Sovereign to Immortality

Chapter 270 – Confidence

“Are you saying that there might be some kind of large-scale spell beneath the ground of the Sunset Ridge, concealing the existence of spirit material mines below? That’s why he failed to find anything after a month’s exploration?”

Yang Junshan’s expression was very strange, Lin Chengsi could not see through his own unfathomable thoughts, whether the young man who was not even twenty years old believed him or not, he could only bite the bullet and say: “That’s right, formations, large-scale restrictions, rune formations, great abilities, spirit artifacts, even seals of higher quality treasures, are able to cover up the spirit materials and mines that exist underground.”

Seeing that Yang Junshan was listening attentively, Lin Chengsi continued: “According to my guess, it must have been at that time when the cave was born, that triggered a huge restriction on the underground. This allowed this old man to instantly capture traces of the spirit materials mine, and as the ground stopped moving, the restrictions underground were restored, and the traces of the spirit materials mine disappeared once more.”

Yang Junshan nodded his head: “What Senior Lin said is very reasonable, but what I do not understand is, since there iestriction on the ground, how can Heaven-Shaken Sect’s people be sure that there is a spirit material mine below?”

Lin Chengsi laughed bitterly: “If this old man’s Spirit Searching Technique reached the level of a second grade Spiritual Seeker, I would be able to discover the spirit material vein concealed by the restrictions, but even a second grade Spiritual Seeker would find it extremely difficult to discover spirit material vein concealed by the large restrictions.”

“So that’s how it is!”

Leaving Xishan Village, when Yang Junshan came to Sha Tian Village, it seemed to be even more lively than before. Furthermore, cultivators that came and went could often see wounded and injured, and the pill rooms, equipment rooms, talisman hall, etc. that were set up here by Heaven-Shaken Sect were also flourishing. The entire Sha Tian Village looked likuge marketplace.

Yang Junshan did not immediately go to the third team to look for the cave of the Sunset Ridge. Instead, he went to the artifact room to look for the busy Ouyang Xulin.

When the two of them met, they were shocked to find that Yang Junshan’s cultivation had increased, and Ouyang Xulin was unavoidably shocked again. After the small talk was over, Ouyang Xulin said: “Are you here to get your life tool back?”

Yang Junshan laughed: “Of course, but other than that, I have a few other things that I wish to ask you for confirmation.”

“It’s about the cave of the Sunset Ridge, right?” Ouyang Xulin seemed to have expected this and laughed.

“I can’t hide anything from you. During this period of time, when I was cultivating in seclusion in the Xishan Village, I have kept all news about outside a secret!”

Ouyang Xulin laughed: “Of course there is no problem, but before I tell you what I know, you have to clear my doubts!”

Yang Junshan was startled, and replied sternly: “This humble one knows what to say, what to say!”

With that, he saw Ouyang Xulin turning around and taking down a long wooden box from the shelves behind him. Opening it, there were twelve foot long arrows, and the arrows had been carved out of bones.

Ouyang Xulin pushed the square wooden box in front of Yang Junshan, and said: “These twelve arrows were made using the bone weapons that you brought along Senior Brother Liu Zhifei to make them, and using a few bone weapons of ferocious beasts and dire beasts isn’t without precedent, it’s just like the Snake-Necked Bow that you used to make your bones, but the bones that you used to make these bone arrows were completely blind and you never knew what kind of dire beasts’ bones you used to make them. Furthermore, those bone weapons at that time seemed to have some sort of secret, but unfortunately, I don’t know how to use them.

Yang Junshan’s expression turned slightly startled. He laughed bitterly and muttered: “I do know some techniques to stimulate the special powers contained within these bone weapons, but I’m not too sure about the origins of these bone weapons. I only know that they came from a strange race of the ‘barbarian race’, and these bone weapons are their weapons.

“The barbarians?” A strange expression appeared on Ouyang Xulin’s face as he said, “Brother Yang, I am ignorant and ill-informed. I didn’t know that the barbarians exist in the cultivation world.”

Yang Junshan laughed bitterly, “Brother Ouyang, I only know about the barbarian race. I think you also know about the situation of the barbarian race from fellow brother Liu Zhifei and the others.

Ouyang Xulin seemed to have understood the hidden meaning in Yang Junshan’s words, he laughed and did not pursue the question. Instead, he turned around and walked in front of a wall of the artifact room, extended a finger and pressed on the wall a few times, and a secret drawer automatically extended out from within the wall.

In that instant, Yang Junshan felhrobbing sensation coming from his blood vessels, and the Wutu Earth Spiritual Energy within his body immediately started to resonate with the object inside the drawer. Yang Junshan’s spirit was shaken, his expression revealed a hint of excitement as he stared fixedly at the drawer from which the Wutu Essence was emitted.

Ouyang Xulin seemed to know Yang Junshan’s feelings already, he did not personally take out the item from the drawer, and instead indicated to him from afar to take it out.

Yang Junshan slightly nodded his head, he knew that Ouyang Xulin was showing him that the quality of his spirit tools had not been affected after his spirit tools had been upgraded. This was the display of a refiner’s confidence in his own refining skills.

