Chapter 288 - Encounter

Liu Zhifei’s words were filled with confidence, causing everyone to be stunned, followed by Zhou Baicheng and Zhang Yueming who revealed a happy expression, while Yan Zhong looked at him with a meaningful look.

The Scarlet Essence Fruit blossomed once in thirty years, and once in thirty years, it would take an entire sixty-year cycle to ripen. The number of fruits each tree and sixty-year cycle bore would not exceed ten, and each fruit contained a strand of essence energy. For cultivators at the fourth stage of the martial arts realm, this waerfect spirit fruit for condensing the essence energy in their body, and breaking through the bottleneck and advancing to the Great Perfection Stage.

If he could use the Scarlet Essence Fruit as a spiritual ingredient and add a variety of spiritual herbs and spiritual fruits, he would be able to refine a Scarlet Essence Pill in the hands of a pill refiner.

Not only did this Scarlet Essence Pill have the effect of preserving the Scarlet Essence Fruit to break through the fourth bottleneck, the effect was even better than simply consuming the Scarlet Essence Fruit. The scope of application had been expanded as well, and it was the best spirit pellet that the Perfection of the cultivator could use to increase their cultivation.

Originally, he was in high spirits like Liu Zhifei, and believed that in the future, he would becomart of the true inheritance of the sect. However, in these few years, his cultivation progress was slow, and gradually, the gap between him and Liu Zhifei was widening, and the identity of a true disciple seemed to be getting further and further away from his own. Even though Liu Zhifei was the leader, the thirst for the identity of a true disciple in his heart was not extinguished.

“Is there really no other way? Perhaps this old man can give iry!”

Hearing Yan Zhong’s words, Yang Junshan thought hard for a moment, but in the end, he still shook his head. He saw the unwillingness of the crowd, and knew that if they did not completely give up on this idea, there would definitely be some hidden grudges in their hearts.

Yang Junshan held the copper mirror and shone it in the direction of the Scarlet Essence Fruit Tree. A streak of scarlet-yellow light flew out from the mirror, and along the way, they passed through the stone forest. The surrounding situation seemed to have slightly changed, though it was still impossible to find where it had changed.

The light became dimmer as they moved forward, and by the time they reached the Red Essence Fruit Tree, it had already completely disappeared. However, in the end, they had finally pushed aside a faint mist that covered the area in front of the fruit tree.

Everyone behind Yang Junshan took in a deep breath of cold air, they could see that a charred corpse was lying on the ground at the rear of the tree. Previously, everyone’s line of sight was concealed by layers of faint mist, but they couldn’t see it clearly.

From the moment the cave was opened until now, other than the clan formation master with a second level martial arts realm at Xiong Xiying’s side, only they, who were not experts of great perfection, had been able to enter the Five Elements Great Array. Yang Junshan did not believe that Xiong Xizhe would be unwise enough to not notice the dangers of this Scarlet Essence Fruit Tree, and only had one possibility: the black corpse on the ground belonged to a Perfection of the cultivator who had used the formation technique to pluck the Scarlet Essence Fruit.

Even Perfection of the cultivator would have to pay the price of their lives to approach this Scarlet Essence Fruit Tree!

Yan Zhong was the oldest amongst them, so he was naturally the most knowledgeable. No one could find anything from this charred corpse, but he opened his mouth: “This is someone from the Sirius Gate, his name is Qin An. Previously, he fought with this old man at the outskirts of the cave abode, so he could be considered a direct disciple of the Sirius Gate.

Seeing that, Yang Junshan brought the rest of the people to leave as well. However, at this time, the Five Elements force had already condensed into a faint fog, revolving around everyone and wearing down the spirit energy in their bodies.

Yang Junshan and Zhang Yueming, the two baleful qi cultivators, were still able to persevere, but Zhou Bicheng, the fourth stage Pure Qi Cultivator, was unable to maintain the leakage of the spirit energy in his body due to the fluctuation in his state of mind when he saw the Scarlet Essence Fruit. Under such helplessness, Yang Junshan unleashed a stream of magnetic light, temporarily preventing the five elements from rushing towards him.

Everyone moved forward, and now even Yang Junshan felt that it was difficult, he would need to stop from time to time to carefully calculate something, and sometimes he would even take out his mirror and shine it towards different directions of the stone forest, making everyone even more cautious.

Although this underground cave was filled with dangers, it had been sealed underground for hundreds of years, and the spirit energy stored inside had led to the creation of countless treasures. Earlier, when Yang Junshan was harvesting the fruits all the way, he did not want to go overboard, as the others all had their own gains too, but compared to the Red Essence Fruit Tree from afar, everyone’s gains were not worth mentioning at all.

Although Yang Junshan brought the rest of the group to be cautious, the more careful he was, the more danger he would face would appear. Right at the moment when Yang Junshan led the group to turn around a stone pillar, he suddenly used five colored clouds of smoke from behind the other stone pillar. Yang Junshan’s face immediately changed as he shouted, “Be careful!”

