Immortality Starts With Ignorant Heart Sword Art

Chapter 199: Law Treasure: Mountain Suppressing Stone Tablet, Golden Gourd

The place where the Wutai Mountain secret realm appeared was located in a mountainous area.

When the Cave Mansion opened, five-colored mist spread from the mountains.

As long as they were in the mist, Zhong Cang and the others could activate the tokens in their hands and teleport themselves into the secret realm.

This process went smoothly without any surprises.

After teleporting, Zhong Cang found himself in a desolate mountain area.

Many people had also been teleported here, and since they were all opponents, everyone was cautiously watching each other.

However, the semi-Innate Law Treasure had not yet appeared, so everyone was just watching each other without any intention of attacking.

At the same time, a group of Foundation Building cultivators were also searching for the location where the semi-Innate Law Treasure would appear.

Zhong Cang was also searching.

However, unlike the others who were clueless, with his understanding and insight into formations through his unity with heaven and man, Zhong Cang immediately realized that he was standing on a formation as soon as he entered the secret realm.

"This is... the Accumulating Earth and Condensing Mountain Formation!"

"Somebody has drawn away the earth element and supplied it to a certain place... No, it's not that simple, there are other formations involved."

After all, he was only a formation master, not a grandmaster, so Zhong Cang could see through the surface of the formation but couldn't fully comprehend its intricacies.

But for Zhong Cang, this was already enough.

Using the flow of the earth veins and the direction of the earth element, Zhong Cang easily found the core of the Accumulating Earth and Condensing Mountain Formation.

And there, a towering stone tablet stood silently on the ground.

The stone tablet had characters on it, with the words "big," "heavy," "split," and "suppress" written respectively.

As soon as Zhong Cang saw the characters on the stone tablet, he understood that this stone tablet possessed the abilities of size manipulation, increased gravity, splitting, and suppression.

"Using the stone tablet as the theme and engraving the meaning with characters... Moreover, I can carve words on the stone tablet in the future to enhance its power. This Mountain Suppressing Stone Tablet is not bad."

Facing the stone tablet, Zhong Cang was quite satisfied.

However, this stone tablet was not yet fully grown, and the last character, "suppress," had not been outlined.

Therefore, Zhong Cang originally planned to go to other areas to take a look.

After all, his goal was not just one Law Treasure, but all of them, so he wanted to observe all the Law Treasures.

But just as Zhong Cang was about to leave, he suddenly noticed something.

"It seems like I can use this formation!"

The Accumulating Earth and Condensing Mountain Formation supplied the nourishment of this land to the Mountain Suppressing Stone Tablet, allowing it to grow strong.

It also provided protection, as the earth elemental power condensed by the formation formed a shield, preventing the Mountain Suppressing Stone Tablet from being attacked or accidentally destroyed.

Due to this formation, others couldn't come into contact with the stone tablet until it was completed, unless they exerted all their efforts to break the shield.

Not to mention that breaking the shield provided by the formation was difficult.

Such actions had a high possibility of harming this semi-Innate Law Treasure that had not yet fully formed, causing its grade to decrease, which was something everyone couldn't tolerate.

Therefore, in most cases, the Foundation Building cultivators who came here could only wait.

They waited for the formation to nurture the semi-Innate Law Treasure to completion before making their move to seize it.

This was the normal process of competing for treasures.

Before entering the Wutai Mountain secret realm, Zhong Cang had also made such plans.

He went to great lengths to pollute so many low-level Foundation Buildings and snatch the tokens from the strong Foundation Building cultivators, just so that during the battle, he could slightly influence those low-level Foundation Buildings and make them compete with the strong Foundation Building cultivators, buying himself time to collect Law Treasures.

However, even though he had strategies and powerful strength, Zhong Cang still felt that the success rate of his plan was not very high.

"Two or three, that might be my limit."

"After all, the other Foundation Buildings are not weak."

It can be said that when he entered, Zhong Cang did not show it on his face, but he was pessimistic in his heart.

But now, he has discovered something that made him ecstatic.

"Others cannot come into contact with a semi-Innate Law Treasure before the cultivation of the Law Weapon is complete, but I am different. It seems like I can come into contact with it in advance!"

This contact is not because Zhong Cang was lucky and found a flaw in the formation.

Don't forget one thing, besides having powerful strength, Zhong Cang is also a formation master.

A formation master specializing in the Five Elements.

"By relying on my formation abilities, I have a chance to find the nodes and veins of the Mountain Suppressing Formation, and then secretly send the giant turtle divine lord of the same attribute into it along these nodes and veins!"

Yes, Zhong Cang's reliance is his formation abilities.

The ecstasy in his heart immediately made Zhong Cang follow his own understanding of formations and search for the nodes of the Mountain Suppressing Formation along the veins.

