Cultivation towards immortality, starting from being a fisherman
Chapter 587 - 324: Risking Your Life for That Meager Amount of Spirit Stones!_2

Chapter 587: Chapter 324: Risking Your Life for That Meager Amount of Spirit Stones!_2

This is a matter of priority.

There’s no room for error!

Thus, as the Sky Queen hovered in midair, she cast a sidelong glance at the opposition.

A terrifying spatial pressure descended upon these people.

It was but a moment!

The short dagger of the Tribulation Cultivator lost its spirit light and clattered to the ground.

At the same time, under the immense pressure, these few Tribulation Cultivators all knelt down on all fours.

The leader only managed to cry out in the instant before his protective spirit light shattered: "Immortal, please spare our lives!"

With a thought from the Sky Queen, these people were already pushed by a great force, crashing through the doors and flying out of the East Cloud Treasure Building.

At the same time, their storage bags were taken into the hands of the Sky Queen and placed into her special bag.

Though these storage bags contained not only the sought-after Spiritual Medicine seeds but also the near entirety of the Tribulation Cultivators’ wealth and their recent gains,

there was absolutely no chance they would ever get them back.

Sparing their lives

was the result of the Sky Queen’s mercy.

As the Sky Queen’s Divine Sense swept through, valuable items in the treasure building began flying out, drawn towards her spatial domain.

Mu Cangtian, however, entered the underground vault of the East Cloud Treasure Building.

Using the Great Mana of his Divinity Transformation Realm, he forcefully broke open the door.

Mu Cangtian then took his Wood Ruler and struck the void!

Immediately, under the green light, a Grotto Heaven portal emerged.

Mu Cangtian was not surprised, for as a once honored guest, he had visited this secret Grotto Heaven before.

Of course, that was his past self, unrelated to his current Blood God Avatar Number One!

Upon entering the hidden Grotto Heaven of the Dongyun Clan,

even with some prior knowledge, as Mu Cangtian broke through the Illusion Realm,

Su Ping couldn’t help being a bit shocked by its true appearance.

This Grotto Heaven wasn’t very large, roughly the size of ten soccer fields combined.

Its height was over a hundred meters.

The sky overhead was a gray-white fog, within which top-grade Spirit Stones emitted spirit light.

Illuminating the Grotto Heaven while also powering the entire Great Cave Heaven Array.

In the heart of this Grotto Heaven stood a wooden building that served as the center of the Formation.

Around the building was a verdant green tea garden.

Beyond the tea garden lay rows of cage houses, each a hundred meters tall and with dozens of levels.

In each cage house, there was a child not older than seven.

Most of these children came from the Lower Realm; the better their Spirit Root, the longer they lived, but none lived past the age of seven.

The purpose of raising so many children here was, apart from the Guardian Divine Dragon of the Dongyun Clan,

also for the Great Elder Old Ancestor of their Sky Dragon Sect.

Mu Cangtian’s previous visit was to deliver an item related to this purpose.

Their Divinity Transformation Late Period Old Ancestor faced a shrinking lifespan due to certain problems.

But clearly, he was not willing to leave this world with the end of his lifespan.

Thus, he started planning well in advance, intending to turn into a Ghost Cultivator in the future.

These children and the tens of thousands who were already mere bones were all part of the Great Elder’s plan to switch to ghost cultivation.

Because of this, the Dongyun Clan openly practiced Evil Techniques, resulting in other major sects of the Upper Realm turning a blind eye.

Moreover, from Mu Cangtian’s memories, Su Ping realized that within these sects of the Upper Realm, quite a few have similar branches engaged in Evil Techniques, harming the laws of heaven and earth.

Yet, just like the Dongyun Clan, they all abided by the laws of the Upper Realm.

Avoiding children with truly promising Spirit Roots capable of achieving Divinity Transformation or higher.

If found, no matter if their origins lie in the Upper or Lower Realm, such children must not be harmed and instead swiftly sent to be carefully nurtured by the sects behind the scenes as their prodigies!

Not only do such prodigies enhance the sects’ foundation,

but the lordly figures of the Upper Realm also clearly know that external crises are incrementally growing.

The Upper Realm needs to cultivate batches of real geniuses to face the upcoming crises.

This has become a basic consensus among the major sects of the Upper Realm.

At least, up to this point, none of their minions have dared to break it.

Accordingly, as long as someone is not one of these real geniuses, they remain within the scope of what can be overlooked.

As the Divine Sense swept over the children in the Grotto Heaven,

there were currently 7,800 of them.

More than half had Spirit Roots.