As soon as his voice fell, a sandstorm swept over, making it hard for everyone to distinguish the situation in front of them. Soon after, another hail fell, the hail contained the power of the Sunflower Water, and after the hail hit, the power of the Sunflower Energy penetrated deep into the skin to wear down the spiritual energy in the body. Not only that, a warm breeze blew by.

When the sandstorm struck, Yang Junshan immediately used his Sand Spell to counter it. Although he was unable to resist the power of the magic formation triggered by the multicolored mist, he could at least protect himself from the sandstorm. The following hail and hot wind was carried out by his tyrannical body.

Everyone else had their own ways of dealing with it, as they were basically able to withstand the power of the array, only Zhang Sunxing and Yan Qinxi were in a sorry state due to their weak cultivation, but with Yan Zhong, the Perfection of the cultivator, taking care of them, the situation was better.

Just as they dodged the multicolored mist, Yang Junshan laughed: “Our luck seems to have come!”

Everyone followed Yang Junshan’s gaze and looked over, only to see a small cave on top of a towering stone pillar. But this time, they were much more cautious, and followed closely behind Yang Junshan, no one dared to rush up again.

But right at this time, Yang Junshan stood there without moving an inch.

Liu Zhifei could tell that something was wrong with Yang Junshan, so he walked up two steps and asked in a low voice: “Little Yang, is there something wrong?”

Hearing this, Yang Junshan let out a “Wu” sound, and laughed bitterly: “There’s a” River “in front of us!”

“River, underground river?” Liu Zhifei looked ahead, from the cave to the place where everyone was standing, other than a few stone pillars, there was nothing else blocking his view, there was no river!

Seeing the doubt on everyone’s faces, Yang Junshan could only shake the mirror in his hand and let the scarlet-yellow light sweep past it. The scene in front of him seemed to be wiped with a cloth, revealing the real scenery behind it. First, the sound of flowing water could be heard, and then a three foot wide stream flowed past the entrance of the cave.

Following the dissipation of the light from the mirror, the situation in front of him slowly began to recover. The stream disappeared withourace, and the sound of flowing water also disappeared. All that was left was a rugged path between the stone pillars that led straight to the bottom of the cave.

Liu Zhifei was startled, although he did not know what use this one meter wide stream could have, but he could not fathom the mystery of the array master, so he asked: “Little Yang, is there anything wrong with this small stream?”

Yang Junshan rubbed his chin and said, “I’m afraid that the majority of the water elemental power in this stone forest originated from this spring!”

“Then can we pass?” Zhou Baicheng was much simpler and more direct.

“I’ll have to give iry after all. However, I’m afraid I’ll have to trouble Senior Yan to help out this time!”

Yan Zhong nodded, “Of course!”

In reality, from the moment they entered the array, other than needing Yan Zhong to break through the barrier, the rest of the time, because of the existence of Yang Junshan, the array master, allowed everyone to avoid many traps that would draw out the array energy. In this way, it was as if Yan Zhong, the Perfection of the cultivator, became useless.

In fact, among the Perfection of the cultivator that had entered the Five Elements Great Array, they could only rely on their own cultivation to withstand any danger. Even if they were lucky enough to survive, under the effects of the five elements, the spirit energy in their body was slowly dissipating.

This also showed the use of an array master. If Yan Zhong could lead these group of people, not to mention whether he could even pass through the barrier of the array, he could even entrust himself to any array traps along the way.

Aesult, although no one had experienced too many dangers along the way, Yang Junshan’s position as an array master had only grown higher and higher in their hearts. No matter whether it was Liu Zhifei or Liu Zhifei, neither of them dared to go against his orders.

Under Yang Junshan’s calculations, Yan Qinxi had completely transformed the Life Spirit Art Taibai Jinxing that she was cultivating inthin layer of golden light, which attracted as much water vapor as possible towards her.

Yang Junshan was ordering Yan Zhong and his group about something, but right at that moment, Yang Junshan’s face suddenly changed, and looked in another direction.

Liu Zhifei noticed something amiss and immediately asked: “What’s wrong?”

Yang Junshan laughed bitterly: “Looks like other people have also noticed this cave!”

Everyone was on guard as they saw the mirror in Yang Junshan’s hand flicker. This time, it was different from the previous times, where Yang Junshan had used his full strength, and the scarlet-yellow light had penetrated all the way through the undetectable fog s in the stone forest. A tunnel unaffected by the formation illusions opened up to a distance of more than three hundred meters, and three cultivators who were similarly standing not far away from the stream appeared.

“It’s Senior Brother Xiong Xiying!”

“The thinner cultivator at the second level of martial arts realm is Xiong Family’s formation master, Xiong Xizhe!”

“Why does the other Perfection of the cultivator look so familiar? Isn’t that the Perfection of the cultivator that came from the Huyao County? Heh, looks like the direct disciples of the Heaven-Shaken Sect and the people of the Opening Spirit School have joined hands! ”