And this search took only the time it takes to brew a cup of tea.

The final result was that he failed.

"Hoo... This is not just the Mountain Suppressing Formation, there is also a complete Five Elements formation underneath. The Mountain Suppressing Formation is the foundation of that Five Elements formation, connected in layers, making this formation complex and not something that can be unraveled in a short time... unless I am a master of formations!"

Naturally, Zhong Cang is not a master, so he cannot decipher this formation in a short time.

Fortunately, his understanding of formations is not enough, but Zhong Cang can make up for it with his hanging.

"Heavenly Heart, activate!"

"Buzz..."

With a step, the Heaven and Earth Eight Trigrams Diagram unfolded, and Zhong Cang's body and mind instantly connected with this world.

This connection allowed him to clearly perceive the energy flow and node accumulation beneath the earth.

This palm-viewing observation, combined with Zhong Cang's decent understanding of formations, and the accelerated thinking provided by the activation of the Heavenly Heart, increased his comprehension.

In just a few breaths of time, he found a hidden path that leads directly to the Mountain Suppressing Stone Tablet.

This path also made Zhong Cang's eyes shine.

"It's done!"

"Giant turtle, go and integrate with the Mountain Suppressing Stone Tablet!"

With a thought from Zhong Cang, the divine lord of the spleen, the giant turtle, transformed into a pure earth elemental energy and flowed towards the direction of the Mountain Suppressing Stone Tablet along the path Zhong Cang had discovered.

The movement of the giant turtle was very secretive, but fearing that it would be discovered, Zhong Cang still made some disguises.

"Boom!"

When the Heaven and Earth Eight Trigrams Diagram is activated, if Zhong Cang does not have that intention, there would be no pressure from heaven and earth to awe and intimidate everyone.

However, at this moment, Zhong Cang unhesitatingly fully unleashed his pressure, crushing towards everyone.

"Boom!"

Under the terrifying pressure, everyone's breath instantly stagnated, and their gaze towards Zhong Cang was filled with seriousness.

However, although their pupils contracted, none of them retreated, and none of them made a move ahead of time.

Obviously, among the group of Foundation Building cultivators who were able to snatch the tokens, there was not a single weakling. They were all extremely patient and did not have the temperament of provoking others like spoiled children.

What Zhong Cang didn't know was that there were not only arrogant and provocative individuals here, but also people who treated Zhong Cang as a spoiled child who had been pampered beyond measure.

"Foolish, with such strength, if you were to hide yourself, there would still be a chance to obtain the Law Treasure. But now, as long as you show any intention of snatching it, we will put aside our differences and deal with you first."

"To casually oppress others, look down on everyone, and needlessly make enemies, I really don't know if you were raised by that family. To think that someone like you, who is so brainless, could cultivate to Foundation Building."

"So this is the spoiled child of the Immortal Cultivation World? I thought that only Qi Refining cultivators were like this, but I didn't expect that even such a waste could cultivate to Foundation Building."

"Someone who hasn't suffered a beating in the cultivation world, it really makes people jealous..."

...

Being treated as a spoiled child was something Zhong Cang hadn't expected, but his plan was successful.

With a grand imposing pressure, everyone's attention was drawn to him. They were all on guard against this spoiled brat, afraid that he would attack them first.

If such a thing really happened, even if they could win, they would lose the opportunity to compete for the half Innate Law Treasure.

Because of this, everyone didn't want to engage in a fight with Zhong Cang.

And while everyone was on guard, a strand of earth attribute energy, originating from a hidden formation, entered the Mountain Suppressing Stone Tablet.

Confirming the completion of his plan, Zhong Cang immediately snorted.

"Another group of cowards, and this stone tablet is just so boring and uninteresting. I'll go to other places and see if the Law Treasures there can pique my interest."

Pretending to be a disciple on a grand sect's training journey, Zhong Cang shook his head and sighed, leaving the place.

No one stopped him from leaving. On the contrary, many people breathed a sigh of relief.

It was always delightful to have one less enemy to contend with.

...

In this way, unimpeded, Zhong Cang arrived at the second area of Wutai Mountain - Gold.

Gold born from earth.

This area, like the previous desolate mountain range, was still barren.

The difference was that in the earth attribute area, the desolate mountains were just desolate mountains, but here, many mountain ranges contained mineral deposits.

At this moment, the aura of these gold attribute mineral deposits was being extracted by the formation and converging towards one place.

Following the direction of the energy flow, Zhong Cang soon saw the Law Treasures of the gold attribute area.

And what shocked Zhong Cang happened at this moment.

In the center of this gold attribute area, it was not weapons like knives, spears, swords, or halberds that represented "gold".

Nor was it metal armor, the kind of gold attribute protective Law Treasures.

A lush golden vine grew in the very center of this area.

