Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

The Origin Stone burrowed into the ground along the root hairs on its own. Zhang Yuanjing maintained a faint connection with it through his divine sense, but he didn't know what it was doing or its exact location. Moreover, with its current level of spirituality, it couldn't convey what it sensed to Zhang Yuanjing.

Zhang Yuanjing could only wait in the cave. Fire Crow Daoist had already flown up. The space here was too cramped, and the two of them were a bit crowded.

After about a quarter of an hour, the Origin Stone rapidly tunneled back from below and burrowed into his body. At this moment, it released a thought, without any clear content, seemingly urging him to go somewhere.

Zhang Yuanjing went to the ground, briefly explained the situation to Fire Crow Daoist via voice transmission, and then led everyone out of the cave and into the main hall.

He didn't immediately search for the secrets beneath the ground. Instead, he first said to Zhao Xuming, "Xuming, things here are indeed as you said. I agree to the deal you requested."

Zhao Xuming was overjoyed and quickly knelt down to thank him.

Zhang Yuanjing only had the materials for refining Foundation Establishment Pills, but not the finished pills. He took the Foundation Establishment Pills from Zhang Jun and Zhang Yu and gave them to Zhao Xuming, and also gifted him an additional mid-grade water-attributed spiritual artifact.

Zhao Xuming was naturally moved to tears and bowed again.

Zhang Yuanjing helped him up and said, "The matter of Whiteleave Mountain has been settled. The aftermath is entrusted to you. You must properly handle the disciples, followers, servants of the Whiteleave Mountain Lord, and those tribute girls."

Zhao Xuming said earnestly, "Senior Zhang, rest assured, this junior will certainly live up to your trust!"

After a brief farewell, Zhang Yuanjing followed the direction indicated by the Origin Stone, leading everyone down the mountain.

After flying for over a hundred miles, beyond the range of Whiteleave Mountain, the dense forest that originally covered the earth and stretched endlessly became sparse, revealing a large swamp, shrouded in poisonous miasma, about a dozen miles in radius. In the center was a hard ground, with strange rocks scattered and piled up like a small mountain, with green moss and shallow grass growing between the cracks.

Zhang Yuanjing landed on the stone and scanned it with his divine sense, unable to help but exclaim "Huh," because there was nothing inside except stones, nor was there a passage connecting to other places. However, the place indicated by the Origin Stone was here.

He concentrated his divine sense and probed into the soil. After going more than a hundred feet, he still found nothing.

Everyone landed around the stone mountain.

"Master, is the Wood Core hidden here?" Zhang Yu asked curiously.

"What Wood Core! There's nothing here!" Zhang Yuanjing replied casually. He turned to ask Fire Crow Daoist if he had discovered anything.

Fire Crow Daoist also shook his head: "This place is considered a unique landscape in this region. But it's just an ordinary stone mountain and swamp."

At this moment, the Origin Stone in Zhang Yuanjing's body began to stir. He released it accordingly.

As soon as the stone came out, it found a crack in the stone mountain, burrowed into it, and disappeared into the soil below.

Zhang Yuanjing immediately understood that the space here had become abnormal for some reason, hiding a spatial passage, but it was very stable and did not cause any spiritual energy fluctuations, so divine sense could not detect it at all.

He marveled at the wonders of creation, but did not dare to act rashly. The stone mountain here was made up of many large stones stacked together. These boulders were closely related to this spatial anomaly. If there was a change, the spatial passage might disappear.

"Senior, take a look, are any of these stones added later?" Zhang Yuanjing asked Fire Crow Daoist while examining with his divine sense.

Fire Crow Daoist was stunned, and then opened his divine sense to compare the stones on the stone mountain one by one.

Before long, the two pointed to two boulders on the east side at the same time.

Zhang Yu was confused and asked, "Master, what are you and Grandpa Fire Crow doing? Is there anything unusual about these stones?"

Zhang Yuanjing smiled and said, "There's a fun place here. Your teacher will take you to see it."

Zhang Yu's eyes lit up immediately: "What fun place? It's the first time Master has said he's taking me to a fun place!"

