Cultivation: From Servant to Revered Immortal

Chapter 255: Chapter 3: Teleportation!

Zhou Xun did not rush inside.

Generally speaking, such ruins are full of restrictions, and one careless move could trigger a trap.

Considering the Tier Four restrictions around the square, the traps elsewhere must not be of low level.

At least not something Zhou Xun can withstand right now.

To be cautious.

Zhou Xun took out another defense talisman and activated it, placing it on himself.

Thus, in front of the golden light shield, a giant earth-yellow light shield stood before Zhou Xun.

With such defense, even a Fake Pill cultivator couldn’t break through instantly.

Only then did Zhou Xun feel relieved.

Then he took out a Qi Cultivation Stage lizard puppet to scout ahead,

step by step heading towards the large hall in front.

The hall stood dozens of zhang high, adorned with carvings and paintings, with flying eaves and angled corners.

Thanks to the Thousand-Answering Insect’s sensing, Zhou Xun manipulated the lizard puppet to dodge the restrictions ahead.

He arrived smoothly in front of the hall.

Looking at the tightly closed door ahead, Zhou Xun pondered for a moment and pushed the lizard forward.

Crack!

A bolt of lightning shot out from the door, striking the lizard puppet.

In an instant, the puppet was shattered to pieces.

Simultaneously, Zhou Xun couldn’t help but let out a muffled groan.

It was because the divine fragment he had placed in the puppet was also destroyed.

”Such power!”

”At least at the Early-Stage True Pill level!”

Carefully considering the force of that lightning strike, Zhou Xun felt somewhat shocked.

Luckily, he had been cautious; had he charged forward like a novice, he would have been severely injured.

”It seems this hall is also protected by restrictions, and very potent attack restrictions at that!”

”I need to first break them, then find a way to open the hall!”

As he spoke, Zhou Xun took out the Breaking Forbidden Cone.

Then, guided by the Thousand-Answering Insect, he slowly approached the hall.

Stopping before the door, Zhou Xun paused in his steps.

He had already formulated his plan!

Using the lizard puppet to trigger the attack restriction, while himself activating the Array-Breaking Cone and utilizing the sensing power of the Thousand-Answering Insect.

At the instant the restriction triggered, find the spiritual power node.

Then use the Array-Breaking Cone to attack; thus, he could successfully break the restriction!

No sooner said than done!

Taking out the puppet, he manipulated it to push the door again!

Crack!

Once again, a lightning bolt shot down!

In that instant, the spiritual power operation nodes of the attack restriction were fully exposed to Zhou Xun.

This time, Zhou Xun did not use a divine fragment to manipulate but let the puppet push the door on its own.

Thus, he was unaffected by the lightning.

Allowing him to seize this opportunity!

Quick as a flash!

Bam!

Under Zhou Xun’s control, the Array-Breaking Cone transformed into a black lightning bolt, fiercely striking the restriction node!

Crack!

The restriction was instantly destroyed by Zhou Xun!

Zhou Xun took out another Qi Cultivation Stage monkey puppet, using it to push open the hall door.

Who knows if there might be a second restriction after the first?

Everything should be done prudently!

This time it was very smooth, and the hall door slowly opened.

At this moment, a cyan light shot out from inside the hall.

Bang!

The earth-yellow shield and golden light covering Zhou Xun were instantly broken!

Finally blocked by the inner armor!

It turned out to be a massive wooden spike!

A cold sweat broke out on Zhou Xun’s heart!

Luckily, he had the foresight to activate numerous defenses; otherwise, he would surely have perished on the spot.

With a pat on his storage bag, Zhou Xun summoned a Quasi-Third Tier monkey puppet to shield himself.

This puppet’s refining materials are special; its body extremely durable, making it difficult even for a True Pill cultivator to break.

Using it as cover is very effective!

Sure enough, the subsequent wooden spike hitting the monkey only left a faint white mark.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhou Xun repeated his technique.

Breaking this restriction too.

Looking at the remnants of the restriction, Zhou Xun found it had once been a Tier Four restriction.

However, with the erosion of time and lack of spiritual power replenishment, the restriction continually degraded.

Its current power barely reaches the threshold of the Early-Stage True Pill.

Seeing this, Zhou Xun couldn’t help but remark on his good fortune!

If he had come when the restriction was intact, he likely wouldn’t have escaped unharmed!

Afterward, Zhou Xun used a new Qi Refining puppet to scan the area and found no additional restrictions.

Thus, hiding behind the monkey puppet, he walked into the hall.

The hall’s interior is vast, nearly a hundred zhang in size, with a huge bluestone wall at the front featuring a massive mountain and ridge bas-relief.

Besides, there are several side halls.

”Medicine Vault!”

”Treasure Artifact Vault!”

”Treasure Material Vault!”

”Spirit Stone Vault!”

”Talisman Vault!”

”Scripture Vault!”

”Cultivation Technique Vault!”

Looking at these names,

combined with the original Tier Four restrictions outside, Zhou Xun was exceedingly thrilled.

”Am I truly encountering great serendipity!”

After hesitating for a moment, Zhou Xun chose the side hall labeled ”Medicine Vault” and walked in lightly.

The medicine repository, as the name suggests, is a place to store spirit medicines and elixirs!

