Yunmeng Immortal Clan

"Stop your nonsense! I'll kill you, and everything on you will be mine. As for your identity as a disciple of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, it's utterly worthless in this Heavenly Demon Cave!" As soon as he finished speaking, Song Daoxuan moved his divine sense and pierced the man's chest with a sword.

He took the man's storage bag, then burned away all traces, transforming into a streak of light and leaving the place.

Having found a completely secluded spot, Song Daoxuan glanced at the storage bags of these people.

Although the three who died were disciples of a cultivation sect, there were no items in their storage bags that Song Daoxuan would value now, not even a single low-grade spiritual weapon. There were quite a few top-grade magic weapons, but top-grade magic weapons were not particularly valuable to Song Daoxuan at the moment.

As for magic artifacts below the top level, they are practically like scrap metal to his current cultivation level. In Song Daoxuan's eyes, the savings in the storage bags of these three early Foundation Establishment cultivators are hardly a big fat sheep.

Aside from some spirit stones, Song Daoxuan finally managed to find something useful in his storage bag: a detailed map of the Heavenly Demon Cave. This map even recorded the locations of some unique resource points within the Heavenly Demon Cave.

The so-called resource points marked on the map should still be the locations where predecessors obtained resources. Now, if Song Daoxuan goes there according to these marks, he may not be able to obtain the corresponding resources, because there is a 90% chance that these resources have already been looted by cultivators.

One of the resource points on the map is the so-called Star Mine. However, the Star Mine marker on the map was added sometime in the past and is only for reference. Trying to find the so-called Star Mine based on the map is simply wishful thinking.

However, with this map as a reference, Song Daoxuan was no longer wandering around like a lost soul. He could search near the Star Mine, which would greatly increase his chances of obtaining Star Mine.

Song Daoxuan continued his journey towards the star mine gathering point within the Heavenly Demon Cave. Along the way, Song Daoxuan unleashed his divine sense, proceeding cautiously with frequent stops and starts.

The entire Heavenly Demon Cave is practically an extremely dark forest. Whenever there is potential danger, Song Daoxuan will directly and domineeringly take action.

Fortunately, Song Daoxuan did not encounter any other cultivators on his journey after that, except for encountering dozens of Qi Refining stage peak ghosts and several Foundation Establishment stage ghosts.

Just then, a small pool of water appeared a few dozen feet ahead.

Suddenly, a moon-white plant caught Song Daoxuan's attention.

On its moon-white roots, several faint, star-like fruits remained. This herb emitted an extremely gentle light, illuminating the dark Demon Cave.

"It's actually rush pith! This is one of the main ingredients for refining the Chaoyuan Pill. The Chaoyuan Pill is more effective than the previous Zengyuan Pill in improving the Foundation Establishment cultivators. Once the Chaoyuan Pill is successfully refined, it will probably not be a problem for me, Song Daoxuan, to reach the late Foundation Establishment stage and become a great Foundation Establishment cultivator."

Furthermore, the Chaoyuan Pill is a mysterious ancient pill formula, and even behemoths like the five major immortal cultivation sects today probably cannot refine this pill.

Due to the drastic changes in the cultivation world during the ancient times, the cultivation environment has undergone tremendous transformations. The two main ingredients for refining the Chaoyuan Pill, namely, rush pith and black ebony, have long been lost. Only the Moon Spirit Flower, one of the three main ingredients, is still circulating in the current cultivation world.

As for the formula for the Zengyuan Pill, unless Song Daoxuan possessed an ancient book like the Yuanqing Pill Record, or was from a cultivation sect, no one would have access to this type of pill.

Cultivators from immortal cultivation families, as well as some rogue cultivators in the martial arts world who can cultivate to the Foundation Establishment stage, most of them will never have the opportunity to come into contact with such pills in their entire lives. In fact, most of them will spend their entire lives cultivating in arduous ways and will not be able to break through to the late Foundation Establishment stage. Even if some of them are lucky enough to break through to the late Foundation Establishment stage, their lifespan will be almost over.

Song Daoxuan walked towards the rush, and when he had reduced the distance of more than ten feet to just a few feet, he stopped.

With a thought, several offensive talismans flew out of the storage bag and were held in his hand.

As a wisp of spiritual energy flowed into the talismans, Song Daoxuan threw several talismans at them in succession.

The talisman exploded deep within the pool.

Ripples instantly spread across the pool.

Then seven or eight pythons, each several tens of feet long, emerged from the bottom of the pool.

These pythons are second-tier demonic beasts in the cultivation world, the Black Pool Ancient Pythons. They are highly intelligent and their favorite hobby is to hide underwater and ambush people.

Furthermore, these pools are extremely deep, and for some reason, they are able to prevent cultivators from probing them with their divine sense.

The Black Pool Ancient Python leaped down from the bottom of the water. If it rashly crossed the water without first ascertaining the situation, it would be a mistake to retrieve that peak second-tier spiritual plant, the Rush Heart Grass.

Even though Song Daoxuan was at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

If all these second-tier ancient pythons were to attack at once, even if Song Daoxuan did not die, he would be severely injured.

Foundation Establishment cultivators are not easily injured, but once injured, they cannot recover simply by taking some healing pills.

In the cultivation world, the higher a cultivator's cultivation level, the slower their recovery time will be once injured. For high-level cultivators, it is not surprising that it may take decades to recover from an injury.

"Luckily, I used talismans to scout ahead beforehand. Otherwise, if I had rashly rushed in, I would have been attacked and seriously injured by these ancient pythons. I might still have a chance of survival outside with my badly injured body, but in a place like the Heavenly Demon Cave, where there are so many vengeful spirits and enemy cultivators, I would simply be a lamb to the slaughter!"

Song Daoxuan frowned, a chill ran down his spine, and he felt a sense of lingering fear afterward.

These eight second-tier ancient pythons were extremely cunning. They were forced out of the pool by Song Daoxuan's talisman, turned over, and then disappeared back into the water without even emitting a bubble.

As they reached the shore, the eight pythons burst out of the water, opened their gaping maws, and spat out blood-red apricots, as if they were about to tear a piece of flesh from Song Daoxuan.

Song Daoxuan was prepared and waved his hand.

Several top-tier magic swords flew out from the storage bag, repeatedly weaving back and forth towards the ancient python under the control of Song Daoxuan's divine sense.

His other hand was gripping a blue longsword with white lightning crackling around its blade.

The top-tier magic sword had entangled most of the ancient pythons, but some still managed to slip through and launch a sneak attack on Song Daoxuan.

As Song Daoxuan pressed down on the sword, a sword light accompanied by white lightning instantly struck the ancient python, tearing its flesh apart in an instant.