Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor
Chapter 1149: Underground Palace

Chapter 1149: Chapter 1149: Underground Palace

In a loud shout, Fang Bai extended his right hand towards Zhuge Lian, grabbing and pulling with an invisible yet powerful force that forcefully brought Zhuge Lian from the corner back to Fang Bai’s side.

"Brother Fang, what’s wrong? You startled me with your abrupt actions!"

After steadying herself, Zhuge Lian looked at Fang Bai with a puzzled expression.

Fang Bai walked to the table in the stone hut, picked up a discarded Essence Stone that had once been used for illumination, and casually threw it towards the clean stone brick in the corner.

Clang!

The palm-sized Essence Stone hit the clean brick, emitting a crisp sound.

Just as Zhuge Lian and the others looked on in confusion, not understanding the purpose of Fang Bai’s actions, a dazzling burst of light suddenly exploded from within that brick.

That light was a killing intent equal to the full strike of a Martial Artist at Vast Level Perfection.

Whoosh!

The killing intent, incomparably fierce, shot upwards, emitting a sharp, piercing noise, like cutting tofu, leaving a mark half a foot deep in the roof of the stone hut.

Apart from Fang Bai, the other six in the hut all gasped in shock.

Zhuge Lian’s eyes widened in alarm, her pretty face turning pale, displaying a frightened look.

It was understood that the material used to build this stone hut was almost as hard as steel. The fact that half a foot deep was sliced into the roof spoke volumes of the destructive power of that killing intent.

Although Zhuge Lian was a Martial Artist at Desolate Level Perfection with an Innate Spiritual Root and her combat ability surpassed those of her level, she absolutely could not withstand the full blow of a Martial Artist at Vast Level Perfection.

Therefore, had Fang Bai not acted in time just now, Zhuge Lian might have already triggered that stone brick, thereby releasing the killing intent inside it, and she could have very well died suddenly and unexpectedly.

"This brick, though it appears to be stone on the surface, actually houses an Essence Stone inside, embedded with killing intent by a powerful being as a trap. Clearly, the purpose was to ensure no one would touch it, or if they did, they would not escape death,"

Fang Bai spoke while Zhuge Lian and the others watched. He slowly walked to the brick, crouched down, examined it for a moment, and then said, "Perhaps this extraordinary brick is indeed the key to activating some mechanism... Let me try!"

With that, his right palm swiftly struck the stone brick.

The surface of the brick appeared intact, but the multiple strands of fierce killing intent contained within the Essence Stone were dissipated into nothingness by Fang Bai in an instant.

Now possessing combat power comparable to a high rank Cosmic Level Martial Artist, dissolving the killing intents infused by a Martial Artist at Vast Level Perfection into the Essence Stone was effortlessly easy for Fang Bai.

"Could it be that this brick only contains a single strand of killing intent?"

Seeing Fang Bai slap the brick with his palm, and the brick showing no reaction, Zhuge Lian was greatly puzzled, but her hanging heart was finally put to rest.

Naturally, Zhuge Lian did not know that Fang Bai had wiped away the killing intents inside the brick, as each of them could have been lethal.

Fang Bai’s palm pressed firmly against the brick, then he slowly exerted pressure downward.

Crack, crack, crack...

After a harsh grinding of rocks echoed, a two-meter-square hole suddenly appeared in another corner of the stone house. Looking down from the hole and using the natural light from outside, one could see a staircase, its destination unknown.

"Indeed, there is an underground palace!"

Zhuge Lian and the others gathered around the hole, their faces flushed with excitement and thrill, thinking that this underground palace was so cunningly hidden, it might just be the main storage site Dragon Tiger Palace used for Martial Arts Techniques and Cultivation Resources.

A school of the third rank that had been around for ten thousand years would undoubtedly have a considerable amount of Cultivation Resources. If obtained, it would surely be a massive fortune, even bringing a slight smile to Fang Bai’s lips.

"Let’s go, let’s all head down and take a look!"

Fang Bai said and was the first to jump into the hole, walking down the staircase; Zhuge Lian and the Linghu sisters followed closely, with Hu Ren and his family of three tracking behind.

Below the hole where daylight could not reach, it became darker and darker. Although people like Fang Bai were powerful Martial Artists with extraordinary eyesight, Zhuge Lian and the others each took out a Fire Elemental Stone to use for lighting.

After descending nearly a hundred steps and passing through a several hundred meters long passage, two tightly shut stone doors appeared ahead.

Fang Bai swept his divine sense over them, discovering that the stone doors were three feet thick and made of much harder stone than the building itself. Forcing them open would likely be quite troublesome.

With stone doors, there must be some mechanism.

Fang Bai’s gaze wandered, scanning the walls on both sides of the stone doors. He quickly noticed some strange symbols that ordinary Martial Artists could not comprehend.

"It’s surprising that in these Three Thousand Minor Worlds, someone understands Array Runes... It’s just a pity they are all very basic and unimpressive..."

Fang Bai looked at those strange symbols with interest, feeling both amazed and regretful.

Those strange symbols were the mechanism needed to open the stone doors. Since Fang Bai recognized them, opening the stone doors was naturally no trouble.

Placing several Essence Stones in the indentations on the door and pulling a protruding stone the size of an egg on the left side of the wall, the stone doors thunderously opened.

Following this, they encountered two more sets of stone doors, both of which were opened by Fang Bai.

Since entering this underground palace, Zhuge Lian and the others felt the originally sparse Heaven and Earth Origin Energy become more abundant. After each stone door, the energy became even more abundant and pure.

Clearly, this all indicated that the underground palace contained a considerable amount of Cultivation Resources. The increasingly abundant Heaven and Earth Origin Energy was seeping out from those extensive resources.

Furthermore, Fang Bai and the others also understood that the more stone doors set up in this underground palace, the more vital the contents stored inside were, making them even more delighted.

After opening the third set of stone doors, what appeared before them was a vast space, their nostrils filled with the scent of Spiritual Medicine and Elixirs, sensing the pure Essence Energy released by piles of Essence Stones, and even the Killing Qi emanating from various weapons and Spiritual Artifacts...

In short, this was a massive treasury of Cultivation Resources, far beyond what even Fang Bai had anticipated.

What thrilled Fang Bai even more was that more than half of the Cultivation Resources, whether Essence Stones, Spiritual Medicine, or Elixirs, were of medium quality, with several strains of Spiritual Medicine nearly a thousand years old, nearly High Rank.

Facing such a treasury of Cultivation Resources, Fang Bai could retain his composure, but Zhuge Lian and the other six couldn’t at all. Each of them stood with their mouths agape and eyes wide-open, staring dumbfounded, their eyes emitting a strange glow as if they were possessed.

Fang Bai paid them no mind, going straight to some nearly thousand-year-old Spiritual Medicines and started examining them in his hands.