Austin secretly took all his companions out of the spiritual capital and hid in the woods nearby.
He looked around to observe the terrain of the spiritual capital for a while before examining the space under the city with his spiritual sense.
After mastering the Earth Formula and the sect skill of the red demonic mouse, he often travelled underground.
On top of that, Austin now had a deeper understanding of the laws of the nature as his cultivation base was much higher than before. Thus, he had become an expert in travelling underground.
It only took him a little while to discover the location of the vessel of the spiritual crystal.
"We will travel underground from here!" Austin announced.
With a wave of his hand, he transferred all his people into the Slave Tower, before he dove into the ground.
Whoosh!
Austin turned into a beam of red light, dashing toward the area below the center of the spiritual capital.
Soon enough, he reached his destination.
But once he got there, he was stumped.
Much to Austin's surprise, there was no sign of any vessel, though the area was abound in Earth Energy.
Upon seeing this, he was slightly disappointed. He teleported Lange out of the Slave Tower using his mind.
"Didn't you say that there was a huge vessel of spiritual crystal under each spiritual capital?
Why isn't anything here, then?" Austin asked him.
"It's strange! It should be here!"
Lange searched everywhere nearby and found nothing. He was baffled.
"Master, I didn't lie to you!
There must be a huge vessel of spiritual crystal under each spiritual capital. This is an open secret in our race.
But I don't get it! How come there's nothing here? This is weird..."
Lange muttered in frustration.
"So something is amiss with this place," Austin murmured, taking Lange at his word.
Since he had controlled Lange using the Puppet Strings, he was certain that he was loyal and telling the truth. Lange wouldn't be able to lie to him.
Austin began to search the area under the spiritual capital with his powerful spiritual sense.
Aside from Lange, he also teleported out a large number of spirits and ordered them to help him look for
t of Austin's spiritual slaves were ordinary cultivators, after all.
They were not strong enough to survive the spiritual dragon's attacks.
"It has such horrifying spiritual soul energy," Austin remarked in awe.
Hit by the dragon's overwhelming power, he was beset by a bout of crippling dizziness and his ears were struck by a sharp pain.
But he soon recovered from these momentary afflictions. Not wasting another second, he hurriedly transported his remaining slaves back into the Slave Tower.
He summoned the Eye of the Ghostdom Ancestor again. It appeared between his eyebrows and opened.
The eye emitted thick beams of black light that formed into a huge black net floating in front of him.
This was one of the secret skills of the Tomber race that he had learned from Darby lately.
At the same time, Austin transferred Darby out of the Slave Tower. The latter, too, opened his Eye of the Ghostdom Ancestor, which emitted black lights that shone on the spiritual dragon.
The spiritual dragon lunged at Austin with a frightening momentum.
It released a tremendous spiritual soul energy that shook the entire area under the spiritual capital.
As a result, the inhabitants of the spiritual capital were finally alerted to what was going on beneath them.
One of them ran toward the governor quickly.
"Sir, bad news! Someone has broken into the underground and is upsetting the spiritual dragon!"
the spirit reported in a panic.