Sovereign to Immortality

Chapter 424 – Secret Arts

After learning the lesson of the fourth light curtain’s backlash from the forbidden array, when the fifth light curtain was broken, everyone began to obediently assist the three formation masters in using the dumbest but safest method to wear down the forbidden light curtain.

However, because the fifth curtain of light was much stronger than the fourth, and because Yang Junshan had displayed a dense amount of spirit energy to resist the windstorm of light blades, the lack of spirit energy was greatly reduced, and at the same time, reduced the possibility of failure by two days.

Even so, both Ning Qing and Lu Jing, the two array masters, were exhausted.

When everyone rushed into the fifth restriction light screen, they heard Yan Qinxi cheering, everyone followed her gaze, and saw two collapsed restrictions that only had a rough outline of the cave.

These two cave dwellings were obviously opened up by the disciples of the Heaven-Shaken Sect. If the masters of these two cave dwellings did not flee from the Heaven-Shaking Peak back then, then maybe everyone would have found something.

Ning Bin laughed: At least on our journey here, after breaking through the barrier of light, we did not have the chance to return empty-handed. It is said that among the people who came to Heaven-Shaking Peak to look for treasures, many of them spent a lot of effort to clear the barrier of light, but in the end were unable to find anything, and returned disappointed!

“We should still dig out these two caves first!”

Yang Junshan took a light step forward, and everyone felt the ground beneath their feet slightly tremble, then it was as if someone had stirred the giant boulder and dirt that covered the cave, and the things that were buried started to rise up from the ground, one by one, before being brought neatly in front of everyone.

Although Yang Junshan had already used his unexpected performance to make everyone’s estimate of his strength rise again and again, but every time Yang Junshan attacked, everyone could not help but realise that their estimation of Yang Junshan’s strength was still too low.

Yan Zhong, Ning Bin, Ning He and the rest could do the same thing, but it was as smooth as Yang Junshan’s. The whole process was smooth, but it was far from possible.

However, everyone’s attention was quickly attracted by the item that he took out from the cave, because Yang Junshan finally found a magic tool in the cave.

“Low rank?” Yan Qinxi’s face was filled with disappointment and lack of interest.

Just as Yan Qinxi finished speaking, she heard a sudden cry from Yang Junshan, causing everyone to look towards him in confusion. They saw him waving his palm in front of him, and the sand in front of him split apart, revealing his rotten corpse.

“It’s an inner disciple of the Heaven-Shaken Sect!”

As a Successor Disciple of the Heaven-Shaken Sect, Ning Bin had long since trained at the Heaven-Shaking Peak, so he was able to determine this person’s identity from the corpse’s clothes alone.

Inner disciples who were able to cultivate in the Heaven-Shaking Peak, other than having talent in terms of special skills, the majority of them had to have a cultivation level above the third level of martial arts realm in order to be qualified, or they could even be accepted as personal disciples if they were chosen by a Spiritual Master.

Yang Junshan pointed with his finger, and a storage bag dropped from the Heaven-Shaken Sect disciple’s waist and flew straight into his hand.

Yang Junshan shook the storage bag in his hand, causing everything inside to fall out and pile up intuge pile on the ground.

Yan Qinxi looked at the pile of things on the ground and said, “There’s nothing good about it. Furthermore, it’s an inner disciple of the Heaven-Shaken Sect.

Ning Bin said helplessly: “Miss Yan, not everyone has a grandfather in front of them, even if he is a direct disciple of the Heaven-Shaken Sect s!”

Yan Qinxi curled her lips, but did not refute any further.

The storage bag on this cultivator’s body was more like a bag of trash, the things inside were truly quite a lot, but there were very few that could enter the eyes of Yang Junshan and the other late stage martial arts realm cultivators.

Ning Qing said, “It seems that this inner sect disciple’s cultivation is not at the late stage of martial arts realm yet!”

Yan Qinxi glanced at Yang Junping and Su Baozhang who were behind him, and said to Yang Junshan: “You should keep this first, since we do not need it.”

Ning Bin did not object, these resources were not even in the Ning Family’s eyes, but for Yang Family who had just been promoted to a strong and powerful being, with their shallow roots, they could not afford to waste any cultivation resources.

“How can I be embarrassed? Just follow the rules that we agreed on previously. We’ll split everything in this area after we find them!”

Yan Qinxi did have good intentions, but Yang Junshan could not do so, because he had found another buried corpse inside the mudstone. He did not want to miss out on the chance to obtain a true treasure just because he was greedy.

As the ruins of the two Immortal’s cave were slowly cleared out, another corpse was dug out from the mudstones. The same clothes worn by the inner disciples of Heaven-Shaken Sect made everyone feel slightly disappointed.

