Longevity through Upgrading Buildings

Chapter 1137: Chapter 403: Chasing Lightning! Stepping Star! [Requesting Monthly Pass]

Ji Yuan’s intention was to consecutively use the Chasing Lightning Clouds to leave Butcher Mountain, return to the core area, use the Golden Ghost Order to get back to the Inner Realm, and have the Ghost Envoy send him out.

After all, without the protection of a Nascent Soul, he dared not linger on this Butcher Mountain where Nascent Soul cultivators were everywhere.

Having a trump card is one thing, but using it recklessly is quite another.

That would really be dying without knowing how.

Ji Yuan was only supposed to perform a single Chasing Lightning Clouds, and normally, he would still be within Butcher Mountain, at least floating in midair.

But now?

He found himself inside a spacious black cave.

The cave mouth was in front of him, and overhead and behind him were unknown black stones, seemingly one piece.

Ji Yuan was astonished and immediately released his Divine Sense to explore in all directions.

But he discovered... what kind of a cave was this?!

In Ji Yuan’s mental sea, two enormous black flying wheels appeared, and he was now inside the one on the left.

Looking at these massive black wheels, several miles in size, a name surfaced in his mind.

Star-Stepping Wheel!

”Damn, I really ended up on the Star-Stepping Wheel, could it be because of the Chasing Lightning Clouds I shouted? They originate from the same source, attracting each other is normal, but... but this Star-Stepping Wheel is a bit too large, isn’t it?”

”But since the Star-Stepping Wheel has summoned me, how can I take it away?”

As Ji Yuan was pondering, he noticed that the wisp of energy around him was moving.

Or rather, the Chasing Lightning Clouds moved on its own.

Just like the first time he saw it, it transformed into a tiny lightning bolt, flew off Ji Yuan’s shoulder, and struck the nearby stone wall, or rather the Star-Stepping Wheel.

With that strike, the entire Star-Stepping Wheel seemed to be activated.

First, a white stream of light flashed across the two Star-Stepping Wheels, and dots of starlight appeared on the originally black wheels.

In Ji Yuan’s Divine Sense perception, the pair of Star-Stepping Wheels became radiant and magnificent.

”This...”

Before Ji Yuan could feel delight, he heard a loud shout from below the Star-Stepping Wheel.

”Look fast, the Star-Stepping Wheel is showing activity!”

...Was this Heavenshade Old Demon?

Ji Yuan had encountered him previously in the Flame Ash Desert, and recognized his voice immediately.

Upon hearing this voice, Ji Yuan instinctively wanted to peek out and see.

But before he could act, he realized and remembered the terror of these Nascent Soul monsters.

Peeking out would be courting death, wouldn’t it?

Immediately, he released his Divine Sense to sweep over and quickly understood the situation below.

Once he saw it clearly, he was extremely surprised.

Because beneath the Star-Stepping Wheel were Nascent Soul cultivators... in large numbers, and at a glance, he spotted the Sect Leader of the Righteous Dao Xuanqing Sect — True Monarch Xuanqing.

Lady of Joy from Cloud Cliff Temple.

Pavilion Master Tingtao from Tingtiao Pavilion.

Heavenshade Old Demon from the Demon Dao, who had already spoken.

Bone Nightmare Old Demon from the Bone Nightmare Sect was also present, but Ji Yuan did not see his feared Qiu Qianhai.

Moreover, Bone Nightmare Old Demon looked as if seriously wounded, with a deathly pale face.

Additionally, there was the Soul Hall Master from the Soul Refining Hall, and that ancient snake from the Profound Snake Mansion.

Mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators from both the Righteous and Demon Dao were gathered here.

Overall, the Demon Dao had the advantage, solely by their mid-stage Nascent Soul numbers—four to the Righteous Dao’s three.

The reason they all gathered here, Ji Yuan’s Divine Sense also detected.

They were here to seize a treasure.

At this moment, at the summit they were competing over.

A fruit hanging amid black branches was particularly striking, no larger than a fist.

The semi-translucent pale pink peel was thin as porcelain glaze, and six silver-white spiral patterns twisted around its surface, spiraling upward from the stem, culminating in a pinpoint-sized golden gleam at the top.

The entire fruit was shrouded in a faint azure mist, which would subtly shift with the fruit’s slight tremor, appearing from afar like a floating pink-white halo.

”This is... the Six-Revolution Infant Heart Fruit!”

Upon recognizing this item, Ji Yuan could hardly conceal his amazement.

This item, considered among Tier Four Treasures of Heaven and Earth, was exceedingly rare.

Its primary effect was singular: to enhance the cultivation of Nascent Soul cultivators.

Which was precisely why these Nascent Soul cultivators were all contending for it.

”Particularly Heavenshade Old Demon and True Monarch Xuanqing, both appear to be stuck at the threshold of advancing to the late-stage Nascent Soul. If they could acquire this Six-Revolution Infant Heart Fruit, they might glimpse the late-stage Nascent Soul, and at that time... even facing the Black and White Dual Fiends of the Black and White Divine Hall, they could interact calmly.”

After a simple Divine Sense sweep, Ji Yuan assessed the situation on the scene.

But with that sweep, he heard True Monarch Xuanqing abruptly speak.

”There’s someone on the Star-Stepping Wheel, and it’s a... Core Formation Cultivator?”

The first half of the sentence was loudly exclaimed by True Monarch Xuanqing.

But as he uttered the latter half, a sense of doubt crept into his voice.

He even almost suspected he’d misjudged.

Ji Yuan naturally did not show himself, but hearing True Monarch Xuanqing’s words, he too was inwardly astonished.

...These damned Nascent Soul monsters, damned cunning.

Ji Yuan had assumed that the activated Star-Stepping Wheel could block detection, but now it seemed, he should have taken cover in the stone coffin the moment he appeared.