”Once I enter this medicine repository, maybe I can solve the need for spirit medicines to enhance my Celestial Spirit Root!”

Zhou Xun thought to himself.

Then he manipulated the puppet to push open the hall door.

The scene before his eyes left Zhou Xun stunned!

There were half-decayed, toppled cabinets and broken medicine bottle fragments on the floor, along with some spirit medicine residue, now as barren as dried grass.

It was obvious that this was the aftermath of a hurried retreat.

There was nothing of value here at all.

Zhou Xun went inside, unwillingly searched around, but found nothing.

He could only leave the medicine repository with a heavy heart.

The mess in the medicine repository suggested that other places might not be much better.

However, Zhou Xun still searched each location one by one.

Just as he expected.

The other side halls were likewise completely empty.

Except for a few Tier Two materials occasionally found on the floor of the treasure material vault, and two middle-grade spirit stones found in a corner of the spirit stone vault, Zhou Xun gained nothing.

Zhou Xun was utterly despairing!

He spent so much effort and only acquired a few Tier Two materials and two hundred spirit stones.

He was truly unwilling to accept this.

So he circled around the main hall and the side halls, checking once more, but still found nothing.

Furious, Zhou Xun subconsciously slapped the bluestone wall in frustration.

”Bang—”

A muffled sound echoed, and Zhou Xun couldn’t help showing a surprised expression.

The sound he heard immediately made him realize that the bluestone was not a solid piece.

He pondered for a moment, then knocked softly on the bluestone again.

”Bang, bang, bang—”

Several muffled sounds followed,

Zhou Xun confirmed there was a hollow space inside, and felt a stir of excitement.

He patted his storage bag and took out the small gray sword talisman treasure, activated it,

then traced a fist-sized circle on the bluestone, and reached his hand inside.

The space inside wasn’t large, but after randomly groping around, something found its way into his hand.

It felt warm in his grasp.

Zhou Xun’s expression shifted.

When he took it out for a look, he found it to be a palm-sized, azure-black token, seemingly neither wood nor jade, with an ancient ”Qing” character inscribed on it.

If Zhou Xun hadn’t studied ancient texts to recognize this script, he wouldn’t have been able to identify it.

”Could this be the manipulation token for this site!”

Zhou Xun speculated to himself.

He then picked up the token, immersed his divine sense into it, and slowly began the refining process.

An hour passed.

Finally, a subtle connection transmitted from the token.

This indicated that the token had been successfully refined!

From this token, Zhou Xun also understood its purpose.

He then slowly injected mana into the token.

A faint glow gleamed from the token, followed by a spirit light that hit the bluestone wall in front of him.

A thunderous sound rumbled!

The bluestone wall opened to both sides, revealing a passage about a zhang in size.

Following the position with the monkey puppet in front and Zhou Xun behind, he entered the passage.

After the passage extended over ten zhang inward, it turned downward.

Continuing a hundred zhang further, it opened up into a stone chamber.

The stone chamber wasn’t large, about four or five zhang high and six or seven zhang long and wide, surrounded by irregular stone walls inlaid with many luminous pearls, brightly illuminating the entire chamber.

A pentagonal array occupied the bottom of the stone chamber.

However, the array’s patterns were exceedingly complex, different from the type Zhou Xun studied.

There was a fist-sized groove on each of the pentagon’s points, the purpose of which was unknown.

Nevertheless, the array gave Zhou Xun a very familiar feeling.

It seemed there was an introduction to this array in the jade scroll given by Master Nanyue.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xun touched his storage bag at his waist, and the jade scroll appeared in his hand.

He immersed his divine sense into it, carefully examining it.

After a brief moment, Zhou Xun raised his head, a look of astonishment on his face.

”It’s actually a short distance teleportation array!”

Zhou Xun had only seen brief mentions of this type of array in ancient classics, let alone witnessed one himself.

Even throughout the Eastern Wilderness, he hadn’t heard of any power possessing such an array.

Yet, before him was just such an array!

”Who left these ruins behind, really?”

Zhou Xun murmured.

Simultaneously, a hint of anticipation arose in his heart.

A power capable of constructing such an array must have left extraordinary treasures behind.

So without delay, he took out five pieces of middle-grade spirit stones and placed them in the five grooves respectively.

Then, he took out the token and cast a spirit light on it.

The array instantly lit up, then suddenly dimmed again.

Seeing this, Zhou Xun was stunned.

Could it be that the spirit stones are of too low a grade and it requires high-grade spirit stones!

This left Zhou Xun in hesitation, until his gaze fell on those spirit stones.

No, it shouldn’t be a problem of spirit stone grade; the spiritual qi in these stones remained intact, unspent.

If the spirit stone grade were insufficient, the spiritual qi in these stones should have been completely consumed by now.

Suddenly, Zhou Xun had a flash of insight.

”Five points, five spirit stones, could it be that it requires one of each of the five elements attributes!”

Without further ado.

Zhou Xun replaced the spirit stones with one of each of Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth attributes.

Then he followed the original procedure, activating it once more.

The array instantly lit up, and then beams of spirit light shot from each of the five corners onto Zhou Xun and the puppet.

In the next moment, a flash of light occurred.

Zhou Xun’s figure disappeared from the teleportation array.