Immortals of the End Times

Chapter 21: The Sacred Relic Small Bowl, Abundant Yin Energy
In a fleeting moment of spiritual travel, amidst the dark night, the caltrop sword pellet, as small as a mustard seed, traversed the heavens and earth, blending seamlessly into the darkness, inconspicuous at all.

In this degenerate age, even in the imperial palace where masters are as numerous as clouds, at least in the outskirts, there is not a trace of spiritual energy or cultivators. No one discovered that Zhao Wuji had broken into Jingqing Palace.

The extraordinary techniques bestowed by such magic are far more ingenious than martial arts lightness skills.

Xu, the Protector of the Supreme Sect, once broke into the palace but was chased like a stray dog. He was nothing like Zhao Wuji, a celestial being.

"The first level of Qi Refining is also considered cultivation."

Zhao Wuji sighed inwardly, but was also extremely vigilant. His spiritual senses in his divine soul state were more than ten times stronger than those in his physical body, allowing him to keenly observe changes in the aura from all directions and take precautions in advance.

Soon, he rode the Tribulus Sword Pellet to Jingqing Palace.

The Cold Palace is only a little over 300 zhang away from the Imperial Pharmacy as the crow flies, which is not far.

Zhao Wuji's soul is now much stronger than before. He rode the sword pellet for more than 300 zhang without feeling any discomfort.

Before long, he flew to Yunyu Pond in the eastern corner of Jingqing Palace, following his memory.

But the pond had long been abandoned, the stone railings around it were cracked, the water was murky and covered with green algae, and a chilling wind was blowing.

As soon as Zhao Wuji approached the pool, he could already sense the unusual movement of the Yin Pearl in his sea of ​​consciousness and detect the Yin energy present in the pool.

"No wonder Consort Yi was tainted by the Yin energy after falling into the Cloud Jade Pool. However, this Cold Palace has been abandoned for many years, and most people would just consider it an ordinary damp and gloomy place... If it weren't for the Yin Pearl's sensitivity to Yin energy, it would be difficult to detect."

"But when did Supervisor Liu get infected? Could it be that the old man is secretly having an affair with a concubine in the Cold Palace? How did he manage to avoid the Grand Eunuch?"

Zhao Wuji was puzzled and pondered for a moment before dipping the sword pellet into the pool, creating slight ripples.

Immediately, I felt an extremely strong aura of yin and evil.

He absorbed some energy through the Yin Pearl connected to his soul, and in just a short while, the Yin energy increased by more than ten strands.

Zhao Wuji's spirits lifted, but he paused the absorption of the Yin Pearl and began to carefully observe the bottom of the pool by driving the sword pellet.

Before long, he found the Chiwen water-suppressing beasts placed at the bottom of the pool around him.

A strong aura of yin energy gathered in the beast's mouth.

But then they saw that each of the beasts had a round bead inside its mouth.

This made Zhao Wuji, who always wanted to handle anything small, almost want to pry off the bead and handle it properly.

He held back for a moment, and soon discovered a jade tablet on the central stone brick at the bottom of the pool.

"A magical artifact?"

The jade tablet faintly emanated a very weak spiritual energy fluctuation, and was engraved with many characters that looked like ghostly scribbles, making Zhao Wuji's eyes dazzled.

But he quickly recognized that these were ancient Zhou Dynasty bronze inscriptions, with a hint of sacrificial flavor.

On the stone brick below the jade plaque, there is clearly the seal of the Imperial Observatory.

"These jade tablets and the water-suppressing beasts at the four corners were left behind by the Imperial Observatory? It seems they are somewhat related to the Yin energy that Supervisor Liu was tainted with."

However, to this day, Zhao Wuji has still not discovered where the Supreme Sect's sacred artifacts are located.

Although the pool was filled with malevolent energy, it was also decorated with magical artifacts, jade tablets, and water-suppressing beasts, resembling an altar and as if it were suppressing something.

This made Zhao Wuji hesitant to absorb large amounts of Yin energy.

He continued searching at the bottom of the pool.

During this time, they quietly absorbed the Yin energy in various corners, like a dragonfly skimming the water, preparing to quickly retreat at the slightest sign of trouble.

Before long, it had absorbed more than twenty strands of yin energy.

Meanwhile, among the aquatic plants near the edge of Yunyu Pond, Zhao Wuji finally discovered yet another unusual object.

A small bowl, resembling jade, was hidden among the water plants, its surface displaying strange patterns that repelled the surrounding malevolent energy.

Everything else at the bottom of the pool has a specific location.

Only this bowl, crookedly placed among the water plants, was clearly not originally in the pond.

"The sacred artifact of the Supreme Cult? Could this be it?"