Mu Cangtian even discovered two top-grade Spirit Roots and more than thirty mid-grade Spirit Roots among them.

"If these people continue to stay here, their prospects are bleak."

"Whether it’s Evil Spirits or those Tribulation Cultivators, none of it bodes well for the children."

Su Ping made a decision immediately.

Thus, Mu Cangtian produced a scroll of painting.

As the scroll unfolded, it revealed a Taoist temple with green tiles and red walls.

After silently reciting a secret incantation,

the scroll emitted a ring of cyan light, sweeping over the cages,

transporting all the children into the Taoist temple to temporarily settle them.

Following that, with a wave of his hand, Mu Cangtian uprooted all the spiritual tea from the plantation!

Above in the misty sky, the top-grade Spirit Stones, ever a coveted treasure, were also plucked one by one.

This sudden turn of events naturally alarmed the Dongyun Clan.

It’s just that they were so preoccupied with their own crisis that they couldn’t spare anyone.

Only a Clan Elder who stayed behind used a Spiritual Treasure to take a peek.

His eyes widened in disbelief as he recognized it was Mu Cangtian from the Mu Family of the Heaven and Earth Five Elements Sect!

This man, who could roughly be considered one of the geniuses of the Mu Family, had actually... made a move against their Dongyun Clan!

On witnessing this scene, the Elder felt a chill down his spine, even suspecting whether a great sect was using the chaos of the Evil Spirit uprising to seize the opportunity to clear out these smaller houses and clans that were affiliated with other large powers...

After Mu Cangtian had completely looted the concealed Grotto Heaven,

he discovered that the Grotto Heaven, now devoid of top-grade Spirit Stones and affected by the invasion of Evil Qi, was beginning to crumble.

So, he decisively left the Grotto Heaven in a flash.

Then he regrouped with the Sky Queen.

Just then, several groups of Tribulation Cultivators arrived and came to the East Cloud Treasure Building, where they saw Mu Cangtian emerge.

"It’s a Divinity Transformation Great Power!"

"Divinity Transformation?"

The Tribulation Cultivators sensed the aura emanating from Mu Cangtian.

They all changed color and voluntarily stepped back to seek other targets.

Su Ping didn’t have the time to trouble them.

After all, time was limited and once the powerful figures of the Upper Realm mended the World Bubble’s breach,

the opportunities for them to raid the well-established family and sect residences would drastically diminish.

So, having taken what they needed,

Mu Cangtian and the Sky Queen quickly left the scene under the puzzled gaze of other Cultivators and dashed off to another destination.

In this short span of time, they had visited the workshop of the Moon-worshiping Sect, rescuing the person in charge there, and as a token of gratitude, taken away the Spiritual Medicine seeds and Spiritual Objects.

They had also gone to the residence of a famous Array Master, to consult the treasured inheritance that the Array Master had left behind.

Lastly, upon sensing an inexplicable sense of crisis,

Mu Cangtian and the Sky Queen made a split-second decision to use the invitation of the Pot Cave Heaven and went straight back inside the Pot Cave Heaven, disappearing from the Upper Realm in an instant.

"Eh?"

The Great Elder of the Sky Dragon Sect and the high monk of the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple both issued puzzled sounds.

Suddenly, these two Divinity Transformation Late Period Great Powers appeared above the forest.

In a flash of spirit light, the forest and a thousand meters of soil beneath it were turned over!

But even so, the two Great Powers could not find the slightest trace.

It was as if the other party had vanished into thin air?

"Interesting!"

The high monk’s eyes flashed with Golden Light.

Turning to face the white-haired, white-bearded Great Elder on the other side,

the two exchanged Divine Thoughts, understanding the situation in an instant.

Both their well-concealed Grotto Heavens had fallen victim to those two Tribulation Cultivators taking advantage of the confusion!

The high monk had rushed back in haste to capture the pair,

because a Buddha Bead that absorbed the tribute from billions of believers at the Golden Buddha Temple’s branch of the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple had been boldly and brazenly stolen by them amidst the chaos caused by the Evil Spirit!

The high monk had followed the scent of the Buddha Bead to track them down.

He had thought that with the help of the Buddha Artifact and his own cultivation, success was almost certain,

but unexpectedly, the other party had still escaped!

The Great Elder of the Sky Dragon Sect’s face was somber.

After understanding the situation, he gritted his teeth and said,

"I recognize one of them!"

"That’s one of the direct descendants of the Mu Family from the Heaven and Earth Five Elements Sect!"

"Old Man will not let this account be settled just like that!"