"The Law Treasure derived from Wutai Mountain's gold attribute is a vine, or a chain, or a rope?"

This was Zhong Cang's initial guess, but soon he realized it was not right.

Those vines did indeed contain immense gold attribute energy, but at this moment, all of this energy was converging towards the center of the vine, onto a golden gourd.

"The Law Treasure is a gourd, how interesting."

After taking a glance, Zhong Cang immediately got busy.

Just like before, relying on the Heavenly Heart and his understanding of formations, Zhong Cang quickly found a hidden path leading to the gourd.

Then, he let the White Tiger, the God of Lungs, manifest outside and transform into a strand of gold attribute energy, flowing into the gourd. Meanwhile, Zhong Cang himself released his pressure, attracting the attention of many Foundation Building cultivators.

When the White Tiger entered the gourd and slowly integrated with it, Zhong Cang muttered with disinterest and left the place.

After gold was water. This area was a lake, and the Law Treasures nurtured here were not on the surface of the lake, but underwater.

Just like before, Zhong Cang relied on Heavenly Heart to find the formation's structure and let the Silver Dragon Fish transform into a stream of water, drilling into the Law Treasure nurtured in this place.

Water gives birth to wood, wood gives birth to fire.

Zhong Cang also made a trip to the other two areas.

Perhaps because no one had secretly taken the Law Treasure before it was nurtured, no one had thought of this.

They were wary of each other, the other Foundation Building cultivators.

As a result, Zhong Cang's actions went smoothly.

So smooth that he found it somewhat unbelievable.

After spending the time it takes to burn three incense sticks, Zhong Cang traveled through five areas and released the five Divine Sovereigns, integrating them with the Law Treasure nurtured in Mount Wutai.

During the process of mutual integration, Zhong Cang also figured out why no one else had thought of this before.

"Among the various arts of cultivation, formations are the most difficult. Unless young cultivators have a special interest, not many of them specialize in formations, so their proficiency in formations is not high."

"And cultivators who specialize in formations waste too much time on them, so their cultivation level is inevitably not high. As a result, they cannot snatch the tokens and it is difficult for them to enter the secret realm of Mount Wutai."

Those who have strength lack insight into formations, while those who have insight into formations lack strength.

This makes it difficult for others to achieve what Zhong Cang has done.

Not to mention that Zhong Cang relied on Heavenly Heart to find a route from the complex formation structure. Without Heavenly Heart, only a master-level formation master could achieve this.

A master-level formation master at the Foundation Building Stage is simply a rare talent.

Moreover, even if they have the ability, those masters may not be interested in these semi-Innate Law Treasures.

In summary, it is normal that no one obtained the Law Treasure in advance all these years because there was no precedent. Others naturally would not think in this direction, which made Zhong Cang's actions extremely smooth.

...

Feeling the joy in his heart as the five Divine Sovereigns gradually integrated with the five semi-Innate Law Treasures, Zhong Cang couldn't contain his excitement.

What Zhong Cang didn't know was that in the other parts of the secret realm of Mount Wutai, there were also cultivators who were constantly smiling and looking down on the Independent Cultivators around them.

"Hehe, these fools don't really think they have a chance to snatch the Law Treasures, do they?"

The one laughing was Yuechan Sect's cultivator, Le Yong.

Hearing his mocking words, his junior sister beside him also chimed in, "Hehe, who knows. Those Independent Cultivators don't know that these Law Weapon embryos were left behind by our sect, and we have the method to recall them. In a chaotic battle, as long as we use the method, these Law Weapons will fly towards us."

Speaking up to this point, the female cultivator from Yuechan Sect sighed.

"It's just a pity that we only have the method to recall them, but not the ability to imprint them. Otherwise, they wouldn't even have a chance to fight for them."

"We can't imprint them because these Law Weapon embryos were left behind by our senior and ancestors five hundred years ago. If we imprint our soul, these Law Weapons will belong to us, but they would have to come back five hundred years later. That's too long and not worth it."

"Moreover, in order to nurture Innate Law Weapons in the secret realm of Mount Wutai, we need a clean embryo or spiritual material as a foundation. Once we leave a soul imprint, the Law Weapon embryo will be contaminated and cannot be nurtured by formations..."

The brother and sister from Yuechan Sect who were speaking were located in the lake area.

And there were disciples from the major sects in more than just this one place.

The barren mountain, the snowy mining area, the volcanic area... the five regions of the secret realm of Mount Wutai all had disciples from the major sects stationed there.

And there were more than just one disciple in many places.

And these disciples held the method to recall the embryos.

It can only be said that the major sects, which have a long history and have been able to lay out their plans five hundred years ago, have a huge advantage.

Ordinary Independent Cultivators simply cannot compete with them.

(End of this chapter)