As Zhao Wuji brought the sword pellet closer to the small bowl, he immediately felt a strange force field, which even subtly shook the spiritual energy wrapped around the sword pellet.

He tentatively touched the small bowl with the sword pellet, and seeing nothing unusual, his spiritual senses also detected no danger.

He immediately used the sword pellet to lift the small bowl, sending it flying out of the Cloud Jade Pool and back towards the Imperial Pharmacy. The journey was calm and peaceful.

The most powerful eunuch in Jingqing Palace was always within Zhao Wuji's exceptionally strong spiritual senses.

The opponent, a master of human transformation, was completely unaware of the small bowl flying through the darkness of the night.

Although there were many other patrolling eunuchs and imperial guards, Zhao Wuji was able to avoid them all in advance.

Before the spiritual energy infused into the sword pellet was completely depleted, Zhao Wuji successfully brought the small bowl to the Imperial Pharmacy.

"Uu——"

Zhao Wuji's soul returned to his physical body, and he exhaled.

He reached out and took the small, cool-to-the-touch bowl, examining it closely with a strange expression.

The small bowl is covered with cloud patterns on the outside, but inside there are many tiny characters written in tiny characters, making it look very mysterious.

Zhao Wuji examined the bowl closely and vaguely felt that the characters inside resembled Qin seal script.

He had studied Han Dynasty clerical script because of his interpretation of the Jin Yudan (a type of ancient Chinese cinnabar script), and he could also distinguish some of the similar Qin Dynasty seal script.

"The Xuanqiong decree commands that the Great Void shall be the furnace."

When Kan and Li interact, the dragon and tiger lie hidden.

"Absorb the three lights to refine the form, absorb the six energies to transform essence, and attain the supreme method."

"The three lights refer to the light of the sun, moon, and stars, while the six qi refer to the qi of nature."

Zhao Wuji's expression shifted slightly as he noticed a third set of tadpole-like characters glowing inside the Yin Pearl.

The incantation in this bowl seems to be some kind of cultivation method.

"This item undoubtedly belongs to the Supreme Sect's sacred artifact. It can even activate the Yin Pearl's new Earthly Fiend Technique. I'll study it further when I get back."

Currently inside the palace, Zhao Wuji has no intention of using his spiritual energy to activate the bowl, in order to prevent any accidents.

However, it seems that this sacred artifact cannot solve the problem of spiritual energy shortage at present.

He planned to use the sword pellet again to return to the Cloud Jade Pool and slowly absorb the Yin energy within.

In just a short while, it had absorbed thirty-four strands of yin energy, reaping a huge harvest.

The Yin energy within Yunyu Pool was clearly more than that, which greatly surprised Zhao Wuji.

"Perhaps this pool can accelerate my progress in accumulating the first Yin Pearl, or even help me find the Yin Marrow."
However, the pool contains ritual implements from the Imperial Observatory, so caution is advised when absorbing negative energy.

Zhao Wuji did not use his own spiritual power this time.

He manipulated the Yin energy within the Yin Pearl to drive the sword pellet, allowing it to travel to the netherworld.

For the next half hour or so, he used the sword pellet to perform the Netherworld Connection Technique, slowly absorbing Yin energy at the bottom of the Cloud Jade Pool and converting it into Yin energy.

More than half an hour later, the yin energy inside the yin pearl had risen to 1530 strands.

Excluding the 9 strands of Yin energy consumed during this period, he has already gained a total of 302 strands of Yin energy.

At this point, the entire Yunyu Pond seemed to have undergone a subtle change.

Apart from the yin energy accumulated in the mouth of the four-cornered water-suppressing beast, the yin energy in the pool water has become much thinner.

"about there."

Seeing that he had gained the upper hand, Zhao Wuji prepared to use the sword pellet to leave.

One should eat one bite at a time, and even a mountain of gold should not be dug up in a day.

After observing for a period of time and finding no abnormalities, he will come back to collect yin energy again.

He observed the jade tablet in the center of the pool for a moment, coveting the faint spiritual energy emanating from it, but more so wary and unwilling to approach it easily.

Just as he was about to send the sword pellet away, his powerful spiritual senses suddenly detected a familiar and powerful aura flashing past from the northeast corner of Jingqing Palace.

"Huh? It's her?"

Zhao Wuji's mind was stirred, and he immediately recognized the powerful aura that had infiltrated Jingqing Palace as that of the woman from the Supreme Sect whom he had sensed twice before, who was suspected to be a candidate for Holy Maiden of the Supreme Sect.

The other party actually tracked down to Jingqing Palace as well, it seems... they also learned the information from Protector Xu at some point.
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