Longevity through Upgrading Buildings

Chapter 902: Chapter 356: “How Many Divine Thunders Do You Still Have?!

“There are also quite a few filthy details in between, not fit to be spoken of. Believe it or not, it’s all the same to me.”

Ling Juexiao shrugged as he spoke, then clasped his hands behind his back, walked to the edge of the cliff, and looked down.

“This is Fellow Daoist Ling’s private matter; it’s not our place to pry. We only hope Fellow Daoist will not turn on us at a critical moment.”

Xing Shuang laid the words out directly, putting them on the table.

“Relax, there’s neither grievance nor grudge between us. Without you two, it’d be even more impossible for me, Ling, to be standing here, so you can both set your minds at ease.”

Ling Juexiao said this and turned his head, looking at Ji Yuan, a faint smile appearing on his face.

“But Daoist Changgeng’s strength is somewhat beyond my expectations. I imagine you’ve been holding back quite a bit.”

At this, Xing Shuang also turned her head to look at Ji Yuan, a hint of surprise in her eyes.

“Just some trump cards at the bottom of the chest, that’s all.”

Ji Yuan sighed, then stroked the goatee on his chin. “I’ve already played all my cards, barely escaped with my life. If there are more difficulties ahead, I’ll have to rely on you two Fellow Daoists.”

“Easily said.”

Ling Juexiao finished speaking and turned back around.

In Ji Yuan’s sea of consciousness, Xing Shuang’s warning sounded again. “Ling Juexiao is not to be trusted, Brother Changgeng, be careful.”

“All right.”

Ji Yuan didn’t ask why Xing Shuang had called Ling Juexiao here. In any case, he was already here; even if he knew, it wouldn’t change anything.

Since things had already happened, all he could do was respond to them.

“Daoist Xing, take a look. There shouldn’t be any more checkpoints down below, right?”

Ling Juexiao pointed down toward the high platform at the bottom of the valley.

Xing Shuang walked forward a few steps, came to his side, and looked down.

“There shouldn’t be. I found this Secret Realm by following a treasure map. Go any farther and you reach that high platform down below… There should be a door there. Open it and we’ll know what’s going on.”

Xing Shuang explained.

“Either it’s the exit, or it leads into the next layer of the Secret Realm.”

As Ling Juexiao spoke he lifted his head, as if still looking at the Treasure Pearls in the sky.

“With so many treasures here, this Secret Realm must be enormous. What we’ve taken is only the tip of the iceberg; most likely there’s a deeper level of the Secret Realm…”

Speaking of this seemed to stir up the greed in Ling Juexiao’s heart.

“Come, let’s hurry down and talk there.”

With that, his body turned into Escape Light and shot out, streaking straight toward the stone high platform at the center of the basin.

“Let’s follow as well.”

Although Xing Shuang appeared unhurried, she still worried in her heart that Ling Juexiao would seize any treasures first.

So she directly turned into Escape Light and followed.

Ji Yuan truly wasn’t in a hurry now. He glanced back around at the surroundings.

He was thinking that, no matter what lay beyond that door later, he wouldn’t rush in. He wanted to return to that desert and properly slaughter those Yin Beasts first.

In this trip through the Secret Realm, aside from the one jin of Yao Earth Sand he had just obtained,

the most precious things to him were still those Yin Crystals.

But for now he would go down and take a look first. With that thought, Ji Yuan also turned into Escape Light and followed.

Only when he reached the ground did he feel how fierce the wind and sand were down here, to the point that it was hard to even walk, until he formed a Technique to shield himself and felt better.

Ling Juexiao had already ascended the high platform, glancing left and right.

Xing Shuang had the urge to go up but kept holding herself back.

Ji Yuan could see it. If Ling Juexiao weren’t on that high platform, she would probably have already moved, but since he refused to come down, she wasn’t in a rush to act either.

Ji Yuan, on the other hand, spread out his Divine Sense, alert to the surroundings.

He didn’t know if it was an illusion, but in the instant he had just landed earlier, he felt as though someone had looked at him—

that feeling of having his back locked onto…

made Ji Yuan highly sensitive.

‘It’s not Ling Juexiao or Xing Shuang, so could there be someone else in here? Or is there… something else in here?’

Ji Yuan formed a hand seal. The Canglan Sword he had previously received into his Dantian was summoned out again, hovering at his side.

“Daoist Changgeng, have you discovered something?”

Xing Shuang sensed the movement, walked over, and asked in a low voice.

“No. It’s just always better to be cautious.”

As Ji Yuan formed a seal and raised his Protective Spirit Light, Xing Shuang did the same.

Up on the high platform, Ling Juexiao seemed to have noticed nothing and called out, “Daoist Xing, come up and take a look.”

“Heh.”

Ji Yuan heard Xing Shuang give a cold snort at his side before she turned into Escape Light and ascended the high platform, but she made no other move.

Only then did Ling Juexiao come down in an unhurried, unaffected manner.

For a moment, the two of them could be said to have vividly enacted all the scheming and treachery of the Cultivation Realm.

Only after Ling Juexiao came down from the high platform did Xing Shuang take out from her Storage Bag the Seal she had used earlier to open the door.

She was just about to activate the Seal.

But right at that moment, a stream of light suddenly shot out from the stone wall to the northeast.

Its speed was incomparably fast.

One instant it was still on the stone wall; the next it was already before Xing Shuang.

The stream of light swept past, and the Protective Spirit Light around Xing Shuang shattered instantly. Her whole body was sent flying.

But fortunately, with the Protective Spirit Light taking that hit, she managed to steady herself in midair, turned into Escape Light, and returned to Ji Yuan’s side, panting heavily, her face showing a trace of panic from the fright.

“Who?!”

Ling Juexiao shouted angrily, formed a hand seal, and sent his Blood Marrow Flying Sword hurtling straight toward that streak of light in the middle of the high platform.

“Ding—”

The sound of metal striking stone rang out. The Flying Sword was knocked aside, but the stream of light in the center of the high platform gradually faded, and the figure revealed its true form.

It was a burly man clad in golden armor, holding a halberd with a curved blade and crescent— a Fangtian halberd.

Ling Juexiao’s Flying Sword had just struck the armor on his body, and thus failed to penetrate his defense.