“Eh, could it be Dong Qi?” Ning Bin’s eyes were fixed on the decomposed body in front of him, and asked doubtfully.

“What? You know him?”

Ning Bin pointed to the corpse’s left hand and said: “This guy has six fingers on his left hand. I know that there is an inner disciple named Dong Qi who also has six fingers on the Heaven-Shaking Peak, his cultivation is at the great perfection stage, although I have never been to his cave, but I heard that he is also an inner disciple like his son. Furthermore, their cave is right next to each other, it seems like these two cave dwellings belong to the father and son duo.”

“Both father and son are inner disciples. It looks like either Dong Qi’s son is talented, or Dong Qi has some connections with the Heaven-Shaking Peak.” Yang Junshan casually guessed.

Ning Bin laughed bitterly and said: “Brother Yang is right, if this Dong Qi’s son is truly that talented, the day Heaven-Shaking Peak collapsed, Adept Qing Shu would definitely bring him away. In fact, Dong Qi is from the same clan as Si’s Master Dong, and is usually supported by Master Dong.”

Yan Qinxi said: “Since this fellow has a deep relationship with a cultivator, I think that he has some good things on him, quickly go and take a look!”

He turned the body over, and with a “clang” sound, two broken parts of the magic tool fell off from his body. From the looks of the corpse, this person was probably doing his utmost to resist before he died.

“High quality magical equipment, whaity!”

While Yan Qinxi said that, it waity. His hands were not slow at all, and with a pull from the corpse’s waist, a storage bag had already landed in her hands.

“Hualalala ~ ~ ~”

The items inside the storage bag were all thrown to the ground by Yan Qinxi, before everyone’s eyes lit up. Amongst this large pile of items, there was a middle-grade magic tool mixed in, several jade bottles that were used to store medicinal pellets, and the Spirit Sealing Talisman sealed the bottle’s mouth. From one of the scattered Spirit Sealing Boxes, over twenty jade crystals rolled out, and other than the seven or eight high-grade spirit materials, there were actually three low-grade spirit materials.

In addition, a 30 centimeter long talisman was engraved with dense spiritual light patterns. The large amount of spiritual energy fluctuations that came from it caused all the cultivators present to feel a sense of fear. Everyone’s hearts flashed with the name of a talisman: Treasure Talisman!

Amongst all of these things, the thing that attracted the most attention wasn’t the magic tool, pill, crystal, or spirit material, nor the treasure talisman that could possibly seal a Precious Techniques and Divine Powers, but the jade tablet that fell among all the items.

In order to use the Inheritance Slate, one would need to at least have a certain level of knowledge in their spirit arts. According to the agreement between the three parties to explore the ruins of the Heaven-Shaking Peak together, all of the items that were in their possession would have to be made into a set.

Yang Junshan held the inheritance jade plate in his hands and indicated to the two sides. Both Yan Qinxi and Ning Bin indicated for Yang Junshan to look through the contents first, which was actually also a form of respect to Yang Junshan.

Yang Junshan was naturally not polite, the spirit stones entered the jade board, after a while, with a look of shock, he slowly withdrew his consciousness from the board.

After handing the inheritance jade plate over to Yan Qinxi, the lady asked: “How is it, what is the inheritance inside?”

Yang Junshan praised twice before saying: “What is recorded in the jade tablet is neither a sacred art nor a cultivation technique, but a secret art, a secret art that can take shortcuts and advance into the realms of life!”

As for Yang Junshan, he glanced at Yan Zhong and continued to explain to the crowd: “This secret technique is extremely strange and effective. After training, it can cause those Perfection of the cultivator s who have accumulated enough knowledge to havhirty percent chance of breaking through the realms of life, but after cultivating for a long time, they won’t be able to advance any further.”

As expected, Yan Zhong’s expression changed, but Yang Junshan continued to speak: “However, practicing this secret art is also extremely harsh. First, this secret art can only be used once, and if it is unable to be successful, the cultivator himself will naturally suffer a great loss of vitality, and if he is unlucky, it is even possible for his dantian to directly shatter and become a mortal. For most Perfection of the cultivator, this would mean that their lifespan would be used up and they would die immediately.”

“Secondly, this secret technique greatly drains a cultivator’s potential. Even if they were lucky enough to advance into the realms of life, they would no longer have any possibility of increasing in the future. They would only be able to stay in the Astral Transformation Realm for the rest of their lives.”

“And third, to use this secret art requires the support of a large number of cultivation resources, as well as a few extremely rare and special pills. This inner disciple Dong Qi is obviously already preparing for this.” Yang Junshan pointed to the cultivation resources on the ground.