Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor
Chapter 1179: Essence Stone Killing Formation

Chapter 1179: Chapter 1179: Essence Stone Killing Formation

No wonder Wu De was afraid, at the center of the storm, if it weren’t for Fang Bai’s Wind Essence Qi barrier, the violent force of the wind would have torn his body apart in an instant.

Fortunately, the Wind Essence Qi barrier was just fiercely fluctuating and showed no signs of collapsing. Wu De breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat beads on his forehead, and like Fang Bai, lowered his head to examine the ground, searching for a possible entrance to the Underground Palace.

The ground of Wind Valley was primarily sand and stone, appearing unremarkable at first glance. Luckily, Fang Bai and Wu De could sense the Essence Energy continuously overflowing from below the ground, so they quickly determined the exact location of the entrance.

"Wu De, step aside!"

The entrance to the Underground Palace should be buried deep under the sand and stones. Fang Bai gestured for Wu De to move aside and took out the Blood-Drinking Mad Blade from his Spatial Ring, fiercely stabbing it into the ground.

"Clang!"

A crisp sound. The tip of the blade met resistance, as if it had struck some hard metallic object.

"This is the entrance to the Underground Palace!"

Fang Bai and Wu De exchanged looks, both showing joy.

Fang Bai waved the Blood-Drinking Mad Blade, digging up the sand and stones underfoot in a few strokes, and a large square heavy iron plate suddenly appeared.

The iron plate was three feet in length and width, and its material was extremely hard and solid. The sharp Blood-Drinking Mad Blade could not even pierce through it.

"Let me try!"

Wu De knew that the entrance to the Underground Palace must be beneath that iron plate. He gathered his spirits, jumped beside the plate, grabbed the iron ring on it, and tried to lift the plate.

However, the iron plate was not only large but also extremely heavy. Wu De tried several times, but the plate only moved slightly.

"I don’t know what this iron plate is made of; it must weigh more than ten thousand pounds! Fang Bai, you try, Taoist Master here can’t do it!"

Wu De, unable to lift the plate, reluctantly stepped aside and gave the place to Fang Bai.

Fang Bai squatted down, touched the iron plate and said, "This should be a piece of Extraterrestrial Profound Heavy Iron. A foot-long piece weighs ten thousand pounds. It’s really good for crafting Spiritual Artifacts! Heh, Swiftwind Valley really lives up to its reputation as a second-tier sect, rich and robust, to use such precious meteoric iron to cast an iron gate..."

He paused and then said, "This iron plate is extremely heavy; if not a Cosmic Level Expert, it will not be easy to move it! From this, we can deduce that there really are treasures beneath this iron plate!"

"Haha, Brother Fang, hurry and move this iron plate! Let’s see what treasures are hidden underneath!"

Wu De was rubbing his hands in eagerness, imagining the precious Cultivation Resources piled like mountains underneath the iron plate, his saliva nearly dripping, urging Fang Bai to open the iron gate quickly.

Fang Bai’s strength far surpassed Wu De’s, and his power was naturally much stronger. He grabbed the iron handle, exerted force upwards, and with a "squeak, squeak" sound, the iron plate slowly opened.

Suddenly, pure, rich Heaven and Earth Origin Energy crazily overflowed from the opening of the iron plate, filling the Wind Essence Qi barrier created by Fang Bai.

With another forceful effort, Fang Bai lifted the whole iron plate with a "whoosh" from the ground and unceremoniously stored it into his Spatial Ring.

This piece of Extraterrestrial Profound Heavy Iron was more valuable than many high-grade Cultivation Resources. Adding some to the process of crafting a Spiritual Artifact could greatly enhance its power. It was truly a waste that Swiftwind Valley used it as the door plate for the entrance to the Underground Palace.

Wu De, clearly not recognizing its value, showed little interest in the Extraterrestrial Profound Heavy Iron plate. Seeing Fang Bai lift the iron plate, he immediately peeked below, only to see a deep hole beneath the iron plate.

"Brother Fang, Taoist Master is going in first!"

Wu De said, and was about to jump into the hole, trying to get to the precious Cultivation Resources before Fang Bai.

"If you’re not afraid of death, then jump down!"

Fang Bai said with a smile all of a sudden.

Wu De stopped in his tracks, then looked at Fang Bai with a skeptical glance and asked, "What do you mean?"

Fang Bai casually picked up a large stone and threw it hard into the cave. With a "whoosh" sound, the stone hadn’t even touched the ground when it was sliced into two by a slanted slash of killing intent.

That killing intent was equivalent to the full-force strike of a Cosmic Level mid-tier expert; with Wu De’s strength, if he were to jump down rashly, his fate would hardly be better than that of the stone.

"At the bottom of this cave entrance, there’s a small Slaughter Array. If you jump down, you will trigger it. At best, you’ll be wounded by the killing intent within the array; at worst, you’ll fall."

Fang Bai looked at Wu De, whose face had turned pale and who was noticeably shaken, and said with a smile.

Fang Bai had just used his Divine Sense to detect that next to the entrance of the Underground Palace, a small Slaughter Array was set up. The killing intent of the small array was extremely strong; Cosmic Level mid-tier and below experts who rashly enter would hardly withstand this killing intent and would either be injured or killed.

Setting up such a small Slaughter Array requires a significant amount of high-grade Essence Stones, which are rare Cultivation Resources for Swiftwind Valley. This indicates that there must be many treasures inside the Underground Palace; otherwise, Swiftwind Valley wouldn’t spend high-grade Essence Stones to set up such an array to guard the entrance.

With this Slaughter Array as protection, out of the tens of thousands of disciples in Swiftwind Valley, only the four Elders and the Valley Master, Feng Lingtian, were capable of entering the Underground Palace through the cave entrance.

"Thankfully, Brother Fang, you reminded me in time, else today my hundred-plus pounds would have been left here," said Wu De, wiping the sweat from his forehead, overflowing with gratitude towards Fang Bai.

"So, you better honestly follow behind me, don’t act rashly, or you’ll suffer a great loss!"

After saying this, Fang Bai leaped down into the cave, and when Wu De looked down, he found that Fang Bai had already reached the bottom.

"Brother Fang, wait for me!"

Knowing Fang Bai dared to go down, Wu De must have the ability to protect himself, so he gritted his teeth and also jumped down, landing behind Fang Bai.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

...

Several bursts of killing intent shot out from an Essence Stone Killing Formation in front of them, crisscrossing towards Fang Bai and Wu De, emitting sharp sounds as they cut through the air.

Fang Bai brought his palms together like a blade, waving them repeatedly, and several bursts of Essence Energy shot out from his palms, turning into wind blades and meeting those bursts of killing intent.

The Essence Energy collided with the killing intent, causing bursts of spatial fluctuations, then both vanished into thin air.

Fang Bai and Wu De continued moving forward, facing several more bursts of killing intent from the Essence Stone Killing Formation, all of which were dissolved by Fang Bai.

After about a dozen attacks, the Essence Energy contained within the several hundred high-grade Essence Stones that made up the Killing Formation was exhausted, leaving them without any value.

"Let’s go!"

Knowing there was no more danger ahead, Fang Bai strode forward vigorously.

This was a long and quiet corridor; Essence Stones embedded in the walls of the corridor provided lighting, and abundant Essence Energy flowed like waves from ahead, purer and denser than anywhere else in Swiftwind Valley, and the feeling grew stronger the farther forward they went.

Wu De knew they were getting closer to where Swiftwind Valley stored its Cultivation Resources, and he couldn’t help but feel extremely excited. If he weren’t concerned about sudden dangers ahead, he would have already rushed ahead of Fang Bai.