Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

Zhang Yuanjing had the Azure-Eyed Suanni beast lead the way into the cave.

Judging by its location, the cave was already beneath the Blackwater River, so water droplets occasionally fell from the stone walls above. The cave was quite cool, with a breeze blowing through, and a faint mist lingered.

Zhang Yuanjing expanded his magical power to protect his body. After walking a few dozen feet into the cave, he saw a corner where a tree about the size of a bowl was growing diagonally, but only half of the trunk remained, along with roots deeply embedded in the rock crevices.

He walked over for a closer look and saw that the broken part of the tree was red, like seeping blood. The crevice it grew from was about half a foot long and a little over three inches wide, with soil extending three feet down.

Further ahead, the cave meandered, with the space inside sometimes wide and sometimes narrow. Almost every few dozen feet, there was a tree, obviously not naturally grown, but carefully planted by someone.

This was most likely done by the Blackwater Sect, with the simple purpose of concealing the Earth Abyss connected to the cave and claiming it as their own. Such behavior couldn't be said to be wrong; other sects would probably do the same.

However, this sect had concealed it for so many years without incident, but Huo Zhengkai and his group discovered it. This was a bit strange.

Either there was something wrong with that snake demon, or there was something wrong with one of the cultivators accompanying Huo Zhengkai, possibly a Profound Sky Sect cultivator or a Blackwater Sect cultivator. Zhang Yuanjing had to investigate this matter thoroughly to see who was pulling the strings.

The cave was very long. The man and two beasts walked for seven or eight miles before reaching a slope. Looking down, it was a misty expanse, and it was unknown where it led.

Zhang Yuanjing swept his divine sense across it and immediately revealed a look of surprise.

Beneath the misty air was an Earth Abyss dozens of feet wide and three to four hundred feet deep.

The Earth Abyss extended several miles to both sides, but it didn't end there, but sloped into the ground, reaching a depth of six or seven hundred feet at its deepest point, more than ten miles away.

There was nothing special about this place, so when he swept his divine sense across it, he took in the entire scene.

At the end of the Earth Abyss on the left, two cultivators were lying on the ground, seemingly poisoned and unconscious, but their magical power was resisting on its own, and their lives were not in danger. One of them was Huo Zhengkai.

Where they were lying, there was a large cave dug into the side of the stone wall, about two feet deep, and the rock layer was mixed with some five-colored ores, which looked like Five-Colored Spirit Gold. This was a basic material used to refine magical treasures and was quite valuable.

This material might be the reason why the Blackwater Sect concealed this Earth Abyss.

With such a large Earth Abyss, if the rock walls were full of Five-Colored Spirit Gold or similar ores, the Blackwater Sect wouldn't have to worry about expenses for thousands of years.

"Suanni beast, is there anything unusual here?" Zhang Yuanjing asked cautiously.

The Azure-Eyed Suanni beast shook its big head.

"Let's go, let's go down and take a look!"

Zhang Yuanjing leaped down into the mist, quickly falling downwards.

The two beasts followed behind him, making a whooshing sound as they floated, instantly breaking the silence in the Earth Abyss.

At the bottom of the abyss, the ground was a very hard stone surface. He exerted force with his feet to test it. Not to mention earth escape techniques, even bombarding it with top-grade magical treasures would be difficult to create a large pit.

Zhang Yuanjing took two steps and felt something was wrong. He was about to stop, but then he thought that it wasn't that he sensed any danger, but that he felt uneasy because he couldn't use earth escape techniques in this environment.

Over the years, he had encountered dangers many times, so he was always prepared to use earth escape techniques to escape. Suddenly arriving in such a place, he couldn't help but feel uneasy.

However, it was different now than in the past. For him, anyone below the Core Formation stage was, if not unmatched, at least invincible. Therefore, he couldn't always think about escaping.

He smiled slightly and walked quickly, soon reaching the place where Huo Zhengkai was lying.

He turned Huo Zhengkai over and looked at him carefully. He saw that his face was red, his forehead was burning, his lips were cracked, and he was like a piece of hot coal, with a flame burning inside him.

"Suanni beast, what poison did he get? Can you undo it?"