Zhang Yuanjing couldn't help but twitch his lips when he heard this. When Zhang Yu was young, he was busy cultivating. When he had time, he only taught her the formulas and tested her cultivation. He had never taken her to play. Now that she was already several decades old, he was only now truly taking her out to travel, and he felt a little ashamed.

He held one of the boulders with one hand, gently moved it away, and then removed the other boulder in the same way.

Then, he said to Fire Crow Daoist: "There is a natural spatial passage here that divine sense cannot detect. I will go in from here. Once I confirm that there is no danger, I will transmit a message to you with the spiritual jade, and you can bring them in."

"Spatial passage?" Fire Crow Daoist was shocked and quickly stopped him, "Yuanjing, spatial passages are very dangerous. If they are unstable, you will either lose your life or be sent to a very far place!"

Regarding spatial passages, Zhang Yuanjing didn't understand much about the theory, but he had more experience than many cultivators. He had personally experienced it many times. Back then, entering the Void Demon World from Mount Sumeru, then entering the Mustard Seed Space from the Void Demon World, and finally returning through the air from the Mustard Seed Space, each time was a different experience.

He smiled and said, "It's okay, this spatial passage is extremely stable and will never have an accident. I have already tested it with a magic weapon, so senior don't need to worry. Senior, please watch the location!"

With that, he took a step and disappeared from everyone's sight.

A moment later, Zhang Yuanjing appeared in a sloping downward cave. Behind him were boulders, with no way to retreat, and in front of him was a narrow cave of unfathomable depth.

He walked forward a few feet and stopped to wait.

Three breaths later, Yuan Zhilin appeared. His eyes were full of surprise and curiosity. When he saw Zhang Yuanjing, he quickly said, "Senior Brother Zhang, it's really a spatial passage, it's amazing!"

Before Zhang Yuanjing could answer, Ape Thirteen and Liu Jinglong appeared at the same time. Then came Mei Zhenyi. After five or six breaths, Han Ji, Zhang Jun, and Zhang Yu arrived. Fire Crow Daoist came in last.

At this time, Zhang Yuanjing's Origin Stone returned to his dantian. He briefly explained the possible dangers they might encounter, and instructed several disciples and Yuan, Liu, and Mei to be vigilant, before leading everyone forward.

The cave was a mixture of soil and stone, with both fiery and cold air emerging. The two did not mix or cancel each other out, so people felt hot and cold at the same time. This reminded Zhang Yuanjing of the deep pool in Mount Meng. However, that deep pool alternated between hot and cold, and the time interval in between was very long, unlike here where the two energies coexisted.

The wind whistled in his ears, the fiery air in the air was even hotter, and the cold air showed a gloomy, deathly, and cold aura, which was a clear characteristic of turbid energy.

Zhang Yuanjing thought to himself: Could there be a turbid energy vein? The depths of this cave still contained fiery energy, indicating that it was not a purely turbid energy gathering place. This was a bit strange.

From the perspective of the existence of energy alone, spiritual energy and turbid energy never coexist. Once the two meet, they will counteract each other until one of them is completely eliminated. This was also why Lin Dushan was able to use pure turbid energy to kill a Yang Transformation Beast from the inside.

As they continued to move forward, the composition of the air became increasingly complex. At first, there was only turbid energy and fiery energy, then water energy was added, followed by wood energy, metal energy, and finally earth energy, all of which were quite pure.

"Yuanjing, is this pure five-element separated energy?" Fire Crow Daoist asked in surprise and joy.

Spiritual energy has always been a fusion of the five elements, indistinguishable from each other. Only in some special areas will single-attribute spiritual power with separated five elements form. Or, like the Xuanyin Mountain vein, it was divided into yin and yang because there was a Xuanyin King Grass monster. This place actually separated the spiritual energy into single five-element energies, which was simply unbelievable.

Zhang Yuanjing said hesitantly, "It looks like single-attribute spiritual energy after the five elements have been separated, but it is not pure. Let's take a look below."