Following Yang Junshan’s telepathic thoughts, the spirit energy in his body started to dissipate without end, and from the hidden drawer on the other side, the pent-up earth spirit energy that was being emitted got denser and denser.

‘s physical force and spirit energy were disappearing more and more, and the earth elemental energy was becoming denser and denser inside the drawer, yet the Mountain Monarch Seal was not activated by him.

Instead of being surprised, Yang Junshan was happy. After his Intrinsic Item was upgraded from low to mid rank, although it was still connected to the cultivator’s own life, it still needed to be nurtured once more. The Inherent Spirit of the cultivator was empty, if he wanted to use his Inherent Spirit, he would need to replenish his own spirit energy to its fullest, thus the amount of spirit energy Yang Junshan used for this period of time, would instead mean that the quality of his Inherent Spirit Tool would be higher after levelled up.

After the time it took for an incense stick to burn, Yang Junshan had already used up close to a quarter of the spirit energy in his body. Yang Junshan’s expression became happy, and the pent-up earth spirit energy that was originally emitted from the drawer suddenly returned.

It had to be known that Yang Junshan’s cultivation had already reached the third level of the martial arts realm, and a quarter of the spirit energy in his body now, compared to his second level cultivation, had to reach at least half the level to be able to fully nourish the middle grade Mountain Monarch Seal. It could be seen from this that the quality of the Mountain Monarch Seal had already reached the pinnacle of middle grade spirit artifacts.

After that, it slowly condensed into and swept across in all directions. Even Ouyang Xulin who was at the side had no choice but to quickly dodge.

After approximately the time it took to make a cup of tea, Yang Junshan had already familiarized himself with it once again. He ordered the spirit light belt around the perfectly round Mountain Monarch Seal to suddenly retract, and the entire artifact once again returned to its original plain and unadorned look, as if it was an ordinary sculpture.

Yang Junshan waved his hand towards the lifeblood tool, and the Mountain Monarch Seal suddenly shrunk to about an inch square and disappeared from his hands.

“Brother Ouyang, sorry for the trouble!”

Yang Junshan praised in satisfaction: “Brother Ouyang’s refining technique has a new breakthrough, congratulations!”

If it was anyone else, who would have the guts to hand over the dozens of low and middle tier spirit materials that they have painstakingly gathered to an ordinary refiner who has never refined a middle tier spirit weapon before? ”

Yang Junshan laughed and said, “Brother Ouyang, you are not ordinary!”

Then, as if he made a slip of the tongue, Yang Junshan immediately changed the topic and said, “No need to say that, if I were to raise my life tool tigh grade in the future, I would need Brother Ouyang’s help!”

Ouyang Xulin was happy: “Doesn’t that mean from now on, I will have to prepare to refine the High quality magical equipment?”

The two of them looked at each other and laughed, but Ouyang Xulin still warned them: “However, Brother Yang, if you really want me to help you level up your Mountain Monarch Seal in the future, I’m afraid that you will have to personally makrip to the County City!”

Seeing the doubt on Yang Junshan’s face, Ouyang Xulin explained: “Brother Yang, please do not misunderstand, it’s only because the High quality magical equipmenre not trivial, and during the refining process, they require extremely high quality crafting furnaces as well as tools that can only be used with the approval of the sect. As a result, those High quality magical equipment that come from the Heaven-Shaken Sect s must have come out from the clan’s encampment!”

This made Yang Junshan think of the High quality magical equipment in his father’s hands. Back then, he had also accepted Fourth Uncle’s favor and went to the county city two times before he succeeded in refining it.

Yang Junshan laughed: “This one has always been yearning for the prosperity of the Yu Cheng, next time I can use this opportunity to raise my tools to achieve what I want!”

After obtaining the specially made Bone Feather Arrow and the Middle Ranked Artifact, coupled with the fact that his cultivation had levelled up to the third level of martial arts realm, Yang Junshan’s confidence in his own strength had naturally risen by leaps and bounds. He knew that his strength was no weaker than the cultivators at the fourth level of martial arts realm, and immediately asked Ouyang Xulin about the matter of the Sunset Ridge’s cave.

At this time, Ouyang Xulin’s expression became serious, and said in a deep voice: “I won’t hide it from Brother Yang, it has already been three days since the birth of the Sunset Ridge’s cave, and it is said that from the start, the people who found out about the cave were a group of Tan Xi Sect’s cultivators. These people obviously wanted to take all the treasures in the cave by themselves, and even laid an immovable mountain array at the entrance of the cave to stop the cultivators of our sect.”

“The cultivators of our sect who first discovered the cave dwelling suffered big losses, but this is Mengyu County’s territory after all, and as the number of cultivators of our sect increase, this group of cultivators gradually became unbearable, but just as the array formation was about to be broken, and the cultivators of Sirius Gate and Opening Spirit School were about to rush over, the cultivators of the various sects started a chaotic battle, with each party suffering from death or injury.”

“For the past three days, the chaotic battle surrounding the cave entrance has made all the early stage martial arts realm cultivators cower in fear. However, as we delve deeper and deeper into the cave abode, it became more and more difficult to explore, causing the formation restrictions within to become different. The number of cultivators who entered the cave and died from triggering the formation traps and restrictions has even exceeded the number of people who died due to mutual fire.”