The Azure-Eyed Suanni beast sniffed, and suddenly sucked hard at Huo Zhengkai, and a cloud of pink smoke emerged from his forehead, which was swallowed by the black-haired lion in one gulp.

"Cough cough cough cough cough…"

Huo Zhengkai coughed violently, his body arched like a shrimp, and with a "wah" sound, he spat out a lot of black sticky stuff.

But he didn't wake up, just twitched twice, and then fell asleep again.

The Azure-Eyed Suanni beast raised its right front paw, pointed to Huo Zhengkai's wrist, and squeaked twice.

Ape Thirteen said, "The Suanni beast says to let some blood out."

Zhang Yuanjing used his hand as a knife and cut Huo Zhengkai's wrist blood vessel. Immediately, black blood flowed out. It took a full thirty breaths before the blood turned red.

Looking at Huo Zhengkai again, his face had turned from red to white, but his forehead was no longer burning, and the aura in his body was much more stable.

Zhang Yuanjing took out a healing pill for internal use from his storage bracelet, gave it to Huo Zhengkai, and then laid him flat, letting him rest first.

Looking at the person next to him, he was a middle-aged cultivator, extremely thin, almost skin and bones. Other than that, he couldn't see any other symptoms.

"What about this one? Is he also poisoned?"

The Azure-Eyed Suanni beast shook its head, called twice, and then stopped squeaking.

"The Suanni beast says that this person consumed too much in a short period of time and overdrawn his vitality, so he passed out."

Zhang Yuanjing reached out and placed his hand on the man's wrist, sending in a wisp of aura to test it. As expected, it was as the Azure-Eyed Suanni beast said.

He took out a vitality-replenishing pill and stuffed it into the man's mouth, but a doubt arose in his mind. This person entered this place with Huo Zhengkai, so why wasn't he poisoned?

He reached out and touched the man's waist, grabbed his storage bag, broke the magical power imprint, and looked at it. There were many items inside, and indeed there was no Profound Sky Sect disciple's waist tag, but there was a jade pendant with the words "Abyss Universe Hall Master" written on the front and the words "Blackwater" on the back.

This person was indeed a Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Blackwater Sect. This could explain it. This person must have taken an antidote, so he wasn't poisoned.

A total of seven people entered the cave together, one escaped, two died, two were here, and two were missing. As for that snake demon, it led Huo Zhengkai and the others into this place, but it didn't know where it went itself.

In addition, the Palm Profound Hall sent Zeng Yuanhui to investigate. In theory, he should have arrived here before him, so why was he nowhere to be seen?

Zhang Yuanjing thought about it and felt that there were many doubts. People were easy to say, and he would naturally know who they were when Huo Zhengkai woke up.

The key was that snake demon. If it was a spirit beast raised by a cultivator, he would only know who was behind it if he caught it back.

Seeing that there was a mine behind him, he walked over to carefully examine the ore in the rock. As expected, it was Five-Colored Spirit Gold, and the quality was very high.

He thought that since he had seen it, he might as well mine a few pieces. He took out his flying sword and dug into the rock layer, but unexpectedly, the rock was extremely hard. Even a magical treasure-level flying sword only sparked a few sparks and didn't even break off a piece of gravel.

He had an idea and thought of something. He immediately took out the bone fragment he had obtained from the Profound Origin Secret Realm and swiped it against the rock wall. It was like cutting tofu, immediately cutting open a piece of rock, and even cutting the Five-Colored Spirit Gold embedded inside in half.

He was overjoyed and quickly waved the bone fragment, cutting the rock layer to pieces and digging out all the Five-Colored Spirit Gold inside. Before long, he had obtained more than a dozen pieces. Moreover, the further he dug, the more Five-Colored Spirit Gold there was.

With this, Zhang Yuanjing was in a great mood. He called Ape Thirteen forward and asked him to hold the bone fragment and dig for Spirit Gold.

The Azure-Eyed Suanni beast observed the direction of the ore veins from the side, guiding Ape Thirteen to dig where there was more ore.

He turned and walked back to Huo Zhengkai's side, about to examine his meridians again, when he suddenly felt something was wrong. He raised his head and saw two cultivators breaking through the mist above and falling into the sky above the Earth Abyss.

"Master, be careful, it's a Nascent Soul cultivator!" Zhang San's warning came late.