Alchemy Master

Chapter 69, The Cave’s Seal

Translator: Silavin

At this moment, Master Zhang was already collecting medicinal herbs.

The two Martial Masters were also carefully guarding him nearby.

Qin Yichen waited for a short while, then took advantage of the three not paying attention to slip out from the bushes to one side. With a few flashes, he arrived at the edge of Black Wood Cliff.

*Shhhhhhhh…* Standing on Black Wood Cliff, a cold wind blew up from the bottom of the cliff, causing Qin Yichen’s whole body to shiver involuntarily. Looking at the bottomless cliff below, he could not help but twitch his mouth.

In his previous life, he fell from here and did not die. Just how much luck did that take?

Qin Yichen took out a bundle of thin rope he had prepared from his bosom. After securing it, he leaped into the seemingly bottomless abyss before him.

*Whoosh… Whoosh…* The sound of intense wind rushed past his ears, sharp and bone-chilling. It made Qin Yichen feel as if he was in an icy world.

During this fall, after about ten seconds, he suddenly pulled on the rope that had been spinning around his right hand several times. His rapidly falling body was directly suspended in mid-air, on the cliff.

*Phew…* Qin Yichen let out a sigh of relief, relieving the tension from the fall. His gaze swept around, and after identifying his position, he looked towards a dark area not far below him.

“It should be there.” After confirming the location, Qin Yichen’s toes constantly tapped on the cliff rocks. Using the pulling force of the rope, he slowly moved towards that dark area.

After a short while, a vague entrance that looked like a cave appeared before him.

Seeing that he was about to reach his destination, just as his heart was about to relax, his pupils suddenly contracted. All the hairs on his body stood up. A sense of alarm flashed through his heart.

*Bang!*

Immediately after, without any hesitation, Qin Yichen’s toes heavily stepped on the cliff wall, and his body shot out. Imperceptibly, he used the Leaping Technique of the Nameless Cultivation Technique.

*Swish!* Just as his body had just left that place, a black shadow pounced heavily on where he had been before. In the hazy mist, he barely made out what this sneaky creature was.

“A Red Rock Snake!?” Seeing that creature, Qin Yichen’s face immediately became unsightly.

Red Rock Snakes were Demonic Beasts that lived on rock walls. They had strength around Level 2. Because their bodies were flat and they had long wings wings, it could glide briefly in the air like birds to hunt prey. Furthermore, their bodies were covered with a layer of scales, as hard as rock. This made it difficult for ordinary swords and knives to cause much damage to them.

If it were on normal mountain terrain, Qin Yichen might have been able to win after exerting some effort. However, they were now fighting in a terrain while he was suspended in mid-air. A slight mistake could result in him being bitten by it, or even falling off the cliff.

That was why Qin Yichen’s expression had become so unsightly when he saw it was a Red Rock Snake.

“Damn it! Why didn’t I encounter you, when I fell down last time!?” After cursing under his breath, Qin Yichen’s Spiritual Energy tensed up, and the Yuan Energy throughout his body also began to rapidly circulate.

“I must instantly finish off this beast! Who knows if there’s more than one!” On this cliff where visibility was less than ten metres, Qin Yichen’s Spiritual Energy was fully concentrated on that Red Rock Snake that was flicking its tongue at him.

*Hiss…* The Red Rock Snake’s small, flat eyes revealed a cold and ferocious look. After hissing, its narrow wings shook, and its body pounced towards Qin Yichen again. In its ferocious mouth, sharp fangs gleamed with a cold light. If it bit solidly, it would surely tear off a chunk of flesh.

Qin Yichen coldly watched the approaching Red Rock Snake, his body tensed to the extreme.

*Swoosh!* Just as the Red Rock Snake was about to bite Qin Yichen’s thigh, he suddenly stomped his foot, and his body rose up several centimetres.

*Bang!* The Red Rock Snake once again hit the cliff wall head-on, causing a shower of stone fragments to roll down.

“Die!” Qin Yichen shouted. Under his highly concentrated Spiritual Energy, the world in his eyes seemed to freeze for an instant. In that instant, he exerted the Falling Technique of the Nameless Cultivation Technique to its fullest. As Yuan Energy surged through his body, his leg struck out like lightning. Finally, his toes, like a sharp sword, heavily kicked at the vital spot of the Red Rock Snake.

*Bang!* Under this kick, the Red Rock Snake’s body was kicked several centimetres into the rock wall. Then, as Qin Yichen’s toes released, the Red Rock Snake’s body fell from the rock wall like a dead object, plummeting into the seemingly bottomless abyss.

After escaping the crisis, Qin Yichen secretly breathed a sigh of relief. His body slowly descended to the outside of that cave.

Looking at the scattered stones and thorns at the cave entrance, he frowned. He found a dead branch and cleared away those stones and thorns from the entrance.

In fact, if it were not for these thorns and dead trees, he probably would not have had this strange encounter in the first place.

After doing all this, beads of sweat appeared on Qin Yichen’s forehead, and his breathing was slightly rapid. His gaze turned to the cave entrance that had been cleared of obstructions. A look of sweet success after bitter struggles flashed in his eyes.

The cave entrance before him was not spacious, only wide enough for two people to pass through. The inside of the cave was pitch black, but there was a faint glow emanating from it, making it look somewhat mysterious.

Around the cave, there were some traces carved by swords or knives. However, due to the passage of time, these traces had become extremely blurry.

However, when Qin Yichen saw these blurred traces, a look of gravity and doubt suddenly flashed in his eyes.

In his previous life when he fell here, he had no time to observe the surrounding environment and naturally did not notice these traces. But now, standing here again with his rich experience, he recognized that these blurred traces were clearly an extremely rare type of seal!

Moreover, these traces did not belong to the Human Race!

“Could something be sealed inside here?” Qin Yichen became even more cautious.

In his previous life, not dying after falling outside this cave was already incredibly lucky. Moreover, he obtained a lifelong beneficial opportunity in the cave, which was… Spirit Milk!

Inside this cave, there was a pool of Spirit Milk!

Spirit Milk was born from the essence of Heaven and Earth, could not only temper one’s Physique but also clear the mind and nourish one’s Soul. Back then, heavily injured, he just wanted to drink some water. Unexpectedly drank up his future.

When he was drinking, the small Pill Furnace fell into the Spirit Spring, and Qin Yichen discovered the mystery of that small Pill Furnace.

However, after his injuries recovered, he left and did not attempt to deeply investigate the cave. Now, seeing this seal, Qin Yichen secretly decided to carefully observe what strange things this cave might have.

After entering the cave, following a winding passage for a quarter of an hour, Qin Yichen finally came to a spacious cavern.

Above this cavern, huge stone spikes stood upside down, glimmering with a peculiar lustre. Looking up from those sharp stone spikes, it was all darkness, as if there was no end, making this place not seem like a cave at all.

Indeed, if this place were just an ordinary cave, how could it possibly generate the essence of Heaven and Earth… Spirit Milk?