the spot.

Miaoli Shan's eyes flickered, and he chose a direction to escape.

Although Wei Zhong advised in this way, this cave not only blocked the spiritual consciousness, but also had many built-in caves. The paths inside were rugged, making it very difficult to search.

After finding a cave that no one had entered, Wei Zhong saw the spiritual herbs not far away.

"It has abundant spiritual energy, so it is undoubtedly a fourth-level creature. However, due to its special growth environment, its species is unknown."

The rocks underneath the spiritual herbs rose up and were then transplanted into the cave.

Continue along the passage below. There are many forks in the road inside the cave. Some of the forks are passages connecting to other caves, while some are dead ends.

Wei Zhong spent a lot of effort in the cave, but only found two similar spiritual herbs, and did not see any trace of Yinxiao Yulu.

I was very discouraged for a moment.

"Could it be that all the Silver Sky Jade Dew has been gathered in one place?"

As I was walking back and forth in the cave, I suddenly heard a voice. It turned out to be a fellow traveler who had entered the cave together.

"I've met fellow Taoist!"

The other party was none other than the female cultivator from Beiyuan.

He was naturally wary of Wei Zhong, and kept a safe distance from him, asking:
"Fellow Daoist, have you ever found the Silver Sky Jade Dew?"

Wei Zhong shook his head slowly:

"Never!"

"Strange, where is this Silver Sky Jade Dew hidden?"

When the two were puzzled, they suddenly heard the sound of fighting. Following the sound, they saw that the two monks Kong Wu and Kong Ming were fighting with two bare-chested monks.

"This is a cultivator from the Northern Plains Tianshan Cang Ying lineage."

'After entering Lingshan, I haven't seen them. It turns out they came here. However, it took the six of us to get in here. How did these two get in?
'Following behind the six of us, or is there another way?'

"stop!"

A loud shout was heard from the cave, and Shao Jie flew out, with flames in his hands spreading, forcing the four people away.

When other people heard the noise, they also came here one after another.

Seeing this scene, he looked surprised and suspicious.

"How did these two people get in?"

Everyone raised questions, forming a standoff with the two.

Wei Zhong noticed that the female cultivator from Beiyuan was staring at the two people from Tianshan Goshawk with an extremely ugly look on her face.

"This fellow Taoist seems to know something about the inside story?"

The latter turned around and glanced at Wei Zhong who spoke.

He turned to look at the two people in front of him and said:
“Indeed, there was a rumor in my Beiyuan that the Tianshan Goshawk lineage had found a secret passage inside Shuangwuling Mountain.

"I, Linhai Ice Palace, wanted to pay a small price to explore with them. But they firmly denied the truth of the rumor and said they knew nothing about the passage. They rejected my proposal.

"Now it seems that he was deceiving me. Didn't he come here through the secret passage? It's a pity that the secret of the cave was discovered by Daoist Shao Jie. We dug through the mountain to get here and bumped into him.

"Right? Fellow Daoist Helian?"

The Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator among the two said upon hearing this:
"Fellow Daoist Zhu, you have misunderstood. I am not sure about the passage, so I rejected your offer.

“This is the first time for the two of us to come here through this passage, with the purpose of verification.

"Otherwise, fellow Daoist, do you think there are still so many spiritual medicines left in this cave for you?"

Zhu Xueling snorted, showing disdain for this answer.

Wei Zhong knew that what the two said was at least half right. It was probably true that the two had come here for the first time.

"Since we have been brought together by chance, why not cooperate with each other? Why would we have to have a conflict?

"What do fellow Taoists think?"

Shao Jie turned around to seek the opinions of Wei Zhong and others.

Before they could express their opinions, they suddenly heard two monks from Fuyun Temple say:

"Rather than letting these two people share the spiritual objects with us, why not kill them here? Wouldn't it be better to share the profits with fewer people?"

"These two monks are very violent."

Wei Zhong was slandering in his heart.

It was obviously the conflict just now that made the two of them quite unhappy with the Beiyuan cultivator of the Tianshan Goshawk.

The two of them looked at each other:
"Just go ahead. I think you don't want the Silver Sky Jade Dew anymore."

Shao Jie frowned when he heard this:

"Do you two Daoists know some secrets? I can guarantee that the two brothers from Fuyun Temple will not attack them. Can you two tell me this secret?"

The two snorted coldly:
"Fellow Daoist Shao's suggestion is good, but we will take 40% of that opportunity."

"No, there are nine of us. If you two take 40% of the money, it's simply wishful thinking."

Before Shao Jie could answer, Zhu Xueling shouted angrily.

"You two are asking for too much. Since the seven of us have been able to find this place, it won't be difficult to find the hidden place with a little more time."

After hearing what Shao Jie said, the two looked hesitant, as if they felt that his words made some sense.

"That's 30%. It can't be any lower."

Shao Jie looked back at everyone and saw them nodding slowly, so he turned around and answered:
"make a deal!"

Upon seeing this, the two men took out a piece of animal skin paper. Everyone looked at it and saw that it was a crude map drawn with blood and ink.

"This is a map left behind by our tribe. It is made of the leather of a fourth-level monster and is roughly a product of thousands of years ago."

Compared to conventional means of storing information such as jade slips, items drawn with the blood and ink of high-level monster leather can indeed be preserved longer.

Wei Zhong looked at it intently. The map was drawn rather roughly, and the markings were extremely simple. It was even more difficult to find a place in the cave to compare it with.

"Is this blood-ink the pool we entered here?"

Miaoli Shan pointed to a place on the map and said.

Everyone looked again and indeed saw some traces of the extension of the cave near the blood ink.

"What Fellow Daoist Miao said is correct. It is indeed so."

Shao Jie's finger continued to move along the map and finally pointed to a core cave. This was the most clearly marked location on the map, a real underground treasure.

"go!"

The nine people followed the instructions on the map, bypassed one cave after another, and finally arrived at an extremely wide cave.

The scene before them left everyone speechless with shock.

The cave is surrounded by broken rocks, with no rock support from below. Only two or three irregular and winding stone bridges lead to the center of the cave.

Other places were empty. Looking down, it was pitch black, as if there was an endless abyss under everyone's feet.

(End of this chapter)